Tim Mcllrath [Rise Against]

They turn the lights down low,
In shadows hiding from the world,
Only coming out when it gets cold

The seas part when they hit the floor,
The voices carry on and out the door
And everything you touch turns into gold

Like the angel you are you laugh creating a lightness in my chest,
Your eyes they penetrate me,
(your answer's always 'maybe')
That's when I got up and left

A beating heart and a microphone,
A ticking clock in an empty home
Still tells of these times so long ago,
And even though I've come so far, I know
I've got so far to go and any day now I'll explode

Like the angel you are you laugh creating a lightness in my chest,
Your eyes they penetrate me,
(your answer's always 'maybe')
That's when I got up and left

Each and everyday it leads into tomorrow
And tomorrow brings one less day without you
But don't wait up just leave the light on
Cause all the roads that I might take will all one day lead back to you

Like the angel you are you laugh creating a lightness in my chest,
Your eyes they penetrate me,
(Now this is too amazing)
That's when I got up and left

To all you people standing proud, thinking you know what I'm about, I think you can fuck yourself
(Let's go!)
From your safe distance in this crowd
That's when your voice becomes so loud
Still trying to keep us down

Walk one mile in shoes I never asked to fill
But still I press on?.

I slipped, I fell, then I lost everything
My hope, my faith, in what the future brings
In hopes of pushing past the tie that brings us down
We sing together now.

Give me one reason to look you in the eye
(Just one!)
Tell me exactly why it is that you think you are worth my time

I slipped, I fell, then I lost everything.
My hope, my faith, in what the future brings
In hopes of pushing past the tie that brings us down
We sing together now.

To all the ones that shake my hand
Then talk your shit behind my back
To those who claim they understand
But never heard a word I said
In spite of you, I am still here
This vision has never been more clear
As we sing together now.

(Now that's when!)
I slipped, I fell, then I lost everything
My hope, my faith, in what the future brings
In hopes of pushing past the tie that brings us down
We sing together now.

If we're the flagship of peace and prosperity
We're taking on water and about to fuckin' sink
No one seems to notice, no one even blinks
The crew all left the passengers to die under the sea

[Chorus]
Countdown, to the very end,
Equality, an invitation that we wont extend
Ready aim, pull the trigger now,
in time you firmly secure your place in hell

State of the union address,
reads war torn country still a mess
the words: power, death, and distorted truth
are read between the lines of the red, white, and blue

[Chorus]

Your place in hell [x2]

'Guilty' is what our graves will read,
no years, no family, we did
nothing (nothing) to stop the murder of
a people just like us