Band: Guilt Machine
Album: On This Perfect Day
Release Date: 28 August 2009
Genre: Progressive Metal
Label: Mascot Records
Cover Art: Christophe Dessaigne
Producer by: Arjen Anthony Lucassen
- Line Up CD: from left -
* Arjen Anthony Lucassen:
Guitar, Mandolin, Bass Guitar,
Keyboards, Vocal
* Jasper Steverlinck: Lead Vocals
* Lori Linstruth: Lead Guitar
* Chris Maitland: Drums
Guitar, Mandolin, Bass Guitar,
Keyboards, Vocal
* Jasper Steverlinck: Lead Vocals
* Lori Linstruth: Lead Guitar
* Chris Maitland: Drums
(Netherlands: Noord-Brabant)
01. Twisted Coil - Lyrics:
Slide down into the silence
Numb the day away
Move closer to a memory
Feel it slip away
Your sun is smiling on my ashes
On this perfect day
(Shut down the guilt machine and wash your conscience clean of yesterday)
Drown the ocean
Drain the sky
Wash the color from the sun
Still the thunder
Derail the Earth
Burn the stars out one by one
We come undone
Breathe deeply of your essence
Stir the scars beneath
Sing sweet a song so deathless
You belong to me
Life shivers in the distance
Wish it all away
Your sun is smiling on my ashes
On this perfect day
(Shut down the guilt machine and wash your conscience clean of yesterday)
Drown the ocean
Drain the sky
Wash the color from the sun
Still the thunder
Derail the Earth
Burn the stars out one by one
We come undone
Accusations run astray
Inside the guilt machine
Turning tension's twisted coil
Till nothing's left of me
Words unspoken feed the lie
Smile and say you're doing fine today
Conversation makes no sense
All logic stripped away
Situation's out of hand
In amber disarray
Words unspoken feed the lie
Another pill... you're doing fine today
Did you dream distant skies
And thirst to roam and wander?
Did you die silently inside?
Did you think you'd find the answer
Behind the light?
Did you think you'd find a way
To disconnect your favourite pain?
Disengage and justify
To wash away the pain
Medicate and victimize
To purge you pure again
Words unspoken feed the lie
Drink it down... you're doing fine today
Something snaps at 4.05
One Friday afternoon
Turning tension's twisted coil
Till nothing's left of you
Words unspoken seal the lie
One small step... you'll soon be fine today
Did you dream distant skies
And thirst to roam and wander?
Did you die silently inside?
Did you think you'd find the answer
Behind the light?
Did you think you'd find a way
To disconnect your favourite pain?
Did you dream distant skies
And thirst to roam and wander?
Did you die silently inside?
Did you think you'd find the answer
Behind the light?
Did you think you'd find a way
To disconnect your favourite pain?
Life shivers in the distance
Wish it all away
Your sun is smiling on my ashes
On this perfect day
(Shut down the guilt machine and wash your conscience clean of yesterday)
Drown the ocean
Drain the sky
Wash the color from the sun
Still the thunder
Derail the Earth
Burn the stars out one by one
Drown the ocean
Drain the sky
Wash the color from the sun
Still the thunder
Derail the Earth
Burn the stars out one by one
02. Leland Street - Lyrics:
This is not how you planned it
Not the life you had in mind
Winding days have spiraled into years
And the past is long resigned
Serenade the shade and shadow
Cry a tune for days gone by
Scream a song for all you lost along the way
And the one you left behind
After all the words unspoken
After all the deeds undone
In the dark, where certainties are few
And your song is still unsung
Celebrate the hour of madness
Ride the wave that turns the tide
Dream a song for all you lost along the way
And the one you'll never find
Is it too late for a new day?
Is it too late to cross the line?
Is it too late for a new way
Shine down the light?
Shine down the light
The future will unfold
(Table turning face the burn of reality)
Ride out your chance
The story still untold
(Twisting tension face the burn of mortality)
This is your life
The darkest place you'll go
(Table turning face the burn of eternity)
This is your chance
The choice is yours alone
(Sail away to points unknown)
All you have lived
All you have won
All you have learned
All you have loved
All yours to face
All yours to show
All yours to feel
All yours to know
Celebrate the hour of madness
Ride the wave that turns the tide
Dream a song for all you lost along the way
And the one you'll never find
Is it too late for a new day?
Is it too late to cross the line?
Is it too late for a new way
Shine down the light?
03. Green And Cream - Lyrics:
Fade out on a theme
Fade out and away
Break down to extreme
Break down in decay
Fade out in the dust of my debris
Fade out and away
Break down in the absence of extremes
Break down in decay
Green and cream, selective and pure
Shape my sin to your will
Crystalline, a chemical cure
Dance me down to the kill
Dream now of the frost
Dream now of the grave
Bleed out for the lost
Bleed out for the saved
Dream now of the fiction of the frost
Dream now of the grave
Bleed out for redemption of the lost
Bleed out for the saved
Green and cream, selective and pure
Shape my sin to your will
Crystalline, a chemical cure
Dance me down to the kill
I consume and control
Break your mind on my wheel
I can swallow your soul
Strip away all you feel
I can feed your disease
Close you down from within
I can be all you need
Once I'm under your skin again
No solution for the undefined
No solution inside
Revolution psychoanalyzed
Revolution denied
I'm erratic and bold
Problematic and mean
Enigmatic and cold
Charismatic and clean
I can feed your disease
Close you down from within
I can be all you need
Once I'm under your skin again
No solution for the undefined
No solution inside
Revolution psychoanalyzed
Revolution denied
Pull me out of the dark
Into your stars
Into your sky
Pull me out of the dark
Into your arms
Into your light
Pull me out of the dark
Into your stars
Into your sky
Pull me out of the dark
Into your arms
Into your light
Fade out in the dust of my debris
Fade out and away
Break down in the absence of extremes
Break down in decay
Green and cream, selective and pure
Shape my sin to your will
Crystalline, a chemical cure
Dance me down to the kill
Pull me out of the dark
Into your stars
Into your sky
Pull me out of the dark
Into your arms
Into your light
04. Season Of Denial - Lyrics:
One voice inside
(I know who you are)
One feeling you hide
(This is the season of denial)
You're in control
(Don't ask me how I am)
Your cracks start to show
(There's someone laughing from afar)
Turn around and face the darker side of you
(The one you hide)
Turn around the face the damage that you do
(In the season of denial)
Too cold to feel
(I know what you've done)
In motion surreal
(This is the season of the hollow)
Who are you now?
(I am for you to name)
You're on your way down
(You're somewhere very close to hell)
Turn around and face the darker side of you
(The one you hide)
Turn around the face the damage that you do
(In the season of denial)
I will remember you
Keep the pain alive
A vision of black and blue
Fading into white
I will remember you
Keep the pain alive
A vision of black and blue
Fading into white
A weight of years... before the storm begins
Saturate the rain-dark sky
Wake in fear and face the dream that might have been
The dream you still deny
You don't remember when, you don't remember where
A faded stranger in a photograph
Half-seen faces whisper shapeless unaware
Silent echoes of what's come to pass
You know you can't return, you know you can't relive
As you wasted wreckage falls apart
Familiar places where you know must have been
In your heart of darkest hearts
I will remember you
Keep the pain alive
A vision of black and blue
Fading into white
I will remember you
Keep the pain alive
A vision of black and blue
One voice inside
One feeling you hide
Turn around and face the darker side of you
(The one you hide)
Turn around the face the damage that you do
Turn around the face the damage that you do
Turn around the face the damage that you do
05. Over - Lyrics:
You were saying something deep
I was feeling incomplete
You were shaking with conviction
I was making up my mind
Blacken the sky
It's over
Killed by contradiction
Fixation is all that's left behind
Blacken the sky
It's over
Killed by contradiction
Fixation is all that's left behind
Blacken the sky
It's over
Killed by contradiction
Fixation is all that's left behind
Kill it to life
It's over
Dead by definition
Frustration is all that's left behind
It's over
You were waiting for a sign
I was planning my next line
You were bent on self-destruction
I was there to load the gun
Blacken the sky
It's over
Killed by contradiction
Fixation is all that's left behind
Kill it to life
It's over
Dead by definition
Frustration is all that's left behind
It's over
It was all so beautiful
It was all habitual
It was all so beautiful
It was all a ritual
You were saying something deep
I was feeling incomplete
You were shaking your addiction
I was there to find the vein
Blacken the sky
It's over
Killed by contradiction
Fixation is all that's left behind
Kill it to life
It's over
Dead by definition
Frustration is all that's left behind
It was all so beautiful
It was all habitual
It was all so beautiful
It was all a ritual
Blacken the sky
Fixation is all that's left behind
It's over
It's over
Frustration is all that's left behind
06. Perfection? - Lyrics:
You look different in this light
Thoughtful in the morning air
Shifting in the golden glow of the array
Still I'd know you anywhere
You look distant in this light
Troubled in the morning air
Waiting for a chance to live what you've become
I'd see trough you anywere
And all the things you are
And all you've lost
Is perfection what you really want?
And all the skies we shared
The dreams we walked
I'll be waiting here alone
When the darkness calls you home
You look tragic in this light
Shattered in the morning air
It feel apart the day they learned your name
Still I'd follow anywhere
You look dangerous in this light
Desperate in the morning air
Waiting for the chance to live what you've become
I'd see through you anywhere
And all the things you are
And all you've lost
Is perfection what you really want?
And all the skies we shared
The dreams we walked
I'll be waiting here alone
When the darkness calls you home
I was lost
In the perfect world they promised me
I was scarred
When you tore the mask away
I was amazed
At the lies we refused to see
I was afraid
Of the emptiness the truth would leave behind
You look distant in this light
Troubled in the morning air
Waiting for a chance to live what you've become
I'd see trough you anywere
And all the things you are
And all you've lost
Is perfection what you really want?
And all the skies we shared
The dreams we walked
I'll be waiting here alone
When the darkness calls you home
When it calls you home
What's one more year?
A trip around the sun?
Rise up and leave here
The journey's done
What's one more year?
A circle in the sky?
The future's in motion
You're free to fly
Can we heal the past?
Do we dare to stand alone?
Can we take it back?
Make a new life on our own
Can we heal the past?
Do we dare to stand our ground?
Can we take it back?
Can we turn it all around?
What's one more year?
A trip around the sun?
Rise up and leave here
The journey's done
What's one more year?
A circle in the sky?
The future's in motion
You're free to fly
Can we heal the past?
Do we dare to stand alone?
Can we take it back?
Make a new life on our own
Can we heal the past?
Do we dare to stand our ground?
Can we take it back?
Can we turn it all around?
Can we heal the past?
Do we dare to stand alone?
Can we take it back?
Make a new life on our own
Can we heal the past?
Do we dare to stand our ground?
Can we take it back?
Can we turn it all around?
