1. The Towers Of Avarice

Armed with the promise of salvation
countless monoliths rise
fires that feed their progress blacken the earth and the sky
the masses that teem below them
are drawn to the warmth of their light
come to your future so bright
the heaven you seek is in sight
just give all and lay at my feet
the heaven you need is found within me
in their midnight it is saviour it gives them faith
in their midnight it is saviour but it steals their souls
they are all just seconds both in line and in time
moving forever toward boxes of pine
oh innocent follower
you of feeble spirit and shallow heart
go as those before you did
even though they were torn apart
all your gods in heaven cannot save you now
it locks the door and takes the key
and will not allow
walking out
it will sicken your will
it will sicken your self
it will take without mercy
until there is nothing else
it will take your will
it will take you all
it will take a mystic
to make it fall
shadow people
faces without names
go in willing
leaving in flames
cast into a manic mission
lead into a blind descision
thrown into a dark submission
they will become an omission

2. The Subterranean

Its progress has no limits
and neither do the eyes
of the subterranen cynic
the one who must hide
for all this time
he has chosen a war path
he will end its greed
feeling beings feeling
nothing
i will set its limit
for my future has no home
the snake is in the garden
i go on alone
i'm in its yesterdays i've seen it rise
escaped by thinking twice i live so it must die
i'm the mystic i'm the one
i'm the seasons it's the sun
i'm the moon you're its need
i will make it bleed
i'm the moon it is the sun
i 'll eclipse all that it's done
i'll bring renewal through destruction
i will make it see
this is a warning of no compromise
the arrogant will be made humble
the ignorant will be made wise

3. Stratagem

"In those passage ways he passed his days
but believed his passive ways must end
knowing his time like all others will run out
he takes the role of the desperate man"
breathing silence conscious stripped and bare
i know that what's inside them i also share
for within every coward lies a slave
my prison is the darkness theirs the need to be led
for within every hour lies a day
this land i know these people are my own
all that remains hidden will soon be shown
for beneath every tower lies its grave
a one man army fights an imaginary war
far within myself only i know what for
come now
see how
drop drop down and liquidfy
i'll give the world to you
drop drop down and sanctify
i promise all the truth
i'll give you more than eyes
i'll give you more
i'll give you more than your two eyes
the truth the truth the truth
on their knees blessing light
come with me rule the night
take the chance ride the beast
join the famine or the feast
but they won't hear they just stare
they don't care they wouldn't dare
to live live live beyond their walls
each tower in my sight
broken
each tower in my way
broken
i'll turn these words to swords
spoken tonight

4. Reflections

All i need now is some golden wings that i may fly
but it drops down on me this weight of time
and the pain in their eyes
i crawled along my cracked and narrow path
and saw my reflection in some broken glass
it was blood red blood red and it said
that the years they stay and then move on
and like yesterday you have come and gone
you reached an end
but i know that eventhough there is summer
there is also a fall
the cold will stay the warmth will leave (whispers)
if to live is to sin then this must be done
for whatever you do is evil to someone
but it's killing me it's killing me
so i'm headed out to that road that winds forever and ever
but it drops down on me the weight of time
and the pain in their eyes
standing here on my freedoms shore
there is nothing left there is nothing more
than to rise so high and then to fall
some songs are prayers and this one prays
"it is better to live free for a moment than a
slave for a day"
so just fade away
fade away
fade away

5. Demise And Vestige

Two eyes flash in twilight two thoughts in rhyme
"gravities' mine and i'm prepared"
two feet meet in rhythm two hands did find
the weak link the towers' share
beneath their foundations a rivers rage
the damm that stands reveals its age
from the cracks water's flowing
and makes a line directly toward
the unknowing
i can set a flood in motion for the arrogants plans
are always built on sand
like the wind drives the rain the subterranean will bring pain
i can feel the surge of madness in mind
i can hear the minions marching in time
i can taste the breathe of freedom
i'm free i am free i am free we are free
to arm the dissident and the dispossed
i'll be there i will be there
to give backpower and take what it possesed
i'll be there i will be there
to live our dreams and not ask why
we'll be there we will be there
to scale the mountain to reign on high
we'll be there we will be there
relieve us now of misery the wheels are set in spin
in moments now the end begins and here i'll make my stand
to watch it
fade away fade away fade away
water fills the waiting earth and washes it so clean
swept up in the rushing waves now i feel what i mean
and i fade away fade away fade away
and i wash away wash away fade away
it is starting
there's no stopping
all's collapsing
what is happening?
cries to screams screams to cries cries to moans
flesh to steel steel to flesh concrete to bone
water bled blue to red blood to water
led to here led to where? led to slaughter
overwhelming sound
swaying breaking sound
wailing pounding sound
cracking crumbling sound
thought i could lose the thought that
brought me to the thought that
brought me here to this demise
thought i could lose the thought that
rules us all and believes that
one must lose in order to find
though the storm inside me
gave me strength to be a mighty river
i was still not the tide
thought he could free the world and so free himself
but he was his own demise
it is still the daylight comes
but nothing moves not anyone
awake my bent and broken ones
and come walk with me
you all seem paralyzed
hollow bodies sunken eyes
but we have won we are alive
so come walk with me
walk with me for i have healed your pain
i touch the ground my hand passes through
but i feel the touch of all of you
letting go i slip into the other side
and you walk with me you walk with me
sent away to a place i've never seen
no fears or cares here all is serene
where did i fly away to where did i fly away?
millions of spirits have begun to gather
in order to be reborn
millions of voices in unison chanting
that i must lead them on
i say "we must bring the oppressor here
to seek solace by means of it's end
and we must redeem our own selves here
we must be sure it has no life after death"
we will comfort you
we will bring you peace
we believe in you
we will be released
and then we'll fly away to a better time
what we'll find we'll wait and see
is it machine or man man or machine
every single one that suffered
wants you they want you
strange how what i once needed they seek today
death did not gain them freedom so here they stayed
from within and from without revenge is ours there is no doubt
and in between that and this our oppressor will taste the serpents kiss

6. The Ghosts Of Dawn

The keeper of the kingdom now has come down so down
to the earth below to a blinding glow
to a sound to a haunting sound
it now can be seen it was man not machine it was man just a man
amazed he survived amazed to hear a sigh
is there someone else here?
feverish laughter breaks upon their lips
the tortured from the hereafter appear in his midst
they dance whirling around him a sirens song his fate
they begin singing softly
"death comes to those who hate, death comes to those who wait"
"how could you lead us on while you stayed on high
how could you lead us on to stay frozen in time?"
"how could i lead them on to something they'd never find"
why did i lead them on to something that was only in mind?"
and now he fades away