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THE WORDS OF JADE
"Once there was a sacred land, It's name struck fear in the hearts of man, then one day all ceased to be. Atlantis her glory was forever lost in the sea." Excerpt from Atlantis - "FRAME OF MIND "
CONCRETE EDEN
All songs copyright 2002 AZTEC JADE / Jerrine Music / BMI
Step right up, look inside
Max your credit and enjoy the ride
Sap the young, dupe the old
Countless homeless left in the cold
Formulating machinations
Subjugating humanity
What will our tomorrow hold
If we can't even save today
You change this world through technology
Construct this land, the concrete eden
Who'll save this world with morality
Or damn us all to concrete eden
Computers act while minds sit still
Consumed with movies and who screwed who
Science heals, but it killed our faith
Or was it those evangelists
Replicating DNA
Vacillating a pious man
What will our tomorrow hold
If we can't even save today
THE MACHINE
Jackin' in and letting go
It's reality in control
Corporate man on the totem pole
Live the net is status quo
VR love and lines of blow
Climb their backs and up you'll go
Always forward not behind
Are these dreams in my mind?
Struggling with the nightmares
Of this cyber psychic dream
I am a man that's lost
In the machine ~
Neon lights and mirrored walls
Corporate killers line the halls
Who's your fiend, who's your foe
Name your price to sell your soul
Watch your front and watch your back
Be the boss's favorite hack
Make your deals with a pretty face
Lose yourself in cyberspace
BLACK OCTOBER
Lady Madonna turn your eyes from me
Wipe away the tears from your face
Tears no man shall ever see
Hail Mary full of grace
Tainted by the blood we spill
Ours is not the master race
In deciding who to kill
Mother Mary please forgive me
A soldier's eyes are not his own
Blind to what they see
Mother Mary please forgive me
l'm just a pawn in a madman's game
No escape for me
From place to place
And cities they go
To cleanse them of humanity
Executions and cyanide
Disregard their dignity
His soldiers think they have the power
He thinks he holds the key
Killing people from the promise land
A trial weighs your destiny
Take away the pain from my eyes
I can't look upon the shame any more
Take away the pain from my eyes
His reichs not worth fighting for
As I look deep within your eyes
I see my own face of sin
Now I know within my end
A new age will begin
Mother Mary please forgive me
Take away the pain from my eyes
So I can no longer see
SOMEONE NOT ME
Reminiscing on my life
Opportunities I let pass by
Everyday that comes to pass
I'm forced to contemplate my last
Times of sorrow and of joy
A joumey on life's road
Wasting my time, pretend to be
Someone, not me
Living my life, trying to please
Someone, not me
Hiding behind, a masquerade
Someone, not me
It's not who I am, apparently
Someone, not me
Acting for the public eye
Conceal my sadness with a smile
Performing for the world to see
Illusions cloud reality
All the choices, good and bad
Define the person that I am
Somehow, someday
I'll find out who I am
I'll find the strength to face each day
Eventually I'll find my way
MANIFESTATION
All that's happened in my life
Has led me to this hour
I've made my choice to stand
Before you to challenge history
It's time to seize our destiny
Events have gone as planned
Tonight will always be remembered
The eve of Liberty
Acts of degradation
Frozen one by one
I won't forget you again
I'm not afraid of you this time
I've struggled all my life to overcome
The pain of all my childhood years
Pray for me my fiends I cannot bear to lose
Join me in victory
Our strength will come
From the hearts of the masses
The day will be our's my fiends
We'll take this world for our humanity
And dignity will be ours
We'll break these chains
That bind us to our enemies
We'll take this world
I remember long ago
When I held her in my arms
How I fought the tide of life that night
How I yearned to be set free
On the beach that stormy night
I tried to say the words
To tell her of my love for her
Instead I said goodbye
But it was so long ago
All my life to serve the calling that I hear
Though I buried all my deepest regrets
I remember you now
VICTORY PROCESSION
As you see the people congregated
This truly is my finest hour
Church bells ring in every city, every town
Herald the arrival of a new world order
I am the one who saved your world
I'm the one who gave you strength
This land will rise again
And take her place in history
As you see the masses placated
I have lived up to my every word
Domination of the people under God
Cities crumble in my wake of power
I am the one who saved
Your world from greed and hate
Believe in me you'll see
I'll change this world
VISIONS
In the streets of this once great city
Conquered again as it once was before
Toppled not by bombs nor armies
Impossible promises, impossible dreams
A vision appeared in the dark of the night
A calling to take this great mans life
My heart was struck by fear
Where do my actions lead
He held the world in his hand
And what will come to be
What will come to be
I read the news of this once great man
Who took this world with hardly a fight
An illusion of powers reality
Just as easy can be taken away
Destiny has brought me to this end
A life is ended by my hand
And when the truth is finally known
I pray the world will understand
I pray the world will
Pray the world will understand
What will this world be
And what will this world be
REVELATIONS
I've lived my life believing that our souls would never die
We'll all end up someplace one day as our bodies stay and die
As my judgment stands awaiting the light pulls me near
My hate is revealed and my soul wants to die
But a vision appears to me out of the sky
And a hope of salvation is framed in my mind
My death will have meaning, my soul will not die
For the truth of my life becomes clear in my eyes
My hate destroyed evil, for that I am loved
I've killed all their leaders, their laws, and their ways
Their minds are all free now to choose as they will
For the first time in history the world will be free
Two men shall arise to rule after me
And the people must choose with their hearts and their minds
One will deceive, the other is true
One will destroy us, the other will save
Angel undying, folds her wings sighing
Softly she cries in the increasing winds
As the dark clouds gather over scared human masses
Raining down sorrow on those who believe
But for those who stand strong in the face of the night
You will find your reward in the paradise light
As my body lay dying, I take my last breath
My calling has ended and now I can rest
THE FINAL HOUR
Open my eyes see the fires in the distance
Open my ears hear the cries in the night
Madness has found this city at last
The day of judgement has fmally arrived
Raise your heads to the light
And we have not seen the last sunrise
Read the words one more time
That no one shall know the final hour
Prophets theorize
When the word will end
They created the end
In their own heads
Twisting lines of holy words
Into words of holy war
Faith has turned into escape
A self fulfilling prophecy
ISSUES
What's this world fighting for
Ideals or something more
Free speech was jeopardized
Now that we're urbanized
Oh, no, I won't show complacency
Speak out, it's about equality
Mandates integrate sex, color, creed
Black, white, embrace what's right
Sometimes hatred isn't the issue
Affirmative action
Obsolete practice
Criminal tactics
Help out no one
Zealots tout their civil rights
Spreading their spite
Hollywood formulates
Tensions escalate
Hope for a brighter day
Illuminate the gray
I realize not all mankind
Choose to be "color blind"
That's the way it should be
In society
Legal litigations
Racist allegations
Defense of prejudice
Shouldn't prove innocence
Better ways of yesterday regretfully are gone
Politically correct is now en vogue to be
Finding out that turnabout isn't fair play
You're free to choose a point of view
But that's the issue
END OF DAYS
I see this holy war and I can't believe
How long must this endure before they will see
A mindless game of death
In the end everyone bleeds
There are no winners
No chance for peace
No truce will be called
No common beliefs
Different religion
Different opinion
No hope
The end of days is near
Filled with pain and fear
The end of days I can tell
I see this image of hell
Disagreement in the promise land
Politicians doing what they can
To end the violence, save the day
Will we ever understand the hate
Two cultures cannot coexist
With the differences they feel
Deep seated hatred coming to a head
All they want to see is war
Can you see the desert sands
Blowing through the arid land
Once peaceful, no cross to bear
Followed faith to get them there
Looking for the promise land
Running from foreign hands
Traveled far to find a sign
Caught between the sands of time
Future brings opposing views
Fighting for the right to choose
Trail of tears they left behind
Caught between the sands of time
Will there ever, ever come a day
Will we ever see a brighter way
To live in peace, live a better way
No more killing give us peace that will stay
The seven seals are broken
The time is now at hand
The faithful have now gathered
To cleanse the holy land
A mindless game of death
No one can ever win
Suffer the consequence
For all your selfish needs
PARADISE LOST - CD
All songs copyright 2000 AZTEC JADE / Jerrine Music / BMI
REGATTA FUGUE I
Set set sail for the seas uncharted
Plot the course we'll leave tomorrow
Daybreak the crew is ready
Spirits high lay claim my glory
Waiting so long
To prove there's a way
Just a dreamer
Mad so they say
Travel West ~ to reach the East
At ocean speeds ~ and distance least
Show them all ~ this world is round
We'll span the seas ~ reach solid ground
Godspeed we start our voyage
Pray the storms won't wane my courage
Trade winds they fill the canvas
Hope restored we travel onward
Missing home now
Thoughts that won't leave me
Will I die for lands yet unscene
Lands yet unscene
Thick fog and floating branches
Possibly a coastline nearby
Land ho the crow's net cries out
Journey's end proved skeptics were wrong
Spanish kisses
Are saving my soul
Trading lives for
Spices and gold
FRAME OF MIND - CD
All songs copyright 1997 AZTEC JADE / Jerrine Music / BMI
THE CALLING
A young boy dreams
Of a warm summer's night
As he sees the snowflakes falling down
He never felt the face of humankind
Just the cold deep thoughts
Of his own mind
He hardens his heart
To the fears of the outside
After all they blew the cold air in
Their acts of degradation
Are frozen one by one
Suspended in time and all but put aside
I am the face of your fears of a thousand years
Look at the hate in my eyes I have magnified
Out of the ashes I salvage my sanity
Scarred from the inside from now
Until eternity
I reach out to search for the safety of strangers
Their ignorance will help me to my throne
I've built up these walls in desperate defense
They segregate my world opens my soul to the call
TO BELIEVE
There I was reaching out for a hand
But the concept was out of my grasp
I only wanted to be one with the word
I only wanted to see it's fruition
Controlling thoughts and raping minds
Like painting pictures for the blind
Images I see are taking
Life from out of me it's killing
Every thought I think permeates my mind
But I am not going to believe
Speak my peace I try to explain my beliefs
And I am lauded with hate and disdain
Now that I've heard their hypocritical words
I realize there's no chance for comprehension
Think for yourself in your own way
Hear what I say
MAD NOT CRAZY
As I see the day I look in a different way
Eyes as black as night never see the light
You can't see my mind not like humankind
And my viciousness is unequaled
And so now you know
Never will I look back
Some things now will never change
Nothing good ever lasts
Mankind has now gone insane
Doctors theorize that I am mad inside
But what do they know what is real
Feed me all the lies everyday they try
To erase my world
But they will not succeed
Walk the streets at night and I have to fight
Demons deep inside I can never hide
All my darkest fears haunting me for years
Schizophrenia always holds
All of my sanity
DESPERATE LAND
A parody of man's intent
The price becomes irrelevant
Brother killing brother dead
Bloodshed turns the Danube red
Sovereignty
To rule thy own
Ruthlessly
Claims bloody thrones
A nation torn by civil strife
Children cling to ebbing life
A prayer for peace to bless this state
No pawn wins in stalemate
NOSFERATU
The sun goes down
Darkness shrouds the streets we reign - supreme
A church bell tolls
Burning hunger fills my veins - tonight
The traffic slows
Heartbeats pounding in my brain - beware
Their life blood pours from their throats like
Crimson rain
Well I can't recall what a sunrise used to look like
Or how it's rays felt apon my face
Just mrtal blessings
That I took for granted
Children of the damned
Are set free to desecrate the land
Creatures banished from the light
Are condemned to everlasting night
The mirror taunts me
By hiding my reflection
An empty soul behind my stare
The thrill of the hunt
Is the only pleasure left for me
ATLANTIS
Look into the moonlight
Look into the sea
Look into the night sky
Look into a dream
Gaze upon a city
Standing ever so tall
No one ever believed
The city would fall
Once there was a sacred land
It's name struck fear in the hearts of man
And one day all ceased to be
Atlantis her glory was forever lost in the sea
Atlantis her glory was forever lost in time
Think of all the horror
Think of all the pain
Imagine the sorrow of the people that day
Civilization lost in one blinding light
What ever happened to the city that night
Will we ever find a way
To bring Atlantis back here to stay
We all will be homeward bound
Atlantis you soon will be found
REGATTA FUGUE II
See the land on the horizon
Glistening on the waters edge
I've seen the world as no one else has
My dream fulfillled has come at last
I have seen a new world
I am here to stake my claim - for
My return to my homeland
I have seen the promised land
My return to my homeland
A new day is now at hand
For the queen I have given
All my life to see this through
A new world awaits us now for everyone
The voice of a madman now rings true
STAINED
All the secrets we keep
Are in our mind
And constant therapy
Helps us to find
Every single meaning that we perceive
Clouds the undeniable truth in make believe
Do you feel a little tramatized
Are you feeling sad
It's time we start breaking down
The walls we had
As we struggle going no where
Lost direction no redemption
Stained
Toy thrown away used and cast aside
Stained
Smeaing our souls with the sins that we hide
Every night the six o' clock news invades our lives
And watching the television blinds our eyes
Everyone's hopes and dreams betray them now
All innocence washed away gone somehow
Can you see the violence it's all around
Society's decadence brings us down
Oh I see the chage ahead
No more will pure hearts be mislead
Replace the faces who lead
Consumed by stains of their deeds
GATES OF BABYLON
Sand storms
Obscured horizons
Endless
Open expanses
The tales told on and on
Of the gates of Babylon
What secrets lie beyond
The gates of Babylon
Victims
Of decadent lust
Ruins
Eroded to dust
Erstwhile
Civilization
Modern
Assimilation
REQUIEM
Fire burning higher
Funeral pyres
Ashes coat the ground
Slaughter
Toxic water
Corporate order
Floral genocide
Nations Aberrations
Culmination
Eroded sand
Miles of Rivers dried up
Tree limbs piled up
A dead wasteland
Now there is no where to run
Can't hide from all the damage done
The world's turning a shade of gray
How can we wantonly throw it all away
Requiem
Mindless
Self destruction
Mass corruption
Watch them rape the land
Plotting
Carcass rotting
Ozone spotting
Earth's betrayed by
Traitors
Terminators
Forest haters
Man's epitaph
Plunder
Nature's wonders
Cast asunder
Our time will pass
MODERN PROPHET - CD
All songs copyright 1995 AZTEC JADE / Jerrine Music / BMI
MODERN PROPHET
The news came down today
A million lives at stake
One nation strives to make
The suffering go away
And bring on a new age
Modern Prophets
See a new way
All that you know is wrong they say
Modern Prophets are gone tomorrow
Hold on to your dreams
Chinese civil war
Ends in blood and gore
Rights we take for granted
Taken all away
Students burn the flag
First amendment rights
Despite the land that lets
Her children desecrate
Their feelings filled with hate
DIRTY SECRETS
You live your life in spite
From day to day
You spread your evil lies
It's always been your way
You don't care who you hurt
You don't care who you burn
The pain you put me through awaits
My every turn
Now I can see
The truth in your eyes
The filthy lies
Don't tell me lies
Don't turn your back on me
Dirty secrets never let you go
Dirty secrets never make it so
All the words you said were never true
Now your dirty secrets
Are haunting you
Let's have the truth be known
I never know what's true
You spend your every day
With nothing else to do
The lives you claim this day
Are looking for revenge
And now you'll have to pay
Until the very end
SOUL INSIDE OF ME
Words and pictures
Always on my mind
Think of these visions
All of the time
And when I am alone
I am so far away
Distant reflections of another day
It's so far away
Space and time
I have these words to say
It's no crime
Bitterness surrounds my memories
You killed the soul inside of me
Crushed beneath the weight
Of your needs
Wanted to give you more
But now I finally see
A hopeless situation
I would loose in the end
Ultimate rejection
Lost my closest friend
Why'd it have to end
THE CREATOR
Here I sit
Upon the sands of time
Holding visions
Deep within my mind
Wondering now
I look up to the sky
To know someday
I am going to die
Sit back and time will tell
Facing fears I know too well
The creator knows it's time
Living life is so sublime
Killing time
They say that life is just a game
Although the fear is gone
I still can feel the pain
Heaven knows
It's all just a matter of time
Now I see
How precious life can be
INDIAN SUMMER
Gaze upon the heavens
The sky cracks wide open
Storm clouds filled with lightning
As thunder is rolling
Day of judgement on us
The white dogs come crawling
Stricken down by lies
Their forked tongues are talking
Fires burn the prairie
Herds of buffalo thinning down
Spirits carry my body across the divide
Armies raiding the village
Blood of warriors spilling out
Days of Indian Summer return
Time to die
Round us up like cattle
And lead us to the slaughter
Spreading your diseases
With wiskey filled water
Tribal customs dying
Remind us of our shame
Justice will be served
When our lands are reclaimed
On and on and on and on
We go
To live another day
To our gods
We pray
ODYSSEY
As the dawn breaks
On new horizons
Rays of hope are cast
Beneath the sea
Behemoths of the ancient times
Cry their mournful song
Through eternity
Hear the songs
Of oceans blue
Where children's hopes and dreams
May never come
See the killing
And senseless slaughter
As their number
Fade with the setting sun
Tears of pain and sarrow
To be sung once again
All of our dreams
Our dreams will never end
Can't you see the tears of Cetacea
They're what helps to keep this ocean alive
Cry for me you tears for Cetacea
Without them this world would surely die
With steam and steel
Used to hunt them all
Now closer to the
Edge of extinction
Their flesh and bone
Prized commodities
Death pays the price
It's mark of distinction
From coral reefs
To the murky deep
A few safe havens
For the very last
As they race now
For their survival
Fighting against
The deadly harpoon blast
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