1. ANTHEM FOR THE MENTALLY SCARRED

Drowning in blood from the scars of the past
Conflicting hemispheres will it not pass
But what the mind does not know is greater than knowing
Clot in the blood through the mind is flowing
Visions in the brain
Erratic Mental Strain
The course through which twisted perception is gained
No truth will be spoken or known
Unwanted information in a mind that will never be shown
Dishonest humans speaking for what they want known
Lingering in their mind is the truth that will never be shown
I will purge myself this common sickness
While reflecting my true past shaping the person within
Lying through your face to me is the only sin
With paranoia high and patience getting in
I unleash my mind in its true form
So self denial shall I be born

[Solo Rhone]

Drowning in blood from the scars of the past
Conflicting hemispheres will it not pass
But what the mind does not know is greater than knowing
Clot in the blood through the mind is flowing
I unleash my mind in its true form
So self denial shall I be born


2. ALCOHOLIC RELIGIOUS FANATICS

Welcome to this place where Christianity is law
For those that mindlessly commit themselves for social acceptance
But the fear of God only lasts for three hours a week in church
Then it's back to drinking booze and beating their wives

You drink
You hate
You pray
You're fake

You lie
You rape
No shame
You're saved

Disgusting hypocrisy is all around us
And they drink every day into oblivion
So judgmental of anyone
Who does not go to church and drink with them

Then they mix the alcohol
With pharmaceuticals that makes them blackout
This brings out the violence
That makes them crush their cars beat their children rape and their wives
Pray all you want you will always be a heathen
It's obvious to me that you hate your lives
Because the pressures of life and what is expected
From this ridiculous religious society

The preacher is on his drinking binge again
To help him cope with his own homosexual tendencies
He is ready for all of you to confess your sins
And judge you for not believing in God

You drink
You hate
You pray
You're fake

You lie
You rape
No shame
You're saved

[Solo Toler-Wade]


3. KEEPING UP WITH THE JONES

There is no hope of future
For the once thriving and competitive middle class
Most of them are dependent on prescription drugs
To escape the pathetic existence that became their lives

No more showing off your fancy car
No more bragging about your house or television
Hustling the streets to make a quick dollar
Just to keep up with the jones

They never want to leave the cradle of their misled intoxicated youth
Extremely ill prepared for unwanted responsabilities
Now they stay sedated just to cope with their neglected children
Willlingly systematically keeping up with the jones

Manic generation
With lortabs methadone and totem poles
Hillbilly heroine
Chewing on morphine patches
On the outside the house looks new
On the inside they live in filth
No self esteem or ambition left
Just keeping up with the jones

No more showing off your fancy car
No more bragging about your house or television
Hustling the streets to make a quick dollar
Just to keep up with the jones

[Solo Toler-Wade]
[Solo Rhone]

It is time for a great intervention before its too late
Education is essential in a world of misinformation
You must have the respect to be honest with yourself
Stop lying and making excuses to justify keeping up with the jones


4. THE SHACKLES OF SOBRIETY

You live in fear
But it feels so good you just don't care
Afraid to face the day with a normal state of mind
You cannot function in reality without being intoxicated
Then you get to that place where you become so frustrated
Too wasted to function
Dependent on your drug of choice
You must break the Shackles of sobriety
Searching for that fine line between brilliance and intoxication
Forever drowning in those bottles
You are suffocating but think you're so alive
You fear sobriety

[Solo Toler-Wade]
[Solo Rhone]

Once a new sensation
Now a total binge
Loving that twisted feeling
Getting drunk is so appealing
To the point of spitting verbal venom in disgust
When was the last time you spent a day without getting high
Do you remember what it's like
You feel you cannot express yourself without chopping lines
Now it's just a part of the daily grind
Too wasted to function
Dependent on your drug of choice
You must break the Shackles of sobriety
Searching for that fine line between brilliance and intoxication
Forever drowning in those bottles
You are suffocating but think you're so alive
You fear sobriety


5.ADDICTED TO JUNK

Living from one fix to another
Hopeless addictive personality
Has no chance against a drug like heroin
It will take control of every aspect of your life
Then one day you drown in your vomit and die
Leaving nothing behind but bad memories debt and sorrow

You betray your familiy
You betrayed your friends
You betrayed yourself

Look into the mirror and despise
The person you see is no longer there
Hearts exploding noses bleeding ruptured vessels in the brain
Shattered future forgotten past you will never be the same
You think the rules of nature do not apply to you
Ignoring All you have learned from your overdosing friends
Hearts exploding noses bleeding ruptured vessels in the brain
Shattered future forgotten past you will never be the same
[Solo Rhone]
If you are ignorant enough to become addicted to junk
Then one day you will die
You will ruin everything you have ever worked for
If you ever worked for anything
Leaving nothing behind but the worst of memories
Your family will feel guilty but relieve that it's over
You think the rules of nature do not apply to you
Ignoring All you have learned from your overdosing friends
Hearts exploding noses bleeding ruptured vessels in the brain
Shattered future forgotten past you will never be the same
[Solo Rhone]
You become a shadow of your former self
An empty fiend heroin zombie on the edge of life and death


6. WIDESPREAD NARCOTIC WASTELAND

The epidemic that threatens us today
Grows in the streets stronger every day
Pushing drugs on impressionable youth
For nothing but monetary gain
Then you hear the gunshots
Stray bullets go through my son's bedroom wall
Luckily he was not home that day
When domestic gunfire erupts at the neighbor's house

Widespread narcotic wasteland
And for those who are not fiends
Protect your family with your life

A world of thieves and wannabe gangsters
Murderers of innocents
With selfish ignorance
Turning my quiet neighborhood
Into a dangerous place to be
Wasting away this gift of life
With dealing stealing and violent crimes
When I thought things could not get worse
A meth lab exploded a block of my house
What would they do for a crack rock
Would they suck me off or try to steal my guitars
Once trustworthy friends
Now compulsive liars in the county jailbird paper

Widespread narcotic wasteland
And for those who are not fiends
Protect your family with your life

[Solo TOler-Wade]

Addiction violence and confusion
With no way to escape
They turn to the only thing they know
Doing anything for that temporary fix
To escape from reality
Born into poverty in the land of supposed opportunity
Raised in the most toxic of environments
We need inner strenght to break this viscious cycle
And help pave the way for our youth
So they can escape this narcotic wasteland


7. COASTAL KILLINGS

Abused as a child
Blunt force trauma
Taught only violence
Not raised just growing
Mutating to a special mind
That gives me the permission to kill
Stealing raping murdering
Just to get rid of those bothersome feelings
In and out reform school
Forced into sexual slavery
Then later into prison
Desensitized insane
Cruising the coast of Carolina
Wielding my Arkansas toothpick
Looking for the next victim
To torture rape and slay
Oh Carolina
Home to the meanest son of a bitch that ever lived
From burning barns to sodomizing children
Oh Carolina
Her forests and swamps tremble in fear
Rural country living has created a monster
I walk the same path as God
By taking lives and making others afraid
I become God's equal
Through killing others I became my own master
Through my own power I come to my redemption
Cruising the coasts of Carolina
Wielding my Arkansas toothpick
Looking for the next victim
To torture rape and slay


8. AWAKEN THE HERD BEAST

I loath humanity
Despise your ignorance
A world of hatred the infectious breed
Taught from birth not to question or to think for yourself
Restricting mental growth the oblivious will descend
Awaken the herd beast make them feel their lie
Shallow little existence forever trapped inside
Outdated books and scriptures
I loathe humanity let religion die
Awaken the herd beast
Embrace the animal lust
Realize knowledge and science
I despise your ignorance
Forever dying within those pags
You refuse to open your mind
TO the possibilities of free will
Religion for the masses designed for control
To keep you weak and humble
Shackled by a fairy tale
You flaunt your paper lie
You live in fear of your god
A god that makes you ashamed
Awaken the herd beast
Embrace the animal lust
Realize knowledge and science

9. ABSENT FRIENDS

Your are lost but not forgotten
You are with me everyday
All of the friends I had
That threw their lives away
The mark they made on space and time
Like the addict they became is fading away
The epidemic is growing
Taking more lives everyday
Some drugs are even perscripted by a doctor
They take advantage of people in every way
I wish somehow
That I could have made them change
Make them see how important they were
To themselves and the people around them
They became slaves to the substance
They could not help themselves
They could not realize
So they passed away
I tried to encourage them
To embrace their talents and crafts
They could not realize
They passed away