One Second
(Paradise Lost - 1997)







1. One Second
2. Say Just Words
3. Lydia
4. Mercy
5. Soul Courageous
6. Another Day
7. The Sufferer
8. This Cold Life
9. Blood Of Another
10. Disappear
11. Sane
12. Take Me Down
13. I Despair






1. One Second

And for one second I lost my head
and for one second, I wished that you were dead
and for one second, you wish that you were here all alone
Hold back the tears that could fall for me.
And for one second, I lost my breath
and for one second, I cherish what you said
and for one second, it seemed that I was here all alone
Hold back the tears that could fall for me
And for one second, I understand
and for one second, my life was in your hands
and for one second, you wish that you were here all alone
Hold back the tears that could fall for me, they fall alone.






2. Say Just Words

You get high, with your destructive instinct
You get high, with your corrosive instinct -
Where can I go, to escape your foul mind tricks
You're trying it more, but you will never break me
Cause you presume, the winner's you but that's not true

So say just words to me, unreal what your hate's providing
Say just words to me, your talk is always contradiction
Say just words to me, you won't feel the warmth of friends around you
You say just words to me, is it true that there's worth inside,
So say just words to me.

Your designs, all the worse from power craving
Your desires, only where there's fire burning,
I'll show you the way, a pleasure that's for the taking
You're trying it more, but you won't get satisfaction
Couse you presume the winner is you, but that's not true
So say just words to me.






3. Lydia

Through the searching lights that weave and dark
comes the stranger that cares not for your heart
the pain of living life this way
must take its toll on you some day.
Your jaded eyes can see embarrassment or harm
the trail skin that bleeds emotionally on guard.
All lowest forms of life are pounding you inside
your hollow cold display your tired masquerade
let the image that you present entice
unlike the mirror that shows the strains of vice
this act of contact your decay
while willing souls will more that pay.






4. Mercy

You live for times of solace
Within a sign there's a promise,
Don't lose all faith cause you shake at night
It's in the art of the process.

In another rhyme beyond this place.
The healing's fast enough...
Done a thousand times a thousand ways until
You've had enough...

It's mercy you're asking for cheating life
By taking more it's mercy you're asking for
Take my life or give me more...
The loss of prize possession to cure the mind's obsession
Could trade your soul for that normal life
Elite to all objections...

See beyond all tears and broken years your senses giving
Up lose all confidence at your expense your courage swallows up.






5. Soul Courageous

I could not care less for oh, so many things tales
Of your distress and what tomorrow brings
Alluring you on sight I'd harbour my delight.
You could not care for what tune sorrow sings.

In this battle of ages
Abreath of fire would light your pilot.
Are you soul courageous?
A breath of life would make
You maybe see... you bring me to the ground
You bring me to the ground

Victory's in vain unless one knows the score
Inner peace reclines, in a place the bitter scorn
Spirit maketh man always at hand
But spirit fails to save the ones worth waiting for.






6. Another Day

Another day and the guilt is gone
Another day will stress the week and the strong
Just a memory that we've become
I have taken without warning when the day has just begun...

A summers day, and my blood runs cold,
I can hear you in the morning as I'm reaching out to haunt you,
A summers day, and my blood runs cold,
You will never hear me calling as I'm reaching to destroy you.

Another day won't ease the sorrow
Another day will help frustration to
Grow all the pictures and the face of hope,
I have taken without warning when the day has just begun.






7. The Sufferer

I find when I'm all alone that I feel so ashamed, cause all my pride is gone
Say what you never can resist
Say what you never would believe
Give what you never want to show.
Give what you never would receive.
A time when I'm all alone & I'm breathing afraid, cause all my pride is gone
Elate the tears I create, how completely inane, cause all my pride is gone.

Collapse at my sorry stance but I need to surpass cause...
My only thrill alone in my own hell






8. This Cold Life

I can take one day to achieve my goal, then it starts again.
In this circumstance that I call my own dreams just don't deliver.
I never needed foes forever feeling low cause they breake me down cannot fake
this frown.
I never took offence I never swore in advance but I'll breake you down with my
poison mouth again.

I cannot deny bittersweet recline to a sole religion
It's a certain way that I'm feeling host to a new deception...






9. Blood Of Another

You'll see the blood, blood of another
You'll see the blood as we roll in it together
You'll see the blood, blood of another
You'll see the blood as we roll in it together tonight.

What unruly life is like what is fabled wisdom like?
This indulgent grace is spinning round and leaving all bahind knowledge
Limits you besides claming you're so sure by vibes
In this frozen climate the temperature should bring you down to rights.

Beauty, purity inside twisted madness filth and vice
Death is not selective the darker shroud will fall on all despite
Recklessness, the fault in mind anger, laughter can't provide try to turn a
blind eye
The wasting pain one trip you cannot buy...






10. Disappear

In living with a fear of chance,
The chance of fear the only reason you're awake,
We decrease in size when burdened with your mind,
But you know escape is to run,

In a constant commotion
When I speake it's revulsion maybe you'll disappear

Recall the past when you were strong,
Those distant days it seems are now forever gone,
You'll increase desire to wander and retire, but you know escape is to run.






11. Sane

Seasons of sun won't suffice,
But for you my guarding light, I'd walk around this earth.
Though the streets are paved with gold I'd collect it to be sold,
I'm bringing this on myself

But I feel for you,
Will you show you're sane.

In your mouth a loaded gun,
Pull the trigger have you won
Let's see how you can do, it's the darker days you dread,
All the hurtful things I said, it seems I'm nothing,

But I feel for you,
Will you show you're sane.






12. Take Me Down

You aren't what I love
You aren't what I need
You aren't what I love
You aren't what I need
What I need
Don't let them take me down there
You aren't what I love
You aren't what I see
You hate from above you become what I need
What I need
Don't let them take me down






13. I Despair

[digipack bonus]

In your hands I'm trying
In your hands I'm trying flight
I can't die
In your hands I'm trying
In your hands I'm trying flight
I can't die,

I'm flying in the cold breeze every night
Spare me all the strife
My desires never tire but would it feel much better if I died?
Petty highs get me by but how long must I live with this disguise...

Have you no direction?
I just sense pretentious signs...
In your highs
Have you no direction?
I just sense pretentious signs
In your highs...

I hear the same old stories every night
Spare me all the strife
My desires never tire but would it feel much better if I died?
Petty highs get me by but how long must I live with this disguise...







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