(Please stay - don't let it burn away)

As the night draws
Its shadows on you
And the darkness
Turns you blue
As the darkness turns to blue
And the night follows you
Don't let the moonlight burn you

Please stay - don't let it burn away
And if you stay - let it turn us Grey

As the night falls
Seals you through
And the darkness
Turns you blue
As the darkness turns to blue
And the night surrounds you
Don't let the moonlight burn you

Please stay - don't let it burn away
And if you stay - let it turn us Grey

Please stay - don't let it burn away
And if you stay - let it turn us Grey
Grey...
Grey...
Grey...
Grey...
Please stay - don't let it burn away
And if you stay - let it turn us Grey

Please stay - don't let it burn away
And if you stay - let it turn us Grey

Please stay - don't let it burn away
And if you stay - let it turn us Grey
Grey...Baby, Grey...

You closed your eyes, a cold November night
You my lovely light of life, no more shining bright

As the autumn rain turned to bitter snow
I stood outside the world, with nowhere else to go

A thousand shades of grey
You erased my world that day
A thousand words to say
All lost in silence to fade away

Caring faces staring right at me
I can’t stand their smothering empathy
Like maggots crawling upon rotten meat
A buffet of misery, all that you can eat

A thousand shades of grey
You erased my world that day
A thousand words to say
All lost in silence to fade away

A thousand shades of grey
A million moments passed away
A billion pieces of my heart
Spreading like ashes forever dark

You are not alone…
Your false sympathy makes me sick

You will get through…
There’s no happy end to this life of shit

You must be strong…
As I put this rope around my neck

Time will heal…
The colors leave this broken wreck

A thousand shades of grey
My trail of tears ends here today

A thousand shades of grey
You erased my world that day
A thousand words to say
All lost in silence to fade away

A thousand shades of grey
A million moments passed away
A billion pieces of my heart
Spreading like ashes forever dark

No love, no light
Just shades of grey

I lose my daydreams
I lose my colours
I lose my longing
I find myself

They say we're free to speak to speak whatever we may have
to say and that we're free to wear it all in every f*cking way.
It's up to f*cking you to fulfill your damned f*cking life
with ease and to carry any symbol, view or dream that
you may f*cking please.

But hairstyles never cease to stir their f*cking minds
en masse. Your clothes will always bite big chumps
right out of their concrete ass. You'll be corrected.
censored and asked to appear in a milder way.
And in the end eventually if you're weak you'll
fade in grey.

Authority. Society. Parents. Teachers. Employees and God.
Authority. Society. Parents. Teachers. Employees and God.
Fade into grey. Fade into grey. Fade into grey.

For every punch you'll take in life, learn to always at least
give two. Don't ever let somebody get away shitting on you.
There may be laws to follow. Drugs to stay away from in
your life. But never live it feeling your damned hands and
feets always being tied.

But hairstyles never cease to stir their fucking minds
en masse. Your clothes will always bite big chumps
right out of their concrete ass. You'll be corrected.
censored and asked to appear in a milder way.
And in the end eventually if you're weak you'll
fade in grey.

Big black wolf, clawing at your door
Dead mans hand, is crawling 'cross the floor
Witch on the horizon is brewing up a vex
Everyone in town is wondering who is next
Toothless tramp, is crawling through the mud
Turned in to the {living} dead, by puffer fish blood
The God of the sea, is swinging his trident
We stoke our, fires with the bones of tyrants

The city trudges on
Under a sky as
Grey as the mayors heart

Meanest man alive, lives for a hundred years
Town pedophile, bathes in little girls tears
Ghosts of old love, are blowing through the pines
Nicotine babies being born with no spines
Gather up the children, and lead them to the cliffs
The anchor has been cut, and we are all adrift
New plague is rolling, through the slums of old town
And the roaches move in, as the rats have all drown

The city trudges on
Under a sky as
Grey as the mayors heart

As grey as prison bars
As grey as a border fence
As grey as a chain
As grey as the mayors heart
As grey as prison bars
As grey as a border fence
As grey as a chain

when everyone agrees with you
you know you're wrong
when everyone embraces you
you don't belong

nothing these days
means what it says
everything's gone grey

takes a life to live to learn
where love comes from
only takes three little words
to know it's gone

nothing these days
means what it says
everything's gone grey

if you don't want to know the score
then just turn away
back to the world where papers burn
and words decay

nothing these days
means what it says
everything's gone grey

undo this guilt, bathing in filth

grey that lurks inside me
grey feel I can't take it
grey that works inside of me
grey

slowly I run, hurt me for fun

grey that lurks inside me
grey feel I can't take it
grey that works inside of me
grey

see is all I say - all I see is grey
see is all I say - all I see is grey

grey...all I see is grey

undo this guilt, bathing in filth

grey that lurks inside me
grey feel I can't take it
grey that works inside of me
grey

see is all I say - all I see is grey
see is all I say - all I see is grey

all I see is grey.....

In this autumn rain
We're blessed with autumn skies
Autumn skies

I'm doing it for myself
Not somebody else
I'm doing it for myself

Calling out in shame
Silence engrained
Crying out your name
Something wrong but beautiful, so beautiful

In this awesome rage
Rejecting compromise
Compromise

I'm doing it for myself
Not somebody else
I'm doing it for myself

Calling out in shame
Silence engrained
Crying out your name
Something wrong but beautiful, so beautiful

Like the dead fade away
Life a debt... fade away

Calling out in shame
Silence engrained
Crying out your name
Something wrong but beautiful, so beautiful

Calling out in shame
Silence engrained

the sky is grey, the sand is grey, and the ocean is grey. i feel right at
home in this stunning monochrome, alone in my way. i smoke and i drink and
every time i blink i have a tiny dream. but as bad as i am i'm proud of the
fact that i'm worse than i seem. what kind of paradise am i looking for? i've
got everything i want and still i want more. maybe some tiny shiny thing will
wash up on the shore. you walk through my walls like a ghost on tv. you
penetrate me and my little pink heart is on its little brown raft floating out
to sea. and what can i say but i'm wired this way and you're wired to me, and
what can i do but wallow in you unintentionally? what kind of paradise am i
looking for? i've got everything i want and still i want more. maybe some tiny
shiny key will wash up on the shore. regretfully, i guess i've got three
simple things to say. why me? why this now? why this way? overtone's ringing,
undertow's pulling away under a sky that is grey on sand that is grey by an
ocean that's grey. what kind of paradise am i looking for? i've got everything
i want and still i want more. maybe some tiny shiny key will wash up on the
shore.

the sky is grey, the sand is grey, and the ocean is grey. i feel right at
home in this stunning monochrome, alone in my way. i smoke and i drink and
every time i blink i have a tiny dream. but as bad as i am i'm proud of the
fact that i'm worse than i seem. what kind of paradise am i looking for? i've
got everything i want and still i want more. maybe some tiny shiny thing will
wash up on the shore. you walk through my walls like a ghost on tv. you
penetrate me and my little pink heart is on its little brown raft floating out
to sea. and what can i say but i'm wired this way and you're wired to me, and
what can i do but wallow in you unintentionally? what kind of paradise am i
looking for? i've got everything i want and still i want more. maybe some tiny
shiny key will wash up on the shore. regretfully, i guess i've got three
simple things to say. why me? why this now? why this way? overtone's ringing,
undertow's pulling away under a sky that is grey on sand that is grey by an
ocean that's grey. what kind of paradise am i looking for? i've got everything
i want and still i want more. maybe some tiny shiny key will wash up on the
shore.

Hey
My swan song sounds like a remedy.
Take your bat mitts and you can't catch me,
No you can't catch me.
Load me up.
Sometimes it fits like I wanna see.
But then these fits take a hold of me
And that news sounds like a record,
But the record don't move me.

It's alright, as long as it's black or white.
Except when they're grey. (Ok)
That's not my favorite colour.

It's alright, as long as it's black or white.
Except when they're grey. (Ok)
That's not my favorite colour.

Hey.
Let's bake that egg like it's chemistry.
Know what, you can shake it.
But your hands can't touch what your eyes won't see.
Give it up.
Just scratch that itch or you'll let it be.
That burned out blitz, but it don't relieve.
That voice that howls what connects you,
what connects you don't move me.

It's alright, as long as it's black or white.
Except when they're grey. (Ok)
That's not my favorite colour.

It's alright, as long as it's black or white.
Except when they're grey. (Ok)
That's not my favorite colour.

It's alright, as long as it's black or white.
It's alright.
It's alright, as long as it's black or white.
Black or white.

when all is dark
there are no points of reference
and we no longer navigate
by the stars
we just end up somewhere

...nowhere...

where lights are dim
and shades of black are grey
time appears like a golden calf
while the moments slip away
a search for the freedom in the future
when the hours fall behind
I can always die
another day
desperately I seize tomorrow
all out of my reach
that is what I learned
this is what I teach
corruption seems to flourish
while promises decay
where lights are dim
and shades of black are grey

where lights are dim
and shades of black are grey
from the moment of arrival
we are led astray
with nothing but a distant cry
from deep within a soul
a wordless voice
to guide us on the way
desperately we name the voice
and make the cries our own
as if to deny the fact
that we are all alone
in solitude we mingle
disillusioned we fall prey
where lights are dim
and shades of black are grey

I can always live
another day...

Grey skies clouding up the things we used to see with wide eyes
Maybe everything was meant to be this way
Will it ever change
But are we stuck here on our own

It's all gone grey
It's all gone grey

I found telling you the truth the hardest thing to get out
I know it wasn't you that made me feel this way
Will it ever change
Or are we stuck here on our own.

And give it one more try
I don't know if I would stay
I feel so much better now
And baby begging me
Will leave you so empty inside
So you shouldn't even try

I know every last regret inside of me is my own
The way I hold them close has made me be this way
I will never change
I know I'm stuck here on my own, on my own

Given one more try
I don't know if I would stay
I feel so much better now
Where did we go wrong
I know you still hold on to me
But it's time that you let go
I gave you things I had
That I could not get back again
But I'm better off alone

It's all gone grey
It's all gone grey
It's all gone grey
(Grey skies clouding up the things we used to see with wide eyes)
It's all gone grey
(Maybe everything was meant to be)

the sky is grey, the sand is grey, and the ocean is grey. i feel right at
home in this stunning monochrome, alone in my way. i smoke and i drink and
every time i blink i have a tiny dream. but as bad as i am i'm proud of the
fact that i'm worse than i seem. what kind of paradise am i looking for? i've
got everything i want and still i want more. maybe some tiny shiny thing will
wash up on the shore. you walk through my walls like a ghost on tv. you
penetrate me and my little pink heart is on its little brown raft floating out
to sea. and what can i say but i'm wired this way and you're wired to me, and
what can i do but wallow in you unintentionally? what kind of paradise am i
looking for? i've got everything i want and still i want more. maybe some tiny
shiny key will wash up on the shore. regretfully, i guess i've got three
simple things to say. why me? why this now? why this way? overtone's ringing,
undertow's pulling away under a sky that is grey on sand that is grey by an
ocean that's grey. what kind of paradise am i looking for? i've got everything
i want and still i want more. maybe some tiny shiny key will wash up on the
shore.