Fear Factory

Questions

If I could slow down time

If I could make it rhyme

If I could steer this ride

What would I find?

If I could touch the light

If I could tame the vines

If I could make you fine

What would I find?

If I could lead the blind

If I could do it right

If I could loose the binds

What would I find?

If I would be what shines

If I would be, not try

If I could see what’s mine

What would I find?

Silhouette of Reason

Let us etch a silhouette of reason

On a wall built with lead and treason

Love and death, betrothed to the end

Not a question of if, only of when

But I know…but I know…

In the end when the stars fall from the sky

When the scales fall from our eyes

We will see the world as it shines

No need to wait to live until we die

I closed my eyes and I could hear the psalms

And all the clocks sounded

like ticking timebombs

David sang the blues and Job did, too

But could they see the world as we do?

But I know…but I know…

In the end when the stars fall from the sky

When the scales fall from our eyes

We will see the world as it shines

No need to wait to live until we die

The mind is the greatest fear factory

that you'll ever find

We all need a guide to show us the way,

to find the light

In the end when the stars fall from the sky

When the scales fall from our eyes

We will see the world as it shines

No need to wait to live until we die

In the end when the stars fall from the sky

When the scales fall from our eyes

We will see the world as it shines

No need to wait to live until we die

O Death, Can You be a Servant?

O Death, can you be a servant?

To this realm and to the next

Or is your scheme to make us bargain?

To make us fear eternal rest

One day we’ll accept the winter’s frost

And take the hand of thee

It is the fate of the flawed and the flawless

But I’m not rushing to leave

Your roots began inside the Garden

Your shadows reach beyond the grave

And still my soul cannot fathom

A darkness that lasts all the days

One day we’ll accept the winter’s frost

And take the hand of thee

It is the fate of the flawed and the flawless

But I’m not rushing to leave

…though I understand the beauty

And the majesty of a waning moon...

One day we’ll accept the winter’s frost

And take the hand of thee

It is the fate of the flawed and the flawless

But I’m not rushing to leave

Crawl

Wisdom is wasted on ancient tongues

Who speak to the deaf and the dumb

To the proud and the young

I wish I could have known you

when I was a better man

When I didn’t equate love

With dying on a rock

If I crawl…if I crawl

If I fall…if I fall on a sword,

you’d still need more

I never doubted your soothing voice

But I don’t believe my ears

They’re always insincere

So I built you a kingdom;

yeah I built you a throne

So I could feel like a man

Worthy of your hand

If I crawl…if I crawl

If I fall…if I fall on a sword,

you’d still need more

I’m an empty drum, a darkened sun

Always searching for redemption

If I crawl…if I crawl

If I fall…if I fall on a sword,

you’d still need more

Drowning Man

I can’t look ahead, I can’t look behind

This icy water will never be satisfied

I’ve seen a thousand ships

all left behind

Where the unforgiving land meets

the evening tide

Oh, Lord…I’m a drowning man

In the sea of my redemption

Please lift me up,

I don’t want to drown anymore

What’s to fear if we are so certain -

Is this how we repay mercy and love?

The waves are breaking,

they’re breaking us up

Another soul lost in the wake of

Kingdom Come

Oh, Lord…I’m a drowning man

In the sea of my redemption

Please lift me up,

I don’t want to drown anymore

So, if I told you to come inside

Would I hold you or betray you tonight?

We are soothing an ancient pride

While we are shooting our better angels

from the sky

Oh, Lord…I’m a drowning man

In the sea of my redemption

Please lift me up,

I don’t want to drown anymore

Ready to Go

I’m staying out of the spotlight

I’m looking for the door

The air is heavy and I’m ready to go

I’m torn between day and night

I’m losing track of the floor

My head is heavy and I’m ready to go

Let’s go, no need to go slow

I’m ready to go, I'm ready to go

There’s a voice inside my mind

That I can’t ignore

Telling me that it’s my time, get ready to go

Let’s go, this place is not my home

I’m ready to go, I'm ready to go

When the tempest breeze

comes blowing through

And lightning divides the sky

I’m ready to go

I’m ready to go, I'm ready to go

When the tempest breeze

comes blowing through

And lightning divides the sky

I’m ready to go

I Can’t Stay Away from You

Every now and then I try

To find the words to say goodbye

But even when I do it never lasts forever

Because I can’t stay away from you

Must have been a million times

That I thought I’d finally got it right

But the bonds between two hearts

are hard to sever

I can’t stay away from you

You have crossed every ocean

To the pump the water from my lungs

You have tasted every drop of poison

To save even a drop from my tongue

I knew you’d never leave me behind

Because your heart is bigger than my lies

But please don’t ever lay claim

to my failures

I can’t stay away from you

I need to stay away from you

You need me to stay away from you

Under the Moon

You can’t find the road

that will get you back home

Day and night

there is peace in the shadows

You can’t justify the noises in your head

So you drown them

with something else instead

Under the moon…under the sun…

You’ve been able to survive

because there’s no rhyme

Or reason to nightmares

Names and faces

are of no consequences

They were just standing there

Under the moon…under the sun…

You can hide

because you happen to look like me

In plain sight

cause no one suspects deceit

We can analyze every sin that you commit

But the darkest crimes

are the ones you can’t predict

Under the moon…under the sun…

Endless Blue

We’re all blind to the fullness of time

Mortal eyes can’t pierce the tide of evermore

The freedom to choose is a holy noose

The first gift bestowed to those below

If I could I’d sail into the endless blue

Until all I could see was seamless sky

But my mind’s weighed down

By all I hold on to that I can’t let go

There is no soul either wicked or whole

Who can control

what they don’t know they never knew

We allow our wills to compel

The Spirit to move as we want it to

If I could I’d sail into the endless blue

Until all I could see was seamless sky

But my mind’s weighed down

By all I hold on to that I can’t let go

You are the sun and you are the rain

The source of breath and the realm of death

Are your domain

If I could I’d sail into the endless blue

Until all I could see was seamless sky

But my mind’s weighed down

By all I hold on to that I can’t let go

Stay (Last Call)

You slide into the room

with nothing on your tongue

But a phrase you borrowed from the ocean

You seem to know

the right words to sing

Even though you’ve never heard them before

Whether sapphire skies

or dark and stormy nights

Why don’t you stay?

Don’t hang up the phone

Come what may I can be your home

There’s something in your voice

I can’t quite define

Like my soul is anciently obliged

I seek out Solomon,

but I only find the dark

If only my words were as rich as my heart

Your speech gives you away;

my Juliet begins to fade

Why don’t you stay?

Don’t hang up the phone

Come what may I can be your home

Can you still taste it on your lips?

One last bitter kiss

Why don’t you stay?

Don’t hang up the phone

Come what may I can be your home

Why don’t you stay?

Don’t hang up the phone

Come what may you’ll never be alone

Time

Time can build us up,

time can break us down

When we grieve for what we’ve never achieved

Time can tear us apart

There is no one who can turn back the sun

But there’s still light

as long as there’s breath in our lungs

Our crimes will chase us down

despite how far we run

If we don’t believe that we can be redeemed

Time will break our hearts

There is no one who can turn back the sun

But there’s still light

as long as there’s breath in our lungs

Time seems to spur just as we learn why we are here

There is no one who can turn back the sun

But there’s still light

as long as there’s breath in our lungs

Without You

You and I used to share

The same sunlight, the same fragrant air

Now you and I

are on separate sides of despair

You now haunt the same old tombs

Where you fought - you were consumed

Now you’re gone,

you’ve left us all without you

Without you

Now you’re gone, you’re up with the sun

The world has lost some light without you

Without you

We can see the lives you’ve touched

Because you believed it was never enough

Just to speak –

words alone are weak - without you

without you

Now you’re gone, you’re up with the sun

The world has lost some light without you

Without you

Now you’re gone, you’re up with the sun

We will move on, but not without you

Without you