Haunted nights for haleyon days Can't sleep to the scraping of his voice Nature's way struck grief in me And I became a ghost in sickness Willingly guided into heresy Beneath the surface, stark emptiness And you'd pity my conviction Whereas I thought of

You know kids, I wish every mom and dad would make a speech to their teenagers and say kids, be free, be whatever you are, do whatever you want to do, just so long as you don't hurt anybody. And remember kids, I am your friend. I would just like to say

Belief will always save me Conviction made aware What if the rest of the world

They'd reinvent the wheel Watch it spin and marvel At the breakthrough They had found He said it with such conviction Whether truth or fiction And it went Round and round Oh kids these days

I'm a man of my convictions Call me wrong, call me right But I bring my better angels to every fight You may not like where I'm going But you sure know where I stand Hate me if you want to Love me if you can Sometimes I think that war is necessary Every

(to) give me truth to my conviction Reality or fiction Am I out of my mind? And just for one day I wish I could disappear There's no solution Is my own confusion Maybe nothing else will ever be so clear Well maybe that's only my fear Just take me far

Where are the dreams that we once had? This is the time to bring them back. What were the promises caught On the tips of our tongues? Do we forget or forgive? There's a whole other life waiting to be lived when One day we're brave enough To talk with

Don't cross that line Hopin' that you don't cross that line Don't cross that line, Baby don't cross that line Convict

Homage to our god, the act of killing bears us Closer to his grace, beyond the void of darkness Every drop of blood, a chance to deify us Bring us to our Lord, our killings transcending Convictions of violence pure, unrelenting Devotion drips from my

Have not the strongest And closest ties been bound so long I've called upon them They remind me where I'm from With deep conviction I am connected cross the miles With out them nothing worth relying on It's been so long since I could say I've needed