I sat at the window and was looking out
Then i looked within and began to shout
Have i seen too little, have i seen too much
Am i guided by stars,maimed by a touch
Am i blinded by truth, enlightened by a lie
The die is cast in the blink of an eye
- Nausher

i heard the sigh in your lies
i let you enter my veins,
Gave you my eyes
So you could see your own chains,
I've been standing by the window
Looking out for the train,
Then i looked inside
And it started to rain,
Through tunnels through doors
You ached you'd be free,
The doors lead to walls
And the labyrinth leads to me- Nausher

there are just so many flowers
and sunsets to paint away the hours
but arches are ashes, doors are dust
and blood resembles the colour of rust-Nausher

The night caresses secrets in a dream
Speaking of promises unspoken
The doors open to the wind of the first sun
And nothing recalled will ever be forgotten
You sat there a while scanning the miles
Free child of beauty and a caged reptile
You wish you could fly but dreams cloud the sky
The rain in your brain is washing them dry - Nausher

What the gods give
Man quickly takes away
From the waves in your eye
To the void in the sky
From the blackness of light
To that tsunami of night. N

you look at the world
through the prism of a mirror
and the light is blinding-N

At the mouth of the cave my darling
it doesn't really matter
the other side of dreams my darling
nothing to forget or remember-Nausher

I was too young to understand
But too old to forget
Naked on shifting sand
Hanging on by a thread
Walking through the door
Eyes clawed by dread
Your face is a mirror
Of that stranger in your bed-Nausher

I tore open my skin
so you could enter my veins,
Gave you my eyes
so you could see your own chains,
I was standing at the window looking out for the train,
Then i looked inside and it started to rain,
Through tunnels and doors
you ached you'd be free,
The doors lead to walls
and the labyrinth leads to me- N

The door doesn't lead to freedom, just another room-N

i tore open my skin
to have you enter my veins
gave you my eyes
so you could look at your chains-N

you are sitting naked on shifting sand,
a dream and a memory in each hand,
you mirror a mirage moving alone,
you call out but it is gone,
the road that brought you here
is dragging you back
the light you thought was near
is fading to black-N

The night is done
Gone with the wind of the first sun
Dreams on ice, the river crossed twice
I want to be alone with me
A transparent layer in history-N

arches to ashes, doors to dust
blood resembles the colour of rust-N

I was crowded in the corner at the farthest end of far,
Caging in memories of a future past the bars-N

sleeping in each others dreams,
you hear your own footsteps walking away,
living with devils within you,
you fear your heartbeats giving you away,
you see your eyes looking back at you,
beware the gods you'll meet along the way - N

that we knew the night would pass,
that the love we lived could never last,
reflections blurred by shadows past,
that silhouettes would still roam free
beauty for a day, or a day of eternity-N

crawling down tunnels of destiny, looking for others under your skin, for all the people you are yet to be, and all the people you have been, washing away white memories with dark water, you peel off your skins and enter -N

Was it paradise lost or paradise found, was it safety you sought with 6 feet of ground, tipping eyes with false impressions, wearing faces and borrowed expressions, the road that brought you here is dragging you back, the light you thought was near is fading to black-N

the sea is calling out the clouds again,
carrying stories of sanity to the insane,
there you lie scanning the miles,
free child of beauty or a caged reptile,
washing away black memories in white water,
diluting tomorrow's fears with yesterday's laughter
-Nausher

Walking walls into the night
Staring blind from wrong to right
Holding hard onto your shadow's hand
You only survive because you don't understand
There is a stranger in your head
Standing naked in the rain
Your mind is clear, he said,
But your soul is insane- N

the mirror's cracked along the angles of my face
where do i belong in it's tangled embrace
the looking glass looks back at me in wonder
i look through the mask only to see a stranger
I peel off my skin, and enter - N

here comes the shadow softly over your skin
light shades tomorrow as yesterday begins
you feel your breath wafting over the water
and your fears rustle through distant laughter
you sat there a while scanning the miles
free child of beauty and a caged reptile
the life that brought you here is dragging you back,
the light you thought was near is fading to black-N

here you are on the blue mountain,
halfway up, halfway down,
stranded and exiled, looking out to sea,
holding onto misplaced gods
and what you might have been- N

The night is done
Gone with the wind of the first sun
Dreams on ice, the river crossed twice
I want to be alone with me
A transparent layer in history-N

you are sitting naked on shifting sand,
a dream and a memory in each hand,
you mirror a mirage moving alone,
you call out but it is gone,
the road that brought you here
is dragging you back
the light you thought was near
is fading to black-N

here comes the shadow softly over your skin
light shades tomorrow as yesterday begins
you thought you felt your breath wafting over the water
and your fears they rustled through distant laughter
you sat there a while scanning the miles free child of beauty and a caged reptile
the life that brought you here is dragging you back,
the light you thought was near is fading to black-N

the past is an illusion, a trick of your memory. the future an illusion, a trick of your dreams- the mirror shows a silver storm of confusion-not a thing is as it seems- N

Climbed up through the clouds to Citta di Castello, 

And 40 centuries looked down, 

On burning wings you clutched the shroud, 

With bleeding hands you grasped the crown-N

What do we take and what do we give
Are we free to choose the lives we live?-N

first if there is one thing you'll learn its this:
if it is not in frame it doesn't exist - N  

you lived your life for tomorrow
you have no dreams left to borrow
-N 

there is a shade of moon in your eye
where i hear the swoon of your sighs
holding you naked dancing in the rain
whispering stories of sanity to the insane-N  

where are you now and where have you been
this morn i awoke dreaming i was a butterfly
this night i slept dreaming the butterfly was me-N

you're running down the track
the night burning down your back
you'll never come back alone
there's no one left at home
you follow the ghost of you
and the ghost will follow you-N 

walking down your old hunting ground
you come across all the people you used to be
you find the self you lost and the selves you found
between that moment and truth you lost an eternity -N

what if the only dream we share with each other is a nightmare?-N

i died on a day of sunshine
or maybe it was a day of rain
was i trapped by my own prophesy
was the sublime drowned by the mundane-N  

we look up at clouds in the sky
we call them a thousand names
yes the times they are a changing
but everything's still the same-N

crawling down tunnels of destiny
looking for others under your skin
for all the people you are yet to be
and all the people you have been. N

there is a stranger in my head
screaming naked in the rain
my mind is clear, he says,
but my soul is insane- N

Sometimes I wish I could fly
but where can I go
Where can I hide
so my shadow wont find me
Everything I am fleeing
is right here inside me.N

i peel off my skins and enter-N

upside down inside out
i want to be alone with me
lost in transparencies  - N

Happiness is not around the corner.
Happiness is the corner.-N

from the vantage of vanity
from dust to disarray to dust infinity
mirrors won't freeze the lines on my hand
i trace and erase my face in the sand - N

here we are
washing away black memories
in white water-N

in your eyes i see generations of ignorance
in your face i feel nothing to aspire to
in your voice i hear empty words
you are a blob of flesh with a loaded gun
and all i can shoot you with is my camera. N

The Media is the Medium
The Medium is the Message
And the Message is a lie
-N

give us this day our daily bread
and a cake or two my lord-N

jealousy and possessiveness
two sides of a coin
one a mind with no imagination
the other the murder of a mind-N 

i remembered my future
old age and death
i remembered the cure
look back and forget-N 

the mirror's cracked along

the angles of my face

where do i belong

in it's tangled embrace

the looking glass

looks back at me in wonder

i look through the mask

only to see a stranger
-N

another life another season
where is the rhyme to reason

where will this dust take me

when will my skin break me

will my spirit come touch the stone

of things i loved but left alone
-N

I awake to the groggy hangover of sanity
symmetry of line
infidelity of motion
on other continents
under darker skies
we might have been lovers of the light
here we are acquaintances
groping for the end of a line
in a confusion of options
I sit in half shadows
menu in hand
alternatives swimming dimming
saturated by choice
hunger unfulfilled
appetite satiated. N

sweet child in time
you'll see the light
from stone to spirit
from naked to night
-n

 here you are on the blue highway, halfway here, halfway there. here you are on the blue mountain, halfway up, halfway down. stranded and exiled, looking out to sea, holding onto misplaced gods and what you might have been. n

i watch the taillights in the sky starting and ending. fading down pillared corridors into another world. away from the trivial the inane the babble the trash. away from life's symmetry of madness. n

you will be my night as life is my day-N

i saw a crane in a cage craning its neck at the sky, 

staring through the bars at clouds floating by-N

Scraps off their tables, crumbs on the floor,
Blinded by parables you knock on the serpents' door,
Champing at the bit, grave in a reptilian pit,
They branded you a slave and you thanked 'em for it
-N

you ran onto the proverbial sword
what have you done outliving your gods - N

I was crowded in the corner at the farthest end of far,
Caging in memories of a future past the bars-N

the road that brought you here is dragging you back,
the light you thought was near is fading to black-N

Was it paradise lost or paradise found
did you buy safety with 6 feet of ground
tipping eyes with false impressions
wearing faces with borrowed expressions
the road that brought you here is dragging you back,
the light you thought was near is fading to black-N

the nectar that nurtures burns to poison,
the sweeping silence of laughter forgotten,
the soaring spirit returns as stone,
the things you loved you left alone-N

you catch it in your hand and watch it expire,
barbwires in the sand, the blackness of fire,
careful what you put in your head, the mirror said,
it will stay with you forever, even after you're dead,
you'll forget what you need to remember,
but you'll remember what you need to forget-N

what blink of an eye, whose tear, whose stare
what fork on which road is taking you where? -N

you laughed you are so clever
you are a walker on the waves
but your eyes are searching inwards
seeking shadows in light caves
you see queens give birth to lizards
your gods give birth to slaves-N

Was it paradise lost or paradise found  

Did you buy safety with 6 feet of  ground

ashes to ashes, dust to drone  

burning your bridges with hearts of stone

 - N

Looking through masks laughing through mirrors
memories forgotten drowning in dark waters
absolutely completely eternally
in your eyes i see the rest of me
this morn i awoke dreaming i was a butterfly
this night i slept dreaming the butterfly was me-N

the nectar that nurtures burns to poison,
the sweeping silence of laughter forgotten,
the soaring spirit returns as stone,
the things you loved you left alone-N

you're running down the track
the night burning down your back
you follow the ghost of you
and your ghosts are following you
you're blinded by truth, enlightened by a lie
and the die is cast in the blink of an eye-N

The night caresses secrets in a dream
Speaking of promises unspoken
The doors open to the wind of the first sun
Walking shadows over your skin
You sat there a while scanning the miles
Free child of beauty and a caged reptile
You wish you could fly but dreams cloud the sky
The rain in your brain is washing them dry - N

Your bags are packed You're ready to go, 

The tarmac's gleaming outside the door, 

You're returning to a home you no longer know-N

this is where i am right now
basking in sun, far far from snow
i've taken the time
to forget everything i know