"Wide awake and keeping distance from my soul."

-'Cold and Ugly'

"Consequences dictate our course of action and it doesn't matter what's right. It's only wrong if you get caught. If consequences dictate my course of action I should play God and just shoot you myself."

-'Jerkoff'

"Choices always were a problem for you, what you need is someone strong to guide you...like me."

-'Opiate'

"Our guilt, our blame, I've been far too sympathetic. Our blood, our fault, I've been far too sympathetic."

-'Intolerance'

"I will find a center in you, I will chew it up and leave, I will work to elevate you just enough to bring you down."

-'Sober'

"I'm back down, I'm in the undertow...I'm helpless and I'm awake, I'm in the undertow...I'll die beneath the undertow...there doesn't seem no other way out of the undertow...euphoria."

-'Undertow'

"Thought I was high, thought I was free, though I was there, divine destiny...I was wrong...this changes everything."

-'Flood'

"'If God is our Father,' you thought, 'then Satan must be our cousin.' Why didn't anyone else understand these important things?"

-'Disgustipated'

"There's something kind of sad about the way that things have come to be, desensitized to everything, what became of subtlety? I'll keep digging until I feel something."

-'Stinkfist'

"Standing above the crowd, he had a voice that was strong and loud, and I swallowed his facade cuz I'm so eager to identify with someone above the crowd, someone who seemed to feel the same, someone prepared to lead the way, someone who would die for me...will you? Will you now? Would you die for me? Don't you fucking lie."

-'Eulogy'

"And as the walls come down, I see a look in your eyes, my fear begins to fade, recalling all of the times I have died and will die...it's all right...I don't mind."

-'H.'

"I choose to live and to lie, hate and give and to die, learn and love and to do what it takes to step through."

-'Forty-Six & 2'

"All you know about me is what I've sold you, dumb fuck, I sold out long before you ever even heard my name...I sold my soul to make a record, dipshit, and you bought one."

-'Hooker with a Penis'

"Hold your light, eleven lead me through each gentle step by step, by inch by loaded memory, I'll move to heal as soon as pain allows so we can reunite, and both move on together."

-'Jimmy'

"I'm slipping back into the gap again...I'm alive when you're touching me, alive when you're shoving me down...but I'd trade it all for just a little piece of mind."

-'Pushit'

"If when I say I might fade like a sigh if I stay, you minimize my movement anyway, I must persuade you another way...there's no love in fear."

-'Pushit'

"Cuz I'm praying for rain, and I'm praying for tidal waves, I wanna see the ground give way, I wanna watch it all go down, mom please flush it all away, I wanna see it go right in and down, I wanna watch it go right in, watch you flush it all away...don't just call me pessimist, try and read between the lines."

-'Aenema'

"I stick my hand into the shadow, pull the pieces from the sand, which I attempt to reassemble and see just who I might have been...I do not recognize the vessel but the eyes seem so familiar...like phosphorescent desert buttons singing one familiar song..."

-'Third Eye'

"So good to see you once again...I thought that you were hiding...you thought that I had run away, chasing a trail of dogma...I opened my eyes and there you were...so good to see you once again...I thought that you were hiding from me...you thought that I had run away, chasing a trail of smoke and reason."

-'Third Eye'

"Saturn ascends...comes round again...Saturn ascends, the one, the ten...ignorant to the damage done."

-'The Grudge'

"Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed brothers...between supposed lovers."

-'Schism'

"So familiar and overwhelmingly warm, this one, this form I hold now...embracing you, this reality here, this one, this form I hold now...so wide-eyed and hopeful...wide-eyed and hopefully wild."

-'Parabol'

"This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality...embrace this moment, remember...we are eternal, all this pain is an illusion."

-'Parabola'

"Overthinking, overanalyzing separates the body from the mind...withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment calling way outside the lines."

-'Lateralus'

"Mention this to me, mention something, mention anything...mention this to me and watch the weather change."

-'Disposition'

"So crucify the ego before it's far too late, and leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical, and you will come to find that we are all one mind, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable, and let the light touch you so that the words spill through, and let them pass right through, bringing out our hope and reason."