1. INTO THE FOLD

Underneath the disguise
A dream comes to life, a nightmare rests on the horizon
Running past these iron gates,
My fingers curled tight around the blade...

Here I stand!
Another day has passed, another day has gone behind me
Oversimplification unfolds my situated dreams...

Sound asleep on this midnight train
Against convention, against the grain
Running through this field of fire,
The embers glow, and these plans conspire...

Here I stand!
Another day has passed, another day has gone behind me
Oversimplification unfolds my situated dreams...

What I am, for what I stand
Roads less travelled overgrown...
Take these hands, from where I stand
In the twilight they unfold...


2. LOST CAUSE

He's breaking down
Wings are folded, head bowed to the ground
Without a sound
Feathers falling, in silence he sits down
Holds back the tears
For they will only wash any hope away
He tried to help
But heaven knows, he forfeited the game!

Now all is lost, and so is he,
His eyes reflect the crumbling ash
The fires burn, caress his face
With broken trust

The fires burn
Masses screaming and calling out his name
He turns away,
Too late to try, and blow away the flame
It spread too far,
Corrupting souls, and feeding on their sins
The sunset ends
Light fades away, the reign of night begins...

Now all is lost, and so is he,
His eyes reflect the crumbling ash
The fires burn, caress his face
With broken trust


3. CHOW FOR THE BRAINWASHED

They speak their minds, the written truth
And only I can touch the pain
When the realization strikes my jaw
These words they spoke themsleves before!
These words they spoke themselves before...

And when you ask the next face which
Stares with it's blank expression back
Just like a broken record hear
These words they spoke themselves before!
These words they spoke themsleves before...

Without a word a child is born
And his subconscious mind is torn
And words they placed inside his brain
Will turn about until he takes them to his grave

Try looking deep into their eyes
Emotions vanished in the rain
And new emotions build on top
These words they've never heard before!
These words they've never heard before...

A cycle of unchanging wheels
Yields only to the public trend
And fills the emptiness inside
These words controlled the chains before!
These words controlled the chains before...

By recreations of the brain
These words will reappear again
The ones once placed inside his head
Will turn about until he takes them to his grave!

Like wrinkles on a piece of foil
Their throughts are straightened out to fit
Criteria made by ones who fear
These words they've never heard before!
These words they've never heard before...

They shape it to their heart's content
And jam the chow right down their throat
To wash down on the civil brain
These words I hear them again!
These words I hear them again...


4. TAINTED HAND

Knee deep in blood I find myself the victor of blood thirsty wars
Forever more tainted shall be my hand that slayed without remorse
So here I am towering above the cultures scattered at my feet
And I smell nothing but the smoke of fires lit up by my torch

Have I done this for some lost cause were wounds inflicted by mistake?
In my relentless path to win I have brought ruin unto my prize
Worse yet my hand cannot be stopped, the cultures scattered at my feet
Erasing histories, my sight of life enforced on all


5. CHOKING HAZARD

I'm running out of things to say
And no one seems to listen
It's getting tougher day by day
Why should I even bother?
Why should I even bother?

When did it all start going wrong
Was it the day I met life?
Or was it there all along?
I cant' seem to recover
I can't seem to recover!

For once I'll lie here on the grass
I shall maintain the silence
And peace will find me there at last
And I won't speak to no one!
Why should I even bother?


6. SIRENS OF THE NIGHT

Sirens of the night
These streets are scented with your touch
I roam the dark under your spell
Sirens of the night
I hear your whispers all aounrd
Running through my mind
Sirens of the night...

Waiting in the dim light of lanterns I just dreamed of tasting your kiss
Eternal lights and alleys lead me deeper, deeper into my trance

Sirens of the night
These streets are scented with your touch
I roam the dark under your spell
Sirens of the night
I hear your whispers all aounrd
Running through my mind
Sirens of the night...

When the lights burned out at the fresh dawns I woud lose all my illusions
I would go home and let the day kill my bliss until the dark

Day after day, went by in the grey, my senses awakened at night
'Till one misty midnight unveiled her to me and we danced...

As the cruel sun rose it drowned out the night,
With it she was gone...


7. RE-CREATIONS

Upon the hill he stands
Stares at his world, and cries
As the ashes rise up
To reveal the lies
Hearing their voices cry... out of the fire!

Lost inside his own mind, he left them there to die
To recreate himself, become his own lie
Forget all that he was, betray the ones he loved
For he could only see his own reality

The tears broke through his glazed brigh eyes
The winds of change have passed him by
The rain came down and washed away
The memories of these dark days

Without looking back, he turns away
The ashes still burning him,
Their silence fuels the flame!

Lost inside his own mind, he left them there to die
To recreate himself, become his own lie
Forget all that he was, betray the ones he loved
For he could only see his own reality


8. THE ARCHITECT

Endless global frustration,
And all their cries
Blocked by his imagination
Shattered his mind
When the angels had recovered
All that was left
He knew what had to be done
And turned the page

Murder, theft, destruction
Left dissatisfaction
In his view upon this world
And he became the architect

Genius found in desperation
Insanity
Drives this man for preservation
Of Humanity
Scribbles on a leaf of paper
Dreams in disguise
Plans and laws of his creation
In candle light

Slowly he goes, MAD!

For a moment, blink and its gone
Always keep it in the corner of your eye
Don't let go

Watch the architect work
Building his world
You can hear his words, in the dark

He's our last hope
Listen to the
Feather writing away, in the dark

Walls, rise in his mind
Laws and commands
He thinks it's all real

See, the architect work
He's building a world
For you and for me
Give him one more day
We'd see the light tomorrow
But tomorrow never came
Blinded by this world
He saw one without sorrow
But we'd never see the same