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en hann er alls ekki lélegur söngvari. Hvað textana varðar þá fannst mér þeir heldur þungir og sorglegir. Flestir textarnir eru mjög neikvæðir.
Ég set þá hér fyrir neðan þannig að allir geti gáð hvort að ég sé að fara með rangt mál.

1.The sign of the cross

Fjallar um mann í mikkilli sálarkreppu. Hann hefur gert eitthvað mjög rangt og er að reyna að bæta fyrir syndir sínar. Hann biður guð um að leggja sálu sína til hvílu og vill bara helst deyja.

2 Lord Of The Flies

Virðist fjalla um mann sem kallar sig og sitt fólk “Lord of the flies” og vill þetta fólk enginn afskipti af heiminum hafa. Adrenalínfíklar sem lifa í stöðugri hættu og hafa gaman af því


3 Man On The Edge


Lagið byrjar á týpiskum bandarískum morgni þar sem einhver maður er fastur í umferðateppu á leiðinni í vinnuna. Hann hefur orðið fyrir miklum breytingum þar sem hann vann einu sinni við það að smiða eldflaugar en getur nuna ekki einu sinni gefið jolagjafir.


4 Fortunes Of War

Fjallar um niðurbrotinn fyrrverandi hermann sem vill fátt annað enn að deyja. Fær martraðir á hverri nóttu og er yfirleitt hræddur við að fara að sofa. Gott dæmi um það hvernig stríðið fer með fólk.


5 Look For The Truth

Erfitt að segja um hvað þetta lag er. Aðallega er þetta um mann sem er hræddur við svefninn því hann dreymir hrylling á hverri nóttu. Dæmi um það er:

“In the house of my soul”
“In rooms of ugliness and cold”
Það er í raun ekki hægt að segja meira um þetta lag.

6 The Aftermath

Fjallar um mann sem er í stríðinu og er að velta því fyrir sér hvort það sem hann er að gera, skjóta og drepa fólk, hafi nokkurn tilgang. Eftir stríðið eru flestir ef ekki allir félagar hans dánir og hugsar með sér að það hafi í raun enginn unnið þetta stríð.

7 Judgement Of Heaven

fjallar um mann sem gerist trúaður vegna ofboðslegs þunglyndis og hefur margoft íhugað sjálfsmorð. En í hvert skipti sem það kemur upp í hugann á honum hugsar hann með sér að það sé að gefast upp og skiptir því um skoðun

8 Blood On The Worlds Hands

Verið er að segja frá spillingunni í þessum heimi.
Erfitt samt að segja um hvað lagið er. Verða bara að gefa gott dæmi úr textanum.

“Another assassination
The same day a new creation
But what are they coming into
Security of a world that brings…
One day another killing
Somewhere there's someone starving
Another a savage raping
Meanwhile there's someone laughing at us”

9 The Edge Of Darkness

Fjallar um einhvers konar manna veiðara. Það eina sem hann vill er annað verkefni og hann fær það. Þegar hann er búinn með það vill hann hins aldrei aftur taka að sér verkefni. Hann á að finna hershöfðingja sem er búinn að “missa það” og drepa hann. Þegar hann er búinn að því áttar hann sig á því hvað það sem hann var að gera var hryllilegt.

10 2 A.M

Byrjar á því að maður kemur heim úr vinnunni kl 2 um nóttina. Hann sest í sófann, kveikir á sjónvarpinu og fer síðan að hugsa um það hvað hann sé að gera í þesu lífi. Honum finnst lífið ömurlegt og vildi helst bara skilja það allt saman eftir.

11 The Unbeliever

Fjallar um mann sem fer að líta í eigin barm og líkar ekki það sem hann sér. Honum líkar ekki við sjálfan sig og fer einnig að verða svolítið ofsóknarbrjálaður. Hann er hræddur við að líta inní sinn eigin huga því hann er hræddur við það sem hann gæti fundið þar.


Jæja þá er ég búinn að fara lauslega yfir lögin. Þá eru það textarnir. Lesið þá til að sjá hvort ég hafi bara verið að bulla eða ekki.


The X Factor Textar



1 The Sign Of The Cross

Eleven saintly shrouded men
Silhouettes stand against the sky
One in front with a cross held high
Come to wash my sins away

Standing alone in the wind and rain
Feeling the fear that is growing
Sensing the change in the tide again
Brought by the storm that is brewing
Feel the anxiety hold off the fear
Some of the doubt in the things you believe
Now that your faith will be put to the test
Nothing to do but await what is coming

Why then is god still protecting me
Even when I don't deserve it
Thought I am blessed with an inner strength
Some they would call it a penance
Why am I meant to face this alone
Asking the question time and again
Praying to God won't keep me alive
Inside my head feel the fear start to rise

They'll be saying their prayers
when the moment comes
There'll be penance to pay when it's judgement day
And the guilty'll bleed when the moment comes
They'll be coming to claim,
take your soul away

The sign of the cross
The name of the rose…
a fire in the sky
The sign of the cross

They'll be coming to bring the eternal flame
They'll be bringing us all immortality
Holding communion so the world be blessed
My creator my God'll lay my soul to rest

Lost the love of heaven above
Chose the lust of the earth below
Eleven saintly shrouded men
Came to wash my sins away




2 Lord Of The Flies

I don't care for this world anymore
I just want to live my own fantasy
Fate has brought us to these shores
What was meant to be is now happening

I've found that I like this living in danger
Living on edge it makes feel as one
Who cares now what's right or wrong,
it's reality
Killing so we survive
Wherever we may roam
Wherever we may hide
We've got to get away

I don't want existence to end
We must prepare ourselves for the elements
I just want to feel like we're strong
We don't need a code of morality

I like all the mixed emotion and anger
It brings out the animal the power you can feel
And feeling so high on this much adrenalin
Excited but scary to believe what we've become

Saints and sinners
Something within us
We are lord of flies

Saints and sinners
Something willing us
To be lord of the flies



3 Man On The Edge

The freeway is jammed
And it's backed up for miles
The car is an oven and baking is wild
Nothing is ever the way it should be
What we deserve we just don't get you see

A briefcase, a lunch and a man on the edge
Each step gets closer to losing his head
Is someone in heaven are they looking down
'Cause nothing is fair just you look around

Falling down
Falling down
Falling down

He's sick of waiting of lying like this
There's a hole in the sky for the angels to kiss
Branded a leper because you don't fit
In the land of the free
You can live by your wits

Once he built missiles a nation's defense
Now he can't even give birthday presents
Across the city he leaves in his wake
A glimpse of the future a canibal state

Falling down
Falling down
Falling down



4 Fortunes Of War

After the war
And now that they've sent us homeward
I can't help but feel that I'm on my own
No one can see just what this conflict has done to
The minds of the men who are on their way home

I'm scarred for life
but it's not my flesh that's wounded
So how can I face the torment alone
The vivid scenes and all the recurring nightmares
I lay there and sweat until it gets light




People say ‘don’t worry'
Say that time's a perfect healer
That the nightmares they will come to pass
Can't hear what they're saying
I am living in my own world
And I'm feeling trance-like all the time

I hear voices in my head
Could I really be going crazy
In the night the visions seem so real
Do you care if you live or die
When you laugh are you really crying
You're not sure what's real anymore

Fortunes of war
Fortunes of war
Fortunes of war
no pain anymore

Sometimes I wake
I feel that my spirit's broken
I wonder if I've the strength…
carry on carry on


5 Look For The Truth

All my dark dreams
Drift like smoke in the breeze
The fear grips me as I fall towards my sleep
Here comes the nightmare that never ends
Here is the dream that makes monsters of men

In the house of my soul
In rooms of ugliness and cold
Memories locked away
All the doubts and fears I never faced

Now they come again
I am falling down to meet with them
fear within us all
Mine awake and they stand up tall

Look for the truth
Deepest cut of all from you
Knife of the truth
Blade of hatred slicing through

I pray my sleep will break
Maybe this time I won't wake
Weakness I hide so well
This dagger in my mind will tell

It's my final stand
I make a fist out of each hand
To the shadows of the past
Take a breath and I scream attack


Look for the truth
Deepest cut of all from you
Knife of the truth
Blade of hatred slicing through
Here is the truth
Deepest cut of all from you
Knife of the truth
Blade of hatred slicing through



6 The Aftermath

Silently to silence fall
In the fields of futile war
Toys of death are spitting lead
Where boys that were our soldiers bled
war horse and war machine

Curse the name of liberty
Marching on as if they should
Mix in the dirt our brothers' blood

In the mud and rain
What are we fighting for
Is it worth the pain is it worth dying for
Who will take the blame
Why did they make a war
Questions that come again
Should we be fighting at all




Once a ploughman hitched his team
Here he sowed his little dream
Now bodies arms and legs are strewn
Where mustard gas and barbwire bloom
Each moment's like a year
I've nothing left inside for tears
Comrades dead or dying lie
I'm left alone asking why

In the mud and rain
What are we fighting for
Is it worth the pain is it worth dying for
Who will take the blame
Why did they make a war
Questions that come again
Should we be fighting at all


After the war
Left feeling no one has won
After the war
What does a soldier become


7 Judgement oF Heaven

A lonely cry for help reaching out for help to anyone
A silent prayer to God to help you on your way
I've been depressed so long
It's hard to remember when I was happy
I've felt like suicide a dozen times or more
But that's the easy way, that's the selfish way
the hardest part is to get on with your life

You're searching in the dark
clutching at straws to find a way
You take the Tarot cards and throw them to the wind
Your questions your beliefs,
your inner thoughts, your whole existence
And if there is a God then answer if you will
And tell me of my fate, tell me of my place
Tell me if I'll ever rest in peace

If you could live your life again
Would you change a thing or leave all the same
If you had the chance again
Would you change a thing at all
When you look back at your past
Can you say that you are proud of what we've done
Are there times when you believe
That the right you thought was wrong

All of my life I have belifed
Judgement of heaven is waiting for mer


All of my life now I have belifed
Judgement of heaven is waiting for mer

All of my life I have believed
Judgement of Heaven is waiting for me
is waiting for me…



8 Blood On The Worlds Hands

Sometimes it makes me wonder
Sometimes it makes me question
Sometimes it makes me saddened
Always it makes me angry but…

When you can see it happening
The madness that's all around you
Nobody seems to worry
The World seems so powerless to act…

It's out of control
Blood on The World's hands
Each day a new toll

Another assassination
The same day a new creation
But what are they coming into
Security of a world that brings…
One day another killing
Somewhere there's someone starving
Another a savage raping
Meanwhile there's someone laughing at us


It's out of control
Blood on The World's hands
Each day it goes on

Brutality and aggression
Tomorrow another lesson
Expecting another air raid
Praying for a ceasefire..

They say things are getting better
No need to complacent
There's a chaos across the border
And one day it could be happening to us

It's out of control
Blood on The World's hands
It's our epitaph
It's out of control
Someone should know
Blood on The World's hands
Someone should



9 The Edge Of Darkness

I've looked into the heart of darkness
Where the blood red journey ends
When you've faced the heart of darkness
Even your soul begins to bend

For a week I have been waiting
Still I am only in Saigon
The walls move in a little closer
I feel the jungle call me on

Every minute I get weaker
While in the jungle they grow strong
What I wanted was a mission
And for my sins they gave me one

They brought it up just like room service
Cause everyone gets what they want
And when that mission was all over
I'd never want another one


I know, captain that you've done this work before
We've got a problem you can help us all I'm sure
The colonel's gone rogue
and his methods are unsound
You'll take a PBR up river track him down

There's a conflict in every human heart
And the temptation is to take it all too far
In this war things get so confused
But there are some things which can not be excused

He's acting like a god an insane lunatic
Your mission - exterminate with extreme prejudice
The route is dangerous and your progress may be slow
Here is the file and it's all you need to know

Here I am the knife in my hand
And now I understand why the genius must die

Now I stand alone in darkness
With his blood upon my hands
Where sat the warrior the poet
Now lie the fragments of a man

I've looked into the heart of darkness
Where the blood red journey ends
When you've faced the heart of darkness
Even your soul begins to bend


10 2 A.M

I get in from work at 2a.m.
And sit down with a beer
Turn on the late night t.v.
And then wonder why I'm here
It's meaningless and trivial
And it washes over me
And once again I wonder
Is this all there is for me


Here I am again
Look at me again
Here I am again
On my own
Trying hard to see
What there is for me
Here I am again
On my own

Life seems so pathetic
I wish I could live it all behind
This canvas chair, this bed,
these walls that fall in on my mind
Hold on for something better
That just drags you trough the dirt
Do you just let go or carry on
And try to take the hurt

Here I am again
Look at me again
Here I am again
On my own
Trying hard to see
What there is for me
Here I am again…



11 The Unbeliever

When you start to take a look within
Do you feel at ease with what you see
Do you think you can have peace of mind
And have self-belief or be satisfied

Do you think you even like yourself
Or really think you could be someone else
Is there something that you'd rather be
Never thought you'd be, had the chance to see

All my life I've run away
All my life I've tried to hide away




Fell the paranoia creeping in
Like a cancer eating at the skin
Do you feel you've lost your self esteem
And your self respect, what can you expect

All my life… I've run astray
Let my faith… slip away
All my life… I've run astray
Allowed my faith… to drift away

Are you scared to look inside your mind
Are you worried just at what you'll find
Do you really want to face the truth
Does it matter now, what have you got to loose

Try to release the anger from within
Forgive yourself a few immortal sins
Do you really care what people think
Are you strong enough to release the guilt

ll my life I've run away
All my life I've tried to hide away

All my life… I've run astray
Let my faith… slip away
All my life… I've run astray