• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Citizen - Cult
• Citizen - Vice Squad
• Citizen - Ceremony
• Citizen - Premonitions Of War
• Citizen - Conditions
• Citizen - Broken Bells
• Citizen - Home Video
• Fremont - Citizen
• Common Weather - Citizen
• Untitled - Citizen
• Young States - Citizen
• Drown - Citizen
• Fight Or Flight - Citizen
• Tracking Time - Citizen
• I'm Sick Of Waiting - Citizen
• I Still Shut My Eyes - Citizen
• Citizen - Citizen
• Walking Distance - Citizen

Paris is burning
The city alight
the club kids on fire
they're doing it right
they're keeping it punk rock
they're keeping it tight
ripping out speakers
and pumping hi-fi
A higher love that rises above
Rises above yeah a higher love
See the silver set beneath the stars
a hundred million voices that cry as ours
The hoods are all right
the climate is rising
pollution is high
you better take cover
get caught in the sights
A higher love that rises above
Rises above yeah a higher love
See the silver set beneath the stars
a hundred million voices that cry as ours
To rise above it all above our hearts
she gave everthing everything to me
See the silver set beneath the stars
a hundred million voices that cry as ours
To rise above it all above our hearts
she gave everthing everything to me
See the silver set beneath the stars
a hundred million voices that cry as ours
To rise above it all above our hearts

Words that taunt, a face that sneers
Is it envy or is it fear?
What gives you the right to criticise?
When you lead such useless lives
Upright citizen
The law is always on your side
You're never stuck for a place to hide
As time goes by your vision goes
You can't see past the end of your nose
Corrupting your children, telling lies
Complacent cowards, wasting your lives
You've got freedom of speech and nothing to say
Put your trust in politicians and believe you're safe
Say you're respectable, put on your disguise
When faced with the truth you close your eyes
There are millions of you and more will follow

Excuse me Mr
Excuse me Ms
I got a problem
I got a lot of em
Are you right here with me
Are you listening
Do you feel similar
Feel anything
There's no relief for me
I'm just a person
I bow and bend
Afraid of everything
Just a citizen
I can't breathe out
I can't breathe in
I can't explain the state I'm in
It's getting harder
It's getting hard

Personal exile is a personal utopia. Anonymity is bliss.
A faceless nirvana amidst this horde of neon-huffing human refuse.
Strung out on fluorescence and pure-cut incandescence.

For you to tell me I'm way out of line, kid
Is an understatement
Today I'm bold enough to start a war on
Everyone around me
And if you run, don't ever stop...
When you retreat again
Make it far enough to lose your way back
I'll be a gentleman
And leave it to you to keep your distance
To say the least, I've been so very tired of you
Of all of this
Time and again, trying to bury you
God it feels better now
Like an empire crumbling at my feet
I saw your character cracking
And it was call and response
Now I no longer hear you
I was so many things before being honest
And I'll be so many more before I do it again
These words are alleviation
I'll brush you out of my head
I'm not taking myself back to prison
I'll bring myself back from the dead

This is a day without
A trace of reason
No matter where you turn
And the walls will fall
Affirming nothing
So what's it all about?
Call on a bright star
Or play your hand as an intellect
Wounds always speak too loud
Get along for awhile
See the sin in the sea
How the innocent are bound to the damned
What is, just is, I know
So we're trapped by answers
Love haunts to the end
Are we all to ride
The edge of nothing?
Shake hands if I deny
And if they don't know
Their heart is stopping
Cause everyone is right
Get along for awhile
See the sin in the sea
How the innocent are bound to the damned
What is, just is, I know
So we're trapped by answers
Love haunts to the end
From the moment that we're born
Till we're old and tired out
Do we ever know?
From the moment that were born
Till we're old and tired out

I have not seen horrible things
That must mean they're not happening
The World is a dream
As seen on TV
I'm only scared when they tell me to be
The path of my life
Is too big to see
I take tiny steps

Such minimal and worthless things I get myself into
I get myself in two
And paragraphs rest angry words onto a landscape
That sinks me down to a level much lower than that
Of an angry kid with loaded words and too many silences
And I am looking back on these past few years
I've led myself on to think I'm better than this
I can't be better than this
Say what you wanted to say
The glory days have worn away
Stranded, we aren't the hopeless
Stranded, we aren't the hopeless
We've got it figured out or so it may seem

The city's getting darker by the second
And we're losing sleep and losing friends in time
Where did all the weekends go
The wasted time and youth
Thin lines again
I never knew just what I've missed
But it's hit or miss this time
I've paid my dues now it's time to get this right
I know that things are changing now
I know that things are changing now
I know that things are changing
The only place I know has turned on me
Take a look into the setting sun

Forced to cope with every roadblock this drive placed in
our way. On and on, we're holding back. On and on, I'm
trying to forget that we're two hours away from home. No
signs of hope. I'm starting to think i'm coming home. I
think my sanity's closing with the day. I'd like to think
that we move on and on and on to better things. A night
stranded in Cleveland was the only thing we needed to get
this fucking town on the move. (A ten hour drive, yet so

My skin is stretched over lonely bones. Can't help but
choke with your hands on my throat. It's hard to make up
for your moves when they are set in stone. I assumed you
were on your way. Another new face for every passing day.
You say it's temporary but you can't escape yourself from
past mistakes. You're a constant reminder of the sound.
Replace tonight with better things, and make my better
days. I've got this kind of hate that I can't keep put
away. And what's the point of waiting when you got
nothing to lose? Tear out my eyes. Bleed alive. I've
fallen out of light. You're a constant reminder of the

I'll sleep outside,
Bury myself on a winter night.
I'll let you do the things you want to,
I'd rather die alone if I have to.
If you don't mind I think I'll stay at home tonight,
My resolution says the things that I've been trying to,
That I'm dying to.
So shut my eyes,
Take my life,
Sit alone and drown again.
I'd like to take you up for taking me down.
And I'd love to kill the mood to stay in solitude.
So shut my eyes,
Take my life,

by citizen
copyright 2008 citizen music
(http://www.myspace.com/citizenpunk)
verse:
9 to 5 and 5 to nine
One day closer to that line
Cross our hearts and hope for lies
Feed us til all our dreams have died
Busted hands and broken hope
As our hate ties the rope
Around our necks and worn as pride
Where your true colors really shine
Chorus:
I’m done fighting for
All your broken promises
I’m just wishing for
One more chance to make it right
I’m done dying for
Your American dream
I’m just living for
My freedom from you
verse:
Chances gone and wounds to mend
Sleeping on a concrete bed
Dues are paid and lives now lost
Does this pride warrant their cost
Statues fall now at our feet
With blood running in our streets
Our nation weaker every day
Corruption running in our veins

And I hear you’ve ended up fine.
And I’ve heard you’re making out alright.
I’ve heard you still don’t like the cold outside,
And I’ve heard you still got trouble tracking time.
And I heard you said one time,
That I never even fucking cross your mind.
I guess I’ll act like that’s fine,

I don't give enough to take back what I own.
My stories are told out of broken homes.
I could be a bit better if I kill off this ghost.
I'm alone.
I bleed from the inside,
And I won't tell anyone.
I'm nowhere to find,
But I couldn't care it all.
Live like a ghost to keep me from talking, til' you
notice where I'm at,
Cause I couldn't care at all.
Nowhere to hide, and nowhere to run to when nobody
listens.
I'm just a liar that's tired of trying.
I'll pick myself apart cause I couldn't care at all.

Maybe I'm too quick to guess,
Throwing words again.
I keep cutting ties with my piece of mind
So I can get this out.
At times I count myself out,
Wait for days till I can be found.
At times I'm just down and out,
Wait for days till I can be found.
Once I'm alive again,
Once I'm alive I start to love again,

If my lungs would motivate the words to come out, I'd
probably say "I'm dying to leave." It's been a long time
since I've felt right. I've been counting down the days.
It's been a long time since I've felt right. This home
isn't home to me. (I've never felt more alone. This town

Another night out on the docks with the lights on.
Steve's trying to light up a fire in the backyard.
I always told him that it'd never work for us.
We're growing up, it's been the longest time,
since we've been downtown,
yeah, since we've been downtown.
The winters over, yeah its been a few weeks.
I'm counting down till, I'm counting down till now.
Now that we have to go!
Now that we have to go!
Now that we have to go!
All my friends think I'm just stainless.
All my friends think I'm just stainless.
Another night out on the docks with the lights on.
Steve's trying to light up a fire in the backyard.
I always told him that it'd never work for us.
It's been awhile since we've walked down these back
streets.
I never felt so wrong in defeat.
I always thought this can't be good for us.
Hanging out in parking lots and,
stealing shit from cars on the weekend.
In the end we thought nothing was wrong.
But, all my friends think,
all my friends think I'm the one who's wrong.
Another night out on the docks with the lights on.
Steve's trying to light up a fire in the backyard.
I always told him that it'd never work for us.
It's been awhile since we've walked down these back
streets.
I never felt so wrong in defeat.
I always thought this can't be good for us.
And all my friends think,
all my friends think I'm the one who's wrong.
And all my friends think,
all my friends think I'm the one who's wrong.
Another night out on the docks with the lights on.
Steve's trying to light up a fire in the backyard.
I always told him that it'd never work for us.
It's been awhile since we've walked down these back
streets.
I never felt so wrong in defeat.