1. STUMBLEPIT

Bury the needle to puncture my eye
Healing the wound as a nation divides
Sacrificed virtue to compensate pride
Symptoms are buried behind all the lies

Why do we stumble around
Why do we stumble around

This new appliance will feed us, bleed us
Tear us apart, make us whole
This awkward science will need us, bleed us
Tear us apart, take control

Reason presents us with choices to guide
Choosing a weapon or choosing a side
Logic unbiased will draw us a line
Choose to ignore it or choose to decide

Why do we stumble around
Why do we stumble around
With no direction
With no perception
With no control

This new appliance will feed us, bleed us
Tear us apart, make us whole
This awkward science will need us, bleed us
Tear us apart, take control

I'm sick and tired of no solution
I'm strung and wired from finding hope
I've built a pyre of retribution
Its open wide, I'm still inside

Still inside I'm still inside

Why do we stumble around
With no direction, with no control


2. LIVID

Shoved in to this box you've put me in
Kept locked down, if trapped I suffocate
Livid in this world you've created
Searching for a doorway

Out of this sick, repulsive, hypothetical vision wasted
On repetitive thoughts that dictate my emotionless static
Causing hesitation

It pulls me under
Fading from reality, I cannot find the gravity
No time to ponder
Attempting to restrain the beast, a desperate plea for sanity

Livid in a moment jaded
Still searching for a doorway
Out in to
A calmer blue
Holding on to the shadows
A restless reminder
It pushes me

Into the next repulsive, hypothetical vision wasted
On repetitive thought that dictates my emotionless static
Causing hesitation


3. COPE

Hold me underneath the water
Rinse me till I'm clean
Stretch my skin and scratch the surface
I promise I won't bleed

I never wanted to be born into this
Every time I hear your voice it makes me sick
Beaten by an open hand, I raise a fist
I got to find a way to cope with all of this

Shut the door and lock me out
I'll throw away your key
On my own out in the cold
There's no one left but me

I never wanted to be born into this
Every time I hear your voice it makes me sick
Beaten by an open hand, I raise a fist
I got to find a way to cope with all of this

I try not to cry

This is not just temporary
Fear and denial remain
I'm now just twice as aware
Of the abuse and the pain

This is not what I want to be
But you expected more from me
This is not what I want to be


4. IODINE

See the world with jaded eyes
The shallow structures of our crime

The stone falls from your hand
You slip under the sand
Try to understand
Conscience forms a plan

See the world with painted eyes
Collected conscience moves in stride

The stone falls from your hand
You rise above the sand
Try to understand
We define the plan

Question the ideal
Thought will make it real
Reaction you can feel
Truth will be revealed

Is the message clear?
Is the passage near?
Or buried in the past?
How long will it last?


5. DIFFERENTIAL

(Instrumental)


6. PACAFIST

Shot Down
Shot Down
Far gone you walk along a long road
Stole from a dream, the story you told
Preachers on the TV preachin 'bout the enemy
Only show that's on is hypocrisy

You wash your hands clean
And spread a message of war
You seed the disease
Somehow reaping the cure
Now your delusion
Grows bigger
You're the target
I'm on the TRIGGER

Shot Down
Shot Down
Far gone you walk along a long road
Stealing the scene with lives that you sold
Mother's on the TV crying for her family
Machine gun cornerstone for democracy

You wash your hands clean
And spread a message of war
You seed the disease
Somehow reaping the cure
Now your delusion
Grows bigger
You're the target
I'm on the TRIGGER


7. PAPAERWEIGHT

Chasing writing on the wall
Bullet-proof and ten feet tall
Staining minds with every breath
Mocking every chance you get

I stand up to you and I see right through you
I hold my fire up to your paper virtue
I stand up to you and I see right through you
I look inside and find there's nothing in you

I scrape my knees and take the fall
Bow and kneel before you crawl
Weakness pleases, choice upsets
Freedom's lost, become my pet

I stand up to you and I see right through you
I hold my fire up to your paper virtue
I stand up to you and I see right through you
I look inside and find there's nothing in you

I want to believe in something I can feel


8. A DARKER HOLE

A darker whole concealed
Within the folds of a truth revealed
A blank passage
Unread chapter
In my book
Of memories

It crawls though the space behind my face
Trying to complicate the scene that surrounds me
Slapped in the face, a bitter taste
Lingers to penetrate, confuse and astound me

Striving to widen the spaces of consciousness
It still keeps me locked up inside myself
Searching for some sort of revelation
Failing to confront the situation
I keep on slipping
I push it down
Beneath the surface
I've forgotten
It's still there

It crawls though the space behind my face
Trying to complicate the scene that surrounds me
Slapped in the face, a bitter taste
Lingers to penetrate , confuse and astound me

And I can't forget
And I can't forgive
And I still regret
And I still re-live

Standing on the edge I see
Emptiness and fading dreams
Shallow pools of everything
Nothing seems to comfort me
Born into obscurity
Cannot find security
Clouded by the hate I feel
Look to what I know is real

Nothing but the world around me


9. THE LADDER

In a darkened room
Sun burned a hole in your eyes
Afraid to leave the tomb
Afraid to look at the sky
You will be waking soon
Come on and open your eyes
You will be waking soon
Come on see through the disguise

Head in a grey balloon
Waiting to witness a sign
Head in a grey balloon
Immune to passing of time
You will be waking soon
Come on and open your eyes
You will be waking soon
Come on see through the disguise

Your hollow apathy
Is not concerning me
Stuck somewhere in-between
A dying wish and a dream
Question philosophy
Reject hypocrisy
Stuck somewhere in-between
A dying wish and a dream

Reaching out for something
Something i cannot find
Reaching out for someone
Someone is left behind

Your hollow apathy
Is not concerning me
Stuck somewhere in-between
A dying wish and a dream


10. MECHANISM

Drifting away, feeling the puddles of consciousness drain
Knowing the way, transient shadows of being remain
Feeling betrayed, fearing the whole will be swallowed again
Lost and awake, sift through the pieces to find the remains

Conscience is rejected by the weak
A subscription to a plan that dictates what to seek
Free will will be provided by collusion
As to not shatter the illusion
Ignorance through bliss
Choice is just a myth
And we fall victim through belief

Stain the gray
To kill the clown
That drags you down
Face the pain
That paints the frown
You're wearing down

And we're filtered through the sieve
Of this machine that lets us live
So afraid
So unknown
So frail
So alone


11. BENEATH THE KILLING FLOOR

Trying to shed my skin
I crawl back through the womb again
The pieces shattered
I'm falling further from the truth
Pay no attention
To the man above the room
I'll break the tension
He won't get his hands on you
Just a distraction
The contradiction's coming true

I've looked around and in between
I've looked for love and all I've seen
Is nothing, nothing
Nothing pure and nothing clean
An empty borrowed broken dream
It's nothing, nothing

The fear is setting in
Shackled to a plastic grin
My anchor's scattered
I'm drifting out into the blue
Pay no attention
To the man above the room

I've looked around and in between
I've looked for love and all I've seen
Is nothing, nothing
Nothing pure and nothing clean
An empty borrowed broken dream
It's nothing, nothing