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DOMINION LYRICS
"Threshold - a Retrospective" (2006 Best of/Compilation)
1. Release
2. Ill effect
3. Covet
4. Prism
5. Millennium
6. Tears from the stars
7. What is truth?
8. Deceiver
9. Silhouettes
10. Down
11. Shout
12. Joyful tears of sorrow
13. Threshold
14. The voyage
15. Distortion
16. Blackout
17. Hollowvision
18. Alive?
1. Release
You couldn't run from what you became
From one who would vent his revenge
Through the time, you were young
To look up to the put downs he gave instead
In all your darkest questions
You could never find the answers
This chance with death overcastting the way
Tempted to try the peace you could give
You would wear your torment on the inside
You would hide it so well
Until you released it again
I thought I could help you
And you would weep to me
Reveal this withered spirit
Pour out your soul,
Let me share your misery
And sometimes I saw myself in you
Recognized the colourless feelings
We shared relief
In knowing we were not alone
I couldn't convince you to believe
The hope had already gone
You'd suffered alienation
For far too long...
You'd resigned to the desperation
When you took your own life
Your past would never leave
You had already died...
The night you chose the ending
I can see those subtle warnings
Pass like it was meant to be
But am I just as guilty?
Bet you don't miss it here
2. Ill effect
Mistaken identity,
Fooled us all and didn't you know
Took betrayal in your stride
Used to biding time
Manipulated her
Now on you she must rely
Yet she chose to look away
Look away from too many lies
And when you come face to face
You will become what you created
From these souls that you sold
Life's avenger will reap the rewards
Through a justice unseen...
And what you gave will return
Through these ruins fate will follow
In submission, no escape
You will abide to the work of your own hands
Reformed destiny...
Taken this life,
Not to lay it to rest
When you've taken this life
Then you'll move on to the next
Willing victim to fall
To this appeal when you play a part
Carefully chosen in line to survive,
As you give out your promises, forged promises
Where does your conscience reside
When you have carved
This same future in other lives
Realization falls silently over
But you know they have come
Too far, too far to look back
Your hour is gaining quickly
Not too soon for those who wait
To see how death becomes you
How death becomes you...
And when you've taken this life
Your time will come around
3. Covet
A portrait which carries the story
Which is always the same
Compare this cross to the next man
To be someone else instead
Weighted with this burden
You believe you're alone
Everyone has something
Life will leave you to learn
Where you see a perfection
Belies a different restraint
Another source of disillusions
Got you fooled in envy
What do you see?
What do you think you see?
Do you know what you're wishing?
Do you know...?
Hard to find contentment, you can't see
Past your own self hatred, while you're
Weighted with this burden
You believe you're alone
Everyone has something
Life will leave you to learn
Time wastes, you don't notice
If you let this beat you
What do you see?
What do you think you see?
Do you know what you're wishing?
Do you know...?
Everyone is equal
If you look a little closer
And you're weighted with this burden
You believe you're alone
Everyone has something
Life will leave you to learn
And when you learn to see
That nothing is that serious
You will grasp something to live for
Cause these fleeting moments will end
To then see this gift
And underline the truth
What we took for life
How we misunderstood
4. Prism
Commercial crucifixion
Why bow to those in charge
No questions follow aimlessly
Time to give away your mind
Collide with accepted opinion, you're making it hard
For yourself, in this so called choice
And are we permitted to have imagination
Recognize this dormant attitude...
Don't listen to those who destroy
This instinctive direction
Who is anyone to lay judgment and
Judge you if you don't follow on passively
You're fucking with destiny
Down to your own inferior decline
We can't beat them but won't join them
We won't rise up to their ideals
Down, but not out...
They criticize us in the public eye
We can't beat them but won't join them
We won't rise up to their ideals
Lies, destructive lies...
We criticize you in the public eye
Dare to differ and do you fear being the outcast
Afraid of what they might say, turn your back
And let prejudice criticize you, who's the real loser?
5. Millennium
[In the new age we see]
The combinations of human consciousness and science
[Dominated by the element]
Our imagination having turned towards the sky
[New frontiers cause the reformation]
Of the human race...
[Celebration of ourselves]
And our sanctity of the earth
[Our civilization has entered]
The millennium of peace and wisdom
[We have begun to live our lives]
As part of the galactic community
[Our world has no boundaries]
But have we now become a selfish race?
[Obsessed by our power and freedom]
We are becoming insane...
People are now spawning our future generations
They will hold the power to create life
Possessing the ability to travel through out the cosmos
Free from all the boundaries, the only sin is to forget
No more leaders of injustice!
We have begun to realise potential far beyond our lies
To release the energy we have ignored for our own selfish greed
Ignorance inside the mind will be eradicated finally
Opening the doors to the rise towards impossibility
6. Tears from the stars
In the aura of time,
Ripped out of the blazing skies
Genesis of a new strain,
The mother feeds her child
Silence broken, the birth of mankind,
But the shadows conceal fears unspoken
Like tears from the stars...
And the questions went unanswered among all its people
Creation of a false belief, he had to give his reasons
Like whispers in the ocean, the words went unheard
Like tears from the stars, the warnings went ignored
[Like tears from the stars the mother feeds her child]
Our search in life for our destiny,
Behold the grains that slowly drift away
[Like tears from the stars the mother feeds her child]
Unforeseen fate will pale reality,
In fear's eclipse we'll hear the world while it weeps
Turn around and walk away,
Kiss the rose and let it die
But how many times have I fallen over
Waiting for my soul to feel the light
Silence broken, the birth of mankind,
But the shadows conceal fears unspoken
Like tears from the stars...
And the cup was taken from the hands of greed and misery
Evolution in time will bring forth the new breed
7. What is truth?
8. Deceiver
9. Silhouettes
Unknown to me, the sun deceives...
Storms from the east, crimson now is the sea
Black shapes unknown that resemble human form
In the rains they came to free us from this mortal coil
Shall we see in the fullness of time
If the prophecies can shine through
The silhouettes against the sun...
The promises of a brave new world
Slipped straight through our weary eyes
Behind the blue sky horizon remains only truth
The beginning is the end
We are twisted never to be reborn
Just as a soft breeze carries dead leaves
The rains shall never cease
10. Down
Descent in line from innocence
From blood, this love defiles me
Unchosen, yet it holds our restraint
Through this child you will live again
I breathe life through you
I breathe life through
What you believe, through me
Dependant in my helpless state
You work on my emotional fate
Take out this part of me
Which turns me into you
Imprint your words in mentality
Pass on your own self righteous faith
Explain reason in your own wisdom
Your failures will live again
Imprisoned under fate's own hereditary leader
Can I overcome what this dependence fractured
Or will you stay here?
Fight through this bloodline of distorted pictures
Subtract from the mind this broken experience
Not to live again...
11. Shout
[Tears For Fears Cover]
Shout, shout, let it all out,
These are the things I could do without
Come on, I'm talking to you, come on
In violent times, you shouldn't have to sell your soul
In black and white, they really really ought to know
Those one track minds, they took you for a working boy
Kiss them goodbye, you shouldn't have to jump for joy
You shouldn't have to jump for joy...
Shout, shout, let it all out,
These are the things I could do without
Come on, I'm talking to you, come on
They gave you life, and in return you gave them Hell
As cold as ice, I hope we live to tell the tale
I hope we live to tell the tale...
Shout, shout, let it all out,
These are the things I could do without
Come on, I'm talking to you, come on
And when you've taken down your guard
If I could change your mind,
I'd really let them break your heart
I'd really let them break your heart...
Shout, shout, let it all out,
These are the things I could do without
Come on, I'm talking to you, come on
12. Joyful tears of sorrow
13. Threshold
And life it's hard
Struggling from day to day
While the powers that be
Feed us shit they want us to believe
And life it's hard
We're getting fucked from day to day
Working as slaves to fulfill
Their corruptible greed
I'm not gonna take this anymore
Offered a chance to equal the final score
We're all covered in blood, yeah
We're all covered in our own blood
To you it's an impoverished few
It's about time you looked at the full scope
We'll be covered in blood
Covered in your blood again
Rise up, rise up,
Rise up and take control
Replace mistakes from history
A chance to call the world our own
Yeah, we're not backing down
We shall be forever...
When the shit hits the fan
You'll be the one who's left here screaming
And life it's hard
It's getting easier day by day
Making fools of the few
Who just wish they knew
And life it's hard
It's about time we opened a new scope
You'll be covered in blood
Covered in your own blood again
Rise up, rise up,
Rise up and take control
Replace mistakes from history
A chance to call the world our own
Yeah, we're not backing down
We shall be forever...
When the shit hits the fan
You'll be the one who's left here screaming
14. The voyage
I brace myself but to no avail
Numbness crept over me,
Overpowering oppression deepening
Every muscle paralyzed
Laying under a veil of righteousness
Finally everything became blank
Projecting my spirit from within,
Leaving the body behind...
Gazing down at my face,
Pale and as still as death
The flowers withered and life wept,
But my body remained sleepless
The blinding light reveals your purity
This voyage here seems so tangible
I will hear them, I will hear the songs
That were played from the birth of the first
Foolish embrace of a false esteem, the wind will turn
Call, I keep calling, same hostility lies
In the depths of, in the depths of all our existence
Encapture time to find the other side, but it's all the same
And like the word your life unfolds
Upon the tears for which you burn
Come seek the life from which you hide
Let go the guilt that dwells within
From which the torch was lit in sin
Come walk the road to find your true Paradise
Spread forth your wings and fly away...
15. Distortion
I see through me,
Inside the outside of you
Can things seem so close
So near, yet too far out of reach
Distorted veils
From behind which only I see
The clear perception
Of what life really should be
Take my hand, dependent to feel
Insanity for what is real
In twisted redemption, release the confines
Reality seems to restrict with
One side says it's a sin,
Indulgence, let it suck you in
At peace when out of your mind
To kill another day in my life
Seems so feint...
Can't find my way out of this maze
Drowning deeper, the soul believer
Taking my life is the only way
Lost inside mental feeling
How different I perceive
This life of unseen madness
In a state of awareness
I cling to revelations
Inverted to make the most sense
I'm just a fool who lost his way
When each night blurs into day
Not willing to count the cost
I'm just addicted, my life is lost
Can't you see, fuck I'm in pain
No life to lead, nothing to gain
16. Blackout
Attaining mental stability in a rapid decline
See the souls, they fall in league with mine
Liquid words adhere, to weakness in this spirit
Leading into imprisoning sight, in judgment
And I still feel, I still feel
The same lament with you...
And I'm not talking lies fuelled
By this bottle you let me believe
You intrude my conscience
Only to tell me you're what I need
Tainted in expression, release the inhibition
Undermining insecure understanding
But I still feel, I still feel
I still feel the same with you
In memories blackened out
You release to live again
Through your eyes I'm reminded
What I try to escape from
Paralyzed, I can't socialize,
I am bleeding within...
When it rains, oh, God when it pours
Get it done and just take me away
There is no truth in my eyes
A deceiving spinning disguise
Another plain, the ultimate high
Just another believer
Easy to lead by their fears
Cannot yet see their destiny
17. Hollowvision
This window to our so called lives
The worst drug known to mankind
Can't you see through the hollow vision
That's right before your eyes?
Brainwashed by the fucking media
Out of sight, out of mind...
There is no truth, deceiving words
Controlling vision, distorted perception
Is there a reason to survive
The monuments of instilled lies
The cage they have us all inside
The power of thought, they have the force
Destroyed beliefs and altered course
Of life, your mind has led you on
Can't you see through the hollow vision
That's right before your eyes?
Brainwashed by the fucking media
Out of sight, out of mind...
There is no truth, deceiving words
Controlling vision, distorted perception
Do you not see through this charade
Your rightful judgment is to fade
Into the eyes of biased minds
Control the mass, unseen weapon
Concealed deceit, subtract aggression
To conform and hold you down
We pay the price to suffer in this world
Technologies' domination has evolved up through time
Can't you see through the hollow vision
That's right before our eyes?
Brainwashed by the fucking media
Out of sight, out of mind...
18. Alive?
[featuring Aaron of My Dying Bride]
I'm going to drain you now
To the very threshold of death
The flow of blood through your veins
And that same blood through mine
It is your consciousness,
Your will which must keep you alive
A shock of sensation
Not unlike the pleasure of passion
I felt his teeth withdraw
With such a keenness, I felt no more
Drink on my gaping wound
And feel our heart beat, become one
Release all of your human grief
And sleep off your death...
And I drank for the first time since infancy
The special pleasure of sucking nourishment
To focus on one vital source,
I lay there waiting to die
Neglecting my thirst made it grow
Torn apart to take no action
To starve the burning of need to drink
Don't fall so madly in love
With the night that you lose your way
I saw the moon on the water,
I stared for what seemed eternity
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