1. STEAL MY THUNDER

I won't stand in your shadow
I won't hide in the corner
I won't step aside, no
I won't let you take over

Why do you try to top me?
Why do you try to stop me?
Why do you try to beat me?
Why do you try to defeat me?

Steal my thunder, drag me under
Where the limelight never shines
Steal my thunder, makes me wonder
Why you always want what's mine

Why do you try to break me?
Why do you try to fake me?
Why do you try to cage me?
Why do you try to upstage me?

Steal my thunder, drag me under
Where the limelight never shines
Steal my thunder, makes me wonder
Why you always want what's mine

Demand the center of attention
Dominate the entire conversation
Jealousy is a waste of emotion
Get over it, there is no competition

Steal my thunder, drag me under
Where the limelight never shines
Steal my thunder, makes me wonder
Why you always want what's mine

Always want what's mine


2. EVERYONE'S A HYPOCRITE

Everything has lost its mystique
Now you can't make a move without a critique
Everyone judges, everyone lies
Holds onto grudges, stereotypes

Everyone's a hypocrite
Everyone is full of shit
And so are you

Everyone serves their own agenda
Quick to pass judgment and never defend ‘ya
You are no different, you're not the exception
This pretense of virtue is such a deception

Everyone's a hypocrite
Everyone is full of shit

You say you wouldn't, but maybe you would
You say you couldn't, but maybe you could
You say you don't, but maybe you do
Who cares, who cares, who cares
No one's asking you

Everyone's a hypocrite
Everyone is full of shit
And so are you


3. IN VAIN

She stirs in sleepy syllables
A thick toxic half-slumber
Her breath dissolves in drips
That dim the lines upon the monitor

All that she went through in vain, in vain, in vain, in vain

Below the threshold of fear for the unknown
When every prayer has lost
So sick with the notion of living
Prolonging life at any cost

She swells in a chemical storm
Fading in clouds of radiation
Reduced to an inhuman form
Beyond the realm of comprehension

All that she went through, in vain, in vain, in vain, in vain

Below the threshold of fear for the unknown
When every prayer has lost
So sick with the notion of living
Prolonging life at any cost

So many promises commanded down with certainty
So many wasted days imprisoned in sterility
So many images that haunt my dreams and shake my sleep
It was not meant to be

Below the threshold of fear for the unknown
When every prayer has lost
So sick with the notion of living
Prolonging death at any cost

All that she went through, in vain, in vain


4. GRAVES

Out of place like the moon in the daytime sky
Wonder how, wonder why you were in my life
Seemed so right at the time, seemed so right at the time
But now I know, out of sight
Now I know, out of mind

As I lay you now to rest
I realize it's for the best
These choices are all up to me
So in my mind you'll rest in peace
I decide you'll rest in peace

Out of time to repay for all of your sins
One chapter will end as the next one begins
Into the light you pass on, into the light you pass on
But now I know, from my world
Now I know, you are gone

As I lay you now to rest
I realize it's for the best
These choices are all up to me
So in my mind you'll rest in peace
I decide you'll rest in peace

Ghosts in the graveyard have followed me
Haunt my thoughts subconsciously
Held me back so subtly
I never knew it wasn't me, it wasn't me

As I lay you now to rest
I realize it's for the best
These choices are all up to me
So in my mind you'll rest in peace
I decide you'll rest in peace


5. OUT OF BODY

I walk the ledge of calm and chaos
The space between what I have and what I've lost
The brink of burning pain and ice cold numb
Who was I before what I have become?

Out of body, out of mind
Out of my head, out of my life

Everything's changing

It's so easy here to hide until I die
Inside my little world, I won't get out alive
Is it just a dream that I can never touch?
If I held it would it mean as much?

Out of body, out of mind
Out of my head, out of my life

Wait a minute, take a minute
Stop, turn around, look around and pause
Take a breath and sigh
Another year has passed me by

Out of body, out of mind
Out of my head, out of my life

Everything's changing


6. AM I EVIL?

This is my retribution
This is my way now
This is my machination
These are my rules now

6000 years between us, 6000 lives have gone by
Can you truly recognize me when you look into my eyes?

This feeling consumes me
Am I evil, Am I evil?
This feeling consumes me
Am I evil or am I just made this way?

This is my vindication
This is my turn now
This is my domination
This is my world now

6000 years between us, 6000 lives have gone by
Can you truly recognize me when you look into my eyes?

This feeling consumes me
Am I evil, Am I evil?
This feeling consumes me
Am I evil or am I just made this way?

Form and shape may change
But make no mistake
This is my world now
This is my world now


7. THERE

I know that I can't wish you were here
Necessity the only known reason for existence
I know that I can't wish I was there
It's not my time, I'm stuck right here

It's hard all the rest remains
My feet on the ground still firmly in place
The deeper down, the harder to separate
Your place and mine separate sides of the gate

I know that I can't wish you were here
I know that I can't wish I was there

Perspective is rising in affliction
Cannot decide the next course of action
Too close to abandon, too far to seem close
All that I know is that nobody knows

I know that I can't wish you were here
I know that I can't wish I was there

I don't know how to combine
I don't know how to intertwine
I don't know how to redesign
My place in yours, your place in mine

I know that I can't wish you were here
I know that I can't wish I was there

Wish I was there


8. BRAINWASHED

The cure for wanderlust
Inside an electric box
The cure for loneliness
Fictional friends
Force-fed the American dream
False images flashing on a screen

You're lost, lost in a sea of lies
You'll think they're yours,
It's no surprise
‘Cause they told you what to think

The cure for hopelessness
In product advertisement
The cure for disillusion
Mindless consumption
Brainwashed into a new religion
Lost in a world of illusion

The power of suggestion
Controls your destination

So you don't have to think

Lost in a sea of lies
You'll think they're yours,
It's no surprise
‘Cause they told you what to think


9. BACKBONE

Imposed their limitations
Boundaries on what they set for you
Chose the situations
They wanted to be right for you
Locked in their perceptions
Of everything you thought was true
But it's not you

Don't know what you want
Don't know what you've got
You can't stand up (without a backbone)
You can't stand up

Followed their directions
Decisions already made for you
Led by their suggestions
Shown the path you should pursue
Obeyed their regulations
Did everything you're supposed to do
But it's not you

Don't know what you want
Don't know what you've got
You can't stand up (without a backbone)
You can't stand up

Always done what you've been told
Bought the stories you've been sold
You can't stand up without a backbone

Don't know what you want
Don't know what you've got
You can't stand up (without a backbone)
You can't stand up


10. MANIFEST DESTINY

The power fades
The myth decays
No more false charades

Manifest destiny, want to rule all that you see
Insecurity will warp reality
Manifest destiny, need to control what will be
False security will leave you empty

The power, power is fleeting
The power, power's deceiving

Manifest destiny, overthrow powers that be
Lack integrity as you crush all you see
Manifest destiny, you're pushing every boundary
You think prosperity will make you happy?

The power, power is fleeting, the power, power's deceiving
The power, power is fleeting, the power, power's deceiving

Can't rely on those who follow to fill internal hollow
Deep-seeded pain will still remain regardless of external gain

The power, power is fleeting
The power, power's deceiving
The power, power is fleeting
The power, power's deceiving
The status defeating, yourself you're deceiving
‘Cause no one's believing the lies you've been breeding
The power, power is fleeting

The power fades
The myth decays
No more false charades


11. ECHO IN THE AIR

Ghost walking
Leave no footprints in the sand
I sit watching
No one can find me where I am
No one can find me where I am

It feels like the words that I'm saying echo in the air
No one can see me or hear me or reach me
It's as if I'm not really there

Alien
Foreign sounds all sound the same
Strange vision
I view the world a different way
I view the world a different way

It feels like the words that I'm saying echo in the air
No one can see me or hear me or reach me
It's as if I'm not really there

Apparition
Mystify a breath of light
Midnight reflection
So clear against the black of night

It feels like the words that I'm saying
Echo in the air
No one can see me or hear me or reach me
It's as if I'm not really there, not really there


12. DREAM ETERNAL

To the silver handcuffs of mortality
No longer are you bound
When the whisper of one last sunset
Drags the daylight underground

Sound fades, sound fades in and out
No difference between sigh and shout
Dream, dream eternal

The earth that you clung to so tightly
Has now weathered away
When the soundtrack of time has chimed out
The last song of the day

Hear the end of time's soundtrack
Let your eyes roll gently back
Now your time has come
The journey's just begun

Sound fades, sound fades in and out
No difference between sigh and shout
Dream, dream eternal

All of your plans, all of your fears
All of your dreams, all of your screams
All of your anger, all of your hate
All of your regrets dissipate

Sound fades, sound fades in and out
No difference between sigh and shout
Dream, dream eternal

Everything that seemed so important passes before your eyes
Release your mortal grasp of grudges and drift through open skies

Dream, dream, dream eternal