1. THE AWAKENING

Thinking of better days
Better times and better ways
Gotta think it over man
Better days will come again

Pseudo psycho past ahead
All these voices in my head
Heed the cry of the restless
The force behind distress

Can you see the other side?
Will you testify or have you lied?
Side to side we reach our path
Open doors that lead to wrath

Can you see the other side?
Will you testify or have you lied?
Side to side we reach our path
Open doors that lead to wrath

No way in your head
Unbearable road ahead
Got to find a way to do
Got to seek to see it through

Patience concealed stranger
Consumed by your anger
Doomed to catatonic rest
Forced into distress

Can you see the other side?
Will you testify or have you lied?
Side to side we reach our path
Open doors that lead to wrath

Can you see the other side?
Will you testify or have you lied?
Side to side we reach our path
Open doors that lead to wrath

Empty thoughts
Fall out site
Darkness alright

Hope derailed
Mind confused
Wrong Infused

Smell of blood
Walking dead
Paths I tread

Angels cry
The devil stole
Lost my soul

Mournful end
Unconfused
Right defuse

Lost my sight
Lost the fight
Wrong feels right

Empty thoughts
Fall out site
Darkness alright

Hope derailed
Mind confused
Wrong Infused

Smell of blood
Walking dead
Paths I tread

Angels cry
The devil stole
Lost my soul

Mournful end
Unconfused
Right defuse

Lost my sight
Lost the fight
Wrong feels right

So tired of waiting
When will I be shaking?
Clear the fog inside my head
Clear my thoughts and go to bed

Don’t come any closer
Mind is going faster
You’re not worth the kill
I’d never get my fill

Can you see the other side?
Will you testify or have you lied?
Side to side we reach our path
Open doors that lead to wrath

Can you see the other side?
Will you testify or have you lied?
Side to side we reach our path
Open doors that lead to wrath


2. BREEDING MALAISE

Creeping thoughts
Fading emotions
Feeding the fire
Considering notions
Jolted feelings
Define minds erosion
Creating the fear
And mans’ corrosion

Fallen demeanor
Driving social asthenia
Forcing my will
Replacing inertia
Choking integrity
Embracing doomed destiny
Pleasing the voices
Planning the mutiny

Breeding malaise
Doctrines of fear
Feeding the craze
The paths getting clear
Slaying the weak
The principal policy
Purging my world
Of your stinging hypocrisy

Breeding malaise
Doctrines of fear
Feeding the craze
The paths getting clear
Slaying the weak
The principal policy
Purging my world
Of your stinging hypocrisy

Creating the monster
New order arise
To rid my life of those I despise
Betting on my own iniquities
Shutting out morals
And personal deities

Murmurs arise
To offer some company
Deafening my ears
From chronic mockery
Forging and action
To take my revenge
Deaden the feelings
I vow to avenge

Progressive you push me
You put me through hell

Promptly your ruling
Your judgment I fell

Demanding clear justice
Repentance from all

Handing out verdicts
And your final call

Black is the way
Trapped in hysteria

Lost is the path
In clear schizophrenia

Deeper and deeper
I fall through the void

Spawning the fear
That drives my resolve

Names on a list blood on the line
Breeding the fear, steady decline
Rising emotion, polluting the mind
Demolish the man nothing to find

Partial truths, burning my flesh
Subjective reality
I’m holding my breath
Exploding inside, harder to hide
Burning fury, residing inside

Breeding malaise
Doctrines of fear
Feeding the craze
The paths getting clear
Slaying the weak
The principal policy
Purging my world
Of your stinging hypocrisy


3. THE DECEPTION

I hear silent people all around me
Reassuring my reality
Encouraging my destiny

I can read between the lines
Masks to hide the means to and end
Who am I, the silent friend?

Walking in a room full of mirrors
Open my eyes to my reflection
Open my eyes to my rejection

Ready to leave you all behind
No turning back, I’m locked inside
No one else I must confide

I hear the voices loud and clear
Telling me there’s nothing to fear
I hear the voices and what they said
Soon I’ll laugh and they’ll all be dead

No more child, no more light
Going wild, I’ve gotta fight
Gotta remember, can’t lose sight
No surrender, not tonight

I hear the voices loud and clear
Telling me there’s nothing to fear
I hear the voices and what they said
Soon I’ll laugh and they’ll all be dead

No more child, no more light
Going wild, I’ve gotta fight
Gotta remember, can’t lose sight
No surrender, not tonight

Suffocated by this reality
Open my wounds to your infections
Open your fears, I’m your creation

Spiraling downward into nothing
Sanities void, I will be heard
Confused within, my conscience stirred

I hear the voices loud and clear
Telling me there’s nothing to fear
I hear the voices and what they said
Soon I’ll laugh and they’ll all be dead

No more child, no more light
Going wild, I’ve gotta fight
Gotta remember, can’t lose sight
No surrender, not tonight

I hear the voices loud and clear
Telling me there’s nothing to fear
I hear the voices and what they said
Soon I’ll laugh and they’ll all be dead

No more child, no more light
Going wild, I’ve gotta fight
Gotta remember, can’t lose sight
No surrender, not tonight


4. PATHS

Walking on the side of the road
Talking so that no one else hears
They say the walls have ears
So do the trees I fear

Keeping to the thick of the woods
Listening to solemn path
But for the company of three
No one else I long to see

It’s now or never
Minds got to keep up
With my aching feet
On this endeavor

They see my every move
I will fall to shadow
If I stray but a little
My steps are as loud as thunder

Their eyes loom over all
Darkness will fall in time
Forgotten spirits of another age
Come to mind in the form of rage

Off on yet another road
Fleeing the dark lord’s toads
In the midst of secret things
Cloaked riders and magic rings

It’s now or never
Minds got to keep up
With my aching feet
On this endeavor

I feel the worst is still to come
I feel we will not be hear
When the dust has cleared
And all around has disappeared

Got to keep my spirits high
Keep my path straight and narrow
Can’t stay here I have to fly
Keep my path straight and narrow


5. WITHIN THE SILENCE

Pinning the fault on all but me
Has led me to this infirmity
Snake oil dreams are all they lent
A mind on crutches broken and bent

Here I dwell within the silence
Within the void my mind gone numb
This dawn there is no remedy
For voiceless souls condemned to agony

Nothing moves within the silence
In merciless thoughts, there is no empathy
Pleading voices calmed to no avail
Ceased to exist only deadly peace prevail

Finally, the dark begins to rise
Has someone heard my muted cries?
Now the light begins to fade
Replaced with the fear on an empty life


6. ASYLUM PT1 - I SCHIZOID, DORMANT THOUGHTS, EMERGENCE

I. I Schizoid

Stand in knock you down
Forced to be what you see
Deadly intentions fuel the fire
Growing reality, feeding your fear

Grasping the hilt
Of my ready blade
Waiting, wanting no one can kill
Paying attention
To the voices outside
The weak will rise
It’s no surprise

Going to get to you
Run with me
Put you down
Load my thoughts
Blow you out
Fill my head
Blow some lead
Blow some lead
Blow

Derailing ideas offer some choice
Find the method to deliver my voice
Thunder roll the storms getting close
Losing control and nobody knows

Crushing all
That oppose my reality
Reaping thoughts
Deception man’s frailty
Distant thoughts
Are eating away at me
Blinding my mind
Killing a side of me

Reaching finding
No words to describe
The anger, revenge
I want to prescribe
Reclusion, seclusion
My mind’s getting weak
Mounting aggression
Not far to the peak

Extreme reprisal
Is what they’ll infer
A numbness so heavy
No way to deter
The motive, your end
Is all that remains
Nobody cares
They call me insane

Going to get to you
Run with me
Put you down
Load my thoughts
Blow you out
Fill my head
Blow some lead
Blow some lead
Blow

II. Dormant Thoughts

Altered my mind signals emergency
Forming ideas of sanity lunacy
Looking not finding the way is grey
Dormant thoughts have shown the way

Lost my faith in the integrity of man
Collapsed devotion in the land of the damned
Crowded judgement and obstructed views
Demand surrender when all is through

Tormented, dissented, my mind askew
Boiling resentment directed at you
Bursting, releasing my terror on them
Death and destruction, the order is sent

Releasing my anger, feelings obscured
Aching to breath, a man’s full reward
Dormant thoughts infuse my resolve
No one will live, no one to absolve
Bury the truth, run from the past
Slaying the guilty, feeling the blast
Encaged four walls of mass hysteria
To keep me confined and out of danger

Tormented, dissented, my mind askew
Boiling resentment directed at you
Bursting, releasing my terror on them
Death and destruction, the order is sent

The beast devours my soul to end
Pleasing himself, no hope to defend
Crushing bones and dream as one
Battered and beaten his pawn I am

III. Emergence

Tragedy befalls the day
It’s you and me and them
Aching temples
My mind has thoughts to sin
All sides clash with

Deep in sleep, I cannot reap
The message of the pure
Gripped by awakening hope
And the search for an ethical cure

Questioning destiny
To save the sheep
Moral tranquilly
Not easily reaped

Ripped within a soul astray
Subconscious moles awaken hope
Rehash the vote they’d overthrown
The devil deep seed strikes to control

Urging me to sit at his side
Stirring, assuring my evil side
While seraphs pick at my every thought
The earsplitting shrieks collide

Consider putting all matters aside
Release the guilty and those that lied
Lost in thought, brooding through doubt
I of the worst the worlds ever spout


7. A CALL TO ARMS

Harness the tools of certain fall
The horns of death announce my call
Create the monster that you’ll despise
Start the engines of my demise

What hope now can change my course?
Throughout persuasion or the hand of force
I rise to ply inevitable end
Down to the ground my peers I send

Looking for a reason to resist
Pray the ranting will somehow desist
In these days of uncertainty
Can hope out burn the vengeance in me

A call to arms brings confusion
The voices add to my delusion
Turning and twisting, the beast in me
Fighting to reveal what I can’t see

Sliding the slugs into place
With trembling hands, confounded pace
For all the hate, I hold inside
Stop this now or commit my crime

The path to freedom they say is straight
Loose the hate and have some faith
Who will lead me to this path?
A soulless heart, a son to wrath!

Here I stand upon the brink
I unsure of what to think
Strapped and loaded the time has come
Uneasy I am with what I’ve become

Who will mend this broken mind?
Left in shambles so far behind
Evil embedded has left me scarred
Caution of all, however far

Looking for a reason to resist
Pray the ranting will somehow desist
In these days of uncertainty
Can hope out burn the vengeance in me