1. INTRO

(instrumental)


2. LAID TO REST

If there was a single day I could live
A single breath I could take
I'd trade all the others away

The blood's on the wall
So you might as well just admit it
And bleach out the stains
Commit to forgetting it
You're better off empty and blank
Then left with a single pathetic trace of this

Smother another failure
Lay this to rest

Console yourself
You're better alone
Destroy yourself
See who gives a fuck

Absorb yourself
You're better alone
Destroy yourself

I'll chain you to the truth
For the truth shall set you free
I'll turn the screws of vengeance
And bury you with honesty

I'll make all your dreams come to life
Then slay them as quickly as they came

Smother another failure
Lay this to rest

Console yourself
You're better alone
Destroy yourself
See who gives a fuck

Absorb yourself
You're better alone
Destroy yourself

See who gives a fuck
See who gives a fuck
See who gives a fuck
Failure
If there was a day I could live
If there was a single breath I could take
I'd trade all the others away
I'd trade all the others away


3. HOURGLASS

Privileged, a chosen few
Blessed with our time in hell
Witness a divine vision, the day we all fell still.
Rapture of the dying age, a shattered hourglass
Wrath of the warring gods and soon this too shall pass.

It's only getting worse, not worth a moment's regret
Each dawn another curse, every breath a twisting blade
What will be left behind in the ashes of the wake?
An ill wind blows this way, the edge of the envelope burns
Forbearance and my vengance, payment for your intent
Fear death in the wings, in thrall of those fallen from grace
Petty is as petty does, witness the mass disgrace.

(Fear and death in the wings, in thrall of those fallen from grace
Petty is as petty does, witness the mass disgrace.)
God forbid you read the signs.
Watch for meaning between the lines
Gehenna has now arrived, no hindsight for the blind.
Your trust has been misplaced, believed the lies told to your face
Became another casualty and now it's too late.

You finally made it home,
Draped in the flag that you fell for.
And so it goes
The ashes of the wake.
It's only getting worse...(x5)


4. AS THE PALACES BURN

The fiends have gagged a generation of pacified fools
Bound by our greed a nation enslaved as corporate tools
Arise and raze the legacy of their lies
To realize that this in itself is an ascension
Towards the day we revolt
As the seeds you've cast away take hold
War will be born
Rejoice, the age of the fall has begun
We'll dance as the palaces burn
A shot gun blast into the face of deceit
You'll gain your just reward
We'll not rest until the purge is complete
You will reap what you've sown
My redemption lies in your demise
In such a world as this does one dare to think for himself?
The paradox of power and peace will destroy itself
To know the truth and live in fear of no man
To realize that this in itself is an ascension
Toward the day we revolt
As the seeds you've cast away take hold
War will be born
Rejoice, the age of the fall has begun
We'll dance as the palaces burn
My redemption lies in your demise
Rejoice, the age of the fall has begun
We'll dance as the palaces burn


5. NOW YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING TO DIE FOR

Now you've got something to die for
Now you've got something to die for
Infidel, imperial
Lust for blood, a blind crusade
Apocalyptic, we count the days

Bombs to set the people free, blood to feed the dollar tree
Flags for coffins on the screen, oil for the machine
Army of liberation, gunpoint indoctrination
The fires of sedation
Fulfill the prophecy
Now you've got something to die for
Now you've got something to die for
Send the children to the fire, sons and daughters stack the pyre
Stoke the flame of the empire, live to lie another day
Face of hypocrisy, raping democracy
Apocalyptic, we count the days

We'll never get out of this hole, until we've dug our own grave
And drag the rest down with us, the burning home of the brave
Burn
Now you've got something to die for
Now you've got something to die for


6. 11TH HOUR

The hour of wreckoning draws near
Judgment day is here and gone
Sweetly she draws me into her arms
A liquid embrace to chase the day way
Sedate numb deaf and dumb
Stumbling into solitude
A clouded judgment day is fueled
Take me under your black wings
Mark my words and remember me
So sweetly she shucks away at my time
So sweetly she draws me nigh
Closer and closer towards never ending sleep
Spin the bottle
Kiss only the bottle
The dark mistress of many, beholden to none
Slips a ring of needles around your arm in an engagement
Eternal engagement
Never consummated
Take me under your black wings
Mark my words and remember me
Destroyer of senses
So take as needed for the pain
Another gray morning dawns across an ashen sky
My sweet demoness beckons me
Ever again and again and again and again
The dark mistress of many, beholden to none
My sweet demoness beckons me
Ever again and again and again and again and again
Take me under your black wings
Jacked up on the taste of self-destruction


7. TERROR & HUBRIS IN THE HOUSE OF FRANK POLLARD

All the fucked up things trap and punish me I cannot explain my problem.
Kill my hopeless life I cannot be hypnotized. You owe me.
Push aside the veil to welcome in the visitors.
Eyes like halogen illuminate the soma peering out of spherical night mask.
Paleolithic subconcious icons lumber through dreamscape archetype of archangel.
Terror and Hubris- infants painted gauze peer through murky jars;
soon I'm wearing the skin of the morning star.
Green locks my name fills an empty banner.
Frank, what have you gotten me into now?
I am not afraid to speak my heart and mind it cannot be saved sell me over.
Fuck your hopeless world, I am blacker than the sun.
Tragedy. Have you seen the speedy, yes?
Bleeds through the sleep onto the page. I'm sailin'...


8. RUIN

The knowledge that seeking the favor of another
Means the murder of self
This is the resolution
The end of all progress
The death of evolution
It bleeds all life away
Silence speeds the path to the streams of solace that run so few and narrow. drecksack huhrensohn! (german for: "dirtbag", "son of a bitch")
Brooks that babble the sounds of torture
To flood the banks of the chosen
This is the art of ruin
This is the resolution
The end of all progress
The death of evolution
It bleeds all life away
I will show you all that I have mastered
Fear. pain. hatred. power
This is the art of ruin


9. OMERTA

Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. whoever cannot take care of themself without that law is both. for a wounded man shall say to his assailant, "if I live I will kill you, if I die you are forgiven". such is the rule of honor

Broken the paradigm an example must be set
Invoke the siren's song and sign the death warrant
This is what has been wrought for 30 pieces of silver
The tongues of men and angels bought by a beloved betrayer

I am the result, what's better left unspoken
Violence begins to mend what was broken
You've been talking, I've been all ears

Words meant to dwell in darkness shall never see the light of day
Words can be broken so can bones, execute the mandate
Mouth full of dirt your name is removed from the registry
St. peter greets with empty eyes then turns and locks the gate

I am the result, what's better left unspoken
Violence begins to mend what was broken
You've been talking, I've been all ears
Omerta

Cheaply venal, stupidly verbose
A slip of the tongue, a slit of the throat
Six feet under with no marker
Keep my name from your mouth forever
Free speech for the living, dead men tell no tales
Your laughing finger will never point again
Omerta
Omerta
Sing for me now


10. PARIAH

The sore on the edge of your mouth it mirrors the ones on your arm of black tar
you've known the ripping.
And I've seen you pissing your condition into the dirt.
I know you don't want to live in the dirt
you want to know nothing but dirt you know you can't beat weakness.
Kill the flux. Stretched to breaking an obscene canvas on a stretcher of parasitism.
You piece of shit I won't say your name but I will say this-
FUCK OFF AND DIE (sooner the better).
You've shot out your eyes but I'm seeing that you cannot feel anything of worth.
Know that you've pissed life away, lost in your narcotic dreams.
Heart pumping futile shit through your veins.
Why does it bother?
I want to punch in your sunken face and see your dusty blood smear through
the air in a polluted crimson arc,
splattering in a useless pattern on the concrete. Moribund.


11. FADED LINE

Witness shame's parade, the pain of blame repaid
It's fucking hopeless
Accusations and denial.
Hopeless... demon of another day
Colorless... stoned, solid grey
Emptiness... of promises I made
So faithless... the tenants long betrayed.
Walk the faded line, cursed crawl of time
Silence, the only promise ever kept.
Familiar touch, a ritual to numb the cut
Salvation in vice
Anguish is realizing what could have been, but never was
It's emptiness that fills the cup
Devotion in the method of my fall.
Pointless...futility continuing
Endless…flowing corrupted vein.
Walk the faded Line, cursed crawl of time (x2)
Silence the only promise ever kept
It's fucking hopeless
Hopeless.(x2)
It's fucking hopeless
Hopeless


12. BLOODLETTING

Archaic methods transfer through well in the face of mass denial.
Bitterness fuels the mode for the escape of mediocrity. Stepping the grate, shattered nerves ground down to a glass edge carrying me away.
Bloodletting a favorite game of solitaire.
A suicide mission destined to fail, a moving ladder to
climb taking me away.
I wouldn't have it any other way.


13. SUBTLE ARTS OF MURDER & PERSUASION

The dark crow man sits and stares into the oblivion into cold into nothingness;
It's snowing in his mind.
He's created himself in his own image.
Lust held for him means naught,
a knock on the door brings no smile to his cruel lips;
the welcome in a woman's eyes holds nothing for him.
Alone on his haunches the hair raises on the back of his neck.
His dead eyes pierce the night.
As his gaze falls down on the city it fills him the method ascertained, conviction.
He knows what to do and moves to commit the deed.


14. VIGIL

Our father thy will be done.
I have denied this life its worth
I will not be the victim.
Sickness to you my master
Were still getting worse
Hope it kills you faster.
Show me how it hurts to rot from the inside out.
This vigil burns
Until the date our fires overtake you.
Our father we forsake you.
Blessed be his name
Nothing now the same.
Ask me why I hate
Why Ive prayed to see the nation that I love disintegrate
I'd gladly give my life
The revolution regenerates!
In honor of the strife of those who've died
In generations before for your blood stained glory
I reject you
I deny you
I defy you to continue.
Smite the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered.


15. WHAT I'VE BECOME

Blank stares from broken men
So withered from the poisons they can't remember when
There were once honest reasons.
It's all the lie, it died a hundred thousand miles ago.
Pretending I'm still here
Justifiy what I've become, sanctify what I've become
Amazing disgrace.. (how) sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.
Better lost if this is found, best blinded never to see.
The race to save face, nothing now is what we meant it to be.
Pretending I'm still here.
It's a system now, intertwined.
Take your place in the line to be ground by the gears of the masterpiece.
Betrayal.
Justifiy what I've become, sanctify what I've become
Suffered consequence
It's been so long since any piece of this made any kind of sense.
You anoint the king, I'll burn everything down to ashes.
You giveth, I taketh away.
You giveth, I taketh away.
It's a system now, intertwined.
Take your place in the line to be ground by the gears of the masterpiece.
Betrayal.


16. BLACK LABEL

The human condition is inherit claustrophobia.
Compression of my space made complete.
I would rip out my own entrails by hand just to be alone.
Insanity rolls total through this sphere.
Ostracized for clarity of vision.
A dream unrealized of solitude that I should decend into autonomy
and know the pain of fellowship no more.
I feel nothing but a lack of space.
Paradox of socialization results in duress.
Rife with hostility, what has caused me so much hate?
Humanity. Exterminate with extreme predjudice.