1. DRAGONFLY

"Don't ask me to surrender"
Her voice fell tired and spent

"My hopes and dreams, a silent heart
I carry here within"

Her outstretched wings, left tattered
A sail aged with rust
"A breath in time, that's yours and mine...
It belongs to only us"

And I will write her name and cast it to the sky
Silhouettes recede into a mother's tearful eyes
A host of angels clamor to her side
A light dissolves to kiss the wind
Release the dragonfly

See the rose within the field of white
She's searching for the grail
But the rain descends to snatch the light
From distant dying suns
A faint resounding in the night
Calls angels wings to beat

Singing silent lip-sewn songs
But the distance is too deep ..

And I will write her name and cast it to the sky
Silhouettes recede into a mother's tearful eyes
A host of angels clamor to her side
A night dissolved to kiss the wind

Release the dragonfly

And I will write her name and cast it to the sky
As precious moments will slip away in time
Angels fall from grace, and sometimes heroes die
But tonight, my love, ascend the gates,
Release the dragonfly

"Sometimes angels fall, but love will never die
Tonight my soul is something more" -
Calls the dragonfly.


2. NEVER SURRENDER/CITADEL (CLAN OF XYMOX REMIX)

Languid waves of desperation
Fall before the rains
A vanguard to approaching war

Is borne upon the sea
The icy breath of cyclones bent
On waging our destruction
Drills hard against the hearts of heroes
Called here to defend

I see storms on the horizon

I see the tempest at the gates
I see storms on the horizon,
And a citadel alone
Clinging brave, defying fate

And I will stand here at the gates to face the onslaught Fighting
Without surrender or defeat

With Troy besieged by tyrants' greed - (tyranny)
In Hector's memory, God willing
We shall save this victory
Without surrender or defeat

Sudden silence - I realize
Breaking teardrops in the rain

With every breathing moment
The pillars are sustained
And waking hands attached to nothing
Fightly clutching close
Each sleeping vision speaks unheard
And heaven only knows (exactly why)

Paris' arrow landed true
Paris' arrow landed true
Paris' arrow landed true
Down upon your heel...

This Troy...

She will not fall again
This Troy...
She will not fall!


3. WINTER BORN (SUBWAY TO SALLY MIX)

Dry your eyes and quietly bear this pain with pride
For heaven shall remember the silent and the brave
And promise me, they will never see, the fear within our Eyes

We will give strength to those who still remain

So bury fear for fate draws near and hide the signs of pain
With noble acts, the bravest souls endure the heart's Remains
Discard regret, that in this debt a better world is made
That children of a newer day might remember, and avoid our Fate.

And in the fury of this darkest hour we will be your light
You've asked me for my sacrifice and I am Winter born
Without denying, a faith is come that I have never known
I hear the angels call my name and I am Winter born

Hold your head up high-for there is no greater love
Think of the faces of the people you defend

And promise me, they will never see the tears within our Eyes
Although we are men with mortal sins, angels never cry

So bury fear for fate draws near and hide the signs of pain
With noble acts, the bravest souls endure the heart's Remains
Discard regret, that in this debt a better world is made
That children of a newer day might remember, and avoid our Fate.

And in the fury of this darkest hour we will be your light
You've asked me for my sacrifice and I am Winter born
Without denying, a faith in God that I have never known
I hear the angels call my name and I am Winter born

And in the fury of this darkest hour

I will be your light
A lifetime for this destiny
For I am Winter born
And in this moment...
I will not run, it is my place to stand
We few shall carry hope

Within our bloodied hands

And in our Dying
We're more alive-than we have ever been
I've lived for these few seconds
For I am Winter born

And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be the light
You've asked me for my sacrifice
And I am Winter born
Without denying, a faith in man
That I have never known

I hear the angels call my name
And I am Winter born

Within this moment now
I am for you, though better men have failed
I will give my life for love
For I am Winter born

And in my dying I'm more alive, than I have ever been
I will make this sacrifice for I am Winter born


4. CASSANDRA (RAZED IN BLACK REMIX)

Watching backwards as life like pictures
Stinging thoughts, born with phantoms
We danced above a world forgotten
Moments cherished... even now
A train-wrecked heart loves fairy tales

Singing from a gaping wound
However time has left unsettled
My memories play out of tune

You can't unmake
A cold mistake
You can't undo

The hearts you break
You can't erase
The poet's fate
Not even if you try

And she had Audrey Hepburn's smile
With deeper sadder eyes

The only thing she said
No one hears Cassandra cry
Because the earth is standing still
And the truth becomes a lie
A choice profound is bittersweet
No one hears Cassandra cry

A heartfelt sorrow I believe
Offered this for passion's crime
A crippled satellite trapped in orbit
My memories play out of time

You can't unmake

A cold mistake
You can't undo
The hearts you break
You can't erase
The poet's fate
Not even if you try...

The listless price of my descension
Where emptiness has pulled me down
Cascading from my divagation
Below the frozen winter skies
Pythonic sadness unreleased
As serpents rigid in cold

Waiting for the warmth of Sunday
Before the cruelty of growing old

Are you listening?
Are you listening?
Are you listening now?
Like Orpheus with hope entangled

Your path was mapped about your feet
Leading backwards into forgiveness
Or forward to a fools retreat


5. EDGE OF THE WORLD

I walk alone at night,
Raindrops and streetlights
Reflecting flashes
Across the asphalt

In a second's time, I might refrain from breathing
With her hand in mine, something is breaking faster
Through a blackened sky, I see a world unravel
I look into her eyes to see the end
In a second's time, the walls swim cold electric
With a tearful smile, she whispers my undoing
In the hollow night, I find no trace of comfort
I turn just in time to see the end

I walk the edge

Standing on the velvet edge
Looking backwards in the rain
I wonder just how many times
I've watched you walk away
All that fascination bleeds -
Is a piece of infinity
In frustration still believing
What I know will never be

Blurry eyes growing weak
Fading with the light of time
Piercing nothing to redeem
The emptiness with lies
Pride has raped the sorrowed heart
And stolen what I love,
Though the cut is digging still
How much deeper it could go...

Why did you come here,
Just to break my heart again?
I walk the edge ------
Why did you come here,
Just to sever my last remaining thread -
Why did you come here
Just to watch me fall again?
I walk the edge ------
Why did you come here....?
I walk the edge...


6. LOVE AND HATRED (NEUROACTIVE MIX)

Can you hear the breath of the observer
Can you hear the quanta calling back?
The arguments of motivation
Implore my distant muse to act
Sentiment spent on emotions
Derived from our eternal spark

All beyond our comprehension
Watching protons in the dark

All the love and all the hatred
Split from our desire to be
All the love and all the hatred
Leading to hostilities

All the saints and all the prophets
All the secrets that you keep
Exist with one intriguing question
Tell me dearest - who are we?

Can you hear the gears of evolution
Grinding for divinity

Can you hear the voices of creation
And the science sprawling from the seas
Sentiment spent on emotions
Derived from our eternal spark
All beyond our comprehension
Watching protons in the dark

All the love and all the hatred
Lovers searching for the seed
That piece of existential knowing
That gives tomorrow wings to dream
All the broken hearted angels
Living in the ether seams

All the love and all the hatred
Tell me dearest - who are we?

Can you hear the cat within the box
Can you hear electrons moving free
Watching something, watching nothing
In stasis somewhere in-between


7. CITADEL (IRIS REMIX)


Languid waves of desperation
Fall before the rains
A vanguard to approaching war

Is borne upon the sea
The icy breath of cyclones bent
On waging our destruction
Drills hard against the hearts of heroes
Called here to defend

I see storms on the horizon

I see the tempest at the gates
I see storms on the horizon,
And a citadel alone
Clinging brave, defying fate

And I will stand here at the gates to face the onslaught Fighting
Without surrender or defeat

With Troy besieged by tyrants' greed - (tyranny)
In Hector's memory, God willing
We shall save this victory
Without surrender or defeat

Sudden silence - I realize
Breaking teardrops in the rain

With every breathing moment
The pillars are sustained
And waking hands attached to nothing
Tightly clutching close
Each sleeping vision speaks unheard
And heaven only knows (exactly why)

Paris' arrow landed true
Paris' arrow landed true
Paris' arrow landed true
Down upon your heel...

This Troy...

She will not fall again
This Troy...
She will not fall!


8. FLAME (CXS DECONSTRUCTED REDUX)

Sleeping moments giving birth
To a world of my own invention
Doubt is cast, and what's real
Mixes with imagination

My imagination
Each vision, each word
Like a message in a bottle
The unreal has given birth
To the titans of my inner battles
Angel, burning away

Cutting against the heartless unforgiven
Anger, blacken my dream
A phoenix in flame, returning in redemption
Angel, burning away
Cutting against the heartless unforgiven
Anger, blacken my dream

I can see this angel is me
And I am in flames
The wind is breaking hard
Flowing with the void of fire
The light it burns
Eyes glow, holding my soul

The fallen horde is hunting seraph
Wisdom, Prometheus knows
A torch is but a tool for heroes
We stand to face the hatred
Amassing on our borders


9. UNTRUE (TREVOR BROWN REMIX WITH CXS REVOX)

My eyes resign dissolving vision
To vividness of sense and sequence
Betrayed by certain circumstances

Outside the world I've known
How cold and cut bewildered silence
Left me for a newer face
While sadness dances gracefully
In this forgotten place

Regardless of the introspection

I found myself in your reflection
I guess it's all too easy now
To look the other way

Saving graces, trading places
Asking for a sense of hope
But the line to heaven's ringing busy

And I walk this path alone
What kind of sick games were we playing?
No rules, no constitution
No sympathy for one another
And nowhere left to go

Regardless of the introspection

I see myself in your reflection
I guess it makes it easier
To turn your eyes away

And I'm not asking you to lie and tell me
That you love me still
I know that it's untrue

So I'm not asking you to lie and tell me that
You want me too
I know that it's untrue

Saving secrets unembellished
Left without revision
Sacrosanct and underground

Why do I need you so?
And sentiment was none-too-careful
Delivering the means
To break the balance of perfection
And eliminate these dreams

Regardless of the introspection

I see myself in your reflection
I guess it makes it easier
To turn your eyes away

So what do I do?
I still love you..
Life is such a tangled mess

With cruel lines dividing us
I don't want to be
On the other side from you


10. FORTRESS (EYES TO HEAVEN)

Words scribbled on the underside of an old envelope
Becoming everything inside.
Ink spilled on paper, but in a deeper sense,
Several sentences blurred by tears
Represented more sentiment,
More that was meaningful and real,
Than the years that led to this crossroads.

I heard the door close-
Not slamming, but slinking shut
In an unfortunate and unhappy desire to be undetected,
As if secrecy could lesson the pain.

Sometimes our lives descend, insnared
As storms upon the soul
And rains may strike dividing
To sever what was whole
But though your limbs feel torn and twisted
And your memories turn cold
Take heart, for I am with you still
And will catch you should you fall
Eyes to Heaven
Lost and searching for the truth
The words to mend your broken heart
Can only come from you
Eyes to Heaven
Building secrets from your pain
A virtue lost in innocence
Is lost here all the same

A beautiful dreamer locked in reticence
In a tower of your soul
What lies so deep and undisturbed
Hears torment in the world
Lightning flashes warning
To whispers in the rain
The fire climbing upwards
Your fortress lies in flame
Just pray you do the right thing
Eyes to Heaven
Lost and searching for the truth
The words to mend your broken heart
Can only come from you
Eyes to Heaven
Building secrets from your pain
In prayers to end the suffering
Heard by a soldier's saint.
Eyes to Heaven
Lost and searching for the truth
I am lost, and I'm falling

Just pray you do the right thing


11. CITADEL (ABSURD MINDS REMIX)

(See lyrics on track 7)


12. LOVE AND HATRED (ALICE 2 REMIX)

(See lyrics on track 6)


13. CASSANDRA (EGO LIKENESS REMIX)

(See lyrics on track 4)


14. CITADEL (IN STRICT CONFIDENCE REMIX)

(See lyrics on track 7)