“Way to nowhere”

Pack up your bags
Head on out of here
The time has come
Ands the end is near
We have to run
It’s our only chance
We cannot stop
Can’t let it advance

But we don’t know where we’re running
And we don’t know what we’ll do
So we’re on our way to nowhere
And we got nothing to do
And we’re on our way to nowhere
Looking for something new

We’ve both grown tired
Bored with what we have
And the routine
Only makes us mad
Desire burns strong
For the unexplored
What we need is
Right outside our door

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Someday we’ll find
Our desire’s wrong
When we find that
All we worked for’s gone
Lessons we learn
In the times like these
Make themselves known
When we’re on our knees

And in need of hope

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“Worn”

Starlight shining on the worn out streets
While worn out people have their meet and greets
Wandering to find someone worse off than them
Feeling their shame and falling back again

Streetlights are dotting the empty road
And the canyon of sorrow over which they’ve flown
The crisp night air stings with every breath
A dagger in the heart and a wish for death

And it all comes down
To what hope means
Weary of life
And without a dream
And it all comes down
To that same old line
The worn out people
Are past their time

Headlights blinding as they’re passing by
And human companionship is in short supply
Just one loving look or a helping hand
Could change it all and make them understand

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Lights are glowing in the windows of homes
And the worn out people have no choice but to roam
There’s no place for them in this well kept world
And their cloaks of happiness are unfurled

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And it all comes down
To the same old song
The worn out people
They just don’t belong
And it all comes down
To the same old line
The worn out people
Are past their time

“A night on the bridge”

Standing here on the bridge
With the world passing by
Wondering if anyone’d miss me
If I disappeared into the night
I see headlights coming at me
And they pass by in silence
The taillights fade into the dark
The cause of such unknown violence

- But on a night like this –
One life doesn’t matter
Even when the world around
Is getting ready to shatter
There is no compassion
For a wayward soul
Just another lost child
No one wants to know

Looking down over the ledge
I can barely see the water
That will oversee this
Ritualistic slaughter
I climb onto the ledge
And I give a look behind
But I know there’s nothing there
The world chooses to be blind

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As gravity takes over
And I fell back to earth
I’m not headed for death
But instead a second birth
The wind billows in my face
As I make my last descent
My mind’s strangely at ease
As I enjoy my last moment

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"Cry"

Don't even try to hide it
It's already in plain sight
Come out of the corner
Let me see you in the light
Why must you always look that sad?

I know what you're feeling
I've taken the same fall
So don't lie to me
I've already heard them all
I know what it's like to feel that bad

= I know your heart is breaking =
I can see the pain on you
I know that inside you're shaking
I can see right through you

- And if you cry -
I can be there to wipe the tears away
And if you cry
You can start to live for another day
But first you cry
And you let the hurt pour from your soul
And you cry
And you can start to live once more

I know you've given up
You're just looking bored
The halo that glowed around you
Lies broken on the floor
You don't think you'll need it anymore

= Bridge =

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Just hold on to me darling
I can be your strength
Let me bear your burden
Don't be so estranged
I don't want anything in exchange

= Bridge =

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But first you cry
And you let yourself feel the pain
And you cry
In order just to feel again

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But first you cry
And you let yourself feel the pain
And you cry
In order just to live again

“Clay Soldiers”

Run or stand your ground
Which one will you choose
One will save your soul
When you have everything to lose
Failure ain’t an option
I won’t stand to see you quit
But you can’t drag along
You’re gonna have to commit
And if you don’t oh well
You’ll go down with the ship

There’s an army of clay soldiers
That are saving you from the pain
They shut you off from everything
And make sure you never feel the rain
There’s an army of silent warriors
That stand guard and won’t let me in
And they’re fortified by your temperament
To reinforce your wafer skin

Dust off or wallow some more
Either way I don’t care
Don’t hide behind your minions
For once let down your hair
No one’s gonna hurt you
It’s all been in your mind
And while you’ve been hiding
Look what you’ve left behind
It’s all right to be scared now
You can put your hand in mine

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Rise up or wither away
There is no in between
You’ll either shine or rust away
And I can see you have a sheen
No one’s gonna hurt you
It’s all been in your mind
And while you’ve been hiding
Look what you’ve left behind
It’s all right to be scared now
You can put your hand in mine

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There’s an army made of flesh and blood
That is trying to help you out
We’re unlike the armies that you’ve kept
We live for what life’s about
We’re an army of believers
And we’re fighting for your cause
We’re the people that believe in you
But you have to be willing to trust
If you don’t your armor will rust

“A better kind of nightmare”

Images running
Through your mind
Stabbing your eyes
Making you blind
A steady drip
Of hallucination
Into your blood
Killing motivation

You wake up to a better kind of nightmare
Cold sweating – afraid of things that aren’t there
You cry tears – and scream until your lungs are sore
You’ll be afraid to fall asleep anymore

Sleeping was once safe
But not anymore
The nightmare’s pervasive
It makes life a chore
Eyes become bloodshot
Your vision swirls
You can’t recognize
Your own world

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Sensations flooding
Cognitive senses
Drowning reason
Breaking down defenses
The dream seems real
You start to believe
That this is your home
And you cannot leave

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“Evil Butterfly”

I want to be the one you run to
The one you count on when you feel down
I can be your everything
The one who can turn it all around
I want to be the one to hold you
The one to comfort you when you need help
I want to be there for you
Cause when you hurt – I hurt myself

You’re my evil butterfly
The one who’s tempting my fate
With such a delicate beauty
More divine than I could create
Let me be yours
You are my all
Please don’t ignore
Let me stand tall
And stand by your side
I won’t be denied – anymore

I want to be the one you think of
The one you depend on when things go wrong
I can be your forgotten hero
Who when you are weak I will hold you strong
I want to be the only one
The only one you’ll call on when you need help
I want to be there for you
Cause when you hurt – I hurt myself

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Oh – let me be your forgotten hero
Let me pick you up
Let me put you back - together
Just give me a chance
Oh just let me try – I want to

Don’t want the accolades for myself
I just want to know that you’re just fine
That would be my greatest reward
Your state of mind’s more important than mine
Cause I couldn’t bear to see you suffer
Cause if you did that I’d have to help
I want to be there for you
Cause when you hurt – I hurt myself

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“Falling to Pieces”

Going through the motions of life
Trying not to fall out of place
Faking every emotion
No real smile ever crossing my face

Tempting to deceive everybody
Really only fooling myself
Masking over all the pain
Trying to create someone else

- I'm falling to pieces and I can't stop it -
I'm starting to come unglued
Watching the blocks tumbling down
And trying to grab a hold of you

Thinking that I'm out of place
Never thinking I fit in
Wondering what I could do
To find a way to start anew

Trying not to give myself away
I'm locking myself up too tight
There must be some compromise I'm missing
Something out there must feel right

- I'm falling to pieces and I can't stop it -
I'm starting to come unglued
Watching the blocks tumbling down
And trying to grab a hold of you

- Help me up I'm falling and I can't stop it
There's nothing to grab on to
I don't know if I'll survive the night
If I can't grab a hold of you

Struggling to give myself a chance
To maybe get my feet on the ground
And everywhere I look I can’t seem to find you
I fight but keep getting dragged down

< - I'm falling to pieces and I can't stop it -
I'm starting to come unglued
Watching the blocks tumbling down
And trying to grab a hold of you

- Help me up I'm falling and I can't stop it
There's nothing to grab on to
I don't know if I'll survive the night
If I can't grab a hold of you

- Please help me I'm falling to pieces -
I'm starting to come unglued
Watching the blocks tumbling down
And trying to grab a hold of you

- Help me up I'm falling and I can't stop it
There's nothing to grab on to
I know that I can survive the night
If I can just grab a hold of you

“Sweet Ambrosia”

There’s such a thing as a perfect moment
It’s any time I can hold you near
You can rest your head on my shoulder
And let me take away your fears
I can picture my life with you
It’s the thought that gets me through the day
And every day we have to be apart
Is another day that I can’t take

- You’re my sweet ambrosia -
You’re my nectar of the gods
Taste one drop and I’m hooked
And you tear down my facade
You’re my sweet ambrosia
You’re the one I can’t get enough
Taste one drop and I’m hooked
And you’re the only one I love

I could wait forever to be with you
Cause love can stand the test of time
I only want to see you be happy
Cause when you are – god – do your eyes shine
I am always gonna be there for you
I only want to be by your side
I can fulfill all of your fantasies
I’ll wipe away all the tears you cried

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You are the only one that I want
And the only one I’ll ever need
I can live my life only loving you
Cause you’re the one who makes my complete
I wish you were here with me
Every moment of every day
I just want to hold you in my arms
There’s so many things I want to say

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“Pact”

Look at that shade of red
So deep and luminous
It’s puddling all over
And it’s starting to cause a fuss
Under these fluorescent lights
It looks like it’s alive
I wonder if you have enough left
To hold out till they arrive

- I can feel your life on my hands -
As it flows from your neck
I can feel you growing colder
I wish I could take it back

Others seem to have noticed
I can see that they’ve turned pale
I’m trying to keep it in
But I know that I will fail
There’s just too much of it
You’ve already left behind
I tried to make it fast
I swore that I’d be kind

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There’s just so much of it
That you’ve already left behind
I tried to make it fast
I swore that I’d be kind

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But we made a pact
One I would never break
And now that you’re gone
It’s my own life I must take

“Twisted Illusions”

Can you not see
What’s in front of me
Is killing the senses
And making me weak?
It lives deep inside
And though I have tried
I cannot escape it
There’s no place to hide
One of these days
From out of the haze
Clarity will come and
Will take them away

- These twisted illusions of a life I can’t find -
Keep spinning in circles and flooding my mind
The play with my mind and they won’t let me rest
They’ll never let go until I am possessed

Can you not hear
The screams and the fear
Piercing the night
And filling the air?
Write them off as dreams
Their horrific screams
I swear that they’ll pass
In time or so it seems
But what if I’m wrong
And they are too strong
Then I’ll become a slave
To them before long

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Twisted illusions playing me for a fool
Skewing my senses and being so cruel
What I believe in becomes a delusion
It turns out that faith is just an illusion

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“Devotion”

Everything is all I ever wanted
But nothing is all I could ever find
I’m getting tired of searching through the darkness
I’m ready to leave all my cares behind

Happiness is all I ever hoped for
But hope won’t get you anything
Need to go out and hunt it down for yourself
You have to learn to soar and spread your wings

- But how could I ever hope to find -
Someone who’s so divine
So as to make me give all of myself up

Not to be alone is all I ever pined for
It’s the only thing I need to achieve
Might give me a semblance of sanity
Cause love can cure me – oh – I believe

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Everything is all I ever wanted
But nothing is all I could ever find
I’m getting tired of searching through the darkness
I’m ready to leave all my cares behind

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And give it all away
To her every day
Cause endless devotion is enough

“Turn Around”

Walking down a dusty road
With questions in my head
A stinging pain in my arm
Where I had just bled
And as I walk the anger builds
Until it overflows
How could I just walk away?
Guess I’m the only one who knows
How much pain a man can take
I guess it goes to show

Just how hard - You have to try
To kill me - Or my kind
It takes a lot - To bring me down
So try again - Or turn around

I see in the distance
A faint light up ahead
As I get closer
I remember what you said
You said, my life didn’t matter
That we are all the same
You could kill every one of us
And not even know our names
You said it didn’t matter
My time had gone and came

So see how hard – you have to try
To kill me – or my kind
It takes a lot – to bring me down
So try again – or turn around

I stand under a lamp post
And I look at my arm
The blood drips out of it
Yeah you did some harm
But you didn’t kill me
You didn’t get the job done
I hope you’re laughing
I hope you’re having fun
Just remember
You’ve only won round one

So see how hard – you have to try
To kill me – or my kind
It takes a lot – to bring me down
To bury me – in the ground
See how hard – you have to try
To kill me – or my kind
It takes a lot – to bring me down
So try again – or turn around
Try again – or turn around

“The Art of War”

Everything stops – having a meaning
When your lifeblood is constantly bleeding
It’s everything – you could have hoped for
The perfect canvas for the art of war
With the paints
And the stains
With the inks made of blood
Watered down by the shame

- Displaying the art of war -
In a gallery behind an iron door
For the entire world to see
The price people pay in order to be free
Displaying the art of war
In a gallery behind an iron door
For the entire world to see
Just what it takes in order to be free

The brush strokes of guns – coloring the sky
Sharp enough to cut and make the clouds cry
The blood dripping out – makes perfect ink
To color evil everything that you think
And it stains
And it drains
Coloring nightmares until you’re afraid

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The art of war
Like a whore
It starts out with passion then it becomes a chore

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Bullets are streaking – pastels in the air
A highlight in the murky fog of despair
That’s rolling out – over the moors
Getting to you by slipping through your locked doors
It won’t rest
It’s possessed
It lives in your mind as an uninvited guest

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"Setting Suns"

Setting suns
Are casting shadows
That are falling and are looming large
Covering
My entire heart
Blacking out and not letting me recharge

- And I cannot see through the murky black night -
There's no spark inside me to give me a light
And though it may be black there is still a hope
In the sea of blackness that I won't erode

A night sky
A blanket of fear
Smothering dreams of better times
I don't know
How it came to be
That I find myself drawn below the line

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Setting suns
Create an atmosphere
Where my dreams will never show
A night sky
Is a perfect soil
For dreams to die and for fear to grow

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And I cannot see through the murky black night
It floods my eyes and takes away my sight
And though it may be black there is still a hope
Because I can see that I am not alone

“Too Late Now”

How could it have ever happened?
How’d it ever get this far?
I always thought you could trust me
I thought I was what you are
I never thought I’d feel this way
Feel like I’ve got nothing left
Thought I’d always have you to hold onto
Now I’m alone and I’m bereft

I’m in need of someone
Someone who can hold me
I need someone to care
Someone to console me – oh
I need someone
Someone that knows me
I need someone to care
Someone to compose me

How could I have let this happen?
How could I have let you down?
I know it’s too late now
You don’t want to see me around
I never meant for this to happen
I never dreamed of hurting you
I can’t believe what I’ve done
And now I don’t know what to do

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How could I have been so careless?
How could I have been so dumb?
Hindsight is always perfect
Which explains why I feel numb
When I think I know who I am
You have to prove me wrong
I thought I was better than this
I thought that I was strong

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“Whorific”

Sometimes-in your mind
You can’t seem to find your own thoughts
Some days – how it weighs
When you feel like you have been bought
And you – aren’t you
And you feel like somebody else
You’re sick – of this shit
All you want is to be yourself

- But you’re tied down -
You’re held back by everything you hold onto
You’re slowly poisoned by the things that you wanted
You’re times gone
You watch yourself fade into the background
You don’t have faith something better will come around
You’re gone

In some ways- in seems these days
Everything is stacked against you
Somewhere- though you don’t care
Somebody else’s dreams will come true
But yours- like the whores
Get thrown on the streets every night
They’re shot- and left to rot
And they’re not worth putting up a fight

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When your dreams are gone
And nobody seems to care
When you’re down and our
And it’s just more than you can bear
Will you just give up?
Will you be left behind?
Will you just lay down?
Or will you try one more time?

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