1. COLD BLACK AND EMPTY

(Instrumental)


2. THERE IS NO GOD IN SPACE

There is no god in space

Just cold and black
And emptiness
Above the clouds
A trillion miles
Of darkness wove
Into a shroud

That covers all the bases
And ties up all the lose ends
Ignoring every question
The paper trail is burning
To keep our planet turning
And all of us from learning

Beyond your vision
Beyond religion
Beyond perception
And all other man-made restrictions
There is an answer
That we cannot hear
It is not spoken
By a kind and loving deity

Just cold and black
And emptiness
Above the clouds
A trillion miles
Of darkness wove
Into a shroud

That covers all the bases
And ties up all the lose ends
Ignoring every question
The paper trail is burning
To keep our planet turning
And all of us from learning

It's out of our reach
We take for granted
All of the explanations
That we have all been handed
It's so convenient
But what will happen
When we traverse
The greatest barrier?

Time and distance
Time is running out
Time is running out
Open your mind
Listen to these words
Listen to these words

Time and distance
Time is running out
Time is running out
Open your mind
Listen to these words
Listen to these words

There is no god in space
Our creator has no face
There is no god in space
Our creator has no face

Just cold and black
And emptiness
Above the clouds
A trillion miles
Of darkness wove
Into a shroud

You still have no idea
You still have no idea
Where you come from
Where you're going
Where you come from
Where you're going
Where you come from
When you're gonna die


3. MYOPIC UTOPIA

How we danced in the streets
As they flowed with the blood
Of the nonbelievers, liars, and deceivers
But now the party's over; stand still and silent
With your face to the corner
While we create order for
You, not us, we do as we please
'Cause that's what you wanted. Enjoy your
Nothing big fat grin of smug oblivion
Stinking sensation nobody's feeling yet

Four, three, two, one
This has only just begun
To drain you dry

The world is a dark and scary place
Without the light of a higher power
To guide the little people
So trusting and faithful far far away
From their own best interest to
Nullify the collective unconscious ??? motherfucker
Burn and hide that grin of smug oblivion
Stinking sensation nobody's feeling yet

No one lives past the first step of the master plan


4. STALEMATE

Do what you do 'cause you love to see
The kind of monster I can be
But what's the harm if it's just part of my charm
And it satisfies your needs?

It's out of hand but it's all part of the plan
And I know deep down you understand
It's not complicated or abbreviated
I'm just your kind of man

How far is too far?
The thin gray line is fading away
How much is too much?
The line in the sand is blowing away

When will we take it all the way?
How can we wait another day?
How far is too far?
The thin gray line is fading away

Beautiful lies despicable truths
Just who's manipulating who?
This mutilation of conversation
Is surely nothing new

After the fact you're on your back
To help me forget about the past
But the next in line just in the back of my mind
It only has one track

How far is too far?
The thin gray line is fading away
How much is too much?
The line in the sand is blowing away

When will we take it all the way?
How can we wait another day?
How far is too far?
The thin gray line is fading away

From life, away from love
Away, but still not far enough
From the end


5. THE ELECTRONIC GREY

Children grow and cells divide
A million flowers bloom and die
One second of infinity
Passes under blinking eyes

Run away, cut away, piss away every day
Open wide, look inside, there is nothing to hide
A never ending expanding gap between humanity
And what can be seen

Waste our time and advertise
Perhaps no one will realize
That the personality on screen
Is not but fake and plastic lies

And I'm getting sick and tired
Beat my head against the wall
No one's listening at all
Voice of reason growing hoarse
Predetermine every course

Add, delete, repeat the game
It all begins to look the same
A thousand friends across the globe
Not one of them knows your name

Run away, cut away, piss away every day
Open wide, look inside, there is nothing to hide
A never ending expanding gap between humanity
And what can be seen

Magnify the smallest things
How much attention will that bring
Water down what matters most
The electronic gray is winning

Beat my head against the wall
No one's listening at all
Voice of reason growing hoarse
Predetermine every course

This is a warning to step to the back
Gray turns to black
Knowledge explosion brings death to the facts
Useless and flat
This is a warning to step to the back
Gray turns to black
Knowledge explosion brings death

Stabbed in the back as the gray turns to black


6. VIVISECTION

This Dr.
ID number 32729-beta

Ready to begin examination of subject 234R
There is no breathing or pulse
It has no eyes, ears, hair, or genitals
No nose, no mouth, or orifices of any kind
Complexion is colorless; otherwise the specimen is humanoid
But does not appear to be human

I will now make an incision on the surface of the facial area
"You won't find anything in their way"
I think to myself, but these are not my thoughts
"You are surrounded by lies, but not one deceives more than these eyes"
I look at the specimen, and somehow it's looking back at me
"Let me take your burden, only then will you see."
I push the scalpel into my ocular cavity and sever the optic nerve
Suddenly I am no longer blind
For the first time in my life, I am able to see

There is no god in space.
Our creator has no face.


7. WUNDERSHOZEN

Everybody wants a little piece of the tragedy
The blood you bleed is the lifeblood of the industry
Make another martyr out of all the poor and and victimized
To keep the cycle of abuse around the world alive

The cuts and bruises are held under the microscope
The cuts and bruises are the evidence of dying hope
All the little pieces are so razor sharp and jagged edged
To reassemble is to separate bone and flesh

You will not see the link between the suffering
And little Nazis who pull the levers and strings

And all across the world, another flag unfurled
The shadow spreads like fire through every screen and wire
And all across the world, another flag unfurled
The shadow spreads like fire through every screen and wire

Everybody needs a little taste of authority
You'll get your bitter little sample just the same as me
The only difference is how we choose to handle it
You swallow for the greater good while I will take my aim and spit

Right in the face of modern twisted common sense
Right in the face of all the ladies and gents
Who take advantage of every shock and every tear
Then tighten up their strangle hold more year by year

You will not see the link between the suffering
And little Nazis who pull the levers and strings

One by one, manipulate
Twist reality to get anything they want

And all across the world, another flag unfurled
The shadow spreads like fire through every screen and wire
And all across the world, another flag unfurled
The shadow spreads like fire through every screen and wire

One by one, manipulate
Twist reality to get anything they want


8. MISLEAD BY EXAMPLE

Mirror mirror hanging on the wall
(As you reflect empty hollow)
Tell me who's the stupidest of all
(The fool who leads or the fool who follows?)

As they stand in line, patented after my own design
Hoping for a glimpse of a god made in their image
I'll reflect their ideals and just keep on spinning the wheels
Do as I do, my friends, because I am just like you

And I know they're wondering,
"What do we do now, and where do we go?"
I know they're wondering,
"What do we do now, and where do we go?"

Mirror mirror hanging on the wall
(As you reflect empty hollow)
Tell me who's the stupidest of all
(The fool who leads or the fool who follows?)

Conditioned to be proud all the while getting lost in the crowd
March them off a cliff, watch it reaffirm confidence in me
And all I represent, you ain't seen nothing yet
Who can you blame, the player or the game?

And I know they're wondering,
"What do we do now, and where do we go?"
I know they're wondering,
"What do we do now, and where do we go?"

Mirror mirror hanging on the wall
(As you reflect empty hollow)
Tell me who's the stupidest of all
(The fool who leads or the fool who follows?)

Mislead the people stupid or evil
Mislead the people stupid or evil
Mislead the people stupid or evil
Mislead the people stupid or evil


9. MEET ME IN THE DIGITAL AFTERLIFE

Artificial dreams have been infused
Into life via synthetic pathways
Bathed in the light of cathode rays

Put your faith in the machine
It remains to be seen
What the long term will bring
If it means anything at all

Apathy, a brand new standard
A brand new way to force the hand of
Fate and final destination
Patterns without calculations

Let yourself be taken in
To a life of modern sin
Let yourself be swept away
To a place where we can play

Meet me in the digital afterlife
All our little friends from high school will be there
Remembering a time that never existed
Everyone together, no one's going anywhere


10. MASTURBATORIUM

Knee deep in a pool of cum, writhing naked tightly bound,
Gazes fixed upon your cunt, in masturbatorium
Your pleasure is all mine,
throbbing members keeping time,
Flesh fold fondled inner thighs, dancing before my eyes.

Dripping wet, slipping through,
stains your skin, sticks like glue,
Crusty semen, residue,
fully spent, through and through

Carnal chamber, filled with lust
Spurting fluid, spasm thrust
Jacking off, sex dwarf cock,
Hid behind, iron locks

Nu Vatican of skin, housing miscreants within
Dreamfuck spellweave suck me in
To a succubus sultry grin
Knee deep in a pool of cum, writhing naked tightly bound,
Gazes fixed upon your cunt, in masturbatorium


11. DRAG THE RIVERS

Go!

We've done so many things together
I wanted it to last forever
In light of recent times
Why should that change?

Hey, baby, let's go out tonite
We'll take our new friend for a ride
We'll make it look like suicide

They won't take time to drag the rivers
Once this promise is delivered
Remove the eyes cut out the tongue
(Yeah! Yeah, yeah!)
He won't be telling anyone

Now I know that you know
That you know that I know
Now I know that you know that
I know what you have been up to, baby

Even though nothing matters now
I will still see this through somehow
And build us both a better tomorrow

So won't you come along with me
It's so important that you see
For yourself that I've finally
Made things right

They won't take time to drag the rivers
Once this promise is delivered
Remove the eyes cut out the tongue
(Yeah! Yeah, yeah!)
He won't be telling anyone

Now I know that you know
That you know that I know
Now I know that you know that I know what you have been up to, baby

Now I know that you know
That you know that I know
Now I know that you know that
I know what you have been up to, baby

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

They won't take time to drag the rivers
Once this promise is delivered
Remove the eyes cut out the tongue
(Yeah! Yeah, yeah!)
He won't be telling anyone

Now I know that you know
That you know that I know
Now I know that you know that I know what you have been up to, baby


12. THE SHADOW OF GREED

Wants will soon become a need
Under the gathering shadow of greed
Mouths that we will never feed
Starving to death in the shadow of greed

Oh, so many ways to bleed
Living your life in the shadow of greed
Can you mask these evil deeds
Deep in the dark of the shadow of greed

A motivation force
Rob from the poor
To feed an addiction
More, more, more, more

Oh no, no it'll be enough
No end in sight and none in the works
Divide and conquer, devour and squander
Darkness follows where we wonder

No matter how much you achieve
You're still a cog in the machine
Consumerism gives them the power
To enslave the world to the final hour

But what choice do we really have
Live on the street, eat from the trash?
Damned if we do, damned if we don't
There is no escape, there is no hope

Wants will soon become a need
Under the gathering shadow of greed
Mouths that we will never feed
Starving to death in the shadow of greed

Oh, so many ways to bleed
Living your life in the shadow of greed
Can you mask these evil deeds
Deep in the dark of the shadow of greed

It's all around us every day and night.
From the day we were born 'till the day we die
Every smiling face is a disguise.
It would all be smooth if we believe
If we work our hands until they bleed
That we'll get ours when they get theirs.
Everyone will have an equal share.


13. THE WAR ON NEPOTISM

All our battles fought in distant lands beyond the sea
By people from both here and there
And they're no different from you or me

No rewards for sacrifice made by a nations poor
If we must fight just to keep our rights
Then read my lips, this means war

Intelligence experience irrelevant to status
Predetermined distribution of the power and the wealth

To survive we must submit
Become the nation's whore
If we must fight just to keep our rights
Then this is it, this means war

Nepotism is the terror right in your backyard
If you are a part of it you know just who you are

You think you're something special
You're just a waste of my time
Another privileged clone off the assembly line

Hey, wow, look at that-
Your car so bright and shiny!
Hey, wow, look at that-
Your house so bright and shiny!
Hey, wow, look at that-
Your future bright and shiny!
Hey, wow, look at that-
You brain so fucking empty!

Yeah yeah!

And here we are dragging our broken, beaten,
And scabrous bodies bleeding across a thousand miles
Of rusty nails and broken glass just to ???
On top of the golden tower you were simply born on top of.
But one day, one day, my friend,
One of us will reach the top,
And find that you are not what our ???
Has in mind, so it will be up to us
To level the playing field and bring things back-
Back to the way they should have been all along.

Enjoy your luck while it lasts
But prepare yourself for the fall
And there will be nothing but pain
So all of the signs showing
This means war!


14. HIND SIGHT'S BLIND SPOT

Were you alive a hundred years ago?
Were you alive a hundred years ago?

What'll they say a hundred years from now?
What'll they say a hundred years from now?

Have you ever spoken with the dead?
Have you ever spoken with the dead?

No one knows, no one will ever know
No one has so who will you believe?

It's a trick question, I'm afraid
Every generation takes the truth to it's grave

If you could only see
If you only just knew
We are not free just because we can choose

If you could only see
If you only just knew
We really have nothing to lose
We are not free just because we can choose

What kind of people record history?
What kind of people record history?

How do we know that they're to be trusted?
How do we know that they're to be trusted?

Why would they lie and who would benefit?
Why would they lie and who would benefit?

Fundamentalists, so take a guess
To keep control of us all to themselves

It's a trick question I'm afraid
Every generation takes the truth to it's grave

If you could only see
If you only just knew
We are not free just because we can choose

If you could only see
If you only just knew
We really have nothing to lose
We are not free just because we can choose

Now that I rule the world
They'll look back on me
What a great man he was
A dark day in history
And no one will be left alive
To say a single word
It'll start all over again
Like a million times before

Were you alive a hundred years ago?
What'll they say a hundred years from now?
Have you ever spoken with the dead?
No one has, no one will ever know
What kind of people record history?
How do you know that they're to be trusted?
Why would they lie and who would benefit?
Fundamentalists so take a guess

If you could only see
If you only just knew
We are not free just because we can choose

If you could only see
If you only just knew
We really have nothing to lose
We are not free just because we can choose


15. PRAISE

(Instrumental)


16. A ROAD TO HELL WELL UNTRAVELED

I never ever thought it'd end this way
These well-laid plans gone down in flame
The best intentions may have damned us all
Dig a grave and lay the blame
The end will never justify the means
The two have seldom intertwined
A lesson to be forgotten
Time after time after time

Nothing is changing
As our memory's fading
And we go back to when everything was
Simple and not complicated
And had it all figured out
Never had single a-doubt

Nothing is changing
As our memory's fading
And we go back to when everything was
Simple and not complicated
And had it all figured out
Never had single a-doubt

Hey!
Hey!

The road to hell is so well worn with travel
It's impossible to defy
Paving the way for a million a day
To blindly step over the line

I know I've said this all before
And I am not the only one
I'm sick of screaming into the void
So my time is almost done
And when they pull me into the ground
And another takes my place
To sing the same old pointless song
Not a goddamn thing will change

Nothing is changing
As our memory's fading
And we go back to when everything was
Simple and not complicated
And had it all figured out
Never had single a-doubt

Nothing is changing
As our memory's fading
And we go back to when everything was
Simple and not complicated
And had it all figured out
Never had single a-doubt

Hey!
Hey!

The road to hell is so well worn with travel
It's impossible to defy
Paving the way for a million a day
To blindly step over the line