1. Regatta Fugue Part 1

Set set sail for the seas uncharted
Plot the course we'll leave tomorrow
Daybreak the crew is ready
Spirits high lay claim my glory

Waiting so long
To prove there's a way
Just a dreamer
Mad so they say

Travel West ~ to reach the East
At ocean speeds ~ and distance least
Show them all ~ this world is round
We'll span the seas ~ reach solid ground

Godspeed we start our voyage
Pray the storms won't wane my courage
Trade winds they fill the canvas
Hope restored we travel onward

Missing home now
Thoughts that won't leave me
Will I die for lands yet unscene
Lands yet unscene

Thick fog and floating branches
Possibly a coastline nearby
Land ho the crow's net cries out
Journey's end proved skeptics were wrong

Spanish kisses
Are saving my soul
Trading lives for
Spices and gold

2. The Calling

A young boy dreams
Of a warm summer's night
As he sees the snowflakes falling down
He never felt the face of humankind
Just the cold deep thoughts
Of his own mind

He hardens his heart
To the fears of the outside
After all they blew the cold air in
Their acts of degradation
Are frozen one by one
Suspended in time and all but put aside

I am the face of your fears of a thousand years
Look at the hate in my eyes I have magnified
Out of the ashes I salvage my sanity
Scarred from the inside from now
Until eternity

I reach out to search for the safety of strangers
Their ignorance will help me to my throne
I've built up these walls in desperate defense
They segregate my world opens my soul to the call

3. To Believe

There I was reaching out for a hand
But the concept was out of my grasp
I only wanted to be one with the word
I only wanted to see it's fruition

Controlling thoughts and raping minds
Like painting pictures for the blind

Images I see are taking
Life from out of me it's killing
Every thought I think permeates my mind
But I am not going to believe

Speak my peace I try to explain my beliefs
And I am lauded with hate and disdain
Now that I've heard their hypocritical words
I realize there's no chance for comprehension

Think for yourself in your own way
Hear what I say

4. Mad Not Crazy

As I see the day I look in a different way
Eyes as black as night never see the light
You can't see my mind not like humankind
And my viciousness is unequaled
And so now you know

Never will I look back
Some things now will never change
Nothing good ever lasts
Mankind has now gone insane

Doctors theorize that I am mad inside
But what do they know what is real
Feed me all the lies everyday they try
To erase my world
But they will not succeed

Walk the streets at night and I have to fight
Demons deep inside I can never hide
All my darkest fears haunting me for years
Schizophrenia always holds
All of my sanity

5. Desperate Land

A parody of man's intent
The price becomes irrelevant
Brother killing brother dead
Bloodshed turns the Danube red

Sovereignty
To rule thy own
Ruthlessly
Claims bloody thrones

A nation torn by civil strife
Children cling to ebbing life
A prayer for peace to bless this state
No pawn wins in stalemate

6. Nosferatu

The sun goes down
Darkness shrouds the streets we reign – supreme
A church bell tolls
Burning hunger fills my veins – tonight

The traffic slows
Heartbeats pounding in my brain – beware
Their life blood pours from their throats like
Crimson rain

Well I can't recall what a sunrise used to look like
Or how it's rays felt apon my face
Just mrtal blessings
That I took for granted

Children of the damned
Are set free to desecrate the land
Creatures banished from the light
Are condemned to everlasting night

The mirror taunts me
By hiding my reflection
An empty soul behind my stare
The thrill of the hunt
Is the only pleasure left for me

7. Atlantis

Look into the moonlight
Look into the sea
Look into the night sky
Look into a dream
Gaze upon a city
Standing ever so tall
No one ever believed
The city would fall

Once there was a sacred land
It's name struck fear in the hearts of man
And one day all ceased to be
Atlantis her glory was forever lost in the sea

Atlantis her glory was forever lost in time

Think of all the horror
Think of all the pain
Imagine the sorrow of the people that day
Civilization lost in one blinding light
What ever happened to the city that night

Will we ever find a way
To bring Atlantis back here to stay
We all will be homeward bound
Atlantis you soon will be found

8. Regatta Fugue II

See the land on the horizon
Glistening on the waters edge
I've seen the world as no one else has
My dream fulfillled has come at last

I have seen a new world
I am here to stake my claim – for

My return to my homeland
I have seen the promised land
My return to my homeland
A new day is now at hand

For the queen I have given
All my life to see this through
A new world awaits us now for everyone
The voice of a madman now rings true

9. Stained

All the secrets we keep
Are in our mind
And constant therapy
Helps us to find

Every single meaning that we perceive
Clouds the undeniable truth in make believe
Do you feel a little tramatized
Are you feeling sad
It's time we start breaking down
The walls we had

As we struggle going no where
Lost direction no redemption

Stained
Toy thrown away used and cast aside
Stained Smeaing our souls with the sins that we hide

Every night the six o' clock news invades our lives
And watching the television blinds our eyes
Everyone's hopes and dreams betray them now
All innocence washed away gone somehow

Can you see the violence it's all around
Society's decadence brings us down

Oh I see the chage ahead
No more will pure hearts be mislead
Replace the faces who lead
Consumed by stains of their deeds

10. Gates Of Babylon

Sand storms
Obscured horizons
Endless
Open expanses

The tales told on and on
Of the gates of Babylon
What secrets lie beyond
The gates of Babylon

Victims
Of decadent lust
Ruins
Eroded to dust

Erstwhile
Civilization
Modern
Assimilation

11. Requiem

Fire burning higher
Funeral pyres
Ashes coat the ground

Slaughter
Toxic water
Corporate order
Floral genocide

Nations Aberrations
Culmination
Eroded sand

Miles of Rivers dried up
Tree limbs piled up
A dead wasteland

Now there is no where to run
Can't hide from all the damage done
The world's turning a shade of gray
How can we wantonly throw it all away

Requiem

Mindless
Self destruction
Mass corruption
Watch them rape the land

Plotting
Carcass rotting
Ozone spotting
Earth's betrayed by

Traitors
Terminators
Forest haters
Man's epitaph

Plunder
Nature's wonders
Cast asunder
Our time will pass

12. Modern Prophet

The news came down today
A million lives at stake
One nation strives to make
The suffering go away
And bring on a new age

Modern Prophets
See a new way
All that you know is wrong they say
Modern Prophets are gone tomorrow
Hold on to your dreams

Chinese civil war
Ends in blood and gore
Rights we take for granted
Taken all away
Students burn the flag
First amendment rights
Despite the land that lets
Her children desecrate

Their feelings filled with hate

13. Dirty Secrets

You live your life in spite
From day to day
You spread your evil lies
It's always been your way

You don't care who you hurt
You don't care who you burn
The pain you put me through awaits
My every turn

Now I can see
The truth in your eyes
The filthy lies
Don't tell me lies
Don't turn your back on me

Dirty secrets never let you go
Dirty secrets never make it so
All the words you said were never true
Now your dirty secrets
Are haunting you

Let's have the truth be known
I never know what's true
You spend your every day
With nothing else to do
The lives you claim this day
Are looking for revenge
And now you'll have to pay
Until the very end

14. Soul Inside Of Me

Words and pictures
Always on my mind
Think of these visions
All of the time

And when I am alone
I am so far away
Distant reflections of another day

It's so far away
Space and time
I have these words to say
It's no crime
Bitterness surrounds my memories
You killed the soul inside of me

Crushed beneath the weight
Of your needs
Wanted to give you more
But now I finally see

A hopeless situation
I would loose in the end
Ultimate rejection
Lost my closest friend
Why'd it have to end

15. The Creator

Here I sit
Upon the sands of time
Holding visions
Deep within my mind
Wondering now
I look up to the sky
To know someday
I am going to die

Sit back and time will tell
Facing fears I know too well
The creator knows it's time
Living life is so sublime

Killing time
They say that life is just a game
Although the fear is gone
I still can feel the pain
Heaven knows
It's all just a matter of time
Now I see
How precious life can be

16. Indian Summer

Gaze upon the heavens
The sky cracks wide open
Storm clouds filled with lightning
As thunder is rolling
Day of judgement on us
The white dogs come crawling
Stricken down by lies
Their forked tongues are talking

Fires burn the prairie
Herds of buffalo thinning down
Spirits carry my body across the divide
Armies raiding the village
Blood of warriors spilling out
Days of Indian Summer return
Time to die

Round us up like cattle
And lead us to the slaughter
Spreading your diseases
With wiskey filled water
Tribal customs dying
Remind us of our shame
Justice will be served
When our lands are reclaimed

On and on and on and on
We go
To live another day
To our gods
We pray

17. Odyssey

As the dawn breaks
On new horizons
Rays of hope are cast
Beneath the sea
Behemoths of the ancient times
Cry their mournful song
Through eternity

Hear the songs
Of oceans blue
Where children's hopes and dreams
May never come

See the killing
And senseless slaughter
As their number
Fade with the setting sun

Tears of pain and sarrow
To be sung once again
All of our dreams
Our dreams will never end

Can't you see the tears of Cetacea
They're what helps to keep this ocean alive
Cry for me you tears for Cetacea
Without them this world would surely die

With steam and steel
Used to hunt them all
Now closer to the
Edge of extinction

Their flesh and bone
Prized commodities
Death pays the price
It's mark of distinction

From coral reefs
To the murky deep
A few safe havens
For the very last

As they race now
For their survival
Fighting against
The deadly harpoon blast