1 The Fun Palace 05:51 2 Road to Ruin 03:42 3 Sixes and Sevens 05:20 4 Stonewall 04:50 5 Never Neverland 05:29 6 Imperiled Eyes 05:27 7 Kraf Dinner 02:41 8 Phantasmagoria 03:59 9 Reduced to Ash 03:09 10 I Am In Command 03:34
1. The Fun Palace
[\"carrying on annihilator's fine tradition of covering weird, psychological illnesses 'palace' is narrated by the emotion of guilt. it details the psychic voyage taken by one who has committed a heinous crime and gotten away with it. many years later the nightmares become so intense that the only way for the murderer to stop them is to confess\"]
welcome, i invite you off to the other world you'll have to face this house of no escape confront the past, in this psychic house of horrors i lead you up the path you'll take
panic, your conscience lied trapped inside panic, your ultimate nightmare welcome to the fun palace
panic, just try to scream it's only a dream panic, your ultimate nightmare welcome to the palace
tonight you'll be tried, i invoke the memories the guilt to be driven from this unconscious mind young lives that you've denied, behold their faces innocence cut to pieces, just look behind
panic, your conscience lied trapped inside panic, your ultimate nightmare welcome to the fun palace
panic, just try to scream it's only a dream panic, your ultimate nightmare welcome to the palace
look at the fun and the games that you've taken away confess! dreams of growing up have been destroyed because of you!
farewell, i impel you back to your other world you'll have to face your every sin take this a painful bounty, representing me the keeper of the palace and the secrets held within
panic, your conscience lied trapped inside panic, your ultimate nightmare welcome to the fun palace
panic, just try to scream it's only a dream panic, your ultimate nightmare welcome to the palace
goodbye, from the fun palace
2. Road To Ruin
[\"i guess you could call this annihilator's version of 'detroit rock city' meets 'highway star' meets drinking and driving! thousands of people are killed each year by those who think that, after a few drinks, they're sober enough to drive the few short miles to home. this particular individual was one of those\"]
no control tonight, the lights are going dim the floor begins to tilt, it's blurring to a spin just let me find my keys, 'look down below' fresh air is all i need, then i'll go
leading up the road to ruin you're full of alcoholic speed leading up the road to ruin no last chance, don't bother to plead
high, over the limit, got to take it slow concentrate, kill the radio it's not the first time, it'll be the last i've said that before, in the past
leading up the road to ruin you're full of alcoholic speed leading up the road to ruin no last chance, don't bother to plead
speed, i've got to make it home
not too far to go, you're getting near just down the block, there's nothing left to fear carefree, on top of the world, feeling power impaired security at ninety miles an hour
leading up the road to ruin you're full of alcoholic speed leading up the road to ruin no last chance, don't bother to plead
out
3. Sixes And Sevens
[\"this title comes from the british phrase 'at sixes and sevens,' meaning 'at a point of disorder or confusion.' i think a lot of people will be able to relate to these lyrics, which describe a period in my life where everything was in confusion, without direction, and giving up was the easy way out. the moral of the story: 'everything works out in the end if you really want it to!'\"]
disillusioned, self-confusion trying to make it through another day what's it all for, when does it end there must be another way
woven webs of intricacy a life of nothing new no one here to understand pressure's crushing you
sixes and sevens disorder battles control sixes and sevens crises overflow
aggravation deep frustration i know what i want to do motivation is a problem when it's driven out of you
emotion, commotion's filling up the brain direction's null and void another drink dilutes the pain
sixes and sevens disorder battles control sixes and sevens crises overflow
sinking fast will it last at sixes and sevens
pulling through from yesterday another day is done determination self confidence has won
woven webs of intricacy life is full of stress that can only hinder new desire to progress
sixes and sevens disorder battles control sixes and sevens crises overflow
sinking fast will it last at sixes and sevens
4. Stonewall
[\"when i moved out to vancouver (canada!) in 1987, i took a walk down to a nearby river. it looked calm and peaceful, yet alive. a closer look (and smell) changed my peaceful mood into a feeling of disgust and disappointment: the water was full of raw sewage and chemicals, which i later found were spewing out from a plant upstream, as well as a garbage dump located, ever so brilliantly, fifty feet from the shoreline. this was the first time i've ever really thought of about the permanent environmental damage being done and, although i'm not about to hold up protest slogans and join greenpeace, 'stonewall' is my way of bringing the subject up for thought.\"]
stonewall - go to bat unless you want to live like that stonewall - can't we see we're our own worst enemy
a land said to have all, wealth in land, in man qualities soon to exhaust as man's greed poisons the land streams, once fresh, were centres of life for so many a creature beauty without defence, polluted, never to replenish
collage, blue and green, seen as golden industrial sites smudge as toxic pollutants destroy her remaining rights the power of corporations, spewing chemicals into the air fines are imposed to discourage, but what's a dime to a millionaire
it's time to listen, and see the signs it's time to listen and hear her cries
the one that gave us life is being burnt to the raw reaping unprotected riches, human nature's self-destruction flaw the power of corporations, spewing chemicals into the air fines are imposed to discourage, but what's a dime to a millionaire
5. Never, Neverland
[\"no not 'alison hell' part 2! yes, another gloomy subject! yet another true story! this is about an unfortunate young girl who was locked in a room for half a decade just for looking at a boy in a grocery store! her guardian, also her grandmother, felt that the only way she could protect her granddaughter from the 'evils and temptations' in the world was to confine her to her room 'till eternity.' there is, however, a rather happy end to all this when, during the middle of the song, the police/social workers storm the house and free the girl from her mental / physical captivity. she is now on the bright road to recovery whilst nanny finds her new home in the sanitarium. ps clare is a doll!\"]
my room is full of toys and things but filled with nothing new just me and clare alone in this enchanted, placid room it's saturday and no more school there hasn't been for years she says we're here forever till eternity
our solitude has been disturbed clare hold on, don't flee with open arms they call my name \"oh won't you come with me?\"
get back, back! just leave us all alone take that and that! i'll break your every bone
get back, back! just leave us all alone take that and that! i'll break your every bone
blacking out, poisoned colours now decay drifting off to never, neverland please don't take me away to never, neverland no, to the neverland
time has passed and now i see what i've lived through i've got no fears that match the hate that came from you it's saturday, i've things to do i wish you all the best now i leave your placid room enjoy eternal rest
6. Imperiled Eyes
[\"although a cliche subject in metal, fear of annihilation is something we've all experienced at one time or another. in this case, we try to decipher, lyrically and musically, a set of reoccurring nightmares i used to frequently have.\"]
centuries of war and waste have dealt a mortal blow mother earth begins to rot humanity on death row life does slowly cease to be death seems so surreal as earth becomes a vacant lot there's nothing left to heal
no colour in the skies no one left to blame and we thought we were wise as i fade, i feel revived shocked back into life opening imperilled eyes imperilled eyes
cessation of physical life blackness rains from above what right did power have to annihilate the earth i loved now a barren wasteland the die is cast a planet that once did teem with life no evidence of a past
no colour in the skies no one left to blame and we thought we were wise as i fade, i feel revived shocked back into life opening imperilled eyes imperilled eyes
centuries of war and waste have dealt a mortal blow mother earth is now no more there's nothing left to heal
no colour in the skies no one left to blame and we thought we were wise as i fade, i feel revived shocked back into life opening imperilled eyes imperilled eyes