----The ilussion of safety (2002)---- Kill Me Quickly can we, can we kill each other quickly? quick enough so i won't feel it? a shot of strobe light anesthesia and I’ll be fine as I begin to feel cold my hands are shaking from fear, white from clutching my pride, red from cutting you, and blue from telling lies. 'cause I’m sick of the stabbing, I’m sick of the breaking, I’m sick of the bleeding until we fall down, sick of this circle of death that we dance through again and again, just lay me in the ground. let's fall asleep together, hold me darling 'cause I’m scared, and I can't do this alone. (guitar wailing and drums pounding) but i need! your heartbeat to haunt me, your cold lips to breathe, a promise that, tomorrow we'll wake up somewhere new. A Subtle Dagger it infiltrates, insidious, it feigns at love, betrays our trust in what we’ve known, since we were born. the truth we've found in all we see points to design, still our chests swell, we’ll never find true answers from a wishing well. so feed us all another lie, to still our thoughts, appease our pride, so we wont have to change the way we see, we live, we love, we die, our lust precede our blasphemy, our logic reads like notes from tainted autopsy. (solo by Teppei) our souls they speak of something more, but we cant look beyond ourselves. we implore empty skies because our hearts hold room for no one else, we extend our claws to grasp at shadows of the ideals we have, lost causalities of a subtle dagger, buried to the hilt in our hearts, blood on our hands. See You In The Shallows i hear the waves crash far below, the rocks are leaping for the sky, they’re starving for the air, for a bone to break , a dream to smash apart, but i don't care. it looks deep enough from here, I’m diving this cliff has been well worn by ignorance. it looks deep enough from here, I’m diving they float face down they all look so content. i don’t know why I’m even here. guess I’m afraid to be alone. and down below i see my crew they look okay that cant be blood the water here is far too blue and gravity seems far away but i can hear her call my name its so comforting to know ill never have to think again it looks deep enough from here, I’m diving this cliff has been well worn by ignorance. it looks deep enough from here, I’m diving we float face down, and don’t we look content? it looks deep enough from here, I’m diving this cliff has been well worn by ignorance. it looks deep enough from here, I’m diving we float face down, and don’t we all look so content? it looks deep enough from here it looks deep enough from here Betrayal Is A Symptom faith, is not something that i grasp its something that i fake, as I’m slipping, as I’m falling through the cracks, faith without actions is a mask, for making the same mistakes as I’m slipping as I’m falling through the cracks. somehow i find beauty in our failings, somehow i find meaning in these lies somehow I’m made perfect in this fracture, your back is begging sweetly for my knives, I’m spilling blood, glancing down to hide my face, i walk with eyes closed tight through monuments of grace, (Guitar Breakdown) somehow i find beauty in our failings, somehow i find meaning in these lies somehow I’m made perfect in this fracture, your back is begging sweetly for my knives! my faith is a front, I’m spilling blood, glancing down to hide my face, I walk with eyes closed through monuments of grace, I’m spilling blood glancing down to hide my face i walk with eyes closed through monuments of grace (Breakdown again) isn’t it sweet how, trusted with angels, and how so quickly i break my promises? isn’t it sweet, isn’t it sweet, isn’t it sweet, isn’t it sweet? Deadbolt When deadbolts awake you from deja vu dreams, At 4 in the morning you know where I'll be Out running red lights asleep at the wheel The sirens feed my nightmares. I just close my eyes and I’m already there; Its already too late. I know its nothing but lies, But they sound so sincere; I find them too hard to hate. And she calls from the doorway "stolen water is sweet, So lets drink it in the darkness if you know what I mean" And she calls from the doorway "stolen water is sweet, So lets drink it in the darkness if you know what I mean" And I’m almost sure That I've been here before, That this is not the first time I’ve stood in front of this door, With an overwhelming feeling that I shouldn’t go in, But it seems this is a battle that I never could win. Right now! My true love! You call from the hilltop. You call through the streets, "Darling don’t you know, The water is poison." And I say! "Come on and give me my poison." What have I done…? Is it too late to save me from this place? From the depths of the grave? We all are those .. Who thought we were brave… What have I done…? In Years To Come i want to take the bullet, the one aimed straight for your heart, i want to meet the wolves halfway, and let them tear me apart. this is the way they do it here. i want to lay on the tracks, feel hot steel screaming at me, expose the bones on my back, let me show you what i mean. yeah its a different kind of love, i want to climb barbed wire fences and warm our hands in blood. and this is my gift, asking you to fix my ruined hands. and its a gift that keeps on giving, its a gift that keeps on giving, its a gift that keeps on giving, and right now its all i have to give. i want to lay on the tracks, feel hot steel screaming at me, expose the bones on my back, let me show you what i mean i want to lay on the tracks, feel hot steel screaming at me, expose the bones on my back, let me show you what i mean i want to write the perfect song, and play it just for you, while you are tangled up in sleep. i need you more than ill ever know until i stop breathing my lungs will take you for granted. The Red Death entertain the hope that somehow you’ll escape me weld the bolts and close the iron gate drink deeply THE ILLUSION OF YOUR SAFETY, my how wishful thoughts inebriate, masquerade and revel in your opulence. writhe unfettered by your stabs at ignorance. swim through hues and whispered tones of heresy, a dozen strokes to run your blood cold enough to believe remember me? (solo) you look so surprised to see me here, with hells black wings did i overperch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold me out, and now you all DIE A Living Dance Upon Dead Minds Thrice - The Illusion Of Safety love everywhere, exploding, maims and blinds, a living dance upon dead minds, love everywhere, exploding, maims and blinds, a living dance upon dead minds but surely does not forget(perish), sleep, cannot be photographed(measured); disdains the trivial labeling of punctual brains, but surely does not forget(perish), sleep, cannot be photographed(measured); disdains the trivial labeling of punctual brains, why its love; but at the earliest spear of sun perfectly should disappear who wields a poem huger than the grave? who wields a poem huger than the grave? who wields a poem huger than the grave? who wields a poem huger than the grave? but surely does not forget(perish), sleep, cannot be photographed(measured); disdains the trivial labeling of punctual brains, but surely does not forget(perish), sleep, cannot be photographed(measured); disdains the trivial labeling of punctual brains, (bridge into exit for song) but surely does not forget(perish), sleep, cannot be photographed(measured); disdains the trivial labeling of punctual brains, but surely does not forget(perish), sleep, cannot be photographed(measured); disdains the trivial labeling of punctual brains, Where Idols Once Stood Where Idols lay in ruins we’d have saved them if we could but we still choose to worship the places where our idols stood. still believing they can save us, I’ve lived this way too long to turn back now Presuppositions set in stone this coffin sealed by my own pride, and though it seems the sun will shine, ill draw the shades and stay inside. if we’ve learned anything at all, its that the ghosts of idols will do just as well we all see what we want to anyway (screams ’anyway’) some things are better left unsaid. you know what’s at stake something’s are better left unsaid as long as we keep it in textbooks, then well be untouchable, untouchable we hate to lie to children, but after all its all for their own good. Trust mix the chemicals right dear, mix the chemicals right yeah the margin of error is slight mix the chemicals right dear mix the chemicals right yeah you know that you could save my life there is a risk, there’s a risk when your dealing with love you could snap my neck any speed you drive can be dangerous mix the chemicals right dear, mix the chemicals right yeah you know there’s a fine line between mix the chemicals right dear, mix the chemicals right cause i know what betrayal can mean when this frame fails me will i trust you to carry me through? i know there’s no such thing as safety but i know what a promise can do. will i trust you, will i trust you to carry me through? i will trust you, cause i know what a promise can do To Awake And Avenge The Dead Old friend they told me you were dead The news broadcast the funeral 500 channels focus in Your love was Ravished drawn and quartered, The soil was swift to drink your blood. This violence in the name of love! But i still feel you, Despite your tombstone, But i still feel you, Despite your tombstone, So friend you must still walk among us, In places we don’t dare to glance I saw you killing aristotle I know its all part of the plan Old friend they told me you were dead The news broadcast the funeral 500 channels focus in Your love was Ravished drawn and quartered, The soil was swift to drink your blood. This violence in the name of love! Old friend they told me you were dead The news broadcast the funeral 500 channels focus in Your love was Ravished drawn and quartered, The soil was swift to drink your blood. This violence, this violence, this violence in the name of love! To….awake….and, …. Avenge the dead! To….awake….and, …. Avenge the dead! So Strange I Remember You So strange i remember you in protest of a prayer, And falling back from seas we fear to sail I swear i saw the shooter, gold teeth and double dare, Postmodern warnings seem inclined to fail, Feigning an apology. Those words they never left your lips, Those 5 years in bermuda slide by like the lights of passing ships, So strange that i remember you, Knee deep in nietzsche’s lies My throat was an open grave i drank your stained glass eyes And they taste like dead cathedrals That are crumbling beneath a weight ten thousand jaded tourists Who’ve traded in their hearts and hands for Disposable cameras, set to document to decay Set to capture just enough of life to catalogue the things we throw Away (whispered) (breathing the fumes of our machines) We’ve lost our way—dustin sings ( breathing through television dreams)-whispered If we could only see us now If we could only see us now The words of the dead ring in our ears But its only a lie The voice in your head brings you to tears But you don’t know why The words of the dead ring in our ears But its only a lie The voice in your head brings you to tears But its only a lie, Yes its only a lie, ...isn’t it? The Beltsville Crucible True friends stab you in the front keep you from getting what you want when one more fix could kill you they help you realize that you’re more and less than you first had believed you’ve so much to give and there’s so much you need shortcuts through graveyards and a brand new way to breathe three thousand miles just to learn, all that’s gold does not all shine... and helping words aren’t always kind, when one more kiss could kill you, they help you realize that you’re more and less than you first had believed you’ve so much to give and there’s so much you need shortcuts through graveyards and a brand new way to breathe three thousand miles just to learn… (bridge) …how to let my guard down accept the fire that has spread among us. and if you’re feeling all right, you’ve got to play it again, you’ve got to play it again.