1. STOP ME

Stop me

I remember the lost confusion of innocence
With feelings worn so clean
I wish I could look on this with different eyes
And ignore the blinders reminding me

Older - wiser - sadder

Trust has abandoned me long ago
Stolen by careful dishonesty
I have forgotten how - I have forgotten how
I have forgotten how - how to believe

Stop me - from loving to destroy
Stop me - from destroying all I love
Stop me - from loving to destroy
Stop me

The pain has stripped away all rationale
And left suspicion in its place
I wish I could cling to this with different arms
And never know the feeling of loss or emptiness

Older - wiser - sadder

Trust has abandoned me long ago
Stolen by careful dishonesty
I have forgotten how - I have forgotten how
I have forgotten how - how to believe

Stop me - from loving to destroy
Stop me - from destroying all I love
Stop me - from loving to destroy
Stop me

Stop me - stop me

The death of youth breathes life into this fear
Suffocating confidence
I die each day so I can save myself
Close my eyes ignore the truth and try hard to pretend

So afraid - so afraid - so afriad of myself

Stop me - stop me - stop me - what's wrong with me
Stop me - what's wrong with me


2. TERRIFIED

Misted eyes perceive
Thoughts I can't believe
Emotions that run free
Never let me be

Self-inflicted pain
It's a loss without a gain

Lost in myself I know not why
I can't escape all truth a lie
I try to run I cannot hide
I'm so afraid I'm terrified

Mirror's hollow stare
Reflecting my nightmare
All I see pure hate
Soon I'll suffocate

Confusion taking me
Eclipsing all I see

Lost in myself I know not why
I can't escape this fear inside
I cannot run I cannot hide
Lost in myself I'm terrified

Silent are the waters of life flowing free
Born through illusion from the depths of me
Engulfed in the current of many tears
It carries me to serenity - to serenity

Terrified - terrified - terrified
Terrified - terrified - terrified
Terrified - terrified - terrified
Terrified - terrified - terrified


3. NOT FORGOTTEN

Your ambition has been disrupted
Young minds so easily corrupted
The system is fighting itself
A fatal blow shall be dealt

Thrown into the tide of uncertainty
Have your dreams smashed completely
The norm dictates your future for you

Hopelessness and despair
Face the grim reality
Individual concerns
Eclipse the world's humanity

Corruption won't dissipate
It's standing in your path
Our leaders chase their tails
Frightened by subversive wrath

Thrown into the tide of uncertainty
Have your dreams smashed completely
The norm dictates your future for you

Hopelessness and despair
Face the grim reality
Individual concerns
Eclipse the world's humanity

Redemption is at hand
Now your scheme has taken form
We will take the final step
And instigate reform

Thrown into the tide of uncertainty
Have your dreams smashed completely
The norm dictates your future for you

Hopelessness and despair
Face the grim reality
Individual concerns
Eclipse the world's humanity

Looking the other way
Solves nothing of our problems
Take the step and unite
Tomorrow will not be forgotten

Tomorrow will not be forgotten


4. WRONG

Wrong all that we are - living breathing lies
Wrong all that I feel - all compassion dies

Once hand in hand
And now detached
Befriend the pace
The lonely trance detached

Wrong all that I see - something inside denies
Wrong all that I feel - something inside me cries

Once hand in hand
And now detached
Befriend the pace
The lonely trance detached

Wrong - wrong

What can I say when there are no words
I can't explain what I cannot understand

Wrong all that we do - dismiss the things we've said
Wrong all we become - we stumble misguided

Once hand in hand
And now detached
Befriend the pace
The lonely trance detached

Wrong - wrong

Something in you - something in me we're trying to control
Something in you - something in me we're trying to overcome
Something in you - something in me we're trying to understand
Something in you - something in me we're trying to break out

What can I say when there are no words
I can't explain what I can't understand

Wrong - wrong
Wrong - wrong


5. SILENT CRIME

It's running rampant in our streets
It's lying dormant in our homes
This silent crime we are guilty of
Is enough to sentence us to life or death

It's running rampant in our streets
It's lying dormant in our homes
This silent crime we are guilty of
Is enough to sentence us to life or death

Deny the future
Reject technology
Protest advancement
And you'll shroud the world in rags of failed ideals

The fear of change has bound us all
Silent, we watch our world decay
And we'll return to the Dark Ages
Again - again - again

Deny the future
Reject technology
Protest advancement
And you'll shroud the world in rags of failed ideals

Stilt the growth and progress dies
Watch our once-spinning world stand still
And in this the Age of Stagnation
We'll remain - we'll remain

Deny the future
Reject technology
Protest advancement
And you'll shroud the world in rags of failed ideals


6. MISSHAPEN INTENT

Wandering aimlessly stricken with grief
Self-hatred overflowing
It's eating away - it's eating away obstructing virtue
Overwhelming and growing

The enduring might of hatred
Obscuring the strength of love
The enduring might of hatred
Obscuring the strength of love

There are some who live deriving pleasure
From others' anguish and mental distress
Complete selfishness
Provides a purpose compelling us to digress

The enduring might of hatred
Obscuring the strength of love
The enduring might of hatred
Obscuring the strength of love

Tainting the innocent
With spiteful contempt
Tainting the innocent
A shallow misshapen intent

Oblivious to our hardship
Rehearse the solemn ritual

Oblivious to our hardship
Rehearse the solemn ritual

Wandering aimlessly stricken with grief
Self-hatred overflowing
It's eating away - it's eating away obstructing virtue
Overwhelming and growing

The enduring might of hatred
Obscuring the strength of love
The enduring might of hatred
Obscuring the strength of love

Tainting the innocent
With spiteful contempt
Tainting the innocent
A shallow misshapen intent


7. AFRAID TO FEEL

I paint myself on you the silent wall
My words my thoughts my touch my all

Emotionless - emotionless
So in control of nothingness
This stone-false face you're caged within
Wears thin

You pour yourself out into me the lonely thirst
Quenching the emptiness within

But I frighten you - I frighten you
I take your breath and smother you
As you fight for your life I cling on for mine
For mine

So in control - so in control of nothingness

So in control - so in control afraid to feel

I know you're there somewhere
Too close to touch
I'm digging too deeply
You're too clear to see

I know you're there somewhere
Too close to touch
I'm digging too deeply
You're too clear to see

But I frighten you - I frighten you
I take your breath and smother you
As you fight for your life I cling on for mine
For mine


8. CHILD INSIDE

You wear like an enemy
A false sense of security
With your bullshit integrity
You'd lose it all for your dignity

And you tell yourself you're so brave
Yeah fight for yours until your dead
Well there's plenty of that already filling holes
Before you use your fists why don't you use your head

Sometimes we're overcome by this child inside
We grow and never grow inside

Well I play games I don't see
Accepting false hospitality
With kind words you disguise deceit
Yeah I help you and you screw me

And somehow you think you fool someone
Surely someday this mask will fall
You find a strength in one on one
But there's something real in all for all

Sometimes we're overcome by the child inside
We grow and never grow inside

And you tell yourself you're so brave
Yeah fight for yours until your dead
Well there's plenty of that already filling holes
Before you use your fists why don't you use your head

Sometimes we're overcome by this child inside
We grow and never grow inside


9. VITAL

The gentle embrace of death
Touches my weary soul
I'm closer to the end now
Enough despair I'm whole

Destined to make - the right choice
My existence - a constant struggle

Soon I will at last be free
Of my chemical burden
My consciousness is raised
Without society's poison

Destined to make - the right choice
I exist but - I have to feel vital

Helpless, abandoned relentless attack
Realize my dreams I can't turn back
Always doubting yet indecisive
Meandering convictions become so pensive

Part of me wants to live
I grope for a reason
Yet I'll be granted solace
Seeming serene open

Open - open

Destined to make - the right choice
I exist but - I have to feel vital


10. QUICK TO DOUBT

Was I wrong - wrong in assuming
That nothing at all without thought
Would just fall into place
Was it hope that something would change me
That led me to see the mistakes
That had gutted my frame

Was it strength yearning for purpose
Or weakness just desperately searching for something to fix
To create from self-induced ruin
To try and rebuild what remains from what I have destroyed

Why'd I make it so hard
So quick to doubt
So ready to fuck myself over

Was it truth logic or reason
Disappointment of fear that led me to question all things
Far beneath self-induced wreckage
I rest in pathetic assurance that failure is safe

Why'd I make it so hard
So quick to doubt
So ready to fuck myself again

Was I wrong - wrong in assuming
That nothing at all without thought would just fall into place
Was it hope that something would change me
That led me to see the mistakes that had gutted my frame

Why'd I make it so hard
So quick to doubt
So ready to fuck myself over

So ready to fuck myself again


11. KILLING MY MIND

Aware, yet unaware falling falling why
Blind ignorance the key stupidity overrides
My thoughts belong to me although my mind rebels
Reality shaded meaning denial is my cell

Killing my mind

Victimize my own belief
Defy myself find no relief
Obtrusive walls cannot reveal
Cast out myself and all I feel

My eyes refuse to se all I must endure
Revealing walls of doubt reality so obscure
Searching I'm searching it's one who's deep within
Beside myself I stand and now I must begin

Killing my mind

Victimize my own belief
Defy myself find no relief
Obtrusive walls cannot reveal
Cast out myself and all I feel

The self inside is so sincere
Avoid the truth the honest fear
Intensify all that remains
Bind it now with self restraints

The self inside is so sincere
Avoid the truth the honest fear
Intensify all that remains
Bind it now with self restraints

Victimize my own belief
Defy myself find no relief
Obtrusive walls cannot reveal
Cast out myself and all I feel


12. INJUSTICE

They manipulate and they mold
The rules they should uphold
His ignorance of the law
Is the victim's only flaw
His rights in violation
Through sharp intimidation
He's soon to realize
That their words are full of lies

A scapegoat he now is
Because of the way he lives
He hasn't got a chance
To prove his innocence
People cry for justice
But the law will not take the heed
Innocent victims get the shaft
But what happened to truth

Injustice for all
Injustice for all

Coerced to pleading guilt
Their judgments all are built
On bullshit and hearsay
They'll keep him locked away
He rots inside his cage
His oppression and his rage
Now apathy and disgust
Not a soul he can trust

A scapegoat he now is
Because of the way he lives
He hasn't got a chance
To prove his innocence
People cry for justice
But the law will not take the heed
Innocent victims get the shaft
But what happened to truth?

Injustice for all
Injustice for all

Injustice has subdued him
Deceived repressed unglued him
No one he can turn to
To wait is all he can do
Persecution obvious
Life becomes oblivious
Fate's found him unwary
He's trapped he cannot flee

Injustice
Injustice
Injustice
Injustice for all