1. WAGING THE PROMISE

Godspeed sailor
On this loneliest of voyages
Know these waters
Are dark and terrible
And that you have no friend in them
With helplessness all that you have left
Enter the monsters of a thousand nightmares
Standards you cannot
Adhere to, lessons
You have never learned
What worth have principles
If you're the only one
Left standing in the end
The war's been lost
But you are itching
For the next fight anyway
Sing you prayers out loud
Because children's lullabies are lies


2. INTERLUDE THEORY

Behead the narcissist
Spill his blood and spoil the water
Reduced to a cliché -
Break this down - break this up
Piece by piece
The clang and clangour
Of the never ending
Battle of consciousness -
Embraced by - removed by
Your own legend
Drop the accent
And face your doom
With open arms
Just think about
Intimacy


3. NULA ET VOLVERE

Give me five minutes
You'll worship me like a god
Arm yourself to get amorous
We'll be making history
We'll conceive the devil's spawn
I will count to four
There should be blood on your feet
Sweat and swagger your bravado
We'll take it away again
We'll make this cost you dearly
Keep your hands outside the vehicle
At all times there is no shame in this
You can stir with the knees
Yeah, here it comes again
For one night you can be special
Spread 'em wide and close your eyes
Do it for queen and country
And do it for rock and roll


4. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF

They are finally here
Come have no fear
The rhymes are far worse
Than you might hope
There's no salvation
In a let down
Anticipation is a
Recipe for disaster
Babylonian achievements
Divine failures
Debris remains
Of fallen gods
The storm is approaching
Like every year, never to stay
Always to leave its marks, 'though
Always to leave its marks
It's a trap, a setup
A house of cards
Continue, restart
Rebuild and refurnish
We'll make it big
Someday, I promise
Blood, hopes and lies
2 out of 5
Sweat, hopes and lies
2 out of 5
Tears, hopes and lies
2 out of 5
No one ever really cared
Even you never really cared
In vain we undertook
Differing levels of
Obvious ineptitude
So apparent in our design
There's no place for us
In the greater scheme
Or how did you really think
This would end my love


5. GUNBOAT

Pick your target
Let them have it
Keep it coming
The brass says jump
You put me in a killing mood
Get some shut eye
We'll move come first light
Say your prayers
To whatever gods might hear them
You put me in a killing mood
This gunboat
Our reason
Together
Full speed to oblivion
There is nothing left
They raped our ideals
Depend on each other
It's the one thing that counts
We've been put in this killing mood
Depend on each other
It's the only thing left
All the world's a fucking stage
And you know how it ends


6. BLINDSIDE BLITZ

We've been failed to be informed
Too many fish in the sea are poisoned
I'm so way over my head with you
Lost in the spotlight of the dance floor
My moves are dated and dates sure changed
Since the last time I remember
No, we are not drunk
We just dance the way
Our fathers did before
And embrace the fact
That the matter is complicated
That there's no dignity in dying
I end lesser men for a living
And ask you now "can you cope?" with that
I leave, laughing stock of my childhood
Hope while there is love at 1st sight
When we've slayed all the dragons
Dopes it spell enter the heartache for our peers


7. OUT TO SEA (THEY WILL FAIL)

Go down the decks
Of ships that lovers have sailed in the past
Set free by youth
Full tragedy too late to apologize
Take up the challenge of
Naïve prescription
Take it back in time for
Better men to step up to the task
They will fail, they will fail, they will fail
In their pathetic crusade for sympathy
It's compromise
Distilled into its purest venom
Spreading your legs
For the scenesters here to take
Kudos for your latest dreams
They might fail, they might fail, they might fail
Or rip it all to longing ribbons of you


8. THE MEN THEY CALL JAYNE

Seen through my mistress's eyes
I am: useless
By my mistress's words
I am: dismissed
This is so wrong
So let's go (and do it)!
I can't sleep and I am grateful
I'm in love and it sickens me
Shake hands, make up, rejoice
Mark yourself off as a traitor
Be proud 'though it's sinful
Pride yourself in your sins
Today you are worthless
Try when you still won't be ready
We never spelled commitment
I hurt and anger with the worst of them
We still remain to be seen
Despite our wish to be invisible


9. RORSCHACH

So make our graves
And mark our stones
Consecrate
This sounds we've been fighting and failing on
This earth we've made fertile through our blood
If not for us, than for the crop you'll be raising
Through endurance we conquer
Go!
Cease and desist! - cease to exist!
That's an order!
We've borne the torch
In the face of adversary
And impossible odds
There's nothing else we know of and nothing else we'd rather Do
This kind of life borrows its lines deep into our faces
And deep into our souls
We'll wear them proudly and live on
Without compromise
When the shadow finally comes for us
We'll step into it without complaint


10. THE BEASTMAN

Let me embrace this moment
In the solitary confinement of my ravaged skin
There hasn't been rain in days
And I tried everything, from first to last to nothingness
To quench you from my consciousness
The thorn bush is burning parchment on the pavement
Crumbling, leaving soot stains on our minds
We are leaving for the fight night
And the smacking noises will ease us through the loneliness
Of another new dawn so
We can wake up caked in blood and realize that once washed Clean
We are in line for redemption
Mixed up in simple repetition


11. KRIEGAFFE #10

Consume the banquet set before you
You are a wild one that you are
These chains that bind you can be broken
As long as you let them rust in the blood of our enemies

One day you might be free
One day you might see us burn

Deliver us from evil
The evil we name for you
Indulge in the bitter taste
Of the coldness of your heart

Rise from the ashes and the ruins
You are our best one that you are
There will always be a place for you
Amidst your brethren known as the true faced monsters of Mankind

One day you might be free
One day you might see us burn

Show them no mercy
For they would do the same
Fear is for the weak
There is no redemption for the likes of us