All lyrics by S. A. Garrison unless otherwise noted, copyright 1988-2000.

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IT'S ABOUT TIME
Break down!
No grace found.
It's a picture of you in sound.
You ended up gagged and bound.
Swing your style for the soul that you lack.
Lies through your face that time is lacking.
Time will win and it will break your back.
Laugh at me while the whip is cracking.
It's time to draw the line.
Throwing stones from where you hide.
Choose your weapons and your side.
It's slowly tearing down your pride.
Crack my spine for the love that I lack.
Lies in my face that time is lacking.
Time is something spent on the rack.
Laughing now while the bones are cracking.
It's time to draw the line.
Throwing stones from where you hide.
Choose your weapons and your fucking side.
It's slowly tearing down your pride.

BROTHER DOUBT
You'll never know rest, it's just your painful life.
I know you'll curse your fate even after you finally die.
You say you'll never escape it, yeah, but then again, you'll never try.
It's in the dark alleys where the people peer through.
It's in the hated hallways.
It's always following you.
It creeps in your blood, you savor its pain.
It's always there with you now ... will you remember its name?
It's one of many reasons you felt far apart from them.
It's not the only difference between you and other men.

CAGED
I don't want to live in a human world where my kind is caged and locked out.
I have no use for human words, and I will swallow the hate they brought out.
Come on bitch, give me the keys.
Yeah, I like you better on your knees.
We must come from different worlds.
Believe me boy, I take no orders.
I have no use for human words, always spoken to bring disorder.
Come on bitch, give me the keys.
Yeah, I like you better on your knees.
Motherfucker, open this cage.
Maybe then I'll leave this place in one piece.
I've been pushed down in a den of small souls.
You're not man enough to open this cage.

CLAYFIST
Your mind's a blur, it never calms.
You search in vain for the eye of the storm.
Ears strain for each word you say.
You never know in the dark where the words form.
Can you feel me pounding on your heart?
Fists of clay are of little use but my words will do their part.
The insects crawled across your heart so very long ago.
No one recalls the day it snapped, nobody seems to know.
Something inside your chest grew hard and worked to stop the flow.
If thy hand offend thee, make a fist, but you treasure it in vain.
If thy eye offend thee - better still, you'll always look again.
Just don't pretend the pain you feel will ever come to an end.
Can you feel me pounding on your heart?
Words may be of little use, but my hands will do their part.

DESCEND
I do not know who I am, I've never truly known.
A thousand voices speak for me, my body gives them all a home.
They interblend, they steal my words.
They stole my only friends from me.
Inside they want to be alone, but alone is what I'll never be.
Look down the steps of my soul, wipe out the stains of my life.
Help me kill this thing I am now, help me destroy myself tomorrow.
We dream of places I have been.
I didn't want to leave this room.
You try to push my body forward, but my mind is all that ever moves.
We inside are forever strong, it only takes two hands to try...
I'll drown out any other voices, I'll pile your heads up to the sky.

DOGS AT PLAY
I guess I'm living like an animal.
I'm just trying to earn my pay.
I guess I seem a little feral,
baring claws to keep the dogs at bay.
Don't tell me about the world outside
because I don't want to know.
A pretty face and filthy mind
will get you where you want to go.
You will not die from lack of tenderness
and every dog has his day in the sun.
You see, the way is limitless
for those brave enough to twist the number one.
I guess I'm screaming like an animal.
I'm just trying to earn my pay.

FOURTH STEP
All of your friends, where are they?
All your friends where are they now that your glory's burned away?
You've always said you can't live a lie but the truth has always been that you're afraid.
What was so important, why did you let go? Why did you let those bastards win out?
Why did you let them win, making a joke of what you claimed you were about?
Your mind's not ruled by those around you - you're not that dumb so you have no exucse.
The few that you hate, you don't take them with you.
You'll never convince me you were born to lose.

FREEZE
I feel poisoned by your smile so I'll help you take it off.
I'd tell you what I think of you but I'd never be able to stop.
Another day, another piece of my mind.
Go on with your life and see what pleasure that you'll find.
I feel poisoned by the sky so I live to blot it out.
I'd tell you how cold I feel, but I can never shut my mouth.
This world is a creation of my mind, but you can bet your soul it beats the world I left behind.
So you call me insane.
I feel poisoned by the lie that I must live among your kind.
From the moment I first spoke, I've been freezing all the time.
Another day, another warning sign.
Go on with your life and see what pleasure that you'll find.

GOING HOME
The air -- it screams -- it calls out to you.
The ground -- the stones -- your past calls to you.
You chose this place for all your praise and blame.
It takes you back to a time when you were sane.
The eyes -- the voice -- the things that are long past.
You knew when you were small that your heart would never last.
So you were shown the way, you were shown the door.
The streets of your past are not yours anymore.
You're home again -- the streets, your only friend
So you were born to turn your back on fellow men?
You're home again -- you will learn to hate again
You will leave this place -- where will you go to then?
You're chasing ghosts, you clutch the hands of time
Your friends and you had fought to keep your souls alive
Now you go home to see new hands point towards the door
The streets of your past are not yours anymore.
(I have returned to take what's mine.
I will erase that painful time.
No one alive will know my face.
What occurred here will pass in time untraced.)
I can never go home.

GREATEST GIFT
I know you've walked down many roads searching for a place to hide.
You run into the arms of strangers just to prove that you're alive.
I recognize and despise your weakness... I feel something deep inside.
Being ashamed because you're different is the sickest kind of lie.
If strange fingers point at you, it must only fuel the fire.
Just ignore the bitter fools... they cannot take your mind.
You'll try to fill the empty spaces, but those spaces can't be filled.
Accept yourself, accept your struggle and you won't die unfulfilled.
Remember how you were put aside?
Did you belong?
Child you were was made to hide.
The dream is gone.
Is it really gone?
Wandering the wicked night...it made you strong.
Taught yourself to hate the light...innocence is gone. But is it really gone?
If strange fingers point at you, it must only fuel the fire.
Just ignore the bitter fools... they cannot take your precious mind.

LAY DOWN AND DIE
lyrics by Brett Ralph
Sometimes when I'm feeling lonesome and low,
and there's no one to talk to and there's no place to go...
When you're too weak to shake it, and you're too strong to cry,
sometimes you just want to lay right down and die.
The sun brings no warmth although it's shining bright.
You feel drugged down in the daytime and you're so torn up at night.
And the worst part about it is you don't even know why.
But sometimes you just want to lay down and die.
You go to bed wondering why God created man
You decide for yourself that creation was the original sin.
You get up in the morning and you break up all over again.
The trees are no longer tombstones and smiles aren't knives.
You don't hate your fellow man for their pathetic little lives.
You've resigned yourself to just getting by...
But sometimes you just want to lay down and die.
The most terrible sound you've ever heard is the ringing of the phone
And a smile from a stranger cuts you right to the bone.
You get to feeling so violent that you hope everyone just leaves you alone.

LOSE IT
Show me a way to erase the time.
Show me a way to explain your crime.
Show me the scars, show me the face.
Show me the thorn I put in its place.
Misery will come to wipe your tears away.
In fantasy, you always look the other way.
When you speak, you fear the words you say.
No one sees you or the prison where you lay.
Living in a cage helps wipe the tears away.
Madness helps you wipe the years away.
Free yourself.
Lose yourself.
See inside your distorted mind, feel the wind from deep inside.
Take it away, wipe tears away, use your voice to drown out the day.
Remember the name, forget the face ... lose yourself without a trace.
Show me the hell you walked into.
Blink insane eyes I always see through.
Show me the scars, show me the face.
Show me the thorn I put in its place.
Show me a way to erase the time.
Show me a way to explain your crime.
Free yourself.
Lose yourself.
See inside your distorted mind, feel the wind from deep inside.
Take it away, wipe tears away, madness comes to drown out the day.

RAZOR
She's got a demon, and she gave it a name.
She had it better when she thought life was a game.
She walks beside you but she'd rather walk alone.
She dug her own grave and she made that grave her home.
She's got a million lies that she lives without you.
You can't hurt her anymore no matter what you do.
The truth will come but she is running out of time.
She's got a razor, she's about to cut the line.
You want to hurt her but you don't know where to start.
She's got a twisted mind, she's got a twisted heart.
The drama's in your face but she will not believe it's true.
There's a million people out there more fucked up than you.
There's another world out there and it's calling her name.
When your illusions fade away you never are the same.
You're looking backwards to the way it was before.
But meeting someone like you is more than you had bargained for.

RED
We're all around you, you drive us out like dogs.
Yes, we surround you, like the words that blend into the fog.
Yes, we remember... we write these words in bitter blood.
We are the drops that gave rise to a hateful flood.
I exorcise you if you are not our kind.
A place to drop your heavy chains is a place you'll never find.
So let us make these lonely vows and add power to the flood,
with one hand hanging free to sign your name in bitter blood.
In red.
Legions deny me, the ugly embrace my heart.
Let pretty faces turn from me, let denial burn my heart.
I bring my brothers gifts, I bring them bitter blood.
We are the drops that gave rise to a hateful flood.
In red.

THIEF
Boy is born, crawls the floor.
Learns to speak in metaphor
Stalks the ring just like a matador.
Then he learns to steal, because he knows the score.
Man will see, man will lie.
Man will steal what he cannot buy.
The only thought, the only guide.
I refuse to be identified.
Everything of worth I ever had
was taken from another man.
You want to learn this way of life so bad --
well listen up, cause I'm a veteran.

TOO FAR GONE
I am far gone.
I can't chase it anymore.
I've gone too far.
I know the damage has been done.
So, join the damned, stand with us.
Prove yourself, it's all that matters.
Twist yourself, create a disease.
Release yourself, it's all that matters.
She always spoke truth - at least to you.
I'll never forget all the things that we've been through.
I have no pain - it left me cold sometime back.
I sometimes wish that somehow I could call it back.
Take her blue eyes - and turn them to the darkest black.
Close her blue eyes - and turn them to the darkest black.