1. SYNOPSIS

(This track is lyrics from Rise And Fall played backwards)

2. RISE AND FALL

This human incompetence
and its consequence
Sub-human intolerance hitting home
This stupid old prejudice
and its consequence
Civilian rights are not right
For all deserve rights, large and small

Rise and fall each breath could be the last
Chances have all come and passed

Why can't we just shake the urge
to end everything?
Property lines slice through the Earth
The sudden urge to control
our surroundings
Money and time
now define their worthless.
We rise and we fall.

Rise and fall each breath could be the last
Chances have all come and passed

Fighting for! Land to own
and man will always find reasons for war
Fighting wars! Yields bitter rewards
so let's contemplate what to fight for

Well! From the oceans we rise!
And! To the ashes we fall!
All for one... not one for all...

Where do we go when we no longer exist? Apologies are useless
they're nothing/they're important
To savor the taste of youth
and sweet control
Hierarchal classes Split the masses
Pray your ranking's high

Off-white, low-life,
nuisance in a flawless life
Ground underfoot like ashes
The whole world's a fucking gas chamber!

Populations rise and fall!

3. BORN DEAD, BURIED ALIVE

The bloodline traces back to the past from
Whence the first real Christians came
And the racist procreation remains
in every God-damned rally, riot, and rage

Eternal damnation divided by nation fighting for land, language, and souls
A kick to the face of pride...

Leave hypnotic control behind
How: Is it that, Even now, To this day
This posion we're born with
still runs through our veins?
still runs through our veins?
still runs through our veins?

Brainwash young minds
They will learn what you teach
practice what you preach
Brainwash young minds, breed corruption

(Didn't you expect when you built your)
You built your!

(Your empire)
Your empire!
On pillars of cadavers
genocide yields power!

(your empire) your empire!
(on murder) on murder!
(that it would corrode with time?
Say, how do you justify)

Systematic eradication of the diversity
the foundation of all humanity

Say how do you justify
putting words in my mouth!
blood on my hands! hate in my heart!

Say how do you justify
putting words in my mouth!
blood on my hands! hate in my heart!

Say how do you justify?

The bloodline traces back to the past from
Whence the first real Christians came
And the racist procreation remains
in every God-damned rally, riot, and rage

Eternal damnation divided by nation fighting for land, language, and souls
A kick to the face of pride...

An insult
To all those who've died
To all those who've died
To all those who've died

Brainwash young minds
They will learn what you teach
practice what you preach
Brainwash young minds, breed corruption

(Didn't you expect when you built your)
You built your!

(Your empire)
Your empire!
On pillars of cadavers
genocide yields power

(your empire) your empire!
(on murder) on murder!
(that it would corrode with time?
Say, how do you justify )

I lock eyes with the black monolith
Towering over me
I lock eyes with the black monolith
In my reflection I see our name
printed far too many times
Over and Over again... Over again

You cannot know the warm touch of the
vengeance that calls, without the sting of the betrayal that afflicts us all!

You cannot know the warm touch of the
vengeance that calls, without the sting of the betrayal that afflicts us all!!!

4. TAKE A BOW

Powerless! Depressed!
I try to conceal all the wreckage inside
They're denied the basic rights
hand-delivered to all of mankind

My patience tried! Forgiveness died!
My hands are tied! Let go...
All of the scars! Built up the walls!
Life drifting far below!

Instinct can't save you now
Man stand up, take a bow
The sun always hides behind the clouds
Always

Tell me: When did we lose our way?
Why is the whole world our prey? Inhumane is the trend nowadays
How much more can they pay in
the end? the end?

My patience tried! Forgiveness died!
My hands are tied! Let go...
All of the scars! Built up the walls!
Life drifting far below!

Instinct can't save you now
Man stand up, take a bow
The sun always hides behind the clouds
Always

How blind we've been
to let destructive forces fly
Deaf ears hear them
closed hands feel them
Empathy begins when all this ends (Paradox! Paradox!)

End all innocent lives right now
We bring nothing and claim the crown

End all innocent lives right now
We bring nothing and claim the crown

5. TROPHY KILL

Argh!

Often misjudged are
the criminals among us;
guilty and their sentence is not yet served

How broken and dead
the reigning race would be if we...
If we all got what we deserved

All sentient beings are only
Those that we dictate
How can you judge
what you lick off your plate?
The giver now has been brutally raped
Who knows if
the future has so good a taste?

(Who knows what?)
Although we know
what the future has for us in store
a consumption society
just breaks right through the door

In blissful ignorance
the fists of power thrive
Now look at your hands
your command tells who will survive

Fresh mermaid carcasses
wash up on shore
They're a prize to be won
and a cheap thrill, no more
Paranoid grins on fake colorless smiles
Fear of the hollow between
wrong and right

Sobriety is no longer an option
When digging upwards
from the trench you fell in

At the top of your game, who cares?
The ones below are too far down
But we're the ones who kill our neighbors to stay safe and sound

In blissful ignorance
the fists of power thrive
Now look at your hands
your command tells who will survive

Trohpy Kill!!!

We are such great masochists
Fuck you, fucking hypocrite!

We are such great masochists
Fuck you!

Too bad you do what you do to score
True that you knew what you knew before

In blissful ignorance
the fists of power thrive
Now look at your hands
your command tells who will survive

6. BUSINESS SUITS AND COMBAT BOOTS

(Does history guide you,
or do you set out to change it?)

Oh!
Breached not broken Breached not broken

Do you set out to change me!?
Thank you for that you giant human rat!

Fuck your skinned alive designer wear
Fashion shades and salon hair
Heels to help where nature failed
Artificial teeth and nails! No!

The wasp's nest expands

So clap your hands! It's her!
The one black woman who's success you don't credit to Affirmative Action
The way of the future is
corporate sponsors raising your kids
Maternal love is nothing
compared to what $7 gives

Put in, suck out plastic body parts
It's the ever-growing industry...
Industry of cosmetic arts!
Bombard with the idealized shots, dysmorphic, self-destructive plots

Physical flaws are a mental blank
Physical flaws are a mental blank

So pay your surgeons
It's your parents you should thank

These eyes are blind
to several hundred left behind
(Lest we forget again)
But the border is breached but not broken

Who tries to find
the several hundred left behind
But the border is breached but not broken

Co-existing in a twisted society
Where youth is a crime
and wasteful sweat-shops expenditures
is how luxury is defined
Now the KKK
have found a new masquerade
Fuck your self-proclaimed supremacy
You hide your face and your shame!

Identify right and wrong
when all fact is merely opinion
You cannot know
the sweetness of victory, without first
dwelling in the agony of defeat

These eyes are blind
to several hundred left behind
(Lest we forget again)
But the border is breached but not broken

Who tries to find
the several hundred left behind but
the border is breached
the border is breached
the border

The several hundred left behind!
We forgot again...


(Note: For the end of the chorus,
the CD's booklet's official lyrics are
"WHEN the border is breached"

but Alissa never actually sings that,
she ALWAYS says
"BUT the border is breached")

7. SERENDIPITY

Stillborn pride - Let me hide!

Once more I've stepped across the line
Repeating to myself that everything is fine

Once more I'm shipwrecked far from shore
This time,
the war and blood and gore are mine

Approaching the end
thinking it's all pretend, then...

Clarity! So close to me
Although I knew I killed me to
I came back to life!
The key is flexibility
Guard your strenghts and drown the rest
out of mind, out of sight

The chains on my wings
Still tight but loosening
The age of wondering
led me to a place never revisited again!

Stillborn pride - Spare my mind!

Don't regret all of your past -
you can't change.
Tears dry but they're never your last
That won't change.
The first stone has just been cast -
Show restraint

You can't take all my apathy!
You can't fake such a tragedy!
You can't break all my fallacies!

Let serendipity...

Okay...
So things don't always go your way
We may see things
for what they are someday

Some things will never go your way
See things for what they are today!

Stillborn pride - Truth denied!

8. MEMENTO MORI

Can't you see how far I've bent?
Fuel abuse at my expense
The limbs that crawl up silken threads and swift entomb the not quite dead

That sickening numbness hindsight hides Like spiders, creeps out from inside Remember, simply don't pretend,
Both good and bad will come to end

How love's blindfold wears so thin...
The world's too strange when seen without
The arrow's head plunged so far in
My body taught me just
how to live on without

You tore away a part of my body
So virgin pure
You fed off blood from my soul!
No longer will your silhouette haunt me Reject obsession, let it burn in the cold!

Writhing, wriggling free from
all the superficial constraints, but that...

That sickening numbness hindsight hides Like spiders, creeps out from inside

How love's blindfold wears so thin...
The world's too strange when seen without
The arrow's head plunged so far in
My body taught me just
how to live on without

Your fingers burn their prints
on my, my skin

But greedy hands
can't grope their way into my mind
No more! Will your! Venom!
Reach my awe-glazed eyes!
Though my last hope Was strangled Although you've burned me

Your fingers burn their prints
on my, my skin

That corpse constantly
shadowing my every move
With each step I take
Pavement grinds my flesh away
The precious, static rest
beneath my slumber holds me up
Though persuasion pulls me down

9. VOID OF SYMPATHY

...Void of sympathy!

I remember the way
your hand reached out and closed doors
I remember though
memories serve no purpose anymore

Wrong direction
I now see what I didn't look for
Feed off perfection and
bite the hand you once adored because

Now you've gone too far
So let me show you how
I will win every war and
The battlefield is all mines

Thieving, Grieving,
Beliving the opposition
Failure to say you're
Void of sympathy

Your forced opression is
one thing that I can tell you for sure
Just won't affect me
So just keep trying to push it more
Your sub-Human surprise
keeps my hatred alive
Be thankful to survive
Because I'm just getting started now...

(Do you) see how you've gone too far?
Attempts to put me down
won't succed anymore
But your actions will leave a scar

Thieving, Grieving,
Beliving the opposition
Failure to say you're
Void of sympathy

Right now I'm taking away, breaking away
This torment ends now
And I'm blinded willingly until recently. Suspicion set free, that was then...
So what? This is now!
So what? This is now!

Thieving, Grieving,
Beliving the opposition
Failure to say you're
Void of sympathy

(Note: For the end of the chorus,
the CD's booklet's official lyrics are
"DEVOID of sympathy"

but Alissa never actually sings this,
she always just says "VOID of sympathy")

10. CHIAROSCURO

(Instrumental)

11. FORGET TOMORROW

Fall into flames!
All that remains of me is a stepped on, thrown out piece of your enemy
All that remains of me
Is about to hit the ground

When you begin to deny
all of your past lives...
When you begin to deny
that you can't defend your lies...

In total, In control
Get thrown overboard get pulled below
Wait patiently as it sorrounds me

In vitro freak show
go home... go... set me free
The end is only a bloodloss, cointoss Tragedy, Tragedy (Tragedy)
Blinded-eyed guilty plea...

So caught up in here and now
Walk on! Walk on!
Life expectancy goes down, corruption! The weakest mind will wear the crown because we all need protection
Escapism is a dangerous art
Addiction is the easy part
Please don't let me fall into flames!

Night falls and darkness rises
deep inside his skin
Blood, sweat, and tears
will soon pay for this sin

In total, In control
Get thrown overboard get pulled below
Wait patiently as it sorrounds me

Walk to...wards home,
thinks he's alone...

Wait and you'll see!
The frust glows in his eyes
Exhalation's only a disguise
For Death's new enterprise
Infiltration... Self-destruction...
Felt so lonely, what a tragedy

12. Feel No Guit

Everything's gone wrong!

Sea Salt is burning
through the land that's beside us
Attempt feelings
man will never be in control of

Stormy skies drowning
although one's been dry
No disregard for everything
that's going your way...
Feed off what you found

When I'm tortured murdered and then thrown away but feel no guilt
We all seem to know
We need to hear every day

Step away from what you don't own
Kick the Devil off his throne
Mischief only goes one way
Blood is not enough
to flood all the landscapes

Around us trees are falling
and they make no sound
No, nothing ever happened
if no one's around

A million statues must now fill the lanes
Now that we work with speed
farther to a sign...
Truth is made of life

When I'm tortured murdered and then thrown away but feel no guilt
We all seem to know
We need to hear every day

Step away from what you don't own
Kick the Devil off his throne
Mischief only goes one way
Blood is not enough
to flood all the landscapes

Contrary out!

The whole world is not welded of steel
The more deadly come last in lane
The shadow in here

You'll never be mistaken
for the ones closer than you

The factors that we need
Are completely sunken in

But the travesty and tragedy
is one that we don't get

It's that the ones truly honest
Who are gonna know and gonna be there

Awe is not all traces we clear
Come to the Verona
Sterile give in

Step away from what you don't own
Kick the Devil off his throne
Mischief only goes one way...

We are all wrong!
And before long!
We're gonna pay!