1. The Calling

A young boy dreams
Of a warm summer's night
As he sees the snowflakes falling down
He never felt the face of humankind
Just the cold deep thoughts
Of his own mind

He hardens his heart
To the fears of the outside
After all they blew the cold air in
Their acts of degradation
Are frozen one by one
Suspended in time and all but put aside

I am the face of your fears of a thousand years
Look at the hate in my eyes I have magnified
Out of the ashes I salvage my sanity
Scarred from the inside from now
Until eternity

I reach out to search for the safety of strangers
Their ignorance will help me to my throne
I've built up these walls in desperate defense
They segregate my world opens my soul to the call

2. To Believe

There I was reaching out for a hand
But the concept was out of my grasp
I only wanted to be one with the word
I only wanted to see it's fruition

Controlling thoughts and raping minds
Like painting pictures for the blind

Images I see are taking
Life from out of me it's killing
Every thought I think permeates my mind
But I am not going to believe

Speak my peace I try to explain my beliefs
And I am lauded with hate and disdain
Now that I've heard their hypocritical words
I realize there's no chance for comprehension

Think for yourself in your own way
Hear what I say

3. Mad Not Crazy

As I see the day I look in a different way
Eyes as black as night never see the light
You can't see my mind not like humankind
And my viciousness is unequaled
And so now you know

Never will I look back
Some things now will never change
Nothing good ever lasts
Mankind has now gone insane

Doctors theorize that I am mad inside
But what do they know what is real
Feed me all the lies everyday they try
To erase my world
But they will not succeed

Walk the streets at night and I have to fight
Demons deep inside I can never hide
All my darkest fears haunting me for years
Schizophrenia always holds
All of my sanity

4. Desperate Land

A parody of man's intent
The price becomes irrelevant
Brother killing brother dead
Bloodshed turns the Danube red

Sovereignty
To rule thy own
Ruthlessly
Claims bloody thrones

A nation torn by civil strife
Children cling to ebbing life
A prayer for peace to bless this state
No pawn wins in stalemate

5. Nosferatu

The sun goes down
Darkness shrouds the streets we reign – supreme
A church bell tolls
Burning hunger fills my veins – tonight

The traffic slows
Heartbeats pounding in my brain – beware
Their life blood pours from their throats like
Crimson rain

Well I can't recall what a sunrise used to look like
Or how it's rays felt apon my face
Just mrtal blessings
That I took for granted

Children of the damned
Are set free to desecrate the land
Creatures banished from the light
Are condemned to everlasting night

The mirror taunts me
By hiding my reflection
An empty soul behind my stare
The thrill of the hunt
Is the only pleasure left for me

6. Atlantis

Look into the moonlight
Look into the sea
Look into the night sky
Look into a dream
Gaze upon a city
Standing ever so tall
No one ever believed
The city would fall

Once there was a sacred land
It's name struck fear in the hearts of man
And one day all ceased to be
Atlantis her glory was forever lost in the sea

Atlantis her glory was forever lost in time

Think of all the horror
Think of all the pain
Imagine the sorrow of the people that day
Civilization lost in one blinding light
What ever happened to the city that night

Will we ever find a way
To bring Atlantis back here to stay
We all will be homeward bound
Atlantis you soon will be found

7. Regatta Fugue II

See the land on the horizon
Glistening on the waters edge
I've seen the world as no one else has
My dream fulfillled has come at last

I have seen a new world
I am here to stake my claim – for

My return to my homeland
I have seen the promised land
My return to my homeland
A new day is now at hand

For the queen I have given
All my life to see this through
A new world awaits us now for everyone
The voice of a madman now rings true

8. Stained

All the secrets we keep
Are in our mind
And constant therapy
Helps us to find

Every single meaning that we perceive
Clouds the undeniable truth in make believe
Do you feel a little tramatized
Are you feeling sad
It's time we start breaking down
The walls we had

As we struggle going no where
Lost direction no redemption

Stained
Toy thrown away used and cast aside
Stained Smeaing our souls with the sins that we hide

Every night the six o' clock news invades our lives
And watching the television blinds our eyes
Everyone's hopes and dreams betray them now
All innocence washed away gone somehow

Can you see the violence it's all around
Society's decadence brings us down

Oh I see the chage ahead
No more will pure hearts be mislead
Replace the faces who lead
Consumed by stains of their deeds

9. Gates Of Babylon

Sand storms
Obscured horizons
Endless
Open expanses

The tales told on and on
Of the gates of Babylon
What secrets lie beyond
The gates of Babylon

Victims
Of decadent lust
Ruins
Eroded to dust

Erstwhile
Civilization
Modern
Assimilation

10. Requiem

Fire burning higher
Funeral pyres
Ashes coat the ground

Slaughter
Toxic water
Corporate order
Floral genocide

Nations Aberrations
Culmination
Eroded sand

Miles of Rivers dried up
Tree limbs piled up
A dead wasteland

Now there is no where to run
Can't hide from all the damage done
The world's turning a shade of gray
How can we wantonly throw it all away

Requiem

Mindless
Self destruction
Mass corruption
Watch them rape the land

Plotting
Carcass rotting
Ozone spotting
Earth's betrayed by

Traitors
Terminators
Forest haters
Man's epitaph

Plunder
Nature's wonders
Cast asunder
Our time will pass