Compilations : Honor Thy Drummer - A Tribute to Mike Portnoy

Metal / Other
(2010 - Self-Released)
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DISC 1 : THE BRIGHTEST OF SUMMERS

1. BAD SALAD – CROWDED SKY

Born beneath a crowded sky
Overwhelmed and clueless on your way
Torn between the vast almighties
Uninvited the tell you how to play

Hail, Fight, Fear, Pray
Commandments to abide by

Cries, Shame, Guilt, Pain
Minor casualties at stake

Kill, Lie, Bleed, Die
Don't look back, this is your guidebook

Drown, Hang, Burn, Rise
Never forget your place

Sitting back self-righteous leaders
Endorsing every slaughter
Why adore these faceless leaders
To learn this love is single-sided?

Wasted! Expended your life for a myth
What then? You've only so much to give
(Give me back my) freedom, my reason, my right to forgive
Take me! Better to die than submit

How can our options be this vain?
(Endless powers, yet interested in fame)
Time's shown their egos are full blown

Relentless hate
by heaven rewarded with
Lands, crowns, treasures and chicks

Corporate thieves, branded in holiness
Leeching on ignorance to feed their greed

Hail, Fight, Fear, Pray
Commandments to abide by

Cries, Shame, Guilt, Pain
Minor casualties at stake

Kill, Lie, Bleed, Die
Don't look back, this is your guidebook

Drown, Hang, Burn, Rise

Wasted! Expended your life for a myth
What then? You've only so much to give
(Give me back my) freedom, my reason, my right to forgive
Take me! Better to die than submit

Preying on those who pray
A setback to science
A threat to the human kind, don't you see?

Brainwashing followers
Sustaining the illness
A plague, as their books define
Let us be

Wasted! Expended your life for a myth
What now? You've simply no more to give
(Give me back my) freedom, my reason, my right to forgive
Take me! Better to die


2. NO MORE PAIN – SO THEY SAY

So they say
You have to hit a bottom
Before you can get yourself back up

So they say
You must admit your problems
Well I think that you're my biggest one

I speak for all of us when I say
You took it the wrong way

Took it the wrong way

So they say
It doesn't get much harder
But I think I've only just begun

I wont blame
My mother or my father
For this curse of always being wrong

I speak for all of us when I say
You took it the wrong way
Took it the wrong way

So they say
You're throwing your life away
Can't explain
Decisions that you've made

I speak for all of us when I say
You took it the wrong way
Took it the wrong way


3. HEMINA – AND NOW TO FIND A FRIEND

Like awaking from some lonesome rift
These bones know not of friendship
I'm a pilferer, No I'm not, I'm a liar
Just show my name lit up in lights!

So take a glimpse and have a peer
At the pressure on this humble man
Hear the smashes of glass, hear the shackles
Bind him to the flashing van

It's a feeling that's inside
A mutuality to find
If this is what one really is
Mother was right

Save your prayers for me
A petty thief, a vagabond
And now to find a friend
If I am how he made me;
A crowned jewel, a baby in golden basket
I'm an angel without wings
Find my friend

Like a pigeon to the plague
My mind already made
Just a virgin boy so shy
Who fell at the sight of green eyes

It's a feeling that's inside
A mutuality to find
And if she closed her eyes she'd see
Her angel lies in me

Save your prayers for me
A petty thief, a vagabond
And now to find a friend
If I am how he made me;
A caged fool, an arrow with no direction
I'm angel without wings
Find my friend

Lying under stars with you
Lying on the sand with you
We escaped my life, now this starts our war
Be my wife, crash me on the shore
Be the friend I never needed more
And make the son we'll never love more

Save your prayers for me
A petty thief or your soul mate
I'm an angel without wings
Found my friend


4. IN PROGRESS – LEAVE NOW

Sometimes I dream in digital,
and sometimes I hate this place.
Sometimes I think that it's hopeless
As pixels overtake your face.

Go. Leave now.
Make your way back home.
Go. Leave now.
I can do this on my own.

Hey you, misinformation.
Hey you, empty lungs.
Hey you, cry for obliterations--
Cry the tune that you wish you had sung.

Go. Leave now.
Make your way back home.
Go. Leave now.
I can do this on my own.

Sometimes I can see the future
Through binary code and loaded guns.
Search the ether for the truth;
Scratch out the math and delete the sum.

Go. Leave now.
Make your way back home.
Go. Leave now.
I can do this on my own.


5. HALCYON – SOUVENIR

(Instrumental)


6. FATE'S PRIDE – DAUGHTER OF GOD

Wanted to live our lives with all the light of
Our mind to guide us to
Holding your sincere spirit to believe
In this lucid dream we build
In this lucid dream we build

To trust in all the hope that I made for you
To learn from our process
To heal all your wounds that cry with my hands
Change sorrow for answers

As I can see into your eyes
As I can taste it when I´m with you
Is all this beauty that you see
Is our trust, why can´t you see?

To trust in all the hope that I made for you
To learn from our process
To heal all your wounds that cry with my hands
Change sorrow for answers

And then you´ll see I'll hide in your skin
And let myself fall down
In this sweet dream that I build
Feeling your lovely touch,
Your lips that change just to trust

In all the hope that I made for you
To learn from our process
To heal all your wounds that cry with my hands
Change sorrow for answers


7. MATT BARKER – MYSTERY

Got a little mystery
Still unsolved to me
Should I watch how I go
I'm treading on my tip toes
Right beneath the windows
Oh that's news to me
Insatiable appetite to feed
Call that living free?
It makes no sense to me
It opens up my eyes
It's no surprise
To find what you want to be
It opens up my eyes

People on the streets
Sunlight heats the city to a frenzy
Like a dj cuts the beat
Gives you all the music that you'd ever need
It opens up my eyes
Guess it's no surprise
To find what you want to be
It opens up my eyes

Keep closing my eyes
But I can't sleep
More I lose my thoughts
The more clarity
No gravity keep on holding me
Relating different states of reality
It opens up my eyes
No surprise
To find what you want to be
It opens up my eyes


8. LIAM GAUGHAN – MIND'S LAZER

(Instrumental)


DISC 2 : OCCUPIED

1. RELOCATOR – 13 REASONS

(Instrumental)


2. NO MORE PAIN – HELL IS MY HOME

There's just so much to say
About this place I'm trapped in
It's the embodiment of pain

My only thoughts are those
Which dwell upon my sadness
I wish someone would heed my call

Are you too scared to be
Part of the home I've grown?
You'll learn it's easy to accept
The path of constant failure

Can you survive this life
Living in smoke and fire?
I think you'll figure out this
Living hell is just a nightmare

Sinking so low
Hell's become my home

These walls are closing in and
I am suffocating
I'm not sure I can take much more

Everything is crumbling
And I am left to ponder
How quickly hell became my home

Sinking so low
Hell's become my home


3. IN PROGRESS – COUNTING DOWN

Open up.
Open your eyes.
Take your pills.
I need to know you feel me
Coming down
Crashing down.

Drink the night.

Drain the rivers.
Sink your teeth
Into the sun and wither.
Slink away
Shy astray.

The world keeps on turning
And I keep counting down.

Got the life.
Got the shakes from drinking.
Got a modest disposition
That's slowly sinking.
Got it right
I got it all.

Open eyes
Lovely night and failing.
Something sexual
Sunny skies gone sailing
Off the map.
Kill the lights.

The world keeps on turning
And I keep on counting down
To place to an ending


4. MATT LOVERIDGE – WELCOME HOME... MATE

Everything could be like it is now,
Walking from the station into town,
Past the off-white house in the church car park,
Meeting up to drink and drink while it gets dark,

But I think I'd probably drop my bag off on the way,
A glass of water and one of my 5-a-day,
And even if I didn't it just wouldn't be the same,
It's no longer for me,
It's just a number and a name,

Somebody surely ought to know that this was all mine,
This place in any other time,
Nobody knows,
I'm just another stranger walking by,

About the first week we were there,
I saw a group of people stop and stare,
They told me they'd lived here just before,
And so again they stepped on through the door,
Remembered to duck their heads in just the right way,

Somebody surely ought to know that this was all mine,
This place in any other time,
Nobody knows,
I'm just another stranger,

I moved around so flawlessly,
Dodging, turning at speeds best reserved for athletes,
And now it's classified as breaking and entering,
Everything could be like it is now,

The chill of air,
The crunch of ground,
I take no look and carry on,
And spare no thought about the time I'm gone,

Empty bottles and cigarette butts,
Drum and bass played through the night,
Used to hate it,
Probably still do,
Guess I'll never know again,
Empty bottles and cigarette butts,
Drum and bass played through the night,
Used to hate it,
Probably still do,
No point really,
Times will change,
We'll walk by


5. EFFLORESCE – SEAR

Deep inside my mind
Screams torture death
Tears run dry in the night
Hell freezes silently heaven cries

Darkness over me
Shadows in between
Torture obscures my inner despondency

Trying to find some truth
Pull down the forced mask
Free my enchained and awed self esteem

Drink my untasted blood
Free my unholy soul
Carry me to the secret place
I never knew before
Drink my untasted blood
Free my unholy soul
Take me away from here
Carry me home

Leaving world behind
Dreams are wafts of mist
Death is just a path
On which i dander now

Drink my untasted blood
Free my unholy soul
Carry me to the secret place
I never knew before
Drink my untasted blood
Free my unholy soul
Take me away from here
Carry me home


6. S.A. ADAMS – DOWN THE DRAIN

You got the gold and diamonds
And you took it and threw it all away.
I tried to salvage wreckage
And with time you slowly had betrayed.
I gave the world to you
And you laughed and chucked it right on down the drain.

Everything you hoped to conquer,
All you dreams have now just passed you by.
So young and full of promise,
You gave it up without giving it a try.
The quitter; now a sitter.
Sit and watch it all go down the drain.

And when youíre cryin, baby,
At the thought that all you had is gone.
You never were satisfied, now pay the price you,
Yourself, had spawned.
As you gaze into the glass,
You'll see that you are going down the drain.


7. VALYUM – HAUNTING DARKNESS

(Instrumental)


8. LAURA MARIE – WHAT IT'S LIKE

I’ve been sitting pretty. I’ve been standing still.
But, you move me to pieces with just your force of will.
And, oh, how much I suffer for all my thinking small
While you walk up in wonder and have no fear at all
And now I’d like to know what it’s like

To have the world at your command,
Drop the reigns when life gets heavy in your hands.
With a spark of youth and a heart so full,
You’re my living proof that everything is possible
And now I’d like to know what it’s like

To be you as you’re living every moment.
Must be nice to be you taking life with arms wide open.
I think I’d like to know what it’s like

Will you show the world to me, the one I need to know,
With the innocence you see so I can watch you go,
Watch you go.
And you keep running with your head held high,
Your arms outstretched,
A smile the only reason why.
And now I’d like to know what it’s like

To be you as you’re living every moment.
Must be nice to be you taking life with arms wide open.
I think I’d like to know what that’s like.


DISC 3 : RETROSPECTIVE 2009

1. HALCYON – ROCKYPROG

(Instrumental)


2. EFFLORESCE – SUNSET IN THE SNOWDOME

In my dreams I walk along a dusty and lonesome road
Smell the clean and cold air outside
Enjoy the white and empty silence
Till the next bomb impacts next to me

Now and then I wake up and hear the pain
Snow turns into red immediately
As I stop staring at your peaceful gift
At memories I just observed too long

Inside this hole I try to hide
Give me the strength to disappear
Under the wreckage I heard my father cry
In their heads it’s just a lullaby

Burn... my... tears...
Drown... my... fears...

Inside this hole I try to hide
Give me the strength to disappear
Under the wreckage I heard my father cry
In their heads it’s just a lullaby

I’m relieved that it was just a dream


3. RELOCATOR – THE ALCHEMIST

(Iinstrumental)


4. S.A. ADAMS - KISS OF DEATH

Lover getís spurned and then gets rejected.
The price of pleasure is to be paid soon.
Once it begins thereís no turning back.
Going from the light into the black.
Prepare yourself for incoming attack.
Gonna wish you never had the kiss of death.

Take your last breath
It is the Kiss of death.

You realize the horror of your fatal attraction.
Yet in the beauty do you consume.
There is nothing one can do or say.
Run real far, but thereís no getting away.
A number in ink for your final day.
Youíre gonna wish you never saw the kiss of death.

Take your last breath
It is the Kiss of death.


5. ATONIKA – FUTURO SENZA REGOLE

Giganti pensieri che scivolano sulla
Mia ragione.
Catene di ghiaccio che spezzano
Ogni cuore.
Danni e lesioni infettano la mia voglia di gridare.
Sgomento, paure, voglio ricominciare!
Ero immersa nella pura fredda e nera fantasia.
Ma ci sono tempi in cui hai voglia di andar via.
Sento cellule scoppiare in tutto questo brusio.
Ma lo posso sentire solo io.

Come un lampo che attraversa il cielo mio
Luci che trapassano ogni sguardo tuo
Venti che si alzano con rabbia ed io
Scruto nel vuoto il mio futuro senza regole.

Timori, insicurezze, non ne posso piu’
Difficile affermare se il mio mondo e’ sotto un cielo blu
Se in passato soffocavo tutte queste mie parole
Adesso trascrivo cio’ che la mente vuole

Come un lampo che attraversa il cielo mio
Luci che trapassano ogni sguardo tuo
Venti che si alzano con rabbia ed io
Scruto nel vuoto il mio futuro senza regole.

Luci che tremano
Rumori che assordano
frazioni di un attimo

Come un lampo che attraversa il cielo mio
Luci che trapassano ogni sguardo tuo
Venti che si alzano con rabbia ed io
Scruto nel vuoto il mio futuro senza regole.

Come un lampo che attraversa il cielo mio
Luci che trapassano ogni sguardo tuo
Venti che si alzano con rabbia ed io
Scruto nel vuoto il mio futuro senza regole.


6. MATT BARKER – COFFEE STAINED GIRL

Oh, what another place to be, elevate me
I guess I'm riding on a mountain, sliding down into the sea
Oh I take a look around, I don't hear a sound,
Caught up in it all, lose my focus take a fall
Oh it amazes me and it's plain to see
Now my heads lost in the clouds,
A perfect chance to cut me down

This is how it goes

Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble on my back
It's relaxing to drown in a dream, that's a fact.
Looking out onto the mountain, lying high above the sea
Oh and that sting that stung your toe is just as fateful
As the fact I ripped my coat in pieces,
Coffee stained the little girl

This is how it goes

Time to get ready so my sleep is killed
An alarm does exactly what it says it will
Dream I'm high up in the mountains, flying up above the sea
Oh I wake to find that it's not so and I'm right here
Where what's real and what's hallucination
Are figments of imagination

This is how it goes.


7. PROPHECY WITHIN – CLOUDBURST

(Instrumental)

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