SONG LYRICS

FACELESS • EXOCET • REDSHIFT • RECOIL • SEARCHLIGHT • FURTHER • VELOCITY • SIGNALS (Protect Your Hardware) • UNDERFIRE

Faceless
"There is no law by which to govern the superiority of nations.
A people risen run their race, and die, either of themselves or at the hands of another.
Who, succeeding to their power, take possession of their place, and upon their monuments write new names.
Such is history."
-Extract taken from Ben Hur by Lew Wallace, reproduced with permission.
Along these winding broken roads
And past the end I will keep moving
Like a fire that tries to touch the sky
I'm always grasping never reaching
Like the child with open eyes
Looking on not understanding
When I've left my years behind
My name will still remain.
Run every race to be the first
Before the moment of my passing
There is conflict in myself
It is that I'm aware of ending
I tear down every wall I can
Within this life of limitation
Unchain the past from future thought
To cast a light into the darkness
All your tears are meaningless
In a world that means much less
All I have done is history
My image fades and I am faceless
As I am one I am alone
And to the truth I hold myself
So that some one knows my name
When I am faceless
And when my body burns
I'll touch the sky
I will be free
Never again to feel afraid
I leave this wasting world behind
To be an image in your mind
Only my name remains
Only my name remains
The same

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Exocet
Cloaked in the twilight
This is where the end will come
I feel the smoke it fills the air
Fire on the sunset
Scar across the skyline
The guided steel incoming fast
The blinding white the silhouette
There's fire on the sunset
No where left to run to
A sight to take my breath away
The dogs of war are running wild
Fire on the sunset
Silence echoes loudly
A shout to those I know I need
Some are lost -none are found
White light on the sunset
And through the darkness comes a light
Burning like a thousand suns
And from the stillness of the night
A thousand voices sound as one
Where I walk and what I see
My future starts and ends with me
I close my eyes and turn away

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Redshift
Was this worth waiting for,
Or could it be that I feel ashamed,
I write it down, pretend to care,
It's not unjust, it's just not fair,
The slight of hand can ease the mind,
With answers here so hard to find,
I'd wash away the pain you fear,
But the rain I need fell far from here,
You'd call this bitterness,
But I'm just sick of these things I'm shown
If I was left with everything,
I'd rather be left alone,
When I look around I burn inside,
And forced apart and cast aside,
An open heart, exposed in prayer,
-Just words, upon the wind. We turned our future into hell,
I loved the world I knew so well,
You are,
A spectre of the rose,
But I remember you,
I'll remember you,
I remember you.
I remember you.
The way you used to be.

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Recoil
Why do we question,
Why do we lie,
Why are we born,
If only to die,
Could it be imagined,
Could it be believed,
Or could this be the fear inside,
That we could be deceived,

Stand fast - as the world it burns to ashes,
Remember - as it's value blows away,
Forgive - take comfort from the thought,
Recall - In the here and now,
Stand fast

Why do we question,
Why do we lie,
Why are we born,
If only to die,
Why do we fail,
Whenever we try, Believe in a heaven,
After we die,
Why do we feel anger,
Whenever we desire,
And why is it we go through hell,
In putting out the fire,

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Searchlight
Across the neon skies,
And through the cloud form,
The place the sunlight died,
Well I see the reason why,
In a flash of light and a burning sky,
A searchlight stare,
And I'm trying to remember,
Shattered glass, against the wall,
Electric light high above it all,

The world it moves away in ultraviolet,
This world it moves away in infra red,

A crowded room, and on her own,
Sheds a single tear for the ones alone,
I'm searching fading lights,
Through the smoke and mirrors, turning left and right,
Peroxide shadows,
We cast on the stair,
Trying to focus on the out of sight,
With a halogen view to take on the night,

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Velocity
The anger starts to burn,
Above five thousand revolutions,
I feel myself fired up,
Amid the scent ofburning oil,
A pain in my eye,
Will show you I remember,
All I leave behind,
In a haze on the horizon,

The winter is within me,
Like ice behind my eyes,
The wind is blowing harder,
The road begins to rise,
My heart starts beating faster,
My blood starts running cold,
It's fast and fuelled by anger,
And it's waiting to explode,

The engine screams,
And we're going faster,
The sparks will fly,
As it veers beyond control,
The smoke will rise,
In the heat of the moment,
And far from here,
Too fast to live, So quick to die,

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Further
If I went back,
Then I could see where I went wrong,
With hindsight, see so many things,
Held secret for so long.
But it's too late.
That ship has long set sail,
Right past the point of no return,
That bridge is crossed, now let it burn,

In time, I think I'll see the reason why,
I force my self to understand,
Or force my self to try.
The have been better days,
There have been better days than these,
If all we feel is meaningless,
It makes no sense to me,

The nights grow cold,
and I grow just the same,
All still I stare at the lonely sky,
remembering your name,
Like the cruel compassion,
Of sharpened steel,
What burns inside will cauterise,
and force these wounds to heal,

In time, I think I'll see the reason why,
I force my self to understand,
Or force my self to try.
The have been better days,
There have been better days than these,
If all we feel is meaningless,
It makes no sense to me,
I'm not so certain now,
I'm not so sure of what to do,
I don't know what it is I want,
I can't believe it's you,
So leave it all,
I'll leave it all behind somehow,
If this is how my story ends,
Then let it end right now,

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Signals (Protect your Hardware)
Select the filter, amplify,
Remove the background noise,
Last years words have ceased transmitting,
Next year's words want another voice.
Distorting Total Harmony,
When all the wires are crossed,
There's human static and intereference,
And now the signals lost,

So listen up, the airwaves down,
But the programme was always there.
The channels change, the words stay the same.
To stay alive, Protect Your Hardware!

Distress calls on dead frequencies,
A message left to chance.
The 'out of date' is left behind,
The state of play is more advanced.
Intentions line the road to hell,
On these our lives depend,
The echoes crackle down the wire,
And on, until the end.

So listen up, the airwaves down,
But the programme was always there.
The channels change, the words stay the same.
To stay alive, Protect Your Hardware!

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Underfire
Ask no more what you can do for your country,
Ask your country why she did this to You
Well it's been 7 long minutes since the first guns fired,
Bodies ripped by bullets, hanging torn on the wire,
An incoming scream, Underfire,
Underfire!,
Here dead outnumber the living,
Here bullets flick through the air,
I've never run so hard,
I've never run so scared,
And time here is too short,
And friends here are too few,
And if you get to live through hell,
You get, your dream come true,
With a finger on the trigger,
You look down the sights,
And the shot rings out in the dead of the night,
And a man goes down, With a cry of despair,
Lying half on his side,
And gasping for air,

Where is God in this,
Where is God in this,
Such a sweet and beautiful thing I do,
So far from home,
Pro Patria Mori,
Put to death my brother,
Fight to honour old lies,
Take the strength from his arms,
And the light form his eyes,
I pray for absolution,
When I'm underfire,

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