1. ANGELS IN TRACTION

Prophetic
Know the day will come to break our fall
Undying
Through the years we stole the strength of fire
And soon your convoluted truth
Shall come to surface in their eyes
Shall come to surface in the world
We'll turn you out at each distortion
We'll burn you out of each illusion
We stalk this hallowed ground in tragedy
Unfit to wear the wings of your elite
You spit the venom in our faces
The holy war is joined in progress
The war is joined
The war is joined
As you stare into the face of our truth
Know that we'll never ingest this infection
The cage is shaking the joints come loose
Receive the consequence for misdirection
We stand with backs turned at promises
We know your walls can't endure our struggle
Your empty words have gone their distance
You walk unhallowed barren ground
Unfit to wear these wings
We spit the venom back
Know the day has come to break our fall
Fear the day we break this fucking fall


2. THE SPIRAL RISES

Believe in nothing
Hand in hand in hand
Betrayed by promise
This isn't going as planned
Buy into a dream
You never had
Consume the addictions
Which merit the mad
I will not walk in your world
I will not kneel in your world
I don't have a choice in this world
I don't have a voice in this world
And at the end of the day
I hope you like what you see
And at the end of the end
I hope you love what you lived
Material altar
Material fraud
The latest in fashion
The latest in god
Our deviant struggle
May not be heard
You can erase the prophet
But never his word
And at the end of the day
I know you'll count what you own
And at the end of the end
I know you'll die alone
All we need is here
All we need, within


3. DISSECTING EDEN

As bliss is torn from hazed eye
Demonic laughter resounds
In cruel comfort
The candle breathes its last
No shades of sorrow
No parting graces
A grim enclosure of
Antagonizing memory
No one must crawl behind these eyes again
No one must crawl inside to snake this spine
No one must crawl behind these eyes again
No one must breathe the serpent sweet caress
The ruination of the innocent
The heartless lure of vacant faces
And still I forge the chain that binds me
As sure as winter winter
The scalpel incises the vibrant skin
Flesh parts
Enraptured as the purge begins
And for a second the blindness is lifted
As sure as nightfall
Nightfall
No shades of sorrow
No parting graces


4. AUTUMN WORE A CROWN

Among the ashes of the day
We thrust our hands in search of hope
White knuckles shift and turn the dust
To bleed the answers from the soil
And when we pass along our yesterdays
To the hands and hearts of those to come
Have we to offer but a memory
Have we to offer them
The reasons
The seasons autumn can you still this burning paradise
Yours is the final place
Winter greets our broken dreams with your demise
Can you claim these years forever
Immortal bliss is all I seek of thee
To live eternal in your shade
You are the echo of my destiny
You are the watcher in my sky
And when we pass into the shadow world
Into the hands and hearts of those we lost
Have we to offer them their memories
Have we to offer them
The reasons
The seasons autumn can you still this burning paradise
Yours is the final peace
Winter greets our sullen tears with your demise
Can you claim this age forever
Preservation is at hand
Can we lift the veils of death from our eyes
Resurrection master plan
Live forever under these dark skies
And when we pass into their memories
Will there be anything but emptiness
Have we the consciousness to reach again
Shall we be ever seeking
The reasons
The seasons autumn can you still this burning paradise
Yours is the final gate
Winter our horizons with your righteous lies Can you claim this soul forever
To wear this crown forever
To wear this crown forever


5. THE NAME OF THE MACHINE

Electric century, chaos born, binary souls
Corridors of static impulse fuel the forge
Vast reserves of hunger never satisfied
In ecstasy we sate our thirst on white noise
Renewal of mankind impends
We cast off the weight of our flesh
Adrift in the ocean of light
Selfless and satisfied
Cast off the weight of our flesh
Cast off the weight of our sanity
Castrate your neighbour in the need to feed
Gluttonous vampiric entity
Mass upgrade, product of oppression
A grand grim destruction of value
Renewal of mankind inflicts
We cast off the weight of our skin
Adrift in the ocean of One
Selfless and satisfied
Cast off the weight of our flesh
Cast off the weight of our sanity
For One electric century
We cast off the weight of the world
Existence in streams of sound
Set course through myriad galaxies
To seek the new feeding ground


6. EXECUTION MASQUE

Blades of iron raze the fields in ignorance
Drawing deep the blood from earthly veins
Withering the springs of richness deep within
Leaving barren fertile gardens of delight
Gardens of delight
Sever the spirits from the earth
Cut free the tethers from our hearts
We wear the execution mask
As we plunge headlong towards the dark
Headlong towards the dark
Unbind the spirits from the earth
Let free the wicked in our hearts
We wear the execution mask
As we plunge headlong towards the dark
Premonition man's destruction rising high
Evolution coming to a full collapse
Fragile balance shattered in the wake of greed
Ashen gardens blackening we burn the seed
Raise the scaffold high upon the gathering night
Taut the cord to maximize the stranglehold
Propagate the plague of human vanity
Human vanity


7. KILLING TOMORROW FOR YESTERDAY

In age of avarice, we stand divided
The gates stand festering, hope flies on its last wing
Death bell sounds when the price is paid
Remember when starlight danced in quiet glen
The branches shook in sullen breeze
The shadows bent to kiss the light
The howl of wolves would breach the night
The sun swept its path through the day
Engraving its face in the dust
How will you forget this?
How will you forget?
The shadow' dancing in the dust
They'e painted the tears in her eye
They'e painted her skin and her sky
How will you forgive this?
How will you forgive?
We haunt our yesterdays


8. STARLIGHT BARRICADE

On this barren hillside
I struggle towards the firmament
Reaching as high, as my earthbound feet would carry
Often they would pirouette, waltz across the empty silent void
Constantly reminding of what we might never achieve
We might never achieve
Astrophysics puzzle thought
Calculate impossibility
Forging horizons for mankind
Count the distant raging fires
Count the walls before us
Starlight as a barricade
As the patterns scatter, feelings of confinement wrap my soul
Distance evades my grasp
Stilling my dreams with the ground
Silence the dreams in the dirt
Stilling my dreams with the ground
Silence the dreams in the dirt
Every evening thoughts conceived
As I wed thee skies of night
Diabolic infinity
Mocks me with its haunting light
Silence the dreams with the earth


9. ONE SHADOW'S CLIMB (BONUSTRACK ON BOOTLEG EDITION)

Woven in wire
With razors to pave my path
Glistening truth
As each crimson dream stains the sky
I am the night side of faith
Carving my world from my skin
I am society's wraith
Carving my world from within
Lost among a sea of shallow smiles
Lusting for their expiration
Hindered by the weight of modern chains
Held below the tide of stolen voices
Grinding of teeth…
The sweltering burden of earth and sun
Haunting the breach
Eclipsed by the dream below
The heart becomes ice
Frozen in streams of neglect
My hope becomes vice
Straining against the reality
Woven in wire
I am the night side of faith
Carving my world from within