1. SUITE SISTER MARY

[Dr. X:] "Kill her. That's all you have to do."
[Nikki:] "Kill Mary ?"
[Dr. X:] "She's a risk, and get the priest as well."

10 P.M, I feel the rain coming down
My face feels the wet, my mind the storm
Flashing lights as people race to find shelter from the pour
Moving silent, through the streets they're mine, they're mine.

Midnite, she sings praises in the Hall
To saintly faces hallowed be their names she can't recall
Sister Mary, virgin Mary, silent with her sin

[Mary:] "What are you doing out in the rain ?"

She feels me, I can taste her breath when she speaks

[Mary:] "I've been waiting for you. Come in."

Mary, Mary, just a whore for the underground
They made you pay in guilt for your salvation
Thought you had them fooled ? Now they've sent me for you
You know too much for your own good
Don't offer me faith, I've got all I need here
My faith is growing, growing tight against the seam
What we need is trust, to keep us both alive
Help us make it through the night

[Mary:] "I've no more want of any faith
Binds my arm and feed my mind
The only peace I've ever known
I'll close my eyes and you shoot"

No Mary, listen, you've got to pull your strength from my
lips
I pray I feed you well
Your precious cross is gone, it made me wait so long
For what you gave to everyone
The priest is cold and dead on his knees he fed
From my barrel of death, he turned the Holy water red
As he died he said :
Thank you
I just watched him bleed

[Mary:] "I feel the flow, the blessed stain
Sweating hands like fire, and flames
Burn my thighs, spread in sacrificial rite
The hallowed altar burns my flesh once more tonight"

[Chorus #1]
Mary, my lady of pain
Always alone
Blind you search for the truth
I see myself in you, parallel lives
Winding at light-speed through time

No time to rest yet
We've got to stop his game
Before madness has the final laugh
Too much bloodshed
We're being used and fed
Like rats in experiments
No final outcome here
Only pain and fear
It's followed us both all our lives
There's one thing left to see
Will it be him or me ?
There's one more candle left to light

[Mary:] "Don't turn your back on my disgrace
The blood of Christ can't heal my wounds... so deep
The sins of man are all I taste
Can't spit the memory from my mind
I can't cry anymore"

[Chorus #2]
Mary, my lady of pain, always alone
Blind you search for the truth
I see myself in you, parallel lives
Winding at light-speed through time, you're mine


2. I REMEMBER NOW

"It's ten minutes past curfew.
Why are you still up ?

Hello ? Heellooo ?
Perhaps you need another shot.

That should do it.

Sweet dreams… you bastard."

[Nikki:] "I remember now.
I remember how it started.
I can't remember yesterday,
I just remember doing what they told to me,
Told me..."


3. REVOLUTION CALLING

For a price I'd do about anything
Except pull the trigger
For that I'd need a pretty good cause
Then I heard of Dr. X
The man with the cure
Just watch the television
Yeah, you'll see there's something going on

Got no love for politicians
Or that crazy scene in D.C.
It's just a power mad town
But the time is ripe for changes
There's a growing feeling
That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due

[Chorus #1]
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook ?

[Chorus #2]
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
(There's a) Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through

I'm tired of all this bullshit
They keep selling me on T.V.
About the communist plan
And all the shady preachers
Begging for my cash
Swiss bank accounts while giving their
Secretaries the slam

They're all in Penthouse now
Or Playboy magazine, million dollar stories to tell
I guess Warhol wasn't wrong
Fame fifteen minutes long
Everyone's using everybody, making the sale

I used to think
That only America's way, way was right
But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives
Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies

[Chorus #2]

[Chorus #1]

[Chorus #2]

[Chorus #2]

Pay for Revolution !
Pay for revolution !
Pay for revolution !


4. OPERATION: MINDCRIME

Drrinng

[Nikki:] "Allo ?"
[Unknow:] "Mindcrime !"
[Nikki:] "Ffff..."

...

Drrinng

It just takes a minute
And you'll feel no pain
Gotta make something of your life boy
Give me one more vein
You've come to see the doctor
Cause I'll show you the cure
I'm gonna take away the questions, yeah
I'm gonna make you sure, yeah

A hit man for the order
When you couldn't go to school
Had a skin job for a hair-do
Yeah, you looked pretty cool
Had a habit doing mainline
Watch the dragon burn
No regrets, you've got no goals
Nothing more to learn

[Chorus #1]
Now I know you won't refuse
Because we've got so much to do
And you've got nothing more to lose
So take this number and welcome to

[Chorus #2]
Operation: Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in the system, boy
With nothing to sign

Hey Nikki you know everything
That there is to do
Here's a gun take it home
Wait by the phone
We'll send someone over
To bring you what you need
You're a one man death machine
Make this city bleed

[Chorus #1]

[Chorus #2]

Operation: Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation: Mindcrime
If you come to see the doctor
Yeah he'll give you the cure
Operation: Mindcrime
Make something of your life boy, let me into your mind.
Operation: Mindcrime
There's a job for you in the system, boy
With nothing to sign

[Nikki:] "Hey ! Hey ! Listen to me !"


5. BREAKING THE SILENCE

They told me to run, but just how far ?
Can I go wearing the black mask of fear ?
The hate in my eyes always gives me away
The tension building slowly
Now I lost everything I had in you
Nothing we shared means a thing
Without you close to me
I can't live without you

[Chorus]
Breaking the silence of the night
Can't you hear me screaming ?
I look for your face in the neon light

You never answer me

There's no direction to my stare
No more flame burning in my heart anymore
Quiet, I keep it to myself
Until the sun sets slowly
I hear your voice in the evening rain calling
Nothing will keep us apart
No more lies and fear
There's no end to our story

[Chorus]

You never answer

I could make all the wrong seem right
If you were by my side
I'd gather all the tears you cried
And hide them deep underground

Can't look back, it's just a waste of time
Can't erase this hate from my eyes

Breaking the silence of the night
Through the streets I'm screaming
Looking for you in the neon light
Why don't you answer me ?

Breaking the silence with my cries
Can't you hear me screaming ?
We could make all this wrong seem right
But you never answer me

you never answer me
You never answer, you never answer me

[Unknow:] "You know you did it !"
Watch you doing !
You did it !.."

[Nikki:] "No ! Noooooo !.."


6. EYES OF A STRANGER

All alone now
Except for the memories
Of what we had and what we knew
Everytime I try to leave it behind me
I see something that reminds me of you

Every night, the dreams return to haunt me,
Your rosary wrapped around your throat.
I lie awake and sweat, afraid to fall asleep.
I see your face looking back at me. (looking back at me)

[Chorus]
And I raise my head and stare into the eyes
Of a stranger.
I've always known that the mirror never lies.
People always turn away from the eyes of a stranger.
Afraid to know what lies behind the stare.

Is this all that's left of my life before me ?
Straight jacket memories, sedative highs ?
No happy ending like they've always promised
There's got to be something left for me

[Chorus]

Lies behind my stare !

How many times must I live this tragedy ?
How many more lies will they tell me ?
All I want is the same as everyone.
Why am I here, and for how long ?

[Chorus]

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Operation: Mindcrime
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I remember now !