Good Riddance

Outlived a wasted life
Too soon to say goodbye
One plot to call your own
Now it's our turn to cry

I've been through this before
These things are hard to take
Was it too much to live for
Once choice you felt you had to make

And I've pissed my time away
Through countless life long wasted days
Why are all the simple things so lost in sorrow
And my perspective so unclear

Life's cold and thick with lies
Seen through the blue black eyes
We squander as we smile


Things which once appeared worthwhile

How views on life distort
When we see a life cut short
No cause to calculate
Absentia renders no debate

Through pain I've grown to learn
Just as long as life still burns
Won't sit around and wait
Until I burn down heavens gates I know

An infant reared on hatred never learns
to hold diversity inviolate
While so-called maralists
proclaim they've got the test
To monitor the ways our love's expressed

So just think it through
Hatred is the stillborn child
of ignorance and boredom
Such a narrow view
Means seeds of tolerance are sown
by those who can't afford them
What wiil you do?
It's not too late for you to change
your xenophobic point of view

Now your pontifications leave us
draped in disbelief
Why should we suffer for
the fear that's undearneath
If we could learn to cherish what sets us apart
Keep love instead of fear within our hearts



So just think it through
Hatred is the stillborn child
of ignorance and boredom
Such a narrow view
Means seeds of tolerance are sown
by those who can't afford them
What wiil you do?
It's not too late for you to change
your xenophobic point of view

Big fucking man contestant in a freak show
So quick to terrorize someone
you hardly know
Don't see the pain when will you realize
That love is never wrong
just learn to empathize

Once lost we will never find our way
Shutting down we??짝??????짰e devoid of things to say
Prospects are growing worse with every hour
With no voice it seems we??짝??????쨀e got no power

Overcome by headlines
We believe what isn??짝??????째 true
You??짝??????쨀e got no empathy for anyone but you
Our moral contradictions
And subjective, hollow tomes
Perpetuate the fear asphyxiating us at home so

Seems like there??짝??????짱 no place left to hide
From the cold, amorphous dread
That we all feel inside
Actions might dictate who survives
The hopelessness which punctuates
Our empty lives

Could there be something
I need a reason
Could there be anything at all

Systems of technology which once kept us
Informed
Now endeavor to perpetuate the norm


Privatization of concentrated wealth
While millions still suffer
In dilapidated health so

Who cares to calculate
What indigence will cost
How will we replicated urbanity that??짝??????짱 lost
The curtain falls on the ultimate disgrace
We hunger for equality
Though we??짝??????쨀e never had a taste

The irony will make you laugh
Intervene on our behalf
To undo this mask of false complicity

The despotic, right-wing government
Has manufactured our consent
Can we entrust ourselves
To transform their doctrine to dissent

You don??짝??????째 speak not a single word
Can??짝??????째 correlate a single thing you??짝??????쨀e heard
You just erase all the things we??짝??????쨀e said
With a mask of disapproval

And it??짝??????짱 always about you
Convinced yourself there??짝??????짱 better things to do
Like building a wall

You double up at the thought of fun
You??짝??????짰e not concerned about anyone
You??짝??????짰e alone when the sun goes down
Like a cold, forsaken shadow



And you??짝??????짰e trapped inside yourself
Nothing can reach you
Nobody matters anyway

You??짝??????짰e looking outside
For purpose and piece of mind
And you may never find
You??짝??????짙l never find freedom

Forgotten stories of excess
Both real and fiction
Too many hollow lives spent
Chasing benediction
We plummet to the earth like
Scores of fallen angels
Play out or tragedies on empty,
Weathered stages

But before we lose it all
The final curtain call
Conflicted and dejected

Beware the opulence inherent in confusion
When reality's obscured
By clouds and disillusion
Held under far too long by


The weight of our existence
We labor fruitlessly against
Both time and distance

Whats in the past cant be undone
You got to separate to become one
Your indecision hides the guilt
Just underneath your clouded eyes
So sick you'd sell your soul
For another fifteen minute lie

I can't pull in all the stops
But it rained on all of this
With the sirens in my sleep
And her sorrow at my kiss

I can't turn away
Hold the half turn when you pray
All the vanity and fate
Written on her crazy face

Here in my head I here you say
Here in my head I here you pray

Time is what it's made
Made by all those i regret
"Remeber me" I hear it said
Other faces I'd forget

Hope you get up off your feet
Shake the dust out of your shoes
City lights and all my jazz


And all my demonstrations too

Here in my head I here you say
Here in my head I here you pray

Time is what it's made
Made by others i regret
Remeber we are here and sad
All the faces I'd forget

Here in my head I here you say
Here in my head I here you pray
Here in my head I here you say
Here in my head I here you pray

I??짝??????쨀e been put down been pushed around
But they won??짝??????째 break me I still believe
Been cast aside stood up for ridicule
But I??짝??????짝 still here I feel the same
This one??짝??????짱 for those who??짝??????짙l never understand
It??짝??????짱 not a blueprint or a master plan
All I know is nothing that I??짝??????쨀e done before

Held me so strong never steered me wrong
And with every passing day
Distills my dedication

In a clouded world you kept me clear
And there??짝??????짱 a part of you in all I??짝??????쨀e done
Been second guessed thought immature
But for what it??짝??????짱 worth know that I??짝??????짝 still here

I wonder what I could have done instead
To quell the anger boiling in my head


Unlike so man y things
You??짝??????쨀e never let me down

With you I??짝??????쨀e never felt alone
And as I stumble through these days
I hope you??짝??????짙l understand
It??짝??????짱 so much more than a phase
It??짝??????짱 everything I am
When I??짝??????쨀e strayed in darker times
When I??짝??????짝 feeling left behind
You??짝??????짰e always there
The music somehow seems to get me by

Because trash like you will never have
The means with which to live
In any modicum of luxury
Or vague derivative
Of comfort don??짝??????째 stray beyond your class
You??짝??????짙l never crack this ceiling made of glass

Just live to work and then expire
Keep your mouth shut you might retire
With something more then debts
Stretched far beyond your means
Pledge allegiance
To the corporate machines

Don??짝??????째 you dare step out of line
Everything will be just fine
But you??짝??????쩍 better mind your place
Just learnt to be a good consumer
You??짝??????짰e now a number
You??짝??????쨀e no longer got a face



Let my anger be my declaration
My dissent my participation

Resistance isn??짝??????째 any use
Just consume, obey and reproduce
The next working class who??짝??????짙l shoulder
Your burden of despair
Your empty cries for a living wage
Our system doesn??짝??????째 care we don??짝??????째 care

That our system won??짝??????째 provide
For public health
We don??짝??????째 care that your left
Out in the cold all by yourself
We don??짝??????째 care

Rejection
Like a promise unfulfilled
From an emptiness distilled
As one final sign
Perpetuates our slow decline
We??짝??????쨀e failed
The systems we??짝??????쨀e created drag us down

On corded streets
We??짝??????짙l die alone
Our dreams are only flesh and bone

One day some ay
When you fall apart and waste away
You??짝??????짙l see no doubt
This world is gonna spit you out



Drained
No sign of life
This world of lies
Is gonna cut you down to size

They??짝??????짙l spit you out
Like a spoke in their machine
Some people break like glass
It just might be your final chance to feel
Can you distinguish fate from what seems real
Enamored by the romance of regret

What does it mean when you??짝??????짰e sixteen
The world??짝??????짱 a cold and lonely place
But you??짝??????짰e still kicking
Every door down in the place

The war of words they??짝??????짰e so upright
You pass a hundred sleepless nights
And the worst is yet to come or so they say

Here comes seventeen
And just beyond
There??짝??????짱 tolerance and empathy
To protect you from them all
A stand of evergreen
Just like the places we would always talk about
To catch you when you fall

You hear a knock outside the door
It never rains here anymore


So now there??짝??????짱 nothing new
To was away the pain

A frightened face your clouded mind
The memories you??짝??????쨀e trailed behind
And seventeen still feels light years away

Nobody seems to understand you
As your grasping for that innocence
Sequestered in your mind

Was it guilt or were they blind
All this time

A fool??짝??????짱 crusade a proxy war
We justify we keep the score
With millions dead too blind to see
The cryptic clash of world war III

Did your country??짝??????짱 sons and daughters
Die to make this world a safer place
Or do we just defy

Flesh and blood become one
The stakes keep rising the time has come
The band performs a martyr??짝??????짱 verse
And the dominoes fall in reverse

The lines are drawn don??짝??????째 you see


Its too late to turn back now
We wont abide a stalemate
The end is predicated on the loss of life

What??짝??????짱 so sinister?
Were only trying to do what we think is right
Conscience administered
By the ones with the shortest sight

Running short on imagination
Still we waste it all on words
Spoken without the benefit of our minds

The candle burns, the edges framed
Our best intentions waste away
And everybody loves the things we've done and on, and on, and on

Life appears weightless
For everyone but me
This world grows heavier everyday
Deterioration
Growin' old before my time
Nobody cares, never mind

We all prey on a vain condition and the hoplessness of it all
These days there's nothing we can trust
The dreams we made, we've seen them fade
Trampled by our sad parade
Yet we're so pleased with what we've done, and on, and on, and I'm done

Life appears weightless
For everyone but me
This world grows heavier everyday
Deterioration
Growin' old before my time
Nobody cares

The mind breaks down when it dies
Our machine's doubled in size
To orchestrate the grand collapse
I see us all trapped in its path
There was a time we were unbound
As if we'd never hit the ground
But just like rain we can't keep from fallin'

Every time I turn around
I feel it close behind
My fear and insecurity
You know they're gonna find me

Cages lined with eyes
Laughing telling lies
Hiding on the rooftops
In my twisted mind

Sleep is like an atom bomb
Exploding in my head
Black cats and silver bells
I'd be better off dead



Those flashing yellow lights
Blind me once again
I'm falling through the blackness
Towards the bitter end

My time is running down
My heart begins to burn

I'd never thought I'd reach another end
When all I want is to be myself again
So why so soon we were having so much fun
Sometimes I wish I'd never learn to run

Ask me why I'm sad I'll say it's not so bad
I've done too much growing up today
Excuse my bitter half
He's too disturbed to laugh right now
I'll find you when it's done



I wrapped regret around the chance I'd never take
Discarded dreams for too much time awake
Now where did it dissapear to
Youth I fought my way out of
And it feels like I'm running out of time

Sometimes it seems so tough
Good friends are not enough
And I'm powerless to help
When you take it all upon yourself

Feels like you just can't win
The whole wide world is closing in
And it's so hard not to think the worse
When you're the centre of the universe

I see you struggling with the wait of the world
Remember I'm always by your side
Too many problems for one little girl
I'll be beside you when all your tears have dried

I lay next to you at night
I know something's just not right
But there's nothing I can say


When you feel ten thousand miles away

I don't have all the answers yet
But I get scared when you're upset
And your heart feels like an empty home
When you feel so scared and all alone

Think everybody's talking about you
And conspiring to bring you down
You're thinking that nobody loves you
Ever wonder why I'm still around

In the freezing rain waiting on the last train
This is how we live how we fall in love
Last time that we spoke the room was full of smoke
I watched the clock and watched you wak away

Times fade until there's nothing to remember
Just empty promises we made
When words fade memories loose thier meaning
Until it all fades...

We are vain we are full of fear
We cling to our posessions for another year
Blame takes those we love leaving only one


Terrified we bar the gates and load our shiny guns

Feels like I'm running out of days
There's something inside me
I don't want the world to see
And it feel like it's closing in on me

I've been at odd's with a restless soul
I've felt the pain whenI lost control
I said the words but could not explain
The hurt fades but the scars remain

Got myself into situations
Ignored the threats and ministrations
Guilt choked by my last breath
I scared myself to death

So take my tears take all my fucking pain
I hope you're entertained

I fell prey to my own theatrics
Been diagnosed by the psychiatrics
Mistakes that i have made
I've left myself betrayed

I've lied to those i love


I'd medicate but there's never enough
No tears for the lives I've wrecked
I've lost my self respect

And now I'm reaching back
And I'm trying to make things right
And through my past I've gained a deeper sight
I'm less than proud of what I've done
But I know I've got to change
Somehow I know it's only just begun
Begun to change it's all on me
There's no one else to take the blame
But I'm still caught up in this game

When lies serve as substitution
A new twist on an old solution
No cause no choice
They took your freedom away

The new rights gotta keep you guessing
A Quick close with a signed confession
No rights this fight
Is how you're gonna pay

A child's tear froma broken heart
Another family's ripped apart
And the streets are empty
Down in Uniontown
Just don't let them catch you out at night

Nobody gets to have it all
The lucky ones only take the fall


It's a game and they picked your name
And now you've been had

You're just a player in a house of cards
Pleading guilty to a lesser charge
You're no good to anyone
When you're doing time

It's hard enough to stay alive
Eighteen to twenty five
Another town's locked into a slow decay
With all it's young men they're locked away

the distance between the things you say
And your actions tell me everything
You never could so I'll keep my grip and stay away

Why should I waste my time?
When you can't tell wrong from right?
If you had your way I??짝??????쩍 embrace convention
And lose my will to fight

Distractions keep me off my game
And I can't help but wonder if it was you
Would you still feel the fucking same?
Closed out shut down it doesn't matter to me


Because I??짝??????쨀e got the truth
Sick lies close ties your cheap talk ain't enough
Because we've got the truth
I??짝??????쨀e got no time for narrow minds just playing the role
You played the role
Played out your self doubt is going to force you to fold
Because you got caught up playing the role

I??짝??????쨀e played off devastation
I told you it didn't mean that much
but this world keeps on closing in on me
whenever we fall out of touch

it's those subtle differences
keeping up appearances for what?
it gets the best of me
sometimes it's better not to know

I??짝??????쨀e tried so many times
to tell you how I feel
but forever's such a long, long time
and this apology's for real



now there's a time and a place for saving face
there's a time when it's all too much
through the hardest times
through the thick and thin I??짝??????쨀e always played it off
and kept my grin
but this life's too short to waste on pride
this is the time and the place for me
to clean up my side

like rats from the wreckage
we patrol the decay
through the ash and the darkness
the scavengers pillage what's wasted away

and power corrodes and compromises
the hands once held so high
the lies the vain plead for their very lives

no sunlight or shadow
just the rotting remains
of the clergy pariah
and the millions of sinners shackled in chains



drowning in blood and holy water
the bombs turned the battlefield to dust

so what's left of the world
to divide and to dominate
and rape and defile
or oppress and discriminate
it's all over did anyone get their way

crawling through the mud all night long
Hunted like rats by the Viet Cong
Fields of death bodies piled up higher
Through the silence of the Tet cease-fire
The will to fight seems so long gone
While back at home they sing a protest song
They burned them once then they shot them twice
Shot three times for the blood of christ

Sun sets of the days of rage
What??짝??????짱 said and done by the chosen ones
Sun sets on the days of rage
As your cities burn the revolution comes

Crowd control becomes a police state
On the streets of Chicago 1968
The last call for civil liberty


The black panthers versus o.p.d.
From the Berkeley campus to the fields of Kent state
The National Guard must retaliate
The guardsman smiled said he had as choice
All he could see was the blood of Christ

You should see the things they've done today
Our national guard firing into an unarmed crowd
What about our human rights?
What about our sense of community?
First California then the world

been set up to take the fall
Tried hard not to lose it all but
I shot straight right from the start
A slow death from a broken heart but

It doesn't mean a thing
When my hearts in the songs we sing
I??짝??????쨀e seen so much change
Still the strength remains
Our words bounce off your heads
You don't hear a fucking thing we've said man
I know your type and I can't relate
A small mind filled up with hate



Too try to act so satisfied like you've somehow won
No rewards for the ones who try to get things done
Just to survive it's hard to learn this game
I won't be the first to take the blame
The pressure builds up day by day
We??짝??????쨀e worked too hard to throw it all away

look at what you've left for me
Now that you've moved on
Won??짝??????째 pass for therapy
Just one more scar that's never gone
You tried to break me down
Time and time again
Rejection feels to scream
But I can't make a sound

It??짝??????짱 me you tried to hide
As I hold you in my arms
As I feel your body broken
Is this just a dream?

Disappointment follows me
Its always just behind
Self-doubt bred solitude
Frustration robs me blind
No pain no part of me


I have grown numb and cold
Self-centered fantasy
Obsessed with self control

This is your worst fucking nightmare
One chance a clean break
Much more than I can take
Lies cast shadows dark things nobody knows
You??짝??????쨀e lost who's won?
My revenge has just begun
I've just begun
And I'm coming home

So many things I've never said
All those regrets and broken promises
Would it have mattered if I had
Told you everything
I felt admitted I was scared of losing
You would you have understood?

Remember when you said you'd wait forever
And I thought it was true
And as this broken heart just keeps on beating
I'll send these letters home to you
'cause I don't know what else to do
I'll wait for you



I guess it's been seven weeks
and I still can't get you of my mind
when will I find my way back
to where we were when I left
the tape you sent my pillow's drenched with tears
confirmed my worst fears

My war you're one of them
You say that you're my friend
But you're one of them

You don't want to see me live
You don't want me to give
'cause you're one of them

My war you're one of them
You say that you're my friend
But you're one of them

I might not know what a friend is
All I know is what you're not
'cause you're one of them

My war you're one of them
You say that you're my friend
But you're one of them

I have a prediction, it lives in my brain
It's with me every day, it drives me insane
I feel it in my heart, that if I has a gun
I feel it in my heart, I'd wanna kill some


I feel it in my heart, the end will come
Come on!!

My war you're one of them
You say that you're my friend
But you're one of them

Tell me that I'm wrong
Try to sing me your ego song
You're one of them

My war you're one of them
You say that you're my friend
But you're one of them

My War.

words spoken monotones
There's violence in your pretty homes
Unfaded memories of the times we used to play
No colors anymore
There's laughter locked outside the door
The trucks go rolling by on the freeways just behind you

It's a self-fulfilling catastrophe
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Watch your problems disappear
And then reappear as mine

Come take a look at me
I'm the poster boy for sympathy
I can't find my way out of this place I've spent my life

Some things we never tell
Looking back it's just as well
No comfort from anyone
A frightened child with no place to run
Can you hear me calling out your name?
Calling out but nobody's there

these walls keep closing in
I??짝??????짝 just a mannequin it's time to go
Don??짝??????째 come too close to me
I can't find no space to breath it's time to go

My touch the kiss of death
More sick with every breath
I just can't seem to slow it down now
Why line up to conform
Why wear a uniform to grow old and die
In this same fucking town

Obsessed with misery
Life holds no joy for me it's time to go


No colors only gray
I die a little everyday it's time to go

I??짝??????짝 born wrong too dead to feel
Wake up it's all to real it's time to go
Switched off there's no more pain
Padded walls I??짝??????짝 half insane it's time to go

I used to think you were on my side
We never found a place to hide
I let it go on too long like so many times before
I don't know where I should start
It seems like the hardest part
To take your pretty world and tear it all apart

Let it go I can't fix you anymore
Let it go time to be stronger than before
Let me go crying all the time
Let it go and trust me
I??짝??????짝 not worth your waste of time

For the sake of sanity
Let??짝??????짱 erase those memories


There??짝??????짱 nothing left here that will take the pain away
There??짝??????짱 no more mystery
Just too much history
Someday you'll understand it's really for the best

Connection rejection
Your tears won't carry me away
Completely forget me just let it go now
It??짝??????짱 time to move on

when might makes right you want to bet
the u.s.a. is now a terrorist threat
free elections another casualty
in the covert war on freedom and democracy

spray paint (blood stained) walls fading light
the death squads are coming to your town tonight
m-16 to your head lie through your teeth
or you might end up dead

those stubborn peasants remain opposed
to the western puppet that we've imposed
not to worry they'll see it our way
the c.i.a. trained death squads will crush the coup


within a day

hahahahaha laugh it away
you're making friends with the u.s.a.
a clear conscience when the price is right
after all who needs human rights?
police state now you rule by fear
to stabilize this hemisphere for what?

Sometimes those simple things won't turn the trick no more
And our self-important dreams they all lie shattered on the floor
Even the proletariat receives his royalty
And as the battle rages on and on I wish it wasn't me
And it seems so cruel
The last one breaking up
Until the winter finds it's worth
As we glide upon the earth
Now the trees are swept aside by wind and sheets of rain
And the fertile fields once gilded have now withered and refrained
She who longs for comfort feels instead a savage thrust


And the ashen sky grows ever darker as dawn gives way to dust
As we set our dogs upon the earth
Feast on the dead until no life remains
Forward towards a pointless end we squander never gain

I've thought it through & I think you're right
And you're not missing much
There's something pure
That you can't hold against a simple touch
So many choices and the pressure
We all bring to bear
Your strength works miracles
And touches those who try to care
I believe in you
And I hope you see it through
Your resolve is inspiration in my life
It takes alot now
So few who feel the same
When it means enough
Not to give it away now


Finding it hard
Not to think in terms of yesterday
Finding it strange
That somebody else could feel that way
It must be hard sometimes
To stand behind your chastity
And I wish that I could be the one
But it's not me I'll never set you free
Hold on because you've got alot to believe in

I remember the day that we met
I needed someone, you needed someone too, yeah
Spend time takin' all you could get
Givin' yourself was one thing you never could do
You played with my heart, played with my head
I got to laugh when I think of the things you said

'Cause i stole your love,
Stole your love
Ain't never gonna let you go
I, oh yeah, stole your love, I stole your love stole your love, I stole your love

You never stop runnin' around
You pick me up, then you could still put me down
You were the girl that nobody could own
Stay for a while, then you would leave me alone
I'm somethin' different, ain't like the rest
How does it feel to find out you're failin' your test

'Cause i stole your love,
Stole your love
Ain't never gonna let you go
I, oh yeah, stole your love, I stole your love stole your love, I stole your love

Friday night she's not alone
I wonder who's going to drive her home
And walk her to the door
And will she give him a good night kiss
Monday at schoot she says hello
I fight the tears as I watch her go
She'll never know what she means
To this lonely boy
If you'd only take a walk with me
Just give me some time and you might see


I could be your hero if you'd let me in
You can't deny what's in your heart
And you know i'm trying to be a part
You can do better than those other boys

Out of my embrace
Lipstick on a stranger's face
Do you take him to the cliffs
To watch the sun go down
Now he's sitting on your bed
What's going through his head
As you show him pictures
The same ones you showed to me
You can't be happy
Not with him
He's not the one
He's going to break your heart
You can't be happy
Not with him
You know he's not the one
And can he do the things I'd do for you
Sometimes I lie awake at night
And clutch my pillow


And I wonder if you're lying
Next to him tonight
Soft words & promises
And I wonder what he says
Listening to clean sheets
That used to be our song
Great songs they used to be
But now they just poison me
Could you please not play that song now
It's wrenching at my heart
It's tearing me apart

Don't be alarmed please don't take it personally
But you're acting out on everybody here
You're ability your virility's in doubt
So one more time you clench your fists
Scream and shout
You high-five your friends
Like you're jocks at a football
It seems you don't know when to quit
The crowd stares in silence
As you practice violence
To show you're the king of the pit
What now we're sick of it
So now no one goes
To the front at shows anymore
Because we don't want to be
Kicked in the head
Or punched in the nose


We don't care where you're from
We don't care what set you claim
Why don't you get involved
You don't even know our names
Any scene worth it's salt
Would vilify aggression
It seems that aggression's all you know
So stop throwing your fists
Put out your hand
Participate in the show
Here we go

She called me up all excited said she had a date
With him Saturday night and she just can't wait
I thought about his reputation & the things that he's done
I woudn't wish him on anyone
I said to her when you're with him better watch your step
Because I know this boy he's got a pretty bad rep
I only hope he doesn t end up bringing you down
He's been breaking hearts all over town
Slowly you can pick yourself back up
When that situation's got you down again
Slowly you can pick your self back up
Girl you've got to save it for another day
Because you don't need him anyway
It's just a game they play
I know this won't come easy girl


I know that it's hard
And deep down inside it leaves an awful scar
And to say I told you so
Won't help to ease the pain inside you so
Just remember that there's plenty of boys out there
Who could treat you much better
And remember I care
it just won't do to see you hurting so bad
I knew that boy was going to leave you sad

Have we really lost our way
I heard the people talking but I can't believe
The things they say
Seems like a million days
Since we chose a new direction
Tried to find the strength to change
Do you remember when 500 stood as one
And reached for the sky
Our pride was understood
Friendship & brother (sister) hood
Gave us the courage to try
Sometimes it's such a lonely road


Despair is everywhere
So much anger to unload
But I'll fight with every breath
In my heart I still believe
We can make a difference somehow

Who will be their voice
Who will hear their cries
The ones who cannot speak
As we dehumanize
Incarcerated innocents
Their sentience ignored
Slaughtered by the millions
For the pseudo-carnivores
What a waste of our time
Of our land of our humanity
Blood-spattered carcass it wets your appetite
Don't you fucking get it
Eating flesh it isn't right for you
For me our children the world
Destroy their machines
Burn their staughterhouses to the ground
Now it's time for us all to defend
The oppressed
Meat is murder
Still we consume the dead and rotting
Products of violence
We've got to make that change
For you for me our children the world

There are some things I can't appreciate
And when they're gone I won't deliberate
Without heart we'll never make it work
Accusing the world but you're playing the game
Scream 'till it hurts but it's always the same
Wake up in a fog can't remember my name
There are those who pin their faults on me
Don't give a fuck about sincerity
I've said enough but when it all comes down
Don't try to tell me that it makes no difference
Don't place conditions on what's inside
Our similarities are torn apart by pride
And it seems like everything's
Coming down on me


And I can't tell right from wrong
Fate from tragedy
I've got to find that fire
That defined me once so well
There's so much talk so many empty lines
I see no reason for their selfish lies
Without the anger resistance can't break these chains

Years from now
Will this mean everything
Or just another song we used to sing
When our common goals seemed crystal clear
In those angry days we were so sincere
Now I look back in my mind
Have we wasted all this time
I can't forget the past
It seems like those days went by too fast
Now what we've shared
It's gone somehow
Will it matter years from now
Once were friends
Have we grown apart


I cant find the words to say what's right
Years from now
Will we still take pride
In the things we've shared
And the strength inside
When I took at you will I see a friend
Did we make the most of the time we've spent

How are you feeling?
How does someone like you elude the moral quarantine
does your repression only server the greater lie
as you abuse and objectify
all the emotions you defeat you've got the world at your feet
because you think you've silenced all the critics of your misogynistic lies
but when you wake up from your reveries you'd better realize
you're a model of virility a specimen divine
as you deflower you empower the false ego trapped inside
and by the virtue of your "conquests" you've endeared yourself
to those who you hold in high esteem

you think you've silenced all the critics of your misogynistic lies
but when you wake up from your reveries you'd better realize
you've got to rectify
that attitude
you're a hopeless case
and now you're too late

you call her a whore
she's just the same as you


though she could never be that shallow
but you just take what you can get
and you throw the rest away
another notch in your belt
another score another lay

you're taking
she's giving
you're losing
you think you're winning
you're time is
running out now
it doesn't feel the same

ORAL SEX PLAGUES SOCIETY!!!!!

You try to tell me where your heart is
you say there's nothing wrong
and the honesty in your eyes tells me
that I should be strong
I don't want to get wrapped up in morbid reflection
because that's a pessimistic space
and the situations I imagine
are lost somewhere in you face

because when were together it's bittersweet
now your with him and I miss you
I feel somehow incomplete
I try to stand on my own
I take it one day at a time
and if you ask me how I'm doing
I bite my lip and say I'm fine

well I don't know


I can't sing
can't sleep do anything
I just know I'll be there waiting
for you to come around

I know you tell me all the time that I worry too much
but not a day goes by where I'm not thinking about you
what we had
what we could have
if you just give me one more chance
I miss you
and it's so bittersweet

They put a parking lot on a piece of land
When the supermarket used to stand
Before that they put up a bowling alley
On the site that used to be the local palace
That's where the big bands used to come and play
My sister went there on a Saturday

Come dancing, all her boyfriends used to come and call
Why not come dancing, it's only natural?

Another Saturday, another date
She would be ready but she's always make them wait
In the hallway, in anticipation
He didn't know the night would end up in frustration
He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week
All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek

Come dancing, that's how they did it when I was just a kid
And when they said come dancing, my sister always did

My sister should have come in a midnight
And my mom would always sit up and wait
It always ended up in a big row
When my sister used to get home late

Out of my window I can see them in the moonlight
Two silhouettes saying goodnight by the garden gate

The day they knocked down the palace
My sister stood and cried
The day they knocked down the palace
Part of my childhood died, just died

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band
And there's a car park where the palace used to stand
My sister's married and she lives on an estate
Her daughters go out, now it's her turn to wait
She knows they get away with things she never could
But if I asked her I wonder if she would

Come dancing come on sister, have yourself a ball
Don't be afraid to come dancing, it's only natural

Come dancing, just like the palace on a Saturday
And all her friends will come dancing
Where the big bands used to play

I can feel my bones decay
I haven't got a thing to say
I never thought I could end up this way
maybe I should have known
but now my cover's blown
I've been up for hours but my feet never touched the floor

I can't pretend that I'm as funny as all you're friends
so I'll keep this lampshade on my skull for one more night

I've got a project car
I've got a VCR
I've got a hundred friends but I don't know where they are
my life's a fantasy


I'm just a wanna be
another throw away contemporary enemy

did you want me to be the life of the party
I've made some mistakes so stop kicking yourself
because I blame me
it's still the same
nothing's changed

Do you believe?
We can make a change
Will you believe tomorrow?
Or will it slip away?

Black and white
We're all the fucking same
Demographics
Keep up caught up in the game
Violence
What the fuck do you expect?
The cause has left us
Leaving nothing but effect

The laughter has subsided
Leaving hatred in it's wake
In a nation trusting no one
Sworn to bend but never break
America is burning
Look around it's in the air
But I'll be the last believer
Just as long as I still care


And I still care

What's going on?
What's happened now?
Show me a purpose
Please show me how

Desperate times
One thousand symptoms
One disease
Government tradition
And genocidal policies
Don't look back
Don't wait until history repeats
No, no more lies
No more bodies in the streets

When it's time to start working to reconstruct
a life programmed to self-destruct
when it's time to set your sights on something better
when all that you've known
is the emptiness of being alone
when friends start drifting away

sometimes
it's better to let go
it only hurts to hold on to time worn memories
sometimes
it's never what is seems
it only serves to break your will

I had a dream last night
that you and I got in a fight
I never meant to hurt you
but I guess it ended up that way


we went our seperate ways
and I stayed mad for six whole days
that's when I realized when I'm alone
I'm in bad company

I want to help you
but you've got to want to help yourself
I don't want to bury another friend
I take it day by day and watch the people I love just fade away
where's the good in this?
whatever happened to you?

Like a weathered statue
I will wait for you
like the darkness fading
waiting to see it through
like an ardent cry
wakes me from the silence of my sleep
like a distant bell
like a man who fights the system
fights to keep

if you have to ask the price you can't afford it
there's nothing free in this world
there's nothing free in this life



like a super hero
I'll try to save the world
with an anesthetic
to lift a thousand fingers
like a man accused
I'll weigh the consequence
like a man afraid
of the madness just beyond the picket fence

When I beat my head against the wall of convention
the blood I taste is everyone's
I fought a battle thought unpopular
for stakes nobody seems to see
nobody sees but me

one step forward
two steps back
come on and try me

my pain is the pain of children
my heart is burning with their shame
when mother cries all day


I'll wipe those tears away
you can't grow up healthy in a house of

for every father holding back the angry fire until five
when it festers on the drive
his boss has shamed him to tears
he should "take it like a man" but he never had a man to tell him

I never knew how good I had it
I had to treat you like a habit
it became what I'd guess you call a slight obsession
now I've had some time to work it out
way too much time to be without
the one I've wanted
you're my right direction

when you're back there
do you think of me
when you're alone
before you sleep
you are the one
I'm waiting for
this time's not like before


I'm going to carry you away

thinking good things now
I know we'll work it out somehow
I try to keep my chin up but it's so hard to let you go
it never hurt before to be alone
now your voice is salvation on the phone
I only wish you weren't so far away

I had a dream that I woke up in a sweat
another self-inflicted nightmare I will not forget
I felt a light
I saw you shine something's wrong
I felt that tremor in my soul
that memory one last time

this is the light
this is the way
where the darkness keeps the sun away
this is the light
this is the way
this stream of memories that carries me away

I know my head
at least I thought I did
I'd take a silver bullet through my soul if I could give


this phantom friend
this runaway train of thought
somebody's been following me through every trial I've ever sought
never sought

these tears
leave scars
as they run down my face
I'm changing
I'm leaving now
I'm leaving for a better place

What should I say
I guess things didn't go my way
but you insist on shining light
on my greatest failures
fallible is me

but you can see
this isn't my reality
it's just the way things go for us

someone out there
saying "life just isn't fair"
but it's the disappointments and the
great mistakes that make you wiser

and what about the times you set me straight
and still left me waiting at the gate


it's just the way things go for us

I'm sick of trying at your way
did you really think I'd make it anyway
I pulled this splinter from my face
and found another worthwhile cause to take your place
I woke up ok
it's just another rainy day
and I'm feeling the same way
as you

And what about the times you did your best
to assuage my troubled soul
what happened to me
what happened to you
what was it that you said would see us through
I want to know how to feel something real
and I will try no more to run
all this pressure getting closer
and it seems like I've been here before

time on my hands
weight of the world
laid bare my soul
as I lose control



run away
you can retrace those steps and find your way once more
I'll wait
believe in yourself as the cruel world closes in
take my hand
I'll be a friend for you this weight you bare alone
one day
the light I know will illuminate your heart