I am guilty
Guilty by association
And it seems to be
That this prayer may be my last

I am Overseas
Surrounded by people that don't know me
They hide their face
But I'm victim by my craft

He took the cross
I'll take the blade
I'll pay the cost
Like the one he paid
And you can tell my family
That I've gone to be with Him
I don't live by the sword
But I can't say the same for them

They are demanding
That I deny his name
Or I'll never hear
My child say my own

But I see you standing
Behind the swords and warriors
And you're telling me
My son it's time to come home

So I take a deep breath
And praise you one more time
It's a quick pain and there's nothing left
In the place where nobody cries

He took the cross
I'll take the blade
I'll pay the cost
Like the one he paid
And you can tell my family
That I've gone to be with Him
I don't live by the sword
But I can't say the same for them

Come in Houston
Are you still receiving my call
I'm still in one place in outer space
And it feels like im bound to fall

Can you tell me what day it is
Because I don't have a clue
It's hard to tell the night time and the day
When the world below me looks so blue

Come in Houston, tell me, do you read
Because I feel so alone indeed
There have been no UFOs to come my way
In fact its just an ordinary day
Come in Houston tell me do you read

I'm getting closer, yes I see it now
If my parents were here with me
They'd tell me that theyre proud
And they would ask me how I did it
But its not what it seems
Playing in a cardboard box
Filled with hopes and dreams


This is Houston we can read you
And we'll do everything we can
To shed some light on you
And put your feet back on land

With a little help from Mothership
I think you'll be just fine
You must be famished from your journey
Its nearly dinnertime

I'm getting closer, yes I see it now
If my parents were here with me
They'd tell me that they're proud
And they would ask me how I did it
But its not what it seems
Playing in a cardboard box
Filled with hopes and dreams


An astronaut is stranded in space trying to reach out to Houston space center. He is remembering his childhood days playing astronaut in a cardboard box. He remembers his parents playing along with him at that age. His father would respond as Houston and send the mothership, the boys mother, to "rescue" him. All the while looking at Earth which is so close and yet still so far.

The evil hold their pride in their ignorance, their love in their hate, and their hate in knowledge.

A man seems brave when he comes across a sleeping wolf. But he scurries away like a mouse when he mistakes the wolf's snoring for a growl.

Tick tock
Sounds like the beat of my heart
Can't stop
You brought me this far

Time is marching
And so is my life
Im just smashing all the clocks
Because its not my time, no

So Ill love you Lord with all my heart
Even when it feels so weak
And don't think I forgot what you did for me
How you moved in those doctors
How you worked through their minds
And whispered there in my ear
Its not your time, my child rise

Laying here in this bed
Those people think i should be dead
But they dont know you like i do
They dont know you like i do

And then some days come harder now
But i know youre still on your throne
You hold the final straw
The decisions yours alone

Ill love you Lord with all my heart
Even when it feels so weak
And don't think I forgot what you did for me
How you moved in those doctors
How you worked through their minds
And whispered there in my ear
Its not your time, my child rise

Rise rise my dear child rise
Don't you know you have so much time
You have the rest of your life 
Rear rest oh my child rest
Remember everything ive done
And every word I've said

So Ill love you Lord with all my heart
Even when it feels so weak
And don't think I forgot what you did for me
How you moved in those doctors
How you worked through their minds
And whispered there in my ear
Its not your time, my child rise

How can you be happy,
To say that nothing is wrong
In your world,
And not show it?

How can the darkness
Imitate the light?
Of course even in darkness
There is light from the stars.

But people have to look
Above to find it.
Suggest it was a cloudy night.
Would the stars be visible?

What else, if the stars
Fell out of the sky
And the moon forbid
To show its face?

It is very difficult
To find darkness
During the day.
And yet people continue
To sit in the shade.

Perhaps they are in fear
That the sun will shed light
On their own darkness
And that the sun has become
Their enemy?

If you say you are happy,
Do not speak it
Into a milk bottle
Where no one can hear.

Instead shout it from rooftops.
Slam doors, make any
Certain noise that convinces
Yourself along with others
Who do not believe you.

Many will associate
Louder noises with anger,
But many do not realize
That sadness is a silent enemy.

If only i was a carpenter
I'd build a roof above my walls
The storm within falls like teardrops
And a voice like thunder makes me fall

If only i could find a way
To live without my heart
Perhaps i could give it to someone else
And rip the chains apart

But you know what they say
You can't have your cake and eat it too
So I'll be starving from this disease
A dream i know could never be true

If only I was father time
Then maybe i coud stop the clocks
Id pull my spirit where it lingered
And say goodbye where i used to talk

But you know what they say
You can't have your cake and eat it too
So I'll be starving from this disease
A dream i know could never be true

This is goodbye baby
To everything ive known
Like a vagabond in your mind
I have no place to call my own

But you know what they say
You can't have your cake and eat it too
So I'll be starving from this disease
A dream i know could never be true