Symphony X - Iconoclast Album Lyrics

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Iconoclast

Rise of the one -
The dark iconoclast
Forging a cult of fear,
With legions unsurpassed
Shouting the word -
With vicious tongues of fire
Born of illusion and deceit
Fiendish soul of a liar.

The chaos unseen rips
The midnight sky
Infernal machines arise
Flesh and steel collide

[Chorus:]
We are strong
We will stand and fight
We are strong
We will stand and fight

With rage we ride into the flames
Striking with spears of hate,
At the heart where evil reigns
Holding the line from the charge
Of armored steeds
Gather around this deadly ground,
Come watch the war god bleed.

The chaos unseen rips
The midnight sky
Infernal machines arise
Flesh and steel collide

We are strong
We will stand and fight
We are strong
We will stand and fight

Victory or death, only time will tell
Synthetic resurrection,
From the heart of hell
Slowly they fall, as we watch
The daylight die
We spit and curse this hallowed earth
With our final battle cry,

The chaos unseen rips
The midnight sky
Infernal machines arise -
Flesh and steel collide

We are strong
We will stand and fight
We are strong
We will stand and fight

 

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The End Of Innocence

Bite your tongue
The blackened sun
Will curse the moon
Skies of fire
Nothing's worth a damn

Calculate
Anticipate
Your every move
Beware
The ruthless hearts of man

Feel my pain
My words are in vain
I believe it's the end of innocence
Don't look away
Oh, hear what I say
I believe it's the end of innocence

Cut and splice
a fierce device
Degenerate
Sons of light
Synthetic gods, our man

Crushed beneath
The dragon beast
Breathing hate
Your blood
Your blood is on their hands

Feel my pain
My words are in vain
I believe it's the end of innocence
Don't look away
Oh, hear what I say
I believe it's the end of innocence

The world is dying
The precious sands of time
Are running out

We are the fallen
Made obsolete
Methodically phased out
...Feel my pain

Feel my pain
My words are in vain
I believe it's the end of innocence
Don't look away
Oh, hear what I say
I believe it's the end of innocence

 

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Dehumanized

Tap the vein - Inject my brain
And let the poison flow
Torn apart - You’re ripping out my heart
It's painless, let it go

Come on, hit the switch - You son of a bitch
I'm devoured, broke in two
You take control and resurrect my soul
Becoming something new...

What's done is done - I'm dead inside
I'm what you've all become - Mindless and mesmerized

Dehumanized
I'm dehumanized
Don't you realize - I'm Dehumanized
Oh, and victimized
You can't break me
You unmake me - Dehumanized

Ripped to shreds - the venom spreads
Release the system plague
Shed your skin - electrified within
Complete the final stage

I will break my shell and unleash hell
There's nothing you can do
Just a cut above - This sacred new blood
Becoming something new...

What's done is done - I'm dead inside
I'm what you've all become - Mindless and mesmerized

Dehumanized
I'm dehumanized
Don't you realize - I'm Dehumanized
Oh, and victimized
You can't break me
You unmake me - Dehumanized

Is this life worth the question why?
Or is this life just a lie?
'Cause my eyes are cold and numb
And I don't know what the hell I've become...

Dehumanized
I'm dehumanized
Don't you realize - we're all Dehumanized
Enslaved and victimized
You can't break us,
No, you can't unmake us
We have all become - Dehumanized

 

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Bastards Of The Machine

You can be all you desire
An honest man - a vicious liar
Seek out the Light or seek the Dark

You can honor or desecrate
Sympathize or manipulate
Carved in your flesh - embrace the Mark

Enslaved and hypnotized -
Chained to artificial lives
You are the Bastards of the Machine
The Bastards of the Machine

Be a saint for those in need
Or spin them webs of lust and greed,
Yeah, you've restored my dying faith

With a kiss of death - a last farewell
Hand in hand, through the Gates of Hell
You'll pay the price for the choice you make

I see your demons rise -
Deep within your burning eyes
You are the Bastards of the Machine
The Bastards of the Machine

The Bastards of the Machine
The Bastards of the Machine

 

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Heretic

The human infection
Soaring on winds of woe and pestilence
Remove imperfection -
Parasites with lives of little consequence,

Even though we know the sky is falling
Still we choose not to believe,
On your knees...

Heretic - devil in disguise
Never quit - tearing down the walls, brick by brick
Feeding on the lies - Heretic
Counterfeit's the kingdom you devise

The flesh breeds corruption -
Irradicate the insect prey, exterminate
Crawl with the Leeches - you cry
Shattered to pieces - you die
Here I stand - god of man - the Perfect Beast

Even though we know the sky is falling
Still we choose not to believe
On your knees...

Heretic - devil in disguise
Never quit - tearing down the walls, brick by brick
Feeding on the lies - Heretic
Counterfeit's the kingdom you devise

Oh, burn!
Watch me burn - Live and learn
As the night surrounds me
No escape, no where to hide

Feel the sting of severing
Become one with Darkness
No escape, I'm dead inside

Heretic - devil in disguise
Never quit - tearing down the walls
Brick by brick
Feeding on the lies - Heretic
Counterfeit's the kingdom you devise

 

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Children Of A Faceless God

Screaming at the walls around me -
Broken and alone
Fighting with my inner demons is all I've ever known

All I am - I give to you
All my dreams and nightmares, too

Disconnected life of anguish -
The mirror fades to black
Feels like I'm sinking deep into illusion.
No one's staring back

Somewhere unseen - there's something between
Is it the truth or a lie...

Can't you see - You and me
We're Children of a Faceless God
Misery is our destiny
We're Children of a Faceless God

Just another faceless shadow - I'm desensitized
And I don't feel the pain, am I insane?
My nightmare's realized

Somewhere unseen - there's something between
Is it the truth or a lie...

Can't you see - You and me
We're Children of a Faceless God
Misery is our destiny
We're Children of a Faceless God

All I have - I give to you
All my dreams, my nightmares, too

Wretched promenade - watch the freak parade
Celebrate the suffering and affliction

Laugh at tragedy - worship sin with me
Let us share in selfish addiction

Spitting on the shrine - drink the poison wine
Leave a life in ruins - tattered and torn

Completely interfaced to a God without a Face
In his image of darkness... I'm reborn

Can't you see - You and me
We're Children of a Faceless God
Misery is our destiny
We're Children of a Faceless God

 

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When All Is Lost

I believe... Nothing ever comes to light -
Chasing shadows in the night
In a starless sky and I wonder why

I believe... We will never find a way -
That darkness lights the day
We never question why, still I wonder why?

I close my eyes lost in a memory
Just like a candle in the wind
What could have been, with just one kiss goodbye
You spread your wings to fly
Far away, somehow, someday you will understand
I hope you'll understand... someday

Silent pictures speak like ghosts in the machine
Haunting my reflection in the frame
Chasing down the hopeful child inside of me
Where'd it all go wrong and who's to blame

We pass the time away
With empty lives, the laughter dies

Is this all we have to show?
Is this all they'll ever know? Can they find their way?
What went wrong? Where have all the heroes gone?
Trading futures for a song we gave away

Thinking only of myself, I forged ahead
No regrets, no apologies
Bitter tears reward the life that I have led
A world of lies brings me to my knees

I took the road with every twist and every turn
The words of wisdom is the lesson never learned
Lose your fear and free your soul or
The mysteries of life you'll truly never know
You’ll never know

Is this all we have to show?
Is this all they'll ever know? Can they find their way?
What went wrong? Where have all the heroes gone?
Trading futures for a song we gave away
Just gave it away...

I close my eyes, lost in that memory
Like a candle in the wind
What could have been, with just one kiss goodbye
You spread your wings to fly far away
I hope you'll understand one day

We pass the time away
With empty lives the laughter dies
And the colors fade - fade away

Is this all we have to show?
Is this all they'll ever know? Can they find their way?
What went wrong? Where have all the heroes gone?
Trading futures for a song we gave away

What went wrong?
Where have all our heroes gone?
Trade our future for a song,
We gave it all away...

 

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Electric Messiah

You liberate me, separate and set me free
You release my spirit to the wind
For evermore your name will soar inside of me
Let the reign of steel begin

Oh, how the prophets of the people were so blind
As one by one, all the kingdoms fall in line

Hail the Night - the Bringer of Light
My Electric Messiah
Come and be transformed - unmade and reborn
Set your soul on fire

All will believe, you won't deceive in any way
Endless empty minds at your command

I'll never fail, I'll drive the nail in all the way
Right into your heart with dying hands

Oh, how the prophets of the people were so blind
As one by one, all the kingdoms fall in line
Oh, so blind...

Hail the Night - the Bringer of Light
My Electric Messiah
Come and be transformed - unmade and reborn
Set your soul on fire

Hail the Night - the Bringer of Light
My Electric Messiah
Come and be transformed - unmade and reborn
Set your soul, your souls on fire

Hail the Night
Oh, oh Hail the Bringer of Light
I am reborn, I am transformed

 

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Prometheus (I Am Alive)

Perfection - one direction
One voice, one mind
Selection - mass dissection
Rebuild, refine

Creation - modification
Becoming something more
Mutations - bred to infect
Erase, restore

You made me strong, but you don't fear me
No right or wrong, if you believe set me free
Feel the power inside of me...

Alive, Alive - Rising up I am Alive
I am the Dark - I am the Light
Alive, Alive - Rising up I am Alive
Within you I'm Alive

Undying - no denying
Predict, engage, remove
Destroyer - soul exploiter
Delete, design, improve

Invasion - mass domination
Becoming something more
One nation born to accept
Embrace, endure

You made me strong, yet you don't fear me
No right or wrong, if you believe set me free
Feel the power inside of me...

Alive, Alive - Rising up I am Alive
I am the Dark - I am the Light
Alive, Alive - Rising up I am Alive
Within you I'm Alive

Alive, Alive - Rising up I am Alive
I am the Dark - I am the Light
Alive, Alive - Rising up I am Alive
Within you I'm Alive

Rising up I am Alive
Forever I will live a lie

 

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Light Up The Night

Have you lost all your senses?
Oh, why did you have to go tempting fate?
Blinded by your ambitions
Oh, why can't you see the chaos you create?

Oh, have we gone too far, too fast?

My dying eyes scream with pain
All my hopes and my dreams drown in flames
And all the lies shine so bright
All the souls of the world light up the night

You're a slave to desire
For lust of profit you consume my soul
Do you think you can make it stop?
Oh no - it's too late to turn, you've lost control.

Oh, have we gone too far, too fast?

My dying eyes scream with pain
All my hopes and my dreams drown in flames
And all the lies shine so bright
All the souls of the world light up the night

Pushing the boundaries
Reinvent a new reality
Changing evolution
Ignoring the past
As we realize our destructive destiny

Come on!
I want to see you drown in flames.

My dying eyes scream with pain
All my hopes and my dreams drown in flames
And all the lies shine so bright
All the souls of the world light up the night

 

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The Lords Of Chaos

Forged in blood, carved in stone,
Right before your eyes, you’ve always known
See the truth inside yourself, see the world like no one else
Oh, if only you were king, you could change everything.

Can’t you see what they’re doing to you and me?

We rule, we fly
Above the lights of the neon sky
We fight, we cry
The Lords of Chaos will never die

All you see must be destroyed
Your destiny you can’t avoid
Show them all your demon sign
Tell them all to get in line
There’s no time to waste
Its poison but they can’t taste it.

Don’t you see what they’re doing to you and me?

We rule, we fly
Above the lights of the neon sky
We fight and we cry
The Lords of Chaos will never die
Will never die.

The quick and the dead
Moving fast they’re in your head
Infection spreads in the blood of the damned

The truth and the lies
It’s all the same, it’s just a game
You see, day and night you hold them in your hands, oh...

Oh, can’t you see what they’re doing to you and me?

We rule, we fly
Above the lights of the neon sky
We fight and we cry
The Lords of Chaos will never die

We rule, we fly
Above the lights of the neon sky, oh...
We fight, we cry
The Lords of Chaos will never ever die

 

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Reign In Madness

Scorn the omen - architects of deceit
Pulverized within the jaws of defeat
Our ruin engineered, we’ve reached the gates of fear

Forging vengeance in the city of doom
Ripping death from sin’s unholy womb
The riders on the storm, cursed the day they’re born
We were warned...

Strike them down - strike with power
Kill them all from shore to shore
We destroy - we devour
We command the vicious dogs of war

Treads of iron crush the skulls of the damned
Stench of burning flesh covers the land
Rising from the screams - a godless war machine

Execution - fire scorches the sky
Crimson horsemen runs with genocide
As the seas turn red, We raise the living dead
Or so it's said...

Strike them down, strike with power
Kill them all from shore to shore
We destroy - we devour
We command the vicious dogs of war

[Chorus:]
Bow your heads and abandon hope
We’re the gods of pain
Raise your hands if you’ll join with us
And let the madness reign

Forsaken and forgotten
Condemned - hopeless and alone
The sickened and the rotten
Infect everything you’ve ever known

War hammer of disaster
Crushing every living head
Surrender to the masters
The brainwashed electric living dead

There’s no escaping
The more I learn, the less I know.
I must be crazy
I’m giving in, I’m letting go

If all the world’s a stage,
It’s just a masquerade of crazies
Hit the lights and start the show...

[Repeat chorus]