Play With Fire

(Horner)

I like to play with fire

I like the smell of smoke

I want to go out burning

go out broke

I make my home wherever

Lay down my head in the grass

Fireflies hovering over me

Light up the past

In the valley of the shadow I go crawling on my knees

Under thorny constellations Into all that makes me bleed

And the only thing that's certain Is the ground beneath my feet

In the valley of the shadow

Cover my head with incense

Cover my head with oil

Plant me in your garden

Deep in the soil

Early in the spring time

I'll begin to rise

Rise up through the black earth

Then open my eyes

Oh I'm coming up

to drink from the holy cup

Oh I'm sitting down

With angels all around

This will be my story

This will be my song

I will sing forever I will carry on

Sing about creation

Falling on the earth

Embrace the miracle of my birth

That Blue

(Wilkowske)

I think about you every day

There is no price I wouldn't pay

To have you back here in my loving arms

Free from the dangers, safe from the harms

When the answers just won't come

Questions linger, then come undone

Find the line where the lake meets sky

Open your eyes, and let them cry

That Blue, is so true

It isn't me, it isn't you

It's in the sky, in the lake

You give, you take

The water rolls right down my face

Leaves behind a salty trace

Becomes a cloud falls down as rain

How can I ever survive this pain

The spirit's willing but my flesh is weak

Where is the comfort relief I seek

I can no longer turn my back on you

You are the one who pulls me through

Upward Bound

(Horner)

I am upward bound

To the thin air heaven

To the mystic ground

Of the holy seven

There is fire there

And it burns forever

I am upward bound

There is perfect peace

In the quiet tundra

And when the mountain speaks

You can feel its thunder

And the bitter pill

Of a life half spoken

Gets swallowed whole

When I come here broken

Take me into you

Take me in like water

Into deepest blue

With your sons and daughters

I will find my voice

I will learn my name

I am upward bound

Oh Innocence

(Horner)

Oh innocence where have you gone

I really miss you

I miss your Eden song

All my memories are hazy and few

I'm on the outside

Out in the desert with you

Mistook you for a mighty king

You promised me everything

I even bent down and kissed your ring

Prostrate on the floor

Check your brain at the pearly gate

We'll curse you if you hesitate

Sit right down and hold that smile

Smile till it hurts

This moment is all I've got

When I belive that the time just stops

I catch a glimpse and then the bubble pops

This is how it goes This is how it goes

Marie Falling Down

(Horner)

I see Marie falling down

I see her tumble

I see her contact the ground.

And she does not make a sound.

I saw Marie falling down

Now she has met with the cold earth

She is tasting it

She is not liking the dirt

She is not friends with the earth

Marie is longing for the perfect guy

She wants salvation

to come falling from the sky

she's not looking on the inside

High Time

(Wilkowske)

Cold spring, don't want to sing

Wall of fog hits my eye

Another day, world is gray

Heaven please hear my cry

It's high time

Summer come and melt this frozen day

Bright light

Summer sun will burn these blues away

Flowers bloom, in the gloom

April is the cruelest time

Days get longer, sun gets stronger

Loving light is not a crime

I have made my own mistakes, stepped on gas instead of brakes

Turned my back on loving touch

At times I question my own fate, up too early, stay up late

Haven't figured out that much

Ice Cream Inside

(Wilkowske)

Grandpa in his easy chair

Sunny skies and warm air

I'm feelin' like ice cream inside

Sweet and melty, little chill

Take a nap and take a spill

I'm feelin' like I'll run and hide

Feelin' like I'll run and hide

Big old elm tree, branches high

Big green leaves against blue sky

I'm feelin' summer warm my bones

Old red pickup loaded down

Daddy waves and mother frowns

I'm feelin' like I've left my home

Feelin' like I've left my home

Things I cherish, cannot hold them in my hand

And now I finally understand

When I perish, I'll still have my memories

To hold me 'til the darkness comes

'Til the darkness comes

Looked at you, you looked at me

I could not see what you saw in me

Feelin' like you could be the one

We made a home and faced our fears

With sons and daughters, love and tears

I'm feelin' like the rising sun

Feeling like the rising sun

Force of Life

(Wilkowske)

I wake up in the dark in my house on the hill

I see others waking in their houses too

Yellow light shines out on the snow sparkling still

And the crystal dreams in shadows tainted blue

The force of life

Shines through the stars

Through storm and strife

From near and far

Hurry off to work and school, where tunnel vision is the rule

And it's easiest to stay inside the lines

Take your pencil in hand, say that you don't understand

And create an image of your own design

The force of life

Shines through the sun

Through storm and strife

Through everyone

When the world is a cold and brittle prison of fear

And your words freeze and shatter on the ground

Find your soul burning bright, giving warmth, giving light

Hear your voice melt and fill the earth with sound

Finally Over It

(Horner)

This time I tell you I'm finally over it

I've seen the err in my way

This time I'll show you Just how far I can run from it

I'll run till I'm faithful

I'll climb till I'm able to change

Foolish man

What makes you think that

Genies can go back in bottles

Stubborn man

Aa part of you knows that

Only through fire are you born

This is my last card, this one will cover me

This one will blow you away

Just watch me go now healing my self again

I've showed you genius today

What if I shut up and listened to everything

What if I laid down and cried

Felt all the darkness, walked through my tragedy

Crossed to the other side

Endlessly watching and waiting and hoping

waiting for something to drop from the sky

Something to make me feel lighter and better

Something to make me feel right

Day Glow

(Horner)

I hear trouble

I hear flesh being torn

I hear screaming

I hear pleading

This must be life

This must be death being born

This leaves me speechless

Fighting to catch my breath

I've entered into Day Glow

These are my true colors

And as this day glows

Light has been uncovered

There is needing

There is grasping at straws

There is crying

There is dying

Empty vessel

Empty room down the hall

No more bleeding

This heart's not beating

Come together

Come and see what John saw

Come with singing

With your whole being

And enter into day glow

These are your true colors

And as this day glows

Light has been uncovered

You're So Close

(Horner)

Are you cast in stone

Do you sink in water

Do you like being alone

Play the part of a martyr

And you're so close to heaven

Just outside the pearly gates

Open your eyes and breathe it in

Stretch out your arms and congregate

In the midnight hour

Does your heart start pounding

Stomach's kind of sour

Is your pain astounding

Catapult me off my chair

Send me high into the air

If I get dizzy help me land

In a place where I can stand

Can you shed your skin

Leave it in the garden

Let it feed the soil

Let it be your pardon

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Musicians:

Steve Horner: lead vocals (``Marie Falling Down,'' ``Oh Innocence,'' ``Play With Fire,'' ``Upward Bound,'' ``Day Glow,'' ``Your So Close''); backing vocals; acoustic guitar, piano, elecric guitar, fretted electric bass, additional instrumentation.

Tom Wilkowske: lead vocals (``Ice Cream Inside,'' ``High Time,'' ``Force of Life,'' ``Finally Over It,'' ``That Blue''); backing vocals; nylon string guitar, electric guitar solos, fretted and fretless electric bass.

Tom Ware: drums on ``Oh Innocence,'' ``Finally Over It,'' ``Play with Fire,'' Your'e So Close.''

Produced, mixed and recorded by Steve Horner. Additional instrumentation and arranging by Steve Horner. Additional recording by Tom Ware of Warehouse Productions, Omaha, Neb. Mastered by Lorenz Vauck of XARC Mastering, Dresden, Germany.