1. STRONGTH

When my mind can’t breath
I walk with the stars
Surround me in power
And make me whole

Encoded in me
A universe of life
Treasure without price
Source of peace

When my mind can’t breath
I welcome the storms
Surround me in power
And cleanse my soul

Entwined with the winds
Aura and lifeblood
A gentle breeze to a violent roar
A bed of sand to a fist of stone

See, grow, feel, know,
Everything before you burns slow, burns low
Called away from the place that we’ve disguised, clear my eyes
Pulled into a dream, I wear the skies

Day in day out the machine turns its gears
Feel the loving embrace or a force so deadly
Heat and ice all the same call my name again.

Darkness it owns bringing night at its will.
Silent engine, never straining, always learning
Sky and earth all the same call my name again

Call me again call me again, call my name

Why do you craft your machines
Hoping to conquer the world
What will you have when your work is done
A machine, but a machine

See, grow, feel, know
Everything before you burns slow, burns low

Day in day out
It burns as a new flame
Reforging it’s destiny
With ancient wisdom
Standing before the flame
I listen for you to call me again, call me again
Call My Name

Why do you craft your machines
Hoping to conquer the world
What will you have when your work is done
A machine

See, grow, feel, know,
Everything before you burns slow, burns low
Called away from the place that we’ve disguised, clear my eyes
Pulled into a dream, I wear the skies

Not as my own
Can’t you see what surrounds You
And Clear your eyes

The machine
It can all be yours
Will you hear her voice
When she calls your name


2. THE DISEASE

Locked in this room again
How will this one end
Beware the friend so close
Caught in a dream

My life I have not sold
You hold on to air
You slow my art rate down
A cold way to go

I hold what I have told you as my word
Haven’t I shown you what its worth to me
Wouldn’t have known you’d give it all away
A little every day

Quick burn Slow Cool
You are a storm without end
If I don’t stand this life
It will never be mine

I hold what I have told you as my word
You gotta show me what it’s worth to you
Wouldn’t have known you’d give it all away
A little every day

The disease speaks to me unceasingly,
Leave and shake the dust from your feet
Within, my home, you found rest.
Now you talk as if I owe the world to you

The stone cold life,
That you live
Could never hope to tear this temple down

Stronger I have built your life
I have laid the stones you walk upon
Believe me, I have foreseen the knife
I leave on the terms you’ve laid before me

Make up your mind and live
A life without fear
Nothing to say we know
The way to the door

I hold what I have told you as my word
Hold your own hand, set your sights high
You’ll never understand
What drives this labor of love


3. PERPETUAL MOTION

(Instrumental)


4. ROTATING DOOR

Tread carefully, tread carefully
And take your time
Think of the ultimate goal
But don’t become blind

Try to pick up the pieces
Try to cover your head
Bodies fall around you
Remnants of your rage

Approaching a level up (level Up)
From where you have fought to
Another level of skill
And another low to stoop to

See what is behind
What all are striving to find
This test will try your soul
Don’t become blind

Roll the dice
Every attempt on your life
It will cost
Until all their blood is lost

Life in a rotating door
That will cost us naught
Don’t become blind, you will find the key
Take your time and
Think of the ultimate goal (think of the life of your soul)
This is a game that lasts

Shadowed Spirits form around me
Shriek and scream why would you dare to

Roll the dice
Every attempt on your life
It will cost
Until all their blood is lost
They Scream

Roll the dice
Every pawn is a life
I don’t know where to turn
They close in, they close in on me

Roll the dice
Every attempt on your life
It will cost
Until all their blood is lost

Running out, of time
Running out, of life
I don’t know where to turn
I hear a rumble as it rains outside

Shadowed spirits form around me
Shriek and scream why would you dare to
Play the game with consequences
Roll your bones but do not hope to live

Drowning sinking in to madness
Spiral down into the silence
Finally the spirits leave me
Shriek and scream why would you dare to

Roll the dice
Every attempt on your life
It will cost
Until all their blood is lost

Roll the dice
Every pawn is a life
I don’t know where to turn
Trapped inside my insanity


5. RISE

(Instrumental)


6. TEMPEST

Falling, falling from the top of the atmosphere
How did it come to this
The contagion takes the form of its carrier
Networking into a cold cage

Falling, falling cells from the clouds
Conforming, attaching, in a gentle burial
Nobody notices the growing piles
Interconnected for miles

[Chorus]
Shut out, Shut down, Shut in from the outside
Beating on these walls, Beating on this cold hard door
Shut out, Shut down, Shut in from the outside world
No answer to my cries as the daylight dies

His hand reaches across medium and mainland
Holding, tightening, gripping, smothering,
and I swear if it ever lets up
I will never again ask for you’re protection

His gaze vicious as the eye of the hurricane
I was never prepared, unaware that I was
At the mercy of a miser once a friend
I followed his call into my city-sized grave

Imprisoned here,
Struck down with fear
They told me to beware of the calm in the storm
But they themselves were hardly prepared
Your war stories only speak of the norm

Burdened by safety, blinded by a vision
That my life is my own, alone with my thoughts in this cave
They have become my only friends
Unlock the door, before I tear up the floorboards


7. CLOSE YOUR EYES

Drain all of me
Take all I know, all I know
What is my soul ?
Without this life to hold

Shock
Echoes through my body,
Paralyzed in body and mind
I Fear the end around the corner
What could have gone so wrong?
Check the file, straight to
Denial
I will give no power to this poison

All surroundings drain me,
Overwhelm and suffocate me
Helpless in this twisted game,
I never chose to play
Nothing but my memories
Relive the years, written in tears
Look back on a finished life

[Chorus #1]
And now I feel time kill me slowly
What did I do to you ?
Is it luck of the draw of set in stone ?
It feels so long ago that I thought I had the answers (How could you know)
Now the questions rule my will, my life, my very soul

Sleep now
Close your eyes
Voices
Silent cries
Real or
Synthesized
Sleep now
Close your eyes

Relief
I breathe in vindication
The Struggle over
Done with my final chance
To climb atop the world
Accept
The bed that I have made myself
Welcome victory
Only measured by the fear I’ve overcome

[Chorus #2]
And now I feel time kill me slowly
What did I do to you ?
Is it luck of the draw of set in stone ?
It feels so long ago that I thought I had the answers (How could you know)
Now the chaperone to all
Comes to take me home !


8. SUSPENDED

In between sleep and consciousness
In a state of stasis drains my energy,
The grey area where existence is smeared
Approaching the state of mind that is always feared

Lay me down to sleep, alone
I tried to make the leap with no avail
Tug of war between the tenders of each flock
The black sheep elusive
The white, all-inclusive

There are no boarders
There aren’t any divisions
My world consists of elisions
Creation, precision

My mind like a sheep that strayed
Both shepherds, turn a blind eye
I strive to be a dreamer of dreams
Nothing now but the sky

[Chorus]
Why am I constantly Awake
Trying to sleep was a Mistake
How many attempts will it take
Before this prison conquers me

Why am I constantly Awake
Torture for tortures sake
How many attempts will it take
Before this prison is reality

I am suspended between two worlds
In one uncharted realm leading to another
Above me I see what is familiar
Below me is another shade of where I stand

Build me a new tonight
Save my world from this Plight
Walk through the haze of my
Mind till the end of all time

Suspended
Stasis
Take this feeling from me
Make this
Make this dream an actuality

I see the, nights fade to day
And double back to night
The line I crossed was hazy
The steps I take cross back through time

My shepherd calls from afar
Unceasing, repetitively
The sound echoes through the endless space
Here it is, the moment I’ve always feared !


9. PRETZEL

(Instrumental)


10. 649

A vicious crowd with new potential
Enter the fray my mind open
Feed them, feed them with the drug of hope that will not last
And the first to go, feed on pride and begin to slow
And reveal the darkness a wise man would never know

Give Me
All I deserve
I am
Ahead of the curve

You get nothing
You are not what you think
You will know soon
Where these lies have really brought you

I’ll always remember
The ones who went before
They carry on
You dare to claim what they built

Symbols of passion, leave their mark
Carry and guide me
While others lose themselves in the dark

Wake up
Take your stand
Show this place
What you can give
Before you slowly sink down
What can you give ?
Before you slowly sink down

Climb
Climb out of this hole
You dig deeper every day
If they catch you crawling out
They will bury you alive

Every day I walk the mile
It’s getting longer
Chained here by pen and page
I never would know not to come until it’s too late

But for the sight to come true
What does it ask of you ?
And for us to get through
What does it take out of you ?

I will only believe
What I see and hear
I can’t believe that what you’re feeling
Changes how my world appears