Sign Of The Cross

Eleven saintly shrouded men 
Silhouettes stand against the sky 
One in front with a cross held high 
Come to wash my sins away 

Standing alone in the wind and rain 
Feeling the fear that is growing 
Sensing the change in the tide again 
Brought by the storm that is brewing 
Feel the anxiety hold off the fear 
Some of the doubt in the things you believe 
Now that your faith will be put to the test 
Nothing to do but await what is coming 

Why then is God still protecting me 
Even when I don't deserve it 
Though I am blessed with an inner strength 
Some they would call it a penance 
Why am I meant to face this alone 
Asking the question time and again 
Praying to God won't keep me alive 
Inside my head feel the fear start to rise... 

They'll be saying their prayers when the moment comes 
There'll be penance to pay when it's judgment day 
And the guilty'll bleed when that moment comes 
They'll be coming to claim, take your soul away 

The sign of the cross 
The name of the rose... a fire in the sky 
The sign of the cross 

They'll be comming to bring the eternal flame 
They'll be bringing us all immortality 
Holding communion so the world be blessed 
My creator, my God'll lay my soul to rest 

The sign of the cross 
The name of the rose... a fire in the sky 
The sign of the cross 

Lost the love of heaven above 
Chose the lust of the earth below 
Eleven saintly shrouded men 
Came to wash my sins away 

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Lord Of The Flies

I don't care for this world anymore 
I just want to live my own fantasy 
Fate has brought us to these shores 
What was meant to be is now happening 

I've found that I like this living in danger 
Living on the edge it makes feel as one 
Who cares now what's right or wrong 
It's reality 
Killing so we survive 
Wherever we may roam 
Wherever we may hide 
We've got to get away 

I don't want existence to end 
We must prepare ourselves 
For the elements 
I just want to feel like we're strong 
We don't need a code of morality 

I like all the mixed emotion and anger 
It brings out the animal 
The power you can feel 
And feeling so high on this much adrenalin 
Excited but scary 
To believe what we've become 

Saints and sinners 
Something within us 
We are lord of the flies 

Saints and sinners 
Something willing us 

To be lord of the flies 

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Man On The Edge

The freeway is jammed 
And it's backed up for miles 
The car is an oven and baking is wild 
Nothing is ever the way it should be 
What we deserve we just don't get you see 

A briefcase, a lunch and a man on the edge 
Each step gets closer to losing his head 
Is someone in heaven are they looking down 
'Cause nothing is fair just you look around 

Falling down 
Falling down 
Falling down 

He's sick of waiting of lying like this 
There's a hole in the sky for the angels to kiss 
Branded a leper because you don't fit 
In the land of the free 
You can live by your wits 

Once he built missiles a nation's defense 
Now he can't even give birthday presents 
Across the city he leaves in his wake 
A glimpse of the future a canibal state 

Falling down 
Falling down 
Falling down 

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Fortunes of War

After the war 
And now that they've sent us homeward 
I can't help but feel that I'm on my own 
No one can see 
Just what this conflict has done to 
The minds of the men 
Who are on their way home 

I'm scarred for life but 
It's not my flesh that's wounded 
So how can I face the torment alone 
The vivid scenes 
And all the recurring nightmares 
I lay there and sweat until it gets light ... 

People say don't worry 
Say that time's a perfect healer 
That the nightmares they will come to pass 
Can't hear what they're saying 
I am living in my own world 
And I'm feeling trance-like all the time 

I hear voices in my head 
Could I really be going crazy 
In the night the visions seem so real 
Do you care if you live or die 
When you laugh are you really crying 
You're not sure what's real anymore 

Fortunes of War 
Fortunes of War 
Fortunes of War no pain anymore 
Fortunes of War 
Fortunes of War 
Fortunes of War no pain anymore 
Fortunes of War 

Sometimes I wake 
I feel that my spirit's broken 
I wonder if I've strength ... carry on 

Carry on 

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Look For The Truth

All my dark dreams drift 
Like smoke in the breeze 
The fear grips me as I fall towards my sleep 
Here comes the nightmare that never ends 
Here is the dream that makes monsters of men 

In the house of my soul 
In rooms of ugliness and cold 
Memories locked away 
All the doubts and fears I never faced 

Now they come again 
I am falling down to meet with them 
Fears within us all 
Mine awake and they stand up tall 

Look for the truth 
Deepest cut of all from you 
Knife of the truth 
Blade of hatred slicing through 

I pray my sleep will break 
Maybe this time I won't wake 
Weakness I hide so well 
This dagger in my mind will tell 

It's my final stand 
I make a fist out of each hand 
To shadows of the past 
Take a breath and I scream attack 
Look for the truth 
Deepest cut of all from you 
Knife of the truth 
Blade of hatred slicing through 
Here is the truth 
Deepest cut of all from you 
knife of the truth 
Blade of hatred slicing through 

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The Aftermath

Silently to silence fall 
In the fields of futile war 
Toys of death are spitting lead 
Where boys that were our soldiers bled 
War horse and war machine 

Curse the name of liberty 
Marching on as if they should 
Mix in the dirt our brothers' blood 

In the mud and rain 
What are we fighting for 
Is it worth the pain 
It is worth dying for 
Who will take the blame 
Why did they make a war 
Questions that come again 
Should we be fighting at all 

Once a ploughtman hitched his team 
Here he sowed his little cream 
Now bodies arms and legs are strewn 
Where mustard gas and barbwire bloom 
Each moment's like a year 
I've nothing left inside for tears 
Comrades dead or dying lie 
I'm left alone asking why 

In the mud and rain 
What are we fighting for 
Is it worth the pain 
It is worth dying for 
Who will take the blame 
Why did they make a war 
Questions that come again 
Should we be fighting at all 

After the war 
Left feeling no one has won 
After the war 
What does a soldier become 

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Judgement of Heaven

A lonely cry for help reaching out for help 
to anyone 
A silent prayer to God to help you on your way 
I've been depressed so long 
It's hard to remember when I was happy 
I've felt like suicide a dozen times or more 
But that's the easy way, that's the selfish way 
The hardest part is to get on with your life 

You're searching in the dark 
Clutching at straws to find a way 
You take the Tarot cards 
And throw them to the wind 
Your question your beliefs, your inner thoughts, 
Your whole existence 
And if there is a God then answer if you will 
And tell me of my fate, tell me of my place 
Tell me if I'll ever rest in peace 

If you could live your life again 
Would you change a thing 
Or leave it all the same 
If you had the chance again 
Would you change a thing at all 
When you look back at your past 
Can you say that you are proud 
Of what you've done 
Are there times when you believe 
That the right you thought was wrong 

All of my life I have believed 
Judgement of Heaven is waiting for me 

All of my life now I have believed 
Judgement of Heaven awaits for me 

All of my life I have believed 
Judgement of Heaven is waiting for me 
Is waiting for me ... 

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Blood on the World's Hands

Sometimes it makes me wonder 
Sometimes it makes me question 
Sometimes it makes me saddened 
Always it makes me angry but ... 

When you can see it happening 
The madness that's all around you 
Nobody seens to worry 
The World seens so powerless to act ... 

It's out of control 
Blood on The World's hands 
Each day a new toll 

Another assassination 
The same day a new creation 
But what are they coming into 
Security of a world that brings ... 

One day another killing 
Somewhere there's someone starving 
Another a savage raping 
Meanwhile there's someone laughing at us 

It's out of control 
Blood on The World's hands 
Each day it goes on 

Brutality and aggression 
Tomorrow another lesson 
Expecting another air raid 
Praying for a ceasefire ... 

They say things are getting better 
No need to be complacent 
There's chaos across the border 
And one day it could be happening to us 

It's out of control 
Blood on The World's hands 
It's our epitaph 
It's out of control 
Someone should know 
Blood on The World's hands 

Someone should 

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The Edge of Darkness

I've looked into the heart of darkness 
Where the blood-red journey ends 
When you've faced the heart of darkness 
Even your soul begins to bend 

For a week I have been waiting 
Still I am only in Saigon 
The walls move in a little closer 
I feel the jungle call me on 

Every minute I get weaker 
While in the jungle they grow strong 
What I wanted was a mission 
And for my sins they gave me one 

They brought it up just like room service 
'Cause everyone gets what they want 
And when that mission was all over 
I'd never want another one 

I know, captain, 
That you've done this work before 
We've got a problem 
You can help us all I'm sure 
The colonel's gone rogue 
And his methods are unsound 
You'll take a PBR up river track him down 

There's a conflict in every human heart 
And the temptation is to take it all to far 
In this war things get so confused 
But there are some things 
Which cannot be excused 

He's acting like a God - an insane lunatic 
Your mission - exterminate 
With extreme prejudice 
The route is dangerous 
And your progress may be slow 
Here is the file and it's all you need to know 

Here I am the knife in my hand 
And now I understand why the genius must die 

Now I stand alone in the darkness 
With his blood upon my hands 
Where sat the warrior the poet 
Now lie the fragments of a man 

I've looked into the heart of darkness 
Where the blood-red journey ends 
When you've faced the heart of darkness 
Even your soul begins to bend 

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2 A.M.

I get in from work at 2 a.m.
And sit down with a beer
turn on late night TV
And then wonder why I'm here
It's meaningless and trivial
And it washes over me
And once again I wonder
Is this all there is for me

Here I am again
Look at me again
Here I am again
On my own
Trying hard to see
What there is for me
Here I am again
On my own

Life seens so pathetic
I wish I could leave it all behind
This canvas chair, this bed,
These walls that fall in on my mind
Hold on for something better
That just drags you through the dirt
Do you just let go or carry on
And try to take the hurt

Here I am again
Look at me again
Here I am again
On my own
Trying hard to see
What there is for me
Here I am again

On my own

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The Unbeliever

When you start to take a look within
Do you feel at ease with what you see
Do you think you can have peace of mind
And have self-belief or be satisfied

Do you think you even like yourself
Or really think you could be someone else
Is there something that you'd rather be
Never thought you'd be, had the chance to see

All my life I've run away
All my life I've tried to hide away

Feel the paranoia creeping in
Like a cancer eating at the skin
Do you feel you've lost your self esteem
And your self respect, what can you expect

All my life I've run away
All my life I've tried to hide away

All my life ... I've run astray
Let my faith ... slip away
All my life ... I've run astray
Allowed my faith ... to drift away

Are you scared to look inside your mind
Are worried just at what you'll find
Do you really want to face the truth
Does it matter now, what have you got to lose

Try realease the anger from within
Forgive yourself a few immortal sins
Do you really care what people think
Are you strong enough to release the guilt

All my life I've run away
All my life I've tried to hide away

All my life ... I've run astray
Let my faith ... slip away
All my life ... I've run astray
Allowed my faith ... to drift away

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