- A Sea of Solid Earth
Alarming awe rushed through my bones
Compelling me to the unknown.
I took a step, one step too far.
I felt no ground beneath my feet.
No familiar feeling was leading me,
Just hollow charm pushing me along.
A final breath with tongue in cheek
- Battesimo Del Fuoco
Believe you me, the price is clear
A child born, the mother near.
To death and life, both hand in hand,
A failed life exposed the man
Who led her off into the flame
To cast her back to hell again.
But, hear you me, the break of dawn
- Blood Of The Rose
Dance, dance your decay
All the while, unknowing that you're led astray
Sleep, sleep through your woe
While your voice slowly withers and melts away
Sing, sing unto me
The pleasure and the pain
Reveal to me
- Cascade
Verse 1:
I heard a call in my sleep again
I brought my body to the altar
But a good man said that I raised the dead
I'm seeing forgotten forms from a different age
Half-hearted truths hanging in the air with the Holy Ghost
I'm singing hymns with the devil in confessional
- Dear Ms.Leading
Dear Ms. Leading,
I hate to tell you that I no longer need your services
The bitter fabricating manufacturer of lust
You have been presented as
Doesn't do a thing for me, I now know your identity
A black widow who tempts her prey with promises of love
If ignorance is bliss
Wish I were blissfully ignorant
- Girl
You've got your scene pinned underneath your thumb
And that’s the way you need it, yeah
You've got the dirt that hurts on everyone
And all the people see it, yeah
Every single heart would be for you alone
If you would let it
Starving eyes let by subtle lies
- He Said He Had A Story
There was a silver circle sign, and she was standing at the door
we pressed our way right through the crowd, or pace was quickened to her floor,
there was a single fading light, and there was silk all on the walls,
she had a lot of love to give, I was prepared to take it all
"And what did she do next?"
She had disrobed, and she was waiting on the floor.
- In Cauda Venenum
We're biting our tongues
An apparition awoken with an urge to own and occupy
"Who ever said this was easy?"
A majesty's massacre floods the fields of red
Back to your body naturally rushes the blood to your head
And now with hands aligned
These arms move tonight
- Ouroboros
I bet you thought that you'd succeed
Pulling the wool right over me
Hard to believe this snake stayed in the grass just long enough to catch your Rabbit's feet
With telescoping glances
Hands romanced enticing you to keep
Laboring against the clock in spite of secrecy
You couldn't know revealed itself
To me the second you decided to compete
- Red Hands
Even if you never strayed from me
I'd question your fidelity
There'd always be a shroud of suspicion
And my heart's a liability
With your hands marooned so freshly red
You'd wrap your lips around my neck
Try and forced to love the thought of me
- Smiling Swine
I woke alone, put on my coat, ran for the door
Down the stairs, and made it to the second floor
Stopped by the squeaky wheel, a smiling swine
Stunned by the sight and fearing whats behind
"Hey there" he pleasantly began
"Good day" he telescoped his hand
"Is there a service I can possibly propose?"
- The Inquiry Of Ms.Terri
A home removed, a life resumed right here
The Priest and the Rosary,
The book and the bond between he and me has long since broken
A boy who’s grown, too short to see,
A tale unfolds, too tall to be
A life once lived behind closed doors, the irony of the pensive whore
Touch, taste, feel it ripping me down
- The March
If one and all who hear my call could lend their ears to me
Then you could hear the crooked tale of how this fire has come to be
(To be, to be, to be, to be, to be, to be)
I must admit that the manipulator's fate was resting at my feet
But all of his intimidation brought me to my knees
(When he said)
"Keep this secret safe,
- The Old Haunt
Hints of a higher hand lost on the somme
Past deeds would never lead the mischief to a christening and
Gears twist and grind away spur to speed
While echoed silhouettes deliver to an early dream
Held out of love but gripped to tight
A breath left hanging in the air
You want to leave your home
- The Pimp And The Priest
(Take me to the river)
The pimp and the priest pounce on quickened cat's feet
For the freshest young blood in sin's for the feast.
The book will then brew what the sinful commit;
while the pimp and the priest prey quietly where the precious sinners sit.
Confessal confess,
In the chapel, the brothel, where we suffocate stress.
- The Tank
Eight wheels lusting for the lives of infantry (His bearings shift)
His turrets turning from accountability (He takes his aim)
We sing our final song and soon this verse is over
He makes advances 'till his wheels cease to roll (His God is smiling)
His God is smiling on his cold mechanic soul
His plot is perfect if it sees no contradiction
There is no sign that he shows a sign of slowing
- This Beautiful Lie
One foot, then the other
Such embarrassment
It wasn't meant that
I, I should discover
Such offensive things
The suffering sends
Hope to the ground
But I really never had enough
- This Body
I'm struggling on strange extremities
To run after a light that keeps on dimming
But these bones will only brittle and decay
While the space between my body and my mind keeps caving
In...(Oh my God)
This body's not a temple, it's a prison (Yeah)
And every wall inside here is on fire (Yeah)
- This Vicious Place
Words without regret
And meanings lost in dialect
And loveless prose cried out instead
And saying what we wish we could have said
And how we both were moved
To this vicious place we never knew
I would give it all away for one last chance to speak to you, lover
- Untitled Soul Song
Verse 1
So who cares, no big deal.
This is all wonderful, wonderfuly terrible.
With a dark cloud above at least you'll find relief from the heat.
Verse 2
Quiet down, listen up.
You're an embarassment. Crying and sniviling.
- Wait
[Verse 1]
I lost my faith when I was young
I clenched my fist to bite my tongue
I leave awake from all the things that I had done
Cause there wouldn't be a thing when I moved on
[Chorus 1]
Then I said wait
- We've Got a Score to Settle
Calm down, you won't gain any ground if you're shaking from head to toe
And if you'd wake up you'd be weary to lie 'cause discerning eyes will know
Your words carry the weight of the world
And they're waiting for that shoe to drop
So you sit down, you give in, and they get up, and they yelled
Someone's got blood on their hands
With a stone cold glare and a crooked grin
- Writing On A Wall
come away young man where the ground is red and you need a mask to breathe
oh it’s been so hard but you’ll like the change if you just roll up your sleeves.
We had tried our best to warn before but it didn’t get you far
now we're here again with a wish to mend your agonizing scar
open eyes young man vigilanty hands and a heart prepared for pain
you will lose much more in this vicious war, past and present stay the same
but the time to come can be altered some if you listen to our song
But we sing in vain, and the fact remains there is nothing can be done.