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The sun comes up another cup of bursting, bubbling acclaim
Each strand of light delights then pulses to illuminate your name
And I'm drawn into this happiness this brilliant refrain

Before any problems have begun
With you I've got them on the run
There where my judgment left me in the dark
With you I'm drawing up a new benchmark

The clouds they part depart to leave a gap of brilliant, blue design
They paint the light so bright it burns a place deep inside my mind
I've never felt so whole a soul complete a clear and steady line

Before any trouble starts
With you I tear it all apart
There where my judgment left me in the dark
With you I'm drawing up a new benchmark

Before any problems have begun…
There where my judgment left me in the dark
With you I'm drawing up a new benchmark

The sun comes up another cup of bursting, bubbling acclaim (a new benchmark)
Each strand of light delights then pulses to illuminate your name (you're my benchmark)
The clouds they part depart to leave a gap of brilliant, blue design (a new benchmark)
I've never felt so whole a soul complete a clear and steady line (you're my benchmark)

Your body's frail it's been so cold
Everything wrong and you feel so old
You've lost your way turn on re-mould
Take that one step back that'll put you back on the right track

Chorus
For when your world turns upside down
Take a deep breath turn it around (repeat)

You feel this chain a weight of thought
It seems in vain a pressure bought
Don't buckle under the strain you must impor
That thing you lack that'll put you back on the right track

Repeat Chorus

Over and over and over again
You think of now as yesterday,
tomorrow's not even a day away
A day away ... tomorrow's not even a day away

Repeat Chorus

This city life, this concrete home
Connected by a mobile phone
It's shape reflected in the size
Of every tower block, every high rise

This city life complete with car
That soils the sky but don't get far
A chain of traffic lights dictate
Our journeys progress our journeys shape

This city life compete you're in
A race for rats and not for kin
The idols of civilized minds
The share value and dollar sign

This city life the stars we track
Celebrity's the life we lack
Ambition clouded like smog capped skies
They reach no further than the next pay rise

This city life decisions made
The ethics of the new self made
It's all for one the loss of all
Community's now a shopping mall

This city life it's all we dreamt
Pollute the world and make a mint
If all you are is what you own
This city life's your perfect home

And here with multitude and saying "You're all alone"

Before we find that we've gone too far
If we could only get things into focus
So easy to say but to do so hard

For we can't even agree on our faith
Except that placed upon the gun
Are we to share the same fate
Just as we share the same sun

And if we burn all of our bridges
That cross these waters we've created
We'll drown in rapids of religion and into whirlpools of politics we'll sink
Must we all pay the price before we find we're all related

For we can't even agree on what's right
'Cos it excuses us of what we do wrong
Are we to share the same guilt
Just as we share the same sun

Instrumental

Take off that set of blinkers
They keep you from the thinkers
Give your thoughts chain-linkers
And you'll be alright

The other side is showing
Soon you'll be all knowing
Get your thought chains flowing
And you'll be alright

CHORUS
There are so many ways to view the panorama
It's how we're forced to believe that causes all the drama

When things are getting vocal
Views often so parochial
It all adds to the total
Yes it'll be alright

For every contribution
Needs it's distribution
It may be the solution
You'll be alright

REPEAT CHORUS x2

And where do we go from here

REPEAT CHORUS

We're forced to believe such stale, conceived complexities
That we all breathe but never really need
They become as important as the sun that bleeds
This life we greed
All these false beliefs they'll only smother all our dreams

CHORUS
And all the world is on the edge looking down the precipice
Holding on with a failing grip but only by fingertip

See how we create such maze-like states
That define our faith
And believe we're safe to finally bolt the gate
But is this how we're going to save
This Earth we've named
The path we've paved borders on blame

REPEAT CHORUS X 2
For we must open up our eyes to set our footing right
For the next step

And all the world is on the edge
For the next step

Instrumental

The morning sun pours down its light creeps softly through the window
Touches her stretching fingers, its warmth melts her sleep away
Ocean-blue eyes glazed as she looks out across the bedroom
Then reaching down to her side to touch his sleeping face

And it's all she ever hoped for...
it's all she ever dreamed of

Washed and dressed she feels so refreshed, she busies herself in the kitchen
"I'll cook him up a morning feast and greet this perfect day
"It's an eternity or so it seems before he finally joins her
And the grimness of his smile chases her joy away...

"Oh I know what you're about to say...
I know just what you'll say"

..."It's not that I don't love you, it's not that I don't care
It's just I can't stand being tied here when there's so much out there

"Then the ocean leaves her blue eyes blind with a tide of tears and emotions,
that she cannot hide flood out but it's only herself swept away
"I wish I could change how I feel" he whispers face down and broken
"I only wish I didn't feel" she says as she pushes him away

And the perfect day, clouds...
and here comes the rain

The morning sun pours down its light creeps softly through the window
She reaches down to her side but there's just an empty bed
And the rain pours inside her head

Instrumental