Time of Rebirth

The Observatory Time of Rebirth Lyrics
1.How's Life?

How's life?
Living like this
How is life?
We'll see
Life is slow
Do we know
If it's meant to be?

What to do?
There's nothing new
Is there any place to go?
Nothing comes
& Nothing goes
& Our faces in reluctance show

Life's good
That's what they say
But by the way
By the way
Life's incomplete so
So we slip & it's all downhill

What to do?
& Do we know?
Do we know we're in luck or no?
What to do?
& Do we grow?
Do we ever grow up or no?

How's life these days?

Do we ever grow up?

So we slip & it's all downhill

How's life these days?


2.Killing Time

Killing time
Killing time
Don't really know what to do?
Sad is the man who lives by the sea

Wasting time
Wasting time
Watching as nothing goes by
Sad is the man with an empty life

Killing time
Killing time
Long is the passage of time
Sad is the man with an absent mind

Beating time
Beating time
Run as the wind goes by
Sad is the man who is tired of life

So sad is the man
So sad is the man
Sad is the man who lives by the sea
Sad is the man who lives by the sea

Killing time
Killing time
Older the sea gets each day
Sad is the man who has walked away

Passing time
Passing time
Never once stopping to stay
Sad is the man who has lost his way.


3.Queen of Fate

The upright guards with their purple hearts guarding the queen
of spades
On the isle of monopoly, they've been calling her queen of fate
Along the fence of her courtyard, see her people gather 'round
Only to catch a glimpse of her highness in her royal gown
& Her circus mirror tells us what we need to know
A ring of smoke is rising up as we buy into the show
The man of beard and sideburns, like moses with his stones
Drinks from the old river & eats leftover bones
Along the horizon came a hired hurricane
& Men of the opposition look into the eye of the rain

Touch-me-nots & lilies surround a dying horse
Beneath the golden bough, all that is true becoming false
Along the river valleys & dead alleys, eager horses wait
Patiently, for inevitably, your turn comes in the hands of fate
When the old workhorse is dead & buried in the snow
Rain pours down, flowers bloom & grow
Still the whip is driven all through night & day
& The horses run about, eat hay, grateful when they get to play
A lifetime long of work & song
We toil with joy & pain
A lifetime long of slavery
To the queen of the pouring rain

The queen sits in her courtyard making up the rules, taking off
her shoes
The clowns juggle blindly, entertaining fools, investigating
clues
The joker on his bicycle, rattling his bells, balancing well
& The man who lost his wallet, takes his clothes off & sells his
soul to hell
& The devil child with a stroke of genius strikes his mother
down
The king of ships went sailing once, was lost, was never found
The ailing aisle of wasted smiles is washed up on its shore
King jack & noah with a handshake, seals & settles for
A night of pleasure, a night of pain, a night against the law
Noah waits for the queen of hate & treats her like a
prostituting whore

She screams like she's been punished in the room of jack the
king
She might even enjoy it if jack joined in
The curtains heavy with the burden of not letting light in
The king-sized bed not quite big enough for the violent rocking
& The maid never wanders in without a fair warning
In the purple chambers where the sun sleeps this morning
Jack the king, he's lying in a pool of blood, noah hangs in the
crowd
She opens her doors to let the flood out, her followers bowed
& While the ocean parts, the common voice of a revolution starts
Revenge was always written in the cards
She's always been the queen of spades not hearts.


4.Ask


5.Waste Your Life

Waste your life
Waste your life
When nobody tells you otherwise
Use your head
While you can
When nobody will uncover your eyes
For somebody deceives you
And your colleagues
They tease you
For somebody deceives you
And your own friends
They tease you.


6.This Sad Song

This sad song will write itself
When you're gone
& When there's no one else
Empty the streets of people
& You'll find yourself
The saddest song
Unfolding unto itself
This sad life lives by itself

When it's gone
No one wonders what's going on
Empty the rooms of lonely people by themselves
Their saddest lives unfolding
Searching for a meaning to carry on

All good people who can never find love
True love for people
All their lives spent looking
For the hearts of people who can never find love
Feed the hungriest hearts with love

This sad world all by itself
When it's gone
So will everybody else
Empty the hearts of people who've never given love
To a stranger
Filled with hunger in the heart

Hungry the hearts of people who can never find love
Hungry the hearts of people
All their lives spent looking
For the hearts of people who can never find love
Feed the hungriest hearts with love.


7.Time of Rebirth

Count the mistakes
The chances we take
& put them all in a basket
Don't be afraid
To count all your eggs
To sell them all in the market place

Learn we will learn to admit defeat
Time understands when it wants to

Time of rebirth
Loved ones be loved
Belonging
All those who gather
Don't be alarmed
Don't be afraid
We'll tell them
All in the human race

Learn we will learn to admit defeat
Time understands when it wants to

We do what we do
A little kindness too
So that others can do
What they want to

To all those who seek happiness
Keep a record of all your sadness
For what we'll search
For what we'll mean
Together
Sooner or later
We learn

Learn we will learn to admit defeat
Time understands when it wants to


8.Relationships with Sin

Show me
Mercy from this misery
It shouldn't be
No ray of light will seize your window
Everything is dead
Even the mattress on your bed
It shouldn't be filthy
Relationships with sin

So the roads may be quiet
The trains may hum and sigh
The people on the street
Walk their lives on by

Show me
Courage from this cruelty
It couldn't be
Wear your carriage like an armour
The radio says
Now that everything's in place
It couldn't be
How you let them slap you on your face

So the song may be nice
The faces may entice
The people swallow whole
As art is realized
Show me
Meaning from this comedy
It wouldn't be
A room like this is never vulgar
Why the walls are red?
The children who will never sing
It wouldn't be
Summer steps will never spring

So the heads may deny
The bodies may defy
The people & their lives
How they slip on by.


9.Hearts and Souls

Normal days in our normal lives
Do we wish for something more?
Normal days in our normal lives
Where there's usually nothing more

Can we ever know?
The meaning of our hearts and our souls

What are we missing again?

Normal days in our normal lives
No one's going out of their way
Normal days in our normal lives
No one's hands are left untied

Can they ever know?
The meaning of their hearts and their souls

What are they missing again?

Normal days in our normal lives
Do we wish for something more?
Normal days in our normal lives
Where there's usually nothing more
Normal days in our normal lives
So what are we waiting for?
Normal days in our normal lives
Where there's usually nothing more

Can we ever know?
The meaning of our hearts and our souls

What are we missing again?


10.Another Passer-by

In your eyes
Don't you know?
People come
People go
Around you
Passing by
Then they go
Lonely people
Never seem to know
Of all the things to do these days
Searching for a meaning
Everything to do with life
Has to mean something to you

So in my eyes
Tears will flow
People come
People go
Of all the things to do these days
Never felt more out of place
It's hard to decide anymore
I'll be denied

Heavy cloud
Hovers by
It's been a year
For giving
And forgiving
Nothing up there in the sky
All those songs
Have been a bunch of lies
Of all the things to do these days
& I can't find a meaning
Everything to do with life
Has to be true.


11.Fishbowl Flag

Fishbowl flag
Uneasy
Flag a cab
To curb your loneliness
It's showing
Find a calculating line
Sorry that i missed the stop
Sorry but i can't decide
Cry for mama lemon lime
Sorry that I missed the stop
Sorry but I can't decide.