1. BURNING TIMES

Yesterday is gone forever
No turning back the clock
In the end, all is sinful
No need to bear the pain
The end, is coming soon
You can’t hold out forever
Repent your sins to me
Before you pass this world

In this time I am law
I know you’ve been betrayed
From man’s word, I’m given life
Through loss, I only gain
For you, I feel no sympathy
No sorrow, no remorse
Confess your sins to me
They’ll be taken by force

It doesn’t matter what you’ve done
In my words you are a sinner
For every word you say to me
In every way, you are a sinner

Question me not
I am the one that binds this world
You follow without sight
I grow stronger every day
Take the souls I have damned
Burn them in my name
These are the burning times
The years of pain

It doesn’t matter what you’ve done
In my words you are a sinner
For every word you say to me
In every way, you are a sinner


2. SO FAR FROM THE TRUTH

I know you fear me
I know you fear yourself
I know you fear me
So far from the truth

I let you take away
I let you take away
I let you take away...

So far from the truth
I let you slip away
Oh yeah, you slip away

So what the fuck you want to be?
So what the fuck you want to be?
So what the fuck you want to be?

Am I subhuman? Am I him?
So perfect, so human
So I stay true to myself

I’m still waiting
I’m still waiting for you
I’m still waiting for you
For you to fall, fall
So far from the truth
Fall, fall
So far from the truth

So what the fuck you want to be?
So what the fuck you want to be?
So what the fuck you want to be?

Am I subhuman? Am I him?
So perfect, so human
So I stay true to myself

I’m still waiting
I’m still waiting for you
I’m still waiting for you

I’m still waiting
I’m still waiting
I’m still waiting
For you to fall
Fall!
Fall!
Fall!

(So what the fuck you want to be?)
(Stay true to yourself)


3. MY WINGS

Slip out the door and fly
I’m lost in time I hover
As an angel I hover

Embracing all myself I reel
Through the storm that is shaking me
I don’t know where
I don’t know why
I know I’m not going to fall

And butterflies are flying
(Fly away)
Right beside me
As I ascend to the clouds

No, I won’t delay
No, I won’t delay
Time is like a knife for me now
I just won’t delay

(Time is mine)
(I got the blade)
(Change your mind)
(I’ll make you stay)

Slip out the door and fly
I’m lost in time I hover
As an angel I hover

Embracing all myself I reel
Through the storm that is shaking me
I don’t know where
I don’t know why
I know I’m not going to fall

And butterflies are flying
(Fly away)
Right beside me
As I ascend to the clouds

No, I won’t delay
No, I won’t delay
Time is like a knife for me now
I just won’t delay

(Time is mine)
(I got the blade)
(Change your mind)
(I’ll make you stay)

Butterflies are flying
And I just won’t delay

No, I won’t delay
No, I won’t delay
Time is like a knife for me now
I just won’t delay

(Time is mine)
(I got the blade)
(Change your mind)
(I’ll make you stay)


4. LET IT DIE

I’ve heard this before
When it meant more
The first time around
You made your mark and tore it down

Abandoned this for aspirations of fame
So why rekindle the flame
Let it die!

What are you trying to sell?
A feeble attempt to reinvent

What you once had
The first time around
You made your mark
Rehash the sound

Now all those slogans that you wear on your sleeve
Have lost their validity
Let it die!

Let it die!
Let it die!

Let it die!
Die!

This monument that you’ve contrived
That stale ideal does not apply anymore
Never be like before

Better off abandoned
Better left alone
All those gears have rusted
Over time they’ve grown

Still...
Still you try

I heard this before
I heard this before
Let it die
Let it die

Let it die
Let it die
Let it die!


5. THE SUICIDER

Well, here I am, I’m back again
From the dead lands I descend
Back from the dead, back from the end
I’m here to take revenge!

Soon the deathly dusk will fall
And the night I’ve waited for
At the dawn you’ll live no more
Breathing through death
Living for bloodshed

I’m the suicider dying every night and day
Killing me is not enough to make me go away

I live to kill and kill to live
And long for dying endlessly
Each time I kill I’m born again
I have become the end

Thus I am and thus I’ll die
Yet another thousand times
I am dead and I am alive
Take a deep breath
It’s the last one you will get

I’m the suicider dying every night and day
Killing me is not enough to make me go away
I’m the suicider seeking for the end of life
Killing me is not enough to cease the flame inside

Thus I kill and thus I’ll die
Thus I will live for all time

I’m the suicider dying every night and day
Killing me is not enough to make me go away
I’m the suicider seeking for the end of life
Killing me is not enough to cease the flame inside

The flame inside
The flame inside


6. DEADHOUSE

Somehow better without this
Headlights fuck the city
Somewhere I’m broken
No sensations nevermore

Somehow I never leave this deadhouse
Somehow I don’t mind being gone
And if you really think you’ve seen me
I have to prove you that you’re wrong

What do you say when you speak?
I sense no time
Discouraged television sleep
Not awake until it’s dark

Somehow I never leave this deadhouse
Somehow I don’t mind being gone
And if you really think you’ve seen me
I have to prove you that you’re wrong

Somehow I never leave this deadhouse
Somehow I don’t mind being gone
And if you really think you’ve seen me
I have to prove you that you’re wrong


7. POISON GODMACHINE

The media machine knows what to do
It knows how to feed the poison to you
Useless information for your useless little lives
The TV lies and pacifies

Do you believe everything you see?
Children of the void come follow me
Denounce your faith and penance
The savior is unseen
I am the new drug
Your poison godmachine
Poison!

Poison godmachine

Poison is a word
God is a word (used for fear)

Subtlely we obey through ink and broadcast wave
The doubts and fears that shadow media decay

Deprogram this affliction
And the cathode ray unclean
I am the last nail
The empty soulless screen
Soulless!

Poison godmachine

And we eat the poison
We created the poison godmachine


8. FALL OF MAN

Once in a time and place so far away
When man stood strong and brave
Scars from a past, the ancient blood
Shall stream through our veins once again

Die! They have deceived us
Die! We must come forth
Die! Let us kill together
Die! And heal our wounds

The preach of salvation
The words of Christ
A war for a holy domain
We shall burn their fortress and enter
We will prepare to fall into an endless grave

Reveal our past and fulfill my dreams
Show us the way were supposed to live

We are nature’s failure
A creature born to demise
We are the alien strangers
A creature that has lost its place

Die! They have deceived us
Die! We must come forth
Die! Let us kill together
Die! And heal our wounds



9. INTO THE STORM

Give it to me
I must have it
Precious treasure
I deserve it

Where can I run?
How can I hide The Silmarils?
Gems of treelight
Their life belongs to me

Oh, it’s sweet how the darkness is floating around

We are following the will of the one
Through the Dark Age and into the storm
And we are following the will of the one
Through the Dark Age and into the storm
Lord I’m mean

Blackheart, show me
What you hold in your hand
I still hunger for more
Release me from my pain
Give it to me

How I need it
How I need it
How I need it

Where can I run?
How can I hide The Silmarils?
Gems of treelight
Their life belongs to me

Oh, it’s sweet how the darkness is floating around

We are following the will of the one
Through the Dark Age and into the storm
And we are following the will of the one
Through the Dark Age and into the storm
Lord I’m mean

I did my part, now it’s your turn
And remember what you’ve promised

Where can I run?
How can I hide The Silmarils?
Gems of treelight
Their life belongs to me

Oh, it’s sweet how the darkness is floating around

We are following the will of the one
Through the Dark Age and into the storm
And we are following the will of the one
Through the Dark Age and into the storm
Lord I’m mean


10. LIBERTY BELL

No brainwaves or activity
While the craft is in the air
It’s getting dark
It’s getting light
We are sitting in a chair

(Sitting in a...)
(Sitting in a chair)

We have fastened every belt
We cannot float out of our seats
It’s so enormously frightening
When our tail reaches superheat

Another time zone
A change of season
It is turning dark again
We’re getting ready for yet
Another orbit around our planet

We have fastened every belt
We cannot float out of our seats
It’s so enormously frightening
When our tail reaches superheat

It is time for the galactic cruise to come to an end
One last view on the world and the time we have spend

So enormously frightening...

No brainwaves or activity
While the craft is in the air
It’s getting dark
It’s getting light
We are sitting in a chair
Sitting in a chair

(Sitting in a chair)
(Sitting in a chair)
(Sitting in a...sitting in a chair)
(Sitting in a...sitting in a chair)


11. THE ABSENTEE

And it’s felt like lead
To think to let anything else in
It is too heavy to stand
I won’t push out

Please, God this tears me apart on the inside
You quit and you suck and you are still the same
As far as I can see

I wish to breathe
I can’t take this change
I would rather stay here
With my hands gripping my throat

What now?
You find yourself on the outside?
What about them?
What about her?
What about all of your responsibility?

I find this in blood
For some...easy to walk away
I find that I can never break

God! This hurts
It tears me apart on the inside
I’ve quit, we are done
It seems that now you’re the absentee

I still feel so much for you!


12. WHITE WORMS

It’s almost night
The clouds are streaked with violet
And the moon is bright
Banish your innocence

There is no breeze
Disquiet lurks in silence
By this place of power
Your sins must escalate

What has come before
And recurs perpetually
It’s on its way
Cherish each atrocity

Woodland dark surroundings
Ill lit by twin beacons
A black car approaches
With two men inside it

With the right temptation
Murder needs to prompting
The man riding shotgun
Has just killed his own son

To nurture the white worms

Still and isolated, the wood frame house stands vacant
Humans that once lived here cannot longer be found
And yet all are present well fed and ghastly white
In the mound of moist earth that sits just by the road

His rigid features inexpressive
He flings his son’s blonde head upon the heap
This last act earns him his metamorphosis
For he who built the house is at the wheel

To nurture the white worms

Darkling souls, though larval
With each sin can mutate
Into something dreadful
Before dawn, you’ll pupate
And feed on innocents
Nourished by more like you
To someday haunt the aether
In obscene evolution

The house is hell
With its windows all agape
Through these come some worms
And they have sprouted wings

Fear is forever, the objective
To goad the rest of humanity
Into acts of pervert nature
And bring out the worm in all of us


13. OCEANS RISE

Deify the depths of the intimate caprice
The noble morsel of the grand eternity

Face the furious and black domain
From where all the wisdom once came

In the eyes of the elementary existence
May the fallen of eternity explode

As a weak and stunning flare
Yet so completed and clear

When the oceans rise and thunder calls
The shape of the substance furious manners fall
Where the oceans rise

Between dimensions asunder
The maze of fragmented flare
Harvest the pain of the will and despair
Where the seeds of chaos grow

Where the almighty substance bow
Millenniums are falling
Millenniums are calling
Hail!
The dawn of a new era


14. LORELEI

Ferie dearest, was it loe soothfast or a façade
A serenade siren’d to lure... Zounds! not to court me?
A menad, yet the sweetest colleen
Certes didst thou me unveil meekly life pristine

Lorelei
A poet of tragedies
Scribe I lauds to Death
Yet who the hell was I to dare?
Lorelei
Canst thou not see thou to me needful art?
Scribe I lauds to Death
Canst thou not see the loss of loe painful is?

Dedally didst thou perform the tragic pasquinade
For all years a damndest and driegh’d accolade
Caus’d for all eyes mazed to behold a mêlee
In the midst did I swainly cast thee my bouquet

The one and sole faggot that feedeth the fire
Bellow’d bidingly by my heart’s quailing quire

Lorelei
A poet of tragedies
Scribe I lauds to Death
Yet who the hell was I to dare?
Lorelei
Canst thou not see thou to me needful art?
Scribe I lauds to Death
Canst thou not see the loss of loe painful is?

Perchance author I thee this ikon’d apologue for aught
Doth the wecht burthen thee? then bethink thine afterthought:
‘Tween Aether and ‘Nether art thou the peerless phoenix
Prithee, darlingmost! Court me rather than the peevish prolix

Lorelei
A poet of tragedies
Scribe I lauds to Death
Yet who the hell was I to dare?
Lorelei
Canst thou not see thou to me needful art?
Scribe I lauds to Death
Canst thou not see the loss of loe painful is?

Lorelei
A poet of tragedies
Scribe I lauds to Death
Yet who the hell was I to dare?
Lorelei
Canst thou not see thou to me needful art?
Scribe I lauds to Death
Canst thou not see the loss of loe painful is?

Lorelei
Lorelei

Lorelei
Lorelei


15. MYSTERY MACHINE

The sun rises over the tide
Waves breaking over the rocks
Again and again like an echo
From the mountains’ tops

This feeling you just can’t hide
Like an open page revealed for all to see
You breathe hard like the sea breeze coming in
Hold your arms to the sky

Don’t let clouds hide the sun
Don’t run away ‘cause you can’t hide from thunder
Cold sweat glistening on your brow
The rains will come crashing down

A million voices sing out loud again tonight
As the mysteries of life begin to unfold
Master of fate, you’re the only one who knows
Machine of mystery rolls on

Don’t let clouds hide the sun
Don’t run away ‘cause you can’t hide from thunder
Cold sweat glistening on your brow
The rains will come crashing down

A million voices sing out loud again tonight
As the mysteries of life begin to unfold
Master of fate, you’re the only one who knows
Machine of mystery rolls on

Master of fate, you’re the only one who knows
Machine of mystery rolls on
Machine of mystery rolls on
Machine of mystery rolls on


16. THE AGE OF MASTERY

Since the beginning of time man has ruled the earth
Deemed the principle power over all
As time plodded on man’s knowledge grew
Till he was no longer man but a god

To be the lord of all
You must first conquer yourself

Pages of time unfold for us all a mystery
(The mystery of life)
Ages of time elevate the mind
Ours is the age of mastery

Centuries of learning on computer screens
The information age is on
Splitting the atom, the power to end all life
Blending of cells gives life reborn

To be the lord of all
You must first conquer yourself

Pages of time unfold for us all a mystery
(The mystery of life)
Ages of time elevate the mind
Ours is the age of mastery

Striving to become creators of the perfect race
The blending of pure strain carbon life
Are we becoming the masters of our own race?
Or racing blindly into the night?

To be the lord of all
You must first conquer yourself

Pages of time unfold for us all a mystery
(The mystery of life)
Ages of time elevate the mind
Ours is the age of mastery


17. WHEN

Red sun rising
Somewhere through the dense fog
The portrait of the jaded dawn
Who had seen it all before?

This day wept on my shoulders
Still the same as yesterday
This path seems endless
Body is numb
The soul has lost its flame

Walking in familiar traces
To find my way back home

So there I was
Within the sobriety of the immortals
A semblance of supernatural winds passing through
The garden sighs, flowers die

The gate was closed that day
But I was bound to carry on
She could not see me through the windows
In dismay, strangest twist upon her lips

Graven face
She said my name

Once inside
I heard whispers in the parlour
The gilded faces grin
Aware of my final demise
Demise
Demise
Demise

And I cried
I knew she had lied
Her obsession had died
It had died

When can I take you from this place?
When is the word but a sigh?
When is death our lone beholder?
When do we walk the final steps?
When can we scream instead of whisper?
When is the new beginning?
The end of this sad madrigal