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Strung out eyes as cold as worship
Two minutes silence in a century of screams
Tiny massive hands, emphatic lonely soul
Skin against skin and blood against blood
This is the place where peace exists
This is the place where my mind resists
The fragments fail to hold me
The fragments fail to hold me...
When there's time I'll read your words
There's no point disguising
You're the one who's hurt
Laid bloody and bare to see
The effects will fail to desert me
This is the place where peace exists
This is the place where my mind resists
The fragments fail to hold me
The fragments fail to hold me...
This is the place where my mind resists
The fragments fail to hold me

Fragments of the past flash before my eyes
Never ending streams of images colliding
Silhouettes of memories slowly fading away
Illusionary seductions haunts me in my dreams
Fighting for freedom
But the chains I'm in won't break
It will soon be too late
I am here, I am lost, I am weak and bothered
Is this it? Will I grow when my soul falters?
I am here, I am lost, I am weak, and bothered
Is this it? Will I grow? I am weak and bothered
Blinded by the fear
Of being left alone
I seek the truth within
As the shadows are closing in
Calling oblivion
'Cause the state I'm in won't change
And I'm fighting for freedom
'Cause the chains I'm in won't break
I am here, I am lost, I am weak and bothered
Is this it? Will I grow when my soul falters?
I am here, I am lost, I am weak and bothered
Is this it? Will I grow when my soul falters?
I am here, I am lost, I am weak and bothered
Is this it? Will I grow when my soul falters?
I am here, I am lost, I am weak and bothered
Is this it? Will I grow when my soul falters?
I am here, I am lost, I am weak and bothered
Is this it? Will I grow when my soul falters?
I am here, I am lost, I am weak and bothered
Is this it? Will I grow when my soul falters?
I am here, I am lost, I am weak and bothered
Is this it? Will I grow when my soul falters?
I am here, I am lost, I am weak and bothered

Our domain, this kingdom come
now godless lands whose ways are lost.
Without the strength to carry on.
All values lost all virtue none.
Did you think you would be saved
by burning flags to cleanse yourselves of shame?
Or are you afraid as you stare back at your face?
are you ashamed, are you afraid,
by destroying what the gods had made?
Did you think you would be saved?
I believe that we'll conceive
to make in hell for us a heaven.
A brave new world.
A promised land.
A fortitude of hearts and minds.
Until I see this kingdom is mine,
I'll turn the darkness into light.
I'll guide the blind.
My will be done until the day
I see this kingdom has been won.
No more the servants of the weak
devoid of thought or light to seek.
I'll leave no walls, no stone unturned.
Every tower to be razed to the dust from which it came.
None will be spared, no remnant saved.
Are you ashamed, are you afraid,
of the gods and idols you have made?
Did you think you would be saved
by the gods and idols you have made?
None will be saved.
None will be saved.

Got a folder full of fragments
You’re losing all acquaintances, losing your balance
Over spikes, over trip wires, you’ve got such obvious
style
Put limits on thoughts – limit all thinking
Ego is running wild – a monster is hiding behind
Your smoke ring eyes
The harder you fight the tide
The less likely you’ll survive
There’s a constant farewell
Into a new dream full of unpolluted sorrows
Document a scattered mind
Where the waves fall, like the soldiers that die on the
shore
Seaside ghosts now
Ego is running wild – a monster is hiding behind
Your smoke ring eyes
The harder you fight the tide
The less likely you’ll survive
Ego is running wild – a monster is hiding behind
Your smoke ring eyes
The harder you fight the tide
Ego is running wild – look at your rattlesnake skin
Your smoke ring eyes
The harder you fight the tide

Hold my thoughts I'm at an impasse
Past the place I stopped before
The sweeper's sweeping fragments
Of my head out the door
And the ice it burns upon my forehead
The calmness starts to scream
Must I always hold the upright
When my soul longs to dream
Is it too much to find an answer
Is it too much to hold you close
Is it too much to find a reason
Is it too much to free my soul
From self control
I can't get it any better
I always end up killing time
Time for love and time for living
Time to find what's really mine
And I know you're always waiting for me
You take me far away
And I know you're holding me
And it's better now . . .
And it's better now . . .

Im witnessing strange occurrences
In the labyrinth of my mind
Persons and places I know
Appearing in abstract relations
Between visions and reality
Unconsciousness frees memories
That I won�t remember awake
Hidden in unreal sceneries
Locked in the depths of my mind
Fragments of reality
That scene behind my eyes
If I only could remember
These pictures in my head
Fragments of reality
That scene behind my eyes
If I only could remember
The sensual world lies deep within
Burning in riot and in motion
The storm of pictures on the edge
Can`t seize it with my rapid eyes
Fragments of reality
That scene behind my eyes
If I only could remember
These pictures in my head
Fragments of reality
That scene behind my eyes
If I only could remember
Fragments of reality
That scene behind my eyes
If I only could remember
These pictures in my head
Fragments of reality
That scene behind my eyes

Memories of another time,
I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders.
Though distant, I can still hear their voices,
Begging me to avenge their pain.
Silence, a welcome sound at this moment,
I'd rather be anywhere but here.
The fragments of a life in upheaval,
Remained untouched for all who care to see.
A painful reminder of the way things used to be.
I'm drowning. It's harder now than it ever was before.
Where are you standing?
Yes I can see you, but I can't see your face
Who are you fooling?
You have deceived me for the last time.
Looking to another time,
I stand alone on my own in the future.
I've struggled to forget what befell me,
The memories will always stay with me.
Tired of the endless failure,
"Suck it up and accept your fate."
You tell me, though I choose not to listen,
A stubborn fool, unwilling to be saved.
Must endure another endless day,
I wither away. I can't be saved.
Looking past the troubles of today,
I wither away to nothingness.
I'd like to start again,
With a better plan to follow.
And trust in me, and only me,
I can trust no other.
A new day arrives, and I embrace the sunlight.
Now to sweep aside the horrors of the past
A great time to be alive, the lessons learned stay with me.
So now I test myself to see if I survive...

I need to learn my own psychology
But it doesn't make it better when she's messing with me
The studs came down and she was drinking their shots
Take a good look at what you've dropped
I'm in the mood for some, mood for some, mood for repetition
But she changes so much that I'm deconditioned
Glancing through life when my thoughts are scattered
Maybe I'd just like to think that I mattered
Nights on her own or with other people
Nights with her own all those lovely people
Look at the town all the empty people
Look at the sea and all the drowning people
I have 80 minutes and they don't pass fast
Time is slow when you're the worst in the class
And it's dark round here and I feel so sound
Why look up when you feel so down?
She says she's joined a band but it's one that I'm in
Pathways are clear for a lifetime of sin
Cohesion is vague and the end unclear
Countdown to breakdown is drawing near
The only ever things that drive me away
Are the things people do and the things that they say
And the smell of the city leaves me sick
Conditions are fine for a lunatic
I remember things weren't always the same
But when I used to care I got a bad name
It leaves me searching for atmosphere
Coz mediocrity is something I fear
And she dances with me in the depths of night
She glitters like the stars shining in twilight
In the dark she's fine but in the dawn she flips
That's why I wait for an eclipse
And I want to talk but I get no advice
The fragments of my feelings in the pale moonlight
I continue to burn she continues to glow

"So most likely in another 25, or maybe 50 years some youngster will come along and take the style and really do something with it, you know
(...)
There's definitely stories and stories and stories that can be told, (...), [I mean], you know (...) It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, you know, all walks of life, (...).
"(...) and you always do have a story to tell."