• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• The Good Times - Dogwood
• Selfish Americans - Dogwood
• Building A Better Me - Dogwood
• Lonley Road - Dogwood
• Suffer - Dogwood
• Stairway To Hell - Dogwood
• Lapchild - Dogwood
• As The World Burns - Dogwood
• Come Back Down - Dogwood
• What I Should Have Said - Dogwood
• We Cry Victory - Dogwood
• The Bad Times (Reprise) - Dogwood
• Progression - Dogwood
• My Best Year - Dogwood
• Nothing Is Everything - Dogwood
• Label Me - Dogwood
• The Battle Of Them Vs. Them - Dogwood
• The Bad Times - Dogwood
• Autobiographies - Dogwood
• Comes Crashing - Dogwood
• Matt Aragon - Dogwood
• A Hope Unseen - Dogwood
• 1983 - Dogwood
• Feel The Burn - Dogwood
• Truth About It Is - Dogwood
• The Rise And Fall Of Belinda And Ivan - Dogwood
• Social Security - Dogwood
• Singular - Dogwood
• (Bonus Track) - Dogwood
• Mat Aragon - Dogwood
• Do Or Die - Dogwood
• Tribute - Dogwood
• Never Die - Dogwood
• Seismic - Dogwood
• Grease - Dogwood
• Billy Mahoney's Baby - Dogwood
• Lonely Road - Dogwood
• Challenger - Dogwood
• Jesus - Dogwood
• Crushing - Dogwood
• Through Thick And Thin - Dogwood
• Control - Dogwood
• Family Values - Dogwood
• Absolution - Dogwood
• Last Of The Lost - Dogwood
• Your Tounge Is The Deadliest - Dogwood
• Everything Dies In Time - Dogwood
• Confusion Zero - Dogwood
• Reasoner - Dogwood
• Redefined Defiance - Dogwood

There was a time that I was fine,
(I swear that everything was fine)
But it just covered all the lies.
I didn't know that everything would change.
I was lost in my own world.
You were compromising yours.
You were never even there.
Not enough to see what you would lose.
I'm letting you off.
My assumption that if I can find some way to get back there,
Intervention straight to your heart.
Without it everything is so perfect.
Why can't I just hide the past,
Forget about the good times?
It's in me, I am you.
Hope I'd never see it through...
Never even think it -- you.
Just so similar to all my fears,
Always feeling trapped inside.
Broken promises provide, years of torment gone astray...
Responsibility, too much to pay.
I open my heart too much anger locked away,
Inside a boy who's without you,
Without what's left I'm left on my own,
Bitter view of an american family.
Create my own redemption.

Rotting from the innards out
Another decade, they?re vanishing
What is it to you? What is it to me?
There?s nothing we can do so I?ll just leave it the same
Stolen from our sight and mind, swept under the rug, no shame
Oblivious to the poverty and we?re the ones to blame
Consumers venerate the power to take away
It?s burning ever closer, killing them everyday
The pleasure to disregard it, those children feel the sting
Conversely we forget them with every passing day
They?ll never go away and here we stay
Oh, selfish Americans
Oh, selfish Americans
Recognize their plight, take a look at them
We take from granted our God given freedom
They?ve got nothing our there
We need to lend an unselfish hand, commit ourselves to serve
There?s so much we have, we don?t know what to do
And the answer is already there
Oh, selfish Americans
Oh, selfish Americans

Superficial nature wearing thin.
I can't seem to begin.
What really do I see when I stare back at me?
As crushing time reveals my foe,
Inheriting all woe.
Solutions in the past,
Conditioned not to ask.
It's what you're meant to be,
Your name and number.
Be all that you should be.
You will recover things you haven't lost,
Because they don't see you like you think they do.
Please just become you.
"Release your fear" is what he said.
This all came to a head.
Feel cheated out of you,
Tradition follows through.
Though I can't see how this will end,
I know that you will always pull me through.
My soul went searching for a cause
But came back empty-handed.
The emptiness you see...

I left your arms, no turning back.
I chose this lonely, lonely road.
I'm on my way.
I don't need you.
A self sufficient superstar.
I'm losing faith.
How I miss home.
This life is costing me my own.
What can I do?
Where can I run?
The world against me soon I'm...
Down in my heart's where I hide you.
Yet where I go is where I find you.
I'll never be ashamed of you.
I'm sorry I've forsaken you.
Easy to see, I need your will to carry me.
There's not a thing that
I can do.
Realization I let You...
Down in my heart's where I hide you.
Yet where I go is where I find you.
I'll never be ashamed of you.
I'm sorry I've forsaken you.
I'm in your arms, came running back.

Independent. I leave you now, to drown in desolation oblivious to no one.
Perpetual comparison, you realized when I left that you were done.
Suffer! 'cause this would be your fault. I know it's just another lie...
You expect me to succumb, snuff your insecurities.
You bounce from friend to friend, you're nothing but a memory of treasure lost.
We stumbled side by side, we all tried to ignore the promises you never kept.
You realized when I left that you were wrong, you're wrong.

It's just begun, the steps of sin.
The decision making process gone astray.
If I had known, what was to come,
I'd be sure to turn my head and run away.
But that's too bad,
It's in the past and I'm stuck right here.
I've gone from A to C without a stop at B.
And now I lost the will to do it by myself,
Loving grace is what it takes to set me free.
All alone is how I feel...
God show me to me what is real...
I choose to sacrifice myself, now I simply need your help.
I'm sick and tired, of feeling guilt, why can't I just not sin and not end up in shame?
It sounds simple, but yet it's not, I got mad again and in vain used your name.
I'm not as good as people say I think I sure fooled them,
Oh how I wish that they could see into my soul,
Now I lost the will to do it by myself, loving grace is what it takes to make me whole.
Candy coating all my dreams,
Nothing is ever as it seems,
I choose to sacrifice myself now I need your help.
I feel ready, to do your will.
I love to see my friends see you in me.
I want to be, your favorite son, but in the end I know you'll love us all the same.
Well that's alright because you gave me eternal life, and now I will tell every person that I can.

So we see it start again,
Another adolescent standing with her friends
Just one more guy too shy to tell her how he feels
So when he does, to us it's no big deal
They start to date and hug and kiss and hold hands
Also soon forgetting one of God's great commands
It says "You shall have no other Gods before me"
Did they care? No, 'cause they couldn't see
It started with a kiss, not just a little peck
Next thing he knew, he was slurpin on her neck
It's obvious to see, that he has no recompense
They're just another couple, that never make any sense
Just as a though becomes a deed
Soon there's a mouth you have to feed.
How the child count becomes three.
He and she are just a like
Barely got training wheels off of their bikes;
How did they expect to live carefree?
Always whining "There's no time to play"
Sorry, but that's the price you pay,
I have it was worth five minutes o' love.
Shucks, funds are getting tight
Money situation doesn't look too bright.
We'll see what happens when push comes to shove
It started with a kiss, not just a little peck,
Next thing he knew, he was slupin on her neck,
And now they have a kid, and another on the way
What a shame to see their sky is gray
It started with a kiss, not just a little peck,
Next thing he knew, he was slurpin on her neck,
It's obvious to see, he stumbled, then he fell,

When will idle contradictions cease to exist?
Sit back down and do nothing to resist,
Pontificate assistance without intent to act,
The U.S.A. is Jill and now Jill is Jacked!
We're all sopposed to live in unity.
We've given up on how its intended to be.
Why isn't there any harmony?
I just want to point my finger and say it cant be me.
You point one finger, theres three pointed back at you.
The cliche actions speak louder than words is so true.
Nothing will be acomplished unless initiated.
The Star Spangled blue, white, and red, is now faded.
When resistance became acceptance we failed to question why.
No one stood up to stop it, they just turned a blind eye.
So they sat back and complained about all thats gone wrong.
The world wont change its sinful ways.

Come back down.
Be around and i'll be home again.
Cross my heart. Close my eyes, as I fall into You.
Be all that I need from You.
I never knew You'd take the opportunity to know someone like me.
All of me rests in You, my Father.
You're my shield.
Hear me, all that I am is You.
So come back down,
Be around and I'll be yours once more...

If your heart could see,
If your heart could feel,
To shield in your feelings,
Boundaries of steel.
Let someone else get into your head,
Let your mind be free,
Open up to me.
Paint a picture of memory rebates.
Share your broadings with your loved ones
Catergorizing moms that stepped on and jumped, bumbling under alcoholic pressure.
Self-enlisted troops marching up against you,
Now there's no erase, emotional scars.
Children don't request to become a punching bag.
Teach the family to walk a narrow line.
Don't look back at what you left behind.
Once again a bastard undefined.
Someday I'll see you swollen with new broods.
And take a little photo
A shaken triggered past I see
Hiding under your blanket of guilt,
Shadow haunts him with pain that was his unborn life,

Arise all ye warriors.
A battle we must win.
Be shielded in His Glory.
Let the fighting begin.
Put on the holy armor.
It's time to take control.
Come along with me to fight for the lost souls.
Atop the hills we cry "victory is ours".
We're never turning back to our lifestyles of worthless sin.
Hear our prayers.
We pour our hearts to you.
Oh, Lord. As we cry victory!
March along in valor and shout this battle hymn.
We're armored and we're ready to put satan to an end.
With God's Word as a sword there's nothing we can't do.
Allow Him to command you and see what happens too.
There's power of His Love.
Strength from up above.
Feel the brunt of our attack.

He walked away...
Turned around to watch friends fade.
Chased by enemies he made,
Like sin and lust collecting dust on his faith.
Sure they showed him the good times,
But they all ended in bad times

Doubled over from mankind's venomous bite.
When the wind rises,
Humanity is in jeopardy.
A meltdown awaiting,
A knee-jerk reaction.
Our future depends upon one man's decision.
Infamous button,
Luring the push.
Will I be around,
For the appointed touch?
How long until,
The world fizzles out?
Closer to the inevitable end.
Progressing yet nearer,
I fear for the kids.
Taking advantage,
Of other countries.
Not much time left,
To watch our nation fall.
What can we do as worthless creatures?
That's what we're to believe.
Fallout,
That's that we're headed for.
Jesus,
Come soon and take us all away.
America abusing it's power like never before.
Progression to and end,

Days are getting so much longer,
I feel I'm getting stronger.
The fear inside me dies when you are not around.
Looking back I've grown up so much this year.
Your purpose now is so clear.
Your mission is complete and now the chord is severed.
Is there something I can do?
Some way to get through to you.
You oughta know.
I still miss you.
Thinking of a time when I was younger.
These words would leave me hungered.
One broken me is searching for what I can't see.
All these thoughts add to digression.
Though through this weak confession.
I'm stronger than you ever were.
You should concur.
Bite your tongue and sever through.
Common sense come crashing to.
There's still a hope.

Further instructions will come in a dream.
Brain will revolt as the villagers scream.
Leaders assemble and gamble for rank.
All that was right is now wrong.
This means everything to you.
Nothing means everything to you.
Tables of measure have overruled fate.
You like to bargain to settle debate.
We supply choices for few to resolve.
A lesson to learn in us all.
This means everything to you.
Nothing means everything to you.
Is it the wisest choice you made?
What a tragic game you played.
It was your equivalent,
to become someone you could not be.
What were their last words.
"Its all downhill from here."
This one will be the last one you trust.
This time, there no time.

I'll take the pain for all you do,
Anything to become your best friend,
Always waiting with open arms,
Only to run into rock solid hearts.
Moff me,
Scoff me,
Beat me,
Kill me,
Give myself to all under a Dogwood tree,
Treat me how you like, I don't care you see,
I'll treat you the same no matter what you label me.
All I want to do is love you,
Give me a chance to get inside of you,
I would only give up my only kid,
Just to help you spend forever with me, yah!
Try me once you'll be back for more,
I'll change your life when i knock on your door,
Once your booked you can tell about it,
Then we'll get 'em all on it no one wants to quit.
Moff me,
Scoff me,
Beat me,
Kill me,
Give myself to all under a Dogwood tree,
Treat me how you like, I don't care you see,
I'll treat you the same no matter what you label me, yee-ah!
All I want to do is love you,
Give me a chance to get inside of you,
I would only give up my only kid,

I'll sing a song of a time such as these.
Though many a year as now passed.
The lesson's the same, but the sentiments changed.
The impression it made still does last for all.
Serving his country,
Enlist! Do it now.
His took up his arms, he would show.
Such bravery as he took many a life,
Of the people he would never know
Sing of me.
Of all the men I've killed,
I know that this will build me up.
Think of me.
I know that I'll be brave.
They all fell down that day.
Well after the war, people picked up their life.
The damage was already done.
While fatherless children slept under the door,
And woke innocent to the sun.
Please why me?
I know they'd take it back,
Why don't they take it back?
Comfort me.
A child grows to fast,
And now let him ask.
A small little child sits and waits for his dad,
Hands clutching a brown telegram,
Informs him his father won't be coming home.
He gave up his life for his land.
Sing of me
And all the men I've killed.
I know that this will build me up.
And think of me.
I know that was brave.

He walked away...
Turned around to watch friends fade.
Chased by enemies, he made,
Like sin and lust,
Collecting dust on his faith.
Sure they showed him the good times,
But they all ended in bad times
In bad times.
But I dont need them anymore,
It's not to even out the score.
I walked away...
Turned around to watch friends fade.
Chased by enemies, I made,
Like sin and lust,
Collecting dust on my faith.
Sure they showed me the good times,
But they all ended in bad times
In bad times.
And I don't need them anymore,
It's time to even out the score.
And now my feet are planted firm on staying pure,
I'm new.
My past has no place here,
Though I may slip,
Who knows?
I might not, I just might not.
Yeah they showed me the good times,
But they all ended in bad times.

There's a story where everything could not go right, and I wrote it.
I thought about it late last night. Can you feel it?
A tale that feeds on tragedy. Would you read it?
The lessons worth your time.
At the end of the story,
I'll be alone again, alone again.
Does it seem so convincing?
Reckless and undefined, just wasted time.
What are pages, but days that never seemed to flow? What are chapters?
Just years I never read. They're all captive.
They put the book down years ago. Would you blame them?
I wouldn've done the same.
At the end of the story,
I'll be alone again, alone again.
Does it seem so familiar?
Reckless and undefined, redemption time.

It's picking time,
Time for me to leave,
And walk away from us.
My feet are tired,
Too tired to carry both of us through this again.
On into nothing,
Out in the open.
I say goodbye in faith. I'll wait.
Surrender your pain.
Lay down your love.
When I come back,
And it all comes crashing down,
The end-- of your world -- is closer than you think.
My shattered heart,
Is stained with memories,
Of how was life to be.
When giving hurt, The sacrifices made,
Were not enough for me.
I'm coming back,
To rectify,
All the pain,
I caused you.
Don't shield your eyes,
Face tomorrow on your own.
Failure to reason,
Endless confusion,
The unanswered question,
Is why you're on my mind?
Incomplete without want,
Want is what I know I can't have,
Left alone to argue,
The only arguement that I can win.
Yesterday has past you,
That day that we thought we had,
Incomplete without you,

Deep inside I tried to find a purpose for me no surprise.
I've pushed myself away.
Sometimes I refuse to think and sometimes I just need a break.
Leave myself a lone today.
Sit and drink the air.
And stop to let out all the hurt.
Collapse inside your arms.
I never want to let this go.
I'm not in tune with anything.
If I go on like this I'll scream 'til I go mute.
And people who cant speak don't have to answer for themselves.
I'll scream this one for you.
I know what failure is.
I understood it all along.
Salvation was a gift,
but someone wrapped it wrong....so wrong.
Life has a funny was of leading you on,
letting you down.
Deep inside I try to find a purpose for me no surprise.

Inhabitants of the earth a good news day.
I've got much to say without pain.
I bring hope to you for always.
If we hope for what we do not see we wait.
Oh how earnestly.
Perseverance, ever so near it, waiting patiently.
My hope, my promise.
You said You'd always be here,
no matter what we've done and all the times we fail.
You said You would deliver us.
Not long, until our hope is revealed,
I'll keep waiting here for You.
Hope that is seen is not a hope at all.
Why would one still hope for what he sees?
We must wait to be revealed.
My hope, my promise.
You said You'd always be here,
no matter what we've done and all the times we fail.

When we were kids, our dreams were invincible,
When we were young, our whole lives ahead of us,
And it was well understood we'd all become astronauts,
And firemen,
Let's not pretend, we all become famous,
Let's not pretend, there's more to this then we hoped for,
For we knew the rules when we were still children,
You blow it,
You fail it,
Disappointment.
It's well on it's way, well understood,
And you have a place, to be (when we were young),
Time on our hands,
Still out of our hands, just like rain (it rained so hard),
Time ran away, and left us afraid,
Your parents are proud,
You've got everything,
No passion at hand,
You'll be Ivy League,
It's more probable,
We all become salesmen,
You know it,
You fear it,
Mediocrity.
It's well on it's way, well understood,
And this is your life,
Don't apoligize for what you are,
Because you're a star.
I hope you find contentment,
I pray you find an answer,
'cause life is better than your occupation,
Revelation.
When we (when we were young) were,
Time on our hands,
Still out of our hands,
Just like rain (it rained so hard)

Distortion of my words.
Help me know my flaws.
Churning in the vault of bitterness and hurt.
Twist what should be left alone in solitude.
Still I picture you trying to repent.
Feel the burn.
Watch us burn.
Time and time was spent finding out the truth.
We believed in our undying youth.
Nothing ever more modeled after you.
Now everybody knows,
And anyone can see,
The way the story goes,
And what you did to me.
Tasted once before.
Unlock sacred doors.
Shut to our requests.
Say you did your best.
You said you were our friend.
The lies were common place.
What happened to forgiveness?

It's not easy to be me,
With all my philosophies and my flippant state of mind.
I'd much rather take a nap than jump aloof and do all that,
To worry what the crowd thinks of me tonight.
I'm not asking you to love me.
I'm just letting out the truth.
No holds barred about what I feel,
Nothing wrong with what I say.
I'm not telling you to hate me,
I just want you to relate.
Don't forget about the message or the reason we're on stage.
We once opted for a route wich included "selling out."
I won't divulge that here now, so I digress.
I'm not asking you to love me.
I'm just letting out the truth.
No holds barred about what I feel,
Nothing wrong with what I say.
I'm not telling you to hate me,
I just want you to relate.
Don't forget about the message or the reason we're on stage.

She said she'd stick with him,
Until the very end.
He believed what she said,
When she said that she would.
For better or for worse,
That was the oath decreed,
Two years later divorced 'cause of speed.
Pull through,
Work it out,
They all cried,
To no avail,
To no surprise,
Two calloused hearts,
Could no longer try.
Although loved and supported,
She continued to die.
By her choice,
All alone.
Her drug addiction,
Has destroyed the home.
She lived her own life,
By her own greed and will,
Death's grip enslaves her,
And flaunts the kill.
Husband left staring at her sunken face.
He weeps to himself,
"I showed her no grace.
I had every chance to swallow my pride,
and tell her how beautiful she was inside."
What have I now but memories,
Death's taken the wife given to me.
We're both alone,
None to blame now,
She's gone.
And the sadness turns to pain.

Rejuvenation,
After a soul draining trial, a natural high
Which gives a big smile to my face and my mind
Sends warm chills up my spine, an incredible feeling like security all around me
I have confidence when no one is around
Sweet Jesus stomps my fears into the ground
The shadow of death is lurking in your head
But there can't be a shadow unless light's shed
Condemnation is not what we're about
It wouldn't help, even from a shout...
In your ear you still wouldn't hear...

All on my own,
It was just like the first time,
This could be the worst time to be me,
Spare me your thoughts,
Your position's decieving,
I wish it would lead me to my own,
I tried to be strong,
I learned to carry on,
But people are happy just being sad.
Call me afraid,
It isn't so easy,
It's always been easy to be weak,
Over my head,
Like the water that chokes me,
You're my only hope,
That's what I have.
You're my only hope,
That's what I have.
Hand you my heart,
Give you my hand before I fall,

For what it's worth, thank you.
For what it's worth I love You.
For what I'm worth, take me.
For what I'm worth, use me.
I've read of all You've done for me,
Now let me do for You.
And I pray that I never lose sight
Of all that You went through.
And the stripes on His back,
Can you see them? Can you imagine?
And holes in His hands can you feel them?
Nails pierced the skin.
And the feet that he stood on so broken,
His spirit still strong.
And the love that He's given to me
Is forever-long.
For what it's worth, thank You.
For what it's worth, i love You.
For what I'm worth, take me.
For what I'm worth, use me.
And the stripes on Your back,
I can see them. I can't imagine.
And the holes in Your hands, I can feel them.
Nails pierced the skin.
The feet that You stood on so broken.
Your spirit still strong.
The love that You've give to me
Is forever-long.
And the stripes on His back,
Can you see them? Can you imagine?
And the holes in His hands, can you see them?
Nails pierced the skin.
And the feet that he stood on so broken.
His spirit still strong.
And the love that He's given to me
Is forever-long.
For what it's worth, thank You.
For what it's worth, I love You.
For what I'm worth, take me.
And for what I'm worth use me.
For what it's worth, thank You.

Deep inside I tried to find a purpose for me no surprise.
I've pushed myself away.
Sometimes I refuse to think and sometimes I just need a break.
Leave myself a lone today.
Sit and drink the air.
And stop to let out all the hurt.
Collapse inside your arms.
I never want to let this go.
I'm not in tune with anything.
If I go on like this I'll scream 'til I go mute.
And people who cant speak don't have to answer for themselves.
I'll scream this one for you.
I know what failure is.
I understood it all along.
Salvation was a gift,
but someone wrapped it wrong....so wrong.
Life has a funny was of leading you on,
letting you down.
Deep inside I try to find a purpose for me no surprise.
Please leave me alone.

I killed the Son of God today.
I built the cross where He was slain.
My sins,
The hands that held the hammer that drove the nails through His skin.
Someday I win.
I want to make it up.
I want to die to myself for You.
It makes me fall apart,
When I think of all that You went through.
I owe my all to You. (I owe my all to You)
Because when it came to do or die.
You died for me,
Though I would be nothing perfect,
For human eyes to see.
My hands are Yours for works.
My eyes will seek until I've found You.
My legs will walk the earth,
Until You tell me my work is through.
I want to make it up,
I want to die to myself for You,

Three years ago, you left that day.
And I knew I would never be the same.
You left for a brand new life.
No more tears, no more sorrow,
No more of that disease.
Oh God why did you take her from me?
My sweet Claudia... my beloved friend,
God put your suffering to an end.
Can you see me from heaven?
Oh are you proud?
My sweet Claudia,
I cried so loud.
I love you mom,
Please don't fear,
Your baby boy will make it down here.
But you know what?
I miss you.
It will be okay,
It will be alright,
I'll look after dad every night.
I'll just pray that he sees you again.
My sweet Claudia... my beloved friend,
God put your suffering to an end.
Can you see me from heaven?
Oh are you proud?
My sweet Claudia,
I cried so loud.
My Claudia,
I cried so loud.
My Claudia,
I cried so loud.