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

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

Angry Again
The more of you that I inspect
The more of me I see reflect
The more I try to read your lips
The more the mask you're wearing rips

But when I seek out your voice
My ears are overcome with noise
You show and tell with greatest ease
Raving impossibilities

Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
Enraged my mind starts to smoke
Enforce a mental overload
Angry again

And when the story takes a twist
If folds like a contortionist
Slight of hand and quick exchange
The old tricks have been rearranged

The searing of the sinew
My body fights for air
The ripping of the tissue
My lungs begin to tear

Gravity's got my bones
It pulls my flesh away
The steam finally dissipates
I make out my sweaty face

Association that I choose
Game I inevitably lose
Governed by laws set up by me
Fracture it's jaw to let me be

A cut-out cardboard condo maze
Filled with an insubordinate race
Irrational youths stop to stare
As music rubber hosed the air

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 tout 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 all are scarred

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

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

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

Mechanix
Imagine you were at my station
And you brought your motor to me
Your a burner - yeah, a real motor car
Said you wanna get your order filled
Made me shiver when I put it in
Pumping just won't do ya know luckily for you

Whoever thought you'd be better
At turning a screw than me
I do it for my life
Made my drive shaft crank
Made my pistons bulge
Made my ball bearing melt from the heat

We were shifting hard when we took off
Put tonight all four on the floor
When we hit top end you know it feels to slow
I'm giving you my room service
And ya know it's more than enough
Oh, one more time ya know I'm in love

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

Wake Up Dead
I sneak in my own house
It's four in the morning
I had too much to drink
Said I was out with the boys

I creep in my bedroom
I slip into bed
I know if I wake her
I'll wake up dead

I wonder will she find out
About the other lover Diana

Wake up dead, you die
Wake up dead and buried
Wake up dead, you die
Wake up dead

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

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

Skin Of My Teeth
I had wrists donning slits
Flowing constantly
My broken body in a wreck
Wrapped around a tree

A crosswalk hit and run
The finish line for me
People clutter in the gutter
Take a look and see

No escaping pain
You belong to me
Clinging on to life
By the skin of my teeth

My blood flows through the streets
Deluge from the wounds
Empty jars of sleeping pills
On the dresser of my room

My wet brain neighbor cranes
His neck to see in time
The white lights a train
Bearing down on me

I won't feel the hurt
I'm not trash any longer
That that doesn't kill me
Only makes me stronger

I need a ride to the morgue
That's what 911 is for
So tag my toe and don't forget
Ooh, to close the drawer

She Wolf
The mother of all that is evil
Her lips are poisonous venom
Wicked temptress knows how to please
The priestess roars: Get down on your knees

The rite of the praying mantis
Kiss the bones of the enchantress
Spellbound searching through the night
A howling man surrenders the fight

One look in her lusting eyes
Savage fear in you will rise
Teeth of terror sinking in
The bite of the she wolf

My desires of flesh obey me
The lioness will enslave me
Another heart beat than my own
The sound of claws on cobblestone
I'm stoned

Beware what stalks you in the night
Beware the she-wolf and her bite
Her mystic lips tell only lies
Beware what stalks you in the night
Beware the she-wolf and her bite
Her hidden will to kill in disguise

Prince Of Darkness
My victims are rich or poor
Young or old, strong or weak
I cause millions of accidents
I am cancer in your bones

I fathered the lie
Twist what you say
Speak not the truth
I am insidious, impartial
Deep inside your chromosomes

I take what you love
And leave you in tears
I imprison your soul
Your hopes are my games
I strip you of pride
My promise is in vain

While you burn at the stake
I dance with the flames
I bring poverty
Sickness and death

A worthless handshake
The slickest thief
I steal your wealth
I answer your prayers
For greed and lust
More than evil
I laugh at your trust

I am more powerful than all
The armies of the world
I am more violent than violence
More deadly than death

I have destroyed more men
Than all the nation's wars
I am relentless, unpredictable
Waiting for your last breath

Evil more evil than violence
Violent more violent than death
Deadly more deadly than man
I am yeah, I'm evil I am

My kingdom corrupt with dissent
Your sins erupt by my intent
I loathe your prayer, I wallow in sin
Let the nightmare begin

Prince of darkness
Your satanic highness
Prince of darkness
The most beautiful angel

Prince of darkness
The devilish serpent, the dreaded Lucifer
Prince of darkness
Unpredictable the prince of darkness