Live Again – The Fall Of Man - The Empire Strikes First

The road is narrow, the horizon wide And to say what’s waiting on the other side Is so rewarding and the ultimate prize But what good is something if you can’t have it until you die? Desperate, tenacious, clinging like a grain of sand Watching its foundation wash away (wash away) Drunk with the assertions […]

Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever - The Empire Strikes First

“Drop dead, it doesn’t matter,” she said “It only hurts when I laugh,” she said “Sometimes it’s never a crime “To spend the day in bed” She made certain that the curtains were red To dream better by the light they would shed She leaned back, tilted her head And this is what she said… […]

Beyond Electric Dreams - The Empire Strikes First

No one here can show you where it is but I can point to a sign On the roof of the world without apparent design The frozen definition of a lunatic ambition to rise The air is thin, the future dim, dimension hard to find Up on a mountain encased in solar rays Beyond electric […]

The Empire Strikes First - The Empire Strikes First

We strike first and we’re unrehearsed here we go again to stage the greatest show on heaven and earth come on, get your money’s worth don’t wanna live (can’t live) don’t wanna give (can’t give) don’t wanna be (won’t be) E-M-P-I-R-E don’t wanna live don’t wanna be E-M-P-I-R-E We’re comin on fast and we’re built […]

The Quickening - The Empire Strikes First

The quickening is an ephemeral thing That only happens in the dark Like catching lightning in a jar And the pain that it brings Is just the promise of spring It’s madness on the way Oh, what does it mean… To come alive To come alive To come alive (To come alive) To come alive […]

To Another Abyss - The Empire Strikes First

Not long ago, and yet the image is so vague I hesitate to label it a memory There was a show of local color and I felt astray Cause I had nothing to offer but insufficiency And you know that it’s such a bitch When you learn to scratch that itch Of blatant fallibility Sooner […]

God’s Love - The Empire Strikes First

Striking at mental apparitions Like a drunk on a vacant street Silently beset by the hands of time Indelicate in its fury An aberrant crack as skeletons yield To unrelenting gravity While viruses prowl for helpless victims Who succumb rapidly (Tell me!) Tell me; where is the love? In a careless creation When there’s no […]

Let Them Eat War - The Empire Strikes First

there’s a prophet on a mountain and he’s making up dinner with long division and writing crop anybody can feel like a winner when it’s served up piping hot but the people aren’t looking for a handout they’re America’s working corps can this be what they voted for? let them eat war [x2] that’s how […]

Los Angeles Is Burning - The Empire Strikes First

somewhere high in the desert near a curtain of a blue St. Anne’s skirts are billowing but down here in the city of the lime lights the fans of santa ana are withering and you can’t deny that living is easy if you never look behind the scenery it’s showtime for dry climes and bedlam […]

All There Is - The Empire Strikes First

This song goes out to all the hopeless sinners, with grave allegiances, so meaningless and vain, The walking wounded in a pagent of contenders Who balance on a rail of pain for just a pail of rain And everything is barely mist, blood relations and bricks my expression, my confession, add it up, extract a […]