Why do we do this - to each other?
Pretend there's someone "better" for you, for me ...
I'm into you deeply - fantasy lover
Guess it's a question of when you'll finally see

I've brought you out here - to the ocean
This alpine campground sets the scene
As we laugh wildly over smoke and wine
By this hearth fire our thoughts come clean

And, since talk is cheap
I don't do lines
I don't mince words you've heard many times

Will love's hold seep
Into our minds
I thought I'd be yours - and you'd be mine ...

part  .ii.     (Care)

Sittin' here - thinkin' - night time
I wonder if it's worth it at all - over you
Lately there's no clue - it's never the right time
Yeah - I've seen your other side, it's true

And, I don't like it, no
And you're not willing to change it
And I won't let you keep takin' my heart
Just to cage it

What's your scene, your act, now -
Don't you have any conscience
Are you planning to come back, now
Your actions no longer make sense

We had such hopes and dreams - shattered now, it seems
We all get spring fever - but, I didn't forget you

We'd spend our days - Biding our time
Never our paths clearly defined
Cried to false gods - somewhere out there
That you might be the one - that you might care
 

part  .iii.     (Torment)
 

This bitter sound is hate
Equity comes to those who wait
Should we believe this - I just don't know
Share their frostbite, their empty plate

This all might change
Somewhere down the line
But, for right now
They're doing "fine ..."

A bloodied sidewalk, an empty cage
Scattered memories of love and rage
Those bitter daydreams dried on the vine
It's someone else's screams - not yours' not mine ...

This all might change
Somewhere down the line
But, for right now
They're doing "fine ..."

You might hear - but, you don't listen ---
Tantalized - tied up in your media ---
Snug up, thrown down, blown-dried, strung out - hugged and hissin'
Wayward world back home ---

Far beyond this fireside
Beyond this fireside
Way beyond this fireside
Beyond this fireside ...

A chapter's closed, but I'm not changed
Strange, but now - life's not pre-arranged
I'm free to love now - and I want to know
Just how you feel near this campfire's glow

And, you are here - won't you listen?
Come pull me near - show what I'm missin'
Be my sweet dream - babe, you're what I need
Eternally free ...

Far beyond this fireside ...

Don't let this change
Somewhere down the line
Even forever
You'll do just fine

This all might change
Somewhere down the line
But, for right now
They're doing "fine ..."

You might hear - but, you don't listen ---
Traumatized - live without resistence ---
Can't you see - they're stifling you and me ...?
Do you feel free ...?

Far beyond this fireside
Beyond this fireside
Way beyond this fireside
Beyond this fireside ...

This empty urn is all that's left
Is solace realized only in death?
Insane, it seems - stuff of bad dreams
Just as "good" and "evil" are passed thru our genes

It's never changed - this far down the line
And no one cares - anymore - any time
They rave of false gods - "somewhere"  "out there"
No one's left to give a fu*k - who cares ...?