Indoor Storm's First CD, Blinded by the Moon.

Lyrics for Blinded by the Moon

WE'LL BOTH FIND OUT (SLOW BURN)

Verse 1
 You say you want to walk alone in the dark;
 I'd rather walk in the light;
 Despite your basic impression of me baby,
 I can see it ain't right.

 Chorus
 So take it out on the black top highway;
 Drive me out of your mind.
 You think you've got your direction.
 We'll both find out in time.
 
Verse 2
 Why is it so hard for you to give me an answer,
 Before you lay down your head.
 Another night just slipped into morning;
 Another trip around an empty bed

 Chorus
 So take it out on the black top highway;
 Drive me out of your mind.
 You think you've got your direction.
 We'll both find out in time.

 Verse 3
 I need a woman with the power to heal;
 I'd chase the road, but I lack the will;
          I'm weary with the paint on these walls;
 The time you loved me, I don't recall.

 Chorus
 So take it out on the black top highway;
 Drive me out of your mind.
 You think you've got your direction.
 We'll both find out in time.

LEAD ME ON (ANYWAY IT FALLS)

Verse 1
 You can stoke me up;
 You can burn me down;
 Let's see who's standing when the
 Stars fall out.
 Look for light
 at the end of the mind;
 got half a plan if you got the sign.

 Chorus
  You can lead me on;
 you can tune me down;
 I won't complain
 All I want is another round;
 A chance to explain.
 
 
Verse 2
    There's a fine line
 between you and me --
 Everybody holds some faith they
 Don't believe.
 You can count me out;
 You can count me in;
 I've got walls honey, you can't
 comprehend.

  Chorus
 You can set me up;
 You can fall on me;
 doesn't matter which way it falls.
 You can fire me up;
 You can turn me down;
 Darling, I know how to crawl.

 Verse 3
 I want a few hours of your time;
 I've got the card, if you'll punch the dime.
 The stars are dying, the highway's right,
 Let's solve a simple mystery tonight

  Chorus
 You can set me up;
 You can fall on me;
 doesn't matter which way it falls.
 You can fire me up;
 You can turn me down;
 Darling, I know how to crawl.

 Chorus
  You can lead me on;
 you can tune me down;
 I won't complain
 All I want is another round;
 A chance to explain.

DIRTY LOVE

Verse 1
 Oh, babe -- I got the dirty, dirty love.
 Oh, baby, I've got the dirty, dirty love.
 Only thing I know to do
 is wash it strong and hard.

Chorus
 This could be love,
 Drive me round the block.
 Come set my timing, baby
 and clean my carb.

Verse 2
 Oh, babe -- I got the dirty, dirty love.
 Oh, baby, I've got the dirty, dirty love.
 Only thing I know to do
 is wash it strong and hard.

Chorus 2
 I'll get the mop;
 You grab the broom.
 The way you hold it baby,
 You got that dirty love, too.
 
Chorus
  This could be love,
 Drive me round the block.
 Come set my timing, baby
 and clean my carb.

Verse 4
 Oh, babe -- I got the dirty, dirty love.
 Oh, baby, I've got the dirty, dirty love.
 Only thing I know to do
 is wash it strong and hard.

Verse 5
  Oh, babe -- I got the dirty, dirty love.
 Oh, baby, I've got the dirty, dirty love.
 Only thing I know to do
 is wash it strong and hard.

BLINDED BY THE MOON

 Verse 1
 This is how I disappear
Wearing every dream you fear
You say I'm the one you need;
I'm the fool who believes.
Whatever happened to my pride;
I know where my grief resides.
All I ever wanted is some inner peace,
Right beside me.

Chorus
 Blinded by the moon.
 Sounding almost like the truth.

 Verse 2
River of loneliness runs black and cold
grinds me down against the stones
I'm a shadow you walk through
I mean less than nothing to you.
Saw three hawks cross broken trees,
Like a gallow of memory.
Is this what I am,
a black hole, less than a man.

Chorus
 Blinded by the moon
 Sounding almost like the truth

Verse 3
 I carry the past in the dark;
 half of it smoke, the other half spark;
 counting visions against the rain;
 there must be somebody who can explain;
 left in the fragments of my dreams;
 where our lives fail inbetween;
 the further I see, the less I know;
 except these days cannot hold.

  
 
Waiting for the Wind

Verse 1
I waited for you half the night.
 You think I'm your fool, you just might be right.
 What would you do if you were me,
 Take it like a man and watch it bleed.

 Chorus
 I'm waiting for the wind

 Verse 2
 I'm looking at you, you're staring at me.
 How simple cold can one person be.
 The hands on the clock are standing down.
 The words we find make no sound.

 Chorus
   I'm waiting for the wind

 Verse 3
 Why create a world, then tear it down.
 Who'd take us to the river, just to watch us drown.
 Why bring us home the longest road.
 Who'd carry us halfway and then double the load.
 
 Chorus
   I'm waiting for the wind

I ONLY WISH WE HAD MORE TIME

Chorus
 I want to rock you in the water
 in the river of my mind.
 I thank you for your laughter
 I only wish we had more time

Verse 1
 Feels like I'm walking up an endless trail,
           Climbing into the wind.
 I need to hear you speak my name.
 I need to hear your words again.
 
Verse 2
 I think I see you in the corners
 Where the light and shadows end.
 I live this day for another,
 Can I find your strength to begin.
 I need to hear your words again.

Chorus
 I want to rock you in the water
 in the river of my mind.
 I thank you for your laughter
 I only wish we had more time.

Verse 3
 There's a full moon out tonight;
 I look into the past;
 I walk into the light;
 There's one more question I should ask.
 How long will this darkness last.
 
Chorus
 I want to rock you in the water
 in the river of my mind.
 I thank you for your laughter
 I only wish we had more time.

EVERY THIRD NAME

Verse 1
  I asked the keeper of the gate,
 who chooses the members of the third estate.
 Some people stumble, others they fall.
 Some people live beneath it all.

Chorus
   Does it come down to this,
   A whim, a whim and a kiss.
   Every third name upon a list.

Verse 2
 Some people struggle within the cave.
 Some people borrow, others they pay.
 Don't ask for reason, don't whine for sense;
 Every third name upon the list.

Verse 3
 If you're a creature of trusts, a child of light,
 Or if you claim the darkness as your birthright.
 Some come destined to find, others to seek;
 Who gets newspaper walls or silken sheets.

Verse 4
 INSTRUMENTAL

Chorus
    Does it come down to this,
   A whim, a whim and a kiss.
   Every third name upon a list.
 
Verse 5
 One born to silver, another to brick;
 The last forsaken and not to be missed.
 Every third name upon the list.
 Every third name upon the list.

WIND OF CHANGE

Verse 1
  When I woke this morning
  I heard the wind outside my door;
it was a song
I hadn't known before.
 That's how one step becomes a dance.
  How one vision ends the past.

 Refrain
 The wind said,
 Rise to your feet;
 Bring this music into the streets;
 Watch the darkness turn again.
 Wind of Change.  Wind of Change.

 Verse 2
 I know there's an answer
  Written on the wind;
 each day, light's making
 another way in.
 On a word silence frays;
 One dawn, and the shadows break.
 Casting a light we will not forsake.

 Refrain
 The wind said,
  Rise to your feet;
 Bring this music into the streets;
 Watch the darkness turn again.
 Wind of Change.  Wind of Change.
 
  Bridge
 Now my uncle's farm's been closed.
 One dry year drought and they
 own his home.
 He stands in the dirt
 wants someone to explain
 what's a government worth
 when it steals your life away.
 
Verse 3
 I know the healing rains will come;
 they'll gather at the mountains
 and the source will run.
 High waters churning across the rock divides;
 form into rivers where their paths combine
 
  Refrain
The wind said,
 Rise to your feet;
 Bring this music into the streets;
 Watch the darkness turn again.
 Wind of Change.  Wind of Change.

 FIVE VIEWS IN A CONVEX MIRROR

 Verse 1
Man in the mirror is coming back at me,
  You're the saddest puppy, lawd, I ever did see.
  You only want faith you can't hold,
  You only want fields you can't sow.

Chorus
Five views in a convex mirror,
I see you, but can you see me.

 Verse 2.
Who'd create a world to watch it explode.
  Who'd take you halfway and then double the load.
  Who'd end a drought, by burying us in rain,
  who'd gift a prophet a legacy of pain.
 
 Verse 3.
If you took me to the river, would you let me drown.
  If I showed you my heart, would you grind it under ground.
  If I asked for a secret what morning would you speak.
  When I call your name what distance would you seek.

Chorus
Five views in a convex mirror,
I see you, but can you see me.

 Verse 4
I stood at the mountain and asked the wind for air;
  I watched a hawk circling long beyond despair.
  Deep into the village, the window lights disappeared;
  each house locked into each other's subtle fear.
 
 Verse 5
Four sons and I followed down a hidden road;
   the further out I see, the closer in I go.
  One hand carries hope and the other binds a rope.
  And horizon turns into itself in a mystery glow.

LAST TIME AGAIN

Verse 1
I can tell by the way you see me,
I'm yesterday's news.
Does grief keep you company,
close the arc between me and you.
 Wonder if your head would ever let your heart get satisfied;
 don't know what made me think you might put your fear aside.
 For every answer you find, there's a question to meet.
 For every reason to stay, you find another one better to leave.
 
 Chorus
 If it comes down to truth, do you have the will to believe
 will you choose the wind; will you shut yourself in;
 are you finished; are we done; is this the last time, is this the last time again.

Verse 2
 I want to be the one who heals your pain;
 I want to be the voice you hear when the night calls your name;
 I want to be your rock, when nothing stays;
 When I see your eyes, the light turns away
 I've got nothing to show, but these thoughts we hide;
 When a vision answers itself, what's left to decide.

 Chorus
 If  it comes down to truth, do you have the will to believe
 will you choose the wind; will you shut yourself in;
 are you finished; are we done; is this the last time, is this the last time again.
 
Instrumental

Verse 4
 You could be washed in this river of doubt;
 you can wait until your dreams run out;
 I know the world's long blind;
 and the center can't hold;
 the past's the same, whether you stay or go.
 I've tried weeks of words, but I never get through;
 we choose the ghost of speech, the point half understood;
 
      Chorus
 If it comes down to truth, do you have the will to believe
 will you choose the wind; will you shut yourself in;
 are you finished; are we done;
is this the last time, is this the last time again.

The Rock Higher Than I

Verse 1
There are no more miracles to believe;
  except my woman moving down the street.
  I see all her colors flow into one.
  Like holding a diamond to the sun;
  she's all the light I'll ever need.
  The mystery is what she's doing with me.

Verse 2
There's a dance of fire in her hands;
  the kiss of wind across the land.
  she's the candle in the dark;
  the key she holds is the missing part.
  Like an angel on the wing.
  The rock higher than me.
 
Verse 3
There are no more miracles to believe;
  except my woman moving down the street.
  I see all her colors flow into one.
  Like holding a diamond to the sun;
  she's all the light I'll ever need.
  The mystery is what she's doing with me.
 
 Verse 4
She's the willow waiting in the rain;
  The simple radiance you can't explain.
  Where the darkness and rivers meet,
  She's the name I hold next to me.
   In the corners of the night
  I hear her voice in second sight
 
  Verse 5 
  There are no more miracles to believe;
  except my woman moving down the street.
  I see all her colors flow into one.
  Like holding a diamond to the sun;
  she's all the light I'll ever need.
  The mystery is what she's doing with me.
 
 Verse 6
When all the distance can't be seen,
  I stand in the shadow of her dreams,
  These words unspoken have most to say,
  I watch the silence washed away.
 At the horizon of the sky,
She's the rock higher than I.

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