cunning, baffling, powerful
(beaten to a pulp)
vigorous, irresistible
(sick and tired of laying low)
dominating, invincible
([ive got no] self control)
overwhelming, unquenchable
(i'm powerless - have to let go)
i can't escape it
it leaves me frail and worn
no longer take it
senses tattered and torn
hopeless surrender
obsessions got me beat
losing the will to live
admitting complete defeat
fatal descent
spinning around
i've gone too far
to turn back round
desperate attempt (to)
stop the progression
at any length
limits obsession
crawl into my glass prison
a place where no one knows
my secret lowly world begins
so much safer here
a place where i can go
to forget about my daily sins
life here in my glass prison
a place i once called home
foreign maternal bliss again
chasing a long lost friend i no longer can control
just waiting for this hopelessness to end
					

(run) fast from the wreckage of the past
a shattered glass prison wall behind me
(fight) past walking through the ash
a distant oasis before me
(cry) desperate, crawling on my knees
begging god to please stop the insanity
(help me) try to believe
stop wallowing in my self pity
we've been waiting for you my friend
the writing's been on the wall
all it takes is a little faith
you know you're the same as us all
(help me)
i can't break out of this prison all alone
(save me)
i'm drowning and i'm hopeless on my own
(heal me)
i can't restore my sanity alone
(into the door)
desperate
(fighting the war)
help me restore
(to my sanity)
and the struggle of hope
(i need to learn)
teach me how
(solemnly burn) help me return
(to humanity)
i've been feeling secure of the way that [this struggle can hold]
believe
(transcend the pain)
livin the life
(humanity)
open my eyes
(this new odyssey)
a prayer inside of me
(serenity)
that i never knew
(sense of mind)
help me to find
(the courage to change all the things all that i can. huh!)
well help you perform this miracle
you might set your past free
you dug the hole, but you can't bury your soul
open your mind and you'll see
(help me)
i can't break out of this prison all alone
(save me)
i'm drowning and i'm hopeless on my own
(heal me)
i can't restore my sanity alone
					

way off in the distance i saw a door i tried to open
i tried forcing with all of my will but still the door wouldn't open
unable to trust in my faith i turned and walked away
i looked around felt a chill in the air, took my will and turned it
over
the glass prison which once held me is gone, a long lost fortress
armed only with liberty and the key of my willingness
i fell down on my knees and prayed - thy will be done
i turned around saw a light shining through
the door was wide open
					

hear me, speaking
asking why even bother
telling me, how you
live from day to day
take your time and look around
is this utopia you found?
sick of all of this
the suffering and regence carrying on
is it a time we care and lose the hate
understand the fears
but we do all that we can
justify the means to mend
sorry you must excuse me
i painted my own mona lisa
she's fixed everything
now i'm spolied beyond my wildest dreams
blind faith we have you
invisible
which direction do we choose?
predictable
take the streets
the beaten path
the system works for whom i ask
you have it all, a bigger house
my advance to keep you out
when did we all let you down?
so come messiah show us now
out here the spirit drowns
what is it you hope to see
blind faith we have you
invisible
which direction do we take
predictable
where there is something in commune
desirable
come, you've done all you can do
regretable
and still life pushes on
with or without you
we've got to carry on
our will, will guide us to
a place where we belong
nowhere lies the truth
i am ??????
?????? brought the son to you
i don't think we let you down
so come messiah i'll show us down now
throw a secure lifeline,
i hope that you hear me, too.
im proud to be around,
there's more to us than we see now.
blind faith we have in you..
invisible
misdirection that we choose
predictable
selling ones abused?????
desirable
cause you've done all that you can do
regretable.
				

waiting in the calm of desolation
wanting to break from this circle of confusion
how can i feel abandoned, even when the world surrounds me?
how can i bite the hand that feeds the strangers all around me?
how can i know so many, never really knowing anyone?
if i seem superhuman i have been misunderstood
it challenges the essence of my soul
leaves me in a state of disconnection
as i navigate the maze of self-control
playing while im being led to a cage
i turn from a thief to a beggar, from a god to - god, save me
how can i feel abandoned, even when the world surrounds me?
how can i bite the hand that feeds the strangers all around me?
how can i know so many, never really knowing anyone?
if i seem superhuman i have been misunderstood
misunderstood ...
playing a lion being led to a cage
i turn from subreal to seclusion, from love to disdain
from a life to illusion, from a thief to a beggar, from a god to -
god, save me
how can i feel abandoned, even when the world surrounds me?
how can i bite the hand that feeds the strangers all around me?
how can i know so many, never really knowing anyone?
if i seem superhuman i have been misunderstood
misunderstood ...
				

what if someone said
promise lies ahead.
hopes are high in certain
scientific circles..
life won't have to end.
you could walk again..
what if someone said
problems lie ahead..
they've uncovered something
highly controversial..
right to life is strong..
can't you see it's wrong?
humankind has reached the turning point..
towards the conflict at ground zero ready for a war..
do we look to our unearthly guide..
or the white coat heroes..
searching for a cure..
turn to the light..
dont be frightened of the shadows it creates..
turn to the light..
turning away would be a terrible mistake..
anarchistic moral vision..
in these trays of death
facing violent opposition
unmolested breath
ethic inquisitions breed
antagonistic views
 right-wing sound bite premonitions
a labyrinth of rules
are you justified..
are you justified..
are you justified..
..justified in taking life to save life?
this embryonic clay
wrought in fierce debates.
would be thrown away..
or otherwise discarded..
some of us believe..
it may hold the key..
to treatment of disease
and secrets highly guarded..
are you justified..
are you justified..
are you justified..
..justified in taking life to save life?
humankind has reached the turning point
towards the conflict at ground zero ready for a war.
do we look to our unearthly guide..
or the white coat heroes..
searching for a cure..
turn to the light..
dont be frightened of the shadows it creates..
turn to the light..
turning away would be a terrible mistake..
we're reaching..
but have we gone too far?
harvesting existence
only to destroy..
carelessly together
we are sliding..
someone else's future
before days frozen still..
someone else's fate
we are deciding..
the miracle potential
the sanctity of life
faced against each other
were divided..
should we push the boundaries
or should we condemn
moral guilt and science have collided
turn to the light..
we defy our own mortality these days..
turn to the light..
pay attention to the questions we have raised
				

why - tell me the reasons why
try - still i don't understand
will i ever feel this again?
blue, sky - i'll meet you in the end
free, love - free the memories of you
free, me - and rest tell on with you
a day like today my whole world has been changed
nothing you say will help me ease my pain
turn - i'll turn slowly around
burn - burn to feel alive again
she - she'd want me to live on
see - me this place i still belong
give - chase to find more that i've found
and face this time it all on my own
days disappear
and my world keeps changing
i feel you here
and it keeps me sane
so i'm moving on, i'd never forget
as you lay there, i'm watching you
accept in the end, i knew you were scared
you were strong i was trying
i gave you me hand
i said it's ok, let it go
time to leave here, now carry on
the best that i can, without you here beside me
let them come take you home
				

[instrumental]
				

she can't stop pacing
she never felt so alive
the thoughts are racing
they're set on overdrive
it takes a village
this she knows is true
they're expecting her
but she's got work to do
he helplessly stands by
it's meaningless to try
as he rubs his red-rimmed eyes
she said "i've never see her get this bad"
even though she seems so high
he knows she can fly
and when she falls out of the sky
he'll be standing by
she was raised in a small mid-western town
by a charming and excentric father
she was praised as the perfect teenage girl
and everyone thought highly of her
and she cried every day
with endless drive with the ????
then one day she woke up to find
the perfect girl, had lost her mind
once barely a break?
now she sleeps the days away
he helplessly stands by
it's meaningless to try
and all she wants to do is cry
no one every knew she was so sad.
even though she seems so high
he knows she can fly
she will fall out of the sky
but in the face of misery
she had found hopefulness
feeling better she had weathered
this depression
much to her she resumed the frantice pace
found much power midnight hour
she enjoyed the rest
				

napalm showers showed the cowards
we werent there to mess around
heat exhaustion, mind distortion
a military victory mounting on innocent ground
hearing voices from miles away
saying things never said
seeing shadows in the light of the day
waging the war inside my head
war inside my head
years and years of bloodshed and warfare
our vision was to get in and kill
a free vacation, palm trees and shrapnel
trading antacids for permanent sci-fi in hell.
hearing voices from miles away
saying things never said
seeing shadows in the light of the day
waging the war inside my head
feeling strangers staring my way
reading lines never read
tasting danger with this where it all has said
waging the war inside my head
				

standing in the darkness
waiting for the light
smell of pure adrenaline
burning in the night
rain and blinding flashes
aiming at the stage
intro taking is to rome
tonight it's sonic rage
still the cage made between these hollow walls
hoping to find in me the answers to
the test that stumped them all
the boy is just simply crazy
he has all these delusions
we honestly think that maybe
he might need an institution
he lives in a world of fiction
i'm afraid he could use some help
we've just got the place to fix him
save him from himself
curled up in the darkness
searching for the light
the smell of pure stale sweat and shit
steaming in the night
random urine testing
pills - red, pink and blue
counseling and therapy
finding not a clue
they will gate made between these hollow walls.
hoping for to find in me the answers to
the test that stumped them all
we've come here to find the answers
looking for a clue in the case
we just cannot just let him live here
and put all this work to waste
why don't we try shock treatments?
i figured he could use some help
we have just the tools to fix him
save him from himself
				

goodnight kiss in your night gown
lavendar in your bed
so innocent as you lie down
sweet dreams that run through your head
are you lonely without, mommy's love?
i want you to know i'd die for that moment
you're just a poor girl afraid of this cruel world.
taken away from it all
it's been five years to the day
my tainted blood still the same
can't help act in this way
those bastard doctors are gonna pay
i'm so lonely without, baby's love
i want you to know i'd die for one more momment.
you're just a poor girl afraid of this cruel world.
taken away from it all
				

he seemed no different from the rest
just a healthy normal boy
his momma always did her best
and he was daddy's pride and joy
he learned to walk and talk on time
but never cared much to be held
and steadily he worked to climb
into his solitary shell
as a boy he was considered somewhat odd
kept to himself most of the time
he would daydream in and out of his own world
but in every other way he was fine
he's a monday morning lunatic
disturbed from time to time
lost within himself
in his solitary shell
temporary, katatonic
madman on occasion
when will he break out
of his solitary shell
he struggled to get through his day
he was helplessly behind
he poured himself onto the page
writing for hours at a time
as a man he was a danger to himself
fearful and sad most of the time
he was drifting in and out of sanity
but in every other way he was fine
he's a monday morning lunatic
disturbed from time to time
lost within himself
in his solitary shell
a momentary maniac
with casual delusions
when will he be let out of his
solitary shell
				

i'm alive again
the darkness far behind me
i'm invincible
despair will never find me
i feel strong i've got a new sense of relation
boundless energy a glory of fixation
i still talk to just get by
it seems so meaningless to try
when all i want to do is cry
who will ever know i felt so sad
cause even though i get so high
i know that i will never fly
and when i fall out of the sky
who'll be standing by?
(will you be standing by?)
				

she dresses in black every day
she keeps her hair simple, and plain
she never wears make-up
but no one would care if she did anyway
she doesn't recall yesterday
faces seem twisted and strange
but she always wakes up
only to find she'd been miles away
a sense of awareness
losing time
a lapse of perception
losing time
wanting to escape we had created a way to survive
she learned to detatch from herself(her cell?)
and behavior that kept her away
hope in the face of a human distress
help search to understand
the turbulence deep inside
that takes hold of our lives
she and disgraced of our mental unrest?
keeps us from saving us from those we love
the grace within our hearts
and the sorrow in us all
deception and fame
vengence and war
life's tall and firm
listening to oneself
despite
feel the walls closing in
a journey to find the answers inside
are we losing time(mind?)