1. Speed Kills

A high performance demon at the speed of light
Screaming through the gears in the middle of the night

Don't know where I'm going high on octane fumes
I ride at the red line so give me some room

Speed kills, it kills you to see me running so free
Speed kills, I leave with dust and a memory

The fast lane's too slow my eyes see white lines
My only goal, a low estimated time
The only speed limit that I recognize
Is a big block V-8 that's opened up wide

Speed kills, it kills you to see me running so free
Speed kills, I leave with dust and a memory

Four speeds and overdrive and nitrous in my veins
The road appears before my eyes and passes through my brain

As I scream by you wander just who might I be
The only evidence I leave is just a memory

Speed kills, it kills you to see me running so free
Speed kills, I leave with dust and a memory

2. Friends Imaginary

Pushing your now feeling, religion you just swallowed.
Hypocrite don't hit me with your bible.
I don't have anything to throw back, unless you count these sticks and stones.
Your name has escaped me.
Loot the vision that clouds the sky, betraying more than decency.
Mask your works, practice til perfect.

Be revered, with luck be believed
perceived as other than a thief,
Other than what you are.
Are you what you thought?
What are you without me?

Talking behind backs turned, Stabbing back and forth.
Words rising to the surface, burned and arranged out of sequence.

Red letter labeling defeats a willing loser with nothing else to lose.
When gravity seems scarce settle for something form all of the non-believers.
Ye of little faith sent to convince. I'm further along than this time last year.

Ice age defeat taught me wisdom.
Cry myself to sleep.

I've been sold out again, thank you friend, Imaginary.
Sometimes there, Always scary, to count on or come through.
Disappointed, what's new.
Sound sincere. Were you ever here?
I'll give you to the count of three to disappear.

3. Census Of Stars

I'm a dream away and a sleep behind waking up safely blind
Resurrected, dumb yet protected
Confessing sins to unkind witness
Whose holding charm an arms leght distance, away
While assisting mistakes to sneak up behind me,
Finding me, unclaimed and blamed for shames sake

For every shining star there are three that have fallen
Two misjudged by hands having stolen
For every shining star there are three that have fallen
Two over looked by eyes that are swollen
with lies and a fools golden splendor

True targets of admiration stands in the shadows
Eclipsed by the undeserving,
Claiming the spotlight as their own
Enacting failures to a mass audience
Giving stage fright to greatness

Performing miracles and walking on water
When boastfully alone,
Hidden abilities un-shown, un-wept, un-dreamt
Sneak away to play without permission to say
Do you care enough to look beneath?...or care less

For every shining star there are three that have fallen
Two misjudged by hands having stolen
For every shining star there are three that have fallen
Two over looked by eyes that are swollen
with lies and a fools golden splendor

4. Degenerating Paradise

He said that he knew Jesus
Came knocking at my Door
He promised me salvation
He let me know the Score

Asked to his congregation
They passed the Plate to me
I made no contribution
He said Salvation I won't see

Now Mister Politician
You know I hear the Words you say
You will not raise our taxes
or take our Guns away

But you're up for Re – Election
and give yourself a raise instead
Now the tax is up and the Guns are banned
And you deny what you once said

The Criminals have the Rights you say
but the Victims pay the Price
As they're kicking in your Door
Guess we're supposed to treat them nice

It's called the legal System
Due process so they say
It has no place for Justice
So the Victims always pay

5. Paying The Toll

I feel you in the distance, waiting for weakness.
Stalking out horizons for hundred thousand years
Plodding every forward, unstoppable in motion
Impatience waiting for the chance, signaled by our fears
I've seen you in my tortured dreams in silence every creeping.
Extinction turns deaf ears to screams to catch us while we are sleeping.
You've lived in our subconscious for as long as we can know.
Hear the rattle of the bones from hand collecting the toll.
In vigilance perpetual, in purpose denied
Unwavering persistence like the steady march of time.
Matching every footstep while we laugh at our progress
Our arrogance denies you we are living in our lies.
This fee is not negotiable and nothing we have accomplished can keep us from the final lonely ride.
Some will boldly step on deck and some find they are not so eager
To see the fate awaits us when we reach the other side.
At odds with all of nature creation an annoyance
You have lived in our subconscious for as long as we can know
Waiting still in patience till we reach our river station
I hear the rattle of the bones from the hand collecting the toll.

6. Pages Of Time

I'm sitting here reflecting on a world that's passed me by
My time is spent, where has it went
If I only had just one more try
But there is no turning back now,
We must move on my friend

Not so long ago it seems when I was young
My adolescent dreams of great things to be done
I took for granted pleasures that children only know
Memories like treasures, I lived and let them go

The years have gone to fast,
and I can't change the past
Turn back the pages of time

I cherished not a moment, saw chances pass me by
Regret will be my eulogy, of things I didn't try
I lost my life to triefles and found no meaning there
A hedonist disciple afraid to even care

These years have gone to fast,
and I can't change the past, will this day be my last?
Turn back the pages of time

I locked away my secrets, no relationships begun
The fears I learned in youth, never trusting anyone
Self doubt prayed upon me, forever the willing host
I left no mark behind me as if I were a ghost

These years have gone to fast,
and I can't change the past, will this day be my last?
Turn back the pages of time

7. Confidence Not Arrogance

Throw around your weight See how far it will get you
Making points with the players
In the game of names and who's fucked who

There is nothing superior, to those with angelic status
When you're a puppet, with strings pulled by the facade

Confidence not arrogance
Arrogance, is something you can't learn
Confidence not arrogance
Arrogance, personality's trying to turn

Never will they know what it is like
The magnificence shining of a humble but confident soul

An empty room can be filled to the point of maximum capacity
By one person being overwhelmed in love with oneself

They protect themselves from any humbling return
Building egotistical houses with delusional architecture

Confidence not arrogance
Arrogance is something you can't learn
Confidence not arrogance
Arrogance, personality's trying to turn

Never will they know what it is like
The magnificence shining of a humble but confident soul

All noses in the clouds, pointing to the heavens
Gasping for identity and a breath of lasting recognition
Talking down to everyone listening, stepping up, resisting
Humility replies without answering in a silent return of mockery

8. If These Walls Could Talk

Surfacing as the only living witness to a crime, others label with disgrace.
Only a mother who's child is lost to her feels what can't be replaced.
Strength failing to exist, now when needed most.
What a price to sacrifice, Life or the life inside you.
Imagine the hurt when time is gone to choose.
Opinions voice decisions of pro-choice.
Freedoms abused, in this manner refused.

If these walls could talk, what would they say?
If these walls could talk, Would words or sounds convey?
This pain of loss. The ability to pray.
Breaching faith through life's will betrayed
If these walls could talk what would they say.

Not proud of what's been done, but doing what's right.
In light of all the darkness carried through hearts hating to breathe.
Creations power, in this blackest hour.
Exchanging gifts of life to be taken back for what's been taken away.
trapped inside a womb, foreclosing walls caving in. Surrounded, dumbfounded.
By voices to be reckoned with.
Force fed words meant to console.
Though still feeling alone.

Judgements given out by those who chose alternatives.
What have I done? Whats to come? For me there is no other way.
Mere moments to measure, split seconds of pleasure.
Was it worth feeding emptiness.
Innocence given up to protect your forever.
Meaning never again will this heart beat inside you.

9. Medley (Sanctuary, Fear of Change, Run Forever, Mindless Game Control)

Inside your mind, there's a place you'll find
You can leave your fears and troubles all behind you
Where no one can find you

When you're all alone, so empty inside
Just find your inner sanctum
Dry the tears you cried, bring back the feelings that died

How many times have they slammed the door
On the hopes and the visions you had once before
And how many times have they covered your eyes
Tried to shatter your dreams and fill you with lies

Look into his empty eyes
Hidden behind a painted disguise
So long he's endured, so hard how he tries
Alone in the silence, in sorrow he cries

In the night but there's nowhere you can turn
In a world so cold and lonely, bitter lessons to be learned
All odds are against you as you walk this lonely road
When there is no friend you can call on, and no one you can hold

Look into his empty eyes
Hidden behind a painted disguise
Can he find peace and tranquility
This shell of a man that he used to be

Sanctuary from the storm, take the cold and leave the warm
Find the place that brings you harmony
Sanctuary from the storm, mend the heart they've tried and torn
Find your dreams to make reality

I dream alone at night of those
Who've walked the sands of Time
I've listened to the Stories of the Old

The Knowledge here behind our fear
That's hidden behind our Eyes
is stronger through the lessons we've been told

All that my eyes see, someone else's Dreams

All Fear of change is what remains
This clutching to the past
you see in the eyes of young and old

And still I dream of other things
I'll walked the burning Sands
To find truth or deny what i've been told

Never will I grieve, for things I believe

I yet have no clear way to go
Though it's clear I'll walk alone
And fear is real or imagined will I find

Reveal to me the truth I see
An end to what I know
And let me touch on wisdom in my Mind

We seek for shelter in the deep of the night
From the dark and the light we close our eyes
The longest days the times that we make
And the risks that we take 'neath the starry skies

Run forever; we're unwanted you see
Run forever and we want to be free

Deceitful dancer run in the rain
And deny all the pain 'cause you'll never fly
There's no answer, there's nothing you made
That can hide you're afraid both to live and to die

Run forever; we're unwanted you see
Run forever and we want to be free

Free from the truth and the lies, the feelings inside
The walls that we've built from the pain in our minds
No more will we take for our will they won't break
Hold on to your dreams for your life's what you make it hold on

Run forever

It has begun, the breaking down of wills
The struggle to submit
The conflict between compromise and manipulation
You can't resist, you can't resist

With independence consumed, we walk the thin line
That's timely tested and detested
By those falling short to subservience,
Being subdued by the line
One needs to fall down,
To another's oppression gaining ground
One must give in to the mindless game control
One needs to fall down,
To another's oppression gaining ground
One must give in to the mindless game control

Held by your embodying beliefs
And conclusions undecided
Freedom contravies to overlock
Designated points where your heart once recided

Don't fall to the mindless game control

One needs to fall down,
To another's oppression gaining ground
One must give in to the mindless game control
One needs to fall down,
To another's oppression gaining ground
One must give in to the mindless game control

10. Leviathan

Alone too many years to count
so feared by mortal man
I'd barter my Eternity
to be as I was then

Condemned to stand immortal
A Visage out of Hell
That longs to speak to anyone
The Stories I would tell

But all will flee before me
And refuse to understand

That even Horror needs a Friend
or to touch a woman's hand

Despair now waits behind my Eyes
on my own I'll chosen Path
You can't see the Pain I feel
Then you shall feel my wrath

As once I walked among you
So now you live in fear
Scatter like leaves before me
when you sense that I am near

At Night you're filled with Terror
Your Death is close at Hand
I am a living Horror
Forever alone I stand

Leviathan, Leviathan, Leviathan