The pendulum swings from the left to the right
The screaming has gotten so loud
The middle is left to fend for themselves
Somehow they’re lost in the crowd

You could stand your ground as it crumbles away
Crumbles beneath your feet
You can point your fingers and pass out the blame
But we all suffer the same fate

So come on down, you’re next in line
We have plenty of time to spare
In a world gone mad it’s a shame
You have to be judged by the mortal man

Punishment - punishment for all
(For all)
With judging eyes watching us all
Punishment for all
The world is awaiting and anticipating
For God will punish us all

The battle ranges between the left and the right
The middle is wasting away
Now that the eagles have fallen
The vultures will lay their claim

So come on down, you’re next in line
We’ve got plenty of time to spare
In a world gone mad it’s a shame
You have to be judged by the mortal man

Punishment - punishment for all
With judging eyes watching us all
Punishment for all
As the world watches us fall

Divided we stand, together we fall
Who will you blame when all is lost?
United we stand, together we fall
Where do you go when all is lost?
(Lost)
Lost
Together we rise, and divided we fall
(Oh)

Gone are the day hen my mind was roaming free
Overwhelmed with this far,
Like someone is after me
The panic starts to rise
But there's nowhere left to hide
Trapped with my thoughts,
I feel like I'm gonna die
Once glowing eyes now devoid of life
This fear I can't contain
Trapped within these flesh and bones
These thoughts that rule my brain

Shackled by fear
It cuts to the bone
This house of horrors
Growing anxiety
Terror so real, the tension it grows
You could cut with a knife
Growing anxiety
Now fear is my home
Crushing anxiety

As my pulse is racing faster
This chaos that runs my mind
Overwhelmed with the feeling
That tears me a part inside

Frozen with fear
The thaw that never comes
I'm waiting in the darkness
My torture has just begun
The howling winds are coming
They're just outside my door
It's the winter of discontent
Where summer never comes
Like 1000 knives that twit inside
I scream without a sound
Anxiety is attacking me
And inner peace cannot be found

Shackled by fear
It cuts to the bone
This house of horrors
Growing anxiety
Terror so real, the tension it grows
You could cut with a knife
Growing anxiety
Now fear is my home
Crushing anxiety

High anxiety

As the darkness falls, the evil will follow
The lines have been drawn, the young men battle
Society wakes, there’s been another killing
Desensitized to the blood that is spilling

I can hear the voices - calling from the grave
I can see the sadness - written on their face
I can see the news feeds - it’s happening again
The weapons used for wartime are turned against the kids

There’s a monster loose, he’s a one-man army
Twenty-one are dead and they are still counting
As the parents descend, they wait for answers
Whose child survived this deadly disaster?

I can hear the voices - calling from the grave
I can see the sadness - written on their face
I can see the news feeds - it’s happening again
The weapons used for wartime are placed in the hands of kids

No one is safe, the threat remains
Another angel now has fallen
This human waste is crawling

The right to bear, in God we trust
This deadly faction is killing us
For we walk the ground that’s hallowed
We have sown the seeds of sorrow
Weapon of death now in his clutch
This killing spree has just begun

There is a bill on the floor but there is no action
For they fear for their lives from these deadly fascists
They will never change, killing is good for business
They line their pockets from their special interest

I can hear their voices, calling for the change
I can see the evil that’s written on their face
I can see the bloodshed dripping from their hands
Fertilize the sorrow as the parents plant their dead

We have sown the seeds of sorrow

One can rattles the other joins the cause
Bearing false witness to the empty thoughts
These poisoned minds you can never seem to change
Fake news rules the day
Repeating voices echo in their minds
Cashing rabbit they will never find
Toxic seeds watch them propagate
These toxic words fuel their hate

Distortion
They negate
As they proliferate
As they divide
They segregate

Distortion
Everything you see
And all that we know
Wherever there's a mouth
Lies are being told
Lies are being sold
The truth is one's perception
All leading to deception
Distortion

One man's gain another takes the loss
Another false prophet claiming he is good
The disenchanted they will come in vats
Spreading rumors and backing his claims
Repeating voices echoes on the screen
Propaganda feeding their machine
Poisonous seeds - Watch them proliferate
As they bloom they turn to hate

Distortion
They negate
As they proliferate
As they divide
They segregate

Distortion
Everything you see
And all that we know
Wherever there's a mouth
Lies are being told
Lies are being sold
The truth is one's perception
All leading to deception
Distortion

Deny, confuse why the leis you tell are
Meant to distort the truth
Why you distort the truth
Deceiving words for a perilous nation
Truth be told it's just a lie sticks and
Stones never took a life
Darkness falls on a perilous nation
The tales we weave are meant to deceive
Drowning in a pool of information
I'm drowning
The things I've seen I cannot conceive
Venomous words leading to damnation
When the truth is told no one believes

Distortion
They negate
As they proliferate
As they divide
They segregate

Distortion
Everything you see
And all that we know
Wherever there's a mouth
Lies are being told
Lies are being sold
The truth is one's perception
All leading to deception
Distortion

Anger
Anger is rising
The truth, they are hiding
We're sick and tired of the lies
While hate is breeding the sharks are feeing
They're living their life on our dime
Opulence and decadence
The bills that conceal the crime
The tension amongst masses
The dividing of classes
The commonwealth can barely survive

We're bleeding out
They can't survive
As we rack up debt
While they toe the line

Bleeding out
Can't survive
Cruel world
They're ate alive

Thrown in the pit where they barely survive
Like money will fall from the sky
Selling us dream that we cannot obtain
Another sucker is born
Another sucker will be born

The deficit climbing, the people are fighting,
The state of the union declines
While hope is fleeting, hemorrhage,
Lay bleeding, our life line is cut with a knife
Omnipotent and incompetent
Our leaders now watch the decline
They raise he ceiling to continue their stealing
The swamp conceals their crime

We're bleeding out
They can't survive
As we rack up debt
While they toe the line

Bleeding out
Can't survive
Cruel world
They're ate alive

Thrown in the pit
Where they barely survive
Like money will fall from the sky
Selling us dream that we cannot obtain
Another sucker is born
Another sucker will be born

Work through the week
Backward we slide
Flesh to the bone just trying to survive
Bleeding out, the sharks they attack
Increasing their wealth on the unborn's back
Flow the fuck does one survive?

We're bleeding out
They can't survive
As we rack up debt
While they toe the line

Bleeding out
Can't survive
Cruel world
They're ate alive

Thrown in the pit
Where they barely survive
Like money will fall from the sky
Selling us dream that we cannot obtain
Another sucker is born
Another sucker will be born

Taxing the unborn

Anesthetized so he would not feel the pain
In poverty this man became enslaved
He could not fight, he could not run
The corporate greed was just too much
Dehumanized, we couldn't see the rage
We locked him up and threw away the key
The weakened man, who lost his will to be
Another one brought down by society

A sick society
A product of our disease
We're a product of our disease
A victim of the corporate greed
The corporate greed
Another victim
Living the american dream

Immortalized, the man with no shame
And for his crime he wouldn't serve a day
The gilded man they could not touch,
The key of life that he would clutch
Brutalized, the man in the cage
The hands that bind turn seconds into days
The impoverished man held captive by the greed
A another one brought down by society

A sick society
A product of our disease
We're a product of our disease
A victim of the corporate greed
The corporate greed
Another victim
Living the american dream

As we dream one man's dream
Becomes another man's nightmare
As we sell our souls
How wicked we become
We embrace the hand that beats us,
Society marches on
Reality? Who's reality?
Just in this scary place
Where I should not be
I should not be

Reality?
This is reality.
For every person hooked
Gets me closer to my dreams

I can hear the silence
Screaming its emptiness
And soundlessly pouring out its rage
Rage at the sound
Rage at the intrusion and violence
At my feet lay the crumpled remains
Of a life too soon taken
What was her name and how did she end up here?
Her youth is frozen in time

I raise my gaze to the sky, seeking answers
But there are no truths to be found
Resigned I close my eyes

The rain is staying to fall
Starting to wash it all away
Where the signs just fade away
Away from the sight
Away from those probing eyes that question
Will the end of her life be the same?
Forgotten and all washed away?
Who will mourn for her and who will forget her?
What right have they to take away?

I raise my gaze to the sky, seeking answers
But there are no truths to be found
Resigned I close my eyes

The sun retreat in twilight
Seeking to hide itself
Away from the wrong that taint its light
Away from the stain
Away from the contagion, the darkness
As they light dims she slips from my sight
Atrocity masked in shadow
Was she a loved one?
Was she a problem whose worth
Was not enough to save?

I raise my gaze to the sky, seeking answers
But there are no truths to be found
Resigned I close my eyes

Behold her this child of god
I speak the rod as the good book taught
The voices came revealing the truth
They came for miles to hear my views
They praised my name, their new found king
The bowed their heads as I begin to preach
Believing the stories they've all been told
That I've return to save their souls

God speaks through me
Heaven awaits for those who believe
I am here to test your faith
Follow me to the pearly gates

For I am the new messiah
I'm here to show you the way
The others that came before me.
They have all been led astray
For I am my brother's keeper
I will be here with you 'til the end
I will walk you through the valley of death
Into the promised land
The apostle has risen once again

You can still hear me preach today
I stand on the corner of fifth and main
I scream the word at passerby
Disheveled look and bible held high
Waving signs that the end is near
But god's returned so have no fear
A new messiah has now been born and
I walk the streets with my crown of thorns

God speaks through me
Heaven awaits for those who believe
I am here to test your faith
Follow me to the pearly gates

For I am the new messiah
I'm here to show you the way
The others that came before me.
They have all been led astray
For I am my brother's keeper
I will be here with you 'til the end
I will walk you through the valley of death
Into the promised land
The apostle has risen once again

You'd think he's bulletproof
He's survived three tours of war
Witness is to atrocities, he had paid heavy toll
We watched the method man
Turn this warrior into bones
Seemed to have a wish for death
From the day that he came home

He had nothing more to live for
Only one more to take out
He turned the gun upon himself and he wanted out
What happened to that good man? He smoked him all away
Since he came home from war, he never was the same
Five minutes 'til suicide - The clock is ticking down
Fights this internal war within himself, within himself

Open air asylum
The asylum
Admission is free
In the asylum
Opne air asylum
The asylum
Where lost souls roam free

He had nothing more to live for
Only one more to take out
He turned the gun upon himself and he wanted out
What happened to that good times?
He smoked them all away
Since he came home from war
He never was the same
Three minutes 'til suicide -
The clock is ticking down
Just trying to mask
The pain that the war had caused
That the way had caused

Open air asylum
The asylum
Admission is free
In the asylum
Opne air asylum
The asylum
Where lost souls roam free

He couldn't seem to integrate to the
World he used to know
He tried to leave the world behind but out
Just gnawed at his soul
Down in the asylum they all fulfill his
Every need
Assisting him with suicide so he can final
Lay rest in peace

He had nothing more to live for
Only one more to take out
Turned the gun upon himself
And he wanted out
What happened to the good times?
He smoked them all the way
Since he came home from war everything had changed
One minute till suicide - The clock is ticking down
Losing this internal war within himself
With himself

Open air asylum
The asylum
Admission is free
In the asylum
Opne air asylum
The asylum
Where lost souls roam free