SYMBOLIC
I don't mean to dwell
But I can help myself
When I feel the vibe
And taste a memory
Of a time in life
When years seemed to stand still
I close my eyes
And sink within myself
Relive the gifts of prcious memories
In need of a fix called innocence
When did it begin?
The change to come was undetectable
The open wounds expose the importance of
Our innocence
I high that can never be bought or sold
Chorus:
Symbolic acts - so vivid
Yet at the same time
Were invisible
Solo: Schuldiner / Solo:Koelble
Savor what you fell and what you see
Things may not seem important now
But maybe tommorow
Do you remember when
Things seem so eternal?
Heroes were so real...
Their magic frozen in time
The only way to learn
Is be aware and hold on tight
I close my eyes
and sink within myself
Relive the gift of precious memories
In need of a fix called innocence
When did it begin?
The change to come was undetectable
The open wounds expose the importance of
Our innocence
A high that can never be bought or sold
Repeat chorus
ZERO TOLERANCE
In the dark of night...
Abusing a portion of light
While others are sleeping
And some are escaping
A serpennt pews out fantasy-
Unjustified blasphemy
That cannot be condoned
Solo: Schuldiner
It must be strange to not have lived
So far into existence
This is not a test of power
This is not a game to be lost or won
Let justice be done
Chorus:
There will be zero tolerance
For the creator of hallowed intentions
There will be zero tolerance
Fate is your deciding God
Solo: Schuldiner / Solo: Koelble
Karma comes crushing down
Leaving a very deep scar
Exposing a door to the
Source of a verbal whore
Machines supply the altar
Where virtuous lives are sacrificed
Solo: Koelble
It must be strange to not have lived
So far into existence
This is not a test of power
This is not a game to be lost or won
Let justice be done
EMPTY WORDS
Ashes and promises share a bond
Through the winds of change
Words are blown away
When visions tha should be
Are tattooed in your mind
The power to let go
Is sometimes hard to find
The answer cannot be found
In the writing of others
Or the words of a trained mind
In a precious world of memories
We find ourselves confined
Claws so razor sharp
Ripping at the spirit
Chorus:
Promises a potential to hurt
Is anything real?
When forever is to be until
Deep inside, in the world of empty words...
No escaping from those haunting
empty words...
Solo: Schuldiner
Do you ever feel it?
Acraving that is so strong
To by thought rewind in order to find
Expectations that shined through the doubt
That soon would turn into price
Of what a eord will be worth
When tommorow comes
To be and we are left
Standing in our own-
And seeing what is real...
The answer cannot be found
In the writing of others
Or the words of a trained mind
In a precious world of memories
We find ourselves confined
Claws so razor sharp
Ripping at the spirit
Repeat Chorus
SACRED SERENITY
Wherever we go, whatever we do
Your shadow is not far behind your steps
And our breath
Protecting and watching all...
Observing spirits on the wall
What are they telling you?
Following all instincts that are pure
Oblivious to time that may be the cure
Chorus:
Sacred is the gift that they
have without knowing
Serenity is knowing it's safe
From destruction of time
Solo: Schuldiner
Maybe we could take a step back
And discover what leads us to attack
Time that is short - distance unknown
For them, each day life just began
Observing spirits on the wall
What are they telling you?
Following all instincts that are pure
Oblivious to time that maybe cure
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1,000 EYES
Crossing the line into the other side
Emerging as prisoners
To the emptyness of time
To the left and to the right
From behind-they're out of dight
Plunging into a new found
Age of advanced observeillance
A worldwide,foolproof cage
Privacy and and intimacy as we know it
Will be a memory
Among many to be passed down
To those who never knew
Living in the pupil of 1,000 eyes
Was it overlooked in front of all our faces?
Now, all the mistakes and secrets
Cannot be erased
Solo: Schuldiner
Viewing the blind complexity
By which laws wre justified
To erase simplicity
To the left and to the right
From behind, they're out of sight
Plunging into a new world
Age of andvanced observeillance
A worldwide, foolproof cage
Privacy and intimacy as we know it
Will be a memory
Among many to be passed down
To those who never knew
Repeat chorus
We are enslaved now...
WITHOUT JUDGEMENT
Guilty until proven innocent
We condemn your soul and fate
Never mind the possibilities
To busy for logic or to calculate
Take part in a diminishing breed
Where complex turns to simplicity
When pain is acknowledged
Frivolous calcoulations will be abolished
Chorus:
Whithout judgement what would we do?
We would be forced to look
At ourselves emerged in lost time
Assuming what may be
Without judgement
Perseptin would increase a million times
Solo: Schuldiner
Distracted by the imagination
That experiments will ease
If you could taste it,it might be addictive
Where life will crush those who defy
Take part in a diminishing breed
Where complex turns to simplicity
When pain is acknowledged
Frivolous calculations will be abolished
Repeat chorus
CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN
Build from blind faith
Passe down from self-included fantacy...
Turn a page to justify
Conjuring power - it opens wide
On your seventh day,
Is that how it's done?
Twisting your eyes to perceive
all that you want
The assume from ignorance
Inflicting wounds with your
cross-turned dagger
Chorus:
Inside crystal mountain
Commandments are reborn
All the traps are set to confine
All who get in the way of the divine
In the sight and in mind of hypocrite
Commandments are reborn
All the traps are set to confine
All who get in the way for the divine
In sight and in mind of the hypocrite
A slave to the curse forever confined
Solo: Schuldiner
Shatter the myth
Don't cut yourself
On your words against
dreams made of steel
Stronger than any faith
That inflicts pain and fear,
Is that how it's done?
Twisting your eyes to percieve
all that you want
To assume from ighnorance
Inflicting wounds with your
cross-turned dagger
Repeat chorus
MISANTHROPE
From above and around,
Observations are collected
Knowledge is taken in by curious life forms
That may bring hope from beyond
Beneath the giver of life, our sun
An exmination of another kind is done
A view from those who stood high
And breathed the sky
An opinion from below and from above
Some where decided and some where not
A few looked away, but none forgot
Chorus:
Misanthrope
Hater of all mankind
There is some hope
For those who own their mind
They came, they saw and acknowledged
Some good, some bad
Opinion: Dangerous
Solo: Schuldiner
Stay where you are, don't get consumed
By what they created from sheer neglect
In denial of years and years of
shattered souls
That were lost to the power of
Fragile, frightful minds
A view from those who stood high
And breathed the sky
An opinion from below and from above
Some were decided, some where not
A few looked away, but none forgot
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PERENNIAL QUEST
The journey begins with curiosity
And evolves into soul-felt questions
On the stones that we walk
And choose to make our path
Sometimes never knowing
Other times knowing too much
Filtering out the bad that holds us back...
Take hold of what is true to our hunger
a hunger that will not go away
Plans of tommorow, they will remain
Chorus:
Won't you join me on the perennial quest
Reaching into the dark, retrieving light
Search for answers on the perennial quest
Where dreams are followed, and time is a test
No time for mental crutches
The maker has moved on
I will take ot raw and be on my way
Those that stood beside me
I'm glad you understand
Behind these written words
I share the simple plan
To hang on the way what we feel
Solo: Koelble / Solo: Schuldiner
From rivers of sorrow
To oceans deep with hope
I have travelled them
Now, there is no turning back
The limit, the sky
I ask my question Why? What today?
When tommorow?
Fiktering out the bad that holds us back...
Take hold of what is true to your hunger
A hunger that will no go away
Plans of tommorow, they will remain
Repeat chorus
