1. SOUND THE ALARM

Lie to me honestly
I hear but still I don't see
Just where the actions meet the words
You just sound the alarm
Racing pulse and boiling blood at fever-pitch
Another finger-pointing mob with stones to throw

And if it truly mattered
And if you truly cared
It would be altogether different
Let the sirens scream

But leave me alone to decide
And leave me to what I might find

Starving to understand
You swallowed the lies
Eager to spit them out
To feed the masses and the guilt they hide

Answer me directly
No more false transparencies
Just where does motive meet concern
You just sound the alarm
Spreading fear to bury trust to distract
Until lost and scared frustration forces blame

And if it truly mattered
And if you truly cared
It would be altogether different
Let the sirens scream

But leave me alone to decide
And leave me to what I might find

Starving to understand
You swallowed the lies
Eager to spit them out
To feed the masses and the guilt they hide

Sound the alarm
Sound the alarm
Sound the alarm
Sound the alarm

And if it truly mattered
And if you truly cared
It would be altogether different
Let the sirens scream

But leave me alone to decide
And leave me to what I might find

Starving to understand
You swallowed the lies
Choking to spit them out
To rid this guilt inside


2. SENSE OF WILL

Creases in the depths of our existence
Without which there can be no substance
These rifts and folds within our lives
Each day a new disruption arrives

Our sense of will which path to take
Discovering another choice to make

Now we exercise this given night
And what is entailed is taken in light

Consequences that we dealt with then
Return for us to control again
From experience all wisdom is gained
To find sanity where once all things seemed insane

Our sense of will which path to take
Discovering another choice to make

Now we exercise this given night
And what is entailed is taken in light

Our sense of will which path to take
Discovering another choice to make

Now we exercise this given night
And what is entailed is taken in light
Now we exercise this given night
And what is entailed is taken in light


3. TOO MANY PROPHETS

No talk of the future
So far from forever
Approaching tomorrow
But hoping for never

Cursed - we are cursed
Condemned to die from our birth

How many footsteps in line
Have flattened this land
How many prophets have died
Right here where we stand

Call - some call
Is answered in warning us all

These signs which surround us
Imagining most of
Some commitment urges us
To bring down all around us

Wish - this wish
Bent on ceasing to exist

How many questions have tried
To uncover some truth
How many prophets have lied
Inventing the proof

Call - some call
Is answered to sentence us all
To sentence us all

Call - some call
Unanswered awaiting our fall

So many footsteps - too many prophets
So many questions - too many prophets
So many footsteps - too many prophets
So many questions - too many prophets
Too many prophets


4. RELEASE

For forever living in
For forever dying in
The shadow of a killing cross
Born and held accountable
Sworn to bear the burden now
For sinful nails driven deep

But I can't be responsible
For having done the unthinkable
And won't
No I won't play that role

For forever living in
For forever dying in
The ashes of a smoldering cross
Born and held accountable
Sworn to bear the burden now
For shameful hands which held the flame

But I can't be responsible
For changing the unchangeable
And won't
Don't to ourselves we owe release

With rusted chains we incarcerate and cage ourselves
Cease - we patronize and crucify and kill ourselves

We seduce the past and draw it close
And hold it tight and never let it go

Until we hurt ourselves
And hate ourselves
And blame ourselves again
Again - again

No

We can't be responsible
For bearing the unbearable
And won't
Don't to ourselves we owe release

With rusted chains we incarcerate and cage ourselves
Cease - we patronize and crucify and kill ourselves

We seduce the past and draw it close
And hold it tight and never let it go

Until we hurt ourselves
And hate ourselves
And blame ourselves again
Again - again - again

Again


5. DIVISION

I'll take away this selfish pride
Is there room for more than one inside
Walk the course in shallow strides
A bridge connects and space divides

How had I misjudged so badly
All the things you tried to hand me
Ties of truth should bind us tightly
For tired wills die so gently

Wrong so wrong you and I
Long so long living lies

Living driving through indecision
Face to face without recognition
Blind we ignore this condition
Now I'm left with only division

Wrong so wrong you and I
Long so long living lies

Breathe one breath and I find
A voice one voice and it's mine

And it speaks a heart-felt silence


6. TOOLS OF SEPARATION

Where once was childlike simplicity
Now only remnants of blind ideals
This quality of innocence
Once tarnished is forever lost

It's lost - it's lost
Never to return
It's lost - it's lost

We turn our heads and show our backs
Burn bridges of communication
Throw away and cast aside
Shed these tools of separation

The complexities of maturity
Entangled in prejudice
I'm longing for this purity
Through envy and emptiness

It's lost - it's lost
And nothing remains of this childhood bliss
It's lost - it's lost

We turn our heads and show our backs
Burn bridges of communication
Throw away and cast aside
Shed these tools of separation

Where once was childlike simplicity
Now only remnants of blind ideals
This egocentric foolish pride
Never knowing happiness

It's lost - it's lost
Never to return
It's lost - it's lost

We turn our heads and show our backs
Burn bridges of communication
Throw away and cast aside
Shed these tools of separation


7. GRATEFUL

I sense the tension a thickness in the air
The filthy air of our mortality
Misplaced affection in lost and lonely stares
Where the urge ignores morality

I sense confusion suspicion in the air
Untreated wounds of some dishonesty
Seeking comfort the strength of friendly ties
Only truth can heal insecurity

But I'm grateful to be far from harm
Safe within peaceful arms
Grateful knowing safety's warmth
And I'm grateful not to have to face these days alone

I'm grateful - grateful
Grateful - grateful

I'm grateful - grateful
Grateful - grateful

But I'm grateful to be far from harm
Safe within peaceful arms
Grateful knowing safety's warmth
And I'm grateful not to have to face these days alone


8. A SCREAMING BREATH

Are we so brave - are we so bold
As to deny our hearts
Are we so numb - are we so cold
As to defy our conscience

Awkwardly we walk alone so distant and so uncaring
Deliberately we disguise ourselves to protect our frail emotions

The ability to feel and be
Somewhere in me
Is longing to free

This screaming breath - this screaming breath
This screaming breath - breathe

Selfishly we retain and horde
Everything and yet nothing at all
A poisoned soul can never soar
When bound by doubt and by fear

Awkwardly, we walk alone so distant and so uncaring
Deliberately we disguise ourselves to protect our frail emotions

The ability to feel and be
Somewhere in me
Is longing to free

This screaming breath - this screaming breath
This screaming breath - breathe

Are we so brave - are we so bold
To hide from things we long to show
Are we so numb - are we so cold
As to lose the self to self-control

The ability to feel and be
Somewhere in me
Is longing to free

This screaming breath - this screaming breath
This screaming breath - this screaming breath


9. MY SOUL'S AFFLICTION

Crashing in down around my ears
Brow-beaten self for all these years
Enabling this suitable wall
I've been afraid of nothing at all

My soul's affliction will now amend
This ageless blight has come to an end

This silence deafening kept inside - rages
This silence deafening kept inside

Negotiate with my emotions
An inner wealth in such devotion
This genuine warmth has filled my heart
Mending again what was torn apart

My soul's affliction will now amend
This ageless blight has come to an end

This silence deafening kept inside - rages
This silence deafening kept inside - rages

This silence deafening kept inside - rages
This silence deafening kept inside - rages

Rages - rages


10. DRIVEN

Life seems to stand still in time
As the soul retires deaf dumb and blind
And all we feel is far from real
As these gears which once had driven us lie still and frozen

Innocence has long grown old
As idle hearts have long grown cold

Right or wrong - we go along
Lame and tired
The will to try deep down inside
All of us lies dying

It's easy - not to see
What this should be

Wind this spring and watch it grow
Stand back and watch as it explodes
And all unfolds as all we hold
Wound tightly carefully silently unravels

Idle hands have lost their hold
As idle minds think what they're told

Right or wrong - we go along
Lame and tired
The will to try deep down inside
All of us lies dying

It's easy - not to see
What this should be

Idle hands have lost their hold
As idle minds think what they're told

Right or wrong - we go along
Lame and tired
The will to try deep down inside
All of us lies dying

It's easy - not to see
What this should be


11. BROTHERHOOD ?

For all of our wandering we've still so far to go
For all of our questioning we've still the need to know

Are we still the frightened child
Are we still the angered youth
Or are we old before our time
Are we getting any closer to the truth

We're force-fed reasoning yet still can make no sense
The mind misses the point blind in its arrogance

Should we build a better way
With whatever we can find
If in turn it means we lose ourselves
Should we force a common mind

We're weaned on empathy to satisfy our doubt
While attempts at unity have scattered us about

Should we invent a common bond
Through means misunderstood
Or are we simply widening the gaps
Should we force a brotherhood


12. RELEASE (REMIX)

For forever living in
For forever dying in
The shadow of a killing cross
Born and held accountable
Sworn to bear the burden now
For sinful nails driven deep

But I can't be responsible
For having done the unthinkable
And won't
No I won't play that role

For forever living in
For forever dying in
The ashes of a smoldering cross
Born and held accountable
Sworn to bear the burden now
For shameful hands which held the flame

But I can't be responsible
For changing the unchangeable
And won't
Don't to ourselves we owe release

With rusted chains we incarcerate and cage ourselves
Cease - we patronize and crucify and kill ourselves

We seduce the past and draw it close
And hold it tight and never let it go

Until we hurt ourselves
And hate ourselves
And blame ourselves again
Again - again

No

We can't be responsible
For bearing the unbearable
And won't
Don't to ourselves we owe release

With rusted chains we incarcerate and cage ourselves
Cease - we patronize and crucify and kill ourselves

We seduce the past and draw it close
And hold it tight and never let it go

Until we hurt ourselves
And hate ourselves
And blame ourselves again
Again - again - again

Again