Dream Theater

all wound up
on the edge
terrified
sleep disturbed
restless mind
petrified
bouts of fear
permeate
all i see
heightening
nervousness
theatens me

i am paralyzed
so afraid to die

caught off guard
warning signs
never show
tension strikes
choking me
worries grow

why do i feel so numb?
has it something to do with where i come from?
should this be fight or flight?
i don't know why i'm constantly so uptight

rapid heartbeat pounding through my chest
agitated body in distress
i feel like i'm in danger
daily life is strangled by my stress
a stifling surge shooting through all my veins
extreme apprehension, suddenly i'm insane

no strong hope for redemption
a grave situation desperate at best

why do i feel so numb?
has it something to do with where i come from?
should this be fight or flight?
i don't know why i'm constantly reeling

helpless hysteria
a false sense of urgency
trapped in my phobia
possessed by anxiety

run
try to hide
overwhelmed by this complex delirium

helpless hysteria
a false sense of urgency
trapped in my phobia
possessed by anxiety

run
try to hide
overwhelmed by this complex delirium
				

Dream Theater

i. reflection

cunning, baffling, powerful
(beaten to a pulp)
vigorous, irresistible
(sick and tired of laying low)
dominating, invincible
([ive got no] self control)
overwhelming, unquenchable
(i'm powerless - have to let go)
i can't escape it
it leaves me frail and worn
no longer take it
senses tattered and torn
hopeless surrender
obsessions got me beat
losing the will to live
admitting complete defeat
fatal descent
spinning around
i've gone too far
to turn back round
desperate attempt (to)
stop the progression
at any length
limits obsession
crawl into my glass prison
a place where no one knows
my secret lowly world begins
so much safer here
a place where i can go
to forget about my daily sins
life here in my glass prison
a place i once called home
foreign maternal bliss again
chasing a long lost friend i no longer can control
just waiting for this hopelessness to end
					

ii. restoration

(run) fast from the wreckage of the past
a shattered glass prison wall behind me
(fight) past walking through the ash
a distant oasis before me
(cry) desperate, crawling on my knees
begging god to please stop the insanity
(help me) try to believe
stop wallowing in my self pity
we've been waiting for you my friend
the writing's been on the wall
all it takes is a little faith
you know you're the same as us all
(help me)
i can't break out of this prison all alone
(save me)
i'm drowning and i'm hopeless on my own
(heal me)
i can't restore my sanity alone
(into the door)
desperate
(fighting the war)
help me restore
(to my sanity)
and the struggle of hope
(i need to learn)
teach me how
(solemnly burn) help me return
(to humanity)
i've been feeling secure of the way that [this struggle can hold]
believe
(transcend the pain)
livin the life
(humanity)
open my eyes
(this new odyssey)
a prayer inside of me
(serenity)
that i never knew
(sense of mind)
help me to find
(the courage to change all the things all that i can. huh!)
well help you perform this miracle
you might set your past free
you dug the hole, but you can't bury your soul
open your mind and you'll see
(help me)
i can't break out of this prison all alone
(save me)
i'm drowning and i'm hopeless on my own
(heal me)
i can't restore my sanity alone
					

iii. revelation

way off in the distance i saw a door i tried to open
i tried forcing with all of my will but still the door wouldn't open
unable to trust in my faith i turned and walked away
i looked around felt a chill in the air, took my will and turned it
over
the glass prison which once held me is gone, a long lost fortress
armed only with liberty and the key of my willingness
i fell down on my knees and prayed - thy will be done
i turned around saw a light shining through
the door was wide open
				

Anthrax

Why don't you listen to me when I try to talk to you
Stop thinking of yourself, for just a second fool
Shut up, shut up, I don't wanna hear your mouth 
Your mother made a monster, now get the hell out of my house

Bridge

Can't stand it for another day
I ain't gonna live my life this way
Cold sweat, my fists are clenching
Stomp, stomp, stomp the idiot convention

Pre-Chorus

Which one of these words don't you understand
I'm Caught in a Mosh!
Talking to you is like clapping with one hand

Chorus

What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!

Don't tell me how to do my job
There's the door, your name's on the knob
You're always in the way, like a beast on my back
Were you dropped as a baby, cause brains you lack

Can't stand it for another day
I ain't gonna live my life this way
Cold sweat, my fists are clenching
Stomp, stomp, stomp, the idiot convention
Which one of these words don't you understand?
I'm Caught in a Mosh
Talking to you, is like clapping with one hand

What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!

MOSH PART

Think-before you speak 
Or suffer for your words
Learn, to give respect
That others, give to you
AAAAAAAAAAAh, The best you can do  

LEAD BREAK
HARMONY LEAD

Hey Man!
I'm trying to reason but you don't understand 
Talking in circles, we'll never get it straight
Just you and me in our theatre of hate 
Can't stand it for another day
I ain't gonna live my life this way
Cold sweat, my fists are clenching 
Stomp, stomp, stomp, the idiot convention
Which one of these words don't you understand?
I'm Caught in a Mosh!
Talking to you is like talking with one hand
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
				

Anthrax

Fifteen years in the academy
He was like no cadet they'd ever seen
A man so hard, his veins bleed ice
And when he speaks he never says it twice
They call him Judge, his last name is Dredd
So break the law, and you wind up dead
Truth and justice are what he's fighting for
Judge Dredd the man, he is the law
DROKK IT!

With gun and bike he rules the streets
And every perp he meets will taste defeat
Not even Death can overcome his might
Cause Dredd and Anderson, they won the fight
When the Sov's started the Apocalypse war
Mega-City was bombed to the floor
Dredd resisted, and the judges fought back
Crushed the Sov's with their counter-attack
DROKK IT!

Pre-Chorus

Respect the badge - he earned it with his blood
Fear the gun - your sentence may be death because...
Chorus

I AM THE LAW!
And you won't fuck around no more - I AM THE LAW
I judge the rich, I judge the poor - I AM THE LAW
Commit a crime I'll lock the door - I AM THE LAW
Because in Mega-City... I AM THE LAW

In the cursed earth where mutants dwell
There is no law, just a living hell
Anarchy and chaos as the blood runs red
But this would change if it was up to Dredd
The book of law is the bible to him
And any crime committed is a sin
He keeps the peace with his law-giver
Judge, jury, and executioner
DROKK IT!

Pre-Chorus
Chorus
Bridge

CRIME - The ultimate sin
Your iso-cube is waiting when he brings you in
LAW - It's what he stands for
Crime's his only enemy and he's going to war

LEAD BREAK

CRIME - The ultimate sin
Your iso-cube is waiting when he brings you in
LAW - It's what he stands for
Crime's his only enemy and he's going to war

Pre-Chorus
Chorus
Chorus
				

Life of Agony

Dear son, daddy's never coming back home
He's passed on, claim him as one of your own
My mind's numb, nothing has been clearer than this
They found him on the road, he couldn't get in
And I know, papa never intended for this
To drag me, down into this bottomless pit
I've been thinking just about, all I can do
I think back the loss, and the truth

And I feel like the day he died
I feel like the day he died

Walked in, cops talking standing around
I kneeled down, spot him lying there on the ground
I begged please please let me get a minute with him
And they said, don't touch anything kid
I fell back when I just, entered the room
Proud to, show up on the end of one's doom
My head's spinning way, out of control
I can't believe its been three long, years ago

And I feel like the day he died
I feel like the day he died

[Solo]

And I feel like the day he died
I feel like the day
And I feel like the day he died
I feel like the day

Dear son, daddy's never coming back home
I've gone wrong, wish I had the strength to live on
I cant breathe, is there any air left in here
I can't believe, everything I hold disappears
It's gone on, time and time again I'm alone
And dear son, daddy's never coming back home

And I feel like the day he died
And I feel like the day he died
And I feel like the day he died
				

Life of Agony

Willing to start again,
Willing to give another try.
Willing to pretend but still so dead.
Willing to Comprehend
Willing to give up all my pride
Willing to forget but still so dead

And it's Starting to take its toll
And it's starting to unwind
But the quicker that things unfold
The quicker that they subside
And writings on the wall
But the walls have all come down
If you can't see past the truth
I love to let you DOWN......

Willing to walk again
Willing to step back in the light,
Willing to forget but still so dead
Willing to turn my head
Willing to let my feelings slide
Willing to befriend but still so dead.

And it's Starting to take its toll
And it's starting to unwind
But the quicker that things unfold
The quicker that they subside
And writings on the wall
But the walls have all come down
If you cant see past the truth
I love to let you...

And it's complicated
And it's complicated
Everything that I've known
What was up is now down
And it's overrated
And it's overrated
Everything that I know

And I love to let you....
I love to let you..........

And it's Starting to take its toll
And it's starting to unwind
But the quicker that things unfold
The quicker that they subside
And writings on the wall
But the walls have all come down
If you can't see past the truth
I love to let you

And I'm willing to start again
To give it another try
I'm willing to start again
				

Dry Kill Logic

I have nothing-everything's taken from me
Force what's inside out on those that try to hide
No give all take -this will bend but never break
I see I hate all the love you try and fake

[Chorus:]
These are the things and the ways that will blind you All alone inside so
you follow
On your knees do you spit or you swallow?
Without you I'm...Lost

3 things ring clear Truth be told is what you fear
So is it true indifference has spoiled you?
How can you fed- ignorance in bliss is real?
Soon you'll be gone and the rest will carry on

[Chorus]

See the ways I've
Gone and I've tried
Never dismissed
With only one wish
To be seen
Having to be heard
Cause it's never been the same
Since you ignored all this
Life passed you by having seen the well is dry
All in due time-feeding off the compromise
Fuck that-fuck you
Careful what you wish is true
Who will fall last?
Having seen the failure pass

[Chorus]
				

Dry Kill Logic

I have seen whats left for all the rest of you
And its not what you think it will be
For the gift and the curse of whats been shown to you
I cant believe what I feel it is taking
Never give, never bend - its all a lie to you
And all you do is seem to remind me
Of all the times and the ways I would have died for you
And this is all the thanks that you'll show me...

If you would show
The light for me
The things I'd known
That now id see

This is - not the same not now, never, no not again
When the dreams and the truth came colliding
And the same can be said for all the rest of them
See the strong and the weak divided
Yet I feel alive
For all the pain I have
And all you do is seem to remind me
Of all of the times and the ways I would have died for you
And this is all of the thanks that you'll show me

If you would show
The light for me
The things I'd known
That now id see

If you would show
The light for me
The things I'd known
That now id see

Energy as I feel it calling
Cannot see through the cloud that's forming
Blinding as it passes before my eyes
Looking for the thing that's calling
Now I see that its coming after
Now I see that its coming after...me

If you would show
The light for me
The things I'd known
That now id see
				

Bobaflex

So what I've been with a prostitute
I've been on meth for a week or two
There's a teenage girl, she's fucking high on drugs
I think she's driving my truck

I don't care, I live the way I wanna
I don't care, I live the way I wanna

Here we go around and round
You think you're better than me, you think you're better than me
Here we go around and round
You think you're better than me, you think you're better?

One day they'll lay me down to rest
'til then I'll answer to myself
I'm from another world, you know I'm not a man
I'm a beast I'm a beast I'm a beast yeah

I don't care, I live the way I wanna
I don't care, I live the way I wanna

Here we go around and round
You think you're better than me, you think you're better than me
Here we go around and round
You think you're better than me, you think you're better?

I apologize for nothing
While you just sit there and wonder why
I apologize for nothing
While you just sit there and wonder why

All out, I'm black, we are nothing
All out, I'm black, we are nothing

Here we go around and round
You think you're better than me, you think you're better than me
Here we go around and round
You think you're better than me, you think you're better?
				

Bobaflex

What would you do without your medicine,
Falling on the floor again,
Looking for the fix you found heaven in
What would you do without your medicine,
Run like a fiend, never
Weaned from the breast, so you fell again

It's the big dark behind you, you can run,
But it always finds you
Reminds you of something that happened so bad in your past
You never want to look back, manifest in bad dreams
Itch starts to scream, medicine numb the gnashing teeth

I must confess these pains in my chest
Disappear when I'm feeding the need
So forget about your questions,
Cause you know where I've been
There's a struggle in the mud
And for now I'm sinking

Sitting in the back room, thinking what might have been
I'm alive, cause I'm taking all my medicine
[x2]

I'm on top of the world and nothing brings me down
[x4]

What's that junk you been shooting in your veins
Young kids do X headed straight for little brains
Pop a bean for me, call it a shame,
Everyone escape, try to get away
Shot from the head, you're the walking dead,
Corpses chasing artificial happiness
Death to the freaks and the fiends that deserved it
I had a get out of hell free card, but I burned it

I must confess these pains in my chest
Disappear when I'm feeding the need
So forget about your questions,
Cause you know where I've been
There's a struggle in the mud
And for now I'm sinking

Sitting in the back room, thinking what might have been
I'm alive, cause I'm taking all my medicine
I'm on top of the world and nothing brings me down

What would you do without your medicine,
Falling on the floor again,
Looking for the fix you found heaven in
What would you do without your medicine,
Run like a fiend, never
Weaned from the breast, so you fell again

Slide down, back to the hole where you feel comfortable

What would you do without your medicine
DIE DIE DIE
[x4]
				

Megadeth

The mother of all that is evil
Her lips are poisonous venom
Wicked temptress knows how to please
The priestess roars, "Get down on your knees"

The rite of the praying mantis
Kiss the bones of the enchantress
Spellbound searching through the night
A howling man surrenders the fight

One look in her lusting eyes
Savage fear in you will rise
Teeth of terror sinking in
The bite of the she-wolf

My desires of flesh obey me
The lioness will enslave me
Another heart beat than my own
The sound of claws on cobblestone, I'm stoned

Beware what stalks you in the night
Beware the she-wolf and her bite
Her mystic lips tell only lies
Her hidden will to kill in disguise
				

Megadeth

Don't remember where I was
I realized life was a game
The more seriously I took things
The harder the rules became
I had no idea what it'd cost
My life passed before my eyes
When I found out how little I accomplished
All my plans denied

So as you read this know my friends
I'd love to stay with you all
Please smile when you think of me
My body's gone that's all

À tout le monde [To everyone]
À tout mes amis [To all my friends]
Je vous aime [I love you]
Je dois partir [I must leave]
These are the last words
I'll ever speak
And they'll set me free

If my heart was still alive
I know it would surely break
And my memories left with you
There's nothing more to say
Moving on is a simple thing
What it leaves behind is hard
You know the sleeping feel no more pain
And the living are scarred

À tout le monde [To everyone]
À tout mes amis [To all my friends]
Je vous aime [I love you]
Je dois partir [I must leave]
These are the last words
I'll ever speak
And they'll set me free

So as you read this know my friends
I'd love to stay with you all
Please smile, smile when you think about me
My body's gone that's all

[2x]
À tout le monde [To everyone]
À tout mes amis [To all my friends]
Je vous aime [I love you]
Je dois partir [I must leave]
These are the last words
I'll ever speak
And they'll set me free
				

Megadeth

Dawn breaks evenly today
On the truth and the lie
All rise, court's in session
We're hanging someone high

Justice means nothing today
Now that the courts are for sale
Pick a crime from the menu, pick a sentence and defend you
And pick up the down payment called bail
The system's for sale!

Kick the chair, the rope is tight
Just like one quick wrench, the tooth is out
Friend or foe, I gotta hang 'em dead
Or they'll come back around
Kick it!

The court's wrong when it keeps track
Of victories and defeats
The press that never rests just waits
For somebody's soul they can eat

Justice means nothing today
Now that the jury's for sale
Guilty or not, the verdict's a lie
You're going to jail
The system has failed!

Kick the chair, the rope is tight
Just like one quick wrench, the tooth is out
Friend or foe, ya gotta hang 'em dead
Or they'll come back

[Solo - Mustaine (2:21)]
[Solo - Mustaine (2:51)]
[Solo - Mustaine (3:04)]
[Solo - Poland (3:20)]
				

Fear Factory

One nation, One nation of gods
Divided by faith.
A nation is divided by faith

Witness, Deliberate, War, Of attrition
Witness, Deliberate, War, Of attrition

Judge me not, judge me less you be judged
Eyes are blind, blinded by violation.

I hate your contention
I hate your violation
I hate your corruption
I hate your life destruction

I am your ENEMY!

Witness, Deliberate, War, Of attrition
Kill my mind, my mind is the weapon
Words are banned, these words meant to enlighten

I hate your contention
I hate your violation
I hate your corruption
I hate your life Destruction

I am your, ENEMY!
I will resist, ENDLESSLY!
				

Fear Factory

You must never forget
The essence of your spark
All of that which defines you
Is the essence of your blood

The infection has been removed
The soul of this machine has improved (x2)

Look into my eyes
And tell me what you see
Someone real
This is real
What you wish to be

You must never forget
To modernize performance
Malignancies on the system
Will handicap slow up and rust

The infection has been removed
The soul of this machine has improved [x2]

Look into my eyes
And tell me what you see
Someone real
This is real
What you wish to be

Fuck!

Can you see
Can you see

Look into my eyes
And tell me what you see
Someone real
This is real
What you wish to be

Open your eyes (open your eyes, open your eyes) [x7]
				

Nevermore

Religion changed the face of man, thou shalt not kill, we all are gone
The seed of ignorance is born thou shalt not think, thou shalt conform

The pigs order us to follow orders and obey
The flies drink the decaying nectar of their tortured effigy

Cling to wasted beliefs and visions and bathe in apathy again
No solution, the retribution of spiritual sickness begins

The legacy of suffering is through, the guilt we bear shall not tear us in two

Born we are the same, within the silence, indifference be Thy name
Torn we walk alone, we sleep in silent shades
The grandeur fades, the meaning never known

If nothing in the world can change our children will inherit nothing

Born we are the same, within the silence, indifference be Thy name
Torn we walk alone, we sleep in silent shades
The grandeur fades, the meaning never known

The pigs call for pure submission and fall into the fray
The lonely hunter beats his shallow drum, the soundtrack of world disarray

Cling to wasted beliefs and visions and bathe in apathy again
No solution, the retribution of spiritual sickness begins

Born we are the same, within the silence, indifference be Thy name
Torn we walk alone, we sleep in silent shades
The grandeur fades, the meaning never known

If nothing in the world can change our children will inherit nothing
				

Nevermore

We are the nothing grating against the norm
We are the something that will not conform
No one understands what we've been given

We are the useless by-products of soulless meat
We are all gone we all sing the same tragedy

Open wide and eat the worms of the enemy
We are the enemies of reality, in a world that's unforgiving

Waiting to sanitize bastard tongues
To purify the ignorance that hides the sun
The less you understand the more you're driven

Packaged and processed the masses are force fed
The standards they judge us on swallow the rot we shed

Open wide and eat the worms of the enemy
We are the enemies of reality, in a world that's unforgiving

Breathing dust and decay while I'm sipping
Human trust and betrayal
Losing faith once again
Take my hand my friend, my foe, I am enemy

Open wide and eat the worms of the enemy
We are the enemies of reality, in a world that's unforgiving
Open wide, eat the words, become what you most fear
				

Symphony X

Welcome to the Anarchy
Enigmatic entity
The grand illusion - destitution
infecting one and all

Forces they're oppressing me
Lords of mediocrity
an iron will shall break the still
some will rise and some will fall

Oh... yes, we ride through stormy skies of Fire

Evil lies that mesmerize
from the dragons' tongue they slide
a fury lashes from the ashes
never losing sight

Pounding down the wicked ones
Tyrants now are overcome
A final yell from hounds of Hell
rising we unite

Yes we ride through stormy skies

The endless nights
In the moonlight, we do gather
We curse uncertainty and false desires
We lift the mask
and stand together - one and all
and when the flames grow dim, look within
Unleash the Fire...

A time will come
when all will see: In the end - it's just a game
Time will tell
when all these things that have come to pass - still remain

Oh... Yes we ride through stormy skies

The endless nights
In the moonlight, we do gather
We curse uncertainty and false desires
We lift the mask
and stand together - one and all
and when the flames grow dim, look within
Unleash the Fire...
				

Symphony X

Passing through the void
The darkest grand illusion
Chaos is riding on the wind

Destroyed in agony
They create a maddened lair
Summon all to heed their cry

Innocence fading away
- the dying eyes of prey

Desperate cries, hail of fire deciding
All our fate in the night
Tempt in sin, shadows then begin to
Gather the souls they hold within

Victims of desire
Pestilence of their invasion
Forms then take on evil waves

Paralyze, victimize
The shadows fall and enter fast
from the sky - (from the sky)
Summon all to heed their cry

Innocence fading away
- the dying eyes of the prey

Desperate cries, hail of fire deciding
All our fate in the night
Tempt in sin, shadows then begin to
Gather the souls they hold within

I've betrayed - slowly fade
I repent my inner plea
I've denied - sanctified
Cannot hide form this
monstrosity

I'm immersed in a curse
Of this jaded imagery
Realize that your cries
Only jeopardize this legacy

[Solo]

Desperate cries, hail of fire deciding
All our fate in the night
Tempt in sin, shadows then begin to
Gather the souls they hold within