PARALYSIS LYRICS

1. Altered States

The evidence surrounds our every move
Destroyed our world, what have we proved
We are so blind that we can’t see
Killing our planet, yes, you and me
Why have we let it come to this?
We must change and start working for the future

Can we still survive?
Have we reached the end?
Look at what we’ve done
Only time will tell
Can we stop the clock?
Is our planet lost?
We have gone too far
Only time will tell

Aggression, destruction, all around us
Inhumane suffering, a continuing story
How long must this go on?
How long before this shall end?

Drastic progression...shift of balances
Altered states...mindless destruction

[Chorus:]
We are living in our filth
And we make it worse every day
We can’t go on like this
We must change our ways of living

You have been tortured since time began
Have always taken it very well
Back then there was chance for recovery
Now it’s too late that’s a long time ago

Can we still survive?
Have we reached the end?
Look at what we’ve done
Only time will tell
Can we stop the clock?
Is our planet lost?
We have gone too far
Only time will tell

[Chorus 2x]

A leakage of a secret government report to the press today, revealed horrific details of a cover-up at several of our major nuclear powerplants throughout our country. The report showed that unacceptable levels of highly radio-active substances had been freely escaping into the atmosphere, over a period of six months. It was discovered that reports of these occurrences were somehow mysteriously lost in the computer network within the powerplants’ system. Supervisors from the plant have been reprimanded and will be appearing before a tribunal later this week. However the question still remains, as to how safe we really are by placing so much trust in the hands of the so-called nuclear power experts.

2. Passages I

[Instrumental]

3. Experimental Factor Genocide

A chosen few true to their cause
Special group set up for research
Testing, planning accidental discoveries
Top secret files, no access, no limits
Fundamental basic laws of science

Found the key...exploring new fields
Facts or fiction...problems to solve
A scientific cause...laboratory madness
Is this the answer to it all...?

Experimental factor...
Experimental factor genocide
Scientific madness beyond control
Experimental factor genocide
For the knowledge sold their souls

[Chorus:]
Experimental factor...genocide
Experimental factor...genocide

A chosen few true to their cause
Special group set up for research
Testing, planning accidental discoveries
Top secret files, no access, no limits
Fundamental basic laws of science

Explored the new fields
Discovered new limits
Did you solve the problems?
Yes but new questions arise
Was the knowledge worth the price?
That we all must pay
Is this the answer to it all?
Is this the answer to it all?

[Chorus]

4. Lost In The Darkness

I do not remember anything
Is this a dream or reality?
Blind fate has brought me to this place
An outcast of the human race
Inside the screams no one can hear
Torment, frustration, pain and fear
Doctors’ reports say I am alive
Medical science prolongs my survive

[Chorus:]
Man or machine tell me who I am
Why must they keep me alive?
Man or machine what’s the reason why
Give me peace of mind, please, release me, let me die

Man or machine... Am I man or machine?
Man or machine... Am I man or machine?

Hideous I’ve become a freak, a novelty
Ludicrous cries invested in me
Motionless inside my lean, you can’t see
Helplessness, end my life, release me

Blind, deaf, dumb, can’t communicate
Motionless, never to participate
Held in suspended animation
No care, no help, hopeless situation
Mind’s thoughts live, still exist
Just a statistic on a list
Cables tubes pump in the life
No analysis for the pain I feel inside

[Chorus 2x]

Man or machine... Am I man or machine?
Man or machine... Am I man or machine?

Trapped In this strange place...
No one can help me...
Can’t find my way home...
From darkness to light...
Lost in the darkness...
Lost In the darkness...
Can’t find my way home...

5. The Waters Cry

I lost a friend today of many ages old
A great comfort to us all
Throughout our youthful years
Gave us guidance, taught us truth
Gave us treasures from so deep
Look at the ‘way’ we have repaid her

And she cries
And she cries - she cries to me
Tears of sadness - tears of pain
And she cries - she cries to me
Tears they fall so desperately

I see it with my eyes
Colors changing day by day
It’s not fiction slipping
Slowly fades away

[Chorus:]
Shades of grey
Fade to black
Darkness surrounds me
Shades of grey
Fade to black
Darkness engulfs me

I lost a friend today of many ages old
A great comfort to us all
Throughout our youthful years
We’ve shown no guidance
We’ve shown no truth
Lost all treasures from so deep
Look at the ‘way’ we have repaid her

[Chorus]

And she cries
And she cries - she cries to me
Tears of sadness - tears of pain
And she cries - she cries to me
Tears they fall so desperately

Shades of grey...
Shades of grey...

6. Point Of No Return

She comes from a home of instability
Shrouded by abuse and misery
Plays a game, a masquerade
Always running, always so... afraid
Admits to nothing
Committed no crimes
To be punished for the rest of her life
So afraid to face herself
So afraid to face the truth

Point... of no return [4x]

Run from the past
Run from the present
Run from the future
Escape the truth

[Chorus:]
A past buried deep within
Locked away inside her mind
Look at this false thing you’ve become
Can you be true? Reveal yourself

Always running but you don’t know from who
Insecure without feelings, without love
Misleading people into your web of deceit
Playing the innocent role

[Chorus]

Will you ever learn from mistakes you’ve made?
Open up inside, let your feelings go
Stop the lies and deceitfulness
End the masquerade, close the show

Point... of no return [4x]

Run from the past
Run from the present
Run from the future
Escape the truth

Always running but you don’t know from who
Insecure without feelings, without love
Misleading people into your web of deceit
Playing the innocent role

[Chorus 2x]

7. Twisted

Twisted...

Feel the sharp point of steel
Break the skin
Pearce into dark blue vain
Enters exposing body
Taste of sweat, feel the surge
Rush through blood
Out of control, opens the mind
Forced soul experience...

No way out intensity
Beneath the flesh
Mind leaves body
A moving journey through endlessness
Released Inside
Escaped reality, zones of fiction
Twist and claw, the face, the fall
Downwards motion misery...

[Chorus:]
Twisted beyond all recognition
Twisted beyond all known belief
Twisted by the drugs addiction
Twisted, how many more must grief?
Twist, twist, twist... Twisted!
Twist, twist, twist... Twisted!
Twist, twist, twist... Twisted!
Twist, twist, twist... Twisted!

Float around come crashing donor
Thoughts dissolve
Discharge of shape, fear and hope
Ferocious color bright
Depressions, pain of sorrows past
Blind the sight
A choice was made, took a path
Darkness exchanged for light...

[Chorus]

8. Tardis

Far beyond our wisdom beyond distant horizons
Lie worlds forgotten, cast away in time
Pasts filled with lords, kings and rulers
Stories of ancient legends untold
What a sight that must have been to experience

How I wish I could have been there
Watching history evolve before my very own eyes
How I wish I could have the power
Changing all the wrong things to the right
To the right

Take a chance step into the time machine
Travel through ages, see things you won’t believe
Mysteries of past and present shall reveal
Enter a brand new age, a brand new day
Conquer new dimensions, seek out the truth
Awakening spirits from centuries passed on
Analyze past history where did we, where did we go wrong?
Millions of years gone by, times to change
Time to change our song
Time to change our song

Now I have arrived
Travelled backwards in time
Stand upon these ancient shores
Have the power, the control
Inside my mind what are my thoughts
To change for better or for worse
Inside my mind what are my thoughts
Has this all gone to my head?

[Chorus:]
How I have wished all of this time
Now I am here, the judgment is mine
How I have hoped all of this time
Now I am here, the power is mine
The power is mine, I have control
The power is mine, the power is mine!

Far beyond our wisdom beyond distant horizons
Lie worlds forgotten, cast away in time
Pasts filled with lords, kings and rulers
What a sight that must have been to experience

How I have wished all of this time
Now I am here, the judgment is mine
How I have hoped for wrong or for right
Now I am here, the choice is mine
For wrong or for right I have the choice
The power is mine!

9. Without A Shadow Of A Doubt

Without... without a shadow of a doubt
Feelings still remain
Without a shadow of a doubt

Silence surrounds my every move
Lonely hours return to haunt me
Will I ever cast away this presence
That embraces, constricts my body
The endless void within my soul
Grows deeper day by day
Visions come unto me
Bearing witness of any faults
The mind is strong
But the flesh is weak
This has been proved time after time
Will I ever learn from my mistakes?

Seasons shall come, seasons shall go
Passing by without a whisper, without goodbye
And time will tell time beholds the answer
To all the questions that we ask

Without... without a shadow of a doubt
Feelings still remain
Without a shadow of a doubt

Can dreams and wishes become reality?
Memories twist and turn within my mind
The voice of conscience bears down on me (yeah!)
Regrets of chances, decisions made
Blind in emotion, bringer of sorrow
Broke a trust and splintered a heart
Brought so much pain to someone so precious
Wish I could change all what’s happened
But forgiveness is such a difficult word (oh...!)
Only time can heal the wounds
So forget the past, leave it behind
Look to the future, there lies hope

Seasons shall come, seasons shall go
Passing by without a whisper, without goodbyes
And time will tell time, beholds the answer
To all the questions that we ask

Ask... Your... Self...

Without... without a shadow of a doubt... regrets

Without... without a shadow of a doubt
Feelings still remain
Without a shadow of a doubt

Feelings still remain...
Feelings still remain...

Doubt!

10. Passages II

[Instrumental]

11. In Memoriam

Wheels on the war-machine
Shall always keep on turning
Warmongers making money
Will always keep on earning
As one battle comes to an end
Another one’s just begun
The apocalypse it still remains
Goes on and on and on
When the lighting finally ceases hey!
Tell me who has really won

Man’s created this monster
Causing mass destruction worldwide
Taking millions of innocent lives each year
No safe place for them to hide
Lust for war has been in our blood
Since evolution this can he found
Our race evolves, learns, builds, creates
Conflicts smash it to the ground
Power greed that’s on our minds
We’ve closed our eyes, we are so blind

[Chorus:]
When will we learn?
See all the wrong things that we do
When will we learn?
Then it’s too late for me and for you
That’s when we’ll learn
Reaching our fatal final truth
Fatal final truth

When will we learn?
See all the wrong things that we do
When will we learn?
Then it’s too late for me and for you

Look back in time across the years
Nothing gained from the fighting and the tears
What’s been achieved, what does war bring
Refugees, pain, terror, suffering
When will we learn?... Never!

[Chorus]

Have we really listened to the moral of this song?
Continuing along these lines man won’t exist for long
Technology was for the future, supposed to be our friend
The only thing progress has brought is closer to the end
We will never ever learn, we’ll self-destruct
Our fuse it burns

[Chorus]

12. Enemies Within

Who are we? Why are we here?
Is this fate or insanity?
Sometimes I lie awake at night
And think this all is a game

I am not ready for this world
Not ready to face humanity

We play our parts as the almighty watches
Our every move from birth till death
So carefully planned but among us so few
Who use this knowledge to rebel

I thought it was all for one not one for all
Cries from the silent who cannot speak
Tears shall be shed for now and forevermore
Are these our fears, our enemies within?

Illusions constantly surround searching for ourselves
Unable, sometimes impossible to find
But the search goes on and on and on
Seems so close but so far apart... so far apart... unreality

I ant not ready for this world
Not ready to face humanity

What have I done?
What have I seen?
What have I learnt?
What’s to become?

I thought it was all for one not one for all
Cries from the silent who cannot speak
Are these our fears, our enemies within?

13. Escape From Yesterday

(Dedicated to two special friends)

Emptiness, the only thing I feel inside
Trying to recall if anything was real
Reflecting on past memories of times lost long ago
Prepare myself to greet the coldness I shall embrace
Help me escape from yesterday... yesterday

Sifting through the damage, my life shattered all around
No confidence or feelings, things just won’t work out
How can I bare inside the hurt I know is true
Explain to me, help me understand the reason why you’ve gone
Left me alone, by myself... yesterday

Frightening so quiet, questions still surround
Waiting by that special place, gazing from my eyes
Searching for your presence but it cannot be found
I cried upon that night a when they called out your name
Took you away, I’m so alone...

Escape from yesterday
I’m so alone
Escape from yesterday
Took you away
Escape from yesterday
I’m so alone... I’m so alone
I wish I could leave yesterday

14. Sunitpar

[Bonus Track]

This song’s dedicated to a friend of ours
Who wears women’s clothes and goes to gay bars
Oh sorry! Right person, wrong song... Let’s start again

He’s small compact and not so pretty
Not a good dresser, it’s such a pity
But he’s got a heart, a heart of goad
Still he’s our roady when he’s a hundred years old

By the way that’s next week
He’s much older than he looks you know

He drives our bus to all our shows
Carries our gear wherever we go
Sometimes we forget to show appreciation
Our faithful roady, what dedication!

He’s so dedicated in everything he does
He even irons his Y fronts, ask his mum!

He’s a builder, a welder, a driver, a seller
Has strange little habits, but is a bloody nice fellow
Not just our roady, but he’s our friend
In spite of his snoring that drives us round the bend

Give us a T! (T!)
Give us an I! (I!)
Give us an N! (N!)
Give us a U! (U!)
Give us an S! (S!)

What does it spell backwards? SUNIT!

Tinus, we thank you
It’s a funky sunit rap
(Until the end)







PARALYSIS LYRICS