Sinking and suffocating
The walls are crumbling from within me
Some thing's left best unspoken
And still this truth has broken me
I can't believe it's true
No one to blame but you
Fate less and feeling lonely
No tears for this, I'll only cry
To someone else, the lie
That there's no one else
A story only time will tell
I'm trapped inside a wishing well
Living as a ghost in my own hell
I'm trapped inside a wishing well
Enforce the years of hatred
For everything I know to be
The part of me
To many prayers unanswered
To many questions seen as sin
Just quietly give in
Well I never will again
A story only time will tell
I'm trapped inside a wishing well
Living as a ghost in my own hell
I'm trapped inside a wishing well
Just quietly give in
Well I never will again
A story only time will tell
I'm trapped inside a wishing well
Living as a ghost in my own hell
I'm trapped inside a wishing well
A story only time will tell
I'm trapped inside a wishing well
Living as a ghost in my own hell
Lost count of the days
We were strong
There’s just me now
Fight through the haze
Night comes fast
The pain can last much longer
Have I lost my way
Or have I been
At last forgotten
All I see is gray
Is this land as dead as I am?
Chorus:
I’m so cold
Now the fear is taking hold
And I’m just too far left to go
Should I pray to die?
Or are the words as pointless as the fight?
Can I sleep tonight?
The stains of guilt
They fade like blood in time
The merciful
But there’s no heaven for us my friend
Chorus
And I feel nothing for those who fall by my hand
Beneath this skin
A broken man
Why am I thinking of you today?
You should be millions of miles away by now
It's funny how it hurts me this way
It's not the words that you say
But that you believe them
Fucked up as I ever was
Make sure no one sees
Me on my knees
Clinging to my rage, just because
It's easier, to believe in
More than
These lies and secrets
Hopes and regrets
It's the way we are
No, I want to believe you
You'll only leave, too
Just the way we are
It's just the way we are
Getting good at saying goodbye
I feel a little less, each time they walk away
Don't even stop to wonder why
It's not the reason that stays
But that it's over
Leaving
More lies and secrets
Hopes and regrets
It's just the way we are
No, I want to believe you
You'll only leave, too
Just the way we are
It's the the way we are
What am I reaching for?
You don't love me anymore
So just leave me here
With our lies and secrets
Hopes and regrets
It's just the way we are
No, I want to believe you
You'll only leave, too
Just the way we are
Yes, I want to believe you
I know you'll leave, too
Just the way we are
It's just the way we are
Took from me all that I had
With my soul and spirit dead
Killing everything in me
What is one use to be free
Now to drive away the pain
I'll destroy all I disdain
I'll become what I despise
Living someone else's life
Don't back down
Don't ever back down
Don't ever turn around
My end has come
So now I come for you
Now obsession rules my mind
This commotion makes me blind
Searching out who ever runs
Or has stolen away my life
But I've already said
Don't ever back down
Don't ever turn around
My end has come
So I come for you
You trip on everything
I'll take your tired breath
And I can't feel anything
Now I live to see you to your death
A new heart with me
As might be just as quick
Through your tortured expense
'Cause I'll never back down
Don't ever back down
Don't ever turn around
My end has come
So now I come for you
Don't back down
I'll drive you down
I'll beat you to the ground
My end has come
So now I come for you
The stage is set, I’m growing restless
I’ve taken worse than you before
I don’t want you to want me
Now I’m just fine as the failure and the whore
I’m not guilty, just convicted
More than you, I loathe my living hell
Having failed to prove a lover
Pleasure’s gone, I’ll take the dead one’s dreaming well
Am I so small in your eyes?
Chorus
You’ll never be (perfect)
You’ll never be (perfect)
You’ll never be
You’ll never be perfect enough for me
For what it’s worth, I won’t forget you
Now I know how weak I was
Though you left me as a victim
All the scars have left me bulletproof
Am I so small in your eyes?
Chorus
Turn around and see the monster
Not the one you paint me as
Man alone and broken
Hungry for the blood not pure like you
I couldn't tell you
Why she felt that way
She felt it everyday
I couldn't help her
I just watched her make
The same mistakes again
What's wrong, what's wrong now
Too many, too many problems
Don't know where she belongs
Where she belongs
(Chorus)
She wants to go home but nobody's home
That's where she lies broken inside
No place to go, no place to go
To dry her eyes broken inside
Open your eyes (open your eyes)
And look outside
Find the reason why (why)
You've been rejected (you've been rejected)
And now you can't find
What you left behind
Be strong, be strong now
Too many too many problems
Don't know where she belongs, where she belongs
(Repeat Chorus)
Her feeling she hides
Her dream she can't find
She's losing her mind
She's fallen behind
She can't find her place
She's losing her faith
She's fallen from grace
She's all over the place (yeah!)
(Repeat Chorus)
She's lost inside, lost inside (oh, oh uhh)
She's lost inside, lost inside (oh, oh uhh) oooh
Holding tight, take this last breath
As the waters rush in (Is it all a sin?)
Come inside child, my day is gone
Close my eyes to the sun
I'll never turn back now
Never turn back now
Never turn back now
I'll never turn back now
Lessons learned now mean nothing
Only wars raged in vein (It's all over soon)
Lay me down child, I'm weak here (Never turn back now)
All my will now is gone
I'll never turn back now
Never turn back now
Never turn back now
I'll never turn back now
I'm free
There's nothing on earth than can hold me, down
I'm standing
Made up my mind
And I'll never, never, never turn back now
Never turn back now
Never turn back now
Never turn back now
Never turn back now
Never turn back now
Never turn back now
(Never turn back now)
Never turn back now
Never turn back now
(Never turn back now)
Never turn back now
Never turn back now
Never turn back now
Never turn back now
(Never turn back now)
Well i guss i lied
i dont have much in common with the world outside
and no realy knows how much i have to hide
with that im realy very ugly deep inside
i wish i was just like everybody
Nothing changes
i wish i didn't have to tell a lie today
but i know no one could ever love me anyway
and any good you get from me is just a role i play
i wish i was just like everybody
Im...im , im so afraid
Im...im , im so afraid
Well it seems i no longer a child and this how it kill
i see so many suffering that im to blame
underneath my eyes???
i wish i was just like everybody
As you turn way
i wish could have save you from the pain i bring
but there's no truth beind the prety songs i sing
and im not sure i ever believed in anything
i wish i was just like everybody .
Im...im , im so afraid
Im...im , im so afraid
Well i guss i lied
i wear the same ole mask as everyone outside
and everybody knows about the shame i hide
and i dont realy very ugly deep inside
im so afraid...
im so afraid !!!
im so afraid...
Have we come so far?
Could we even turn back now?
And I’d love to forgive
It seems that I've forgotten how
Can my heart heal now?
Is there time left for me?
It seems the grace of God has left this place
Chorus:
So we make amends
We consequence
We live and die together
For right and wrong
We take too long
To find our way to never
We all belong, we'll all belong
In time
Why do children learn or to fear before love
We’re taught don’t touch
Just avoid those without enough
When you pass their hands
Just pretend like you don’t see
It seems the grace of God has left this place
Chorus
Holding back the tears
We forget they are taking back the years of our innocence
Holding back the tears
We forget they are taking back the years of our innocence
We are children of the damned (x2)
Chorus
We are children of the damned (x4)
Holding up tight in a drunken haze
Shutting out light to stop the day from taking hold
You cling to me with bloody hands
Playing my part, this martyrs dance, it gets so old
Chorus
Hold me down
If you have to drown, I will drown with you
If you have to burn, Ill burn in hell with you
Ive put to death a hundred times
Ghosts that haunt your weary mind as darkness grows
Then love breaks through your bitter stare
With all my strength I cannot bear to let you go
Chorus
If I cant pull you up to breathe with me again
Then your pain is mine to share tonight
This fight will take us (..there?)
Chorus
Ill burn in hell with you
Pain and suffering
Far beyond what all could comprehend
Has come to pass, and there's no turning back
We cry for all we knew
And we try to make it through
The anguish seems impossible to bear
Shall we live forever standing by?
Or can we give a moment of our time?
Stand with me, your soul is free
And you'll live forever in our hearts
Be at peace, forever free
And you'll live forever in our hearts
We have to carry on
There will be another dawn
Just hold my hand, we'll make it through this time
For everyone that's gone
We must stand and all be strong
Together we can face this agony
Shall we live forever standing by?
Or can we give a moment of our time?
Stand with me, your soul is free
And you'll live forever in our hearts
Be at peace, forever free
And you'll live forever in our hearts
Now we're calling out to keep the faith alive
And if we join as one you know hope will arrive
We can't sit, we've got to rise and just reach out our hands
So won't you stand?
Stand with me, your soul is free
And you'll live forever in our hearts
Be at peace, forever free
Seventeen itself assured in secret so to blame
Hold it in, it’s not a sin, it’s just a shame
You’re not alone, this man he loves you
In spite of everything you are
But not by my grace
Of the shadows cast in corridors of human hearts
Faith is fact my favorite fiction by far
And every step I’ve ever taken
In its grip, the core’s the same
I’ve fallen on my face
Chorus
I, I’m no more than what you see
Never let me halfway on a cross or on my knees
Time took all the faith I need
Born to stand on trial, abandoned by the hand that feeds
Close your eyes and hold on, this will all be over soon
Just another pound of flesh before you go
And after all the dirt and pain and hate and sin has washed away
What’s left of me to love?
Chorus
If you love me at all
Just let me go and be no more
Jesus, though I don’t believe in this whole give-and-take
Won’t you just deliver me once more for old times’ sake?
Chorus x2
My faith, my fears, all I believe
My home, my heart is all I have free
My smile, my tears, all I have free
1989 the number another summer (get down)
Sound of the funky drummer
Music hittin' your heart cause I know you got sould
(Brothers and sisters hey)
Listen if you're missin' y'all
Swingin' while I'm singin'
Givin' whatcha gettin'
Knowin' what I know
While the Black bands sweatin'
And the rhythm rhymes rollin'
Got to give us what we want
Gotta give us what we need
Our freedom of speech is freedom or death
We got to fight the powers that be
Lemme hear you say
Fight the power
Chorus
As the rhythm designed to bounce
What counts is that the rhymes
Designed to fill your mind
Now that you've realized the prides arrived
We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
From the heart
It's a start, a work of art
To revolutionize make a change nothin's strange
People, people we are the same
No we're not the same
Cause we don't know the game
What we need is awareness, we can't get careless
You say what is this?
My beloved lets get down to business
Mental self defensive fitness
(Yo) bum rush the show
You gotta go for what you know
Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be
Lemme hear you say...
Fight the Power
Chorus
Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
Mother him and John Wayne
Cause I'm Black and I'm proud
I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped
Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
Sample a look back you look and find
Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check
Don't worry be happy
Was a number one jam
Damn if I say it you can slap me right here
(Get it) lets get this party started right
Right on, c'mon
What we got to say
Power to the people no delay
To make everybody see
She sits in her corner
Singing herself to sleep
Wrapped in all of the promises
That no one seems to keep
She no longer cries to herself
No tears left to wash away
Just diaries of empty pages
Feelings gone a stray
But she will sing
Til everything burns
While everyone screams
Burning their lies
Burning my dreams
All of this hate
And all of this pain
I'll burn it all down
As my anger reigns
Til everything burns
Ooh, oh
Walking through life unnoticed
Knowing that no one cares
Too consumed in their masquerade
No one sees her there
And still she sings
Til everything burns
While everyone screams
Burning their lies
Burning my dreams
All of this hate
And all of this pain
I'll burn it all down
As my anger reigns
Til everything burns
Everything burns
(Everything burns)
Everything burns
Watching it all fade away
(All fade away)
Everyone screams
Everyone screams
(Watching it all fade away)
Oooh, ooh
(While everyone screams)
Burning down lies
Burning my dreams
(All of this hate)
And all of this pain
I'll burn it all down
As my anger reigns
Til everything burns
(Everything burns)
Watching it all fade away
(Oooh, ooh)
(Everything burns)
Everything I love has gone so wrong, self loathing
how many times do I have to tell myself I'm sorry
could it be that i'm the only one destroying
Inside I'm lost and lifeless since you've gone away
Cause your memory still haunts me
and I'm always chasing yesterday
I'm empty, so lonely
I'm always chasing yesterday
Everything I hate is taking me to breaking
every breath's just one more chance to feel your absence
nothing ever burns inside of me, like your poison
all I want is another touch, just one more taste of you
Cause your memory still haunts me
and I'm always chasing yesterday
I'm empty, so lonely
I'm always chasing yesterday
Nothing burns inside of me, like your poison
all I want, one more touch, one more taste of you
Cause your memory still haunts me
and I'm always chasing yesterday
I'm empty, so lonely
What a tragic affection to harbour,
A soul is seeking salvation to squander,
Such a beautiful burden to bear alone,
I know...
Rants and fictions of violence,
Breaking the silence,
Hiding the wake of our deception,
Guarding desperate secrets buried below,
And you know...
Tell me again you're fucked up excuses,
Dying fighting a life of abuse,
When fame is your game,
You say I'm to blame,
But you know, but you know...
This moment carries my last hesitation,
Seducing anger to haste my separation,
This solemn piece of a guilty net it grows, so cold,
Your every breath now strengthens my affliction,
My tears have faded, all hope of your conviction,
You were never the martyr you pretended to be,
And you know...
Tell me again you're fucked up excuses,
Dying fighting a life of abuse,
When fame is your game,
You say I'm to blame,
But you know, but you know...
Tell me again you're fuckless excuses,
Holding on at the end of the noose,
When fame is your game,
You say I'm to blame,
But you know, but you know...
How they love you now,
Tear drops rain down,
Nobody cares, nobody cares,
Tell me again you're fucked up excuses,
Dying fighting a life of abuse,
When fame is your game,
You say I'm to blame,
But you know, but you know...
You know...
How they love you now...
You know...
Tear drops rain down...
You know...
Sinking and suffocating
The walls are crumbling from within me
Some thing's left best unspoken
And still this truth has broken me
I can't believe it's true
No one to blame but you
Fate less and feeling lonely
No tears for this, I'll only cry
To someone else, the lie
That there's no one else
A story only time will tell
I'm trapped inside a wishing well
Living as a ghost in my own hell
I'm trapped inside a wishing well
Enforce the years of hatred
For everything I know to be
The part of me
Too many prayers unanswered
Too many questions seen as sin
Just quietly give in
Well I never will again
A story only time will tell
I'm trapped inside a wishing well
Living as a ghost in my own hell
I'm trapped inside a wishing well
Just quietly give in
Well I never will again
A story only time will tell
I'm trapped inside a wishing well
Living as a ghost in my own hell
I'm trapped inside a wishing well
A story only time will tell
I'm trapped inside a wishing well
Living as a ghost in my own hell
World's falling between us
You but call my name
I tear the skin and bleed from a vein
She's just not the same
And I know you'll carry me away with you
But I know I'll carry you
Give in, give in
I always do
Give in, you win
You always do
I'd give this ransom to feel
As flesh and bone
A sense of sex in a sin
As cold as stone
And I know you'll carry me away with you
But I know I'll carry you
Give in, give in
I always do
Give in, you win
You always do
And I know you'll carry me away with you
But I know I'll carry you
Give in, give in
I always do
give in, you win
you always do
Give in, give in
I always do
Give in, you win
There's just too much
I have in this heart
To say I'm sorry for
More than I can remember
I'm scared to touch
Anything I love
Afraid that I'll
Only leave that in pieces
In time
We tend to find a place
So far from home
We all fall down
Yes, we all fall down
We all fall down
In the end
There's little now
In this empty wall
To believe in
And so all little time
Is it worth the life?
Not another med
Who does not agree
Just to prove you're right
In time
We tend to find a place
So far away from home
We all fall down
Yes, we all fall down
We all fall down
In the end
In time
We tend to find a place
So far away from home
We all fall down
Yes, we all fall down
We all fall down
In the end
Falling into pieces (under skies of gray)
Life falls underneath us (time is washed away)
Falling into pieces (under skies of gray)
Steady now
You see your door has darkened
For only dead men does the Devil come no more
Don't hasten to deny your own desire
For these bitter hands have seen this blood before
You wanna take me
What are you waiting for
Let's have some fun now, baby
So I'll drink your poisoned words
So sweet that I almost believe you
I'll play the villain to your victim
But tell me who's the hero in your tragedy
I know what no one knows
This senseless hate has held me
To what degree
Will you sentence me
You spread disease
Until there's nothing left of me
Name[?] yourself as though you're still a person
I'd want to know
It's just a forgotten soul decays
You wanted war
Just a scared little girl
But do you know what you're fighting for
You wanna take me
What the fuck are you waiting for
Are we having yet
I know what no one knows
This senseless hate has held me
To what degree
Will you sentence me
You spread disease
Until there's nothing left of me
You can't silence words you spoken
Can't mend the bones you've broken
There's no escaping
And no one's getting out alive
You can't silence words you spoken
Can't mend the bones you've broken
There's no escaping
And no one's getting out alive
You wanna take me
What the fuck are you waiting for
I know what no one knows
This senseless hate has held me
To what degree
Will you sentence me
You spread disease
Until there's nothing left of me
You can't silence words you spoken
Can't mend the bones you've broken
There's no escaping
And no one's getting out alive
You can't silence words you spoken
Can't mend the bones you've broken
There's no escaping
And no one's getting out alive
You can't silence words you spoken
Can't mend the bones you've broken
There's no escaping
"Father never warned him of the dead that live within, tearing through his skin at last."
Heavy head in battered hands, the tortured boy kneels
Praying to an empty god to see his end tonight
Father never warned him of the dead that lives within
Tearing through his skin at last
I am not your sanctuary
I am not your alibi
Try and break through the walls around you
Beat me with broken hands
I will silence you
Just beyond the shadows waits a darkness
Only you, my child, can bear this gift from me
I leave you now to claim your place
Across the great divide
All shall suffer me
I am not your sanctuary
I am not your alibi
Try and break through the walls around you
Beat me with broken hands
I will silence you
I am not your sanctuary
I am not your alibi
Try and break through the walls around you
Beat me with broken hands
I will silence you
I am the enemy
I am not your sanctuary
I am not your alibi
Try and break through the walls around you
Beat me with broken hands
I will silence you
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