1. PANDEMIC PARANOIA

Seeker of untraveled path
Driven by relentless wrath
Discount the consequence
Unmoved by their credence
Dejection
Hysteria
Pandemic
Paranoia
To crave, undeniable
The urge, unfathomable
Enthused by a heap of pain
Bemused, mystified, arcane
Idiocy
Illusion
Madness
Exclusion
No sense of belonging
Nowhere to feel at home
Not much left to choose
Got nothing to lose
Fright of decline
No sign of the divine
Faith dictated
Terror instigated
Blasphemed by birth
Stained the ruined earth
Compelled to offend
Hail this bitter end
Winds still blow
Birds still crow
Rivers flow
Fires glow
This is a
Final go
Light shines
Again one day
Old scars may
Fade away
Light - may shine
One distant day
Scars - may fade
Away
No sense of belonging
Nowhere to feel at home
Not much left to choose
Got nothing to lose
Fright of decline
No sign of the divine
Faith dictated
Terror instigated
Blasphemed by birth
Stained the ruined earth
Compelled to offend
Hail this bitter end


2. BLACK ROSE DEFLOWERED

I'm a Shahrzad
Of my own tale
Sun is rising

No plea for life
I'm no longer
Tantalizing

Don't want to open my eyes to another day
Don't want to talk cause I've got nothing to say

End my hour
Black Rose is
Not a Flower

You were born to be a mark of power
Red Roses you deflowered
You ended, their hour
You ended, their hour
You ended
Dawn of our awakening my fall
I've got one last desire
I was born a flower
I was born a flower
I was born

Beautiful Roses were always red
Yellow bud was a mark of Hatred

Don't want to open my eyes to another day
Don't want to talk cause I've got nothing to say

Into black I now metamorphose
Pull a veil over the yellow stein
Into black I now metamorphose
Hail the shame, take the blame, it's a game
Take the blame, it's a game (x5)


3. STRICKEN

In convolution trapped,
Emancipation we seek
Truth to be unwrapped,
In our frail mask besieged
Time goes by, instants die,
Life’s not worth, living twice
My tales die, hands trail,
Traces of, formless thoughts

Today we fight the monsters,
Tomorrow we’re new ones
As we breathe the stale air,
We seethe against each other (x2)

Mornings dawn, lights shine,
Sights shadowed as night
Truth to be unwrapped,
In our frail mask besieged
Time goes by, instants die,
Life’s not worth, living twice
My tales die, hands trail,
Traces of, formless thoughts
Oppressor and oppressed need each other,
Everyone seems to be one or the other
You’ve got to be exploited or exploit,
Oh yeah, be one or the other

Is there something to uncover,
A reason to life to discover
Is reality just in our minds?
An error that easily blinds

Screaming at the outer craze,
My mind turns to inner haze (x3)
Inner haze(x4)

Truth to be unwrapped,
In our frail mask besieged
Time goes by, instants die,
Life’s not worth, living twice


Today we fight the monsters,
Tomorrow we’re new ones
As we breathe the stale air,
We seethe against each other (x2)


4. DISCIPLINE AND DISTORTION

When they have their eyes on you
Sometimes you wish you’d fade away
You’ve got to flee their surmise
They think you’ve been led astray
Feels like you live in disguise
Indoctrinated despise
Your mask is what defines you
It’s the swine that defies you

Discipline and correction
Distortion of the spirit
Engrossed in our confusion
Senses are lost, chaos reigns
Anger's what drives my art
I scream not to fall apart


I like a distorted sound
Twisted, turned and unbound
Anger - drives my art
I scream not to fall apart
Do away with details, unruliness prevails
But I discern the meaning
You were so demeaning

Discipline and correction
Distortion of the spirit
Engrossed in our confusion
Senses are lost, chaos reigns
Anger's what drives my art
I scream not to fall apart


Discipline and correction
Distortion of the spirit
Engrossed in our confusion
Senses are lost, chaos reigns
Anger's what drives my art
I scream not to fall apart


Sun glares down on bare roads, we race
Cold wind blows our faces, we pace
You spare the experience that I embrace
You spare the experience that I embrace