01. Best I Can

(Chris DeGarmo)

A child alone in daddy's room

The gun was hidden here

No one home to catch me when I fall

A young man now in a private chair

I've seen the world through a bitter stare

But my dream is still alive

I'm going to be the best I can



I want to be a busy man

I want to see a change in the future

I'm gonna make the best of what I have

I want to write for a magazine

I'm gonna be the best they've ever seen

I know I'll win if I give it all I can



I won't let go, gotta make the grade

No, I won't let it go

To be the best man, the best man that I can



Back street hoop star you've got it good

You were the wonder of the crumbling neighborhood

Now taking bids on the next six digit plan

Showed me that my will survived

The tragedy that came into my life

giving me hope and the new start

that I have



I won't let go, gotta make the grade

No, I won't let it go

To be the best man, the best man that I can



Step by step I dream the plan

From my chair to walking man

This constant dream is on my mind

Chase the light I see ahead

Luminate the path I tread

I live to be the best I can



Now I'm moving forward

And I'm never looking back

Straight ahead, focused on the big attack

On a roll and I'm never slowing down

I won't be torn between

The man in the chair

And the man that's in my dream

I'm going to melt the two men into one



I won't let go, gotta make the grade I set

No, I won't let it go

To be the best man, 

the best man that I can

02. The Thin Line

(Chris DeGarmo, Geoff Tate & Michael Wilton)

Another hungry look, In her eyes again.

Pacing the floor, The hunt begins.

Skin-tight leather provides my pleasure.

Wake my fear, surge with the pressure.

Walk away and leave forever,

do I dare?



Raise my eyes, she stands.

Holding out healing hands...

are you happy now?



I walk the Thin Line for you.

Do just what you say to,

With fear as my friend,

I walk the Thin Line one more time for you.



Addictive face pretending, don't speak the Word.

Forbidden sin relenting, I barely heard...

screams of entry blur my vision.

Wake my fear of Divine Intervention

Crawl away and bleed forever, if you dare.



Hand on mouth the game goes on.

Love, our stage to play upon.

Are you happy now?



I walk the Thin Line for you.

Do just what you say to.

With fear as my friend,

I walk the Thin Line one more time for you.



I walk the Thin Line for you.

Do just what you say to.

I walk the Thin Line for you.

Do just what you say to,

With fear as my friend,

I walk the Thin Line one more time for you.

03. Jet City Woman

(Chris DeGarmo & Geoff Tate)

Cries from the aisles

the tEvery time I leave

You say you won't be there.

And you're always there.

Every time I cry your name at night,

you pull close and say it's alright.

I look in your eyes, just like the rain.

Washing me, rain wash over me.

Touching your face, I feel the heat 

of your heartbeat echo in my head like a scream.

What you do to me!

Waited so long I can't wait another day without you.



Jet City Woman.

It's a long way, home to my

Jet City Woman.

I see her face everywhere, can't get her out of my mind.



Whenever I'm alone I'm thinking,

there's a part missing from my life.

Wonder where I'd be without your love

holding me together now I'm

watching the time tick, tick away.

Face grows longer every day.

Fortunes are lost on the women I've seen

but without you I can't breathe!

You're the air to me!

Waited so long, I'm all alone thinking about you.



Jet City Woman.

Got to find my way home to her.

Jet City Woman.

I see her face everywhere I look!

Jet City Woman.

Just a thousand miles and I'll be there

Jet City Woman, to make the clouds go away.

Time for some blue sky!



Waited so long now the plane's delayed

and hour, reminds me of all our days apart.

Hold on, just a little longer.



Jet City Woman.

Wonder where I'd be, you're the air to me.

Jet City Woman.

Eyes like the rain, rain down on me.

Jet City Woman.

No more nights alone I'm almost home now.

Jet City Woman.

Close my eyes, I'm there in my Jet City.

04. Della Brown

(Chris DeGarmo, Scott Rockenfield & Geoff Tate)

You've got a cardboard house.

Live there all the time.

Keep your memories tied with string

The face that many once-adored,

twenty years gone maybe more.

Somewhere you lost your dream.

Mama watched your every move,

but now you're all alone.

She's been gone for awhile.

Daddy left some time ago,

fading years pass too slow.

He's the only one, could make you smile.



--oh, you're still crying--



Big city bound.

Gonna make your mark.

Read your name in the lights.

All the ads and people say,

beauty lets you get your way.

Tried your best to prove them right.

But living on the streets ain't bad,

sad people make you glad.

Pardon me, could you spare some change?



--oh, you're still crying--



Street corner girl.

Watch the crowd go by,

fill your tin can with life.

Summer days tend to slip away

like your men you couldn't make them stay.

Hard to choose, whiskey or a wife.

Sometimes you wonder where's the end.

Where you goin' where you been?

Happiness seems so hard to win.

Most never care to find,

Della Brown sees it all the time.

Looking for that man

to make her smile again.

05. Another Rainy Night (Without You)

(Geoff Tate, Chris DeGarmo and Eddie Jackson)

Don't slam the door, on your way out

Don't leave without saying goodbye.

Another long distance night alone,

you leave me wanting, always leave me wanting more.

Last word today, coming home to stay?

Wouldn't that be nice, for a while?



But now my take-out food is growing cold,

and the candle's burned a hole in the floor.

And I'm still waiting for the ring of the phone.



I'm all alone

It's just another rainy night, without you.

Guess I'll leave a light on for you.

It's just another rainy night, without you.



Listen, there's a foghorn blowing

from the coast tonight

Remember making love in the rain?

Strange how laughter looks like crying with no sound

Raindrops taste like tears without the pain.

I'm not much without you, can't leave

if I wanted to. maybe that's why you stay around



But tonight I'll sit here tending the fire

and pace the floor one hundred times in an hour.

And check the voice-mail for a message you've called.



I'm all alone

It's just another rainy night, without you.

Waiting by the phone. Alone.

It's just another rainy night, without you.

Guess I'll leave a light on for you.



I know I've said it before

hate the sound of the closing door

and your footsteps walking away.



(solo)



But now my take-out food is growing cold,

and the candle's burned a hole in the floor.

And I'm still waiting for the ring of the phone.v 

I'm all alone

It's just another rainy night, without you.

Waiting by the phone. Alone.

And it's another rainy night, without you.

Guess I'll leave a light on for you.



It's just another rainy night, another rainy night,

another rainy night without you.

06. Empire

(Michael Wilton and Geoff Tate)

Last night the word came down, ten dead in Chinatown. 

Innocent, their only crime was being in the wrong place, at the wrong time 

Too bad, people say what's wrong with the kids today 

Tell you right now they've got nothing to lose 



They're building EMPIRE! 



Johnny used to work after school 

at the cinema show. 

Gotta hustle if he wants an education 

he's got a long way to go. 

Now he's out on the street all day 

selling Crack to the people who pay. 

Got an AK-47 for his best friend 

business the American way. 



Eastside meets Westside downtown. 

No time, the walls fall down 



Can't you feel it coming? EMPIRE! Can't you hear it calling? 

Black man, trapped again. hold his chain in his hand. 

Brother killing brother for the profit of another, 

Game point, nobody wins. Decline, right on time. 

What happened to the dream sublime? 

Tear it all down, we'll put it up again. Another EMPIRE?



Eastside meets Westside downtown. 

No time, no line, the walls fall down. 



Can't you feel it coming? EMPIRE! 

Can't you hear it coming EMPIRE! 

Can't someone here stop it...??!!

07. Resistance

(Michael Wilton, Geoff Tate)

Protests in New York.

Listen to the call of the wild.

Brother, sisters carrying signs.

Breathe deep before it's too late;

The sky is falling, burning your eyes.

Down in New Orleans river's boiling. 

Nothing living, nothing to eat.

Thank the Lord, daddy's working 8-5.

Paying the doctor, baby's got cancer.



Give and take.

Has all we've learned been wrong?

Look around at what we've been given.

Maybe we've taken too long.



Resistance- shouts the man on the right.

Can't solve the problem overnight.

Resistance- Listen to the call of the wild.



Burning coal.

Got to keep the company warm as

the rain keeps killing the trees.

Cut 'em down quick.

Pay the man his wage, he's making paper

to fuel the "Information Age".

Out in the midwest,

hear the roar of the plough,

turning grassland into sand.

Got to feed the people more every day

but the wind keeps blowing the land away.



Give and take.

Has all we've learned been wrong?

Look around at what we've been given.

Maybe we've taken too long.



Resistance- shouts the man on the right.

Can't solve the problem overnight.

Resistance- Liberal opposition crying violation.

Stop the madness.

Resistance- Through the din, one voice we should hear.

Resistance- Listen to the call of the wild.



There's no easy solution.

The price is high, and it's time to pay.

Turn of the century vision

focused on a better way.

Resistance- shouts the man on the right.

Can't solve the problem overnight.



Resistance- Liberal opposition crying violation.

Stop the madness.

Resistance- Through the din, one voice we should hear.

Resistance- Listen to the call of the wild.

08. Silent Lucidity

(Chris DeGarmo)

Hush now, don't you cry

Wipe away the teardrop from your eye

You're lying safe in bed

It was all a bad dream

Spinning in your head

Your mind tricked you to feel the pain

Of someone close to you leaving the game of life

So here it is, another chance

Wide awake you face the day

Your dream is over... or has it just begun?



There's a place I like to hide

A doorway that I run through in the night

Relax child, you were there

But only didn't realize it and you were scared

It's a place where you will learn

To face your fears, retrace the years

And ride the whims of your mind

Commanding in another world

Suddenly you hear and see

This magic new dimension



I- will be watching over you

I- am gonna help you see it through

I- will protect you in the night

I- am smiling next to you, in Silent Lucidity



-spoken during solo- 

[Visualize your dream]

[Record it in the present tense]

[Put it into a permanent form]

[If you persist in your efforts]

[You can achieve dream control]

[Dream control]

[How's that then, better?]

[Hug me]



If you open your mind for me

You won't rely on open eyes to see

The walls you built within

Come tumbling down, and a new world will begin

Living twice at once you learn

You're safe from the pain in the dream domain

A soul set free to fly

A round trip journey in your head

Master of illusion, can you realize

Your dream's alive, you can be the guide but...



I- will be watching over you

I- am gonna help to see it through

I- will protect you in the night

I- am smiling next to you....

09. Hand on Heart

(Chris DeGarmo, Michael Wilton, Geoff Tate)

All eyes were staring

you floated through the room.

Armed with your razor smile

cutting to the bone.

My voice fell useless

you flashed a quick "Hello."

Feeling the fool,

could you tell it showed?



But that was "Sometime Ago."

A memory vague and fading slow,

of somewhere I'd been.



Hand On Heart

A promise, a word and a voice

Hand On Heart

A rhythm of hope and choice, will keep us together.



I don't know if I,

can reach that high.

It's a long way to fall

Hauntingly holding

my fate with a gaze.

Like a child, mesmerized

by the candle's flame.

Oh what lies behind those eyes

I could only guess.

That certain way you stood

apart from the rest.



Now where is "Sometime Ago?"

When everything moved in slo-motion. 

Caught by my watering eye



Hand On Heart

A promise, a word and a voice

Hand On Heart

A rhythm of hope and a vision of choice

Hand On Heart

Promising, I'll never go.

Hand On Heart

For reasons you'll never know.



Together through thick and thin

lose or win, I'll be there for you.

Strange how the mind changes

time and time again.

Things once important, now

pale in comparison.



Hand On Heart

A promise, a word and a voice

Hand On Heart

A rhythm of hope and a vision of choice

Hand On Heart

Promising, I'll never go.

Hand On Heart

For reasons you'll never know.



I promise girl, Hand On Heart.  

10. One and Only

(Chris DeGarmo, Michael Wilton)

Back in '86

February and a special number

I just had to know, is this feeling real?

I picked up the phone

I was one step closer to the danger zone

I knew she'd steal my heart away

But I know I couldn't live without her love

The first time she looked at me

Her smile stayed on my mind

I never thought I'd ever meet

A woman of her kind

Now I'm lost in a lover's daze

And I'm not walking out

Gonna give my heart away

And hope that she will always stay



Call for me, run to me

Whenever you are lonely

Call for me, run to me my lady love



Won't you come and show me that precious smile

And maybe stay for a little while

Close the door, Toss the key

Say you will always be my one and only



Looking back it seems to me

The message in her eyes

Left a lasting spell on me

A feeling I can't hide



Now I'm lost in a lover's daze

And I'm not walking out

Gonna give my heart away

And hope she will always stay



Call for me, run to me

Whenever you are lonely

Call for me, run to me my lady love



Won't you come and show me that precious smile

And maybe stay for a little while

Treat me to your sense of taste and style

Together we can walk the miles



Close the door, toss the key

Say that you will always be my one and only

11. Anybody Listening?

(Chris DeGarmo & Geoff Tate)

You and I

long to live like the wind upon the water.

If we close our eyes, we'll maybe realize

there's more to life than what we have known.

And I can't believe I've spent so long

living lies I know were wrong inside,

I've just begun to see the light.



Long ago there was a dream,

had to make a choice or two.

Leaving all I loved behind,

for what nobody knew.

Stepped out on the stage, a life

under lights and judging eyes.

Now the applause has died and I

can dream again...



Is there anybody listening?

Is there anyone that sees what's going on?

Read between the lines,

criticize the words they're selling.

Think for yourself and feel the walls

become sand beneath your feet



Feel the breeze?

Time's so near you can almost taste the freedom.

There's a warm wind from the south.

Hoist the sail and we'll be gone,

by morning this will all seem like a dream.

And if you don't return to sing the song,

maybe just as well.

I've seen the news and there's

not much I can do...alone



Is there anybody listening?

Is there anyone who smiles without a mask?

What's behind the words--images

they know will please us?

I'll take what's real. Bring up the lights.



Is there anybody listening?

Is there anyone that sees what's going on?

Read between the lines,

criticize the words they're selling.

Think for yourself and feel the walls...

become sand beneath your feet.