We're all eat up Taste the air you waste A murderer's mirror Eyes watching themselves I want out of this shell Out of this packaged lie Out of what kills inside I cut to reveal what lies beneath We're all each other's graves Uncle Sam's children getting fingered Screaming in the silence All just strangers getting stranger Fucking cattle bound to earthly treasures Recycled plagues masked as pleasures Looking for gold in rusted layers Killers speaking holy prayers Line your lies Blind your eyes Sin disguised Hand in hand, our fate's intwined Run and hide Turn your sight Design your denial Eye for eye, for you and I All in time, the time is nye We've sold our souls to live and die So let freedom ring... What would you do if I opened it up for you? Could you smile and wave at the sight of the ugly truth? Tonight I'll paint these walls with my brains The last siren's most deafening There's five people you'll never meet I find nothing admirable in you I only like the image I've made Don't hold an unloaded gun to another man's head just to scream "April Fools" when he shoots you instead

24 fucking years I've wasted on something that I hate Watching the world have its way with my mind Thinking I'm doing just fine But all we know is all we are And all we are is lost All you know is all you see And all it means is nothing So cleanse the world in ashes It's all just progress Watch your daily habits eat through your skin Head is full of nothing and things crawl from your eyes I'll smile and wave at your name on a grave Full of nothing any god could ever save A monotonous melody hummed in your head The hourglass is empty and the sand is in your bed So cleanse the world in ashes It's all just progress There is no comfort in this desolation fed and nurtured We're all just eating each other alive I am a puppet cutting its strings You are the barrel I breathe into A tantalizing deception, like perfume on a prostitute At least now I can get some fucking sleep Dead

Isolation Burning inside out The world has left a hole in you Revelations You remember too much Your mind wanders too far to come home So far into our fates we've roamed The only road we've ever known Plagued by the past, decaying our futures A decadent void we create We are the only ones we hate Death comes crawling to your door You become the thing you hated before The whole world's been abandoned We're possessed by our own possessions We confess only to sin again We build over mistakes to forget them Decaying by the day Vultures will have their way Everything’s gone to hell We’re already all in pieces It’s already fucking over No way out You lost it all again Nothing left Temptation wraps like a noose Can’t let go Binding and borrowing in you Feed the hole So sick of eating leeches Drill screws into my feet No one returns from this We’ve steadily dug these depths You can lose everything You will see such pretty things Loathsome devil Fucking mental Alone and withered Reaching for restoration In these eyes Time waves goodbye Holding hope like a gun A broken place We'll never see peace until it brings about our end Hold faith through decadence Hold faith till the end of this Hold faith through decadence Hold faith, you’ll see an end to this Corruption is the cure The world diseased itself These things go away The past is meant to fade

Run far now from the outcome That you have generated Like the maker of a monster Ashamed of what you created This is your time Rise and fucking shine My eyes... Have seen death... Awaiting... Oh how I've yearned... For ages... Trapped within... But now... I've returned...again This world ignores its own mistakes Your bliss will be your demise Hidden beneath the deceptive skin A vicious monstrosity lies The irony is we're living to die We'll bore the evil seed Bring into this world once pure One more dark entity This life, What a curse Oh how I envy The one in the hearse Strung high Hear my words Kill me now But you'll be the one who burns Drowning your thirst in gasoline You throw yourself to the fire We will never learn from the past We are too busy living in it Say another prayer to a god not listening The whims of the damned are no longer heard We're so eager to crawl into our graves Little do we know, we worship the absurd Gamble away your brothers and sisters The surface blinds the simple minds They have no idea The light at the end is a bullet from the barrel Through our own hate We've sealed our own fate Through our own greed We planted the seed Life's a whore And we can't get enough We built our homes on piles of their bones Through our own hate We've sealed our own fate Through our own greed We planted the seed Life's a whore And we can't get enough We built our homes on piles of their bones Built our homes on piles of their bones Built our homes on piles of their bones Built our homes on piles of their bones Killed them all to make it our own They reap what we sow And seal our lips shut with the needles Our vanity is our tragedy We've spawned machines That we cannot control With only words we've killed ourselves Like an addict's empty bottle We know our guilt too well Screaming for help without a voice We've sold away our right to choice Jesus Christ Forever shut these eyes Sing and rejoice as we all die Foreseen is the silent massacre But we heed not its warning Foreseen is the silent massacre We all feed on ourselves No one skepticizes Blinded by our vices Taken by devices Society demonizes All (No one knows what's real) For (Nothing here to feel) One (No one's in control) Desire (No one gets out alive) This is my world now This is my fucking world now

An open casket Everything coming to pass Repeating and relapsing Until everything is cold and black That thing I once was is gone That person you knew is so far away That thing in the mirror's turning real That thing in your nightmares is right here Trading sanity for basic relief I am completely self destructive Now everything feels like fire But everything is fine in your head I'll regurgitate my hate until I'm dead I'm not worth shit A mess of projected emotions I'm not worth shit I can feel resentment, I wear this loathing as my skin I try to pretend I do not like this I'm spitting in my own face Reclusion, reckless abandon, and utter misery The good in me has been erased Rise and fall Staring down this dimlit hall Through broken glass I walk But where I'll end may be no different than where I began

I want your heart, I want your soul Give me your life, give me control Distant eyes with stoic minds Exploit and destroy It comes down to what we perceive The way we subject ourselves What we allow our senses to read We're defining a new generation I'd kill just to show you what's real I want to take the same thing I give Take me to places I should not be Entertain me with the horrors I soon will be Cut from empathy Apathy runs like a drug The screams like highs of an opera The feeling like a church mass revival Studying the ways of the world Looking through the lens of every evil We find it to be a mirror We find we're not so different at all Life is porn And I want more An enthusiastic corrosion The corruption of the human mind There is no way to rewind from this time Someday, they'll hear you from beneath the earth (Spoken portion after song into next song, done by Kenny Roberts): Hey, you listenin' close you smelly sack of shit? What is it that makes people like you feel empowered anyway? What gets you off? Hm? What gets you on? Well let me tell ya a little something...your wife sucked me off earlier this week, prick. How does that make you feel? Remember when she told ya blowjobs weren't her thing? Remember when she told ya that she "just wasn't into it?" It's all a lie. You know it is. You know what it really means. She doesn't want you, she doesn't want your small, erectile dysfunctional dick. She wants a real man, and the fact that you question if you are one, just like right now, is exactly how you and I both know you aren't. So what do you do? Pat yourself on the shoulder, let some voice in your head behind that cigarette you smoke and that piss-tasty beer you drink tell you that you're doing a good job? Is that it, then? Is that all you need to keep your sanity in check? How about money, what is that to ya? A joke? Your life? Somewhere in between? And is that because you never have enough? You already know you've got nobody to run to. Oh no! Mommy's dead, that shoulder you used to cry on is long gone and you'll never get her back. And so you, as the rest of this shitty excuse for a world does, fill yourself with all these people and things you THINK care about you and you THINK you have some kind of significant control of. But deep down inside you don't. And you know it. That's why you're poor, that's why your wife cheated on you, that's why you work a mediocre job, and that's why you will die with an unsatisfied lifestyle. That's just how it is in this world. We all wanna take more and give less. We all care more about the physical, status-related, society-pressed bullshit that really means nothing. That's why you, as with most of America, are depressed. We all follow traditions, go to church and pray, follow authority and pay taxes, fear change and shun integrity, and refuse to innovate and so ironically encourage people to be what we call "leaders," yet force them to follow a set of hand-me-down standards that we claim are the things that DEFINE a "leader..." There is no thinking for one's self, no independence, no people's say, no control, and no real "justice." We all give head to something "greater," and just can't stand to swallow...

Today you'll find god In a bathroom mirror Blood-spattered and shattered See yourself in the pieces Used it to open up Used it to see beauty You were looking through a dirty lens You were looking through bullet holes Curses, candles, and total demise Hell is right before your curious eyes Looking through you'll soon despise This door you opened up far too wide Drawing circles and breaking spines Crawling around in the devil's binds Tonight god turns a blind eye Tonight you'll share Allegheri's sight A headless child in the hell you play But I know you like it better that way Head scrambled like blood on the wall Eyes crying for another face to recall Something fucked with me And I never want to live again Cutting out my eyes Burn the board and become a whore Dripping down everything's thighs Masturbating in tongues and knives I don't know what it is I know what it wants It whispers words of suicide It entices, and my blood turns cold God, I wish I were dead Forgive me father, and take my head Scratching off skin in place of prayer There's no quicker way to get you there Salvation found in ripped out teeth Your sanity lies somewhere beneath Used it to open up Used it to see beauty You were looking through a dirty lens You were looking through bullet holes Head scrambled like blood on the wall Eyes crying for another face to recall Something fucked with you And I bet you'll never play again

Twisting inside out I offer my thoughts to god A chorus of dry heaves Tract marks map the portrait of an inevitable ending Raising hell till heaven's reached Eyes scatter like moths on a lightbulb A disfigured beauty Open wounds like ventilation Bloodshot eyes A putrid guise The lights grow dimmer Lines grow thinner This body's a conduit Something's been clawing its way out of you Skin is aesthetic Stitched over the real deal Shed your shell Show your shapes and colors I just want to taste what's real I just need to know it's there You're nobody's anything Don't you EVER breathe again You're nobody's good time It would never hurt you Nothing more than meat with eyes You're nobody's anything Don't you EVER breathe again You're nobody's good time It would never hurt you I open myself to you To show you what lies beneath The things that you've never seen Tonight I'll make you believe I open myself to you To show you what lies beneath A memory for you to keep A sight to haunt your sleep Eyes filled with nevermore Mind corroded with substance When I pick up the phone Still no one is home Insects crawl through lacerations Picking apart like the people you knew The church bell rings as you cry for blessings A fallen angel gone black and blue I open myself to you To show you what lies beneath The things you've never seen Tonight I'll make you believe I open myself to you To show you what lies beneath A memory for you to keep This time, we have cut too deep Jesus is in the pill, it will bring you salvation Come touch hands with your savior Life will only repeat it Life will bring you deceit

Every time I look into your eyes I like the flames you make The way the lights illuminate And if you stare for too long You could lose your sight Glow in the night Fires ignite Here, before our eyes In darkness, there is light Like oceans, we sway Rough to calm in a day Colliding in our waves Beheld by beauty we create Every time I look into your eyes Every time, it makes me feel alive Though your pain I can't erase I gave you my heart to replace And if I stare for too long I might lose my mind Glow in the night Fires ignite Here, before our eyes In darkness, there is light In oceans, we sway Rough to calm in a day Colliding in our waves Beheld by beauty we create Every time we glow in our lights Every time, it feels like forever's been defined

It's like the cross between life and death The way we define heaven and hell The suit you wear to hide the skin The same mistakes we'll make again Your time, your time, parole Your time, your life... The things we choose define what we lose We mold our roads into our tombs The things we need, the ways we bleed Remove the chains, but we're never freed So what does freedom mean to you? Just getting out, is just getting in What good is leaving if you never reach resolve? How do you spell "salvation?" Your time, your mind, parole Your time, your life, your soul Your time, your life, an end... Welcome home So here's to never ending A salutation to your past, so present On your way out, you'll look back You'll see you're no further than before Time will go and sins will show

Rise and shine, you’ve lost your mind 20 plus years empty inside Alone and cold, no one is home Suffer pains that you’ve never known Taking all day Just to wake Same old aches In here, you stay You want to know how it feels? Life is everything you feared You start to see what’s real You disappointed everyone at once Praying into a barrel tonight With all my demons by my side I’ve lived a lonely life But with these voices here, I’ll never die alone They must’ve told you light was at the end of this There must’ve been something that you missed Daddy’s three cans away from death Mommy won’t breathe another breath And here you are, failing at both life and death A hand up Mona Lisa’s dress A ghost that always knew you best You’re wasting everything that you were blessed Still have pictures on the wall Still wish you could burn them all Never-resting eyes haunted in recall Threw tantrums, wrote page after page Lost yourself in all that rage A rabid animal locked up in his cage Weakness wins You sin again Addiction Plagues your skin You’re as hopeless as your efforts Give up while you still can Crawling slowly to your grave Your heart gets colder by the day Waking in vomit and piss today Regurgitating your mistakes You’ve lived a lonely life But with your demons here, you’ll never die alone Gloom and doom since you left the womb All you ever wanted was someone to want you All these scars across your chest Another man's hand rests on her breasts They laugh and toast at your pathetic loneliness "Ah-ha-ha..." Echoes everywhere Screaming and pulling out your hair Silhouettes everywhere You pray for them to take you there Can't quite tell if you've ever grown A child rotting, cold and alone Can't quite tell if you've ever known All you've ever been is on your own

Shut your mouth and close your eyes Let these voices be your guide tonight They're gonna fuck the god right out of you It's not enough to hurt every day that you live through They're gonna drive you fucking insane Your faith and fluids are somewhere down the drain You are meat gone vegetable No pill could make you sensible Never in this world will you ever be normal Bless your soul, you've lost control Made a grave out of your home Keep on running till you find there's nowhere else to go There's no greater high There's no better time You're in need of help You need out of your mind There's no other way There's no brighter day You're in need of something Let these bugs burrow inside Take you to the places that you'll never leave Blind yourself with lights that you'll never reach I hate myself like a pregnant teenage junkie I go to sleep every night with nothing but my longing To die Nothing special Don't you know? You're out of your head Receive the worms You've been force fed I'm all around you Fiddling with your conscience You cannot live Unless I say so You threw away your worth You gave away the world Now you're in your own world You are so worthless You are so worthless You are so fucking worthless

Falling asleep in a casket, awaking in a rusted cell Don’t forget that bloody cross you painted on your forehead There’s no god in your heart, you disgraced the womb that bore you Dear child of mine, Sometimes I wish I could return you where you belong Oh my, what a life They all lied, I deserve to regret the air I breathe You had it once You threw it away You’ve gone without And now you want it again, and again, and again The choice was clear Opportunity was there You threw it away And now you want it again, and again, and again Come on, don’t break my heart I could be everything you need You could have it all As long as it’s all me You need help You’re out of your fucking mind You need this and that Silence your life

There seems to be no hope tonight A red moon shines down from the midnight sky I can feel it burning up The devil's scratching at my door I stare into my six-shot savior Say my prayers to a cold chrome chamber Dead inside Counting time God is in the knife I will return my life I'm in love with a shallow grave She pulls me in and makes me think I'm saved All my demons clawing up my skin Choke down another dose of my sins Whispers creep into my head My repentance will be my end Dead inside Cut the line God is in the knife I can't trust myself tonight Dead inside Plagued by my mind Take it from my eyes Dead inside Take my life My heart is gone I won't make it out alive

Another day living out of my mind Taking time and slowly killing mine Another offer that you can't refuse Slowly accepting what you hate is true Bricks and pavements over graves Wandering orphans, ghosts with no names Ain't it so damn cold when freedom's only found in the ground? A ticking clock begins to slow when wear-and-tear gets to it Autumn leaves ashes, you burn your blessings day by day When everything you loved is gone away Here again and only wearing thin Living on dying dreams and oxygen Wear a tie and think you live a life Laugh off the irony as you die Broken records, skin for gold Painted smiles, life bought and sold Ain't it so damn cold when freedom's only found in the ground? A shattered mirror tells the truth; reality is too real Autumn leaves ashes, you burn your blessings day by day When every ounce of faith is stripped away Ain't it so damn cold when freedom's only found in the ground? Time is never slowing down, you're running round in circles Autumn leaves ashes, you burn your blessings day by day When memories eat your whole life away

A call through aching Time is fading You're moving on from memories Everything spinning Conscience thinning All that's left is you and now Turn the pages as you write it all away You've offered blood to nothing but a broken place It swims through your skin Looking back through a broken lens You have scars in places unseen I can feel the weight you've carried The marks craft a picture of your hollowed soul Substance in your veins just to numb it all away Haunting feelings plaguing all nerve endings Shadows crawling all across the ceiling Voices laughing as you slowly fade to gray You choke on prayers to just be taken away A call through aching Life is waiting You're going to have it all this time Your heart is hoping Your eyes wide open You're leaving all despair behind It's hard to see light from under blackened skies But faith will do you good Sometimes you just hate to feel Other times you wish you could A call to your aching Heaven is waiting The pain is fading A call to your waking Your skin may be aging But time will bring reward Put the past back on the rack Take the hate out of the cartridge Don't leak your pain out from the veins Don't let those curses find their way in Black skies clearing for light You're walking forth with clearer sight The pages stripped away You write a new chapter on a cleaner slate It's do or die

Here, again, the day comes to an end In here, we die, with life before our eyes Like the sky, from blue to grey Refrigerated, spoiled shame We soar and land, so far away Looking back, it's just the same You're a ghost now, just wind in their ears A ballroom closed, torn down with the years Your river's dammed, and the fish don't swim Father time sleeps, and mother nature weeps We break our bones for sticks and stones Consumes the world, when Queen takes King But look around, familiar footprints on the ground We're here, again; the same as we began Holding on Turning the hourglass upside down Refusing We can't accept what the mirror renders real Scream and shout Underneath a thousand sounds You're calling out But in a sea of noise, it drowns "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." "Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life." "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing." "One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation." Life never forgives Time never forgets Not once since the day Not once since it went away

Gets a little colder each night Take a ride, all alone, to clear my mind Some STP and BoC are my only friends Full of empty in a city where dreams end Don't say That this is where my life will end Don't think I'll ever come back here again Don't wait Till death comes knocking at the door Don't stay Where you've got nothing anymore It's become a ghost town Everything's gone into the ground I'm gonna leave this ghost town Off to somewhere I'll never be found It's just one big ghost town Not too many people left around I'm gonna leave this ghost town Ascend and never come back down I'll never come back 'round Take another look back and all I see Always haunted by inherited misery Sit alone, with my thoughts, like a casualty Two decades offered up to monotony  Won't stay Where I've got nothing anymore Won't wait I think I've found my open door Won't be Another victim of recycled fate Won't freeze Let's hope the future lights a flame Been spending just about every single day Just trying to find myself a better way Gets so cold, all alone, in the dark and grey Nothing here but echoes of what used to be It's a curse no one ever quite learns to break It's a place where the worst wouldn't want to stay Somehow, by now, you'd think I'd find a way But it's a long road out of here I've yet to take It's become a ghost town Everything's gone into the ground I'm gonna leave this ghost town Off to somewhere I'll never be found It's just one big ghost town Not too many people left around I'm gonna leave this ghost town Ascend and never come back down I'll never come back 'round Got all the time in the world, until we die Do or don't, it's a choice only you decide Look towards the sun and shadows cast behind Never let your fears constrain your life Won't stay Where I've got nothing anymore Won't wait I know I've found my open door Don't wait Till death comes knocking at the door Don't stay Where you've got nothing anymore Feels so alive Feels so revived Set it on fire Free to aspire It's a ghost town, With not too many people left around Somehow, I don't feel so hopeless, in this light I've found A ghost town, It's a home I've learned to live without I've found Somewhere better for my fire to die out

In waves, you drift and decay Holding your breath in the casket you lay Dissociated from physical life Strange things happen in your head tonight Eating, sleeping, and living feel like winning a war Just want to feel something other than fire and empty Half awake, your perception fades You will see such pretty things on the other side, so cross your heart and pray to never wake again Eating, sleeping, and living feel like winning a war Just want to feel something other than fire and empty I'll bet you wish these nails were her embrace You're spilling blood and semen all over the place You planted the seed Now on shit you feed With roaches, rats, and bad memories you sleep Turn this into learning Fill me with infections You did this to you Are your eyes open now? Out I can see how it's eaten you From where you've gone, there's no return The ghosts haunt and laugh as you stagger your way back home Don't wake me, just end me, dear god The world went cold You're going home I'll have you know that I'm on my way back And I'm still alive somehow I'll have you know that I'm on my way back I am headed home