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 the 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.

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 may roam

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

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

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.

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 harted 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.

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 blooom



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.

Judgement Of Heaven

A lonely cry for help reaching out for help

to anyone

A silent prayer to God to help you 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 ...

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 in The World's hands

It's our epitaph



It's out of control

Someone should know

Blood on The World's hands

Someone should.

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 wating

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

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.

The Unbeliever

Do you feel ease with what you see

Do you think you can have peace of mind

And have self-believe 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.