Antigone Rising: Snapshot

Now With You

(K. Henderson/D. Scanlon, 1998)

I watch you move
And my heart
Needs to know from you
I hear your voice and it calls
To mind a different time and place

And if you follow me
I will take you there
Forget the one you're dancing with
And let's get out of here

The one that's now with you
Has no idea I'm watching too
Couldn't stop now if we tried
You catch my eye
There's no time to turn away
I wouldn't want to anyway

I think she knows
That tonight
You're leaving here with me
So let her go
Cause you can't hide
What's in your eyes

And I can't let the sweetest kiss
Get away this time
Nothing you can say or do
Will make me change my mind

You'll be mine tonight

Show Me

(D. Scanlon/S. Glassman, 1998)

Don't tell me that you love me
And that you're thinking of me
Cause I've heard all those words before

They sound just like you mean them
so I start to believe them
But I can't listen anymore

This ain't no Hollywood movie
I need a love that knows how to move me

Show me
What a kiss can do
Give me
What I give to you
If you really mean what you say when you say it

Tempt me with some tenderness
Gently, so I don't forget
How can I know that you mean it if you won't
Show me

We look so good together
Just like love forever
Everybody tells us so

But where's my happy ending
If you're just pretending
Tell me cause I need to know

This ain't no storybook romance
This is the real world
This is your last chance to

If we're ever gonna make it baby
We're gonna have to play for keeps
And you know it won't be easy
Like living in your fantasy
Let's get down to the heart of the matter
Are you gonna give me what I need?
Baby, baby, please

Silence

(K. Henderson/D. Scanlon, 1998)

People want to know your life
They want to crawl inside your head
They need to know when the lights go out
They'll be sleeping in your bed

So you let them walk right in
You do it every time
Surrender your whold life to them and slowly lose your mind

There are no words to speak
When there are secrets to keep
Buried so dark and deep
In silence

I didn't say a word
No I didn't call your bluff
Instead I stood in silence
Until I had enough

People think they have the right
To build a wall around your life
Fascinate you in the dark
Carve their name across your heart

There is no way to know
If you should stay or go
It's all a desperate show
Of silence

Your silence speaks 1,000 words
And it's louder than you've ever been heard

Hididng behind a kiss
Is every chance we missed
Leaving just loneliness
And Silence

Make Me Stay

(P. Kokines/C. Henderson, 1995)

Struggling with emotion in this place
Trying to keep my head above the water of your sin
I'm reminded of that look you get upon your face
As your hands cup a cigarette to a lighter in the wind

I'm sure I must have had that countenance
Mercy to your nature and hostage to the vice
How could I've taken any other stance?
When all your love and anger is mine to have tonight

Close the door on this conversation
It doesn't really matter anyway
Slam the book on this old frustration
You can plead, pretend & promise me
That will not make me stay

Lost in the maze of your reality
Steering with a fury toward our inevitable end
This time I'm praying for some amnesty
Divine intervention -- hush your logical defense

Do you believe the words you scream?
(I can't hear you anymore)
I think we've been living in a dream
(I can't hear you)
And this dream will not, cannot, ever make me stay

1,000 Lonely Days

(K. Henderson/D. Scanlon, 1998)

I know you know what I'm talking about
I feel what you feel
It doesn't have to end in doubt
I'm so tired of what I'm living without

I dream your dreams
When I'm sleeping at night
I breathe your kiss
And nothing ever felt so right
I'm falling for you and there's no end in sight

I'm spending every minute of 1,000 lonely days
Waiting for the moment that you bring your love my way
Together, we can make it right
Forever doesn't have to start tonight
But it might

I want what you want
It's a natural fact
I bleed when you bleed
It doesn't have to hurt like that
Just say you love me and I'll love you right back

Do you want to see me get down on my knees
I'll do anything just so we can be
Together
I know we can make it right
Forever
We can make it right baby