Lights Out

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Lights Out

So you made it. Shame you had to fake it.

So you feigned the way.

You're a fucking disgrace to the name.

So you reaped what I had sewn.

Scattered ashes blown into the unknown.

While you're selling my soul cold.

Black lies failing, forging sound.

Lights out as you hit the ground.

Everything You Know Is Wrong

I looked to the skies, turning away with blackened eyes.

I'm a stranger on a train, you're all strangers on a train.

Sorry to confuse you, but all that you know is wrong

There's just no name for what's gone on.

I've walked on thin ice just to feel mystified,

As we spin through outer space.....

Sorry to confuse you, but all that you know is wrong

There's just no name for what's gone ...

The Art Of A Soft Landing

I'm building a cage to chew things over, far from where the rats can chew my brain

Losing the game and the deck's uneven - the building blocks of ruin

I'm going insane with my eyes wide open, the stage has set the tone

Chewing the pain and it won't stop breeding - it moves from square to square

I've pushed my field, now it comes to this

I've touched my dreams but still I bleed ...

Expire

Innocence and irony,

A a dark shade of fantasy as the serpent slips right into me

Living out your fallacy,

I'm just another casualty of casual insanity.

Summers white cause the sun has gone,

But it wont be long till tomorrow comes and you're on the run with what you've taken.

Knowing what I should have known, I'm staring at the telephone,

And I think our god has been and gone, but I'm still waiting.

I've a solution.

A final solution.

Your Stone

... Your goals, exposed and fruitless Suspended from a childhood insecurity

Perpetuated beyond the boundaries of logic and reality

Many times I held my hand out to you when it should have been me who was destructive

In my own rights I should have been

I had hoped somewhere that through your clouded portrait of rage

I could eventually count on human nature to rear its head

And shine over the darkness we had created for ourselves

And human nature did shine through,

But I never realized that human nature was truly so jealous and vile

That is the nature of man, the very man you strive to be, And you will succeed

Stretch out your pain as long as it may carry you

Until your body becomes consumed and decayed from the ravages of time

For one day it will forever change your mask, And you will be carved in stone

...

What a big man you are - could fight a war with just your face

Take it on the chin and leave me open jawed

What big words you've got - reciting lines you've heard on film

Could write a script with just your lust for 'respect'

Rip off this face - it can't persist

Like shadows in the rain, undefined lines, a symphony muted and greying -

You're not real and neither are your goals.

Reality Clash

... resist you never could you never will

bare my soul for a moment of delusion

blame it on the past catching up to take the glory stealing heroes

selling someone else's soul to take you further

falling deeper into false

you don't realise the shit you're in for once it's come around again

so exercise your right to run your right to ruin ...

Breaking away from broken days of shame and illusions playing the game

So validate a life of lies,

So high on manufactured pride

Faking away, making waves to gain

Reality astray

Delusion paved the way

While we made it to the other side, you lost your pride and your alibis

Dream

Immersed in light, broken in flight

Here comes that scene again, not another sleepless night

Scripted yet stuck on every line ...

Upon my face a look of pure surprise - I thought I'd be fighting fire

How it's changed from my dream,

Did I stray from the path laid out for me?

How it's changed, did I fail in some way?

Easy to plot a course divine

A simple graph can colour every line, and I don't see what I don't know

Some truths are harder to perceive ...

The colour has been drained now from my eyes - staring into endless time

Terminal

(Instrumental)