We can't keep something alive   That has no heart   Doing what is good   Is not doing what is right   So the beat goes on      Time has come to be a hero   See your name in bright lights   Swept away with grand illusions   Force fed visions of fame   Your guard is down   You are the hunted   In a corporate world   That has no shame   Contracts signed all hail the new kings   Kept in a state of eternal bliss to be      Stranded like thousands that went before me   Stranded but I will never lay down come on      [Chorus :]   Break out, rise up from oblivion   Rise up, sinners an saints   Break out, rise up from oblivion   Rise up, black sheep shall survive      Bathing in short living glory   Quickly becoming a faded memory   Drowning in the hidden vortex   Overflowed with ruined lives   Beaten by the glamour forces   *harvest fruitful lays between the lies   This phoenix rises out from the ashes   From a light that never goes out      Stranded like thousands that went before me   Stranded but I will never lay down come on      [Chorus (1x)]      Stranded like thousands that went before me   Stranded but I will never lay down   Stranded like thousands that went before me   Stranded but I will never lay down come on      [Chorus (2x)]