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Steve Vai - Real Illusions: Reflections lyrics



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02. Dying For Your Love

I stared into a mirror for three days, didn't eat or sleep
Just to see if I could see something down underneath,
Yeah yeah
I saw angels and demons in fear and a torn blue little soul
In an ocean of your love

There were kings and killers, the face of a beggar
And everything I ever was
In there was heaven and hell, and the whole creation
Was Dying For Your Love
And now I'm Dying For Your Love
I said, I'm Dying For Your Love

And there's nothing I wouldn't do or go through to get to truth
But faceless things are in my way
Yes, I can see every little thing we never really knew
Is lying there buried in the silence
Waiting for time to decay

Lust and anger, a freak and a savior
And pieces of the universe
Black phantom creatures, trapped in a prison of desire
Are crying for your love

Now I'm Dying For Your Love
We all are Dying For Your Love

And I need to feel me in those arms again
I said, I need to feel me in those arms again

Because I'm Dying For Your Love
I said, I'm Dying For Your Love
I'm Dying For Your Love
We all are Dying For Your Love

05. Firewall

Boom Shika-Boom Shika ba-ka-tu-ka
Boom Shika doo-ba-boom-ba-tacka-chooka
Boom Shika Boom Boom Chika Ba-koom-ta
Shika-ba-ku-ta Brrrr Chika ba-kum-ta
Boom Chica brrr brr brrr chi-koom-pa
Brrr-cha-kum-ta brr-Chica ba-poom-pa
Boom ta-ta boom boom Shi-ka-ti-ka
Rra-ka-kack Rra-ka-tu-ka pa-ka-tu-ka

It's been a while since I knew you before
Hindsight says I was so much to blame
But even then, you possessed so much more
I buried my guilt under my fantasies

I never knew what it would do to you, oh my God
I dealt a hand and played with fate
But I still feel, and I surrender to, your intoxicant

But I want you to really know me
But when I try to get into your space

I run into your Firewall
Medusa's home
Built out of hurt and pain

Welcome to the Firewall
If I get too close
I will go down in flames
Eh, just look at me now
I'm on fire

And if I could, I would get down in your soul
And clean up the mess that I made
Maybe will and grace
Will replace your faith
And we can embrace

You'll never get to know me
Unless you
Let me touch your face

A victim of your Firewall
The devil's own
Destroy your enemies
I dance into your Firewall
When you're done, there'll be nothing left of me

Suck me into your flames, and let me burn deep down inside until I...

Boom Shika-Boom Shika ba-ka-tu-ka
Boom Shika doo-ba-boom-ba-tacka-chooka
Boom Shika Boom Boom Chika Ba-koom-ta
Shika-ba-ku-ta Brrrr Chika ba-kum-ta
Boom Chica brrr brr brrr chi-koom-pa
Brrr-cha-kum-ta brr-Chica ba-poom-pa
Boom ta-ta boom boom Shi-ka-ti-ka
Rra-ka-kack Rra-ka-tu-ka pa-ka-tu-ka

Firewall
Medusa's home
Built out of hurt and pain

Welcome to the Firewall
If I get too close
I will go down in flames

A victim of your Firewall
The devil's own
Destroy your enemies
I dance into your Firewall
When you're done, there'll be nothing left of me

I run into your Firewall
Medusa's home
Built out of hurt and pain

Welcome to the Firewall
If I get too close
I will go down in flames

A victim of your Firewall
And now I'm on fire!

11. Under It All

I'm just the paint
You paint the picture
What are you seeing?
What are you feeling?

And all my colors
For your creating
Is your rainbow
Black and blue

Or your heavens,
Cherry Blossoms?

But what do you cover
With your ocean of colors?
Secrets? Regrets?

Who are you
Through and through?

See who you are
Deep in the core
Under the paint
Under It All

Paint me your face
And please be revealing
What are you dreaming?
What are you praying for?

Prayers

Joey Brider: Now I lay me down to sleep and pray the Lord to be with all the people that have nobody. I want my mommy to come back.

Sister Ruby Theresa: Oh, mighty Father who is within, I beg you for your mercy. Please save me from this guilt and pain that has stolen my life.

Maria Hendrix: All I ever wanted was someone to love me. That's all I ever wanted. All I want is someone to love me.

Guzzo Sockler: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy money. Thy kingdom come, money, Thy will be done, money, on Earth as it is in money. Give us this day our daily money and forgive us our money, as we forgive those who money against us. And lead us into money.

Eve Patterson: Gllpplupp---hmmsgulpplvgud---ohhhhaabawewglaba--- hmmmmmm, hmmmm- agullgullg, etc.

Pray for fortunes
Pray for love
Or the highest
Radha Soami

Or do you see that all
Is always within us all?

Deeper, look deeper

Or is there just nothing
There at all?

Joey Brider: Hi, my name is Joey Brider, and when I grow up I wanna be a doctor. But what I don't know is that I'm actually going to discover the cure for loneliness.

Sister Ruby Theresa: I'm Sister Ruby Theresa, and I've spent my life caring for the poor and the sick. I've saved so many, but accidentally killed my baby brother when I was seven.

Maria Hendrix: I was 12 when I told my parents that my teacher touched me. He lost his job and family and died in prison. Then, when I was 35, I told the truth.

Guzzo Sockler: I have a beautiful wife, three amazing daughters that love me very deeply, but what I would like most in this world is Bill Gates' money.

Michael Nemus: I never thought that anything I could ever say could hurt someone so deeply.

Sister Ruby Theresa: God gave the gift of artists to the world, so that people can dream while they're awake.

Joey Brider: I'm alive and I'm aware!

Maria Hendrix: I'm only happy when everyone else is miserable.

Michael Nemus: I'm going to tell you the Truth, even if I have to lie to you.

Guzzo Sockler: I'm dead.

Sister Ruby Theresa: I would suffer another whole lifetime of emptiness and pain just to hear, one time again, the whisper of Your small, still voice.

Guzzo Sockler: Now you listen to me you dirty mutha-fulger. You don't know me, and now you fulgen did it. Now come here Bang!!!

President Ausi Oak (Us): It is time we stand up for our human rights and our way of life and destroy our enemy, for they are soulless animals and the corrupters of freedom.

I take an oath to hunt them down and root them out and kill them until they are dead. We will not give up the fight until righteousness prevails, for it is for sure that God is on our side.

Bin Lenny (Them): The time has come that we must protect our souls and the future of our kind by annihilating the infidels; it is our duty to the creator to cleanse the world of such filth.

Let us gloriously offer our lives, for the rewards of heaven await us, for it is sure that God is on our side.

See who you are
Deep in the core
Under the paint
Under It All

Straight to the heart
Behind the walls
Under the paint
There's so much more

Under It All
There's so much more
Under It All