1. I THINK

I think I know what to do now
I think I know why
It looks like I'm where I thought I'd be
The day that I die
Hard to believe could it be so
So much more left to go

I've been told where I'm going
But I still get scared sometimes
Remembering the past that didn't last
And how I died sometimes
Didn't care for one or all
In the disease of the fall

What I see around
It brings tears to my eyes
If I do nothing about it
What right do I have to cry
Just save the tears
For the dawn of the eternal day
Stand uselessly before God
With nothing to say

I've been told the right things
It's hard to do them anyway
I just can't account for
All the blessings in my way
Tomorrow they may go
It can't change what I know


2. HUMAN REICH

You say right and you say wrong
You've got nothing to stand upon
Germ that kills you is more right
Along with you your morality dies
Under your rulers that measure so well
But what they measure no one can tell
New totems and taboos for humankind
Don't know what to do with your mind

A condemnation of condemnation
Abolish all black and white insinuations
Your version becomes the text
Of a human brotherhood sect
Have faith only in what computes
A number's strength is its truth
Pocket adjustable moralities the norm
Man and its hero the conqueror worm

Cut the Truth off from its Source
Ritual masses disguised as discourse

Suckling on the pleasures you love so much
Shiny coin before a touch
You bring up the children and then you betray
As your flowers of life desiccate
See your offspring deathly pale empty eyes
As your holy tenets reveal themselves as lies
Calling mother father as you spit them out
Reach for a kiss as you strike them down

The new discrimination the human reich
The new wrong the new right

Your only truth is that all is true
No mind for what mutually excludes
Punishing enemies for hypocrisies
No absolutes determined no authorities
Search for aliens out in space
Hoping for a better place
Send a satellite out that far
Find a planet destroyed by war

Cut the Truth off from its Source
Ritual masses disguised as discourse
The new discrimination the human reich
The new wrong the new right


3. IMBECILE FACTORY

Every song I've written
Every attempt to dissect
Of what's all around me
My heart still can't make sense
As I'm hit with the reality
Dead child behind K-Mart
Years ago I could have pushed the button
But that makes me one more part

Used to carry signs
Propagating my beliefs
But only in my mind
Was there any relief
Battle is one on one
24-7 time
I am one of a priesthood
Life is more than a rhyme

And the imbecile factory churns on
And the imbecile factory churns on
And the imbecile factory churns on
And the imbecile factory churns on

Load up my ark as I fly above
I am imperfect but no pillar of salt
I can see the fire rain down it is not for me
I tried to warn the fools but they would not see

Eternal survival walk the golden streets alone
Reading the names on uncountable tombstones
The fellowship I once enjoyed has left me betrayed
I hand them all to Satan so they may have their way

And the imbecile factory churns on
And the imbecile factory churns on
And the imbecile factory
Imbecile factory
Imbecile factory
Churns on


4. CANNIBALIZED

Put them in the jars
Stomach will not turn
Waste raw factory matter
Chewed instead of burned

This is rage

Usable resources
The trains will run on time
With coal of placenta
Food of the gods of the mind

This is rage

Toothpick bones in the goo
Eggshell cranium blue
What you eat you were

There is no place for tears
After all that's been cheered
What you eat you were

Pain or no pain
There is a face and name
What you eat you were

The imagery has been played with
Non-points well-made
Illustrating lack of purpose
Win by denying the game
It will take landing in back yards
And stomachs being cut open
And questionnaires filled out
At one's own dying moment


5. UNCALLED FOR

I blame you for how I am
Or else I wouldn't understand
All I know is survival all is hell
Bottom of the hole through which I fell

Answer the question to end them all
Why did the doctor make this house call
Every day sun sets no sunrise
Lines of rage around my eyes

I can't stand up I only fall
I am here but I am uncalled
I can't stand up I only fall
I am here but I am uncalled

Got something to say then tell me
I am all ears
Got a word of reassurance let me know
I am all fears
Got a little comfort what is it
I am all tears
Got the parking brake in your hand then pull it
I am all years

Tumors bursting on my back
My rainbow's seven shades of black
I'll steal back what I own
Fall further down this hole

I can't stand up I only fall
I am here but I am uncalled
I can't stand up I only fall
I am here but I am uncalled
For


6. TORTURER

Things I've assembled
To be torn apart
It seems the essence
This lava in my heart
The same old story
Handed by a woman and a snake
Jokes about purgatory
Seems a long wait

One more day with the torturer
One more day with the torturer

Love is a mask
Donned by many things
Fighting juggernauts
Destroying everything
A life of retreat
With its outstretched hand
Slapped down by me
That rule-playing man

One more day with the torturer
One more day with the torturer
One more day with the torturer
One more day with the torturer

Wrinkles where there were pimples
Grey and gone hair in my brown
Soon I will be muzzled
Soon I will die down
Years between me and God's face
As fleeting as dust and smoke
Every day be good in this place
If only for the hope


7. INEVITABLE

It was inevitable in your heart
And in your mind and in all your being
So here we are sitting and staring
Arguing and glaring and you're not seeing
That nothing's working out anymore
And we'll all walk through our appointed doors
Praying for God's Light to be beyond
And bright enough to get all this behind

It was inevitable as you knew
You tried it on listened to Bill Gaither
It wore out quick clouds didn't leave
Back to the quick fix things you weren't too late for
As I made excuse upon excuse
Feeling trapped in a cage that I choose
Praying for God's Light to be beyond
And bright enough to cut through my wrongs

It was inevitable guess I knew
When I got changed and it was time to move
This web so fragile torn apart
With broken heart and nothing left to do
And I feel I'm stranded and I will die
But I'd gladly take it if also I could cry
Knowing that God's Light will be beyond
And bright enough to judge my every song


8. CAULDRON

Heat rising
Isolation
In midst
Of sacred fight

Quiet jihad
Slips so fast
No easy
To be right

Not clever
Nor precocious
No fancied flights
On idiot wind

Stand for life
Style of death
Call the wrongs
In style of sin

Surrounded
As advertised
Readying
Slings and bows

Good intent
Honest errors
Never enough
To show

A march for evil on the capital
Flying in on leathery wings
Dig mass graves, blow things up
All will know there is no love

Pine for evil on the capital
Affect the legislation
Claim the angels turn and flee
Dictate reality

A march for evil on the capital
Dismembering children's bodies
One million strong stand side by side
Sing a song and commit suicide


9. HANGING ON A TREE

So easy to forget, honestly
So easy to forget this was for me
I was on His mind when I didn't have to be
This was Someone with time for better things

Before my eyes the quiet battleground
Used to think my soul's salvation was all I needed for a rout
It was as easy as a prayer, as hard as being sincere
I've got Heaven coming but it took hell to get here

Hanging on the tree--there He is
Nailed to the tree--there He is
Hanging on the tree--there He is
Nailed to the tree

How'd you feel if that was your mother
How'd you feel if that was your father
His mind on you in the midst of His shame
Like a lover who only calls your name

A love such as this I can't imagine
Sometimes I miss the point even after it's spelled out to me
I'll carry on with my poor imitation
Of that walk between death and victory

Hanging on the tree--there He is
Nailed to the tree--there He is
Hanging on the tree--there He is
Nailed to the tree--there He is
Hanging on the tree--there He is
Nailed to the tree--there He is
Hanging on the tree--there He is
Nailed to the tree--there He is


10. IN ANSWER

In answer to your question i hope you have been asking
I'll take off my fangs and stop all the scaring
I could quote John 3:16 pray for the best
That you'd grasp what it all means that we are in a test

To know what sin is is to know how it permeates
The day of coming justice for all of us awaits
Darkest of our deeds passes not unnoticed
Now we go free following paths we've chosen

O Jesus Christ bleeding at Golgotha
It took God dying price paid for all
Validation on day three stone moved from the tomb
Confirmation of deity New Life out of cold womb

The gracious Work that asks for our trust
Eternity in the balance deeds not enough

In your reach as it's always been
To take and to open to look and taste and see


11. STEPHEN HAWKING WALKED AWAY

And so Carl Sagan starts to pray
Stephen Hawking walked away
Everything led to today
The pogrom went the other way
It's the end

Bertrand Russell bowed down
Syncretists fall to the ground
Silenced by the sound
True Face of Love melted them down
It's the end

I'm sorry sorry
I'm sorry sorry
I'm sorry sorry
I'm sorry sorry

Politicians congregating
Standing in line and waiting
Measuring their love and hating
The resolution of all debating
It's the end

No more bullets with your name
Left for anyone to take
Time to find out what you made
Through the wringer see what stayed
It's the end

I'm sorry sorry
I'm sorry sorry
I'm sorry sorry
I'm sorry sorry
I'm sorry sorry
I'm sorry sorry
I'm sorry sorry
I'm sorry sorry

Karmic intents now revealed
Like incensed prayers unconcealed
Spelled out terms of the deal
No longer spins the wheel
It's the end

And so Carl Sagan starts to pray
Stephen Hawking walked away
Followed by humanity
Everything led to today
It's the end