Stranger In Your Soul

I. Sleeping Wide Awake

 

Once, not so long ago

I lived far below

Where you are

I didn't even know

Home was far a way

I was sleeping wide-awake

Breaking down

Waiting for the sound

 

But I can hear it now

Is it all too late

'Cause I would sell my dreams

If I could be awake

If I could be awake

 

There - waling into walls

Piercing through the pain

Here we are

Reaching through the rain

I almost caught a glimpse

To feel that Sunday high

I would fall

This makes no sense at all

 

But I can hear it now

Not a single word

And though I'd strain my voice

I cannot be heard

Outside the smile

The insider breaks

And I would give my dreams

If I could be awake

 

Whatever you're looking for

Don't ever start looking behind

Whatever you want to change

You better start changing your mind

'Cause everything can be done

Stand up 'cause this is your time

II. Hanging in the Balance

 

Go where you're going to

You can rule your mind

You will not decay

Decay is always waiting

You've got nowhere to go

So you look behind

What you sought to find

Is always fading

 

Wish to be wishless

Less can live evermore

More doesn't satisfy

The deeper meaning

Lose if you want to find

Find what you're looking for

For all your dreams can live

Live as if to satisfy the meaning

 

Whatever you're looking for

Don't ever start looking behind

Whatever you want to change

You better start changing your mind

'Cause everything can be done

Stand up 'cause this is your time

 

Drink in the big dream

Dream but you have to wait

Wait 'til you get it right

Write down every letter

Paint with the broadest strokes

Stroke through the deepest sea

See what you have in mind

To make it better

 

Get in on the ground floor

Floor to ceiling is so high

High will become the low

It will make sense

 

Want always wants some more

More is never enough

Enough is enough

Remember life is hanging in the balance

 

Whatever you're looking for

Don't ever start looking behind

Whatever you want to change

You better start changing your mind

'Cause everything can be done

Stand up 'cause this is your time

III. Lost and Found Pt. 2

 

Don't you think if you could be lost

Don't you think you can be found

Don't you think if you were the world, you'd turn it around

 

Whatever you're looking for

Don't ever start looking behind

Whatever you want to change

You better start changing your mind

'Cause everything can be done

Stand up 'cause this is your time

IV. Awakening the Stranger

 

In the time it takes to be lost or found

In the wake of something not for the crowd

Awakening the stranger in your soul

It isn't always quite that easy

Awakening the stranger in your soul

 

All the rage the wolrd goes on outside

It's alright come in here - it's safe to hide

Awakening the stranger in your soul

Is more than just a thought or feeling

There is no wordly danger beyond control

Awakening the stranger in your soul

V. Slide

 

Give up all the reasons that you know

Slide down where the time move nice and slow

Ease back and relax

No figures and no fax

Awakening the stranger in your soul

 

It's alright to give up your control (come in where it's safe-there is no I)

Move along we've paid your expressway toll (look at all the others floating

high) It's the 5:00 am alarm

No time to use your charm

Surrender is the only way to go

Awakening the stranger in your soul

No thought for yourself you just let go

VI. Stranger in Your Soul

 

When you come to make love, your only goal

Words cannot describe the feeling

Awakening the stranger in your soul

From the shadow to the deepest meaning

 

When you come to make love your only goal

Words cannot describe the feeling

Now we're here in full sight - we can be whole

Let's dive and never hit the ceiling

 

There - walking into walls

Piercing through the pain

Here we are

Reaching through the rain

I almost caught a glimpse

Brighter than the sky

A child grown

A stranger coming home

 

And I can hear it now

Every single word

And when I strain my voice

I will be assured

Outside the storm

But here the big break

That I might chance to dream

That I be awake

Awakening the stranger in your soul

Songtext: Morse, Neal / Portnoy, Mike / Stolt, Roine / Trewavas, Pete