An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight/supervision of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings, that have as their principal purpose human occupancy or use. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton (arkhi-, chief + tekton, builder), i.e. chief builder.
Professionally, an architect's decisions affect public safety, and thus an architect must undergo specialized training consisting of advanced education and a practicum (or internship) for practical experience to earn a license to practice architecture. The practical, technical, and academic requirements for becoming an architect vary by jurisdiction (see below).
The terms architect and architecture are also used in the disciplines of landscape architecture, naval architecture and often information technology (for example a software architect). In most of the world's jurisdictions, the professional and commercial uses of the terms "architect" and "landscape architect" are legally protected.
The following is a list of famous architects — well-known individuals with a large body of published work or notable structures.
Several architects occur in worldwide mythology, including Daedalus, builder of the Labyrinth, in Greek myth. In the Bible, Nimrod is considered the creator of the Tower of Babel, and King Solomon built Solomon's Temple with the assistance of the architect Hiram. In Hinduism, the palaces of the gods were built by the architect and artisan Vivasvat. Moreover, Indian epic Mahabharata cites amazing work by architect 'Maya.'
Architects also occur in modern fiction. Examples include Howard Roark, protagonist in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, Bloody Stupid Johnson, a parody of Capability Brown who appears in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, and Slartibartfast, designer of planets in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Several films have included central characters who are architects, including Henry Fonda's character "Juror 8" (Davis) in 12 Angry Men (1957), Tom Hanks' character in Sleepless in Seattle (1993), David Strathairn's character in The River Wild (1994), Michael J. Fox's character in The Frighteners (1996), John Cassavetes' character in Tempest (1982), and Michael Keaton's character in White Noise (2005), among many examples. In television, Mike Brady, father of The Brady Bunch, is an architect, as is Wilbur Post, owner of Mister Ed, and Ted Mosby, from How I Met Your Mother. Architect Halvard Solness is the protagonist of Henrick Ibsen's 1892 play The Master Builder.
Are there no fighters left here any more?
Are we the generation we've been waiting for?
Or are we patiently burning
Waiting to be saved?
Our heroes our icons
Have mellowed with age
Following rules
That they once disobeyed
They're now being led
When they used to lead the way
Do you still believe in all the things that you stood by before?
(That you stood by before)
Are you up and on the front lines
Or at home keeping score?
Do you care to be the layer of the bricks that seal your fate?
(The bricks that seal your fate)
Or would you rather be the architect of what we might create?
They laid out the blueprints, they poured down a base
Concrete solutions to slow our decay
And when they are gone
Who the fuck's gonna take their place?
Yeah, will it be the cynics, the critics galore?
Cliche apathetic passed out on the floor
The trusting complicit who collectively ignore
Do you still believe in all the things that you stood by before?
(That you stood by before)
Are you up and on the front lines?
Or at home keeping score?
Do you care to be the layer of the bricks that seal your fate?
(The bricks that seal your fate)
Or would you rather be the architect of what we might create?
Don't you remember when you were young
And you wanted to set the world on fire?
Somewhere deep down, I know you do
And don't you remember when we were young
And we wanted to set the world on fire?
Because I still am and I still do
Make no mistake we are not afraid
To bear the burden of repeating
What they're thinking anyway
Let's raise the stakes
On the bet we made
Let's decide to be the architects
The masters of our fate
Yeah, we still believe in all the things that we stood by before
(We stood by before)
And after everything we've seen here maybe even more
And I know we're not the only ones we were not the first
(We were not the first)
take your time to find me
I can't promise where I'll be
these nights I felt so restless
tonight I feel useless
take your time to find me
I can't promise where I'll be
these nights I feel so restless
tonight I'm useless
blaming myself
for every woman
I should have thought this through
before I hold you down with me
motionless I lay
when your words could save me from
this situation
I've been laying here for what seems
like days
and it was my mistake from the start
take your time to find me
I can't promise where I'll be
it was my mistake from the start
take your time to find me
I can't promise where I'll be
it was my mistake from the start
motionless I lay
when the words that saved me
staring back into
dead sunk eyes?
I need the right words to come...
I need the the right words
but I just can't find it
I just can't find it
I'll spend years
making you believe
I was just a bad dream
just a bad dream
and it was my mistake from the start
I've been laying here for what seems
like days
take your time to find me
I can't promise where I'll be
it was my mistake from the start
take your time to find me
I can't promise where I'll be
it was my mistake from the start
I'm determined
to find a way, out
to disconnect myself
from you, again
how can I
have shattered
my one chance
ooow, to you
how can I
feel like I'm
shattered my
ooohooo
to me
I'll spend years
making you believe
that I was only a bad dream
I'm determined
to find a way, out
to disconnect myself
from you, again
how can I
have shattered
my one chance
ooow, to you
how can I
feel like I'm
shattered my
These streets aren't paved with gold
Don't believe everything that you're told
Deception hides in all you see
Corruption hangs in the air that you breathe
And in the land of the free
You know nothing comes for free
Fourth drive in paradise
Vapid souls check the market price
Life time slave
Living in a suburban grave
If there was a god
Was a god
You would be the death of him
These colours don't run
Like colours from the face
Eyes roll back chemical despair
It's true what they say life isn't fair
So repeat this line
Everything, everything is fine
So repeat this line
Everything, everything is fine
These colours don't run
Like colours from the face
Eyes roll back chemical despair
It's true what they say life isn't fair
And in the land of the free
You know nothing comes for free
I'm struggling to find any poetry in this
Someone beat me to the line ifnorance is bliss
So I guess I'll just say it how it is
You had it all
YOU FUCKING PIGS
These streets aren't paved with gold
Don't believe everything that you're told
Deception hides in all you see
I'm looking back on a time when I could say I actually thought I cared about you
But after everything I've been put though
I realise that I've been living with false hope
It's drowning out my senses
It's drowning out my thoughts
This has got oh so confusing
And I've only got myself to blame
I can't believe...oh what was I thinking
I've only got my self to blame
You mean nothing to me
And you never fucking did
I can't stand to listen to your excuses anymore
I can only pray that you feel so alone
A guilty conscience hangs over your head
I can't believe...oh what was I thinking
I've only got myself to blame
But maybe I'm the only one to blame in all of this
When time resets, we all become zero.
Decimals apart, take us back to the start.
Tear down the walls, that were built to divide.
Can you feel that fire growing?
We're standing on the edge of the event horizon,
Moments before the Earth starts to flatline.
We've found a taste for self-destruction
A blind eye for blatant dysfunction
We've found a taste for self-destruction
We're all born in black blood
There's an imminence stirring like a siren singing
There's a debt to pay but they keep on drilling
Why is simple truth so hard to tell
We had eden and turned it into hell
Born in black blood
Because this distance in our minds
Is the distance that we're behind
I can't forgive, we won't forget
I can't forgive, we won't forget
The lonely sound of the final drip
Like the starting gun marking the end of it
On the shoulders of forever
It's a long way to fall
Black gold will be the death
The death of us all
Black drought, word will spread
Of the time we found what the earth bled
Born in black blood
Because this distance in our minds
Is the distance that we're behind
I can't forgive, we won't forget
I can't forgive, we won't forget
[x2]
Black drought, word will spread
Of the time we found what the earth bled
We found the cancer inside of our heads
There's no turning back now
We're as good as dead
When the well dried up no one cared
But when hell shows up, they'll all stop and stare
[x2]
We've found the cancer inside of our heads
No turning back now
We're as good as dead
[x2]
I can't forgive, we won't forget
[x4]
We won't forget
Raging waters flood the valleys of our mind.
The torrent washed the warning signs.
Swim through the one's and zero's,
So hard to tell the villains from heroes.
What if they say isn't true?
What if they want isn't best for you?
Washed up, face down on digital shores.
Lungs contract, now dive back in for more.
Are you sitting on the edge of your seat?
"We'll be right back, don't move an inch"
Static mirror, life isn't black and white.
I understand it's hard to chose what's right.
Whiteout swallows us all.
Once snow-blind, we won't care at all.
Tunnel vision,
Hearts beats in time.
Rhythmic contractions
Drowning in a flood of distractions.
I want to wake up and find a world in remission,
Free from the grasp of the human condition.
But we're all trapped inside static screens,
Trained from birth just to nod and agree.
I don't want to believe,
All of our story began in the heart, in the heart of a star,
We lost our way, forgotten what we are,
We're only particles in motion, floating through space
And destructive waves,
What are you doing?
Look at this life as a grain of sand, the blink of an eye, the world in
Your hands
Look at this life as a grain of sand, blink of an eye
We're all fainting, feeling, surviving, believing what we think is right,
Refract distorted light
You helped build this fire inside of me.
Breathing fire won't burn down the borders set against everything that came
Before us.
All those things that you despise
We all see through human eyes.
Thinking, feeling, surviving, believing what we think is right, refract
Distorted light
You helped build this fire inside of me.
Breathing fire won't burn down the borders set against everything that came
Before us.
There is no side for us to choose, held together, we all win or lose
Look at this life as a grain of sand, blink of an eye, the world in your
I will spill blood
On your filthy princess whites
Come home tonight
So I can slit your throat
Every time you discard my heart
Your ships sinking fast
The colours are fading
Save me again tonight, you know I’ll make it count
Princess, there’s more to life than robbing banks
You won’t walk away from this broken heart
Slash my arms
Tear off my limbs
I will never back down
We'll fight this cause even if it kills us
The temperature is rising but our lungs will not collapse
Here in the desert there's nothing to run from
Nothing to hide from
So let's rock the Casbah
Take it by the scruff of the neck
And if you've got the time, Baby I've got the money
And I'd give anything to see her smile again
And I'd do anything for one last smile
She had a love like nobody else
Unrivalled beauty, wanted them to love her back
And when they didn't, she she'd a tear
A piece of us all died that day
We are the misguided youth
They've backed us into a corner
All our lives we've been infected
They should have never had a chance
Because they're forcing us
To believe
In a world that we shouldn't trust
Delete, rewind and try to change this
State of mind
Give us something to believe in
Give us something to make our own
Give us something to believe in
Give us something to make our own
When will we stand up
And choose our paths
This is the end of the world
At least that's what we're told
This is the end of the world
Board up the windows
And lock your doors
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
This is getting old
We are the misguided youth
We sat back and lost our voices
Delete, rewind and try to change this
State of mind
Delete, rewind and try to change this
State of mind
Because they're forcing us
To believe
In a world that we shouldn't trust
Delete, rewind and try to change this
State of mind
And hopefully you knew it all
You knew it all along
Delete, rewind
Delete, rewind
When will we stand up
We've been through enough
When will we stand up
Another cold dark night, left alone
Your arrogance will lead to the death of you
I'll be the one to pull your head back down
Remove your hollow Crown
So far from the truth you hide away
I'll be the one to pull your head back down
Remove your hollow crown
I'll die happy knowing that I will never be anything like you
What gives you the right to silence me?
All my life I've wanted just to fell like this
You came, you conquered you gave it away
And how does it feel staring down on your idol's grave
The one you once looked up to has fallen into dust
The one you once looked up to has fallen away
What's left for you in this fickle world?
I can't see myself holding on for much longer
It's tearing me apart
I feel so out of place from the rest of you
All I needed was something
And that something was you
But you're so far away now
I've watched you from a distance but never spoken a word
I have seen every flaw your try to hide from the world
I sit silent in shadows watching the paths you have made
If only you knew my intentions
I've watched you make the same mistakes over and over
This is not healthy
I need to some how stop this
But your beauty intrigues me
It seems to be pulling me in
All I want is a moment or something I can hold close for eternity
I've watched you make the same mistakes over and over
I only you knew my name and all of my motives
Yet I sit in the same place every night and wait for you to come back home
A few moments would help me find myself
But this problem has taken its tragic grip
Just a few moments will help me find myself again
If only you knew my name and all of my motives
I need to somehow stop this
All I need is a moment or something I can hold close for eternity
I close my eyes
And hold you in my arms
Despite all the pain
The years I put into this
It could take a second
To tear down years of work
And we won't get these days
Back again (back again)
I can't understand why I've been put here
I'm stuck in a world of sympathy
With nobody watching over me
And the words roll over and over
Yet our hearts will never be lifted
Someone, tell me how I've ended up here
With nobody watching over me?
We need to bring back the days we used to love
Before all the colour drains away
I can't understand why I've been put here
I'm stuck in a world of sympathy
With nobody watching over me
I can't understand why I've been put here
I'm stuck in a world of sympathy
With nobody watching over me
To all those not living in the here and now
To all those not living in the here and now
To all those not living in the here and now
To all those (sing it loud)
Where did they go?
The days we used to know
Where did they go?
Have I forgotten what it feels like?
Where did they go / where did they go
The days we used to know
Where did they go / where did they go
Have I forgotten what it feels like?
And the words roll over and over
Falling into stringencies
I never thought that I would be here
Dependence on, the evenings
I'm out of touch
It's too late to hide what you kept hid
What explains with words were crooks
I'm falling out,
I'm falling out,
Of touch, with myself
I felt like this since forever
(this is killing me)
I felt like this since forever
(this is killing, me)
What escaped
Was what I dreamt then
Blurry eyes
Said the stories
I'm broke apart
Fading hours
Empty dreams
Addiction has stolen the hearts of all my friends
Addiction has stolen the hearts of all my friends
I wore the same routines over every fucking night
I'm beginning to lose faith in friendships, I...
I've felt like this since forever
(this is killing me)
I felt like this since forever
This is killing me
Lift me up from this
Never ending fear of myself
Dependence on the evenings
To get me through
Show me the line
I can't just walk away
How much longer
Can I break the same routines
Blurry eyes
(Broken clocks)
Fading hours
How much longer
Can I break the same routines
Blurry eyes
(Broken Clocks)
Fading hours
Addiction has stolen the hearts of all my friends
We'll fight this cause even if it kills us
The temperature is rising but our lungs will not collapse
Here in the desert there's nothing to run from
Nothing to hide from
So let's rock the Casbah
Take it by the scruff of the neck
And if you've got the time, Baby I've got the money
And I'd give anything to see her smile again
And I'd do anything for one last smile
She had a love like nobody else
Unrivalled beauty, wanted them to love her back
And when they didn't, she she'd a tear
A piece of us all died that day
We all died that day
Been searching all day
For the answers
Do you remember when
Life was so simple?
They were shooting at us
After all this time
Shooting at us
Killing us all
And we’re all numb
Numb with the sound
Sound of our fears
We’re all numb
And just before you die
Take a look up at the sky
Tell them it was all worth it
They’ll Be Hanging Us Tonight
Raid all the liquor stores
Kidnap the kids
This night is not over yet
Burning on Lucifer’s blood
We’re trashed in the back of your car
A cheap lay in the parking lot
A shot for afterwards
As I watched you slaying behind the wheel
They’re gaining on us
A sharp turn left
Running out of time
They’re gaining on us
The lights flashed by
As we sped towards our escape
Nothing else mattered
Nobody else cared
They’ll be hanging us tonight
Raid all the liquour stores
Kidnap the kids
This night's not over yet
Running on Lucifer's blood
We're trashed in the back of your car
A cheap lay in the parking lot
A shot for afters
As I watched you slaying behind the wheel
They're gaining on us
A sharp turn left
Running out of time
They're gaining on us
The lights flashed by as we sped towards our escape
Nothing else mattered
Nobody else cared
They'll be hanging us tonight
Find comfort in yourself
Begin to believe, before it's over
Lift your head up
Everybody's talking
Prove them wrong
Before your time is up
You keep it all in, and you never find a release
Take comfort in yourself
And only know how to find safety in yourself
Find your faith and find your hope
You'll find safety
I know it's hard to look up when everything's falling down on you
It's hard, but you can make it
Begin to believe
Send my regards to you and yours
I'm not coming back for you
And I'll hold onto the last memory of you
I'll hold onto you and bury you at sea
How can you watch me split in two?
You've done this before, you know me oh too well
Send my regards to you and yours
And no hope will come from this
So turn around and run
How can you smile when you see me crumbling?
And we all stood back and watched the waves crash down on you
Send my regards to you and yours
And there's no hope for someone as cold as you
You made me sink into the coldest of waves
Navigation in nautical twilight,
Separation from what we know is right.
The wind was taking us in the wrong direction,
It's about time we showed some disaffection.
Carry the weight of thousands of years.
Turn the page, let's make it all disappear.
We've had enough of inhibited progression,
Held back by cloak and dagger oppression.
We're insulting our own intelligence.
I won't listen without any evidence.
I'll live my life in the name of no one.
Bow your head, palm to palm,
Worship here in this cerebral cathedral.
As day breaks, the sunlight heals,
As day breaks, the light reveals.
These chains that we've been living in,
How easily we've been giving in.
Now she'd this skin, let change begin.
As day breaks, the sunlight heals,
As day breaks, the light reveals.
Navigation in nautical twilight,
Separation from what we know is right.
It feels to me like this boat is sinking,
Weighed down by rational thinking.
Light begins to pierce the distance.
Solar dawn, relieve the friction.
Blue hours quicken the pulse.
When In Troy
Do as the Greeks do
This is treacherous
This is cold hearted betrayal
Move in for the kill
And you’re all traitors
We’ll fight them to the death
Burn down the houses
Loot all the churches
And we found the time to pray
Pray that our justice be done
Pray by the light of the moon
When reason dies behind closed doors
Face down in a cell in a pool of piss
It's time to fear what we should respect
It's time to question cause and effect
Striking with impunity
Hiding behind flags of immunity
Striking with impunity
When corruption rears its ugly head
The force of law becomes a farce
Personal ambition usurps justice
The rich protected at the expense of the poor
Would you sit on the fence, take no chance?
As those batons fall, turn a blind eye
In an ideal world
There'd be no need for law
No need for police
But in a society so sick
So obsessed with blind greed
Someone has to protect
The old and the weak
OFFICER DOWN
OFFICER DOWN
OFFICER DOWN
Can we really afford to be so selectively blind?
If we dig too deep what would we find?
At authority's heart beats a dollar sign
Under such a regime we're all doing time
Striking with impunity
Hiding behind flags of immunity
Striking with impunity
Never say, you weren't warned
When they come to drag you away
To silence the dissident hiding in us all
They clench the fist of ordained might
From which side of the barbed wire
Do you want to see your life pass by?
In an ideal world
There'd be no need for law
No need for police
But in a society so sick
So obsessed with blind greed
Someone has to protect
The old and the weak
OFFICER DOWN
OFFICER DOWN
OFFICER DOWN
When reason dies behind closed doors
Face down in a cell in a pool of piss
It's time to fear what we should respect
It's time to question
Cause and effect
Who teaches the teachers?
Who makes laws for lawmakers?
When they read us our rights
What about human rights?
Never say, you weren't warned
When they come to drag you away
To silence the dissident hiding in us all
They clench the fist of ordained might
From which side of the barbed wire
Do you want to see your life pass by?
In an ideal world
There'd be no need for law
No need for police
But in a society so sick
So obsessed with blind greed
Someone has to protect
I am your hero
Still I sleep alone at night
In years you'll thank me
For getting everything right
I am the sun
Still I sit alone in a red sky
Keeping my eyes on you
Were all alone
In time you'll find that
Were all on our own (all on our own)
Were all on our own , chasing nothing
My dreams have fallen , I'm wearing thin
I need something to fill this void I'm constantly in
And I can't do this
I am your hero
I just don't care tonight
In years you'll forget me
I got everything right
I am the sun
I didn't rise today
I left you in darkness
And I just don't care anymore about you
You can sit and suffer alone without me
I am your hero
Save your "thank you"'s
In times to come ill rise above this
But for now I can't ill just sit here
My dreams have fallen once again
My dreams have fallen once again
It's run down
The back of my head
The back of my mind
About a hundred thousand times
And I can't
Seem to shake it
Seem to shake it
Addiction's tying me down
Pull me under
I can't take it much longer
Pull me under
And it will never stop
You've got a hold on me
Like a constant need inside for nicotine
I've been through this patch before
You've got a hold on me
Like a constant need inside for nicotine
I've been through this patch before
I've been through this patch before
I'm lost and alone in my head
And I can't make sense of myself
I need to find a simple away
To make this pain just disappear
I know I'll never feel
Safe in my own skin
Pull me under
I can't take it much longer
Pull me under
And it will never stop
You've got a hold on me
Like a constant need inside for nicotine
I've been through this patch before
You've got a hold on me
Like a constant need inside for nicotine
I've been through this patch before
No matter how long I'm gone for
It's at the back of my mind
Another sleepless night
Somebody get me home
I'm so far down
And there's anyone can say to me
I'm so down, I'm so down
You've got a hold on me
Like a constant need inside for nicotine
I don't feel homesick, I'm just so sick of home
It's here that reminds me of everything we've been through
And it tears me down
It makes me sick of being who I am, of who I cannot be
A constant reminder
I don't feel homesick, I'm just so sick of home
It's here that reminds me of everything we've been through
Cold nights, again left alone
Wandering streets all on my own
And all of this for you
It's time that I went back for just even an hour
To talk to you to make things fine again
I can't
Seem to get a hold of this
This mess
Seems to be taking
It's grasp on every
Everything that we once worked for
And I can't bear to watch
Everything just fall around me,
And I've been struggling for so long
So long
And I've been
Looking for away
To make everything fall into place
And when the red glazes over my eyes
There's nothing anyone can say or do
Just you try and stop me
Try and stop what I've have become how I wish there was a way.
And I've been struggling for so long
So long
And I've been
Looking for away
To make everything fall into place
Everything just fall into place
Every word I ever said
Is making sense again
When the red glazes over my eyes
There's nothing anyone can say or
Say or do
And still today I cannot tell
The dream's from nightmares anymore
And still today I cannot tell
The dream's from nightmares anymore
And still today cannot tell
The dream's from nightmares anymore
If you reject the ones you love,
You'll find yourself cold and broken again
If you reject the ones you love,
You'll find yourself cold and broken again
If you reject the ones you love,
You'll find yourself cold and broken again
If you reject the ones you love,
Pick yourself up
Stop loving
Start living
Don't get held back
That's where they want you to be
I never paid much attention to them
Every time they pushed us aside
We got back up again
Yeah we made it through the rain
Just to live another day without them
Pick yourself back up
And learn to live
Stop caring
Stop thinking
The grass is greener on the other side
Don't give up on life
Never back down
Do this for yourself
You don't need anyone
To get you where you deserve
I never paid much attention
Every time they pushed us aside
We got back up again
Yeah we made it through the rain
Just to live another day without them
Every time they pushed us aside
We got back up again
Yeah, we made it through the rain
Just to live another day without them
We are the ones you left out in the rain
Come back tomorrow and we'll be here again
We are the ones you left out in the rain
Come back tomorrow and we'll be here again
We don't need you
We don't need you
We don't need you
We made it through the rain
Just to live another day
We made it through the rain
Just to live another day
We made it through the rain
Just to live another day
We made it through the rain
You've done this to yourself or so, so it seems
You left behind everything
All your friends and all your family
Does it not feel slightly daunting
How you still sleep at night
When you must be able to hear them fight
It's all about you
All about you
All about the way you choose to live
You still put smoke in your lungs, despite not giving enough
You still put smoke in your lungs, despite not giving enough
How did it come to this
Is there any point to this, are you even listening to us
You still left everyone you loved
Crushed, broken, snapped straight in half
You still left everyone you loved
Crushed, broken, snapped straight in half
You made your choice now turn and get out
You made your choice now turn and get out
How do you sleep at night
It's all about you, it's all about you
How do you sleep at night
It's all about you, it's all about you
You still put smoke in your lungs, despite not giving enough
You still put smoke in your lungs, despite not giving enough
You left every one you loved
Crushed
Broken
Snapped straight in half
For weeks I've felt lost and I can't see the light
Shining through the darkest of days
What can I do to stop myself from hiding my thoughts
From this world of lies?
I've felt so lost for far too long
Trying to leave it all behind
I find I cannot forgive myself for feeling like this
How can I even begin to forgive myself for all the things I'm thinking of doing to you?
How can I forgive myself for this?
But it's all in your head
You just walk out of my life and you expect me to let you back in
With open arms I'll turn to you
For weeks I've felt lost and I can't see the light
So I'll do this one alone
I'll hide my thoughts from you
Is it beyond impossible for me to hold on for you?
Is it beyond you to forgive me?
If not I'll do it on my own time
How can I forgive myself?
For my world is slowly falling down
The sun was so low that day
Staring into burning eyes
Watch as I walk away from you
From the lies that you made my life
Making me feel so lost and helpless
Running won't help me
Now it's too late
Closing my eyes to the skies makes it worse
Look down and I've been here for far too long
Too long to contemplate
The was so low that day
Staring into burning eyes
But it's far too late to contemplate leaving you alone against your will
Running won't help you now
Look down and try to forget me
Staring into your burning eyes
All that is left is the sound of your fragile voice
Echoing in my wondering mind
The sun was so low that day
I had to turn from your gaze
Only to reassure
There, there must be
An easier way
To release these feelings
So, so far from home
I need your voice
To hold my head together
So, so far from home
I need your voice
To lift my lonely state of mind
You, you can but wait
for me to return
For me to show you how I felt
These wounds have bled
And pages fly by
I need to feel you right by my side
So, so far from home
I need your voice
To hold my head together
So, So far from home
I need your voice
To lift my lonely state of mind
Oh there must be
An easier way
Oh there must be
An easier way
Oh there must be
An easier way
To release these feelings
As the sea breeze hits my lungs
It takes me back to where I belong
To where I belong
As the sea breeze hits my lungs
It takes me back to where I belong
To where I belong
As the sea breeze hits my lungs
It takes me back to where I belong
You've done this to yourself or so, so it seems
You left behind everything
All your friends and all your family
Does it not feel slightly daunting
How you still sleep at night
When you must be able to hear them fight
It's all about you
All about you
All about the way you choose to live
You still put smoke in your lungs, despite not giving enough
You still put smoke in your lungs, despite not giving enough
How did it come to this
Is there any point to this, are you even listening to us
You still left everyone you loved
Crushed, broken, snapped straight in half
You still left everyone you loved
Crushed, broken, snapped straight in half
You made your choice now turn and get out
You made your choice now turn and get out
How do you sleep at night
It's all about you, it's all about you
How do you sleep at night
It's all about you, it's all about you
You still put smoke in your lungs, despite not giving enough
You still put smoke in your lungs, despite not giving enough
You left every one you loved
Crushed
Broken
Burn everything you have
And leave it all behind
Lose all your inhibitions
I'll take the mess you made
And make it beautiful
Oh if time only stood still forever
Hold out your hand and lean upon me
I'll be the one to make you smile
Hold out your hand and lean upon me
I'll be the one to make you smile again
Hold out your hand and lean upon me
I'll be the one to make you smile
Hold out your hand and lean upon me
I'll be the one to make you smile again
This moment that we're in
Is slow and disappointing
Time will never stand still forever
If you take this chance we got
And we'll make it beautiful
If you'd take my word
I'd be your savior
Hold out your hand and lean upon me
I'll be the one to make you smile
Hold out your hand and lean upon me
I'll be the one to make you smile again
Hold out your hand and lean upon me
I'll be the one to make you smile
Hold out your hand and lean upon me
I'll be the one to make you smile again
Hold out your hand and lean upon me
Hold out your hand and lean upon me
Hold out your hand and lean upon me
Hold out your hand and lean upon me
I'll be the one to make you smile again
Burn everything you have
And leave it all behind
Lose all your inhibitions
I'll took the mess you made
And I made it beautiful
Never, never lose sight
Of what you started it for
No matter what comes in between
And I used to think
That I knew better than those around me
But something changed along the way
And you're the reason I'm wanting to stay
I used to sink and now I swim
I've had to work for everything
When will you recognize your it, you're the reason I feel so alive
And none else comes in between
I used to think
That I knew better than those around me
But something changed along the way
And you're the reason I'm wanting to stay
I can't turn my back and leave you
After all you've done for me
I can't turn my back and leave you
After all you've done for me
The blues have wrapped their arms
Around me and I can't make sense of it
The blues have wrapped their arms
Around me
I wish it was you instead
The blues have wrapped their arms
Around me and I can't make sense of it
The blues have wrapped their arms
Around me
Oh how I wish it was you instead
I never knew I could feel like this
The blues have wrapped their arms
Oh how I wish it was you instead
The blues have wrapped their arms
Oh how I wish it was you instead
The blues have wrapped their arms
After all is said and done
I'm left with reflections of your eyes haunting my mind
So dead inside, what good came out of this?
I was the one that tore you down
I'm down yet oh so guilty
Every last breath I have is yours to keep
This constant cloud is watching over me
I wish I had the time to make you see this through
We've been here too many times
I've felt like this too many times
Oh god, I am this I'm dead inside, looking out for you
Your life is ending one minute at a time
Check the clock and stand in line.
Hibernate, till your life's passed you by.
Please stop living like you're waiting to die.
Keep up, keep up,
Don't get left behind
Don't slip up, slip up
Chase that finish line
They don't want you believing
That your life deserves a meaning.
Weary souls, trying to forget.
That we're all puppets with a lifetime debt.
What a feeling, built to break,
Happiness with an expiry date.
Please stop living like you're waiting to die.
Stitched into our lives
Drained until we expire.
Weary soul's trying to forget
That we're all puppets with a lifetime debt.
Keep two eyes on that intangible finish line.
I've been out for so long, the days slipped by again
And I can't sleep since I stopped caring [x2]
I'll stay out until my lungs bleed
And I can't tell daylight from streetlights any-fucking-more
As he cast his shadow
I've seen this road a thousand times and I can't look back
And I've seen this road a thousand times and I can't, I'm not looking back
This is so unfamiliar; death is no man's friend
And I'll stay here until I hear him roar
Death is screaming my name yet
I refuse to listen to him [x2]
I refuse, I refuse, I refuse
To listen
I'll stay out until my lungs bleed
And I can't tell daylight from streetlights any-fucking-more
As he cast his shadow
I've seen this road a thousand times and I can't look back
And I've seen this road a thousand times and I can't, I'm not looking back
I can't sit here forever
Watch me rise again
Watch me rise back up
Forever would just be so easy to fall into [x2]
Yet I'll stay out until my lungs bleed
Forever is the easy option but I won't take it
I won't take it, no
The choices I've made will lead me to an early fucking grave
Death is screaming,
Death is screaming,
This is your country,
This is your home,
Here is the house where you grew up alone.
The city streets,
You used to love,
Are bruised and broken,
Are black and blue.
On our TV's, miles away.
On our doorsteps with no reason why.
Take it back, take it back, take it back.
This is your country,
This is your home,
Here is the house where you grew up alone.
Remember this for what it was.
Take it back, take it back, take it back.
You want a voice,
But your voices sound like violence.
You don't deserve this life.
This is your country,
This is your home,
Here is the house where you grew up alone.
Remember this for what it was,
A bleak projection of absent minds.
You want a voice,
But your voices sound like violence.
You shout so loud but all I hear is silence.
The city streets that you show no love,
Are bruised and broken,
Because of you.
This is your country,
This is your home,
Here is the house where you grew up alone.
Sowing the seeds.
Roots dig deep, whilst we sleep.
Snakes in veins, valves decay.
All of the meaningless words we say.
Cast the first stone, from behind the throne.
Crown of thorns, now overgrown.
All our wants and needs, bring us to our knees.
Can't turn back now the seeds are sown.
Seven billion, one of a kind.
Collide together, intertwined.
National lines used to define,
Where we draw the enemy lines.
Weapons aren't used in this war.
Wait for the fallout from this absence of thought.
All the things we can't afford to ignore.
Always the one with a face one
Always the one with never enough
He was the boy that broke our trust
Because he was never around enough
We sit around and hear these stories
Wishing we were somewhere else
How I wish that I could find the words to save this
My so called friend
My so called friend
When will we see you again
I was the one with the face on
I was the one with never enough
I was the boy that broke your trust
Because I was never around enough
I sit around and tell these stories
Wishing I was somewhere else
Oh how I wish I found the words to save this
My so called friend
My so called friend
I wish I found the words to save this
I'm pushing it out, out
Find the words to save this
I'm pushing it out, out, out
My so called friend
My so called friend
When will we see you again
My so called friend
My so called friend
When will we see you again
If only you were here to hold my head above bloody waters
We could make it through
You turned your back on me and now I do the same to you
You made me feel so hollow
How can the man that you looked up to turn around and say three words that hurt more than you'll ever know
You don't know what it feels like to be in my shoes
You turned your back on me as I stood there and fell to the floor
This time there's no reason for me to turn around and scream for help
But if only you were here to hold my head above all those things you said to tie me down
I'm looking for forgiveness for something that I didn't even do
How can you call yourself and idol, a person to trust?
Piano wire strangling our necks
We are both silenced
And we’re sure this does not add up
Still we try and place our bets
We’re sure this does not add up
Still we’re dying
To make that call
Our people versus yours
Never did make sense
Your people versus mine
Light me up it’s all too much for me
Never did make sense, come dance with me
We’ll go out the sea, the sky was blood read
Images of people dead
Stained with the shadows
Of our past victims, we’re out at sea
Then come and drown with me
We’ll float away, drift away
Our corpses lifeless
I close my eyes and take a deep breath,
Try to find my place in this.
Digging teeth into the hand that feeds,
So inhuman, I'm surprised you bleed.
Cutting teeth, fading belief.
Flip the switch and drag me in.
When they've had their way,
I doubt I'll even dream.
Stray from the path and you're on your own.
Lightening strikes in the unknown.
The view from here, even the blind would see,
That none of us were ever free.
I'll be the lines in-between,
The ones that tell you what you want and need.
I am only rust on the machine,
Amber corrosion.
The loudest truth you never heard,
A silent explosion.
Take my head from the clouds,
Lift my feet from the ground,
Last note dies, they don't make a sound.
Behind The Throne
Sowing the seeds.
Roots dig deep, whilst we sleep.
Snakes in veins, valves decay.
All of the meaningless words we say.
Cast the first stone, from behind the throne.
Crown of thorns, now overgrown.
All our wants and needs, bring us to our knees.
Can't turn back now the seeds are sown.
Seven billion, one of a kind.
Collide together, intertwined.
National lines used to define,
Where we draw the enemy lines.
Weapons aren't used in this war.
Wait for the fallout from this absence of thought.
All the things we can't afford to ignore.
Every other question you'll never find the answer to
They can hear us but we will never see them
Do you feel safe?
Do you even understand me?
Do you even understand me?
We make no difference when numbers count for nothing
We make no difference if choices have been made
When your path has already been walked
When your hourglass is fooling you
What can you rely on?
Time is our only friend, now
If my life was to end today, It wouldn't change the world in any way
This sudden realisation is tearing me apart
This life is so perfect
What can be said of the end?
What will happen when our time comes
Who will stand the final test of time?
This life is so perfect
What can be said of the end
Will we be resurrected?
I won't hold my hand out to anyone but you
I don't want to trust anyone but you
If I am to be saved my anybody I want it to be you
I take your hand
You'll find hope scribbled onto scrap pieces of paper
Like I found fate stuck to the curb
Save me now
I won't hold my hand out to anybody but you
There's still time to get hands around my fucking neck
It's time to realize that there is far more to this world
That the self loathing you endure
Hunt them down before it's too late
Now is the times to make the most of their pain
They deserve it for all that they have ruined for you
Don't think or say anything
Don't hold back, you'll regret this night
It's all over
Don't make the same mistake twice
Finish them now
Push them down
Face first to the ground
I'm astounded I'm looking for a reason to leave
I'm astounded I'm looking for a reason to leave
The years I've put into everything I have
Everything I am
I'm needing to find some peace of mind
To stop me leaving it all behind
These eyes have seen everything
But I'll keep looking
It's time to realise that my head
Is trying to take me down
It's time to realise that my head
Is trying to push
Trying to push me out
I'm screaming out for help
Months
Years
Nobody hears
I'm screaming out, I'm screaming out
It's time to realise that my head
Is trying to take me down
I'm screaming out to no-one
I'm astounded still looking for a reason to leave
I'm astounded still looking for a reason to leave
The years I've put into everything I have now
The years that I've put into I am now
I'm needing to find some peace of mind
To stop me leaving it all behind
These eyes have seen everything
But I'll keep looking
It's time to take a step back
Look at my life and
Find a stable place to hide
It's time to take a step back
Look at my life and find
A stable place to hide
It's time to take a step back
Look at my life and
Find a stable place to hide
Stable place to hide
Live everyday like your last
And take nothing for granted
I'll live everyday like my last
It feels like someone is following my every footstep around every corner,
And there are times when I know I've felt someone else with me.
I swear I've felt your breath down the back of my neck once before.
I swear I've felt your breath down the back of my neck once before.
I'm never giving up till I find you.
I'll never rest until I find you.
I refuse to rest and I refuse to sleep until I have you in my sights.
It's gone too far.
A few steps behind.
Where are you now?
What is the meaning, why are you doing this to me?
What is the meaning, why are you doing this to me?
How can you do this?
I'll never sleep until I find you.
I swear I've felt your presence once before,
Or has my paranoia gone far too far?
I can't close my eyes without thinking that I'm losing control!
I can't close my eyes without thinking that I'm losing control!
I swear I've felt your breath down the back of my neck once before.
I swear I've felt your breath down the back of my neck once before.
I'm never giving up till I find you.
I'll never rest until I find you.
I'll never rest and I'll never sleep till I get my hands around your neck.
It's gone too far. A few steps behind. I'm coming for you now.
All I seem to hear in my head is your voice on repeat,
I close my eyes and I still fucking see you.
All I seem to hear in my head is your voice on repeat,
I admire your perseverance!
Everytime my back is turned your falling closer into my world,
I've told you so many times you need to back down, need to back down.
I told you you need to walk away.
All the countless efforts I have made.
One day I'll get you back, I swear I'll get you back.
Will this ever end or will time stand still forever?
Will this ever end or will time stand still forever?
Everytime my back is turned you're falling closer to my world.
How can you sleep when you know what you're doing to me?
Everytime my back is turned you're falling closer to my world.
How can you sleep when you know what you're doing to me?
I told you you need to walk away
Fuck all the efforts that I have made.
I've got you right where I want you.
After all the years I've known you when did you decide to fuck this up?
After all the years I've known you when did you decide to try and fuck this up?
I still admire your perseverance!
How did you think you'd get away with this?!
And it's time to teach you a lesson that you're never gonna fucking forget!
You are never gonna forget, not any time soon!
You're never gonna forget me!
When time resets, we all become zero.
Decimals apart, take us back to the start.
Tear down the walls, that were built to divide.
Can you feel that fire growing?
We're standing on the edge of the event horizon,
The long walk home,
back to a no name town.
Where people pass me by
in red and white lines.
Your only son can't make you proud.
The moon and stars, this frozen clock.
And if in years to come we can talk like friends,
can I close my eyes and wake up then?
Drown out the sound of adulthood
with songs that fell from out of space.
At seventeen I wouldn't dare to dream
because hope's a dangerous thing.
I won't thank god, I'll thank my friends,
for sticking by till we're home again.
What matters most to me belongs to you.
Hope's a dangerous thing.
I pinch myself to see,
that if this curtain drops, this isn't me.
Pack my bags, no time to waste.
We leave no trace of us.
Still my pillow rings.
How can you stand there and look me in the eye?
Tell me that you knew it was coming for us
I know that you said I was all you ever wanted
But you pushed me overboard
Into knee deep water
And you didn't throw the anchor of hope
You pushed me overboard
Without concern for what I was feeling inside
Heartless intentions
Your favorite game to play
I knew that I was never good enough to make you smile
Still you play these games, you ruin me from the inside
Tearing me down
I can't hide
I can't not act torn about this
What can I do to make you see?
How it affects me, so deeply still
In the bigger picture I've been painted out
Cracks in the earth blacken the sea
No canvas is reserved for me
Look up close and try to see
In every stroke lies past alone
Too close to home
Cutting too close to bone
The ink has dried and words reveal
Too close to home
Cutting too close to the bone
It's too easy to admit defeat
You aren't a child fighting in a war
Son please don't tell me that this is bored
Tear your things out from the earth
Long departed we're so short sighted
Too close to home
Cutting too close to bone
The ink has dried and words reveal
Too close to home
Cutting too close to the bone
It's too easy to admit defeat
Too close to home
Cutting too close to bone
The ink has dried and words reveal
Too close to home
Cutting too close to the bone
It's too easy to admit defeat
It’s getting hard to breathe in here
What I would give to be set free
This darkness surrounding me
They’re coming for us
They’re closing in
Take careful aim
I know you won’t miss
Avoid eye contact
Shoot the messenger
Pools of blood surround
Don’t run and hide this time
But we’ve made a mistake
A glaring error
We’re adrift
Nearly gone
And if you knew
You’d get away with it all what would you do?
Son of god, Hangman's pawn.
Control our lives
With fairtytales and shallow lies.
You say we'll burn in hell.
Spiteful preacher, I know you well.
Desperation breathes and follows you home,
Look around, you're not alone.
One life and one chance, the world in front of me.
Intelligent design, sending shivers down my spine.
Cells mutate and divide,
What a sadistic intention.
No light, no dark. No up's, no downs.
I'll find peace, buried in the ground.
The lights go out, the fuse has blown,
No heaven or hell to bring me home.
Another division to tear us apart.
Try fill that hole inside your heart.
Sun of god, sun in the sky.
If you could speak, I'm sure you'd say:
"There's more to me than meets the eye."
Let me say my decency comes from inside.
Just human heart, a decent mind,
The evening air is leaking in
crashing against my boiling eyes
and blessing my weakness
and sweeping away my pride
and this town can't find anything to need
Distances leave me awake praying
for a day that I can dream
when can I dream?
This world has take its toll
on my body and my soul
This world has take its toll
but I can take it
Your body is a house that you tore up
and all your sins
are like weighted bricks crashing through your walls
Please don't include me in them
and this town can't find anything to need
Distances leave me awake praying
for a day that I can dream
when can I dream?
This world has take its toll
on my body and my soul
This world has take its toll
but I can take it
I'm not a saint
just a boy saved by grace
and my memories keep me awake
I'm not a saint
You better face your fate
(You can't keep me away)
Architects, Nana
Are you ready?
Bring it on
It's the weekend, and you're ready to make a move
You’re workin, 9 to 5 it ain't so smooth
So Monday, and it's stress up on your life
And you know that music really beats life
So you got to
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
So now, is it time to do your thing?
Let the, melody carry the swing
All that, I want is for you to get on down
So you can feel the music all around
But you got to
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
Gotta make it
Gotta let it
Gotta make this body move
Gotta make it
Gotta let it
Gotta make this body groove
Gotta make it
Gotta let it
Gotta make this body move
Gotta make it
Gotta let it
Gotta make this body groove
You're on the dance floor
Makin your moves
Don't look around though
Just do what you do
Live for the moment
Take it in your stride
Cause you know that music really beats life
And you've got to
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
Make the body move
You got to let the body groove
Let the body groove
Can I blame it on you?
I just can't win
Two years spent wondering through the loneliest of minds
Can't seem to find a good excuse this time, for me and for this to fall apart
Shall I blame it on myself, or this routine that I've been stuck in?
I've lost count of how many times I've tried to get out of this routine
But it's holding so tight
I just can't handle another day of this
I just can't win
Get me out alive
Oh God, I mean it
These are violent days for you and me
I just can't handle another day of this routine
Two years spent wondering through the loneliest of minds
I've found my excuse this time
Your words are wearing me down
A constant frown upon my back
Follow the water