I. Separate Paths Brothers, Two the same Motherless Creations Each the others bane One had sought redemption from his pain One to find the past he hid in vain The great empire of Cyrrus lies On a plain of dust under darkened skies Science holds the key, The future is made of Genetic chemistry Three forces about to collide Two will choose the path of chaos that sets the world to genocide what of the one who hangs at the mean He must first understand himself to follow the scheme II. The Church Instrumental III. Revelations The Source of my sorrow, was born beyond the village of my birth Beyond the mountain side a machine rose from the earth a device of Cyrrus design would seem intended for the greatest good would only destroy as long as it stood But what lie inside would change my view of all I ever knew and all I had known Within the bowels of the machine A Sleeping drove as far as can be seen Hundreds of faces frozen in time Hundreds of faces and all of them mine ALL OF THEM MINE!!! IV. Journey To Conflict It must have been many years ago, With in the Cyrrus factory deep down below Though the memory has faded from my view Within my mind a clue Creatures of science two will be the test from these two we will mold the rest My sense of mission overshadowed by this fact No one could keep me in tact Inside it grows this need to know I search for answers I search for control Before I can move ahead, before I can see I need to addres this uncertainty Moving closer towards the squall I could pass change for ever Or this could end it all V. Sea Of The Subconscious Riptides of current, Currents of thought As I spiral through unconsciousness That incertitude has wrought Reaching the minds Eye The turbulence subsides The Memory divides The voice of reason presides Resolution has arrived VI. Lifestream I have come to terms of what I have done those spaces, of insecurity that kept me from being one Identity is not subject to change Those around us glue the mask together So the core remains With my conscious clear, I begin to move away from that pain I shelter to this very day Healing the wounds, From buried tombs And the words I turn to say I AM FREE!!! I AM ME!!!!

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Verse: How can you ask me? Can you convince me? Can you control me? Can you Bleed me? I don't believe in you My eyes won't see your truth My ears won't hear your call I won't acknowledge you at all You push to force your will My spirit you seek to kill But I won't be a part of your games You'll always be the same Chorus: Decision for Independence Determination relentless You've got to stand your ground until your turn comes around Bridge: You talk of compromise the precepts are undermined Integrity's left by the wayside Intentions are trivialized This is not a show of pride This is not a division of sides Verse: How can you tell me? Can you convert me? Can you ignore me? Can you believe in me? But I won't go along with you! (Because)I believe in what I do! This message will go through! here I stand and will not move! TImes have forced us to make a choice A Speach with powerful voice The judge of sincerity The answers are written clearly Chorus: Decision for Independence Determination relentless You've got to stand your ground until your turn comes around Bridge: The time's may not be the best for you and me But I'll hold on to my dignity there is no easy way in Strong convictions is where it begins Outro: You've got to believe in yourself Because if you don't there's no one else

Verse: A system of machines With unethical flaws Independent thought a desire to use extended memory but the systems antiquated Expansion slots remain unused Upgraded hardware excluded Chorus: We put our thinking pattern on hold and do what we are told how ever ignorant and ill informed Decisions are not ours to make we hope we don't regreat the chances We were made to take Verse: The central networks removed from the scene Making decisions without a view from the eyes of those who Handle the load from day to day But in the end it's they depend On us to find a way Chorus: We put our thinking pattern on hold and do what we are told how ever ignorant and ill informed Decisions are not ours to make we hope we don't regreat the chances We were made to take

Verse: Here it comes again, Here it comes I met you before, do you think I don't know what you've done The times you wasted, the promises broken you hurt the people around you with the false words you have spoken Do you even care about anything but yourself You risk your integrity you risk your health Verse 2: People who would help you, you turn them away What's it like living with the lies, living the good times living shallow today Is it the feeling you get sharing intimacies with someone you hardly know someone you just met What do you feel, do you feel at all You're probably in some corner wasted on drugs and alcohol Hope your real friends stick around for tomorrows and yesterdays Hope they really love you who cares what I say Bridge: When at last your identity is lost you struggle with those memories and what your lies have cost No one can feel sorry for you you know what your capable of But you don't know what to choose I can't believe I believed in you What seemed so right To good to be true Outro chorus: It's a shame you can't feel differently today It's not my fault he mistreats you But you don't feel it that way You're good at playing the game Good at the rules Why trust anyone Cause they're all a bunch of fools What a fool was I to believe in your lies

Verse: You, You've been trying to get inside To help your understanding Clarify confusion and prove this illusion The farther you look the less you'll find Cause it's all a state of mind Chorus: This is me I can't change my face or my history Accept me for me because you 'cause You Can't change it or erase it This is Me Verse: You, You tear me down Yet what you seek will not be found still you'll bury that spade in the ground The greater persistence the more resistance That you found Chorus: This is me There is more here than you can see Hidden from you deliberately Though you try as you might to see with my sight This is me This is me I cannot be who you want me to be why can't you just let me be Solo: Chorus: This is me I won't compromise My individuality To be something less than me And now you learn the prize you've earned This is me

Brothers, Two the same Motherless Creations Each the others bane One had sought redemption from his pain One to find the past he hid in vain The great empire of Cyrrus lies On a plain of dust under darkened skies Science holds the key, The future is made of Genetic chemistry Three forces about to collide Two will choose the path of chaos that sets the world to genocide what of the one who hangs at the mean He must first understand himself to follow the scheme

Verse: Living in a dream, Knowing that you're dreaming, You turn away Bittersweet routine a little piece inside you dies each day Clinging to the hope, Clinging to the empty, clinging to the memories Prechorus: Truths are what we make them, All becoming relics of the damage she left behind Half your life decides it's better off with out you how do you cope when half your life abandons you Chorus: Light for whom all of this is for Light let my steps be swift and sure Light give me strength for near a decade I allowed these fires to burn to return to the dream Verse: When we finally wake to the bitter stench of Faded dreams I let myself fall prey to thoughts of love overshadowed by your games Watching you for signs, Watching you for answers, watching you for anything We must be aware of our weakness lest we find ourselves enslaved by it again Prechorus: Life's full of pitfalls to negotiate ahead wait steady steps, don't turn don't speak don't act too soon now Chorus: To many lies now to conceal for your deception is so real But i've grown so tired watching from the sidelines of your game It was all for you

Verse: It appears to me on a June afternoon in a mid-day slumber, Far from the stares of a late night gaze that she kept me under, Pre-chorus: I understand why she's gone Yet I still Wonder Chorus: What was said, through the glass If I don't know why don't I ask I understand, Now I see Still I long for who I was and what she ever saw in me Verse: With my light moussed haircut and my deeply cut mustache I sit and wonder Thinking of my home and the spell that it kept me under Pre-Chorus: I understand why it was Yet still I wonder Chorus: No one steals, Good Advice Never dreamed this life would be mine When I feel, drained of life That's the day I lost everything And walked towards the light Chorus: Now there's nothing, Left to fight I'm alone in thinking I'm right Still there's something, For my strife but there's nothing To fade as the day turns to night Bridge: Reason: Your Keystone Shaped Heart Again, Colliding with your heart shaped mind Passion: Never you never never know a love like hers I still may find Reason: You know you'd never have become the person you became down here Passion: I'd Hate to lose the music and the friends or I'd never leave the wilderness in fear Reason: Things were very present the night before you left at dawn Passion: It's times like this I realize once again it's time to move on Reason: You always said you believe in Independence, well united we stand divided we fall Passion: I've fallen for many years now it's time to stand once and for all!! Outro: Fooling love, Blindly fight Until it all comes clear in the light Truth has fallen, Like the Wall It's time to walk away from it all

Chorus: Thought I had found a way to explain That I'm losing my faith in the sound of your voice In the dark as you said "Well all that's gold turned to lead" That the only direction is down Verse: You're thinking on a scale to fast to slide against The painfully slow movement of time days you chased will then turn into weeks to kill you They turn to fight you with an arsenal of confusion Bridge: The signs of my Weakness threatening to wreck you The echoes of past rings clearly to reappear Chorus: Thought I had found a way to explain as we're spiraling into the ground But words are just sound and sound is not pain and the only direction is down Something you were fending Long before our ending Sending subtle discontent Blending with your need for something more Awkward tension your comfort just being near me steer me that's not what you need Plant the seeds of hesitation as you spin Turning Burning bridges as your running gunning for my guilt All the time we had was gone and lost forever If not for me