The Mission - Phantom Pain

I think I should go back on the chemicals again

Everything I do feels so tedious and mundane

I have everything I've ever wanted so I don't know why

Sometimes there are days when all I wanna do is die

There is no logic to my way of fucked up thinking

I'm a drift on the sea of apathy and I'm sinking

Every conversation I have feels so inane

How have I become so blasé and numb to pleasure or pain

Sometimes it feels like the night will never end

Sometimes it feels like despair is my only friend

Sometimes when the sky is blue all I feel is rain

Sometimes I feel nothing at all but phantom pain

Phantom pain

It's a dark road I take, crossing Rubicon

Just like Leda I lay in the embrace of the unholy swan

Can't put a brave face on my inertia any longer

I can't live this masquerade, no more

Sometimes it feels like the night will never end

Sometimes it feels like darkness is my only friend

S ometimes when the sky is blue all I feel is rain

Sometimes I feel nothing at all but phantom pain

Phantom pain

Sometimes I feel nothing at all but phantom pain...

The Mission - Tyranny of Secrets

Well, I'll be damned
And so will you
There's so many things

We can't undo
The guilt of Cain
Falls to all men
The same mistakes
We make again and again
And again and again and again...

Keep nailing myself
To the same bloody cross
There's always faith
When hope is lost
Where once we would
Share and confide
Now there's sad truths
We hold inside

We hide it away
We hide it away
It's the tyranny
The tyranny of secrets
Of secrets

We've sailed this ship
Through troubled waters
And cast her anchor
On strange shores
And now she's sinking
We're clinging to her mast
Sometimes it's hard
To forgive the past
And now we live
In worlds estranged
A code of silence
Everything has changed

We hide it away
We hide it away
It's the tyranny
The tyranny of secrets
Of secrets

"He swore no allegiance"
Will be my epitaph
Another dead language
In the aftermath

I hide it away
You hide it away
We hide it away
It's the tyranny
The tyranny of secrets
The tyranny of secrets

The tyranny, the tyranny of secrets!

The Mission - Jade

She came as Lolita dressed as Venus
And adorned with stars
With her deft allusion and a universe between us
She showed me her skill with words and I showed her my scars
Don't mistake kindness for affection, she said
Don't ever let the attention go to your head
No more let death divide what life can join together
But just remember there is nothing that can last forever

And jade is benediction
She is silent prayer
And jade is exaltation
The colours that I wear
And jade is contradiction
She is naked but never bare
Jade is a work, a work of fiction
Nothing more than castles in the air

The shorter the leash the harder I will pull
My glass is empty when once it was full
I wish I could be Jesus and turn water into wine
'Cause all my grapes have withered, withered on the vine
With a smile like mercury, eluisve and fey
There's a beauty in the night that can't be seen by day
She's a barbed wire angel insatiable and cruel
She destroys my resistance like the most dazzling jewel

And jade is apostasy
Abandoned faith & hope
Jade is hypocrisy
She is kaleidoscope
And jade is precious stone
Impervious and rare
And jade will never atone
For the flowers in her hair
And jade never sleeps alone
There's always someone there
With Jade

To rest their head on her thigh
To make her moist when she is dry
To hold the breath of every sigh
To pledge their life and vow to die
To kiss the sleep from her eyes
To dry the tears when she cries
And jade is all and jade is none
And jade is moon and she is sun
And jade is you and everyone
And she is me and and all I've done
And jade is lost and she is won
And jade is the bullet shot from your gun

The Mission - Within The Deepest Darkness (Fearful)

Loneliness can lead to acts of desperation and strange places

And emptiness can breed the aching fascination for strange faces

Solitude can be a toxic state of mind

Fester and decay like a cancer

Ponder and brood I don't mean to be unkind

But hiding away is not the answer

So reach out, hold out your arms

Don't be scared to stumble and fall

Reach out, hold out your arms

There's nothing to be fearful, fearful, fearful of at all

Fearful of at all

Fearful of at all

Fearful of at all

Your worst fears can lie in hopeless rejection and neglect

Cupid spears can fly and bring affection when you least expect

In anticipation of venial pleasure

Your imagination runs away

Desire and temptation in equal measure

Infatuation you can't deny

So reach out, hold out your arms

Don't be scared to stumble and fall

Reach out, hold out your arms

There's nothing to be fearful, fearful, fearful of at all

Fearful of at all

Fearful of at all

Fearful of at all

Inshallah (Inshallah)

Reach out, hold out your arms

Don't be scared to stumble and fall

Reach out, hold out your arms

Raise your head high and stand up tall

Reach out, hold out your arms

Don't be scared to stumble and fall

Reach out, hold out your arms

There's nothing to be fearful, fearful, fearful of at all

Fearful of at all

Fearful of at all

Fearful of at all

(There's nothing to be fearful)

(There's nothing to be fearful of at all)