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| 2:21 | 
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If we're the flagship of peace and prosperity
We're taking on water and about to fuckin' sink No one seems to notice, no one even blinks The crew all left the passengers to die under the sea [Chorus] Countdown, to the very end, Equality, an invitation that we wont extend Ready aim, pull the trigger now, in time you firmly secure your place in hell State of the union address, reads war torn country still a mess the words: power, death, and distorted truth are read between the lines of the red, white, and blue [Chorus] Your place in hell [x2] 'Guilty' is what our graves will read, no years, no family, we did nothing (nothing) to stop the murder of a people just like us |
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| 2. |
| 2:39 |
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I calling out
Only echoes respond But I scream my voice is gone Crouching in corners and hiding your face I sick and tired of playing your games I not alone I stand amongst the voiceless Millions in the unforgiving sun Here arm-in-arm We parade these streets And sing our songs (and sing our songs) We had enough Is there even anything left to explain? (We had enough) Am I really someone you need to restrain? (We had enough) Can you listen to what we have to say? (We had enough) Unknowing, we lie and wait for the rain To wash away what they have made Face down in the dirt with your foot on my back In the distance I hear thunder crack C'mon Stand up ! This system of power and privilege is about to come to an end Here come the clouds The first drop is falling down (falling down) We had enough Is there even anything left to explain? (We had enough) Am I really someone you need to restrain? (We had enough) Can you listen to what we have to say? (We had enough) Our futures burn in red horizons Ashes scattered in winds of change Casualty numbers are rising Now it time to raise the stakes We meant for something more than living just to put food on our plates I can help but wonder--why should we participate? We had enough Is there even anything left to explain? (We had enough) Am I really someone you need to restrain? (We had enough) Can you listen to what we have to say? (We had enough) |
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| 3. |
| 3:44 |
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Suffering from something we're not sure of
In a world there is no cure for These lives we live test negative for happiness Flat line, no pulse, but eyes open Single file like soldiers on a mission If there's no war outside our heads Why are we losing? [Chorus: Repeat 2X] I don't ask for much Truth be told I'd settle For a life less frightening, a life less frightening Hang me out to dry I'm soaking With the sense of knowing What's gone wrong but doing nothing I still run Time again I have found myself stuttering Foundations pulled out from under me This breath is wasted on them all Will someone answer me [Chorus] Is there a God tonight? Up in the sky or is it empty just like me (Just like me) A place where we can hide out from the night Where you are all I need (Where you are all I need) So all he says, goodbye, and close your eyes Tell me what you say (Tell me what you say) A life I sit inside this dream of mine Where you are all I see [Chorus] |
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| 4. |
| 3:44 |
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One last thing I beg you please just before you go
I've watched you fly on paper wings halfway around the world Until they burned up in the atmosphere and sent you spiraling down landing somewhere far from here with no one else around to catch you falling down and I'm looking at you now and I can't tell if you're laughing between each smile there's a tear in your eye there's a train leaving town in an hour it's not waiting for you, and neither am I "Swing for the fences, son" he must have told you once but that was a conversation you took nothing from so raise your glass now, lets celebrate exactly what you've done just put off another day of knowing where you're from you can catch up with yourself if you run... and I can't tell if you're laughing between each smile there's a tear in your eye there's a train leaving town in an hour it's not waiting for you, and neither am I is this the life that you lead, or the life that's lead for you? will you take the road that's been laid out before you? will we cross paths somewhere else tonight? somewhere else tonight... and I can't tell if you're laughing between each smile there's a tear in your eye there's a train leaving town in an hour it's not waiting for you, and neither am I and I can't tell if you're laughing between each smile there's a tear in your eye there's a train leaving town in an hour it's not waiting for you, and neither am I |
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| 5. |
| 3:49 |
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This place rings with echoes of
Lives once lived but now are lost Time spent wondering about tomorrow I don't care if we lose it all tonight Up in flames, burning bright Warming the air of the world [Chorus:] I don't love you anymore' is all I remember you telling me Never have I felt so cold I have no more blood to bleed As my heart has been draining into the sea Since I've taken your footsteps Getting me closer to what is left Of the dreams of what I once claimed to know Within my bones this resonates Boiling blood will circulate Could you tell me again what you did this for? [Chorus] Still I wait With a hope inside of me (inside of me) So still (so still) I wait (I wait) Until again we meet Until again we meet Within my bones this resonates Boiling blood will circulate Could you tell me again what you did this for? [Chorus] Still I wait With a hope (so still) inside of me (I wait) So still (a hope) I wait (inside of me) |
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| 6. |
| 2:49 |
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so look in my eyes, what will you leave behind once you've gone? (so precious)
you got what you came for now I think its time to move on (when will you say) but these ghosts come alive like water and wine walk through these streets singing songs and carrying signs, to them these streets belong my atonement lasts the best part of eternity(eternity) ran out of hands to count the sin that breeds inside of me (inside of me) not this hate but the loneliness has left me here into this mess of my hands are soaking in the blood of angels on broken wings they collapse (will I see the break of day) dark clouds exploded and torrents of rain fell all these lost halos wash away head hung from shame we bear a weight that brings me to a crawl (to a crawl) these years of lounging tell of decades of unanswered calls (unanswered calls) for a change, cuz everyday we slip and fall kicked while were down, our fists clenched into a ball my hands are soaking in the blood of angels on broken wings they collapse (will I see the break of day) dark clouds exploded and torents of rain fell all these lost halos wash away so look in my eyes, what will you leave behind once you've gone? (so precious) you got what you came for now i think its time to move on (when will you say) but these ghosts come alive like water and wine walk through these streets singing songs and carrying signs to them these streets belong |
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| 3:49 |
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Are we so alone,
So distant, So forgotten, As we think ourselves to be? These are our lives But did they ever even matter? Are we worth remembering? These machines feed on the tears of broken lives and dying dreams We're throwing wrenches in the gears Our lives will not be lived in vain When this is all said and done We spent this life on the run Judged by the company we keep Our language, buried inside These lungs that keep us alive We breathe so selfishly Promises we plan to break Are made in whispered voices Cause our despair knows many names We make mistakes But we apologize with roses we never stop to smell along the way These machines feed on the tears of broken lives and dying dreams We're throwing wrenches in the gears Our lives will not be lived in vain We fell from the sky today We melt into balls of clay We sell ourselves everyday Don't tell me how to live this way Pushed so far to the edge We teeter just on the brink You can lead me to the bloodbath But you can't make me drink As these machines feed on the tears of broken lives and dying dreams We're throwing wrenches in the gears Our lives will not be lived in vain Our lives will not be lived in vain |
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| 8. |
| 3:38 |
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We've been alright up to now,
But the air that we breath is about to run out. We've rehearsed our lines clear and loud, But the cue never came and the lights, They never went out. So we're passing the time, While time passes us. The fast lanes a term never applied to us. Without a dime to my name, Or a prayer in the world. I walk out the door. Destination anywhere but here. Away from you. Now I'm on my way to the other side, (On my way) I'll forget everything I left behind. (On my way) These empty rooms, (On my way) Are still filled with you. (On my way) So I dropped out of my own race, A race with no finish line, No first or last place. I watch these faces all run right past me. I turn and walk away, 'Cause we finally know now what our Time here's about, we were not meant to be Another face in the crowd. We're a forest of lives, We grow tall and wide. We won't ever be cut down. Now I'm on my way to the other side, (On my way) I'll forget everything I left behind. (On my way) These empty rooms, (On my way) Are still filled with you. (On my way) I'm so tired and turned around and scared. I'm lying in empty beds again. I'll wait for you to come To your senses, barbed-wire fences Won't keep me from breaking through. I swear I will for you. Now I'm on my way to the other side, (On my way) I'll forget everything I left behind. (On my way) These empty rooms, (On my way) Are still filled with you. (On my way) I'm so tired and turned around and scared. I'm lying in empty beds again. Away from you. |
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| 9. |
| 2:51 |
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Break through the undertow
your hands I cant seem to find pollution burns my tongue cough words I can't speak so I stop my struggling then I float to the surface fill my lungs with air, then let it out we give it all now there? a reason why I sing, so give it all and its these reasons that belong to me Rock bottoms where we live and still we dig these trenches to bury ourselves in them backs breaking under tension For far too long these voices muffled by distances its time to come to our senses up from the dirt We give it all now there? a reason why I sing So give it all 'cause its these reasons that belong to me Breathe, the air we give the life we live, our pulses racing distances so wet my tongue, break into song through seas of competition So please believe your eyes, a sacrifice is not what we had in our minds I'm coming home tonight, home tonight We give it all this is the reason why I sing So give it all its these reasons that belong to me Today I offer all myself to this I'm living for my dying wish I give it all now there's a reason, there's a reason to give it all - |
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| 10. |
| 4:01 |
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Were losing daylight but I can't work any faster.
Under the veil of dust we go on Don't close your eyes. What if it all disappears in the shadows? Now reach for the stars If I held my ground would you ask me to change This drought bleeds on now were dancing for rain We drink the air but its still not the same These worlds collide but the distance remains We point the finger, never accept the blame and I know, I know The waters come but the fire still rages on here The men all shrugged their shoulders and left We sleep so sound in rooms just up the stairs Will you save us like you saved them? If I held my ground would you ask me to change This drought bleeds on now were dancing for rain We drink the air but its so not the same These worlds collide but the distance remains We point the finger, never accept the blame and I know, I know You've bled me dry but I'm still breathing I swear I'm sucking dry the sky And you won't ever find us kneeling Or swallowing your lies If I held my ground would you ask me to change This drought bleeds on now were dancing for rain We drink the air but its so not the same These worlds collide but the distance remains We point the finger, never accept the blame, and I know, I know This drought bleeds on, this drought bleeds on. |
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| 11. |
| 3:20 |
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Sunday, January 15, 2006
Swing Life Away - Rise Against Well, I had a concise and boring post written when my connection got messed up and I lost it. So, instead, I leave you with this: Am I loud and clear, or am I breaking up? Am I still your charm, or am I just bad luck? Are we getting closer, or are we just getting more lost? I'll show you mine if you show me yours first Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words We live on front porches and swing life away, We get by just fine here on minimum wage If love is a labor I'll slave till the end, I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand I've been here so long, I think that it's time to move The winter's so cold, summer's over too soon Let's pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow I've got some friends, some that I hardly know But we've had some times, I wouldn't trade for the world We chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go We live on front porches and swing life away, We get by just fine here on minimum wage If love is a labor I'll slave till the end, I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand....until you hold my hand I'll show you mine if you show me yours first Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words We live on front porches and swing life away, We get by just fine here on minimum wage If love is a labor I'll slave till the end, I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand Swing life away Swing life away Swing life away Swing life away |
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| 12. |
| 4:14 |
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i ended up at my wits end and breaking down.
pages torn from books we never read, cause we're plugged into this grid. don't pull this plug right now, or then we really have to live. when i die, will they remember not what i did, but what i haven't done. it's not the end, that i fear with each breath. it's life that scares me to death... when we built these dreams on sand, how they all slipped through our hands. and this might be our only chance. let's take this one day at a time, i'll hold your hand if you hold mine. the time that we kill keeps us alive. your words won't save me now. i'm at the edge feeling the sweat drip from my brow. get a grip on yourself is what they say, every hour every day. hands over my ears, I'VE BEEN SCREAMING ALL THESE YEARS! WE CAME IN SEARCH OF ANSWERS! WE LEFT EMPTY HANDED AGAIN! SHOTS FIRED INTO THE SKY... ARE NOW RETURNING! WHERE THE FUCK WILL YOU HIDE! from the laughter in the closet, some alive but the door hinges are squeaking letting in thin shards of light. and now our hands extending outward, quiet comfort they invite, and do we dare take what they offer? do we step into the light? |
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