- Bow to the Ego
If I give in will you leave it alone, tyrannous soul?
Seething, you leave me to dance on my own
Vexed and offended again
I ache, you take
It’s such a familiar subject
Irate outbreaks
We’re down to the final countdown
- Coward
The basic concept of truth seems to evade you
But I am here to set it right
I will not squander my faith
On fading, failing illusions
Longing will not rule my fate
Derailing, ailing...
- Into the Dissonance
Into the dissonance I fall
Carried by an instant force
Craving for harmony, but playing the odds
I see a light in the tunnel
But I step to the left
Put my hands to my hips and do the dance
I cannot hear you, ground control
And it seems they cut the rope
- Justifiable Casuality
Justifiable Casualty
First off, you hear it said somehow that everything's fair in love and war
How is it right to destroy a life to the core?
But did you stop and ever wonder what it means to trade your love for a battle scar?
No one wins in the outs and ins of the heart
Civil war and now to mend a broken hearted land will take a hundred years or more
- Love Is An Illusion
From the very start we're told
A lie we're taught to have and
hold 'from this day forth'
It casts its spell and then we're sold
But years will be unkind
We learn we cannot push rewind or take things back
We're helpless and blind
All because
- Machine Gun
So, what I want to know is
How did you get through my security?
Don’t turn us into a war zone
Here I thought with you I had immunity
So, here we go
You’re about to blow and I see now
It was a set up with your talking
- Mistaken
Foolish was I to have believed you
Insufferable acts did I endure
I never betrayed, never deceived you
Was always behaved, ever demure
So long to all the poetry of emotion
It’s crumpled up and strewn upon the floor
So long to all the sunflowers in my garden
For they’ll not taste the raindrops anymore
- Purge
I lie to myself again and take a step away
The more that I hold it in, the more the beast escapes
The fire burns the skin
But it can cauterize the sin
I’m hoping this time it will be the end
With the curtains drawn
(I hate to say it, but you know that I like it)
- Scream It
Crucial is the tie that binds
But I refuse to be defined by the power you’re believing is a rarity
A blessing thrown into reverse
Never meant to be and turning worse
Blocking any chance of finding clarity
Hold onto me
I’ll be your landing strip
- Slow It Down
Everybody wants their little piece of you
And it’s being spread so very thin
It pains me to see how you’re torn at the corners again, my friend
The jagged edge is wicked and it shows
Better slow it down
Remind yourself again
Look at where you’re bound
- Utter Descension
Elusive in the deepest acts of taking
Conducive to the horrid act of breaking
Bending the laws to your every whim
I cannot win...
Productive in the fakest indignation
Seductive in the foulest fornication
Sending the cause into torrid sin
I cannot win...