MY GODDESS My Goddess worshipped above all A penance in her wake Dissolve me in fits of ecstacy Reality escapes Escapes I behold vistas of such beauty it grants humility The promise of eternal warmth and joyful tranquility Whispers of all pain eviscerated, emotional virginity A blissful union with the heights (pause) of divinity Don't be so deceived Now speaks your inner wisdom Don't be so deceived Nothing is as it see-eems My Goddess now speaks in behalf of me I bleed into her needs My vision lost in a slumberless dream A slumberless dream Understand Understand Please understand I deserve this I need this I deserve this I need this I need this But, some-thing's, not, quite, riii-iight I'm losing myself Identity blurred What is my purpose Aside from her I must worship Obey her needs [PRE-OUTRO] I sacrifice my needs You've become my everything I'm a hollowed shell indeed When ^YOU are away from me And nooow, that there's nothing left of me, you want to leave Mmmm mmm [REFRAIN] My Goddess, my distraction My Goddess, my destruction My Goddess, my distraction My Goddess, my destruction I'm losing myself Identity blurred What is my purpose Aside from her My Goddess, my distraction My Goddess, my destruction My goddess My goddess MY GODDESS!!! MY GODDESS!!! AHHHHH!! [FADE OUT] I'm losing myself (I'm left here empty) Reality's blurred (My soul now bereaved) What is my purpose (For nothing you see) Aside from her

Glass Fractals Time has lost it's seemingly Distinct, sequential certainty Slowed beyond realities grasp The infinite complexity Cascading flash of memories A lifetime has elapsed Stifled by this veil I've worn, Is this death or am I born? This moment crossing reality My life exposed in totality My eyes forced open My eyes are open This moment crossing reality My life exposed in totality My eyes forced open My eyes are open False perceptions Empty sense impressions All my wasted precious time Unfulfilled intentions sloth filled descension Meaningless and empty vice Holographic soul suck Decadent heaps of mind junk Slapping sleep upon my eyes Enveloped by a light My eyes burn bright A vista of joyous sight Comforted by the love that I shared Surrounded by sound Music lying me down Expression of life unbound Comforted by the passion I shared Am I awake or am I dreaming? The final moments of life are streaming My death is singing And you are here in my final moment And you are here in my final moment YOu are here in my final MOMENT! You are here in my final...

Velvet Puddles (Beauty in the Wake) Slowly Smoldering Moving past the ache that stole me away There's a beauty in the wake they say Get up, get up, get up and break from the weight Shadows bringing strength. Awake Get up, get up, get up and break from the weight Overwhelmed and inundated Shifting from my own vexation Slowly taking shape. Creating The structure and the stream There's a beauty in the wake they say Get up, get up, get up and break from the weight Shadows bringing strength. Awake There's a beauty in the wake they say

Demanding meaning Mass produced truth Conveniently packaged For you to consume Hollow rhyming wisdom Never-ending sound bites Lacking any substance Banal, vapid, trite Serve it on a platter Spoon feed every line Pander to the masses Growing lazier with time Demanding meaning Mass produced truth Conveniently packaged For you to consume

Cold cheek Pressed deep In the dirt beneath Fall break and bleed Projecting My scene Living reverie A one sided dream, but I bleed I don't let 'em see The process building me I've got a secret My life is out of control I've got a secret I need it all for my soul And I need Yes I need It all for my... I've got a secret My life is out of control MIDDLE -------------------- My life on blast It's the one I've cast Welcome to the show Battle weak Knee deep Smile as I creep Into the unknown Taste of ink My brink Oh the savagery The path to be my own I do what I do now Because I believe I lead with my heart and I bleed with my deeds I'll do what I have to  To water the seed I'll break my own back and I'll rise from the deep I do what I do now Because I believe I'll break my own back and I'll rise from the deep ooooo, aaaaaa ooooo, aaaaaa

The rhythmic destruction The sweeping atrophy The blankets that no longer soothe and the sound That deafening silence brings To live as a stranger in the world of a dream To centrifuge out from what animates me Holding a vision hard to believe Already crushed but destined to be You wanted perfection You wanted the crisp and the clean When you entered the transit you left what was done And entered a polished gun To live as a stranger in the world of a dream To centrifuge out from what animates me Holding a vision hard to believe Already crushed but destined to be And the sun and the moon square off Causing all that is known to become distorted Disrupting the energy required To break free from the inertia of restrictive orbits Confounding the trajectory of tangential lines You know I'll break these chains (scream/rasp) Free of shame (soft) You know I'll break these chains The season's distractions The secrets that line your shame The reasons given, the fission, the saddled disposition Dismembered pieces of hallowed but now broken convictions To live as a stranger in the world of a dream To centrifuge out from what animates me Holding a vision hard to believe Already crushed but destined to be You know I'll break these chains Free of shame And the sun and the moon reconcile oppositional energies. Integrating all elements, accepted and estranged. Unity expands power. A cycle is complete. And it is done.

The harlot of destruction The ominous disease The misappropriation Of power and belief The sheep will graze like children Devoid of strength of mind The catatonic casing From all that is sublime Wolves dine cheaply On the feeble Minded people Deceived so easily But power structures waver As the phoenix starts to rise What is this energy that Rises up inside the masses in metered time Rebellious Demanding Resentful And ready to destroy for the chance to evolve Power. Intoxicating power. Power seeks to preserve power And as power tends to corupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely Destructive, insatiable greed overtakes the deceived, material man And he thereby severs himself from the very essence that defines our shared humanity He rapes and exploits the natural order as he sees fit He does not yet understand the fundamental nature of his existence You cannot You cannot Stop this Transforma... Tion! *SCREAM* My God we are saves. I do not understand this power struggle. This tug o war. What is this place? It's rising It's rising

Bleeding out Austere terrain Lurking there Her haunting stare Adeptly deceived The sheep was falsely clothed The sex and violence was more Than I will ever know Please understand my plight Deep inside lies the sleeping anti-christ (Lying there, in wait) Wake the passions and find an unfed demon rise An innocent face For unsuspecting eyes Oh God! Help Me! Take me away Away from this place This place of decay Cut me loose Shackled and rused Crescendo abuse I refuse To lay in your noose A fool seduced And duped, and used To lose, my truth, and do, Nothing but mire in you Destroying me through, and through All for you Destructive muse Violently blue Subconscious black brew Unaware of the truth Warped and reduced To victimhood proof Proof Your falsified proof It was always about you baby I'm losing everyting I'm losing my truth when I'm with you No I can't take the violence I get lost inside this madness I tried patience I tried weathering the storm Oh everything was for you Yeah I tried everything and now there's nothing left baby Oh you're ready to destroy All that demon inside you Baby I Oh your cantankerous soul You're always looking for that proof

[WHISPER] All the pretty little lies that you wanted To believe with the hope that'd you fit in Programmed, since the day you were given Life in this world, without your decision The purpose and meaning of your existence has been obfuscated in the attempt to harvest your life for the perpetuation of a destructive and hollow societal paradigm. Lies! Regurgitate the media mantras Lies! Labor with a passionless life Lies! Trust the material paradigm Happiness is outside your mind ---------------------------- Lies! Sickness as a commodity Lies! A quick fix, indolent mind Lies! Existence is purely material Guard yourself and be cynical ------------------------------------ Lies Accept the labels you've been given Lies! Disconnect from your core Lies! Nevermind the natural world Buy more and breed hate for war -------------------------------------- Just bleach your soul Just bleach your soul Just bleach your SOOOOOUL Just bleach your soul Just bleach your soul Just bleach your... Lies (La-ee-eee-ah-ah-ee) Lies (La-ee-eee-ah-ah-ee) We are surrounded by lies ------------------------------- Are you your own? Or are you owned? Are you owned? Are you a part of the walking dead? Perfectly numb in your somnambulant bliss? Happily miserable in your anestitized absence of awareness? Ignorant and obediently marching to your artificially programmed identity and status/material sense of purpose? Enjoying losing yourself in your mind-numbing distractions? Are you your own? Or are you owned? Are you owned? --------------------------------- Congratulations, I think you finally got it You've found yourself awake in a sea of mindless drones But being a spark comes at a cost, are you willing to pay it? Or do you wish to fall back asleep? The choice is yours The choice is yours ----------------------------- All these MOTHER FUCKERS want to keep you hypnotized Catecholemine induced soul suicide Break the back of a spiritual genocide Open up the emptiness, scratch through all the lies All these DEMAGOGUES want to keep you hypnotized Catecholemine induced soul suicide Break the back of a spiritual genocide Open up the emptiness, scratch through all the lies All these CHARLATANS want to keep you hypnotized Catecholemine induced soul suicide Break the back of a spiritual genocide Open up the emptiness, scratch through all the lies All these PROFITEERS want to keep you hypnotized Catecholemine induced soul suicide Break the back of a spiritual genocide Open up the emptiness, scratch through all the lies LIes Lies Lies ------ Lies Lies Lies ---------------------- LIEEEEES! WAKE UP! LIEEEES WAKE uP! WAkE UP! WAke up! Are you awake? Are you awake? That's right, I'm talking to you Are you awake? Or are you going to keep running on that hamster wheel? Letting your soul atrophy as you live out a hollow, uninspired existence? Then wake up Wake up Wake up WAKE.... UP!!!!

FALLING AWAY Wait There's so much more, I need to say Don't leave this like A cold dark tomb, sarcophagus decay I feel you Smoldering beneath your icey cold I try To Breach Your stone clad walls But nothing will do You will construe me with your Distorted residue (final truth) We're turning blue Turning blue (I can't breathe) Breathe into These collapsing lungs Let me touch And warm your skin Thaw your disease This is tragic You are tragic This is unncessary grief Can't we find a way To communicate Find some grace Not this ugly haste We both pay We both pay death and decay falling away falling away death and decay falling away falling away I guess this is our fate your silent final say death and decay death and decay And falling away