WRITTEN ABOUT THE NOTION OF A VENGEFUL GOD THAT COMMON JUDEO-CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE IN. IN DIRECT RESPONSE TO THE STATEMENTS MADE BY ORAL ROBERTS AND JERRY FALLWELL, WHO STATED THAT THE HORROR OF SEPTEMBER 11TH, WAS A PUNISHMENT FROM GOD. THAT WE DESERVED IT, FOR BEING SUCH A SINFUL PEOPLE. I THOUGHT THESE STAEMENTS SO IRRESPONSIBLE. THEY WERE USING THE PAIN AND FEAR THAT WAS GENERATED TO EMPOWER THEMSELVES. INSTEAD OF CONSOLING THEIR FLOCK IN THEIR TIME OF NEED, THEY CHASTISED THEM. THE SONG IS MY CONVERSTAION WITH THEIR IDEA OF GOD. THAT IF GOD TRULY INFLICTS VENGEFUL ACTS OF PAIN AND SUFFERING UPON IT'S CREATIONS, AS A SORT OF TEMPER TANTRUM, IN ORDER TO ILLICIT A RESPONSE, THEN BRING IT ON. THERE IS NOTHING THAT CAN BE THROWN AT ME THAT WILL DETER ME FROM MY CHOSEN PATH, OR BREAK MY SPIRIT. IT SPEAKS TO THE INDOMINABLE NATURE OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT, THAT NO MATTER WHAT LIFE, FATE, OF GOD THROWS AT YOU, YOU HAVE THE STRENGTH AND WHEREWITHAL TO GET THROUGHT IT.

CALLING ON THE WORLD TO LIBERATE THEIR MINDS, AND CEASE CONFLICT BASED ON BLIND HATRED, AND DIFFERENCES OF BELIEF. CALLING FOR THE DAY THAT HAS BEEN FORTOLD IN EVERY MAJOR RELIGION. THE NOTION OF THE END OF DAYS. THE COMING OF THE SO CALLED MESSIAH.

CALLS TO THOSE WHO FALL PREY TO THE MASS PRODUCED, NONSENSE RIDDEN, POP PHENOMENON, TO AWAKEN. IN ANGER, I'M AFRAID, THUS THE STATEMENT "FEED ON YOUR NOTHING, YOU'LL NEVER LIVE UP TO ME."

BELIEVE WHEN YOU LIE,

TEACHING THE ART OF DECEPETION. IT IS THE TEACHER SPEAKING TO THE STUDENT. THE THEOLOGIANS CONTINUING THEIR LEGACY OF LIES. FOR THE PERPETUATION OF SUCH FALSE BELIEFS, PENANCE CAN'T ABOLVE YOUR SIN.

SPEAKS ABOUT THE LIFE WE HAVE CHOSEN, AND THE THINGS WE HAVE, AND CONTINUE TO SACRIFICE TO KEEP IT. THE CHAOS OF THE WORLD WE (DISTURBED) LIVE IN, AND HOW DESPITE THE SACRFICE, TO PROVE OUR STRENGTH, WE CONTINUE TO STRIVE.

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THAT WHICH INTOXICATES, AND IT'S VICTIM. PERSON, SUBSTANCE, LIFESTLYE.

IT IS THE RITUAL OF THE PERFORMANCE. THE COMBINED ENERGY OF BAND AND CROWD FREEING ALL FROM THER WIEGHT OF THEIR RESPECTIVE LIVES. THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OURSELVES AND YOURSLEVES.

DESCRIBES THE NEW TRAGEDY OF OUR LIVES. THAT EVEN IF WE FIND LOVE, THE LIFE WE HAVE CHOSEN DOES NOT SEEM TO WANT TO LET US KEEP IT.

WRITTEN WITH A OLD SCHOOL SLASHER-MOVIE VIBE. IT IS THE PREDATOR SPEAKING TO IT'S PREY.

SPOKEN IN THE CONTEXT OF A RELATIONSHIP, BUT NOT LIMITED EXCLUSIVELY TO THAT EXPERIENCE. THAT THERE IS NO POINT IN TRYING TO CHANGE WHO I AM, BECAUSE I AM AT PEACE WITH ALL OF IT.

WRITTEN JUST AFTER MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED SOUNDTRACK. I TAKE ON THE ROLE OF THE VAMPIRE.

OUR FINAL WORDS. OUR LAST PLEA TO YOU, MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS MY BLOOD, WHO ARE THE VERY BREATHE WE BREATHE, AND WHOM WE ARE FORCED TO WEAN OURSLEVES FROM, TO BEGIN AGAIN.