You say that you can’t wrap your mind Around these ever-changing, ever-threatening times When all that you’ve got left is the sense of being left behind Why do you hide your eyes? You should be grateful Such a quandary could not have been foretold As now the truth unfolds Quite a conundrum now that the blame is changing hands Now all alone you stand You might hope that I’m the only one Who’s haunted by this new conviction you’ve found Pandora’s cornerstone will crack with time Where will you hide when the walls start to fall all around? Step lively, swim with the current that threatens to drown you Should the waters actually rise... So unassuming... You don’t even know this sea upon which you sink Soon it may call your bluff I can already smell your fear, it stinks of deception You thought that you had us all in your hand Now the current changes direction I can almost predict your fall, what a welcome notion Your true colors rise to the surface of this ever-swelling ocean Why do you hide your eyes? This could be your shining moment Why do you hide your eyes? You should be grateful

My eyes opened, the air had been sucked from the sky A screaming pain in my jaw, but no life I could I remember You know that feeling when you don’t know what you’re waiting for? I heard a whisper in the wind, and he said “Son, you’ll see the world.” And so I did (and so I did) I broke the mountains and met the sun (I met the sun) The waxing moon came down and walked amongst the trees That’s when the beat of my heart changed forever Open its chamber, the blood chants the name The name of the nameless, the sound of the soundless And when I got across the sea, they burned my body and bound my arms But I’m not the type of guy to let that go unanswered Consider yourself privileged! I would have ended you myself, Had it not been for this sacred name on my bleeding heart Now feel the weight of a hundred lives Sita, Rama, Sita, fire and smoke are rising The walls are falling all around me Rama, Sita, Rama, unleash the dogs of war Death is here on your front door Ram! Ram! Ram! Ram! I’ll burn your city down The field is full of death, women cry into the night But still the tide crowds around your walls They say the devil has ten heads for good measure If it were up to me I’d eat them all And when he finally showed his face, fury etched in every line He couldn’t keep the moon from waxing, finally a fight that wasn’t mine Ram! Ram! Ram! Ram!

As we exist on this sinister plane It seems as if there is no refuge to claim Everywhere, stench of death, doom in disguise And either we give in or rise up and fight This apathy, this loss of our humanity We must wake up... Take heed, open your heart Don't let go, it's not over yet We live not to destroy, but only to get back home With stifled breath, and callously conditioned heart We reach for death, as sacred ties are torn apart Could we be sleepwalking through waking life Our lives on autopilot, all day and night All day and night There is only one way out Everything else is a monstrous lie And so, what have you earned from your constructs? Justification of falling prey to blindness Turning your eyes away will never make things right One day you too may need a guiding light Everyday is another day to turn your back... Everyday is another day to help those who... Everyday is another day to turn your back on... Everyday is another day to help those who need you Everyday is another day to turn your back Everyday is another chance to live or die It's your choice Wake up, wake up Before it's too late The fog rolls in on an empty street No voices, no noise or shuffling feet Regret hanging heavy in the air The morning greets you, wrought by despair The moment grips you, no way to break free Breathe in the sting of reality A solemn vow to make amends Reflect, heal and begin again There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man, and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man. There is only one way out Everything else is a monstrous lie

I can't believe the news today I can't close my eyes and make it go away How long, how long must we sing this song? How long, how long... Tonight, we could be as one tonight Broken bottles under children's feet Bodies strewn across the dead end street But I won't heed the battle call It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall Sunday, Bloody Sunday Sunday, Bloody Sunday And now the battle's just begun So many lost, but tell me who has won? The trench is dug within our hearts As brothers, mothers, fathers, sisters torn apart Sunday, Bloody Sunday Sunday, Bloody Sunday How long, how long must we sing this song? How long, how long... Tonight, we could be as one tonight Wipe those tears from your eyes Wipe your tears away Sunday, Bloody Sunday Sunday, Bloody Sunday Here I come... So it's true we are immune When fact is fiction, and TV reality And today the millions cry We eat and drink while tomorrow they die Sunday, Bloody Sunday Sunday, Bloody Sunday

The darkness lurks behind you with every step You consume everything in sight until there’s nothing left Put all imaginations away, stand fast in that which you are Before the hands of Yama drag you into the dark To what shore will I cross, oh my stranded heart? There is no traveler, there is no road No earth, no sky Nothing to behold but slipping time To what shore will you cross, oh your blinded heart? There is no traveler before you, there is no road to implore you But little do you know, you will die alone. You will die alone. What will shake you from this path so heartless? Two-hundred and seven days of darkness

The enticing night is cool and black, no star wheels in the sky The stalls are mute and shuttered, but the dark still has eyes Faces inked and faded twisted 'round pale arms Bleeding out their ceaseless hope, the dark will fill them yet In the darkness, see a future With no aging, no regret Close your Eye and follow slowly Come tomorrow, cheat your death Hear the Dust Witch at the window, whispering her mind A tale of greed and betrayal, of terror in the dark Now I see a chink in the armor, the tender tendon bare The ropes that once appeared as freedom now tighten ‘round my neck Something wicked this way comes Look the demon in the eye Something wicked this way comes Comes this way to die Earth is blistered by the sun in fierceness of its love And if you had to take it all at once you’d break Yeah, it would break you, but better burned then bound by chains Enslaved in your own mind Don’t concern yourself with answers, don’t look inside too much What you find will surely kill you, even worse boy, it would break you In this maze of mirrors, you can never be too sure If what you see before you is something wicked or something pure Until you risk the cutting shards, the searing of the sun And laugh away at all your efforts, to find that all is one Finally an answer, something wicked sounding this way comes

They said "a soul will suffice" The beings from beyond the edge of sleep These dreams have become a predator Ominous and foreboding thoughts In seclusion from my reality These walls I thought I knew Bear no semblance of what I recall The stench of death pervades my home And my waning serenity Fear not, for your time has come Your life is a feckless blight Upon our masterpiece of chaos The joy of orchestrated pain Seen in the eyes of those in death Will be our ominous delight Horrified, by the reality before me A shattered world, wrought by decay Raining down droplets Of the blackest obsidian Ever growing mounds of strewn bodies Take the place of those I knew Can this exist? Can this truly exist Or am I simply still dreaming? Fear not, for your time has come To enter into our domain As we feast upon your offering The joy of consuming your flesh For which we can no longer wait Shall be our ominous delight Enigmatically disoriented This wretched vision of a world Torn asunder, mottled with rot and decay Familiar faces replaced by hollowed cadavers As this world is but a horrifying reminder of what once was The sound in the distance, a scream for life Stifled by the clamor of death These thoughts are not my own, but these images I see Are they real or hallucination? Lost in this consternation Deafened by silence and horrified By the balk of nothingness. One is left to wonder What became of my old world This place is not home All is a formless void of chaos We will rend your insides Dissect your essence To see what makes your soul sing We will revel in your loss of life Serenity is no longer your bedfellow Welcome to oblivion Welcome to oblivion

I will have blood... Blood! Break open your skull, open up your veins Blood! In spates across my feet, against my face Blood! There's not enough in the universe to overflow my tongue Black! The stars are blotted out, clouds covering clouds Black! Darkness vibrant, sonant in the roaring, whirling wind Black! You are nothing, nothing is all, all is nothing Kali, Kalimata! Fire in the heart, black o'ertake the mind Kali, Kalimata! Can you hear the bells which remain unstruck? Fire! Raining down like stones from the broken sky Fire! Pulsing through my arms, pouring from my hands Fire! Reclaim the night, usher you back to hell Fire! The price is everything you have to give From every drop of blood is sprung another snake Each as terrible as the next Tooth and writhing tongue devouring all you see Every stroke brings on another Thousand foes, and you think your dominance complete But the shadow itself springs to life Relieving the burden of your head And sucking down every precious Drop of blood you had relied upon See your head in my hands Watch your own body fall lifeless Cower as the universe trembles before me Die in fear as my dance destroys all creation Not even Shiva... Kali, Kalimata! Essence of the night, fire in the heart, black o'ertake the mind Kali, Kalimata! Can you hear the bells which remain unstruck? The stars are blotted out, clouds are covering clouds It is darkness vibrant, sonant In the roaring, whirling wind are the souls of a million Lunatics just loosed from the prison house Wrenching trees by the roots Sweeping all from the path The sea has joined the fray And swirls of mountain waves, to reach the pitchy sky A flash of lurid light reveals on every side A thousand, thousand shades of death begrimed Black scattering plagues, and sorrows dancing mad with joy Come oh Mother, come! For terror is thy name, death is in thy breath And every shaking step destroys a world forever Thou time, the all-destroyer Come oh Mother, come! Come oh Mother, come Who dares misery love, and hug the form of death And dance in destruction's dance, to him the Mother comes To him the Mother comes