Gardenian Two Feet Stand 1. Two Feet Stand Strong is he who fights for his beliefs Everyday he struggles with his grief Crossbound by all his friends Listen he's taking all the blame For you and me Just don't loose your faith in me Preaches about hell on earth No one cares, but wants to be like you... to be you You and I return alive into a world that's mine again Warfare! Standing on my own Love her! Love her on the throne Left her! Left her all alone The bleeding, stands Closer now to put an end to this Feel her, touch her and the pain would go Griefing your loss of her Standing on my own Two feet stand Two feet stand 2. Flipside Of Reality Why did I do such a thing to myself, my family and friends I distracted them with lies I thought they were blind but yet they saw What was I doing to me I was so blind Ain't got the time Ain't got the time to straighten up myself I fooled everyone with my tearfilled eyes but not only with lies Also with my cries I figured I was better but really I don't know Cause nothing exists! In my head those voices screaming wake me up I must be dreaming In my head those voices screaming dreaming No one can ever drag me back to shoot I've got my own free choice Working with learning other people to know how to handle it And accepting all the lies Fiction reality makes 'em cry I got my own free choices Ain't got the time Ain't got the time To straighten up myself Fall down again Falling again to the Flipside of reality 3. The Downfall Even though it sounds easy you should relate to the fall My inner words of rage bursting through my head if it is what it seems You should be much closer to the rage that I feel It's glowing Deep down in my mind I see you feel the same as me stay brave As they always stare right through you They don't notice you Even though they should, you're a quite special guy that's what you think Don't you, but you're nothing! you mean nothing to me Nothing special at all you are just a looser that sickens us all You should try to end it all you're confused by your tolerance That's just totally unnecessary right now! Just end your life Downfall, Downfall, Downfall End your life now [repeat chorus] 4. Awake Of Abuse Keep me awake, speak to me I don't ever want to sleep again I can see you look at the bruises on my arms and neck, my swollen throat Now at the time I'm just flowing with the stream and I'm trying to bring back my life Patience, endless rules brings me back and forth my own domestic war Wake me into another world where there is no pain and hurt It all submits that I shouldn't take to be abused anymore Keep on living but still afraid and would it be too late [repeat chorus] 5. Netherworld [Instrumental] 6. Do Me Now Get me done Clear your arm for another shoot Inject me! Feel the tension that chills your bones your step belongs to me So don't face me / so don't face me So don't confront me / Don't confront me So don't face me / so don't face me So don't confront me / try to do me now I am the one who makes your stands I am the nightmare they tried to hide So keep me close to your heart You never thought it could hurt so bad [repeat chorus] 7. Murder... Why don't you... Feel like I feel The true Reality My words are no lies But yet not devine Murder... My one domain Murder... My life in flames Why don't you... Pull out your head Out from your ass I'm not filled with pain But so filled with shame I'm not one of those Who escapes the world A purpose shall be done My wrecking haunted gun Acting the same And I'm not filled with shame But yet I feel pain More and more everyday All this pain!! Murder... My one domain Murder... A living flame I'm not one of those Who escapes the world A purpose shall be served to my untrue world Where I'm a hated man And I kill just to be heard A purpose shall be served To the untrue world 8. Freedom It's all completely silent except memories of the past More freedom [x2] All I am refusing is the mortal man that enslaves More freedom [x2] Explain it all to me I'm pale and broken free More freedom, freedom I can't feel more for than I've always done Detest your holy war extermination grows Grotesc inprisonment character denied Furious visions of the life we proceed LIFE! It's all completely silent of all and any screams More freedom [x2] Explain it all to me I'm pale and broken free More freedom, freedom This is a picture attached to your war Make me see what you see extermination lost Killings of hundreds doesn't even make you flinch A runaway incarcerated they took away your soul SOUL! When extermination grows I hope you feel that much you die No one can see how difficult it seems With my luck I soon will cease to be Incarceration the loss of my soul bury me in hell Bury me in flowers I just past (passed?) away Now I'm free There is something caught behind my eye Run to the end the screams before you are nothing Extermination lacks Increased or something lost upon the throne You are nothing to us it's a war Walking hand in hand embodying my soul From the gates of pain into a home of joy Keep fighting for your rights Expand your freedom 9. Mindless Domination You're destroying everything Everything you touch When you are here in me This is how close you'll get with me, I'm like the criminal Insane with an urge of rage in me I shouldn't still be free The voices in my head twist my mind groundly Paralyzed my fears of my own judgement Not standing on my own controlled by a voice in my head Losing the control of life can't decide about my own visions of life So sickened of the lies The voices in my head twist my mind groundly Paralyzed my fears of my own judgement Cause of what they say no matter what Still I hear their screams, terrified, afraid Grow A piece is getting sicker my mind is contaged Insane, prevailed It could happen to us all in a day Falling down into my crypt The voices in my head will stay free Voices! The voices in my head twist my mind groundly Paralyzed my fears of my own judgement Cause of what they say no matter what Still I hear their screams, terrified, afraid 10. The Silent Fall [Instrumental] 11. Ecstasy Of Life [Bonus Track, Japan only] Line-up: Hakan Skoger: Bass Niclas Engelin: Lead guitar Thim Blom: Drums Jim Kjell: Rhytmic guitar / vocals Facts: All music by Gardenian and lyrics by Jim Kjell except for "Do Me Now" by Niclas Engelin and "Flipside Of Reality" by Jim Kjell and Patrik Jerksten. Recorded at Studio Fredman during Dec 96. Mixed in Jan 97. Produced by Fredrik Nordstr�m and Gardenian. Engineered by F. Nordstr�m Mixed by Rune Johansson and Gardenian. Mastered at the mastering room GBG. Front cover artwork by J.P.Fournier - Booklet design by Dr Loveless. All photos by Thomas Brandeby using "his own equipment". Keyboards played by Thomas Fredriksson. The voice from above in "Flipside Of Reality" and the nice little chat on "Two Feet Stand" by Patrik Jerksten.