1. HELLO CRUEL WORLD

Your popularity contest veiled as a revolution
Wallow in misery, suffer your celebrity
Hold your status above me
Hold it high above me
Wallow in your misery, suffer your celebrity
You hold a special place in my heart with handshakes and smiling faces...
...and all your actions, they have a reason
Premeditated compliments
Your life - contorted, contrived - and you play the part so well
In their lives i've seen compromise but i will not compromise
Your game, your rules, you win
I am their slave
I'm just a pawn in their game
Labels make the best the best targets
Persecution is its own reward so still you carry your cross for all to see
Why live without an audience?
In their lives i've seen compromise but i will not compromise
Complacent slave!


2. PURGATORY

We'll all suffer for what we've done
We pay no mind but we're all guilty
We were created and will be taken away just the same
And we'll beg and plead and wish and fade away
No heaven no hell no here no now
False sense fooled by society we've been deceived betrayed once again
I have taken part and for that i am at fault
I've lent a hand in destroying humanity
We'll be judged we'll be punished we'll take responsibility once and for all
No heaven no hell no here no now!


3. MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD

Count me out of your aspirations
As i tear down your ambitions
No devotion, no obligation
As contagions fill the air
You've exhausted every option
It's time to tear you down
I will not surrender my soul
Tighten the noose around our necks
Tighten the noose around my soul...

To live and die in new york city

They measure success by what i possess
Where once was a heart there's a hole in my chest
Are you satisfied?
Under filthy streets - subhuman screams
In desperate times we live by desperate means
Are you satisfied?
I said what i meant and i meant just what i said
New york is in flames and the sidewalk cracks are shallow graves for this stolen city
It's burning down - then sink manhattan and let them drown
Their hollow souls crumble against the best laid plans of rats and men
I dare you to be real
To make your mark is to die face up on flaming asphalt
Your corpse will speak for itself


4. SHADOWBOXING

Your fighting yourself - against these same walls
Your own opposition - and you're at it again
In the mirror your hands clenched - it's fists against flesh
In the shadows in the mirrors it's deja vu again it's you once again
The same walls your blood shatters - it's you against you
What do you have to prove? - there's nothing i can do
But watch yourself fight yourself - into a corner
Got yourself against the ropes
Fight against yourself and you will always win
Shadowboxing
Kill yourself fight yourself
Tear down the blood walls with shadowed swings
And you've won once again
Fight yourself kill your self and you've won again
Exclusive adversary personal opposition


5. CRUCIFIX ESCAPIST

Dead souls rising to the jailers of the dying
Hear our crying as we cast thy sinners down
An angel fell from hell with its wings aflame
Having served my time in your paradise of torture and despair
To play the harps of sin
Crucifix escapist
But you don't realize fight yourself you'll always win


7. DEAD

Every day is another nail in your coffin
Sealed inside and forgetting all light
Take as much as you can -shove it down
And coke on the best years of your life
This is life - so welcome to it
This is life - it's the way it is
This is life - so get used to it
This is life - it doesn't get any better than this
Sacrifice every part of yourself and each day you will never get back
And no matter how much you give
They will still take it - take it all away
Take it - take it all away
You will never survive this life
You gave too much of yourself away
You can't survive this life - you're dead
You've sealed yourself away


7. HALLOWED BE THY NAME

I question the sin
Systemized beliefs organized
Identity in honor in fear
At the mercy so we worship
The lies are not the host
Stockholm syndrome - passed down, let down
Promise me salvation, promise me deliverance
Who should i fall for?
Who should i fall to?
Who should i die for?
Who will collapse me?
For those i love i will sacrifice not for those i've never seen
Hallowed be thy name
Sealed away from the rest of the world