- A Portrait Of The Young Man As An Artist
Look at you all clutching your guitars
As if it makes a difference to who you really are
Does the picking of a string stop the ticking of the clock?
When will this curtain fall?
How did you carve that psalms?
I'm sorry but your intellect is really not that sharp
You're drowning so you plagiarize what you wish to become
- Angelic
Angel cried last night; it was something in her dreams,
Carving pictures on her bedroom wall, she wonders what it means,
But gets by inside by saying it's not real,
There's no reason to confuse myself no matter what it seems.
Angel lied last night to amputate her fears,
With no question she exhumes herself from possibilities.
Close your eyes it's fine by saying it's not real,
There's no reason to forgive myself no matter what it seems.
- Another Face in a Window
"Another Face In A Window"
They're all the same, assimilated
And here am I born of a lost cause
The underdog, an alien in drag, dying
So who's to say there's any shame in
being alone when the dogs are outside
In packs of ten, their muzzles removed, biting
- Black Eyed Man
Keep working hide on your appearance
‘cause you know when you’re in, you’re in
The drive flickers like a candle
Accessing lines stored within
Old man berates the congregation
Instill a fear he’ll soon expose
Replete with a wooden constellation
- Can Of Worms
Witnessed the trade right in front of my face
From a soulmate to a little girl playing mindgames
It was a trick of the light, a movement inside
Stop and breathe in as the clock strikes midnight
Time to run home, here comes the slide
too late this time
- Conspire
While I lie here burning, you're encased in ice
With tainted eyes upon your tainted soul
It's no wonder I'm so cold
A terrible thing I'm learning as tears are turned to ice
These four walls will be my dreaded foes
As I rot here in this hole
Do you conspire to hold me down?
- Dream
[Moss]
Immersed in light, broken in flight,
Here comes that scene again,
Not another sleepless night.
Scripted yet stuck on every line,
Upon my face a look of pure surprise,
I thought I'd be fighting fire.
- Everything you know is wrong
I looked to the skies,
Turning away with blackened eyes.
I'm a stranger on a train, you're all strangers on a train.
Sorry to confuse you, but all that you know is wrong
And there's just no name for what's gone on.
I've walked on thin ice just to feel mystified,
- Expire
[Patterson]
Innocence and irony,
A a dark shade of fantasy as the serpent slips right into me
Living out your fallacy,
I'm just another casualty of casual insanity.
Summers white cause the sun has gone,
- Fear Of A Unique Identity
Of all the foals upon the tallest hill
With aching intent to walk
Who has the salt to stand of their own will?
With no consequence at all
Fear of a unique identity
To seal in stone inclusion with the pack
- Fighting for a Lost Cause
And there it is, as pure as snow
I couldn't see it for my head was too low
And prying eyes, they stoop too low
Poisoning my soul, as sanity waits in the gallows
Defeated I, fighting for a lost cause
Depleted I, dying for the wrong cause
These are the hours on the range
The more you show them
- Firewalking
As a man you’ll understand liberty
But stay aware when you hear the sirens ring
Know your foe, for where he walks you will never perceive the colour of freedom
You can walk with your eyes wide open through coal
But the harder you try it’s blowing so slow
Build a wall between your soul and reality
- Flowers
I had a dream, far away from here,
Far away from you, far from all the pain.
With strength in numbers, the sad betrayal braves,
Return to desecrate those memories again.
And there you were taking flowers from my grave...
And there you were stealing flowers from my grave...
I kiss the ground but I can hardly breathe,
As you scrape me from the pavement once again.
- Ghosts
[Moss]
All the faces on the photographs have changed
To not confuse it all, the names remain the same
Should I wait or let the past just fall?
The whispers are veiled
Should you try to realign some day
You may find that there was nothing anyway
- Holocaust
Take me with you when you go, I'm not staying here alone,
Push the button by the phone...
Inner freedom overshadows greed and reasons to stick around,
Crazy dreaming keeps me gleaming you'll be seething going down.
I'd waited so long, but the dream was over before it had begun,
I've waited so long, now you haven't time to run...
- In Stone
[Moss]
What a big man you are
Could fight a war with just your face
Take it on the chin and leave me open-jawed.
What big words you've got,
Reciting lines you've heard on film,
- Leaving Eden
Put the thorn in my side, the coins on my eyes
I'm not awake, I'm leaving Eden
And all her frozen charms lie cold in my arms
Panic went away and left me reeling
It's warm outside but the weather fails to hide
the stinging loss inside
For in the back of my mind I always thought I'd find my way to paradise
On I'd walk to paradise...
- Legions
Stony and grey is the whore
And long are the days in the morgue
Where God is a wall
Where God is a wall to look upon
Legions and hordes
The seas have been torn
And buildings remain where they fall
- Lights Out
Так ты сделал это? Позор для тебя, что ты подделал это.
Так ты притворялся? Ты - грёбаный позор своему имени.
Так ты пожинал то что я сеял?
Рассеянный, испепелённый и унесённый в неизвестность,
Пока ты продавал мою душу холоду.
Черная ложь раскрывается... Поддельный звук..
- Line of Fire
Face the panic of today
Breaking barriers from yesterday
I fell into the line of fire
I broke down in the line of fire
Shattered past, and future fears
Take a moment far away from here
Out the strings and fly away
- Lost Control
Life has betrayed me once again,
I accept some things will never change.
I've let your tiny minds magnify my agony,
and it's left me with a chem'cal dependency for sanity.
Yes, I am falling... how much longer till I hit the ground?
I can't tell you why I'm breaking down.
Do you wonder why I prefer to be alone?
- Mr White
[Trouble]
I'm supposed to talk to you
Don't even know where to start
Don't want to stand with the setting sun
Tell me does it really show?
I'll promise you anything
- Over Your Shoulder
Cautiously take cover in the woodland -
no mistakes at all.
Some terrain will catch you at your weakest
- careful not to fall.
Stay by the fire, sip from your water,
lie in position, the winds blowing colder.
- Psalms
Poor boy he knows he's alive, he's afraid to
learn, He don't want to get where he's going cos
he thinks he's gonna burn, He can't handle being
born in the middle of a big black line, No matter
where he looks, to him it's just either side.
Close your eyes when you feel you're going under,
Close your eyes; you can make the shore this time,
Close your eyes; you can make it through the wild,
- Redemption
I should take what's left of this for myself
I've had the pieces stripped
By long hands feeding small minds
And I never thought that this could come back
I failed to do it right
And took long strides into the firing line
And the less I feel alive the less I feel alive
- Relapse
[Patterson]
Look inside and find the parts
Bringing forth the lines of sanity
A broken mind and open heart
Torn apart without lucidity
Consummate and turn the page
Embrace the change from what you used to be
- Saviour
Who hears the voices calling - who calls to rise above them?
Who rises when they've fallen, taking an oath for the trouble they're causing.
Who reaches out for knowing, who knows when they've been chosen?
Who chooses not to burden the path of the brother with light before him.
Saviour...
Who lives a life of slumber, who sleeps upon the water?
Whos water drowns the others, taking an oath for the trouble they're causing.
Who asks a simple question, who knows when who's forgiven?
- Suicide Veil
A sacrifice in the flight of dawn
The beauty of twisted reality
In my heart, my dreams
A sacrifice for freedom
Alone in the grace of the dark
The pains of a failed generation
- The Art Of A Soft Landing
I'm building a cage to chew things over,
Far from where the rats can chew my brain.
Losing the game and the deck's uneven,
the building blocks of ruin...
I'm going insane with my eyes wide open,
The stage has set the tone.
Chewing the pain and it wont stop breeding,
- The Freak Show
[Moss]
We've worked it out, figured out what its all about
Don't retreat but don't be seen, Let nothing come between
No more lazy days, what rate do they pay?
Here's a knife, carve a life. As we plot your downfall in the nearest aisle
They're nailing up the coffin but you're smiling as you go
- The Last Laugh
And so you had the last laugh – ha ha ho...
I laughed you off a long time ago.
Your ever changing personality never fails to tickle me at all.
You said you were a white witch,
Reminds me of a movie that you'd seen.
Well can you still open doors with just your mind?
In this little space in time, I've played with better things.
Everything you done...
- The Weight Of The World
Save me, I'm in a sea of beings
And there's no deny - the waves are holding me under
I'm drowning in a thousand faces
Alien expressions over and over again
I'm trying to scream but I can't exhale
The world seems to spin as I'm left on this square
- Wide Awake In The Concrete Asylum
Here in this severance we’re calmly incomplete
We’ve always tried so hard to keep emotion from our sleeves
No small change in a paper cup no hint of deity to promise Eden
Who’ll shout our names in marble halls for everyone to hear?
While hollow masses plot the course of grace so insincere
Seems everyday they print the names of those who tried to make a change
Who’s next in line to try?