from the album "Device"
YOU THINK YOU KNOW
Come on!Don't hang me on another problem, I really don't give a fuck if you believe me.
I can see that you were not the one to confide in, I cannot abide by you anymore.
Can you shut down the funky vibe and get the fuck up, yeah, better believe me.
You aren't heard anymore, you weren't able to silence, resorted to violence, I've seen it before,
Now get your ass out the door, won't take shit anymore.
You think you know but you're horribly blind, you think you know how this story's defined,
You think you know that your heart has gone cold inside, fine.
Get off me, you don't know where I've been; I'm all fucked up, better believe me.
I didn't care anymore, I opened up the device and I gave into vice with you, little whore.
Goddamn this, no one could believe that I am this monster you believe in.
There's nothing left anymore, you were the one who decided our souls were divided,
I've heard it before, won't take shit anymore.
You think you know but you're horribly blind, you think you know how this story's defined,
You think you know that your heart has gone cold inside, fine.
You think you know but it's all in your mind, you think you know just whose fate has been signed,
You think you know just whose heart has gone cold this time, mine.
Well, you can blame yourself, and you just might be right, for there is nothing left; do you think its time to say goodbye?
PENANCE
In the perfect dark a Botticellian angel exists, the elusive partner puts her key in my hand,A fairly simple gesture shrouded in evil, as she distorts it becomes easy to understand.
Lost in her piercing eyes as everything around me dies.
Well, can you make the nightmares go away, can you pull the demon from inside?
Will penance make the nightmares go away and save me from this endless night?
In the choking dark I try to move, I'm unable; a hundred thousand moving creatures tickle my flesh.
I feel the heat, it's getting harder to breathe, I feel the panic taking hold for I'm beginning to understand
The only way I'll be saved is if someone breaks into my grave.
Well, can you make the nightmares go away, can you pull the demons from inside?
Will penance make the nightmares go away and save me from this endless night?
I don't need it, I don't want it, no more sedation; don't need it, don't want it, eradicate this endless aching inside.
VILIFY
As you vilify every single move that I make and try to bind me in your insanity,You'll come to know that you never had control from the onset; go find another lapdog, fucker.
Your need to clarify every single word that I say has left me wrestling with our disparity.
Leave me alone, take another wretched soul on the hell ride, go find a more susceptible sucker.
I can't believe this is happening, I don't want to start over again, a stone I keep falling over again and again.
When you vilify, you begin to nullify everything that we've ever done, you're fucking with my head.
As you vilify all I've ever given, I don't want to fall apart anymore, I want to end it right now.
When you vilify, I start to ponder every battle ever fought, every thought imploding in my head.
If you vilify, it's a bitter pill that I will force you to devour, enough, why don't we end it right now?
I've had my fill and I think I've had enough, when you open your mouth every word incenses me.
Don't want to know why your every waking moment revolves around criticising every part of me.
Another bill, the number cannot be defined for the blood and the soul that had to flow incessantly.
Fuck you all and let every minute be a reminder of how you let it all come crashing down.
I can't believe this is happening, I don't want to start over again, a stone I keep falling over again and again.
When you vilify, you begin to nullify everything that we've ever done, you're fucking with my head.
As you vilify all I've ever given, I don't want to fall apart anymore, I want to end it right now.
When you vilify, I start to ponder every battle ever fought, every thought imploding in my head.
If you vilify, it's a bitter pill that I will force you to devour, enough, why don't we end it right now?
And when you're broken and bitter inside, and reality sucks cause you know I'm right.
All over nothing, unforgiving inside, well, doesn't it suck just to know I'm right?
CLOSE MY EYES FOREVER
Baby, I get so scared inside and I don't really understand, is it love that's on my mind or is it fantasy?Heaven is in the palm of my hand and it's waiting here for you, what am I supposed to do with a childhood tragedy?
If I close my eyes forever will it all remain unchanged? If I close my eyes forever will it all remain the same?
Sometimes it's hard to hold on, so hard to hold on to my dreams, it isn't always what it seems when you're face to face with me.
Like a dagger, you stick me in the heart and taste the blood from my blade,
And when we sleep, would you shelter me in your warm and darkened grave?
If I close my eyes forever will it all remain unchanged? If I close my eyes forever will it all remain the same?
Will you ever take me? No, I just can't take the pain. Would you ever trust me? No, I'll never feel the same.
I know I've been so hard on you, I know I've told you lies; if I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes.
If I close my eyes forever will it all remain unchanged? If I close my eyes forever will it all remain the same?
Close your eyes for me.
OUT OF LINE
Don't give me your line, won't let it go this time and make a mockery of this obscenity.It's gotten out of control, some poor unfortunate soul will pay the price again to feed your vanity.
The fascist face of the day contributes blood to the fray and wreaks his devastation on humanity.
He hears his own people cry, as countless innocents die he stands defiant in his own insanity.
Another child denied their human right to a life free from the shackles that assure their slavery.
The monster in human skin employs abduction again, collecting innocents to steal their purity.
I see the global decline while wealthy pockets are lined, the masses begging them to show some sympathy.
Without a care in their heart they let it all fall apart, their twisted rationales have never made sense to me.
It seems destruction is a form of success for you, these tragic visions of loss will never leave me.
You try to justify the pain that you've brought, but you're out of line.
Their Machiavellian minds concoct their wicked designs, they think they're standing on the side of destiny.
Constricting freedom again, they've wrought the ultimate sin, they make pariahs of the sons of liberty.
And in the name of their god they wage their war and applaud the deadly dogma that controls society.
Who fucking gave you the right to spread perpetual night, your holy rationales have never made sense to me.
It seems destruction is a form of success for you, these tragic visions of loss will never leave me.
You try to justify the pain that you've brought, but you're out of line.
You know I can't imagine anything less from you, not a single word from your mouth is worth believing.
No way to rectify the havoc you've wrought, know you're out of line.
I fear it coming, hear it coming again, a new apocalypse in sight.
I see it coming, feel it coming again, we won't capitulate this time.
HUNTED
Behold the new design, demonic worlds align, a new beginning, a world that was frozen in time.No thought of compromise, the smell of blood, stirring emotion, so darkly devoted I have become.
They yearn for genocide, running from their fear of the dark, a new bleeding, a moment of turning the tide.
A mortal enemy, fighting with eternal devotion, becoming the nightmare they're running from.
I have fallen once before tonight and I know my mistake won't be repeated.
Then you'll know why you are burning alive, you're becoming unwhole, now you will know what it's like to become the animal.
A bloody legacy branded by the hunger within, a new meaning, a moment of feeling the pain.
A deadly tragedy, teeming with infernal emotion, so deeply distorted I have become.
It isn't homicide when you know they're already dead, the world bleeding, the last bit of sanity died,
For what's inside of me, you will know your fear of the dark and you now will be hunted, so flee before--
I have fallen once before tonight and I know my mistake won't be repeated.
Then you'll know why you are burning alive, you're becoming unwhole, now you will know what it's like to become the animal.
OPINION
Right before your eyes, witness the travesty, the perpetrators of the crime are simply walking away.How the defenders of justice keep falling again and again.
You know that no one can deny the horrors of our age, the puppets' intricate lies will never wash them away.
They can't distract us from all that's appalling again and again.
Are you blind? Are you cold? How can you say you don't have an opinion
And that you'll give me a reason that there is nothing left worth believing in this world that we're living in?
Well, I have an opinion that there is always a reason, and their lies aren't worth believing, we have to show we're not giving in, no.
The wicked can't disguise their motives anyway, it's the ultimate crime when we look the other way
And sit compliant while the devils keep stalling again and again.
And you cannot justify your perfect apathy, cast aside your indifference, throw it away
And hear the voices of the innocents calling again and again.
Are you blind? Don't you know? How can you say you don't have an opinion
And that you'll give me a reason that there is nothing left worth believing in this world that we're living in?
Well, I have an opinion that there is always a reason, and their lies aren't worth believing, we have to show we're not giving in, no.
You've got to fight for it, don't let the villainous ones decide how we define ourselves,
And you profess to know that ignorance is bliss, now do you want to let them decide whether we're alive or dead?
WAR OF LIES
Who was the one that stood beside you through the war of your life, who stood defiant in the face of your enemy?Who was the one you could confide in when your adversaries made you run and hide?
There's no messiah out there waiting to deliver you now, you've lost the war and have surrendered your sanity.
What was before has now been scattered from the heavy devastation left behind.
You made it happen again, threw your cover away, built battlements to stand for all time.
You've waged your war of lies, discarded your disguise.
I was the one you said could never be a part of your life, I was the one who had a moment of clarity.
Only a son could stay devoted to a fabricator living their own lies.
The ones who loved you can no longer be a part of you now, you're very deft at trying to garner their sympathy,
But your reflection will reveal the shadowed image of the criminal inside.
You've let it happen again, thrown your honour away, you may never learn until you're denied.
You've waged your war of lies, discarded your disguise, seen through damnation's eyes, you blame me for your lies.
You don't get it, you won't let it, you won't ever admit your fucking lie.
You don't get it, I won't let it, I won't believe this time.
HAZE
It's early morning and the sun holds no redemption for me,And I then discover all the scratches running up and down my spine from the other night.
I stagger onward and the pain is nearly crippling me;
Such sweet destruction, I'm a glutton when the decadence tastes right, like the other night.
The euphoric feeling is so right, when it seizes control all my inhibitions are left behind,
And I know that reality really won't mind, a benevolent soul who desires to leave all their cares behind.
Later in the evening, I can hear all the vices calling to me,
So I take another little taste intended to liberate my mind from the finest kind.
The night's beginning and the sea of the bodies crowd around me,
Ready to remember all the greatest moments lived in their lifetime, for another night.
The euphoric feeling is so right, when it seizes control all my inhibitions are left behind,
And I know that reality really won't mind, a benevolent soul who desires to leave all their cares behind.
I'm not the only one, learn a little lesson from me; I'm a leviathan, focused on fulfilling a need.
The faint of heart observe the bolder ones setting the bar, a feeding frenzy when the starving just forget where they are.
You're in denial when you say you never wanted a taste, and you don't really want to let this stimulant go to waste,
So don't deny it, go on and try it, I'm looking forward to the moment when your mind will fall in love with the haze.
THROUGH IT ALL
I've been alone, felt abandoned at times, given into the fall, I can't forget what its like.When I felt numb and so hollow inside, you carried me through it all, across the divide.
And when I went through it all, you gave me your heart, I learned to forgive.
And when I come through it all, I know you're the one I'll never forget.
I've been lost, I've felt ruined inside, watched it all crumble in the blink of an eye.
You were strong and so hopeful inside, saved this fallen one when I wanted to die.
And when I went through it all, you gave me your heart, I learned to forgive.
And when I come through it all, I know you're the one I'll never forget.
And when I went through it all, you gave me your heart, I learned to forgive.
And when I come through it all, I pray I'm the one you'll never forget.
(You're the reason I'm still alive, the only reason I'm still alive,
You're the reason that I survived, the only reason that I survived.)
WISH
This is the first day of my last days.I built it up, now I take it apart; I climbed up real high, now I fall down real far.
No need for me to stay, the last thing left, I just threw it away.
I put my faith in God and trust in you, now there's nothing more fucked up I could do.
Wish there was something real, wish there was something true,
Wish there was something real in this world full of you.
I'm the one without a soul, I'm the one with this big fucking hole.
No new tale to tell, twenty-six years on my way to hell.
Got to listen to your big time hard line bad luck fist fuck.
Don't think you're having all the fun, you know me, I hate everyone.
Wish there was something real, wish there was something true,
Wish there was something real in this world full of you.
A PART OF ME
What seems to be on your mind, creature from the other side, keeper of the weak and benign, you won't get it, you don't get it.You see through demented eyes the very being you once despised,
Hellbent on controlling the precious pieces held in new light.
Can you feel reality rushing in? Can you feel reality's crush again?
You want a part of me? How about the part of me that doesn't give a shit?
You want a part of me? You're not the only one this time.
It seems that your lust is blind, you make way for the goal in sight, searching for another new high, you won't get it, you don't get it.
Enthralled by a new device, you're a prisoner of your vice, you won't be controlling, your new obsession pays you no mind.
Can you feel reality rushing in? Can you feel reality's crush again?
You want a part of me? How about the part of me that doesn't give a shit?
You want a part of me? You're not the only one this time.
You want a part of me? How about the part of me that doesn't give a shit?
You want a part of me? You'll be the lonely one this time.
And for a moment I felt like your suffering was enough to let it go, but I delight in watching you fuck it up.
RECOVER
I've only known redemption within your eyes, I feel a hunger that will not subside.I see the flame as it reflects in your eye, no other retribution will suffice.
Our guardian angels won't forsake us this night, it seems that destiny has come,
So let us live in the moment tonight, let all our barriers be broken tonight.
Let me take hold of your mind, where every decadent thought is my favourite kind.
Let me console you tonight and recover.
A beating heart that once was broken in time can become mended and fulfilled this night.
No secret thought will go unspoken and I can turn this flood into an ocean tide
I see the glimmering of hope in your eye, it seems our destinies are one.
Let us make whole what was broken tonight, let what was dead be awoken tonight.
Let me take hold of your mind, where every decadent thought is my favourite kind.
Let me console you tonight and recover.
Let me take hold of your mind, and all the loves that we've lost will not plague us this time.
When I behold you tonight, we'll recover.
