Lagwagon

Here he is, he saves a grin
He wants to be the one who doesn't have to sink a level
Indiscrete, in his retreat
All he needs is just a taste of the bitter pride
He held in her name
Embrace the solitude in ordinary fucked up state of grace
Far away from the days he bared the cross she used to wear
In some resolve well aware
A little pitiful, a pin up boy they dress in grieving wear
Well at ease in consent in the drift of undertow
He won't justify the pity from them
When he knows....fools in love are arrogant
Their sermons cloud his breathing air
He's in love with an isolation from emotions


Here he is awaiting sentence
A fool to think that anyone can escape guilt and anguish
A subtlety that can't be learned
A subtlety that can't be taught
He is caught in the lure of second thoughts
He might still care
As he settles down well aware
Bound in secrecy. His voice will only dignify their
But his sorrow is signified
Well aware of his pride

Would it make you feel much better
If it was you against the world
If you were an alien
If it were conspiracy?
And would it hurt to live in comfort
If you found someone to trust
If you knew that you were with us
If we shared a common goal?

But you will isolate, alienate
No one can appreciate
The poor miss understood
Can you see that I don't care anymore?

Do you ever stop to listen?
Are you a martyr for your pride?
Does it make you feel much better
When you are an alien?

Cause you will isolate, alienate
No one can appreciate
The poor miss understood
Can you see that I don't care, I don't care, I don't care anymore?

Would it make you feel much better
If it was you against the world
If you were an alien
If it were conspiracy
and would it hurt to live in comfort
If you found someone to trust
If you knew that you were with us
If we shared a common goal
But you will isolate, alienate
No one can appreciate


the poor miss understood
Can you see that I don't care anymore
Do you ever stop to listen
Are you a martyr for your pride
Does it makes you fell much better
When you are an alien?

Angry youth
MR. Elite
Your older now
Inside your head lives an old scene
MR. Punk
Sad and hating everyone
Your exucuse is old
The way you felt has left you hating yourself
Cause everyone is so confused
You never worked for a cent
Self0destructive you pay your debt
Cause you miss another time
when all your friends were divine


Now all of them have gone or changed
Do you still live in angry days?
But when you've lost someone you love
When your mask is taken off
Does life cut you down to siz?
Does it open your eyes?
Because they all have found their way
as you struggle through your maze
You built those walls of hate
Don't tell me it's too late

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

I see a bad moon rising
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin'
I see bad times today

Don't go 'round tonight
It's bound to take your live
There's a bad moon on the rise
I hear hurricanes a blowin'

I know the end is coming soon
I fear rivers overflowing
I hear the voice for rage and ruin
Don't go 'round tonight

It's bound to take your live
There's a bad moon on the rise
Hope you got your things together
Hope you are quite prepared to die

Looks like we're in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye
Don't go 'round tonight
It's bound to take your live
There's a bad moon on the rise

Stand by... stand by... all that we've been thru all we can't undo I'm picking out the songs to set the mood they'll play them at a funeral for you I have been the only friend I have stayed until the end I'm telling you my brother I am through it's a measure of pity that I won't carry... I won't carry it's a matter of duty but I won't carry... I won't carry you most of us have our secrets one deep-rooted mark we can't remove I'm guessing yours still owns you I can't dig mine up to bury you I have been the only friend I have stayed until the end I'm telling you my brother I am thru I will lie with the guilty but I won't carry... I won't carry... it's a measure of bad dreams but I won't carry... I won't carry you

The turn out tonight is weak
The crowd is looking meager
Only 40 to 50 in the flock
but 3 more beers and I'm playin' Woodstock
And you can probably see that we're not all that tight
A couple more drinks will alter your sight
That does not mean fight
I'm not saying I have to be drunk
but tequila shots make it more fun
I'm havin' fun
(Chorus)
Oh, Beer Goggles
I love to put them on
Next to eachother at the bar
She's thinkin' he's the one


I'm thinkin' where's my car
She thinks I look good
Obviously she didn't smell that fart
"Oh, what kind of cologne is that you're wearing?"
Hey man, it's a start
"Hi, my name's Barbie"
"My name's Ken"
The perfect couple 'cause we're drunk in the head
I'm drunk again
(Repeat Chorus)
And one size fits all!!!

The turn out tonight is weak
The crowd is looking meager
Only 40 to 50 in the flock
but 3 more beers and I'm playin' Woodstock
And you can probably see that we're not all that tight
A couple more drinks will alter your sight
That does not mean fight
I'm not saying I have to be drunk
but tequila shots make it more fun
I'm havin' fun
(Chorus)
Oh, Beer Goggles
I love to put them on
Next to eachother at the bar
She's thinkin' he's the one
I'm thinkin' where's my car
She thinks I look good
Obviously she didn't smell that fart
"Oh, what kind of cologne is that you're wearing?"
Hey man, it's a start
"Hi, my name's Barbie"
"My name's Ken"
The perfect couple 'cause we're drunk in the head
I'm drunk again
(Repeat Chorus)
And one size fits all!!!

Breaking down in surround alarms are deafening alone in immersion drowning in the dream billions in the shadow of one you won't deceive all we know is failure all we have is us how can I forgive you? for breaking our last trust billions of sincerities and one you will believe you have to honor me [repeat] our lives are incomplete without our honesty our honesty breaking down the numbers eliminate the waste nothing's ever perfect forget about disgrace fuck the purist. fuck the tourist fuck the bourgeoisie you have to honor me I have to honor you our lives are incomplete without our honesty my life is incomplete without our honesty honesty

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]

He knows no shame, and takes no blame
This simpleton, sees everything
He's only satisfied,
To point out other's mistakes
Never afraid, to use his pride
His tradition is old,
His faith a hand-me-down, the family
He wears them on his sleeve,
Morale and values left under a christmas tree
He once had the gift,
This image in his grandparents eyes
No guns, no drugs, no rape, no end
This vacant soul, is pale and blue,
In empty gaze, his crow's feet are
A vision of defeat sick
And tired of the meaninglessness
The irrationale he's desensitized,
His every need and emotion
A cup half empty,
But full of euphoria he's,
Searching for the light switch in the dark,
To switch his routine
To find a reason,
To find faith in piece of mind
When one to many beliefs die,
It's tough to see through these black eyes
Everyone forgives everyone forgets
Everyone is true
And no one here will lie to you
He knows the truth,
He knows the truth,
Here nothing's certain
Disregard what you've learned,
To find faith in piece of mind
All of their gods died with his peace,
I should know him that heathen?s me

You've got a think about being lame
You think you'll show us all your handicap is great
You've got a think about being lost
You think with our concern you'll find yourself
And you'll never be forgotten
Your family never wanted this one with all of her flaws
She's trailing far behind she's feeling incomplete
She has no will to win, listening, I live inside your room
And you punish me as though I punish you
Dumb, before it's done I am saint, will you tell me now
I never could relate to how you've been forgotten
Your family never wanted this one with all of her flaws
But I want to know was this deprivation of money or of love
[pre-chorus]
This is the last time you will be denied girl
You want that world that they took away
Go pick up the pieces find inner strength 'cause I can't save you
Find the life you left in a box the world, you said has cut you off
[chorus]
Bombs await you, bombs away
Now let them all fall down
You carry the burden, it fills you with regret, you never finished
That feeling incomplete, you carry their baggage, the guilt that holds you down
[repeat pre-chorus]
[repeat chorus]
Bombs away now 'cause life's been so hard and so long
That's why I'm writing you this song

You've got a think about being lame
You think you'll show us all your handicap is great
You've got a think about being lost
You think with our concern you'll find yourself
And you'll never be forgotten
Your family never wanted this one with all of her flaws
She's trailing far behind she's feeling incomplete
She has no will to win, listening, I live inside your room
And you punish me as though I punish you
Dumb, before it's done I am saint, will you tell me now
I never could relate to how you've been forgotten
Your family never wanted this one with all of her flaws
But I want to know was this deprivation of money or of love
[pre-chorus]
This is the last time you will be denied girl
You want that world that they took away
Go pick up the pieces find inner strength 'cause I can't save you
Find the life you left in a box the world, you said has cut you off
[chorus]
Bombs await you, bombs away
Now let them all fall down
You carry the burden, it fills you with regret, you never finished
That feeling incomplete, you carry their baggage, the guilt that holds you down
[repeat pre-chorus]
[repeat chorus]
Bombs away now 'cause life's been so hard and so long
That's why I'm writing you this song

I try to focus on what i hear listen to what i see i've
thought of it a lot and it's becoming all to clear
(chorus) i take it in excess as my true feelings are
suppressed i can not find the words to say it without
hurting not listening to what you say now watching
the things you do as you take a dose of grief as you
insist there's no relief perhaps another drink and
you take it in excess as your true feeling are
supressed you can not find the way to cure it
without hurting you cure it but it seems your


problem still remains obsession compulsion my
friend overdoing evertything so focus on what you
need listen to what you hear this is the last time i
listen it's becoming oh so clear i'm completely
confused here (repeat chorus) i've spoken all too
soon

forgive you
if that's what you want
d'you roll back and you're wasted
and I'm all torn up

I bury promise here
you would come back
once your feelings are
breaking for all that you were
when you found me
here and not there

no one here
can sing your song
just stand by the idiots and sing along



I bet you loved before
you were a flower on the wall
I built to block up the brakes
I used to need

no one there
can sing your song
just stand by the idiots and sing along

Hey, where did we go days when the rain came?
Down in the hollow, playin' a new game
Laughin' and a-runnin', hey, hey, skippin' and a-jumpin'
In the misty mornin' fog with our hearts a-thumpin' at you
The brown-eyed girl
You're my brown-eyed girl

Now, what ever happened? Tuesday is so slow
Goin' down the old man river with a transistor radio
Standin' in the sunlight laughin'
Hidin' behind a rainbow wall
Slippin' and a-slidin' all along the waterfall with you
The brown-eyed girl
You're my brown-eyed girl

Do you remember when, ah, we used to sing?
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
La dee dah

So hard to find my way now that I'm all on my own
I saw you just the other day; my, how you had grown
Sometimes overcome thinkin' 'bout
Makin' love in the green grass, behind the stadium with you
The brown-eyed girl
You, my brown-eyed girl

Do you remember when, ah, we used to sing?
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
La dee dah

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

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

burn those bridges to the ground, ground, ground,
without a sound we just blew up hard to be a ?desert? to this is our heart,
this is their truth someone told you live is short but short's just long
no need for validation short
you never needed song you without harmony
you gave them underwelming for change
lives worth ending in a flat low gesture
passionate to some is not enough
a ?calatter? to the lounge ???
you make them proud to crush you see
if they like watching you burn just like the bridge
you wandered first so burn those bridges to the ground


without a care you know you not leave
before they're here (there)
ain't left addicted to the sound of insufficient
only recognized before you compromised

I can't recall the hurting words that I once said
So long ago, still indignation clouds your head
And it's enough to know the pain of losing friends
You perpetuate certain senseless hate
and I can picture you today as you say
"I used to know that guy"
And as you speak they watch your face split into
two
And when you see me
it's always hey Joe,
how is it goin' bro?
where have you been man?
We used to be such good friends
Two-faced you don't care
You know what you can do with it
I can't pretend
and you just want a war man
and there you go again
You ought to bury the hatchet
and leave behind all the lies
and your disguise
You know that I just want to


bury the hatchet
How much more will you permit?
Think about it you'll admit
you a
Am I really that bad?
Sometimes I second guess
Often times I wonder why my head is such a mess
But put yourself in my shoes and picture if you can
All these insecurities create that bitter sad man you
see
hurting
Not me
I forgive, I forget
I won't say the things that I'll regret
Not this time
I will stop, but just between you and me
it's a loss
Hypocrite
Don't give me that shit

Here comes the day I see my friends far away,
When I grow up inside what will happen to me?
The city sights the business types,
I can see but where are you?
Bye for now.
Didn't mean to let you down,
Didn't mean to drive you away.
Bye for now!
Now that your not around,
So many things I'd like to say!
See here I think I've found the missing link,
The piece that holds us together.
If I had my way I'd here you say that it's OK,
Friendship should last for ever.
Bye for now.


Didn't mean to let you down,
Didn't mean to drive you away.
Bye for now!
Now that you're not around,
So many things I'd like to say!
Didn't mean to let you down.
Didn't mean to let you down.
Didn't mean to let you down.
Didn't mean to let you down.
Didn't mean to let you down.
Never meant to let you down.
Didn't mean to let you down.

Everything that i've done here into one in keeping with...
Some earned conviction, some stagnation,
Some change despair
Disappointment and odds
In a costume you can't take off
I leave it behind. I know that this time i get in for free

Our latest rendition lame
Reincarnate, return the same
Still the best times are her now.
Now that I'm bored, now that I'm numb
Done, I know this is wrong
Safe in that stance but incomplete


Leave it behind. I know that this time i get in for free.

Some of it's habitual
sometimes the change is not enough
And in the lost empathy
memories of better days

Too many hangars in the closet
A clutter of confusion
Too little rectitude to hold
a moral absolute
Too much distinction to relate to them
Irresolutions we contemplate with no end
In this world of give and take
And what we refer to as maturity
from emotional need to technology
has you, a cultured seed of your society,
lacking ability to feel clemency
I'm surprized we still
bleed into the abyss of despair
that's hiding the child
Compassion you would not dare
admit to have experienced


Do you regret looking back?
A penitent confessing his sins
The child inside of me recalls a time of purity,
an outlook of release
You remember
Confident that you were able
A future laid out on your table
Running through memories
a child is free
The world restored you see
I see
The child inside of me

Choke choke pride
Still I could only wait for you to decide
Tear it all apart
You break my heart
Why don't you follow through
Follow through
And the day ends
A so called friend
A drunken bed
How could you with...
Why would you...
All of them
No one owns you
Just keep me hanging here
Tell me you need me dear
Tell me you're sure I souldn't fear
Lies Lies Lies
Choke Choke Please
Have another drink on me
My love humiliation
I gave you every chance to leave
and you stayed just long enough


to bury me
As I understand wath no one can see
I stop
And all these words seem selfish
and anger you
And none of it is true
But all of them confess until I choke...
I tough I knew a true love
I used to think you really cared
I used to think I knew True Innocence
I though that you were that
I know you to well when you lie
I hope you choke on them
and see for me
For me
And all these words seem selfish and
anger you
And you were always true
Am I the only want that hears you lie?

Well, the monkeys in the trees are happy
The coconuts are turning green
The coconut boy climbs up to the top of the tree

Gathered a nice ripe coconut
Put 'em in a coconut sack
He climbs right down with the coconuts on his backpack

And the wind blows through the coconut trees
The monkeys, they hang on tight
The cuckoo bird sings at the 'Huc'alaa hula' tonight

When the wind blows through the coconut trees
The monkeys, they hang on tight
The cuckoo bird sings at the 'Huc'alaa hula' tonight

I'm getting used to getting old but where's my ambition - Days of
omission
I feel broken down inside because my words seem to be trite adding
to the overwhelming
Always a question of truth your truths question my efficiency
Shocking - The words you can't hear
Impact - The words I can't write


Recycled words don't justify...
none of these words suffice searching for the sharp words
to drive the message in I put the last words down then I begin
to question the truth

I'm getting used to getting old but where's my ambition - Days of
omission
I feel broken down inside because my words seem to be trite adding
to the overwhelming
Always a question of truth your truths question my efficiency
Shocking - The words you can't hear
Impact - The words I can't write


Recycled words don't justify...
none of these words suffice searching for the sharp words
to drive the message in I put the last words down then I begin
to question the truth

By now you should find your mouth
By now you should call me
We can work it out
By now you should be in a better place
And thinking for your self
It's not your axe to grind

I fallow it until the end of concession
"a falling out" I heard from them
There's no discretion
I'm burning out on this
And this is my latest confession
I hope you hear about it

Victims I know the saints come to call
And bring you obsession
To save you from your fall
Victim I know it wont be long
'Til one worth possessing
Is one you'll never reach

Swallow it until the end
Of our concession
I'm sure I'll hear from you
Through them

There's no discretion
I'm burning out on this
And this is my latest confession
I doubt you'll hear about it

I fallow it until the end of concession
"A falling out" I heard from them
There's no discretion
It's only indecision

This is your latest condition
I hope you hear about it soon

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

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

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

i don't wanna defeat you i don't wanna be sad
i don't wanna forgive you i don't wanna be mad
'cause it's always say what you wanted to say
as you're walking away and i can't take this disappointment again
and i'm waiting... i don't wanna be near you
i don't wanna be far i don't wanna forgive you
but i wanted to start
'cause it's always say what you wanted to say
as you're walking away
and i can't take this silent treatment again
and i'm waiting, and i'm waiting...
for you i don't wanna defeat you


i don't wanna be mad i don't wanna forgive
you i don't wanna be sad
yes it's always say what you wanted to say
as you're walking away
and i can't take this silent treatment again
and i'm waiting, and i'm waiting... for you for you

let me get this straight your buddy died,
tuesday, right? but today is saturday
and i saw him last night no,
i wasn't seeing things and i wasn't drunk
i can't believe you just laughed,
that's fucked some you call your friends
show no remorse in the end they laugh at you,
when are you spent so often the rumors
too little to take but a lot more in time demented rumors
and everything's changed demented rumors the lies of the friends,
so i went calling for the end i'm feeling tied,
i can't hide i'm suffering the one,
why oh why did he died all the dismay,
chance of a live demented rumors and
everything's changed demented rumors


i stayed up last night for a friend i thought
i'd never see again because you called me up
and said he's dead how can you speak
before you think about what you're saying
how can you say these things?
you say it's your sense of humor ??
whose gonna laugh when you're gone?
whose gonna cry when you're gone? whose gonna cry...

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

i met her in transit on board time
i was abducted for a short time the door was open
but she fit inside she left me out here to justify
and pain is here now in some form of goodbye
but you died, yes you died i knew your secret
i'm stuck in time i met you in transit with five other ghosts
you ran me over reckless
but true emptied by oceans
my eye's a desert of dry expecting
you to drive by i want to see you
i want to see you to tell you i'm sorry


and pain is here now in some form of goodbye
i've been expecting you
i've been expecting i met her in transit
on her way home she left us out here
i wanna know she made it back to them

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

wait for us we come content in the back of the bus
guilty of the time you spend serving
there's someone left to give you up
but you're not laboring the thought of something incomplete
no one lives exception to this passing grief
unstable in your voice agrees pleading to me
you can't lie to me honestly to me
i will eat your words every tenth you got
just numb there's always someone here for more
i always listen to, act sense wasting time
while time is wasting you


and i never left i just shut up still
i can hear it from your mouth counting seconds
with a grain of hope unto thirst julie
you will eat your words and your verbs and you will fast disappear

things don't seem to be as easy as they used to be
it's getting harder everyday
to think of better things to sayabout what's going on around you and
what's happening inside youwhen it's time to change you won't know howit won't matter years from now no matter what you think or do or say
everything turns grey
this is it, the darkest hour
isn't it depressing how our
minds create an atmosphere


that won't happen here unless we make some
new demands to grasp the future in our hands
you know i wish i could but it's too late
for senseless minds that love to hate no matter what they think
or do or say everything turns grey

Pick up please
The boys give you validity
They give you what you want
They can never give enough
Only charity until
You're sorry

Victimized, one thing I can't criticize
Given you struggle
Could you ever be alone?
Seems impossible and still
I'm sorry
I'm sorry

Saint freedom,
It's so easy when you give up
No matter what I've done
I could never be the one
It's never effortless to fail
I can rely on this

Could you ever rely on me

Jealousy, the boys give you validity
No matter what I've done
I could never be the one
Just a shareholder of lies
I put you to bed
They will always leave independent of you
We will always leave independent of you
You could never deny

I always knew
How to fail you
I always knew
How to fail you
I always knew
How to fail you
I always knew you

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

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

Realizing it's too late
Destiny turns ot fate
Realizing it's too late now
(Repeat)
Now you say it's over
and the monkey's off your back
All it took was valium
and a couple of six packs
So once again you've lied
and your story remains the same


Because misery loves company
and you're the one to blame
It's Your life
and it's always the same
It's your lie
and it's always the same to me

a victim of collision on the open sea nobody ever said,
life's for free sink, swim,
go down with the ship use your freedom of choice
i'll say it again, in the land of the free
use your freedom of choice your freedom of choice
in ancient rome
there was a poem
about a dog
who had two bones
he licked the one
he licked the other
he ran in circles
he's not dead! freedom of choice
is what you've got freedom of choice
then if you got you don't want
it seems to be the rule of thumb
don't be tricked by what you see
you got two ways to go
i'll say it again, in the land of the free use


your freedom of choice your freedom of choice
freedom of choice is what you've got freedom of choice
in ancient rome
there was a poem
about a dog
who had two bones
he licked the one
he licked the other
he ran in circles
he's not dead! freedom of choice
is what you've got freedom from choice
is what you want freedom of choice
is what you've got freedom of choice

Trying to ignore him
Trying to have self control
When that tongue slips just once
It's in his eyes

Thank you...

Silence by energy
Push me down
And the likes to come again
Here to make you listen to them
Treated to many times
The eye for eye has left us blind
This creature of demise
Repaid all the time

You hate them
You hate yourself
Take it out on someone else

I feel a change within myself
I used to be out of control
I always knew anger and pain
That inspiration was a game
But now it seems as I grow old
As I mature I'm lesser bold

I can't believe how cruel and cold some people act
I give it back

Cause I don't want it and I don't need it
So I give it back
Cause I don't want it and I don't need it

Don't want to understand the child abuse, the past gone violence
Don't justify his violent nature

Soon or later I hope he meets his maker once again
And like his father before him he kills himself

Cause I don't want it and I don't need it
So I give it back
Cause I don't want it and I don't need it

You hate them
You hate yourself
Take it out on someone else

Trying to ignore him
Trying to have self control
When that tongue slips just once
It's in his eyes

Thank you...

Silence by energy
Push me down
And the likes to come again
Here to make you listen to them
Treated to many times
The eye for eye has left us blind
This creature of demise
Repaid all the time

You hate them
You hate yourself
Take it out on someone else

I feel a change within myself
I used to be out of control
I always knew anger and pain
That inspiration was a game
But now it seems as I grow old
As I mature I'm lesser bold

I can't believe how cruel and cold some people act
I give it back

Cause I don't want it and I don't need it
So I give it back
Cause I don't want it and I don't need it

Don't want to understand the child abuse, the past gone violence
Don't justify his violent nature

Soon or later I hope he meets his maker once again
And like his father before him he kills himself

Cause I don't want it and I don't need it
So I give it back
Cause I don't want it and I don't need it

You hate them
You hate yourself
Take it out on someone else

"Goin' South" by lagwagon

Gotta drive all night if not a go
Got to designate a driver before the show
It's your turn now at the wheel
There's nothing like a guard rail
To wake you up in the middle of the night

And we are drivin' north, goin' south
It looks like we'll sleep here
We're out of beer
We're headed south on the north bound
Our wheels might as well be square
Cause we're not really getting anywhere
Tire tracks throughout, felt the brakin'
I don't think we're gonna make it
Drivin' around, goin' down
It looks like we'll sleep here,
I need a beer

South, goin' south, check us out we're goin' south
South, headed south, check it out, we're goin' down
South, goin' south

You jump in front of the bullet
The family put you to it
You might survive the first thousand shots
Back to the end of the line

You hold the will to survive them
Answer to those you have failed
Time to clean your room and show you are able to stop
Beating yourself down
You've arrived

A wealth of respect, a world of a regard
You've always belonged
You have to go on
I just want you to feel the gun in your hand

You used to hold aspiration
You couldn't see the limitations
Even in your youth you were unsurpassed
But driven by grief and it couldn't last

Sometimes promise
Sometimes goodbye
Confessed to all through bloodshot eyes
I just want you to feel the gun in your hand yeah



It only breaks you until you get off
I'm not gonna watch you kill yourself to live
It's all so average until you get off
I'm not gonna wait here until the body's cold

I was young too I felt just like you
Hated authority, hated all my bosses
Thought they were full of shit
Well it's like they say:
If you're not a rebel at the age of twenty,
You got no heart
But if you haven't turned establishment by thirty,
You got no brains
Because there are no storybook romances
No... fairy tale endings
so before you run out to change the world,
(I just want you to feel the gun in your hand)
Ask yourself:
What do you really want?

I've already come to terms
with bridges I have burned
We all make mistakes

We keep preparing for the worst
So we won't seem adverse
Just like we rehearsed

Click, two, three
heartbreaking music
So close to loss we use it

How much honesty's healthy
Say what's on your mind
The only way to be

Drugs are only for dessert
do your homework first
We do not administer the cure for that thirst

Cause it's always been heartbreaking music
so close to death we use it
(killing)

writing this over and over
it'll never mend

I am the jest malignant cell
playwright to your hell
I think I knew you well

But I wish I were as smart as you
I could have changed your mind
Would have, should have, the question 'til I die

But it's always been heartbreaking music
so close to life we abuse it
(killing)

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

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

One summer morning
He left us ashamed
In some small town of small ways
The one they feared
They might turn to stone
They feared to hold his hand
And he died alone
Don't leave them on - an island of shame
Your solution
You - homophobic
You - coward


You send them away to an island of misery
You're not immune to any disease
I can not argue when the truth is plain to see
In your beliefs, your fear of death
I see reflections of society
We'll take our last breath - alone
Adding insult to injuries - He was alone

One summer morning
He left us ashamed
In some small town of small ways
The one they feared
They might turn to stone
They feared to hold his hand
And he died alone
Don't leave them on - an island of shame
Your solution
You - homophobic
You - coward


You send them away to an island of misery
You're not immune to any disease
I can not argue when the truth is plain to see
In your beliefs, your fear of death
I see reflections of society
We'll take our last breath - alone
Adding insult to injuries - He was alone

I used to be a trustworthy guy
I could have bend down my friend
But no one seems to care
Life, it's all just filthy air, right?
But do they giving you anything?
When there is nothing give
But your people kept thinking
They could have mine if you'd like to do, live to all in my life totally jaded
It's all that cool and it doesn't beat
I walk alone with psychic people that I hated
No, I have to dole my jaded ways when there's on more
So you're gonna do her
Before she's gonna do him
Your one demand is to get fucked
And I'll be playing with violence
This act is a whip

And where I would walk for someone else
Just keep time, all our live's getting murdered, in my life so totally jaded
It's all that cool and it doesn't beat
I walk alone with psychic people that I hated
Oh, I have to dole my jaded ways when there's on more

Your life will not last



But can I keep this life in junction, never talked with people that life would
die
I need quiet chatter with the way too damned, I just don't have the time
The time gets short, it's not in your butt but my nature, is there something
wrong with me?
And now I know you're the one to play, you laughed out of your stupid hate
Here

Why he can't wait, people leave this things
They love their vices and virtue
And she's afraid of much other chicks
And so they give her that piece of shit
I get the dynamo fraction
So give me just your fucking sleeves
But it will all come back at you
I hope that I'm around to see you live your life totally jaded
It's all just cool, you have no fear
You walk alone, just microdont shit, you are jaded
I have to dole with stupid clones or weathered shit, you dated hard

i remember well holding him down
silent under due his torture tortures me now
pounding the mold forth the outside space why did they put jimmy johnson in a prison,
didn't belong in some new school
he might find others just like him
obviously he's retarded (look at your kids)
look at what they see
focus on an easy target
torment the freak one golden rule children are cruel
no one here's more jimmy johnson
but where the kids are rotten
jimmy make us proud


jimmy johnson our brother and only son
so sorry please forgive us
for all that we done
we thought it would be best for you
if you could coexist
we had to put you to the test

And now you're searching
For that new messiah
It's your greatest passion,
To set'em up and knock'em down
Put them on a pedestal idolatry,
Wear the ring you're married
It's all yours to their envy,
Because you hold a higher key of senses
And they are drawn like magnets,
To a genius, it's confirmed

Chorus
Set'em up and knock'em down,
Tour taste is so accountable
This is no great loss,
And sharing never was a choice
It's burning on your cross,
It gives you credit and a voice

Here to relay tour beautiful ideals
Vicaruiously through them
And when he died too many were sympathetic,
And they are all pathetic
So you dethrone your king,
Without listening, without ever listening
And Jesus Christ is realized,
As he burns on your cross
But this is no great loss,
Another one will come
The wait is short the search is brief,
You find another faith,
Another Clark Kent, another Superman,
Flashing in the pan

[repeat chorus]

And now you are searching
For that new messiah
It's your greatest passion,
It's the latest fashion

Look at the world in disbelief
You used to follow - now you lead
College has enlightened you
And you are proud to be different
And like different bands - different types
You ain't nobody's fool
It's like certain bands remind you of someone you hated
'Cause they didn't wear the right clothing
And there's only one true fashion
Alot of the bands on the college charts are great bands
Until they get signed. Then you hate them
It's such bullshit - you used to love them you hypocrite
Know it all, know it all
Did you really listen to that song?
Could you ever write what you call wrong?
I remember you and I listening to bands that we liked
Only the songs mattered to you
But now you're a D.J. and preaching that hype
""Corporate Rock Sucks""
""You know, college radio enlightens you""
It's supposed to serve as a means to expose new bands
Without prejudice, but it makes no sense
Safe harbor for the underground
'Til the alternative becomes the popular sound
The bands are good 'til they make enough cash
To eat food and get a pad
Then they're sold out and their music is cliché
Because talent's exclusive to bands without pay
Know it all, know it all
Did you really listen to that song?
Could you ever write what you call wrong?
Know it all

I just lost my job
I just lost my girl
Things are getting way out of hand
But my living room is like quicksand
Sucks me down
I'll never leave
In the ground
My cable TV
I'm burnt out and lazy
Looking, Dwelling, Fuck me!
I'm lazy
Look at my cat
Why can't I live like that
All other animals except us
do nothing else but eat and shit
Yesterday
Is not the time
Tomorrow
Hasn't yet begun
Another week
Another Month
Going, Always, Fuck you


I'm lazy
I have no faults to fear, I'm down here
There's nothing to fear, no changes
'Cause having it all means nothing
I am not in beyond great pressure or the reason I see on you
Blue day again
Trying to reach end
A call, the machine, unseen action
No act of faith
No deed of good
Yesterday
Is not the time
Tomorrow
Is it not yet here
Another month
Another year!

So please leave the light on after you've gone
Leave the pictures in their aging frames where they belong
Leave the bed sheets unclean, and they will reek of you still
Cover me in resolve

So please leave the imagery
I can twist it
Dissociation and obsession
Superstition and pain
I can carry them on too,
Bury you once again

If I could bring this memory to life
[I'd apologize]
I'd live to make you say what they can't
[I would make amends]
They'd all love to have you back but...
I'd give anything to bring you back to say goodbye



"hey steve, I think your singing was a little flat that time"

"Barry , why don't you play an 'A' for steve, You Got That Steve? "

"fuck this shit"

"what's gone into him?"

"he can't take criticism"

"well great, there goes the band"

I'm kinda down about it
I'm kinda sick about this feeling
Talking brings it up

And I'm kinda short on feelings
And I kinda got the feeling that I'm losing everyone

Could this be all? Could it linger any more?
What an endless fall; there's no use to call it off.

So I'm rolling down the stairwell
And I'm giving in; these thoughts sound angry
Talking brings it up

So now I'm down about it
I'm kinda sick about this feeling
Drinking brings it up

And I don't even know why I shouted out
I'm the one who's being left out--


Again.

I'm kinda down about it
I'm kinda sick about this feeling
Talking brings it up

Could this be all? Could it linger any more?
In an endless fall, there's no use to call it off
And I don't even know why I try it at all
I'm the one who's being left out
Yeah, I don't even know why I try it at all
I'm the one who's being left out
I'm the one who's living with it all.

Maybe it's not funny but it's true
No one here's surprised but you
Embellish it, the truth is you're a slave
Addicted to it's escalating
And your love story's bad
Drama makes you livid
And the nervous way you laugh
I'm fresh out of advice
And sick of standing in this harms way
Interstate, in debate, an impasse
Driving out of hope and gas
Arriving at the same mute conclusion
This destination failure
This is going, going
Nowhere slow
Drama is exhausting and I'd rather be alone


I want better friends
I'm sick of getting into harms way
And so are they
Sick of being around something
That's destined to fail
And the sum of it's parts cannot see
They make me hat life, hate friends,
Hate being there
Iknow, that it's not funny but it's true
No one gives a shit but you
Maybe I'll just swallow all these thoughts
Maybe someday you'll stop

Waging war on the arms race of sound turn it down pull the plug imminent surrender ringing in the new dark age shut down the noise-aholics put down the quiet-ophobics in a daydream of peace in a calmness too brief my lullaby is killing my lullaby be stilling it could be such sweet silence from static from violence from... volume is the modern currency everyone competing for air space everybody's dumb shouting muddled words as though they're deaf big brother isn't watching anymore he knows we are distracted and absorbed broadcasting our grief our imagination's atrophied we can't think if I could sing them all to sleep if I could sing myself deaf wouldn't it be lovely? doesn't it sound perfect? every generation hates the next I will save the millions from a slow insufferable death I'll put them to sleep save them from progressive misery I'm counting if I could sing myself to sleep if I could sing myself deaf wouldn't it be lovely? doesn't it sound perfect? my lullaby is killing my lullaby be stilling memorized. involuntary I think I can change the world

As you in this search for something to hate
I can feel you rally around someone
with your peers
but can you stand alone
Can you take the long way home
Cause I stood in the circle
a hundred times before
and I feel safer in the eye of a storm
You can throw your stones
I'll only bleed for you one day
They all answer to the hearsay
but they will only care for one day
It's so small and I would love
to show you all
I can see you in the middle of a doubt
You told them we had a falling out


Sick your dogs on me
as you take the easy way out
So I will be a freak show
when the circus comes to town
and I will rain on your parade
without a sound
Then we will draw a crowd
that's only breaking down for one day
I graduate this calss with honors
I will never fail drama
Making Friends
Will you still hate me tomorrow?

As you in this search for something to hate
I can feel you rally around someone
with your peers
but can you stand alone
Can you take the long way home
Cause I stood in the circle
a hundred times before
and I feel safer in the eye of a storm
You can throw your stones
I'll only bleed for you one day
They all answer to the hearsay
but they will only care for one day
It's so small and I would love
to show you all
I can see you in the middle of a doubt
You told them we had a falling out


Sick your dogs on me
as you take the easy way out
So I will be a freak show
when the circus comes to town
and I will rain on your parade
without a sound
Then we will draw a crowd
that's only breaking down for one day
I graduate this calss with honors
I will never fail drama
Making Friends
Will you still hate me tomorrow?

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

No more waiting on them
As you rise inside new rooms
It's offical you've gone
You can live for no one else
Man the guilt must be huge
As there's no gain in failure
You succeed at being mine

Yeah, old friend, see you there
I will be proud from afar
I can paint a picture
In a moment of memories
And there aren't many left
I am extradited, uninvited



It's just another saturday
It's just another saturday

Take a step to freedom
You and her against this cruel world
Take a breath of shelter and exhale
Trust and allegiance
Liberate yourself from us
It's just another saturday

Late, I can stay up late
In and out of bed
Cleaning up the mess
Trying to be honest
Cause I know I am on it
In this, the last time I speak of it
The loyalties that have been broken
Mine isn't dead
One thing is true
Nothing is scred
When everyone's talking
and nobody's listening
When we confide in all those friends


They're just messangers
One thing is true
You throw the matters into blue skies
Turning to grey
Falling out every day
One thing that's free
I confide in you with the truth
Late, I can stay up late
In and out of bed
Cleaning up the mess inside my head

Late, I can stay up late
In and out of bed
Cleaning up the mess
Trying to be honest
Cause I know I am on it
In this, the last time I speak of it
The loyalties that have been broken
Mine isn't dead
One thing is true
Nothing is scred
When everyone's talking
and nobody's listening
When we confide in all those friends


They're just messangers
One thing is true
You throw the matters into blue skies
Turning to grey
Falling out every day
One thing that's free
I confide in you with the truth
Late, I can stay up late
In and out of bed
Cleaning up the mess inside my head

The story it grows older the story is no story here i
never knew what it is and there's no sign of it ending
as i am it and ought to be they're telling me i am
(chorus) bowling race car driver superficial hitman
you're on the list at every door you don't bowl or
race fast cars composition competition you drive
just because i don't go to the church where you
reside i might as well go for it the nineties won't be
back again until i'm forty-eight years old i can be
the hungry as i eat my words again appealing yet
apalling rising to my falling going to extreme ends i
am gagging on their scene (repeat chorus) you shift


i'm the driver over time in it's defense i move their
car and for a moment it makes sense i fail them in the
end i fail it in the end in the arms of old age knowing
only one to lose feeling nothing more to hide
consider life a forgery as you're gagging on your
scene admit to fraudulence driven to this thought
death is certain faith is not (repeat chorus)
composition competition you drive competition
competition i'm losing i fail it in the end

Nothign has broken
MR. Coffee has spoken
The familiar wake-up call
sings to my ears
I wake up with a shrug
To the floor with a thud
Where in this hellhole is my coffee mug?
I can now face the day
on legal speed (The American way)
I'm sketching
I'm seizing
I'm spazing
I'm shaking


I can not stop spilling on my brand new shirt
I-I-I'm wored
I'm so inspired
I drank the entire pot
so off to work
Here I come to save the day
on legal speed (The American way)
Drinking coffee
I drink coffee
Drinking coffee everyday

Crysti can't take all the pressure
Kevin hates the girls
He dates
Mia says she's gonna snap
I need a new car to drive away
Derek beats up all his girlfriends
Jessie likes to comb his hair
Hanacek is on the wagon
I tried not to speak today
Chorus:
You slip and fall
They pick you up and throw you down again
I left them there and found them here
I was rarely smart enough to dodge the careless words
You find them everywhere
It breaks you into two


Emily had sex with Joey
Chris is weird
He must be gay
Everyone is smoking H
And I tried hard to laugh today
Every word you hear you repeat
Every word you repeat you change
Here's a quarter
There's a phone
Why don't you call someone who cares
Repeat chorus
I left them there and found them here
It breakes me into two

i want to mute the scene
stop the clocks, turn them off
and feel your silence
shut their mouths, block my ears
and i wanna hear
of some way or down and out
and all else is separation
my watches when you heave
for the last
in a conscious moment
i could live in uncertain regret
here in the past
my choose blanks memories and more
you clearly made me think that i had something to live for
buried in the dirt
so I will dig and pull the fleet


for once I believe
and may you pray for me
our worlds ran parallel
an indefinite promise to meet
divided
and a colored frustration
as i enter the vault you breach
unsubsided
hit firm

I'm all right tell me you're all right almost there barely here I knew that this day would have to come wailing on the wall watching giants fall I know there's a message to receive written in debris it's meaning's hard to see the loss of innocence means nothing in the new world all our hands are red everyone is guilty now I'm all right... tell me you're all right stop my eyes ... open wide another idiot glued to the box frozen to the screen scared to turn it off quiet shock gives way to righteousness rattle on the bars vengeance will be ours fanatics on their knees pray for a swift and just revenge become what they condemn mirror image men hands across america, let's catch contact hysteria our flag erects from broken homes july 4 for evermore colors of democracy fly from every suv the misspelled bumper sticker's here where did all the honor students go? numbers on the news this time with familiar names this time on familiar ground this reality in your back yard so the fences fall will you redefine them all? will you choose shelter or empathy? the world we share has come too close with borders blown from glass we collect stones and cast them they say the party never stops but I know we cannot get off another idiot comes on the box breathing privileged air preaching to the fair rallying one muscle under God leading on the cheer leaning on their fears the state of ignorance means nothing to the faithful God is with us now they disregard the world beyond the wall

I'm all right tell me you're all right almost there barely here I knew that this day would have to come wailing on the wall watching giants fall I know there's a message to receive written in debris it's meaning's hard to see the loss of innocence means nothing in the new world all our hands are red everyone is guilty now I'm all right... tell me you're all right stop my eyes ... open wide another idiot glued to the box frozen to the screen scared to turn it off quiet shock gives way to righteousness rattle on the bars vengeance will be ours fanatics on their knees pray for a swift and just revenge become what they condemn mirror image men hands across america, let's catch contact hysteria our flag erects from broken homes july 4 for evermore colors of democracy fly from every suv the misspelled bumper sticker's here where did all the honor students go? numbers on the news this time with familiar names this time on familiar ground this reality in your back yard so the fences fall will you redefine them all? will you choose shelter or empathy? the world we share has come too close with borders blown from glass we collect stones and cast them they say the party never stops but I know we cannot get off another idiot comes on the box breathing privileged air preaching to the fair rallying one muscle under God leading on the cheer leaning on their fears the state of ignorance means nothing to the faithful God is with us now they disregard the world beyond the wall

Not elected, no evade, no constituency, no regard from government, no more
sense for charity, I don't want suck democracy, want to keep my dignity, my
eyes see the reality, nothing just insanity, you're life is lake an irony, we
venture, strike reality, media will always keep you, raiding you up
Strong believes
Without a doubt, you can not figure out what life is all about and are trapped
to feel

Two more watt where you keep fighting, you're empty inside, life, life, life,
life, for me it's electrifying, I'm totally stoned, singing and ringing up till
we are dead cause you're life is like an irony, we venture, strike reality,
media will always keep you, raiding you up

Strong believes
Without a doubt, yeah, strong believes without a doubt, how can you, how can
you, how can you


Have strong believes without a doubt, have strong believes without a doubt, how
can you, you can even think that life counts?

Not elected, no evade, no constituency, no regard from government, no more
sense for charity, I don't want suck democracy, no way, it's just dignity, my
eyes see the real world, nothing just insanity, my life is lake an irony, we
venture, strike reality, media will always keep you, raiding you up

Life

Labors of commitment
Blood of his arms
A growing sense of duty
But in his song he's screaming out
Insuficient - he just falls further

Behind Principles, purpose, tradition, time
Weigh heavy on this guilty
Mind Wits astray
Blind in rage, awar he'll wage on grieving

Another no one hanging from the ceiling
Because only the extreme makes an impression
When drowning in the mainstream
One at the mercy of another's faith finally answers to no one in his fall from grace

They say they love him but how could they ever
Miles above him they ask for repent
It doesn't matter what you want from me
Don't think there's worth in my apology

Because people never really change
You and I will always be the same and it's a problem that we can't mend
Because it happened once it will happen again
Because they plant their seeds of condition

Until we have no choice, we lose conviction wits astray
Blind in rage a war he'll wage on grieving
Another no one blows his head off
Because only the extreme makes an impression

When drowning in the mainstream no one

Girl, it's been a long time that we've been apart
Much too long for a man that needs love
I miss you since I've been away babe,
It wasn't easy to leave you alone it's been harder now

That I'm gone if I had a choice
I would stay there's no one like you
I can't wait for the nights with you
I imagine the things we do

I just want to be loved by you no one like you
I can't wait for the nights with you
I imagine the things we do
I just want to be loved by you girl,

Yeah I really know where it's strong
Or not I've been wanting that 12 year old love
I don't want my feelings restrained oh babe,
I just need you like never before

I've been watching you since you were four
I'll take all my sorrow away killer pussy
I can't wait for the nights with you
I imagine the things we do

I just want to be loved by you no one like you
I can't wait for the nights with you
I imagine the things we do
I just want to be loved by you there's no one like you

I can't wait for the nights with you
I imagine the things we do
I just want to be loved by you no one like you
I can't wait for the nights with you

I imagine the things we do
I just want to be loved by you

He grew up with nothing
He lived and died poor
a father of four
He left his family temporarily
for a future based on words of chicanery
They said join the Army
Join the Navy
He joined the Marines
and his children were proud
but exhaltation was exhausted
and patronage died
when this expendable number
left his family of five
Imposture
and all that man wanted was
to provide a better existence for
his kids and wife
An investment that cost him his life
A family of ethics has...
A fatality of war can't be noble enough
to justify the loss of life so young


Continental security
Atonement, there's no such thing
There was no hero in the end
Only letters of resent, remorse, regret
Bitter resent
Imposture
and all those boys wanted was
to be alive,
a return of existence yet
so many died
and those who returned were alone
with nothing awaiting at home
Again the headlines read
"A Noble Soldier Finds A Noble Ending"
They are the ones who can be done without
Expendable numbers forgott
no doubt
A family of ethics has died

They spoke bravely
It opened our eyes
We swallowed their pride
A new era
So whee is the new advise
It seems the older methods no longer suffice
The very oldeest if thoughts
cast into the mold of these new times
Vindictive, he raises his fist
The animal is instinctive
Everyone desires peace
but indread of war,
still arms increase
Perpetual with only one end


When that savage nature destroys them all
All is written
All is forgiven
All is lived again
After all, this worthless progress
is progress made for change
After all these vain advances
does that concerned animal value his life?
Cornered
Human nature alive

Scaling the mountain, I have given up my pride
and I'm clinging to this rocky edge, a rose thorn in my side
It's fabled contradiction,
it's bitter sweet and blind
And I'm balancing the mountain
of compromise

I went over the hill to be with you
I went over the hill
I am over the hill to be with you
Am I holding on to lies or holding onto life?

Standing in position objectivity goes by
'cause it's hard to ignore losing when you're winning all the time
and the weight of this too heavy,
the ceiling far too low
This commitment is restraining


and I can't grow

I went over the hill,
over the hill
I am over the hill to be with you
Am I holding on to life or holding onto lies?

In retrospect in your absence my disposition's gone
as I close my eyes to search for treasure in what I once lost
I let go of the noose and breath again
I am falling from the game and mending a foot (?)

Uncertainty
A foundation built on nothing I could see
Secure in your immaculate perception
The last resort I ever thought I'd exercise
Now, all that I have to stand on
Grieving from a different point of view
I learned it's meaning from you
In life and death
And continue

...But faith is just a
Silent tribute
Mine is just a desperate act
Give him back

I owe him
Throw me a line, I'll suspend
My disbelief


And concede
Following your lead
Faithfully
I'm Led into this concession with hope and doubt
A seemingly futile gesture

Faith is just a silent tribute
Mine is just a desperate act
Holding on

It's just this desperation that
Takes me home