Band: Symphony X
Album: Iconoclast
Release Date: 17 June 2011
Genre: Progressive, Power Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Cover Art: Warren Flanagan
Producer by: Michael Romeo
- Line Up CD: from left -
* Michael Lepond: Bass Guitar
* Jason Rullo: Drums
* Michael Pinnella: Keyboards
* Russell Allen: Vocals
* Michael Romeo: Guitars
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CD 1
01. Iconoclast - Lyrics:
Rise of the one, for the dark Iconoclast
Forging the cause of fear
With the legions of the past
Shouting the words! With vicious tongues of fire
Born on illusion and deceit
Within the soul of a liar
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
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 of 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.
02. The End Of Innocence - Lyrics:
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.
03. Dehumanized - Lyrics:
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 - I'm Dehumanized
Enslaved and victimized
You can't break us
No, you can't unmake us
We have all become - Dehumanized.
04. Bastards Of The Machine - Lyrics:
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.
05. Heretic - Lyrics:
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.
06. Children Of A Faceless God - Lyrics:
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.
07. When All Is Lost - Lyrics:
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...
CD 2
01. Electric Messiah - Lyrics:
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 you command
I'll never fail, I'll drive the nail in all the way
Right into you heart with dying hands
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
Hail the Night - the Bringer of Light
My Electric Messiah
Come and be transformed - unmade and reborn
Set your soul on fire.
02. Prometheus (I Am Alive) - Lyrics:
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.
03. Light Up The Night - Lyrics:
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
Your mistake to desire
For lust or corrupt that you consume my soul
Do you think you can make it stop?
Oh no! It's too late to tell 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.
04. The Lord Of Chaos - Lyrics:
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
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
Oh, there's no time to waste,
It's 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 - We cry
The Lords of Chaos 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...
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
We rule - We fly
Above the lights of the neon sky
We fight - We cry
The Lords of Chaos will never ever die.
05. Reign In Madness - Lyrics:
Scorn the omen architects of deceit
Overrides within the jaws of defeat
Are growing 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
'Cause the day they'll mourn
(Day they'll mourn)
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
Of godless war machine
Execution fire scorches the sky
Crimson horsemen runs with genocide
As the sea turns red
We'll raise the living dead
(Or so it 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
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
Forsaken and the rotten
Infect everything you've ever known
War hammer of disaster
Crushing every living head
Surrender to the masters
You're 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
And all the world's a stage
It's just a masquerade of crazies
Hit the lights and start the show
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
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.
