Like the Phoenix, I shall rise (climb) Verse 1 I was sold a lie, hoodwinked with a smile Sold out, written off, and thrown in the pile Thirty years of blood sweat and sacrifice To water the gardens of your paradise I faltered once and thrice I was spurned
 I awoke to find you had all my bridges burned To build and rebuild I leave no stone unturned From dusk ‘til dawn From Cradle to Urn 
Chorus 1 So I’ll bide my time and keep these demons tied To the truth behind your lies
Scars are hardened, doubt subsides And when you left I died
Fifty lifetimes in a night
Through the fallout, I survive 
Like the Phoenix, I shall rise (climb) Verse 2 Black sky horizons when it rains it pours But the fire still burns and I’ve weathered the storm As you stand behind giants and sully my name Remember slander and jealousy are one in the same I walk tall among the whispers and stares You still hate me and I still don’t care So cast your aspersions while cast off the chains Brace for impact, here comes the pain Chorus 2 So I’ll bide my time and keep these demons tied To the truth behind your lies Heart is hardened, doubt subsides And when you left I died Fifty lifetimes in a night Through the fallout I survive Like the Phoenix, I shall rise Bridge You tried to hold me and kick me when I was down But I'm back on the mic, can you hear me now? We are the Botolph Dissidents
With the syncopated rhythm and the old school riffs Metal, rap, funk, thrash, mixed to taste
We’re raising the bar and dropping the bass Bided our time now it’s time to flow Better call the cops, because we're stealin' the show We’re clearing gangways to the top of the bill You said you won’t listen but I know you will So put up or shut up or hit the bricks
 For those who are with us, we’ve got your six Chorus 3 So I’ll bide my time and keep these demons tied To the truth behind the lies
And when you left I died Fifty lifetimes in a night Through the darkness, I survive
Like the Phoenix, I shall rise I shall climb (rise)

Verse 1 To your delight, the night cuts like a knife
 My thoughts pierce my soul as I look back on my life It all began when I was only four
 Abducted, inducted the slam of the van door Bred for profit a living dividend 
Traded, paraded in this carnal playpen Youth diminished I’ve served my last master Harnessed for harvest tomorrow’s cadaver Pre-Chorus 1 The silence is deafening In the echo chamber of lies When apathy turns eyes blind 
Pale horse stables please abide me Chorus 1 Confiscated passport pages 
Beds and backseats Blood and wages Curated, sedated, post modern cages The Back of the Beyond Bygone fathers impregnation
 Third trimester terminations
 Innocence shattered hither and yon. 
The Back of the Beyond Post-Chorus 1 The silence is deafening In the echo chamber of lies When apathy turns eyes blind
 Pale horse stables please abide me Verse 2 Beyond the lights, the brands and runways 
Is another sixteen hour indentured workday Up on the right and down at the dockside Pregnant migrants’ cardboard bedsides 
Shanty collapses sixteen die
 Nobody cared, nobody cried
 Another honor killing in the countryside
 The accusers came forth, the crowd stepped aside Pre-Chorus 2 The silence is deafening In the echo chamber of lies When apathy turns eyes blind 
Where mercy dares not tread, you’ll find me Chorus 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Confiscated passport pages
 Beds and backseats Blood and wages Curated, sedated, post modern cages The Back of the Beyond Bygone fathers impregnation
 Third trimester terminations 
Innocence shattered hither and yon.
 The Back of the Beyond Post-Chorus 2 The silence is deafening In the echo chamber of lies When apathy turns eyes blind
 Pale horse stables please abide me Guitar Solo Pre-chorus 3 The silence is deafening I’m hidden in plain sight The darkness is closing (darkness closes in) Senses failing, come find me Chorus 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Confiscated passport pages
 Beds and backseats Blood and wages Curated, sedated, post modern cages The Back of the Beyond Bygone fathers impregnations Innocence shattered hither and yon.
 The Back of the Beyond Post-Chorus 2 The silence is deafening When you’re hidden in plain sight When apathy turns eyes blind
 Senses failing, someone please come find me

Intro Chorus Now tell me, you could you walk a mile in my shoes
 How many steps would it take before you refuse? 
How many steps would it take for you? 
To admit that all along you knew Verse 1 I tell you why, that evil prospers and good men die By the hands of sciolists that fortify Conformist mandates that all endure 
Lest you be cast out and forthwith immured Pre-Chorus 1 Imitation is innovation in revisionist history
 The repackaged repainted walls of the archaic society Seniority’s authority breeds elder immaturity Tyrannical piety, perpetual dubiety for all Chorus 1 Now tell me, you could you walk a mile in my shoes
 How many steps would it take before you refuse?
 How many steps would it take for you? 
To admit that all along you knew How many mere paces could you endure Before the pain forces you to implore Mercy from those to whom you cast this lot The Sensibilities that you besought Verse 2 The Armchair experts who decide 
Who gets passage, and who’s denied To stand for one is to fall for all Collective relegation to devolve Pre-Chorus 2
 Stand tall, alone if you must remain a pillar through settled dust How soon we let them forget And compound interest on our debts When they equate equality with personal depravity
 There’s decreased opportunity, pecuniary tragedy for all Chorus 2 Now tell me, you could you walk a mile in my shoes
 How many steps would it take before you refuse? 
How many steps would it take for you? 
To admit that all along you knew How many mere paces could you endure Before the pain forces you to Implore Mercy from those to whom you cast this lot The sensibilities that you besought Bridge The courage to open the door To let the world into to explore To live the words upon the page Pride makes a fool of the wisest sage Solo Chorus 3 Now tell me, you could you walk a mile in my shoes
 How many steps would it take before you refuse? 
How many steps would it take for you?
 To admit that all along you knew How many mere paces could you endure Before the pain forces you to implore Mercy from those to whom you cast this lot The sensibilities that you besought

UNSHRIVEN A song about climate change, political and corporate environmental crimes Intro Chorus Unshriven scape goats ignorant pawns So the rich kids can dabble to try and play God Olympus has fallen and deserted the gates
Ten minutes too early, one hundred years late Verse 1 Death escapes you, blind and alone
Pit latrine caverns, a place to call home Buzzards pick the bones of livestock and man Hell descends back from whence it began Pre-Chorus 1A Dormant - pathogens emancipated Airborne - thawed viral judgement cellular destruction Bloodborne - cellular destruction Melt from within and piss out your organs Dormant - pathogens emancipated Airborne - thawed viral judgement cellular destruction Bloodborne - cellular destruction Melt from within and piss out your organs Pre-Chorus 1B Natural selection elected to desert us
To flip the switch, to wipe the slate, to wash away To bring to pass the sins that deserve us to resurface Chorus 1 Unshriven scape goats ignorant pawns
So the rich kids can dabble to try and play God Olympus has fallen and deserted the gates
ten minutes too early and one hundred years late Post-Chorus - 1
The science we cursed cannot save us now
The bait had been switched, but no one knew how Parched riverbeds with seas sown as the causalities To harvest the fruits their greed fueled atrocities Verse 2 No mourners..... no funeral no last rites Forgotten no tombstones no gravesites Abandoned for celestial frontiers Neo-Cro-Magnon tribal warfare Pre-Chorus 2A Dormant - pathogens emancipated Airborne - thawed viral judgement cellular destruction Bloodborne - cellular destruction Melt from within and piss out your organs Dormant - pathogens emancipated Airborne - thawed viral judgement cellular destruction Bloodborne - cellular destruction Melt from within and piss out your organs Pre-Chorus 2B Natural selection has elected to desert us
To flip the switch, to wipe the slate, to wash away To bring to pass the sins that deserve us to resurface Chorus 2 Unshriven scape goats ignorant pawns
So the rich kids can dabble to try and play God Olympus has fallen and deserted the gates Ten minutes too early and one hundred years late Post-Chorus - 2 They cut off the lights to the city on the hill
Put it on the tab and stiffed us with the bill
So we pay for the sins of other men’s bygone fathers Millions of conscripted pacifist martyrs

The Wolf Who Cried Boy V1 Fear not the fist, fear not the pain Fear not the trench fear not the blade For we have borne the weight of chains Feared not the fist, feared not the pain Feared not the trench feared not the blade Inscribe at dawn upon my grave If I shall fall before I wade, In freedom’s rivers, don’t forsake Chorus 1 We begged, we stole we borrowed And sewed the seeds of sorrow for Greener pastures of someday (The crimson saturated ancestral plains) And it was all for naught for they had soon forgot And the orchards have been stripped away Of which we’ll be six feet under anyway Verse 2 Gather around for the public castration Of another who couldn’t remember to forget the truth Assume the position, kowtaw to the nation As the state puppeteer readies the lube The money tree has turned to wormwood Seeps to the roots of society Poisons the redwoods that always withstood Now the tail wags the dog so get back on your leash Chorus 2 We begged, we stole we borrowed And sewed the seeds of sorrow for Greener pastures of someday But it was all for naught so don’t give a second thought to What you think they thought you’d say We’ll be six feet under anyway Verse 3 Man bites dogma, dogma bites man Wolf cries boy and all is planned Flames of division have been fanned Boy Is banished from the land Freedom for safety we shan’t trade The battles beckoned, we obeyed In ancestor's emblems, we stand arrayed Victory’s arias cascade ———————————————— Chorus 3 We begged, we stole we borrowed And sewed the seeds of sorrow for Greener pastures of someday (The crimson saturated ancestral plains) And it was all for naught for they had soon forgot And the orchards had been stripped away Of which we’ll be six feet under anyway We begged, we stole we borrowed And sewed the seeds of sorrow for Greener pastures of someday And it was all for naught… Of which we’ll be six feet under anyway