This is the day of rape
Molest the masses of their hope
Cause them to bear the stain
Their dreams will lie betrayed

Standing elite and above
Looking down on insect minds
Rapture fears are for the feeble
The lest of these we despise

What of us the meek and weary
Who will bear our yoke
We the weak and heavy laden
Who will give us rest

Sympathy is a disease
Pity is true self denied
Epicurean need
There is only me and mine

Aristocratic eyes
Seeing all, knowing none
Oblivious to their pain
Devoid of compassion

Have I suffered a lifetime in vain
Is there paradise waiting for me
A place where I am free of tyranny
Ascent of the fallen

Master and slave will be the same
When in the grave they lie
Heaven will come, the dead will rise
Ascent of the fallen

Have I suffered a lifetime in vain
Is there paradise waiting for me
A place where I am free of tyranny
Ascent of the fallen

She was his whole world, daddy's little girl
Suddenly she was gone
He's filled with such guilt, though he knows
No one was to blame

Taken in the flower of her youth
There is no sense to be made of senselessness

Reflections cloud his mind
A smile so bright, ribbons in her hair
Now he only wants to join his beloved
In her endless sleep

What is left for me
When all I feel is pain
From these memories and grief

Tomorrow is the same, always yesterday
Never ending season of rain
Will it ever end, will he laugh again
Or simply await eternity

What is left for me
When all I feel is pain
From these memories and grief

Daddy I'm still here
Deep within your heart
Here beside you
Through your all hopes and fears
Live for me, remember me
Live for me, remember me

What is left for me
When all I feel is pain
From these memories and grief

Watching the sky for starlight
Point of flame in a dismal night
Torrents of rain never ceasing
Storms dark like these thoughts
That plague me while I'm alone

In a crowd of strangers I feel most alone
Myriad of strange painted faces smiling like a friend
But when I come in need
Their fleeting shadows can not save me
Consciousness births the absurd
I've made my own hell

If I had the chance to live it all over again
I could never undo all the wrongs I've done
Memories like knifes cut into my mind
Heaven would be to forget
I've made my own hell

Remembering the many I have shunned
Crawling ever deeper into myself
Loved ones returning to haunt me again
Ghostly fingers pointing their blame

Now I see all eternity
Stretching out before me
Like Sisyphus I can never be
Reconciled to my destiny
The hand of fate had no part in this
Every choice of my past has bought me to the stone

I saw a man with head in hands crying out God is dead
For hours and hours on end he poured out his convictions
Never met a man more wanting to be wrong
Searching for something to believe in

There was a child with nothing left in his world to fear
No creatures lurking in the shadows or crawling in his head
Imagination useless and dulled
No fantasy in nightmare or in his dreams

Where will we find life's mystery
If all the questions have been answered
I don't want to live in a world
Without gods, without monsters
I don't want to live in a world
Without gods, without monsters

Are all the angels gone
The demons with their ritual stones
Is science now our god
Machines our conscience

Will time erase history
All trance of what we once believed
All sense of wonder gone
Faith drifts on winds so cold alone
Robots with minds we will become
Slaves to wires and circuitry

When belief is gone
Hope can only fade away
Deny the new masters
The old gods still reign

Where will we find life's mystery
If all the questions have been answered
I don't want to live in a world
Without gods, without monsters
I don't want to live in a world
Without gods, without monsters

The more I learn the less I feel I know
The world changes rapidly around me
Yesterday the sky shone blue as the vultures sang
Tonight they cry through inviting darkness

What I've learned I can not hide
Tempted by anger, lured by lust

Commanded my servant to bring me water
He returned with a chalice of finest wine
The taste seemed bitter unto my palette
Pleasure's not in finery, but in having my own way

What I've learned I can not hide
Tempted by anger, lured by lust

Seems so long ago
The serpent kissed me gently
Held in a cold embrace
I knew both good and evil
Now I know I will die
Toil the earth all my days
There's peace in accepting fate
No rest welcomes the dreamer

I'm lost in Eden
No rest for the dreamer

Feel the confines of the flesh closing in
Constricting souls with the shackles of sin
From streams of shame flow a life's regret
Blood tinged tears congeal within

Open of your eyes
See where absolution hides

The stranger comes and you grow afraid
The sound that you hear is nothing to fear
It is just the sound of a beating heart
Pulse quickened by the presence of death drawing near

Open of your eyes
Here's where salvation lies

Find your way out of the darkness
Find your way out of the darkness

The stranger calls will you invite him in
Take his hand and follow to distant lands
In worlds of lasting fantasy we will walk
We will leave behind the shadows of doubt

Find your way out of the darkness
Find your way out of the darkness
There is beauty in the night
Evils hiding from the light, in the darkness

Find your way out of the darkness
Find your way out of the darkness
There is beauty in the night
Evils hiding from the light, in the darkness
Find your way out of the darkness

I feel lost again today
Looking for something to ease the pain
A drug in keeping with righteousness
To dull my memories of the past

Will you heal my wounds with your hands
Can you make these blind eyes see again
Are you ever present when I fall
Keep me safe until there's no pain at all

Feel with your mind
Let it be the prophet showing you the way
As sure as morning sunrise warms the coming day
See with your mind

Where is the comfort you promised me
Was it here while I turned away
Does it speak only I won't hear
Console me through my darkest fears

Time is for those who've known no grief
No loss to warn of one's mortality
If only I can see through the years
My mind's eye will make the future clear

Feel with your mind
Let it be the prophet showing what tomorrow holds
As sure as morning sunrise is a diversion from the cold
See with your mind

Feel with your mind
Let it be the prophet showing you the way
As sure as morning sunrise warms the coming day
See with your mind

All I wanted was to be understood
Someone to listen to my hopes and fears
To much to ask of a so-called friend
That's when the downward spiral began
In my hour of need
On a day of grief
When all seemed lost
You turned away from me

Where are you now
I'm left alone
Soon all my pain
Will turn to hate

Could it be I was to blame
I did everything you asked of me
What more could you have wanted
A little more than I had to give
In my hour of need
On a day of grief
When all seemed lost
You turned away from me

I called your name
I loved unloved
Now all my pain
Turns to hate

Seems strange now how I ever trusted you
Looking back I played the jester, I was a fool
But I see you were no queen, and now
I'll side with anyone who opposes you

My enemy's enemy is my friend

If I were to tell you
There waits a beast behind the door
What would your mind conjure
But feelings of fear
What if it were a ghost
The spirit of one long dead
What feelings fill your heart then
Deepest darkest dread

Beyond the gates of infinity
Nothing natural can make the chasmic leap

Yet still there lies another
Puzzling possibility
Behind the door rests a god
Omnipotent and wise
What now forebodes it's release
Only inexpressible awe
Nothing in our experience
Could paint its likeness

Beyond the gates of infinity
Nothing natural can make the chasmic leap

Numinous
Aspect of grandeur
Numinous
No explanation only awe
Numinous
Symbol of wonder
Numinous
No explanation only awe

A state of confusion
Swirls inside my head
Shadows of truth unseen
Dance on the periphery
What is unchallenged?
What is writ in stone?
Black veils of indecision
Covering all my cares

There is comfort in knowing what you believe
But true power of conviction and certainty lies

In the why
Do we create to destroy in the end
Why is there pain if our God's wholly good
Why is there free will if not to freely love
Why do we fear when there's hope
In the power of why

The foundation is solid
If it's laid on stone
Standing secure and strong
Against the wind and waves
What house can stand if built on sinking sand?
All our beliefs constructed
Fall with weakness of reason

There is comfort in knowing what you believe
But true power of conviction and certainty lies

In the why
One creates to destroy in the end
Why is there pain if our God's wholly good
Why is there free will if not to freely love
Why do we fear when there's hope
In the power of why