A THOUSAND YEARS For these treasures I have come from long ago to bring you whole to make you so aware that you are speechless you don't need those words all the years have spoken Wander for a thousand years searching for an answer wander for a thousand more searching for an answer BRIDGE and BREAK GUITAR LEAD to CRESCENDO All the tears have washed away only the silent deaf remain barren land O can we pray Wander for a thousand years searching for an answer wander for a thousand more searching for an answer and now it's starting over- Wander for a thousand years searching for an answer wander for a thousand years searching for an answer MIRROR,MIRROR 1994 SONGS FILE 1995 WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY ALEXANDER JOEL LYRICS BY WM. SETH HOOKER Return to Table of Contents ANOTHER DAY I've noticed something different lately I thought you'd like to know I've never seen you so completely afraid to let it show Of all that lasts forever I chose the brightest star and though we could not shine together we should outlast them all So many words were left unspoken we shouldn't say them now so many of your promises broken and still we wonder how If love should last forever why do we even try and though we could not keep it together we shouldn't let it fly I'll fly away into another day I'11 fly away- two lonely hearts do drift away THEME and GUITAR LEAD into CHORUS ! GUITAR LEAD and PIANO I noticed something different lately I thought you'd like to know I've never seen you so completely afraid to let it show Of all that lasts forever I chose the brightest star and though we could not shine together we should outlast them all I'11 fly away into another day I'11 fly away- two lonely hearts do drift away two lonely hearts do drift away two lonely hearts do drift away.... MIRROR,MIRROR 1994 SONGS FILE 1995 WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY WM. SETH HOOKER LYRICS BY HOOKER ADDAGES BY MICK MAXWELL Return to Table of Contents BURADI Too many roads to cross there were too many paths no one decision whose souls have lost in the tossing of a coin what was the cost High up in a tower I have watched the magic hour rain down on us I don't know what's right I have followed and I've searched the stars of night THEME So you have returned to me when I wake in the night you are next to me though you've begun to see there is darkness in light light in the darkness You and your destiny there were too many roads no one direction Say you will be mine again we won't have to pretend we'll live forever THEME and EXUENT MIRROR,MIRROR 1994 SONGS FILE 1995 WRITTEN BY WM. SETH HOOKER ARRANGEMENT BY ALEXANDER JOEL Return to Table of Contents CARESSES AND MESSES I'm in the company of stars staring down at the tops of the cities and seeing things as they are it makes me wonder where were all sitting I've seen this happen before it takes a careful eye to see it and could this happen once more and would we bring our eyes to believe How many ways we've tried it always starts with your sweet caresses and when you've had enough you always leave me in these messes ....your sweet caresses you always leave me in these messes It seems we've been here before staring at each other nothing to say and then you'd walk out the door like you've done it over and over again It seems you don't even care waiting by the phone just a minute alone then you'd call out in the night but nobody'd answer ....your sweet caresses ....in these messes THEME and GUITAR LEAD to BRIDGE I know you tried to tell me something you whispered in my ear telling me in your own words you would not be here and I wondered how it could be you getting over me we'd count our wishes over do it once again CHORUS to THEME and EXUENT MIRROR,MIRROR 1994 SONGS FILE 1995 WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY ALEXANDER JOEL LYRICS BY WM. SETH HOOKER Return to Table of Contents CITY OF ANGELS They must have walked under your shadow at least a hundred times walking with eyes fixed to the floor try to understand - feel my heart again try to understand - feel my heart again Please look into my window and tell me what you see say,where do you go now? I am listening tell me all your stories I think I'11 understand say,where do you go now? Where- where will you go now the place where dreams are made up we stand - our faces to the wall try to understand - feel my heart again try to understand - feel my heart again Here way up in the ballroom we danced the night away say,where do we go now? we were gazing down looking at the streetlights and as we passed our ways say, where do we go now..... THEME and GUITAR LEAD BASS/PIANO LEAD into THEME Please look into my window and tell me what you see say,where do you go now? I am listening please tell me all your stories I think I'11 understand say, where do you go now? say, where do you go now? MIRROR,MIRROR 1995 SONGS FILE 1995 WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY WM.SETH HOOKER LYRICS BY HOOKER Return to Table of Contents ECHOES AND WHEREABOUTS When will you come this way again we'll meet in heaven - if ever how many promises does it take to make you smile - forever That's why we're living in a dream a dream called love - awaken how many promises have there been I just don't know Days go by and last forever days go by and you won't miss me anymore just close your eyes and follow days go by and you won't miss me anymore watching the seasons as they go by I wonder why - forever echoes of promises left unsaid they pave the road - to heaven How do I keep from going out of my mind with you how do I keep from going out of my mind with you Days go by and last forever days go by and you won't miss me anymore How do I keep from going out of my mind with you how do I keep from going out of my mind with you how do I keep from going out of my mind with you MIRROR,MIRROR 1994 SONGS FILE 1995 WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY WM. SETH HOOKER ORCHESTRATED BY ALEXANDER JOEL LYRICS BY WM. SETH HOOKER Return to Table of Contents LOOKING GLASS LIES Peering through the haze a vapor history as ice and snow staring at the maze this circled tapestry unties us all Through the looking glass I stand and stare into a stranger's eyes mirroring the past I see reflections of the same disguise CODA .....the same disguise No one - no one made me - oh save me Maybe we can change the world that tore you apart maybe we can break the walls that set you apart THEME Through the looking glass I stand and stare into a stranger's eyes mirroring the past I see reflections of the same disguise CODA .....the same diguise..... Maybe we can change the world that tore you apart maybe we can break the walls that set you apart Baby, we can take our world and maybe O baby, we can take our world and maybe BRIDGE and GUITAR LEAD Maybe we can change the world that tore you apart maybe we can break the walls that set you apart Baby, we can take our world and maybe O baby, we can take our world and maybe baby, we can take our world and maybe..... MIRROR,MIRROR 1995 SONGS FILE 1995 WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY WM. SETH HOOKER AND ALEXANDER JOEL LYRICS BY HOOKER Return to Table of Contents LOVERS TONGUE Take me in a comer and drag me against a wall Show me all the innocence Here amongst the dreaded Looking in anothers room And wishing I was there Living through the lovers lives If I could only dare You are all the angels And you are all the devils wrapped into a lovers tongue that only we have shared Listing into a another dream Seeing my life threaded Climbing to another charge Only to regret it You change the way I feel In lovers tongue We would never tire You are the opals eye so undefine the dividing line And find your own way home Take me to a car my lover Take me to a car MIRROR, MIRROR 1995 SONG FILE 1995 WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY ALEXANDER JOEL LYRICS BY ALEXANDER JOEL Return to Table of Contents MAKING YOU MINE Touching now in a way I've never been ever since you'd gone I've o ften wondered where you have been were you all alone every time I looked into the stars I would see you how I wonder who and what you are I feel so alive petulant child making you mine Like whispering that falls upon deaf ears you were far away I've often wondered why you are here have you come to stay Every time I looked into your eyes there was distance how I wondered who and what you are I feel so alive petulant child making you mine I feel so alive petulant child making you mine BRIDGE PIANO VARIATION EXUENT I feel so alive petulant child making you mine..... MIRROR,MIRROR 1995 SONGS FILE 1995 WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY ALEXANDER JOEL LYRICS BY WM. SETH HOOKER AND ALEXANDER JOEL Return to Table of Contents NIGHTFLIGHT Gazing upward into the endless night eaching out to capture the moment I feel as though I could live forever holding on to whatever's left of me Won't you embrace me and take me in your arms reaching out we touch through our spirits whispering wind it sings the sweetest songs breathing in I prayed I would hear it BRIDGE Dances of life that flow beneath my wings beating hearts resounding in rhythm I feel as though I could live forever holding on as the moment sets me free BRIDGE and GUITAR LEAD BUILDING to THEME CRESCENDOES THEME EXUENT MIRROR,MIRROR 1995 SONGS FILE 1995 WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY ALEXANDER JOEL AND WM. SETH HOOKER LYRICS BY HOOKER Return to Table of Contents RISE Here, waiting like a word you've never heard before here, I'11 be waiting like a song you never sang before never ask me questions I will rise before you never ask me questions I will rise before you Here, I'11 be waiting like a Dove that's never -flown before here, I'11 be waiting like a song you never sang before never ask me questions I will rise before you never ask me questions I will rise before you Here we are rising like a rainbow here we are rising like a rainbow THEME and GUITAR LEAD BRIDGE / GUITAR LEAD Here, rise before you here, rise before you here, rise before you.... MIRROR,MIRROR 1994 SONGS FILE 1995 WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY WM. SETH HOOKER LYRICS BY HOOKER ADDAGES BY MICK MAXWELL Return to Table of Contents RUNAWAY SMILES Where are you going so late in the night now and why did you try so hard not to wake me I noticed the letter you had opened - I read it in your face now that it's fallen to the floor don't give me those slip-away eyes don't give me those drifting eyes You run but you've no place to hide when it started to break things started to shake the last words you said I can't remember - ever hearing but I knew I'd never see you again Don't say what you wish you'd said just leave me your smiles instead don't tell me all the things you feel you're leaving and I'm still here THEME to CHORUS I'm lost in your eyes please tell me I'm dreaming whisper my name over again I only imagined - you were waiting but you never came whisper again and tell me you're near - just tell me I can't believe a thing I see you always run away from me I wonder how you feel inside you're running but you just can't hide Just leave me your smiles your runaway smiles just leave me your smiles Don't say what you wish you said just leave me your smiles instead don't tell me all the things you feel you're leaving and I'm still here MIRROR,MIRROR 1994 SONGS FILE 1995 WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY ALEXANDER JOEL AND WM. SETH HOOKER LYRICS BY WM. SETH HOOKER Return to Table of Contents TRAGEDY LIKE THESE It's always a tragedy when it happens to you one day in a darkened street where no one hears you scream and it's another time likened to when I can't hear the words and I try to tell you that I wonder about what you might find there what you might find there Oh, it's a tragedy that something like this should happen in a place like this with dust so old it doesn't stand to stand on it's own two feet but it's a tragedy and we don't have to tell anyone about the tragedy no,we don't have to tell anyone because it's times like these no one knows anybody else it's like a sea that wants to tumble down on me but it's times like these we don't have to tell anybody no, it's times like these I promise we don't have to tell anybody of a place like these of a place like these of a place like these.... and it's a tragedy we don't have to tell anybody about what we have seen it's a tragedy I should know but we don't have to tell anybody.... we don't have to tell anyone about tragedy like these.... we don't have to tell anyone of tragedy like these.... MIRROR,MIRROR ( ALEXANDER JOEL 1990) SONGS FILE 1995 WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY ALEXANDER JOEL LYRICS BY ALEXANDER JOEL Return to Table of Contents THE ULTIMATE FLOWER Passing along famaliar places in memory anyplace I want to go as long as you are there traveling roads that lead me into the distance never really seem to mind, never seem to care You are- the Ultimate Flower You are- the Ultimate Flower Whispering sweet melody for the first time the first time I saw you was the last time my heart knew tell me once again I'll be the only one my searching was over yeah,but life had just begun You are- the Ultimate Flower You are- the Ultimate Flower Even a lie could settle on my deathbed covering up my face, holding from my eyes even a lie could settle on my deathbed no distance too far, I'd never let you hide BRIDGE can't see you no more I can't see you no more GUITAR LEAD and TURKISH RONDE EXUENT MIRROR,MIRROR 1994 SONGS FILE 1995 WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER JOEL LYRICS BY WM. SETH HOOKER ARRANGED BY JOEL & HOOKER Return to Table of Contents UNDERWATER What you're hearing is the wind as the desert sings her song touching all the grains of sand and the stars that fill the night what you're seeking now has fled as nations rise and fall and fall and rise what burning spires, they said would crumble into sand before your eyes and did you try to imagine and did you try to imagine Surely as the vulture flies that this mourning brings misfortune and the thirst of silence cries yet the water lies unbroken What you're seeking now has fled as nations rise and fall and fall and rise what burning spires, they said would crumble into sand before your eyes GUITAR LEAD to VERSE 2 and did you try to imagine O did you try to imagine O did you try to imagine MIRROR,MIRROR 1994 SONGS FILE 1995 WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY ALEXANDER JOEL & WM.SETH HOOKER LYRICS BY HOOKER & JOEL Return to Table of Contents WHEN DARKNESS CALLS Pick the pocket of time take a look all about you one reason and rhyme to take aboard a new look Exceptionally fine delinquently mine I won't have to take the time exceptionally cold so close to the mold I'd be so alive But you- you don't believe me when darkness calls I will be there And you can feel me and you can hear me and you can touch me and you can scold me and you can fuck me The streets are pretty clear out here I don't think I can supress the fear of love and of hope of lies and of dreams it's enough to make me scream But you-you don't believe me when darkness calls I will be there And you can squeeze me and you can taunt me and you can scar me and you can love me and you can leave me and you can haunt me and you can heal me..... MIRROR,MIRROR 1995 SONGS FILE 1995 WRITTEN,ARRANGED AND LYRICS BY ALEXANDER JOEL Return to Table of Contents