Noel Christopher - Singer Songwriter Musician

1998
JoyPopper
CD - Plastic Horse

Track Listing

Change Wraps			lyrics
Wound			lyrics
Life			lyrics
Ocean Verge			lyrics
Never Quite Been There			lyrics
Silver Son			lyrics
Versus Smile			lyrics
Carnivals and Animals			lyrics
Lose What I Give			lyrics
Last Words			lyrics

Dissaciate yourself from this life
Silent sensations seep through your fingers
And darken your eyes
Your horizons are limited by your mind
And maybe your crimes
I've seen your edges slip away
Further down these lines

Everything goes like this
(She's just living for today)
Everything goes like this
She said
Everything is quite like this

Change these tattered wraps
Hear my sacred pounds
Confront them again and it won't make a sound
Stale, angry walls stare back through here
Tread this loose ground with firm fear

Raze the affected inhibitions of your soul
Then discover without enmity
You will become whole

Everything goes like this
(She's just living for today)
Everything goes like this
She said
Everything is quite like this

Change these tattered wraps
Hear my sacred pounds
Confront them again and it won't make a sound
Stale, angry walls stare back through here
Tread this loose ground with firm fear

Go away she said
It doesn't matter anymore
Go away she said
It won't be long before....

...I push them behind
Well I have walked the halls of the never-man
I found him to be making our plans

Change these tattered wraps
Hear my sacred pounds
Confront them again and it won't make a sound
Stale, angry walls stare back through here
Tread this loose ground with firm fear

I am oblivious to oblivious things
By design
Every brain-tag has a secret
Would you help find mine?

Shall we conspire
To live our lives like a normal man
And hide ourselves?
But I won't hide
And if you can't fake it enough
Turn to me and I will fake it all for you
'Til it's true

He leads them over the rope
Into the valley of doubt
For all of this he would
Sell himself out
In the back of his mind
It lingers and taunts
As he looks to the sky he screams
"MAKE IT STOP!"

I know that
Love will not
Love will save us all
Remember, won't you
Remember that love will save you all

She wore a short pullover
Underneath her jacket
And I seem to remember
The way it fell across her shoulders
A bit outworn.
Outworn

What we want in Life
We already have.
I breathe through my eyes
And it makes me run away from here

I watched the sky turn amber
Then it faded to black
As the stars fell up
And I could be the never-ending man of your life
If you just let my sun drop

What we want in Life
We already have
I breathe through my eyes
And it makes me hazy

Imagine you were thrown away
Left just for yesterday
No, you don't mean anything
Well how could you believe what they had to say
About who you're supposed to be
I blame it all on you

She wore a short pullover
Underneath her jacket
It kept her warm
But I wish it was me instead
By the pool I remember
Hanging on to the old Plastic Horse
We were young
But we looked so damn good

What we want in Life
We already have
I breathe through my eyes
And it makes me hazy

Well I've been drained again
I'm looking up from the floor
And I will dance the pavan with you
On this wrinkled wall
And I said
"All of you have fallen"
We are so engrained to hate
Leading pavid lives
It's our disgrace

Is there something else
Lying on the Ocean floor?
Is there something else
Or is this all we've got?

Still the mirror sneers
As I sway from the norm
My licentious ways dissuade those of times forlorn
They said
"All of you have fallen"
As I peer out from my shell
Look through my eyes
Come see my hell

Is there something else
Leading us to the Verge
Is there something else
Or is this all we've got

Knowing there's more
Knowing it's worse
I have fallen
And I am everything to them

Well we seethe and teem an abundance of change
I blurt out with smell
I call out in casualties
Well I can break your faith
Make you hate yourself
Look through my eyes
Come see my hell
Do you know if it's real?
I know it's real!

Knowing there's more
Knowing it's worse
I have fallen
And I am everything to them

I have felt the weight of the world
Sinking down into my head
And I can breathe but no
You steal my every breath
We will have our day
And I swear I will not leave this town
Until I've set this straight

They will ram you with words
And tell you what to believe
Your ability to reason is gone
Yet something exudes relief
We will have our day
And I swear I will not leave this town
Until I've set this straight

And you take me to the river
Where I see my reflection
And it tells me I've been lying
And we scream out for a love
That has Never Quite Been There
Show me that the end
Is not in today

Strangers will claim that they know the secrets
Of what you can be
The only thing is that it's so strange
Nothing is what they mean
To anyone who has already carved their path
Or monuments in stone
Well you can ride their road
But you'll realize soon you'll have to make it
On your own

And you take me to the river
Where I see my reflection
And it tells me I've been lying
And we scream out for a love
That has Never Quite Been There
Show me that the end
Is not in

And you take me to the river
And I would go there again
If I could just find my way
Where I see my reflection
And it tells me I've been lying
And we scream out for a love
That has Never Quite Been There
Show me that the end
Is not in today

I am Silver Son
My shine hides my love
And I can make you realize all your fears
I can braze you with my glare
Nothing is as nothing does
Had you my life would you be the same as me
Would my crimes set you free?
We will find this ourselves.
Oblivious to oblivion
I know there's wrongs
Everything I know I've learned
With you I've no concern

Well I've seen the blue-haired guy
He's in the dark, playing bongos, doing ecstasy
Well it's nothing new to me
Offer only what you have to give
Nothing more
Let yourself get away with things that you can bring along

We are the Silver Sons
Playing with our broken guns
And I shoot my broken gun
Straight through the silver son
I am the love
You are the hate
Nothing is wrong
At least not today
Offer up your Silver Sons

We are the Silver Sons
We pray for love
But we know there's none of that round here
No we've nothing left to spare
I could be a little wasted man
With little dreams and little hopes
That get me through the night
Oh but they're mine
Yes how I've tried
To get through these lies
And make it seem right
But I know there is nothing else
Leading me away
No there is nothing else
Left for me today

And I am a Silver Son
Playing with my broken gun
And I shoot my broken gun
Straight through the silver sun

Where you find war, I find peace
Where you find hope, I sense defeat
I am always leaning in
Eyeing the masses a lit effigy
With intimation I signal release
The results are always brazen

Today the Versus Smile
Gone for now won't be back for a while
When you hear me start to shout
Leave me alone I'll just figure it out

Upset at it all, I don't pretend
Tear down these walls
Here and now it will end
Can you smell the heirarchy
Offer it up, give it back
Sell it to me, you know it's what I had
I must learn to hold on better

Today the Versus Smile
Gone for now won't be back for a while
When I hear them start to shout
Leave them alone they'll just figure it out

Oh I wish that I was a poor man
Everywhere I went I could find a pot of gold
It seems as if I want something better
Everything I want just grows old

Cure me of your sympathies
Rid me of this despondency
Of my efforts I have been stripped
And the Versus Smile licks its lips

Today the Versus Smile
They're gone for now won't be back for a while
When you hear me start to shout
Leave me alone I'll just figure it out

Today the Versus Smile
They're gone for now won't be back for a while
When I hear you start to shout
I'll leave you alone you'll just figure it out

Give yourself to me
And ask yourself to try again
Without a word let my arms fall limp
And lay still on this bed
Oh it's no wonder I
Don't walk anymore
With all these wheels at my feet I just
Roll past my cures

I believe in them and asked for them to lie
To lie under my words and my scars
And in Carnivals and Animals I've tried
To understand how we got this far

I sleep in these sheets and wait for the man in my dreams
To get out of my head
Well off he goes to hurt some more
But I'm sure that I'll get to see him again
Get down on your knees
And bow down before those who ask you to falter
Empty your hands of their pain
And hold them out as an offer

I believe in them and asked for them to lie
To lie under my words and my scars
And in Carnivals and Animals I've tried
To understand how we got this far

Exhausted to the core
I lose my whole world, I lose my whole being
Cracks in the wall steal my last sense of dignity
They steal my last sense of feeling
Get down on your knees
They want you to fault her
Empty your hands of their pain
And hold them out as an offer

I believe in them and asked for them to lie
To lie under my words and my scars
And in Carnivals and Animals I've tried
To understand how we got this far

Oh I lusted them and trusted them to try
To try and help me escape from my scars
And in Carnivals and Animals I've tried
To understand how we got this far

Well they say, "blessed are the chosen, they're the ones"
"To walk the sacred grounds, under the sun"
Well I've seen everything
The sun has soaked my skin
They why don't I feel like a chosen sun?

I sleep and in my dreams I'm a different man
Bigger, badder, stronger - a ruler of lands
Well I own my soul
I wouldn't sell it for the world
Then why am I not free as I pretend?

I found heaven in the barrel of a gun
I've seen justice raped from a man just for fun
I know how to fight
Been doing this all my life
You ask me to fight now
My fighting's done

On this broken road
I find myself stranded
When these thoughts rise again
I know they'll be demanding
It's not clear how I got here
It doesn't matter now
My dreams have been vanquished

I'll dig you your own private grave
So you can lay down and have some rest
Of all the things I've wished for you
It's this I have to confess

I visit the vacant tombs
I search the chamber of my rooms
Hanging pictures on the wall
To remind me of when I had it all

Like bullets I build the words
And I load them into my head
I shoot them from my raging lips
And they explode once they're said

And I hope to see you once again
To remind you of what we had
On days like this
I can never forget
Your LAST WORDS are driving me
Driving me, driving me mad