1. Loyal

Make believe we're more than real
The touch of flesh traveling through leaving trails of bile
Loyal i am to the demon sweet, tearing down in silence
Cruel to the eve, the tortured smile
I am the prop, the gleeful hollow
Another pill to swallow
Loyal i am
Tell me what to follow
Searching, ever searching to quell ongoing melee
Thoughts of treason never leaving
For the cure for the disease

Instinct conspiracy, telepathy it seemed to he
Experimental evolution, moderation of transgressions
Dormant kept at hay
Heal me, heal me

Loyal to treason, treason for freedom, freedom until death

Reverse the curse
Reverse the curse

Loyal i am
I am the prop, the gleeful hollow

Infiltration, cheating life
Automatic living death
Discipline is will, wiling weakness out
What's more than real beyond this dimension?
Loyal i am, loyal i am, loyal i am
To treason

2. Critical Elements

These great diversions, further from the quest
Bail out and enjoy

Orchestrated random acts of life and death
Gamble survival, dodging the elements

No instruction to go on, and no promise of tomorrow
Mostly pathetic ends; only hope carries on
Its elementary

Along for the ride
Faith and reality collide
Mysterious, but in tune
Elements in harmony

Random, improvised recalculated symphony
It doesn't even matter
Supernatural text, subjective at the best
Criticized with disdain
It's still a test of will

Shattered the dream, tainted the spirit
It's only me, disobedient free willed me
Planted the seeds of the grand fantasy
The endless nightmare

Don't want to lose my balance
I'm just trying to get through the day
Struggle for harmony
Harmony

Hard to contend when they exceed all forms of greed
No conscience governing the animals of consumption

Meaning of life's long quest
Are we chasing emptiness?

These things we take for granted
We are the elements
Critical elements

3. Inner Core

Walk over bodies; feel at home?
Lord of hiding waging battles from a hole
You'll miss the loving; you'll miss the show
Now we're coming to reveal the core show
Torture the messenger for the words of truth he brings
The hourglass has formed a crack, and sealed the
Time of doom

We all stand alone
No one's hand to hold
Discovering what's in the core

We all stand alone
What we fear the most
No place free to flow

But we come together
Face the theater walls
Lost our bodies; borrowed replicas of old
Guarding all of the dust to be
Undying love profess from me

We stand before
We stand before
We stand all before thee

Who had the ancient password that leads to nothing?
Who's hiding sacred scrolls?

Flashing fragment of shattered lives
Petty crimes, nursery rhymes
Coldness be still; nurtured in time
Hidden menaces,opposite the line

We know what's in the core

Who had the ancient password that led to nothing?

4. Delving Too Deep

Dabbling are we?
You'd do well to forget it
Trust me. i've seen it
Stop!

Novice, clairvoyant one, going forth; your rise to fame
Idols and titles; summoning, you force the hand
Maybe, too much to handle
Arraignment before the wall
Appearing on my bark

Delving too deep

On the threshold of revelation
Turn a way, turn away
Seeking secrets forbidden
Can't turn away, can't turn away

Don't conjure up the essence of your core
Divided in two, the doubt shines through
Don't force a revelation
Maybe a mystery is good; change the fate
What an epiphany

Delving too deep

On the threshold
Turn away, turn away
Lured to secrets incomprehensible
Can't turn away, can't turn away

Crossed, i crossed, i crossed
Locked inside judgment walls
Beasts sent to drag away
Deemed sick inside the head

Now i have to pay again, again and again
Got a reprieve, and i'm here to tell you of the hell i've seen

Stay enlightened in the dark
In the sanctuary i preserved for you

Now you're delving too deep
Now you're delving too deep

Stay enlightened in the dark
In the sanctuary i preserved for you

Just take my hand; i'll take us home
It's better in this dark; for in this dark we own

Too deep, dabbling we are

5. Human Swine

Swine....

Controlling their lives, vengeance is mine
Swords, daggers, lies; tools of the trade
Gold, power, rewards of deceit
Nukes, troops, crude, security is weak
I think alone

Craving up their prey
The world is a better place
The methods are the same
Pillage away

Primal fits, razor rips, the best of creation
I molest the world; what's left is up for grabs
A weasel in sheep's skin, in bed with the domestic boar
Sold us out, sold us...

Swords, daggers, lies; tools of the trade
Hogtied. stomped; we need to have a roast
Money hounds bred, tracking the wealth
Human swine, cannibalize

God save me

In the name of the almighty dollar
In unknown gods we trust
Turn a blind eye to the human swine
Befallen retribution

Save us all from the human swine
Save us all; the slaughter's looming
The feast is coming
Our vindication
You swine

6. Black Robe

Things to get off my chest
Who dubbed you better than the rest?
All i've got is nothing to believe in

They say he talks to you know who
Refuses a word with me or you
Playing fools; come on. bend the rules

Wisdom and fortune, not easily obtained
Will my donation push it through?

Justice, fuzzy not blind
Penicillin or poison

It's mold with the power to heal or rot society
Selling crutches; big business
I've used them myself
Self anointed, fake it 'til you make it strategy

In the black robe
Searching for salvation
In the black robe
We trust our fate

Can you feel the pressure, piecing it all together?

Subject to change
I see yon views as strange
In the black robe we trust our fate

Feel peace in the pieces i have tom
Your faith is speculation
I sec through skeptic eyes

I'm seen through judging minds

Your mighty dues to play
This worthless strategy
Subject to change
I see you views as strange

7. Branded

Lord above, lord below
Here in the middle i stand alone
Through the mud, sweat and fears
I would be nothing without your care

Caring for my seared flesh

No disgrace in letting go
Set them high before me
Traveling through the next adventure
And wonder whose hand's on the master control

Gave it hell
You get what you give
Gave it hell
I did what i did short of selling my soul

Was tom to pieces
Lorn to pieces in what i believed
Torn to pieces in what i believed
Torn to pieces

Gave me hell
I expected nothing less

All contained within the hemispheres
But my brain has been branded since the early years
So grant me no wishes from below
Consider me branded; consider me rogue

Branded for life

8. Together Divided

Await the jail, called the angel
Slicing through the air, their own winds have betrayed
A monumental task
Divided we are, but wisdom will prevail

You the destroyer, the bringer of war
Programming minds, to use them as pawns
Substitute the maker for something for your own
Intent

We live for the day
Vi they are is everything
They were born to play
No! kill in the name of...

Preservation through devastation of our enemy
Divided we are on this first adversary to conquer

Our bravest need not sacrifice another day
Now feel collective rage

If we fail, will we?
Can we wail?
Divided. divided
Somehow these wrongs made it right

She gave us strength again
The mission had begun
To call the hero; the hero of the last resort

Hero bomb, hero bomb

9. Face Within A Face

Time to call his bluff
Getting closer to the end
All things strewn across the room
The face within a face has him locked in a shadow
Cage
Enticing him with pleasures from below

He is enslaved, he is enslaved
He is insane, he is insane
There's no way to change this
He's taken by a face within a face

10. Come Alive

Encompassing fog, the shell
Feeding off her strength
Nourished by beauty
Can't defend what lies inside
These lies inside
Make it right, attach the wing
Make it right, detach the flaws

Hibernating on the sunny side, mostly in mind
Don't let it loose, social noose, a paradox in kind

One wing can't fly, always wanting more
One wing, not good enough to fly
Slip, slide, fall
Paid for it all

Over and over again

It's not the way to be
It's not the way to be

On and on and on and on and on
Dreams come alive
I the ordinary sedentary life
Visions of the mind
Extraordinary undying drive
Visions come alive
Dream come alive

The shield we keep protects us from succeed
It's not the way things should be
It, stand alone again
Will the demon yield
Here comes the sleep again