"The Trooper"
(originally by Iron Maiden)

You'll take my life but I'll take yours too
You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through
So when you're waiting for the next attack
You'd better stand there's no turning back.

The Bugle sounds and the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath
As I plunge on into certain death.

The horse he sweats with fear we break to run
The mighty roar of the Russian guns
And as we race towards the human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall.

We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And the Russians fire another round
We get so near yet so far away
We won't live to fight another day.

We get so close near enough to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow
A burst of rounds take my horse below.

And as I lay there gazing at the sky
My body's numb and my throat is dry
And as I lay forgotten and alone
Without a tear I draw my parting groan.

"This Cursed Iron Fist"

The wish you plead, the things you sought,
we all think, we all thought.
The things I've done in the world I've seen,
don't measure up to you my queen.
Ooh, I take one for the other, and work my way through this machine.

God damn this cursed iron fist, when I lose control...
Oh no...
God damn this cursed iron fist, when I lose control...

The first train out, the last one home.
We'll all sing, "We're going home".
As the curtain swings to cover all our secrets kept, our love enough.

God damn this cursed iron fist, when I lose control...
Oh no..
Oh girl, this is what I've become, I'm going to leave it up to you.
What are you going to do?

Cause I don't want to lose your hold on me.
Cause I don't want to lose your hold on me.

God damn this cursed iron fist, when I lose control...
Oh no...
Oh girl, this is what I've become, I'm going to leave it up to you.
What are you going to do?

Just remember, pay no attention to this iron...this iron fist.
Just remember, pay no attention to this iron...this iron fist.

This cursed iron fist, when I lose control...
Oh no...
God damn this cursed iron fist, when I lose control!

"Your Love"
(originally by The Outfield)

Chelsea's on a vacation far away
Come on up and talk it over
So many things that I want to say
You know I like my girls a little bit older
I don't, want to lose, your love
Tonight, yeah

I don't want to lose your
I don't want to use your love tonight

Ain't got many friends I can talk to
When I'm up or down in trouble
You know I would do anything for you
Wrap it up and keep it under cover
I don't, want to lose, your love
Tonight, yeah

I don't want to lose your
I don't want to use your love tonight

Try to stop my hands from shaking
Something in my minds not making sense
It's been a while since we were all alone
I can hardly say how I'm feeling

As you go won't you close the door
And don't forget what I told ya
Cuz you're alone don't mean i'm not
Another shoulder to cry upon
I don't, want to lose, your love
Tonight, yeah

I don't want to lose your
I don't want to use your love tonight

Cuz I don't want to lose
Your love tonight
Cuz I don't want to use
Your love tonight

Cuz I don't want to lose
Your love tonight
Cuz I don't want to use
Your love tonight

Cuz I don't want to lose
Your love tonight
Cuz I don't want to use
Your love tonight

Cuz I don't want to lose
Your love tonight
Cuz I don't want to use
Your love tonight

Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness (2005)



Keeping The Blade[Instrumental]
Always And Never
Welcome Home
Ten Speed (Of God's Blood And Burial)
Crossing The Frame
Apollo I: The Writing Writer
Once Upon Your Dead Body
Wake Up
The Suffering
The Lying Lies & Dirty Secrets Of Miss Erica Court
Mother May I
The Willing Well I: Fuel For The Feeding End
The Willing Well II: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth
The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut

"Always And Never"

If beauty sits the child's kiss
Of laughter I amend
Can you catch her if she runs?

With this I would share with you
All of this count to no end

Behind your sealed eyes you miss
All that I've done for you
Will you catch me when I run?

If timing play evident
What will you say when you're late?

Stay with me and fall asleep
Pray to God for no bad dreams

Stay with me and fall asleep
Pray to God for no bad dreams

Here... I'm still waiting here, my dear
For one kiss from you
So here... I'm still waiting here, my dear
To kill all of you
To kill all of you

"Welcome Home"

You could've been all I wanted
But you weren't honest
Now get in the ground
You choked off the surest of favors
But if you really loved me
You would've endured my world

Well if you're just as I presumed
A whore in sheep's clothing
Fucking up all I do
And if so here we stop
Then never again
Will you see this in your life

Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest is our love ever longed
With truth on the shores of compassion
You seem to take premise to all of these songs

You stormed off to scar the armada
Like Jesus played martyr,
I'll drill through your hands
The stone for the curse you have blamed me
With love and devotion, I'll die as you sleep
But if you could just write me out
To neverless wonder... happy will I become
Be true that this is no option,
So with sin I condemn you
Demon play, demon out!

Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest is our love ever longed
With truth on the shores of compassion
You seem to take premise to all of these songs

One last kiss for you
One more wish to you
Please make up your mind girl...
I'd do anything for you
One last kiss for you
One more wish to you
Please make up your mind girl...
Before I hope you die

"Ten Speed (Of God's Blood And Burial)"

I can feel it in the way your blood and heart beats
My body's cold and it thinks that I'm already gone
Or is it in the way your body moves
I'd like to tell you
But I think that you already know
The words I drag out from your mouth speak
So listen up world, listen up world
In her vision I have given company
They see no evil in leading their bodies from home

Believer, you'll leave her, in leaving them all
No but I don't buy it
Like anything you do, as anyone you are
Ten Speed, if I must... then I must

Believer, you'll leave her, in leaving them all
No but I don't buy it
Like anything you do, as anyone you are

If written wrote me even chance
And the choice to save you
I wouldn't answer if it even had to ask
In her figure I've instilled a taste of my own
So listen up world, listen up world
To make it easier to take what life I'm owed
As the curse has returned from the hell of your
Heart and your soul

Believer, you'll leave her, in leaving them all
No but I don't buy it
Like anything you do, as anyone you are
Ten Speed, if I must... then I must

Believer, you'll leave her, in leaving them all
No but I don't buy it
Like anything you do, as anyone you are

Nobody knows but you
Nobody knows but you
'Cause I don't want to ride tonight...
No I don't want to go
I don't want to ride tonight...
Or maybe I don't want to go

[Spoken:]
"But are you going to kill her off?"
"It's not your decision. I love the character, she stays."
"Yeah, well the only thing love's done is put you in this position; I say kill her off!"
"Yeah, but you say a lot of things... and how does that work? You're a bicycle"

Believer, you'll leave her, in leaving them all
No but I don't buy it
Like anything you do, as anyone you are
Ten Speed, if I must... then I must

Believer, you'll leave her, in leaving them all
No but I don't buy it
Like anything you do, as anyone you are

Cause I'm...
Ten Speed, of God's Blood & Burial [x7]
Ten Speed, of God's Blood

"Crossing The Frame"

Home... a silence between glares
That stutters words misleading
Here... give me all you got
With one shot sent to lend me
No... here across the grass,
Between the glass
I know... you're not the one
I left to wait here, helping

I... I left in a sudden rush
And never said why
You... couldn't know
That I had no goodbyes

But I wish that you were
I'm spying on you, Newo
The way that you would've been if
I stayed here at home
I'm giving it up, Newo
How important I could've been to you

Press the steps I take to cross your door frame if
You decide to answer when my fist rings hello

I... I left in a sudden rush
And never said why
You... couldn't know
That I had no goodbyes

But I wish that you were
I'm spying on you, Newo
The way that you would've been if
I stayed here at home
I'm giving it up, Newo
How important I could've been to you

Casting quarters into wells that hold our dreams
You won't believe me... if I told you so
Casting quarters into wells that hold our dreams
You won't believe me... I wouldn't if you told me so

But I wish that you were
I'm spying on you, Newo
The way that you would've been if
I stayed here at home
I'm giving it up, Newo
How important I could've been to you

"Apollo I: The Writing Writer"

In these words that crash my ears
I now stomach this in fear
With the turn I gathered name as the bastard's son
Who by fire I would come
Through this wire I might cut
Atop this tower of loss and lust

I'll gravitate towards you
I will, in the now, hate you

I'll make you wish you hadn't burned our time before
I'll live through this in a manner cursed at my own accord

If my shame spills our worth across this floor
Then tonight, goodnight... I'm burning Star IV
Only I don't even think of you
No I don't wanna think of you anymore
Goodnight, tonight, goodbye
Goodnight, tonight, goodbye

In my presence you might wake
Through this fiction I must fake
Your death to grace the face of my character
With these lessons he might learn
That all worlds from here must burn
For as God demands in the end we miss

If my shame spills our worth across this floor
Then tonight, goodnight... I'm burning Star IV
Only I don't even think of you
No I don't wanna think of you anymore
Goodnight, tonight, goodbye
Goodnight, tonight, goodbye

[Spoken:]
There is no room for mistakes, my children.
for as I have been told....today is the day I die.
I'm sorry I never played the part as your father, as I should have,
and from the looks on your faces...it seems that's all you've ever asked of me
it is time for you to go into these worlds alone... with all of my love.
I'm sorry.
But I love you all so very much.

I'll make you wish you hadn't burned our time before
I'll live through this in a manner cursed at my own accord

I don't want to go
So come on bitch, why aren't you laughing now?
You left me here to fend on my own
So cry on bitch, why aren't you laughing now?

If my shame spills our worth across this floor
Then tonight, goodnight... I'm burning Star IV
Only I don't even think of you
No I don't wanna think of you anymore
Goodnight, tonight, goodbye
Goodnight, tonight, goodbye

Only I don't even think of you
No, girl, I don't wanna think of you anymore
Goodnight, tonight, goodbye
Goodnight, tonight, goodbye

"Once Upon Your Dead Body"

If hello could only drop its "O"
And it stayed in the front door's way
Of your home, would you live there still?
Could that make you everything I hate?
Wait...

Do you remember why you did it? (No, I don't)
Do you remember why she left?

No, I hope you die right now,
Will you drink my chemical?

Is there price to burn this paradise?
Where you left all parts that hurt to mend
If I don't stay awake
Will she come here again?
For my wish of only one last kiss

Do you remember why you did it? (No, I don't)
Do you remember why she left?
(Unless you did what you thought would be friend)
Do you remember why you did it?
Do you remember why she left?

No, I hope you die right now,
Will you drink my chemical?
And if you cry out loud,
It'll only make me feel too good
(Once upon your dead body)
[repeated w/ ad-libs]