Darren Smith

Should I play to my strength or your weakness
Or should I pray for intervention yeah
I'm seeing this picture
With someone else

Do you hate it
Do you hate it
Do you hate that a piece of your heart was

Torn right out
There is no doubt
I can live without you everyday

Separate ways
Are never easy
I don't claim to understand it

I'm seeing this picture
With someone else

Do you hate it
Do you hate it
Do you hate that a piece of your heart was

Torn right out
There is no doubt
I can live without you everyday

This is my rollercoaster
I ride it everyday
It's a mirror of my emotions
I want to wish it all away

News flash of the century
Story of the day
If you wanna see mountains crumble
You can watch it any day

When I come down
It's hard to get it straight
I gotta find me a better way

Whenever the light is gone
You're not the only one
Breaking down
When all your faith is gone
Don't let it pull you under
Change comes around
Sail on to higher ground
Hiding from the thunder
I think we'd all agree
That facing fear don't help us
Escape reality

When I come down
It's hard to get it straight
I gotta live with what I say

Everybody that you pull me under
I don't know what to believe
Never saying a word to each other
I know that I'm waiting

On a love that's like dying flowers
And these are your final hours

Cause I've waited for as long as I can
And I don't wanna lose again
Yeah waiting and I can't understand
Why you don't try at all
Damn

Carried away like the sweet emotion
All the love inside of me
Better days may be gone forever
So you give til you bleed

On a love that's like dying flowers
And these are your final hours

Cause I've waited for as long as I can
And I don't wanna lose again
Yeah waiting and I can't understand
Why you don't try at all

I know I gotta leave the comfort of inside my head
Before I'm gonna be so far down that I can't find it
The only way to be when your down is up I guess
I'm in between the walls that I built and it's closing in

Til I can't breathe
I can't see
I can't feel
If I'm real

Reach for the sun
Yeah I'll break free and run
And all my fears are gone
Reach for the sun
Yeah our road will be long
And all my fears are gone

I'm never gonna leave the ground with tired wings of lead
And I'm always gonna be a prisoner to all the things I've said
I know I gotta bleed the endless wounds and the cuts I have
Cause they're taking over me and it makes me feel like I'm living dead

Til I can't breathe
I can't see
I can't feel
If I'm real

Reach for the sun
Yeah I'll break free and run
And all my fears are gone
Reach for the sun
Yeah our road will be long
And all my fears are gone

Reach for the sun
Yeah our road will be long
And all our fears are gone

Temporary love can fill the hole
You can fool your body, but in your mind you really know
False comfort in denial, building fortresses too high
Passing trains that we both ride with nowhere to go
So the tortured lives will soon divide
The trapped fear will explode
If you keep it to yourself
You gotta let it go
Around the corner lies some begging eyes
Watching for your love
Don't hold on to your hell, you gotta let it go
Every second you abide the soul
Is a giant piece of mind that you'll never know
Still the water's on the rise sinking dreams before your eyes
And pretending you don't mind, it's a hard heavy load

Gone incomplete
These tides of a river don't flow into the sea
And lungs that won't breathe
I've got one last little glitter of hope - a chance for air
You know, I'm gonna take five
As life passes in front of me
No guide, an eternal search for you
Finds mimes, they can but don't wanna speak
I'd cry, but being bitter would take to long
So I'll be brief
Calm and so sweet
Yet trying to deliver a jolt to knock me off my feet
When guns and bombs speak
It's time to surrender the hope
To get me on the next slow boat to Shanghai
And we'll find one good reason

I feared the notion
I'd fall at your feet
And pour out my heart
And you'll leave forever
Severe emotions and dark memories
They all end the same
A nosedive endeavor
But angels did fly
And flooded boats sailed
To rescue my heart
and pull out every nail
Things don't seem right
Since I've fallen
I'm falling like rain
For everything about you
I find myself chained
Thinking I'm coming loose
It's everything about you
A deep devotion
has washed on our sands
Took hold of our hands
And guides us forever
Holy water that some of us brave
They're poetic slaves
Drowned by their conscience
Angels did fly
The loneliness fails
To capture my heart
and push in every nail
Things to now right
Since I've fallen
I'm falling like rain
For everything about you
I find myself chained
Thinking I'm coming loose
It's everything about you

I'm falling like rain
For everything about you
I find myself chained
Thinking I'm coming loose
I'm falling like rain
For everything about you
I find myself chained
everything about you
to everything about you
to everything about you
It's everything

I've been irreverent to the power controlling me
It's like a force coming down hard on me
When in a war with fate you learn to lose
Give me the sun the clouds are on the way
In on a guilt trip for a holiday
Coming apart the pieces all need glue
It's a shame the voice of reason faintly falls astray
Insane with all the seasons seeing shades of fall in May
Now all I can do is lay on the bed I've made
If I'm reborn or given another way
I would resolve and take what I'm given
Or I'll never find the forest for the trees
I'd only reach out for the burning leaves
Without a cause or the faith to pull me through
It was heaven that filled the grave
You swallow the pill and pray
It's coming around today
Seeing shades of fall in May

Another glass of rain in the hurricane of you
Another pretty little promise fallen through
From your pride and joy to your whipping boy again
I'm just another link who's hanging from your chain
I was hoping to tie you down
But forgive my confusion
You know what you're leading me to
Why do you want to see me crawl
Over these borderlines I can't read through the rhymes
You're pushing me over lines til my gun goes off
But it's a necessary evil
It's a twisted line that winds through right and wrong
You tear down my resistance and then you're gone
You got me on a string
I'll do anything you please
But you always seem to want me on my knees

Any night that you're lonely
Can be the night
Your conscience
Gets a little too much
You're torn by your freedom
You're safe in chains
Is you life made of diamonds or dust
Would you surrender it all
I gotta know
Do you want my touch
Would it hurt too much
There's nothing stranger than love
Do you want (Do you want my touch)
Do you feel (Would it hurt too much)
There's nothing stranger than love
Do you want my love
In times of confusion
We never know
If the emotions we feel are enough
And then out of nowhere we remember
That there's nothing stranger than love
Would you surrender it all
I gotta know
Between the two of us
You know it's more than enough

(Hess)
Haunted by your slide
You thought you were on your climb
The open door shut tight
Braving our misfortunes day and night
Falling down from faulty spines
All dry rivers in my dying thirst for you
And you clearly can't decide dark from light
As we Hail, Hail to the new bastille
The albatross that needed to fly
As the future sails
To collision's trail
We'll find a voice that leads us to right
Hail, Hail
With all your sins on trial
Can't get it off of your mind
The choking sands of time
Out of sync with your like and mine
Falling down from faulty spines
All dry rivers in my dying thirst for you
And you clearly can't decide dark from light
As we Hail, Hail to the new bastille
The albatross that needed to fly
As the future sails
To collision's trail
We'll find a voice that leads us to right
I was sentenced for the kill
I'm the eye inside the storm
After what I had to live
I've got nothing left to give
Or to keep me hanging on...
As we Hail, Hail to the new bastille
The albatross that needed to fly
As the future sails
To collision's trail
We'll find a voice that leads us to right
Hail, Hail to the new bastille
The albatross that needed to fly
As the future sails
To collision's trail
We'll find a voice that leads us to right
Hail, Hail

As I walk into the dawn of another day
As I turn to face the light, shadows run away
After everything we've shared, how can we both turn and walk away
Through every single day, I want you to know, yeah I want you to know
That our love could be more than a distant memory
It's not enough to be only a distant memory
All these changes in my life, it's hard to handle it
Without a trace of where you've been, I can't get over it
I find it strange to say, time was on our side only yesterday
We've got to find a way, baby what went wrong, are we too far gone
Chorus
Living without you is getting the best of me
Days come and nights go, I don't want to live with the memory
Chorus
Don't be a distant memory
As I walk into the dark of another day....

Now that I've swam into waters I never wanted to
I'm in hook, line and sinker
I want another life that comes with a guarantee
And batteries so I have strength for you
Since you came undone
A despondent fool
Swimming with chains in the river
A drowning soul
The queen of lies turns blue
Now I've figured out your conscience has never been awakened
Asleep your days of a holy child
Alive are your venomous teeth biting in me
So I've paved the road to ruin
Since you came undone
A despondent fool
Swimming in chains in the river
A drowning whore
The queen of lies turns blue

Love's a long and twisted road
And I know I've walked it before
It takes me nowhere
Almost every time
And leaves me wondering
When will I find
A true love in perfect harmony
When will I learn
That I've got to believe

On my own now
I've come to learn
The times of heartache
From bridges burned
Now there's still one thing
I want to know
Will I find peace of mind
If I'm alone
And on it goes
I'm going around and around
God only knows
If I'm ever coming down

When I've had enough
The world kicks me around
One more time I've had enough
When I've had enough
I'll let out all the feelings
I can't hide
I've had enough for awhile

Walking a dead street all my life
Watching the days slip into the night
And no matter how hard I try
The darkness seems to find me

But your sweet tender eyes
Have always been my guiding light
And you know the world's unkind
But something's resurrected me

And now I'm gonna wait
Til the moment's right
So right
I'm gonna take my time
And be sure I get it right
Too many people now
Can't see wrong from right
I'm gonna take my time
Now I know and understand
That I don't want no part of a world
If I can't live it
Just like I planned

We don't want no part of foolish pride
Try and understand
Before time finds your hourglass
With no sand

I try to talk to the clouds
But they spill out the rain
Now I'm truly convinced
They've got nothing to say

Will I ever learn
Is there something wrong with my brain
Now the weeds are on fire
And they're burning away

Last time I checked I'm at 34 sins
Another won't matter 'cause I'm never gonna win
Hoping now I'm on a road that I can change
Cause I'll change
If there was a time when I needed to pray
That the cold wind blows away
If there was a time when I needed a place
To wipe the guilt free from my face
If there was a time for mercy in my life
It's right now

If I were down on my knees
Would it all be in vain
But for now I'll believe
Until there's some better way
And my pages turn
Til I've got nothing to say
Now the days with no dawn
Are coming of age

Last time I checked I'm at 35 sins
Another won't matter 'cause I'm never gonna win
Holding onto a ghost that I can't save

(Hess / Lesperance)
You screwed the system
I count the days
I'm watching your words unfolding
A little loser
That's got no place
Don't get your way
And your world stops turning
I'll be prying those words from your mouth
Cause I always think you're lying
Now your motives are always in doubt
So I don't hear you
When you tell me to be
Calm and relaxed
You're just a shooting star
That's destined for falling
Come and be saved
I would be alright
If I could live on empty promises
You're in one big sewer
You're something strange
If nothing I know
I've been learning of your unhuman nature
Cast iron skin
Build the fortress
So no one gets in
I'll be prying those words from your mouth
Cause I always think you're lying
Your motives are always in doubt
So I don't hear you
When you tell me to be
Chorus