Mike Baker

I remember there were
Fights and screaming in the streets that night
I had to run from the
Insinuations all about my life
It didn't matter I was
Armed and ready I was on the run
Up in the mountains I've got
Food and shelter I'm a loaded gun
Steal away into the hills
My world is turning
Secrecy becomes my mask
My cloak and dagger

I'm not so sure that I enjoy this journey
They've got their guns to my head
I turn myself into the black of darkness
They chase their shadows instead

That night my contact
Took me to the place where the preacher lived
He gave me serum
And he blessed my mission helped me get my grip
Back to the mountains for the
Codes and weapons and my boarder pass
10,000 foot the rocks are
Sheets of ice shards of broken glass

All alone I cannot rest
Hear them behind me
The hunt is on the chase is near
But I start sliding

I always thought this was a crystal palace
Could be my tomb instead
Three fingers cling to an icy cliff
Looks like some change ahead

Hold onto these
Memories I grant you
The gifts of our lives
Lost in the sands of time
Deserts forever
Relentlessly barren
I crossed them all
In the blink of an eye
I command light and solar winds
To transport me
The deepest assurance
I speak with my mind
Caves of glass
Shatter before me
The wheels are in motion
Forever they turn
And are carved in the great book of life
There in your room
Alone in the shadows
I smashed down the walls
And set you free
I carry the torch
That trembles the mountains
Seen visions of power
Beyond all belief
You close your eyes
I reach out and touch you
Reflections in pools
The deepest of dreams
Rumors of war
Rage in your heart now
The wheels are in motion
Together we turn them
Come down with fire
I want to love you want to take you into my heart
We'll cruise the starways
And from the moment that we touch our love turns into a crystalline dream
Fly where your dreams go
With open eyes it's the dawn and you're alive
No time or space here
I walk in castles of gold
Our love turns into a crystalline dream

I must have stood for hours
The mist of dawn still rising
Brushing from my face
Cold tears of finally knowing
The world that we had twisted
The years of strength and glory
Were wicked and obscene
And there we stood so proud
What legends we must be
Really something to behold Lord
So irresponsible
With the powers of creation
A princess crowned in jewels
Robed in the finest cloth
Dauntlessly invincible
So perfect so unreal

In one great moment judgements fallen
Babylon no longer there
Gone are her streets her giant towers
Disappeared into thin air
Don't ever cry just remember

It must have been my mood
I'm usually much stronger now
I know there's just one way
And this is how it has to be
There was poison in our thoughts
And there was hatred in our eyes
Suddenly something came
Something made it right
We purged our hearts and souls
And we saw through children's eyes
Not stifled by the pain
Not blinded by our
Human nature don't you see at all
The wisdom of our suffering
The lies behind our ways
The reasons for the end

From the moment I was raptured
Babylonia disappeared
I now return here a survivor
The rest have vanished to thin air
Don't ever cry just remember

The wind blows cold tonight
No lamplights from no windows
I am sure enough alone
And I am sure enough alive
So through eternity
The gift of light gets passed along
to those of us who saw
What the rest could never see
Born to a fallen world
Longing for a morning star
Held on high
For me
As this vision comes to close
The last footsteps ever wonder here
They echo in my mind
Never to return

All is done and slowly fading
Babylon she once stood there
I walked her streets I climbed her mountains
I disappear into thin air
Don't ever cry just remember

Tonight I stood upon the crest and witnessed our decay
The land that was our fathers lay in ruins at our feet
And I dare not look out or into unseeing eyes
Of mankind's blind ambitions and desires

The wisdom of humanity is wasted on you all
You pushed us into corners of a tortured paradise
Your selfish pillaging is a treason to this earth
And in the end you are betrayed by your own deeds

Now every time I turn around it's just too late
To give back our mother earth a little dignity
I wish you'd set her free and give her love back to me
Cause our spirits are not weak like you

We're on our own
Pushed from our home
Our voices joining

Sacreligious and deceitful are your truces
Tattered paper poison letters bloody skies
I do my best to keep it all to myself
But now I fight for my name

On the run from
Suicide
Love breeches
Temptation
On the edge boy
What's inside
You better look
You better run and hide
Storms coming
A hurricane
Tear the roof from the
The foundation
Crystal ball smashed again
It's all there in the balance
Hanging

Wrong time to not regret your actions
These are dangerous roads that we travel tonight
I'm tuning into you your eyes are faintly glowing
Can't you see the truth my mind is deeper than life
It's a strange dream and I know you're in it
Clinging to a rainbow by your fingernails
I'm shining bright as a star my thoughts become electric
Cause my soul is alive
It's deeper than life
Than life

No time
For real life
You're heading
For deep trouble
Star tripping
Red line
All engines
At full throttle
Lost balance
On such a dream
Wasted love on your
Precious money
Look around
Time to scream
You hit the skids
At the speed of light now

Fill all of that emptiness with the blood I've shed
It's the spirit of life
Don't build your dreams on the treasures of man
They'll drag you away
It's a deadly lie

Sad song why don't they ever listen
It's the gift of love that helps to keep us alive
You miss the point again and it's your last horizon
Can't you see the truth my mind is deeper than life
I'm a strong man yes I can see the future
And it's good or bad and nowhere in between
You can't just spin the wheel you've got to ride on lightning
Cause your soul is alive
It's deeper than life
Than life

Remember I painted pictures of you
And I never found my way out
I spent a lifetime of dreams in the fields of your eyes
Lay me down when the rain covers you
And I'm afraid of the emptiness holding my thoughts
I see blue I see grey all the while

And when the night comes again I'll hold my hands to the skies
I've got a dream of home I've got a dream of home
And when the winter comes calling turn my face to the wind
I've got a dream of home I've got a dream
Of Alaska

Your name is whispered with the breath of my soul
In a hope that I'll never let fade
Between the mist on the waves and the blue of the sky
I threw a rose to the sea in your name
Now listen
Somewhere tonight there are tears on the wind
Are they yours are they mine I don't know

I'm crying out to the sky
I hope you're with me tonight
I've got a dream of home I've got a dream of home
And now the earth is left wanting
Turn my face to the wind
I've got a dream of home I've got a dream
Of Alaska

All through my life I stood tall as the sky
Hold to the things that I knew were so real
All I could feel
Strange how it goes how it comes to an end
Lord take your hand
Take you home once again

Time has come
The dawn shall see us off again
Glory rides
The stars shall be our watching guide
We know
God is ready
And he's willing
To fill our veins it takes my mind away
Hot sun
Splitting thunder
Deafening
Violent storms
We sail atop the highest wave in search of our viking gold
And turn our backs into the night
We sail into the night

As the mighty desert wind blows through the mountains
Still she sails our trusty ship across the sea
And we raise our glasses high to this good life
See our torches brandish light upon the free

Cowards running to the hills no courage in their eyes
Shadowed terrors prey on them no mercy in their eyes
Their battle's over long before they have a chance to pray
But we shall stand steadfast our ground
Unmoved through the day

Let us drink to the spirit
That has given us the power
To rule with the mightiest of swords
Through all of the
Land

Our ship now listless drifting aimlessly through the tide
This calm before the storm screams over high
This must be madness cause the sky is growing blacker
Than the shadow of a dead star in regression of its power
If the darkness that surrounds you leaves you nowhere you can run to
I impolore you fall down to your knees
And pray these tentacles released their grip

Well you and I do not belong here
Will we return
I cannot believe
Strong winds
Twisting and tearing our sails off
I'm hiding my eyes
You are fading away

Misfortune paints their lonely story
A thousand years shall endure
Unfold the tale of that dark day
Their mystics ship so far from sure

They sailed away
Into
Another sea
A mystery
To us all
Beware the waves
You sail upon
In ships so strong
It is our belief
This story's true

There I was I was hanging around
Two Fingers down one to go
Then suddenly from below she emerges
Sultry swingin' from a rope
"You've got something I need so just give me your hand"
Trust is something that I just got to give into
My Black widow or friend?
Well? In the blink of an eye systems deploy
And we are off baby off on the run
Bullets raining on down
Wind driven snow here we go
Amidst the fury I was clinging onto her
As our tether slid down the cliff
She wouldn't answer pressed a
Poison tip dagger to the base of my neck
"how bout we strike a deal all your secrets for your life"
She was good and she was getting better
Might just hafta hang on for a while
Fighter planes start to dive
A barrage of gunfire
Rips through the snow
Snipers bearing on down
She turns to me
But we're not lost
We're just going with the of another busy day
Hey baby welcome to my crystal palace
Just what did you expect
I turned in time to see the avalanche start
A freight train right at my head

Picture home years ago and tell me it's you
Of all the roads a man could take
How mine has lead form you
And like a lighthouse
Set on a rocky coast amidst the storm
Your touch was warm and real
Looking out your window
Just what might lie ahead
Dreams still blow in the wind
And here we are memories run deeper and true
I'll always take you with me when I
Freefall Freefall
And the whole world goes to sleep
As a child the grand expanse the future must hold
Days to night waves washing over and over
And over your experience you
Lived each day like it's your last
Oh we never know how it goes
Oh we never know
And I won't leave you don't leave me but then again
Just who can stop falling over fall into the
Mystery predestination brings
YOu wrote your epitaph
With every move
Thru your love
Thru your love

Out of the blue
Everything seemed so new
The sun rising lights up my face
Fading from green
No more thoughts to deceive
For seasons of lost hope may change
Ahh - so many different colors
Ahh - The colors are changing
Moments in time
When the words didn't rhyme
Unsure what the future would hold
As days turned to nights
I chased rainbows of light
Finding no gold
No magical fountain of gold
Ahh - So many different colros
Ahh - The colors keep changing
So many different ways to look at things
I turn around I'/m upside down again
If nothing ever changes it's my point of view
That I can't lose
The skies fiery red
I will journey ahead
To show you how far I have flown
New day in my life
Flashing hope by design
I've finally found my way home
Ahh - So many different colors
Ahh - Now my world is slowly changing
So many different ways to look at things
If you've fallen down you gotta get back up again
So many different shades of everything
Now I see with open eyes a brighter world within
The skies forever changing that's the point of view
I just can't lose
This new born wisdom guides me through
Feel the cool winds of heaven
In the blue of your eyes
Dreams of you and I together
A love we cannot deny
Feel the tide of the ocean
On and on 'till I see your light
And the warmth of the sky
On and on
Passion breathes wtih emotion
We will soar
We will soar with wings on high
On high
On high...
So many different ways to look at things
If we've fallen down we gotta get back up again
So many different ways the colors change
Every time I turn around we're hanging on the edge
Our skies forever changing that's the point of view
I give to you
I know that time will see us through
I hope the colors soon find you

Brand new day
Somewhere so far away
A global village awakes and starts to crack the open airway's
Cause the tiger's escaped
He tore right out of his cage
It's like a spark to a flame
Assimilating it's collective on the way
Like turning on a light the brain's online tonight
All around the world
That freedom in the air big brother is aware
Or within my dreams?
And do you think it dreams of life are we the air it needs?
Are we the air this beast needs to breathe
The engines's tuned and clean time for man and machine to join
Society of the mind
School today
A sea of seething rage
And on the menu in the lunchroom we got Ritallin and Prozac
So I can concentrate
On my next level in Quake
Where I can shoot them I can kill them
And dehumanize the cancer in my veins
Online you gotta sell your virtual as hell
All around the world
That freedom in the air big brother is aware
Or withing my dreams?
And do you think it needs your soul once your inside it's mind
Once your inside the mind of the world
The Code is running lean time for mand and machine to join
Society of the mind
Are you waiting for the strike
New Religion overload
Like turning on a light the brain's online tonight
All around the world
That freedom in the air big brother is aware
Or within my dreams?
And do you think it dreams of life are we the air it needs?
Are we the air this beast needs to breathe
There's lightning on the screen now watch man and machine will join
Society of the mind

Future's here
The time has come to pass the torch
Now go and touch the sky every time that you breathe
I hope you've learned
To covet not the evil ways
Live your life
Free free
From carnal lust
Hedonistic decadence and lies
Are you strong?
Turn from heathen ways?
Will you ride?
Ride with me the open road
Part of me is now part of you
My legacy is how I live on
The circle formed
We are joined across space and time
Many days will pass you by
And you'll still hear these words to you
Many things to realize
The hope I give sustaining you
Wear the armor of righteousness each day
Then forever in glory we'll remain
Will you bend?
When the hammer falls?
Are you steel?
Inquisitions search you out
Part of me is now part of you
My legacy is how I live on
The circle formed
We are joined across space and time
Part of you is now part of me
Our legacy it's how we live on
Relational bonds
Not just wayfaring souls set to fly
Away

From the first gray light of the morning I've been gone
On my journey towards the stars
Will I know when I reach the other side
The earth so blue it's like I'm dreaming
Now I'm on my way
Tainted shadows fall like rain
Through the dark vast weight only silence lingers on
The origin of existence lies somewhere far far beyond
I feel unattached tranquility
A hand from the heavens guiding me
And wondering where this path will lead
In a dream I'm lost and
Floating through the atmosphere
Searchig for significance against
Infinity eternity
I've been taken by the vast and
Humbled by the weight of what I've seen
You know they called for heros
Cause heros carry on
In know the world is fading
So from the first gray light of the morning I've been gone
Now I pray for a better life
For all the ones I love
We search beyond our reach
And turn our gaze above
I hope that it's the way
To fill our basic needs
And my sacrifice not vain
And I'll return again
The sands will filter through the timeless hourglass
As I pass beyond the god of war
Distant voices hear them crying out
I must seek out new worlds and explore
And I know that there just must be a place
We will carry on
Where our children can be free from the pain
The human race
It must be somewhere out in space
The sands will filter through the timeless hourglass
As I pass beyond the god of war
Distant voices hear them crying out
I must seek out new worlds and explore
And I know that there must be a place
It Must be somewhere out in space
Silver moonbeams relfect the sun
Martian Landscapes worlds beyond
I touch down with no trace
No sign of life on this place
Now I feel a surge of energy
The deepest passion burns in me
Somwhere there is a world not left
To die
The stars will shine their light down unto me
Illuminating
The stars will shine their light and I will see
Will I find my way?
So back to the darkness I fly
In search of a hope in the sky
I should have known right from the start
I'll not return home
It seems so surreal as I go
The knowlesdge of science alone
Can't save all the people I know
That I've left behind
The sun I know is growing smaller
I drift for days on endless hours
And what's there to fear now!
No messages are getting through
I fall into the black abyss of night
I'm gone
The pioneering spirit charges the unkown
Accept the consequence of risk
I'm all alone here
Don't know if I'll return and
The fate of life is on my heart
I left a dying world behind
On my way oh
Where s our oasis in the sky
The future of our race
I left a poisoned world behind
Now I see there's no
Heaven bound oasis in the sky
Only dreams
I've got no destination
Helpless I drift on
The weight of silence how it's eating at my soul
And yet I sense a stirring
Something so spiritual
I wonder if the fate of mankind
Is in the hands of a higher power calling to us all
I left a dying world behind
On my way only
God can stop the spiral down to hell
The future of our race
I left a poisoned world behind
Now I see only
Heaven's the oasis in the sky
It's my dream

Sometimes I've got a world on my shoulders
that cast long shadows cross my eyes
where traced out footsteps on the shores
of the sea of sorrow
reflect the changes in my life

Holding out in a darkened room
long before the fall of rain shall come
listen to me
for the last time that I was tempted to the dance of fools
closer to me
I crawled away a loser

I never knew it meant so much to hold a place of power
where only dreaming sets you free
I never thought that you could hold me so completely
you tore off my mask and I could see

All the people in the street
double crossed by their own lives
bring them to me
I want to take them to a new tomorrow of yesteryear
call them to me
let us live forever on

Tonight I shall cast a stone into the sea of sorrow
Its waves they crash beneath my feet
sorrow binds you to a life not worth living
unto that mortal life you cling

Stripped of all your earthly pride with the fools you dance
tonight
come unto me
send with great speed this message all across the land
listen to me
let us live forever on

Listen to me
tonight I turn my face
from the dance of fools
closer to me
I live to carry on my way

Sun is low now in the sky
soon the cold will start to bite
and I'm kicking some old
empty can
down a barren street yah
step into a dark saloon
peer across the smoke filled room
I can feel her a mile away
she smiles and beckons me

Now we're dancing throught the mist
face to face I taste her breath
our gaze locks into a hazy trance I start to quiver
now she comes to comfort me I tell her I'm too blind to see
a warm bed and a fresh breath of air and you'll feel better

I know the feeling that you get
too bad it's only for a moment
lost in the shadows of the night
she turned and took my hand said
atay by my side , slip between the light
mirror my image we'll be alright

The keys that opens up a thousand doors of mystery
unlocks a basement full of fears
start to unravel in it you might as well be blind
she saw my fright and closed her eyes

Don't fall in love it's a crazy nightmare
she looked at me and she winked an eye
it's too soon to say good-bye to this darktown
could use a fortune of imagination
refuse to look but I cannot deny
gotta mask it out tonight of this darktown

Sorry to leave you in this crazy nightmare
she looked at and she winked and eye
that's too bad so goodbye to your darktown
could use a fortune of imagination
I turned to look but I closed my eyes
and I won't turn back tonight to this darktown

I was calling just to say I loved you
I know you're out there tonight
long time ago I held you tight
My heart knows of a broken promise
I know of fortune that came and went
too far with my emotion
Who could ignore the cold

Every time you missed the love I sent I
scanned the windows won't forget I
curse the moment I felt you turn to stone
wakin' up to the sound to the sound of a broken heart
I found out it was time to say goodbye

Now I'm standing here mystified
Woman you hurt me
You traded my love alive
Never understanding why
feel the hard cold steel of pain
It cuts me don't you know
Leave me mystified once again
Mystified you made me go

All I wanted was a change to say I think of you
she won't see me and she sure won't speak my name
she's all lost in a world so condescending
that's a price I cannot afford to pay

I was calling just to sayI loved you
but I don't know if you're out there tonight
This scene slowly fading out of sight
no longer crying my teras of cold remorse
that distant place in my heart still hurts of course
I do believe I will turn and say goodnight

Now I'm standing here mystified
Woman you hurt me
You traded my love alive
Never understanding way
feel the hard cold steel of pain
It scars me don't you know
Leave me mystified once again
Mystified you made me go

Asked if had ever known your name
I replied it sometimes slips away
Answers now like sand shall fill my hands
slipping throurh my fingers to the floor
and blown away

Somewhere out beyond our reach
lie the answers to the questions at hand

Time survives and all that's left is dust
We respond to music of the earth
Our hands touch and to its tune we dance
Is our kiss just sand thrown to the wind
Where dose it go !

somewhere out beyond our reach
lie the answers to the questions at hand

I , I could never find solace in another eye
and then you came into my life
Oh I, I've come out from the cold alone I walk a broken road
Through wind I heard you calling
Now my eyes can cut a path into your light

Nighttime falls around me
darkness closes in all the people who are
sleeping safe and soundly
content knowing we keep watch through
each and every hour
power so unknown
won't stop the rain falling down my face

Sleep for hours eludes me drifting through the wind
I feel an evil eye on me all the time
the likes of which could turn and twist us all

Lying by my side she waits for me like long ago
I touch her face she cries to me my ship is waiting I must go

My eyes burn windows through the walls closing in on me
The faces of my past life are looking back at me what do they see
the ones who hate our love will fall
but their face won't fade away tomorrow's not just another day
so hand in hand we climb the stairs our path well lit
the promise is fulfilled

All alone and standing in the rain
early mornings whispering my name
seems so distant and cannot reach me now
flying high above you
I bring to you this word
for your love, for your life, for your song
Look around and see them fall to pray
troubled waters carry you away
and your memories say goodbye

We're not alone not alone looking down seeing all of us
screaming out in anger when they come, when they come

all along this empty lonely road------Oh they have seen
you cried a thousand times--------what's to be
you wept to us -------------------what's a part of us
stalking out the winter's bitter cold

all alone, do you want me ---------for the fire
to be near you--------------------in the night
as you wonder you must never ------we are lost
walk alone--------------------------without light

You believe that time passes us by
fate alone will blow it all sky high
I've been torn into a world you don't believe
and I've seen souls that I once knew chained in burning steel
and I do not think they'll ever sing again
realize you're running out of time
my hand of fate is reaching out tonight
but I'll be going soon, going on my way
I know you want to some along with me
hand in hand we'll walk and never turn the road is open
all the way
Say goodbye to the morning
Say goodbye to the morning
Say goodbye to the morning

Say goodbye to the morning or rely on this warning
it's not over when you die so look out

(Chapter 1:)
Long ago the skies turned gray
the fallen sun had gone away and left us cold
until one thousand years would pass and we'd sail away
Trapped within such misery
we'd seen a light we'd never seen all crowned with gold
through morning mist with tears of ice see her coming down
All upon our knees
Falling with the rain, with the rain
a queen has come before us
Falling with the rain, with the rain
I was alone, see how she took us all
By her side we'll stay
Shadows of love, blacken dawn, fill the empty skies with
Powerful her throne, oh my queen, upon this silent maze of ice
Oh how I love her so, yah I can't let go, she is all I need
In the ice I'll stay 'till my dying day

(Chapter 2:)
I have come here for so long I never have known why
only to have been shown away
There I saw you standing in the light for so long
knew you had something more to say
All my night times are full of dreams of you and I
and falling rain
Oh I know you so well

(Chorus:)
You are my queen of the city of ice
a frozen love has never left her eyes
Long live my queen of the city of ice
and alone her frozen love was carved in stone

(Chapter 3:)
I had a dream
something I believe in
Always knew the
day would come
and they would come
and they would go
and they would melt
away our home
and in my dreams
their fires burned
they tear my heart I
listen to the wind
listen to the wind
listen to the sad song
she is singing now
listen to the falling of the night
and see what she knows
it's written in her eyes
Lately I've had feelings
that are so hard to describe
like armies marching
from the South
and all the while she's blind
she's falling

(Chapter 4:)
So it came to pass that
no more rain
would fall to them
They come to
bring us to our knees
With mighty fires they built
around these city's castle walls
Our city melts into a sea
So we run into the hills and
far away to cry in vain
Oh no no my queen

(Chorus:)
You are my queen of the city of ice
the bringer of my life is fading fast
Goodbye my queen of the city of ice
and alone she slowly sinks into the sea

(Chapter 5: THE CITY MELTS (instrumental))

Here I stand I'mall alone now, cursed by fate
I've burned my wings and I can't fly
all around a sea of ice, oh, could it be she waits for me
but I'm never going to find out am I?

So long, farewell, we are leaving
On our way now, new beginning

so long_____falling with the rain
_____falling with the rain
farewell_____falling with the rain
_____falling with the rain
we are leaving_____torn in the wind
_____with a shake and a spin
_____and I don't ever think I will
_____come here again
on our_____there's a hole in my life
_____carved it with ice
way now_____cause fate was a dealer
_____that didn't think twice
new beginning_____I'm so lost on my own
_____a statue of stone
_____carving your name
_____cause I'm falling I'm falling
_____I'm falling I'm falling

I look into your blue eyes deep pools I had no idea
I know hunted down from coast to coast
Circumstance prevailed it was hard on us both
I've run hard I'm so tired from the chase
So desperately I'm aching
The waning of the starlight
Embers turn to ash as I fade

And now you're next to me
I beg you baby please don't go
End of the road for me
I'll just hold you close
Just hold you close
End of the mystery a gift from heaven on this day
Your touch to comfort me
Just comfort me

Your sheltering soul not a moment too soon
You're a sweet tourniquet
For my soul lies rife with open wounds
And yes I thought as I closed my eyes
I saw phantom apparitions dance
And are we really safe and on our own
Or are they out there watching
Right now I don't want to care at all
Just like a silent song
Just reach out your hands and take hold
Take hold
When the limit of your pain
Exceeds the mercies of your love
It's time to cease and release and just fly

And now you've come to me
a sanctuary borne of love
Honest sincerity I'll just hold you close
Just hold you close
It's in the way you move
A phoenix risen on this day
Your touch to comfort me
Just comfort me

I disrobe my burdens and lay them at your feet
So much about this world I'd just as soon they keep
Their faces melt reflections on the wind
Or are they out there watching
As time stands still this Christmas day

Lying by a dying flame
Drifting off to sleep
She drops the black leather journal
She's been clutching tight
She's a bio-engineer, harzard level four
She works the hot zone all day

The demon seed smallpox weapons grade
Bought from Israeli intelligence
Gone rogue for a price
Decode the genome right down to the DNA
You break the code and you just might save the day

A serpent rising genetic weaponising
There's a portent of pure evil
Lying out there in the dark
The hand of terror stands poised
To ride out on the wind
Can we counter this undeserved hated
Through our science and our research
and the wisdom of our age
Or are we doomed to suffer
at the hands of the Andromeda Strain

Microscopic warfare the demon will retreat
From breakthrough after breakthrough
Using her own rare blood type the serum came to lufe
Time to publish and go clinical trial
But wait, a secret document sealed slipped through
A most insidious plot unfolds
Limited release to drive the need through the roof
The guaranteed supply secures the deal it's been approved
Assuring the quarter and the year

A serpent rising genetic weaponizing
What kind of twisted mind turns terror into cash
Sends the innocent to their death
You try to fight it but criminals united
Pharmaceutical injustice is a terror on it's own
For want of power and love of the bottom line
They'll unleash the Andromeda Strain

A serpent rising genetic weaponizing
Script the sequence of the serum incorrectly
to lead them on
Steal the formula destroy the seed and run
Need to fight back this undeserved terror
Through our science and our research
and the cunning of our ways
Or we're sure to suffer at the hands
I'll disappear underground
Prepare to fight the next round
The Andromeda Strain

Early morn I was up long before dawn
I watched you sleep
I counted every beat of your heart
Now we both know we'll never go back there again
Guilty as charged that's all

Fallen snow - cover me
Wash me pure - Hold me tight
What else is there left for you and for me?
The life we once held on to caught in a riptide out to sea

I left with innocent eyes to a nation so poor
I felt humanity cry from the ravage of war
I infiltrated the machine and it broke me in two
I wish for amnesty now and I find it in you
I make this vow

The road to this place under a thundering sky
It's a long walk to heaven
Lord knows I've tried
Just look around wind and snow and ice are all I see
Save for you my queen

Pounding rhythms
Distant footsteps
Echo fear
And drive my pain
I am crying out for love and for life eternal
I am witness
I've been purchased with blood
So many souls will burn out
The call requires an answer

I've chased material gain it's the emptiest dream
I've watched it turn back to dust and it don't mean a thing
The spirit found its way in and it changed my whole life
I'm offering you my hope with the gift of this light
Please take my vow

Let's pack away all our memories of home
Never look back
Certainly never return
Begin anew you and I and snow and wind and ice
Will you surrender all your all to me?

And in the comfort of my arms both noble and strong
I'll guide you safely through the storms
I will make you my song
Remaining steady and true for the rest of your life
I offer you up my hand wanna make you my wife
Please take this vow
A passion purer than gold or the night's brightest star
My love for you only grows
It knows no earthly bounds
The time is right for us now just believe what I say
I take your hand in my hand
And I promise you the world
Promise you the world
Promise you the world
I make this vow
Please take this vow

And now you've gone away
I begged you baby please don't go
Away and leave me here
I am broken I am broken
And I know
Winter is bearing down
On wings of Angels so your soul
Is in the hands of God
My tears on the wind

Broken window broken dreams, nothing but a trail of tears
Oh my God my little lady, where have they taken you - I never heard you scream

Strange how pain etches patterns on your heart
Just like frost grows on the window pain
And cold's no elixir, the fractals well veiled
My eyes gone black, they've pierced my hands and side

I've searched high and I've searched low, damn the motive I don't know
Another child torn from her father, where have they taken you - I'm praying for your soul

Show your face, tell me why it must be her
You faceless evil shake me to my core
And what do you do? With faith and belief
When tragedy buries me, buries me, buries me alive

Hold your hands up high, lift them toward the sky
When all I have - Is torn
Down down down, meet my pain tonight

Something wicked this way came, just ghosts and demons from my past
Are they trying to draw me out, vendictivly I'm recompensed - No shadow of a doubt

Hold your hands up high, lift them toward the sky
When all I have - Is torn
Down down down, meet my pain tonight

Somewhere out there lies a girl, stolen by a broken world
Can't escape my frozen past, shattered like a rock through glass
I'm Torn

So I set out early morning
Through the forests deep and wide
I am vested and determined
To go bring her back alive
As I knife my way through dense fog
In the silence of the field
Stands a soldier like a statue
With a crossbow trained on me

Don't move from my crosshairs
I bring news from home
The deadly pox is in the wrong hands
But this I'm sure you know
Your wife's blood filled with secrets
Hand sequenced DNA
Attempts to re-create the serum
Have failed until today

My wife dead and buried
and my daughter dragged away

Do you not find coincidental
That your two rare
blood types are the same
Intelligence from Israel found her here
Heavy with the blood pure child
They shot your wife with pox tipped
blow dart, got that human trial underway

Your daughter carries plasma, essential to vaccine
Development required the sample
Her blood now holds the key, a grand scheme of
deception for one world government
But the rogue Mossad stole blood at her birth
So now we too hold the key

Outbreak around the whole world
Sets the stage for the main event

Contingent on the bio terror
New World Order rises and it stays
A lone detachment of US Special Forces
sends me here to set it right
You'll aid the underground rebellion,
Your country needs you for counterstrike

I was taken to a town well hid
Back room of a library rather well equipped
Guarding stands the Archer outside my door
And through the pain
It strikes me strange what life prepares you for
Day and night I'm crafting
Sleepless as I shape encrypted lines, night after night

Serum formula code and key
Separated "Room V" and "Tyranny"
Hidden from the watchmen in plain view
From underground the word of mouth
Can spread what we must do
Synchronized and time aligned
Decyphered serum spills into the world

You'd better worry better listen and take heed
There's a storm on the horizon
Clouds are black and deadly mean
Be on the watch so when the victims start to fall
You can harvest out a demon
When the plague begins we'll fight to win
Apply genetic sequence away

You'd better worry better listen and take heed
There's a storm on the horizon
Clouds are black and deadly mean
All you in labs in college all around the world
It won't be long until we're ready
And he took the disc and nod his head
And turned and walked away into the night

Not long ago a plan was conceived, where all could be revealed
Critical info delivered in secret, but kept out in plain sight

We're underground 'cause we have enlisted
Got data in our groove, yes they gave us the guns
They made us the pilots, a battalion of six
Inside out it's all for one and one for all

Here we are, we're the band, we got your marching orders
It's in the music and the words that we sing
Sing along, sing out loud, and you'll join the answer
We will rock with the thunder of a thousand mighty horses

Beijing to New York City, and everywhere between
Lies the heart of the good, the will of the people
Now shake your cages, shake your cages
In the fields - Now hear us, In the cities - Hear us
Bend don't break, you can ride out the storms
It's time to fight or die, deliver us from evil
All around the world, you're not alone, we'll be right here
And coming to your home from Room V

Here we are, we're the band, we got your marching orders
It's in the music and the words that we sing
Sing along, sing out loud, and you'll join the answer
We will rock with the thunder of a thousand mighty horses

Left on my own don't know where
I should begin to look it's involuntary instinct
Controls my every footstep, westward through haze
The voice of shadows whispers in my ears
Alaskan forests to the sea

Keeping all faith alive I fall into the rain
Let me go, let me go
Oh my soul drenched in the rain - the rain

I light two candles in the window of my mind
The wind that threatens I've no words left to describe
Resisting the fates
When mercy comes to shelter me
Over and over I am witness to the signs
Evil's more focused as we near the end of times
Praying so hard that your shelter comes to cover me

What kind of world is this that
It should come down to this oh
Each day the pressure building
In Biblical proportion
I've seen extremes from love to war
They both are walking here
And echoing prophetic song

Plagues and famine and hate
All fall into the rain, let it go, let it go
The whole world floods in the rain - the rain

We lose horizons they just vanish as we run
Chess moves in silence glacial patience under gun
The marching of time
When mercy comes to shelter me
Fragments of truth are out there blowing in the wind
I cry for loved ones and removal of the sting
I just can't let go
Your shelter comes to cover me

In desperation we make moves and never know
Their antidote is poison and my blood runs cold
Stoking the flames
When mercy comes to shelter me
You want the truth but do you want insanity?
Peering 'round corners paranoid calamity
Hold on to what's real
Your shelter comes to cover me

Finally in death do you become as once in life
Evil for evil do you pay the highest price
Just let it burn
When mercy comes to shelter me
My flesh and blood it's all that's left my heritage
From life to death to dust so through the woods I search
Complete disconnect
Your shelter comes to cover me

Time came to leave
You know there's something
About the principle
Of what goes on behind the scenes
The military machine
The way they led me on...
Stiletto in the sand
Thrusted down in anger
Bloody to the handle
Diamond red
Machines of mass destruction
Well I helped to design them
The guilt of children's blood stains on my hands

The word from the board room
Our boys in Tehran have scored

How long till we realize the truth?
The bottom line of defense and world security
The bankers and the ministry of arms
Just cut the deal and the war is on
The village burned the desert set ablaze
Who are these men with their finger's in everybody's pie?
Big rockets and their profiles all the rage
Their business plan calls for ware for sale

Please understand
Until I saw all this
I never thought about the third world trampled under wheels
Out in the streets and in the fields
I simply questioned it all...
Stiletto in the sand
Fingers on the triggers
Tempers boiling over
Bleed them red

Machines of mass destruction
Oh why did I design them?
The guilt of children's blood stains on my hands

Napalm and land mines
Nobody left alive

How long 'til we realize the truth?
The bottom line of defense and world security
the banker's and the ministry of arms
Just cut the deal and the war is on
The market screams a recommended buy
The contract's in don't just sit there get your broker on the line
Big money left their morals far behind
Guess what we've got - we got war for sale

How long 'til we realize the truth?
The bottom line of defense and world security
the banker's and the ministry of arms
Just cut the deal and the war is on
The village burned the desert set ablaze
Who are these men with their finger's in everybody's pie?
Then freedom's ring departed from today
There's just no doubt - we got war for sale!

Yesterday is over
Stripped of my clearance - fired
I don't know what to do
Haunted by empty faces
Victims of warring madness
If they only knew

Their world's a bloody mess
Some corporate bottom line
I tried to ask and they treat me like a threat
And they slammed the door behind

Yesterday I walked away into a cold cold city
So afraid our world today is just a house of lies
Just believe in what you feel
They used to say they used to say
Then out of nowhere
I melt into my busy day

Reaching out in my world
Becomes a matter of
Connections to the net
I've locked myself in real good
Investigative research
Looking for what is real

Welcome to the brave new world
No light inside my soul
The more I learn the deeper in I'm drawn
The deeper in I fall

Yesterday I walked away into a cold cold city
Ain't it strange how wars get raged to sounds of smashing dreams
Just believe in what you feel
They used to say they used to say
Then out of nowhere
One world
No Chance
Is this the new human race?
A faceless contact with life
Imaginary places stealing all of my time
Is this a test of my faith?
What's to become of my life
I used to see it so clear
But now I've lived to see it pass away
Before my eyes

Days at a time pass
In the dead of the night is when you come to me
You've got so much to say
Just spread your wings and ride
On the electric universe
Behind your computer
What do you picture when you read my
Words and thoughts and dreams?
Do they all come alive and breathe?
It's no wonder
This is a brand new world we're on
I'd really like to meet you somewhere along

The way you come to me is such a mistery
I just reach out and connect
A thousand miles from me and yet it's all right here
It's electric on a silver thread
I never see your face you're such a mystery
Where you are I can only guess
Addictive screens
I just cannot turn away

Where are you anyway?
Those things you say seem so damn far from real
But I can tell you this
I have seen things for myself that just don't seem right
I have always been an honest man
I believed that the system
Worked for
You and for
Me but - no
You say it's just a show
And we've all been way too busy
Or too spoiled to even care who's got the wheel

I used to look behind the lies
Use to look for sunny skies
I learned so much since I've been
Hacking their computer systems
The truth had knocked me to the floor
That a boy now out the door
A little power and I'm
On my way to logging on the world

The way you come to me is such a mistery
I just reach out and connect
A thousand miles from me and yet it's all right here
It's electric on a endless thread
I never see your face you're such a mystery
And your touch I can only guess
I lay here dreaming
We're so gone away

The way you come to me is such a mystery
I just reach out and connect
A thousand miles from me and yet it's all right here
Just electric on a silver web
Ane every night you're here you are my mystery
And where you are I can only guess
Morning's rising
And it's dawn again

Too late for us now?
I sat alone and I spoke out loud
On this darkened afternoon
The windows to my room
A solemn shutter on the world
Where I used to laugh and dream
For the first time in so long I make
My way down to the street and watch
The people as they pass

Outside I breathe the air
And all around fall shadows of despair

I wonder is there hope for us
A place where we can all be free
I wonder is there life inside a soul that dies?
I wonder is there hope for us
To lift me up I don't know when
I'll see the sun again
I'd like to feel alive
Just one more time

Headlines on the floor
Today's bitterness is the calling card
The commercial masquerade
The goods all on parade
The needs of life are charming toys
We've gone deaf from all the noise
WHen did the rich and powerful elite
Slowly and unnoticed
Come and steal our innocense?

Entranced - we danced their dance
The stage is set the crowd is on their knees

I wonder is there hope for us
A place where we can all be free
I wonder is there life inside a soul that dies
I wonder is there hope for us
We're stranded with no place to go
I'm feeling so alone
I'll try to make my way
Through one more day

Downtown I walk
Through New York City so hot
The summer swelter melting
Got things on my mind right now
In the alleys that I take
They just don't give up an inch
I turned and saw it all
I watched him fall
I tried to catch him
But they knocked me out cold too
"Babylon" he cried
The cost in flesh and blood is rising high

Things are falling apart it all seems
Bleeding in the gutter
The waste of random acts of violence
Where's the Savior to resuce our dreams?
Desperation's crawling
We're victims of a world that's gone so wrong?

Hours later when I woke
I was lying in some darkened basement rescue mission
They're tending to my needs and wounds
They were such a sorry lot
The very bottom of the social ladder
I just caught myself before I cried
They've nothing at all
But they're the only ones there to help

Eden's sin's alive
Stalking me
Stalking everyone

Things are falling apart it all seems
Tears that speak in volumes
The eyes of all these hopeless people
Where's the Savior to rescue our dreams?
Desperation's crawling
On victims of a power hungry world!

I am only just a broken spirit
All the things unseen right before my eyes
How could i have ever been so blind
To the truth into the screen behind bitter lies?
I feel so lost and so alone in this room tonight
Is nothing ever going to change?
I've lost my will
I need somebody
To help me write out my next page

Where i ride into the sunset
I race towards the dawn
I might have been a hero
A king and not just a pawn
But that's the way that the story goes you know
"It's not that way for me"
And i wake up cold and lonely
And stare into the screen...

Long ago a living story
Walked the whole world phrophesying
Told of days when the hand of God
Pulls away from the world
All hell starts breaking out
I see it clear
It pounds the cold into your life
It turns to gray what's black and white
I've torn their mask off
I can see them
What a bloody mess
That's our world!

My father's final moments
And I was there to catch his last breath
He spoke so eloquently
Said
"Listen boy the way it goes is soley
Up to you and you alone
To live your life in strength that's been passed on
Blood to blood."

So we come to a crossroad
I'm not sinking - do you see me?
I am standing where the strong of heart
Meet the wicked bad
Murals painted in the dungeons
Were the dreams that caused transforming
I am coming back to life again
Life again

A power's lifting me I journey to the light
Many secrets passed before my eyes

It's just a matter of time 'til new horizons will unfold
Tearing down the walls between us
Resurrect this poisoned world
"Fore the hopes and dreams of all the land are blown into the sky
There are things worth more than money
You got to learn to hold them high
I believe - I believe

I've seen what comes of greed and money
I feel a growing call for action
We need changes now like never before
Never in this world
The more I think about it
I know a woman whoh just might set the course for me
Cause I believe
I believe in what she says

Sometimes this world is simply
Trembling - crumbling
Coming time to banish it for evermore
Evermore
The time for final judgement's close at hand
Four horsemen mount on high
Wake up in the morning to the sound of children dying
The latest technology mesmerize them
Love strong enough that it can pull you from the fire now
What about you?
What about you?
I am alive!

It's just a matter of time 'til new horizons will unfold
Tearing down the walls between us
Resurrect this poisoned world
"Fore the hopes and dreams of all the land are blown into the sky
There are things worth more than money
You got to learn to hold them high
I believe - I believe

[A) EMPOWERED]
Are your deeds so really bad?
Your secret life untold
Please tell me
Just try me
But you say goodnight and shut me down until tomorrow
When you come to life again
And reveal just maybe
What's going on inside of you
The real you

Strange feeling
Right now I want to look you in the eyes
And tell you how I feel

I've lived the life of a lonely man
And I've traveled roads of thunder
Calling out to Heaven
Send your rain on down
Time has come to make my move
I want to join with you
I'm not powerless tonight

I'm tired of silent conversations
With a mystery
It's so strange
We both know
We've grown so close
It's like you're mine and I am yours
And that's where things go wrong
You're not meant to be invisible
Please speak to me with spoken words
And prove you're real

I never knew that I could feel with such conviction
And I just don't understand what separates our world

I've lived the life of a lonely man
And I've traveled roads of thunder
Calling out to Heaven
Send your rain on down
Time has come to make my move
I want to join with you
I'm not powerless tonight
What if I cross the line
And I show you I mean business
Prove that we're alike
And send some rain on down?
Seems to me in these busy days
It's not just what you say
You gotta turn it back on them and fight!

I feel my life turning pages at the mercy of the wind

There it is now
The course for me to take
Embed a virus in the system
Send their money flying to the ground
Financially restrained
The network down in flames
It's gonna take all that I know
But in the end they'll be mourning
Their system as it bleeds and dies

[B) VIRUS]

[C) POWERLESS]
I've lived the life of a lonely man
Now there's no more time for waiting
What I've gone and done
I sent the rain on down
What happens next is now up to you
You gotta make a move
Don't leave me powerless tonight
I really mean it we've got to talk
This is something you believe in
Calling out to Heaven
Send your line on down
Now you know that I'm on my own
I'm waiting by the phone
You're not powerless tonight

There I was all alone all by myself
And you were just a ghost behind a screen
The few short months we spent
Long distance late nights just the two of us
I've grown to picture you
I've pictured you with me

There are things I've just not told you
Works of treason wrought by these very hands
I've been scared for me
Now I'm scared for you
And so it's best I say farewell

No no no

Where you're going I will be there
And every time you reach out I'm there
Where you're going I will be there
You've got to believe me
I'll never go away

You listen close I've got to run and hide myself away
I think I may have brought them to their knees
There were your thoughts
Oh how they drew me in
I need to be with you
I've nowhere else to turn

All through my life I've had such an emptiness
That no one could ever fill
Some how your dreams they've touched my life
You see I think I'd like to try

Where you're going I will be there
And every time you reach out I'm there
Where you're going I will be there
You've got to believe me
I'll never go away

Our only hope I would say
Is to rendezvous somewhere far away
Just decipher the location that I send
Now I think that they are on to you
Our time has come

Where you're going I will be there
And every time you reach out I'm there
Where you're going I will be there
You've got to believe me
I'll never go away

Good day my fellow citizen
I don't mean to intrude
But allow me to get right down to the point
We've monitored transmissions
We calculate your moves
Did you really think you're hidden from our sight?
Your name's been added to a list that's been compiled
Our agency considers you a risk

Secret power I can't believe
Growing stronger I feel them
Strengthening their grip

So there you are you crossed the line
You pathetic little man
Well rest assured the worst you feared is true
In the seduction of society we play upon desire
Spoiled and drunk that's you

Can this be happening?
This world is just a grand facade
You're just a simple man at heart
A victim playing out a part
Oh I just want my freedom
Where are the ones who back you now?
I feel abandoned fee like
Screaming at the walls
Too bad the walls have ears
This never ever should have been
But that's the way it is

This is the new world order
This is the corporate sponsored
Changing of the guard
The march is on
I can feel it - I can feel it's tyranny
It's all about the power
This rising new world order
Strong arm of the law
The march is on
I can see it - I can see it's tyranny

The point you fail to see is
The simple beauty of our subtle mind control
Brainwashing media is all we need to set the boundaries

Advanced communication
You're at our fingertips now
We own the TV stations
Entertainment, Publications
Wall street is our breeding ground
The sphere of our control extends through
Governments and leaders who will buy our arms
Yes buy our arms and run our evil wars
Run our evil wars run this evil world into the ground

This is the new world order
This your corporate sponsored life

I see through your disguises
Your rising new world order lies

You've no idea the power my new world order is alive

You don't really think you have a prayer
I don't know where to go to avoid your
Staring eyes and universal grasp upon all life
This world is mine!

This is the new world order
This your corporate sponsored life

It's all about the power
This rising new world order rise

Walking down some highway midnight North Dakota
Somewhere 'round late fall I knew that the time
Has come for me I'm willing a million stars above me
I tried to catch their fall I tried to catch their fall

Inside I felt so empty
A stranger to this world so lost
And as the winter draws I'm turning north

I'm leaving things behind I just don't need
The only things in life of worth are free
To anyone's who's heard the call
And turned and walked away

I've traveled too long on my own
I've got a dream of home
Safe at last...

Where are all the answers
And visionary wisdom
From the stately and esteemed?
Just as I thought...
Disconsolate I ponder
The evil human nature
And what it really means
For the ones who paved the way

No bag of gold can save their souls
It's like they never feared
But now their end is near
The flames start leaping

Baby don't it drop you to your knees?
The only thing in life of worth is free
To anyone's who's heard the call
And turned and run away

Despite this nasty world I roam
Imagine going home
Ghost of a chance

Outside the twilight rides high
And whispers of love sound deep in the night
Hope and promise of peace in our land
Is this Christmastime?

Dark winter watches our fire
And brings us promise of a new day
Distant eyes have gone a long way

Too far to see the snow that falls
The winds of change have come and gone
The cold has come I've been left out
I need your warmth you're all I have

If you're chasing a dream to nowhere
It's enchantment that leads the way
Just believe in yourself and go there
The gift of hope on Christmas day
If every eye holds a blank stare
After winter's gone away
Just believe in yourself and go there
You and I on Christmas day

There's a time when your doubts won't matter
There's a time all your fears can wait
All the times in the year for laughter
Oh Christmas day

Guns slung low and taught
Iron fists re-grip and tighten down
Pressing hard and close
Scanning eyes alive, search all around
Unleash Hell and fire
Raining chaos, crashing in
The screaming in the street, calling far away
I taste the shock
The perfume of this war

Far away - Far away
I stand and dream of going home
Far away - Far away
I lay down in this mess
I'm scared and brave as stone

Foreign lands of sinking sands
So strange and unfamiliar
And Holden to the code of honor
Bound to defend
We are strong
Believe the warrior inside
Won't turn from
With honor, we will not turn away

Don't forget about God's reason to be
It's all arranged
Predestining
The ancient call
To one and all
Take arms and go
Don't you forget about it
Don't ever set your mind to roam

Desert wind blow hot save for the night time
Turn your gaze to the mirage
A single word can't describe the ruins
And you're burdened with the questions now at hand
They turn to dust

Sorrowful, the dirge
The song
The wailing of the wounded
No respite from the battle, at the
Edge of the fray
Night is falling
There's been funeral pyres
Been burning on for lifetimes
With honor, we will not walk away

When Consolation wears a hidden smile
(Hidden smile)

I erase my yesterdays
(All of them - every one)

And all my complaints fade into gray
(Fade to gray - fade, fading)

My faith aligned with my fate
(My spirit soars - I see your face)

Over again I set my aim
To the place that I call
Home

Tension never lets
Always on the edge and on the guard
Never dream of sleep
Wayward flares illuminate the dark
Hold the line and run
Random sniper fire sends shots
I'm hurdling the snares
Trying to cripple me
Against a bloodshot sky
And watching moon

Far away - Far away
We hunker down and disappear
Far away - Far away
In black, we're waiting:
For the daybreak
And the earth shake
For sunrise

Heroes bleed the same as you
When smitten with the combat
You swallow fury
With your every breath
Every breath
Set the flag and carry on
And carry on into the unknown
With honor we will not walk away
Home some day

For Eric D.

It was a cold night
But by the dawn's light
The city streets began to swell and crawl

I emerge then
From the alley
The tempest spirit now in my sight

Well I have seen you
You walk the wire
Oh yes I know you very well

You got a place in the Hamptons
Jettin' off to London
The threads are Italian, how very expensive

But oh you wear them well
As you serpentine

I am the bringer of the rain
And the foreteller of the pain
The end of days is near at hand
When God returns your just reward

Gets paid in venom

I will be with the others
When the day breaks
As the earth shakes

I will be with the numbers
When the earth breaks
Open for you

Oh, you kill me
Well it's quite amusing
I am drawn to your strength
Yeah you really believe

All the churning and discerning
Anger hatred and resentment
Bet you've gone catatonic
Yeah right on over the edge

And the greed of hell
Burns like gasoline

No ransom for your petty soul
I wipe your ashes from your gold
The end of days is near at hand
When all that was becomes a vapor

Slain by venom

I wrap a curse around your throat
God's wrath reserved through time for you
How dare you proselytize me
I run the show you fool

Damnation (hell hath no fury)
Completely blind (I ride the golden rail)
Vengeance (from where)
Vengeance (I wait)
And so you ask and shall receive

Vengeance upon, all evil men
Your time has come, all will repent
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

All the riches all the gold (why so bitter mortal man)
Gain the world and lose your soul (I am lion you are lamb)
Stallions from the sky
Hellfire rain and demons fly
From those of us sent here to kill
Your false religion now

All the riches all the gold (into the wasteland of your life)
All the riches all the gold (I lie in waiting here)
Day turns endless night
Burned alive and scream
The end of days you're all alone
When Jesus mighty from his throne

Drowns you in venom

Gloria Agnus Dei

Of all the stories that have ever been written
I've been assailed, right off the page
Winter fell across the floor in silence
I just stopped and wondered why

Well it's a cold and strange sad situation
Off the shores, tossed by by the waves
My every other word misunderstood why
I'd ever speak out loud again

Clinging on so tight
I bled my hands
I draw the shades
And hang my head and run

All the simple things
Essential to me
You cast aside
To go and be alone

You can't see the way I grieve
Love's the air I need to breathe
I hope you understand
Just need to find myself again

I see no choice but leaving
So tired of flying alone

On the battlefield
You were never there beside me
Who will I be if I recover from this

I'm not the enemy
There's so much good inside me
The real you left and never came back home

Round and round, oh
There is a rhythm where
Two hearts should meet

A sense of comfort and
A point of common ground
To have and then to hold and then to cry
And then to break upon the waves

You see me through dark eyes
That color me wrong
Immersed inside the world
Where charity dies

And what of all that talk of
How two become one and
I hope you understand
Just need to find some grace again

There seems to be no reason
Rejected off and away

On the battlefield
You were never there beside me
Who will I be should I recover from this

There are no enemies
Just death of love inside me
The bitter truth of this has come back home

You and I
Lie awake for hours
Separated by the world
Well, I can't see you
You can't see me
But somehow I can feel you
Slip inside my soul

Gold dust in my hands and always in my eyes
I wait in the desert for you
Moonbeams on my waves and always in my skies
I close my eyes as I'm soaring for your
You float, you're a dream you take my hand and we run
We run, we run
Cause you are the one

So lucid, alone I crystallize all my thoughts
Resolute I spin my compass as I chart my course
Onward through the haze, you know I feel you
I reach out through the black, you know I feel you
So torrid, the dream, this could be so unreal
Who says I can't feel just what I want to feel?
You trip through my skies, I'm captivated
One look in those eyes, I'm captivated

One lone silhouette is frozen dancing in time
Out over the edge, out ever the line
Who are you?
I'm questioning you
And who am I?
Who am I?
All this so lavishly displayed
(Won't you come over to my side?)
Pure essence, I can't turn away
(Only if you're in the light - in my life)

Gold dust in my hands and always in my eyes
I wait in the desert for you
Moonbeams on my waves and always in my skies
I close my eyes as I'm soaring for you
You float, you're a dream you take my hand and we run
And we run we run
Cause you are the one

Cold night on the mountain top
And it's the dead of the winter and the
Snow and the ice swirlin' all around
But we're not climbing down
From the top of the tower
We are filled with the power of our age

Young and proud
Hard and loud
On the wing
Everything
You know

There are those that talk the talk
But fail when fire burns them
(They are weak)
What gives you strength
What gives you courage for tomorrow
Is inside
We learned to let experience go turn us into men

Concrete running through our veins
And it's the still of the morning long
Before dawn has broken
Hangin' so listless
Deep in the wilderness
We ride so silent and focused
All the rest of the world
Can fade to grey

In the dark
From the heart
Take the fight
All our might
And on

The boys are tough as nails and
Killer under pressure
(The time has come)
To kill the king cause we are heading for tomorrow
On the run
We gotta let the anger burn until the bitter dawn

I've just never known nobody quite as strong

So silent stands the archer
Silent in the rain
You just don't breathe
Draw back waiting for the kill shot
Street walking again

We've been goin' all night
Fists pumped in the air
Everybody
Time to sigh no more
Sing hail to the Chief and scream

One for all
All for one

All for one
Rise or Fall

Between the whispers
A lonely candle flickers and it slowly fades
Into its grave
And as if knowing
Enchantment slowly runs her fingers down my spine
A jagged line

Who waits for me?
Now who waits for me?
Who waits so long, so long, so long...

And shall I wait? For dawn won't come
Or shall I sink into myself?

All is disquiet
A dark, assassin spirit draws back from the room
Time folds in two
I've vexed him surely
I'm ravaged by my need for light
It's all I feel, all I see
I live and breathe and cry and die
For Love

And shall I cast composure down?
And shall I wait forevermore?
I hear so sorrowful a sound

Maybe, in time I'll fly away
And trade these wings in for a life

A life where I am stronger and
A place where there's no sleepless nights
Or Moonlit arches cover me
These paintings and these statues stare
Chastised and imprisoned here alone
Under your stars

Guitar solo - Gary
Keyboard/Guitar solo - Gary

So was it all worth it?
To sing out my song and to scream
I had the fire
The passion and will
My dedication mistaken for disloyalty
I'm lost in the heavens
Statue in time
Like ghosts in a prison
And come undone

And all those living out their lives in company of riders
Silent and deliberate as they're counting out their coin
I just can't relinquish my opinion that I'm so much different
Insolent, their sins have drug then down into the deep
The deep
The deep

The race not to the swift
The prize, she just never fell, right to the brave
A long, long time ago
And somewhere lost in all the rage
I was just a brush stroke away
And the wind has caught the sails
No one who's ever knelt here before
Has stopped to count up the cost
They're gone, gone, lost in time
Can love be so indulgent that it blinds you to your faith?

And in the end the weight is all but lifted off
The stars continue on their course
And you fall away
Fall away
And it all comes around
Another good man goes down
He floods away

Sorrow cannot bind me like the common thief
I'll come out and I'll shine
Just like a caustic ray of light

All of the raised here the choirs alive
It's just a matter of words spoke
out over the river of time

Gone off to war or gone off to hate
You see me brandish the torch and
The sword of your fate is real

I walk alone through the spiritless void
All account of my love, oh
My sweet flowing love, lost in vain
On and on...and on and on