I remember when I was told the story of crushed velvet, candle wax, and dried up flowers.
The figure on the bed all dressed up in roses, calling, beckoning to sleep, offering a dream.

The words were as mystical as purring animals.
The cricle of rage, the ghost on the stage appeared.
Time was so tangible I'll never let it go.
Ghost stories handed down reach secret tunnels below.
No one could can see me


Whoooooaaa
I fell into yesterday
whooooooaaa
Our Dreams seemed not far away
I want to, I want to, I want to stay
Whoooooaaa
I fell into fantasy



The girl on the wall always waited for me
She was always smiling
The teenage death boys
The teenage death girls
And everyone was dancing
Nothing could touch us then
No one could change us then
Everyone was dancing
Nothing could hurt us then
No one could see us then
Everyone was dancing
Everyone was dancing


Our dreams seemed not far away
Our dreams seemed not far away
Our dreams seemed not far away
I fell into fantasy


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    i'd like to believe it was a deeper meaning than just missing the past times as a band. i think it's a pass time in his actual life. that sounds confusing but what i mean is like its a past time when he was a teen..hes seeing back to where he was and who he was and what he was afraid of. i don't agree with the old band thing. some of their songs are about fame but there are much deeper meanings built into that definitely.

    X Bye the way.. a phoenix is a bird in Egyptian mythology that that lived in the desert for like forever years and then consumed itself in fire, Incinerating itself into ashes to later rise reborn. X -that was writting by ka11itkarma and that actually is significant to the song. i agree with them on many points. they said she he was a teenager going to a funeral and realizing how it was impossible to avoid death. when he was a teen he didn't realize death..he saw life as going on forever..he could dance and nothing could touch him, not death, not pain, just dancing and parties. now look back at the phoenix definition. [lived in the desert forever, incinerated, and reborn] and they've actually used the word incinerate in songs. incinerate...turning your self into? morphing. so he'd be morphing himself into something. it says that the pheonix "consumed itself in fire", so that tells me the death wasn't accidental.

    disasterwarningon December 08, 2008   Link

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