Bouncing Souls

I'm gonna crack one day
I'll just leave and go my way
They might say I quit
Ask me if I give a shit

I'll put it out and place one bet
The day I crack I won't regret
I know it's time to be a man
And deal with things the best I can

In fact I'm only seeing red
Every time I turn my head
Empty vessels staring back

Life is getting to me lately
As you can clearly see
And I don't think I stand a chance

There's no place I can go
To leave this behind
This fucked up world
Is all there is on my mind

This I how it had to be
Something's changed
Inside of me

No place I can go
To leave this behind
This fucked up world
Is all there inside of my mind

This I how it had to be
Somethings changed
Inside of me

I always want to run and hide
Dig a hole and crawl inside
It's not that I'm feeling blue
I'm sure you got your problems too

I'm not a jerk, I'm not a dick
Maybe just a little sick
One of these days I'm gonna snap
Then you'll know that I'm cracked

In fact I'm only seeing red
Every time I turn my head
Empty vessels staring back

Life is getting to me lately
As you can clearly see
And I don't think I stand a chance

No place I can go
To leave this behind
This fucked up world
Is all there is on my mind

This I how it had to be
Somethings changed
Inside of me

No place I can go
To leave this behind
This fucked up world
Is all there is on my mind

This I how it had to be
Somethings changed
Inside of me

Happy hour's next door
But you'll have to brave the down poor
I'm staying here, where I can get a song
Free with my drink to smooth things along

The bartender, he looks kind of sauced
But he always knows what's going down
It's how you carry yourself here
At the holiday cocktail lounge

I didn't talk or say much but I got to know a lot
The greatest delicacies of Spain
The effects of rain on your brain

Another drink with my free song
The usual things, they come and move along
Here at the holiday cocktail lounge

I have heard some places can change how you feel
It's not something you can see but I think that it's real
Words that were spoken of passing thoughts in the mind
Somebody just rolled through and they left them behind

Maybe they sat in this very stool
And didn't make a sound
They just came and went here
At the holiday cocktail lounge

I used to have home
With a room and be
A porch and a driveway
With a big garage
But I traded it in
I kept some faith
And laid my head down every night
And it seems so far awy

Remember me now 'cause things
Always change
5 Long years has gone
I've done some time
Sleeping where I fall
I know I'll never be the same

I learned somethings
About the places I saw
I learned something about myself
I guess it came the hard way
Now I know what counts
I've got one prayer
It's in your confidence
I know all the places
I don't want to be everyone's
Gone there'e no one just me

Remember me now 'cause things
Always change
5 Long years has gone
I've done some time
Sleeping where I fall
I know I'll never be the same

Remember me next time I go away
For the first time I wanna stay
I can count one hand here today
The only thing that matters to me
Anyway and it seems so far away

Remember me now 'cause things
Always change
5 Long years has gone
I've done some time
Sleeping where I fall
I know I'll never be the same

We're gonna have a party
We're gonna have a party
We're gonna have a party
We're gonna have a party
It's gonna pay the bills

There's gonna be some beer
There's gonna be a show
Let's go call the wall
Let everybody know

Ernie ate five fritters
He's dying for another
We won't invite your dad
But we will invite your mother

We're gonna have a party
We're gonna have a party
We're gonna have a party
We're gonna have a party
It's gonna pay the bills

Stevie D showed up in his gremlin
He's running from the pigs
We tried to clean up the backyard
But we got no help from Wig

Ill Phill Deville and Cool Hand Bill
They came to dance, they came to swill
Tim Chunks got lost on route 18
He can't drive, he's from Queens

We're gonna have a party
We're gonna have a party
We're gonna have a party
We're gonna have a party
It's gonna pay the bills

The Sticks and Stones Crew brought some wine
They'll be here for a while
The dog is dancing in the driveway
Picking chicken style

The Dairy Swill Girls, the demos are here
Pablo's playing darts
Lando's in the driveway
Lando's breaking hearts

We're gonna have a party
We're gonna have a party
We're gonna have a party
We're gonna have a party
We're gonna have a party

I wanna make you know
I can do everything
But I don't ever show you
How I really am
I wish I could say
I have no regrets
I wanted too much from you

I don't wanna be this way
I kick myself I wish I could say
I have no regrets today

But I'm so nervous that I lose my cool
Every time I pick up the phone
And try to call you
Standing out in the freezing cold
Until I'm numb wondering why
I'm always acting so dumb

I don't wanna be this way
I kick myself I wish I could say
That I have no regrets today

Things just happened
To turn out this way
I can't say I have
No regrets today

Things happen
To turn out this way
I cant say I have
No regrets today

I spent some time saying some things I didn't want to say
Convincing someone of something about me
Not a lie, but not the truth in a way

Slipping into a suit and tie or walking in some shoes
I got lost in that disguise, I guess I had something to prove
But the proof is there in what I do

Talk is cheap and clothes make the man
If it's not a disguise and you know where you stand
I'm a clown, I'm a monkey, maybe I'm a jerk

Whatever you make me out to be but I know the difference
And what you say doesn't matter to me, I don't care what you think
I'm gonna do what I have to do, say what you wanna say
Talk's a waste of time with you

I'm beatin' down doors
Stumbling down the Street dialing the telephone
Up all night up all morning
Right here is my home

But I know I don't even have to try
I'm a single successful guy

Lonely with my friends
Lonely with my favorite girl
Lonely when I'm all alone
If you're gonna talk I gotta listen because right here is my home

It's easy I don't have to try
I'm a single successful guy

My ears are ringin loud
But I can't hear a sound
I'm carrying all I own and my heart is heavy in my chest
Right here is my home

Its easy I don't have to try
I'm a single successful guy

I know I'm not a bad guy but I try to do what's right
Everyone who comes to me do not understand or see my plight
Everything I've ever done
All the plans I had in sight
Always missed and gone wrong in a way
Until I gave up and said alright let me alone
'cause no one wants to be hanging around with someone messin up like me
I guess my way isn't good enough
When I try I just keep on wrecking stuff
It seems everybody knows but me
How to go what to do and where to be
Everywhere I go they all talk the same
They don't even ave to try


They make me feel so lame
Friends and jobs have come and gone
No matter what I do it goes on and on
I wonder if you sometimes feel this way
And do you lay awake at the end of the day?
When I lose everytime I win 'cause
No one will ever be
Messin up stuff and doing things wrong
Quite like me
No one will ever be like me

Born to lose i've lived my life in vain
all my dreams have always caused me pain.
All my life i've always been so blue
Born to lose and now i'm losing you.

Born to lose it seems so hard to bear
How i always long to have you near
You were all the happiness i knew
Born to lose and now i'm losing you.

Born to lose i can't believe your gone
It's so hard to face that empty dawn


All my life i've always been so blue
Born to lose and now i'm losing you

There's no use to dream of happiness
All i see is only loneliness
All my life i've always been so blue
born to lose and now im losing you.

Too old to bother
Too young to care

Standing all alone
Lost in my mind somewhere
So many unknown questions
I've got to take another step
On this sole adventure

Why is it I can't see
What I need to be
I wish, I had some ideas
About my destiny

I don't know what it is I'm looking for
I can't find it anywhere
I never felt like this before
I got no ideas what is I try to find
I've got a strange feeling
I'm lost in my own mind

Why is it I can't see
What I need to be
I wish, I had some ideas
About my destiny

Too old to bother
Too young to care

Too old to bother
Too young to care

Too old to bother
Too young to care
...

We were riding north to chicago on route 65
we'd played the first show on a tour of 45
limey Shawn and Bryan rode in the truck 16 miles away
me Shal Pete and Lamar thumbed down the ramp of exit 158
the smell of farm and diesel fuel it burned in the 3:00 sun
16 miles to the garage with a bottle of water and our thumbs.
Dead bottle caps buds and birds we passed


on the way who's gonna pick up 4 punks in indiana on sunday

here we go!

I used to have home
With a room and be
A porch and a driveway
With a big garage
But I traded it in
I kept some faith
And laid my head down every night
And it seems so far awy

Remember me now 'cause things
Always change
5 Long years has gone
I've done some time
Sleeping where I fall
I know I'll never be the same

I learned somethings
About the places I saw
I learned something about myself
I guess it came the hard way
Now I know what counts
I've got one prayer
It's in your confidence
I know all the places
I don't want to be everyone's
Gone there'e no one just me

Remember me now 'cause things
Always change
5 Long years has gone
I've done some time
Sleeping where I fall
I know I'll never be the same

Remember me next time I go away
For the first time I wanna stay
I can count one hand here today
The only thing that matters to me
Anyway and it seems so far away

Remember me now 'cause things
Always change
5 Long years has gone
I've done some time
Sleeping where I fall
I know I'll never be the same

You're a good kid, play the game to break your heart
You've gotta get back to where you started
Pay attention now or it'll slip by
It's your heart don't let it die, leave it all behind
Oh, let you die

Is it true when we get old our hearts die?
I heard it in a movie once and I think I know why
Life it sucks so bad it makes you wanna die
Whoa, but you get by

Life goes by, life goes by
Life goes by

You're a good kid, you've still got the fire in you
Hangin' around, you don't know what to do
Don't think too much, just let it loose

Get up, now's your chance we are here
And we make you dance
You are not alone this is our home

Life goes by, life goes by
Life goes by

This is a song about a jkerk friend of ours, his name is lammar vannoy!

Lamar vanoy!



He was only 16 and he knew he wasn't like anyone else

Listening to his records in his room he knew

something had to change somewhere or he would go insane
but when some years slipped by and he still felt the same.


people and money came and went but the only thing that stayed the same

were the feelings he felt when those records played


he drinks 'til he falls down


Oi oi oi oi, his name is Lamar Vannoy!
Hes looking for something and


Hes gunna find it

Oi oi oi oi


And his name is lamar vannoy!



Me and Lamar in NYC on the avenue
talking about nothing much

with a bag of brew the New York wind

will blow and he will wears his engineer boots

motorcycle jacket black jeans nowhere to go

nothing to do

so much has gone

wrong and so much is bad but sharing

this music with Lamar there is so



much we have
he drink's and think's


about a girl who lies

oi oi oi oi and his name is Lamar Vannoy

he'll wake up and

go to work with a swollen brain.

Oi oi oi oi



and his name is Lamar Vannoy

once again thank you all for showing up at the continental in new york city, and if you don't do anything, then well at least have a good time


he drinks 'til he falls down
Oi oi oi oi, his name is Lamar Vannoy!



Hes looking for something and

Hes gunna find it

Oi oi oi oi
And his name is lamar vannoy!


Ah-ha...

Ah-ha...
Hey man wouldnt you know it? we're redording this and I break a string on the third song



Hey wait I'm really outta tune too so hold on
Ay Pete sucks

makes sense to me your always breaking strings anyways

oh shit sorry, I thought I'd get in tune

I wanna make you know
I can do everything
But I don't ever show you
How I really am
I wish I could say
I have no regrets
I wanted too much from you

I don't wanna be this way
I kick myself I wish I could say
I have no regrets today

But I'm so nervous that I lose my cool
Every time I pick up the phone
And try to call you
Standing out in the freezing cold
Until I'm numb wondering why
I'm always acting so dumb

I don't wanna be this way
I kick myself I wish I could say
That I have no regrets today

Things just happened
To turn out this way
I can't say I have
No regrets today

Things happen
To turn out this way
I cant say I have
No regrets today

Well, I walked into the bar and I put in twenty bucks
Because I know people's taste in music sucks
About four hours had passed
Forty picks and my empty glass
A tasty number all dressed in black
Tried to rock us with her wack attack

There was no fuss, we knew her game
You look great but all your songs are lame

Bullying the jukebox because it's fun
You can't get near it until we're done
Bullying the jukebox because we rule
All the songs we like are really cool

Songs of punk and songs of joy
Love songs about girls and boys
Songs of metal and English stuff
And some hardcore songs to make us feel tough

But we all agreed that the songs of woe
And the songs of loved ones who had to go
Churned up memories of times we dreamt that
Got us all verklempt

Bullying the jukebox because it's fun
You can't get near it until we're done
Bullying the jukebox because we rule
All the songs we like are really cool

Whoa, because it's fun
Whoa, until we're done
Whoa, because we rule
Whoa, really cool

Drank until our last song
We paid our tab and we said so long
Swerving in and out of cars
It's off to rock another bar

Bullying the jukebox because it's fun
You can't get near it until we're done
Bullying the jukebox because we rule
All the songs we like are really cool

Whoa, because it's fun
Whoa, until we're done
Whoa, because we rule
Whoa, really cool

Bullying the jukebox because it's fun
You can't get near it until we're done
Bullying the jukebox because we rule
All the songs we like are really cool

Whoa, because it's fun
Whoa, until we're done
Whoa, because we rule
Whoa, we're really cool, hey

Tonight we're alone
And the music is right
Do you feel good ?
Do you feel alright tonight?

I'm out on the streets tonight
I'm with a few friends so it feels alright
Shouting out loud to this song doesn't do it
If it doesn't sink in then I say screw it

Same old vices not much to dream about
Is there anything left to fight about
Fight to live is the only fight
I've got left in me

Well, I've never been the same since that first show
I close my eyes and let myself go
To a place I'm never alone or scared
Somehow I had a reason a reason to care

I get so lost in it, I get so lost in it
I get so lost in it, I get so lost in it
Live to fight, fight to live
Live to fight, fight to live

Tonight we're alone
And the music is right
Tonight do you feel good
Do you feel alright?

Tonight we're alone
And the music is right
Tonight do you feel good
Do you feel alright, tonight?

I'm on the train and I've got my phones
People all around but I'm good all alone
I won't worry what I need to be
Wherever I am is the place to be
Wherever I am that's the place to be

Tonight we're alone
And the music is right
Tonight do you feel good
Do you feel alright?

Tonight we're alone
And the music is right
Tonight do you feel good
Do you feel alright, tonight?
We feel good we feel alright, tonight

I don't know what other people see
Or what they think is love
But I know know what it means to me
I fall in love so easily

And it's hard to let your guard down
Something you never wanted to
But I gave you my love and if you turned away
I guess I'd be screwed, but

I'm a hopeless romantic
You're just hopeless

I'm a hopeless romantic
You're just hopeless

Beer and wine does me fine but
It doesn't always do
When I get back up and dust off
I always come back to you

I'm my own man with my own plan
I can't do the things you want me to
I'm kinda lazy and I kinda stink
But I'll clean myself up for you

I'm a hopeless romantic
You're just hopeless

I'm a hopeless romantic
You're just hopeless

You're just hopeless
You're just hopeless

> It's hot
It's a four-alarm fricasee boy this heat is killing me
it's hot it's hot tonight
It's duelling dicks in a deep-fry
It's hot standing next to these other guys it's hot It's sweaty snapper in a stir-fry
A blazing sun under a red sky
It's hot
It's hot
It's sexy and it's wet and the show ain't even over yet
How much better can get tonight
It's so hot i can't even think
I need some air
I need a drink Sweaty bodies everywhere down to their underwear tonight!
My balls are sticking to my leg
Pass the 40; sippin' dregs
Raise the roof let's set it off cause we just can get enough tonight!

You're a good kid, play the game to break your heart
You've gotta get back to where you started
Pay attention now or it'll slip by
It's your heart don't let it die, leave it all behind
Oh, let you die

Is it true when we get old our hearts die?
I heard it in a movie once and I think I know why
Life it sucks so bad it makes you wanna die
Whoa, but you get by

Life goes by, life goes by
Life goes by

You're a good kid, you've still got the fire in you
Hangin' around, you don't know what to do
Don't think too much, just let it loose

Get up, now's your chance we are here
And we make you dance
You are not alone this is our home

Life goes by, life goes by
Life goes by

Monday morning, I woke up late
I feel like shit and I can't see straight
One last drink was a bad idea
I'm on the bowl with diarrhea

Out the door in a fog
Barked at by the neighbors dog
Forgot my keys, I went back inside
I got a flat, so I can't ride
The phone rings, aw jeez, now what?
I'm an idiot, so I pick it up, hello

Now I'm held up on my line
My cretin landlord, he's wasting my time
He wants his money or we go to trial
He's got penis envy denial

Another weekend, I didn't get laid
It's a Monday morning ant brigade
Another weekend, I didn't get paid
It's a Monday morning ant brigade

Fuck it all, no regrets
I'm staying in and you can bet
It sucks outside in the pouring rain
I'll smoke some pot, fry my brain
Thom cut the record down to the bone
I'm a sure shot, rocking the microphone

Another weekend, I didn't get laid
It's a Monday morning ant brigade
I got the Monday mornings
I got the Monday mornings
I got the Monday mornings
I got the Monday mornings

Monday
Monday
Monday

Monday morning ant brigade

Passed some time on the stoop
On the block were we used to sit
I thought about it all too much
I thought so hard I couldn't see
Pete rode by on his Hutch

Passed some time on the stoop
On the block were we used to sit
I looked down and tied my shoes
I thought about it all too much
I looked up and then I knew

I guess these things
Were meant to be
And there's no use fighting
What's in me

Night on earth
Night on earth

Passed some time walking around
Looking for something to be
When I stopped to look around
All the music was different to me

All these places we used to go
When I loved you I didn't see
I'll miss you but now I'll know
Better next time because I found me

I guess these things
Were meant to be
And there's no use fighting
What's in me

Night on earth
Night on earth

> Music sounds in my ear
there are bricks for my view
I hear the train pass
and I'm sure that I miss you
But I'll keep my head and I'll try
and I know this will pass by and by
I made some coffee
and I overheard the neighbors too
sometimes they laugh sometimes they scream
it all reminds me of you
But I don't worry anyway,
after all you are so far away
Sometimes sadness feels happy
sometimes sadness keeps my head.
Sometimes it helps me to get by
maybe I don't make no sense
But I know I'm gonna try
and I know this will pass by and by
Now I know I'm gonna try
and I know this will pass by and by

The one minute I saw you
I remember your red shoes
I keep this little memory of you
I see you in my mind when I need to

Thank you for your red shoes

Some say the world isn't fair
At least for one moment and I didn't care
It's all in how I see it and what I choose
Nothing seems black when I see your red shoes

Thank you for your red shoes

That minute, that I saw you
I remember you and your red shoes
Now I have his memory of you
I see you in my mind when I need to

Thank you for your red shoes

Your red shoes

I've got to be me baby and you gotta be you
Something isn't right but I know I love you
I only want what's best I don't know Is this
Some kind of test. Yeah and you're failing
All we do is bicker

Say goodbye Kiss my ass I hope you die
Wish me well You can go to hell

We were so different a short time ago Love
Is suppose to make us happy supposed to make us grow
But I just wanna punch you in the face
I love you I guess needed the space
Oh well another time and another place

Say goodbye Kiss my ass I hope you die
Wish me well You can go to hell

Waiting for the morning light to sneak up with the sunrise
Last night was so long ago, where did the hours ago?
I saw the first daylight shining in your eyes
You were mine and the world was ours

Dreams of a better life can come true
It's all there in you

Just like a break in the clouds when the sun come shining through
Momentary glimpse of the divine sometimes when I look at you
And everything just cancels out
And for that moment there's no doubt

Dreams of a better life can come true
It's all there in you

Sometimes a new day can bring a new beginning
You took me to a place, no time can erase
Yesterday I was a loser
Today I'm winning, today you're mine and the world is ours

Dreams of a better life can come true
It's all there in you
Dreams of a better life can come true
It's all there in you

Goin' to the same old places
Skipping like a broken record
I love you all but I gotta get out
And change this scenery

I've got to find what I'm living for
I've got to change this life that I'm living

Nowhere to run from myself
No where to hide from the truth
Nowhere to run from myself
No where to hide from the truth

I tried to find someone, someone who knew
Somebody to give myself to
I learned the hard way, when you give yourself away
You give away your life too

Nowhere to run from myself
No where to hide from the truth
Nowhere to run from myself
No where to hide from the truth

Nowhere to run from myself
No where to hide from the truth
Nowhere to run from myself
No where to hide from the truth

I tried to find someplace that seemed right for me
I walked the streets until I lost my mind
And that was the best place to be
When I lost my mind, the truth set me free
Set me free, set me free, set me free

I used to have home
With a room and be
A porch and a driveway
With a big garage
But I traded it in
I kept some faith
And laid my head down every night
And it seems so far awy

Remember me now 'cause things
Always change
5 Long years has gone
I've done some time
Sleeping where I fall
I know I'll never be the same

I learned somethings
About the places I saw
I learned something about myself
I guess it came the hard way
Now I know what counts
I've got one prayer
It's in your confidence
I know all the places
I don't want to be everyone's
Gone there'e no one just me

Remember me now 'cause things
Always change
5 Long years has gone
I've done some time
Sleeping where I fall
I know I'll never be the same

Remember me next time I go away
For the first time I wanna stay
I can count one hand here today
The only thing that matters to me
Anyway and it seems so far away

Remember me now 'cause things
Always change
5 Long years has gone
I've done some time
Sleeping where I fall
I know I'll never be the same

I saw you walking past me just the other day
Another heartbeat with thoughts of yesterday
You looked the same, years are only time
I still wonder why our hearts could never rhyme

You stood beside me, you didn't recognize me
Funny how things never change
And when you walked on by a memory surprised me
smoking cigarettes, your girlfriends by the pool

Your smell I could not forget
That's as close as i could get you were so fucking cool
I'm no good, you're no better
Wouldn't we be perfect together?

All I wanted was a piece of your heart, you left me torn apart
Fuck the rest before me and their crimes
For your love I'll serve their time I'm no good, you're no better
Wouldn't we be perfect together?

Just like a sunny day can turn all dark and gray
This game goes on and on
Out on the streets, broken dreams they come so cheap
No one can leave me for dead
I got one good fight left in me tonight
And the most beautiful girl in my head

Sometimes she comes to me in a song
Sometimes she comes in a dream
She's all the joy in my heart
She's everything that I see

Days they come and days go by
Sometimes we fight and I don't know why
I'll give it all up to her
Everything I did and said
I've got all I want now in my sight
And the most beautiful girl in my head

Sometimes she comes to me in a song
Sometimes she comes in a dream
She's all the joy in my heart
She's everything that I see

When we're together there is no time, there is no space
When we're together everything is in it's place
Turn myself inside out for her
My endless love is without form
Let my heart be the light
That guides her through the storm

Tomorrow's a lifetime away
She's all I want today
Tomorrow's a lifetime away
She's all I want today
Today, today

I was alone, I decided to get up, decided to get out
I picked up the phone and I gave my boys a shout
Told 'em I'd be out around nine
No particular plan, just whatever comes to mind

Frank called me up
And said there's a show tonight
Do ya wanna go tonight?
I'm giving my girl the night off
'Cuz I'm hanging out with Steinkopf

Whenever I'm down
I know where my friends can be found
Whenever there's a doubt
I just have to shout

He's my friend, he's my alibi
My accessory to the crime
A bond that will never die
Till the end of time
Till the end of time

Another night and we got somewhere to go
Goin' out meeting up at the punk rock show
Where the air is hot and the music is loud
My kind of place this is my kind of crowd
And we'll be here until the night is done
Loyal to my friends and sworn to fun

He's my friend, he's my alibi
My accessory to the crime
A bond that will never die
Till the end of time
Till the end of time

Till the end of time

I'm on the outside looking in
That's where my story begins
Took the pain of growing up
And I walked on through
This is how I'm showing up
I feel great, how about you?

So here I stand out on my own
Myself the only truth that I've known
I went through all the things, I had to do
You know sometimes it stings but
I feel great, how about you?
How about you?

Playing life just like a game
Good or bad it's all the same
Let the world know how I feel
And you know it's real
And you know I'm real

Well, I like to rock and I love to roll
When the music's running through my soul
I've got no, no place to go but my own private radio

I met a lot of people that made me feel alright
And their music's got me through the night

Well, I had a drink and I had a smoke
I listened to every word you spoke
Another story another memory
Another day, the way things should be

If I had it my way, everyone would know
How we're listening to our own private radio

Private radio, private radio
Private radio, private radio

If I had it my way, everyone would know
How we're listening to our own private radio

Private radio, private radio
Private radio, private radio

I'll sing this song to my bike
And everything else that I like

This goes out to my handlebars
As I'm weaving through the cars

This is for my squirrels in the park
And every dog that doesn't bark

This is a song about a ride
And listening to whats inside

I look at all the cars I pass
I cruise myself in the glass

I put that record on just to make a sound
The rhythm hit get my movement off the ground
The soundtrack of what I want to be
If I want to change the world, it's gotta start with me

I put the needle on the record and play that song again
And in the end what have we learned?
Are we just faces in the crowd?
I died and was reborn again today

Hold fast to myself, make these good feelings stay
We laughed we cried
The music shaped our lives
So tell me why our movement's out of time?

Are we so out of line?
I put the needle on the record and play that song again
A movement with no leaders
We stand tonight hearts in our hands

We can't agree on a single thing, I don't know why
We almost killed each other on the inside
I managed to be a jerk anyway
It doesn't have to be this way

Forget about the things I said
I make no excuse for them
I want to start again
I want to start again

We all walk our separate ways, I don't know why
I hope we meet again, somewhere some day
I can't change the way you feel
It doesn't have to be this way

Forget about the things I said
I make no excuse for them
I want to start again
I want to start again

I think about the two of us, I don't know why
I feel good on the inside
It's different now, I'm one, I stand alone
I have to be this way
I have to be this way

Forget about the things I said
I make no excuse for them
I want to start again
I want to start again
I want to start again
I want to start again

Forget about the things I said
Forget about the things I said
Forget about the things I said

Forget about
Forget about
Forget about
...

I've met some people along the way
Some of them split some of them stay
Some of them walk some walk on by
I've got a few friends I'll love till I die
From all of these people I try to learn
Some of them shine some of them burn
Some of them rise some of them fall
For good or bad I've known them all

We live our life in our own way
Never really listened to what they say
The kind of faith that doesn't fade away we are the true believers

Well you can fight or you can run
Under a rock till the war is won
Play it safe and don't make a sound
But not us we won't back down true believers all the way
You and I

Anchors Aweigh my friends, I'll see you another day
I'm going away, expierences have to come
and the past has got to go
back into our dreams, back into our dreams

Anchors Aweigh my friends
Everybody understands that good times,
that good times they come and they go
and together we will always flow
back into our dreams, back into our dreams



And our troubles, we can't leave them behind
but the wind blows, and blows them all away
and the road goes...and takes them all away
...back into our dreams

Jackahmmers outside my window
Woke me up again today
And all the voices in my head
Well its so hard to make them go away
Stayin out all night
Lookin for something Ill never find
Im fighting myself, and
Im losing control of my mind
I reached out in anger I reached out in love
I lived a life of self abuse, I prayed to the heavens above..

Jackahmmers outside my window
Woke me up again today
And all the voices in my head
Well its so hard to make them go away
Looking for some new stimulation,
But all of these things,
They just never last


I know I have to move foward,
But I keep holding on to the past.

I just wanna be happy with the way things are
I just wanna look up at the sky at night,
And appreciate the stars

Destruction leaves an empty space
In emptiness again I begin to create
Feeling good again now, in some new kind of way
Feeling good again now...

What do you do when she don't love you anymore?
What do you do when she wont hold you anymore?
Living in sin, now you're all alone again.
She's having a change of heart
without a word everything just falls apart
What do you do when she don't love you anymore?
What do you do when she wont hold you anymore?
Two lovers walking through life together
Tender kisses and all the sweet things they used to say

Memories from better days



Everything we built
Everything that i believed in...
Just some old fashioned fantasy.

I wish that you could see the you that I see.
Not some bullshit glamour fantasy.
Put down those magazines and see...
see a real beauty.

I wish that you could see the glory that I see.
Shining like the winter sun.
I wish that you could see...
see the true glory.

Wish there was something I could do
to make you see.
Wish there was something I could say...
but you won't hear me.


I guess there's some things that I can't explain.
Some things that I could never change.

I read your thoughts in your eyes
when you look at me.
I see the real you when you smile.
I see the real beauty.
I see the real beauty.

Sitting here drinking again...
thinking back on how simple it used to be.
Can it ever be that way again?
I'm drinking this one to my friends.
Looks like they'll be here till the end.
Till the bitter end.
What are dreams for, anyway,
without the guts to live your life that way?
We are the highway kings.
Chasing our destinies.
Cruising through a timezone
as the world stands still.
Harvest moon in a desert sky.
Making good time as we pass it by.
Wherever this road takes us, it was meant to be.
We're already home.


What are dreams for, anyway,
without the guts to live your life that way?
What are songs for, anyway,
without the guts to live your life that way?
Learned to let go
of the things we can't control.
Left em behind and followed rock and roll.
We found a new way of life.
Forever till the end of time.
But never getting old.

I don't want to do anything to prove myself to you.
I don't want to be something I'm not.
Every time I try, every time I chase,
something that's wrong or right.

I get lost in my mind.
I get lost in that lie.
I get lost with the idea I have something to prove.

All I have to do is make my way.
Make the best of whatever comes my way.
Whatever comes my way.

I don't want anything this world can give me.
A lot of stuff makes me feel so empty.
Every time I try, every time I chase,


something I want from you.

I get lost in my mind.
I get lost in that lie.
I get lost with the idea I have something to lose.

All I have to do is make my way.
Make the best of whatever comes my way.
Whatever comes my way.

> When we were two brothers forever through the dark and light
We had our fights against the world, against each other
We traveled in the night
So many roads, so many shows together
Far apart we grew, isolated but still together
When we were two brothers forever through the dark and light
We had our fights against ourselves, against each other
We were afraid, afraid of so many things
It was a fight to overcome ourselves and see clearer
We are two brothers forever through the dark and light
We had our fights against the world, against each other
Time has opened my heart
I don't want to hold on to that past
I don't want to live in isolation anymore
There's nothing left to do, but to kiss that life goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
We are two brothers forever through the dark and light
We had our fights against ourselves, against each other
There's nothing left to do, but to kiss that life goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye

It's incredible we try to be apart of something
It's amazing how we feel alone when we're never seperate
It's so funny how we weave a web of our own destruction.
Then we find in the end we fought so hard to be apart of something

To feel someone beside youis beautiful in life
But to feel a wholeness inside is the greatest feeling
There is nothing that can take that away

We're never alone



To feel someone beside youis beautiful in life
But to feel a wholeness inside
Is the greatest feeling of all

Hey, where have you gone?
You used to be the one
That we looked up to
Seemed like nothing
Could break you down
How high was your price?
And was it worth it?
Nothing in life is a sure bet anyway
You're gone
I guess you weren't here from the start
In the end
Its all a question of heart

Hey, where have you gone?
You used to be the one
That we looked up to
Seemed like nothing
Could break you down
How high was your price?
And was it worth it?
Nothing in life is a sure bet anyway
You're gone
I guess you were here from the start
In the end
Its all a question of heart



Hey, where did it go?
Everything we fought for
And everything you'd made
Maybe we were just naive
But I still believe
There are only a few things
That really belong to me
Who I am
Who I was
Who I wanna be
Who I wanna be

Hey, where have I gone?
I used to be the one
Looking for a hero
In some far off place
Blindly ever forward
Never knowing all along
The truth was right here
In my own song

People tell me they wake up everyday wondering if they'll be here tommorrow.
I say live for today.
'Cause everything you have is just borrowed.
No progress made just sittin' around
Tv's selling bullshit by the pound
Things stay the same are you afraid to ask why?
Fight To Live! or are you waiting to die?

Change is coming our way!
Just like a new day.

These borrowed days they come and go
We live on, reaping what we sow
Terror from the darkness of our minds


the self-destruction of mankind
and we'd all like to see some change
But the shit, it falls like rain
We sit and watch the world turn grey
What's the point here anyway?

Change is coming our way
Just like a new day

Goodbye to me and you.
Goodbye to the life we knew.
One last long embrace.
Let go and walk on through.

I'm leaving everything behind for a peace that I can't find.
The ghosts that roam this house
like winter air right through our souls.
And it feels like dying.
It just feels like time to go.

Goin down south to dream another dream.
Maybe check out Memphis, Tennessee.
Take the night train and an extra pair of jeans.
Can't think of anything else I really need.
And all my experiences ride with me.



This town is dead to me.
And I can't stop chasing my dreams.
I love you more than anything,
but what you want I could never be.
I love you more than anything,
but only alone can we both be free.

Goodbye to me and you.
Goodbye to the life we knew.
Wipe the tears from your eyes.
Let go and walk on through.

I see lives crash like waves on the shore again and again
In an endless cycle of join and pain
Inside one day your whole life can change innocence torn away
Trust gives way to a thicker pain
A shield from pain? or a trap that keeps it all in.
They tried to break me down - i had to break away
I woke up from that night mare to start another day

I wanna be a simple man with a little peace of mind
Live a simple life, in a place thats kind

I see lives crash like waves on the shore again and again.


No poetry, No symmetry, nothing left inside of me
What happened to that feeling of invincibility?
Broken up caught under the load
Broken down by the side of the road
They tried to break me down i had to break away
I woke up from that nightmare to start another day....

I'm driving, listening to my radio,
Checkin' out the airwaves,
For something to believe in.
Gimme Somethin' to hold true
Give me something to sing about
Give me a reason to care
I'll sing along forever.

Watered-down words covered in song,
Trying to hide the truth,
That life is beautiful, and life is pain
Give it to me straight, touch my heart.

I'll sing along forever.

I'll sing along forever.



I'll sing along forever.

I'm driving, listening to my radio,
Checkin' out the airwaves,
For something to believe in.
Gimme somethin' to hold true
Give me something to sing about
Give me a reason to care
I'll sing along forever.
Give it to me straight, touch my heart.
I'll sing along forever.

I created this thing in my mind.
Looking at it now I don't see why.
I threw away everything I had
and "greener pastures" is just a lie.
I realize all these things now that it's too late.
I guess that's part of the price I gotta pay.
I betrayed myself when I betrayed you.
I threw my life away
the day I turned my back on you.

I turned and ran away.
I turned and ran away from the truth,
the truth in everything.
Everything we used to do.
I never had reason to doubt you.
I loved everything about you.


If I could just take it back I would.
I threw my life away
the day I turned my back on you.

Believing my own lies,
I lost myself and I lost everythiing.
If I could just take it back I would.
I threw my life away
the day I turned my back on you.

> I grab into my sixpack and raise a can
to another fallen friend.
The news came on the phone today.
Did you know you weren't alone?
I'll see you when we all come home.
With a heart so big that you can't hide,
you took the path of a slow suicide.
And all those feelings that you had,
they killed you from the inside.
I'll see you when we all come home.
With a heart so big that you can't hide,
and all those things that you keep inside,
I can't say that I don't understand.
I know you tried.
I'll see you when we all come home.