Tungsten

Bonded by appearance only No common ground between the two This leisure union Will it test monogamy’s rule Her appetite for affection Has left me so very weak She’s found a source of attention She sneaks out as I sleep Your scruples have been lost I...

For years I’ve carried your story I’ve had your picture in my mind A thousand times the thoughts of you Always perfect like before So they say that your picture says A thousand different words If it could say one What would it say to me If a man could...

No Easter baskets, no Christmas cards Like an orphan, left in the cold Praised for feats, not who I am More conditions in the art of pain You took away what I am You took away what I do Help me forget all this shit Unwanted from the day I was born Thi...

So all is well, is what it seemed A portrait of faith and what is clean I never gave that much, but for you efforts I dub thee queen Pollution pours into you as Devotion pours out of you It runs just like a stream Underneath it, claws dig dirt To bri...

…at this point now I feel I’m lifeless I want to leave this world behind It has left me pail inside Your hands they reach to me But you’re reaching for something else Where can I turn, when I can’t turn any more Where do I go, when I can’t go any more...

Isolation, I'm trapped up and afraid Outside world, how can trust be made? So many sides to see, so many lies Take down my guard and find I'm knocked down every time "No risk, No chance", that I have to take Can't sit back and dig a lonely grave No need...

all this time pushing me away cant runaway all that time telling me to stay a waste of pain so much time taking in the pain i wont explain runaway 

The anger I feel for you is the fuel that feeds my will to live My face is painted with disgust as your memory burns my mind I don't want to see life through your eyes I don't want you to think like I think Never to know the thought behind my stare To ge...

Spit that joint out of your mouth Go get a job! The more I knew, the less I liked There’s something in your head That distorts your sight So you say it’s your “escape” Yet you walk the world in a daze You cry as you drown in pollution And you know I c...

Try to fill the time with anything I see Can't sit around, my misery Don't celebrate, I just keep moving on The sites and sounds that open the door In a haze, in a blaze in a blur The weeks, and months, and years they start to burn Can't shake the tears,...

You suck the juice out of my life on a daily basis My tension builds, my heartache fills, for her commitment crisis A ring and some vows, it brings you smiles Your shit about "love", just comes in piles Commitment Crisis I kept my job on double shifts,...

The sterile veil descends again A slaughtered rival; an anxious friend A twist of chance or some vicious trend a watchful eye seeks to understand Can you hear it? Do you feel it? Is there darkness closing in? Do you fight it? Do you like it? Feel it bu...

I don’t want to know your new last name! I just wear the pain the same I’ve stayed ignorant to your new world My curiosity has been soiled. I can close the casket now I know it never, never, never could have been Every day I dressed in black Since our...

Your eyes tell the truth As you endorse your sadness Irrations from the start You depend on avoidance To flee inside yourself You can’t oppress this madness Fatigue and torment are the only friends you have Do you remember me? Do you remember? You g...

Behind the wheel-long drive ahead Hands grip tighter stare gets harder Leaning on the Lord n' Skynyrd to cope Cordial and reckless I've lost all hope "Death only happens to others" Crack the mold, that ain't me anymore In the mirror I see the ruins Spe...

for so long i know where i belong emptiness deep inside realize precious times unknown the strength undo the pain inside el dolor otra vez otra vez on my own i fed myself so numb taking in broken lies now this time things out of my control refu...

There’s a problem with me I can’t seem to shake it away It feeds on the doubts And it’s fueled by uncertainty Suspicion gives birth To this animal inside of me Shaping faults that cease to exist This madness is all I see It feeds on the doubts And it’...

Your confidence is always so low Your world collides as you crumble inside Then you reach for that bottle again This solution lets the show begin And so now the bottle turns up Increase the zest for the female form Inebriation sows the seed once again...

Scraping the Earth in search of the essence Metallic rock ore where iron is present Extraction smelters burn hot with phosphorescence Rivulets of sweat steam hot in the mold Splashes in magenta, yellow and gold Glowing sparks flashing too hot to hold M...

I'm at a loss I can't come up for air The celebrations aren't the same without you there I stay quiet but I want to scream The circle was broken the absence is felt Please help me cope Got to get through this. Another death another loss Another death...

You’ve tried to beat me before But never again from this day You tried to take all control But you couldn’t take it away You won’t take it away Should I expect the worst? But I’ve seen the choice you make Hell is written all over my face And there’s...

My life is blank The day after you spit the news of change Yesterday You were there for me But its gone now All day I think What did I do you This time? Look in my eyes No evidence of you being there I wake again Yesterday is done I feel today N...

Watch it unfold The drama pours from your hole You think it’s all about you You’re just another selfish bitch That sucks the life out of men Until they start to twitch I watch from the distance Full of resistance| I smile as the other’s fall Look in...

You stab, you stab You cry, you cry You want, you want You claw at me, everyday I’m ugly You're desperate But I won’t let I want to kill I won’t let You want in I won’t let Break me down again, again I won't let Instinct, this animal I won't let...

I threw away what use to be I looked inside so I could breathe I burned myself for so long I burned you far too long The joys of the past have left my soul But now I’m ready to end it all I’ll make it alone I'll make it alone I extend, but you delay...

I told you You couldn't beat me just the other day I spit at you As you try to walk away Stupid fool Don't you know that I will walk through you? Stamp out and erased And I'll make a wreck of you! I'm Gonna Show You! Test the boundaries for so long...

I've laid dormant for some time And I'm the one who has put me there Discouraged and angry And I don't see a reason to share This ship has sunk a million times It will sink a million more Here's your invite to help you hate me Mounds of worthless stink...

The day they buried the blood Was the day he became a man He never wanted it this way So many things left to say A part of him died, got torn away When he buried his Dad He sits in silence begging for sleep Torn between tears and madness within What a...

.and the flower unraveled As the petals hit the earth My fragile girl is taken away As I beat the walls screaming in tears. It was the day she died. Another hole in me It was the day we died. Do you know what it's like to lose the one? The one you s...

A lust for sleep is pushing me It’s the fuel I need My time in you, keeps you alive But it wears me thin I’m so tired of the focus towards others When there’s emptiness in my stare It’s better to be alone…than to wish you were I’ve wasted so much tim...

So you extend To fix the mess of another You weren’t there from the start But it’s left its mark On you… This fractured man Mends the broken girl She clings to her fix ‘cause it’s the only thing she knows… 

PUSHED: The strength is stripped now GROUND: There's dust in my eyes KICKED: The things that I wished for It must get better, I can't see the end from here SPLIT: It's open now OPEN: Exposed to all I feel NERVES: I feel everything. It's pulsating I neve...

The stories that you tell Are the ones that I have told The smile that you sell Is the one that I once sold I’m slow to let in your air I haven’t breathed like this in some time A search for my balance Is killing off the life I once lived Killing off...

Isolation? Desolation? You felt that this was the end You've been mourning the loss Since the day they buried her my friend Hibernation Mode far too long You've got to leave the dust behind They point until they become You've got to leave the dust behi...

Rolling, down the rail we roll Hoping, things will run our way So you’re pinned against it all And you world is filled with strife With only pity on your side To fill yet another day Angry, you walk the world alone When time breaks your will And your...

A saucy girl with hair of fire She’s got bruises on her knees Burn marks on her arms Just to prove she can please Her eyes are sagging From the secrets she keeps She’s got a full history She might have a disease Another drink and you know She’ll be d...

Sometimes you must surrender to win You've got to let it consume you Close the door, seal it tight, keep it in So it surrounds you I always have a little more to tell you When I haven't seen you in a while Will it consume you? Will you stand tall? The...

Pushed in the depths, under all the shit I’m last on the list, my hunger starts to grow I wait in wings, for my time to shine I crave the attention, it feeds this infection Drowned by the rap, country and disco I frown at the fact, where will metal go? E...

Malaise and fatigue A cloak of ennui draping around me Hysterical sickness a burden whose cure always eludes me Alone and awake Night wanders by Till dawn cracks the sky An hour of fear that’s lasted more than a year An illness inside me that cr...

Sometimes I wonder Why should I help you When I can’t even help myself The more I carry The better I feel It keeps my mind off of me Some see a strong foundation But the few have walked their fingers through the ashes of what is left, and they will se...

There’s a silhouette in the threshold What do you want from me? What will you take away? Is it my innocence that you crave? Is it power that you starve for? Is it what you need? How does it feel to take advantage Of this lonely kid? Who are you? Wha...

My heart was your nectar, once drained dry Never again to love this way since you said "goodbye" I use to think how great it was, to let you share my soul I really thought my true escape, was the love you always gave me I'm finding about your past Now I...

I would have done anything for you I have held what you could never grasp I feel it sometimes pull away Yet I cling to it as if it were the last As we peel away to opposing sides A descriptive war has left us frail Gone is love articulation As this awf...

If I could just hold you one last time. If I could just hear your voice again. Just to hear you say my name Just to hold your hand as we watch the setting sun. One Last Sunset With You That's All I Ask The hands of the world reached out to you But you...

Let’s Go! I want to see what you’re made of I want to see what you have got When I turn the bottle up It don’t seem like a lot I’m riding the curve I’ve got a lot to say Let’s ride the curve Let’s ride it all the way Dirty girls and alcohol They p...

I grow sick and tired Of hearing the same old shit You talk about my metal Like it doesn’t exist Take your peace signs and your flowers And you cram them. up your arse!! Rootless...that’s what you are. So you claim to be a "hippie" But you weren’t ye...

It's hard to believe that you are no longer here It's even harder to face it's been another year We cling tighter as we try to cope I wish you here I'm beginning to lean, Bending and splitting at the seems See me through I'm drowning everyday See me th...

I can’t look at myself I’ve lost respect I’ve reached a new low I’m reaching for selfishness I know it’s wrong But the serpent pulls me closer To make me weak, she makes me weak I can’t push away My will is shot to shreds What’s become of me I feel...

Gravity extends it's arthritic fingers It begins to pull down on my face What I looked at once as pleasure Is now a thorn of annoyance Simple tasks of my past Are difficult to unfold It's been years since your embers were felt Displacement on earth Gr...

You are so far away Time takes you far away I want to see what life brings I want the best to come of me I’m going to leave behind the misery The times and places that I’ve left behind It’s a land with no memory It’s a song that is loss for words Take...

We have pounded for years and years No support from the start Biding homage to metal sound Doing our damnedest to make our mark Little respect, only from our peers Condemned by the local scene “You are nothing! Till you’re something, Something somewhere...

"I realize now, it wasn't her fault. It was her fate." I've been churned I've yearned for the turn to see you burn I've been dry Been told to cry without a reason why It fades away Yes, I still reach for that day Still no smile Denied, denied, denied....

I’ve walked this mile for years and years The endless trail of dust and tears Still I reach with sincere intentions This instinct is my strong conviction I wear the mark for my pledge to this oath Stained with blood and the sweat starts to show Seasons...

It’s been years since I’ve felt your ember Time and distance, pushes further In my mind, I still see your eyes Knowing that you were the last I drown in your memory nightly Can’t you see, you were the last… I drown, I drown Can't you see, can't you see...

I'm running down The hall again I don’t know where I don’t know when The child’s gone around the bend Why she runs I can’t comprehend And suddenly They’re standing there Woman in white with golden hair A man in black I knew before Grabs the child...

Deception Nightmare becomes a waking life A gentle touch can scorch and scald When reality is cloaked inside Redemption May lie behind a newfound door But sorrow is the threshold And honesty's the floor Progression A trauma buried deep within Shatte...

What makes you tick, is what makes me sick! Do you beg for detachment? Do you beg just like me? Will I ever meet you again? Will I ever want to? How can I reduce the risk of mistakes made twice? The love that I once cherished Is now the one I regret...

It’s been 25 years since you’ve walked this planet Only memories of your fragile smile Mother’s tears can’t bring you back My sister, that I never met... There is pain in knowing What you could’ve been Never a chance to talk Never it comes again Ther...

I can't seem to trigger The pleasure sensors in my life The blank expression that's on my face Is it too much for you to grasp? I've become immune to your touch Your dumb affection that can't be felt Your open arms and tear filled eyes Was your ploy to...

So you coil in the corner again Weakness is your only friend You ride the highs of depression again This agony consumes and it lends You’re self destructive you don’t need anyone So you tack your soul to the wall Debased and helpless you buckle again As...

Deep within these savage eyes Linger on my agony A well-respected shadow sleeps Hidden under lock and key I have felt the realm of loving I have felt the realm of losing Don’t want to lose again So I don’t love, no more I have purged myself again Wa...

A numbing routine The same thing day after day A glimpse in a dream Of a wasteland burning away Drifting through life Like water over a stone Flashes of grief Always but never alone The old man has fallen Cut down by some fiend in the night Who let...

These hands reach to fix all of those around But inside there's a silent scream that doesn't make a sound Buried now are the dreams that were once glory bound Inside there's a tortured scream but still no sound Are you trying to fix the world? As you swi...

They greet with hands, they greet with smiles And stories of yesterday Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry Sometimes I cringe at their words But that ain't me anymore What was and what use to be What was will never be Do you fell like me? Feel so lost...

There’s a silhouette in the threshold What do you want from me? What will you take away? Is it my innocence that you crave? Is it power that you starve for? Is it what you need? How does it feel to take advantage Of this lonely kid? Who are you? Wha...

Primed up it’s another night Gonna push it further this time Jacked up got Crue on the box And it’s only 12 am Don’t wanna know where we’re going Don’t wanna know where we’ve been Just know one things for sure We won’t stop ‘til we collapse I’ve got...

Breaking my balls, I broke my balls again For years and years, it starts to wear me thin Another call, yet another call from you You pour it out, all on me It’s your agenda, I won’t surrender I’m on the burner again Cut by these razors, for the last tim...