Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me Your kiss and I will surrender The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead A light to burn all the empires So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be In love with all of these

Stop talking in codes Let me know what's up I need a love to celebrate So baby, take it all the way Stop talking in codes, stop talking in codes Tell me black and white Why I'm here tonight I can't read the signs Can't do it no more

Oh, take the time to waste a moment Oh, never ask to be forgiven Oh, face it where the lines are broken Oh, name a price to all that's living All the way from Waco to WE-HO with a rabbit on her chain Drove a little slick car to tend bar with the static

These are dark times Can you not feel yourself falling deeper? You've given yourself away Mistakes of the past are haunting me And I've given myself away All the walls are coming down I'm exposed, I'm alive This is my chance to breathe All my thoughts

I never saw it coming You wanna take me away Don't let it be for nothing before we get carried away Before we get carried away, yeah Stare at the window All by myself Jaded and waiting for some kinda miracle, yeah

Its not that I take life for granted Its only that the good wont make it Innocence dies while Villainy Thrives Retribution calls If only I could afflict you Hurt you in the same way that you hurt I just want to exact reprisal The only way I depict you Is

You don't have to be Superman You don't have to hold the world in your hands You've already shown me that you can Don't have to be Superman If I could break away half of all your pain I'd take the worst of it and carry you like you carry me You say that

Where the elite always meet Down in New Orleans, the land of dreams Or just how much it really means The land of dreams where I can lose My Basin Street blues Now won't you come along with me To the Mississippi? We'll take a trip to the land of dreams

We all want love and that's okay, Maybe there's someone. When my song has slipped away And the darkness swallows the day Another one's not very far away, so baby just hold on. And at the end of everyday no one can take these things away Baby just hold on

It went from a spark to an open flame Now destiny's calling out your name Under the lights on the high stage A part of your life it can take away Just like the blood running through your veins Everyone's watching through your eyes There's only two