Past-forward, pause, rewind Look Back, now well-aged and lined Decrepit and nearly, blind Pity how time flies DEAD STARE FOR LIFE
Past Tense (Track 2)
A lifetime spent standing still Like dead flies gathering on a window sill A sibling disgrace who believes to be The broken limb in the family tree PAST TENSE Too late to save, pulse stand still A dry-lunged solo death rattle Regret in a tear-filled trance A never forgotten remembrence PAST TENSE
Sarcastics (Track 3)
Please explain me to me Tell me what I'm all about You're the one who knows me best Tell me why am I depressed Tell me what I'm all about Turn my pockets inside out You're the one who knows me best Tell me why am I depressed
Distant (Track 4)
It's a matter of indeifference, or is it? If I were to say I was sad about it I could use the word "Empathy, But who gives a fuck? Not me. Calloused and Jaded To who am I related
Hurt (Track 5)
Problems they persist Hardtimes shatter windows with fists Yet still the problems they persist Hardtimes carve open wrists Yet still the problems they persist Hardtimes shout, curse and spit Yet still the problems they persist Hardtimes cloud eyes with mist Yet still the problems they persist Problems they persist
Hacked to Chunks (Track 6)
Education promised a helpful headstar Now home sweet home is a shopping cart "Tomorrow Never Knows", penned a Beatle Later shot dead. "Imagine all the people" The radio weeps the 12-bar blues Television breaks the daily news Lifes the word were told to choose Time stands still win or lose Living on time known as borrowed Here today gone tomorrow
Lament (Track 7)
Such a struggle to overcome the grip of self-destruction MIND-TIED WORSE THAN CONFUSED Emotionally scarred from the heat of hate I contemplate my expiration date MIND-TIED WORSE THAN CONFUSED NOW Such a struggle to reason why to convey the problems on my mind MIND-TIED WORSE THAN CONFUSED To scratch the surface of escape at a loss for words I can't relate MIND-TIED WORSE THAN CONFUSED NOW Losing words I choose
Soiled By Hate (Track 8)
Caught in a web of sever distress Prayed upon by nothingness Buried alive in a grave of despair Soiled by hate and a lack of care A dance of pins and needles
Downsided (Track 9)
I myself, no one else My world Hell, an empty shell MINE IN PAIN Yours not mine, thin or swine Rain no shine, dead in time MINE IN PAIN Misunderstood, never could Never tried, always lied MINE IN PAIN
Push Down & Turn (Track 10)
Confined within my bedroom cell Here by choice outside is Hell Isolated to myself I hurt inside but I'll never tell More than just a passing phase Living on self-numbered days Masquerading my inner rage This is my Patter of change Try after try, I'll never learn There's only one way out... PUSH DOWN & TURN
Curtains (Track 11)
Floating somewhere between then and now A state of mid lost as well as found Through winding trails of soul illusion Forget about the pain, the suffering, the disillusion...