1. PUNISHMENT FOR ALL

The pendulum swings from the left to the right
The screaming has gotten so loud
The middle is left to fend for themselves
Somehow they’re lost in the crowd
You could stand your ground as it crumbles away
Crumbles beneath your feet
You can point your fingers and pass out the blame
But we all suffer the same fate

So come on down you’re next in line we have plenty of time to spare
In a world gone mad it’s a shame you have to be judged by the mortal man

Punishment - punishment for all
With judging eyes watching us all
Punishment for all
The world is awaiting and anticipating for God will punish us all

The battle ranges between the left and the right
The middle is wasting away
Now that the eagles have fallen
The vultures will lay their claim

So come on down you’re next in line we have plenty of time to spare
In a world gone mad it’s a shame you have to be judged by the mortal man

Punishment - punishment for all
With judging eyes watching us all
Punishment for all
As the world watches us fall

Divided we stand together we fall
Who will you blame when all is lost
United we stand together we fall
Where do you go when all is lost

Lost - lost

Together we rise and divided we fall


2. HIGH ANXIETY

Gone are the day then my mind was roaming free
Overwhelmed with this far like someone is after me
The panic starts to rise but there's nowhere left to hide
Trapped with my thoughts I feel like I'm gonna die

Once glowing eyes now devoid of life this fear I can't contain
Trapped within these flesh and bones these thoughts that rule my brain

Shackled by fear it cuts to the bone
This house of horrors - growing anxiety
Terror so real the tension it grows
You could cut with a knife - growing anxiety

Now fear is my home
This crushing anxiety

As my pulse is racing faster this chaos that runs my mind
Overwhelmed with the feeling that tears me a part inside

Frozen with fear the thaw that never comes
I'm waiting in the darkness my torture has just begun
The howling winds are coming they're just outside my door
It's the winter of discontent where summer never comes

Like 1000 knives that twist inside I scream without a sound
Anxiety is attacking me and inner peace cannot be found

Shackled by fear it cuts to the bone
This house of horrors - growing anxiety
Terror so real the tension it grows
You could cut with a knife - growing anxiety

Now fear is my home
This crushing anxiety

High anxiety


3. SEEDS OF SORROW

As the darkness falls the evil will follow
The lines have been drawn the young men battle
Society wakes there’s been another killing
Desensitized to the blood that is spilling

I can hear the voices - calling from the grave
I can see the sadness - written on their face
I can see the news feeds - it’s happening again
The weapons used for wartime are turned against the kids

There’s a monster loose he’s a one-man army
Twenty-one are dead and they are still counting
As the parents descend they wait for answers
Whose child survived this deadly disaster

I can hear the voices - calling from the grave
I can see the sadness - written on their face
I can see the news feeds - it’s happening again
The weapons used for wartime are placed in the hands of kids

No one is safe the threat remains
Another angel now has fallen
This human waste is crawling

The right to bear in God we trust
This deadly faction is killing us
For we walk the ground that’s hallowed
We have sown the seeds of sorrow

Weapon of death now in his clutch
This killing spree has just begun

There is a bill on the floor but there is no action
For they fear for their lives from these deadly fascists
They will never change killing is good for business
They line their pockets from their special interest

I can hear their voices calling for the change
I can see the evil that’s written on their face
I can see the bloodshed dripping from their hands
Fertilize the sorrow as the parents plant their dead

We have sown the seeds of sorrow


4. DISTORTION

One can rattles the other joins the cause
Bearing false witness to the empty thoughts
These poisoned minds you can never seem to change
Fake news rules the day
Repeating voices echo in their minds
Cashing rabbit they will never find
Toxic seeds watch them propagate
These toxic words fuel their hate

Distortion they negate
As they proliferate
As they divide
They segregate

Distortion everything you see
And all that we know
Wherever there's a mouth
Lies are being told
Lies are being sold
The truth is one's perception
All leading to deception

Distortion

One man's gain another takes the loss
Another false prophet claiming he is good
The disenchanted they will come in vats
Spreading rumors and backing his claims
Repeating voices echoes on the screen
Propaganda feeding their machine
Poisonous seeds - watch them proliferate
As they bloom they turn to hate

Distortion they negate
As they proliferate
As they divide
They segregate

Distortion everything you see
And all that we know
Wherever there's a mouth
Lies are being told
Lies are being sold
The truth is one's perception
All leading to deception

Distortion

Deny confuse why the lies you tell are
Meant to distort the truth
Why you distort the truth
Deceiving words for a perilous nation

Truth be told it's just a lie
Sticks and stones never took a life

Darkness falls on a perilous nation
The tales we weave are meant to deceive
Drowning in a pool of information - I'm drowning
The things I've seen I cannot conceive

Venomous words leading to damnation
When the truth is told no one believes

Distortion they negate
As they proliferate
As they divide
They segregate

Distortion everything you see
And all that we know
Wherever there's a mouth
Lies are being told
Lies are being sold
The truth is one's perception
All leading to deception


5. BLEEDING OUT

Anger

Anger is rising the truth they are hiding
We're sick and tired of the lies
While hate is breeding the sharks are feeing
They're living their life on our dime

Opulence and decadence
The bills that conceal the crime
The tension amongst masses the dividing of classes
The commonwealth can barely survive

We're bleeding out - they can't survive
As we rack up debt - while they toe the line

Bleeding out - can't survive
Cruel world - they're ate alive

Thrown in the pit where they barely survive
Like money will fall from the sky
Selling us dream that we cannot obtain
Another sucker is born

Another sucker will be born

The deficit climbing the people are fighting
The state of the union declines
While hope is fleeting, hemorrhage
Lay bleeding our life line is cut with a knife
Omnipotent and incompetent
Our leaders now watch the decline
They raise he ceiling to continue their stealing
The swamp conceals their crime

We're bleeding out - they can't survive
As we rack up debt - while they toe the line

Bleeding out - can't survive
Cruel world - they're ate alive

Thrown in the pit where they barely survive
Like money will fall from the sky
Selling us dream that we cannot obtain
Another sucker is born

Another sucker will be born

Work through the week backward we slide
Flesh to the bone just trying to survive
Bleeding out the sharks they attack
Increasing their wealth on the unborn's back

Flow the fuck does one survive

We're bleeding out - they can't survive
As we rack up debt - while they toe the line

Bleeding out - can't survive
Cruel world - they're ate alive

Thrown in the pit where they barely survive
Like money will fall from the sky
Selling us dream that we cannot obtain
Another sucker is born

Another sucker will be born

Taxing the unborn


6. AMERICAN DREAM

Anesthetized so he would not feel the pain
In poverty this man became enslaved
He could not fight he could not run
The corporate greed was just too much
Dehumanized we couldn't see the rage
We locked him up and threw away the key
The weakened man who lost his will to be
Another one brought down by society

A sick society
A product of our disease
We're a product of our disease
A victim of the corporate greed

The corporate greed
Another victim
Living the american dream

Immortalized the man with no shame
And for his crime he wouldn't serve a day
The gilded man they could not touch
The key of life that he would clutch
Brutalized the man in the cage
The hands that bind turn seconds into days
The impoverished man held captive by the greed
A another one brought down by society

A sick society
A product of our disease
We're a product of our disease
A victim of the corporate greed

The corporate greed
Another victim
Living the american dream

As we dream one man's dream
Becomes another man's nightmare

As we sell our souls
How wicked we become
We embrace the hand that beats us
Society marches on

Reality - who's reality
Just in this scary place where I should not be I should not be
Reality - this is reality for every person hooked
Gets me closer to my dreams


7. CLOSE MY EYES

I can hear the silence
Screaming its emptiness and soundlessly pouring out its rage
Rage at the sound
Rage at the intrusion and violence

At my feet lay the crumpled remains
Of a life too soon taken
What was her name and how did she end up here
Her youth is frozen in time

I raise my gaze to the sky
Seeking answers
But there are no truths to be found
Resigned I close my eyes

The rain is staying to fall
Starting to wash it all away where the signs just fade away
Away from the sight
Away from those probing eyes that question

Will the end of her life be the same
Forgotten and all washed away
Who will mourn for her and who will forget her
What right have they to take away

I raise my gaze to the sky
Seeking answers
But there are no truths to be found
Resigned I close my eyes

The sun retreat in twilight
Seeking to hide itself away from the wrong that taint its light
Away from the stain
Away from the contagion the darkness

As they light dims she slips from my sight
Atrocity masked in shadow
Was she a loved one - was she a problem whose worth
Was not enough to save

I raise my gaze to the sky
Seeking answers
But there are no truths to be found
Resigned I close my eyes


8. THE APOSTLE

Behold her this child of god
I speak the rod as the good book taught
The voices came revealing the truth
They came for miles to hear my views
They praised my name their new found king
The bowed their heads as I begin to preach
Believing the stories they've all been told
That I've return to save their souls

God speaks through me
Heaven awaits for those who believe
I am here to test your faith
Follow me to the pearly gates

For I am the new messiah I'm here to show you the way
The others that came before me they have all been led astray
For I am my brother's keeper I will be here with you 'til the end
I will walk you through the valley of death into the promised land

The apostle has risen once again

You can still hear me preach today
I stand on the corner of fifth and main
I scream the word at passerby
Disheveled look and bible held high
Waving signs that the end is near
But god's returned so have no fear
A new messiah has now been born
And I walk the streets with my crown of thorns

God speaks through me
Heaven awaits for those who believe
I am here to test your faith
Follow me to the pearly gates

For I am the new messiah I'm here to show you the way
The others that came before me they have all been led astray
For I am my brother's keeper I will be here with you 'til the end
I will walk you through the valley of death into the promised land

The apostle has risen once again


9. FIVE MINUTES 'TIL SUICIDE

You'd think he's bulletproof he's survived three tours of war
Witness is to atrocities he had paid heavy toll
We watched the method man turn this warrior into bones
Seemed to have a wish for death from the day that he came home

He had nothing more to live for only one more to take out
He turned the gun upon himself and he wanted out

What happened to that good man - he smoked him all away
Since he came home from war he never was the same
Five minutes 'til suicide - the clock is ticking down
Fights this internal war within himself

Within himself

Open air asylum - the asylum
Where admission is free
In the asylum - open air asylum
The asylum where lost souls roam free

He had nothing more to live for only one more to take out
He turned the gun upon himself and he wanted out

What happened to that good times - he smoked them all away
Since he came home from war he never was the same
Three minutes 'til suicide tthe clock is ticking down
Just trying to mask the pain that the war had caused

That the war had caused

Open air asylum - the asylum
Where admission is free
In the asylum - open air asylum
The asylum where lost souls roam free

He couldn't seem to integrate to the world he used to know
He tried to leave the world behind but out just gnawed at his soul
Down in the asylum they all fulfill his every need
Assisting him with suicide so he can final lay rest in peace

He had nothing more to live for only one more to take out
Turned the gun upon himself and he wanted out

What happened to the good times - he smoked them all the way
Since he came home from war everything had changed
One minute till suicide - the clock is ticking down
Losing this internal war within himself

With himself

Open air asylum - the asylum
Where admission is free
In the asylum - open air asylum
The asylum where the sanity