1. WRATH OF PROPHECIES

Societal collapse the end of days
Culture and violence become one cities ablaze
Can't bear to watch so turn it off
No rhyme or reason no defending one another's actions
Those who oppose will die before they know

And the downside of all
Keep feeding them disease
Bears the fruit of your fall
The wrath of prophecies

Divide and conquer can't agree to disagree
At war with anything and everything displeasing
Send in the rodeo clowns release the bulls
Cover their eyes with prayers and thoughts of war

And the downside of all
Keep feeding them disease
Bears the fruit of your fall
The wrath of prophecies

Unwanted birth
Natural disaster fires and storms
The wrath of prophecies
By the hands of the Earth

And the downside of all
Keep feeding them disease
Bears the fruit of your fall
The wrath of prophecies

Let's watch the world collapse as the sunset fades
Culture of violence has won digging the graves
Defending one another despite the pain
Demons collect our souls the end arrives

And the downside of all
Keep feeding them disease
Bears the fruit of your fall
The wrath of prophecies

Unwanted birth
Natural disaster fires and storms
The wrath of prophecies
By the hands of the Earth

The downside of all bears the fruit of your fall - the disease
The downside of all bears the fruit of your fall - prophecy


2. UNDER THE GASLIGHT

Spent and burned out of rhythm
Guess I shouldn't turn my back on you
Angels' eyes mouths of serpents
Tourniquet nestled in your cloak

Not some trophy - not your special prize
Evil hides under the gaslight
Hollow stories from the voice of lies
Feed your prey locked inside

Your stock kept on ice
Broken and contrite

Stolen soul shattered over time
Head down low turn from your mirror
Ghosts from the past haunting me
Your self pride down below zero

Not some trophy - not your special prize
Evil hides under the gaslight
Hollow stories from the voice of lies
Feed your prey locked inside

Your stock kept on ice
Broken and contrite

Reality now gone
Viper comes slithered into the night

Reality now gone
Viper comes slithered into the night

Not some trophy - not your special prize
Evil hides under the gaslight
Hollow stories from the voice of lies
Feed your prey locked inside
Sound the alarms - raise your weapons high
Break the light start your fight

Left behind
Fuck your kind


3. FOREVER AND BEYOND DESPAIR

Designs of murder ending all
Last call then curfew comes
Take your meds and go

The gods bring on the wars
Send the troops let 'em burn
The girls will work butter churns
All pregnant with babes

We're rolling out the bombs
Start the debate it's on

Delivering the goods
Dad do you think they're right
You wouldn't waste a vote

Poles reversed and iced
Sending bombs is a prize
Ignored commands from the board
Send it in and they're gone

We're ending all the fun
Turn the knife with the selling point
Forever and beyond despair

We've got to liberate the world
But not "those people" 'cause they got no oil
Sending thoughts and prayers

The decks are stacked
Be a good boy and you'll come back to debts
You're trapped
They chewed you up and spit you out

Deny oppression start the truce
It starts here with me and you
It's not a wasted vote
If there's enough of them

We're ending the control
Before we lose it all
Forever and beyond despair


4. THE TALE OF UNSOUND MINDS

When the winter comes
And the rations start to wane
Just remember who is who
Don't feed the Devil again

Cold confined
Isolated mind identified
Just stop the silence please
They're making forever last so long

And have we met before
Having a tough time placing a name with the face
Now I'm not so sure that I feel safe in this place

Strange obscure
Unsure of who you are anymore
Just stop the talking please
You're taking it wrong

Tell the tale of unsound minds
Amity so despised
Second-guess all your life
And cut out the fluff

The footsteps
The plague
The voices
The silence


5. DIVIDE AND CONQUER

Should have drowned in the pool but it was too shallow
Swimming on in a puddle that's how low
Holy gods and monsters we beg to follow
Need to know who has stopped and who's full go

Divide and conquer you
Is there nothing we can do
Got you on a leash locked down

Second-guessed on a vote that you cast in protest
Better keep it closer to the vest
Separation of church and state so clouded
Wonder now if God should stay or go

Divide and conquer you
Now we wonder who is who
Feel the sharpest teeth while the world bleeds
Divide and conquer you
Is there nothing we can do
Got you on a leash locked down

Divide and conquer you
Now we wonder who is who
Feel the sharpest teeth while the world bleeds
Divide and conquer you
Is there nothing we can do
Got you on a leash locked down


6. YEAR OF THE GOAT

Threaten me with good times
And you'll see who's the swine
I'd much rather work things in than work things out
Struck down hard and in love
Taken back and abandoned disposed
At what point did you hear me say I'm yours

It's better to lose a friend
Than to feed an enemy again

In the year of the goat
I'm a fucking ram
Don't fool yourself with a dream
You're nightmare's my domain

It's the year of the goat

I've been kissed by the gods
'Cause I'm their favorite child
Bless your heart someone needs to haul the trash
Chance the lucky 13
Life is good when you sip the cream
Test your skills and the blessings will rub off

It's better to lose a friend
Than to feed an enemy again

In the year of the goat
I'm a fucking ram
Don't fool yourself with a dream
You're nightmare's my domain

It's the year of the goat
It's the year of the goat

Threaten me with good times
And you'll see who's the swine
I'd much rather work things in than work things out
Struck down hard and in love
Taken back and abandoned disposed
At what point did you hear me say I'm yours

It's the year of the goat
It's the year of the goat
The goat


7. TAKEN BY FLAMES

Ready to face the odds
I'm in better company
Failure to break the curse
I was told - you're never going to be someone
Look at me now
Outside the cold screams - make your fires

And I was told time to carry the load
While in a state of shock
Crashed and burned preachers leeches at every turn
Save the flock
Save them from their lives
When did you learn - how old were you when you found

Found the truth was a ruse
And the ruse was a goddamn lie
It keeps me up in arms

Where is your soul
It might be inside of the prophet's cloak
Crying burning up
And now the writ has come
Mobs on the street who want blood
Taken by flames rattling their cages

Forsaken no family or friends
Just a game of luck
Lost your turn where's your horseshoe
Mobs on the street
Playing for keeps
Making them pay pleased to meet you you're done

'Cause the truth was a ruse
And the ruse was a goddamn lie
It keeps me up in arms

Where is your soul
It might be inside of the prophet's cloak
Crying burning up

And now your kids are stoned
Poisoning each of their souls
Laugh in your face and kill you for your wages
And now the writ has come
Mobs on the street who want blood
Taken by flames rattling their cages

And now your kids are stoned
Poisoning each of their souls
Laugh in your face and kill you for your wages
And now the writ has come
Mobs on the street who want blood
Taken by flames rattling their cages


8. DEFECTUM OMNIUM / STOLEN HOPE

Non est spe ruina enim prope est
Eadem passi sumus finis omnium
Non est spe ruina enim prope est
Eadem passi sumus finis omnium

Lying in a pool of hot sweat tired and awake in fright
Morning brings the scars that come at night
Stupidity's exhausting when did you think they'd care
Tearing down your walls as you build theirs
Got no time for babies keep scrolling past the death
Maybe someone else should take a stand

For every hater that surrounds us
For every creep that isn't one of us
Gonna feed their hunger off of your stolen hope

Don't bother seeking darkness it'll always come for you
Says the one who went too goddamn far
Hunting the witch is easy it's catching her that's hard
Are you giving chase or on the run

For every hater that surrounds us
For every creep that isn't one of us
Gonna feed their hunger off of your stolen hope

When did you think they'd care
Keep scrolling past the death
Maybe someone else should take a stand
Don't bother seeking darkness
It'll always come for you
Are you giving chase or on the run


9. THREE STAGES OF TRUTH / LACING THE WELL

Before you stab me
Be sure to kiss and love me
Shapeshifter rise
And lace the well

Not sure how I feel
Not sure I'm capable of more
Gave up on my soul
And I've acquired this indifference
To your never ending banal offerings

I hope you find
The peace and help you clearly need
Now we're polarized
And you're the negative

Slip through the dark
Just like game fish play the depths
Adapting shapeshifter rise
Before you stab me
Be sure to kiss and love me
The trail of corpses says it all

But you'll be fine
Big things are coming soon
A cunning Gemini
Harpoon in hand

Somehow the lights stayed on
And all the food tastes better
Inflated sense of self
I haven't missed a goddamn thing

Fiends wander in your mind
Deep in survival mode
Interrupting harmony
And lacing the well

Somehow the lights stayed on
And all the food tastes better
Inflated sense of self
I haven't missed a goddamn thing

Fiends wander your mind
Deep in survival mode
Interrupting harmony
And lacing the well
And lacing the well

And lacing the well


10. SEDITION

Welcome to the shake up ladies and gentlemen
Disorder made to order at it again
No stranger to deceit liberate the weak
Somebody just upset the apple cart

Rise waken train
Switched on blitzkrieg end

Coup d'etat is just a nice way
Of saying revolution's on
When sedition takes the crown

They'll try to tell you how to vote
Then tax you till you're broke
For their pensions as your tensions grow
To them we're obsolete
Obedient sheep
Dish up the plates and serve the crow

Rise waken train
Switched on blitzkrieg end

Coup d'etat is just a nice way
Of saying revolution's on
Mercy won't be found
When sedition takes the crown

Welcome to the riot
Street rats and mobs
Disorder made to order beckon the call
No longer their disease
We're taking to the streets
Cities are burning as they fall

'Cause the revolution's on

Rise waken train
Switched on blitzkrieg end

Coup d'etat is just a nice way
Of saying revolution's on
Better run for shelter
Keep your head down
When sedition takes the crown


11. DESENSITIZED

Wild adolescents no empathy about them
Playing the knockout game carjack the matriarch
Ignore the needy in overflowing shelters
Step right over the homeless bums and filthy scum

In the seas of darkness they'll just refuse the light
Throw them a line they'll only choke you harder
Your cries for help will only turn them on

Diseased destroyed - devoid of empathy
Always taking never giving left behind
There's no future when we're all desensitized

Discarded lessons exchanged for social follows
Crowd panicked crushing headline goes to the stars
Unwanted vagrants shamed and humiliated
Took several days to find the murder-suicide

How can they be so heartless such disregard for life
Today the good Samaritan's no longer stopping
Their cries for help a trap to kill us all

Diseased destroyed - devoid of empathy
Always taking never giving left behind
There's no future when we're all desensitized

Desolate minds grow weary of the hardship
Stick up the night clerk terroristic threats to plot
Abandoned infants never knew the love of Mother
The world becoming nothing more than piles of shit

Could we all do something before all hope should die
With good intent no one needs a fucking martyr
Cities are burning as the soulless march on

Diseased destroyed - devoid of empathy
Always taking never giving left behind
There's no future when we're all desensitized


12. YOUR SIX

When you can't go on and the fight is gone
Finding nothing more to give
At the crest of the hill you'll see their blood spill
And revive the will to live

When your six is strong the will to carry on
Feeds the brave as they put back surrender

If your comrades fall backed against the wall
And it's certain all is lost
Bring to mind the ones that you call your home
Summon courage at any cost

When your six is strong the will to carry on
Feeds the brave as they put back surrender

The night turns to day in the firefight's glow
War is merely life when your life's a war

When your six is strong the will to carry on
Feeds the brave as they put back surrender

From a father to son follow the sun
To the ones you call your home