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The pain, disorder
A cataclysmic dawn
We trusted but something has gone wrong
We bought it
But woke to find it gone
And have to 5, 4, 3, 2

The place before

It's all the same thing now
That it ever was,
except now you've strayed too far.
Need you to stop digging your hole
and follow the path we light,
Don't need an invitation
To be reconciled
Cause these home fires are burning,

Aside from the name that holds us together
Now I think we'd fall apart
It's the years we'll pretend we've forgotten
That separate our hearts
And I don't remember the way this was
But the pictures prove I knew you once
And where is the source of our mistakes
I'm afraid one day we'll drift so far

As I watch your life go up in flames,
You'll swear up and down you'd like to change
But when the sun sinks slowly into the sky,
Now you're right
Where you started again with nothing to say,
Without an argument or case
And when it's said and done and done and said,
And now what's another day?

There’s a struggle coming but
To conquer first they must divide
The machine keeps humming night and day
How are we so unaware?
Why are you not afraid?

Protests are drumming
While you turn your nose

Джентльменский переворот

The pain
Боль,
Disorder
Беспорядок
A cataclysmic dawn
В катаклизмическом рассвете.

A death knell sounds
No matter where I go
Cities or small towns
All I want is something to call my own
But I'm in the dark now

We set out confidently,
But what if we are wrong

Now's the time
To rearrange your life
Live for something
Outside of your own mind
We all dream
The same dream every night
To burn the world that you call civilized

Any way you want it
thats the way you need it
Anyway you want it

She loves to laugh
she loves to sing
she does everything
she loves to move

Information kept to myself and everybody wants to know,
I trust the words of no one else cause I've been there before,
Your voice is wasted 'cause I'm not listening

These callused fingers are wrapped around a black ball-point pen,
These eyes don't wander as far as they at one time did,
I've seen the future, it's fading faster

Any way you want it
That's the way you need it,
Any way you want it...

She loves to dance,
She loves to sing,
She does everything.
She loves to move,

Anyway you want it
that's the way you need it
Anyway you want it

She loves to dance
she loves to sing
she does everything
she loves to move

Anyway you want it
That’s the way you need it
Anyway you want it

She loves to dance
She loves to sing
She does everything
She loves to move

We've been alright up until now,
But the air that we breathe
Is about to run out.
We've rehearsed our lines
Clear and loud,
But the cue never came and the lights,
They never went down.
So we're passing the time

Are there no fighters left here anymore?
Are we the generation we've been waiting for?
Or are we patiently burning, waiting to be saved?

Our heroes, our icons have mellowed with age.
Following rules that they once disobeyed.
They're now being led when they used to lead the way

I can still remember
The words and what they meant
As we etched them with our fingers
In years of wet cement.
The days blurred into each other,
Though everything seemed clear:
We cruised along at half speed
But then we shifted gears.

Hollis Brown
He lived on the outside of town
Hollis Brown
He lived on the outside of town
With his wife and five children
And his cabin brokin' down.

You looked for work and money

Chairs thrown and tables toppled,
Hands armed with broken bottles,
Standing no chance to win but
We're not running, we're not running.

There's a point I think we're missing,
It's in the air we raise our fists in,
In the smiles we cast each other

Simply because you can breathe,
doesnt mean youre alive,
or that you really live.
this life has taken its toll
and she just doesnt know,
how much more she can give

But here, at the top of the world, where I raise my hands and I clench my fists,

What if I’m right and you are wrong?
What if you knew it all along?
What if I figured out that I did not belong?

What if it always bothered me?
What if I never did believe?
Would it be wrong if I decided I should leave?

So come test me, so come break me,
So come on intoxicate me,
With hands tied behind my back
I fight and wait for you to strike.

A new problem: we cannot stop them,
We're outnumbered and uncautioned,
A rally cry rings out into the night:

his place rings with echoes of
Lives once lived, but now are lost
Times spent wondering about tomorrow

I don't care if we lose it all tonight
Up in flames, burning bright
Warming the air of the world

So come test me, so come break me
So come on intoxicate me
With hands tied behind my back I fight
And wait for you to strike

A new problem we cannot stop them
We're outnumbered and uncautioned
A rally cry rings out into the night

When faith alone is not enough,
To keep our heads barely above,
We look for reason and come up empty-handed.
And when our children fight our wars,
While we sit back just keeping score,
We're teaching murder not understanding now.

We're setting the fires to light the way,

In a world of uncertainty
The night sky told us all to be patient
But when the ground started shaking
I wondered for how long?

But there’s a place that i’d rather be
And there a voice deep inside of me saying
The progress we are making

I have seen what you call progress
Every warning sign ignored
And there's a muffled voice of reason
But we can't make out the words
And though the balance we struck was delicate
There was a sense of right and wrong
We tried to stem this flow with a tourniquet
But now the patient's dead and gone

Our buildings have fallen, our walls all caved in,
and we can't comprehend this sad state that we're in
so we sift through the ashes of what we've become
and surrender here one by one, so push us down

and we get right back up again,
the things you're telling me aren't making any sense,
right back up again,

hey, man did you hear
your final days are near?
a freefall of fire and ice
and explosions in the sky

a fate that we deserve
there's no escaping
no it's your turn

Invest time, invest life
Invest it all, reinvent yourself
Before you know it
Your essence is renewed with something fresh
Your will, your way
Will earn respect in your day
Let the glory sharpened knife
Carve the future of your life

hank you for your silence, your continuing compliance
It's your buried head so deep in sand that ushered in the virus
Oh no please don't lift a finger, don't get up, just sit right there
Don't worry about the thoughts inside your pretty little head

So we stick to the script and recite your lines
Don't break from the character just keep it inside

Breathe deep and easy, swallow this pride.
Stare at my shaking hands through bone dry, blood shot eyes.
Clocks strip the hours, I count the miles.
Will you be there waiting, awake until sunrise.

I've traveled in darkness, for what seems like days,
I've come from the sinkholes, collapsed under this weight.
I know not your sorrow, but I know mine,

Rise Against "Chamber the Cartridge"

Down beyond these city streets
through gutters filled with black debris
In alleys void of any light
Where nameless things live out of sight
Down through the scrapers of the sky
Past neon words glowing all night

(This is Noyes)

Down beyond these city streets through gutters filled with black debris
In alleys void of any light where nameless things live out of sight
Down through the scrapers of the sky past neon words glowing all night
Echoes my name between each car, "Are you happy where you are?"

Blind to this impending fate

When our rivers run dry and our crops cease to grow
And when our summers grow longer and winters won't snow
From the banks of the ocean and the ice in the hills
To the fight in the desert where progress stands still
When we've lost our will

That's how we'll know
This is not a test, oh no

We're losing daylight
But I can't work any faster.
Under the veil of dust we go on
Don't close your eyes.
What if it all disappears in the shadows
That reach from the stars?

If I held my ground

I never claimed to be something more than me,
Your standards are something that I refuse to see,
I will answer only to myself,
So why don’t you police someone else

The place I call home isn’t there anymore,
With boards on the windows and locks on the door,
So pick up the pieces that never once fit,

On dirt like stone
The life paste, the bones of men
That sought to overthrow
Or all that remains

Oh, what they stole
Was innocence, the slate once clean
Has gone as black as coal

the city grieves like widows clasping folded flags against their hearts
raindrops spill like dirt and roses on black coffins in the dark
not yet corpses, still we rot, oblivious to our decay
drinking poison drop by drop
destined to die

Unless we save our lives from the coming tide
That seeks to drown us in its waves

All the way at the bottom
Of the barrels we cry out
So ashamed of our tears that
We blame only ourselves
That's when they win
They keep us convinced
To lift up our chins
These playing fields are level

Deep inside these burning buildings
Voices die to be heard
Years we spent teaching a lesson
We ourselves had never learned
And if strength is born from heartbreak
Then mountains i could move
If walls could speak
I'd pray that they would tell me what to do

We don't sleep very much
These triggers ache for the touch
Where's the strength we relied on?
Fear alone, like a crutch,
Maybe that's what keeps us up
All night with the light on

All these screams emulate

And on that day they'll tell you
That life hung on with no clue
The warning signs were all just missed or shattered down
So it goes
The kings all failed to tell us
The madmen failed to sell us
Of what would then befall the only life we know

on that day, they'll tell you
that life hummed on with no clue
the warning signs were all
dismissed or shouted down
so it goes
the kings all failed to tell us
the madmen failed to sell us
on what would then become

Вся наша жизнь - лишь представление,
Мы жертвы расстройств своего же разума,
Мы говорим и делаем то, что прикажут.
Все мы - это просто милые лица,
Закупоренная злость в блестящей обертке,
Упакованные синтезированные версии себя.

Все мы сколотили неплохие состояния,

In the face
Of change
That's when she turned to me and said
"I'm not sure anymore"

And there
Amidst the waves and the cloudless skies
That blanket the year before

Wait,
I'm not listening to you now
I wasn't listening to you then
I know that nothing will be the same again
There's only so much I can handle
Only so much I can take
Before my knees start to buckle
And my arms start to shake

[Verse]
Keeping up appearances, don't break now
We're buckled from the weight
Pretend to laugh, but don't laugh too loud

[Pre-Choorus]
Do you feel the pressure building?
The anger spilling out now

Someday I'll feel no pain
Someday I won't have a brain
They'll take away the part that hurts
and let the rest remain

Fix me
Fix my head
Fix me please,

I'll meet you in the shadows that come at night
I'll listen to your cries through the door
If you won't let me in, I'll just wait outside
Until you're ready I will just be ignored
I'll find you when you hide in the darkest cave
And be there when you emerge
I will shield your eyes from the blinding light
Is there a prayer to lift this curse

We are the children you reject and disregard
These aching cries come from the bottom of our hearts
You can't disown us now, we are your own flesh and blood
We don't disappear just because your eyes are shut,
Now tell me

Love, Loss
Like a bullets path

Getting trampled under boots of progess,
Ignore the pleading of the nameless faces,
Now with our backs against the wall
How long 'till we fall?

Do away with all the underpriviledged,
Demographic doesn't fit your image,
Turn your blind eye, when duty calls

Break through the undertow,
Your hands I cant seem to find,
Pollution burns my tongue,
Cough words I can't speak so I

Stop my struggling,
Then I float to the surface,
Fill my lungs with air,

Break through the undertow, your hands I cant seem to find,
pollution burns my tongue, cough words I can`t speak so I

stop my struggling, then I float to the surface,
fill my lungs with air, then let it out

I give it all, this is the reason why I sing,
I give it all, and its these reasons that belong to me

Break through the undertow,
Your hands I cant seem to find,
Pollution burns my tongue,
Cough words I can't speak so I

Stop my struggling,
Then I float to the surface,
Fill my lungs with air,

Buried words
Under lights
Soundtrack to this stagnant life
This meaning lost in translation
Message sucked out of his hands again
This could be my great awakening
But how would I know
Cuz it's all noise to me

A sinking ship, an awkward kiss,
A chance to set things straight,
The kind of hurt that burns and burns
Like fires we can't contain

We hole up in a shelter made of bones and ice,
And there we'll wait
To start again

Is this the point where we give up?
Is this the point where we give in?
Is this the point where
We turn ourselves in?

Is this the time to ask questions?
Is this the time to seek answers?
Is this the time to throw it all in?

The day I learn to fly
I'm never coming down
On perfect wings I'll rise
Through the layers of the clouds

Right from there
I see the neon grids of cities
And six million

I have my mother's dreams,
I have my father's eyes,
You can't take that from me,
Just go ahead and try.
The cursed city sleeps,
Watch Ions in the sky,
Preparing to unleash,
Let loose a mighty cry.

He said "Son, have you seen the world?
Well, what would you say if I said that you could?
Just carry this gun and you'll even get paid."
I said "That sounds pretty good."

Black leather boots
Spit-shined so bright
They cut off my hair but it looked alright

Even though we know, yeah,
We know,
Our time has almost come,
We're all overdue.
Can there be a place to call our own?
Can there be a road that takes us home?

We toe the line (toe the line).

On pins and needles we are waiting for the fall
We count the days scratching lines on the wall
Wait in the wings at someone's beck and call
No longer recognize the place that call home
No longer recognize this face as my own
Somewhere this fate I lost control

We backed down, we took no

Do you spend your days
Counting the hours you're awake?
And when night covers the sky
You find yourself doing the same,
There's a burden you've been bearing
In spite of all your prayers,
There's a light turned off inside your heart,
Can you remember

Do you spend your days counting the hours you're awake?
And when night covers the sky you find yourself doing the same
There's a burden you've been bearing in spite of all your prayers
There's a light turned off inside your heart
Can you remember what it's like to care?

Knees are weak, hands are shaking, I can't breathe

With your eyes
Glazed and half-smiled
Explain to me the details of your God-given right

You point your finger
In my face but
You can't remember what you did last night

There, high on the watchtower,
Keeping the peace,
Whatever that means,
Cause you see the world through
Crosshairs and TVs, don't you?

Ten foot walls built around us,
White picket death,

This night will fall like any other
Daylight subsides and shadows crawl
Out from under black corners
Hiding something stirs
All so restless
Cracked windows open wide
Dead-bolt turns. Doors creak open
Whispers and moonlight there to guide

(Jane, he's a freak)
(But so am I)
(And we'll always be freaks and we'll never be like other people)
(And you'll never be a freak 'cause you're just ... too perfect)

Late nights and bloodshot eyes,
Clock ticking half past five,
We're barely breathing but we're still alive. Go!

Fighting back the impulse
Turn my head and close my eyes
Spending these nights awake and cold and paralyzed
Wonder how we got this far and
Never realized the common thread that binds our lives
And I know you hurt
But I can help you if you can...
Take my hand

Suffering from something we're not sure of
In a world there is no cure for
These lives we live test
Negative for happiness
Flat line,
No pulse, but eyes open
Single file like soldiers on a mission
If there's no war outside our heads

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

[Chorus:]

Far from home on a road unknown
Where the vultures circle on winds that blow
From northern skies that haunt these waking moments
On shadows cast by the mountain range
On calloused soles we find our way
Through desperate eyes we long for the horizon
While this sun is rising

This time, this time, making Christmas, making Christmas
Making Christmas, making Christmas, making Christmas is so fine
It's ours this time and won't the children be surprised?
It's ours this time

Making Christmas, making Christmas, making Christmas
Time to give them something fun
They'll talk about for years to come

Love like needle full of methadone
Potent but not real left you wanting more

Lipstick track-marks bleeding wet
Like Montagues and Capulets
For us, child, the stars refuse to shine
Why for us, child, do the stars refuse to shine?

I still chase your ghost
I still walk these streets
And feel your hand inside my own
Why do we have to run away to feel at home
We spent lifetimes waiting
Still waiting on the day
When home is the only way we tolerate the pain
And I woke up

Stand by to switch on, we fire on all pistons
We're singing along but no one is listening
From dusk until dawn we stay up to carry the flame
And when it's all said and done in these alternate endings
When nothing is left but the stragglers and empties
We're sleeping it off just to wake up and start it again
So burn the statues to the ground, it's time to lay your weapons down
Bound for glory on this train but there's a bridge out up ahead

Fighting back the impulse
Turn my head and close my eyes
Spending these nights awake and cold and paralyzed
Wonder how we got this far and
Never realized the common thread that binds our lives
And I know you hurt
But I can help you if you can...
Take my hand

This time. This time.
Making Christmas. Making Christmas.
Making Christmas. Making Christmas, is so fine.
It's ours this time and won't the children be surprised.
It's ours this time.
Making Christmas. Making Christmas. Making Christmas.
Time to give them something fun
they'll talk about for years to come,

We are the nowhere generation
We are the kids that no one wants
We are a credible threat to the rules you set
A cause to be alarmed
We are not the names that we've been given
We speak a language you don't know
We are the nowhere generation
The nowhere generation

To all you people standing proud, thinking you know what I’m about:
I think you can fuck yourself
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….

One last thing I beg you please,
Just before you go I've watched you
Fly on paper wings half way round the world
until they burned up in the atmosphere
And sent you spiraling down
Landing somewhere far from here
With no one else around to catch you falling down
And I'm looking at you now

My god is better than yours
And the walls of my house
Are so thick i hear nothing at all

I followed you out in the storm
But it carried you off
And I burned every picture of yours
Was that not enough?

Warm yourself by the fire, son,
And the morning will come soon.
I’ll tell you stories of a better time,
In a place that we once knew.

Before we packed our bags
And left all this behind us in the dust,
We had a place that we could call home,

[Verse]
I hear your voice in the wind
It follows me, it cuts right through the noise
As we spin... on dance floors made of ice
So rest your hand in mine
Steady now, ignore the sound
Of breaking lines
The crack beneath our feet as time runs out

Warm yourself by the fire, son,
And the morning will come soon.
I’ll tell you stories of a better time,
In a place that we once knew.

Before we packed our bags
And left all this behind us in the dust,
We had a place that we could call home,

Перевоспитание (Путём труда)

Под звук рваного сердцебиения,
Под ритм ужасных ржавых машин,
Мы трясемся и крутимся, и никогда не спим.
Каждый новый вдох делает нас ворами
Как причины без бунта
Просто говори, но никогда больше ничего не обещай

Под звуки колотящихся сердец,
Под ритм ужасных ржавых механизмов
Мы ворочаемся с боку на бок, но не спим.
Каждый наш вздох делает нас ворами,
Кажется, мы на забастовке без бунтарей,
Только разговоры и обещания, и всё.

Мы ползаем на коленях в угоду вам,

Hold on, slow down
Again from the top now
And tell me everything,
I know I've been gone for
What seems like forever
But I'm here now waiting
To convince you that I'm
Not a ghost or a stranger

(It is, in the end,
Whatever the hell I want it to be,
And when I'm through with it,
It's gonna blow a hole, this wide, straight through
The world's own idea of itself.
They're throwing bottles at your house.
Come on, let's go break their arms.)

all these days
I'll forever cherish
in the confines of my heart
the faces of ten years ago
like fingerprints on my heart
how can I breathe
when fear chokes my every breath?
how can I balance

Tell me what I'm supposed to do,
With all these left over feelings of you;
'Cause I don't know

And tell me how I'm supposed to feel,
When all these nightmares become real;
'Cause I don't know

Tell me what I'm supposed to do,
With all these left over feelings of you;
'Cause I don't know

And tell me how I'm supposed to feel,
When all these nightmares become real;
'Cause I don't know

Sister, I have come to clear my name
Or at least try to
Is there something to free me from this pain?
Oh, what did I do now?
Following so many rules
Making so many mistakes
It keeps getting away from me
Because this life is a game I don't know how to play

please don't ask me how
I ended up at my wits end and beaking down
pages torn from books we never read
because we're plugged into this grid
don't pull this plug right now or then we'dreally have to live

when i die will they remember not what i did but what i haven't done?
it's not the end that i fear with each breath, it's life that scares me to death

so please don't ask me how
I ended up at my wits end and then breaking down
pages torn from books we never read
because we're plugged into this grid
don't pull this plug right now or then we'd really have to live

when i die will they remember not what i did but what i haven't done?
it's not the end that i fear with each breath, it's life that scares me to death

You can't feel the heat until you hold your hand over the flame
You have to cross the line just to remember where it lays
You won't know your worth now, son, until you take a hit
And you won't find the beat until you lose yourself in it

That's why we won't back down
We won't run and hide
Yeah cuz these are the things we can't deny

You can't feel the heat until you hold your hand over the flame
You have to cross the line just to remember where it lays
You won't know your worth now, son, until you take a hit
And you won't find the beat until you lose yourself in it

That's why we won't back down
We won't run and hide
Yeah, 'cause these are the things that we can't deny

It kills me not to know this
But I've all but just forgotten
What the color of her eyes was
And her scars or how she got them,
As the telling signs of age rain down
A single tear is dropping
Through the valleys of an aging face
That this world has forgotten...

It kills me not to know this but I've all but just forgotten
what the color of her eyes were and her scars or how she got them
as the telling signs of age rain down a single tear is dropping
through the valleys of an aging face that this world has forgotten

there is no reconciliation that will put me in my place
and there is no time like the present to drink these draining seconds
but seldom do these words ring true when I'm constantly failing you

Sight unseen, the road stretched out before me.
Suffocate - the water rising slowly.
Step in time, agree to share this pain.
Live or die now, but still we suffer just the same!

I took my share and then told her, "I don't want more"
We spend our lives, then ask you, what was this for,

The years unfold in one moment
The voices that we heard so loud
Are now suddenly silenced
Inside this crowd

And you're surrounded by the lives
Of those who found something to hold
So bringing everybody down

Trying to make a difference
But where the fuck did you go wrong?
Lying to all the names and faces
That have been there all along.

How can you ask me to just forget?
All the sick lines
And the words you said,

Trying to make a difference
But where the fuck did you go wrong?
Lying to all the names and faces
That have been there all along.

How can you ask me to just forget?
All the sick lines
And the words you said,

Here we burn the boats to ashes
After beaching on the shore
Looked back across the ocean
Said we're never going home
And our shadows killed the flowers
Our footsteps spoiled the land
It seems we're always in the way
No matter where we choose to stand

Come warm your hands
On hellfire and brimstone,
Empty the pockets
Of the innocent victim.

[Chorus:]
Bound by fear,
We misplace trust in your voice,

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

Countdown, to the very end,
Equality - an invitation that we wont extend
Ready, aim, pull the trigger now,

I'm floating in the clouds, i’m giving up the fight
A voice is calling out, I’m walking into the light

We used to race a thousand miles a day so fast
Feet they barely even touched the ground
We used to fly to places out beyond our own little world
The fury and the sound

We are names and we are faces
Not listed in the pages
You're searching line by line
The voices in the wire
The glass under your tires
The panic in your eyes
And when we start to lose control
And when we start to lose our minds

Somewhere between happy
And total fucking wreck
Feet sometimes on solid ground,
sometimes at the edge
To spend your waking moments simply killing time
Is to give up on your hopes and dreams,
to give up on your...

"What are you talking about? America isn't going to be destroyed"
"Never? Rome was destroyed, Greece was destroyed, Persia was destroyed, Spain was destroyed. All great countries are destroyed. Why not yours? How much longer do you really think your own country will last? Forever?"

Block the entrances, close the doors
Seal the exits cause this is war

All gave some, some gave all
But for what I wanna know

Am I loud and clear, or am I breaking up?
Am I still your charm, or am I just bad luck?
Are we getting closer, or are we just getting more lost?

I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse
Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

Am I loud and clear, or am I breaking up?
Am I still your charm, or am I just bad luck?
Are we getting closer, or are we just getting more lost?

I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse
Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

We're waiting for something to happen
But nothing is snapping us out of this trance
Our eyelids are heavy and soon we're all ready
To obey every single command
But I feel lost, no map in front of me
And I don't know which way is up
Wishing we could just hit pause
Just enough to breathe

[Spoken:]
The music blared with a calming frequency.
The speakers gently seeped the sounds of ambient keyboards and light percussion,
creating a seductive soundtrack to our midnight drive through curtains of blackness.
The windows were cold to the touch, reflecting the icy conditions in our immediate extremity.
Salt stains and fingerprints littered the glass, and streets with melted snow cascaded down its length.
The music pulsed louder, yet gentle, like the far away squeal of a pot of boiling water.
The skyline was glowing faintly with vague hints of an impending dawn.

I'm not fucking blind to the way
That you talk around the truth
Not just what you say
But what you do
Played this tug of war way too fucking long
Like every time
Again I've lost
You've won

A currency of heartache and sorrow
The air we breathe is stale with mold
To shadows we are slaves
Digging deeper everyday
But emptiness is growing so old

Headlamps light the tunnels we wander
They shimmer and they dance on the walls

She got down on hands and knees,
One ear against the ground,
Holding her breath to hear something
But the dirt made not a sound tonight

Echoes of songs still lurk
On distant foreign shores
Where we danced just to please the gods

Spray paint the cameras
Jam the frequency
What you kill just comes alive in me
Hoods and bandanas make not an enemy
You can’t define us anyway you please

You make the rules we make the calls
My conscience clean my sins absolved

I'm calling out
Only echoes respond
But I scream 'til my voice is gone
Crouching in corners and hiding your face
I'm sick and tired of playing your games

I'm not alone
I stand amongst the voiceless

Men walking 'long the railroad tracks
Going someplace, there's no going back
Highway patrol choppers coming up over the ridge
Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Shelter line stretching 'round the corner
Welcome to the new world order
Families sleeping in the cars in the southwest
No home, no job, no peace, no rest

In fields where nothing grew but weeds
I found a flower at my feet,
Bending there in my direction.
I wrapped a hand around its stem,
I pulled until the roots gave in,
Finding there what I'd been missing,

But I know, so I tell myself,

We're biding time as we wait for the signal
Sharpening blades
While we wait out the storm
These cold nights are almost unbearable
But purpose keeps us warm
Pledge allegiance
While crossing our fingers
A bark with no bite

Welcome home
While away
They have tampered with the locks
And your things they rearranged

We propose a better way.
Said the note they left behind
In their wake of disarray

And all the things that we tie together
Keep unraveling apart,
And the light that used
To burn so bright now is dark.
With anger-faced intent we set fire
To the bridges that remain and
They're wading through the current now

Dancing on the crumbling precipice
The rocks are coming lose just at the end
Are we laughing? Are we crying?
Are we drowning? Are we dead?

Or is it all a dream?

The bombs are getting closer everyday

Once upon a time I could take anything, anything.
Always stepped in time, regardless of the beat
I moved my feet, I carried weight
When I could not do a thing
And I'm done seeking treasure
Just to wake up in an early grave
So I stopped right there and said

Are we so alone, so distant,
So forgotten
As we think ourselves to be?
These are our lives
But did they ever even matter?
Are we worth remembering?

[Bridge:]

If I could paint how I feel
I'd draw bullseye on your forehead,
My anger is not misdirected
Unless it somehow misses you

[Chorus:]
Time spent on hate
Is time gone to waste,

[Bridge:]
So look in my eyes, what will you
Leave behind once you're gone?
(So precious)
You got what you came for,
Now I think it's time to move on
(When will you say?)
But these ghosts come alive

On clearer days I can see the lights from my bedroom door,
On windy nights I can smell the lake as it drifts to me from the shore
The traffic lights silently change a thousand times a day
But I'm still waiting, yeah I'm still waiting

What if my hand could block the sun?
Would we ever wake up?
What if I turned back all these clocks?

On the edges of the sharpest knives
In the middle of the darkest nights
Always knew that I would find you here
In a puddle of the bravest tears
I’ve seen enough to know
It’s lonely where you are

Above the crowd, feet dangling

As I watch your life go up in flames,
You'll swear up and down
You'd like to change,
But when the sun sinks
Slowly into the sky,
Now you're right where you started again
With nothing to say,
Without an argument or case,

Wake me up inside,
Tell me there's a reason
To take another step
To get up off my knees and
Follow this path of most resistance,
And wherever it takes us,
Whatever it faces and wherever it leads

Can you hear the desperate cries
That are calling out your name?
Twisting your arms, holding out their hands
And tugging at your sleeve
Do you feel this underlying
Sense of urgency or are you as blind as me?

I hit the ground and I'm still running

Do you see the world in different colors?
Do you see the world in black and gray?
Alone in your thoughts how many others
Have stood where you stand
Where you stand today?
Have stood where you stand
But all, can you...

speak with hesitation
talk with reservation
blood on your hands dried long since
but guilt still glowing in your eyes

you hide behind
(and now this blood has long since dried)
your perfect crime

[Verse 1]
All hail, the jester has landed
In flyover country he sings
Charmed like a snake in a basket
Should be curled up and ready to spring
We're raising our cross just to burn it
The clergy are selling their souls
Clearing a path, ignoring the facts

To the ends of this lost world
You have marched and you have sworn
To a tainted crown of thorns.

As the hungry sails unfurl
We are thrusted from the shore
And it's you that we search for.

Light up the torches and wake up the King
The smoke you’ve ignored is a flame you can’t contain

We circle the walls and claw at the dirt
We growl from our guts and howl until it hurts

I told her come with me
And I can take you from this place now

Set me off like dynamite strapped tight around my waist
We are the ones in competition but claim this ain't no race

(Let's go!)

Take a breath and explode like bullets
Tearing through the wind
Cut me up with a razor blade

Settling in here for the long haul
Can’t hide forever is what they say
In with the wind, out with a bang
Meanwhile nothing has changed

With each word slowly uttered
A storm brews in her eyes
A missed shot at the buzzard