Friends used to warn me about you and your hidden
agenda
But I would not listen and stubbornly turned a blind
I wanted to believe we were a match made in heaven
While all of the time you were really bleeding me dry
People like you are bad news
Now it's time to pay your dues
Goodbye & good riddance
We're much better off apart
Goodbye & good riddance
I've cut you out of my heart
Goodbye & good riddance
Mistook you for a friend
Goodbye & good riddance
Don't ever wanna see your face or hear your voice again
I'm counting my blessings now that you're out of the
picture
Such an arrogance to think that you can't be missed
With every stunt that you pull you' re only sinking
lower and lower
Underneath all that silly charm you're a pretty cold
fish
Why don't you give up the fight
And just get on with your life
A dirty trick always has your name on it
But I just refused to see
You've made your bed so lie in it
And don't come crying back to me, me, me...
Goodbye & good riddance
To bad rubbish
Goodbye & good riddance
give me sensibilities without ambition
give me accolades i've done nothing to collect
then you spread your plague of ignorance across the planet earth
robbing us of any self respect
it's a plan these are ways
to a person we all fall down
unless we rise as one and resist the right
when we cease to question war as entertainment
and christian battle hymns will keep us pacified
you can tie a yellow ribbon 'round your cock boy
you're just along for the ride
we all fall down
the highbrow poxy liberals all fall down
the harbingers of eden all fall down
the corporate rock religion all falls down
like rats from the wreckage
we patrol the decay
through the ash and the darkness
the scavengers pillage what's wasted away
and power corrodes and compromises
the hands once held so high
the lies the vain plead for their very lives
no sunlight or shadow
just the rotting remains
of the clergy pariah
and the millions of sinners shackled in chains
drowning in blood and holy water
the bombs turned the battlefield to dust
so what's left of the world
to divide and to dominate
and rape and defile
or oppress and discriminate
i saw you from a distance
somehow i knew our paths would cross someday
in my eyes you could do no wrong
i never thought i'd ever have someone like you
you came at a time when
i could count my friends on one hand
and i don't think i want to be another float
in your sad parade
and it makes me wonder is this how you've treated
all the friends you've made
i put you on a pedestal
i knew it was the worst thing i could do
i used to feel that way black and grey
now everything is fucked up
there's people talking shit
it looks like i was wrong
and i don't care who's right
i don't want to fight
why me
this tape's been
played before
is this what
friends are for
it's all my fault
There are some things I can't appreciate
And when they're gone I won't deliberate
Without heart we'll never make it work
Accusing the world but you're playing the game
Scream 'till it hurts but it's always the same
Wake up in a fog can't remember my name
There are those who pin their faults on me
Don't give a fuck about sincerity
I've said enough but when it all comes down
Don't try to tell me that it makes no difference
Don't place conditions on what's inside
Our similarities are torn apart by pride
And it seems like everything's
Coming down on me
And I can't tell right from wrong
Fate from tragedy
I've got to find that fire
That defined me once so well
There's so much talk so many empty lines
I see no reason for their selfish lies
when might makes right you want to bet
the u.s.a. is now a terrorist threat
free elections another casualty
in the covert war on freedom and democracy
spray paint (blood stained) walls fading light
the death squads are coming to your town tonight
m-16 to your head lie through your teeth
or you might end up dead
those stubborn peasants remain opposed
to the western puppet that we've imposed
not to worry they'll see it our way
the c.i.a. trained death squads will crush the coup
within a day
hahahahaha laugh it away
you're making friends with the u.s.a.
a clear conscience when the price is right
after all who needs human rights?
police state now you rule by fear
And what about the times you did your best
to assuage my troubled soul
what happened to me
what happened to you
what was it that you said would see us through
I want to know how to feel something real
and I will try no more to run
all this pressure getting closer
and it seems like I've been here before
time on my hands
weight of the world
laid bare my soul
as I lose control
run away
you can retrace those steps and find your way once more
I'll wait
believe in yourself as the cruel world closes in
take my hand
I'll be a friend for you this weight you bare alone
one day
Who will be their voice
Who will hear their cries
The ones who cannot speak
As we dehumanize
Incarcerated innocents
Their sentience ignored
Slaughtered by the millions
For the pseudo-carnivores
What a waste of our time
Of our land of our humanity
Blood-spattered carcass it wets your appetite
Don't you fucking get it
Eating flesh it isn't right for you
For me our children the world
Destroy their machines
Burn their staughterhouses to the ground
Now it's time for us all to defend
The oppressed
Meat is murder
Still we consume the dead and rotting
Products of violence
We've got to make that change
You've sworn allegiance to your dreams
but still it seems so hard
that tightrope that you walk
why can't you put it down
drink your way through one more
clouded chapter of your life
the hands reaching out to help you
only seemed to push you further away
your time's up
and away
you've made your choice now there's nothing left to say
your times up
and away
mistreated and abused
but they couldn't steal your heart
everyone was so confused
but your friends all played their part
most likely to succeed
still you threw it all away
now your dreams lie buried next to you they're gone forever
where's the spark in your eye
I miss your smile
you're burning inside out
did you want to?
everything they told you to make the bad things go away
everything that they kept from you
So here I stand, Alone by the side of the road, And I'm reaching for you, Someone to hold, something to cling to. I close my eyes, I shove my hands in my pockets and smile, And the darkness drifts away, I'm at peace, if only once in a while. Well, I'm feeling hurt, And I fought back some tears of my own, But there's something to be said for the ones Who face the darkness alone. You're too cool to care; Too self-righteous to see and believe. It's a bond we'll never break; A chance for one more change of heart. You don't understand. There's nothing to say. When everything seems lost, You can bet we'll somehow find a way. Did your ever think about the ones on top? Do you have the strength to shout it ready or not? So I never thought I'd be the one complaining, But I can't believe it's been inside me all this time. so here i stand!
clear heads yes filled with lies
How dare you look them in the eyes?
I used to want the things you had
Now I know it was just a fad
You lied and I'm still fucking waiting
And you-you still talks your shit
I thought we stood side by side
To make a change I know I tried boasting heart that wasn't there
You raped the scene that thought you cared
In it for the cash right from the start
Now you're all washed up and you've got no heart
I can still see you hide
Inside your shell of delusion not fooling yourself
I can still see the sarcasm on your face
As you say that you're doing it "for the kids"
Nothing mattered but the money and lies
And now we all see through your pathetic disguise
you spoke your piece with a trembling voice then turned away i'm looking for reasons why do i always act this way running on self pity i was only thinking about myself you said i never considered you so you need some time alone now you're upstairs and i'm going down and i know that it's my fault you're not around so this is loss how sweet regret just don't give up on me yet i know that i've hurt you i made it harder than it has to be if i wasn't so selfish would you want to stay with me under any circumstance could you give me one more chance i want so much to turn it around but this old behavior brings me down now you're upstairs and i'm going down and i know that it's my fault you're not around so this is loss how sweet regret just don't give up on me yet on me yet with an aching chest and a two ton heart i retrace my steps trying to find my part regretting words words that came out wrong at the second cup at the corner of queen and john queen and john.
I've thought it through & I think you're right
And you're not missing much
There's something pure
That you can't hold against a simple touch
So many choices and the pressure
We all bring to bear
Your strength works miracles
And touches those who try to care
I believe in you
And I hope you see it through
Your resolve is inspiration in my life
It takes alot now
So few who feel the same
When it means enough
Not to give it away now
Finding it hard
Not to think in terms of yesterday
Finding it strange
That somebody else could feel that way
It must be hard sometimes
To stand behind your chastity
And I wish that I could be the one
But it's not me I'll never set you free
To be oppressed in the eyes of the sacred sons
All the airs and the vacant stares
Will never make me think that you're better than me
You know you'll never be better than me
Seems to me it's all about how we feel inside
Were in conflict with our natures
We all struggle with our pride
Don't try to stop the world from changing
I know it gets so much sometimes
You feel like giving up your dreams
So you turn it outside
When there's no place left to hide
(Chorus)
When it's all said and done
It's just another uniform
To brace up the facade of authority
When it's all said and done
You're just like every one of us
So don't pretend to be so much better than me
You know you'll never be better than me
Hiding out so scared of who we just might be
When the pain's too great you've got to isolate
Or take it all out on me
Yeah but the badge don't make you better anyway
And your fleeting sports elation
Is never going to chase those fears away
So just remember
I spilled a drop of blood and drenched my soul
I pulled my skin through the wire
Spat out the broken prose
And when the curtain close
I'll be behind you with a knife at your back
And I'll fight your hate
With whats in my head
And whats inside my heart
I'll never relate to the things that you've said
Just stopped to fantasize
About the bluest eyes
And a certain smile
That'll rip your soul to peices
Come quick and cauterize this wide open wound
Then give me something for the bleeding
And I'll fight this fate
With whats in my head
And whats inside my heart
I'll never relate to things that you said
I wont shut my eyes till it all just goes away
And I dont know I can make it through another day
When it started it was just a little lie
We kept that burning questions
Deep, deep down inside
Now we're older and our time is running down
Can we still make it right
Somehow the second time around
We dont believe the lies that they've told us
Yea the second time around
Returning to the scence of the crime yeah
Just for one more time around
Skipped over and chastised
'Cause we're never just like you
Misunderstood right from the start
Wore all your cheap abuse like battle scars
Like men from mars to you
And now you're terrified
I've got a picture
It's gonna help me on my way
Cause now I'm stuck in Boise in the rain
Another day with an empty heart
It alway hurts to be so apart
I count down the minutes until I'm back inside the world
So call me up when you're awake
Cause I'll be waiting
To let your voice once more carry me away
The bluest stars, sharp as sleep
Even though so far away from me
And my heart will tell you more than I could say
Another wicked winter
And I'm frozen to my soul
I could never find you this way
So many times has passed us by
Underneath the same winter sky
These circumstances prove how little lost you know
So call me up when you're awake
Cause I'll be waiting
To let your voice once more carry me away
The bluest stars, sharp as sleep
Even though so far away from me
And my heart will tell you more than I could say
This is our time
When its frozen outside
I know it's warm inside your arms
Create a circumstance
Will I forsake this chance
And take down my time to resign
I wonder now and then
If I could hold your hand
Here we stand arm in arm
at the corridors of time and reason
with jaws set
Our collective gaze unflinching
Under the eyes of gods, men, martyrs and saints
And what if all your hopes and dreams came true
tomorrow
would you lie
Basking in the dubious glow of excess
Forsaking all other
Life alone with a broken promise
These thoughts wont pray away
Stand still stone cold and empty
Begging grace to favor this soul
One more day
Im struck blind
With it all
Ive never been the kind to say im sorry
Its strange
To hear the dead keep calling
How many restless days and nights will pass
As the salience of all your broken reveries
Hammers upon your consciousness
and will tomorrow bring anything
save the vacant reproach
of your pensive ministrations
Run out the pain of indifference and avarice
All the small towns and cigarettes
Ive seen much more than I wished for
Watched our surface calling in all his debts
So once again we stand staring into the sable horizon
our jaws set
Collective gaze unflinching
I can't pull in all the stops
But it rained on all of this
With the sirens in my sleep
And her sorrow at my kiss
I can't turn away
Hold the half turn when you pray
All the vanity and fate
Written on her crazy face
Here in my head I here you say
Here in my head I here you pray
Time is what it's made
Made by all those i regret
"Remeber me" I hear it said
Other faces I'd forget
Hope you get up off your feet
Shake the dust out of your shoes
City lights and all my jazz
And all my demonstrations too
Here in my head I here you say
Here in my head I here you pray
Time is what it's made
Made by others i regret
Remeber we are here and sad
All the faces I'd forget
Here in my head I here you say
Here in my head I here you pray
Here in my head I here you say
I'm so alone
In the darkest place I know
I'm a prisoner in my mind
And I'm searching for that light
And the faith I left behind
I've tried so hard
To look you In the eye
Time has never been a friend
And once again I've been betrayed
By the weight of what I know
And the choices that I've made
You stood so tall
And I've watched you fall
Looking on the bright side
I've known some peace
Cried on the shoulders
Of better men than me
It's going to take a lifetime
To wash away
If I want to stay clean
Rejection
Like a promise unfulfilled
From an emptiness distilled
As one final sign
Perpetuates our slow decline
We've failed
The systems we've created drag us down
On corded streets
We'll die alone
Our dreams are only flesh and bone
One day some ay
When you fall apart and waste away
You'll see no doubt
This world is gonna spit you out
Drained
No sign of life
This world of lies
Is gonna cut you down to size
They'll spit you out
Like a spoke in their machine
Some people break like glass
It just might be your final chance to feel
Can you distinguish fate from what seems real
I had a dream that I woke up in a sweat
another self-inflicted nightmare I will not forget
I felt a light
I saw you shine something's wrong
I felt that tremor in my soul
that memory one last time
this is the light
this is the way
where the darkness keeps the sun away
this is the light
this is the way
this stream of memories that carries me away
I know my head
at least I thought I did
I'd take a silver bullet through my soul if I could give
this phantom friend
this runaway train of thought
somebody's been following me through every trial I've ever sought
never sought
these tears
leave scars
as they run down my face
I'm changing
I'm leaving now
try to restore the past discrimination try to restore the past male domination try to restore the past close-minded education try to restore the past now we all are labelled if you could hear what they say and what they promised me today what you get is what you see until there's nothing left for me we owe alot ot our founders christian values we owe alot ot our founders killing the natives we owe alot to our founders they gave us freedom of speech we owe alot to our founders and now it's all out of reach what's wrong? do you want to know? what's wrong? do you want to know? what's wrong? do you want to know? i know what's wrong and you ought to know
In the freezing rain waiting on the last train
This is how we live how we fall in love
Last time that we spoke the room was full of smoke
I watched the clock and watched you wak away
Times fade until there's nothing to remember
Just empty promises we made
When words fade memories loose thier meaning
Until it all fades...
We are vain we are full of fear
We cling to our posessions for another year
Blame takes those we love leaving only one
Terrified we bar the gates and load our shiny guns
Feels like I'm running out of days
There's something inside me
I don't want the world to see
so many things I never said
All those regrets and broken promises
Would it have mattered if I had
Told you everything
I felt admitted I was scared of losing
You would you have understood?
Remember when you said you'd wait forever
And I thought it was true
And as this broken heart just keeps on beating
I'll send these letters home to you
Because I don't know what else to do
I'll wait for you
I guess it's been seven weeks
and I can't get you of my mind
when will I find my way back
to where we were when I left
the tape you sent my pillow's drenched with tears
Running short on imagination
Still we waste it all on words
Spoken without the benefit of our minds
The candle burns the edges fray
Our best intentions waste away
And everybody loves the things you've done
And on and on and on
Life appears weightless
For everyone but me
This world grows heavier everyday
Deterioration
Growing old before my time
Nobody cares never mind
We all prey on our vain condition
And the hopelessness of it all
These days there's nothing
We can trust
The dreams we made we've seen them face
Trampled by out sad parade
Still we're so pleased with what we've done
And on and on and I'm done
The mind breaks down when it dies
Our machines doubled in size
To orchestrate the grand collapse
I see us all trapped in its path
There was a time we were unbound
As if we'd never hit the ground
there's something lost somewhere inside
another darkened room where dreams all go to die
once more a tear drops slowly to my feet
again I recognize the triumph in defeat
so tell me what can I do when it all falls apart?
torn straight through tell me how to feel
my broken dreams a life in disarray
I shut my eyes my silence is my cell
cold sweats and nightmares keep me awake
the time keeps running down on how much I can take
ripped myself to pieces on the fragments of a dream
grim retrospective of a life torn at the seams
when the emptiness becomes too much
the voices lie I can't trust my touch
the pain of living the fear of death
Years from now
Will this mean everything
Or just another song we used to sing
When our common goals seemed crystal clear
In those angry days we were so sincere
Now I look back in my mind
Have we wasted all this time
I can't forget the past
It seems like those days went by too fast
Now what we've shared
It's gone somehow
Will it matter years from now
Once were friends
Have we grown apart
I cant find the words to say what's right
Years from now
Will we still take pride
In the things we've shared
And the strength inside
When I took at you will I see a friend
True freedom
they give us
no slaughter
too sacrilegious
the smoke clears
on bloated bodies
I feel safe now
do they want me
service
we fought there
in the jungles
I saw nothing
I felt no enemy
we died there
in the foxhole
my companion lay bleeding in my arms
so proud
pride
so quick to murder
for posterity
hatred
trained to operate
The cities lay plundered
The dusk rattles thick with crimes
Of Violent minds
Defeated, Repeated
We're told its a sign on the times
But we know why
Media lies disguised as the truth
One more time
And spinning right out of control
To alter the choice we make
And our view of the world
We've got to stop before its too late
So often lost in the overage
The silent will soon dissappear
Worse every year
Kept pinned to the margins
By misinformation and fear
And we know why
Still strident
Yet seeming to suffer alone
Why cant we see that
Through out blind consumption
We condone
Systems which train free men
Have we really lost our way
I heard the people talking but I can't believe
The things they say
Seems like a million days
Since we chose a new direction
Tried to find the strength to change
Do you remember when 500 stood as one
And reached for the sky
Our pride was understood
Friendship & brother (sister) hood
Gave us the courage to try
Sometimes it's such a lonely road
Despair is everywhere
So much anger to unload
But I'll fight with every breath
In my heart I still believe
I've been at odd's with a restless soul
I've felt the pain whenI lost control
I said the words but could not explain
The hurt fades but the scars remain
Got myself into situations
Ignored the threats and ministrations
Guilt choked by my last breath
I scared myself to death
So take my tears take all my fucking pain
I hope you're entertained
I fell prey to my own theatrics
Been diagnosed by the psychiatrics
Mistakes that i have made
I've left myself betrayed
I've lied to those i love
I'd medicate but there's never enough
No tears for the lives I've wrecked
I've lost my self respect
And now I'm reaching back
And I'm trying to make things right
And through my past I've gained a deeper sight
I'm less than proud of what I've done
But I know I've got to change
Somehow I know it's only just begun
Begun to change it's all on me
There's no one else to take the blame
it was a day like any other
my son he turned to me and said
father wherever did we go so wrong
i thought it over for a minute and said
son for twelve years
there was a circus
sometimes i want to dream my life away
and other times it all seems wrong
still other days i want to throw my life away
that's when i know i don't belong
now when i'm down some people ask me
just when and where my luck did change
i smile and say the eighties broke my spirit
'cause when the circus came to town
i was in it's way
this charade is not for me
just put aside what i think it means to me
just put aside my eccentricities
there's nothing for me in this one horse town
I suppose you did it out of love
I feel that pressure from above
I didn't perform quite up to par
I only gained another scar
I'm not your trophy
I will not shine for you
sorry for the disappointment
I did the best I could
but here I've let the family down again
I'm your failure your mistake
because I failed to break the tape
I'm your shameful progeny
your begotten tragedy
you ought to know
What does it mean when you're sixteen
The world's a cold and lonely place
But you're still kicking
Every door down in the place
The war of words they're so upright
You pass a hundred sleepless nights
And the worst is yet to come or so they say
Here comes seventeen
And just beyond
There's tolerance and empathy
To protect you from them all
A stand of evergreen
Just like the places we would always talk about
To catch you when you fall
You hear a knock outside the door
It never rains here anymore
So now there's nothing new
To was away the pain
A frightened face your clouded mind
The memories you've trailed behind
And seventeen still feels light years away
Nobody seems to understand you
As your grasping for that innocence
Sequestered in your mind
Was it guilt or were they blind
Children who watch their fathers rise to work each day
Becoming bitter as they piss their lives away
Out of balance as he stumbles to the porch
Too young to recognize the passing of the torch
And so they cry (in fear)
They wonder why (not here)
The cycle punctuates an atmosphere of pain and lies
It gets to where one never knows what to expect
A bedtime story or a broken nose or neck
They take it in and take it on
Like they've been shown
It goes on and on and
Too many sterile homes without a thing to say
A generation losing innocence this way and
No recognition of the bridges as they burn
Just repetition of behaviors they have learned
And so they cry (in fear)
They wonder why (not here)
We tip the fragile scales of temperament and guilt
Too soon mistaken for the will that makes us strong
But looking back it's just the shame we pass along
My dreams too often true
I will never be the same as you
Born dead to live a lie
I can still remember times
Of prosperity while staring clear eyed
With broad strokes of promise
We coloured highlights of our future and
something we'll never get
Until we look back with sincere regret
Is our american dream subject to
collapse beneath their density
And we'll break before we bend
With tomorrow as yet undetermined
You can write your congressmen
And take your grievences to the highest level
To achieve a common end
To serve the bourgeois, the laissez-faire
Citizens duty-bound so we play our part
If you kill the brain
Then you'll stop the heart
And we foster the illusion of a
Democratic archetype
Can we forge hope from this devastation
And bring about participation
To stem the apathetic tide
Now poised to wash us all away
And we break before we bend
With tomorrow as yet undetermined
We achieve such selfish ends
'Till we concern ourselves with the plight of others
you can write your congressmen
And fucking spit in the wind
For all the good it'll do you friend
We havent got the luxury
Of neutral oberservation
'Cause when its said and done
We stand or fall as one
And though the situations grave
I think its worth the risk to save
This notion of the free
And the asylum of the brave
Look out below
the sky is falling
today is the day the weak will be slain
see carrion swarm towards human landfills
a final resting place
for the enemies of the state
their truth is a lie
with break neck speed
and sterile affection
we swallow a culture
being spoon fed to us
like dutiful sheep
being led to the slaughter
we awaken infected
in the land of the free
I used to think you were on my side
We never found a place to hide
I let it go on too long like so many times before
I don't know where I should start
It seems like the hardest part
To take your pretty world and tear it all apart
Let it go I can't fix you anymore
Let it go time to be stronger than before
Let me go crying all the time
Let it go and trust me
I'm not worth your waste of time
For the sake of sanity
Let's erase those memories
There's nothing left here that will take the pain away
There's no more mystery
Just too much history
Someday you'll understand it's really for the best
Connection rejection
Your tears won't carry me away
Completely forget me just let it go now
Standing for something with
true strenght and heart
but the old manifesto has splintered apart
driven from homes to the depths of despair
hear the cries of the innocent
ring through the air
genocide a new class warfare
pushed aside to make all the people one
drop dead because freedom's a cancer
and state-sponsored terror's
the new land reform
blinded by pride and national impulse
weaned on the doctrines of Lenin and Marx
a blood red scar on the new face of China
exploding like tinder too close to the spark
this time it's genocide
and the terror comes from within
nobody's safe from the latest wave
as the new republic's in
we'll do away with agrarian notions
bleed the population into fear
you can't stop our populist expansion
Braced against the grip of choices
Memories of the gentle ways
Stained by a thousand voices
Yearning for a shaft of light
Catergorized
And labeled an affliction
Delivered naked into this world
Dehumanized
And cast down
From the savage grip of the process
This is not some kind of holy vision
Holding back a great dogmatic tide
Rinsed clean of servile derision
When I beat my head against the wall of convention
the blood I taste is everyone's
I fought a battle thought unpopular
for stakes nobody seems to see
nobody sees but me
one step forward
two steps back
come on and try me
my pain is the pain of children
my heart is burning with their shame
when mother cries all day
I'll wipe those tears away
you can't grow up healthy in a house of
for every father holding back the angry fire until five
when it festers on the drive
his boss has shamed him to tears
Like a weathered statue
I will wait for you
like the darkness fading
waiting to see it through
like an ardent cry
wakes me from the silence of my sleep
like a distant bell
like a man who fights the system
fights to keep
if you have to ask the price you can't afford it
there's nothing free in this world
there's nothing free in this life
like a super hero
I'll try to save the world
with an anesthetic
to life a thousand fingers
like a man accused
I'll weigh the consequence
like a man afraid
When it's time to start working to reconstruct
a life programmed to self-destruct
when it's time to set your sights on something better
when all that you've known
is the emptiness of being alone
when friends start drifting away
sometimes
it's better to let go
it only hurts to hold on to time worn memories
sometimes
it's never what is seems
it only serves to break your will
I had a dream last night
that you and I got in a fight
I never meant to hurt you
but I guess it ended up that way
we went our seperate ways
and I stayed mad for six whole days
that's when I realized when I'm alone
I'm in bad company
I want to help you
but you've got to want to help yourself
I don't want to bury another friend
I take it day by day and watch the people I love just fade away
where's the good in this?
She called me up all excited said she had a date
With him Saturday night and she just can't wait
I thought about his reputation & the things that he's done
I woudn't wish him on anyone
I said to her when you're with him better watch your step
Because I know this boy he's got a pretty bad rep
I only hope he doesn t end up bringing you down
He's been breaking hearts all over town
Slowly you can pick yourself back up
When that situation's got you down again
Slowly you can pick your self back up
Girl you've got to save it for another day
Because you don't need him anyway
It's just a game they play
I know this won't come easy girl
I know that it's hard
And deep down inside it leaves an awful scar
And to say I told you so
Won't help to ease the pain inside you so
Just remember that there's plenty of boys out there
Who could treat you much better
And remember I care
it just won't do to see you hurting so bad
To those in power it's always the same
Made so resistant to reason
Why just deny all the voices for change
As we stumble and fall stripping the process away
So who stands to gain from the righteous refrain
They say you get what you pay for
So we breach one more soul toss them out on the dole
Our shroud of indifference belies our benevolent tones
[Chorus]
So tell me why
You fight for your life then you throw me away
Tell me why
You legislate opinion and say it's ok, it's never ok!
So just what makes a life, what divides where we fall
And who decides which are chosen
But while we fight for the good like it's all understood
We lose what we love and morality's frozen away
[Chorus]
So what defines sacrament unholy vows
As you justify innocence somehow
How can I rationalize your morality
these walls keep closing in
I'm just a mannequin it's time to go
Don't come too close to me
I can't find no space to breath it's time to go
My touch the kiss of death
More sick with every breath
I just can't seem to slow it down now
Why line up to conform
Why wear a uniform to grow old and die
In this same fucking town
Obsessed with misery
Life holds no joy for me it's time to go
No colors only gray
I die a little everyday it's time to go
I'm born wrong too dead to feel
Wake up it's all to real it's time to go
Switched off there's no more pain
words spoken monotones
There's violence in your pretty homes
Unfaded memories of the times we used to play
No colors anymore
There's laughter locked outside the door
The trucks go rolling by on the freeways just behind you
It's a self-fulfilling catastrophe
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Watch your problems disappear
And then reappear as mine
Come take a look at me
I'm the poster boy for sympathy
I can't find my way out of this place I've spent my life
Some things we never tell
Looking back it's just as well
No comfort from anyone
A frightened child with no place to run
Can you hear me calling out your name?
it streaks across the sky towards Bethlehem
a shining star filled with hope and love.
It's the second coming
the new Christ won't survive
it's a second coming
the Christ will die
he thinks he'll rid the world of it's sins.
but he'll feel the nails go right into his hands.
think about the first time that he came
all the millions that died in his name
the apocalypse is oh so near
soon enough we'll be in darkness.
when the world finally got wise
Don't be alarmed please don't take it personally
But you're acting out on everybody here
You're ability your virility's in doubt
So one more time you clench your fists
Scream and shout
You high-five your friends
Like you're jocks at a football
It seems you don't know when to quit
The crowd stares in silence
As you practice violence
To show you're the king of the pit
What now we're sick of it
So now no one goes
To the front at shows anymore
Because we don't want to be
Kicked in the head
Or punched in the nose
We don't care where you're from
We don't care what set you claim
Why don't you get involved
You don't even know our names
Any scene worth it's salt
Would vilify aggression
It seems that aggression's all you know
So stop throwing your fists
Put out your hand
Participate in the show
I'd set myself on fire
I'd sacrifice desire
It will be great don't get me wrong
We can forget it won't be long
I can't hold mysetf
Tear this heart away
Just a moment then it's gone
Insignificant
Contrary to suggestion
I've answered way too many questions
I feel that chill run dawn my back
Stumbling drunk off a bus downtown
You've got it bad for the system
'Cause you know it let you down
You see the marks on the whores
And the dimes they lent you
And your paranoia soars
On the wings of your dementia
Without a system that compels
The growth of human compassion
Its a face that will never change
Nobodys well when ever one soul suffers
We're bound by circumstances
We cant dissarrange
Does shame prevent you
From engaging in the indigents struggle
Just filling up a vacancy
With nothing new to live for
When I was young and naive
I believed I could be so much more
Out of touch with a world
That never cared or knew me
More dead than alive
when you stare right through me
Its a face that will never, never change, never change
You could be the one
The sense of fear on which you feed
When the people can't believe
The things they read
We've been brought up to feel left out
Eclipsed by the shadows of our doubt
The pieces rise and rearrange
And all the smiling faces seem so strange
With tacit symmetry and prose
I feel the doors behind me close
You're here alone inside this crowd
You've faced the world and made us proud
But when the bitterness returns
There's nothing left to hide the burns
I've waited
I've written on promises and dreams
A thousand times
Still relegated to these lines
Like water untainted the sad.
Quixotic trail I've left behind
Somehow it echoes in my mind
You don't speak not a single word
Can't correlate a single thing you've heard
You just erase all the things we've said
With a mask of disapproval
And it's always about you
Convinced yourself there's better things to do
Like building a wall
You double up at the thought of fun
You're not concerned about anyone
You're alone when the sun goes down
Like a cold, forsaken shadow
And you're trapped inside yourself
Nothing can reach you
Nobody matters anyway
You're looking outside
For purpose and piece of mind
And you may never find
Like the light from a dying ember
A familiar melody
Another gift returned to sender
Such a bittersweet memory
I thought I'd finally broken even
But I was never in the game
Sometimes a fool will beleive he's sated
But still the fear remains
I hope youve get everything you wished for
And that all your dreams come to be
But still its painful to know your happy
So far away from me
I can offer no real competition
To the city lights so brights
But do you still remember me
Inside your dreams each night?
I was the one
and you doubts
Will follow you everywhere you run
Close your eyes
You'll never be free
Never undone
And I'm still the one you knew
In spite of all my faults
Theres a part of me thats lost
Torn away from you
And now theres a silence by my side
I can feel myself unwind
Another victim of the rise and fall
Standing naked in the pastures where we graze
Sterile in a darkened pall
Picking pockets of the strangers all the way
Signed off with a cynical sound
Like a chime in a bell so far away
There's a light in the scyllia there
Just where our tarnished virtue lay
I tore a page from every tome upon the wall
Researched a photograph to find my place to fall
So many celebrated victories of pride
I watch the tide erase the lies down from inside
The lies down from inside
If i gaze long enough into the tortured sky
Parading arrogance in terms we can't deny
Or is it all in my mind
Mistakes arising implicitly
In light of factions to desperate to fold
And the blind lead the blind [2x]
Everything that isn't from my time and place
Just fades away
And I know it's only my perception
That clouds the things I want to hear you say
All the years of desperation
I'm like a child without the sense to dream
About a life of foolish pride
How can I illustrate
Annihilate it now
This is everything I am
But is it all you've ever grown to see inside
Like a broken mirror for my pride
And there's an emptiness I feel
And there's a silence to my dreams
These painful reveries
Still punctuate those tragedies I've seen
Nobody promised that I'd be down
It's like the savage side we've found
Conventions we've agreed to follow
Defined by safe obscurity
Applications balking at protest
We sequester and words divide
Would I resign if I broke your silence
And trampled myself down inside
And if I hold you in my dreams
How will I recognize your face
And your silent discontent
And will my heroes find me there
In another time and place
Will I regret the time we spent?
And all the symbols we've erased
i woke up screaming
just the other night
awakened by another dream
i thought back to '80
thinking what would've happened
if everything wasn't how it seemed
ten years the lie survives
fucking with american lives
reduced to pawns in a power play
too long they've suffered
not for america
just for a lead on election day
my october my america
running out of time
my october my america
Out of my embrace
Lipstick on a stranger's face
Do you take him to the cliffs
To watch the sun go down
Now he's sitting on your bed
What's going through his head
As you show him pictures
The same ones you showed to me
You can't be happy
Not with him
He's not the one
He's going to break your heart
You can't be happy
Not with him
You know he's not the one
And can he do the things I'd do for you
Sometimes I lie awake at night
And clutch my pillow
And I wonder if you're lying
Next to him tonight
Soft words & promises
And I wonder what he says
Listening to clean sheets
That used to be our song
Great songs they used to be
But now they just poison me
Could you please not play that song now
It's wrenching at my heart
well, i must say i don't like what i see you're upset but as of yet it doesn't mean that much to me you say you need my sympathy you say you're in a bind but there's no time like the present to find some piece of mind and you know i want to be there when you find out it's not so bad you're gonna make it after all and you know the pain will always go away i'll be there and i won't let you fall let you fall you know that your proposition is an imposition but if you want to talk i'm always here to listen you seem so full of doubt the flame of life has flickered out but i can see it burning that flame is still alive
don't look for answers in the bottom of a bottle just look inside yourself you'll find the courage to live one more day one more day
My line falls out tempting providence
One more dime spent on the fence
As you mourn the wretch of innocence lost
True lies and surrogates
Room, board and benefits
Boardrooms make breeding grounds
For selfish bastards anyhow
And the grace that we really live for
Are the sacrifices made
Protracted and betrayed
Enough to suffer
How many rats will tip the scales
Of failing finance
How many brave and able men will be lost at sea
Who dares to complicate
and the retaliate
Renouncing tolerance of everything they see
Follow like sheep
a face in the crowd
a good team player
give me blood
give me truth
Its what we came for
The frayed myth of enlightenment
Is a supposition
If you believe
Forget the shadows of experimental bliss
And all the efforts to consolidate our pride
For we can fight just as well
We can send them all to hell
With all the pomp and production of a tidewater bell
We are the ciphers of old and we'll do as we're told
So long as units are sold throughout the night
So many lines in the sand that we can't understand
Revert to closing the ranks on every shortsighted plan
(Chorus)
It's just society, anxiety
Sometimes it's like the story never ends
It's heresy, hypocrisy
And through our ignorance we suffer our revenge
So quick to throw the only truth we've ever known so far away
Too many times we've turned our backs on all the crimes
And passed it off as borrowed time that's not our own
But with the gravity of greed in all the lies we intercede
can he make friends
of the most bitter enemies
i'll believe it when i see it's what i say
can he assuage
our moral discontentment
i'll believe it on that unlikely day
i believe that christian science may have something good to offer
but i too believe it falls well short of a pipeline to god
at our best we are creatures of volition
but when we falter in adjunction we relinquish all control
i met a man of god
he tried his best to tell me
my human fallabilities equate directly into sin
his philosophy
carried no weight with me
his jaded mind won't let the truth find it's way in
how does it feel?
can he replace all those days in hiding
is it real?
how many nights have you slept with regret
it's so sad
when no one is waiting to meet you
but the voices
i used to be like her we were one and the same
i used to hold her i used to know her name
out on the water i feel her once again
i used to be like her i used to call her friend
she was a lost child running way too fast
no matter where she went she could not get away
there's a voice reverberating deep inside my head
telling me i should have made her stay
'cause now there's no one but me
and i feel the sting
there was a time she was beautiful
she had so much life to give
but now all i remember is the broken shell
i see in my nightmares
i can hardly recognize her
doesn't it feel good
I can feel my bones decay
I haven't got a thing to say
I never thought I could end up this way
maybe I should have known
but now my cover's blown
I've been up for hours but my feet never touched the floor
I can't pretend that I'm as funny as all you're friends
so I'll keep this lampshade on my skull for one more night
I've got a project car
I've got a VCR
I've got a hundred friends but I don't know where they are
my life's a fantasy
I'm just a wanna be
another throw away contemporary enemy
did you want me to be the life of the party
I've made some mistakes so stop kicking yourself
because I blame me
it's still the same
causing pain where it wasn't intended all the problems i could have pretended it's all over now it's in the past i've got deadlines and debts and money to borrow just to make it through tommorow tommorow it always comes too fast this time i'm living just for today
no more tommorow no more yesterday now i'm sitting alone and i'm silently staring wasting time but i'm not even caring as minutes by the hour waste away but i'm young at heart i'm young at mind i'm not going to waste my time because there's just to much at stake [chorus]
what's wrong with having it good for a change now they're gonna let us have it good if we just help them they're gonna leave us alone let us make some money you can have a little taste of that good life too now i know you want it hell everybody does you'd do it to your own kind what's the threat we all sell out every day might as well be on the winning team can you still recollect those times when the music carried potent prophecies of change could it be that our appointment's run its course are we the liable ones it seems we've ceased to even care has subjugation quelled the revolution that once filled the air divide and conquer as they break us down and watch us fall believe their lies are true and just be glad it isn't you leave all your demands unpressed just fall in lines with all the rest another shill a judas all this time.
Friday night she's not alone
I wonder who's going to drive her home
And walk her to the door
And will she give him a good night kiss
Monday at schoot she says hello
I fight the tears as I watch her go
She'll never know what she means
To this lonely boy
If you'd only take a walk with me
Just give me some time and you might see
I could be your hero if you'd let me in
You can't deny what's in your heart
And you know i'm trying to be a part
Try to turn away
From the spectacle of living everyday
The fear you cultivate
The jingoist hysteria
The lust for blood for god and state
Indoctrinate the children with your vitriol and lies
Then poison their humanity put blinders on their eyes
Flesh blood-burning lights a propaganda scam
Sequestered and obedient to god and Uncle Sam
First we need a threat
To the democratic interest we protect
Create an air of fear
So we can vilify then justify
Support the troops who fight and die
I remember the day that we met
I needed someone, you needed someone too, yeah
Spend time takin' all you could get
Givin' yourself was one thing you never could do
You played with my heart, played with my head
I got to laugh when I think of the things you said
'Cause i stole your love, Stole your love
Ain't never gonna let you go
I, oh yeah, stole your love, I stole your love stole your love, I stole your love
You never stop runnin' around
You pick me up, then you could still put me down
You were the girl that nobody could own
Stay for a while, then you would leave me alone
I'm somethin' different, ain't like the rest
I remember the day that we met
I needed someone, you needed someone too, yeah
Spend time takin' all you could get
Givin' yourself was one thing you never could do
You played with my heart, played with my head
I got to laugh when I think of the things you said
'Cause i stole your love, Stole your love
Ain't never gonna let you go
I, oh yeah, stole your love, I stole your love stole your love, I stole your love
You never stop runnin' around
You pick me up, then you could still put me down
You were the girl that nobody could own
Stay for a while, then you would leave me alone
I'm somethin' different, ain't like the rest
How does it feel to find out you're failin' your test
look at what you've left for me
Now that you've moved on
Won't pass for therapy
Just one more scar that's never gone
You tried to break me down
Time and time again
Rejection feels to scream
But I can't make a sound
It's me you tried to hide
As I hold you in my arms
As I feel your body broken
Is this just a dream?
Disappointment follows me
Its always just behind
Self-doubt bred solitude
Frustration robs me blind
No pain no part of me
I have grown numb and cold
Self-centered fantasy
Obsessed with self control
This is your worst fucking nightmare
One chance a clean break
Much more than I can take
Lies cast shadows dark things nobody knows
You've lost who's won?
My revenge has just begun
I've just begun
born with these opinions we've chosen to ignore things once worth fighting for mean nothing anymore the best laid plans the complicated schemes marginalization of a people's hopes and dreams the common man never had a choice too pushed aside to use our voice does our pride still run so deep that we don't mind being put to sleep the opulent look down with madisonian disdain at the titilated insects too complacent to complain with pavlovian precision doing just what we are told too entertained to realize the extent of their control the common man never had a choice too pushed aside to use our voice does our pride still run so deep that we don't mind being put to sleep ignore your dubious pretense of freedom in a different way oppression masked by false consent over one hundred fifty million without a thing to say without a thing to say.
every interaction tainted with objectification
Does it make you cool to put her in her place?
How would you feel if it was your sister?
I heard you threw your phone away
A brave attempt at dodging sympathy
And maybe you're right
Who needs checking up on anyway?
But I remember when I felt my worst
Its friends like you I called on first
The shadows of what seemed so sure
Haunt you as you tread alone
The empty house you bought with her
But even when you're torn apart
Worlds away I feel your pain
And carry you inside my heart
I will search my acquaintance
For a close-lipped friend
With strength and understanding
When I think Ive reached my end
I want to hear your voice again
And it would be so sad
If I learned you never even tried to call me up
But its not so bad
Sometimes those simple things won't turn the trick no more
And our self-important dreams they all lie shattered on the floor
Even the proletariat receives his royalty
And as the battle rages on and on I wish it wasn't me
And it seems so cruel
The last one breaking up
Until the winter finds it's worth
As we glide upon the earth
Now the trees are swept aside by wind and sheets of rain
And the fertile fields once gilded have now withered and refrained
She who longs for comfort feels instead a savage thrust
And the ashen sky grows ever darker as dawn gives way to dust
As we set our dogs upon the earth
Feast on the dead until no life remains
Why did you need to take that pill?
never has and never will
make you better make you well
you're shackled in your self-inflicted cell
sunlight you'll never see
you're a prisoner of pharmacology
and you're telling me you feel fine
never better
that's what you said in your last letter
that was read aloud at your memorial last week
where are you now?
Up above?
I hope you find some kind of love
that isn't bottled or tamper-resistant
but unconditional and consistent
the peace you've spent you lifetime searching for
if this is what it takes
maybe others can learn form your mistakes
Remember when I saw you
Sitting on the rocks yeah
I didn't want to find out
That there was nothing to do
Out here with you
So cold we're going to catch the flu
Got the keys to your car
Everything's so good so far
So do you ever smite
And will you stay awhile with me
It's been about a week now
It feels like a lifetime ago
Have I begun to bore you
Could you at least drop me off
well i thought we'd arrived at a tract in our history
where we'd fought every endeavor we could fight
yet i shuddered with grim preconception
as the cannonade erupted into light
and my ocular gaze lay dehiscent
it seemed that i could not look away
and every god fearing son was a patriot
and victory remained elusive
just one bomb away
oh yeah one bomb away
and they say that customs will reconcile people
to any atrocity - (George Bernard Shaw)
from dachau to belfast to baghdad
from sea to shining sea
and they say that when fascism crosses our borders
it'll be wrapped up in a shroud
glowing red, white, and blue
and our rectors they say will explain it away
as the ravings of a passionate few
well i happened to visit a slaughterhouse
where cessation's redolence rose to the sky
and propitious creatures await a most virulent fate
which their pacific demeanor belies
it was a place i don't care to return to
whose chambers compassion would not recognize
where slaughter is sanctification
and humanity covers it's eyes
covers it's eyes
my country 'tis of thee
sweet land of liberty
of thee i sing of thee i sing
i don't want to be a patriot
I told you twice to stay away
I know the games you're going to play
I'm trying to walk the straightened line
I don't need your problems killing my time
Sometimes I feel just like a puppet on a string
Everybody talks so loud and I can't hear a thing
Each day I find away to keep myself away from you
Don't you try to comfort me
I don't need your sympathy
This is how it's supposed to be
Looking through your jaded eyes
It's so easy just to criticize
I'm trying to do the best that I can
I don't expect you to understand
Don't mean a thing to me you run around like rats
Speak with authority but never with the facts
i remember when you disconnected
with such high hopes but still rejected
i know i've been there
you thought something outside would always fix you
you should know by now it'll always trick you
i know how it feels
it was all just boys and girls
making the most of a fucked up world
left with nothing left insane
live fast, die young, feel no pain
why can't you open those eyes
wasted living your daydream dies
you've disconnected from all that you know
why?
mom and dad let you out at night
if you're back by one it'll be all right
and you're safe now
safe from the world
but those nights won't stay the same
there's no more time for fun and games
An infant reared on hatred never learns
to hold diversity inviolate
While so-called maralists
proclaim they've got the test
To monitor the ways our love's expressed
So just think it through
Hatred is the stillborn child
of ignorance and boredom
Such a narrow view
Means seeds of tolerance are sown
by those who can't afford them
What wiil you do?
It's not too late for you to change
your xenophobic point of view
Now your pontifications leave us
draped in disbelief
Why should we suffer for
the fear that's undearneath
If we could learn to cherish what sets us apart
Keep love instead of fear within our hearts
So just think it through
Hatred is the stillborn child
of ignorance and boredom
Such a narrow view
Means seeds of tolerance are sown
by those who can't afford them
What wiil you do?
It's not too late for you to change
your xenophobic point of view
Big fucking man contestant in a freak show
So quick to terrorize someone
you hardly know
Don't see the pain when will you realize
That love is never wrong
I'd never thought I'd reach another end
When all I want is to be myself again
So why so soon we were having so much fun
Sometimes I wish I'd never learn to run
Ask me why I'm sad I'll say it's not so bad
I've done too much growing up today
Excuse my bitter half
He's too disturbed to laugh right now
I'll find you when it's done
I wrapped regret around the chance I'd never take
Discarded dreams for too much time awake
Now where did it dissapear to
Youth I fought my way out of
Every time I turn around
I feel it close behind
My fear and insecurity
You know they're gonna find me
Cages lined with eyes
Laughing telling lies
Hiding on the rooftops
In my twisted mind
Sleep is like an atom bomb
Exploding in my head
Black cats and silver bells
I'd be better off dead
Those flashing yellow lights
Blind me once again
I'm falling through the blackness
Towards the bitter end
My time is running down
It's been separating in my head
The roads we've traveled down before your crash
And putting all your trash this time it's gone
And nothing stays the same today
You know I've cried for my last time
I've given everything that's mine to give and
You're broken again
And this time I won't catch you falling
I can only do you wrong
It's a bit of insane
My words of comfort are disregarded
And we've known it all along, all along
You've got a thing for breaking hearts
Another night another fifth of laying blame
But nothing seems to wash away that shame
That kisses all your blackest dreams
You know I've played the game that always tricks you
I'd cut off my right arm to fix you but
So what's so wrong
Seems like there's no getting through to you
I know your recollection's negative
But take a chance and give it one more shot
More than some people get you know
Admit you've wasted too much time already
Life won't wait for you to let it go
When one browbeating lasts a lifetime
I cant recall the last time
Quiet conversation served
Whats left to solve by mute indifference?
Still we carry on this way
Prescribed and uninvolved
This holds no ordinary pretext
This isnt one more thing we can endeavor to deny
Fighting back tears wont stop the bleeding
Left to bite each others heads off
We forget to even try
Seems its never time
Its never time
Seems its never time
Its never time
Your face disturbs my sleep
You interrupt my savage dreams
I'd trade this vision
For just one more shot at you
Just beyond the setting sun
I can see the cities skyline receding
And these old lines
And these old lines keep repeating
When every single things Ive grown to love
Is tied up in this moment
Like a dream from which I pray I'll never wake
Who can wash away these tears
When all I've ever wanted
Is still written on her face
But the wind keeps whipping
And the time keeps ticking away
And it feels like Im not closer
With these miles caught in the way
Can anything be salvaged from this wreck?
With forever lying in peices
And her name tacked on my neck
Still caught up in what I wouldnt give
So stubborn and withdrawn
Exposed as though I'd never had a choice
Will things ever be the way they were
Blue skies and Open hearts
Talking up till dawn and reading Joyce
But now its clear
That theres nothing left to retrieve
And precious little that I can believe in
And I was just too blind to see it
So whats it all for?
When the lies mean so much more
Much more than reality
And whats the use of keeping score
When there抯 something
That won抰 let you sleep
Can you live with
The secrets you keep
All the pain all the pride
All the poison you抳e taken
That抯 killing you inside
There抯 a manifested bitterness
In all the joy you抳e known
There抯 no point in redemption
Some things are better left alone
I抳e waited
For freedom from bondage of self
Grow tired of everyone else
Grown cold
Grown sick of the doctrine
The lies that I抳e been told
When there's something
That won't let you sleep
Can you live with
The secrets you keep
All the pain all the pride
All the poison you've taken
That's killing you inside
There's a manifested bitterness
In all the joy you've known
There's no point in redemption
Some things are better left alone
I've waited
For freedom from bondage of self
Grow tired of everyone else
Grown cold
Grown sick of the doctrine
I've played off devastation
I told you it didn't mean that much
but this world keeps on closing in on me
whenever we fall out of touch
it's those subtle differences
keeping up appearances for what?
it gets the best of me
sometimes it's better not to know
I've tried so many times
to tell you how I feel
but forever's such a long, long time
and this apology's for real
now there's a time and a place for saving face
there's a time when it's all too much
through the hardest times
through the thick and thin I've always played it off
and kept my grin
but this life's too short to waste on pride
this is the time and the place for me
How are you feeling?
How does someone like you elude the moral quarantine
does your repression only server the greater lie
as you abuse and objectify
all the emotions you defeat you've got the world at your feet
because you think you've silenced all the critics of your misogynistic lies
but when you wake up from your reveries you'd better realize
you're a model of virility a specimen divine
as you deflower you empower the false ego trapped inside
and by the virtue of your "conquests" you've endeared yourself
to those who you hold in high esteem
you think you've silenced all the critics of your misogynistic lies
but when you wake up from your reveries you'd better realize
you've got to rectify
that attitude
you're a hopeless case
and now you're too late
you call her a whore
she's just the same as you
though she could never be that shallow
but you just take what you can get
and you throw the rest away
another notch in your belt
another score another lay
you're taking
she's giving
you're losing
you think you're winning
you're time is
running out now
the distance between the things you say
And your actions tell me everything
You never could so I'll keep my grip and stay away
Why should I waste my time?
When you can't tell wrong from right?
If you had your way I'd embrace convention
And lose my will to fight
Distractions keep me off my game
And I can't help but wonder if it was you
Would you still feel the fucking same?
Closed out shut down it doesn't matter to me
Because I've got the truth
Sick lies close ties your cheap talk ain't enough
Because we've got the truth
I've got no time for narrow minds just playing the role
You played the role
Played out your self doubt is going to force you to fold
A fool's crusade a proxy war
We justify we keep the score
With millions dead too blind to see
The cryptic clash of world war III
Did your country's sons and daughters
Die to make this world a safer place
Or do we just defy
Flesh and blood become one
The stakes keep rising the time has come
The band performs a martyr's verse
And the dominoes fall in reverse
The lines are drawn don't you see
Its too late to turn back now
We wont abide a stalemate
The end is predicated on the loss of life
What's so sinister?
Were only trying to do what we think is right
Conscience administered
reason is gone
this brain is out of practice
thinking is alien
it's alien to me
the day is through the lights are off and i'm alone again
electrons comfort me the television is my only friend
there was a time that i swore
this would never happen to me
i look for inspiration like i've done so many times
there's something missing here i can't define
would you like to come to a place inside my head
or would you like to watch me fall asleep instead
indecision, television
takes my mind away
growing stronger how much longer
will things be this way
i look at my close friends they wear expressions of concern
they don't want me to forget all that they think i've learned
i've explained my situation but why can't they see
friday's just another night for me
now there's a feeling that i get when i'm at peace with all i see
and it's a rare time that i spend with no one else around but me
these moments are so precious now
getting better just like wine
but wine won't make me happy
there was a time i thought it would
i thought it could i thought it should
now turned around i'm looking down
there's nothing there but i can still
When lies serve as substitution
A new twist on an old solution
No cause no choice
They took your freedom away
The new rights gotta keep you guessing
A Quick close with a signed confession
No rights this fight
Is how you're gonna pay
A child's tear froma broken heart
Another family's ripped apart
And the streets are empty
Down in Uniontown
Just don't let them catch you out at night
Nobody gets to have it all
The lucky ones only take the fall
It's a game and they picked your name
And now you've been had
You're just a player in a house of cards
Pleading guilty to a lesser charge
You're no good to anyone
When you're doing time
It's hard enough to stay alive
Eighteen to twenty five
Another town's locked into a slow decay
11th hour's gone nothing's resolved there's no alternative to becoming involved strike up the band round up the men ready to die for nothing one shred of hope one prayer for peace one man abandoned he prays for release he's bound to his code dishonor is death his heart pounding hatred with every breath he fights war's a childrens game back in the world he'd be a criminal he'd go insane no sleep for days he sweats when it's cold he lives for his orders he does what he's told no mercy for his enemy his finger on the trigger of an m-16 the hours grow long he's bored and alone he doesn't need no one he's never going home the system made him who he is those motherfuckers will fear him he's gone his mind is a waste he hears it twenty-one guns life imitates death imitates twenty-one guns honor parades accolades a section eight twenty-one guns a proud servant of this grand republic he got twenty-one guns
What should I say
I guess things didn't go my way
but you insist on shining light
on my greatest failures
fallible is me
but you can see
this isn't my reality
it's just the way things go for us
someone out there
saying "life just isn't fair"
but it's the disappointments and the
great mistakes that make you wiser
and what about the times you set me straight
and still left me waiting at the gate
it's just the way things go for us
I'm sick of trying at your way
did you really think I'd make it anyway
I pulled this splinter from my face
and found another worthwhile cause to take your place
I woke up ok
it's just another rainy day
and I'm feeling the same way
I never knew how good I had it
I had to treat you like a habit
it became what I'd guess you call a slight obsession
now I've had some time to work it out
way too much time to be without
the one I've wanted
you're my right direction
when you're back there
do you think of me
when you're alone
before you sleep
you are the one
I'm waiting for
this time's not like before
I'm going to carry you away
thinking good things now
I know we'll work it out somehow
I try to keep my chin up but it's so hard to let you go
it never hurt before to be alone
now your voice is salvation on the phone
in every phase and facet of national life there is a war being waged on america's poor the only apparent solution to this scourge of homelessness is to build more and more prisons the sun descends on the set so slowly the prisoner waits for the final signs one last look before the darkness takes him as the system fails by its own design believe you're really going to make them pay keep them out of sight and locked away compartmentalized with no way out a generation's future now in doubt this groundswell hypocrisy seems reserved for the few who find courts of law but no justice who dares disrupt the ordered lives of those too deaf to heed the cries ignore the torment of the faceless millions and we'll share a common fate this groundswell hypocrisy seems reserved for the few who find courts of law but no justice.
A nation in silence too frightened to run
The secret police got you under the gun
At the hint of dissension there's a mark by your name
Now you're never alone just a pawn in the game
Call it state control destroy your mind
You think you're safe boy
You're out of time
We're all slaves to subversion
A trick of the trade
The ones in control are the ones getting paid
They're stealing your spirit
And breaking your will
Sometimes it seems so tough
Good friends are not enough
And I'm powerless to help
When you take it all upon yourself
Feels like you just can't win
The whole wide world is closing in
And it's so hard not to think the worse
When you're the centre of the universe
I see you struggling with the wait of the world
Remember I'm always by your side
Too many problems for one little girl
I'll be beside you when all your tears have dried
I lay next to you at night
I know something's just not right
But there's nothing I can say
When you feel ten thousand miles away
I don't have all the answers yet
But I get scared when you're upset
And your heart feels like an empty home
When you feel so scared and all alone
Think everybody's talking about you
And conspiring to bring you down
You're thinking that nobody loves you
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