The Fall And Rise Of Abel Mann?

b>I. Grand Fanfare
Watch the rain, washing my old shoes clean, are you saving my soul?
Climb aboard the old 'one-way' ride tonight,
I'm glad to have you inside of me

To believe I could keep it all inside
Did I believe I could keep all that hope alive?

Down, Down, Down - Never believing in myself
Low, Low, Low - The whole World's falling apart
Down, Down, Down - So when did I really start to doubt..?
Low, Low, Low - ...the truth in my heart
Bring on the orchestra, play me the grand fanfare
Help me bring an end to this sad affair

II. Waiting On A Ledge
Can you see me?
Can you hold me?
Hold me tightly
Don't let me fall
Slipping through your fingers like a waxwork figurine
Relaxing, I'm releasing from the threadbare screen
Waiting on a ledge with nothing left to say
'So long everybody, It's time to get away'

It's like a jungle, just like a jungle
It's just not that easy. Trying hard every day,
And after a while, well something's gotta give way
I'm floating, I'm floating on a cloud of caresses
that lifts up my body and soothes all the stresses,
and when it's all over, and the tension has snapped
the days of my childhood come rippling back
It's like a jungle, just like a jungle

III. Grand Fanfare (Revisited)
Down, Down, Down - Never believing in myself
Low, Low, Low - The whole World's falling apart
Down, Down, Down - So when did I really start to doubt..?
Low, Low, Low - ...the truth in my heart
Bring on the orchestra, play me the grand fanfare
Help me bring an end to this sad affair

IV. Post Mortem
(Instrumental)

IV.I. Three Score Years And Ten
(Instrumental)

IV.II. In My Life
Call the Player forward, let him play his last card now
Let the Pipers pipe, let the Torch Men sing my songs
Wait at the Sinners Gate, for the drummer's roll to begin
on the beating heart, on the soul within the skin

The tide is turning and we cling to the shore,
Starfish on the Ocean Floor
In my life, was there nothing more?
A tower burning, setting light to the trees
Oh, what strange ideas are these?
Inner Light, Inner Life, Forever

Naked, we come, and stripped to the bone we go
and on a journal page, I'll chance to write me down,
The crowd will see me through it,
from here to gods knows where,
and my wit, (like my Ink), is still not dry

The tide is turning and we cling to the shore,
Starfish on the Ocean Floor
In my life, was there nothing more?
A tower burning, setting light to the trees
Oh, what strange ideas are these?
Inner Light, Inner Life, Forever

Cold, alone and breathless,
the Master of 'going-wrong',
and the chance has come, to fill in a final balance
and with a sweeping of my pen,
I call on myself again,
to underwrite all the empty lines I once borrowed

The tide is turning and we cling to the shore,
Starfish on the Ocean Floor
In my life, was there nothing more?
A tower burning, setting light to the trees
Oh, what strange ideas are these?
Inner Light, Inner Life, Forever
And ever...(x5)

And what can we do but hate,
a sign that comes much too late,
and a Vision that burns brightly for just one moment
and in that instant caught between,
all the knowing and the unseen
I freeze, lost for all time

The tide is turning and we cling to the shore,
Starfish on the Ocean Floor
In my life, was there nothing more?
A tower burning, setting light to the trees
Oh, what strange ideas are these?
Inner Light, Inner Life, Forever
(x2)

And Ever... (x6)