1 . CHOOSE YOUR FATE

(Have you ever given any thought to the fate of your children?

We've made good progress…

We've done everything we can
to protect innocent life

These weapons of mass destruction

This is just the beginning

Slowly but surely achieving our objective)

Liar/Slipped from the tongue
Like the breath of a prophet
Cloaked in blood/Kissed with a bomb
From the heart of the flawless number one

In a home that's broken and silent
The truth will not be heard
In the forceful roar of a tyrant
"Freedom" is a loaded word

Compliance/This morbid code
Leaves the carcass/A feast for the corrupt Where power is love
Blind allegiance is warmly smiled upon

In a place where thought is abandoned
Freedom can become a curse

Yeah! Beggars!/Choose your fate
The reaction/The reaction is awake

So choose your fate
The reaction/The reaction is awake

Because
When the meaning fails to be objectified Lies will carry through

Until you see them
Staring from the other side
Back at you/Back at YOU!/YOU!!!/YOU!!!

Now they will try to sell you
For all you're worth/For all you're worth

Yeah... and
When the meaning fails to be objectified Their lies will stare back at you
From the other side/At you!

Beggars!/Choose your fate
The reaction/The reaction is awake

So choose your fate
The reaction/The reaction is awake

Yeah! Awake!/Yeah! Awake!

Choose your... own fate!
The re...action is awake! YEAH!!!!!!!!!

LIAR!!!/LIAR!!!/LIAR!!!/LIAR!!!


2 . WAKE UP

We are alive for a moment
One second in the great abyss of time

All the bleeding and all the hate:
Just one blink of an eye

All the conflict
It visits dire pain on human life
Are we missing what it is to be alive?

One by one the pieces fall
Until our pride defeats us all,
Or we learn to live without it

Wake up/To the sound of this time bomb
Wake up/To its deafening song
Wake up/'Cause you don't know what you've got Until it's gone/Until it's gone

Our innocence is a virtue
But our arrogance will only leave us blind
Unattended without anyone
To save our idle lives

Will we find out?
That everything we know exists inside
of a fraction of a fraction?

One by one the pieces fall again

Wake up/To the sound of this time bomb
Wake up/To its deafening song
Wake up/'Cause you don't know what you've got Until it's gone/Until it's gone

Wake up/To the sound of this time bomb
Wake up/To its deafening song
Wake up/'Cause you don't know
what you've got
Until it's gone/Until it's gone away!

One by one the pieces fall...
Until our pride defeats us all... Yeah!

(solo)

One by one the pieces fall...
Until our pride defeats us all... Yeah!

OOHH!!

Wake up/To the sound of this time bomb
Wake up/To its deafening song
Wake up/'Cause you don't know what you've got Until it's gone/Until it's gone

Wake up/To the sound of this time bomb
Wake up/To its deafening song
Wake up/'Cause you don't know
what you've got
Until it's gone/Until it's gone away

It's gone away!


3 . THE ANTIDOTE

Now the damage has been done
And this machine has begun
on a path of destruction

We need the medicine
To reverse what's been done
Before this disease has destroyed everything we know/everything we know

All we need is a reason
All we need is right here inside us all

With our weapons drawn
And all our resources gone
We're facing extinction

The only antidote!
Consists of blood, sweat, and hope
And a blueprint to save us from
all that we've become
ALL THAT WE'VE BECOME!

All we need is a reason
All we need is right here inside us all

All we need is a reason
All we need is right
here inside us/here inside us all! Yeah!

Oh... Now the gears they will fail to turn
As the lights go out

And the Sun will be all that burns
on our way down

But right now we have to
understand the problem AND OVERCOME!

(solo)

So arm yourself/Your mind's your gun
It's time to learn/Accept what's done yeah

and REPAIR THIS DESTRUCTION!

All we need is a reason!...
All we need is right here inside us!...

All we need is a reason
All we need is right here inside us all

All we need is a reason
All we need is right here inside us all

(All we need is a reason)
(All we need is a reason!!!)

(All we need is a reason)
(Woah-oh, oh-oh)

(All we need is a reason)
(All we need is a reason!!!)

All we need is right
here inside us/here inside us aaaa... ...all


4 . TELL ME

...OH!!...

They locked the door
Give me the strength to break it down
Yeah we've always faced this world as one

And I know there's nothing different now
Because this heart is true/it's true/it's true

So Tell me/Tell me
That I'm not all alone
and everything's alright

So Tell me/Tell me
That I'm not all alone
and everything's alright now

Tonight we'll tear this city down
Yeah we're gonna drive all night

Reach the sun
I'll pray that time will never end
Race the clock again With you/With you

So Tell me/Tell me
That I'm not all alone
and everything's alright

So Tell me/Tell me
That I'm not all alone and
Everything's alright,
Everything's alright now! ...yeah!

(We are the fallen/We are the broken)

We are the fallen
We are the light inside of the fire below

We are the broken
We are the rising tide and the undertow Yeah! One love!

...So Tell me/Tell me
That I'm not all alone
and everything's alright...

So Tell me/Tell me
That I'm not all alone
and everything's alright

So Tell me/Tell me
That I'm not all alone
and everything's alright

So Tell me/Tell me!
That I'm not all alone and
Everything's alright,
Everything's alright now!

Hoowuh, GO!

IT'S ALRIGHT NOW!


5 . ANGEL IN THE SWAMP

...OHHHH!!!...

In this home
Quiet the sin/Violence is known
Only by the ones who bare these walls

She is the saint/Hiding it all
Underneath her smile/Her soul is shamed

'Cause her father's hands speak
a thousand words/what he thinks of her
With the sound of her breaking down

One day when the pain is gone
she will finally know: she is not alone

But the sound of her breaking down
seems never-ending now

OHHHH!!!
Now the worst is over
Yeah the worst is over
Yeah the worst is over now

For so long
She holds the blame/She bears the curse
Weighing down on everything she knows

Honor betrayed/Taken away
Even now the brightest star will fade

'Cause her father's hands speak
a thousand words/what he thinks of her
With the sound of her breaking down

One day when the pain is gone
she will finally know: she is not alone

But the sound of her breaking down
seems never-ending now

OHHHH!!!
Now the worst is over
Yeah the worst is over
Yeah the worst is over now

She's alone/She's alone/She's alone now

'Cause her father's hands speak
a thousand words/what he thinks of her
With the sound of her breaking down

One day when the pain is gone
she will finally know: she is not alone

But the sound of her breaking down,
Seems never-ending now. yeah.
Seems never-ending now.

OH!! The worst is over
Yeah the worst is over
Yeah the worst is over, Go!

NOOOOOOO!!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
NO!


6 . THE BLACK SWAN

Woah oh oh
Far beyond the reach of prediction
Lies a promise of a break in the code
And the truth untold

Just before The Black Swan arises
The horizon will be invisible
As the events unfold/Unfold, oh no

The explosion fathers a wave
Consequence we'll take to the grave

To the grave!
Take to the grave!/Take to the grave!

Far beyond the realm of perception
Our assumptions dissipate in the void Paradigm destroyed

Everything that seems to be constant
Shifts direction and defies what we know
Everything that we hold so close

The explosion fathers a wave
Consequence we'll take to the grave

What we'll never anticipate
Consequence we'll take to the grave

To the grave!
Take to the grave!/Take to the grave!
TO THE GRAVE!/TO THE GRAVE!

AAHH!! YEAH!

Unexpected the impact of what's to come
Everlasting, the fallout will carry on
Waiting quietly beyond hexagon
To unravel the cannon, baring The One

The explosion fathers a wave
Consequence we'll take to the grave

What we'll never anticipate
Consequence we'll take to the grave

To the grave!
Take to the grave!/Take to the grave!
TO THE GRAVE!/TO THE GRAVE!


7 . MESSAGE TO THE WORLD

Another world collides
Will we open the door?
A message to the world it seems like

Everyone has a God
Standing up for what we think we know
Do we know?

We've got so far to go from here, and
We've got so much to lose
With American eyes
Yeah and curious hearts

We've got so much to learn
So we find/we find

When you kill me, do it slowly
When we've come undone

When you kill me, please do it slowly
Send a message to the world

Another war will rise
Will we open the floor?
Listen to the words. It seems like:

Everyone has a cause
Fighting for a world we think we own, but
Do we know?

We've got so far to go from here, and
We've got so much to lose
With American eyes
Yeah and curious hearts

We've got so much to learn
So we find/we find

When you kill me, do it slowly
When we've come undone

When you kill me, please do it slowly
Send a message to the world
Send a message to the world

There's so much more to learn
There's so much more to live for
More than we will ever know
It's a message to the world

(solo)

When you kill me, do it slowly
When we've come undone

When you kill me, please do it slowly
Send a message to the world
Send a message to the world
Send a message to the world

Another world collides
Will we open the door!?

oooh eh/oooh eh/oooh eh/oooh eh


8 . APATHY IS A DEATHWISH

All eyes are focused
on the captivating man
His intentions all but clear
Sway the crowd with stone in hand.

'Cause we all wait
for something else to save us

With eyes closed we find it all
The differences left us dead...

...inside!
We can't walk through life unconscious
This time!
'Cause our apathy is a deathwish

Blank stares across the room
take in the dead broadcast
All ambitions disappear
waiting for our lives to pass

...How long will this last?

'Cause we all wait
for something to believe in
With all hope that we might find
the answers to what we left

Inside!
We can't walk through life unconscious
This time!
'Cause our apathy is a deathwish

Inside!
We can't walk through life unconscious
This time!
'Cause our apathy is a deathwish

As we look to entertainers
to fulfill our hopeless lives,
We deaden our own passions,
forfeit our bookless minds,

When everybody's guilty,
No one can prove they're right,
And the only race worth running
is to further Humankind/Humankind!

Dead inside.
Indifference will bleed us dry inside.

Inside!
We can't walk through life unconscious
This time!
'Cause our apathy is a deathwish

Inside!
We can't walk through life unconscious
This time!
'Cause our apathy is a deathwish

Deathwish!


9 . WE'RE NOT GONNA MAKE IT

...OH!...

He steps a shot foot into the room
She knows that
This day's been long over due
Now as the tears fall down her face
The pain is real and it's starting to show

(She says I know)
We're not gonna make it
until the lines that divide start to fade away

We're not gonna make it
until the lines that divide start to fade away

And with a whisper she mumbles through
I guess they just won't accept me and you
They see a difference in skin
But I thought that love was always true

Who would have known?
That in a search for a parent's love
Her happiness though, is just not enough
She tries to keep it inside
But through these hopeless eyes
the world is a lie

(She says I know)
We're not gonna make it
until the lines that divide start to fade away

We're not gonna make it
until the lines that divide start to fade away

(I'll show you) The line starts to fade away
(I'll show you) The line starts to fade away

I know I can show you

That I'm not afraid NO!
(Because tomorrow will come)

And no I'm not afraid
(And we will no longer run)

And no I'm not afraid
(Because tomorrow will come)

And I am not afraid/not afraid

We're not gonna make it
until the lines that divide start to fade away
We're not gonna make it
until the lines that divide start to fade away

We're not gonna make it
(We're not gonna make it)
until the lines that divide start to fade away

We're not gonna make it
(We're not gonna make it)
until the lines that divide start to fade away

(I'll show you) The line starts to fade away
(I'll show you) The line starts to fade away

(I'll show you)
This line starts to fade
It all starts to fade
It all starts to fade away

...OH!


10 . CANNONBALL

...Count-Down!

Yeah! This clock is counting down
To a final resignation
Another crowning curtain call

A global melt down
Leaves a trail of devastation
It carves the writing on the wall
Oh you know

We've never seen this kind of world
It's a warning to us all

No, we've never seen this kind of world
And I hope that we can
Stop this cannonball/Stop this cannonball

Yeah! We play the lead role
With a lack of education
And pay a price we'll never know

Our future's been sold
By a profit margin generation
We're all invited to the show/oh you know

We've never seen this kind of world
It's a warning to us all
No We've never seen this kind of world
It's a warning to us all

Oh We've never seen this kind of world
And I hope that we can
Stop this cannonball/Stop this cannonball

because when it all comes crashing down
Down from above
there will be no salvation/is there anything that can save us from ourselves

(solo)

Oh… We've never seen this kind of world
It's a warning to us all
No, we've never seen this kind of world
It's a warning to us all, Oh
we've never seen this -
we've never seen this - kind of world, Oh

we've never seen this
we've never seen this
And I hope that we can
Stop this cannonball/Stop this cannonball

Oh!


11 . TERRIFIED

Here in this town, safe and guarded
We call it home, a feeling that we share Now we leave this place, clinging to hope
In this midnight prayer

If we hold our breath, float beyond this
We'll be reborn, I will carry us home

Are you still alive? Are you scared inside?
Providence is blind when you're terrified
Are you still alive? Are you scared inside?
When we've reached the end of the road
I will carry us home

Oh no/If all I've said was only a hope
The meaningless in truth, now
Will I expire holding the wound
In safety for you

If we make it through, and I can save you
With this heart I know, I will carry us home

Are you still alive? Are you scared inside?
Providence is blind when you're terrified
Are you still alive? Are you scared inside?
When we've reached the end of the road
I will carry us home

And now I'm so far away from you
Will I be making any difference after leaving you all alone?

And now I'm so far away from home
Can I justify my actions after leaving you
here in this town? Safe and guarded
we call it home/a feeling that we share

Are you still alive? Are you scared inside?
Providence is blind when you're terrified

Are you still alive? If you scared inside
(I will carry you home) I will carry us home

Are you still alive? Are you scared inside?
Providence is blind when you're terrified
Are you still alive? Are you scared inside?
When we've reached the end of the road

When we've reached the end of the road
I will carry us home/Carry us home...

...hmmm...


12 . PALE BLUE DOT (interlude)

[Carl Sagan Speech]

The Earth is a very small stage
in a vast cosmic arena.
On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of,
Every human being who ever was,
lived out their lives.
Thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines,
every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every hero and coward,
every creator and destroyer of civilization,
every saint and sinner
in the history of our species,
Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that,
in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters
of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings,
our imagined self-importance,
the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe,
Are challenged by this point of pale light,
and underscores our responsibility and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot.


13 . WELCOME TO OUR NEW WAR

Oh! We fall to our knees
raise our hands toward the sky
Bow to the powerful without asking why

We fill our glass with false sense of pride
The ruling class has forced us all
to demand what they supply

So Welcome to our new war
Where the rich sell their lies to the poor
We're dying but we don't know what for
So Welcome to our new war

In a troubled time/In an age of fear
We place our trust/In the insincere
As the waiting minds/Are misinformed
The ones in charge/
Are just adding to the score

Oh! The war profiteers watch
as their numbers rise
Their private contracts
push profits through the sky

The rest will struggle just to survive
While special interest goes to those with the highest dollar sign
the highest dollar sign, yeah!

So Welcome to our new war
Where the rich sell their lies to the poor
We're dying but we don't know what for
So Welcome to our new war
So Welcome to our new war

Welcome to our new war...

(breakdown)

This is the price that we pay
For living with our eyes closed...
and backs against the wall

At the top of the hill
Where the powerful thrive
There's a strong disregard
For this human life
When the winds start to change
And the meek crowd the floor

The sirens will sound
And at last they will scream... no more!

At last they will scream no more
no more - no more - no more - no more - No!

The power elite
wears the thickest disguise
Setting the rules as the classes divide

They keep their heartless eyes on the prize
and leave the masses
with a lifetime of poverty and crime

So Welcome to our new war
Where the rich sell their lies to the poor
We're dying but we don't know what for
So Welcome to our new war

So Welcome to our new war
Where the rich sell their lies to the poor
We're dying but we don't know what for
So Welcome to our new war

To our new war

War!


B SIDES:

14. The Truth Shall Set Me Free

I will/I...

I will fight this force!
This force that's pressing downward!
And I will break these chains
That bind me from myself

So now I can say...

I will walk this path
Without your forced direction
I will find myself
I'll tear open these eyes

So now I can say
The truth shall set me free

When the sun is gone
And the rain starts to fall
I will be the one/I will rise through it all

I will take this chance
To break from contradictions
I will burn your word
I'll burn all that you said

And I'll finally face this day
With my eyes open wide
And I will erase your lies
I'll tear off this disguise

So now I can say
The truth shall set me free

When the sun is gone
And the rain starts to fall
I will be the one/I will rise through it all

When the sun is gone
And the rain starts to fall
I will be the one/I will rise…
Rise up through it all...

Rise through it all/Rise through it all

Alright!

And I will be the one to rise up through all
The truth shall set me free
The truth shall set me free
The truth shall set me free/Now!

I will/I will rise!!!
Through this I will rise!

Through this I will rise!
Through this I will rise!

Through this I will rise
The truth shall set me free

When the sun is gone
And the rain starts to fall
I will be the one/I will rise through it all

When the sun is gone
And the rain starts to fall
I will be the one/I will rise…
Rise up through it all

Rise through it all/Rise through it all
Rise through it all/Rise through it all


15. Never Let It Go

...Here we go!

I won't let go of the days
when songs were made of gold

I'd regret to break the mold of when
I live and breathe/Every line and every note

Because those words gave me strength When I wasn't strong enough
to make it on my own

Who would have ever though
that six strings would have
the means to strike this chord?

I still believe that
this ordinary life can make it through
Because nothing else has ever felt so true

Let the music take control
That sound is beautiful and
I'll never let it go/no/I'll never let it go/no

Because to this day
it means everything to carry on the torch
Ignite a flame inside us all (inside us all)

Because these words give me hope
when it seems impossible
to face the world alone

And I will always have this feeling
as a means to rise above...

I still believe that
this ordinary life can make it through
Because nothing else has ever felt so true

Let the music take control
That sound is beautiful and
I'll never let it go/no/I'll never let it go

Let the music take control
That sound is beautiful and
I'll never let it go/no/I'll never let it go/no

Because when all is said and done
This song will carry on
Long after we all are dead and gone

Because there's heart in every note
And it's everything we know
and we should never let it go/no

(solo)

Woah No...

Let the music take control
That sound is beautiful and
I'll never let it go/no/I'll never let it go

Let the music take control
That sound is beautiful and
I'll never let it go/no/I'll never let it go/no

Never let it go/no


16. The Virus

OH YEAH!/OH YEAH!

I am the hammer, you are the nail
You are the weak
when comparison will bail

Because it delusioned,
The Virus, thoughts and breathes but
The truth will rise and break down

Questions of the living end
Questions burning in our minds
Questions of the living end
My eyes are open wide YEAH!

You are the cancer, you are the lie
You spawn the terror,
that permeates the mind

When the fear is rejected, and decaded
And reasons why, it breaks down

Questions of the living end
Questions burning in our minds
Questions of the living end
My eyes are open wide
YEAH! YEAH! They're open wide

(solo/breakdown)

Now into your hands I leave my spirit
Now into your hands I leave this
scarred and battered soul in flames

Because now the truth will break DOWN

Questions of the living end
Questions burning in our minds
Questions of the living end
My eyes are open wide

Questions of the living end
Questions burning in our minds
Questions of the living end
My eyes are open wide/oh YEAH!

My eyes are open wide
My eyes are open wide
Open wide!


17. Turn Up The Radio

...Yeah! Woah oh-oh!/Woah oh-oh!

Thought that cannot make a sound
Until the movement is slowed
(Turn up the radio/Turn up the radio)

And words cannot spark a fire
Until the action is closed
(Turn up the radio/Turn up the radio)

it falls/it falls/it falls down

What are you waiting for
What are you waiting for
When the hope for a new sound
has been born

What are you waiting for
What are we waiting for
When the hope for a new sound
has been born

oh-oh

Now they won't hear a word
Until there's faith in your own
(Turn up the radio/Turn up the radio)

So don't give way to the wind but
Set this promise in stone
(Turn up the radio/Turn up the radio)

it falls/it falls/it falls down

What are you waiting for
What are you waiting for
When the hope for a new sound
has been born

What are you waiting for
What are we waiting for
When the hope for a new sound
has been born

When the hope for a new sound
has been born

Woah oh oh

When the time comes
Will you be the one to change it all
When the time comes
Are you the one to change it all

(solo)

So can you hear it now
So can you hear it now
Because when you answer now
To the revolution's call
Then we can change it all

What are you waiting for
What are you waiting for
When the hope for a new sound
has been born

What are you waiting for
What are we waiting for
When the hope for a new sound
has been born

When the hope for a new sound
has been born

What are we waiting for!
What are we waiting for!
What are we waiting for!

YEAH


18. Save One

I took precious life for granted
In the time yours was in bloom
So without it I'm here in my life's afternoon

Time always seems to take forever
When everything you see is new
But in a moment I found that: that's
not always true/not always true

Because the morning's over now
And the search for higher ground,
So much easier said than done
When you're not here

And the morning's come and gone
Standing here under the sun
So much easier said than done
When we're all here/Save one

In our young mind it was easy
To plan a lifetime like a day/Just as easily
To find it all taken away

And now I stand in devastation
Where my world crashed down today
Never thought that I'd hear
The last words you would say

But the morning's over now
And the search for higher ground,
So much easier said than done
When you're not here

And the morning's come and gone
Standing here under the sun
So much easier said than done
When we're all here/Save one/Save one

I assumed you'd always be there
(Now the moment that you fell)
And tomorrow bids farewell (farewell)

What you left behind is greater
(Than a photograph can tell)
The memory has failed

Though your time's done with the sun
There's still a million things
unsaid and done

But the morning's over now
And the search for higher ground,
So much easier said than done
When you're not here

And the morning's come and gone
Standing here under the sun
So much easier said than done
When we're all here

But the morning's over now
(And you're not here)

And the search for higher ground
(But you're not here)

And the morning's come and gone
Standing here under the sun
So much easier said than done
When we're all here
Save one/Save one/Save one