01.

Empty Walls
02. The Unthinking Majority
03. Money
04. Feed Us
05. Saving Us
06. Sky Is Over
07. Baby
08. Honking Antelope
09. Lie Lie Lie
10. Praise The Lord And
Pass The Ammunition
11.Beethoven’s C***
12. Elect The Dead

BONUS TRACKS
13. The Reverend King
14. Blue
15. Falling Stars
Empty Walls
Empty Walls, empty walls
Pretentious attention
Dismissive apprehension
Don’t waste your time on coffins today
When we decline from the confines of our mind
Don’t waste your time on coffins today
Don’t you see their bodies burning
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Don’t you see their bodies burning
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
I want you to be left behind those
empty walls,
Taunt you to see from behind those
empty walls,
Those empty walls,
When we decline from the
confines of our mind
Don’t waste your time
on coffins today
Don’t you see their bodies burning
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Don’t you see their bodies burning
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
I want you to be left
behind those empty walls,
Taunt you to see from
behind those empty walls,
Want you to be left
behind those empty walls,
I taught you to see from
behind those empty walls,
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
The walls,
I loved you yesterday before
you killed my family.
Don’t you see
their bodies burning
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
I want you to be left
behind those empty walls,
Taunt you to see from
behind those empty walls,
Want you to be left
behind those empty walls,
I taught you to see from
behind those empty walls,
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
Those walls, those walls.
The Unthinking Majority
We don’t need your democracy
Execute them kindly for me
Take them by their filthy nostrils
Put them up in doggie hostels
We don’t need your hypocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority
Anti-depressants
Controlling to ols of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable
Anti-depressants
Controlling to ols of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable
We don’t need your hypocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority
Anti-depressants
Controlling to ols of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable
Anti-depressants
Controlling to ols of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable
We don’t need your hypocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority
We don’t need your hypocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority
I believe that you’re wrong
Insinuating they hold the bomb
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
I believe that you’re wrong
Insinuating they hold the bomb
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
Anti-depressants
Controlling to ols of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable
Anti-depressants
Controlling to ols of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable
Anti-depressants
Controlling to ols of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable
I believe that you’re wrong
Insinuating they hold the bomb
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
We don’t need your hypocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority
We don’t need your democracy
Execute them kindly for me
Take them by their filthy nostrils
Put them up in doggie hostels
We don’t need your hypocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority
I believe that you’re wrong
Insinuating they hold the bomb
Clearing the way for
the oil brigade
Clearing the way for
the oil brigade.
Money
Money,
All for money,
Save your money,
Hide your money,
Stuff your money,
Hump your money
Keep your money
All for money,
Waning patience
People’s appetite
Disposition
This possession
Dispossessed from all
the attractions,
Dancing bears of eroticism,
Self absorbed delusion
Inclusion of dysfunction,
I now await the triumphant
Lost baggage, train station,
The causes of ineptitude
Can be traced to my
mandatory down,
The causes of my servitude
Can be traced to the tyranny
of
Money,
All for money,
Make your money,
Hide your money,
Stuff your money,
Hump your money
Save your money
All for money,
My final surrender
Away from inclusion
I now await the triumphant,
Left baggage, train station,
The causes of ineptitude
Can be traced to my
mandatory down,
The causes of my
servitude
Can be traced to the
tyranny of a down,
The causes of
ineptitude
Can be traced to my
mandatory down,
The causes of my
servitude
Can be traced to the
tyranny of
Money,
All for money,
Make your money,
Hide your money,
Stuff your money,
Hump your money
Save your money
All for money,
Money, money,
money, money.
 Feed Us
Maybe we believe
She was ready to go
In the morning light
Maybe you believe
That she was made of gold
In the east where you killed her
You lead us
When you need to feed us
You comfortably delete us
When you need your fetus,
You cheat us when you
feed us with the lie,
Stars lo ok out and,
Cheat us when you
feed us with the lie,
Stars lo ok out,
Go odbye, go odbye,
She speaks unrehearsed
Languages from skin
In the morning light
Painting shadows on the
faces of the dead
In front of their widows,
You cheat us when you
feed us with the lie,
Stars lo ok out and,
Cheat us when you
feed us with the lie,
Before it’s to o late,
Do you know that life is ending,
As we go, the dots connecting,
We had our chance to save the garden,
As it dies, our souls will harden,
With these words chastising
your conscience
We’re breaking through and
praying for transcendence.
But you deceived us all now,
You cheat us when you
feed us with the lie,
Stars lo ok out and,
Cheat us when you
feed us with the lie,
Stars lo ok out,
Cheat us when you
feed us with the lie,
Stars lo ok out and,
Cheat us when you
feed us with the lie,
Stars lo ok out.
Saving Us
Why do we sit around and Why do we sit around and Forever alive, forever alive,
Break each other’s Break each other’s hearts tonight, forever, forever,
hearts tonight, Why do we dance around Forever alive, forever alive,
Why do we dance around The issues till the morning light, forever,
The issues till the When we sit and talk and Never and ever again,
morning light, Tear each other’s lives apart,
When we sit and talk and You were the one to tell me go, You’re tearing us,
Tear each other’s lives apart, But you were the one for me you’re tearing us,
You were the one And now you’re going You’re breaking us,
to tell me go, through the do or you’re breaking us,
But you were the one for me When you take that step You’re killing us, killing us,
And now you’re going I love you baby more and more You’re saving us,
through the do or We need to laugh and sing and cry you’re saving us,
When you take that step And warm each other’s You’re tearing us,
I love you baby hearts tonight, you’re tearing us,
more and more Observing the fun of everything You’re breaking us,
We need to laugh and And loving all of mother God, breaking us,
sing and cry You’re killing us, killing us,
And warm each other’s Tearing us, You’re saving us,
hearts tonight, you’re tearing us, Forever alive, forever alive,
Observing the fun of everything You’re breaking us, forever, forever,
And loving all of mother God, you’re breaking us, Forever alive, forever alive,
You’re killing us, forever,
Tearing us, killing us, Never and ever again.
you’re tearing us, You’re saving us,
You’re breaking us, you’re saving us,
you’re breaking us, You’re tearing us,
You’re killing us, you’re tearing us,
killing us, You’re breaking us,
You’re saving us, breaking us,
you’re saving us, You’re killing us, killing us,
You’re tearing us, You’re saving us,
you’re tearing us,
You’re breaking us,
breaking us,
You’re killing us, killing us,
You’re saving us,
 Sky Is Over
Everybody knows, Don’t you want to
Everybody knows, hold me baby,
That you cradle the sun, sun Disappointed, going crazy,
Living in remorse,
Sky is over, Not even from the sun,
Not even from the sun
Don’t you want to hold me baby, Not even from the sun,
Disappointed, going crazy, Don’t you want me to run,

Even though we can’t afford Even though you can’t afford

The sky is over,
Even though we can’t afford
The sky is over,
I don’t want to see you go,
The sky is over
Even though we can’t afford
The sky is over,
Behind closed eyes lie
the minds ready to awaken you,
Are you at war with land
And all of its creatures,
Your not-so-gentle persuasion
Has been known to
wreck economies
Of countries, of empires,
the sky is over,
The sky is over,
Even though we can’t afford
The sky is over,
I don’t want to see you go,
The sky is over
Even though we can’t afford
The sky is over,
I don’t want to see you go,
The sky is over
Even though we can’t afford
The sky is over,
I don’t want to see you go,
The sky is over
Even though we can’t afford
The sky is over,
The sky is over us.
 Baby
You came to me Baby oh baby,
within a dream Baby my baby,
Not everyone Baby o oh babe
is who they seem, I miss you, lalala,
All these words Baby oh baby,
we can’t redeem, Baby my babe,
Like the great magic Baby o oh babe
of our world, I miss you
Corroborated by your words,
Splitting planets into thirds. Leave me alone,
Leave me alone,
Baby oh baby, Now why can’t you see that you
Baby my baby, always perturb me so
Baby o oh babe Nearing the end of the world,
I miss you, lalala, just leave me alone,
Baby oh baby, leave me alone
Baby my babe, Why can’t you see that you
Baby o oh babe always perturb me so
I miss you Nearing the end of the world,
leave me alone,
To all the leaves leave me alone.
that fall in vain,
While god and goddess Baby oh baby,
go insane Baby my baby,
All these words in your domain, Baby o oh babe
The watches kill time I miss you, lalala,
as the bo oks read, Baby oh baby,
Inadvertently we bleed Baby my babe,
Fighting for what we deceive, Baby o oh babe
I miss you
 Honking Antelope
Why don’t you go photograph When you see that honking antelope,
Everything that ever passed The secret dance of snakes,
in time, the tales of it all,
Indigenous traces, tribal chiefs, When you see that honking antelope,
Vanishing hereditary lines, The secret dance of snakes,
Poets gone wild on the muse the tales of it all,
Prophets all destroying the Tao,
Of it all,
When you see that honking antelope, Run away with me now,
The secret dance of snakes, Run away with me now,
the tales of it all, My love,

Nature based beings will survive We are the cause of a world

Apocalyptic days of now, that’s gone wrong,
Poets gone wild on the muse Nature will survive us
Prophets all destroying the Tao, human dogs after all,
We are the cause of a world
When you see that that’s gone wrong,
honking antelope, Wouldn’t it be great to heal the world
The secret dance of snakes, With only a song.
the tales of it all,

Of it all,
Run away with me now,
Run away with me now,
My life,

We are the cause of a world

that’s gone wrong,
Nature will survive us
human dogs after all,

Why don’t you go and photograph

Everything that ever passed
in time,
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao,
 Lie Lie Lie
My baby, my baby,
Let me know
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Because you love me, you love me
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Let me go
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
And you’re my lover, you pay me
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Twice my size
and on your knees
She to ok my hand and I let her go
you lay in my thighs,
She broke her little bones
On the boulders below,
Take my hand and let’s end it all,
To ok my hand and she ended it all,
She broke her little bones
Broke her little bones on
On the boulders below,
the boulders below
Take my hand and let’s end it all,
And while she fell, I smiled.

My baby, my baby
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Let me go,
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
And if you love me, you love me,
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Let me go,
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Cause I’m your brother, your brother,
Have some pride,
And now you love me, you love me
Then die tonight

Take my hand and let’s end it all,

She broke her little bones
On the boulders below,
Take my hand and let’s end it all,
Broke her little bones
On the boulders below,
And while she fell
I delightfully said,
Praise The Lord And Pass
The Ammunition
Come lay it down, won’t you,
Come burn it down, can’t you,
Lay it down,
the guns above the ground
Come lay it down, won’t you,
Come burn it down, can’t you,
Lay it down,
the guns above the ground
Nlelith is a prophet
From the prophet came the king
From the king came the pauper
From the pauper came the swing
From the swing came creation
From creation came love,
You don’t know what this
love is all about,
Praise the Lord and
pass the ammunition
Praise praise the Lord and
pass the ammunition,
Life affirming and our
spiritual trust
Lay it down, won’t you,
Come burn it down,
can’t you,
Lay it down,
the guns above the ground
Nlelith is a prophet
From the prophet came
the king
From the king came the
pauper
From the pauper came the swing
From the swing came creation
From creation came love,
You don’t know what this
love is all about,
Praise the Lord and
pass the ammunition
Praise praise the Lord and
pass the ammunition,
Praise the Lord and
pass the ammunition
Praise praise the Lord and
pass the ammunition,
Buddha, Mohammad and the Hindu
Lost 100
Praise the Lord and
pass the ammunition
Praise praise the Lord and
pass the ammunition,
People still ask when will
Armageddon begin,
Dragging my feet any longer through
the pussy litter,
Dragging my feet any longer through
the pussy litter,
Dragging my feet any longer through
the pussy litter,
Nlelith is a prophet
From the prophet came the king
From the king came the pauper
From the pauper came the swing
From the swing came creation
From creation came love,
You don’t know
what this love is all about,
Praise the Lord and
pass the ammunition
Praise praise the Lord and pass
the ammunition,
Praise the Lord and pass the
ammunition
Praise praise the Lord and pass
the ammunition,
Do we ever have enough,
When we see that blue dove
Do we ever have enough
When we see that blue dove
We want to go where
no one’s been
No one’s been.
Come lay it down,
won’t you,
Come burn it down,
can’t you,
Lay it down,
the guns above the ground,
Won’t you.
 Beethoven’s C***
Brushing, touching, feeling on your shoulders,
Believing, appealing, kneeling in your worlds,
Oceans are combined,
Being that I love you so much
In the end they all will say
Breaking someone else’s heart again,
Find the little evil perpetrator
And feed him to the hungry alligator
You want it all, You want it all,
Love is not about the profits
Nor the riches in your dreams,
The arms of time are breaking off,
Civilization is on trial,
The clocks eliminating time
Do you believe in me,
I’ve been walking through
these dead farms
But I don’t mind,
I’ve been screaming through
these dead lungs,
But I can’t find,
Being that I love you
so much
In the end they
all will say
Breaking someone
else’s heart again,
Find the little
evil perpetrator
And feed her to
the hungry alligator
You want it all,
You want it all,
Love is not about the profits
Nor the riches in your dreams,
The arms of time are breaking off,
Civilization is on trial,
The clocks eliminating time,
Do you believe, in me,
But lately I’ve been blind
You leave me all alone, left in time,
You left me here to die, left in time,
Leave me all alone, left in time,
The arms of time are breaking off,
Civilization is on trial,
The clocks eliminating time
Do you believe in nothing.
But lately I’ve been blind
Leave me all alone, left in time.
 Elect The Dead
Arms are raised
above the sky, Death we know
But all I want is me Comes to us alive
But all I want is you,
You are there Death we know
beside the night Comes to all of us alive

But I all I want is me But all I want is you,

All I want is me. All I need is you,
All I want……..
Love we know
Comes from inside,
But all I want is me,
All I want is me.

Lyrics Reprinted by Permission. All Rights Reserved.

 All Songs Written & Performed by Serj Tankian
(Guitars, Bass, Piano, Vocals, Synthesizers, Drum Programming, Melodica, Bells,
and various tone generating beauties) – Stunning Suppository Sounds (BMI)
All songs recorded at Serjical Strike Studios
Produced by Serj Tankian
Engineered by Dan Monti & Serj Tankian, except as noted
Mastered by Vlado Meller at Sony Music Studios in New York, NY

ELECT THE DEAD:

All drums recorded at The Pass in Los Angeles, CA
Drum Engineer – Krish Sharma
Assistant Drum Engineer – Bo Joe
Drum Technician at The Pass – Sako Karaian
Mixed by Neal Avron at Paramount Recording Studios in Los Angeles, CA
Mix Assistant – Nicholas Fournier
Drumming on Tracks 1, 3, 7-9, 11 by Brain
Drumming on Track 2 by John Dolmayan
Drumming on Tracks 4 & 5 by Brain and John Dolmayan
Drum Programming on Track 6 by Dan Monti
Additional Guitar on Tracks 1-4, 6, 8, 11 by Dan Monti
Additional Bass on Tracks 2, 6-9, 11 by Dan Monti
Additional Solo Guitar on Track 5 by Diran Noubar
Additional Vocals on Tracks 5 & 9 by Ani Maldjian
Additional Cello on Tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12 by Cameron Stone
Additional Violin on Tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 8 by Antonio Pontarelli
Additional Synthesizers on Track 6 by Dan Monti and Fabrice Favre

BONUS TRACKS:
Drums on “Falling Stars” recorded at The Pass in Los Angeles, CA
Additional Engineering on “Blue” by Thom Russo
Drum Engineer on “Falling Stars” – Krish Sharma
Assistant Drum Engineer on “Falling Stars” – Bo Joe
Drum Technician on “Falling Stars” – Sako Karaian
“The Reverend King” Engineered by Serj Tankian
“The Reverend King” & “Blue” Mixed by Serj Tankian & Dan Monti
“Falling Stars” Mixed by Neal Avron
“Falling Stars” Mix Assistant – Nicholas Fournier
Drumming on “Falling Stars” by John Dolmayan
Violin Solo on “Falling Stars” by Antonio Pontarelli
Additional Guitars on “Falling Stars” by Dan Monti
Additional Violin on “Falling Stars” by Antonio Pontarelli
Additional Cello on “Falling Stars” by Cameron Stone
A&R - Craig Aaronson & George Tonikian
Original Artwork Provided by Vahe Berberian
Album Packaging Design by Keith Aazami
PDF Layout by Jodi Tack
Worldwide Management: Dave Holmes and Darin Harmon
Bo oking (US) – Don Muller at CAA
Bo oking (Europe) – Emma Banks at CAA
Photography by Greg Watermann
Legal – Don Passman and Gene Salomon at
Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, Inc.
Business Management – David Weise at DW & Associates
John Dolmayan appears courtesy of American/Columbia Records

I would like to thank and acknowledge:

The Spirit that moves in all things, Creator, Earth Mother, Father Sun,
and Grandfather Sky, my family, Ange, and all my close friends whose input and
encouragement I cherish. Commander Dan, Johnny Boy, Brain, Ani, Cameron, Antonio,
and Diran for their contributions. Vahe for the amazing art, Sako and Vahag for the
site, Kiarash for the digital domain, GTonik for, well, a lot, Mikee for Myspace,
Dave, Darin, Lauren and 3D for perspective, help, and honesty, Bob Ezrin, Rick
Rubin, David Bottrill, Greg Watermann, Sara Newkirk, Beno and the System guys.

Tom, Craig, Rob, Brian, Susan and all our associates at Warner.

Jimmy at First Act Guitars, Steve at Sony Creative Software, Bob at Taylor Guitars,
Jennifer at Korg/Marshall, Randy, Dar and Jessica at Artist Relations (Mo og, IK
Multimedia & more), Anthony at Digidesign, Mindy, Chuck and Mike at Ultimate Ears, Steve
“Doc” at Ampeg, Brian and Derek at Ernie Ball, Scott at Dunlop, Rich, Bill and Ryan at
Shure, Tara at Boss/Roland, Bill at Apple, Matt and Kasey at Gibson, T im at Line 6, and
Steve at Latin Percussion.

…and how can I forget Bowie

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 The diversity of sounds rule my ever presence hacked beyond despair, chased by the moon
with their highs and blows, encompassing the toward the freeing sun, on our journey to light.
totality of sensual experience. I’m a child of This is an open plea to the beautiful insanity
the sirens of knowledge, a warrior for truth of your hearts. It is time
in a world of washed to consummate the kiss
perspectives and harsh of oblivion into the
realities. My voice obsidian of love!
cries the initial cry of the
unborn into this perplexing illusion. I The Empty Walls of The Unthinking
long for the realization of the human Majority hide Money for the illusive
drama, the defeat of the dogs of war, afterlife and do not Feed Us instead,
and the unity of existence. The thereby Saving Us from the conclusive
beloved Gods of virtue have been environmental theory that the Sky Is
undersold for the bleeding bread of Over. The Baby is run over by the
empathy. I now await the triumphant roar careless Honking Antelope who, quoting
of destiny, dressed in the inviting hands from the book of Lie Lie Lie, cries Praise
of a mother, perplexed by discovery, The Lord And Pass The Ammunition. The
aroused by Spirit. The door is open, the road ground rumbles and out flies Beethoven’s C***
transformed. The exit code to civilization is screaming Elect The Dead!

Serj

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