You wanted to leave But there is no way back The greatest to lead Betrayed, stabbed in the back This gift enthralled Back against the wall Power and glory Lustful and greedy Drown in blood and piss The arrow has missed Pray to the tyrant Guided by sirens Sounds so sweet Swept off your feet Wings of a bat Dipped in a vat Acid to the tongue Dark designs have begun Follow the stars To water on mars A cardboard horse A Trojan divorce Everyone’s a friend No one has sinned The god’s are appeased So do as you please Until days of victory Drunken in misery Jonah thrown off the boat Sunken and swallowed whole Jesus’ held in reserve To walk upon the waves Oh what do we deserve But to work as his slaves

Prepare to be let down Prepare for the sound Gifted crawling out from under the rug Begin the march of the bugs For so long they have been nesting For so long they have been resting And now the time has come For the filth to rise above Covered and smothered and reeking of tragedy Covered in dirt and blood seeping out of me They told me everything was okay They promised a throne fit for a king And I listened and obeyed greedily These bugs march beyond belief These beetles and roaches are more than they seem Chanting a battle song of defeat Ranting and rattling the brains of their enemies These marching bugs made a fool out of me Crush crack kill the demons rising Beat smash kill the angels falling Feel the thrill and create failure Seal away for good the creature Silver screen feature of design Slivers seek leeches lurking in the grime A crime for a time of every day Building a machine stunted and grey Stuck with the blunt end of the knife Running with scissors open into the night The bugs are on the march And no one is free and nothing is free And I am not here and I now believe And nothing can stop these bugs marching on and on and on and on

Beyond the grip of humanity So far beyond the curse of sanity I am enthralled in your love The universe I speak of The endless motionless stars above Crying and guiding the singers the believers Flying ever higher ever deeper into the mass The hole so full so complete in blackness Depth of the valley depth of the anchor Madness gifted from a lonely stranger Ever deeper ever farther ever stronger We are becoming one within No one needs a hand no one needs a savior We are become what we begin With our feet and our hands Our lying tongues spewing grains of sand Salt seas and brown and orange leaves The falling of the trees The crumbling of the mountains The moon’s graceful breeze The sun’s harsh transition We are what power we are birthed One above all and all for the one We are what we have become Stare into the ancient tome Glare from the burning homes The churning in the bones The turning of every single lasting soul Into energy beyond the grip of humanity So far beyond the great curse of sanity Greatness is earned Lift the veil and dispel the curse We are one with the universe We are alone and all together all at once

Like a fire burning brightly He smoldering embers of your sadness Come to me and touch and feel me And I will fill your heart with gladness This is my home and I am its builder Calm and hushed tones The wheels on their spokes The creature has spoken Careening into the void Serene and unbroken Screaming children making noise Quietly hidden, secretly avoided Oh how the mighty have fallen Careening into the void This is my Rome and I am its Caesar Raised and raving voices The cogs and anchors turn The demon is silent The homes and shelters burn Sequences in refinement Sent spinning, blind sided Spent all the gold and jewels So special, so very excited So lonely, lacking fuel To raze the villages To raise an army To rape and pillage To spread love and compassion Only once in passing Alive, undead, revealed Look into my eyes Come closer This is my earth and I am its savior

A brand new beginning A fresh start That’s what is offered All that I ask for Is a life a little bit softer Softer to me And as I hear the church bells ring I question if I am good enough to be redeemed If salvation is truly free All that I ask for Is a life a little bit softer Softer to me And yeah I know That everything Is coming to an end And yeah I know What I wish to be Has to start somewhere It has to begin with me Running for cover Running from everything Searching for a lover Searching for something I know who holds all the answers I call out in a desperate plee For a life a little bit softer Just a little bit softer to me I wish for anything I wish for a mother That would comfort me I need time to think this through I need time to be alone And yeah I know I’ve got all the time in the world And yeah I know That everything Is coming to an end Everything is coming to a final end

One penny in the dirt Buried underneath the pounding feet Copper into gold A fountain of grime and mold A little girl in a short skirt Carried above the whirlwind street One penny for a life Half traced in the sand Symbols of pain and strife Calf sacrificed for a lamb Come again coming on and on and gone Like the wind Trying to save my life Like the wind Dying or dead inside Carry my soul for me Carry my cross and bury me River crossing ferry to the eastern desert Mountain passage through the western wastes Lands of might and magic and rebirth Grand delusions of the crying fates Save us from our plight Crashing flights and gnashing teeth Banging gongs and singing lightly to the breeze The ocean’s salty breath falls around me As the clouds overtake the skies Grey and white and great in size Burial at sea, flaming boats float from the shore Oh how I long for any shore Oh how these old bones grow so sore Welcomed into the violence Sheltered from the deafening silence Sculpture of soot and dew sublime Future in the dark artist’s crime One penny for a grain of sand One penny left in the right hands One penny for a life to begin One penny buried in the dirt Underneath the capital wasteland Underneath the filthy earth Beyond the grip of any man One and one only The sun is my god and I am its soldier The son of man is god and he is the harbinger Bringer of light Giver of sight One penny in the dirt One penny for a life

Inspiration from dust and mildew Confliction of trust and the will to do Contradiction forming in the shadows Exposition from the hanging gallows Desperation of man within a monster Explanation is getting harder and harder Definition from stronger beginnings Destruction repeating and repeating and never ending Repetition is the key to unlock the mind Decision to unleash the demonic beast inside Open speak close the box and daily repeat Spoken creaks slow Pandora’s frailty in defeat Fertility in design a fresh virgin to hunt Despicably I find a gifted horse a tree stump Stunted and derailed she slips through my fingertips Blunt end of the grail she speak to me with soft lips The huntress never sleeps never rests never flies The hunter only seeks to beat her to the prize A race to the final end keeping pace never giving in To the filth and the rats crowding the sewers To the path riddles with traps in this forest of fallen trees Searching ever farther ever deeper for something newer Looking ever farther ever deeper finding nothing to return Oh but to return empty handed oh the angels sigh Oh but to find the hungry virgin oh the satanic cries Rituals so habitual grinding into the ether Fits of birth caught in the throes and the strings are severed Head on the block heavy as an ox stealthy as the fox Becoming one with the hunting grounds Coming up and going down Singularity in the soul fire burning Polarity in the holy flame turning into the sun Belief in the sun Believe in the son

What are your fears What brings you tears The simple little small things Those tiny creeping crawling things The power to restore Hope to the hopeless Life to the lifeless An ending to the endless Whatever may come may it come soon Wherever you are under the moon May I find you there might I try Might I give you the gift of true sight So far so very far from here I learned that a single tear Shed upon a pure white cheek Enables the mute to begin to speak So close so very near to you I want to be I need to feel truth Insane some call my brain A curse a blemish a stain A gift I say from high above To reach beyond to understand love The falsities the fractures of The emptiness the clash of tongues In a great new blackness we become One and whole in my grim dawn Created and belated but never truly gone Berate me for my teeth shall never cease To spew this sand this grit and grime A slew of hands gripped tightly in mine These hands speak they walk they talk They know the secrets at which you balk I am the glove I am the knife I know true love I bring the light I am all of the above I am the stars at night I know of some who wish to begin the final fight And it shall begin this final end To spare the weak from the might To bring the shadows to light

Start with nothing No one beside you No hand to hold Just the glimmer of a soul A fire burning inside you Slightly beneath the skin Cut deeper into your palms And let the blood drip drip drip This ritualistic calm Pornography for the heart Barely a world apart Every arson begins with a spark Arm yourself to the teeth With weapons of words Harm those you love With power of speech Disarm gods of this world Choke and push and shove Pathways become visible Doorways open up Over and over and over Until you reach the top Power for the hungry Showers of gas and bombs Sleep for the weary Death is only the beginning Another pathway from which to start Left alone and found wanting More and more and more Never enough Never enough We leave this earth with sadness We leave it drowning in a flood A sea of tears and blood Shed from those you loved Crush and crack and kill To reach ever higher Once again it shall begin This world was not enough Never enough Never enough Veni, vidi, vici I came, I saw, I conquered

No matter where it ends It shall begin again No matter what hell god sends It shall reach its final end Sparrow form the start Staring straight into the heart Madness a disease Madness a release Oh how the angels fly Without wings without sight Oh how the angels sigh With arms and feet and eyes shut tight They guide me through the night These fallen angels call to me I answer so they smile Oh how they grin with guile Darkness surrounds Seeing is believing Darkness surrounds And it begins This final end Welcome home my children I shall make you laugh I shall make you smile I am a funny man A funny funny man With great gifts to give to those who follow Follow me into eternity Follow me today Follow me into tomorrow Follow and obey These fallen angels with their smiles These dark powers resound This is the truth in love This is the purpose of your life I will teach you this gift of love I will breathe greatness into your gaping eyes No matter where it ends It shall begin again and again and again So follow me my children Follow me unto the final end Greet with open arms and bloodshot eyes This false finality this perpetual cycle The endless emptiness The void of god and devil The soil of the earth This my faithful happy children This sadness we preserve Is our fate Is our mantra Is our gift Our muse Our soul fire Our burning desire Spread across the earth Spread far and wide Spread like eagle’s wings And open up your eyes And open up the box And become one and lost Lost in the open sky Forever wandering Wondering Thoughts most intimate And falling ever farther ever deeper into the infinite black With one question upon your lips Who is this black angel There is no way back