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- "Power unrestrained,
Dead on the mark
Is what we will deliver tonight.
Pleasure fused with pain,
This triumph of the soul
Will make you shiver tonight.
People can no longer cover their eyes.
If this disturbs you then walk away.
You will remember the night
You were struck by the sight of
Ten Thousand Fists in the air."
--Disturbed, "Ten Thousand Fists", Ten Thousand Fists
- "Is it any wonder why I'm scared?
If I was a little younger, would I care?
Feeling like the walls are growing stronger.
I don't know if this gate can hold me any longer...
I'm not afraid of Tomorrow,
I'm only scared of myself.
Feels like my insides are on fire,
And I'm looking through the eyes of someone else."
-SR-71, "Tomorrow", Tomorrow
- "I choose to live and to
Lie, kill and give and to
Die, learn and love and to
Do what it takes to step through.
See my shadow changing,
Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor.
Hoping I can clear the way
By stepping through my shadow,
Coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow.
Forty six and two are just ahead of me."
--Tool, "Forty Six and Two", Ænima
- "Anytime you need someone,
Somebody strong to lean,
Well you can count on me
To hold you till that healing is done.
And everytime you fall apart,
You can hide here in my arms.
You can count on me
To hold you till that feeling is gone."
--Default, "Count On Me", One Thing Remains
- "How was I considered evil?
Pleasures taken in this life?
Someone granted me reprieval.
Decades spent in strife
Led to nothing.
Repeated in my mind
Led to nothing.
If only I'd been born another time.
Hell is still overburdened,
I must stand and wait in line.
Hell is still overburdened,
How have I been so determined malign?"
--Disturbed, "Overburdened", Ten Thousand Fists
- "And that's enough for me,
I'm better off just to know you.
Just stay right here with me,
And that's enough for me.
Just ask and I will show you,
The man that I could be,
And that's enough for me."
--Dark New Day, "That's Enough", Twelve Year Silence
- "Ever haunted by the trappings of this life,
Sweet redemption, just in front of me.
Well now, it seems once again that I've lost another
One of the one's that have broke through the wall.
Damned,
Fate won't compromise.
I have sold my soul,
And now the devil's laughing."
--Disturbed, "Guarded", Ten Thousand Fists
- "Daylight again,
Following me to bed.
I think about a hundred years ago,
How my father's bled.
I think I see a valley,
Covered with bones in blue.
All the brave soldiers that cannot get older,
'Been asking after you.
Hear the past a'calling,
From Armageddon's side.
When everyone's talking and no one is listening,
How can we decide?
Do we find the cost of freedom
Buried in the ground?
Mother Earth will swallow you,
Lay your body down."
--Crosby, Stills & Nash, "Daylight Again", Daylight
Again
- "When the light begins to fade,
And shadows fall across the see,
One bright star in the evening sky,
Your love's light leads me on my way.
There's a dream that will not sleep,
A burning hope that will not die.
So I must go now with the wind,
And leave you waiting on the tide.
Time to fly, time to touch the sky.
One voice alone - a haunting cry.
One song, one star burning bright,
Let it carry me through darkest night.
Rain comes over the grey hills,
And on the air, a soft goodbye.
Hear the song that I sing to you,
When the time has come to fly.
When I leave and take the wing,
And find the land that fate will bring,
The brightest star in the evening sky,
Is your love waiting far for me."
--"The Soft Goodbye", Celtic Woman
- "I wanna run.
I wanna hide.
I wanna tear down the walls,
That hold me inside.
I wanna reach out,
And touch the flame,
Where the streets have no name."
--U2, "Where The Streets Have No Name", The Joshua Tree
- "'There must be some way out of here,'
Said the joker to the thief.
'There's too much confusion',
I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine,
Plowmen dig my earth.
None of them along the line
Know what any of it is worth.'
'No reason to get excited',
The thief he kindly spoke.
'There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that,
And this is not our fate.
So let us not talk falsely now,
The hour is getting late.'"
--Bob Dylan, "All Along The Watchtower", John Wesley
Harding
- "Crowded streets are cleared away,
One by one.
Hollow heroes separate,
As they run.
You're so cold,
Keep your hand in mine.
Wise men wonder,
While strong men die.
Show me how it ends,
It's alright.
Show me how defenseless
You really are.
Satisfied and empty inside,
Well that's alright,
Let's give this another try."
--Breaking Benjamin, "So Cold", We Are Not Alone
- "I embrace my desire to
Feel the rhythm, to feel connected
Enough to step aside and weep like a widow,
To feel inspired, to fathom the power,
To witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain,
To swing on the spiral
Of our divinity
And still be a human.
With my feet upon the ground I lose myself
Between the sounds and open wide to suck it in,
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out,
I'm reaching for the random or whatever will bewilder me,
Whatever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.
Spiral out. Keep going..."
--Tool, "Lateralus", Lateralus
- "Now I saw a face on the water,
It looked humble, but willing to fight.
I saw the will of a warrior,
His yoke is easy and his burden is light.
He looked me right in the eyes
Direct and concise to remind me
To always do what's Right."
--Creed, "Faceless Man", Human Clay
- "I wanna be as big as a mountain.
I wanna fly as high as the sun.
I wanna know what the rent's like in heaven.
I wanna know where the river goes."
--Stone Temple Pilots, "Where The River Goes", Core
- "Rise,
Throw away
The charade of your life.
Let the flame of my heart
Burn away
Your complacence tonight.
I command you to rise,
Wash away
The decay of your life.
Feel the light of your eyes
Find the way
Throught the darkness tonight,
Fearing no one."
--Disturbed, "Rise", Believe
- "Balance has shifted,
Warped, sick and twisted,
Grabbing at angels when I fall.
'Cause I am more than this idle,
Endless recital,
For all my demons to applaud.
I am free."
--BoySetsFire, "Highwire Escape Artist", Tomorrow Come
Today
- "I am
Surrendering
To gravity and the unknown.
Catch me,
Heal me,
Lift me back up to the sun.
I choose to live."
--A Perfect Circle, "Gravity", The Thirteenth Step
- "Cause it's time to bring the fire down,
Bridle all this indiscretion,
Long enough to edify,
And permanently fill this hollow."
--A Perfect Circle, "The Hollow", Mer De Noms
- "Fallen angels at my feet,
Whispered voices at my ear.
Death before my eyes,
Lying next to me I fear.
She beckons me shall I give in?
Upon my end shall I begin?
Forsaking all I've fallen for,
I rise to meet the end."
--Evanescence, "Whisper", Fallen
- "And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping
The moon tells me a secret - my confidant
As full and bright as I am
This light is not my own and
A million light reflections pass over me
Its source is bright and endless
She resuscitates the hopeless
Without her, we are lifeless satellites drifting
--Tool, "Reflection", Lateralus
- "Life is like a shooting star,
It don't matter who you are,
If you only run for cover,
It's just a waste of time.
We are lost 'til we are found,
This phoenix rises up from the ground,
And all these wars are over."
--Live, "The Dolphin's Cry", The Distance To Here
- "And as the final sunset rolls behind the earth,
And the clock is finally dead;
I'll look at you, you'll look at me,
And we'll cry alot.
But this'll be what we said:
Look what all this talking got us, baby."
--Live, "White, Discussion", Throwing Copper
- "If I could have my wasted days back,
Would I use them to get back on track?
Stop to warm at Karma's burning,
Or look ahead but keep on turning."
--Metallica, "Frantic", St. Anger
- "There's nothing ever wrong,
But nothing's ever right.
Such a cruel contradiction.
I know I cross the line,
It's not easy to define.
I am born to indecision.
There's always something new,
Some path I'm supposed to choose,
With no particular rhyme or reason."
--Shinedown, "Burning Bright", Leave A Whisper
- "I am focused on what I am after:
The key to the next open chapter.
'Cause I found a way,
To steal the sun from the sky.
Long live that day,
That I decided to fly,
From the inside."
--Shinedown, "Fly From The Inside", Leave A Whisper
- "This body.
This body holding me.
Be my reminder here that I am not alone in
This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal
All this pain is an illusion.
Alive, I..."
--Tool, "Parabola", Lateralus
- "Twirling 'round with this familiar parable.
Spinning, weaving 'round each new experience.
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be
Alive and Breathing."
--Tool, "Parabola", Lateralus
- "Cold silence has
A tendency to
Atrophy any
Sense of compassion
Between supposed lovers
Between supposed brothers."
--Tool, "Schism", Lateralus
- "If there were no desire to heal
The damaged and broken met along
This tedious path I've chosen here
I certainly would've walked away
By now."
--Tool, "The Patient", Lateralus
- "Shrouding all the ground around me
Is this holy crow above me.
Black as holes within a memory
And blue as our new second sun.
I stick my hand into his shadow
To pull the pieces from the sand.
Which I attempt to reassemble
To see just who I might have been.
I do not recognize the vessel,
But the eyes seem so familiar.
Like phosphorescent desert buttons
Singing one familiar song..."
--Tool, "Third Eye", Ænima
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