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Queen Of The Reich

In the dead of night
She'll come and take you away
Searing beams of light and thunder
Over blackened plains
She will find her way

Flying high through the night
She will hide your fate
As she takes your soul from under
And the blinding light of the castle fades

There is no escape
It's the ending of your precious life

Your soul slipped away
It belongs to the Queen of the Reich
The Queen of the Reich
Yeah she's coming for you

You're fading away
Your life cast astray
A victim the beast shall obtain

The light will not shine
For you'll die tonight at her shrine
And black is the last thing you'll see

Over and over
Dreams of dying fill your head
It's the sign of the cross
That you'll find ahead

No one will answer
The light is fading away
Captive souls are screaming out in pain

There is no escape
It's the ending of your precious life

Your soul slipped away
It belongs to the Queen of the Reich
You're fading away, No, No, No
The Queen of the Reich
You're slipping away, yeah
The Queen of the Reich

Chasing Blue Sky

Shakin' time, she needs
Taking rides...to somewhere
Let's lose our minds, no hurry
I'm the wakeful night,
with dreams...or something

Chasing blue sky,
We're chasing blue sky

Taking time from all this worry
Mesmerized by the waves of your smile
I wish that i could say something

But you're the rose colored glass i see through
I'll see you through

Chasing blue sky, we're chasing blue sky
Chasing blue sky, we're chasing blue sky

Chasing blue sky, we're chasing blue sky
Chasing blue sky, we're chasing blue sky

Falling Down

Today is just the same as any other day to me.
Walking wall to wall to pass the time, I picture what it's
like on the other side.
Because I'm here on the inside of blue, without you.

Day in day out on and on ... I'm missing you.

Nothing seems to work as well, my face in the mirror looks
like hell. I think I need to see a doctor.
I watch the slow hand move line by line. I can't even
think of the words that rhyme.

Day in day out on and on ... I'm missing you.

Some days it feels, just like falling down.
Some days it's easy, just like falling down.

Some days it's real, just like falling down.
Some days it's easy, just like falling down.

Day in day out on and on ... I'm missing you.

Sacred Ground

Iced over, close your eyes. Whisper the flame, it takes us
higher.
Seems our world is closing around. When I'm inside you,
you bring me to sacred ground.
When I'm inside you, you bring me to sacred ground.

Now you're the one that I want, you know it's true.
Let go of everything, open up to me.
I'm right beside you, I'll be your watchful eye.

I send waves of devotion over you. You take it all in and
give it back, give it back again.

You bring me to sacred ground, when I'm inside you.
You bring me to sacred ground.

Yes we'll love till there's nothing left to give...
matching every movement, swimming in an ocean of sweat, and
scent of you. It drives me to ...

You bring me to sacred ground, when I'm inside you.
You bring me to sacred ground.

I know I can change your mind. Give it to me the same way.
Giving it all up for love, I know that you feel the same
way.

I'd give it all up for you, I swear I would.

Now I'm falling, falling inside ...

You bring me to sacred ground, when I'm inside you.
You bring me to sacred ground.

I'm inside you.

You bring me to sacred ground, when I'm inside you.
You bring me to sacred ground.

One Life

One life, is like one prayer, one love to share.
One thought, one dream. One world, one meaning.

A man that's lost everything holds his faith in his heart.
Speaks to god of broken dreams, never wondering why when
nothing's heard ... one prayer.

A woman cries in frustration, her man holds it inside.
They forgot what got them here, the vows they promised to
stand by ... one love.

One life is like one prayer, one love to share.
One thought, one dream. One world, one meaning.

It don't cost much for you to get to heaven, you just got
to say your prayers.
If you want to stand with your saviors, you better learn
how to bow your head.
Now bend your knees and bruise the earth and pray.

Heed the cries of the war child. Mothers hold them to
their breasts.
Fathers fight an enemy and fear breeds unto itself ... one
world.

One life, is like one prayer, one love to share.
One thought, one dream. One world, one meaning. One
life ... One.

When The Rain Comes

You've come to me again my friend. I've been waiting so
long.
Life seems strange and hard sometimes, maybe I won't make
it this time.

Oh They've taken all I have, but I just need what's left of
today, and you can wash it all away.
When it all comes down and I'm feeling tired and afraid,
you're always there, and seem come when
I've nothing left to give away.

Now I wait for your winds to come and give me breath for
another day, and your rain to wash me.

I feel the rain coming. I feel it in my heart, take away
my pain.
I feel the rain coming. Wash me down, wash me down.

Here comes the rain. Hold me now, just for awhile.

I feel like a candle flame in the wind. The dust of my
deeds past, covers me, like a fading lie.

I feel the rain coming. I feel it in my heart, wash away
my pain.
Wash me down, wash me down. I feel the rain coming.

Here comes the rain.

How Could I

There you were like a ghost from my early days, staring
straight ahead at me.
How could I ever guess, from that moment on, just how
everything would change.

How could I know?

I recall something strange coming over me, somewhat at a
loss for words.
I'd been around and had my share of what I thought my soul
could bare, but never seen what I saw in your eyes.

How could I know?
We never took it slow.
We gave it all we had and more.

How could I know?
We never took it slow.
We gave it all we had and more.

Looking back at where we've been, the road ahead is so
uncertain.
We keep passing open windows forever.

I've tried before I'll try again, I never know where were
going.
I only know that I'll be yours forever ... yours
forever ... forever ... forever.

How could I know?
We never took it slow.
We gave it all we had.
We gave it all we had.

Beside You

Take your children down to the water wash their heads and
sing .. holy holy

Last night I dreamed you were standing there, strong and
tall beside me.
All my life ... behind me.

You gently took me by my hand and led me to where
I couldn't see,but where I've always been ... an island.

In my dreams I've been an island ...

where I'm all alone, and I've built these walls stone by
stone.
I want to leave but I don't know where to go.

I've tried the best I can, but it's hard to be a man and
feel the way you feel.
I'm different on the inside. I've tried to give to you
what you need to get you through.

I'll always be ... beside you.

The day you were born I held you ... small and helpless
crying, your life and mine entwining.

As I looked into your eyes I saw myself in an overview,
reaching out to you from this island in the sea.
I don't want to be an island.

I've tried the best I can, but it's hard to be a man and
feel the way you feel.
I'm different on the inside.

I've tried to give to you what you need to get you through.
I'll always be ... beside you.

Liquid Sky

I ain't no Romeo. I'm just the man for you.
Holding out as secrets travel, they kind of get to you.

Everybody says that it could've been something.
Never was a smart kid, never knew a good thing.

Always hearing voices swim ... in your liquid sky.

Liquid Sky ... Always hearing voices, like no more choices
in disguise.

I ain't no sacred idol or a saint pretending.
I'll build you up. I'll tear you down. Turn you wrong side
in.

What am I afraid of? Everyone's listening.
Standing on my soapbox, lost the beginning.

Always hearing voices ... swim ... in your liquid sky.

Liquid Sky ... I'm always hearing voices, like no more
choices, like a lie.
It's just, it's just liquid sky.

I'm always hearing voices like electric shock waves in
disguise.

I don't know what this means. I'll leave it for your
interpretation. It's just me at the edge ...

Everybody says that it could have been something.
Never was a smart kid, never knew a good thing.

Always hearing voices ... swim in your liquid sky.

Liquid Sky ... I'm always hearing voices, like no more
choices, like a lie.

It's just, it's just liquid sky. I'm always hearing voices
like electric shock waves in disguise.

Always hearing voices swim ...

Breakdown

When the whirlwind of noise surrounds and get intense,
and when words can't hide their anger or intent.

I feel it in my bones and in my head, can't make sense of
what is said.

Ready for the take down, headed for a breakdown.

Fear has me backed against these walls that I follow and
pace.

Time moves in and out of phase of everything that I face.

I feel it in my bones they rattle and shake, can't find a
trace of what it takes to stop this take down.

Can't stop this breakdown!

Welcome to my scene. A place that's in-between where
squares fit the round.
Some affectionately call it ... my breakdown....

When I feel the pressure mounting and my hands begin to
clutch,
I reach my limit of pain and I've had enough.

It feels good to pound on tables and chairs and feel the
frenzy start to wear.

Breakdown this take down, gotta stop this breakdown.

Welcome to my scene. A place that's in-between where
squares fit the round.

It'll never be, never be more than this. Never.

Burning Man

Miles of desert fly, the quiet of dawn.

I ride the winds of morning to see the man that's burning.

BurningMan

Miles of desert fly, the quiet of dawn.

I ride the winds of morning to see the man that's burning.

In my head I hear the song a million voices strong.

I feel the heart of conscious returning, that's why the man
is burning.

BurningMan

Wot Kinda Man

Don't know you man or where you're from. Some say a crazy
man, came undone.
Please man, make it all make sense.

Gotta be some man to keep a promise, you can count on this.

Wot kind of man are you?
Tell me, tell me what do I do?

When you left you took part of me, all the things I'll
never see.
I fake it, break it, whatever makes it right, can't see
the truth through the web of all your lies.

Wot kind of man are you?

Sometimes life's not too clear for me, apologizes never
come easily.
I suck up, and buck up and fuck up...

I've spent all my life wondering, what did I to you, what
was I supposed to think?
Hate man, why didn't you tell me? Now I'm the man, at the
end of your family tree.

Wot kind of man are you? Tell me, tell me what do I do?

Right Side Of My Mind

Hey, are you okay? Better luck on another day. This path
some weren't meant to follow.

You're curious I can see, always looking behind the trees.
Keeping one eye on tomorrow.

Re-engineer your head, is really what the door mouse said.
Push the lies away.

If you take time and look for clues ...scrape the shit off
your shoes, you'll feel the real today.

I'd love to take you to see what I see there, on the right
side of my mind.
On the right side, on the right side ... of my mind.

Hey, one more thing, these things are hard to explain. For
some, it seems strange to swallow.

The frontier of our minds is the last place we find, but
maybe the first place we should go.

I'd love to take you to see what I see there... on the
right side of my mind.

Open

[Music by: DeGarmo / Tate / Wilton]

You're an angel with your wings broken,
wearing sandals that I tripped in.
You're a holiday already taken,
a cocktail that's stirred never shaken.

Your heads in overload.
You've reached your threshold
and you're about to explode.

Open your eyes. Just say what you want to say?
Open your eyes, you see yours isn't the only way .
Open your eyes. To you everyone is blind.
Open your eyes and your mind.

You're like a hand gun that's fully loaded
making idle threats of violence.

Your heads in overload.
You've reached your threshold
and you're about to explode.

Open your eyes. You take what you want for free,
Open your eyes. and you see what you want to see.
Open your eyes. To you everyone is blind.
Open your eyes and your mind.

Open your eyes. Just say what you want to say?
Open your eyes, you see yours isn't the only way .
Open your eyes. Do you really think I'm blind?
Open your eyes and your mind.
Open your mind.
Open your eyes. and you see what you want to see.
Open your eyes. To you everyone is blind.
Open your eyes and your mind.

Open your eyes. Just say what you want to say?
Open your eyes, you see yours isn't the only way .
Open your eyes. Do you really think I'm blind?
Open your eyes and your mind.
Open your mind.

Losing Myself

[Music by: Stone / Tate]

There's a thunder in my head,
a roar I can't escape.
I can't ignore this certain fate
I'm experiencing something.
I can't explain.
There's a frame of reference fragile at best.
An itching fear that's stronger than the rest.
Follow the black ribbon into the sun.
Push it further baby, careful with this burnout now.

I'm losing myself in you
and trying to get back to me.
But I'm so far away, I'm losing myself.

The sand in my mouth,
the wind and heat I feel numb.
Ten days on the road and it feels
like where I've been ain't so bad.
Gotta get back home to you.
Gotta get back home to you.
Gotta get back home.
Throttle back slowly there's no time like now.
Red line it baby I'm pushing to the edge now.

I'm losing myself in you
and trying to get back to me.
But I'm so far away, I'm losing myself.

I'm beating down this desert highway
one hundred miles an hour times two.
But I'm so far away, I'm a million miles away.

I'm losing myself in you
and trying to get back to me.
But I'm so far away, I'm losing myself.

Get me off this desert highway.
Gotta get back to you but I'm so far away.
I'm a million miles away.

Desert Dance

[Music by: DeGarmo / Rockenfield / Tate / Wilton]

With a simple wave,
her hand creates my universe.
She spins and dances around the fire.
Eyes search the open road,
caught up in the sound of
transmissions burning down the wire.

We reach out for the sky
and were never coming down.
We reach out for the sky
and were never coming down.

Live life in extreme
better then any magazine could ever hope to describe.
Ripped, we sweat this desert dance, baby do your best.
We're on our way to higher consciousness.

We reach out for the sky
and we're never coming down.

Keep reaching, keep reaching.
We're never coming down.

High on a million breaths of her,
I surrender to the magic all around me.

We reach out for the sky
and we're never coming down.

Falling Behind

[Music by: DeGarmo / Tate]

We are all equal but we're individually different
and able to reach the impossible if we try.

We find faith and strength in the most unlikely places
and love sometimes eludes us, but we try.
We keep searching and one day we find ...

life goes on and around like a wheel
it keeps on turning, that's the deal.
Why are we running?
We're running so fast to keep from falling behind.
Problems come and they go and
in the end what will you show?
Why are we worried?
We worry so much, worry about falling behind.

Is it really all about the thing
of what you wear and what you think I'll think?
Who has more?
Arabs and Jews at war, I don't care anymore.
It's always the same tired story.
How many dead in the name of some god?
And what's the difference?
Don't give a damn about their differences.
Nothing's sacred once the shooting starts .

Life goes on like a wheel,
it keeps on turning, that's for real.
Why are we running?
We're running so fast to keep from falling behind.
What may come and what may go
and in the end what will you show for all your worries?
Why worry so much, why worry about falling behind?

The plans already in motion,
it happens whether we say.
The old world order is over,
intelligence and love win the day.
I won't regret one moment
life is too short for that, bring it on.

Life goes on and around like a wheel,
it keeps on turning, that's the deal.
Why are we running?
We're running so fast to keep from falling behind.
Problems come and they go and
in the end what will you show?
Why are we worried?
Why worry so much? Don't worry about falling behind.

Great Devide

[Music by: Tate / Wilton]

I'd reconciled my anger got outside of danger.
I was waiting for some signal, a sign from angels.
When the tide turns against you
it's a strange sensation, a revelation of imagination.
I could change my course and face the flow,
reap the seeds that I had sewn or follow that old river south.
Here's what I found out.

I was standing on the Great Divide looking out across America.
Trying to find my truth, define it for myself.
I died the day when I saw this place.
I saw what I could lose.

A very simple mechanism separates the fool from wisdom.
The lines between us are not real.
Conditioning is what makes us feel ignorant.
And apathy will feed our hate.
So we can never give in.

There I was standing at the Great Divide, looking for the truth in America.
For all that time I searched, when I closed my eyes,
I found the thing I was looking for.
I had it all the time.

So are we standing at the Great Divide?
Is there hope for America?
Take the flag we wave, the freedoms that we sing.
Without respect for one other,
it doesn't mean a thing.

Ryhthm Of Hope

[Music by: Jackson / Rockenfield / Tate]

Lying here awake again.
Minutes before dawn I hear your breathing,
your heart beat like a song.
Lately I've been feeling a little less then good but
seeing things for the first time like I never could.

I've had my head down against the door,
trying to get to something I couldn't find before.
That special something, that feeds my soul,
is a rhythm to live by, it's a rhythm of hope.

Something drives us onwards.
Something gives us strength.
What makes our judgment falter is the questions we think.
Who am I to fly so high?
What gives me the right to dream of what could be,
keep reaching for the light?

I've been standing in front of that door,
basing my happiness on what' I knew before.
Searching for something that moves my soul.
A rhythm to hold to, a rhythm to live to.

Have you been down like this before?
I guarantee there's something waiting for you just open that door.
A rhythm to live by, that moves your soul.
A rhythm that holds you.
A rhythm to live to.

And if there's one thing we all need now,
it's a rhythm to live by, a rhythm of hope.

Lying here awake again.

Tribe

[Music by: Jackson / Rockenfield / Tate / Wilton]

Taken to a place underground,
a cavern, ten thousand steps down.
The only light was fire fly glow,
reflecting in the blue crystal show.
Feeling in the darkness surrounding me,
roots of giant Sequoia trees
anchor the canopy of life that's above.
The answer to the mystery of life is _

Traveled through the jungles of the Yucatan
and drank the potion from the magic man.
Held the starlight inches from my face,
pushed the door open, # 7.
I walked the path way to heaven.
Saw the same face of God.

Seems every where I go
I see the same face, I feel the same flow.
With every one I meet and every hand I shake,
I'm every man, trying my best to get to know
because everything's at stake.

We're the same tribe.

Passing through Morocco for the faithful is a trip.
Hallucinating visions drives my desert ship.
For a thousand miles we could not fail,
can't enjoy if you can't inhale.
Clearly a lifetimes need of some experience and
for the record, peace.

Seems every where I go
I see the same face, I feel the same flow.
With every one I meet and every hand I shake,
I see myself in every man, trying my best to get to know
because everything's at stake.

We're the same tribe.

Blood

[Music by: Tate / Wilton]

Thank-you for the lies, the lies you sold us.
Thank-you for this vision of violence.
Thank-you for this song you gave me to sing.
Thank-you for the capping day
of a culture that lay dying.
Yes it's us dying.
Maybe it won't be long,
now that it's all gone on.

It's all gone wrong and
there's blood on our hands.

We saw them lying there
with their arms around each other,
staring through their fear and
the miles between our heads.
You could have told the truth.
It was your decision to
sacrifice integrity and compassion for greed.

Now it's all gone wrong and
there's blood on our hands.

Art Of Life

[Music by: DeGarmo / Tate]

When I asked him,
he described a thousand lifetimes.
At each turn, a hint of what one still must learn.

Now I've read the thoughts of philosophers,
the words of liars, who say that underneath I'm worthless.
Incomplete?

Some one said we live our lives in between the extremes.
Is the art of life discipline?
Is that the sweet mystery?

The art of life is ...
without rushing, without faltering we push it as far as we can.

Observe with patience.
Free your mind.
Efficiency, control.
To develop the form starts with acceptance,
then submission to the goal.

Some one said somewhere we live our lives in between the extremes.
Is the art of life discipline?
Is that the sweetest mystery?

The art of life is ...
without rushing, without faltering, unraveling the secrets of knowledge.
We must challenge and defeat our four natural enemies;
Fear.
Clarity of mind.
Power and the desire to rest.

Doin' Fine

[Music by: DeGarmo / Tate]

Have you noticed The way people seem today?
Look in their eyes, you can feel their uncertainty.
Working hard for what they fear others would think.
Empty hearts are afraid to break away:don't be afraid.

We could all use a little sunshine
Take the day off :outside.
Hey look around, everything's better now
And here we are and we're doin' fine.

If we look inside, breath deep, and count to ten.
We'll find what we need to see us through
All the way to the end.
We'll know all the answers
Once we stop this judgment game
And realize deep down we're all the same.

We could all use a little sunshine
Take the day off and smile.
Hey look around everything's better now,
And here we are and getting along fine.
Yeah, we're doin' just fine.

We could all use some sunshine
Take the day off and smile.
Hey look around, everything's better
And here we are getting along just fine.

Next time we could try a little harder
And quickly put out the fire,
By working out our differences and
Finding truth we can all believe in.

We're looking at life from a different side.
We're looking at like from a different side.

And I know that we'll all be fine.
And I know that we'll all be fine.

Sliver

It's time to sack up and let go of your mothers.
Take your gun, it's the cross that's carried by your brothers.
A sliver is all there is, a sliver of the old you.
Underneath the skin, buried deep, there's a man.
There's a soldier in you.
What you doing here?
Welcome to the show!
There's only one man you can trust, he's the one at your side.
This shit's for real, there's nowhere to hide.
They say that conflict makes the man.
He survives with what he can.
The brave of heart won't look away but live to fight another day.
What you doing here?
Welcome to the show!

Unafraid

I'm unafraid,
I fear nothing.
I'm unafraid,
I hope for nothing.
I'm unafraid,
I fear nothing.
I'm free! I'm free!
I'm unafraid,
I hope for nothing.
I'm free- you can believe in me.

Hundred Mile Stare

What ever happened to conviction and faith?
People trip from side to side; don't know which way or what side to take.
Always known the truth.
It's really black and white.
I've got no fear of judgment when it's time to fight.
We shout so loud so that everyone can hear it.
Coming on hard like a head-on collision.
Machine like something won't stop won't care.
Keep it all down with a Hundred Mile Stare.
Lieutenant says, "Keep that line of drift no matter what the course!"
"Drive 'em down the middle all the way!"
The heat and the smoke are nothing.
The flames from the fires reflect the pride behind our mirrored eyes.
It's no surprise. We don't compromise.
Stealing through the night, they'll never know.
They'll never see us.
Beating on the ground as the people shout "Free us!"
Machine like something can't stop, don't dare.
Keep it all together with a Hundred Mile Stare.
We're coming for you!
Won't back down!
Can't stop us!
We unleash this hell but don't worry.
Won't back down, so get ready.
I still believe and I can see it...wave!
Proud she flies.
Call the dogs! Call out the Dogs!
We should so loud so that everyone can hear it.
Coming on hard like a head-on collision.
Machine like something won't stop don't care.
Keep it all down.
Hundred Mile Stare.
Stealing through the night, they'll never know, they'll never see us.
Beating on the ground as the people shout, "Free us!"
Machine like something
Can't stop, don't dare.
Keep it all together with a
Hundred Mile Stare.