1. BEHIND THE VEIL

(Instrumental)


2. GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS

Take a step through waking dreams
Sense the magic deep within
Secret spirits and ancient words
Speaking in sweet tongues of sin

In this reverie you can now be free
You have the key
Heaven’s symphonies linger in the breeze
Surrender to it
Surrender to me

Your temptations follow you
You cannot outrun the truth
The hidden path leads to the garden
Where your demons dance with you
Ghostly footsteps leave a mark
Hear the whispers in the dark
Down the rabbit hole you’re falling
Wondrous wastelands call to you

You’re afraid it’s just illusion
Deluded fantasies of peace
But take a step now, into the garden
You can escape their judgement and your fears

Let me take you there, to a world so fair
It’s beyond compare
You don’t have to care, just lay your soul bare
Surrender to it
Surrender to me

Your temptations follow you
You cannot outrun the truth
The hidden path leads to the garden
Where your demons dance with you
Ghostly footsteps leave a mark
Hear the whispers in the dark
Down the rabbit hole you’re falling
Wondrous wastelands call to you

Open the door to a new world
Enter the kingdom in your mind
And leave it all behind

How can they say that it’s so wrong
If it makes you feel complete?
I think that you’ve known all along
The other side is where you belong

Your temptations follow you
You cannot outrun the truth
The hidden path leads to the garden
Where your demons dance with you
Ghostly footsteps leave a mark
Hear the whispers in the dark
Down the rabbit hole you’re falling
Wondrous wastelands call to you

The divine mystery that only you can see
Transcend reality beyond the powers that be
Break the tranquillity, the paradox of peace
Become the deity, the garden is your masterpiece

In the garden
In the garden
Sleep forever,
In the garden…


3. SHAPESHIFTER

Each day she wakes and asks the same thing:
Who will I be today? Who does the world wish to see?
She wears a mask of beauty like a radiant queen
And one by one, she fools them all
It’s second nature to her as she crawls

Through the depths of hell in her soul
Mercurial perversions take hold
Before your eyes she morphs into the mould
The shapeshifter dances as she takes new form

Carefully constructing her deceit
The pretty lies for greedy eyes that feast upon the fake
Entertain us and enchant us, they all cry
Naked as ambition calls
A demon of desire as she falls

Through the depths of hell in her soul
Mercurial perversions take hold
Before your eyes she morphs into the mould
The shapeshifter dances as she takes new form

Scratch the surface just to find decay
The remnants of a dream fading away
She’s just ashes and dust
From the bonfire of the vain

Beneath the cloak of night
Like a snake, she sheds her skin
Revealing all her scars
The duality of who we really are

Shapeshifter
A demon in disguise
Shapeshifter
With fire in her eyes
Shapeshifter
Saint or sinner?
You’ll never catch her as she flies into the night

Looking for the heaven in her soul
The endless search for peace consumes her whole
Hopeful hearts that harden and grow cold
The shapeshifter dances and dances and dances

In the depths of hell in her soul
Mercurial perversions take hold
Before your eyes she morphs into the mould
The shapeshifter dances as she takes new form


4. THE MONSTER WITHIN

Fixated on the black
The path to self-destruction
You administer the drug that keeps the demons at bay
Small comfort is the remedy that courses through your veins
Self-medicated, heart rate elevated
You are ready to face the abyss

Desensitised and hypnotised
Seduced by dreamers and their lies
The chemical solution to the fears and wasted years

Poison is pleasure, and death is the saviour
The permanent escape is your release
And vice is a virtue
Making sense of the chaos we’re all in
But your pain is your gain
You embrace the darkness
No longer afraid, all doubt is allayed
And you can face the monster within

Looking through the cracks
You see the world beyond
In this violent haze, your clouded gaze finds what you’re searching for
The injection is the stream of consciousness that now sustains you
A moment’s relief, a fatal deceit
The end is now guaranteed

Desensitised and hypnotised
Seduced by dreamers and their lies
The chemical solution to the fears and wasted years

Poison is pleasure, and death is the saviour
The permanent escape is your release
And vice is a virtue
Making sense of the chaos we’re all in
But your pain is your gain
You embrace the darkness
No longer afraid, all doubt is allayed
And you can face the monster within

Face your demons
Dare to free them
Face your demons
Dare to free them

Addiction prevails when life fails us
So eager to succumb
Another day ends the same way
Forever enslaved
Desensitised and hypnotised
Seduced by dreamers and their lies
The chemical solution to the fears and wasted years

Poison is pleasure, and death is the saviour
The permanent escape is your release
And vice is a virtue
Making sense of the chaos we’re all in
But your pain is your gain
You embrace the darkness
No longer afraid, all doubt is allayed
And you can face the monster within


5. MIDNIGHT

Tick tock, goes the clock
It’s getting closer now
The moment’s drawing near
Time’s racing faster now
Can you feel the change?
It’s creeping up on you
Can you feel the waves?
They’re crashing down on you

Say goodbye to the safe and familiar
The clock strikes twelve, metamorphosis has begun

Midnight, the hour my soul comes to life
(As the darkness inside comes to light)
Midnight the world on the edge of the knife
(You’re transformed by the chaos you fight)
On the precipice of the abyss, you stand alone
And as time stands still, in solitude you find your home

Time to face your fears
You can’t avoid them now
Life is starting here
You cannot stop it now
Build a funeral pyre
To burn your doubts away
Look into the fire
And walk right through the flames

Say goodbye to the safe and familiar
The clock strikes twelve, metamorphosis has begun

Midnight, the hour my soul comes to life
(As the darkness inside comes to light)
Midnight the world on the edge of the knife
(You’re transformed by the chaos you fight)
On the precipice of the abyss, you stand alone
And as time stands still, in solitude you find your home

Brick by brick, you build your haven
To shield you from the storm
The past has been forsaken
And new life has been formed
From the battlements you rise
Your sword raised to the skies
And at midnight, you set your world alight

Midnight, life and death unite
Midnight, you are one with the night
Midnight, life and death unite
Midnight, you are one with the night
Don’t you give up the fight


6. BREAK

Twist the knife, sink it deeper and deeper
In all your life, nothing’s ever been clearer
A slippery slope, and it only gets steeper
Thus swings the rope, and your fate edges nearer

Do you feel the rage?
Do you feel afraid?
Locked inside your cage
It’s all sticks and stones
In the end, you are alone
I know you’re alone

Break, spitting words of hate
It’s more than I can take
And now it’s all too late
Break, feel the earth shake
It’s more than you can take
Rising like a hurricane, and we break

It’s a lonely road, the path of the righteous
Lost your way, you find faith in your blindness
Out for blood, you’re a slave to your violence
But the time will come when you know I will fight this

Do you feel afraid?
Locked inside your cage
It’s all sticks and stones
In the end, you are alone
I know you’re alone

Break, spitting words of hate
It’s more than I can take
And now it’s all too late
Break, feel the earth shake
It’s more than you can take
Rising like a hurricane, and we break

Break me down
Won’t let you break me down
I’ll break you down
Watch me rise

Knock me down and scream my name
You know I feel the same
Blood red gaze that leaves a stain
I won’t drown in your pain
Your misery eclipses me, a dying light
The fire burns inside of me, but you are endless night

(Twist the knife)
Sinking deeper and deeper
(All your life)
Fate has edged ever nearer
(Twist the knife)
Your descent growing steeper
(All your life)
You’ve been chasing the reaper

Break, spitting words of hate
It’s more than I can take
And now it’s all too late
Break, feel the earth shake
It’s more than you can take
Rising like a hurricane, and we
Break, scream our words of hate
It’s more than we can take
And now it’s all too late
Break, we’re finally awake
But too little and too late
Lost within our hurricane, and we break


7. THE PHOENIX

Caught in your hurricane of lies
I nearly lost myself
Scorched by the flames and I was scarred
But I won’t lose my pride
You played the game to bend the rules
And now you’ve lost yourself
You’re in a hell of your own making
Played us both for fools

But watch me as I rise

And I will rise like the phoenix
From the ashes I’ll be reborn
‘Cause the more you try to break me
I will fight, and you will fall

There is a choice we all must make
About which path to take
If you keep lying to yourself
It’s your own heart you’ll break
I may be battered and bruised
At least I’m not like you
I hold my head up high
And you can’t look me in the eye

Watch now as I take flight

And I will rise like the phoenix
From the ashes I’ll be reborn
‘Cause the more you try to break me
I will fight, and you will fall

You can’t hide
What’s inside
I won’t hide
I will fight

I will break free
Just you wait and see
There is a power in me
You think you’re free
But you’re incomplete
You have no power over me

And I will rise like the phoenix (I will rise)
From the ashes I’ll be reborn (I’ll be reborn)
‘Cause the more you try to break me (I won’t break)
I will fight, and you will fall


8. TRANSFORMED

Listen to me plead
Do you see me bleed?
Broken on the inside
Finding solace in the cracks
Sometimes scars don’t heal
And it hurts too much to feel
So I raise my porcelain shield
Because perfection is skin deep

I hide, I fight, and I try
I hide behind the lie

Pristine and pure, yet so unsure
A timid child behind your eyes
Mistakes are made, and dreams betrayed
Can you let the past just die?
I’ll walk with you ‘til the bitter end
We’ll watch as the world burns
The once deformed will be transformed
We are transformed

We are the lonely ones
We are the broken ones
The beautiful and the damned
Hearts in each other’s hands
Two halves but not a whole
Eyes blacker than our souls
Deep within our entropy
We’ll love with wasted hearts

I hide, I fight, and I try
I hide behind the lie

Pristine and pure, yet so unsure
A timid child behind your eyes
Mistakes are made, and dreams betrayed
Can you let the past just die?
I’ll walk with you ‘til the bitter end
We’ll watch as the world burns
The once deformed will be transformed
We are transformed

Porcelain dreams
Crystal clear
Crimson gleams
Now you’ve nothing, nothing to fear

I hide, I fight, and I try
I hide behind the lie
I hide, I fight and I try
I hide behind the lie

Pristine and pure, yet so unsure
A timid child behind your eyes
Mistakes are made, and dreams betrayed
Can you let the past just die?
I’ll walk with you ‘til the bitter end
We’ll watch as the world burns
The once deformed will be transformed
We are transformed


9. CHRYSALIS

Hidden away in the chrysalis
Concealed from the eyes of the world
And as the night falls, I hear the call
Of sirens who signal my fate
Alone yet transformed
Alone and reborn

And like the flower buds in the spring
I open and breathe anew
This prison of flesh can no longer hold
My soul as it rises above
Free as the dove
Released with my love

Welcome the change
Time to rearrange
You can’t fight the change
Nothing is prearranged
A new phase begins

It’s a brand new day
Don’t be afraid
It’s a brand new day
Don’t be afraid

And as your heart breaks one last time
You know it’s time to say goodbye
Life has no reason and it has no rhyme
Find your own way through the maze
The failure to move on is its own cage

Stained by the sins of the past
You wear your black heart on your sleeve with pride
Haunted by dreams fading fast
Out of your shell there is nowhere to hide
But all that is broken can heal in time

Walk away from the past now with me

In the chrysalis, I’ll become who I’m meant to be
In the chrysalis, you’ll be you and I’ll be me
In the chrysalis, I’ll become who I’m meant to be
In the chrysalis, you’ll be you and I’ll be me

One day I’ll fly again
I will be free again
One day I’ll fly again
I will be free again