As Cities Burn

They fixed your brain when you were young. They fixed your brain when you were young. They fixed your brain, they fixed it...before you knew the difference. And if the Good Lord's good sheep do their jobs, you would never see they were wolves underneath. But...

when will the weak shame the strong and not collapse into our own arms when will we raise our flags past half-mast and not collapse into our own arms but shame will keep us who we are shame is the anchor tied around my ankle shame keeps me low and close to th...

i would be one of them and wouldn't feel so alone currents grind and scales shine upon a watery way down shorelines are far from here but i don't need them at all just our hands and our eyes as we walk upon the waterline and how could i have looked away from...

so I hear there's a whole world out there but I've grown to love this bed too much to leave it if love really drives out fear then I pray it's her voice I've been hearing outside my door one more time, love, won't you come remind me I'm someone believed in I'...

well, it's yours you can have it if it means the much to you don't let me stop you don't let me stop you now stretch me out across the table turn my insides out turn me into someone else someone more like yourself stretch me out bother not with ties, i promi...

Evil Evil wears a suit on the screen With a hotline You call to buy your blessing In the holy name Came a profit Putting his hands in the pockets Of all the thoughtless and naive I've got nothing to say to you I've got nothing to say to you I've got nothing t...

Is your love really Love? Is my love really Love? I think our love isn't Love, Unless it's Love to the end. Is your god really God? Is my god really God? I think our god isn't God, If he fits inside our heads. 

Hearts aren't really our guides. We are truly alone. 'Cause God ain't up in the sky, Holding together our bones. Remember we used to speak. Now I'm starting to think, Your voice was really my own, Bouncing off the ceiling back to me. God, this can't be. God,...

It's a shame What I thought of her When I saw her That way It didn't change What You thought of her She's been Your daughter Since she was made Since I was made I've been leaving I'd say I'd change But I wouldn't believe it It's 'cause my legs They don't fo...

And I was a middle son, between two wayward ones. I was more deserving of my parents love. I had an angels smile, hiding a vultures bite. I had no use for your redeeming blood. Aren't I glory, glorious? Glory, glorious. Aren't we glory, glorious? Aren't we...

No I won't play that song, to hear you singing it back. It is all wrong. If I ever told the truth, he was never dead, at least not to you. But you still sing, you still do. We are so young. We are so young now. Hold your head up for the world to spin aroun...

wasting away in his room alone as thoughts carry him back back to a place called home where has daddy gone one could only wish he knew as the questions pile up the memories are few on the day he turned seven years old he waited by the mailbox in the cold watc...

I've been looking for a new course A different way to say your name, to hear your voice I've gotta find new chords Well how my new body, it shines Somehow your blood makes you blind To our divine, I am all yours We will wear compassion We will wear it And the...

father this is all I have all is yours, even my last breath from the ends of the earth, my heart cries “lead me to the rock that is higher than I” you sure don’t need me but for some reason you want me can I become what you’ve meant me to be? father this is al...

unless you can part my ribs like the sea and make stone beat, then there's no hope for me unless the east never meets the west unless you set my sin between your shoulderblades and forget part my ribs like the sea and change me 'cause stone doesn't beat and...

And it's alright, it's alright And it's alright, it's alright Everybody is a failure in this light And it's okay, it's okay And it's okay, it's okay Underneath it nobody's back is straight And I'll try to stop it when I saw your posture start to bend But ho...

if something said could serve as thread to her wound i'd commit to it i'd tell my tongue to tell of it until it broke my jaw until she saw that from the bottles we break her reflections make in this sea of glass, will she see at last the girl i've seen all alo...

I can explain why I cannot give my heart back. I left it with my Lady Blue. What was her name? She flew in, I caught her. I was a fool to let her go. She goes, shes goes with her hollow bones, she goes. Every year she's back for the season. I have to keep my...

right now is the time for the tired and forgotten tired and forgotten to turn in our legs, crippled from our own way and strength and let us strap compassion to our chests and run as if we never knew how until now we will wear compassion we will wear it on ou...

this is me at my darkest looking down from my tower to heaven my reputation is what I am on the scale in the eyes of mankind the more I get beneath me, the higher, and more out of reach teacher, which of us will be the greatest we will wear compassion we will...

We bear your name, then you let us say you are something that your not. As if you were made after we saw our own faces, and knew we were gods enough. I think we were made too pretty. We're caught up in a stare we cannot break. We know nothing changes too slo...

We can always expect to lose radio, radio contact. Radio transmission every time that, I let our fair moon. Lay her body between us, I need her now that you're breaking up. Soon she'll become my new sun. Soon she'll become. She's stealing her light from the o...

I watched you float away on a wave of want and misery now I've got to find you I watched you float away on whatever caught your eye now I've got to find you 'cause I've got to keep your head above the water while the current pulls me under I will hang my life...

when will the weak shame the strong and not collapse into our own arms when will we raise our flags past half-mast and not collapse into our own arms but shame will keep us who we are shame is the anchor tied around my ankle shame keeps me low and close to th...

I'm sure if you wanted to stop love, You could just untie your end and let it go. But, my God, you don't. Yeah, I think I love you for it. You're still sending cells to their rightful places, When forming more likely to escape. Such a narrow way of life. What...

Is this it at the top I didn't know there was not a ceiling Or that the air up here was so thin I just want my wanting to stop I know you warned us of drought We didn't believe it Now we can't keep water from freezing You are just in time to move aside No one...

Before you, your mom and your dad used to smoke in the Texas sun. They were young once too. And your mom she found Jesus, while your old man stepped out and drew up his veins. It's quiet in the house of the old. You can hear through grinding teeth, clocks tak...

I peel back the staples I’m leaving a space where your frame used to hang I’m leaving holes in the wall and holes in my heart now let’s begin at forgetting and we’ll end at forgotten I’ll be forgotten as soon as you let go...let go seeing you today was like lo...

Am I a monster when I sink my teeth into her When I don't love her No, I don't love you Forgive me darling, but love has nothing to do with this It has nothing to do with how I can't stop Till I get what I want from you This is what real men keep quiet...

They say that good boys walk straight on white lines. Good boys keep their livers clean, And smoke out of their lungs. 'Cause it's all about what you've done, Good boys don't make mistakes to learn from. 'Cause when heaven comes, They won't be caught being yo...

in slaying myself i will start now in slaying myself i will start now i am run by the use of my own hand's knife to kill the life i've held too tight i dress me in maroon the new is in bloom this knife, the life i have in you, runs me through this knife, the...

and i will hold i will hold your head above the water while the current pulls me under as long as you have breath, my dear i will dance with death and i will hang my life in the space between the noose and your neck and i won't let you die just yet i will lo...

how can I stop this stubborn heart from pumping blood to what’s left of you in me can’t you see that I’m growing weak and your memory’s a leech the temperature of your voice fires my fever to keep me from the cold of losing you...I’m losing you but you look so...

Dead man, were you ever alive? Or was I just a seed buried deep inside Some woman you wed Right before you crawled out of her bed and crept down the hall? Did you think of me? Did you even for a second hesitate in the doorway? It's just something that I'd like...

focus on the horizon, men should you grow seasick but don't expect silhouettes of rescuer ships coming coming, they aren't coming for us we've got prices on our heads and millstones around our necks we try to live forgiven but they won't let us forget the b...

well, I've got a will but I want yours I've got a growing heap of crosses and burdens I've simply lost heart to shoulder simply no strength to lift I've always been a man in need 'cause I keep stepping in and out of the shadow caught by the drift and pitch of...

She's now my new sun. She don't speak but somehow calls me. Automated exchanges make us not lovers, But feigners, we are only strangers. Not estranged to regret, Not estranged to what follows our faulty steps. Ocean tides move to the voice of the moon, Stra...

It's not the cold making my legs shake, It's Timmy's ghost taking his place in our hearts forever. It's not the sound keeping me from sleep, It's what Jesus said about hell underneath. I think I'd rather believe it's some imaginary place, Made up to make chil...

a fist through the wall never solved anything it just worried mom just like the bullets down the barrel of growing up this must be home where mothers abandon their young and fathers are further than the faintest star we are family we'd return to dust if it m...

let the dead bury their own dead will you still love me in famine as when love began at the harvest or would you gain the whole world son, I love you at your darkest but what good is the whole world when I promise no tomorrow I only promise your tomorrows wil...

If I make it to heaven I may be as bloody as hell. Would you still take me? I'm afraid that you might say, "Depart from me, I never knew you." I'm in the wrong body. I'm in the wrong body. I'm in the wrong body. I must have stumbled in. All the love I want t...