Mudvayne

The End Of All Things To Come - 2002

1. Silenced
2. Trapped In The Wake Of A Dream
3. Not Falling
4. (Per)Version Of A Truth
5. Mercy, Severity
6. A World So Cold
7. The Patient Mental
8. Skrying
9. Solve Et Coagula
10. Shadow Of A Man
11. 12:97:24:99
12. The End Of All Things To Come
13. A Key To Nothing



1. Silenced


Sticker this,
censor this,
ban this;
We´ve got something to say
Police this,
condemn this,
damn this;
We´ll be heard anyway
Middle finger is the flag that I wave when I´m silenced.

Listen here...

Is it a possibility?
That were all just equal,
slam the power down
abusing...
Does it piss you off,
to be beat at your own game?
You lead us with flase morals,
and shelter reality.

No more...
We´re not buying your product when you selling the words preaching silence.

Insult me in my home,
when you were never invited.
To live life on your curve
Frustrating.
Throw sticks into the spokes,
to relieve insecurities.
Stifle all ascension,
and sticker our freedom of speech.


Sticker this,
censor this,
ban this;
We´ve got something to say
Police this,
condemn this,
damn this;
We´ll be heard anyway
Middle finger is the flag that I wave when I´m silenced.

Don´t tell me what I want.
Don´t tell me what I need.
Don´t tell me how I need to feel.
I feel...
Goddamn nothing
Dig these eyes out of my face
and I can still see right fuckin´ through you;
Fuck you and everything you are
I´m me, we´re us, and that´s all.
Closed mind with a forum to criticize
Keep your policy and I´ve got mine
Exploit me, fabricate your lies
We empower these cowards just to be left in
Silence.

Listen here...

Stand on my soapbox,
and speak my own peace.
Whatever you may think;
It´s real.
Prevail through what is me
And step on your beliefs.
Theiving, spineless sellouts,
robbing our integrity.

Bring it on!

Sticker this,
censor this,
ban this;
We´ve got something to say
Police this,
condemn this,
damn this;
We´ll be heard anyway
Middle finger is the flag that I wave when I´m



2. Trapped In The Wake Of A Dream

Do I deserve these beatings?
Hating me,
well then,
Cut, cut the noose
and let me fall away...
I´m, growing weak and tired
of you
and your little shoving games
fucking...
pushing me.
You pulled the trigger,
trapped in,
the wake,
of your

Dream
You´re all killers.
Always fucking pushing me;
insulting me;
I´ve overcome;
I have found the strength of gods in me.
Crushing
All unwilling;
This is so unstoppable.
Hard as nails,
hook that holds,
reach down and find the strength of many in you.

My sanctuary...
calling my name,
so I run through...
to the light,
weeping through a cloud.
Darkened,
by a tainted dream,
of me,
being pummeled by the tide,
crushing,
killing me
But I can´t wake up,
trapped in,
the wake of a

Dream
You´re all killers.
Always fucking pushing me;
insulting me;
I´ve overcome;
I have found the strength of gods in me.
Crushing
All unwilling;
This is so unstoppable.
Hard as nails,
hook that holds,
reach down and find the strength of many in you.

Call it;
call a truce.
I´m believing
in it more and more.
Comfort;
purge the truth, I´ll belive it.
I´m so weak and sore, shadowed
Hide and seek,
but you never looked.
I wait behind the door
call out;
bite the hand that is feeding...
Compassion no more.

I hope I never wake up.

Dream-sewing, filters, distort reality of what is mine through light this mind awakens
I draw the line from then and now, awake and dreaming, forgotten past future becomes mine.

Throw the chains,
all away,
take control,
of your life.
Powers known,
this is my...
Throw the chains,
all away,
take control,
of your life.
Powers known,
this is my...

Dream
You´re all killers.
Always fucking pushing me;
insulting me;
I´ve overcome;
I have found the strength of gods in me.
Crushing
All unwilling;
This is so unstoppable.
Hard as nails,
hook that holds,
reach down and find the strength of many in you.



3. Not Falling


Always,
known in all my time,
A little left of center now
Reflect as I realize...
That all I
need is to find.
the middle pillar path to sit like the sun by a starin the sky
and just be.
Sinners,
casting stones at me.

I…
I stand,
not crawling,
not falling down
I…
I bleed,
the demons,
that drag me down
I…
I stand, (for nothing),
not crawling, (the center),
not falling down (of calms within the eye)
I…
I’ll bleed, (for no one),
the demons, (but myself),
that pull me down (for me and no one else)

Goodbye,
sunshine,
I’ve put it out again,
sad
I’m over,
personalities,
conflicting,
I don’t need you,
or anyone but me.
I’ll just be,
living my own life;
I feel my glowing center grow,
infecting,
I feel alive.
Shovel...
dirt over lime.
Plant it in myself to sit like a seed undercovers of earth,
and just be.
Sinners,
pointing fingers at me

I…
I stand,
not crawling,
not falling down
I…
I bleed,
the demons,
that drag me down
I…
I stand, (for nothing),
not crawling, (the center),
not falling down (of calms within the eye)
I…
I’ll bleed, (for no one),
the demons, (but myself),
that pull me down (for me and no one else)

Come play kill.
Refuse my body,
refuse my shadow.
Stone cold will.
Refuse to lead this,
refuse to follow.
Bitter pills
Refuse to feed this,
refuse to swallow,
I’m fueled godless

Come play,
come play,
Kill.
Just be.
Just be.
Just be.
Just be.
Just be.

I…
I stand,
not crawling,
not falling down
I…
I bleed,
the demons,
that drag me down
I…
I stand, (for nothing),
not crawling, (the center),
not falling down (of calms within the eye)
I…
I’ll bleed, (for no one),
the demons, (but myself),
that pull me down (for me and no one else)



4. (Per)Version Of A Truth


When everything is lost, (peel it all away),
Haunting us with questions. (asking)
Will we ever find smile inside? (no)
Is it hiding behind the sweating eyes?
(bleeding)
Dead inside a scream,
that´s pouring from me.

I´m planted in this skin. (constricting and pulling me)
This dirty, filthy skin. (rancid and stinging me)
I burn behind the walls.
(that have become my world)
The bearer of a gift...
Fuck your gift.

Truth Does Not Exist. (but the lies do.)
Truth Does Not Exist. (but the lies do.)

They´re buried in the skin
evolved.

Perversion of a truth,
I´m stuck there.
(inside of lies buried in me, why?)
alone.
Born into a world,
never asked to be here.
(Try to forget, truth doesnt exist, truth.)
(It doesn´t exist, it doesn´t exist, truth.)
Daath.

Always inside a tragedy. (things never seem to go away)
A room that I remember... (portraits I carry)
Try letting go of this space.
(bad habits can´t kick me)
The fool that fell from heaven.
Heaven.

Perversion of a truth,
I´m stuck there.
(inside of lies buried in me, why?)
Alone.
Born into a world,
never asked to be here.
(Try to forget, truth doesnt exist, truth.)
(It doesn´t exist, it doesn´t exist, truth.)

Maybe we´re all the children of a star
misguided in direction.
our misdirection.
pardon me while i pray for
light.

I´m not the only one;
That walks between the rain,
there are many.
I´m not the only one;
When everything is lost that doesn´t surrender.

Perversion of a truth,
I´m stuck there.
(inside of lies buried in me, why?)
Alone.
Blind, walking through a world,
I never asked to be here.

Versions of the truth...
I´m not the only one.
Your versions of the truth...
I´m not the only one.
Your versions of the truth...
I´m not the only one.
Your versions of the truth...
I´m not the only one...
Lies.



5. Mercy, Severity


We´ve come here..
from so far away, I can save you;
If you leave it all behind.
This suffering´s,
been far too long.
Would you take a trip with me,
on the back of a star?
I feel like Earth´s gravity
is just here to pull us down.

Mother of Creation wait;
Embrace the souls of a lost world,
carry them away.
Darkness,
negative,
receptive.
Pour firmament
between our waters,
separate the space.
Mother of Destruction wait;
With a belt of skulls,
strap me down and send the ship away.
Progress,
with the process.
Mine the souls from their casts,
pour form and reshape.

This dark womb,
wraps and covets me;
Redefining, understanding, if you open up the heart.
Nurturing,
this phenomenon,
we can carry you on our wings,
our wings through the dark.
Lighting flashes of insight;
Into the mirth of a dark sky.
Pain of division is nothing;
Joy of dissolution is everything.

Mother of Creation wait;
Embrace the souls of a lost world,
carry them away.
Darkness,
negative,
receptive.
Pour firmament
between our waters,
separate the space.
Mother of Destruction wait;
With a belt of skulls,
strap me down and send the ship away.
Progress,
with the process.
Mine the souls from their casts,
pour form and reshape.

Portal sits deep within the eye...
The eye of Yin´s severity rewards understanding.
Portal sits deep within the eye...
The eye of Yin´s severity rewards understanding.

Black.
ness.
Con.
sumes.
Body.
Comforts.
Core of nothing.
Black-
ness.
Con-
sumes.
Body.
Comforts.
Core of nothing.

Mother...
I can remember...
A vault of security.

Can you take me away?
Would you take me away?
Won´t you take me away?
Away.

Mother of Creation wait;
Embrace the souls of a lost world,
carry them away.
Darkness,
negative,
receptive.
Pour firmament
between our waters,
separate the space.
Mother of Destruction wait;
With a belt of skulls,
strap me down and send the ship away.
Progress,
with the process.
Mine the souls from their casts,
pour form and reshape.



6. A World So Cold


When passion´s lost,
and all the trust is gone.
Way too far.
For way too long.
Children crying;
Cast out and neglected.
Only in a world so cold.
Only in a world this cold
Hold the hand,
of your best friend.
Look into their eyes,
and watch them drift away...
Some might say,
we´ve done the wrong things.
For way too long.
For way too long.

Fever inside the storm.
So I´m turning away.
Away from the name. (calling your names)
Away from the stones. (throw sticks and stones)
´Cause I´m through mending the wounds of us.
Keep your thorns.
´Cause I´m running away.
Away from the games. (fucking head games)
Away from this space. (hate this head space)
The circumstances of a world so cold.


Burning whispers,
remind me of the days...
I was left alone,
in a world this cold.
Guilty of the same things,
provoked by the cause.
I´ve left alone...
In a world so cold.

Fever inside the storm.
So I´m turning away.
Away from the name. (calling your names)
Away from the stones. (throw sticks and stones)
´Cause I´m through mending the wounds of us.
Keep your thorns.
´Cause I´m running away.
Away from the games. (fucking head games)
Away from this space. (hate this head space)
The circumstances of a world so cold.
I´m flying...
I´m flying away.
Away from the names. (calling your names)
Away from the games. (fucking head games)
The circumstances of a world so cold...

Why does everyone feel like my enemy?
Don´t want any part of depression or darkness.
I´ve had enough.
Sick and tired;
Bring the sun,
or I´m gone.
or I´m gone.

I´m backing out.
I´m no pawn;
No motherfucking slave to this;
NeverliedNeverleftNeverlivedNeverlovedNeverlostNeverhurtNeverworry
about being me.
Or anyone else
Not a care.
No concern.
Don´t give a shit about anything.
Backing out.
Giving up .
No motherfucking slave to this;
NeverliedNeverleftNeverlivedNeverlovedNeverlostNeverhurtNeverworry
about being me.
Or anyone else
Not a care
No concern.
Don´t give a shit about anything.

I need to find...
A darkened corner.
A lightless corner.
Where it´s safer and calmer.

I´m...
turning away.
Away from the name. (calling your names)
Away from the stones. (throw stcks and stones)
´Cause I´m through mending the wounds of us.
I´m running away.
Away from the games. (fucking head games)
Away from this space. (hate this head space)
The circumstances of a world so cold.
I´m flying...
I´m flying away.
Away from the names. (calling your names)
Away from the games. (fucking head games)
The circumstances of a world so cold...



7. The Patient Mental


Patient.
Just as I am.
As always...
Watch the time go by.
Nothing left to pass by,
the minutes follow me.
Drunken little people work away in me.

Why won´t they leave me...
Leave me alone.
When I don´t even want me...
Want me.

I have to...
Kill the words.
Before they...
Form a sentence.
The sentence that is me.
Judged by those that carry.
The patient sits in cradled arms,
that comfort me by strangling.

Why won´t they leave me...
Leave me alone.
When I don´t even want me...
Want me.

The Patient Mental sits and stares...
An idle mind,
that´s empty.
screaming, staring back.
Why won´t they leave him...
Leave him alone.
A passive, speared ritual,
driven by our warship.
The hate-driven envy.

I have to...
Kill the meal.
Before they...
Can consume.
Consume my inner peace...
Trapped inside the works,
the hands are moving me.

The Patient Mental sits and stares...
An idle mind,
that´s empty.
screaming, staring back.
Why won´t they leave him...
Leave him alone.
A passive, speared ritual,
driven by our warship.
The hate-driven envy.

Release me....
let me go.
Why do they observe me?
There´s nothing here to cure.
I can see the silhouettes...
That sit behind the mirror.
I´m just like a clock up on the wall...
always moving,
but never going anywhere.

The Patient Mental sits and stares...
An idle mind,
that´s empty.
screaming, staring back.
Why won´t they leave him...
Leave him alone.
A passive, speared ritual,
driven by our warship.
The hate-driven envy.



8. Skrying


This puzzle´s dead inside...
Missing pieces,
growing eyes.
Little girl´s severity...
Little boys begging mercy.
sticks break on me.
Cost of life at twenty-three...
Price of pain, a golden ring.
All crimson...
Melting body, rubber world.
Battle axe with lots of curls.
introverted.

My cost...
The price of a broken doll,
can you remember that place?
The place you would go,
to make things okay?

A thousand points for insect stings...
Glue my spirit, break my wings.
Misery.
Libido streams, infectious whore.
Cauterize, and forge the sword.
Remember killing.

Children...
Learning the secret knock.
A nickel to enter that place.
The place you would go,
to make things okay.
My cost...
The price of a broken doll,
can you remember that place?
The place you would go,
to make things okay?

Games of passion taste so sweet.
Cut his throat, and slaughter meat.
My secrets.
Seven heads for seven seas.
Darkened voices plead disease.
Dismembering me.

Children...
Wrestle to seal the bag.
Storing it deep in that place...
The place you would go and try to escape.
Children...
Learning the secret knock.
A nickel to enter that place.
The place you would go,
to make things okay.
My cost...
The price of a broken doll,
can you remember that place?
The place you would go,
to make things okay?

Skrying....
through.
Reflections in a pool.
I see...
death coming.
Mowing down.
Do you...
remember...
the bedroom?
Was it your cell...
or was it your tomb?
Skrying....
through.
Reflections in a pool.
I see...
death coming.
Mowing down.
Do you...
remember...
the bedroom?
Was it your cell...
or was it your tomb?

You´re living through my hell.
You´re living through my hell.

Children...
Learning the secret knock.
A nickel to enter that place.
The place you would go,
to make things okay.
My cost...
The price of a broken doll,
can you remember that place?
The place you would go,
to make things okay?



9. Solve Et Coagula


Fire.
Fire.

I dissolve,
and solidify, destroy to recreate.
Disassemble...
to assemble something pure.
Our rubric.
Sol,
ve,
et,
co,
ag,
u,
la.
Kill to be born again.
Cycled a thousand times.

(Fire) Planetary alchemy.
(Fire) The time is here now.
(Fire) Four corners to rise...
(Fire) Rise!
(Fire) There´s always loss within.
(Fire) The cleansing, it´s time.
(Fire) Shooting arrows to the sky.
(Fire)

I construct,
a new institution.
Not out of bricks, iron, cement,
concrete or steel.
Our rubric.
Sol,
ve,
et,
co,
ag,
u,
la.
Distill to purify.
We´ve done it a thousand times.

(Fire) Planetary alchemy.
(Fire) The time is here now.
(Fire) Four corners to rise...
(Fire) Rise!
(Fire) There´s always loss within.
(Fire) The cleansing, it´s time.
(Fire) Shooting arrows to the sky.
(Fire)

(Burn) Bleed all the lives of life; ascend to the sky.
(Burn) All the martyrs.
(Burn) Bleed all the lives of life; ascend to the sky.

(Fire) Planetary alchemy.
(Fire) The time is here now.
(Fire) Four corners to rise...
(Fire) Rise!
(Fire) There´s always loss within.
(Fire) The cleansing, it´s time.
(Fire) Shooting arrows to the sky.
(Fire)



10. Shadow Of A Man


Mirror, mirror, up on the wall...
I´maskingyou.
"Who is the most confused of them all?"
Mirror, mirror, up on the wall...
Subservient twin screamsbackatme.
"You.
You sick flawless mime,
I want to break you."

Yeah, you´re a clever one.

Do you reflect me?
Or do I reflect you?
Are you inside of another world?
I want to break through.

Yeah, you´re a clever one.

Is this a tool? (is this a tool?)
Can I step through to find another plane? (to find another plane?)
Or just a shadow of a man?
A superficial tool (superficial tool)
to support the vanity of weak,
when you don´t love yourself.

If life´s as painful,
on your side...
I´ll break your existence,
and cut through mine.

Yeah, you´re a clever one.

Are you a tool? (are you a tool)
Can I step through to find another plane? (to find another plane?)
Or just a shadow of a man?
Are you my brother (are you my brother?)
You look like me...
Trapped inside another world; (trapped inside)
My lost twin.
A superficial tool (superficial tool)
to support the vanity of weak,
when you don´t love yourself.

Mirror,
Up on the wall.
Am I,
the reflection of you?
Mirror,
Up on the wall.
Are you,
staring back?

Understanding..
Has no place within my world.
On your side.

Are you a tool? (are you a tool)
Can I step through to find another plane? (to find another plane?)
Or just a shadow of a man?
Are you my brother (are you my brother?)
You look like me...
Trapped inside another world; (trapped inside)
My lost twin.
Are you a tool?
Can I step through...
To find another plane,
I´m just a shadow of a man.
Just a superficial tool,
to support the vanity of weak,
when you don´t love yourself.



11. 12:97:24:99


The sublime destroys the boundaries of finiteness, yet this phenomenon is seen by the self not as an act of destruction, but rather, as a kind of elevation and liberation. For it is in the feeling of infinitude which it now discovers within itself that it may enjoy a new experience, within its own boundlessness.



12. The End Of All Things To Come


All over with.
Fuck all the flags, the greed, the world leaders.
Run for the fence.
We´re coming, we´re killing, we´re changing the faces.
Believe in yourself.
Let go of ego, strengthen within yourself.
All over with.
We´re coming, we´re killing, we´re changing the faces.

I´m killing,
every fucking thing
Until somebody gets this fucking point.
The point I´m trying to make.
I lead,
the mice on parade.
Down to the river of Kool-Aid;
And open up the flood gates.
I need a barrel of Cyanide; A pile of Strychnine
Until the whole damn world is dead.
Start
over again.

All over with.
Fuck all the flags, the greed, the world leaders.
Run for the fence.
We´re coming, we´re killing, we´re changing the faces.

Stop talking...
Negotiating...
Your feeble attempts towards world peace.
(hah! gimme a fuckin´ break!)
Need worldwide genocide;
Planetary suicide.
And when the whole damn world is dead.
There´s your fucking peace.

All over with.
Fuck all the flags, the greed, the world leaders.
Run for the fence.
We´re coming, we´re killing, we´re changing the faces.
Believe in yourself.
Let go of ego, strengthen within yourself.
All over with.
We´re coming, we´re killing, we´re changing the faces.

Oxygen Wasters...
Come on.

We´ve come to save you...
save you from yourselves.
Kill or be killed.
We´ve come to save you...
save you from yourselves.
Kill or be killed.

All over with.
Fuck all the flags, the greed, the world leaders.
Run for the fence.
We´re coming, we´re killing, we´re changing the faces.
Believe in yourself.
Let go of ego, strengthen within yourself.
All over with.
We´re coming, we´re killing, we´re changing the faces.



13. A Key To Nothing


(no more nothing)
No more doors. (no more nothing)
No more locks. (no more nothing)
No more windows. (no more nothing)
No more box. (no more nothing)

No more.
No less.
No more filthiness. (no more nothing)
No more six-foot digs.
No more hypocrites. (no more nothing)
No more emptiness.
No more consequence. (no more nothing)
No more puppet-strings. (no more nothing)
No more disease.
No more growing up. (no more nothing)
No more happiness. (no more nothing)
No more lying down. (no more nothing)
No more complacence.

I have...
I hold The Key...
to Nothing.
It´s a small killing.
Murder...
murder´s in the hands...
of motion....
as it seems to be.

(thanks for killing)
(thanks for killing)

No more nothing. (no more nothing)
No more anything.
No more you.
No more me.
No more posturing victories. (no more nothing)
No more nations to defeat.
No more speaking truth. (no more nothing)
No more deceit.
No more holding down. (no more nothing)
No more pushing me. (no more nothing)
No more ´New World Order´. (no more nothing)
No more anarchy.

I have...
I hold The Key...
to Nothing.
It´s a small killing.
Murder...
murder´s in the hands...
of motion....
as it seems to be.

I´m washing my hands
of the whole thing.
I´m washing my hands
of the whole thing.
I´m washing my hands
of the whole thing.

I want no more...
Nothing.
I want no more...
Nothing.
I want no more...
Nothing.
I want no more...
Nothing.

I have...
I hold The Key...
to Nothing.
It´s a small killing.
Murder...
murder´s in the hands...
of motion....
as it seems to be.

I´m washing my hands...
of everything.
Of everything we are.


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