WRITTEN, PRODUCED, ARRANGED & MIXED BY Tom Beier MUSICIANS Vocals, drums, keyboards & synths: Tom Beier Guitars: Joe Beier Bass: David Piersol-Freedman Low voice: Egor Drums tracks 2 & 8: Frank Basile Children voices track 2: Natalie & Victoria Beier, Nicole Cloonan Metal guitars tracks 3 & 7: Rusty Daniels Acoustic guitar track 4: David Piersol-Freedman Bass track 10: Joe Beier, Bass track 9: Tom Beier RECORDED AT The Sonic Palace (Framingham, MA) Skyscape Studios (Minneapolis, MN) Thunder Lab (Duluth, MN) www.livestudiodrums.com MASTERING Jonathan Wyner (M-Works Cambridge, MA) ART DESIGN AND PHOTOGRAPHY Robert Louis Photo-Art LYRICS 1 AM I JUST A ROBOT Got to get to work on time My job’s already on the line Repetition is my best friend For tomorrow i awake to do it all again Pressures of society Won’t let up on me I’m in search of gold and pearls I’m a warm blooded robot in the modern world Am i just a robot waiting for the next command? Built with flesh and blood, this is who i am Am i just a robot is this where i stand? No! i’m alive and feeling this is who i am Feed me with technology Upscale my efficiency High performance critical Grow to be powerful Chorus shift and interchange us all at any time no warning call we can sense the influence of artificial intelligence if you were alive again what would you think thomas edison? drawn upon scientific principles nothing is impossible Chorus 2 SAVE TOMORROW all in one i’d wish we’d be and all our souls are free an ego needs to feel superior hold the power over those they think inferior some seek to destroy trade their life for seven virgins cradle to the grave but everybody loves their children PLEASE, PLEASE LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY there’s a price to pay if we don’t wise up now look back look around beware we will burn to the ground are we gonna let it happen? save tomorrow so who’s to say who is right and holds the key? can reason be instilled in a hijacked religion? is that the flaw we face threatening the human race? some would rather slay cradle to the grave but everybody loves their children Chorus 3 ATOMIC HYPNOSIS instrumental 4 EARTHQUAKE 5:13 a vision came to me of death and tragedy i saw the buildings fall oh yes i saw it all! and it was then i knew i had to warn the few of earthquake 5:13 mirror mirror on the wall why are you shaking? i’ll move you to a safe place to keep you from breaking now the whole room is moving to a rumbling vibration plaster's peeling off the walls what a strange sensation earthquake 5:13 tormented by the knowledge of tragedy ahead i saw the suffering the countless that were dead it became my duty to report my vision but no one believed me they just wouldn’t listen earthquake 5:13 just a few minutes left maybe two or three at best then the walls will shake and then the ground will quake and they’ll remember me the ones that would not see earthquake 5:13 5 LEGEND OF THE GENETICAL BEAST it all began where the cherokee claimed their land not too long ago maybe 40 years or so industry moved in the indians couldn’t win consciously the chemicals were dumped into virgin lakes the waste pumped the wild life became crazy, genetically changing as time went on the creature spawned surviving as nature can he will be ready for man the campers didn’t know that their lives were about to end from the shadows came the beast searching for his human feast man’s ignorance has made it this way now everyone is scared the evil of nature they dared no one knows what to do where to turn or hide the war between man and beast has just begun the prophecy has come true the creature grows the creature breathes he knows no death Genetical Beast 6 WHEN WILL I SEE THE SUN AGAIN feel the cold wind sending shiver through my body a gray cloud hands above my picture it looks at me everyday afraid to face the world and that i might slip, i retreat in despair i would do anything to get this monkey off my back i can’t take the strain take the pain i don’t wanna live my life in vain when will i see the sun again? i’m beginning to see where i’ve gone wrong gotta learn the meaning of love stuck inside myself got to find away out but like the wiseman had to learn how to live it’s a matter of shedding skin when will i see the sun again? i'm beginning to see i'm beginning to love i'm beginning to grow i'm looking ahead when will i see the sun again? 7 SPIRITS OF THE UNDERWORLD way down below lies a place where sinners go fire is the light day is night all the gates are closed all the dead has risen burning souls all around no escape can be found spirits of the underworld go leave us alone spirits of the underworld return back to your grave some people will follow the kingdom lies they swallow carrying out their dreadful task wearing the demon mask so when you go to bed tonight say your prayers and don’t turn out the light they’re reaching out for you and me to steal your soul and make you bleed chorus way down below lies a place where sinners go fire buring hot in the land of distraught so when you go to bed tonight say your prayers and don’t turn out the light cause they’re out to get you and me to steal your soul and make you bleed Chorus 8 YOU SHINE BRIGHT ON ME i made a promise to myself to give it the best shot, to give it hell but nothing comes easy, nothing’s free just try to live my life and do a good deed you shine bright on me lit the way so i could see a better place to go where love grows and in this fruitful garden vivid colors i can see paint the picture my friend i made the decision, stood my ground nothing to lose, i scream out loud lived through it all, now i recognize there’s a truth greater, there’s another side chorus when the demons come come to torture my soul i’m saved by the light of an angel you shine bright on me lit the way so i could see to a better place you shine bright on me 9 TIME STANDING STILL with every beat of hearts no matter who we are we march to the drummer in the theater of life days turn into nights winter turns to summer can we really understand? touch our lives with our hands taste the meaning of it all feel the light before we fall time time time standing still (it never stands still) like the sun in the sky like the clock we live by all is measured moving forward we’re alive it’s what its takes to survive time is treasure if we’ve could stop and see it all like a painting on a wall but that desire is not to be time keeps pushing endlessly Chorus 10 LIFE’S A ONE WAY TICKET RIDE bright and sunny morning i’m so glad you came last night we stayed up and talked for hours about how the times are changing and what we’re given life’s a one way ticket ride i’ll take your hand you’ll take mine what you want to do today? ride our bikes along the trail have you heard from mark and lori? i hope your mama's doing well chorus we stayed up all night breaking all the rules driving nowhere thinking we were cool mom and dad don’t know anything i think they’re going insane then we all split up and followed our dreams now that time’s gone by what have we achieved? have we learned what really matters? life’s a one way ticket ride our destiny we’ll meet in time