Lyrics for The Sun Revolutions

All Music & Lyrics by Chris Taylor © 2006

Renegade

so it came out one day that i don't pray to virgin mothers
and i have no faith in supernatural martyrs
so now that you know don't you wonder how i keep myself...
from going quite insane?

don't fool around
this is not for children
don't fool around
'cause it's not a game

i wield this golden shield and i sling these silver arrows for i will never yield to the fancy of the pharaohs and as we lay our heads and we gaze upon the stars you’re thinking...this is so insane!

don’t fool around this is not for children don’t fool around this is not for children don’t fool around with a Renegade like me.

so i cannot heal the blind and i cannot walk on water but the world before my mind is like stone before the sculptor though if you look for signs that the universe has clear intentions... well you will go insane!

don’t fool around this is not for children don’t fool around this is not for children don’t fool around with a Renegade like me.

I contemplate the fate of us and feel your eyelash brush my cheek someday we’ll find the air to breathe and kill the pulse of industry

but today we will reign forever but today we will reign forever

two warm bodies lie terrified under the manhole cover ill writing the new constitution fighting the Sun Revolution

but today we will reign forever but today we will reign forever

you lift the manhole cover still and gaze across the street-scape at the shadows running for us pull the pin and scope the target ‘cause we’ve been wearing clouds like coffins your tears are rolling down my face i’ll tell you now you were the one i loved

but today we will reign forever! but today we will reign forever!
but today we will reign forever! oh today we will reign together! forever!

The Unprotected

i live a sheltered life i live a strange life like everything is perfectly arranged for me i just survive here i never thrive here i’m in a culture of mediocrity

i live a sterile life i live a safe life so i will never feel pain or suffering i never cry here i never try here i’ll never reach my full capacity

i want the real thing
i want The Unprotected i want the feeling that i am still alive

i want the real thing
i want the consequences i want the feeling that i am still alive

what would your mommy say what would your daddy say if they knew we’ve been playing all night long here why don’t you take it off why don’t you tear it off why don’t you show me something i’ve never seen before

i want the real thing
i want The Unprotected i want the feeling that i am still alive

i want the real thing
i want the consequences i want the feeling that i am still alive

give me the suffering give me the bleeding i’ll take the pain and turn it in to ecstasy
i have to face the fear that i may die here die having never really lived for anything
i want the real thing
i want The Unprotected i want the feeling that i am still alive

i want the real thing
i want the consequences i want the feeling that i am still alive

oh lord kill me or something i won’t last for another day a rat in a cage

mama help me i’m nothin’ give me something to kill the pain like milk in my brain

what a fantasy outrageous! i want to feel outrageous! how it’s gonna be outrageous! when they take me away

look out on the horizon dancing puppets with remedies i fall to my knees

i give all of my body i give all of my rebel scars to these Angels of Mars

what a fantasy outrageous! i want to feel outrageous! how it’s gonna be outrageous! when they take us away

i recognize your love i recognize your love i hear your laughter resound like a river
i recognize your love i recognize your love i broke the code and it’s all showering down down down down

lately i’ve been unconscious do what you want with me understand my fate’s in your hands

come run back to the makers retreat free to the mother ship that world is a trip

what a fantasy outrageous! i want to feel outrageous! how it’s gonna be outrageous! when they take us away

i recognize your love i recognize your love i hear your laughter resound like a river
i recognize your love i recognize your love i broke the code and it’s all showering down down down down

lift up your fire light we’re dancing away tonight people enjoy the sweet sound of the music

Cavalier King

oh what a shame kid you had a sorry slip down from the ritalin crash like a chandelier your broken promises your sad weaknesses sound like a floundering man not a Cavalier King a Cavalier King

who are they out there they got you so scared run like a rabbit and shake with adrenaline if you’re a real man then turn around and blow through the enemy lines your innocence dies in little white lies the enemy lines

two hundred miles he battled through the field and no one stands who had faced him holding his rib cage and bleeding from the heels he’s crying out in the silence

i am the greatest warrior of my day here lie the daring dissenters critics were calling my sovereignty insane so everyone’s dead everyone’s slain

oh what a shame kid you had a sorry slip down from the ritalin crash like a chandelier you’re just a young fool who went to boarding school run to your mama ‘cause you’re not a Cavalier King

The War Is On

Come over here my love come out of the rain somewhere The War Is On somewhere someone’s in pain

Come over here my love come out of the rain somewhere The War Is On
somewhere The War Is On

and i’m sorry
i’m sorry
i’m sorry

come over here my love i know it feels like a game i know what you want to do i know who you wanna blame

imagine the open fields lined with a million stones somewhere The War Is On and everyone dies alone

so i’m sorry
i’m sorry
i’m sorry

it came to this it’s not my intention hear

stay here and please let me help you i will i will stay here and let me protect you i will i will

come over here my love lay your body down let me cover you wrap your arms around i’ll wipe away the tears of suffering tonight soon the day will break and we will have to fight

but I feel fortunate that i got to know how it feels to come and how it feels to go so look into my eyes and as our people die just hold on to me just hold on to me

i’m sorry
i’m sorry
i’m sorry

it came to this an adverse consequence

come over here my love come out of the rain somewhere The War Is On
somewhere The War Is On

silver moonlight on the river crystal candle in the castle snowfall silence in the shadows horses huffing as the wind blows

a woman cavernous a fortress is stark raving craving for the madness with gun smoke rising in her eyes she captures my innocence and rapture

Champagne & Cocaine come on baby dance we may die tomorrow and i’d like to get to know you better before we all go up in flames

glaring treacherous and daring she smolders furiously tearing my heart out in final consummation i love her with sweet infatuation

women simply swimmin’ in fine Egyptian linen
under the stars started shinin’ in rivulets of diamonds we let the fires of desire ignite the burning curtains and felt the sheer fear oh darling won’t you come here

Champagne & Cocaine come on baby dance we may die tomorrow and i’d like to get to know you better before we all go up in flames

come on mama don’t you see you and i should not be lonely come on mama come with me let me see you dance until the party’s over...oh

come on mama come with me let me see you dance
come on mama come with me let me see you dance

Champagne & Cocaine come on baby dance we may die tomorrow and i’d like to get to know you better before we all go up in flames

this is the end The Finest Hour our life’s ambitions will be measured here we’ve reached the wall we’ve reached the tower so the world is crystal clear

sound out the drums release the power i’ve grown too bold to be deterred by fear our noble foes were merely cowards so the world is ours from here oh the world is crystal clear

but for you i’d have seen my end long ago but for you my friends by the sword we’ve restored the right to be free we are free tonight

this is the end The Finest Hour our life’s ambitions will be measured here we’ve reached the wall we’ve reached the tower so the world is crystal clear oh the world is ours from here

I contemplate the fate of us and feel your eyelash brush my cheek someday we’ll find the air to breathe and kill the pulse of industry

but today we will reign forever but today we will reign forever

two warm bodies lie terrified under the manhole cover ill writing the new constitution fighting the Sun Revolution

but today we will reign forever but today we will reign forever
but today we will reign forever but today we will reign forever

i lay on the tracks and i hear the train whistle blow in my ear i’m facing the worst of my fears and you can’t diminish this

i’ve been here before i’m afraid sometimes there is no other way but i’m making a new resolution today to finish this

so i jump back on the platform and start living again ‘cause my life depends on a Victory i could never ever give up

i think i have squandered it all i’m down on my knees and i crawl i slip on the ice and i fall ‘cause i’m bent on makin’ it

i’m tired of feeling ashamed i’m tired of being a slave i’ve been a victim my whole damn life gotta stop takin’ it

so i jump back on the platform and start living again ‘cause my life depends on a Victory i could never ever give up

what’s the matter kid you’re gonna kill yourself if you die on the tracks you just hurt someone else and that’s not why you’re there right?

well this song’s for the ragged and used this song’s for the millions abused this song’s for the craving to make something new and beautiful

so i jump back on the platform and start living again ‘cause my life depends on a Victory i could never ever give up

what’s the matter kid you’re gonna kill yourself if you die on the tracks you just hurt someone else and that’s not why you’re there right?