1. BOUND

There's always a cage in search of a bird
We're chained
Bound by a choice, betrayed by our words
We're framed
Like rats in a lab, behave for rewards
We're trained
And your thumb's up your ass
As you wait for a change

I'm sick of things the way they are

Our longings and assumptions
Become our leashes

There is a cage around your mind,
Around my heart, but we still deny
A sinking ship, an albatross
Bound together in a paradise lost

We always get close but we can't
Or won't understand
We're drained
With stars around our heads
And blood on our hands
We're stained
We could be more but
We'd rather pretend
A sick game
Get close but we can't...

When the mercury's rising
And the sky is falling
And your TV has drowned out
A world that's calling
Don't try to tell me
You cannot, you will not,
You won't see it coming
It's too late
"I'm sorry" will all mean nothing


2. THE DUST OF CENTURIES

They've done it for some gold
We've done it for petrol
They'll do it for your souls
'Cause the monkey with the beard said so

Beneath the dust of centuries
Lie parliaments and majesties
And everything and nothing
Is it in our blood? Or in books we read?
In narrow bands of light we see?
Still trying to find an essence

There's a signal in the noise
That's created and destroyed
There's a dust we can't avoid
The scavengers will claim the spoils

Is this what they wanted?
Are we the dream?
Is this the foreseen dystopia?
Is a paradise buried
Beneath the centuries?
We're always somewhere in between


3. A BLIND SPOT IN EVERY EYE

Everyone I know is holding a grudge
There's too few ears, there's too many tongues
And there's a blind spot in every eye
It's not just you and me, it's not the first time

Out of sight
You're out of your mind
Still trying to see
Don't realize you're blind

In every eye...

Seeing for yourself
It's just a fraction, only a fraction
We've made a maze from those narrow waves
Now we're stuck in delerium

In every eye...


4. RED LINES

The catalyst that we can't talk about
When our eyes turn to glass
And the walls start to come down
One night on the floor
One night against the wall
Everytime tracking the cracks in my skull

We've spun on red lines
We start at the end
We've dropped down red lines
And we held our breath

Everything gets deranged now
But I'm still trying to become the change
You can't stop what has begun
With the radio, acid, and a gun


5. I'M PRETTY MUCH FUCKED

Scar me with your loveless hands
Consume me with your shameless want
Dig your claws into my flesh
Now I know you're having fun
You should have known that I'd bite back
Did you think that I forgot?
I don't know how you call that love
I don't think that I can stop

I'm pretty much fucked

Your taste, your smell, your love
You had to rub it in my face
Twist all that I said
Exploit my weaknesses
But now you'll have to pay


6. ANOTHER EMPIRE FALLS

(Instrumental)


7. DARKHALL

Things are getting slippery
Things are getting kinda crazy
Maybe it's all in my head
Maybe it's just the way you make me feel

Even after all these years
The only thing that keeps me here
Is gravity and fragments of reality
I thought were real
And even when we die, there's nothing new
We just don't move, don't need to breathe
We'll leave long shadows
Until we come back to bleed

'Cause it is always the way it is
We now know it's nothing
The truth is make-believe
And it will be just the way that it will be
We now know it's nothing
The truth is make-believe

Say what you want to say
No one is listening anyway
The world's on fire, but at least you entertained
So we close our eyes and add fuel to the flames

Even after all these years
The only thing that keeps me here
Is gravity, depravity, and one last chance to be
The one who's in your head, in your face,
Between your legs, between the seeds
The one who takes you, awakes you,
And makes you see


8. DOWN HERE

Down here it makes no difference
Logic only gets you so far
Down here we take turns being wicked
Like iron fists in velvet gloves

I wish it wasn't so complicated

Today
Might be the day
Everything could change
Today
We hope to be saved
From the hell we create

It comes together painfully slow
Down here there's so much resistance
Down here we'll push
And they will pull
Down here we call this existence

Today
Might be the day
Everything could change
Today
We hope to be saved
From the hell we create

I can't believe we've made it this far
But that could change at any moment
I can't believe that it's been so hard
But that could change at any moment


9. TELL

I just have to remember
To tell myself
Things will get better
I tell myself

A million times
I tell myself
I tell myself
I tell myself

Don't try to tell me
I used to believe


10. THE WORLD BEHIND THE WORLD

(Instrumental)


11. INDEPENDENCE DAY

I live in the shadows of cleptocrats
And brothels on Pennsylvania Ave.
With children of the leviathan
Out for blood, whatever it takes to win

So let's face it
Many don't mind another whitewash
'Cause they sure love the hegemony
Paying lip service to justice
Through symbols and through pageantry

We can move forward, we can escape
I remember on Independence Day
We can move backwards, repeat the mistakes
The choices we made on Independence Day

We perpetuate the legacy
Of empire and of tyranny
If children of the leviathan
Are blinded by the womb they're nourished in

So let's face it
No longer can we export injustice
And call it national security
So we must fight for independence
From illusions of democracy


12. BULLET

It felt like a bright idea at the time
I guess it always feels that way
I knew it would be soon, or sooner or later
I didn't think it'd be today

You put me away
I gave you the bullet
You put me away
I gave you the bullet
That put me away...

We are just like strung-out crackwhores
The only difference is the drug we crave
I was about to light myself on fire
But then love got in the way

But you put me away
I gave you the bullet
You put me away
I gave you the bullet
That put me away...

Don't be surprised by the blowback
All those guns and bombs you've sold
To distant lands for proxy wars
What was it all for?