Maniac Dance

This year has been a nightmare I've been so low, I don't care I've dwelled in depths of darkness Swam across the ocean of pain I've fed the tabloids, the media It's a bottomless pit, a redia Front pages, gossips, knifings, drunken nights and days Sadness, rage, hopelessnes I am nothing without you Again the dance I do the maniac dance Just like in trance I do the maniac dance This demon serves me well It wants to send me to the depths of hell A roller coaster ride it has been I can't tell I'm a walking miracle of medicine A real catastrophe on legs A proud member of human race known as the dregs Xanax, Remeron, Therapy, Buspiron Anger, Fear and Shame Again the dance I do the maniac dance Just like in trance I do the maniac dance

Gravity Eyelids

Open your eyes nowHear me out before I lose my mindI've been waiting for hoursLet the salt flow, feel my coil unwindGive me a smile pleaseCount the calm and watch my breathing slowWinding me up teaseGet inside my head and make it showGravity eyelids come downTouching your oil skinSlipping hands down past your waist to findI've been waiting for hoursLet the salt flow, feel my coil unwind Go to the edge swimBrown the eyes that sleep has rendered blind

1. Gravity eyelids come down

2. Come love so young with your gold arms so I wake her

3. Here's a will that will glow in the dark

This Is Your Life

Five miles tall,And everything is small,Everything is small...Five miles down,You see your patch of groundIt's not so bad at allBreathe in, out,And don't stop breathing!'cause this, this is your life,This is your world,And everything that you've been trusted with,It's small in your eyes,But great is your worth,And you can do this rightThis is your life!Five miles high,Don't want to leave the sky,Everything's so clear.Five miles on,When clarity is gone,Just make it reappear...Breathe in, out,And don't stop breathing!'cause this, this is your life,This is your world,And everything that you've been trusted with,It's small in your eyes,But great is your worth,And you can do this rightThis is your life!Breathe in, out,And don't stop breathing!'cause this, this is your life,This is your world,And everything that you've been trusted with,It's small in your eyes,But great is your worth,And you can do this rightYou know that this, this is your life,This is your world,And everything that you've been trusted with,It's small in your eyes,But great is your worth,And you can do this rightThis is your life!

The Funeral Portrait

You wait by the window Morning's breath on the sill Idle hands given another try So you wait and you savour the moment Outside the canvas turned white Ruby eyes in the fog Rain washing clean all the sins A liquid gown that covers all Your loathe turns endless Opened mirage soothes your sense Locked on the pinnacle The best secret within Like a derelict child Heart burning for a stranger Ascending to the meek Flock round the liars in awe Caked in the soil beneath Fear me when we meet Turn away in admiration My firm grip round the nucleus of joy Enough of this You will leave me now You will see it now Perish at my hands Close to you Tangled up in hair Fresh stigma look Shall I take you with me And it is cold Ruby eyes in the fog It is me And you are just like them all Stained by the names of fathers I'm greeting my downward fall Leaving the throes to others

Harleqυιn foreѕt

Into the trees Past meadow grounds And further away from my home Baying behind me I hear the hounds Flock's chasing to find me alone

A trail of sickness Leading to me If I am haunted Then you will see

Searching the darkness And emptiness I'm hiding away from the sun Will never rest Will never be at ease All my matter's expired so I run

There falls another Vapor hands released the blade Insane regrets at the drop Instruments of death before me

Lose all to save a little At your peril it's justified And dismiss your demons As death becomes a jest You are the laughing stock Of the absinthe minded Confessions stuck in your mouth And long gone fevers reappear Nocturnally helpless And weak in the light Depending on a prayer Pacing deserted roads to find A seed of hope

They are the trees Rotten pulp inside and never well Roots sucking, thieving from my source Tired boughs reaching for the light

It is all false pretension Harlequin forest Awaiting redemption for a lifetime As they die alone With no one by their side Are they forgiven?

Stark determination Poisoning the soul Unfettered beast inside Claiming sovereign control

And now the woods are burning Tearing life crops asunder Useless blackened remains Still pyre smoldering

♪ Vacant ♪

Hey you, Hey you I'm right here Conscience fading Can't get through Oh Lord Helpless Confused Head swayed Eyes glazed And mine teared She's losing control What can I do Her vacant eyes Black holes Am I losing you

♪ In the Name of God ♪

How can this be? Why is he the chosen one? Saint gone astray With a scepter and a gun Learn to believe In the mighty and the strong Come bleed the beast Follow me it won't be long Listen when the prophet Speaks to you Killing in the name of God Passion Twisting faith into violence In the name of God Straight is the path Leading to your salvation Slaying the weak Ethnic elimination Any day we'll all be Swept away You'll be saved As long as you obey Lies Tools of the devil inside Written in Holy disguise Meant to deceive and divide Us all Listen when the prophet Speaks to you Killing in the name of God Passion Twisting faith into violence In the name of God Blurring the lines Between virtue and sin They can't tell Where God ends And mankind begins They know no other Life but this From the cradle They are claimed Listen when the prophet Speaks to you Killing in the name of God Passion Twisting faith into violence In the name of God Hundreds of believers Lured into a doomsday cult All would perish In the name of God Self-proclaimed messiah Led his servants To their death Eighty murdered In the name of God Forty sons and daughters Un-consenting plural wives Perversions In the name of God Underground religion Turning toward The mainstream light Blind devotion In the name of God Justifying violence Citing from the Holy Book Teaching hatred In the name of God Listen when the prophet Speaks to you Killing in the name of God Passion Twisting faith into violence In the name of God Religious beliefs Fanatic obsession Does following faith Lead us to violence? Unyielding crusade Divine revelation Does following faith Lead us to violence?