Lyrics included here are from the songs on the album In The Following Half-Light. The track Cumulo Nimbus, as released on the Past - Present - Future compilation album is instrumental. More lyrics will be included later.

• Too Hard To Forget
• Son Of Sam
• Straight Into Infinity
• Maybe If They Burn Me
• Isle Of Man
• A Matter Of Time
• Sargasso

this is the thing that can keep me alive
I have found what I need if only to survive
I won't leave it behind, no, I still can't let go
I have seen in my mind
and the picture is too hard to forget
yeah, too hard to forget

not to win, not to lose it, not to happen, not to be
I cannot understand it and I just can't see
why is this so important to me? locked in my memory
I can't reason it out, I can't figure just why
but I know I've always had it there inside
and I can't shut it out, can't shut it out at all

this is the thing that can keep me alive
I have found what I need if only to survive
I won't leave it behind, no I still can't let go
I've seen in my mind
and the picture is too hard to forget
yeah, too hard to forget

it's there all the time, always in mind
can't sleep anymore at night
I can't get it straight, can't concentrate
try and forget
wound like a watch, tight as a spring
lately, always uptight
ls I lay there awake and I try to forget
all night

this is the thing that can keep me alive
I have found what I need if only to survive
I refuse to accept that it just cannot be
I won't leave it alone just to die, can't you see
all my life I have searched for the key to my dreams
and this instinct of fate's driving me to extremes
'cause the picture I get is just too hard to forget
I have seen in my heart
and the picture is too hard to forget
yeah, too hard to forget
it's too hard to forget
oh, I've seen in my heart, in my mind
it's the picture I see
it's the picture I see
it's too hard, yeah, it's too hard to forget

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I can feel the very pulse of life
setting like a throbbing August sun
into the Valley of the Shadow of Death
and into delerium

and when I'm acting out of my dreams
I savor the taste of sacrifice
I hold it to my breast
until the passion turns to ice
but I'm not to blame
no, I'm not to blame, no
better talk to General Cozmo

the mongrel is barking
I hear him just outside
the voice of the demon
that is my unrelenting guide
standing in the smokey window light
I accept what I know
will be my plight tonight
my being absorbed within the voice
I never really think or make the choice
I do not wince to take control
and never question
it's sealed upon my soul

liquid heat caress my loin
thoughts beginning to disjoin
in death's court such beauty rare
would Satan himself have one so fair?
into my eyes the torment's inside

I could not, or will, take human life
it is by power of one much greater than I
for what's been done I know no blame
I wash my hands, I cannot answer
into my eyes the torment's inside

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civilization deserves none of your pity
civilization deserves none of your pity

we have brought it upon ourselves as a group
but if you take the time to droop
you too can see into anonymity
just above the tangled wreckage of people's minds

sometimes I can reach deep into the earth
sometimes I can sense a people's rebirth

and it is true that individuals make up an army
and it is true that individuals make up an army

we have brought it upon ourselves as a group
but if you take the time to stoop
you too can see straight into infinity
just above the foundation of people's mind

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maybe if they burn me, they'll remember me
(eyes darting all about the room)
maybe if they burn me, they'll remember me
(eyes darting all about the room)
maybe if they burn me, they'll remember me
(eyes darting all about the room)
it never entered my mind

look at me, I'm pinned and wriggling on the wall
"this boy sees life through a rage"
it never entered my mind
I'm gonna fight

maybe if they burn me, they'll remember me
(eyes darting all about the room)
maybe if they burn me, they'll remember me
(eyes darting all about the room)
maybe if they burn me, they'll remember me
(eyes darting all about the room)
it never entered my mind

through death to love... all is unreal
the far-off hum... the near-by hum
the deepest part of me cried out, to no one
no one that heard and I know
I know they'll remember me if they burn me
maybe if they burn me
maybe if they burn me
maybe if they burn me
maybe if they...

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my land stands between two powers
its freedom stands within two seas
the shoreline's been my steel armour
castle's been an eagle's nest
time's been washed by a winter cloud
the sea's been tossed by the underground
tradition's been lost by the power cost
something's been changed
it's just not the same

the Isle of Man, of rock and sand
the valley not touched, but by native man
for in the past, as now
a fairy tongue does thrive
and now, as of before
the young know little but of the old

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little trout are swimming about my feet
beneath the summer skies
gathering the waters, the cycle complete
massage, ebb and flow
surge onward to the sea

it's good to touch, and smell and see
waterways... flowing gently
and on your beauty, a soft breeze plays
with you my longing forever stays

but you're dreaming of another day
lost to the crashing of the waves on the shore
forever

it's just a matter of... time
it's just a matter of... time
t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-time...

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before me the fabled graveyard of ghost ships
forever entangled in tentacles of weed
the ship lay against a macabre horizon
as shredded rigging, skeletal masts
creaked Sargasso's welcome... with dank mist
an air of doom hung ominous
then I thought for a moment there was silence...

Part II
from the east came the sound of unearthly voices
their bizarre song grew, mocking hopes of rescue
I heard the hellish chorus pass my by unnoticed
parting a matted clump of weed, I was sorry for what I saw

two longboats pulled by the withered limbs
of beings decrepit, yet awesomely powerful
tattered clothes and extreme age showed
these oarsmen were the ancient rowers
swimming beside at incredible speed
shrieking, wailing she-creatures
barred their salt swollen teeth
fixedly eyeing the nearing fresh cargo

chaos struck!

clawing, climbing scaling sides in overwhelming rage
a swarming, frantic bedlam
onto the dazed and wounded crew
overpowerd - overboard
the wretched, weakened men were thrown to sea hags
pulling them under water white with trashing
but then still...

Part III
only my nearness to the attacking menaces
stilled my cries of anguish and fear
but nothing I had seen
prepared me for what was to follow

the captain unlocking his cabin came forth
to greet the rowers as comrades as one
and they smiled together that ancient smile
as the bodies surfaced down below
his loathsome resemblance to them was now clear
had he brought us here to drown
in this salt water Hell?
with a wave of his hand
they dove to join their loathsome counterparts
tearing and snatching
at the brine-bloated bodies of my crew mates

grinding molars jammed bloody flesh
through well-muscled throats
livid jaws grinned, ravenous and gleeful
at the hideous slaughter
with demonic passion they devoured oblivious
choking and vomiting and gasping for more

some wrenched-off whole limbs
feasting viciously
others preferred carcasses
savoring innards and entrail
hags circled
in a slavering feeding frenzy
engulfed in pink froth and manflesh
a merciful faint overtook me...

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