1. Initiation (Intro)
2. The Lost Souls
3. The Nephilim
4. Ever And A Day
5. Sacrifice Theory
6. Of Greetings And Goodbyes
7. Smile
8. A Story At Three
9. Dream Of Waking (vinyl version only)
10. Days Of The Phoenix
11. Catch A Hot One
12. Wester
13. 6 To 8
14. The Despair Factor
15. Morningstar
16. Battled (hidden track)
Initiation (Intro)
The Lost Souls
If you can't stand upon the water I will see you
on the ocean floor. When you blink do you only find the misery between
the lines? Then take my hand and walk with me. Come to me,
your sanctuary, I'll gladly accept the gift that I've been granted.
If you feel fine, then give it just a little time I'm sure you'll contract
my disease. Look what you've done to me now, you've made me perfect.
Look what you've done to me now. Oh! If you can't stand upon
the earth then I will meet you on the other side. When you blink
do you only find the misery weighs down your eyes? Then take my hand
and sleep with me. Look what you've done to me now, you've made me
perfect. Look what you've done to me now. Oh! Take my
hand I'll be everything to you. Take my hand I'll take everything
from you. I will, I'll seep under your skin. I will.
I will, I'll hold onto your heart. I will. Look what you've
done to me now, you've made me perfect. Look what you've done to
me now. Oh! Look what you've done to me now, you've made me
perfect. Look what you've done to me now. Oh! What have
you done? What have you done? What have you done? What
have you done?
The Nephilim
Swing through sadness, tears of joy. Curse
the sunlight. Arsenic for the girls and boys. Drink the madness,
smoke so coy. Smile injection. Serum of a will destroyed.
Serum of a will... serum of a will destroyed. The seasons change,
change without me. I remain in shadows growing wings. The spirit
song still surrounds me, in refrain, in shadows growing wings. Swing
through sadness, tears of joy. Curse the sunlight. Arsenic
for the girls and boys. Drink the madness, smoke so coy. Smile
injection. Serum of a will destroyed. Serum of a will... serum
of a will destroyed. The seasons change, change without me.
I remain in shadows growing wings. The spirit song still surrounds
me, in refrain, in shadows growing wings. Like an angel with two
broken wings (Whoa!), reach to the sky again (Whoa!). Like a devil,
meant for better things (Whoa!), I will find my place on high. The
seasons change, change without me. I remain in shadows growing wings.
The spirit song still surrounds me, in refrain, in shadows growing wings.
Ever And A Day
Lie in the comfort of sweet calamity with nothing
left to lose. Lie in the darkness, I'm slowly drowned to sleep with
nothing left to lose. Whoa, three tears I've saved for you.
I'd retrace the steps that lead me here but nothing lives behind me.
So I lie in this field bathed in the light that loves me, with nothing
left to lose. Three tears I've saved for you. Will you be my,
be my beloved? Will you help, help me to get through? Will
you be my, be my destruction? Will you help, help me to be through?
Oh, oh! Oh, oh! Oh, oh! Oh, oh! Oh, oh! Oh,
oh! Oh, oh! Oh, oh! Will you be my, be my beloved?
Will you help, help me to get through? Will you be my, be my destruction?
Will you help... three tears I've saved for you.
Sacrifice Theory
Whoa! Go! Hear one thousand screams
(Go!). Hear one thousand voices (Go!). A solitary echo (Go!).
Feel one thousand pains (Go!), but one is receiving a bloody invitation
(Whoa!). Do you want to feel the warmth? To taste the life...
to taste the life... do you want to taste the life? To taste the
life... to taste the life flow? Go! Go! Whoa! Feel
one thousand lost sinking into soft skin. Ingest rejuvenation.
One to consume, one to renew. Demanded invitation (whoa!).
Do you want to feel the warmth? To taste the life... to taste the
life... do you want to taste the life? To taste the life... to taste
the life flow? I offer grace, I offer blood. I offer everything
till my heart is crystal clear. I offer grace, I offer blood.
I offer everything till my heart is crystal clear. Oh, to taste the
life flow! Whoa! Do you want to feel the warmth? To taste
the life... to taste the life... I want to taste the life? To taste
the life... to taste the life flow? Go! Go! Whoa!
Go!
Of Greetings And Goodbyes
Now ending discreetly, just like a hidden sin,
as I go under please tuck me in. Make me invisible. This hidden
explosion calls for a wandering cast with no direction. Enter all
the monsters let us twist another fairy tale. Whoa! Whoa!
Go kill the lights, we'll glow till morning comes. Whoa! Whoa!
I'll say goodnight and bow to everyone. Then we go under. The
beauties are sleeping as fruit just rots away. Today go hungry.
Let it begin. Make me invincible. There was a weeping I carried
down today, a sigh worth keeping. Deep within divinity let's start
another secret show. Whoa! Whoa! Go kill the lights,
we'll glow till morning comes. Whoa! Whoa! I'll say goodnight
and bow to everyone. Then we go under. No need to worry it
is just another monster. No need to fear here in the secret show.
No need to worry I am just another monster. In you, I'll see me,
in the secret show. Whoa! Whoa! Go kill the lights, we'll
glow till morning comes. Whoa! Whoa! I'll say goodnight
and bow to everyone. Whoa! Whoa! Go kill the lights,
we'll glow till morning comes. Whoa! Whoa! I'll say goodnight
and bow to everyone.
Smile
Overwhelmed with a deep repulsion for sights seen
so commonly, now I have come to be the walking enmity. Assimilate
into a culture of post morality, from what I've seen, I hate humanity.
Rot with repulsion. I'll write the world a brand new song.
Look upon your bleak creation, but is it truly me that's to be the human
blasphemy? I'll set the world on fire and in burning light I'll write
my first love song and I will feel warmth. Hey! Hide your eyes
in heaven, in the lies. Believe. Relieve. I'll end the
world tonight. Overwhelmed with a deep repulsion for sights seen
so commonly, now I have come to be a walking enmity, for humanity, the
human blasphemy, I'll end the world tonight.
A Story At Three
Again and again they blend into one, my father
the morning pushes through moonlight love. So what's sleep?
Sleep. Sleep. Whoa! I'm tired, so tired, so tired.
But it seems that there's someone here with me. We are the wakeful,
wry, and watchful. We're awaiting. Deathless ones. We
are the wakeful, wry, and watchful. We're awaiting. Deathless
ones. A story at three with the shrillest of cries. My mind
fights with the sparkles in the corner of my eyes. So what's sleep?
Sleep. Sleep. Whoa! I'm tired, so tired, so tired.
But it seems that there's someone here with me. We are the wakeful,
wry, and watchful. We're awaiting. Deathless ones. We
are the wakeful, wry, and watchful. We're awaiting. Deathless
ones. We're awaiting. Deathless ones. We are the wakeful,
wry, and watchful. We're awaiting. Deathless ones. We're
awaiting. Deathless ones. We are the wakeful, wry, and watchful.
We're awaiting the deathless ones. I hear the morning choir sing
to me their elegy. I hear the morning choir sing to me their elegy.
Sing to me! I hear the morning choir (So beautiful) sing to me their
elegy. Sing to me! I hear the morning choir (Ah, and they said
to me) sing to me their elegy. Requiem. I hear the morning
choir sing to me their elegy. We are the wakeful, wry, and watchful.
We're awaiting. Deathless ones. We are the wakeful, wry, and
watchful. We're awaiting. Deathless ones. We are the
wakeful, wry, and watchful. We're awaiting. Deathless ones.
We are the wakeful, wry, and watchful. We're awaiting. The
deathless ones.
Dream Of Waking (vinyl version only)
I feel it washing over me, the slow poisonous tide.
Pins and needles dance on me. Sickness undefined. Now I'm afraid
to face the sky. Please someone hear my haunted cries. Please
let them waken me. Please let them waken me. Please let them
waken me. Please let them waken me. Go! With eyes sewn
shut I still can see (I end up somewhere) All that is surrounding me (Somewhere
between)... between a dream (I end up somewhere) and motionless reality,
will I forever lie? I feel it binding so smoothly. I see myself
below. I feel it gnawing, eating me. Poisonous and slow.
My mind, it speeds. My voice has died. God let me make the
faintest cry. Please let them waken me. Please let them waken
me. Please let them waken me. Please let them waken me.
Go! With eyes sewn shut I still can see (I end up somewhere) all
that is surrounding me (Somewhere between)... between a dream (I end up
somewhere) and motionless reality, will I forever lie? Binded by
my hands, by my legs, by my eyes, by my mouth... bind everything.
Opened up and for the taking, just one touch and I'll be yours. Opened
up wide for the breaking, just one touch and I'll be yours. What's
on the other side of the mirror? To cry, I try, to break the static
keeping me here in between. What's on the other side of the mirror?
To cry, I try, to break the static keeping me here, the static keeping
me here in between.
The Days Of The Phoenix
I remember when I was told a story of crushed velvet,
candle wax, and dried up flowers. The figure on the bed all dressed
up in roses, calling. Beckoning to sleep, offering a dream.
The words were as mystical as purring animals. The circle of rage,
the ghosts on the stage appeared. The time was so tangible I'll never
let it go. Ghost stories handed down, reached secret tunnels below.
No one could see me. Whoa! I fell into yesterday. Whoa!
Our dreams seemed not far away. I want to... I want to... I want
to stay. Whoa! I fell into fantasy. The words were as
mystical as purring animals. The circle of rage, the ghosts on the
stage appeared. The time was so tangible I'll never let it go.
Ghost stories handed down, reached secret tunnels below. No one could
see me. Whoa! I fell into yesterday. whoa! Our
dreams seemed not far away. I want to... I want to... I want to stay.
Whoa! I fell into fantasy. Whoa! The girl on the wall
always waited for me and she was always smiling. The teenage death
boys, the teenage death girls... and everyone was dancing. Nothing
could touch us then. No one could change us then. And everyone
was dancing. Nothing could hurt us then, no one could see us then,
and everyone was dancing. Everyone was dancing. No one could
see me. Whoa! I fell into yesterday. Whoa! Our
dreams seemed not far away. I want to... I want to... I want to stay.
Whoa! I fell into fantasy. Our dreams seemed not far away.
Our dreams seemed not far away. Our dreams seemed not far away.
I fell into fantasy.
Catch A Hot One
Let's tap your heart so we can paint the walls
and see if anybody likes the tone or the pain. The hungry eyes waiting
for your life flash, now they're gonna see it... now they're gonna see
it. Open your veins so we can make a pool and bathe and see if anyone
complains of the stain. Let's strip you down so we can see your old
scars. Now you're gonna feel it... now you're gonna feel it.
Show me how to shine now. Have you ever turned to dust? I saw
an insect learn to fly. Have you ever seen the kingdom of the flys?
(Its form was scorned) Have you lost the sense of touch? I
saw it stay in sovereignty. Have you ever turned to dust? Let's
lift you up so we can see how fast you fall. We always thought that
you could fly. Now you'll crawl. The lack of loyalty you thought
you once felt. Now you're gonna feel it... now you're gonna feel
it. Show me how to shine now. Have you ever turned to dust?
I saw an insect learn to fly. Have you ever seen the kingdom of the
flys? (Its form was scorned) Have you lost the sense of touch?
I saw it stay in sovereignty. Have you ever turned to dust?
Now show me... now show me... now show me... how to shine. Now show
me... (How) now show me... (How) now show me... (How) how to shine.
Now show me... (How) now show me... (How) now show me... (How) how to shine.
Have you ever turned to dust? I saw an insect learn to fly.
Have you ever seen the kingdom of the flys? (Its form was scorned)
Have you lost the sense of touch? I saw it stay in sovereignty.
Have you ever turned to dust?
Wester
I can feel you waiting for me as the sun retreats
to the hills and I, beneath the blanket of a burning sky, wrap myself within.
Embraced by dead leaves as the rain leaves trails of black down my face,
and I creep through the twilight to that hidden place beyond the lonely.
I'll meet you tonight in the whispers when no one's around. Nothing
can stop us now. Tonight in the whispers where we won't be found.
Nothing can stop us now. Aww. I can feel you dreaming of me
and the time when our steps are retraced and I creep through the twilight
to that hidden place, beyond the lonely. I'll meet you tonight in
the whispers when no one's around. Nothing can stop us now.
Tonight in the whispers where we won't be found. Nothing can stop
us now. Tonight in the whispers when no one's around. Nothing
can stop us now. Tonight in the whispers where we won't be found.
Nothing can stop us. Aww. I can feel you dreaming of me.
I can feel you dreaming. I can feel you dreaming of me. Beneath
a dream. Beneath a dream. I can feel you dreaming of me.
I can feel you dreaming. I can feel you dreaming of me. Lost
in a dream. Lost in a dream. Oh! Tonight in the whispers
when no one's around. Nothing can stop us now. Tonight in the
whispers where we won't be found. Nothing can stop us now.
Tonight in the whispers when no one's around. Nothing can stop us
now. Tonight in the whispers where we won't be found. Nothing
can stop us. Aww.
6 To 8
Six figures enter. They've come to destroy
the world. They've called together this storm almost every night.
And I awake in another place. A familiar voice with a stranger's
face speaks (I awake in another place) more unheard words. What new
friends will the day bring? Whoa! One for one thousand acquainted.
Whoa! What new home will the night bring? Whoa! When
it all comes down you just throw the bones. On the way, I saw five
hours of sleep. On the way, but your fire makes it all worth while.
On the way, I wrote words for you to keep. On the way. What
new friends will the day bring? Whoa! One for one thousand
acquainted. Whoa! What new home will the night bring?
Whoa! When it all comes down you just throw the bones. On the
way, I saw five hours of sleep. On the way, but your fire makes it
all worth while. On the way, I wrote words for you to keep.
On the way. I saw myself... lost myself along the way. And
you will find me... on the way, I saw five hours of sleep. On the
way, but your fire makes it all worth while. On the way, I wrote
words for you to keep. On the way.
The Despair Factor
Along the path where the stream is talking, I breathe
the mist and continue walking. The wood, it whispers in a language
of it's own. As a sigh escaped my lips I feel the light caress of
fingertips that steal away the breath and leave me on my own (Own).
Waiting by the stairs. Waiting, I despair. Waiting by the stairs.
Waiting by the... My whole life is a dark room. One big dark
room. Do I hear the hollow sound, footsteps resounding on this frozen
ground, or the familiar disappointment of the echoes of my own (Own)?
Waiting by the stairs. Waiting, I despair. Waiting by the stairs.
Waiting by the stairs. Waiting by the stairs. Waiting, I despair.
Waiting by the stairs. Waiting by the stairs. Somehow I ended
up here in between, where there is always the comfort of knowing I'll never
be seen when I fall. When I fall. I wait for just one touch
and I fall. Weightless, Endless, Faithless, I'll adore you.
A single touch before I fade. Painless let me pass through.
Weightless, Endless, Faithless, I'll adore you. A single touch before
I fade. Painless let me pass through.
Morningstar
I saw a star beneath the stairs, glowing through
the melting walls. Who will be the first to begin their fall?
Or will we become one? Am I the star beneath the stairs? Am
I the ghost upon the stage? Am I your anything? I saw a star
beneath the stairs, glowing bright before descent. And in the morning
there is nothing left but what's inside of me. Am I the star beneath
the stairs? Am I the ghost upon the stage? Am I your anything?
Am I the star beneath the stairs? Am I the ghost upon the stage?
Am I your anything? And I don't want to die tonight. Will you
believe in me? And I don't want to fall into the light. Will
you wish upon? Will you walk upon me? I don't want to die tonight.
Will you believe in me tonight? Am I the star beneath the stairs?
Am I the ghost upon the stage? Am I your anything? Am I the
star beneath the stairs? Am I the ghost upon the stage? Am
I your anything?
Battled (hidden track)
I can't think and I can't speak! My mind
is not my own! Feeling like my will is weak! Cannot find the
strength to go on! I've battled! I'm fucking battled man!
I've battled! I've battled, yeah! I've battled! I'm fucking
battled man! I've battled! I can't think and I can't speak!
My mind is not my own! Feeling like my will is weak! Cannot
find the strength to go on! I've battled! I'm fucking battled
man! I've battled! I've battled yeah! I've battled!
I'm fucking battled man! I've battled!