I’ve come realise what it means to be alive,When you
spend all of your time learning every single line. And I
needed this to see I’m exactly where I wanna be, When you
spend all of those nights writing every single line. I’m
not saying I’ve found the cure.I’m not saying that I’m
right. If there’s one thing I know it’s I’ll always come
home. I will always come back to you. Turn off the light.
She would forgive a truth,
if you'd lift her with a smile, like
you used to do.
She would bring the cuffs to you,
just to make you stay a while, as if you
wanted to.
So lie down, sleep around,
hearts bending now will break.
Your light shattering my calm,
a life sentence in your arms.
Breathe in now, breathe out,
a touch that suffocates.
Sirens wailing in alarm,
a life sentence in your arms.
His arm reads like a prison cell wall,
scratching days down as they pass, not
recalling them all.
His thoughts they twist and turn,
Investing everything in her and not,
expecting a return.
Will that be good enough for her?
So lie down, sleep around,
hearts bending now will break.
Your light shattering my calm,
a life sentence in your arms.
Breathe in now, breathe out,
a touch that suffocates.
Sirens wailing in alarm,
a life sentence in your arms.
So lie down, sleep around,
hearts bending now will break.
Your light shattering my calm,
a life sentence in your arms.
Breathe in now, breathe out,
a touch that suffocates.
Sirens wailing in alarm,
At 5pm you changed the world with something new, with
something wonderful. And we know that you’ll do just
fine: Holding her hand over time, keeping her safe every
night. And we know that you’ll be just fine: Wiping the
tears from her eyes, doing exactly what’s right. Change
the world. A baby girl. It’s something new. It’s
Searching so hard for somewhere you can belong
So much that you’ll change all the things you believe,
Your ideas about what’s right and wrong
So take Advantage of the scene that’s in style
As trend-core kills with a smile.
Your moments of clarity change 12 times a year
I’ll bring you the horizon if you stop hurting my ears
Standing your ground, so clear your intentions
There was nothing I could say or do.
There was a time and a place but I never imagined
It was here and now with me and you.
So far removed from the thoughts you once had-
A new way of life “Well I guess it’s not bad”
You took what you knew, changed your clothes and you view
You’re living a lie but at least you’re in style
Your favourite’s death-grind? Electro-gore-trip,
flirtatious-funk-core, and now you’re into JAZZ?
Get a haircut?, cut your pants off?, shave your
eyebrows?, you’re the one that knows.
A lack of vocals, too many breakdowns, only eat tinned
food, I think you’ve lost the plot.
You buy a monkey, you feed him tic tacs, give him a
Autocratic authority – Scapegoating minorities
This cardinal rigged lottery,
Is trampling equality again!
Homophobic! As the church has always been,
The bible-breathing-brainwashed, say we live in sin!
Feels like the 20-millionth time
I’ve thrown pearl to swine or screamed in an empty room!
Pope-a-phobes, (all the lies!)
Against this dogma til we die.
It’s a joke! (The things they know!)
It’s probably the safest way to go
Screw the pope (and what he claims!)
“It’s as urgent as climate change”
Fascist lies, that we despise!
The feeling’s racing by, it’s a sign, this metaphor
defies.
We’re individuals, in a stereotype.
The words can’t complete just what the picture means
And every second passing is a second I would freeze.
There’s a reason why I’ll try,
Search the deserts and the skies til I die.
And now I know what money cannot buy
I’ll bleed the oceans dry for one night.
The deserts and the skies, and the light,
The songs I’ll never write are lost on my tongue, they
are burning my lungs.
But these cards cannot read just what the future sees
And I could never sing a note so perfect as this melody.
There’s a reason why I’ll try,
Search the deserts and the skies til I die.
And now I know what money cannot buy
I’ll bleed the oceans dry for one night.
Well I thoroughly doubt that you’d enjoy
A 3-month trip on a leaky plank of wood.
Only to find out that when you arrived
You’re considered a threat to national security
And I’d like to see you go through half the shit that
they’ve been through
But Instead I see you criticising them
And I’d like to see how you’d hold up,
In a struggle for survival in your war torn home land
A constant threat of war, violence and terror
Is a concept I’m not sure you understand
But with racist jokes and stereotypes you laugh along
with the rest
They’re locked in refugee camps and you claim it’s for
the best
Cause everyone’s an immigrant and I’m tired of all your
racist shit
There’s a fine line between national pride and racist
bigotry
You’re ignorant if you deny we grew from the same
seeds.
Convicts, immigrants, Asylum seekers, refugees. - We’re
all the same.
We’re all the same.
It doesn’t sound like any place that I would wanna live
The population just has no idea.
An unaccepting nation so concerned with self-image.
Exclusion, segregation, sport and beer.
There’s a fine line between national pride and racist
bigotry
You’re ignorant if you deny we grew from the same
seeds.
Immigrants, convicts, Asylum seekers, refugees. - We’re
all the same.
I never thought that I’d be seeing the world how it is in
reality. Addiction of society: Paper and plastic and
digits on Telescreens. Do we need it? Do we notice? Or do
we care at all? Can’t change it. Won’t miss it. Sit back
and watch the fall. I never thought that I’d see the
world money built burning down right in front of me.It’s
modern day slavery. Maximise profits; the corporate
philosophy. Planting the ceeds; growing poverty. The air
that we breathe is bought and sold, not free. I see the
need for us to feed our families. Why can’t you just see?
It’s what we eat that grows on trees, traded for
fictional commodities. So put your money where your mouth
is. Addiction keeps filling the void in all of our lives.
Are we destined for nothing more than a slow decline?
I fell asleep in the van late last night. I woke up in
vomit and hating my life. There’s nothing better than
this and I know that when it’s all over you’ll never go.
“If they had keyboards and better harmonies, maybe they’d
have some money.” But for now I’m just fine lying here
Yesterday I woke up with a voice inside my mind.
It told me just to stay in bed, it told me I'd be fine.
Said if I really want to see this through,
To make it out and be with you.
That I'd have to live it all inside,
Sit it out, or find a place to hide.
Everything I've ever said -
About your eyes, your hair, the way I care -
Everything I've said to you is nothing less, I tell the
truth.
Someday soon I'll realize I want the truth, to see you
smile.
It something that you had to do,
It's what you need, it's best for you.
Never thought that I'd have to choose
Between a lie and a thought that I used to use.
Veins of un-martyred blood were shed upon those sands.
Not even washed away, or tainted with human hands.
The price of ignorance is to be paid now once again.
All the way with G.W.B, it's now like it was then.
Examples once amore of history's mistakes.
He can't learn from the past so what chance do we take?
The sons of men are sent away to fight in foreign wars.
To kill, to maim, to slay, to wreck, -an oh-so-noble
cause.
The ones inside, have played with fire,
The same kind as the last fucking liar.
The time has come, to start a riot,
The same price will be returned if we don't fight it.
They tell us of the need for war on TV and the news,
To stop the threat of terrorism, well they've lit a
burning fuse.
They must be working day and night so everyone you
know;
Ingests the propaganda that burns from their stereos.
The kids at school all tease me cause I tell them it's
a lie,
My smart mouth gets detention my opinions are denied,
'For God and Country' is bullshit, you 'Seek Justice'
for the few!
The few that make your shiny cars your paychecks and
your shoes.
Glory glory, what a hell of way to die,
Your legs blown off, your teeth kicked in, bombs a-
dropping from the sky.
Your homeland burns around you in a red-white-and-blue-
blaze.
And the soldiers are marching on....
He's quite content to weasel out when he's called up to
serve.
Has no problem sending your sons to a death they don't
deserve.
An unjust cause, an unjust war, with unjust graves, for
oil production.
The force-fed masses never saw your Fantasy Weapons of
mass destruction
The time is NOW, to riot riot.
Well if you bothered you might feel the same as me but
there’s just no room inside your little world. (You call
this a happy meal?) And so you criticize the differences
that you can’t understand, and we’re not getting
anywhere. After what I’ve seen I don’t believe in happy
endings any more.The suffering is something I will never
grasp. The means and ends are not in tact at all. With no
desire to question your pre-convictions, no opportunity
to enhance your mind, you don’t know what things you
could come across and learn, so our conversation’s just a
waste of time. I can’t believe the way you shrug your
shoulders like it’s no big deal.Correcting me, as you
defend your all of your selfish choices, and your down-
right refusal to learn. After what I’ve seen I don’t
believe in happy endings any more.The suffering is
something I will never grasp. The means and ends are not
Right now, the silence speaks to me.
Well there's a hundred welts in bed sheets in a place I'd
rather be.
Instead I'm struggling just to drive,
fighting battles against thoughts that no nothing of
compromise.
One thing among them helps me to survive
That you've stuck by me through it all
I get the point, the beds been made,
But you know where I stand.
I need to hear it from your eyes.
The ceiling turns a blind eye on our conversation and I
realise.
I fucking swear we'll make it through.
Fuelled by a lack of sense and all regrets.
I've crashed and burned a million times before but what
did you expect?
You’re talking about queue jumpers: “They’ve gotta wait
in line” But when you came here as a convict, that was
fucking fine? I don’t think that you understand your
actions or you’ve researched into the opinions you “speak
from your mind” I hear you in the line at the pub:
“They’ve all gotta leave” We’ve got no room? We can’t
help out our fellow human beings? And they’re taking your
tax dollars? I’m guessing that you don’t know a thing
about the views you’re expressing. We’re an
underpopulated desert. How about we sort this out? Teach
you some fucking compassion. Typically, they’ll tell you
who to be. You’re culturally brainwashed by images you
can’t see. What’s it mean? It’s a Lie. Don’t close your
So you echoed over me
Why do you feel so inclined to lie?
This urgency’s a tragedy.
The things you say remain the same
I know they’re gonna tell me it’s no use
I will persevere with nothing but the truth
Like water down the drain it’s such a waste and all I
know
Is what we have left is surely soon to go.
Time will come and it will pass,
Just do your thing and leave your mark.
With no fucking care, regret, resent.
Read between the fucking lines my friend.
Time will come and time will always pass
With no intent to stop.
Life’s so short, yet you leave a bigger mark
I understand necessity. You’re not the one in a factory,
locked in cages. Testing products we don’t need,
manufacturing pure greed. I see, “A means to an end”. But
I don’t see why we need to preserve or defend our human
safety. From foundation and blush, you understand we have
enough products to use already. Frankly Andrew, I’m not
surprised. Deny logic, before your eyes. The views you
are expressing are the part I can’t believe with the
influence you have and the web of lies you weave. Have
you ever stopped to think if it’s worth the fucking tears
when we’ve learned all we can learn in the past 50 years?
But I don’t see why we need to preserve or defend our
human safety.The amount of pain’s the same, substantially
less to gain: Beauty disguising greed. Comet had nothing
left to say. A day at the races was a thing of
yesterday.So worthless in her skin man’s best friend is
traded in for university testing. But I don’t see why we
need to preserve or defend our human safety.It’s like
screaming at a wall, no body gives a fuck at all when
Well from here it’s all downhill I’ve heard.
There’s nothing left to save the world.
People die on your TV,
It’s nothing new you haven’t seen.
Everything seems fine to you
What you believe is up to you
You pick and choose between the news
You think you’re safe but it’s not true
What ever happened to the place that we live?
Living a lie when you can’t change anything
Everyone’s here just to watch the world burn.
Sitting around cause they’re just one person.
Well I’d make an effort if I could
It’s wasted time I’d spent.
Cause no one gives a shit about
The things I represent
Well I’d save the planet; I’d save the whales
I think I’d probably find.
That everyone else keeps eating meat, and fucking sheep
I just wasted my time. So why should I try?
Go to the park and we’ll have a picnic
Who gives a fuck cause you can’t make a difference
Everyone’s here just to watch the world burn.
Sitting around cause they’re just one person.
Well now I know that no one cares
That’s why I wrote this song I hope to change someone
I really that someday soon
So I never knew that there was such an industry for
greed.
The last few years have really changed my mind.
And 80 percent of the food we grow
Fattens up animals, who we breed to die.
And I, can’t seem to comprehend
The selfish way we go through life eating all our friends
And it seems that no one gives a shit
Well I’m so fucking sick of it
Well fuck that - I’ll never be a part of it.
And every last bit makes a difference
Your TV tells you what to eat -While Sam Neill glorifies
red meat
I’m begging you please don’t believe the lies - Open up
Well any action is justifiable when condoned by such a
being, above the law, above it all.
Above any human entity of power, above all right and
wrong, above the law, well fuck it all.
Do you believe that you were sent to change the world?
To show others the light, to praise the right and
cleanse the wrong?
I don't believe such a being can help you sleep at
night.
This might come as a fright
I’d tear it down, your laws and conversation.
Exaggerate and justify your lack of truth.
I don’t believe that such a being would condone the
things you do...
With God as your excuse.
I can't believe I let you brainwash me for all this
time,
and I can't believe I fell for all the lies you told.
Hypocrisy once had control; your fascist ways once took
their toll,
but Now. I'll fall for this no more!
To bow to an authority, based on such lies and
trickery,
you’re backwards burning witches like it’s 1643.
Miracles and acts of God? Like missionary culture
shock.
I stand to question that.
I’d tear it down, your lies about creation, seminal
castration of the basic rights and now;
it's taken 2000 to stand, and you ask why? Because the
blind, don’t question anything!
Is corruption, so essential, when dealing with a
subject of such grace?
If your actions, are of your "saviour" should they not
benefit the whole human race?
Your unaccepting ways and your persecutive attitude
will eventually destroy you and outweigh the good you
try to do.
Correct and punish all you like but you’ll never find
the truth,
because as divided, separated parts we all can only
stand to lose.
It’s time to look around because you’re not the only
a million others and you’re causing pain.
It’s time to look around because you’re not the only
one,
I remember when I was younger
The days they seemed much longer
And everything was fine.
I had no need to fear what was unknown
The rest was just something I’d outgrow
Through knowledge developed in time.
So sit back and believe what they tell you
That everything’s alright.
But there’s no need to finish this story
As it rains inside my head
There’s a timeless story with no end.
An empty place with no regrets.
I’ve heard this one a thousand times
It’s been replaying in my mind
I’d like to keep it so; I’d like to keep it so.
I need to find a new way out
Won’t see me kick, won’t see me shout
I need to find the answers to
The questions that I often doubt
Because I know the things that keep me up
The things that I believe
Will stay the same just like they’ve always done
I know they’ll never change
Just like the time of day and how it rains
The oceans or this place
They’ll stay the same, just like they’ve always done
I know they’ll never change, they’ll never change.
For now I’ll sit and watch it pass
Another lesson taking in
Just like I’ve always done
Just like I’ve always done before
There is no rush I’ll take my time
I’ll turn the effort off my pride
I’ll turn the effort off; I’ll turn the effort off.
I could have told myself a lie
I could have listened to a myth
I guess that I’m just fucking tired
I guess it’s just another time.
I’m looking for a reason now
I’m tired of conversations that will leave me with no
doubt
About the way I’ve come to see the world
The way I’ve come to think
I sat a while on the rooftop at 209.I swear we could see
miles of the city lights, burned through the skies. I’ve
tried. Someone else lives there now, keys have been
passed. But in my memory it always lasts. The city lights
burned through our eyes and to me you’ll always live
there. So if I never get another moment like yesterday
that’s okay. And if I never get another chance, we never
talk again to me you’ll always live there. You’ll always
I made a promise I told myself I’d keep. So much has now
changed. And looking back makes me wonder why. Time keeps
passing by. I can see you’re not alright, please don’t
give up the fight. If I had the chance to make the
problems go away I swear I would cure them today. I
listened to the dial tone and it told me it was time to
let go and give you space and hope that you’d be fine. I
think I’ve tried a million ways but none of them were
right. One thing for sure, I won’t complain. I can see
you’re not alright, after all the absent nights. If I had
the chance to make the problems go away I swear I would
But you don’t see - Their lives are thrown before you,
didn’t watch them go.
But that’s okay, cause everyday
It happens a million goddamn times
How many people know?
Your parents will not invite them to tea
The lucky few who have scored immunity
It’s only on TV
Destruction is a normal thing, a way of life, an every
day occurrence.
Is that the way That we’ve become?
Only caring about ourselves not looking out for anyone
Your parents wont call them over to play
They won’t like the pies and they’ll bring the wrong
cake
Eat up your peas or you’ll catch a disease (you’ve had
it before, you’ve had it before)
A rabbit will kill you if you don’t say please (it's
happened before, it's happened before)
To think about the days
When disposability and hate
Were not the things that we
That we were taught to see
To think about the days
A time where you and I were free
From all the lies and mistrust
All the bullshit that they feed us.
Is our humanity so disposable?
When lives are wrecked we shrug our shoulders, turn our
face away?
The other side can’t hide everything forever but how
we’ve tried,
We’ve shown them that and I think we’ve seen enough.
Your parents wont call them over to play
They won’t like the pies and they’ll bring the wrong
cake
Accepting death as a way of life’s a-ok!
Statistics not tragedy, keep them at bay.
You’ll guard the house as your nails claw you seat,
Your children will sleep while the dead line the
This is a stand against the legal persecution of a
people,
A contradiction of our basic freedoms “The ticket price
won’t cater your admission”
Another open door’s another:
Fist not punching in the fights, another stand to you
We’ll protest here for human rights a broadcast of the
truth.
Those too true to run and hide will stand to gather
side by side
With open hearts and open minds, We’re here to
disapprove.
When will it stop? The hate.
The verbal bashing of cock-sucking-faggots
The traditionalistic-fundamentalist-Catholics
The ones who spoke of AIDS. Oh they were full of it.
A disgrace or a punishment?
I’m getting tired of trying to make them change their
minds
A generation fucking blind
In 2009, its time to leave this shit behind
Its time to leave that shit behind.
And it makes me sick every day
To see the way you hold yourself
“A threat to none”? “A role model”
“A citizen to trust”?
Sometimes I just can’t understand why you do the things
you do
Judge and hate good people, with invalid old excuse
I know that you’re just scared of change you’re living
in the past
But soon a day will come to you, and it will be your
last.
The time is now to end the stereotypical lack of reason
A time to end this homophobic season
The violence and the hatred and the macho shit.
I hope they get a taste of it!
I’m getting tired of trying to make them change their
minds
A generation fucking blind
In 2009, its time to leave this shit behind
Homophobes, we can’t change the past
But we can change the future.
There’s a place I used to know
A place that I called home
A place where I thought everything was going to be fine.
You took my family
My friends away from me
And took us to a place that looked like hell quite
honestly.
If this is how it’s supposed to be
I’ll close my eyes so I can’t see
And take this image to my grave
And as the blood is drained from me
I’ll leave this place so honestly
Another life taken in vein.
Did you look in their eyes when they died?
Did you hear anything as they cried?
As they came to their end, did you feel anything?
I’ve been replaying the same scenes over in my mind.
I’ve seen this dream a million times: the one where I
lose you.
In the headlights it is grey.
I will come back for you.
I think I’ll drive, I think I’ll drive, until the fuel
runs out.
Swear I’ll fucking try until everything is lost.
In the headlights it is grey.
When there’s nothing left to say, I will come back for
you.
In the headlights it is grey.
I need a way to fix the pain.
The Iraqi kid that's from your school,
The one you thought was never cool.
Have you ever even seen his father fly a plane?
And did it occur to you sir,
That in fact you never saw him
Meeting with Bin Laden or Hussein.
So they were born on different sands,
They travelled here from foreign lands,
This prejudice is getting out of hand.
These people don't bring best laid plans,
Of destruction war, evil demands,
Our nations could walk hand in hand
But you'll never understand.
Your judgements make no sense to me,
You scapegoat them like we're nazi's.
There's no time for reason in your ignorant agenda.
And is it probable you could,
Have possibly misunderstood?
The reason for the turban and hijab?
Your harsh judgements are causing pain,
When you have nothing here to gain,
Our countries values are a crying shame.
You act as if you yourselves are tame,
Yet all your thoughts remain the same,
Why don't you use your-God-given brain
Before you point the blame?
Do you know how it feels?
Do you think you'd understand?
All your glory is so fleeting,
So take charge while your in command.
With families forced to change their names,
Victims of your bullshit games.
Will I sit back, Will I not take a stand?
Hana couldn’t understand where all the shoes went,
hundreds every day.
She packed them all up and sent them away.
Where to? She didn’t know,
But tomorrow morning there would be more soles to make
and flaps to sow.
It never seemed to end.
Jamie couldn’t understand why kids like him die in the
factories.
Working for 6 cents in 58 degrees. Is it right?
When the clothes on our backs come at such a price?
He can’t understand. Although he tries a part of him
still dies.
And I wonder if she knows that somewhere across the
globe
Children just like her play in parks and learn in
schools?
And I wonder how that feels. Promises can seem so real
When the imagery is sealed and it’s right in front of
you.
It’s a seventy five hour week.
This time, I can’t understand necessity.
It’s time for us to comprehend the lucky lives we live:
The proposal of a better global perspective.
If we look beyond ourselves and all the choices that we
make and what’s at stake.
So if we resist, protest - we can find a better way
No more support - for industries where children slave
Promote Freedom - in all of our ambitions and our
trials.
And I wonder if she knows that somewhere across the
globe
Children just like her play in parks and learn in
schools?
And you ask me what to do it fucking breaks my heart in
two when the imagery is true.
And I wonder if he knows just how far this fucking
goes.
Slaving til they die’s no life for children just like
you.
And I wonder how that feels. Promises feel fucking real
When the imagery is sealed and it’s right in front of
We’re moving forward slowly
seems like we’re getting nowhere
1 step forward 1 step back
Is how it feels to me
And every struggle day by day
Reminds me that I'm so awake
Feel the unaccomplishments
As they walk over me
So spend your days thinking about the bright side
Not the knife fights
It’s a fucked up world with no way out
and it seems we’re all we’ve got
I won’t turn this to a waste
For sour grapes or for revenge
I wont, burn us to the ground to prove a point
We’re moving forward slowly
seems like we’re getting nowhere
1 step forward 1 step back
Is how it feels to me
And all I know is it’s been so long
It’s just in reach and still so far
We need more time, we’ve had so much
It’s hard to disagree
Because I've been here before
I’ve passed out on the floor
I don’t know much at all…
So spend thinking about the bright side
Not the knife fights
Two steps forward two steps back is how it fucks with
I’d like to say I’ve learned a lot,
I think I know less than before.
It’s times like these I’m glad there's something more
to life
If I had fallen short
Of all my plans and thoughts
Until the end
I’m with my friends
