Nora

Watched your lips move during that interview.
Spitting poison that's not dangerous,
That voice wasn't yours.
I read what you said in that interview.
Throwing knives that are dull.
Was that you?
Why didn't it hurt you when you cut yourself?

How come there's no blood coming from those wounds?

You're no hero.


Just not that cool.
What if you meant it?

We meant it when we sang along.
My see-through-hero,
What the fuck did you think I was pointing my finger at?
You can't block the bullets I'm going to shoot at you.

How do we act like this?
We've left each other behind.
Walked away from our own,
Left them alone,
Self-satisfying our desires from the top of another's back.
Liar.
Reduced yourself to this.
Lair.
There's nothing on the top of a pile of our own,
There's nothing on the backs of our friends,
There's nothing to our desires when we win like this.
Have you ever seen the eyes of a man,
As he's betrayed by his friends?


Have you ever seen him cry?
Have you ever seen his eyes?
Because every day we are beaten down,
Stolen from,
Lied to,
By our friends,
By our own,
By our fellow man.
It could have been so much better than this.

I have nothing but contempt,
For how you think and how you live.
Twisted words to suit your vision,
You are not a god.
Took what wasn't yours to give.
You are not a man.

You are just a thief.

Come take from me.
How does the sun feel on your back?
How does your foot feel on her back?
I won't accept your life.

I won't steal her life.
How do you justify your life?


I will walk past your tradition and I won't look back.

How do you crush life?

Won't respect your position.
I can look in your eye,
I think you missed his point.
And know it for what you turned into.

I don't think he speaks to you.
Monster.

My problem is I can see it.
My problem is I have seen it.


Look what it's done to me.

Watching what it's done to you.


13 hours at a time, or 9-5.



We're in this for our lives.
13 hours at a time.

Are you alive?
Are you a lie?




What about standing up?
What about fighting for your life?


What about standing up?



What're you going to do when the good guys lose?

Day after day you're on your back.

A slave so long,



You've lost track 13 hours at a time, or 9-5.

We're in this for our lives.




13 hours at a time.
Are you afraid?


Afraid to try?
Are you alive?

Are you a lie?




This is a fight.
You're a lie.
Do what's right.


This is a fight to stay alive.


This is a fight for our lives.
This is a fight.

You hear it.
You feel it.

You pin it to your fucking heart like the rest of us.
You feel it.
You hear it.
You pin it to your heart and you keep moving.

We're not going to save the world.
We're not going to save the world.

We're just learning how to live.
Breathe it in.
We're just learning how to breathe.
It just might get us through.)
(As long as it's something, we're more than nothing.

We can learn to breathe the smoke,
And we can set the fires.
It's in a thousand different places;
I heard it in a thousand different songs.



You hear it.
You feel it.
You hear it.
You pin it to your fucking heart like the rest of us.

You feel it.
You pin it to your heart and keep moving.
I remember these roads with different voices,

Singing different songs.
Different faces and different places,
Setting the same fires.

This is how we burn.
(This is) for the travelers.

Watched your lips move during that interview.
Spitting poison that's not dangerous,
That voice wasn't yours.
I read what you said in that interview.
Throwing knives that are dull.
Was that you?
Why didn't it hurt you when you cut yourself?

How come there's no blood coming from those wounds?

You're no hero.


Just not that cool.
What if you meant it?

We meant it when we sang along.
My see-through-hero,
What the fuck did you think I was pointing my finger at?
You can't block the bullets I'm going to shoot at you.

Running out of reasons to try.
Running out of things to say.
Running out of smiles to fake.
Running out of ways to lie.

Running out of reasons.
This is my life.
What the fuck am I going to do?
What the fuck am I going to do?
Too busy to hit bottom.

I live to toe the line so bring it on.
I don't have time to burn out.
I don't have time for sympathy,
I'm not interested in conciliation.
And I hate surprises.


If it's gonna get worse I can take it...try me.
If this is it then let me know.

Make it enough.
Make it enough.
I don't have time to hit bottom.
It's the best that I've got.

It's the best that you'll get.
It takes too long to climb back out.
I don't have time.
Bring it.

You've got to give to get.
I took too much to forget.
You've got to give to get.
Don't close your eyes.
You've got to give.
What the fuck?
My friend?
Did you think I'd forget?
You had a chance,
We have the scars,
We had the dream.
They stole the dream.
They took the stars.
It's all we have.
You had a chance.
We have the scars,
We knew the world.
They stole the dream.


They took the stars.
It's all we had.
It should be ours.
You let it come down around you,
There's nothing under there.
I'm afraid I have to close my eyes;
I have to be selfish.
I hope you know we love you my friend.
What the fuck?
My friend?
What did you think, my friend?
I'd never walk away, my friend?
I remember what you look like standing, my friend.
I remember.

I just watched somebody die.
I just swallowed another lie.
I don't want to swallow another lie.
I don't want to see people die.
It's time to own up to what you said,
To back up what you've done.
The TV screen - you want something from me.

The TV screams - you need something from me.

The TV screen - you want something from me.
I don't want to be afraid.


The TV screams - you need something from me.
Another life, another lie, mass murders of the mind.
Another life, another lie, mass murders of my mind.
This is why we hide.
I don't want to be afraid to go outside.
This is why we die.
This is why.

I'm doing alright with my convictions.
You're like everyone...
You climbed a bone ladder to the top.
How are you?
What if you are everyone?
Can't see the sun, can't feel the rain.
I noticed you aren't breathing.
Wave goodbye, I'm doing all right for myself.
Well, I guess it's fucking dark up there;
Stand up on top of everyone around you and don't see anything.
and what you don't hear is your heart.
It's lonely at the top.
I got no interest in fighting my way through all the compromises you left behind.


Your mind living and what you don't feel is your spine bending,
Your back breaking.
(What you don't feel is)
Watch out for their foot in your back.
But they do.
They're as blind as you are,
They're as dead as you are,
And you're in their way.

Last chance kids, it's time to rock
It's time to move, it's time to live
Last chance kids, before we're old
Before we're tired, before we give
If this is the last time we play the last song
Will you remember how you moved?
I can dodge bullets and get up from any beating
If this is the first time you heard a new song
Will you feel it, feel the burn?
I can be whatever I want when I grow up
Will you remember what it was like?
And how you felt and what it was like to matter?


Will you remember how you danced
Before we gave in?
Before we got old, before we got tired
It's time to move, it's time to live
Last chance kids, it's time to rock
Before we're old, before we're tired
Last chance kids
Before we give, last chance.

I can write you a list of everything
I've ever done wrong
Self absorbed and wasted
Because it's always on my mind
What a sad way to live
I wrote this song
Did you do something right today?
But I already forgot what I did right today
I can tell you what I did wrong


Lobotomize ourselves with work and television
What makes the wheels in your mind turn?
Forget it, quitter
You're looking forward to never thinking again?
What did you do right today?

Go about your buisiness
Go about your buisiness
There's a storm coming, lock up your windows
There is nothing to see here
There is nothing to love here
Go about your buisiness
There is nothing to see here
there is nothing to love here
There's a storm coming
Go about your buisiness
Lock your windows and bolt your doors
There's a storm coming
You'll see
Give it a second and you'll see everything
There's nothing to see
Daydreaming of insomnia


I've been falling asleep at the wheel
Have you been watching?
Cause I've been waiting
I'm never going to be able to finish this tonight
I never want to see the sun come up
There's a war coming and we're all out of heart
My mind won't stop
I didn't save a thing
There's a war coming
We're not ready for the last dance
And I didn't save anything for this dance.

I took two and I didn't notice
I took two and it didn't make a difference
And the good guys don't always win
It's still noisy as Hell
The sun doesn't always shine
I did the best I could
All the promises that we broke
And all the lies that we were told
We'll go to bed
With the best and worst thoughts in our heads
And hope for sleep
Cause tomorrow you'll wake up beautiful
And all the people we made cry
Everything will be alright
And come out on the other side


We've walked through suicide
So I'm gonna take two more
I'm worn down and wearning away
It's bedtime everyone
All the promises we broke
And all the lies we were told
All the beatings that we took
And all the people we made cry
For all our friends who we left behind
Or we lost to suicide
We're never coming home.

I'm calling the sun
It only takes a moment for you to realize
you own it, it's yours
It's massive and brilliant and it's mine
I'll never look at the sky without it again
Smiling faces
I'll call the sun and show my best
The best of you and the best of me
What happens next?
What if we're not even close?
What happens next?
I can't wait to show you


What happens next?
It's the sun and it's ours
What happens next?
It'll never go out
I'm so glad I woke up this morning
Because I can't wait to see what happens next
What happens next?
You'll see

You'll never see me again
Have we been wasting their breath?
Have we been paying attention?
And you'll never take me alive
Has it come to this?
So what's left?
We can't give up and we can't give in
Martyrdom fantasies and fading memories
We didn't know it
Of when we were better
Were we just kids... now we're adults
Giving up and giving in
I'll see you in the abyss
Now we're grown up, now we've gone wrong


The worst of them
I'll see you in that blank stare
Might have gotten the best of us
Looked out my window
And realized that I hate you
There's a black hole in my chest
And it's killing me like I want to kill you
And a fire in my stomach
Might be better than the best of us.The worse of you