THE X FACTOR

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(1995)

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  Sign Of The Cross  
  Lord Of The Flies  
  Man On The Edge  
  Fortunes Of War  
  Look For The Truth  
  The Aftermath  
  Judgement Of Heaven  
  Blood On The World's Hands  
  The Edge Of Darkness  
  2 A.M.  
  The Unbeliever  

 

SIGN OF THE CROSS

(Harris)

Eleven saintly shrouded men, silhouettes stand against the sky
One in front with a cross held high, come to wash my sins away
IM
Standing alone in the wind and the rain, feeling the fear that is growing
Sensing the change in the tide again, brought by the storm that is brewing
Feel the anxiety hold off the fear, some of the doubt in the things you believe
Now that your faith will be put to the test, nothing to do but await what is coming
IM
Why then is God still protecting me, even when I don't deserve it
Though I am blessed with an inner strength, some they would call it a penance
Why am I meant to face this alone, asking the question time and again
Praying to God won't keep me alive, inside my head feel the fear start to rise
IM
They'll be saying their prayers when the moment comes
There'll be penance to pay when it's judgement day
And the guilty'll bleed when that moment comes
They'll be coming to claim, take your soul away
IM
The sign of the cross
The name of the rose...a fire in the sky
The sign of the cross
IM
They'll be coming to bring the eternal flame
They'll be bringing us all immortality
Holding communion so the world be blessed
My creator, my God'll lay my soul to rest
IM
The sign of the cross
The name of the rose...a fire in the sky
The sign of the cross
IM
The sign of the cross
The name of the rose...a fire in the sky
The sign of the cross
The name of the rose...the sign of the cross
IM
Lost the love of heaven above, chose the lust of the earth below
Eleven saintly shrouded men, came to wash my sins away

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LORD OF THE FLIES

(Harris/Gers)

IM

I don't care for this world anymore, I just want to live my own fantasy
Fate has brought us to these shores, what was meant to be is now happening
IM
I've found that I like this living in danger
Living on edge it feels it makes me feel as one
Who cares now what's right or wrong it's reality
Killing so we survive, wherever we may roam
Wherever we may hide, we've got to get away
IM
I don't want existence to end, we must prepare ourselves for the elements
I just want to feel like we're strong, we don't need a code of morality
IM
I like all the mixed emotion and anger
It brings out the animal the power you can feel
And feeling so high on this much adrenalin
Excited but scary to believe what we've become
IM
Saints and sinners, something within us, we are lord of the flies
Saints and sinners, something willing us, to be lord of the flies
IM
Saints and sinners, something within us, we are lord of the flies
Saints and sinners, something willing us, to be lord of the flies
IM
Saints and sinners, something within us, we are lord of the flies
Saints and sinners, something willing us, to be lord of the flies

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MAN ON THE EDGE

(Bayley/Gers)

IM

The freeway is jammed and it's backed up for miles
The car is an oven and baking is wild
Nothing is ever the way it should be
What we deserve we just don't get you see
IM
A briefcase a lunch and a man on the edge
Each step gets closer to losing his head
Is someone in heaven are they looking down
Nothing is fair just you look around
IM
Falling down, falling down, falling down
Falling down, falling down, falling down
IM
He's sick of waiting of lying like this
There's a hole in the sky for the angels to kiss
Branded a leper because you don't fit
In the land of the free you just live by your wits
IM
Once he built missiles a nation's defence
Now he can't even get birthday presents
Across the city he leaves in his wake
A glimpse of the future a cannibal state
IM
Falling down, falling down, falling down
Falling down, falling down, falling down
IM
The freeway is jammed and it's backed up for miles
The car is an oven and baking is wild
Nothing is ever the way it should be
What we deserve we just don't get you see
IM
A briefcase a lunch and a man on the edge
Each step gets closer to losing his head
Is someone in heaven are they looking down
Nothing is fair just you look around
IM
Falling down, falling down, falling down
Falling down, falling down, falling down
Falling down, falling down, falling down
Falling down, falling down, falling down

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FORTUNES OF WAR

(Harris)

IM

After the war, and now that they've sent us homeward
I can't help but feel that I'm on my own
No one can see just what this conflict has done to
The minds of the men who are on their way home
IM
I'm scarred for life but it's not my flesh that's wounded
So how can I face the torment alone
The vivid scenes and all the recurring nightmares
I lay there and sweat until it gets light
IM
People say "don't worry" say that time's a perfect healer
That the nightmares they will come to pass
Can't hear what they're saying
I am living in my own world, and I'm feeling trance like all the time
IM
I hear voices in my head, could I really be going crazy
In the night the visions seem so real, do you care if you live or die
When you laugh are you really crying
You're not sure what's real anymore
IM
Fortunes of war, fortunes of war
Fortunes of war, no pain anymore
Fortunes of war, fortunes of war
Fortunes of war, no pain anymore
Fortunes of war
IM
Fortunes of war, fortunes of war
Fortunes of war, no pain anymore
Fortunes of war
IM
Fortunes of war, fortunes of war
Fortunes of war, no pain anymore
Fortunes of war, fortunes of war
Fortunes of war, no pain anymore
Fortunes of war
IM
Sometime I wake
I feel that my spirit's broken
I wonder if I've the strength to carry on
Carry on

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LOOK FOR THE TRUTH

(Bayley/Gers/Harris)

IM

All my dark dreams drift like smoke in the breeze
The fear grips me as I fall towards my sleep
Here comes the nightmare that never ends
Here is the dream that makes monsters of men
IM
In the house of my soul, in rooms of ugliness and cold
Memories locked away, all the doubts and fears I never faced
IM
Now they come again, I am falling down to meet with them
Fears within us all, mine awake and they stand up tall
IM
Look for the truth
Deepest cut of all from you
Knife of the truth
Blade if hatred slicing through
IM
I pray my sleep will break, maybe this time I won't wake
Weakness I hide so well, this dagger in my mind will tell
IM
It's my final stand, I make a fist out of each hand
To shadows of the past, take a breath and I scream attack
IM
Look for the truth
Deepest cut of all from you
Knife of the truth
Blade of hatred slicing through
Here is the truth
Deepest cut of all from you
Knife of the truth
Blade of hatred slicing through

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THE AFTERMATH

(Harris/Bayley/Gers)

IM

Silently to silence fall
In the fields of futile war
Toys of death are spitting lead
Where boys that were our soldiers bled
War horse and war machine
IM
Curse the name of liberty
Marching on as if they should
Mix in the dirt our brothers' blood
IM
In the mud and rain
What are we fighting for
Is it worth the pain
Is it worth dying for
Who will take the blame
Why did they make a war
Questions that come again
Should we be fighting at all
IM
Once a ploughman hitches his team
Here he sowed? his little dream
Now bodies arms and legs are strewn
Where mustard gas and barbwire bloom
Each moment's like a year
I've nothing left inside for tears
Comrades dead or dying lie
I'm left alone asking why
IM
In the mud and rain
What are we fighting for
Is it worth the pain
Is it worth dying for
Who will take the blame
Why did they make a war
Questions that come again
Should we be fighting at all
IM
After the war
Left feeling no one has won
After the war
What does a soldier become
IM
War is over and battles are gone
After the war no one has won
I'm just a soldier

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JUDGEMENT OF HEAVEN

(Harris)

IM

A lonely cry for help reaching out for help to anyone
A silent prayer to God to help you on your way
I've been depressed so long it's hard to remember when I was happy
I've felt like suicide a dozen times or more but that's the easy way, that's the selfish way
The hardest part is to get on with your life
IM
You're searching in the dark clutching at straws to find a way
You take the Tarot cards and throw them to the wind
You question your beliefs, your inner thoughts, your whole existence
And if there is a God then answer if you will
And tell me of my fate, tell me of my place, tell me if I'll ever rest in peace
IM
If you could live your life again would you change a thing or leave it all the same
If you had the chance again would you change a thing at all
When you look back at your past can you say that you are proud of what you've done
Are there times when you believe that the right you thought was wrong
IM
All of my life I have believed Judgement of Heaven is waiting for me
All of my life I have believed Judgement of Heaven is waiting for me
Waiting for me, waiting for me, waiting for me
Yeah, Yeah
IM
All of my life now I have believed Judgement of Heaven awaits for me
All of my life now I have believed Judgement of Heaven awaits for me
IM
All of my life I have believed Judgement of Heaven is waiting for me
All of my life I have believed Judgement of Heaven is waiting for me
Waiting for me, waiting for me, waiting for me
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah
Yeah

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BLOOD ON THE WORLD'S HANDS

(Harris)

IM

Sometimes it makes me wonder, sometimes it makes me question
Sometimes it makes me saddened, always it makes me angry but...
IM
When you can see it happening, the madness that's all around you
Nobody seems to worry, the world seems so powerless to act...
IM
It's out of control
Blood on The World's Hands
Each day a new toll
IM
Another assassination, the same day a new creation
But what are they coming into, security of a world that brings...
IM
One day another killing, somewhere there's someone starving
Another a savage raping, meanwhile there's someone laughing at us
IM
It's out of control
Blood on The World's Hands
Each day it goes on
Blood on The World's Hands, Blood on The World's Hands
Blood on The World's Hands, Blood on The World's Hands
IM
Blood on The World's Hands, Blood on The World's Hands
Blood on The World's Hands, Blood on The World's Hands
IM
Brutality and aggression, tomorrow another lesson
Expecting another air raid, praying for a ceasefire...
IM
They say things are getting better, no need to be complacent
There's chaos across the border, and one day it could be happening to us
IM
It's out of control
Blood on The World's Hands
It's our epitaph
It's out of control
Someone should know
Blood on The World's Hands
Someone should...

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THE EDGE OF DARKNESS

(Harris/Bayley/Gers)

IM

I've looked into the heart of darkness where the blood red journey ends
When you've faced the heart of darkness even your soul begins to bend
IM
For a week I have been waiting still I am only in Saigon
The walls move in a little closer I feel the jungle call me on
IM
Every minute I get weaker while in the jungle they grow strong
What I wanted was a mission and for my sins they gave me one
IM
They brought it up just like room service 'cause everyone gets what they want
And when that mission was all over I'd never want another one
IM
I know captain that you've done this work before
We've got a problem you can help us all I'm sure
The colonel's gone rogue and his methods are unsound
You'll take a PBR up river track him down
IM
There's a conflict in every human heart and the temptation is to take it all too far
In this war things get so confused, but there are some things which cannot be excused
IM
He's acting like a God...an insane lunatic, your mission - exterminate with extreme prejudice
The route is dangerous and your progress may be slow, here is the file and it's all you need to know
IM
Here I am the knife in my hand
And now I understand why the genius must die
IM
Now I stand alone in darkness with his blood upon my hands
Where sat the warriors the poet now lie the fragments of a man
IM
I've looked into the heart of darkness where the blood red journey ends
When you've faced the heart of darkness even your soul begins to bend

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2 A.M.

(Bayley/Gers/Harris)

IM

I get in from work at 2 AM and sit down with a beer
Turn on late night T.V. and then I wonder why I'm here
It's meaningless and trivial and it washes over me
And once again I wonder is this all there is for me
IM
Here I am again
Look at me again
Here I am again
On my own
Trying hard to see
What there is for me
Here I am again
On my own
IM
Life seems so pathetic I wish I could leave it all behind
This canvas chair this bed these walls that fall in on my mind
Hold on for something better that just drags you through the dirt
Do you just let go or carry on and try to take the hurt
IM
Here I am again
Look at me again
Here I am again
On my own
Trying hard to see
What there is for me
Here I am again
IM
Here I am again
Look at me again
Here I am again
On my own
Trying hard to see
What there is for me
Here I am again
On my own
IM
Here I am again
Look at me again
Here I am again
On my own
Trying hard to see
What there is for me
Here I am again
On my own

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THE UNBELIEVER

(Harris/Gers)

IM

When you start to take a look within, do you feel at ease with what you see
Do you think you can have peace of mind and have self belief or be satisfied
IM
Do you think you even like yourself, or really think you could be someone else
Is there something that you'd rather be never thought you'd be had the chance to see
IM
All my life I've run away all my life I've tried to hide away
IM
Feel the paranoia creeping in, like a cancer eating at the skin
Do you feel you've lost your self esteem and your self respect what can you expect
IM
All my life I've run away all my life I've tried to hide away
All my life I've run away all my life I've tried to hide away
IM
All my life...I've run astray
Let my faith...slip away
All my life...I've run astray
Allowed my faith...to drift away
IM
All my life...I've run astray
Let my faith...slip away
All my life...I've run astray
Allowed my faith...to drift away
IM
Are you scared to look inside your mind, are you worried just at what you'll find
Do you really want to face the truth does it matter now what have you got to lose
IM
Try release the anger from within, forgive yourself a few immortal sins
Do you really care what people think are you strong enough to release the guilt
IM
All my life I've run away all my life I've tried to hide away
IM
All my life...I've run astray
Let my faith...slip away
All my life...I've run astray
Allowed my faith...to drift away
IM
All my life...I've run astray
Let my faith...slip away
All my life...I've run astray
Allowed my faith...to drift away

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