1. Look For The Rose (Part 2)

Lovers are blind to the future  

Open their hearts to be scarred

Locked in a scene from an endless dream

Never knowing just how near, how far

No honour guard will salute ya

Banished to roam with the stars

There are silent moments

When we just don’t’ know where we are

This waif called love, (this radiance)   

Watches the world go around

In the deep scented twilight of space and time

This wraith called love, (forbade us)

Laughs as we all fall down

Bitter sweet, dented highlights, disgrace and bind

Look for the rose when it’s gone

Now it's fragrance lingers on

While the world succumbs to the maze

Cherish the rose when it’s done

Trace its cadence in this song

After words, anon, it remains

Religion

Caught in the sights of the shooter

Lessons we just never learn

Hands reaching out touch a naked flame

So we play with fire, our fingers burn

Branded and stoned it refutes ya

Those who survive take a turn

In the headlights frozen

At the sharp end of no return

This waif called love, (this radiance)   

Watches the world go around

In the deep scented twilight of space and time

This wraith called love, (forbade us)

Laughs as we all fall down

Bitter sweet, dented highlights, disgrace and bind

Look for the rose when it’s gone

Now it's fragrance lingers on

While the world succumbs to the maze

Cherish the rose when it’s done

Trace its cadence in this song

After words, anon, it remains

Religion

Don’t wait, watch world round in

Deep ahh

Don’t wait, laugh all down bit

Sweet ahh

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2. Brave New Lie

When the dark starts feeding you life it reveals your heart still beating

Counterparts repeating the lines echoes of your changing world

We are all reborn to survive love is only true forever

Broken parts, rebuilding, apart, still facing the light

This insane, wicked game that we play with tears and with laughter

Shifting blame, crossing a wild and restless tide, it’s profane, what we say

When we swear the words 'ever after', fated grains, lost in the hourglass of time

For it's all a brave new lie

When two hearts start beating in time, it's unplanned, a random meeting

But the gods look down from the skies and they laugh with tear stained eyes

For we can't control paradise, simple truth, it's now or never

Open-heart style surgery, start embracing the fight

This insane, wicked game that we play with tears and with laughter

Shifting blame, crossing a wild and restless tide, it’s profane, what we say

When we swear the words 'ever after', fated grains, lost in the hourglass of time

For it's all a brave new lie

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3. The Tidal Wave

From the fury, the fray, chaos over the waves

Underneath only silence and the reef bed, threads of sunlight erased

Hallowed trenches and caves, through capillaries, timelessly release fed

From the fear and the spray to the coral ballet

In a deep water, shark infested recess there’s a crypt of decay

In this ocean of graves where the sea is both harbinger and priestess

Pray now, crushed and torn as we clave now to the wake of the wave now….

The monumental awe inspired reflect a boned mosaic, throned empire

The dark satanic ocean, Neptune’s watery grave, the perfect storm, the rock guns fire

Amid the turbid ebb and flow, this choir of violence, even silence has to brave

The tidal wave

Of cathedrals and bones ground by sea pitted stones

In the white crested waters of salvation clustered manacle foam

Makes the sinner atone on the mantles of god and his creation

Some escape from the womb to this deep-water tomb

Benediction and barnacled believers elemental, consumed

By the temple of doom this affliction of oracle deceivers

Pray now, crushed and torn as we clave now to the wake of the wave now….

The monumental awe inspired reflect a boned mosaic, throned empire

The dark satanic ocean, Neptune’s watery grave, the perfect storm, the rock guns fire

Amid the turbid ebb and flow, this choir of violence, even silence has to brave

The tidal wave

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4. Parabellum

'Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum'

("If You Want Peace, (You Should) Prepare For War")

Watching high aggressors fall, let this dawn begin

Tendril flanks of open war severed like a broken limb

Breathless in the night, the gods of thunder take a life

This roar is insatiable

Nations die when empire calls, maps are scorched and lit

Blind obsession, overlords, tyrants and dictatorships

Frontiers that exist are on the brink of an abyss, redrawn

The incendiary screams decapitate a regime

Propaganda machines that mine their way into your dreams

Unimaginable themes of plight invade the mainstream

The nonsensical schemes that violate are obscene

My strategic counterforce edging closer in

Stealth-like, from a covert source

Fledging like resourceful djinns

Heaven goes to hell then 'Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum'

War whores who embrace the cause

Rain 'napoleon syndrome' down on history

Ten miles wide but two feet tall

Braying like a 'god squad freak'

Restless, in denial, cast asunder, such a brazen core

The incendiary screams decapitate a regime

Propaganda machines that mine their way into your dreams

Unimaginable themes of plight invade the mainstream

The nonsensical schemes that violate are obscene