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STRANGE LAND LYRICS
"Anomaly" (2002)
1. All Things Considered
2. Not For This World
3. Unstuck
4. Nothinghead
5. Foundation
6. Invisible Darkness
7. Fatal Flaw
8. Flight
9. Scorpio
10. I Don't Know You Anymore
11. Injustice Rising
12. Distorted Grandeur
1. All Things Considered
Isn't it sad, not be able to say
Something that's been said so often before
Drowning to find feelings that are only mine
Not happy to say the same thing anymore
I'll search my mind, is anything there to find?
In my head spent thoughts that aimlessly roam
Silenced in fear and self-straitjacketed
With meaningless words leaving me alone
In youth we are told searching will only bring pain,
Then we realize nothing ventured, nothing gained
Questions and darkness new to me, but to many as plain as day
Why should anyone pay attention to someone with so little to say?
So many emotions, but I'm trying to find the key
To lock back the shadows from inside my head
Trying to see if I can know the real me
Your empty words - should remain unsaid
In youth we are told searching will only bring pain,
Then we realize nothing ventured, nothing gained
Questions and darkness new to me, but to many plain as day
Why should anyone pay attention to someone with so little to say?
-INTERLUDE-
It's so sad to not be able to say
Something that's been said so often before
Drowning to find feelings that only are mine
Not happy to say the same thing anymore.
In youth we are told searching will only bring pain,
But then we realize nothing ventured, nothing gained
2. Not For This World
Not the right place and not the right time, feeling always on the outside
In this place and in this time, always falling on the blind side
Maybe you're not one for this world, can I ask you to give it a chance
Will you listen to me one last time before the sands have run out at last
All the weight of the world
Bearing down upon your soul
Too many questions, no time for answers
I will never understand
I have seen the rivers run dry, I have watched the mountains fall
And of all those paths that I've crossed, yours still leaves me wanting it all
The miles have grown much wider and the whispers are changing their names
The picture changes in my mind and I'll never be the same
The tides are rising fast
The current carries you away
Have we gone too far, have we lost our way
Too lost to find reasons
-INTERLUDE-
Broken trust in pieces blown away in the sand
Broken trust in pieces blown away in the sand
Broken trust in pieces blown away in the sand
Broken trust in pieces blown away in the sand
Maybe you're not one for this world, can I ask you to give it a chance
Will you listen to me one last time before the sands have run out at last
The tides are rising fast
The current carries you away
Have we gone too far, have we lost our way
Too lost to find reasons
3. Unstuck
How my feelings are like an addiction, they take a hold of my soul
Madness, it hides in a well placed disguise, and it causes loss of all control
Thin lines of smoke circle around my head, they beckon as they hypnotize
Spiraling upward and surrounding me, seducing as they baptize
Tell me why can't you see that this reason to be
Will hold on for the rest of my life
I don't know why I'm here and that fills me with fear
I believe that my faith will end my strife
They are dancing, oh how they are dancing, like a puppet that hangs from its strings
Feeling the flames burning from my desire, safe as the night rainfall sings
Lost in it all I continue to fall, from hands that were once secure
Sickened by this overwhelming sadness, I constantly look for the cure
Why can't you see that this reason to be
Will hold on for the rest of my life
Being unstuck in time without reason or rhyme
I believe that my faith will end my strife
-INTERLUDE-
I'm overcome and I'm overdrawn, Spiritless I am lost and gone
My mind is blank and slate as well, Reasonless I can not tell
These empty dreams that I can not believe, the puppets are set on the stage
With what am I left when the curtain falls down, and in silence they all turn away
Why can't you see that this reason to be
Will hold on for the rest of my life
I don't know why I'm here and that fills me with fear
I believe that my faith will end my strife
-GUITAR SOLO-
Tell me why can't you see that this reason to be
Will hold on for the rest of my life
Being unstuck in time without reason or rhyme
I believe that my faith will end my strife
How my feelings are like an addiction, they take a hold of my soul
4. Nothinghead
Another night of self-inflicted boredom
Lying on your bed, nothing in your head
Can you even remember the last time you used your mind
There is always something more to do
You only get one chance at life, its quality is up to you
No one else can choose
There's always something more to try
So how can you forgive yourself when you've atrophied your mind
Stuck in the same old grind
Close your eyes to possibility
Have no time for spontaneity
Change your mind before your apathy drives you blind
If tonight was meant to be your last night
Would you say reflecting back on your life
That the time you spent was worth the price you paid
There is always something more to do
You only get one chance at life, it's quality is up to you
No one else can choose
There's always something more to try
So how can you forgive yourself when you've atrophied your mind
Stuck in the same old grind
-SOLO-
Never got anything important to say
Because you're doing the same things every day
A defeatist attitude that you convey
Did you close your mind or just give it away
Use the remote, I'll use my brain
Instead of laying down waiting to be entertained
No passion in life, no driving flame
No excuse for yourself, no right to complain
Close your eyes to possibility
Have no time for spontaneity
Change your mind before your apathy drives you blind
5. Foundation
Just because I'm not a child
It doesn't mean I don't need a champion
The sanctuary of my soul defiled
As weakness sets in, one more is left undone
The weakening of morals and blurring truth
Values easier upheld in youth
Just because I'm not a child
It doesn't mean I don't get lost sometimes
The grievance can't be reconciled
It leaves the young boy's questions undefined
It's hard to find a guiding hand as strong
As ones you looked up to, but now you're all grown up and your heroes are gone
Where's the foundation gone? Who gave them right to go so wrong?
Was I pretending all along? Look to myself and carry on.
The waves are crashing around me
It scares me to this very day
Beliefs I held so dearly
Are slowly washing away
So now is the time
When paragons cannot be found
I'm on my own to find
The foundation falls to the ground
Watch the foundation fall
6. Invisible Darkness
Solitude is my sanctuary,
I'm extremist like a chess pawn,
Yet as commanding as the fiery death.
Cycling westwardly; unceasing,
Deaf to cries from unfortunates,
Ignorant to have been motionless.
I leave in my morbid path,
Only what I cannot take advantage of,
Gaining as synthesis overlaps,
Digesting and excreting.
Lightening the burden I carry,
By disposing the self-judged worthless.
Oh what horrible damnation should await me,
But as I walk through the valley of darkness, I fear not,
I lead the shepherd through this peaceful home,
Please condemn me with divinely inspired,
Foolishly immortal values,
So I can rear my head in laughter,
As I transcend from your level of existence.
-SOLO-
You will never understand my torment,
This tearing pain that I feel,
To be a part of two worlds,
This solitude in servitude is so real,
My weakness you have created,
By keeping me trapped under your dark lies,
I hate you, I love you, I lust to be rid of you,
In this death to be called my new life.
Confused I will search on forever,
To seek out new answers and friends,
In the hopes that I might find someone like me,
And bring my loneliness to an end
7. Fatal Flaw
Your beliefs amaze me
Such faith in such false prophets
The evil you play with rules your soul
I watch as you dance from your strings
Drawn in by blatant temptation
Your blindness is your fatal flaw.
When the end finally comes
You will know of so much pain
From past lies cutting deep
Truth buried so deep
Even those who say they're in control of their demons
Dance for their master in the end
You must open up your eyes
And cut away your strings
The truth so hard to find
You can't believe in everything
I understand how you feel, your longing
I long myself for some truth,
But these spirits will only take you down
Hate me if you will, but understand
You dig a deeper grave for yourself
And will have to fight harder
When truth comes to light, far too late
I watch as you dance from your strings
Drawn in by blatant temptation
Your blindness is your fatal flaw
8. Flight
The far off rumble of thunder,
And distant flash of lightening striking,
Brings a memory of what's beyond tomorrow,
And sets my sights beyond what I've achieved today.
Tomorrow's too late to do what should be done today,
The raging fire around your heart longs for action,
The midnight rain will wash away your past mistakes in time,
So start again and this time never let them cast you out.
There comes a time in your life,
When you must decide on what you believe in,
Will you control your own mind,
Or just go on being deceived?
Visions break among the blueness of the moonlit sky,
Inspiring freedom, causing thoughts that test authority,
Stay strong in your beliefs and fight the ones that test your path,
And feel the power as mind and soul become one.
(One) person cannot explain,
Something our lives tell us every day,
Pick yourself up from the pile of ashes,
As a new child you'll fly away.
9. Scorpio
Where you are tonight
Is all I need to know
In shadow or in light
The moon of Scorpio
The distance growing fast
Wish I could hold it still
But when time has come to pass
I am afraid I never will
Still I offer to the sky
A question and a wonder why
Fading fast a distant cry
Last Embrace, a kiss goodbye
Feeling lost, a sense of shame
And I have no one else to blame
A Single Breath, a single flame
Never again to be the same
And it's long since over now
But still I dwell within the past
Funny when I think of how
That time it seemed would be our last
And all that's left inside of me
Is but a jaded memory
Something I don't want to see
Yet somehow mocked by destiny
I can not help but think it strange
I'm feeling all the more deranged
And if I could I would rearrange
This situation I would change
But I can't so I let it go
I leave it stranded far behind
Under this moon of Scorpio
I wipe you from my fragile mind
10. I Don't Know You Anymore
I knew someone once, who turned me inside out
Made my heart feel whole, and made me smile
We danced in the sun, in the time we had won
From the world all around, fighting every day
Then I felt a change, in the connection made
The emotions they played, and I heard them louder
Later days they would show, armor wearing too thin
And doors closing too slow, to hideaway the pain
Now I see a face, looks just like you
I try to see through to where I once was
Give it one more try, turn back the tide
But I just don't know you anymore
How could you have changed?
Has it really been so long?
Or maybe I never knew you at all
There was faith and trust, between the two of us
But now it's been a while, and I don't know you anymore
There is someone who walks, and someone who talks
There is someone who looks just like you did
I feel not betrayal, nor disappointment
Just more of a loss, of someone so near
I was living a dream, and I didn't know
So now I am falling, into a thousand regrets
But I know that you re not, not the one that I loved
And I simply don't know you anymore
11. Injustice Rising
Injustice rising from within
A deposition of the crown
Salt my wounds and take my pride
Condemn me for the tears I've cried
But I'll feel no shame for debts I've paid in my life
Just leave me be, I can no longer care
If there ever was my time to rise
There is nothing that I can possibly do anymore.
Taken by surprise, left behind to fall once again
So I stand and wait alone, questioning my fate in life
There has got to be another chance for me
But chances are so often lost like broken dreams
-GUITAR SOLO-
There is no reason, there is no answer
Inward shadows, outward questions
Projections of my conscious mind
I feel no pain, left numb, am I insane
If there was hope, it left me long ago.
Can this be all that's left in life before me?
I must regain the throne
If I find I'm next in line, all in time
This peace of mind will let me heal.
Escape the maze, my destiny
The last to stand, if it's meant to be
-INTERLUDE-
-KEYBOARD SOLO-
12. Distorted Grandeur
Staring down at the man, was a king well loved
Vulnerability, inconsistency are lord to him now,
Raped by his interpretations of the psychotic's world
Consumed by dispassion and chewing the bait so simply laid out.
In the realm of the dreamer, a cry for victory, power increasing,
Preying on the weak slowly makes strength.
Distorted grandeur she holds sacred,
All the glory of hell be hers, in self proclaimed evil,
If such misery is wished, I will comply.
Seduce my soul, take me to your life,
I want to know your ways,
My lust grows for you my dark angel.
The single rose cannot love,
But the allure of morn forces her to try,
The bud opens its soul and come mid-day
The sun is bright and scorching,
Fraying and withering the rose,
Forcing the inner rot to show to all,
The sun sets, leaving the spent flower
Only the comfort of darkness.
Distorted grandeur she holds sacred,
All the glory of hell be hers, in self proclaimed evil,
If such misery is wished, I will comply.
My soul was tested by the fire,
And followed the few to survive,
Now I know your ways and your twisted, pitiful life,
And for this dark angel, only my lust remains
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