Scream With Me Tonight (Cry With Me Tomorrow)

whispers travel faster than shadows
and the chains of silence will drown the truth
there is a hole in your divine sky
and the harbingers of lies fill the night
the merchants of death sold you the day you were born
and the priests of salvation paid for the dagger in your faith
the valkyries have chosen you for the battle
and you will never know why
divine is the man who walks with doubt
and question the price we all must pay
for the precious gift of sound

Witchcraft In A Bottle

desire-
on the wheel that never turns
rhythm-
in the soul that never moves

 

hear the witch calling in the darkness
bleed for me

 

faith-
from the alter that never shines
steel-

in the heart that never weeps

 

see the witch on the mountain of fire
scream for me

 

solace-
from the hand that knows no grace
frenzy-
in the stillness that never sleeps

 

the witch moves over me
submission in the soft hours
my screams
my blood
moves to her command
the taste of her comfort on my tongue again
and the shadows fall

 

haze-
that never hides the deeds you've done
numb-
that never makes the pain go away

 

feel the witch
she will consume me before the dawn

Once I Dreamed

to never see the ribbons of dreams streaming in the winds
a cold truth of this trip around the wheel
this journey as the sentinel of lies
digitally monitoring the dreams i long to remember
tracking the passion and the terror
scanning the secrets kept from the waking hours
searching for the sacred vision
the human i once was screams out
this nightmare of sleeplessness
pushing what is left of my mind to the brink

 

once i was man
once i dreamed of cool water

 

in this cybernetic satellite
i hover between the shadows
i glide between the nocturnal spaces
repaying my debt
making amends for a lifetime of lies
invading the dreams of the living
and the fleeting gasps of the dying
monitoring crimes of the psyche
reporting to the holy cyber one

 

once i was a man
once i dreamed of love

 

i am a prince on the throne of darkness
honoring my deal with the master of lies
i begged to know the answers in the darkness
now i know the answers and i beg for my release

 

once i was a man
once i dreamed of being machine

Beast Of Me

on my knees in the kingdom of ecstasy

this burning in my heart will rise to the boil

and consume the master above me

in a white heat of human deprivation

those within my reach will bow to sip from the cup of madness

as i whip the crawling flesh into a frenzy

feel the best of me inside the beast of me

and touch the darkness of you from within

Invisible Images

faces too familiar in the windows of cars speeding past

these strangers that haunt my memories

fleeting into the whispers of chaos

they are memories of choices i denied

　

i long to be in the embrace of the strangers mystery

feel the warmth of uncertainty numbing my senses

if i could reach from the window of this runaway train

grab a face i feel i've worn before and walk among the ghosts

　

invisible in the confusion of silence

invisible in the mosaic of death

　

in the speeding car of eternity i wander the universe

looking in on the lives of those who can't remember

the crossing has made me visible in the moments of others clarity

and i am truly alive in this image suspended in the tear of a choice

Prism

close to the coming storm
the wind and fire that consumes
in too deep to turn back now
the desire to reach the point of no return
an instant on the edge of time eternal
i am falling into you

the stars above or below?
the sensation is lost to me now
one thought evoking
one thought in motion
one thought into the event horizon of perception
i'm falling into you

inside this prism of desire i am alive
i have fallen into madness
fallen into the center of the eternal
into the grace of the infinite masquerade
into you
inside this tempest of flesh i am a god

Revelations

the color of fear

the color of lust

the color of desire running into the unending night

 

 

keeper of truth

keeper of lies

keeper of secrets hiding in the shadows from mornings light

 

 

these revelations fly

these revelations cry

 

 

seller of flesh

seller of dreams

seller of bad intentions for price you can't deny

 

 

sound of deception

sound of redemption

sound of maneuvers, prelude to a sigh

 

 

these revelations cry

these revelations fly

 

 

the roar of human certainty calls us into this fiction

the frailty of human emotion plunges us into this truth

 

 

these revelations bring us to life

these revelations bring us to dark demise

Feeling Like I'm Almost Gone, But I Know I've Just Begun

a couple keys in my pocket

maybe one turns the power

on the drive wheel in my mind

oh stain

oh brain

it’s the land of a thousand dances in my soul and you are standing still

mouse looks for cheese in the dark

and finds the trap in my car

i set for beggars in the night

oh brain

oh stain

it’s a tidal wave of danger in the trunk of your slowly falling skirt

hands scramble to entertain

nothing to grip in reach

the shifter is missing, so lost

oh stain

oh brain

it’s a lifetime of winters inside the neon pink cascading from your palace

and i don’t even want to know why

and she don’t even feel the cry

of all the hounds that prowl the woods tonight

oh brain

oh stain

i think i’ll just lie down with love

or something else we could dream of