You look at the riverbanks
She's looking behind you
The black clouds they fall hard and heavy
As Eden will astound you

So hail to those who give their lives
Who don't stand back when evil rises
It's not a matter of King or Country

So you think it is over
Do you think it is really over?

Look up that skyline
There's a bad moon rising
You may not like it
but that's the lizard you're riding

The smiles & suits on TV news they feed us all
She's the greatest of liars
The stupid bird who dares to speak the naked truth
soon lies flat on the wire

So you think it is over
Do you think it is really over?

Look up that skyline
There's a bad moon rising
You may not like it
but that's the lizard you're riding

We're all just the same old sinner
Fighting for a piece of nothing
Same mistakes go round again - same stupid men
Covering up his bloody trail
Cain he came back emptyhanded
With no fathers blessing and no holy grail

Look around you - take it in before your day is done
When I found you - I was cold and all my lovin' gone
Live inside her - Like a spiral
Sending lifelines from the ground
When I found her - she was cold - still in her wedding gown
Look inside her
And now that she's gone - she brought the darkness down
She brought the darkness down

Trees surround you - they say your body is the garden of your soul
Lights will blind you - and all these roads they say they lead to Rome
Eyes have found her - but you say you're better off alone
You plead forgiveness for a soul that's bad beyond the bone

There's truth in numbers
There's truth in scales
There's truth in science
and truth in sales

And when the sweetness comes to an end
You try to bargain to live again

There's truth in progress
There's truth in fame
There's truth in healing
and the truth remains

And when the sweetness comes to an end
You try to bargain to live again

You look around for the brightest minds
or just a few simple words of kindness
A world gone shallow, cold and mean
It's like a wasteland void of dreams
Hoping and praying that we'll find our way back home

There's truth in numbers
There's truth in scales
There's truth in science
and truth in sales

And when the sweetness comes to an end
You try to bargain to live again

You look around for the brightest minds
or just a few simple words of kindness
A world gone shallow, cold and mean
It's like a wasteland void of dreams

Hoping and praying that we'll find our way back home

And then the numbers may not come up right
and the artifacts are more than frightening
Between the bible and eternal question
There's an ocean of fear and we're sinking faster

The beat goes on and on but we build on shaky ground
With blinders firmly strapped
we gracefully slide down
High expectations as the office calls
"The Company" may claim your body and your soul

The other day we moved like soldiers in our prime
But here we're stuck like stiff canaries in a mine
A one trick pony upon the Chinese wall
"The Company" may claim your body and your soul

What if our destiny lies in the hands of fools
There was a way out, but they'll never let us know
Moves like a clockwork but it's just insane
It governs like a body without brains

- And if you see those men who are sanctified
For love of gold - See you down the road
- When the brightest art is sodomized
Burn it down - See you down the road
- When the mighty fall and try to hide
Call 'em out - See you down the road
- When the darkest lie is justified
Break it down - See you down the road

Watch your back when the sun goes down
The dark duke holds court downtown
Sad seasons - there's no solid ground
Shaping tyrants of a different kind

So you think you'll never see the sun
On the backstreets of Pandemonium
Where the sly little devils run
You'll forget where you're coming from

Days - getting bent into nights - In the blackness of eyes
You stumble and fall from grace
Oh - In the center of grief - It's the hour of need
The bell strikes for darker days

Ground zero calling for all scum
The "black gold" will obscure the sun
New kings fighting for the crown
Thrown over, just about to drown

Days of madness without an end
More disasters waiting 'round the bend
Dark ages seem to rise again
Dark times lie ahead my friend

Days - getting bent into nights - In the blackness of eyes
You stumble and fall from grace
Oh - In the center of grief - It's the hour of need
And the bell strikes for darker days

Juliette calling Romeo - True love has nowhere to go
Rainbows turning black & blue

The Queen behind the veil is mindless
Depraved and without love and kindness
The song she sings has lost its soul
The King is busy with his plot
Promises of love forgotten
The words are bold but without soul

So - a stranger comes to town
with a promise of salvation
for those about to drown

Smile while you carry on
you know that the thrill is gone
You smile until the light goes down
It's the nature of the game
Rising banners on navy skylines

Each and every day gets colder
No remorse for drowning souls
He is just a King who lost his marbles & his mind

The Queen is silent and alone
He built her a prison that he calls home
Dreams at night are crude and cold, as love grows old

The King is gathering all his men
Reverted back to sword from pen
A genius lie but it drowned in cries

So - a stranger comes to town
with a promise of salvation
for those about to drown

Smile while you carry on
you know that the thrill is gone
You smile until the light goes down
It's the nature of the game
Rising banners on navy skylines

Each and every day gets colder
No remorse for drowning souls
He is just a King who lost his marbles & his mind

Sit by the brook that sings your name
The voice of God in this perfect game
I still don't know just where I am at
But I'm on a road that lingers on
to someplace grand

Worlds grow inside you, don't you be afraid
Peace comes to you like a warm embrace
Every season has its sacred ghosts
I see your heart is getting warmer while we peel the crust

Rising the tide Imperial
Leaving the world material
Enter a world superior
Leaving the world material

You count them angels that God once sent
And in the turmoil you just look for friends
The sweetest apple hides the blackest core
I scratched the loudest color surface and I found a foe

Rising the tide Imperial
Leaving the world material
Enter a world superior
Leaving the world material

We are hope, we are fear
We're the hunter and the deer
Together we can make a change
We're the sun and the moon
Like the mouth to the spoon
Together we can make a change

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A silent world - looking for miracles
Looking for any pair of wings that'll carry her
Look at those sacred bones
We're all just traveling souls
We are a fortress of our own making
with this urge to burn

For all the brightest beacons - burning bright
All the fireghosts they take on flight
All the promises they're in your eyes
All the darkest fears you bring to life

Beautiful - we're all so beautiful
But all the stories of our lives will come to pass
Looking down merciful - like lightning it'll strike your soul
You can just turn around and change without looking back

All the brightest beacons - burning bright
All the fireghosts they take on flight
All the promises they're in your eyes
All the darkest fears you bring to life

A silent world - looking for miracles
looking for any pair of wings that'll carry her
Look at those sacred bones
we're all just traveling souls
We are a fortress of our own making
with this urge to burn

You have it all - but still you crave for more
So many unseen wonders - crossing borders
And in knowing how this game can begin
Not going back - you're not going back
Those who follow from beginning to end
From the river docks to the mountaintops

We're going up to rise up again - We're going up
We enter this new state of mind - They can not
Can not bring us down - cause the only way is up
We're going to rise and nothing can stop us from going

From piercing suns and storms - Our wings are shaken
To die is to believe - To meet our maker
And we're walking - if that's what it takes
We're moving on - We're coming home
It's the harvest - and the seeds we have sown
Are coming up - They're coming back

We're going up to rise up again - We're going up
We enter this new state of mind - They can not
Can not bring us down - cause the only way is up
We're going to rise and nothing can stop us from going

You turn it inside out - this quest for knowing
The rivers of emotions keep overflowing