1. NOW YOU’VE GOT SOMETHING TO DIE FOR

Now you’ve got something to die for
Now you’ve got something to die for

Infidel!
Imperial!

Lust for blood
A blind crusade
Apocalyptic
We count the days

Bombs to set the people free
Blood to feed the dollar tree
Flags for coffins on the screen
Oil for the machine

Army of liberation
Gunpoint, indoctrination
The fires of sedition
Fulfill the prophecy

Now you’ve got something to die for
Now you’ve got something to die for

Send the children to the fire
Sons and daughters stack the pyre
Stoke the flame of the empire
Live to lie another day

Face of hypocrisy
Raping democracy
Apocalyptic
We count the days

We’ll never get out of this hole
Until we’ve dug our own grave
And drug the rest down with us
The burning home of the brave
Burn!

Now you’ve got something to die for
Now you’ve got something to die for


2. 94 HOURS

94 hours of regret
For me to realize what I held

Unfading beauty
Not just a face
I held its innocence
Within my heart

Now
I won’t let go
I won’t let go
I won’t let go

I won’t let go
I won’t let go

The torment of your eyes
Has awakened my soul

The torment of your eyes
Has awakened my soul
The pain of a moment’s time
Will forever beg your forgiveness

Forgiveness!

94 hours
For me to realize
Unfading beauty
I held its innocence


3. CHAPTER FOUR

[M. Shadows:]
Give me your hand
Blood is spilt and man will follow
Infernal man
Punishment too great to bear
[The Rev:]
Conceived and born was one of light
Rain and dark, the other born black knight

Raise your head and taste the courage
(The one of light)
Fall from grace
Unholy knight

I’ve come here to kill you
Won’t leave until you’ve died
Murder born of vengeance
I closed my brother’s eyes tonight

[M. Shadows:]
Give me your hand
Blood is spilt and man will follow
Infernal man
Punishment too great to bear
[The Rev:]
Conceived and born was one of light
Rain and dark, the other born black knight

Raise your head and taste the courage
(The one of light)
Fall from grace
Unholy knight

I’ve come here to kill you
Won’t leave until you’ve died
Murder born of vengeance
I closed my brother’s eyes tonight

[The Rev:]
It’s cold tonight as the clouds turn grey
And from my hands to my brother’s grave
You took his side, you took his gift
Feel the power of a fallen man
Crestfallen man

[Matt Shadows:]
Far away in this land I must go
Out of the sight of the One
A punishment sent from his hand
A hardship that no one should know
Now go out of the sight of the One
Away in this land you must go

[The Rev:]
Where has he gone?
What have you done?
A voice commands from high above this earth
From the soil
His blood cries out to me
Murder, liar, vengeance, deceit

[Matt Shadows:]
Far away in this land I must go
Out of the sight of the One
A punishment sent from his hands
A hardship that no one should know
Now go out of the sight of the One
Away in this land you must go


4. IRON TUSK

Straight line
Feel it burst, liver and lung
Long and strong
‘Til she spills her black blood

Center down
Vast the head body and tail
Shatter life
Physeter catodon

Culture vulture
Elephant graveyard

Culture vulture

Engage monster
Wreaking vengeance
Assault with all martial rage

Sail on!


5. ZOMBIE AUTOPILOT

It was last night on the midnight train back home
I ran into this one yet unfamiliar tone I know I should have known

It was last night
I knew I should have known

Chaos
Our busy minds asleep
We drudge across the land
is this the coming end of our monarchy

Harmless
We meet increased demands
Is this the life we all had in our dreams?
Our eternal nightmare

All of us are blind to others
All of us are blind to others

All of us are blind to others
(All of us are blind to others)
Hide behind our plans to nothing

All of us are blind to others
(All of us are blind to others)
Hide behind our plans to nothing

Cage us
We weep in self-defeat
All humanity is lost
In this eternal nightmare

All days are lost to conditioned zones
All days are lost to what we know
All days are lost to conditioned zones
All days are lost to what we know

Free us
A piece of mind
Gone are dreamers
Who strive to know

(All days are lost)
(All days are lost)

Free us
A piece of mind
Gone are dreamers
Who strive to know

Free us
A piece of mind
Gone are dreamers
Who strive to know

All of us are blind!


6. PULL HARDER ON THE STRINGS OF YOUR MARTYR

The face and the lips tremble as it rips
Your breath quickening as heat rushes in

Pull! Harder! Strings! Martyr!
Stop! You cry! That’s a lie!
Flush! Gasping! White reddening!
You smile and destroy it
It’s time that we end this

It’s our curse that makes this world so hopeless
Allowing our king to spread his genocidal wings

Clawing the skin
Each kill your weakness
Annihilation, your masturbation
Tyrant, I’ll burn you down

Pull! Harder! Strings! Martyr!
Stop! You cry! That’s a lie!
Flush! Gasping! White reddening!
You smile and destroy it
It’s time that we end this

It’s our curse that makes this world so hopeless
Allowing our king to spread his genocidal wings

It’s our curse that makes this world so hopeless
Allowing our king to spread his genocidal wings

My hands grip your throat I need your end
Burned, staked, ripped apart, I avenge
For every life you have taken
I am here to repay

You ask me “Oh God why?”
‘Cause I’m God! That’s fucking why!
For every life you have taken
I am here to repay

Pull! Harder! Strings! Martyr!
Stop! You cry! That’s a lie!
Flush! Gasping! White reddening!
You smile and destroy it
It’s time that we end this

It’s our curse that makes this world so hopeless
Allowing our king to spread his genocidal wings

It’s our curse that makes this world so hopeless
Allowing our king to spread his genocidal wings


7. SETTING FIRE TO SLEEPING GIANTS

First off
Let me say
You look so tired
Rest your head and shut your eyes

Empty ambition
Blankets the sky
I’m thinking ‘bout another world
Tonight

Yeah right!
Yeah right!
Yeah right!

So drop the gown
The game’s over
Just push your face into the fight
And it breaks my heart
Like dancing up all night

Ride so high
We both start thinking ‘bout another world tonight
And it feels so wrong
Like nothing we’ve ever felt before

Yeah right!
Yeah right!
Yeah right!

The stranger’s candy takes you where you ought to be
In broken alleys in the back of every street
Close your eyes tonight!

Baby, you can have it
Baby, you can have it!

Oh, baby gnaw me down to the bone
Soon you’ll find I’m never gonna take you back home
Well, there’s so much you never told me
And there’s not much I want to know
‘Cause your pretty face will do just fine
You’ll be the star of my very last show!

Let’s go for a long ride
I’ll show you places you won’t ever want to leave

The stranger’s candy takes you where you ought to be
In broken alleys in the back of every street

Stranger’s candy
Broken alleys
Yeah!
Tonight!

We could bring it all down
We could bring it all down!

They think this body’s a dead note
Dancing to the beat
But they’ll never see this corpse
Coming ‘til it kills them


8. A VULGAR PICTURE

Now the funeral grounds are at last awash
With the blackness of this frigid autumn night

I’ve lurked into the graveyard with pick and spade in tow
This night shall birth forth our reckoning
Hell’s jaws now open wide

A stare to pierce six-feet of soil
A love beyond this mortal coil

As though you’ve never left my side
I hold your stiffened body so close to me

For years I’ve lived in dreams
Awake I felt as dead
As my cold and bloodless bride to be

I can barely suppress my elation
My blood is racing as I strike the lid

A quick pry of the casket reveals her body paralyzed
So long I’ve waited for this moment to trust my fingers deep inside

Now you will live this song of the deceased
The ones whose souls will never rest in peace

The throes of necromantic lust infect my mind
Cries of my precious frozen angel beckon from inside

I feel alive
For once I’m feeling so alive
My skin is crawling, I’m completed
On this resurrection night

This night reveals a morbid truth
Loves bounds post mortally removed

As though you’ve never left my side
I hold your stiffened body so close to me

For years I’ve lived in dreams
Awake I felt as dead
My cold and bloodless bride to be

In rapture, my mind is lured by my own knife
To join this fragile being asleep below

The reflection of a razor
Reveals the moon so perfectly
Along my impatient veins
Its steel does graze with the kiss of suicide

I feel no pain
As lay with my lover and bride
The silk lining now stained with my offering
I embrace the end of my now worthless life


9. THE END OF THE HEARTACHE

Seek me
Call me
I’ll be waiting

Seek me
Call me
I’ll be waiting

This distance
This dissolution
I cling to memories while falling
Sleep brings release
And the hope of a new day
Waking the misery of being without you

Surrender
I give in
Another moment is another eternity

(Seek me) For comfort
(Call me) For solace
(I’ll be waiting)
For the end of my broken heart
(Seek me) Completion
(Call me) I’ll be waiting
(I’ll be waiting)
For the end of my broken heart

You know me
You know me all too well
My only desire
To bridge our division

In sorrow I speak your name
And my voice mirrors my torment

(Seek me) For comfort
(Call me) For solace
(I’ll be waiting)
For the end of my broken heart
(Seek me) Completion
(Call me) I’ll be waiting
(I’ll be waiting)
For the end of my broken heart

Am I breathing?
My strength fails me
Your picture
A bitter memory

For comfort
For solace

(Seek me) For comfort
(Call me) For solace
(I’ll be waiting)
For the end of my broken heart


10. ALASKA

The road is dry
I’m fucking delirious right now
Life goes on
Glorious evening of nodding and jump starts
I need to make a personal dance party
The brain works very weird at this hour
Not the best time for lyrics I suppose

Keep writing
Keep dreaming

Keep writing
Keep dreaming
Keep writing
Keep dreaming

Nope, can’t be awake and dream
Drifting in and out, in and out

Eye motions, in out
Heat lightning scares us both
The only two people awake at this fucking hour
I won’t remember this in the morning
At least I wrote this all down
Please pick the right song
The one that keeps the eyes wide
Creepy, creepy, creepy
Yes, creepy!

The idea of control
Controlling death with alertness
When is the fucking sun coming up

The idea of control
Yes, creepy
Controlling death with alertness
Controlling death with alertness

Then it all changes
Same scenery but sun involved
Shouldn’t be much different
Alaska, Alaska

Then it all changes
Same scenery but sun involved
Shouldn’t be much different
Alaska, Alaska

The brain works very weird at this hour
The brain works very weird at this hour
The brain works very weird at this hour!

Tick, tock, tick, tock
The rain is pouring now
Wide-awake
At least for now

Nature can be the death of me
A thing we’ll never overcome
Nature can be the death of me
A thing we’ll never overcome
Nature can be the death of me
A thing we’ll never overcome
Nature can be the death of me
A thing we’ll never overcome
In, out, in, out


11. CROSSING THE RUBICON

Of all the times I’ve been disrespected
You’d think it’d be no surprise
Learning lessons, all the precious treasures
Take all that you’ve got

I’ll take your ready hand with a ready blade
I’m dead set to make you lie in the bed you’ve made

Paid in full
I’ll take it from your pride
I don’t know what you thought
But you’ve gone past the line
And you’ve got me wrong

The time has come
Your song has long been sung
(Brought down, brought down)
You won’t have long to go

I’m not cutting a loss again
You won’t have long to go

An hourglass of sand and I'll be on time
Inform the rest
Run as fast as you can
Hell’s coming for you

Try to strike and then slip away
But I won’t let you leave without feeling an equal pain
You’ll see, because I'll make you see
Left in my council you’ll know what it means to respect me

Once I’ve caught you alone
I’ll teach you all you need to know
Pray, once I’ve caught you alone
That I teach you all you need to know

The time has come
Your song has long been sung
(Brought down, brought down)
You won’t have long to go

I’m not cutting a loss again
You won’t have long to go

Each of us has boundaries
Everyone has got a breaking point!

I wish I held desire solely to right this wrong
Take careful tones urging the dawn to come
Make every word worth what it takes in turn
But I can’t go on with my faith interrupted

I can’t go on with my faith interrupted

How can I look the other way?
My faith interrupted
You’ve shown me there is no other way out!

Other way out!


12. TO SIRIUS

Now from a solar system to another I fly
I come with life in my veins
Through darkened space I ran
I left a struggle behind
And faced the fear that’s alive
I lost a world and traveled
Straight across from the sky
To find the gates of the heart

I come to Sirius C
To learn from you friends of old
And wish to come into being
And behold I’m with you
I am ready now to go
The distance and even beyond
Recover all my forces
All the strength of the world
And feel the light into me

From the strength of God
We go to the power of goddess
This place is a throne for brightness
The age of war is over

For God’s sake
They have never heard of you
You’ll never reach this master race
Our force sickening, killing the time
Human laws, already slain many lives

There was a streak of madness
But now I know I see its now the only truth
The scars in me are opened
Won’t you please call me beyond

Crave affection, love and courage
Being courageous and flying instead of falling down
Follow these instructions I’ve been given
In this dream awake

There is no goal to reach now
Leviathans, no complaint at all
Dolphins from upper space are in front of me
In present they dwell

This is my way
I’ve found my home
My state of real...


13. THE LAST AMERICAN COWBOY

Brace yourself for the plight of the born
As the spotlight strips you bare
Just a useless act in the play of life
Cast as the role of "The Lover"
And I feel slightly misplaced
in a world of "Fuck or Be Fucked"

Kill the lights
Letch!

One more time and say it like you mean it
Lush!
One more time and tell it like you feel it
Lover!
You’ve got talent but I just don’t see it

Wrap your hook around my neck and get me off
Get me off, get me off your stage

In every coma-lover’s kiss collides with truth
And every tongue that slips will drip onto your bruise
And I know disguise the lies that you fed me last night
These plots are breeding grounds
For nothing but the worst and nothing could be worse
And I know why

And what do I have left?
The composer just went deaf
The singer lost his breath
In the glow of the crowd

The dancer’s on a crutch
The writer drank too much
The director lost his touch
In the glow of the crowd

Can you resist the urge to burn the script we wrote?
Bring on the flood before we choke
Applause engulfs the room
We bow into out tombs
Sing me one more line so I can sleep
Sing me one more line so I can sleep
Sing me one more line so I can sleep
This is all you need

My love, it follows you to your grave
To your grave
My love, it follows you to your grave
To your grave

In every coma-lover’s kiss collides with truth
And every tongue that slips will drip onto your bruise
And I know disguise the lies that you fed me last night
These plots are breeding grounds
For nothing but the worst and nothing could be worse and I know
In every coma-lover’s kiss collides with truth
And every tongue that slips will drip onto your bruise
And I know disguise the lies that you fed me last night
These plots are breeding grounds
For nothing but the worst and nothing could be worse and I know why


14. THIS CALLING

I secretly crave, crave that scent again
Still feel lit pressing on me now
Now with the onset, my flesh is weakening
I steel my nerves for temptations at hand again

And I hear this calling
Still you don’t seem so far at all
And I hear this calling

No secrets, deception for these would tear this down
I’ll note the past spare the pain
Words match my deeds with brutal honesty
Never forget these choices were made by me

And I hear this calling
Still you don’t seem so far at all
And I hear this calling
Still you don’t seem so far at all
And I hear this calling

Not falling victim to the fire that burns inside of me
Though I am fearful I will not prevent this tragedy
My strengths been tested I wear the scars that prove
Still I believe that this calling will see me through

And I hear this calling
Still you don’t seem so far at all
And I hear this calling
Still you don’t seem so far at all
And I hear this calling

My strengths been tested I wear the scars that prove
Still I believe that this calling will see me through


15. WHERE THE WAVE BROKE

A promise to betray
A betrayal to remember

Where the wave broke
And flushed us back
Back into the sea

Could have carried us farther
Mired only by ourselves
Horizon glowed in morning

Through vile was our resolve!

Where the wave broke
And flushed us back
Back into the sea

Would have brought a haven
Sadness, that bitter failure
Night’s embrace was colder
As the stars lit one by one

Where the wave broke
And flushed us back
Back into the sea

Should have gazed beyond
Ashen clouds that covered
Saw us huddle
Fearing that bloated bastard sunrise


16. ANTMAN

Step up
It is time to learn the hard way
As so many lives here end
And I’ve fallen
Bugs crawling up my arms

Eyes so strong
Staring and torturing me for so long
So tell me about this life
Filled with guilt, fear and emptiness
With guilt, fear and emptiness

Ash for teeth and gums
Eden is laid to rest
Ash for teeth and gums
Eden is laid to rest

The search for truth begins
While you’re still sleeping in

The simple life
A simple plan
Eden is laid to rest
When this is what you stand for
This is what you get

Is this everything you asked for?
This is all I have
Is this everything you asked for?
This is all I am

Is this the same thing that gives us something to live for
That gives us something to die for

The search for truth begins
While you’re still sleeping in

The simple life
A simple plan
Eden is laid to rest
When this is what you stand for
This is what you get

Is this everything you asked for?
This is all I have
Is this everything you asked for?
This is all I am

This is an ode to the Antman
We are gathered here one last time
This is what you stand for
This is what you get

With the precision of an axe
As it cuts right though someone
This is what you died for

Because this is what you knew
You know, you’ll never know

Surrounded yet isolated
Goodbye my friend
Surrounded yet isolated
See you in hell


17. HERETICS & KILLERS

They called me the man with the blood of Christ, honesty
But tonight (Tonight we’ll sleep as killers)

I drink with heathens and our, our finest blasphemies
(As we break the cryptic, as we break the cryptic)

In wine there’s truth but in silence there’s surrender
A screaming for the silence in stunned suspicious terror
Built a temple in my life and used God to seal the pillars
After twenty years of fighting young heretics and killers

I watch my temple fall to pieces
At the first signs of oncoming weather
Fell to my knees like Jesus in the cave
Jesus in the cave, Jesus in the cave
I knew I would die but my lips could only say:
I’m not your son, so why have you forsaken me?

There’s a hole in my heart
But it just makes me unholy

Crucified that night and I walked away with alter-egos
Like the prison priest who preaches his dead and buried gospel

With my faith in ruins
My duty still breathes strong
I’m a parrot in a cage
Just singing prayers to belong

To a textbook of my crying, lying, dying history
A textbook of my crying, lying, dying history

A textbook of my crying
A textbook of my lying
A textbook of my dying
A textbook of my history


18. IT’S DANGEROUS BUSINESS WALKING OUT YOUR FRONT DOOR

I’ve been up at this all night long
I’ve been drowning in my sleep
I’ve prayed for your safe place
And it's time for us to leave

Time is running
It's running on empty and the gas is running out
I’ve decided that tonight is the night
That I set love aside
Full speed ahead, this seems to be the place
I’ve seen this once before
Planned perfection sought in my dreams
Hoping this would take you home

My knuckles have turned to white
There’s no turning back tonight
So kiss me one last time

Around this turn where the cross will cast your shadow
The people will all gather
To remember such a day
Where the flames grew as high as trees
And the world stopped for you and me

My knuckles have turned to white
There’s no turning back tonight
Kiss me one last time
(Shut your eyes)
My knuckles have turned to white
There’s no turning back tonight
(So hold on tight)
Kiss me one last time
(Shut your eyes)

I will now bring new meaning to the word alone
Endless nights of dreaming of life
And the days we should have spent here

Drowning in my sleep
I’m drowning in my sleep
Drowning in my sleep
I’m drowning in my sleep

Glass shatters and comes to a halt
I thought we’d be there by now
I thought it would be so much quicker than this

Pain has never been so brilliant
I made sure you were buckled in
Now you can walk hand in hand
Hand in hand with him

My knuckles have turned to white
There’s no turning back tonight
Kiss me one last time
(Shut your eyes)
My knuckles have turned to white
There’s no turning back tonight
(So hold on tight)
Kiss me one last time
(Shut your...)