FIRE IN THE ENGINE ROOM

There’s a fire down in the engine room

the storm we’re up against rides us right off the charts

the road we’re on has us falling far behind

the crew coherence falling apart

soulsick searching calamity

close fencing misery

Soulsick searching

soulsick searching

calamity, closer to misery

There’s a fire on the bridge

policy of power by self-undermining control

slave ship turbulence

Row the boat, row the boat

Row to your end

Here though the sun fades

And there she lay

the mothercross

crossfade the thoughts she had to give

the pressing buttons

the pressing chest

go find the marks on her

and then the war consists of me

and all the crumbles building me

Breaking the first in line

they will all swallow time

from the morning light

Weigh them off

The road we’re on has us falling far behind

the crew’s coherence falling apart

soulsick searching calamity close fencing misery

There’s a fire making us crumble

a hurricane twisting our minds

true turbelantic trajectory

submerged in morning light

We won’t let them! pandemonium

We will break them! pandemonium

The right, the bane, losing the cane

The right action from my end

There’s a fire down in the engine room

the storm we’re up against rides us right off the charts

the road we’re on has us falling far behind

the crew coherence falling apart

soulsick searching calamity

close fencing misery

STICK TO THE PLAN

I’m the man who decides for all

I’m the man who tells you what to do

My greed knows no boundaries or borders

I just take what I want by violence and force

Delivering this message is my life’s purpose

My greed knows no boundaries or borders

I just take what I want by violence and force

Regardless of pain suffering and murder

No more can we take, no more will we

We are our own land and we fight

Fellow brothers in arms it’s time to take back what is ours

Injustice, Greed and Thunder rolling off of the skyline

Feeling immoral contribution of the bigger hand

Despite our camaraderie our heads are hanging low

and the world can’t deny the wreckage unfolding before our eyes

Doet ‘r vest aan moederke

houdt ‘r vast straks slaagt z’over boord

haalt toch niet nog meer rampspoed over ons hoofd

My ship knows no boundaries or borders

and I’ll sail where I want

By no human fortress I’ll ever be halted

from making this passage

My cargo will know my face

those who oppose will leave no trace

while I stick to my plan

guiding these people and leave them

in open arms

No more can we take, no more will we

We are our own land and we fight

Fellow brothers in arms

it’s time to take back what is ours

This ship we are on

I am the man who decides for all

I am the man who tells you what to do

SOLACE

My brother it hurts all the time

to the extent nobody believes anymore

and all I want is to be able to let go

If I only knew how to label the pain

I could make them see

You focus too much on the pain

to the extent…

You have to believe in yourself

The strength I see inside of you

In time I know you will be fine

It helps when I try numb the pain

Drawing pictures to escape

Finding solace in arms of them

Regain control, hoping to leave behind

Painkillers won’t help you in the long run

You don’t paint what you see

You paint what you dream

But I hope that it will lessen your burdens

For now

This ain’t the time, nor the place

to speak these words

to share this fate

Nothing you say, nothing you do

Nothing to gain, nothing I leave behind brings me

Nothing you say, nothing you do Nothing to gain, nothing I leave behind brings me solace

Nothing you say (what), nothing you do (do)

Nothing I gain (nothing I leave behind) nothing, nothing

Nothing you say (what), nothing you do (do)

Nothing I leave behind falls on you

A clock to rewind

Be kind, be kind

Believe that there’s no one so no one to run from

In chaos through harsh persevering we find

solace

YOUR STRUGGLE

The emptiness of consumerism

being the decisive form of freedom of choice

Butcher your health and dismantle the Earth

My addiction to distraction

What it wanted to say but couldn’t

What it wanted to become

that was never going to be approved of

To refuse can be your conscious outing of resentment

If you can’t change things, you can still refuse

The things you loved as a child

and you weren’t supposed to

You can still change things

you are here, you’re in control

What it wanted to say but couldn’t

What it wanted to become

that was never going to be approved

Explorer

I won’t be bothered by a mindless consumerism

I won’t be lowered to a posthuman tool

I won’t be fooled by your almighty algorithm

Sapere aude, Meta knows your name

The emptiness of consumerism

being the decisive form of freedom of choice

Butcher your health and dismantle the Earth

My addiction to distraction

It’s your struggle

It’s your struggle

It’s your struggle

It’s yours, it’s your struggle

I won’t be bothered by a mindless consumerism

I won’t be lowered to a posthuman tool

I won’t be fooled by your almighty algorithm

Sapere aude, there is something to explore

Is it true what they say you are

Meta knows your name and game

Catalyst – Rights of Passage

When the voice of reason

Falls on deaf ears

Your defense a high treason

Just power shifting gears

Child, come meet your destiny

In the prison of the social scale

An abuse, a brutality

You cannot bail

They have the right to take

They have the right to break

They have the right to choose

You have the right to lose

Who is right, who is wrong?

It’s all decided when the race is won

Are you in, or are you out

Be one of them or be left aside

Another life

When life no longer comes first

Justice but a spin of words

Righteousness but a truth that bends

Another life that ends

If the leaders of tomorrow

Are the victims of today

Grown in pain and sorrow

Does hope for life remain?

They have the right to know

They have right to destroy

They have the right to lie

You have the right to die

There’s no right, there’s no wrong

No fair players in this Kingdom come

When you’re in, you are out

Small part to play, so play it loud

Another life

With every truth that bends

Another life that ends

With every truth that bends

Another life that ends

With every truth that bends

Another life that ends

With every truth that bends

Another life that ends

Catalyst – Sustainable dignity

living in a media – mediocracy

As seen on tv 

Clear away your imperfections

To regain your husband’s  affection

Yeah that’s right

I know just what you look like

Your deepest desires and fears

for sale

quick get your shares before the market fails

Every time you turn the page

The signs are flashing in your face     

Each time I go online I’m

spending time in mediocrity

I hope my record’s been erased

So I can die with dignity 

I hope my record’s been erased

So how can you define what’s real 

You can not trust the ground on which your judgement thrives 

Get your news while it’s fake

Words spreading hate 

Save yourself, be distracted by the

Minor worries of a welfare state 

Gaze upon your shattered self-image  

Still your broken bits reflecting light into your soul

Open your eyes, open your mind

Time waits for no one so get used to loosing your sight

Every time you turn the page the signs are flashing in your face

Each time I go online I’m spending time in mediocrity

I hope my record’s been erased so I can die

The social media pull my strings cut me free from it

Good luck keeping your dignity in a mediacracy 

Consumerism is my religion 

Release your energy

Release your restraint

‘till you encounter situations

That may damage your relations

Or slip into something more comfy

Buy yourself something fancy

All alone you pull the trigger

Lest your sorrows just get bigger

Catalyst – Delirium Nostrum

If the starships ask me for gold I will go deep for infinity’s sake

and by the time the engine shuts down I’ll be no longer awake so

Laughs are made of wood, laughs make me feel good

and if you know you’re stealing shows across the land

hazing down for I might overtry this

Lost, a world of sleep, sinking in too deep 

Aches and trembling but you’re still awake as you’re haunting me 

Gremlins are taunting the walls of my sleep

Five for the night I swallow and might reach for a sixth one to come in my sight

if the starships will ask me for gold or so I was told

And I can get no sleep

First time I cried over the ship’s end

this time I wonder what the whale meant

I went through the law of descent 

in a snap, in a cringe, in a case, in a moment

At the time the waves went by

I looked up, there was no sky

no heaven to cry for a total abyss

I am drifting afloat in a sea of nothingness

walls afloat crushing me low 

there was no warning no knock on my door

walls afloat crushing me low 

there came no morning to knock 

oh, save, my, soul

coma save my soul from raving

Aches and trembling but you’re still awake as you’re haunting me 

Gremlins are taunting the walls of my sleep

Five for the night I swallow and might reach for a sixth one to come in my sight

if the starship propels me for gold or so I am told

Coma save my soul from raving