1. DEATH OF ME

Burn your sign into my skin
Nail the box and throw me in
Take the coins from my eyes
Plow me under like my friends

Lock the cell and kill the sun
Let me cook until I'm done
Drown my soul in love and rage
Until I kiss the loaded gun
"This is the death of me I know"

Shoot the horse from under me
Blind my eyes till I believe
You've broken both my loving arms
Pull the rope and set me free

"This is the death of me I know"
"This is the death of me I know"

Slam the spike into my vein
Sentence me and forge the chain
Numb my conscience
Steal my dreams
Stretch me on your open flame

"This is the death of me I know"
"This is the death of me I know"


2. DOWN

Well I'm feelin' like you took me in
And wrapped your cursed magic over me
If you vow to never cross my path
I'll give you back the shame
So you could see - I'd rather be dead

Deep down inside your dream
The evil that you make
You put my life on trial
It's a chance I have to take
Too late the rhapsody
That plays inside my head
It's dark before the dawn
My eyes are burnin' red

I've been down is where you left me
I've been down, I do not belong
I've been down, won't somebody help me?
I've been down, I did you no wrong

In your world that's hid by tinted glass
You lie behind the fragments of yourself
In an empty room, you hide behind the
Smile that pulls me back again, time again

The pistol's in my hand
I have to let you know
I put you in the ground
Now I have to let you go
The serpent that I ride
Has put a grip on me
My pain is glorified
Why can't you let it be?


3. ADDICTION

Let me breathe, my tired body
Let me sleep inside my bed
Don't let me fall into the darkness
While you weave your tangled web
Don't leave me slain beside the gutter
Show me my flesh, then lock me in,
Then wash me down in holy water
Then close my eyes, until I'm gone

Throw my soul into the fire
Let my body burn in sin
It's so cold and I'm no liar
And it's all the same, all the same
It's just addiction

You can't deny the pain you're under
You know the wheel refuse to turn
Can't break that spell and you have to wonder
Can't walk away, you never learn
Don't live that lie, 'cos you can take it
You must have been some kind of man
I feel the rage of your condition
'Cos you will find euphoria

Can you taste your last temptation?
Your state of mind is filled with shame
If you fail to shake your demon
Tormented life, no one to blame


4. MADELEINE

Born in the city, you are Mother Nature's friend
You come one step closer to yourself -
Over by the looking glass you worship no one else
I go one step back inside my shell
Sitting in your country house
You work them to the bone
So they tell me who's been there
There's no doubt about it, you've been Heaven
Tailor Made
And they talk about you everywhere

You made your choice
You have the world in the palm of your hands
I'll never know
And I will never understand

Madeleine - I can't wait anymore
Madeleine - I can't take anymore

You live the life of luxury, you have to pay no rent
You come one step further, what is your role?
You're headin' for that deadline baby,
Now tell me what you find?
I go one step deeper inside the cold
You live your life in misery,
How can you be so cruel
You go one step nearer to the wall
I know this is a tragedy now tell me who's your fool?
You come one step closer to the fall


5. TALK ABOUT IT

In the coldness of love’s sweet illusion
There’s a sadness that stands in my way
There’s a note that I left in the hallway
Tellin’ you that I could never stay
You never wanted me I’m outta time
Now I’ve got nothin’ to say

I don’t want to talk about it
I don’t even hear a word you say
I don’t want to talk about it
I just turn my back and walk away

I’m the kind that lives with emotion
Now do I have to live on my own?
I would cross every mountain and ocean
Tell me why has your heart turned to stone
You never wanted me, I’m outta time
Now I’ve got nothin’ to say


6. I'M NOT YOUR SLAVE

Why have you been so complicated
You took a hold on me
I've never been so aggravated
Won't you listen carefully

You paint a tragedy, confess yourself to me
And I will take it to my grave
Your last mistake you see, you're
Damned and now I'm free
Because I'm not your slave

Why do you push me into the shadows
Why do you bear no shame
How can you tell me that nothin'
Else matters
When you, don't even know my name

I'm not your slave


7. COVER ME

Somewhere between the lines unbroken
There lies the sacred part of me
Behind the door that once was opened
Is where I fell from grace you see

Inside I feel the pressure
My faith I cannot measure
Seems like the wound has deepened
I wake but I'm not breathing
And I say

Cover me, while I'm sleeping, won't you cover me
Cover me, if I'm bleeding, won't you cover me
Cover me, be my shadow, won't you cover me
Cover me, I will follow, won't you cover me

So won't you take this captured spirit
Now won't you hear my final plea
You got to cut the wire
Release your sympathy
Unspoken words that heal
This dream just can't be real
And I say

Somewhere between the lines unbroken
There lies the sacred part of me


8. BLUE JADE

She wears a blood red rose
Her face she never shows
Thru the doorway, to the window
In the light
A vision in a dream
And I don't know what it means
Is it my imagination or is it you?

Blue Jade comes to my room
She won't go
Gold shade covers the moon
And I don't know, about Blue Jade

Is it fate or destiny?
Only she does hold the key
Fallen angel, I am driven to your side
From the moment you are here
I'm a man without a fear
You're the reason, my religion, you're my guide

And when she comes to me
Lord I never wanna be
Broken hearted, disillusioned by her smile
And I know it just can't be
When I hear your symphony
Am I sleeping, is this really in my mind?
I can feel and I can see
Everytime she comes to me
I just can't believe that you're my life


9. JUSTIFIED MAN

Down by the beggar's wall
There is another land
This is the place. I come to set me free
Just like a fighting man lost in a river
I didn't notice I was blind but now I see
They took a photograph
They heard my story
And then the jury tried and sentenced me
And now I'm sanctified, without resistance
I left my body. And I'm gonna let it be
Now I'm standin' on the platform
At the station
I hear the engine of the train
That takes me there
I ain't lookin' back,
Until I reach my destination
Nobody gonna bring me down
I'm a justified man
Inside the hour glass,
The sand keeps turnin'
Outside my window, falls the rain
That washes me
Gone is my fear, need no assistance
And now I'm justified,
Those days are gone you see
I've been livin' in war of speculation
I stand accused but I ain't goin' anywhere
I ain't lookin' back
Until I reach my destination


10. I DON'T WANT TO LIVE THAT WAY AGAIN

I kiss the day, there can be no other answer
Turn back the time and let me in
I look away, as they stare and all their glances
Now I can tell you where I've been
All alone inside myself
I guess I never knew which way to go
The time has come to know yourself
And I don't want to live that way again,
Again, again, again.

I'm miles away, as I look into the water
And there's a tide that pulls me in
The missing page where there'll be the sons and daughters
I live and die it's hard to take
Safe within, this higher ground
The pleasure and the pain has come and gone
I have been once lost now found
And I don't want to live that way again

There's a light in the distance
And a voice that cries freedom
There's a child in the mirror,
Much too long he's been grievin'
I have stumbled thru madness
Now I've made my decision,
And I don't want to live that way again

So I pull down the shutters
And I wave my resistance
And I wait for the sirens
That will ring thru my head
I was cast as a leper
Now I've replaced my religion
And I don't want to live that way again