Closer

01- Atrocity Exhibition

02- Isolation

03- Passover

04- Colony

05- A Means to an End

06- Heart and Soul

07- Twenty-Four Hours

08- The Eternal

09- Decades

Atrocity Exhibition





The silence when doors open wide

Where people could pay to see inside

For entertainment they watch

his body twist

Behind his eyes he says I still exist

This is the way, step inside (4)



In arenas he kills for a prize

Wins a minute to add to his life

But the sickness is drowned

by cries for more

Pray to God make it quick - watch him fall

This is the way, step inside (4)



This is the way (4) This is the way,

step inside

You'll see the horrors of a far-away place

Meet the architects of law

face to face

See mass murder on a scale

you've never seen

And all the ones who tried hard

to succeed

This is the way, step inside (4)



And I picked on the whims of

a thousand more

Still pursuing the path

that's been buried

For years of dead woods and jungles and

cities on fire, can't replace

or relate,

can't release or repair -

take my hand,

and I'll show you what was - it will be.

Isolation





Be clear every day, every evening

It calls here aloud from above

Carefully watched for a reason

Mistaking devotion and love

Surrendered to self-preservation

>From others who care for themselves

But life as it touches perfection

Appears just like anything else



Isolation (3)

Mother, I tried, please believe me

I'm doing the best that I can

I'm ashamed of the things

I've been put through

I'm ashamed of the person I am



Isolation (3)

But if you could just see the beauty

These things I could never describe

Pleasures and wayward distraction

Is this my wonderful prize?

Isolation (5)

Passover





This is the crises I knew had to come

Destroying the balance

I'd kept

Doubting and settling and turning around

Wondering what will come next



Is this the role that you wanted to live

I was foolish to ask for so much

Without the protection and infancy's guard

It all falls apart at the first touch



Watching the reel as it comes to a close

Brutally taking its time

People who change for no reason at all

It's happening all of the time 



Can I go on with this train of defense

Disturbing and purging my mind

I count up my duties -

when all's said and done

I know that I'll lose every time



Moving along in our God given ways

Safety is sat by the fire

Sanctuary from these feverish smiles

Left with a mark on the door



Is this the gift that I wanted to give

Forgive and forget's

what they teach

I'll pass through the deserts and waste -

lands once more 

And watch as they drop by the beach



This is a crises I knew had to come

Destroying the balance I'd kept

Turning around to the next set of lies

Wondering what will come next

Colony





A cry for help, a hint of anaesthesia

The sound from broken homes,

we used to meet always here

As he lays asleep she takes him in her arms

Some things I have to do

but I don't mean you harm



I wore a careless glance

and kissed her last goodbye

Hands in the bag she packed a tear

she tries to hide

Cruel wind that howls down

to our lunacy

And leaves him standing cold

here in this colony



I can't see why

all these confrontations

I can't see why

all these dislocations

No, family life just makes me feel

uneasy

Stood alone here in this colony

In this colony (4)

Yeah, God in his wisdom

took you by the hand,

God in his wisdom made you understand (4)

In this colony (4)

A Means to an End





A legacy, so far removed

One day will be improved

Eternal rights beleft behind,

We were the better kind

You this day met free too,

I always looked to you (3)



We fought for good,

stood side by side

Our friendship never died

But stranger ways that froze on highs,

our vision touched the skies

Mortal list - the points to prove

I put my trust in you (3)



A house somewhere, on foreign soil

Where aching lovers called

Is this your goal, your final deeds

Where dogs and vultures eat?

Permitted still, I turned to go

I put my trust in you (4)

In you, in you, in you

Put my trust in you, in you

Heart and Soul





Instants that can still betray us

A journey that leads to the sun

Soulless and bent on destruction

Struggle between right and wrong

You take my place in the show-down

I'll observe with a pitiful eye

And humble ask for forgiveness

A request well beyond you and I

Heart and soul, one will burn (2)



An abyss that lasted creation

A circus complete with all fools

Foundations that lasted the ages

Then ripped apart at their roots

Beyond all this good the terror

The grip of a mercenary hand

When savagery returns

for good reason

There's no turning back the last stand

Heart and soul, one will burn (2)



Existence-well what does it matter

I exist on the best terms I can

The past is now part of my future

The present is well out of hand (2)

Heart and soul, one will burn (2)

One will burn, one will burn

Heart and Soul, one will burn

Twenty-four Hours





So this is permanence -

Love shattered pride

What once was innocence,

turned on its side

A cloud hangs over me,

marks every move

Deep in the memory,

what once was love



Oh how I've realized, I wanted time

Put into perspective,

try so hard to find

Just for one moment I thought

I'd got my way

Destiny unfolded -

watched it slip away



Excessive flash points,

beyond all reach

Solitary demands for all

I'd like to keep

Let's take a ride out,

see what we can find

Valueless collection of hopes

and past desires



I never realized the lengths

I'd have to go

All the darkest corners of a sense

I didn't know

Just for one moment -

hearing someone call

Looked beyond the day in hand

There's nothing there at all



Now that I've realized how it's

all gone wrong

Got to find some therapy -

this treatment takes too long

Deep in the heart of where

sympathy held sway

Got to find my destiny before 

it gets too late

The Eternal





Procession moves on, the shouting is over

Praise to the glory of loved ones

now gone

Talking aloud as they sit

round their tables

Scattering flowers washed down by the rain



Stood by the gate at the foot of the garden

Watching them pass like clouds in the sky

Try to cry out in the heat of the moment

Possessed by a fury

that burns from inside



Cry like a child though

these years make me older

With children my time

is so wastefully spent

Burden to keep, though their

inner communion

Accept like a curse

an unlucky deal



Laid by the gate at the foot

of the garden

My view stretches out

from the fence to the wall

No words could explain,

no actions determine

Just watching the trees

and the leaves as they fall

Decades





Here are the young men,

a weight on their shoulders

Here are the young men,

well where have they been?

We knocked on doors

of hell's darker chambers

Pushed to the limits,

we dragged ourselves in

Watched from the wings as

the scenes were replaying

We saw ourselves now as

we never had seen

Portrayal of the traumas and degeneration

The sorrows we suffered

and never were freed

Where have they been (4)



Weary inside, now our hearts

lost forever

Can't replace the fear

or the thrill of the chase

These rituals showed up the door

for our wanderings

Opened and shut, then slammed

in our face

Where have they been (4)