Get up, smile, find a need, wash your hair, bleach your teeth Develop habit, Automatic Compromise, build a bridge, Sacrifice, sacrilege Sell yourself, Automatic Nobody out there knows None of them have intent Pretension and purpose Fashioned in plastic heads Everyone drives all day None of them have a goal Everyone's lost their way All of them play the game Set a goal Make it happen Imagine love Fake a passion Change your name Stay in fashion Make a deal Make it happen Compromise, build a bridge Sacrifice, sacrilege Same cars Same clothes Same desires Same woes Lose it all Automatic Nobody out there feels None of them sees the end Pretension and purpose Fashioning plastic heads Everyone drives all day Searching their empty hearts Everyone's lost their way All of us fall apart Automatic Automatic
Don't leave me in this room The walls are closing in This is the space I used to say The line is drawn for you each day But every day you show With sound of caving walls Some day this song will have no pulse And I'll cave alone But there we are Waiting for your answer Your arms speeded elation Beating out your salvation But when the tape stopped you were gone A half measure from home This week I recreate Edit you back into The blare that could define you Coveted by few who knew The phone rings without pause This grief wills everyone All I have is our shitty song How could it ever be enough? Here we are in our final accord A mortician and his tools Sonically bury you You could have chose another chord to resolve on
We colonize a better place (Unable to transform our fate) We follow whatever path grows (Directions no one knows) Given the choice for normalcy You seem content in who you've come to be
They said he re-installed his plague (Said to have re-vamped that limp vein) As if it all ends formulaic (Painless escape) We share the same virus of love and hope And it's a fleeting beauty
You did everything you could You were there for him through bad and good So disappear before you follow suit The parasites, they are still there to swallow you
Beating through an obtrude chest Every emotive plea's a stretch No praise enough to build a life (No words to instill pride) And through your life disorder rides
I did everything I could Mostly there for him through bad and good I disappeared as always waiting for the born-again call The one that signals to us all This bender's over again
Listen for one last faint heartbeat (Holding his hand in hopes he breathes) All of those sad years have come to this (Your head lay on his sunken chest) The thought of you at his deathbed The latest virus in my head Unjust, unjust
Selfless you tended to our ghost Katherine an unconditional untiring host Well you were there for him when he needed you the most I hope someone restores your heart I hope something restores your world
Used to recognize the gun in your hand Promise, squandered Used to understand the stake in your heart Mileage, road worth
But it's hard to recognize the massive burden Born of love and bad deeds And it runs in the family from beginning to end It is just revenge
Everybody build a monument to pain Flowers, fast cars Everybody raise the thief in their heart It's just a beating
And it sounds just like a million other tributes Customs and demons And it runs in the family with a million regrets It's just (It's just revenge) revenge
Everybody build a monument to fear Unsafe people Everybody raise a paranoid child
It's just an over-stimulated mind
And it sounds just like a billion people starving with no resource for love And it runs in the family with a million missteps It's just revenge
Everything echoes Everyone emulates Everyone is a victim of their blood Everyday initiate Everything echoes Everyone echoes All of us are running with the wolves
As you sat on the bed Moments from your end Inconceivable dread Inches from your head I can't bear to imagine you In that horror scene One too sad to be In my mind's eye I am there Embracing you so scared Now you kill me too You killed me too
Decidedly willing to lie for you Absolutely willing to cry for you Ill at ease in saying goodbye to you A part of me will never know
I am there, again, intervals of red An accomplice to Things I couldn't do In a fable disabled
I say words like foolish son God what have you done I'm a thin blue clich??????짤, hopelessly I'm a mouthful of doubtful
Decidedly willing to lie for you Say again Willing to cry for you Finally saying goodbye to you A part of you I'll never know
Looking through the spyglass in a punctured sky While your garden died You couldn't see the sky for your fallen stars Endless in your arms You were still alive even as the sad astronaut
How does it start? When does it end? Blood and love graces everyone You only want to touch it once He didn't give it up She wasn't long enough They didn't save your falling smile He never had a chance
But there it is You're finally blessed And you can't handle it
The worst
What did it say? All you really need is love But you're gonna make those fuckers pay You're gonna hurt someone That's all there really is The ones that don't survive They lied to you a thousand times And your starving heart has died
But there it is You're finally blessed
Failure, failure, failure A cement frown breaking Allows a straight line blown away It fell at thirteen
You're wide awake Hours blind every winding curve You start the fall from grace
The worst
You never had a chance But here it is You're finally blessed
What if I had nothing left? What if I had no one left? Why would I??짖€??짝 Who would I survive? Dead man, he leaves his home Hopeless, he holds his goals higher, higher, low I just wanted to see you wake up one day With a real smile on your face What if you felt certainty? Granted trust when you were young Why would you??짖€??짝
How would you let go? I just wanted to see you wake up one day With an expectation I just wanted to see you wake up one day With a real smile on your face
Controlled, consumed Thoughts unattached Each one a failed synapses detached from fact One positive, one negative Desperate, holding on to healthy images
Remember witness, wattness, matters we're not gonna make it Provoking everyone but no one gives a...
Half laugh, half sigh Half-sad, half-smile Losing ability to recall his half-life Burn from the stove Keys locked inside Dazed as impending anger turns up in reprise
Remember green light, keeper, easy and eyes on the road ahead Provoking everyone with all the words he said
Infectious
I won't speak of all that would have been Gained, lost, spent But I won't think of all that could have been
Controlled, consumed Thoughts unattached Outburst, these images are melding in my head
Remember Franken, Milkweg, Lintfabrik The weirdest we have seen Fires and blown-out tires Perfect tragedy
Infectious Infectious
But I won't think of all that should have been Waste, lost, spent But I won't think of all that could have been
Goodbye old friend I won't speak of all that could have been Goodbye old friend I won't speak of all that could have been Goodbye old friend
The days are full of storybook romance the myriad of thoughtful acts A million ways I'm into you I'm never getting over you I'm sorry for exposing you I know you hate it when I do But I had to write one for my better half
The days are new, the nights unwind You break my world, you change my mind Run out of love, come down from life Run out of pain, my life has changed
It's obvious it's all been said in cheesy poems and chick flicks The mushy shit that people say, it makes us chuckle everyday So how can I express to you the recent dramas we've been through I wouldn't have been fine without your help
The days are new, the nights unwind
You touch my world, you change my life Run out of love, run out of life Come down from hate, the world has changed
But we may never have met if it weren't for him Hey Derrick, maybe somehow you're listening
Today's mantra is gratitude You changed my life I'm sure you knew I'll never forget the words that you said The life that you lead I'll never forget, I'll never forget
You won't find me condescending at your closed door you won't hear how I feel. say you've been there before the holiday's the hardest time to fill in all the blanks and you don't need anyone to show you those mistakes wrap yourself up in only math of our world fill up the holes in your full heart with details for all the riddles solved and every puzzle you complete can't seem to find the pieces to the heart that beats you'll master every task but always by the book then log it in your past with risk that you once took they left you then, they'll hurt you now can't get too close to you or you will cut them down and any fool can play I'll raise the stakes with another turn we risk, we roll and we burn at arms length you never get hit there's too much to gamble when you let someone in my true friend I'm spewing and only one more positive I just might spill some notable insight I didn't think before I purged so here I am attempting to unlock your closed door I wouldn't break it down 'cause you'd be gone for sure you might say something nice of me and send it in a card or under whiskey breath slur kind words at the bar and you're sinking me while you stay afloat in the tank you built we drop, we'll never learn
Come on e; try to go easy we can do anything [repeat] come on e; we got it covered we can stop anytime [repeat] come on e; it's just a party let's go to party town then we can party down come on e; check out my funny hat my name is randal I wrote you this song can't you see that all we need is one night to release? it's bound to be the last in all of it's glory come on e; raise your glass to the sky drink to the song that plays, olden days, whatever I just want to get randical don't be a bummer look at this summer day. the sun is rising once again. yeah! can't we have just one night without all this self-destruction? I just love my husband. I can't live without him come on e; we're goin easy it 's just a party time to get gnarly come on e; try to go easy my name is randal it's nice to meet you we are always here to make you laugh
Already here now, already done combine and collapse. dancing with none white is for "so dumb" blue is for "numb" yellow the streaks on their backs. they all step in line I'm just a rug... under the foot prints of strangers all I need, all I know this one's for jimmy and two more for me it's something you sell to your self it absolves you of your role accidental... pardoned the repeat offenders toll they missed the last week's wake it's cold find yourself here now. dance the collapse those aging children, they all know the steps I'm just a bug under the rug under the reap absent under the gray under the grief absent under the myth under the meek absent under courage under caring absent understudy understudy absent understudy understudy absent
I can't make the damn phone ring it's simply pathetic if I call you anymore I can't figure it now we tallied our scores I got knocked out I know when you come to town I know where you drop your dime and whom it's for I'm not good enough to time your cup of coffee 15 years... was long enough look at me. I'm an old colleague another hard knocks day acquaintance finally you are free of me it must be true or you'd give a minute but it's always my fault always it's your forgiveness this unbalanced resolve I must be hateful so I hang up the phone call it a small sacrifice you still hear me now dear you, the vinyl it was blue stalking poor blake commiserating drunks at sea do you remember when jawbreaker rocked "the boat"? I'm sure you do...and don't look at me. I'm an old fly buddy just a blue coach class acquaintance finally you are free of me it must be true 'cause it only makes sense I can still see you now pictures are in every town I can still write it down "i must be hateful" I can hang up the phone even at those lofty heights you still hear me now
Hello, welcome to the show thought we broke up years ago what's up, I just shit my pants gambled and I lost good times, just blew out my knee I've fallen and I can't get up oh shit, I think I broke my back where's the wheelchair? I'm old school I'm played out osteoporosis, glaucoma and neurosis the vultures circling above our balding heads second verse, the same as the first I forgot the words again railer, lost my inhaler who's got a smoke for the caper? hold on let me catch my breath all right, I feel better now take it to the bridge I'll never be ozzy on stage when I'm fifty I'm gonna look like elvis by the time I'm forty we're already bogus we're already fading we'll never be the rolling stones I'm staying home dementia and senility my failing muscles atrophy I've lost all ability falling apart blue hair, brown teeth failing livers, defeat maybe we will try to pull it off for another year
Max says everybody's angry max says he'll never leave his home max says that heaven's another place it's there his grandparents have gone max has ten years on this birthday a year ago this world had made him cry max sees his world through the brightness eyes to learn hope to glow in the dark and he will aim toward the sky deep blue. the silver lined white clouds divide max says everybody's nasty says they start too many fights max wrote a letter to God today his God could never tell lies max says he's always been faithful he prays for them max bets they all will be saved and he will aim toward the sky deep blue. the silver lined white clouds so divine but max won't get what he asked for not here. not now in the end we will leave him a pile mountains of anguish assured for his climb and max inherits his birthright inbred. inborn
Billy club has got his strength it places him above them the feeble incompletes billy club has found his pride he looks down on their state the verdict justified it's self-defense it's vigilance it's nature's call oppose them all the lesser ones are the vital threat he needs them billy club has got his faith he's followed every lead set down in history billy club has found his place it's comforting and cold it's here he realized his role and here it comes that old defense he's consequence but he has chosen the iron grip his billy club desensitized. he's everywhere he's anyone. he's every... billy club has got his strength for this world [repeat]
All the mirrors scream as they describe your dreams all that they deride until you have no allies they depict a world where we aren't safe without hate an angry mob of one author of the unstoppable will united we must kill here comes the faade they will inflate your God by default accomplice to their war but I know where I stand born into the geographic call but I won't elect to let my mind fall no dividers