A VIPER'S WAY
That smile again Like venom it sinks in Moves slow to every end
Runs it's course, leaves for dead and moves on Another victim falls
In silent tongue you call Set the trap and watch them crawl
Those eyes again Like a viper you peer in Strike when the turn begins
Play the game only to win and walk on The prey is quiet and calm
You know the hunt is on Claim the heart just to belong
Every smile you give is a seed you've sown And every look that comes
my way is another stone you've thrown With every gift you give drives
nails into my bones And every promise kept is another piece you own

AT ODDS
Step inside my front door and cover the tracks behind
An unwelcome invitation Split to two when I unwind
Don't tell a soul now And play the role you've been assigned
You are my best kept secret and I will never break this bind
In a quest for truth and reason I'm stopped dead every time
My heart whispers calm when my mind screams defy
I've retired this old sound And secrecy has become my sin
I'm at odds with everything around me Pick up the pieces
and start again Take this false identity and move on
Take this burden far from me and move on I'm under lock and key
From this foolish charity But the joke is on me Time's up loser

BLACKOUT
I burn this voice out of my soul I pluck these eyes from your empty skull
I light the fire that you run from I bond the chains that you've left undone
I black the sunlight out of the sky to create this disguise In the shadows
that are cast upon me When you close your eyes you see nothing
When you're alone you hear nothing but silence sweetly singing
the songs of oblivion

COMFORT OF THE CAGE
A fashionable victim You wear defeat like a three piece suit
Tailored by the shackles of your human design to cement
the seams before they come unglued That's your hard bargain
That's your honest wage you'll use to buy more time in the
comfort of the cage

CUTTING THROUGH
I try to dream I try to feel I try to make this dream real
I try to hold it in my hands but there is nothing there
I try to stop the bleeding and stay one step ahead
I try to be strong in my dreams and not fall down again
But when I awake into this world I clear my head and
open my eyes The perfect beauty of this dream only
fades away and dies

FINE HONED DISEASE
You've paid quite a fucking price for an end that
defies the means To free you from this vice
you'd slit your own throat if words could cut so clean
They're the wounds that earned your rank and you wear
them for the world to see Call it action in reverse
The lines you draw when you rehearse your point of view
So sharpen the knife You've served your time and a clean
cut makes it worth your while when it reflects in others eyes
It's a fine honed disease but you will never understand
why it will always keep you at your knees Your fine honed disease

FIRE AT WILL
My friend I watch as you sit still No forces acting
on your body The noose pulls tight but will not kill
You say there's no reason No answers to be found
but you won't find them in that fixed position
You know I've seen that side of town
Sometimes I pray to see a ghost but these pleads
are never met Anything it takes to abandon this world
and help me to forget We have to snap ourselves out
and when we hear that call We can fire at will
Now watch your aim and keep your sights in line
One wrong twitch and you'll miss the target, that human kind
Do away with all we know and leave illusions behind
This disguise has worn thin and we must pay no mind
Snap yourself out.

HIDDEN
You were born into this world Your fists were raised
and your ties were torn Learned to live your life
like a war Brought opposition down to the floor
Now you ride with your flag held high and walk the
lines that others hide In the shadows you found your
kind and burned down everything outside But can you
really hide? Dwell by night and hide by day When the
guns go off you turn away See the fire but can't feel
the flame Disappear and x out your name
Did you hide yourself from the ways of man? With your
back against the wall did you try to understand?
Keep your fists raised as high as any fighter can and
when the guns go off they will know just where you stand

NOBODY SLEEPS TONIGHT
We're the black that surrounds you in your sleepless room
The cold dark figures just out of view The dogs are at
your heels Nobody sleeps tonight Doors smashed in
in the middle of the night The strange sound in the corner
of the room Glass house becomes your tomb The whispers
in the dead of night Speak the truths you've tried to hide
Strange sounds in the corner of the room Glass house
becomes your tomb Can you feel us breathing down your neck
Choose carefully what you will protect Can you hear us
scratching at your door The sounds that creep
across your floor

REINVENTING THE WHEEL
His father told him once that life's a wheel
and his destiny determined by the hand he deals
You must accept your fate Accept your roots and
walk straight the line And now the cycle comes
round again And all the friends he knew had seen
their end Time will cut it's thick lines in his
face and his hands And that wheel that once spun
so fast Slow and without warning makes this day
his last The struggle lost in vain, lost in shame
Beat by the past

THE ARROW
Caught in the balance of right and wrong
of weak and strong and the ticking bomb
When the voices call to bury me down low
Shed light into my eyes to walk as straight
as an arrow Two thousand voices but only
two faces When identity lies in empty spaces
They will come again to bury me down low
Shine light onto my path to walk as straight
as an arrow

SANCTUARY
I wish I could melt my body down like ice
And I wish I could pull the skin from off of my bones
Let this curse of flesh and blood be erased from my eyes
No ties This body can never be my home No-No-No
It won't pull me down This figure keeps me locked in my position
Locked in a state of submission My back against the wall
And my truth, my guide is the instinct that I have inside
The religion that gets me by I wish I could melt my body
down like ice And I wish I could pull the skin from off of
my bones Let this curse of flesh and blood be erased from my eyes
no lies That prison can never be your home

THE CAPTAIN
Oh captain, my captain set a course for me
You know I'm fresh out of school and ready to believe
To learn the ways of this poisoned town
I must know the twisted secrets that you have found
Now I'll need a little guidance to get me on my way
But I will steer your vessel in good faith at every word you say
The time has come to forget my childhood fear
And live to speak the truths that you bear
So tell me who I can trust? Who is the enemy, to do with, as I must?
Who can the crew safely befriend without bringing the voyage
to it's final end? Can you teach me a little something about dignity
Show me how to stand tall. What is the strategy? You've built a
strong foundation not with your hands but with clones you grew of
ignorant man So on with the journey to this great empire
Better teach your lessons quick or I may soon tire
Gotta brace myself and play the game to take the lead
Don't want to sink below when the sharks move in to feed
So tell us who we can trust? You point out the enemies
and we will do what we must Keep selling us the lie you've
built to defend Your kind are frequent souls and they always
fall my friend

TIGHTROPE SCIENCE
Your hands are tied and covered over your eyes
but somehow you hope your steps fall into place
With each one a wager made to the shallow faith
in a path led straight into the grip of this broken heart charade
You'll let your shoulders bear the weight of the guilt your
conscience cannot escape The tightrope science
to measure time with sand while it's threads unravel beneath
your feet and the skin it sheds slips through your hands

UPSIDE DOWN
Your faith burns for the puzzle to be found
When you were young and you we're blind the
pieces were buried down When it comes to folding
cards you must wear the crown Cutting through the
smoke and mirrors You will hear a brand new sound
You're upside down Reinvent the sky and the ground
To the world that was served me I will not be bound
I will twist and I will turn that world upside down
Light it up and let it go with no trace to be found
I'm upside down Reinvent the sky and the ground
To this world that was served us we will not be bound
We will twist and we will turn our world upside down
Light it up and let it go with no trace to be found
And when it comes to throwing down I will wear the crown

OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND
It’s the fear you found in the summers end
Cradled in its arms you pretend you’re standing by its side
Face to face but out of sight and mind
Your thoughts will intertwine
And you struggle to divide them in this tangled web of verse and rhyme
But you're not in control
Your hands follow the orders told
Faithfully you'll fill your role
You're not in control
You serve your time in the web of your design
The web of endless time
And never will you drive it from your mind.

WHISPERS
I tried to forgive and forget Your lies haven't stopped me yet
You can try but I won't let you bind me again Your tongue is a
red whip cracking I'm trying to see things the way you do
A grizzly on two legs standing I'm trying but all I can see is
crimson I tried to forgive and forget the tools you used but
now regret and when I made my stand you met your maker again
Your tongue is a red whip cracking I'm trying to see things the
way you do A grizzly on two legs standing I'm trying but all I
can see is crimson The bonds have been broken I walk free and
you will see a one man strike of thousands against the hateful game
you lead Now this hand is done and I'm standing as tall as the
golden sun My time has now begun and your whispers have gone and run

YOUR BLOOD IS MY FUEL
Fill your head with knowledge of love and hate
Fill it until you split open And when you've broken down
I'll fit the pieces back in place in a fashion that makes more
sense to me But from any angle you've left a clear shot
Your blood is my fuel and I'll throw the spark that ignites you
Take the hand of fate but don't stand too close or move too quick
Hell is just two steps away Then lay tracks in route to your own demise
and you'll believe the colors when the artist lies So step up friend, it's your
turn now to kiss the razor and tell us how the truth burns your tongue
You think that you've hit the bottom but your descent has just begun

CAUSE AND EFFECT
Scream out to silent walls and only echoes will break your fall From deaf ears trained to hear nothing To defend your veins you purge your mind and view the world through another's eyes Who share your heart's same hatred A scar that you can never hide Surrender you body Surrender to the cause and effect this shell worn thin Armor that holds nothing within These walls you built around yourself to cut the world off from your life But now that these walls surround you You cannot escape their sight You don't see them but you can feel them You don't understand why you've learned to respect and fear them And you can't escape into the worlds you could not face When all your mind has fortified their truths would quickly lay to waste

MY CRIME
I'm the one I'm the heavy hand When fist nor tongue will make the man I can cut you in on my plan You will find between the lines is a well dressed deceiver who gets his way every time One way or another I know I'm gonna get mine And that's my crime Like an honest man there is a smile on my face because I know exactly where the money lands Right in my hands just like I planned My crime It gets them every time I'll fuck them every time Like clockwork it seems almost too easy Please let me help you understand just how fucking easy it is My crime I'm the one I'm the heavy hand And when strength nor wit make you the man I can cut you in on plan Disguise, surprise With these tools I take you for the ride Tools of the trade that leave you with a stupid fucking look on your face Yeah, I win every time And that's my kind of a truthful man With a smile on his face and a prize in his hand He could help to understand what seperates the boy from the man

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