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SINS AND TRAGEDIES
When you walk through the fire you won't be burned
sins and tragedies
If you'd rather be dead than famous you might just get your wish
sins and tragedies
I am Adam I am Adam I've gone gone - Adam's gone Mad
If I make my bed in hell you are there you're everywhere
If I make my bed in hell you are there sins and tragedies
How can you love when you are afraid? Living on the edge of the world
sins and tragedies
We forget what we want to remember and we remember what we want
to forget. Dreaming in our waking moments, In our sleep
we have regrets
Adam's gone mad, I am Adam -I am Adam I've gone mad
Sins and Tragedies.
Gorge on meat until you choke to death intoxicated unclean
Breath your last breath fashion yourself in ignorance and bliss
I become a stranger, a war in my soul swelling word of vanity
Silver and Gold
Hell is naked before you, destruction, there's no covering
Sins and tragedies.
LOVE AND LIFE
First begotten of the dead
Failed in love, failed in peace, failed devotion
fell upon my knees, Failed confusion, failed in truth,
But when it comes to my sin it's always me not you
Marching through the keyhole to freedom
teaching them a New Song
Sweeping through the chambers where phantoms ruled
Following the drops of blood that builds a road back to you
Bringing them all to resolution some so as by fire
even the disobedient, sordid sinners
and their splendid sins
First begotten of the dead among the crude violence, absolute incoherence,
preaching to the spirits in prison who now wear the placid mask of servility
The leprosy of sin had eaten at their souls
We haven't taken our first breath today you can't go back in time
but you can bring your past with you.
They had become monstrous marionettes making gestures
mocking the living the actuality of the impressions of man.
These are those who had found charm in fascination and disobedience
now being led from death - hell and the grave.
Failed in love, failed in peace, failed devotion
fell upon my knees, Failed confusion, failed in truth,
But when it comes to my sin it's always me not you
Love is life, without love there is no life and death is the cloak that you wear
In the catacombs of faith, cemeteries of religion
Some have died never receiving the promise of the truth
In the caverns of darkness not a flicker of light
I ask you what remains
NO ONE BELIEVES IN HELL
The memory is burned in my mind
all hell is breaking loose
Sing about heaven when you feel like hell
because in hell I will praise you
When you lose everything
betrayed by your best friend
when the world rejects you
forsaken even in the end
My God My God why have you forsaken me
Sing with me in my hell
You may believe in hell
But no one believes in hell.
What did I say? No one believes in hell.
RAINBOW'S END
To burn or not to burn
The thought has never entered my mind
I'd walk through the flames for you
I've been through the fires of hell
And I have the ashes to prove it
Oooh what do I do now that I've seen the Rainbows End?
God to the power of ten
LOVE FILLS
God is ever present He is never absent
He is the consuming fire
All love, all consuming, all fire
The fires of Pentecost fill this place
Hades is thrown into the Lake of Fire
and death shall be no more
Heaven is my lake of fire
Divinity is the brimstone that I seek
Light destroys the dark
Life is the death of death
Truth destroys the lie
Logos consumes chaos
Love fills all things
Hope destroys Hopelessness
Love fills all things
faith destroys unfaithfulness
NO ONE SINGS
Who can tell me, Who is the song?
Who will tell me, Who will believe our report?
No one believes so low
No one can believe
Can you tell me, The abyss of the sea?
Can you tell me, the depths of the earth?
Can you tell me about
the darkness the weeping and gnashing of teeth
Can you tell me is it true bout this world?
The grave is where I've made my bed
In the valley of the dead.
Don't think it is strange that it has happened to you
Fear none of these things you will suffer
Be faithful
Can you tell me is there a song in hell?
Can you tell me who would believe our report?
Can you tell me about the abyss of the sea
Can you tell me about the depths of the earth
It's in this world.
No one believes so low
No one sings
When the light scampers dragging hope and vision into the unknown darkness
eagerly, immediately, with all expediency takes it's place swelling blackness
creating a fearful blindness. Oh Light bless my soul cold and hard
that I do not mistake the day for the night.
For who knows the difference between the sunrise and the sunset
if not for the changing melodies of the song birds making tunes.
In this world you've got to believe,
no one sings in hell.
LISTEN FOR THE SYMPHONY
No one believes in hell
Be moved by the resonating sounds
the gates of hell cannot prevail
shattered by the sounds of praise
The King of Heaven won't stop singing
Jericho's walls came crashing down
when the children marched and sang
Singing from the belly of the beast
the beast cannot stomach the song
The prison doors are opened by a mighty earthquake
In this year of Jubilee Jesus sang His song
Stretching out like an invisible thread
into the silver mist
Lost in the torments of my reckoning
Mercy begs for company
wading the flames that keep me thinking
listen for the symphony
ALL HELL IS BREAKING LOOSE
Night prowler fearing day lonely independent aglow
Indeflectable cold not bent or bribed rarified in the atmosphere of solitude
He was a contradiction lived among the suicides without an inclination
of the void
Going back to the all returning to God
to surrender to be extinguished to back to the fall
The magic threatens the day of humanity
lightening strikes the day
Suspicion superstition division contradiction
a judge recognizes his own possibilities
delusion, confusion optical illusion
Magic threatens humanity
BOXING RING
A nervous twitch a habitual tick haha
Act naturally we are alone together this could be amazingly awful
or this could be bitter sweet. I can see you are clearly confused because of the
loud whispers. Because silence is deafening, the world is growing smaller. Definitely, maybe a fine mess. We only have one choice and I must say it is painfully
beautiful. There was a random order among the small crowd. I can believe anything provided that it is quite incredible, But I am absolutely unsure. Busy doing nothing but making sweet sorrow we were almost exactly where we ought to be. No one will convince us that anarchy doesn't rule. With balanced insanity we ran into a string of bad luck. Feeling better than new we soaked up the black light. Taking a calculated risk and being cautiously optimistic and knowing we were in a tragic comedy I found my comrade to be a deaf listener. Like two escaped inmates we found ourselves being extremely neutral. We had our eyes wide shut during this entertaining predictably random sermon about a Stranger in a strange land. What were those hysterical sounds? He was preaching religious tolerance and it was remotely obvious that we would be caught in rush hour. But it was pure speculation on our part. That would throw us into a great depression and we felt half dead already. Being uncommonly normal we were in harmonious discord and feeling like holy hell. I was hopeful pessimist and he remained hopelessly optimistic. I'll admit once again we had a huge under abundance a shortage of morbid humor and only mildly psychotic behavior. We were like no-stick glue minus the numbing sensation. It was like marital bliss. I was a man child and he was a mannish woman, a real lady killer but he had a mean smile. This would be my worst favorite day to show off my lame skills. Less is more and there is a lesser evil. Now that would be willfully negligent splitting a whole half of a glazed doughnut with our unknown identities.
I don't know everything but what I know is I know more than you. Genius is measured by what you know not what you share with others.
The sky was my office in the landscapes of my mind. I am just a pedestrian. When the morning sun begins to shine, I've seen angels but many more devils. They ride on the clouds of imaginations but we are the children of God. We are covered by the blood. I can do nothing without my mind. Success is an illusion, a dream, never come true for most artist and poets that detest commercial viability. Once they accept you / you are no longer relevant of influential and your lone star fades into nothingness.
IT'S THE HALLELUJAH
All that go down to the dust will bow their knee
I will proclaim His righteousness set this generation free
It is finished deliver up this Spirit
It is finished This breath It is finished this voice
It is finished
from the fires of Pentecost
Jericho's walls come crashing down
Sing in prison the city will shake to the ground
The doors will come open from the belly of the beast
Can't stomach the song that we sing
Hell is cast into heaven
death is no more
He is the King that won't stop singing
Be moved by the resonating sounds
or shattered by the sound of praise
be shattered by the sound of praise
Jesus sang My God My God
It's the Hallelujah
NEW CREATION MAN
Were you in the garden with me?
Were you in the fiery furnace ?
Were you in the belly of the whale with me?
Were you 40 days and 40 nights without food or water
Were you born into obscurity
Were you on the tree of pain in agony
Were you entombed in a dark grave with me?
Did you resurrected with me did you ascend with me?
Did you return with me to reveal a grand kingdom
within the heart of every man
I am purged in the fires of adversity
I am cleansed and drowned beneath
In the ancient ruins of Babylon
the more I pray my soul to keep
Tormented by soulless void in the crater of malignancy
the stillness has become deafening and I am dancing mad
Peering into the vastness waiting for the world to implode
The rhythm of creation melting blackness like the shedding of skin
The wind strips away the darkness
ghastly and pale with grand eloquent tone
LEAD BALLOON
Nothings as real as it seems
This is a true myth, I was on a working vacation I was dodging friendly fire
I was dreaming of jumbo shrimp when something properly ridiculous occurred.
This turned into another fine mess. I was thriving on good wit
and spontaneous conversation also mostly I was the object of contempt.
It was a effortless, difficult thing like climbing down from my lowest point
like a heavy diet, being fatigued and stressed out, I fell clumsily, I fell without
purpose, on purpose like a lead balloon rising like a rock from the depths of
the ocean. This was a minor crisis, water was conspicuously absent. It was a
crash landing on a red ant hill at deliberate speed with a dull roar.
Same difference as standing down. If I could exactly estimate through
this endless hour of festive tranquility and having a faint pulse
I would guess that I was going down in history, like a hubcap off a 63 Buick
Riviera unfurling like a UFO as the large half of this liquid marble we call
earth. Nothing less refreshing half dead with lips loosely sealed with melancholy merriment.
It was a minor miracle and pretty ugly with my poor health and sad smile.
Same difference I suppose. I suppose I found this loss of controlled catastrophe and zero
tolerance terribly pleasing and seriously funny. Profusely damning there was no way to
circumvent the consequences. Through me screaming, I was led away, it was like a silent
scream. I still felt terribly good, I counted this as a win win under the all seeing satellite.
Though a theatrical experience like an upward fall through now and then I wished this were
taped live so I could watch it again and again. This was a true myth about a lead balloon. At
least the Good Lord spared me injuries and unnecessary bruises to prove a point. Lead
Balloons don't fly. Nothings as real as it seems.
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ABSOLUTE POWER
Burning in the fire and the flame
Feeling drawn like a moth to the candle’s refrain
Has your skin crawled
Like a spider up a wall
Have the hairs stood on the back of your neck
Have you got that lump stuck in your throat
And convinced yourself not to look back
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
What do you really want
What would you do if it’s given to you
Moving forward to the beginning
Back to the present past
And if it’s love how long will it last
What did you see in the corner of your eye
Do you believe someone is watching you
Have you ever had dejavu
And the joke’s on you
Cause it just happens and there is nothing you can do
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE
I feel what I feel
It all seems real
Yet my eyes are so dim
Happenstance and wanderlust
There is meaning to every breath
There is hope in every season
I long for the melody called
The man of dust
As the wind takes my breath
My back arches, arms stretched
I think about a swan dive
Into the glorious abyss
A wish, a meaningful kiss
It all seems like bliss
Until the real is spoken
And breaks the silence of
Every lovely thing
I am the biggest fool
The world can be so cruel
I have followed my own rules
To what end
BRAND NEW SONG
If my sins will keep you out of your heaven
Then whose sins did Jesus die for?
If I were to miss the mark
Would you want to punish me?
I was looking for a bleeding rose
A thorn to heal a wounded soul
A cross to bear, a star to shine
Leave them alone they are the blind leading the blind
Looking for saints that will judge the world
Looking for a brand new song
Changing who I am for what I’m supposed to be
Fate is my destiny
It is the real me
MADMAN
I am breathing agitation I am ready to blow
I feel screaming aggravation in my ears
I feel I am the smartest man alive
The dead know nothing; Oh my God I am alive
The world spins with idiocy
It reeks of hypocrisy
It breeds pacificity
Defined by religious creeds
I am the madman in your dreams
Tell me, what do you see
Is there life after death
Cause if there is I am ready to breathe
THE ME DYING
Sometimes we are deliberate
When we watch the monsters feed on us
From the open wounds
As the world bleeds
And all that we have learned
Is that the world will burn
CHORUS:
You never see me
You see only me
but not the real me unseen
Dying beneath your feet
The world sleeps while
I look on from above
The vapour revealed and open and
Without disguise
And in the end the poet
In me will cast
Himself upon the bloody
Canvas and pour you
A picture that you
Might see
CHORUS:
You never see me
You see only me
but not the real me unseen
Dying beneath your feet
I paint a picture
I use every color known to man
I write and I sing
I give all I can
CHORUS:
You never see me
You see only me
but not the real me unseen
Dying beneath your feet
DREAM THE DREAM
Every time I crave the forbidden
I ask myself will I be forgiven
Forgiven for the passions and desires
I could not refrain in my final hour
Why the affliction, the helpless addiction
Is there a reason for my condition
I long for identity my sole religion
What is it that clouds my vision
The devil is in the detail
Wait and see
What is meant to be
What was never seen
Unless you dream the dream
Is there a reason that I exist
Why Jesus took the Judas kiss
Only to burn at the core
Why don’t I have the answers anymore
How obscure are your thoughts
Do you shut out everything
Imagine your dreams
Interrupted by everything
When you could dream and you could wish
Who is guilty pleads down on bended knee
With hushed whispers they bleed
Draw a line, Boast a creed
Until we are free
Can you remember the day of silent bliss
With a melody playing in your head
Check your pulse to make sure you’re not dead
NO ONE WANTS TO DIE
Before the break of day
I am on my knees to pray
I believe and I receive
And through it all I will conceive
I am thankful
For all that I have
I am gracious
For all that I can give
I can move mountains I can part the sea
Anyone wants to know then come fly with me
Take the wongs of eagles into the sky
Have no fear of height cuz I ain’t going to die
CHORUS:
No one wants to die
No one checks the time
Hear the chime
No one wants to die
Use me and send me
Anoint my head bless my feet
Raise me up set me on high
Prepare me for the everlasting ride
BURNING SUNSET GLOW
I bought a one way ticket
Left all that I knew
I found me an adventure
It was just me and you
We explored together
Through the sun and the rain
We went to the ocean
The mountains and the plains
We took our love higher
Than anyone needed to know
We fell for each other
In a burning sunset glow
We drank our wine
I sang you songs
We lived our life
Far from anyone
We learned the riff
Performed like we could not miss a beat
Like Jesus at the last supper
We were saying goodbye
I loved you hard
You loved me well
We left our mark
From heaven to hell
We gave each other all
We took what we were given
And the end never came
Because we were living
PLACE IN THE SUN
Remember the days when life seemed real
Before we filled our minds with knowledge
Of how to love and how to kill
Everyone thinks that they are special
Everyone thinks that they are unique
Everyone thinks that they have the answers
But everybody we’re just freaks
We ran carefree aimlessly without
A thought or a care
We didn’t worry about the dirt on our face
Or the wind in our hair
I want my place in the sun
I just wanna have some fun
We were living yeah we were alive
Never thinking about the day we would die
Pre Verse:
Those were the days, Lazy playful days
That lasted forever
Never forget what we were
The last days of our youth
YOU SEE ME COMING
I am the lightning flung from the sky
I am the knife in attempted suicide
I am disease deep in your bones
I am the drug that takes you home
I am the blood splattered on the wall
I am the emergency where no one calls
I am code blue on a lonely highway
I am the death of tomorrow, hell is today
You see me coming
You have invited me in
You swore you knew what love was
But all you got was a little sin
I am the thief on the left side
I was the kiss drove the nail in tight
I am your seven year tribulation
I am the unseen in the darkest night
I am the person, I am the place, I am the time
I am the who, the where, the when and I am the why
WHY
Sometimes you push me
And I say this hurts
Please, please don't do this
You say I know
You say it coldly
As if I have no soul
My soul longs
for the taste of true satisfaction
Close the door
lock yourself away
pretend it doesn't matter
But I say it does
When I hurt
You should feel the pain
and you should not question
The reason why
So wash your hands
I feel sick
I heave and I yield
But I am going to live
The world has always treated me this way
Nothing ever goes my way
My word has never been law
My desires all crumble and fall
Why! Tell me WHY?
I question and I oh I
Never mind
No-one listens,
No-one believes
I am a lonely man
I am instantly frozen beneath the ice
Now I want to fight
best not stand between me
My heart is ripped in two
Now I die twice.
TORMENT
Torment you don’t know what’s in my mind
Torment you don’t know what I am thinking
Torment you don’t know my time
Torment you can’t guess my crime
CHORUS:
What doesn’t kill you
Makes you crazy
The rage is all that I see
It’s all about you
It’s all about me
A fever, a needle
Cold sweat, blood drips
Cold chills, body aches, mind numb
Never saw it coming
Eyes blurred, heart racing
Hands shake, world quakes
Skin of fire sting behind my eyes
Never saw it coming
Longing for normality
Needing a friendly face
Wrapped in loneliness
Never saw it coming
INNOCENT DREAMS
Saying goodbye this airport – is so large
Watching my little boy – become a man
Joined the cause to liberate – gave his life to serve
My son is off to war
My son is off to war
That kid trains hard that kid bruises and bleeds
That kid gives his all
For family country and beliefs
Not afraid of battle
But he thinks of home
Band of brothers tied together joined by a common cause
Foreign lands strange events I pray for him everyday
Can't imagine what he might see
A hundred days in
Loses friends and innocence
Crying in a tent
Trying not to be heard
Comrades in arms all cry
No regret to fight
But something remains
With them in their dreams
Forever with them in their dreams
Every day is hard nothing can take away the pain
Victory is sweet but short lived
Loneliness is never far away
Doesn’t help to close his eyes
Because it’s all surreal
Always flashing images
Pictures and feelings that crumble him
Tour is over he returns
home a changed man, lost my boy
And now I am introduced to man that calls me dad
He is who I admire standing in awe of all that he has become
All that he will do and all he has done for me