a scream is heard from the street outside another soul that is ready to die when hope is lost there's no need to go on that soul is crushed by the dread of the thought that life is no more than waiting for death from the day of birth to the final breath where is the reason, the reason to life? it's nowhere in sight, and i'd know it if i'd seen it searching...gotta find a point to it all nothing...no... there's nothing it's empty there's nothing it's empty there's nothing it's dying there's nothing - in hateworld at every turn another light goes dim all around me it's closing in my life is fading but the pain goes on it never stops - keeps pushing on no choice but to be hard as life is itself what else you gonna do when you've known nothing else? but deep down inside that ain't no way to live there has got to be something more to this this world - empty though its promises are many expectations so high that none can hope to fulfill all these impossible standards that they've convinced us are real lead to nothing but anger, frustration and hate but you don't have to live that life - there's hope with change children of the Son in a world of hate it's the only chance you've got call on his name...     save me...     oh Lord, save me     this place is evil this world is headed for its due demise with mankind's corruption destruction lies you can taste the tension, feel the strain the world's weak foundations are giving way then this grand illusion, this immaculate lie will rot and crumble leaving nowhere to hide God's call you've heard, and he is waiting do you want the change or will you die saying...

look at you shake... i see it on your face... why are you so afraid...? looking down from above for much too long on the masses you're here to serve established as such but never as much as the voice of the people's word decisions of war and who needs thinking for it's a kiss-up to the 1% and dismissal of the poor you don't even live by the laws you give and your welcome here is wearing thin our fear... palms to the sky that wait to be filled raised in surrender under the breaking of wills deserted, diverted, left to rot and to die you've used us, abused us, all your promises - lies from the history books and the twisted schools we've been taught to question you was betrayal and that you would never think of us as beneath you, that to challenge you would mean to fail but hope we've received through God and we believe he remembers the afflicted, his justice will be seen though so many have yet to receive his light soon they will know the message of Christ your fear... a stirring within us has opened our eyes surely God above breathes the breath of new life though you'd rather we looked to the strength of ourselves God will be our source of power, and the world we will tell your fear... is our hope

you're up in my face, spitting and screaming your composure is gone, gone away calling me "fool" the insults abounding and you're shocked to find my mind hasn't changed you say God's for the weak, if he exists to punish man for the wrongs he has done you're simply a hindrance to those who are seeking but in the heat of your pride you have overlooked...     his love how could you be so very wrong? (can't stop thinking it's true...) how could you miss it all along?     the sucker...was you. allow for that possibility like you would expect from me could the wrong one, could it be you? is God not what you assume? you say, "don't stereotype, don't generalize me, i alone represent myself." but it's o.k. for you to do that to me? could it be that you don't know me quite that well? you live double-standard, the law of convenience such as the right to freedom of speech name any religion - you'll take the lecture but you'll pull the plug once Jesus Christ is preached? "it's o.k. to speak beliefs, as long as i agree cencorship is wrong - but only if you censor me. i'm open to the truth, accepting of change but not if that means repentance because they're really not the same." you've taken my God and attempted to turn him into something you know he is not (place one lie here and another one there and then you've got a god with whom you can find fault) but the fact still remains, and the flowers still fade God is true and forever more if you would open your heart and honstly seek he would open your eyes and you would know the truth

a nation of millions of lost little sheep the mass effects so many who believe all they see the media's children the people of sleep taught to rest in peace by the whispers of deceit led to believe that they're still free to decide because the t.v. gave permission on a program on rights fed only the candy the part that they wanna hear slowly raped though they can only feel the tickle in their ears "close your eyes, release your mind." consider yourselves my very one desire, consider yourselves my slaves consider yourselves at my fingertips, in the palm of my hand, my slave." to "leave your thinking to me..." a nation of puppets who worship a beast who drinks the blood of their souls as they lay at its feet if seeing is believeing then you can have your t.v. screen i will worship a God who allows me to think

sitting here thinking back on the better days, the days gone past before the change, the way things were when everything was new and pure when life was free and filled with hope when everything was explained in full those days are near forgotten the ache of today replaces them what about tomorrow? will i have reached the goal? or died forgotten, with nothing to show? "don't get your hopes up son, there are no guarantees in life but one - that eventually you'll die. that's a guarantee you cannot escape from." so i'm sitting here - all alone it's always worse when no one's home why should i continue on if death is the only final outcome? to pursue some mythical success that some have been fooled to think exists? only to meet frustration and die still they go on trying and trying and... i refuse to live that lie but then what is there but to die? i knew i require some change but every day comes up the same...fruitless failure - so many say i slow them down i'm in the way spineless - got me convinced they've reached security weakling - got me pegged as if alone they've reached success hopeless - all i am, the difference between     this world betrays     this world, it feasts upon me failure - far too weak can't even stand on your own two feet spineless - you could never make it in this world of ours weakling - they scream at me inside your self is the strength you need hopeless - the strong survive the weak are devoured failure - i feel defeat but i see now they're hiding something spineless - draw my attention far away from hope weakling - away from God, away from love shake their fists at him above hopeless - could it be? he shakes the world the lie they hold my loneliness is evidence of my failure to stay would mean to pursue some goal which has eluded me so far they say i need no one else, only myself unfortunately that way of life leaves me nothing but hell

in this time of need this time of peril this time when the helpless seek when so many search for some light of hope and they begin to consider this God of whom they've been told the wolves come out to play to deceive and turn men's hearts away under guise of sheep with such beautiful smiles they appear to be of God, yet all the wile they... lead them straight to hell don't touch me... you've got blood on your hands time will come, you will see you're over playing on their need the need to live to live pure and free you mix a little lies with a lot of truth you bait their trust and then they follow you you get them believing and following lies then they see your deceit all in the name of Christ they look into my eyes...they can't understand when they hear you call me "brother" and see you shake my hand they... curse his name 'cause of you... stealing their hope for peace a fellowship of thieves hands dipped in the blood of children exposed while seeking peace a fellowship of thieves causing more destruction than those who don't claim to believe this fellowship of thieves watch for the wolves, be wary that you are not deceived

the deficit, environment, a government corrupt so many things to worry us and tangle our minds up we know we're being taken, we know it all too well we know that something must be done but there's more to tell where are you going? what's your focus? losing your reason? for a...lie caught up in the cause, the fight, caught up in the roar you know that your intentions are right in what you're fighting for but in the midst, the heat of it all, don't forget your drive we're hear to do the father's will our reason to survive there's so much going on around us and we must be aware it's important that they see our love and that we truly care oure time for lying dormant while the world is so in need is over now but don't forget the purpose of your doing

in these remaining days, let us not be tangled in mankind's celebration of itself, rather, let us live as children of God. for what fellowship hath light and darkness, good with evil? shall grace be as pearls to swine, or held higher than gold? let them know the difference. keep your signs - hold your banners yourself send no "latest cause" this way need no factions, political distractions keep them out of my face spare the fashion codes and social pars and the vanity of it all to subscribe would be to sell-out and to set up for a fall can't you see the road you travel down leads swiftly to your end sold as slaves for a place to hide a temporary defense. then he'll come, all will be lost you'll be swept with the tide, your shelter of clay he's calling, protection is here your grip will not hold when your world's laid to waste Lord, grant me the strength, to follow your path to not go astray i, alone in myself i'm feeling the pull, Lord, grant me the strength once again breathing down my neck the smell of the generous leach the liberating hypocrite come to save, to teach, to preach to save me from my slavery from a God who doesn't know what's best look - keep your rebellion to yourself you don't know me, my God, or the life i live not a patriot, revolutionist not a left or right wing voice don't need a liberal or conservative to tell me about freedom of choice my freedom comes from God above forgiveness beyond comprehension stregth not found in earthly powers the only true deliverance

3 a.m. shots ring again good-bye to another night's rest pusher in the tradewinds been cold two days found dead by the manager's kid more fights at the show last night more leave in the ambulance homeboy spendin' the night in emergency caught a monkey-wrench in the head a life full of nothing, or little more this city starts to take its toll frustration aches, the tension breaks self-destruction takes its hold watch me going (ever see despair? just look in my eyes) nowhere watch me going (here i was born and here i'll die) nowhere so whats the use continuing? if living means nothing more than to face another week trying to make ends meet? finished off by passing out on the floor can't you see that there's more to this? or are you content at wasting away? live a life that's lost, hide from the cost end up dead in a downtown alley-way a hand extended there's life at the cross there's no need to go on living this way can't take seeing another life lost or feel again that empty look on your faces

intro: isaiah 41:23-24 the roots deep of this wicked tree they're reaching out seeking to change me it's struggle enough not live for my "self" gotta lift up God for he is deserving so well all this "humanity" and the power it claims has turned from God to pursure its own way to do what God does through its own strength? i see a storm coming - chaos this way the lies, distorted truths so many lies surrounding you you look to yourselves to bring you deliverance from hell to lift yourselves into the place of God convince yourselves that you cannot be stopped you'll stop yourselves environmental, racial conscience so high your claims are nothing when the fire has died starting off with that strong p.m.a. (positive mental attitude) your education's only partial and then you fade to make a change you gotta lay down your pride only God can make those changes inside pride is a fire that burns with no name careful now that you are not the moths drawn to its flame