Anacrusis

Are we so brave? Are we so bold As to deny our hearts? Are we so numb? Are we so cold As to defy our conscience? Awkwardly, we walk alone So distant and so uncaring Deliberately we disguise ourselves To protect our frail emotions The ability to feel and be,...

Searching to find an easy way out People afraid to speak up, afraid to doubt Afraid to open their eyes for fear they might find What the problem's about...is us As long as we keep running away There is no hope, nothing will change The problems at hand are the...

I paint myself on you... the silent wall My words... my thoughts... my touch... my all Emotionless... emotionless So in control of nothingness This stone-false face you're caged within Wears thin... You pour yourself out into me... the lonely thirst Quenching...

More than they need to put us all in chains Genocidal misfits killing us in vain Lusting for power, they play a losing game Turn earth into hell Stupidity is to blame Die helplessly In torment and agony Falling in defeat Crying as death we meet Annihilation i...

For all of our wandering, We've still so far to go For all of our questioning, We've still the need to know... Are we still the frightened child? Are we still the angered youth? Or are we old before our time? Are we getting any closer to the truth? We're for...

Look around, it's all going black Tons upon tons and it's breaking our backs We're setting our course Leading ourselves, one by one To the butcher's block We're sharpening the axe ourselves Grinding it sharper to cut through the world Touching the blade to th...

You wear Like an enemy A false sense of security With your bullshit integrity You'd lose it all for your dignity And you tell yourself "You're so brave" Yeah, fight for yours until your dead Well there's plenty of that already filling holes Before you use you...

I'll take away this selfish pride Is there room for more than one inside? Walk the course in shallow strides A bridge connects, and space divides How had I misjudged so badly All the things you tried to hand me? Ties of truth should bind us tightly For tired...

[Lyrics by J. Emery and K. Nardi] I don't dream anymore Yes, they just seem to fade Always stripping me so clean... Deserting me I strive to retain my goals And try to achieve a certain life So I can at last be free Once again allowed to dream I try hard to...

Life seems to stand still in time As the soul retires, deaf, dumb and blind And all we feel If far from real As these gears which, once, had driven us Lie still and frozen Innocence has long grown old As idle hearts have long grown cold Right or wrong We go...

Donning a sweet contented mask Acquiring bliss, a grueling task Adoring a regretful past Wondering how long it can last Frequenting a cold empty void And fearing I am, paranoid Obeying this despondent way The crumbling hopes, the price to pay Contorted veil...

We have pretended far too long Ignoring far too much Accountability long overdue We have neglected far too long Assuming far too much Hoping out ignorance will see us through We have hated far too long Hurting far too much Feelings of compassion stripped away...

I know it's true that you're feeling oppressed I know that some hold you down But fighting evil with still more evil Is not the way it's done We run in circles inside our minds With no way out or in If we're not careful they'll get our souls We musn't let the...

Lying there on satin sheets Her body cold her heart still beats A frozen love is your defeat Sitting on her icy throne What she sees she makes her own Her passion dead as still as stone Your balls are in her frozen grip you know you're on a sinking ship Its pa...

I sense the tension A thickness in the air The filthy air of our morality Misplaced affection In lost and lonely stares Where urge ignores morality I sense confusion Suspicion in the air Untreated wounds of some dishonesty Seeking comfort The strength of frie...

The roll of distant thunder breaks The afternoon of silence wakes They hurry through from Petergate as if they know this dance In fury blind I drive at night Across the moors, the open roads Beneath the freezing starry skies, racing in some trance These citie...

Repeat this habitual course To lift this weight which drags me under Treading in my remorse I must stay above the surface longer Shattering... Shattering needed rest Awakened reality I must confront without... These idle hours of sleep Welcome this simple c...

A hell is upon us now this day Silence whispering unspoken rage To lend a hand but not in force To speak our minds in free discourse Keep closed our eyes Blind us from the fools unseen Keep closed our hearts Drain emotion to plant the seed Keep closed our min...

They manipulate and they mold The rules they should uphold His ignorance of the law Is the victim's only flaw His rights in violation Through sharp intimidation He's soon to realize That their words are full of lies A scapegoat he now is Because of the way h...

Aware, yet unaware. Falling, falling, why? Blind! Ignorance the key, stupidity overrides My thoughts belong to me, although my mind rebels Reality, shaded meaning, denial is my cell Killing my mind Victimize my own belief Defy myself! Find no relief Obtrusiv...

Wandering aimlessly Stricken with grief Self-hatred overflowing It's eating away It's eating away Obstructing virtue Overwhelming and growing The enduring might of hatred Obscuring the strength of love There are some who live deriving pleasure From others' an...

Crashing in, down around my ears Brow-beaten self for all these years Enabling this suitable wall I've been afraid of nothing at all My soul's affliction will now amend This ageless blight has come to an end This silence, deafening Kept inside, rages This si...

Some people say my love cannot be true Please believe me my love and I'll show you I will give you those things you thought unreal The sun the moon the stars all bear my seal Follow me now and you will not regret Leaving the life you led before we met Y...

Your ambition has been disrupted Young minds so easily corrupted The system is fighting itself A fatal blow shall be dealt Thrown into the tide of uncertainty Have your dreams smashed completely The norm dictates your future for you Hopelessness and despair F...

To see the world so differently Had never seemed a crime But still I felt the punishment of disapproving eyes The criticism misconstrued Had driven me away In bitterness which helped create the world I grew to hate 'Round and 'Round and 'Round and 'Round we g...

Colors diluted by the lies And painted thick across the sky Have seen all life whither and die I gaze up at this forgery Up at this dark grim tapestry And mourn the world once promised me Beneath this canvas monochrome Wrapped in the shroud of this grey home...

Twisting the images Watching them grow Into what they are not Forget we forgot as they fed on what's real The path I fell onto Of tears wades through Await the demise In sorry disguise from the things that I feel Time does not exist The days as thin as mist...

Was I wrong? Wrong in assuming That nothing at all, without thought Would just fall into place? Was it hope, that something would change me That led me to see the mistakes That had gutted my frame? Was it strength, yearning for purpose? Or weakness just despe...

Pools of blood of deepest red Waves that soak the world in dead Watch the bloodbath as it grows Drowning all hope as it flows Fear, gripping We're, slipping Watch as the angry masses persecute the weak As helpless people die... From death, the air will reek ....

For forever living in For forever dying in The shadow of a killing cross Born and held accountable Sworn to bear the burden, now For sinful nails Driven deep But I can't be responsible For having done the unthinkable And won't... No, I won't play that role F...

Creases in the depths of our existence Without which, there can be no substance These rifts and folds within our lives Each day, a new disruption arrives Our sense of will Which path to take? Discovering another choice to make Now, we exercise This given nig...

It's running rampant in our streets It's lying dormant in our homes This silent crime we are guilty of Is enough to sentence us to life or death It's running rampant in our streets It's lying dormant in our homes This silent crime we are guilty of Is enough t...

All those things that I tried to be, While wandering further from me I 'd choked myself in my apathy, Until I no longer could breathe My heart, and my hand, always reaching... Without you within, I was searching... For something real The fear followed me and...

Lie to me honestly I hear, but still, I don't see Just where the actions meet the words You just sound the alarm Racing pulse and boiling blood At fever-pitch Another finger-pointing mob With stones to throw But if it truly mattered And if you truly cared It...

My touch means nothing, it's just a sympathetic mock embrace This pity for you leaves nothing but a bitter taste Persistent lies, nothing but useless words of waste You voice seems harmless through these softened tones of grey But grey is still black Your fac...

I remember the lost confusion of innocence With feelings worn so clean I wish I could look on this with different eyes And ignore the blinders reminding me Older... Wiser... Sadder... Trust has abandoned me long ago Stolen by careful dishonesty I have forgott...

Misted eyes perceive Thoughts I can't believe Emotions that run free Never let me be Self-inflicted pain It's a loss without a gain Lost in myself, I know not why I can't escape, all truth a lie I try to run, I cannot hide I'm so afraid, I'm terrified Mirror'...

At night the fires burn, cutting like a flaming knife Looking down you see rotting carrions of life Smell the putrid stench, sewage of society Vultures circling, picking flesh off you and me Giving genocide its birth By waging war on the earth The father-land...

No talk of the future So far from forever Approaching tomorrow But hoping for never Cursed, we are cursed Condemned to die from our birth How many footsteps in line Have flattened this land? How many prophets have died Right here where we stand? Call, some c...

Where once was childlike simplicity Now only remnants of blind ideals This quality of innocence Once tarnished, is forever lost It's lost... It's lost... Never to return It's lost... It's lost... We turn our heads And show our backs Burn bridges of communicat...

The gentle embrace of death Touches my weary soul I'm closer to the end now Enough despair! I'm whole! Destined to make The right choice My existence A constant struggle Soon I will at last be free Of my chemical burden My consciousness is raised Without soc...

You've grown into this faceless mask and empty shell And, like a ghost of your indulgence, you wear them well. Still haunting something, by your own hand, lost And you shiver with the chilling sense You've saved nothing for yourself... The lies, the games, De...

Wrong, all that we are Living, breathing lies Wrong, all that I feel All compassion dies Once hand in hand And now detached Befriend the pace The lonely trance... detached Wrong, all that I see Something inside denies Wrong, all that I feel Something inside...