TRAILBLAZER
Residents running round a ghost town
Hesitant to fight or put their foot down
Presidents banging on a war drum
Relevant to those about to get some
Bombs keep falling few are calling for the blood spill
Lleaders hiding while they’re riding past the road kill
Sick of hearing, sick of fearing all but God’s wrath
People starving for the carving of a new path
Ground-breaking’s tough when the earth is hard
Posters on the walls, graffiti in the stalls
Who will answer come the curtain call?
Trailblazer!
Sinister agendas by a vanguard
Cynical answers on a postcard
Minister elected by a default
Signatures in crimson on the asphalt
Silhouettes are dancing in the sunset
Marionettes are playing Russian roulette
Paradise is fading in the moonlight
Paradigms shifting as the frost bites
Earth-shaking’s hard when the ground is tough
Nothing in the news but misleading views
Who’s left with nothing to lose?
A pioneer must appear blazing trails to new frontiers
A place where peace no longer rests
Who will take the test to carry all the rest?
Challenging an innovator
Living in the dying fields, a wilderness where nothing’s real
Where all the viruses have spread
Predecessors dead, danger straight ahead
Hit the accelerator
Trailblazer! Blaze a trail!
MAINSTREAM
Rock-a-bye baby thy cradle is green
Father is a nobleman, mother is a queen
Go to sleep, life is but a dream
Row your boat gently down the mainstream
Rock-a-bye baby on the tree-top
When the flames flow the cradle will rock
Tree will burn down, cradle will fall
Down burns baby, forest and all
Merrily, merrily ride along
Merrily, merrily like nothing’s wrong
Rock-a-bye baby please don’t cry
Close your mind tight, listen to the lullaby
Hush baby in a rocking chair
Moving back and forth oblivious to the nightmare
Merrily, merrily ride along
Merrily, merrily like nothing’s wrong
Life is but a dream, sailing down the mainstream
TRAIN WRECK
Walk in the club, there’s a band on stage
Well, it may sound funny, not on the same page
Guitar cuts out, they share a look
Singer gets mad, the crowd get hooked
Drums speed up, bass slows down
Eyes start watching all around, it’s a train wreck
Everybody loves a train wreck, carnage all over the track
The excitement grows now they’re off the rails
No slowing down once the brakeman fails
A string goes snap, a strap comes loose
The microphone cuts, queue crowd abuse
A cymbal cracks, the lights go down
Ears are listening all around to a train wreck
Everybody loves a train wreck, carnage all over the track
It’s a train wreck, who doesn’t love a train wreck?
Fascinating to observe
Every band has them from time to time
The judge rules hard on musical crime
Some don’t recover, some make the most
They haunt the passengers like railyard ghosts
Superstitious of a good sound check
Only the strong climb out a wreck
Coming down the line it’s a train wreck
OUT WEST
Loosen those lips let's sink those ships before they go passing in the night
Kids on the corner are always shouting warnings, they ain't going down without a fight
Bread and circus keep us running in circles, nothing is ever enough
One minute the world's at your feet the next it's six feet above
Out West things are going to change, out West things are going to get strange
To the lines drawn in the sand for fear of the unknown
You can find everything if you really want to know what goes on out West
Where the birds keep singing and the kids are depressed, what goes on out West?
False flags flying, loose lips are lying, agents hiding in plain sight
Nuclear bombs for firework displays, I guess our future will be bright
The empire is ending, we keep on pretending, decadence deepens doubt
The big truth is so hard to swallow but even harder to spit out
Out West things will get harder, out West unless we get smarter
To the lines drawn in the sand for fear of the unknown
You can find everything if you really want to know what goes on out West
Where the birds keep singing and the facts are suppressed, what goes on out West?
I'm not as young as I was when I started this line or when I started this quest
So many secrets keep a man down, keep a man possessed
The wheel keeps turning people keep learning, ice sheets slowly melt
I'm just working for the government just like everyone else out West
Lines drawn in the sand as above so below
You can find everything if you really want to know what goes on
where the birds keep singing and the people get along
What goes on out West?
MASS VENDETTA
Love is a solitary rose in the middle of a waste land
Hate is a muzzle shutting up a barking dog
Joy is a military state sinking slow into the quicksand
Fear is a lighthouse shining through the darkest fog
Calm is a candle burning at the centre of a cyclone
Stress is a window pane with a giant crack
Hope is a droplet of the rain falling down on to an ocean
Dread is a mirror reflecting what is looking back
Far enough back there's just one family tree,
the roots are rotting with a poison trace
All descendants are just children of the war,
in the blood feud of the human race
Pride is a burning flag in the battle of a nation
Shame is a meal served up as a daily bread
Trust is a broken train standing empty at a station
Doubt is a needle with an endless ball of thread
Far enough back there's just one family tree,
the twisted branches snap without grace
All ancestors are just fathers of the war,
in the blood feud of the human race
and it's never getting better, it's a Mass Vendetta
Far enough back there is just one family tree,
the leaves are falling at a rapid pace
All relations are just soldiers in the war,
in the blood feud of the human race
and it's never getting better, it's a Mass Vendetta
13 DAYS
It's been thirteen days since I found God
I found him passed out all covered in blood
Cleaned him up, laid hands on
After thirteen days on my couch he was gone
There was no mistaking, no disguise
I knew from the moment he opened his eyes
All black and blue and broken down
Crashed out on now holy ground
At first he didn't breathe, couldn't walk
In our whole time together he did not talk
He sent messages of faith and hope and love
Thirteen days since I found God
Made me master, keeper and lord
On the seventh day, shook my hand,
showed me his world under no command
God passed the smoke and fell asleep
When he was dreaming I watched him weep
We ate some cow, we ate some pig
We drank the blood and the flames got big
Life disappeared in a blink
It seemed his reward was to make me think
He sent messages of fear and pain and hate
Thirteen days since I found God
He began time, fell on that sword
Nursed him to health by day ten
Three days later he was lost again
The number was up, unlucky for some
I'd been happily marching to the beat of his drum
Before he left, I had to ask why he wore an oxygen mask
He smiled at me, I was told, the one true God is getting old
He sends messages through time and space and void
Thirteen days since I found God
Thirteen days don't you think that's odd?
Thirteen days I’ve no doubt God is on his way,
on his way out
AVALANCHE
Streetlight on a corner going out, going out, going out like this
I don’t know if I’ll make it home tonight, so I reminisce
Going out like this
Freedom train is never late, so I stand at the golden gate
I’m inclined to watch and wait and that is one thing which I hate
All my eyes carry bags from a thousand restless nights
All those lies falling down from the greatest of heights
Streetlight getting warmer like the pen beneath my fingertips
I don’t know if I’ll make it home tonight so I make a wish
Light shines on the water like a kiss, like a kiss upon my lips
I don’t know if I’ll be out of sight when the mountain slips
When the mountain slips
Shivers glide up through my spine as I leave my fear behind
Some say man is part divine but for an urge to remain blind
Caution flying to the wind, throw it in and set me free
Age of the lion – a crucible with an éminence grise
I don’t know if I’m prepared to fight
I don’t know if I’ll be out of sight
Landslide in the morning going down,
going down, going down like this
I don’t know if I made it home tonight, can I reminisce?
Avalanche keeps falling, going round, going round, coming down like this
I don’t know if I’ll be wrong or right when the mountain slips
When the mountain slips
PRETTY TRICKY
Hothead burning through the barrier
Simmer down that boiling blood
Hatred is fuel for the fires blazing in your neighbourhood
Ricochet off another brick wall, spew venom all over the floor
Next thing you’re bouncing off the ceiling
while they’re kicking down your door
Temper, temper fight the rage
Lock that loathing in a cage
An’ it's going on tonight something just ain’t right
When it's on you to keep your cool it gets pretty tricky
When it's going on all around, you can’t hear a sound
Then it's on you to keep your cool it gets pretty tricky
Swear down, time to take the high road
Cross a heart and hope to die
Chilled out, anger under management
Kiss your stress goodbye
Wind-up toys are so mechanical, division is the plan
Storm out like thunder, be the bigger man
Temper, temper fight the rage
Ignore those villains on the stage
An’ It's going on tonight, reflected in your sight
When it's on you to keep your cool it gets pretty tricky
When it's going on all around, calm is lost and found
Then it's on you to keep your cool it gets pretty tricky
WEDLOCK HORNS
I crawled out of hell not doing so well when I heard her daddy say
he got a pitchfork with my name on if I ever played away
I bought her a ring of fire, got down on one knee
We got cheers from the dead when she nodded her head then smiled back at me, come see
When I asked for her hand in marriage they all thought I'd lost my mind
We got a love so bad that it sent me mad then done knocked me blind
I've been her daddy’s favourite demon for twenty-nine years no less
Now I'm staring at the devil's daughter looking hot in a wedding dress, oh yes
Not the first wedding made in hell, no confetti only fireballs fell
Not what I ever dreamed of, just what woes betide
When you hear those bells now kiss the bride
An unholy ceremony, her daddy watched on from his throne
Kissed her on her mouth then I went down south then I made her moan
I was groomed to be a liar, killer and a cheat,
when those bridesmaids started staring I never felt so much heat, oh my
El Diablo’s words were ringing, his warning I should heed
It was too late when I sealed my fate when I made those bridesmaids bleed
My new wife stood there watching crying tears of blood
She was the devil's god damn daughter I ought to know that was no good, huh
Not the first wedding made in hell, no bed of roses just that sulphur smell
No place I could run to, no place left to hide
When you hear those bells there goes the bride
An unholy matrimony was never going to last
I made a mistake by the fiery lake now they're cooking my stupid ass
The devil and his daughter both started to laugh
The priest was a beast and I was the feast, just another dumb golden calf, oh
There is a lesson to be learned, play by the rules or you will burn
Those rules are made in heaven but they also stand in hell
When you hear those bells cast a monogamy spell
RED SHIELD
Hexagram above a counting house is where Red Shield began
To control the banks of Europe, the beginning of the plan
Eighteen-Fifteen, London, Red Shield played the Stock Exchange
Couriers passed through blockades carrying post, it was arranged
News from the Battle of Waterloo came with twenty-four hours to spare
Red Shield workers sold consuls and the stock brokers got scared
Traders bought the ruse and sold their bonds at speed
Red Shield nodded as the value dropped and the morning headlines read
"Napoleon defeated", followed by the British economy
To open the door to domination, the centre of the financial world was key
Beware the Red Shield and their armour made of gold
Beware the Red Shield in this world they've bought and sold
Red Shield built the Bank of England and set about some loans
Caring not which puppet sat upon the English throne
The man who controls the money supply makes the safest bets,
taking control of the Empire on which the sun don’t set
Kings and queens in pocket, opposition almost gone
If the matriarch’s sons didn't want war then there would be none
As the plan continued a few lone voices would shout
“They are a den of thieves and vipers, they need routing out”
Confined to legend, over blueprints roll their plastic tanks
Two-hundred years later and counting, Red Shield still runs the banks
Beware the Red Shield, their swords passed to young and old
Beware the Red Shield in this world they've bought and sold
Beware the Red Shield, their hearts are rich and cold
Beware the Red Shield in this world they've bought and sold
APEX
Food chain’s apex keeps us unaware,
lurks beneath pretending it’s not there
Electro-magnetic lines lead sharks to blood,
it sinks back down as the fin gets cut
Corruption at the climax of humanity
Corruption from the apex down through history
Leaders are in full voice mouthing Roman Catholic hymns
Half a world believing there is such a thing as sin
Crows take crooked lines dodging fossil fumes,
wings collapse as the darkness looms
Corruption at the climax of humanity
Corruption from the apex down through history
So few pitchforks and torches in the night,
it drinks our blood ‘til we cannot fight
Children die and the bones they hide,
we toast with aspartame and sodium fluoride
Just like Metropolis, Meloch waits,
the keeper stands watch at every gate
Ancient evil on every throne in crypto forms at the top of the capstone
Just as a seed is a tree folded up so the world is God unfolded
By the ever-burning lamp
Sometimes checkmate is the end,
close the book, begin again, begin again
All roads lead to Rome from each and every home,
all roads lead to Rome
