DISC 1

1. SKIN O'MY TEETH

I had wrists donning slits
Flowing constantly
My broken body in a wreck
Wrapped around a tree
A crosswalk hit and run
The finish line for me
People clutter in the gutter
Take a look and see

[Chorus]
No escaping pain
You belong to me
Clinging on to life
By the skin o'my teeth

My blood flows through the streets
Deluge from the wounds
Empty jars of sleeping pills
On the dresser in my room
My wet brain neighbor cranes
His neck to see in time
The white lights a train
Bearing down on me

[Chorus]

I won't feel the hurt
I'm not trash any longer
That that doesn't kill me
Only makes me stronger
I need a ride to the morgue
That's what 911 is for
So, tag my toe and don't forget
Ooh to close the drawer

[Chorus]


2. HANGAR 18

Welcome to our fortress tall
Take some time to show you around
Impossible to break these walls
For you see the steel is much too strong
Computer banks to rule the world
Instruments to sight the stars

Possibly I've seen too much
Hangar 18 I know too much.

Foreign life forms inventory
Suspended State of cryogenics
Selective amnesia's the story
Believed foretold but who'd suspect
The military intelligence
Two words combined that can't make sense

Possibly I've seen too much
Hangar 18 I know too much.


3. WAKE UP DEAD

I sneak in my own house, it's four in the morning
I've had too much to drink, said I was out with the boys
I creep in my bedroom, and slip into bed
I know if I wake her, I'll wake up dead

I wonder... will she find out about the others?
Other lovers... Diana

Wake up dead, you die
Wake up dead and buried
Wake up dead, you die
Wake up dead


4. RECKONING DAY

I like the way that I make you itch
And all the reasons I give you to bitch
And how I make you wanna scream in pain
And feel your life is just a losing game

I like the way that you let me in
The way you look when the walls cave in
I like the way that your stomach knots
And how you cry for it all to stop

I like the way that you fool yourself
And make believe there's nobody else
I like the way that you stand in line
And beg salvation from the empty skies

Don't want no revenge
Ain't no pay back time
It ain't called getting even
Here comes the reckoning day

I like the things that you try to fake
And your face when I see you break
And that you say you will pray for me
You realize you are prey for me

I like the way you stay on attack
No matter what, I keep coming back
And how you try to hold me down
But you end up driven to the ground


5. THIS WAS MY LIFE

It was just another day
It was just another fight
It was words strung into sentences
It was doomed to not be right

There is something wrong with me
There is something wrong with you
There is nothing left of us
There is one thing I can do

Lying on your bed
Examining my head
This is the part of me that hates
Paybacks are a bitch
I throw the switch
Somewhere an electric chair awaits
Hey ! This was my life
Hey ! This was my fate

This was the wrong thing to do
This was the wrong one to be doing
This was the road to destiny
This was the road to my ruin

Now there's motives for the suspect
Now there's nothing left to say
Now there's method to the madness
Now there's society to pay

[Chorus]

In our life there's if
In our beliefs there's lie
In our business there's sin
In our bodies there's die

This was my life
This was my fate


6. ANGRY AGAIN

The more of you that I inspect
The more of me I see reflect
The more I try to read your lips
The more the mask you're wearing rips

But when I seek out your voice
My ears are overcome with noise
You show and tell with greatest ease
Raving impossibilities

Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
Enraged my mind starts to smoke
Enforce a mental overload
Angry again, angry again, angry ow

And when the story takes a twist
If folds like a contortionist
Slight of hand and quick exchange
The old tricks have been rearranged

Engaged in crime i grasp my throat
Enraged my mind starts to smoke
Enforce a mental overload
Angry again, angry again, angry

The searing of the sinew
My body fights for air
The ripping of the tissue
My lungs begin to tear
Gravity's got my bones
It pulls my flesh away
The steam finally dissipates
I make out my sweaty face

Association that I choose
Game I inevitably lose
Governed by laws set up by me
Fracture it's jaw to let me be
A cut-out cardboard condo maze
Filled with an insubordinate race
Irrational youths stop to stare
As music rubber hosed the air

Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
Enraged my mind starts to smoke
Enforce a mental overload
Angry again, angry again, angry again
And again and again, again

Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
Enraged my mind starts to smoke
Enforce a mental overload
Angry again, angry again, angry ow


7. A TOUT LE MONDE

Don't remember where I was
I realized life was a game
The more seriously I took things
The harder the rules became
I had no idea what it'd cost
My life passed before my eyes
I found out how little I accomplished
All my plans denied

So as you read this know my friends
I'd love to stay with you all
Please smile when you think of me
My body's gone that's all

Tout le monde
Tout mes amis
Je vous aime
Je dois partir
These are the last words
I'll ever speak
And they'll set me free

If my heart was still alive
I know it would surely break
And my memories left with you
There's nothing more to say
Moving on is a simple thing
What it leaves behind is hard
You know the sleeping feel no more pain
And the living are scarred

Tout le monde
Tout mes amis
Je vous aime
Je dois partir [I have to leave]
These are the last words
I'll ever speak
And they'll set me free

So as you read this know my friends
I'd love to stay with you all
Please smile when you think of me
My body's gone that's all

(x2)
Tout le monde
Tout mes amis
Je vous aime
Je dois partir
These are the last words
I'll ever speak
And they'll set me free


8. IN MY DARKEST HOUR

In my hour of need, no, you're not there
And though I reached out for you, you wouldn't lend a hand
Through the darkest hour, your grace did not shine on me
Feels so cool, very cold, no one cares for me

Did you ever think I get lonely, did you ever that I needed love?
Did you ever think to stop thinking you're the only that I'm thinking of?
You'll never know how hard I tried, to find my space and satisfy you too

Things will be better when I'm dead and gone
Don't try to understand, knowing you, I'm probably wrong
But oh, how I lived my life for you, 'til you turn away
Now, as I die for you, my flesh still crawls as I breathe your name
All these years, I thought I was wrong, now I know it was you
Raise your head, raise your face, your eyes
Tell me who you think you are

I walk, I walk alone to the Promised Land
There's a better place for me, but it's far, far away
Everlasting life for me, in a perfect world
But I gotta die first
Please God, send me on my way

Time has a way of taking time, loneliness is not only felt by fools
Alone, I call to ease the pain, yearning to be held by you
Alone, so alone, I'm lost, consumed by the pain
The pain, the pain... won't you hold me again?
You just laughed, ha ha, you bitch
My whole life is work built on the past
The time has come when all things shall pass
This good thing passed away


9. TRAIN OF CONSEQUENCES

I'm doing you a favor
As I'm taking all your money
I guess I should feel sorry
But I don't even trust me
There's bad news creeping up
And you feel a sudden chill
How do you do? My name is trouble
I'm coming in for the kill...
And you know I will

Set the ball A-Rollin
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the train of consequences
My boxcar life O' style
My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The train of consequences
There ain't no turning back

No horse ever ran as fast
As the money that you bet
I'm blowing on my cards
And I play them to my chest
Life's fabric is corrupt
Shot through with corroded thread
As for me I hocked my brains
Packed my bags and headed west


10. THE KILLING ROAD

Again we stalk the stage
At mach speed we engage
Feeding people's rage
The big cat's left it's cage
Back in the bus again
To catch another plane
The behavior's quite insane
But we do it for the fame, yeah

I lost my mind, I lost all my money
I lost my life to the killing road

The road will never end
It always starts again
Another show's around the bend
Another long lost friend
Faceless as the snow
There's nothing special about the road
It's just another haul
It's just too damn long that's all, yeah


DISC 2

1. 99 WAYS TO DIE

If I see the morning hours
I'll have one more yesterday
Take life from tomorrow
Cause I’ve burned out my today

If I get up to the top i know
I'll just go back downhill
Gotta' terminal future
And it's time to write my will

Down another glass of courage
And a shot of thorazine

We're not ready to see you yet
99 ways to die
We're not ready to see you yet
Gotta' short between the earphones
Wringing my hands in dismay
A more efficient maniac
With two feet in the grave

Ain't got no last words to say
Yellow streak right up my spine
The gun in my mouth was real
And the taste blew my mind

In a black tie and straight jacket
Man I’m gonna try again

[Chorus]

Demitasse of arsenic
Try on this tie
Never mind the tree

There is only death and danger
In the sockets of my eyes
A playground of illusion
No one plays they only die

There's a prison in my mind
And the bars are gonna break
I'm as mad as a hatter
And strung out just the same

Taunting rigor mortis
I feel it draw me in


2. TORNADO OF SOULS

This morning I made the call
The one that ends it all
Hanging up, I wanted to cry
But dammit, this well's gone dry
Not for the money, not for the fame
Not for the power, just no more games
But now I'm safe in the eye of the tornado
I can't replace the lies, that let a 1000 days go
No more living trapped inside
In her way I'll surely die
In the eye of the tornado, blow me away

You'll grow to loathe my name
You'll hate me just the same
You won't need your breath
And soon you'll meet your death
Not from the years, not from the use
Not from the tears, just self abuse

Who's to say what's for me to say... be... do
Cause a big nothing it'll be for me
The land of opportunity
The golden chance for me
My future looks so bright
Now I think I've seen the light

Can't say what's on my mind
Can't do what I really feel
In this bed I made for me
Is where I sleep, I really feel
I warn you of the fate
Proven true to late
Your tongue twist perverse
Come drink now of this curse
And now I fill your brain
I spin you round again
My poison fills your head
As I tuck you into bed
You feel my fingertips
You won't forget my lips
You'll feel my cold breath
It's the kiss of death


3. HOLY WARS / THE PUNISHMENT DUE

Brother will kill brother
Spilling blood across the land
Killing for religion
Something I don't understand

Fools like me, who cross the sea
And come to foreign lands
Ask the sheep, for their beliefs
Do you kill on God's command?

A country that's divided
Surely will not stand
My past erased, no more disgrace
No foolish naive stand

The end is near, it's crystal clear
Part of the master plan
Don't look now to Israel
It might be in your homelands


5. SWEATING BULLETS

Hello me, meet the real me
And my misfits way of life
A dark, black past is my most valued possession
Hindsight is always 20-20, but looking back is still a bit fuzzy
You speak of mutually-assured destruction?
Nice story... tell it to Reader's Digest!

Feeling paranoid, true enemy or false friend?
Anxiety's attacking me and my air is getting thin
I'm in trouble for the things I haven't got to yet
I'm chomping at the bit and my palms are getting wet
Sweating bullets

Hello me, it's again
You can subdue, but never tame me
It gives me a migraine headache, sinking down to your level
You just keep on thinking it's my fault, and stay an inch or two outta kicking distance
Mankind has got to know his limitations

Feeling claustrophobic, like the walls are closing in
Bloodstains on my hands and I don't know where I've been
I'm in trouble for the things I haven't got to yet
I'm sharpening the axe and my palms are getting wet
Sweating bullets

Well me... it's nice talking to myself
A credit to dementia
Someday you too will know my pain, and smile its black-toothed grin
If the war inside my head won't take a day off, I'll be dead
My icy fingers claw your back, here I come again!

Feeling paranoid, true enemy or false friend?
Anxiety's attacking me and my air is getting thin
Feeling claustrophobic, like the walls are closing in
Bloodstains on my hands and I don't know where I've been

Once you committed me, now you've acquitted me
Claiming validity, for your stupidity
I'm chomping at the bit, I'm sharpening the axe
Oh, here I come again, oh
Sweating bullets


6. MECHANIX

Imagine you were at my station, and you brought your motor to me
You're a burner, yeah, a real motor car
Said you wanna get your order filled, made me shiver when I put it in
Pumping just won't do, ya know, luckily for you

Whoever thought you'd better at turnin' a screw than me?
I do it for my life
You made my driveshaft crank, made my pistons bulge
Made my ball bearings melt from the heat

We were shifting hard when we took off, put tonight all four on the floor
When we hit top end, ya know, it feels so slow
Said you wanna get your order filled, made me shiver when I put it in
Pumping just won't do, ya know, luckily for you

Whoever thought you'd better at turnin' a screw than me?
I do it for my life
You made my driveshaft crank, made my pistons bulge
Made my ball bearings melt from the heat
Oh yeah

I'm giving you my room service, you know it's more than enough
One more time, you know I'm in love
Said you wanna get your order filled, made me shiver when I put it in
Pumping just won't do, ya know, luckily for you

Whoever thought you'd better at turnin' a screw than me?
I do it for my life
You made my driveshaft crank, made my pistons bulge
Made my ball bearings melt from the heat


7. SYMPHONY OF DESTRUCTION

You take a mortal man,
And put him in control
Watch him become a god
Watch peoples heads a'roll
A'roll...

[Chorus]
Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes
Swaying to the Symphony...
Of Destruction

Acting like a robot
Its metal brain corrodes
You try to take its pulse
Before the head explodes
Explodes...

[Chorus]

The earth starts to rumble
World powers fall
A'warring for the heavens
A peaceful man stands tall
Tall...

[Chorus]


8. PEACE SELLS

Whadda ya mean I don't believe in God?
I talk to Him every day
Whadda ya mean I don't support your system?
I go to court when I have to
Whadda ya mean I can't get to work on time?
Got nothin' better to do
Whadda ya mean I don't pay my bills?
Why do you think I'm broke, huh?

If there's a new way, I'll be the first in line
But it better work this time

Whadda ya mean I hurt your feelings?
I didn't know you had any feelings
Whadda ya mean I ain't kind?
I'm just not your kind
Whadda ya mean I couldn't be the President of the United States of America?
Tell me something, it's still "We, the people", right?

If there's a new way, I'll be the first in line
But it better work this time

Can you put a price on peace?

Peace, peace sells
Peace, peace sells

Peace sells, but who's buyin'?
Peace sells, but who's buyin'?
Peace sells, but who's buyin'?

Peace sells, but who's buyin'?
Peace sells, but who's buyin'?
No, no no no
Peace sells