All this tenderness has come to nothing
All that we require is being rearranged
I've no wish to look to the future
For my expectations will no doubt be changed
 
Just rolling along on the rest of the waves
My statements and strategies are quickly dismissed
Poisoned pens in invisible paper
Steel knuckles concealed by velvet fists
 
What is the chance of us living
Some of our simplest dreams
Are all the structures we build here
Really as frail as they seem
 
The dying are the lovers of this modern world
The power and the glory survives
With radio active bargaining
And the valueness of our lives
 
My turn to crumble
My turn to fall
From so very humble
To nothing al all

  This is where silence runs its course
  And sadness wipes its eyes upon us
  We fall from a structure built on troubled minds
  My world becomes iron and grows an cold as Winter
 
  Soldiers in uniforms of nudity march over open hearts
  Sweetly and sickly scented by roses
  And your world is crushing you like those flowers
  By scripts written into your skin with the ink of thorns
 
  Ashen faces sink into silence
  All lonesome trends brush shoulders
  All of last nights degredation
  Builds foundations on us both

  Stumbling words and stuttering lips
  Make the sentence complete
  A death sentence complete

  Create Hell out of hopelessness
  Confirm the failure of it all

  Falling and calling
  Falling and crawling
  A stick in the ground scratches your name
  A scream in the darkness is searching
  Again and again

  Watching eyes wait for sadness to rise
  True superstitions combine and thicken
  This poison that reaches my Soul
  This terror that blackens my Soul

  I must smile at your strategy
  And laugh at your plan
  And the execution of it all

  Like death itself love is rotting inside of me
  But there'll be no protection for you - you cannot hide me

  I am cold on a bed of ice
  But like seasons I know it will pass
  It will always return again though
  A Summer of love is a momentary and transient thing

  Winter will always return again
  And I should have known
  We were only killing time
  Now you have chosen your killing time
  Let's hope you make the kill in time

  Lies fall out of your mouth like laughter
  So shallow - it's become so disposable
  We had faith like a cross
  We had trust like a flag
  We had faith
  We had trust
  Killing time

  Love is all we need - you said
  As you held me in the confidence of your bed
  Tomorrow's not important - you said
  But tomorrow's turned into today instead!
  And I wake each morning feeling so ashamed
  Having fallen to emotions that we both named
  How shallow now all that rubbish seems
  Hearts once full are bleeding dreams
  Dreams that were reality
  Have now brought out the worst in me

    Love is just a paradox
    He loves me, he loves me not

  I don't want a part in this
  The stinging touch, the poisoned kiss
  The alibis to keep us close
  The lies you spit when I need you most

    Love is just a paradox
    He loves me, he loves me not

  A basic human need is such
  Being able to destroy with just one touch
  A stinking filthy trick I'd say
  One day the stalker, one day the prey

    Love is just a paradox
    He loves me, he loves me not

  Love is just a heart disease
  And no cure can make this aching ease
  But I'll tranquilise myself from that
  Let fit emotions turn to fat
  Care and concern won't breed here
  I've had and seen them disappear
  Tear stained eyes will not be seen
  When to touch is nothing more then obscene
  To fuck it seems is the only word
  The ability to love seems so absurd
  Absurd because we know we lie
  Laughing at it all as someone cries
  One day I may find it quite amusing
  How touch and tongues make life so confusing

  Tomorrow's not important - it's dead
  As the sheets grow cold on your big bad bed
  Love's not important - it's dead

    Love is just a paradox
    He loves me, he loves me not

  Suicide is an urban disease
  Spread by people and places like these
  A quick self destruct from the 21st floor
  A smell of gas through the kitchen door
  A stab in the back from the workers and bosses
  They're counting their gains as you count your losses
  As you count your losses

  Blow the world apart with the press of a button
  We all say it shouldn't but we know it will happen
  Again and again like the rain and the ark
  Onwards forever eternally dark
  Eternally dark

  The grit in your eye soon enters your heart
  And all that was strength is just falling apart
  We're jumping from one bed and into another
  Searching for something that we'll never discover
  Never discover

  So we go on breeding - breeding contempt
  From all of the repression that this has meant
  If the bombs and the fire don't instantly kill
  Then the greed from the ashes certainly will
  Certainly will

  This place is not my place
  This place is not yours
  We're set on self destruct
  For no reason or cause
  If the bombs and the fire don't instantly kill
  Then the greed from the ashes certainly will
  Certainly will

  Through these city nightmares you'd walk with me
  And we'd talk of it with idealistic assurance
  That it wouldn't tear us apart
  We'd keep our heads above the blackened water
  But there's no room for ideals in this mechanical place
  And you're gone now

  Through a grimy window that I can't keep clean
  Through billowing smoke that's swallowed the sun
  You're nowhere to be seen

  Do you think our desires still burn
  I guess it was desires that tore us apart
  There has to be passion
  A passion for living, surviving
  And that means detachment
  Everybody has a weapon to fight you with
  To beat you with when you are down
  There were too many defences between us

  Doubting all the time
  Fearing all the time
  Doubting all the time
  Fearing all the time
  That like these urban nightmares
  We'd blacken each other skies

  When we passed the subways we tried to ignore our fate there
  Of written threats on endless walls
  Unjustified crimes carried in stifled calls
  Would you walk with me now through this pouring rain
  It used to mingle with our tears then dry the hopes that we left behind
  It rains even harder now