1. FLICKER

Sometimes I feel like I just don’t belong here
Like a shadow cast from a time long past
I’m swallowed up and dissipating

I feel so out of phase and so invisible
It’s disorienting, alienating
Little stranger, welcome to the world

Do you ever feel like you just don’t belong here?
Me I’ve always known this isn’t home
I’m starting to feel so disconnected
A stranger in a strange and growing ever stranger land
In a world that I don’t understand
So misdirected
Trapped inside a world that buried Mozart in a pauper’s grave
And said, “Give us Barabbas,”crucified Christ and turned away
Electing fools to lead us
Rejecting truth, see us spiraling down
Shall we enter the last days?

Out of place and out of time
Oh tell me what’s the value of a life
In a modern day and age where monsters cling to evil ways
I can’t shake the feeling I just don’t belong
But we flicker for a moment
Flicker for a moment, then we’re gone
I don’t belong here
I don’t belong here

Pleasure slaves indulging every manner of perversion
If technology’s the god we feed, our sacrifice is full submersion
Lifelong friendships ended over stupid politicians
All the rhetoric and superstitions
Life on a screen, a simulated world that buried Mozart in a pauper’s grave
And said, “Give us Barabbas,” crucified Christ and turned away
This world feels so synthetic
Lost apathetic
While tragedy vampires drink blood of the fallen

Out of place and out of time
Oh tell me what’s the value of a life
In a modern day and age where monsters cling to evil ways
I can’t shake the feeling I just don’t belong
But we flicker for a moment
Flicker for a moment, then we’re gone

Centuries of deep corruption led to compromise
Practicing a counterfeit morality, the great disguise and
I don’t belong here
I’m just a weary traveler
This world has lost sight of the value of a life

Out of place and out of time
Oh tell me what’s the value of a life
In a modern day and age where monsters cling to evil ways
I can’t shake the feeling I just don’t belong
But we flicker for a moment
Flicker for a moment, then we’re…


2. ANONYMUS

Life
Process and identify
Who are you and what am I
Nothing to say in nameless decay
A virus stain now

Can't remember what it's for
Couldn't feel it anymore
After the day they took it away
You gave me back my name
Crawling through the darkness
With a shroud over my eyes
Like an orphan slowly reaching for the light

Chosen ones
Futures and names for all of us
No longer anonymous (Anonymous)
No matter what they say
It shall be done
Forging us into priests and kings
Carry us unto greater things
To chase shadows of doubt so far away
Paint the skies with Your Name

Death
Consеquence, identity
Somеthing's chasing after me
Sins of the past
Collecting at last
Their debt of shame

Lost
Dying when you found me there
Unattended, unaware
"Silenced" they said
And left me for dead
You gave me back my name
Though they offer vain deceit
Hollow life philosophy
All the rudiments of fallen hearts beware

Chosen ones
Futures and names for all of us
No longer anonymous (Anonymous)
No matter what they say
It shall be done
Forging us into priests and kings
Carry us unto greater things
To chase shadows of doubt so far away
Paint the skies with Your Name

Not assigned our worth by words
Of men in changing flawed, morality
A sacrifice painted in blood
Recovered lost identity
It's not the things that we have done
Or other things that we have not
You turn the lost souls carved in stone
To sons and daughters
Welcome home

Chosen ones
Futures and names for all of us
No longer anonymous (Anonymous)
No matter what they say
It shall be done
Forging us into priests and kings
Carry us unto greater things
To chase shadows of doubt so far away
So that you may be glorified
The spotless lamb has died to
Paint the skies with Your Name!!!


3. MOSAIC

The Artisan designs
In a secret place
Moves with grace
Shifting seasons mark the time
As it comes and goes
With the wind that blows

And after all, the pieces fall
Landing where they may
You never left or chose to throw them all away
An unknown future, broken past
Like imperfect panes of glass
A window into the darkness

Picture perfect on the wall
I’m a step behind
Lost in time
My perspective ever flawed
Phantom imagery
Sensory
And after all, the pieces fall
Landing where they may
You never left or chose to throw them all away
An unknown future, broken past
Like imperfect panes of glass
Taking shape into something more

What a wonder, fireborn and unforsaken
Piece by broken piece to form
Unveiling this grand mosaic
Compositing the story of a life
Tonight
We are mosaic

Partial pages, scattered scenes
Nothing on their own
The great unknown
Blurry pictures on the screen
Focus pull unto
The master view

‘Cause after all, the pieces fall
Landing where they may
You never left or chose to throw us all away
An unknown future, broken past
Like imperfect panes of glass
Revealing the larger grand design

What a wonder, fireborn and unforsaken
Piece by broken piece to form
Unveiling this grand mosaic
Compositing the story of a life
Tonight
We are mosaic

Gallery, artistry
Mystery, great adventure
Mastery, harmony
History to remember
Like perspective of a woven tapestry
Shifting from the side we see

What a wonder, fireborn and unforsaken
Piece by broken piece to form
Unveiling this grand mosaic
Compositing the story of a life
Tonight
We are mosaic


4. SINSIDIOUS (THE DOGS OF WAR)

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
Snakes alive
Only the strong survive
Or is it those that nature chose?
Generational lie

[Verse 2]
History
Spiritual atrophy
Thy will be done
Thy kingdom come
As long as it looks just like me

[Pre-Chorus]
"Pass it down father to son!
Draw from the poison well
To feed another generation"

[Chorus]
Paint the world in blood with us
Spread your wings, sinsidious
Have you satisfied your own bloodlust
To live forever?
Dogs of war, sinsidious

[Verse 3]
Master race
Twisted and commonplace
It's taught from birth
Infected curse
Wrapped in a flag's embrace

[Verse 4]
Digging in
The great unspoken sin
To hate another
For none other
Than the color
Of his skin

[Pre-Chorus]
"Pass it down father to son!
Draw from the poison well
To drown another generation"

[Chorus]
Paint the world in blood with us
(Paint the world in blood with us)
Spread your wings, sinsidious
(Spread your wings, sinsidious)
Have you satisfied your own bloodlust
To live forever?
Dogs of war

[Refrain]
Shall we sing a song while the world is burning
As they let the games begin?
Watch the modern Nero play his fiddle
While the teeth are sinking in
Father may we guard our hearts
From the overtly hideous
And the more sinsidious
And the more sinsidious

[Bridge]
Woo-aah!
(And the more sinsidious)
Woo-aah!
Woo-aah!
Wow!
Woo-aah!
Woo-aah!
Woo-aah!
Yeah!!

[Guitar Solo]

[Refrain]
Shall we sing a song while the world is burning
As they let the games begin?
Watch the modern Nero play his fiddle
While the teeth are sinking in
Father may we guard our hearts
From the overtly hideous
And the more sinsidious (Sinsidious)

[Outro]
Woo-aah!
(Sinsidious)
Woo-aah!
Woo-aah!
Wow!
Woo-aah!
Woo-aah!
Woo-aah!
Yey!! Yeah!


5. RETURN TO DUST

We parse the script unwritten line by line
The mystery of life filtered through time
A blank slate open-ended to begin
To balance with our own uncertain end, once again

It’s appointed for man once to die
Maybe years, maybe tonight
No matter how hard we rage against the dying of the light
It comes for everyone
For all of us return to dust

An inventory of a lifetime passed
Of things ephemeral, and things that last
The hourglass runs out we know not when
To meet the Maker when our time has come to an end

It’s appointed for man once to die
Maybe years, maybe tonight
No matter how hard we rage against the dying of the light
It comes for everyone
For all of us

[Solo: Taylor]

When I don’t know who to be
Will You watch over me as we walk to the end of the world?
They were calling for me, but You were all I could see
And Your voice was all I heard
For all that we do in this life without You is vanity

It’s appointed for man once to die
Maybe years, maybe tonight
No matter how hard we rage against the dying of the light
It comes for all of us
Return to dust


6. THE SIXTH GREAT EXTINCTION

Phase one:
As the world descends in darkness
Undone
Memories of the faithful burning in effigy
To read
Upon a human understanding
Renounce
All the unseen until nothing remains but you and me

Once upon the days of olden times gone by, the ancient stories told
The great awakenings that shook the hearts of kings
Now the skies are silent, a world where our will be done
Has the sixth great extinction come?

Phase two:
Self-convincing and illusion
That our relative morality
Philosophies are all that we need
To loose
All this immature devolution
Man, in his madness, pulls away into great apostasy

Once upon the days of olden times gone by, the ancient stories told
Of great awakenings that shook the hearts of kings
Now the skies are silent, a world where our will be done
Has the sixth great extinction come?

All the wisdom of this world is foolishness
The history of man's opinions changing with the tide
Power to destroy the wisdom of the wise
The wise

Once upon the days of olden times gone by, the ancient stories told
Of great awakenings that shook the hearts of kings
Now we’ve forged a world where our will be done
Are we alive?
Are we alive?
Are we alive?
Or has the sixth great extinction come?


7. DEIFIED

Step into the light
Deny the chasing of the wind
Secret sin that triggers hidden memories to activate again
Disappointment in proportion to how long you've been around
Everyone's here long enough just to let you down

Man casts a shadow
It takes you over

Out of the darkness into light
We open up our eyes
Trying to make the most of just one life
Who are you going to look to when all your heroes have died?
All the ashes deified
Yeah

All those years of blind ambition back against the wall
He makes subterfuges mission setting up a cataclysmic fall
A betrayal in the dark he fell upon, said no goodbyes
After all, his heart revealed where his treasure lies

Man casts a shadow
Oh, heart, deceitful

Out of the darkness into light
We open up our eyes
Trying to make the most of just one life
Who are you gonna look to when all your heroes have died
And it's dust you deified?

Burn your idols, Holy Fire
Before they can burn you
Sad denial of liars
Aversion to the truth
You and I or the fallen
Should never wear a crown
These pedestals are gallows
We've come to tear them down!

Out of the darkness into Light
We open up our eyes
Trying to make the most of just one life
Who are you gonna to look to when all your heroes have died?
When your gods have changed to still remains, it's dust you deified


8. THE GREATEST HOPE

When the ride was over, eighteen years circling the sun
No regrets and not a word was left unsaid but so much undone
It’s okay
Lost his way
Never quite made it back after he buried his best friend on that rainy day

Another lifetime closing as the shadows take his mind
And that daily heartbreak tears this scar open every time
No one there
Seems so unfair
He calls her name alone then breaks down again 'cause he forgot she’s gone

And we're left to wonder why
Trying to say goodbye
They say it's the ones who are left behind
Who have the harder time

She burned like a star to wish upon
Harder to believe one day here, the next day gone
In their minds
A dream to turn back time
Trying to endure the pain and navigate the wreckage of what still remains

And we're left to wonder why
Trying to say goodbye
They say it's the ones who are left behind
Who have the harder time

Even though you're gone
We try to carry on
See you again, my friend, I know
For we have the greatest hope


9. LIAR, FOOL, OR MESSIAH

Scene of the crime inside a garden in Jerusalem
Arrested by the temple guards
A mock Sanhedrin trial
With blasphemy the charge
“Are you Messiah?”
Said at the Blessed One
The answer, loud and clear, “I am!
At the right hand of God shall come the Son of Man!”

Three years of ministry this man gained all authority
The power to forgive all sins
Who always had been and in justice come again

So as we face the information and the knowledge givеn
At some point we each must makе a choice
The Word, as it is written
Demands a reckoning of sorts
For by those claims and actions
Divinity is brought to bear
Then one of three reactions
Follows from there

Have no illusions
The only conclusions
We're left to draw
When we have heard it all
The arguments rise and fall
It’s either liar, fool, or Messiah
Not just the good moral teacher
Some say patronizingly
With who He claimed to be
The choices are one of three:
Liar, fool, or Messiah!

How can a mortal man be good and claim divinity?
Could a great teacher say such things?
It's either true or He's a liar or insane!

So as we face the information and the knowledge given
At some point we each must make a choice
The Word, as it is written
Demands a reckoning of sorts
For by those claims and actions
Divinity is brought to bear
Then one of three reactions
Follows from there

Have no illusions
The only conclusions
We're left to draw
When we have heard it all
The arguments rise and fall
It's either liar, fool, or Messiah
Not just the good moral teacher
Some say patronizingly
With who He claimed to be
The choices are one, two, three:
Liar, fool, or Messiah!

Have no illusions
The only conclusions
We're left to draw
When we have heard it all
The arguments rise and fall
It's either liar, fool, or Messiah
Not just the good moral teacher
Some say patronizingly
With who He claimed to be
The choices are one of three:
Liar, fool, or Messiah!


10. RED SEA

Freedom!
It's carved in stone
They're marching on
Deliverance divinely conspired
Through desert nights
Once dead to rights
Now following a pillar of fire
It was written
So it shall be done
Generations of slavery
Seek the God that they know
Crush the heart of Pharaoh
Let my people go
At long last from Egypt released

Exodus!
Great power displayed
Cycle of plagues
Four hundred thirty years in chains
Come to an end
To march again
Proclaim the end of Pharaoh's reign
Lеd by staff and rod
Chosen of God
Descendеd of Abraham
Displacing governments
Mark the Holy covenant
Forge the hope of Israel
To enter the promised land
One day the Chosen One shall lead the way!

Shout of the heart of stone
March from Egypt into the unknown
Oh, God of Abraham
Mercy, sacrifice, Passover Lamb
Relentless, the Pharaoh's pride
Recaptured slavery or genocide
Now let the chase begin
His heart of stone reformed
And piece by broken piece
It's hardened once again!

Galloping horses and chariots pursue
Into the desert they charge
Six hundred chosen of Pharaoh break through
Children of Israel, they see you from afar
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Captains and armies obey their decree
Nation of pride and deceit closing in
While a nation of helplessness kept by the edge of the sea

The children of Israel now lift up their eyes
The shadow's approaching their freedom at stake
Chaos and panic and fear for their lives
Death on both sides there is no escape
The angel of God, the cloud and the fire
It moves from the front to guard the behind
Unto the chosen, a life-giving pyre
A God of confusion unto the blind

Stand still, and see salvation (Stand still, and see salvation!)
Lift up thy rod, stretch forth thy hand (Lift up thy rod, stretch forth thy hand!)
The raging sea divided (The raging sea divided!)
Proceed upon dry land
East wind splits the sea and Israel passes through two walls of grace
Blinded by pride Egypt follows on this fatal chase

And the Red Sea crashes down
The walls destroying all the evil
Raise your eyes, behold: the wicked drown and lie eternally
At the bottom of the sea

I will sing unto the Lord for He hath triumphed gloriously
(Hallelujah)
The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea
(Hallelujah)
Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea
(Hallelujah)
His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea
(Hallelujah)
Thy right hand, oh Lord, is become glorious in power
(Hallelujah) (Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah)
Thy right hand, oh Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy
(Hallelujah) (Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah)
Though hast overthrown them in the greatness of thine excellency
(Hallelujah) (Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah)
The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone
(Hallelujah) (Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah)

The scales have been presented and I have been found lacking
My spirit has been tested and I have been found dead
The verdict is submitted and I have been found guilty
The curse has eaten through me since first I was mislead

Oh, wretched man that I am
Who will deliver me?

Body of death is this corrupted flesh I am wearing
With every breath is this crushing burden that I am bearing
It seems so simple: I'm striving for what I never can be
Guilt is my temple, I cannot escape from this prison of me!

Stumble and fall on my face again
And throw my hands to the sky
Have mercy on my soul and hear my cry
I slowly lift my eyes to see
An ancient cross of the dead
Blood streaming down it into a sea of red
So I rise and run to the shore
Of this sea of righteousness
Sanctified now forevermore
I dive into forgiveness
And float away

And the Red Sea crashes down (And the Red Sea crashes down)
Destroying all my evil (Destroying all my evil)
I sleep beneath the endless waves of Grace (Sleep beneath the endless waves of Grace)
I float within the heart of Peace (Float within the heart of Peace)
At last my soul has found release (Found release, found release)
Within the sea of its eternal resting place (Sea of its eternal resting place)
I'm cleansed within, I'm cleansed without
The Red Sea crashes all around
A baptism a holy trial (The Red Sea crashes all around)
I am overcome and overwhelmed
I take the swim eternal (The swim eternal)
I'm swept away, it washes me (It washes me)
It washes me forever!