1. SHADED MIRROR

You talk with no stick
You think you know
Just what to do

Chiding the weak,
It’s weaker than
The fake strength
You exude

I don’t believe
That you know who
You are what you want
Or where you’re gonna be

And you don’t see
That your whole worldview
Smacks of insecurity
Cuz...

You’re caught
Staring in a shaded mirror
Everybody can see it clear
The one way street, the dead end that is you

A long, long time ago
A friend had had it all
The Prince of Steele Towne
Beside the Queen of Tarot Card

As the wise man sang so long ago:
“She brings Broken Dreams,
Fallen Stars, the Endless
Search for where you are!”

But she was right and he was wrong,
He hurt her like so many songs
And like a fool he found himself...

Trading mercy for regret
Honestly, I must admit:
The friend is really me
Cuz...

I’m caught
Staring in a shaded mirror
Everybody can see it clear
The one way street the dead end now is me

SOLO: Schadlich
SOLO: Ries

They walk the carpet
With diamond gowns
And hollow smiles

They try to scare you
And motivate your
Walks in life

Want you to need them
So they sell you
All their wares

But we don’t see
Though they owe the world
Owe the evil one within the dark
Cuz...

They’re caught
Staring in a shaded mirror
Everybody can see it clear
The one way street, the dead end’s always them


2. TERMINATION SHOCK

Exhausted of options
The spores have hatched
And overrun our ship

Mission control has
Severed the line
To cover the skin on their backs,
I cannot run

No time to process betrayal,
React or die
How am I still alive?

All I can see is
Unfathomably bright
Glowing blood...It stings deep in my

Eyes that have seen hell,
And it looks like it should
The humanoid-skeletal-alien feeds,
You can’t fight or survive

You dreamed of the stars now
You’re beloved ship
Torn and severed
Your coffin in space
RIP

A miscalculation,
No matter now
I stare in the abyss

It’s endless expanse
Defies logic and space
And then I saw it’s face...

He shrunk down to size,
Looked me in the eye
The humanoid-skeletal-alien
Then proclaimed we would all die

Space is not yours, now
Your planet and arrogant race
Are erased and have died
RIP

SOLO: Ries
SOLO: Schadlich
SOLO: Ries
SOLO: Schadlich

Never-ending,
I’m abandoned
Termination Shock

I knew what I was
Signing up for...
But I never expected this
Please, take me away

Exhausted and humbled,
I do not know
Why I haven’t died
Mission control, they severed the line...

Or did they really?
I shudder to think
If they really could be
Away from me...

In horror I wonder
Why I have been spared
If all that he said now was true
Then that makes me the last human man

I swallow the madness...Termination Shock


3. FOREVERMAN

Storm warning
Collapsed like the sign above
Capsizing
Spit out what you’re thinking of

What were you thinking man?
I guess we’ll never know
We gotta understand
That’s how it is

World in a world at 26
Staring at a time that never ticks
When sorrow sings, the reaper dances
Death doesn’t bring no second chances

I’ve seen no angels,
But I feel devils are so real
What did they do to you?
Why didn’t they let go

Our minds our limited
We just can’t comprehend
What happens when it ends
I miss you so, my friend

When sorrow sings, the reaper dances
Death doesn’t bring no second chances
Look back, retract, subtract, reduce, remove
The shame in his eyes

Your skins ring on my friend
Cuz rock n roll never dies

FOREVERMAN
Was this your master plan?
We don’t understand, man
We’ve got you in our hand
Please understand...

Lost in time...
Reflecting back...
Could have made the call...
This corrodes inside my mind

SOLO: Ries
SOLO: Schadlich

When sorrow sings the reaper dances
Death doesn’t bring no second chances
Look back, retract, subtract, reduce, remove
The shame in his eyes

Your skins ring on my friend,
Cuz rock n roll never dies

FOREVERMAN
Was this your master plan?
We don’t understand, man
We’ve got you in our hand
Please understand...


4. DIARY OF A MAIDEN

Entry 999
I’ve assumed the rank
Of Noble Blood

The way I got here
Was...unconventional
Through karma I am stained

Wayfaring amongst the paupers
Bartering for bread and water
I relieve my thirst and hunger
And return to toil

Desperately I ran away
As carriage cargo
Human stray...
Like hybrid beast of burden and fetish

But the path I now tread
Is my way
I relinquished true love
Within this diary

Dancing in the Noble court
Never thought I could be sought
As the Queen’s high council
Ooooh Yeah

Now it’s simple
Just ask the question
What do you want now?
What do you need?
I want it all, babe

And the path I now tread
Is my way
I relinquished true love
Within this diary
All my fortunes from greed,
Who’s better than me?

SOLO: Schadlich
SOLO: Ries


5. STK

SOLO: Ries

You give me your love, babe
To say I’m your man
But I don’t wanna see
Your mourning Sunday

And I’m righting my life
Nothing inside
Nothing to pull out
Of my sleeve, man

You suck the knife
When you’re drinking venom
Why don’t you take a
Chance to stop it

You try the white
You let it rivet
Throughout your mind
The way it thrills you

It ain’t no thing
If you wanna stay
To see how you play
But I have to see the morning subway

You won’t deny
Nothing inside
Nothing that won’t
Feed the night

You suck the night
When you’re drinking venom
Put it down
To make you stop it

Use your light, you’re getting blind
Just to make you feel something,
Stop it, Stop playing games
This time I’m serious

SOLO: Ries
SOLO: Schadlich

Drinking into Friday
They see how you live
My reality on the
Morning subway

Youth Gone Died
Nothing inside
Nothing to talk,
Nothing to see here

Lose your life
When you’re drinking venom
Won’t you take a chance
To stop it

Lost your day
Throw it away
Without your hate
Don’t try to stop me
Getting away.


6. AFTER THE FUTURE

Should’ve taken what the kind girl offered
Should’ve listened what the mission
Told you to do...now you’re own your own
Chasing dragons on a rolling stone

Never heeded all the cathode rays
Everybody seemed a slave to the haze
So you went and then you browned them out
Blotting out so you don’t feel left out

The fuzzy trip is in the drip you know it’s good
When it’s good, you got new friends coming ‘round
Creepy girls in your hood, keeping up appearances
For guest who don’t even care, never know what day
Tomorrow who cares anyway

Living in the chrome black now, pretend to be alive
You know the night it never ends...you don’t remember who you are
Should’ve taken what the kind girl offered
Should’ve listened what the mission told you to do

SOLO: Schadlich
SOLO: Ries

Hold on to your heart, it’s the life that remains within you


7. DEEPSPACE

High up above the atmosphere
G forces rattle all the fibres in my system
Journey to the unknown
A mission all alone

Now crest the stellar entry
Flying high, not afraid to die
DEEP SPACE MINE

Now out of hyper-speed, I know
All of the light-years
Passed until my destination

My research is complete
Past entries obsolete
A fine example for
All human kind

Indiscreet
Mission now complete
New elite

SOLO: Ries
SOLO: Schadlich
SOLO: Schadlich
SOLO: Ries

Returning home in my old age
All of the light-years passed
Beyond the generations

My friends are all long dead
My sacrifice way meant
A fitting tribute to
All those who’ve died

Flying high, not afraid to die
DEEP SPACE MINE


8. TERRA EXODUS

I don’t like THE WAY
I don’t like THE WAY
I don’t like THE WAY
I don’t like THE WAY

Cheaters, Stealers
Manipulators rob you blind
Grifters, Shape-shifters
Spread disease, you can’t escape

SOLO: Ries

As we awake, the world burns
The final minute is counting down
Suicide, we must decide,
I can’t stand the truth...I don’t like THE WAY

You have always won
We have always lost
And you say we
Destroyed the world
All the manuscripts
And the hieroglyphs
Predicted the rapture
Yet to come

Wage slaves, early graves
We gave, you forsake

And you always talk
You own the words
We punch the clock

In darkness we die
Your mechanical eye
Sings our eulogy

Wage slaves, early graves,
We gave, you forsake

BABYLON
Era Modern: Imperium

ALOBAR
Immortal King has Never Left the Throne

AVALON
The Ships Escape in the Night

TERRA EXODUS
The Gold Gleams in the Sky

Whole generations enslaved
What we got for what we gave
Hardwired surveillance
Drugged to feel painless

What right did you have?
No oversight, technocratic feudal lords

BABYLON
Era Modern: Imperium

ALOBAR
Immortal King has Never Left the Throne

AVALON
The Ships Escape in the Night

TERRA EXODUS
The Gold Gleams in the Sky

SOLO: Sandercock