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A Fortune In Lies
"For the first time in a long time
...everything was right
in my
world... and then I woke up."
I can remember when,
In the unity of our five-day sessions
Not even once did we hear the siren
song
What kind of imagination
Asleep in some lyrical coma
Who's vain futile memory
Could have been so
wrong?
You can make a fortune in lies
You can keep a giant alive
You can ride the red
Until everybody smiles
A trifling euphoria
was
such an untimely religion
maybe your life can explain
the reason for my
indecision
Here is a poor man
the heart of this monster creation
He
said we both will be heroes
and I was led into temptation
You can make a fortune in lies
You can keep a giant alive
You can ride the red
Until everybody smiles
Can you show me your gold
and your silver?
A hero in
frozen water
Now you've made a fortune in lies
and you kept a giant
alive
You rode the red
You rode the red
Status Seeker
Heart sick at the sight of the
Status Seeker
In a sense
I'm not beyond reproach
the aspiration to drop a name
When any rose might
smell the same
Maybe you'll figure it out someday
"I want to know you
now...
You know I've always believed in you."
Nothing is sacred...
You draw the bottom line
with a
dollar sign
Change of opinion...
At the drop of a dime
Graceless
intrusion...
Are you sanctified in your
judgment of me?
All that I
deserve is what you were
unable to see
In a garden where the seeds were
spilled
I favored the
few that stood strong
in the sun
As I reached for the profit of my prize
I found I had trampled the forgotten
ones
Nothing is sacred...
You draw the bottom line
with a
dollar sign
Change of opinion...
At the drop of a dime
Graceless
intrusion...
Are you sanctified in your
judgment of me?
All that I
deserve is what you were
unable to see
You're running in circles
And I'm turning away
You
refused to believe
Now I'm turning away
Nothing is sacred...
You draw the bottom line
with a
dollar sign
Change of opinion...
At the drop of a dime
Graceless
intrusion...
Are you sanctified in your
judgment of me?
All that I
deserve is what you were
unable to see
You're running in circles
And I'm turning away
You
refused to believe
Now I'm turning away
The Killing Hand
An Angel's kiss now fallen
Descending scarlet cuts the sky
Faded names left on the wall
Honor the fighting leave life to
die
Remembered is the sacrifice but
No praisal of blood still
flowing
Who were the leaders?
what controlled the Killing Hand
that
caused this mouthing?
Crossing over...
Lowered deep into the sea
Being a waits to cleanse his soul
senses weakening time is still
Motionless by stiffening cold
The wheels race back and
Scorch his mind
Travelling all
to find the land
Revelation warms a touch
And now he will begin to
Understand
Extended a view to yesterday
Manifestation for none the
same
Walking amidst a frightening still
No sound, no smoke, no scorching
Flames
He is risen...
Sipping his poison the raven sings
Yet another to add more
bodies
fallen
King from below
this one controls
the Killing Hand
that caused this
mourning
Is it all over?
Evil genius this secret plan
Mercy dealt with the losing
hand
Will he ever fall?
Can he end it all?
Our savior must make his
stand
Only a Propher of years to come
Wanting mortality I'm all
alone
He heard my voice
It was my choice
I've stopped the Killing Hand
When I go back again
Will it be the same?
I've stopped
the cries
But now they know my name
The sea is calling me
my spirit must return
As I get
closer,
was it really worth
what I have learned?
I'm in the valley
And the saddened chimes I hear
Race
towards the wall to find
one more name appears
No one is left now
my one and only land
I laugh at what
I've done
I am the Killing Hand
Light Fuse And Get Away
Would you like to sit and talk to me
about the way things
change so
suddenly
when your senses come and the feeling
goes?
can
you remember feeling much
too close?
Stop your hands from shaking.
Look at me.
Are your
senses racing endlessly
tracing
past impressions? So were mine.
Have
you ever been used
or will this be the first time?
It's come so clear to me
Light fuse and get away
No
gain, no pain
It's a fatal game
and the true lose everything
I can see
what trust and loyalty have done
for me
falling miles from the mark
with a thirst for revenge
and a dangerous
heart
I've tried to wash from memory
feelings of betrayal and the
incidents
that plague me since I lost my sense
of innocence
A history of changes now I'm loving
now I'm losing keeps me
constantly
in fear of hearing "I can't see where
this is going"
You lie alone with the memory
feeling the ceiling and walls
closing
in on
Your Conscience - my ally
the guilt - your affliction
from preying on praise as you fed
an attention addiction
Someone told me
Light fuse and get away
No gain, no pain
and when it's lust to dust you can
crawl from the wreckage
I can see
what trust and loyalty have done
for me
lying bleeding in the dark
with a thirst for revenge
and a dangerous heart
It's come so clear to me
Light fuse and get away
No
gain, no pain
It's a fatal game
and the true lose everything
I can see
what trust and loyalty have done
for me
falling miles from the mark
with a thirst for revenge
and a dangerous
heart
Afterlife
I touched with one
who made me run
away from my own
soul...
In this world with its
many illusions
We are moving like mice
through a
maze
And now I find
what's left behind
has served to make me
whole
full of doubt, deception, and delusion
seeking purpose to all
earthly days
I search within
beneath a skin
that bears both pleasure
and pain
In a world full of constant confusion
I will not be a par to the
craze
In the Afterlife
will dark be bright?
will cold be warm?
will the day have no night?
In the Afterlife?
will the blind have sight?
In the Afterlife
Behind closed eyes
some comfort lies
In knowing the
truth never spoken
Through this world with us
hidden conclusion
we'll
keep moving like mice through
a maze
In the Afterlife
will dark be bright?
will cold be warm?
will the day have no night?
In the Afterlife?
will the blind have sight?
In the Afterlife
In the Afterlife
will dark be bright?
will cold be warm?
will the day have no night?
In the Afterlife?
will the blind have sight?
In the Afterlife
The Ones Who Help To Set The Sun
Watching my window I was led like a
child
As the roadway
lamplights
misguided my mind through the night
a shadow of limits
We
were racing the rain
my hands held the wheel
My eyes tried to hold their
place
there must have been a time
when I thought that you were
watching
It had to be when my senses lost
control
I thought I'd slipped
away
I thought I could still feel us
moving
It must have been a cloud
no bigger than a man's hand
Every reason I risk my life
To come back to you
Is
locked behind your door
You're my immunity
Outside I watched you burn
Heavy hearts were bleeding
A cry for help, a familiar voice
My melting
hands streaked the glass
As I walked away
I wondered what had really
happened
had I run out of time
did I push myself too far
As my last step fell
I
felt my hands upon the wheel
had I come back to life
or did I ever leave
at all
In higher lives
We seem to be
always a moment too late
We're past the time
when we looked on
Now we're
THE ONES WHO HELP TO
SET THE SUN
this time for real
I locked the door behind me
My mind was
still a wreck
from what I saw
For when my hands are still
I'll
recognize the message
never again will my senses lose
control
In higher
lives
We seem to be
Always a moment too late
We're past the time
when we looked on
Now we're
THE ONES WHO HELP TO
SET THE SUN
Only A Matter Of Time
A suited man smiled said:
"It's just a matter of time
You can have the world at your feet
by tomorrow
just sign on this line."
Hold tight... limelight!
Approaching the paramount
with the sun in our
eyes
fearing family ties, legalies,
compromise
In a dimly lit room with a stool as his
stage
a
dream-stricken prince of a pauper's
descent
haunts the eavesdropping
silence
that presses his window
as he sweats a performance
to an
audience that ticks on the wall
To the practical observer
It's just a matter of time
"You can deviate from the com-
monplace
only to fall back in line."
I
understand mine's a risky plan
and your system can't miss
But is security
after all a cause
or symptom of happiness?
Brave, yet afraid, his eyes on horizon
in a steady-set gaze
a mariner soon from an open cocoon
takes a moment to summon his courage
to
stifle his grave apprehension and
trembling, approaches the surf
A
father's benediction as his hopeful
son departs
to brave the sea of rage
and conquer
at all costs
lingers in his memory
and visions still surviving in a
logic-
proof shell
that should have been held sacred, safe
and hidden
well
are compromised in usury
with every rising sun that yields no
sight of land
the hesitation cultivates within the
tired man
and rumors
spread of mutiny
and though the time will come when
dream and day unite
tonight the only consolation causing
him to fight
in fearless faith in
destiny
Even when plans fall to pieces
I can still find the courage
with promise I've found in my faith
Likely or not, it's a dream that we keep
and at odds with
our senses we'll climb
But if faith is the answer, we're already
reached
it
And if spirit's a sign
then it's only a matter of time
New Millennium
A single star behind me
A red sky burns ahead
A lonely
light below me
Awake among the dead
An overwhelming feeling
Leaves me
numband strange
A sense of new beginning
I sense a wind of change
Out with the old useless
People so cold ruthless welcome
In a new millennium
How many times must I
Live out this nightmare I
Can't wait until a new millennium
I've got this feeling
The tide is turning now baby
Funny
feeling everything's gonna be alright now
Living out a constant deja vu
Keep your head up
Please
be patient we will get to you
Keep your head up
Just have some faith and
you can see it
Through
Keep your head up
But faith don't pay the rent
that's overdue
Keep your head up
All that's glittering is turning blue
Keep your head up
What they want from me ain't gotta clue
Keep your head
up
Swallow pride before it swallows you
Keep your head up
Don't dare
bite the hand that's starving you
Keep your head up
How can you keep your head
And not go insane when the only
light at the end
Of the tunnel is another train
The lies ten feet tall
Have broken my fall
Welcome you
all new millennium
It's well overdue and I can't wait to
Welcome in a new
millennium
I've got this feeling
The tide is turning now baby
Funny
feeling
Everything's gonna be alright now
You Not Me
Being round you is driving me crazy
Watching you run is
making me lazy
You're trying to buy a place in my head
Telling me lines
I've already read
Speaking my name to try to confuse me
Say it again
you're starting to lose me
That's alright I'm okay
It happens every single day
It's
all the same
But I'm not blind
It's all about you not me
It's all about the things
That
you're expecting me to be
There's not enough time to live
And all that
you're expecting me to give
It's all about you not me
It's all about you not me
You're building my prison brick by brick
Eating your words
is making me sick
You get what you want
Cause nothing is sacred
You're
reading my mind
And leaving me naked
You say I gotta give before I receive
it
One of these days I'll believe it.
It's all about you not me
It's all about the things
That
you're expecting me to be
There's not enough time to live
And all that
you're expecting me to give
It's all about you not me
It's all about you not me
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László Zoltán 2012
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