1. In Sequence (Prologue)

In the desert, where life takes place
among the cracks
A child is taught to press his ear
against the tracks

Fact and fiction, events and stories
intertwine
The bigger picture, an epic screenplay
so divine
So divine...

2. Rude Awakening

Help me tear down the walls
Please, for the love of god,
just name your price

To leave me like this, may the lord
strike you down

How did I end up in here?
And who's to blame
for this madness?
Cant't you see that my sanity's
safe in sound?

What a shame,
such talent go wasted
Shattered his fortunes
before he could taste it

Now I see it
See it from afar
See once and for all who we are

Put my head down
Try to look away
From what, I cannot say

It's hard to take it lightly when
you're stumbling in the dark
Running out of real estate for
the blows to leave their mark
Still they command you to keep fightning,
"wait it out" is what they say
But lately looking in the mirror,
there really is no other way

The mind of the jung, so easy to distract
The bigger the heart,
the more likely to get attacked

Now I see it
See it from afar
See once and for all who we are

Put my head down
Try to look away
From what, I cannot say

3. The Betrayal

Some stories lack in structure
Loose ends and lesser parts
Me, I prefer mine with no endings

Synchronicity!
How fucking dare you abandon me!

And the rearviewmirror reflects
in a whole new light...

Oh the tragedy!
The unbearable agony!
The means by which
I've been stripped of my ideology!

The things I have seen
make it hard to deny
There's nowhere to run
and nowhere to hide
We're part of this mystic alignment,
both you and I

Try to interpret the cipher
Endless layers of random acts
Still we remain none the wiser

Of all the twists and turns
I've gone through
Few have been my call
And still this chord rings true
Still this chord says it all

Nine hundred lunar cycles
I expect to be short a few
Hand my spares to a human more deserving

What the hell
are you trying to say?
I'll crack the code,
there must be a way!

And as I prepare to bow out
I regret all the wasted time...

Of all the twists and turns
i've gone through
Few have been my call
And still this chord rings true
Still this chord says it all

4. Sounds Of Home

Just a sign
A sign to know you're whole
Random lines

A note to calm my soul

Disappeared
Long gone the sounds of home
Disappeared
I guess I should have known

Tuning out advice from early on
Unusual drive to come undone
Instead of a fight
you chose to run
And you were not the only one

In the dark, not much left to enjoy
Dear god, please bring me back my boy

Tuning out advice from early on
Unusual drive to come undone
Instead of a fight you chose to run
And you were not the only one

5. The Next One To Go

Always knew that this day would come,
When my muse would stop calling,
Now it's here and I'm feeling numb

Like a tower that's falling

I can hear all my demons laugh
They know how I'm hurting
I could pray but it's no use now
The end is here

Close my eyes but the notes won't come,
Where they used to come easy
All these words that I've written down
Not one that would please me
I could pray, but it's no use now
The end is here

I should have been creating
for a rainy day
Write down the words when
I had something to say
Now there's a dry spell heading my way

Let me lay this clich? on you
You've heard it before, it ain't nothing new
Better say what you have to say,
do what you have to do
The next one to go could be you

6. Helping Hands

This, all this used to rhyme
Had it's place and time
One perfect line

You, you were my guide
The voice inside
The one to lie

My body aches from all the aid
Near-fatal blows from helping hands
The fastest way to a heart is through the
chest with the knife
It'll take my death for you to come alive

I, I was led astray
Lost along the way
Lost among the pray

Now, all there's left to do
To make sure that you won't follow suit

My body aches from all the aid
Near-fatal blows from helping hands
The fastest way to a heart is through
the chest with the knife
It'll take my death for you to come alive

7. Defuse The Past

What the fuck have you done?
What is this that I hear?
No, I don't understand nor approve

your choice of solution,
I thought that much was clear

And it's way too quiet now,
the lights are on
but there's no sound
A fresh new coat of paint
to wash the thoughts away

A ghost unseen, from the window
notes be pouring out
If only I could grab
you by your face and shout:

Hear me now!
I don't know where or when,
but it gets better somehow
The pain you feel, it won't last,
it will pass
Just look away
from the hourglass

The dye is cast, just not in
the shape or form of which we asked
Defuse the past

His problems got the best of him
With weight like that he couldn't win
It would've taken the strength of a
mountain not to come apart
The biggest waste is not to live
A waste like that I can't forgive
I will never be at peace with what
you've done

Old friend in hand, the strings his
gateway to a calm
The magic in his fingers,
the whole world in his palm

Hear me now!
I don't know where or when,
but it gets better somehow
The pain you feel, it won't last,
it will pass
Just look away from the hourglass

The dye is cast, just not in the shape
or form of which we asked
Defuse the past

8. From The Beginning (The Note Part 2)

Don't wanna read the news no more
It brings my fist to the wall
and a tear to my eye

If in all of these years this is all
that we've managed to learn
Then maybe it's time for the species
to hurry up and die
Time to step aside
Time for us to move on
We had our chance, we lit it up,
we watched it burn

After all is said and done,
it's too late to look for solutions
There ain't none to be found
After all is said and done,
it's too late to find our way

Don't wanna weave the fuse no more
I've been a piece of it all, looking
down to the ground or up to the sky
Oh how far gone we are from
the point of no return
How close to the point where all
that is left is to say goodbye

After all is said and done,
it's too late to look for solutions
There ain't none to be found
After all is said and done,
it's too late to find our way

After all is said and done, it's too
late to unveil the illusion
Sold the stones right off the crown
After all is said and done, we're
standing here with just a shell