Mercury in Retrograde
Sunshine with the Shade
Tell Me Why
Out of Body
Be Here Tonight
You Control the Sun
Weatherman
Till We Say Goodbye
The Sound of Silence
The Same Path
The Longer Now
Max Q
Mercury in Retrograde
Lyrics by Charles Cote, Daniel Cote, William Cote
It travels round the sun
Six times to our one
What no one else can see
Is plain as day to me
They say its surface is hot as hell
Unwitting servants to its spell
You can’t flee Mercury in retrograde
You can’t flee Mercury
You can’t flee Mercury
You can’t flee Mercury
It’s ten times worse than a full moon
You’re not even safe in your bedroom
Controls more than the rising tides
There’s nowhere to hide
There’s nowhere to hide
The gods must be against me
My shortwave doesn’t work
Lost signal, no connection
Nothing goes right
Imbalance in the system
Rogue planet off its track
All circuits overloaded
Nothing goes right
Damn that planet
Damn that star
Force of disruption from afar
You can’t flee Mercury
You can’t flee Mercury
Free from Mercury
Free from Mercury
© 2004 The Reverse Engineers
Sunshine With the Shade
Lyrics by William Cote
Another long night till the sunrise
Could use some sunshine in the morning
Another mistake in the making
Was this trip worth taking?
Could use some sunshine in the morning…
Where’s the silver in this lining?
There’s always sunshine with the shade
Where’s the dawn to end this darkness?
There’s always dry times to end a hard and endless rain
A bit of love for the lonely
She was the wrong girl at the right time
Another mistake in the making
No trip worth taking
Could use some real love in the morning
Someone’s starlight is the sunshine
They wish upon our sun in the night time
It’s all been uncovered - there’s some of them in us and us in them
It’s all been discovered - there’s no need to mourn for anyone
This star is someone’s sun
The sun is someone’s star
There’s shade in every day
And there’s sunlight with the shade
There’s always sunshine with the shade
There’s always sunshine with the shade
There’s always sunshine with the shade
There’s always sunshine with the shade
© 2004 The Reverse Engineers
Tell Me Why
Lyrics by Olivia Kent, Daniel Cote, William Cote, Charles Cote
You said you would leave me never
You said you would be with me forever
I’m not your dead-end job
I’m not your albatross
I’m not your setting sun
I’m not your…
Tell me why?
Why did you leave me?
Why can’t you see me?
Why don’t you need me?
Why can’t you see how I feel?
Walking down the street I’m thinking ’bout you
Walking down the street I’m wondering what to do,
Without you
I see a star - wonder where you are
I see your glare - my heart tears
I see the sun - thinking we had fun
So tell me why
Why did you leave me?
Tell me why
Why don’t you need me?
Tell me why
Why can’t you see me?
Tell me why
Why can’t you see…
I’m not your dead-end job
I’m not your albatross
I’m not your setting sun
I’m not your…
Lyric based on original poem “Why” by Olivia Kent. © 2000.
© 2004 The Reverse Engineers
Out of Body
Lyrics by William Cote
Are you reeling from the past?
Or scared of the future coming fast -
Feeling seduced, tempted and overthrown
Well you’re not locally grounded,
You’re not hopelessly grounded
There’s always an open door where the sunlight flows
Feel the rays crashing through you
As you float away from shape and form
Up, up and away so high above me
You slip into something safe and warm
Safe and warm…
There’s a safe place to go
But only prayer will take you there
Connect you to another
‘cross this veil of space and time
We are separate to feel the joy of communion
We are alone to hold the hand of creation
Lead us along-we are shadows…
Shadows of the soul
Make my outsides like my insides
Make me soft and hard to see
Make each moment everlasting
The astral pulse will set you free
Spend an hour or two
Spend a day apart
My body’s so unsure
Our bodies so unsure
Make my outsides like my insides
Make me soft and hard to see
Make each moment everlasting
The astral pulse will set you free
Set you free
Take me high
Make me high
Take you down to the start
Down to the very first part
Set you free
I’m out of body -
Out of time
I’m out of body -
Out of my mind
Out of time
Out of time
© 2004 The Reverse Engineers
Be Here Tonight
Lyrics by William Cote
Maybe you’re counting sheep
Maybe you’re fast asleep
Maybe you’re standing there
Right behind me
Maybe I’ll never know
Maybe I’m just too slow
If I just knew your name
If I just had your number…
Maybe you’re last in line
Maybe you’re wasting time
Maybe that was you there
At the market
Maybe I’ll never know
Maybe I’m just too slow
If I just knew your name
If I just had your number…
Oh, oh
Where are you my woman?
Where are you my wife?
Why are you still searching?
You should be here tonight.
Where are you?
Where are you?
Be here tonight
Be here tonight
It’s a spell you’re under–
Daydream trance, x-ray glance
Searching for the perfect one
Looking for that perfect fit
Maybe I’ll never know
Maybe I’m just too slow
If I just knew your name
If I just had your number…
Oh oh
Where are you my woman?
Where are you my wife?
Why are you still searching?
You should be here tonight
Where are you?
Where are you?
Be here tonight
Be here tonight
Maybe you’re in Russia
Maybe you’re on the ‘Net
On my computer screen
Is that your picture?
Maybe you’re on TV
Face in a magazine
If I just had your number…
© 2004 The Reverse Engineers
You Control the Sun
Lyrics by William Cote
It was a stormy Monday when we first met
It’s still raining now
It’s still raining now
I felt your stare before I saw you there
With one look I was yours
With one look I was yours
You took me home,
Opened my heart
Cut me open with a surgeon’s touch
You broke down the walls and crawled inside
Now -
You control the sun
You control the moon
You control my thoughts
You control my moods
You control my thoughts
You control my moods
It was a cold day when you left me there
The warmth has not returned
The warmth has not returned
Now the seasons don’t change,
The clock stands still
In fear of your delicious spell
My world’s eternal cold
The forecast calls for snow
You sent me to a private hell
When you left me with myself
Now -
You control the sun
You control the moon
You control my thoughts
You control my moods
You control the sun
You control the moon
You control my thoughts
You control my moods
The phone rings but there’s no one there
I hear footsteps in the hall
Shadows in the dim-lit night
Dizzy then I fall
Awake with the scent of your perfume
Asleep with the touch of your hand
You control the sun
You control the sun
You control the sun
You control the sun
© 2004 The Reverse Engineers
Weatherman
Lyrics by Charles Cote
I want to be a weatherman
I would do the best I can
I’d look down from my satellite
And see the world both day and night
I wonder what tomorrow brings
I wonder what tomorrow brings…
I want to be a weatherman.
I like to look up at the sky
Higher than the airplanes fly
And listen to the wind above
Waiting for the storms I love
I wonder what tomorrow brings
I wonder what tomorrow brings
I want to be a weatherman
I want to be a weatherman
The storm it finally has arrived
I’ve waited for it my whole life
I walk out in the atmosphere
To feel its force as it draws near
I wonder what tomorrow brings
I wonder what tomorrow brings
I want to be a weatherman
I want to be a weatherman
I look the storm right in the eye
And wonder if I will survive
People think that I’m insane
Because I stand out in the rain
I wonder what tomorrow brings
I wonder what tomorrow brings
I want to be a weatherman
I want to be a weatherman
I want to be a weatherman
I would do the best I can
I want to be a weatherman
© 2004 The Reverse Engineers
Till We Say Goodbye
Lyrics by William Cote, Daniel Cote
When we dance
We hold each other’s hands
When we talk
I look deep in your eyes
But when we kiss
You turn your cheek to me
When we kiss
It doesn’t set you free
When it comes down to it
You’re not right for me
Down to it
I’m not your cup of tea
It won’t be long till we say goodbye
Something doesn’t quite fit right
I loved you at first sight
Something doesn’t quite fit right
I loved you at first sight
I was obsessed - you were stressed
Now I see the light
It won’t be long till we say goodbye
© 2004 The Reverse Engineers
The Sound of Silence
Lyrics by Paul Simon
Hello darkness, my old friend,
I’ve come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
‘Neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one deared
Disturb the sound of silence.
“Fools” said I,”You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.”
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisper’d in the sounds of silence.
Reprinted/recorded with permission from Paul Simon Music. ©1965
The Same Path
Lyrics by William Cote
It’s not enough that you want it too
It’s not enough that your sky is blue
We’re both human and
We’re dreaming different dreams
If we can walk the same path
If we can walk the same way
Then I will hold your hand
La la la la la…
It’s not enough that you say “I do”
It’s not enough that your heart is true
We’re different souls that happened to collide
If we can’t walk the same path
If we can’t dream the same dream
Then I will understand
La la la la la…
© 2004 The Reverse Engineers
The Longer Now
Lyrics by William Cote
You could break me down
Bit by bit
You won’t find the spark at the center of it
You won’t find the thinker of my thoughts
You won’t find the mover of us all
Of us all
The song plays from the speaker on the shelf
I can’t find the band that’s inside
These words they come from somewhere else
I can’t find the thinker of my thoughts
The thinker of my thoughts
We live in the longer now
We dance in a longer now
We dream in the longer now
X-rays cannot find you
Science will deny you
You are weightless, timeless, spaceless
Skeptics will disprove you
You are-
beyond this time and place
You are-
the actor on the stage
You are-
the mover of this man
You are
We live in the longer now
We dance in a longer now
We dream in the longer now
We live in the longer now
We dance in a longer now
We dream in the longer now
I am yesterday’s hopes
I am yesterday’s thoughts
I am yesterday’s dreams
I am yesterday’s desires
The longer now
The longer now
You could break me down
Bit by bit
You won’t find the spark at the center of it
You won’t find the thinker of my thoughts
You won’t find the mover of us all
© 2004 The Reverse Engineers
MAX Q
Lyrics by Daniel Cote, William Cote, Charles Cote
Wake up commander,
It’s T minus 3 hours
Time to have your cake
And light the candle
T minus 20 -
Poll the program manager
GO - NO GO!
The comm-check starts
We’re live on NASA Select
The SRO’s happy and so are we
Splashdown’s clear as the cloudless sky
We’ll be marching past T minus 5
10, 9, 8, 7, 6…
No red page today
5, 4, 3, 2…
In a minute we’ll be Max Q
Alarm bell rings
Dreamstate fades to a dull, gray haze
Once again time to execute
The routine begins…
Marching single file
Good busy worker bees
Must sacrifice for the hive
Nothing more than worker drones
Nothing more than a worker.
Holding down a chair in a
small, gray cube
Talking to a prisoner on the outside
Staring at the cathode ray
It burns my eyes
Watching my life fly by
Watching the dreamer die
Come in commander-
It’s 2 minutes MET
Brace yourself for staging
Let’s separate the SRBs
In 3 minutes we’ll be out of sight
Just vapor trails in the morning light
Houston calls for main engine cutoff
Jettison the external tank
Watch it burn up as it falls
Fire the OMS to stabilize the orbit
Now Sir Isaac’s in the driver’s seat…
But you’re not in orbit…
You’re standing in line
You’re counting your time
Nothing more than a worker drone
Just standing in line
You’re wasting your mind
Nothing more than a worker drone
Nothing more than a worker drone
Nothing more than a worker…
Sign on to insanity
Now time to sit idle
Every move monitored
It’s time to go live
They can record my words
They can’t suppress my thoughts
There’s a safe place where the dreamers go -
They can’t read my mind
Staring at the cathode rays
It burns my eyes
Watching my life fly by
Wake up, Worker Drone!
In my daydreams
I’m an astronaut
Orbiting the earth
On a spacewalk
I float above the atmosphere
So far away from here…
© 2004 The Reverse Engineers
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