Kill The King
Broken down, feeling naked
Leaving me unfulfilled
Promising compromise
Championing mediocrity

Time and time again
What you said ain't what you mean
Even if all my bones are broken
I will drag myself back from the edge
To kill the King

The King is dead
Long live the King
I am the King
God save the King

Kill the King
The King is dead
I am the King
Long live the King

I reveal a deceiver
In the highest seat in the land
His idle hands the Devil's workshop
Generate more smoke than heat

A new precedent in pain
Mankind is blown to dust
An explosion of the brain
Spontaneously combust

Dread And The Fugitive Mind
Let me introduce myself
I'm a social disease
I've come for your wealth
Leave you on your knees

No time for feeling sorry
I got here on my own
I won't ask for mercy
I choose to walk alone

What's yours is mine
And what's mine is mine too
If you shake my hand
Better count your fingers

What if I do get caught?
What if there is no judgment?
If I'm right I lose nothing
If you're right I lose it all

I ought to get caught because
I'm doing something wicked
I'm guilty haunted by my fear
And the only consequences
Are dread and the fugitive mind

You built walls to protect
You so no one will infect you
Pursued by those out there
That vanish in thin air

Come a long way to find
What you really left behind
You don't know when the end is
But it's coming fast

Crush 'Em
Enter the arena and hit the lights
Step up now you're in for a ride
This is war ain't no fun and games
We get it up you go down in flames

Party time going down
You better not mess us around
The stakes are rich, take a hit or stay
The price is high someone's gonna pay

Heads I win tails you lose
Out of my way I'm coming through
Roll the dice don't think twice
And we crush them

Looking for trouble now you've found it
You're a drum and we're gonna pound it

Last one standing wins the fight
Hear us scream and shout all night
Down on the floor and eat the grit
This is gonna hurt a little bit

Now we lay you down to rest
You'll never be more than second best
Step inside you're in for a ride
And we crush them

Don't need reason, don't want names
Just a John Doe to put to shame
Step aside let me explain
The name of the game is pain

Now we've found you
We're gonna pound you
We're gonna beat you
Gonna defeat you

We're gonna bust you
We're gonna crush you
We're gonna crush them

Use The Man
I heard somebody fixed today
There was no last goodbyes to say
His will to live ran out
I heard somebody turned to dust

Looking back at what he left
A list of plans and photographs
Songs that never will be sung
These are the things he won't get done

I've seen the man use the needle
Seen the needle use the man
I've seen them crawl from the cradle
To the coffin on their hands

They fight a war but it's fatal
It's so hard to understand
I've seen the man use the needle
Seen the needle use the man

Just one shot to say goodbye
One last taste to mourn and cry
Scores and shoots, the lights go dim
Just one shot to do him in

He hangs his head and wonders
Why the monkey only lies
But pay the pauper, he did choose
He hung his head inside the noose

I've seen the man use the needle
Seen the needle use the man
I've seen them crawl from the cradle
To the gutter on their hands

They fight a war but it's fatal
It's so hard to understand
I've seen the man use the needle
Seen the needle in his hand

Cryptic writing on the wall
The beginning of the end
I've seen myself use the needle
Seen the needle in my hand

Almost Honest
I lied just a little
When I said I need you
You stretched the truth
When you said that you knew

Just can't believe it
There's nothing to say
I was almost honest, almost

Living alone, can't stand this place
It's four in the morning
And I still see your face

I was nearly pure
When I said I loved you
You were semi-sincere
You said I'd bleed for you

We were kind of candid
Now you've gone away
You were almost honest, almost

Living alone falling from grace
I want to atone
But there's just empty space

I can't face tomorrow
Now you're not coming back
Walked off in the night
And just left me the tracks

I question your call
By the tone of your voice
I know I should hang up
But I don't have a choice

It happened that night
When you told me to go
Don't ask who's to blame
I don't know

Almost honest
Almost, I was almost honest

Trust
Lost in a dream
Nothing's what it seems
Searching my head
For the words that you said

Tears filled my eyes
As we said our last goodbyes
This sad scene replays
Of you walking away

My body aches from mistakes
Betrayed by lust
We lied to each other so much
That in nothing we trust

Time and again
She repeats: Let's be friends
I smile and say: Yes
Another truth bends
I must confess

I try to let go but I know
We'll never end till we're dust
We lied to each other again
But I wish I could trust

God, help me please on my knees
Betrayed by lust
We lied to each other so much
Now there's nothing we trust

How could this be happening to me?
I'm lying when I say: Trust me
I can't believe this is true
Trust hurts
Why does trust equal suffering?

Absolutely nothing we trust

A Tout Le Monde
Don't remember where I was
I realized life was a game
The more seriously I took things
The harder the rules became

I had no idea what it'd cost
My life passed before my eyes
I found out how little I accomplished
All my plans denied

So as you read this know my friends
I'd love to stay with you all
Please smile when you think of me
My body's gone that's all

A tout le monde, a tous mes amis
Je vous aime, je dois partir
These are the last words
I'll ever speak and they'll set me free

If my heart was still alive
I know it would surely break
And my memories left with you
There's nothing more to say

Moving on is a simple thing
What it leaves behind is hard
You know the sleeping feel no more pain
And the living are scarred

Train Of Consequences
I'm doing you a favor
As I'm taking all your money
I guess I should feel sorry
But I don't even trust me

There's bad news creeping up
And you feel a sudden chill
How do you do?
My name is Trouble
I'm coming in for the kill
And you know I will

Set the ball a-rolling
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the train of consequences
My boxcar life of style

My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The train of consequences
There ain't no turning back

No horse ever ran as fast
As the money that you bet
I'm blowing on my cards
And play them to my chest

Life's fabric is corrupt
Shot through with corroded thread
As for me I hocked my brains
Packed my bags and headed west

Sweating Bullets
Hello me... meet the real me
And my misfits way of life
A dark black past is my
Most valued possession

Hindsight is always 20-20
But looking back it's still a bit fuzzy
Speak of mutually assured destruction?
Nice story... tell it to Reader's Digest!

Feeling paranoid
True enemy or false friend?
Anxiety's attacking me
And my air is getting thin

I'm in trouble for the things
I haven't got to yet
I'm chomping at the bit
And my palms are getting wet
Sweating bullets

Hello me... it's me again
You can subdue but never tame me
It gives me a migraine headache
Thinking down to your level

Yea, just keep on thinking it's my fault
And stay an inch or two outta kicking distance
Mankind has got to know
His limitations

Feeling claustrophobic
Like the walls are closing in
Blood stains on my hands
And I don't know where I've been

I'm in trouble for the things
I haven't got to yet
I'm sharpening the axe
And my palms are getting wet
Sweating bullets

Well, me... it's nice talking to myself
A credit to dementia
Some day you too will know my pain
And smile its black tooth grin

If the war inside my head
Won't take a day off I'll be dead
My icy fingers claw your back
Here I come again

Once you committed me
Now you've acquitted me
Claiming validity
For your stupidity

I'm chomping at the bit
I'm sharpening the axe
Here I come again, whoa!
Sweating bullets

Symphony Of Destruction
You take a mortal man
And put him in control
Watch him become a god
Watch peoples heads have roll

Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes
Swaying to the symphony of destruction

Acting like a robot
Its metal brain corrodes
You try to take its pulse
Before the head explodes

The earth starts to rumble
World powers fall
Have warring for the heavens
Have peaceful man stands tall

Hangar 18
Welcome to our fortress tall
Take some time to show you around
Impossible to break these walls
For you see the steel is much too strong
Computer banks to rule the world
Instruments to sight the stars

Possibly I've seen too much
Hangar 18 I know too much

Foreign life forms inventory
Suspended state of cryogenics
Selective amnesia's the story
Believed foretold but who'd suspect
The military intelligence?
Two words combined that can't make sense

Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
Brother will kill brother
Spilling blood across the land
Killing for religion
Something I don't understand

Fools like me who cross the sea
And come to foreign lands
Ask the sheep for their beliefs
Do you kill on God's command?

A country that's divided
Surely will not stand
My past erased, no more disgrace
No foolish naive stand

The end is near it's crystal clear
Part of the master plan
Don't look now to Israel
It might be your homelands

Holy wars

Upon my podium
As the know it all scholar
Down in my seat of Judgment
Gavel's bang uphold the law

Up on my soapbox a leader
Out to change the world
Down in my pulpit as the holier
Than thou could be messenger of God

Wage the war on organized crime
Sneak attacks repel down the rocks
Behind the lines
Some people risk to employ me
Some people live to destroy me
Either way they die

They killed my wife and my baby
With hopes to enslave me
First mistake... last mistake!
Paid by the alliance to slay all the giants
Next mistake... no more mistakes!

Fill the cracks in with judicial granite
Because I don't say it
Don't mean I ain't thinking it
Next thing you know
They'll take my thoughts away
I know what I said
Now I must scream of the overdose
And the lack of mercy killings

In My Darkest Hour
In my hour of need
You're not there
And though I reached out for you
Wouldn't lend a hand

Through the darkest hour
Grace did not shine on me
It feels so cold, very cold
No one cares for me

Did you ever think I get lonely
Did you ever think that I needed love
Did you ever think to stop thinking
You're the only one that I'm thinking of
You'll never know how hard I tried
To find my space and satisfy you too

Things will be better
When I'm dead and gone
Don't try to understand
Knowing you I'm probably wrong

But how I lived my life for you
Still you'd turn away
Now as I die for you
My flesh still crawls
As I breathe your name

All these years I thought I was wrong
Now I know it was you
Raise you head, raise your face, your eyes
Tell me who you think you are, who?

I walk alone
Into the promised land
There's a better place for me
But it's far away

Everlasting life for me
In a perfect world
But I gotta die first
Please God send me on my way

Time has a way of taking time
Loneliness is not only felt be fools
Alone I call to ease the pain
Yearning to be held by you
Alone - so alone, I'm lost
Consumed by the pain

Won't you hold me again
You just laughed - ha, bitch

My whole life is work built on the past
But the time has come
When all things shall pass
This good thing passed away
In my darkest hour

Peace Sells
What do you mean
I don't believe in God?
I talk to him every day
What do you mean
I don't support your system?
I go to court when I have to

What do you mean
I can't get to work on time?
I got nothing better to do
And what do you mean
I don't pay my bills?
Why do you think I'm broke? Huh?

If there's a new way
I'll be the first in line
But it better work this time

What do you mean
I hurt your feelings?
I didn't know you had any feelings
What do you mean
I ain't kind?
I'm just not your kind

What do you mean
I couldn't be president
Of the United States of America?
Tell me something
It's still "We the people…" right?

Can you put a price on peace?
Peace sells but who's buying?
No, peace sells