TRAGEDY LYRICS

1. Conflicting Ideas

When the scientists find our remnants, what will they say?
When they find our bloated carcasses
ridden with sickness and cancers, what will they find?
And what...what will they say?
Will they recognize our self-abuse
as a product of the abusive hands that molded our lives?
Or will we remain, a mystery?
Deformed from malnourishment
our blood coagulated and inced with disease:
the preservatives, the alcohol, the cigarettes.
The meat we gorged ourselves on,
for all those years.
Will they recognize our self abuse
as a product of the abusive hands that molded our lives?
As experts scratch their heads
as doctors shake their hands and wonder what we've done.

2. A Call To Arms

From hands that beat us senseless come offerings of apparent help
From mouths that told judges lies come pleas of disarmament
As we lay wounded in growing numbers with explosive fury
They fly the white flag at half mast
Calling for the laying down of arms
Calling for a truce they must be..
They must be losing it
to think we'll just pick up our bruised bodies and gather at their feet
No truce, no mercy, no surrender, no rest, no more, this is war!
the midnight hour near's and we prepare for attack
No truce, no mercy, no surrender, no rest, no more, this is war!

3. Vengeance

You came for us at birth with your proven techniques
for molding model citizens, forced us into compartments
where we didn't fit in
Brought us with a full schedule of television and revised history
classes that had us believing this is "just the way it is"
You came for us with grins and smiles,
systematic persuasion and coercion that we might have become robots
if it weren't for
Our undying hatred, our unyielding drive,
for reprisal, for retribution, for retaliation, for revenge
The hunt is on, the war is on
We come for you in life, until death.
Revenge, revenge...

4. Recurring Nightmare

[Instrumental]

5. Beginning Of The End

Clutch our chests and gasp in disbelief
Squint our eyes to see,
if we missed the fine print to small to read
Check our pulses to see if our hearts still beat
No help from anyone to help us understand
This confusion, this abomination, never ending
And as clouds darken, the asphalt swells,
and as the clouds darken, the asphalt cracks
The sky darkens one final time
Gears cease turning, the machines malfunction
What we deserve, what we deserve
Our untimely end

6. The Lure

7. Night Falls

Every last ounce of sympathy, every last bit of emotion
Saturated with this bitterness and situations,
stacked end on end end on end
And tonight there will be no resolve
for those who lay awake clutching their children
Listening to bombs drop and boots marching down barren streets
Soldiers marching down barren streets

8. The Day After

The skin hangs from bodies that tried to run from a blinding flash
The children have no mouths with which to speak, were they ever alive?
An empty shell now stands where yesterday a hospital stood,
medicating the sick with more sickness?
An empty shell now stands where yesterday a schoolhouse stood,
teaching children how to follow orders
A graveyard of smokestacks stands where yesterday stood factories,
mass producing useless products, mass producing greed
All that remains are the stacks and stacks of radiated corpses,
all that remains are the piles upon piles of our excessive debris,
all that remains are the skeletons of the once alive
all that remains...

9. War Within Us

[Instrumental]

10. Revengeance

You came for us as children, while we slept
Robbed us of our youth, our innocence
Don't think that we've forgotten,
don't think that we'll forget
You, you've got a number, you've got a name
You can run, you can hide but never close your eyes
Beware the sands of time, they're on our side
You came for us at birth with pills in hand
Told us we were unbalanced, told us you had a plan
Another institution, another padded cell,
another induced psychosis, another hell
You can run, you can hide, but never close your eyes
Beware the sands of time, they're on our side
You, you've got a number, you've got a name
You can run, you can hide, but never close your eyes
Beware the sands of time, they're on our side,
revenge, revenge, revenge

11. To The Dogs

As we find ourselves barely conscious,we struggle to our knees
Looking for a sign that says this is life, and not a dream
There is a sign and it read: "hope is the leash of submission"
Moral bondage forges its cage, once again filling us with guilt and shame
Moral bondage tightens its grip, once again crushing us with fault and blame
For how long will we carry these crippling loads?
And when will we unlearn the lies, refuse the cost and throw it all to the dogs?
Throw it all, throw it all, throw it all, throw it all to the dogs!
Signs statements of release Relinquishing all duties
Offer a refusal with no regrets
Sever the religious romantic ties
Throw off the guilt and the faithfulness
For how long will we carry these crippling loads?
And when will we unlearn the lies, refuse the cost and throw it all to the dogs?

12. No Words

No words, no words can explain the anger from years and years of being beaten down
No words, no words can relay
no words, no words can erase
Brainwashed, domesticated, bound in chains
No words, no words can relay
As the giant steamroller called progress
mows down the last fragments of what once was
No words can explain the rage as another factory replaces another field
No words, no words can relay
No words can begin to say what would be said if the dead could replay,
if the napalmed children,
the tortured dissidents,
the publicly executed,
the burned villages,
the silent masses could
cry, could scream,
could speak..
Telling tales of tragedies for which we find no words
For which there are no words





TRAGEDY LYRICS