1. CONTROLLER

Go ahead and rise above
See how far you get on top
Held down just to impair you
We know who’s ahead of the game
You know who’ll get the blame
You’re in the grip of the controller

Do you really want it all back?
See how far you get on top
Held down just to impair you
It’s the fear that you can’t do right
See how you lose in your life
Cut down, they will impale you
Can you really get it on track?
You tried to make it all stop
Time will tell how much they denied you

You just got burnt by the controller
You just got burnt by the controller

You’ll never know how to react
You’re sucked to the very last drop
Time will tell what has been denied you
Are you clear in your mind and sight?
Are you clear right out of your head?
Just angry at things that have failed you
So you want to get it all back
You tried to make it all last
Tied down to control you

You just got burnt by the controller
You just got burnt by the controller

Go ahead and rise above
See how far you get on top
Held down just to impair you
We know who’s ahead of the game
You know who’ll get the blame
You’re in the grip of the controller

Controller

You just got burnt by the controller
You just got burnt
You just got burnt by the controller
You just got burnt

You just got burnt by the controller
You just got burnt
You just got burnt by the controller
You just got burnt


2. CAPRICE

Put me right through the ringer
Run around with eyes on whatever
Cut right down to half a member
Mended back given no hope
Scheming minds, new intentions
Leave it broke flat begging for more

You’ve made up your mind
Whatever comes to your head
Can never rely

Everything points to the wrong direction
Everything leading to any early decline
Can’t take this any longer
I’ll tell you right now hate’s on the rise
Just can’t deal with anymore wavering
Can’t fit into anyone’s lies
Take your eyes to a brand new picture
Reach for one more impulse buy

You’ve made up your mind
Whatever comes to your head
Can never rely on nothing

Oh yeah it’s me the loser
Oh yeah did everything wrong
Go ahead with all your craving
Go ahead and yearn for more

You’ve made up your mind
Whatever comes to your head
Can never rely on nothing

Whatever comes to your head
You can never rely
You can never rely


3. RUDE AWAKENING

Another rude awakening
The hard life that’s been our school
More of a cruel day’s reckonings
Our prime time used up too soon

There is no kindness to waste
Why help those crying for more
It spins you around takes you for a ride
What is the point to even try
Somehow got to learn to accept the rejection

The tired thoughts from troubling
A weary mind from worrying
Your constant fears upon wakening
Your real life left in your dreams

There is no kindness to waste
Why help those crying for more
It spins you around takes you for a ride
What is the point to even try
Somehow got to learn to accept the rejection

Accept the rejection
Accept the rejection

Yeah

Another
Another

Another rude awakening
The hard life that’s been our school
More of a cruel day’s reckonings
Our prime time used up too soon

There is no kindness to waste
Why help those crying for more
It spins you around takes you for a ride
What is the point to even try
Somehow got to learn to accept the rejection


4. UNFORTUNATELY

Confusions born here every day
Spinning circles upon my brain
No idea which way to go
Roam around without a home
So fucking lost, invalidated
So brought down, demasculated
All the joy just disappeared
Another bed full of tears

Hope dissolved, degenerated
The negative has penetrated
No wish for sympathy
It’s all a mystery to me

Coming apart at the seems
Wanna be alone for the rest of my years
Don’t come inside leave it to me
To go on unfortunately

Unfortunately

Confusions born here every day
Spinning circles upon my brain
No idea which way to go
Roam around without a home

All my wishes evaporated
Insecurities saturated
So many flaws reappeared
The wrong way I tend to steer

Coming apart at the seems
Wanna be alone for the rest of my years
Don’t come inside leave it to me
To go on unfortunately

Unfortunately

Unfortunately
Unfortunately


5. FACE VALUE

You’ve never come close to seeing what I’ve always had to face
Image blatant and obvious what’s there more to asses
Never looking beyond the frontal all your present fears
I hope to never be caught again by visions too clear

Erase it - deface it - conceal it

Just take it for the face value
Concealment, nonetheless
Just take it for the face value
You never know what you may get

A wise man carried on about what you see is what you get
I’ve peeled off covers, revealing what I want to forget
Why not go base yourself on simple visages
Scarring the complexion or scratching the surface

Just take it for the face value
Concealment, nonetheless
Just take it for the face value
You never know what you may get

You never know what you may get
Face value - face value

Erase it - deface it - conceal it

Just take it for the face value
Concealment, nonetheless
Just take it for the face value
You never know what you may get

Face value
Face value
Face value


6. AVENUE OF THE FINEST

Why should I devalue my position
Do I need to be part of the fold
Don’t need any sort of reason
I’ll just go and follow my own path

Take note of this - anyone can trip
Take note of this - you can walk with the best

Take note of this - anyone can trip
Take note of this - you can walk with the best
Take note of this - anyone can strip
Take note of this - you can walk with the best
Walking with the finest

Why should I sell myself short
Should I lower my ideals and standards
Must I settle for hand-me-downs
I deserve the best my mind can do

I can do

Take note of this - anyone can trip
Take note of this - you can walk with the best
Take note of this - anyone can miss
Take note of this - you can walk with the best
Walking with the finest

I think I know which road to go
It leads up to the very top
I don’t need your sense of direction
You can just stumble on and on
I think I know which road to go
It leads up to the very top
I don’t need your sense of direction
You can just stumble on and on

Take note of this - anyone can miss
Take step of trip - anyone can miss
Take note of this - you can walk with the best
Take note of this - anyone can miss
Take note of this - you can walk with the best
Walking with the finest


7. SLICING

Never had a thought so how can you see me
A man without a mind can never judge evenly
Forever passing judgment compared to a fraud
I’ll never pare up I’ll only distort your sight

Only distort your sight
Only distort your sight
Only distort your sight
Only distort your sight

It don’t matter knife in your hand
I’ll cut you down with a knife in my head
It don’t matter knife in my hand
You can never mend it with a knife in your head

I want a slice can I carve evenly
A man with no part moves so passively
Can I cut you up can I say you’re a fraud
You’ll never pare up I’ll only destroy your size

I want a slice can I carve evenly
A man with no part moves so passively
Can I cut you up can I say you’re a fraud
You’ll never pare up I’ll only destroy your size

Only destroy your size
Only destroy your size
Only destroy your size
Only destroy your size

It don’t matter knife in your hand
I’ll cut you down with a knife in my head
It don’t matter knife in my hand
You can never mend it with a knife in your head

Never had a thought so how can you see me
A man without a mind can never judge evenly
Forever passing judgment compared to a fraud
I’ll never pare up I’ll only distort your sight

Knife in my head
Knife in my head
Knife in your hand
Knife in your hand


8. WITHOUT HOPE

I just know it’s all gone wrong
Feeling all the pressure can’t weather the storm
Cause I kept myself in a cage
All wound up and filled with rage

I just know it’s all gone wrong
Feeling all the pressure can’t weather the storm
Cause I kept myself in a cage
All wound up and filled with rage

Forgive oneself of nothing at all
Pounding my head against the wall
Guilt ridden and bound to lose
Puncture my wounds won’t see the truth
I looked in the mirror what did I see
One man bitter with apathy
The whole thing turned out to be a joke
But I’m not laughing I’m without hope

I’m without hope

It’s never well thought out
Just my instant demise
Haste and hatred my inner desire
I’m so bitter the hurt inside
Haste and hatred my inner desire

Ruptured I’ve lost it all
My heart ripped out can’t stand at all
Cause I’ve cost my brain to never relax
Picking at all the torturous facts
I just know it’s all gone wrong
Feeling all the pressure can’t weather the storm

It’s never well thought out
Just my instant demise
Haste and hatred my inner desire
I’m so bitter the hurt inside
Haste and hatred my inner desire

My inner desire
It's my inner desire

It’s never well thought out
Just my instant demise
Haste and hatred my inner desire
I’m so bitter the hurt inside
Haste and hatred my inner desire

It's my inner desire


9. MANSRUIN

My whole life counting dimes
Worried about uncertainty
So I roll dice before I die
Maybe get a little for me
I bet it bet it all
Threw everything into a pile
Regret it got nothing at all
No guarantees no piece of the pie

Got the eyes on you black eyes on you
Ruin it for you if they could
Eyes on you black eyes on you
Mansruin for his own good
Eyes on you black eyes on you
Mansruin for his own good

High life all the highlights
Covered on the plays of the day
Baked out burnt right out of it
Brain fried beyond repair
I tasted it devoured it
Ballooned right out of sight
A done deal dealt out by fate
Scored myself a bit of nonlife

Got the eyes on you black eyes on you
Ruin it for you if they could
Eyes on you black eyes on you
Mansruin for his own good
Eyes on you black eyes on you
Mansruin for his own good
Eyes on you black eyes on you
Mansruin for his own good

Mansruin for his own good
Mansruin for his own good

Fucked out fucked out of everything
Drained at the end of each day
A red cent no pennies from heaven
Taken for a chump for life

Mansruin for his own good
Mansruin for his own good
Mansruin for his own good
Mansruin for his own good


10. INNOCENCE GONE

I had a new premonition
I have found the nonlight
I have found a brand new renewal of sight
Do you need a new genuflection
Do you wanna make a different pact
You’ve got to get in with the facts

It’s the end innocence gone
Your whole meaning becomes undone

You’ve made an art of treachery
You can snake right out of anything
I’ve said I won’t do anything
To the double negative you can only agree

Are you waiting for your resurrection
Do you wanna make a difference pact
You’ve got to get in with the facts
Do you need a new genuflection
Do you wanna make a different pact
You’ve got to get in with the facts

It’s the end innocence gone
Your whole meaning becomes undone

Innocence gone
Innocence gone
Innocence gone
Innocence gone

It’s the end innocence gone
Your whole meaning becomes undone
It’s the end innocence gone
Your whole meaning becomes undone


11. DARK SIGNS

Be careful what you want it may be what you get
Careful of yourself you may just kill yourself
Watch out for all the ruin that you ask for
Being trapped below is that what you need

Careful what you get it may just get you back
How much more relive the nightmares of the past
Think twice about the ruin that you ask for
Still ignoring all the warnings you see

A lifetime wronged you
Dark signs warned you
Feel me self destruct

You’re gonna get exactly what you’re gonna let
You suffer more and more and then blame yourself
Those signposts that point to disaster
Ignore the signals you get what you see

A lifetime wronged you
Dark signs warned you
Feel me self destruct

Gonna self destruct
Gonna self destruct
Gonna self destruct
Gonna self destruct

A lifetime wronged you
Dark signs warned you
Feel me self destruc

Be careful what you want it may be what you get
Careful of yourself you may just kill yourself
Watch out for all the ruin that you ask for
Being trapped below is that what you need


12. CLOSE THE DOOR

Waiting impatiently to put together the facts
Wishing for the best to move slightly against the grain
Upwards onwards I hope I can rebound and flow
I just hoped for one more chance to prove what I can do

To prove what I can do
To prove what I can do

You gotta suffer the facts
You gotta face the act
The time for this is true
I gotta close the door on you
It’s all come into view
I gotta close the door on you

Hating all similar to all that I’ve been through
Harping on all particulars that have given me pain
From the onset the downset frustration taken it’s course
Involving all my bitter thoughts in everything I do

You gotta suffer the facts
You gotta face the act
The time for this is true
I gotta close the door on you
It’s all come into view
I gotta close the door on you

Waiting
Waiting
Waiting

You gotta suffer the facts
You gotta face the act
The time for this is true
I gotta close the door on you
It’s all come into view
I gotta close the door on you

Close the door on you
I gotta close the door on you


BONUSTRACK


13. PROUD DIVISION

A clue from knowledge ward off the casualties
The mindless banter of all the derogatory
It’s the best thing that could happen even with all the dread
It would feel so good to see the back of your head

Got my own sign my own line to hell with the doubt
Got my own sign my own line you gotta hear me out
Got my place sign my own space divisive and proud

It’s my proud division that will free me
Unclouded vision will free me

Piece together the madness with a clue to all the wrong
Follow the right way, never want to be wrong
Pledge allegiance to all your own beliefs
In accordance with your own individual breed

Got my own sign my own line to hell with the doubt
Got my place sign my own space you gotta hear me out
Got my place sign my own space divisive and proud

It’s my proud division that will free me
It’s my proud division that will free me

A clue from knowledge ward off the casualties
The mindless banter of all the derogatory
It’s the best thing that could happen even with all the dread
It would feel so good to see the back of your head

Got my own sign my own line to hell with the doubt
Got my place sign my own space divisive and proud