1. Greed Killing

The wrong time, the wrong place
Our smiling face of distrust
Buried, the sand deep in all our hands
Prepared ourselves for the fall

The greed killing!

Instinct to mistrust
Instinct – the lust
Their butchery of feelings
Geared for the greed killing

The greed killing!

Not now, then when?
Not now, then when?
When? (x4)

The lust denies the need (x5)

Existence is the steady flow,
The moulded image grows
No care, no faith in what you are
The pressure builds right from the start

Could it be just sour grapes?
Or have we failed to fit their shape?
It's always give, and never take
How much more can we give?
How much more can we take?

2. Glimpse Into Genocide

Blindness leading
Which one of me is real?
Through corridors of uncertainty – a force without form

I've dug a hole so deep
Full of the shit of compromise
For once can't I keep
Pain on the outside

Adapt
Take on release
Others
Thoughts infringed

Adapt
Take on release
A life-
On peace syringed

A glimpse into genocide
My own emotions, a million strong
A heart so full of emptiness

3. Ripe For The Breaking

...You weren't born with the world falling at your feet

The path is long sad agonizing being dragged on your knees

...and the silver spoon in your mouth tastes spoilt with rust

When all that glitters isn't gold and fortunes turn to dust

You're prime for the raping

And when you don't ponder to meet the agenda
Scavengers start to gather
Perverse visionaries taste the father
The just rewards in controlled rebellion

Tossed and probed like a gristly peace of meat
Jock, stock and barrel slave
You just don't contradict big brother
He's got the right to push you under

...and they pledge you the earth, then pull you six feet down,

And you're branded with the stigma, unusable dropouts

...and with inspiration savaged, you take the final bow,

The creative demonner shattered into a million pieces

You're ripe for the breaking

4. Cursed To Crawl

A fragile peace that exists inside
A frame so shallow
So narrow-minded
An open wound
We run inside
A raging turmoil
Helplessness confides...

Cursed to crawl
For my pale and bleeding heart
Cursed to crawl
Pale and bleeding

Enter this sphere
Commonplace, borderline
Between my rage
Between our hate
Demo our mistakes
Fixation blinds
The pain of knowing
The truth beyond...

Unprepared
A generous display
Perhaps a replay
Self-inflicted
Reduced to nothing
My piece of mind seduced
Unworthiness
The scars never heal...

5. Cold Forgiveness

25 years severed
Take it and like it
Feel like there's nothing more
End of story

Thirsty, despised
Real love destroys
Hungry for anger
Hungry for... anger

The face behind the face

Cold forgiveness meant not for me

Race against time
Collapse
Fall in line
Nothing is sacred

Thirsty, despised
Real love destroys
Hungry for anger
Hungry for... anger

The face behind the face

Cold forgiveness meant not for me

6. My Own Worst Enemy

Played out, wide off the mark
Genie develops
Skin to fiction
More then in a world of fact

My own worst enemy
My own worst enemy
Lifes feel treachery
My own worst enemy

Dams of emotion build
A dull and turbid scream
Cloudlike veils of black
In fungles of hopes oppressed

So many times,
For no reason
So many promised punches
For what reason?

Ceaseless decay
Parallel obscene and flagreaf
Ceaseless decay
Restrained my mind cells

So many times,
For no reason
So many promised punches
For what reason?

Ceaseless decay
Parallel obscene and flagreaf
Ceaseless decay
Restrained my mind cells

7. Just Rewards

I lived for the moment
I grabbed hold and I didn't relent
(the) skin of my teeth
Holds me longer

And now I come to claim my just rewards
Face down! ground down with no recourse

And now I come to claim my just rewards
The spells of the toils are spent

Where is the right place?
Where is the right place, right time?

If the face fits, wear it
Faces lit while heart and soul slopes on

Scraping through – just rewards!
Dig the dirt – just rewards!
Hold your ground – just rewards!
Being sucked down – just rewards!

Where is the right place?
Where is the right place, right time?

When you lay down on your own law
You swim against the sunctimenious tides

Down not our – just rewards!
Looping tracks – just rewards!
Stunted growth – just rewards!
Dwindling hope – just rewards!

8. Dogma

Innocence-
A painful reminiscence
Of what was not
And will never be
Meant not for me
An unjust war
On the futile

Bludgeaning my affection (wide open)
Cries of overkill

Scraps of memories
Flung from our master's table
A plan I'm sure to disable
Allegiance to none other

Bludgeaning my affection (wide open)
Cries of overkill

Regenerate a healing cathersis
That bursts, meaningless
Regenerate a healing cathersis
That bursts, meaningless

Gracefull – a selfish will
The chilling thrill
A play on the nerves to end 'all serves'

As ponnace
To a man's drying tear
We fear hot deny ourselves

9. Take The Strain

Take the strain! Can you take it?
Take the strain! Or even fake it?
Take the strain! Aren't we lucky
Take the strain! To be breathing!

Take the strain!

Are you the man in the next bed
Without the tubes, without the life support?
Maybe the man whose pockets weigh you down

Take the strain! Do you wear strife
Take the strain! Like a clown?
Take the strain! Or accumulate
Take the strain! With a frown?

Take the strain!

Are you the animal
That escapes the snares and traps?
Beckoning so quarry scars, and the hunter's crown

We were taught to follow leaders – follow leaders!
Never to challenge the singular pack
The goals they set slip the graps – slip our grasp!
Chasing tails without the basic facts

Choose full pain, voilate, make the grade
Text wires frey, electro-brain, take the strain!

We were taught to follow leaders – follow leaders!
Never to challenge the singular pack
The goals they set slip the graps – slip our grasp!
Chasing tails without the basic facts

10. Diatribes

Bite the bit, scream till you're blue in the face

Rice pipe dreams of pession revolution?

Feet soldiers
With weapons of placards and bonners
How will they stop the ret?
No standing to reason
'couse season is treason
It doesn't seem feasible

Lie down
And cry all you can
The machine sells over you

It just doesn't feasible – no!

Black face to next – try pleading to sifinity
Hands up, beat in, shattering the pursive dream
But is it right to tolerate this fucked democratic process?

Shattering the pursive dream

Is it 'cause we like to hear the sound of our own voice?
Big-hearted diatribes, just like my dilemma
Time to return compliments, shattering the pursive dream?

11. Placate, Sedate, Eradicate

Lead the burden across my shoulders
Pour the effiment on thick

Placate, sedate, eradicate
Am I worthy to carry the weight?

Wage a war on my prone feelings
Annesthetised and numb

Placate, sedate, eradicate
Strangely calm when I should be enraged

Placate, sedate
Placate, sedate
Eradicate

Don't befriend the silver scream
As long as others face firing lines
Reclise, relax take it in your stride
Be the voyeur

Tamed by rabid ontectuiners
Engressed is rent life hell

Placate, sedate, eradicate
Only observing – I'm exempt

12. Corrosive Elements

Staying on an even keel
Keeping a gauge
Sanity hangs in the balance
(I) could go either way

Cerebral half life
The darkest summer days
My pressure defences melting away

'Cause I can't level this brimming, seathing dread
My pressure defences melting away

With anxiety I'm burning!

Stripping down to the rare

Corrosive elements inducing
Corrosive elements that can being
Corrosive elements inducing
Corrosive elements that can being (x2)

Corrosive elements – joy toxin
Corrosive elements – please cleanse me!
Corrosive elements – joy toxin
Corrosive elements – please cleanse me! (x2)