...And Justice For All

  1. Blackened 6:40
  2. ...And Justice For All 9:44
  3. Eye Of The Beholder 6:25
  4. One 7:24
  5. The Shortest Straw 6:35
  6. Harvester of Sorrow 5:42
  7. The Frayed Ends Of Sanity 7:40
  8. To Live Is To Die 9:48
  9. Dyers Eve 5:12



Blackened

        Blackened is the end
        Winter it will send
        Throwing all you see
        Into obscurity

        Death of mother earth
        Never a rebirth
        Evolution's end
        Never will it mend

        Never

           Fire
           To begin whipping dance of the dead
           Blackened is the end
           To begin whipping dance of the dead
           Color our world blackened

        Blistering of earth
        Terminate its worth
        Deadly nicotine
        Kills what might have been

        Callous frigid chill
        Nothing left to kill
        Never seen before
        Breathing nevermore

        Never

           Fire
           To begin whipping dance of the dead
           Blackened is the end
           To begin whipping dance of the dead
           Color our world blackened

                      Blackened

        Opposition...contradiction...premonition...compromise
        Agitation...violation...mutilation...planet dies
           Darkest color
           Blistered earth
           True death of life

        Termination....expiration...cancellation...human race
        Expectation...liberation...population...lay to waste
           See our mother
           Put to death
           See our mother die

        Smoldering decay
        Take her breath away
        Millions of our years
        In minutes disappears

        Darkening in vain
        Decadence remains
        All is said and done
        Never is the sun

        Never

           Fire
           To begin whipping dance of the dead
           Blackened is the end
           To begin whipping dance of the dead
           Fire
           Is the outcome of hypocrisy
           Darkest potency
           In the exit of humanity
           Color our world blackened

                Blackened


...And Justice For All

        Halls of justice painted green
        Money talking
        Power wolves beset your door
        Hear them stalking
        Soon you'll please their appetite
        They devour
        Hammer of justice crushes you
        Overpower

           The ultimate in vanity
           Exploiting their supremacy
           I can't believe the things you say
           I can't believe
           I can't believe the price, you pay
           Nothing can save you

         Justice is lost
         Justice is raped
         Justice is gone
             Pulling your strings
         Justice is done
             Seeking no truth
             Winning is all
             Find it so grim
                     So true
                     So real

        Apathy their stepping stone
        So unfeeling
        Hidden deep animosity
        So deceiving
        Through your eyes their light burns
        Hoping to find
        Inquisition sinking you
        With prying minds

           The ultimate in vanity
           Exploiting their supremacy
           I can't believe the things you say
           I can't believe
           I can't believe the price you pay
           Nothing can save you

         Justice is lost
         Justice is raped
         Justice is gone
             Pulling your strings
         Justice is done
             Seeking no truth
             Winning is all
             Find it so grim
                     So true
               So real

        Lady justice has been raped
        Truth assassin
        Rolls of red tape seal your lips
        Now you're done in
        Their money tips her scales again
        Make your deal
        Just what is truth? I cannot tell
        Cannot feel

           The ultimate in vanity
           Exploiting their supremacy
           I can't believe the things you say
           I can't believe
           I can't believe the price we pay
           Nothing can save us

         Justice is lost
         Justice is raped
         Justice is gone
             Pulling your strings
         Justice is done
             Seeking no truth
             Winning is all
             Find it so grim
                     So true
                     So real

             Seeking no truth
             Winning is all
             Find it so grim
                     So true
                     So real

Eye Of The Beholder

        Do you see what I see?
        Truth is an offense
        You silence for your confidence

        Do you hear what I hear?
        Doors are slamming shut
        Limit your imagination, keep you where they must

        Do you feel what I feel?
        Bittering distress
        Who decides what you express?

        Do you take what I take?
        Endurance is the word
        Moving back instead of forward seems to me absurd

           Doesn't matter what you see
           Or into it what you read
           You can do it your own way
           If it's done just how I say

                Independence limited
                Freedom of choice
                Is made for you my friend
                Freedom of speech
                Is words that they will bend
                Freedom with their exception

        Do you fear what I fear?
        Living properly
        Truths to you are lies to me

        Do you choose what I choose?
        More alternatives
        Energy derives from both the plus and negative

        Do you need what I need?
        Boundaries overthrown
        Look inside, to each his own

        Do you trust what I trust?
        Me, myself and I
        Penetrate the smoke screen I see through the selfish lie

           Doesn't matter what you see
           Or into it what you read
           You can do it your own way
           If it's done just how I say

                Independence limited
                Freedom of choice
                Is made for you my friend
                Freedom of speech
                Is words that they will bend
                Freedom with their exception

        Do you know what I know?
        Your money and your wealth
        Your silence just to hear yourself

        Do you want what I want?
        Desire not a thing
        I hunger after independence, lengthen freedom's ring

           Doesn't matter what you see
           Or into it what you read
           You can do it your own way
           If it's done just how I say

                Independence limited
                Freedom of choice
                Is made for you my friend
                Freedom of speech
                Is words that they will bend
                Freedom with their exception

        Doesn't matter what you see
        Or into it what you read
        You can do it your own way
        If it's done just how I say

One

        I can't remember anything
        Can't tell if this is true or dream
        Deep down inside I feel to scream
        This terrible silence stops me

        Now that the war is through with me
        I'm waking up, I can not see
        That there is not much left of me
        Nothing is real but pain now

                Hold my breath as I wish for death
                Oh please God, wake me

        Back in the womb its much too real
        In pumps life that I must feel
        But can't look forward to reveal
        Look to the time when I'll live

        Fed through the tube that sticks in me
        Just like a wartime novelty
        Tied to machines that make me be
        Cut this life off from me

                Hold my breath as I wish for death
                Oh please God, wake me

                Now the world is gone I'm just one
                Oh God, help me hold my breath as I wish for death
                Oh please God help me

Darkness   Imprisoning me
           All that I see
           Absolute horror
           I cannot live
           I cannot die
           Trapped in myself
           Body my holding cell

Landmine   Has taken my sight
           Taken my speech
           Taken my hearing
           Taken my arms
           Taken my legs
           Taken my soul
           Left me with life in hell


The Shortest Straw

        Suspicion is your name
        Your honesty to blame
        Put dignity to shame
        Dishonor
        Witchhunt, modern day
        Determining decay
        The blatant disarray
        Disfigure
        The public eyes' disgrace
        Defying common place
        Unending paper chase
        Unending

        Deafening
        Painstaking
        Reckoning
        This vertigo it doth bring

                Shortest straw
                Challenge liberty
                Downed by law
                Live in infamy
                Rub you raw
                Witchhunt riding through
                Shortest straw
                This shortest straw has been pulled for you

                Pulled for you
                   Shortest straw
                Pulled for you
                   Shortest straw
                Pulled for you
                   Shortest straw
                Shortest straw has been pulled for you

        The accusations fly
        Discrimination, why?
        Your inner self to die
        Intruding
        Doubt sunk itself in you
        It's teeth and talons through
        Your living catch 22
        Deluding

        A mass hysteria
        A megalomania
        Reveal dementia
        Reveal

        Secretly
        Silently
        Certainly
        In vertigo you will be

                Shortest straw
                Challenge liberty
                Downed by law
                Live in infamy
                Rub you raw
                Witchhunt riding through
                Shortest straw
                This shortest straw has been pulled for you
        
                Pulled for you
                    Shortest straw
                Pulled for you
                    Shortest straw
                Pulled for you
                    Shortest straw
                Shortest straw has been pulled for you

                    Shortest straw
                Pulled for you
                    Shortest straw
                Pulled for you
                    Shortest straw
                Pulled for you
                    Shortest straw
                Shortest straw has been pulled for you

        Behind you, hands are tied
        Your being, ostracized
        Your hell is multiplied
        Upending
        The fallaout has begun
        Oppressive damage done
        Your many turned to none
        To nothing
        You're reaching your nadir
        Your will has disappeared
        The lie is crystal clear
        Defending

        Channels red
        One word said
        Blacklisted
        With vertigo make you dead

                Shortest straw
                Challenge liberty
                Downed by law
                Live in infamy
                Rub you raw
                Witchhunt riding through
                Shortest straw
                This shortest straw has been pulled for you
                                             Pulled for you

Harvester Of Sorrow

        My life suffocates
        Planting seeds of hate
        I've loved, turned to hate
        Trapped far beyond my fate

        I give
        You take
        This life that I forsake
        Been cheated of my youth
        You turned this lie to truth

          Anger
          Misery
          You'll suffer unto me

                Harvester of sorrow
                Language of the mad
                Harvester of sorrow

        Pure black looking clear
        My work is done soon here
        Try getting back to me
        Get back which used to be

        Drink up
        Shoot in
        Let the beatings begin
        Distributor of pain
        Your loss becomes my gain

          Anger
          Misery
          You'll suffer unto me

                Harvester of sorrow
                Language of the mad
                Harvester of sorrow

        All have said their prayers
        Invade their nightmares
        See into my eyes
        You'll find where murder lies

        Infanticide

           Harvester of sorrow
           Language of the mad
           Harvester of sorrow
           Language of the mad
           Harvester of sorrow


The Frayed Ends Of Sanity

        Never hunger
        Never prosper
        I have fallen prey to failure
        Struggle within
        Triggered again
        Now the candle burns at both ends

        Twisting under schizophrenia
        Falling deep into dementia

           Old habits reappear
           Fighting the fear of fear
           Growing conspiracy
           Everyone's after me
           Frayed ends of sanity
           Hear them calling
           Hear them calling me

        Birth of terror
        Death of much more
        I'm the slave of fear, my captor
        Never warnings
        Spreading its wings
        As I wait for the horror she brings
        Loss of interest, question, wonder
        Waves of fear they pull me under

          Old habits reappear
          Fighting the fear of fear
          Growing conspiracy
          Everyone's after me
          Frayed ends of sanity
          Hear them calling
          Hear them calling me

        Into ruin
        I am sinking
        Hostage of this nameless feeling
        Hell is set free
        Flooded I'll be
        Feel the undertow inside me

        Height, hell, time, haste, terror, tension
        Life, death, want, waste, mass depression

          Old habits reappear
          Fighting the fear of fear
          Growing conspiracy
          Myself is after me
          Frayed ends of sanity
          Hear them calling
          Frayed ends of sanity
          Hear them calling
          Hear them calling me


To Live is to Die

        When a man lies he murders
         Some part of the world
        These are the pale deaths which
         Men miscall their lives
        All this I cannot bear
         To witness any longer
        Cannot the kingdom of salvation
         Take me home


Dyers Eve

        Dear mother
        Dear father
        What is this hell you have put me through
        Believer
        Deceiver
        Day in day out live my life through you
        Pushed onto me what's wrong or right
        Hidden from this thing that they call life

        Dear mother
        Dear father
        Every thought I'd think you'd disapprove
        Curator
        Dictator
        Always censoring my every move
        Children are seen bur are not heard
        Tear out everything inspired

           Innocence
           Torn from me without your shelter
           Barred reality
           I'm living blindly

        Dear mother
        Dear father
        Time has frozen still what's left to be
        Hear nothing
        Say nothing
        Cannot face the fact I think for me
        No guarantee, it's life as is
        But damn you for not giving me my chance

        Dear mother
        Dear father
        You've clipped my wings before I learned to fly
        Unspoiled
        Unspoken
        I've outgrown that fucking lullaby
        Same thing I've always heard from you
        Do as I say not as I do

          Innocence
          Torn from me without your shelter
          Barred reality
          I'm living blindly
          I'm in hell without you
          Cannot cope without you two
          Shocked at the world that I see
          Innocent victim please rescue me

        Dear mother
        Dear father
        Hidden in your world you've made for me
        I'm seething
        I'm bleeding
        Ripping wounds in me that never heal
        Undying spite I feel for you
        Living out this hell you always knew


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