THRESHOLD LYRICS

1. Slipstream

are you drifting, there is nowhere to go
life support is down and your systems low
are you cruising on your secondary cells
waiting for the bell (oh do you really think so)

flat line you’re illusory mind
dreams are for the bold and you’re not that kind
disappointment has a house on that road
best to stay at home (oh do you really think so)

you’re safe and warm inside
your chances pass you by
the question fills your mind
are you caught in a slipstream
are you lost in the fog
can you see through the windscreen
are you sure it’s safe to follow somebody’s taillight
are you already lost
when you get to the daylight
when you recognise the world you walked across

are you listening with your head in the sand
drown the words you don’t want to understand
‘til the song stops, is it safe to come out
nobody’s about (oh do you really think so)

too late now there’s nowhere to go,
life support is down and your systems low
and your fuel light said you’ll never get home
now you’re all alone (oh do you really think so)

you’re scared to stay inside
your chances pass you by
the question fills your mind

penny for the dreams you thought you’d lost
penny for the dreams you thought you’d see
penny for the price you thought it cost
penny for the one you thought you’d be
pity for the times you kept it all
pity for the wealth you thought you’d get
pity for the day your empire falls
pity for the day your life got caught

are you caught in a slipstream
are you lost in the fog
can you see through the windscreen
are you sure it’s safe to follow somebody’s taillight
are you already lost
when you get to the daylight
when you recognise the world you walked across

2. Light And Space

as you look on your surroundings from the mountain to the sea
you find everything I gave you you see everything but me
I am the storm that won't be calmed I am the calm that follows
I'm in the stars that fill your sky and when I choose

I'll be in your thoughts I'll be in your dreams
all the light you see all the air you breathe

as you look on all the hurting and the finger points at me
you see freedom in deserting and the cost of being free

I painted the heavens the sun and the moon
I know what's beyond them I know you
I know what's before you and what's going to be
but now is the moment you'll find me

and all that you ever thought will fall to the ground like snow
clearing the air you breathe whitening all you know
and all that you ever see is never the same again
your eyes will be open wide then you will understand

as your science takes you further you'll eventually concede
you can only scratch the surface I'm the one who's playing me
I am the road that won't be found I am the sign that guides you
I'm in the air that's all around and when I choose

I'll be in your thoughts I'll be in your dreams
all the light you see all the air you breathe

3. Mission Profile

can we go on
can we be strong

we've got a system you're going to use it
we call it freedom and you are free to choose it
if you're not against it you've got to be for it
neutral is dangerous and you cannot ignore it

can we go on forcing our hand
can we be strong till others understand
can we go on to save our wounded land
can we be wrong

we've got the money we're going to spend it
peace is our mission we'll murder to defend it
sooner or later you'll get the picture
we're the creator and you were just created

devastation is where we're heading if we follow this illusion
escalation of all the hurting that is borne of our confusion
unrelenting as we persist in putting everyone beneath us
never ending until we understand our honesty deceives us

there is still one truth on which we can depend
we've started something we can never end

we know although we try to justify the means
the truth behind the end remains unseen
and while we all assume we all agree
we're giving up the freedom to be free

disillusion is always possible but we've got propaganda
mass confusion is always better than the threat of understanding
we'll deceive you we've got so many ways to make you stand behind us
if we need to we'll use them on ourselves to constantly remind us

there is just one lie that we can still defend
we've started something we can never end

we know although we try to justify the means
the truth behind the end remains unseen
and while we all assume we all agree
we're giving up the freedom to be free

there is still one truth on which we can depend
we've started something we can never end

we know although we try to justify the means
the truth behind the end remains unseen
and while we all assume we all agree
we're giving up the freedom to be free
the freedom to be free
the freedom to be free

can we go on forcing our hand
can we be strong till others understand
can we go on to save our wounded land
can we be wrong

4. Falling Away

There's a fire by the wayside
And it burns so bright
As the smoke rolls over us
We think that we're bathing in light
As we tend to our gardens
The world is growing wild
But we live in our tiny heads
And can't see past our own tiny minds

As we turn away from heaven's bright sun
To earth's dark star

We're powerless we're paranoid
We'll never know what we destroyed
We're arrogant so ignorant
We're falling falling away

So we stop by the wayside
And we think we're smart
We vote for the pretty ones
And curse when the world falls apart
And we swear we'll do better
But the sky's about to fall
So the smoke rolls over us
And we are doing nothing at all

We turned away from heaven's bright sun
So here we are

We're powerless we're paranoid
We'll never know what we destroyed
We're arrogant so ignorant
We're falling falling away

We're breaking we're stalling
We're drifting we're falling
We're headstrong for so long
We're always falling away

5. The Ravages Of Time

I was much too far out all my life and not waving but drowning

first there is an ocean then there is no ocean then there is
and then we have a mountain range and then a plain and a range again
last there is a desert then a fertile plain then dry again
once there was a people then there were none then some more did live

then there was a city then a pile of rocks and a town again
then they made a weapon that destroyed the lot in a cloud of rain
then they raised a temple to a god who died and failed them
then they left and travelled far and then they flew back home again

in the gardens of the dead when the disembodied entity said
let there be body let there be mind let there be man unkind
she gave the reasoning to me and now the guilt is all on me

I entered in & my seed spread generations spawned from the visions in my head
we raised it up and we pulled it down we advertised and marketed up town
she gave the reasoning to me and now the guilt is all on me

I can tell the world the ravages of time will seek you out
I can tell the world the savageness of mind will find you out

I was destroyed and I lived again my unborn children strengthening the strain
countless lives marching throughout time marking out the details of my crime
she gave the reasoning to me and now the guilt is all on me

I can tell the world the ravages of time will seek you out
I can tell the world the savageness of mind will find you out

and the knowledge that I have gained has been lost again and again and again
but it's really all the same all that has changed is the name
she gave the reasoning to me and now the guilt is all on me

I can tell the world the ravages of time will seek you out
I can tell the world the savageness of mind will find you out

6. Phenomenon

Safe from all the hurting safe from all the lies
Locked myself away now blindfold on my eyes
Lost in your predictions fiction from the stars
Bound to be your destiny you know who you are

Someone stopped the starlight loosened up the ties
Now the door is open open like my eyes

So if the sky's about to fall I'll still be up there flying
It's just the fear of what's in store that ever stops you trying
And if the storm throws you around it only makes you stronger
But when the stars come crashing down it's a phenomenon

Scared of all your visions scared of all you hear
Thought you'd bring security but all you brought was fear
Someone stopped the starlight brought me back to life
Set me free from your deceit threw away the lies

So if the sky's about to fall I'll still be up there flying
It's just the fear of what's in store that ever stops you trying
And if the storm throws you around it only makes you stronger
But when the stars come crashing down it's a phenomenon

I don't want many things just a chance to spread my wings
Don't know what the future brings but I want to be there

Someone stopped the starlight loosened up the ties
Now the door is open open like my eyes

So if the sky's about to fall I'll still be up there flying
It's just the fear of what's in store that ever stops you trying
And if the storm throws you around it only makes you stronger
But when the stars come crashing down it's a phenomenon

7. Pressure

I can't see in front of me I feel blind to my sentence
my assumed autonomy is all steeped in dependence

I'm breaking inside

I watch time delimiting but I don't see the answers
I know gain's diminishing but I'm wasting my chances

I'm breaking inside
my head's above the water but I just can't fight the tide
till the pressure subsides

all you see reflects on me
how can it be forever
all I do reflects on you
now do you feel the pressure

with all things permissible I can't stem the pollution
and no hand invisible can assure resolution

I'm breaking inside
my head cries out for stillness but I just can't find the time
till the pressure subsides

all you see reflects on me
how can it be forever
all I do reflects on you
now do you feel the pressure
all I know will come and go
you can't have it all together
all you ask will come to pass
now do you feel the pressure

I'm breaking inside
my head's above the water but I just can't fight the tide
till the pressure subsides

all you see reflects on me
how can it be forever
all I do reflects on you
now do you feel the pressure
all I know will come and go
you can't have it all together
all you ask will come to pass
now do you feel the pressure

8. Fragmentation

We are fragmented
Clinging on to a concept known as how
Drifting through dimensions
In a place which we call now

Simply unaware
Of what goes on above beyond and before
Behind us fly the ragged fragments
Of what should have been much more

Been much more
So unsure
Opening doors

Separate entities in ebb and flow
Fragmentation
Diverse quantities behind us show
Fragmentation

We thought that we would live forever
Now we're mortals like the rest
We were lion hearted fighters
Who were never put to the test

Can't foresee the end but it's round the bend
And it's putting us to flight
I would go with you if you asked me to
And you're frightened that I might

I just might
Souls in flight
Just not right

Separate entities in ebb and flow
Fragmentation
Diverse quantities behind us show
Fragmentation

Half of a fantasy but I never got
Half of the fanta see? but I never got
Half of the fans to see but I never got
Half of the van to sing but I never got
No I never ever never got
Half of the fantasy but I never got
Half of the band to see but I never got
Half of the fans to sing but I never got
Half of the royalties no I never got

It's time to reconvene the wolf pack
And gather these disparate parts
And to exorcise the maniac
And separate these scars

Let my blood flow fast
And neutralise the yearning in my heart
Let my spirit fill with energy
Like its waiting for the start

For the start
A broken heart
Torn apart

Separate entities in ebb and flow
Fragmentation
Diverse quantities behind us show
Fragmentation

9. Oceanbound

every time I try to climb a mountain
all I find are steeper ones ahead
every time I walk along the highway
all you do is push me to the edge
I'm not afraid

let the sky become an ocean pull me in above my head
won't deny my one devotion lose or win cause I'm not scared

the higher up you build your walls around me
the higher I discover how to fly
I'm not afraid

let the sky become an ocean pull me in above my head
won't deny my one devotion lose or win cause I'm not scared

I know the truth of my conscience and I know the lies of my sign
I know how it feels to be wanting and I know of the fullness of time

I feel a storm across my face as night is falling
and I can't see to carry on
I know the emptiness of space can hear me calling
but I don't know what lies beyond

I dream of a world without shadows and I dream of a day without pain
I long for perpetual motion and I dream of living again

every time I try to climb the mountain
nothing in the world can pull me down
I'm not afraid

let the sky become an ocean pull me in above my head
won't deny my one devotion lose or win cause I'm not scared

10. The Art Of Reason

can you give me a reason why you shone for a season
then you turned to deceiving (I don't believe that it's right)
you pretend you can hear us but you won't come near us
now it's all got serious (I don't believe that it's right)

we thought you'd do your best for future generations
but all you left was a mounting debt (I don't believe that it's right)
we thought your peace could flow like water through the nations
but you shut down the fountainhead (I don't believe that it's right)

can you give an account now as the truth's coming out now
it's the end of the countdown (I don't believe that it's right)
now we've lost all our patience with your forced liquidation
of our land of our nation (I don't believe that it's right)

we thought you'd right the wrongs that others brought upon us
but you sold off our right to choose (I don't believe that it's right)
we thought you'd fight for us but you just fought among us
and you sold off your servitude (I don't believe that it's right)

no more tries and no more chances
no more lies to pass as answers
no more smiles and false relations
no more world indoctrination

sorry for being angry sorry for being numb
sorry for all the dreaming I really should have done
I thought that I was blameless I thought that I was safe
I thought that a happy ending would happen anyway

I can't believe we never noticed
I can't believe it took so long
for us to turn around the future
by standing up for what we all believed in all along

it was there right before our eyes we were blind not to realise
in the rush to be globalised we signed away our freedom
we forgot how to criticise we were scared to be demonised
as the truth was neutralised we lost the art of reason

shallow the crusader and shallow their crusade
but deep the ideology that brings them into play
political correctness a foil for our minds
a false exoneration to cover up the crimes

I can't believe we never noticed
I can't believe it took so long
for us to turn around the future
by standing up for what we all believed in all along

it was there right before our eyes we were blind not to realise
in the rush to be globalised we signed away our freedom
we forgot how to criticise we were scared to be demonised
as the truth was neutralised we lost the art of reason

11. Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams

in heavy consternation I move across the hall
I pictured this so many times
and wasn’t scared at all
but every time I got this far I never felt so small
my mind was full of questions
of arguments and lies
but every word was melted down
when I looked in your eyes
and I don’t need these memories
for now I’m mesmerized
and I’m staring down the barrel of my life

now I’m entranced, you possess my full attention
how my thought dance freely on the journey
you attended all along, to somewhere I belong
like a pilot in the sky in the sky of dreams

can you promise me the world
and everything I need
can you promise me the world
can you promise me a sky
that’s trouble free and clear
so it’s safe for me to fly

but who can stop my plane (stop my plane)
from drifting out of range (far away)

will this sky be precious to defend
will my sights go dark before the end
will I see the landing lights again

can you offer me the speed
to travel like the wind
if I ever feel the need
can you guarantee the sun
won’t melt away my wings
way before my journey’s done

and who can stop my plane (stop my plane)
from drifting out of range? (far away)

drifting away (drifting away)
out of the grey and out of control
such a nice day (such a nice day) for drifting away

what became of the blue horizon
are you sure I was flying blind
never saw that the plane was diving
never thought I was out of time
and now I’m disenchanted
you endure my disaffection
all my systems running red
the radio is down and there’s trouble ahead

get me back down
I lost my way and I want to be grounded
get me back down
I lost my way coming out of the storm

did I promise you a sky
where rain would never fall
or did you listen to a lie
did you radio to base
I waited for your call
but you left without a trace

but I can stop your plane (stop your plane)
from drifting out of range! (far away)

still this sky is precious to defend
still your will last until the end
you will see the landing lights again

12. The Latent Gene

Mary's baby's eyes are blue he is to be the chosen few
there's just one thing she's got to do to conceive the latent gene
his absent father's watching him from a gene pool where a billion swim
where mutants form on just a whim and conceive the latent gene

my generation's lost it's patience playing with the world within
accelerated saturation out of our minds on saccharin

Mary's baby's eyes are green potential power still unseen
morals cleansed in ethylene and conceive the latent gene
Mary's baby's eyes are black a dinucleic heart attack
and the doctor says he's coming back to conceive the latent gene

my generation's lost it's patience playing with the world within
accelerated saturation out of our minds on saccharin

she hears a voice inside her head when all is quiet and she's in bed
it's hard for her to understand the mindspeak of her little man
how can a baby have two mothers adopted long before it's born
conceived by another and from a second torn

but in this safe and confined world within this cookoo's changing it's spots
an outcome unforeseen now we see the latent gene
the doctor's scientific discipline can't stop him changing the plot
an outcome unforeseen now we see the latent gene
faltering telepathy reaching out into his mother's mind

Mary's baby's eyes are grey evolution gone astray
changes in his DNA have conceived the latent gene

my generation's lost it's patience playing with the world within
accelerated saturation out of our minds on saccharin

13. A Tension Of Souls

I have lost the unobtainable I am faithless and afraid
my emotions are unstable control is hanging by a thread
and the misery of the world
is weighing heavy on my shoulders
my belief has not unfurled and I'm not getting any older
no I'm not getting any older and the world is turning colder

there's a gathering storm eating up the night
there's a tension of souls can you feel it bite?
it is because we're not living on our own terms
swept on a wave branded with society's burns
we're not happy with this unnatural law
we've moved into check into a corner of flames
half of us staled in a late mating game
we're just trying just crying for

the right to give / fail / fall / live / have feelings
the right to see / be / need / feed / give meanings
the right to love / care / share / sow / show the right signals
the right to fight / spite / do / lose / find the right answers

I am nailed to the cross of my own pernicious anguish
collapsing at a loss into some kind of selfish languish
bribed by irresistible strangled by the air
blind and still equivocal dispossessed by heir

I have no faith I have no unbelief
there is no neutral ground there is no relief
I didn't get what I expected to receive
don't let them tell you what they want you to believe

and I'm searching for some space in my life
while people all around me multiplying just like flies
the whispering millions, their hunger it is loud
a silent frustration breeds in every crowd

I have no faith I have no unbelief
there is no neutral ground there is no relief
I didn't get what I expected to receive
don't let them tell you what they want you to believe

and I'm drowning in a sea of my own futility

14. Eat The Unicorn

give me a place to stand and I will move the world
give me the right to speak and see my flag unfurled
the gods of war and the generous whore
give me life in this tinsel town
but the shit I eat and the people I meet
make me want to bring this curtain down

in the night time the shadows fall and I retire to lay down
the twisted chains and losses and gains of war
it's the right time to speak in rhyme of the fire gods that lay down
read between all the shadows I've seen and more

I am falling down closer to the ground
(give to me your fairest deeds)
teardrops are rising
tell me where you're bound I will follow now
(I am he your fairy steed)
teardrops are falling

nightmare is coming and I hear the drumming
of demons in the night
the space where my heart was is claimed by the servants
of my subconscious flight
the wings that I fly on are taking me into
the underworld tonight
where I perceive all my wildest dreams where I
bring them all to life

all that stands before breaking human lore
(I'm your wildest fantasy)
teardrops are running

nightmare is coming and I hear the drumming
of demons in the night
the space where my heart was is claimed by the servants
of my subconscious flight
the wings that I fly on are taking me into
the underworld tonight
where I perceive all my wildest dreams where I
bring them all to life

unicorn so wild and free, balm my eyes carry me home
teardrops are drying

nightmare is coming and I hear the drumming
of demons in the night
the space where my heart was is claimed by the servants
of my subconscious flight
the wings that I fly on are taking me into
the underworld tonight
where I perceive all my wildest dreams where I
bring them all to life

15. Consume To Live

living in the greenhouse growing crops that we can't eat
making money out of poverty turning forests into meat
we got our fingers on the trigger of some suicidal gun
the population's getting bigger underneath a dying sun
there's a fire in the furnace and there's nothing left to burn
buried waste has reached the surface is there nothing left to learn?

every day ozone getting layered every way life is getting worse
everybody's lung is getting cancer everyone has something more to lose
every country armies are rising every gene splitting into two
every breath monoxide getting stronger every sea whales are beached

economies are growing subsistence life is dead
we can't sustain this growth and things are coming to a head
we gotta learn to climb down the ladder of success
with two feet on the ground we gotta clean up all this mess
there's a fire in the furnace and there's nothing left to burn
buried waste has reached the surface is there nothing left to learn?

every life extinction is forever every town riots in the streets
every sky greenhouse is affecting every tree dying in the breeze
every plant chemical pollution every song relying on the beat
every lake water getting shorter every heart aching for release

surviving in a world of mass production we must all consume to live
our working lives to give and join the unemployment lines
when confidence is low

a man must try to sell his labour to the highest bid
keep his anger hid and try not to get pulled into
the vicious undertow

but even in the middle classes they fall into that hole
aspiring to that goal of rising from the yoke of
such an exploitative state

consume to live

16. Innocent

picture time as before where you slept through it all
they believe you were there why deny what I said?
vicious lies being heard you stand there how absurd
and with hate in your mind convict me

take my life away or give back the answer you hold
and stand unashamed of what you have done
don't just walk away unlock the chains from your heart
prove my innocence cause I did no wrong

empty words lies from the start? we stood strong never apart
had it all in our hands we had it all, yes you and me
now the tables have turned all I gave you return
makes it hard to believe what you've done to me

don't call me your friend, won't you understand I don't need

take my life away or give back the answer you hold
and stand unashamed of what you have done
don't just walk away unlock the chains from your heart
prove my innocence cause I did no wrong

17. Exposed

sick of guessing what's behind your eyes
I ask for truth and all I get is lies
the shrinking violet in your flacid mind
thinks he's cool but all you do is whine
and now you stand there and demand your half
when I have given to you all you have

don't make me laugh at that demo play
you're sick and tired of my clever word play
you find it hard doing things my way
you've done your part so tell me why do you stay

I assume your silence is a foil for rage
you can't find words even at your age
the space between us is the cloak you wear
to hide your feelings oh you just won't dare
to reveal the visage that's behind your mask
we have the answers but you just won't ask

don't make me laugh at that passion play
you're sick and tired of my clever word play
you find it hard doing things my way
you've done your part so tell me why do you stay

now I pick up the entrails of another dead affair
I assume the mantle that I knew you could not wear
you never had the confidence to leave yourself exposed
to the gaze of the tiny minds it's my mission to explode

is this more like it can you get into the groove
or are you paralysed still too scared to move
you are naked you are rooted to the spot
I am the walrus and it's clear that you are not

18. Sanity's End

he's just another victim of the system's bloody knife
a problem evader an escapee of life
a temporary soma not yet prescribed
has stripped him of ego with each lungful imbibed

get your mind-set altered here I will provide you with some fantastic gear
up down sideways forward and back our children submit to lysergic attack

hiding in tantric mesmerized trances
as the warehouse lightshow flickers and dances
synapses snap as his madness advances
leaving him open to paranoid fancies

lost in the garden of fantastic mind
I'm leaving my ego and body behind
trails of false images hang in the air
the smell of strange colours are heard everywhere
over the rainbow and into the light
I'm orbiting slowly, I'm high as a kite
can't remember my name anymore
everything's changed since I opened the door

get out demons get out controlling my brain
freak out healing freak out going insane
hit out feelings hit out cannot explain
reach out reeling reach out calling my name

for twenty-four hours time has no meaning
but several days later kicking and screaming
with delusions of grandeur and one o'clock fit
a family signed section has caught me in the net
can't seem to regain control of my fears
the world's receding and leaving me here

get out demons get out controlling my brain
freak out healing freak out going insane
hit out feelings hit out cannot explain
reach out reeling reach out calling my name

a shot of the hard stuff makes him tranquil and straight
no danger to public, himself or the state
under sedation he won't shed no tears
inwardly tortured by demonic fears

can't remember my name anymore
everything's changed since I opened the door

get out demons get out controlling my brain
freak out healing freak out going insane
hit out feelings hit out cannot explain
reach out reeling reach out calling my name

ravers, gyrators heaving with sweat
have you tried any good ecstasy yet?
if you don't wind up sleeping in gardens of stone
you'll be a new person if you ever get home

for the sake of your sanity, family and friends
leave subconscious travelling to gurus and men
who're prepared for the journey with no beginning or end
cause a mind that is broken is a hard thing to mend

19. The Whispering

close your eyes and tell me what you find
don't you here the voices in your mind
where have all your lovers gone, the friends you thought you counted on
passed away like shadows lost with time

I gave you all your life to make a choice
from time to time I know you heard my voice
it wasn't just for information, I desired your conversation
all you did was drown me out with noise

when I said go you wouldn't go
I gave my hand but every time you never want to know

and so you turned away, the seasons reached their end
it took you all your days to keep me from your head
the night grew dark your eyes grew black
and soon there'll be no turning back again

are you swimming through a myriad
of spiritual decisions
are they whispering sweet nothing while they
drown you with derision
out of sight but in your mind
they're calling out they're pulling you away
deep inside you know what's right
but slowly you're believing what they say

if they said go would you go

are you orbiting the rainbow do you live to be in trances
are you lost in paranoia did you take too many chances
parasites and soul-destroyers ready for your life to drift away
deep inside they steal your mind and slowly you're repeating what they say

if they said go would you go

when every country's gone to war every dream has hit the floor
when every gene has split in two and every breath has poisoned you
only then you'll understand none of this is what I planned
but giving you the right to choose meant some of you would have to lose

when every lake is parched and dry when all pollution kills the sky
when every soul has gone it's way and every heart is old and grey
maybe then you'll understand somewhere on your wounded land
you heard my voice but chose to turn away

20. Voyager II

a ruby eye of beguiling light winking at Orion's might
she lures the Galilean mind a new beginning for mankind
and on her face for ages past we gazed through eyes of polished glass

a voyager once landed there and filled with pictures all the air
and awakened yearnings in our heart a home coming or a brand new start
we travelled months in weightless grace traversing voids of time and space
to build what caused our death on earth that here might start our kind's rebirth

come in little earth you cannot hear me now
and I'm never coming back again
hello little earth you cannot reach me now
and I'm never coming down again

nine generations now surviving since our many coloured land has died
and we emerged from biospheres onto a virgin land in tears
for when we took our first few paces into Eden's newest pages
we realised what we'd guessed before this was our real home after all

come in little earth you cannot hear me now
and I'm never coming back again
hello little earth you cannot reach me now
and I'm never coming down again

don't know what I'm hoping to find
looking for my peace of mind
don't know what I'm hoping to find
looking for my peace of mind

come in little earth you cannot hear me now
and I'm never coming back again
hello little earth you cannot reach me now
and I'm never coming down again







THRESHOLD LYRICS