Boy Sets Fire

I can remember when there were times I thought we'd never eat again, And salvation was our drinking Things were different then, it was five of us against the world but then, The world sure seemed much smaller Broken down, down and out Out of gas, out...

Front and center... Ten percent pulled apart vilified tolerate but only to patronize Hang a noose like a crucifix dangles high Leg breaking for your sheep becomes suicide Sticking to your guns provokes an ugly picture Of a child gagging on those same...

I won't lay my dreams on your altar of sacrifice Take it, the lies that you hold dear no longer affect me As your life is bought and sold I'll sit back and laugh At your burning, draining, dying world Dried out, killed, overused; drained of all that yo...

Find myself through sight of a gun and selling war never looked so fun Stand in line for the latest attraction dressed up murder like it's hip And in fashion Walked in like we owned the place – bright light corpse Trigger pressed down sweat is cold – I...

I said I'm crazy one more time Pick up the phone and wonder why So many years of hidden drinks Pushed down too far to ever win Locked doors and hidden ghosts Denied myself with every joke This was not me This could never be me Locked doors an...

How many times Have you noticed that our eyes Hardly ever meet From your judgment seat I feel the anger for my very being Fill me in On when you became such a big part of my life That i should bother With all your lies designed to bring me down...

They say that what does not kill you Only makes you stronger Well maybe some of us are just too sick And tired of being so damn strong And I can't reach for a reason to look in your eyes Like it doesn't matter at all. Falling down, crying out And...

Do you feel alive now that you own the dead Praying on their corpses, their hearts no longer feel Your sainthood is obvious on every starving face Your deception's given us a way to separate The poor from their hate, the rich from the stone Genuflect...

Broadcast. talking words. real words. painful words. makes you look so cheap. you can't stand on your own. and i have ceased to care. digging. digging deeper. digging for your precious heir. discredit. the job's too easy and so painful. and way to fuck...

Hate is a strong word, But not strong enough For a vision so bereft of life. Pseudo intellect, Stuck in the artifacts Of distant glories passing you on by. Run, scramble for the taste. Just one more chance in case. You can suck the life from the insid...

My hands are washed clean. But I still haven't forgotten. Your hands will never wash clean. You will be forgotten. 

Boring forced and sterile became a cause unique False martyrdom enslaving through secondhand critiques Bridge gaps to leave the wrong notes make our standards weak Placing blame on those around you living out your cheap fallacies Breathe in, bleed out T...

In this culture I am just the meat for vultures to pick until My beauty shows for your glossy covers and in the classy circles smother Have I nothing more to give And I would rather starve than lose this body I would rather starve than lose your accept...

Fall, kneel and beg Crying and blind Just try harder And you will find the way to everlasting sight Don't take this light away, it never did you any harm Just when i though i'd find my way Pageantry are all the same So here i am Defiled and div...

In demonstration our failures all aside We can burn this whole fucking system down And drive the bastards out Spit in the cynic's eye Has passion all run dry Expression of anger Testify... fight... Frustration as a catalyst Our lifesblood and i...

[The average American citizen is taught to be passive. He learns at an early age that obedience and submission will lead to a reward, often unattainable and almost always at his own detriment. Marx discussed this idea in Das Kapital when he refers to religion...

[Often in the process of electing political officials, the voices and ideas of candidates other than those offered by the two major political parties, fall upon deaf ears. This creates a streamlining of the views held by political hopefuls, forcing them to con...

[It is the belief of Marx that the personal is dead; that all is the political. Throughout history this can be seen as true; that the choices we make every day influence and shape the world around us. Edmund Bruce wrote in his book Reflections that government...

"broadcast. talking words. real words. painful words. makes you look so cheap. you can't stand on your own. and i have ceased to care. digging. digging deeper. digging for your precious heir. discredit. the job's too easy and so painful. and way to fucking rea...

[Exemplifying the current standards placed on United States political officials, the relaxation of many ethics has come to warp and often replace the code of conduct originally expressed in writing to protect against corruption. Once in place, a new code of et...

"now my life is full of so many simple crutches. they help me walk they help me sleep the help me suffer. hte love was never there and I just didn't seeit. the weapons take on so many painful attachments, the faces change but they all tell the same damn story....

The rise of power through fake crises The cry of weakness and alarm You're nothing more than a coward Preaching paranoid self harm Further reaching down Here it comes once again You'd be better off dead Your martyr complex knows one song And you'v...

My eyes have burned With a fire that I could not prevent It burned their nation's children And crushed their patriot Dead the hate we sent them so many years ago Returned to haunt them Leads us against the foe With out fire Their land O...

In town for one night only lust, fame and a feeding of the holy A new king is crowned for your delight yeah all right Single file it's just that easy...a mere man to adore, and believe me Soon you'll be screaming crucify with delight Take it back befor...

You've grown so far away That nothing's going to change Pass hopeless silence And exploited rage Another toxic cycle Another sleepless night Another twisted alibi To drive And I've been standing by Reminding myself of every lie There's nothing lef...

It's not enough to say you're sorry It's not enough to say you care. The flowers that you sent were lovely, But they won't take root anywhere. Why I didn't learn the first time, Not to ask you back around. All my friends think that I'm crazy, No...

Relax, just sit back and absorb Make sure you’ve got all that you can’t afford Listen for your cue, to help you deal with the shame It makes you wonder who is holding on to the reigns It’s the way it's always been and the way it will remain It doesn’t mat...

Our shadows dance to every fear on the face of open graves This coming fire is to be and I refuse to be enslaved Vultures of the invocation Pick the bones of resignation Dissolution is impending No escape this is the calling Don't panic... Don't pa...

Legislate forget the facts of your drug war casualty So many dead but you wear your morals on your sleeve for all to see And the billboards lie - denial thrives - Which is the crime and which is the lie And who defines it Policing the oppressed Whi...

Here I am with my empire, I’ll bring you to your knees Ebb and flow with my desire, cause it's all that you’ve been taught to be Yeah I’m the bastard son of what’s been overcome, and again we plant the seed So place your fork to mouth, eat, consume, be pro...

I create my own. I no longer revolve around your resentment. I can smell the hatred behind your tearing sneer I am no longer threatened by this judgment throne. lies. dead. stagnant. change. forgetting one more day. I could really care less about your...

Now you've thrown your past agreements into the fire And your government's become a whore For outside interests that now enslave the poor Now you've thrown your past agreements into the fire And your government's become a whore For outside interests that...

Live it seems, will fade away Drifting further every day Getting lost within myself Nothing matters no one else I have lost the will to live Simply nothing more to give There is nothing more for me Need the end to set me free Things not what t...

I've done my best to sing along to simple anthems I've watched the rest of your design live a lie There's only time and static air set to denial of my life Let me fall from grace Cause I will never be willing I will no longer be willing I will fall fro...

So here's the door, I changed the lock and time ten minutes past I love you (gotta fight the urge to start again) Despite the cost or rhyme, we lose and change our mind, before we even try Circles—corners—gravity forces us Back to where we started from...

Shackles kill but look so lovely Maintain reputation Squeezed to fit the mold she's made to Living their aesthetics Giving freely but dishonor Sun peeling resource Glued to paper for their anger, her beauty Someone please acknowledge me Whatev...

Justify, as if it were our right to say Now decide, which liar you trust and which one chose our fate (Chorus) Fed in time as a choice we think we're making It's the guns that we know vs. the guns we never will When illusions burn where will we be left s...

Ideals of beauty set to color in savvy death camp chic The runways turn to gauntlets of disgrace and sickness For your spectacle your piece Freeze - her hollow eyes now give you anything Dead - she never saw it coming anyway Acceptance is the starvin...

The sick and tired refrain of everyday is branding itself into you Discouragement defined by all the times when everything just falls apart And your skeletons have broken down the door and left you there for dead How do we find a little piece of heaven...

The hand of god the writ of law demands moral tradition Self satisfied beyond repair we are called to earthly missions To set the laws, maintain the rules, impose our will To manifest our destiny, oh what a thrill Raise the banners and the flags Dumb it...

Bleed out all empathy This vessel has no spirit left to hold on To lies I've lived in full How long can I hold tight with every movement Tension binds and denies my true nature The Balance has shifted, warped sick and twisted Grabbing at angels when I fall B...

So you been to school For a year or two And you know you've seen it all In daddy's car Thinkin' you'll go far Back east your type don't crawl Play ethnicky jazz To parade your snazz On your five grand stereo Braggin' that you know How the niggers fe...

I used to love you I can't stand the sight of your fucking face You have helped to build The walls that keep me in my place The trust I gave no longer comforts The trust I gave in you've broken under And all that lies you've etched in your stone...

I-ya, I against I, Flesh of my flesh, And mind of my mind, Two of a kind but one won't survive, My images reflect in the enemy's eye, And his images reflect in mine the same time, I-ya, I-ya, I against I, Flesh of my flesh, And mind of my...

In hope this little angel will be free from all of their poisons And in hope I grind my knees into the floor Praying that he'll never have to feel the pain I have felt Walking through glass ignorant of the pain in my feet His sweet little hands, innoc...

"Mercy. victim. of your own ego's creed of your own postulation. maintain your pure design. your pride. too many punches pulled. iscariotic lips. betrayal of your own words, and actions. unmoving. unchanging. staggering. inactive. destroy. their fables...

not in the running, but this rain is nothing new to me anyway. i see my reflection, no where near who i should be. the spirit is willing, but the anchors of my flesh still hold me down. with every distraction, i lose more of who i should be... how many...

Discontent in this life as is, our mechanisms deviate Rust debrided inspires change, and leaves behind exhausted dreams -ignition engaged- So save your wishes for the sky, diluted and disguised, as a perfect fuel that wonьt ignite But hope will heal us a...

Always had the dream Now I have the action Broken down disasters smoke filled empty rooms Spent my time hearing "this is wrong" And life of eye to eye to head to head You'll never understand what this means to me Not for approval, not yours any...

Sacrifice, did it really mean that much to them As it was killing you They've locked you out after all that you have done for them You toil yet they profit more Save yourself today in tearing down the design that they built with our hands Struggle by...

How many times have I noticed that our eyes hardly ever meet Feel the anger for my very being From your judgment seat I can Fill me in on when you became such a big part of my life That I should bother with all your lies designed to bring me down Don...

Long night is finally over, silent sounds like a choir And dead refrains sing out there warning, for the lose of desire But this could be our greatest moment in this trial of fire We decide, It's the pain that we share, lets us know were alive, Whil...

Breathe. Breathe in the burning air… then sigh. Be relieved there's nothing there We were free long before your free advice Now the flags, they will burn in paradise Rest your head here Feed our nation for us please And retreat to the back of our lin...

Force-fed on a hunger strike, tag them dead before you focus in, Spoon feed the impact that you leave us with Bring denial with a worldwide expansion team brand so deep into our minds That it soon becomes our history and image that's been marketed well...

There's only one way out (Whooo-oh) And you'll never find it 'til you find it on your own Rise up to find yourself (Whooo-oh) Even flames that burned you into ashes long ago This fight begins as it will end It's you and me and the gasoline Igniting our...

In the valley there's a rising cleansing tide, And did you notice that we've all been left behind? But there's a chance that we'll survive In a new age of pride and clever grace A light beyond the pious stale embrace Of self-deceit that keeps us in our...

From black panthers and the c.i.a Into a sharp wit with a stupid slag We've gone and dug our own hole cause everybody knows We eat our own So busy fighting each other while the real bastards run for cover We shoot our own leaders down Before those...

I never thought this could be me I guess you never do Until it's happening to you Like all the fun turns into shame And all the 'could have beens' Rearrange So little time so many crimes Guilt like a chain chokes my will away Redemption never s...

You've seen my desires live and die for you Insighting a fire in a darkened tomb It's never enough, but i promise you I'll still be right here if you ever do I'm not gonna lie you know the truth So believe me Please believe i've lost myself inside...

A Citizen's Duty: The story of America is a story best seen through the eyes of it's people. It is a story built on the idea of freedom, through the common efforts of a nation united. America, now over 200 years old, is a country that is different from all o...

My mouth is full of your inspiration Cut me, size me down for your regulation Nothing stands so close to driving Nothing gets tense or biting Nothing stands in the way It's all right Your walls are still white Location is everything, or so it seems Wri...

In a moment of weakness they've gone for the throat Prayers answered for the ruling classes, and we swallowed them whole Heads down and hands up our need for safety has been hijacked again They've got their fingers on the pulse of our mourning with knive...

I used to love you I can't stand the sight of your fucking face You have helped to build The walls that keep me in my place The trust I gave no longer comforts The trust I gave in you've broken under And all that lies you've etched in your stone...

She cries… it's freedom that we need, but I have yet to see a cause to believe (I need to feel it, please just let me feel all right) It comes in waves of need, ten ways to make you bleed before you get to die Can we give it one more shot, have we thrown al...

Life is full Of so many simple crutches It helps me walk, it helps me sleep, it helps me suffer (Cry out) Love was never there (Cry out)and i just didn't see it Weapons take on so many painfull attachments The faces change, but they say the same d...

She packed by bag last night, preflight Zero hour, nine a.m. And I'm gonna be high As a kite by then I miss the earth so much I miss my wife It's lonely out in space On such a timeless flight And I think it's gonna be a long, long, time 'Ti...

I never thought this could be me I guess you never do, 'til it's happening to you Like all the fun turns into shame And all the "could have beens" rearrange So little time so many crimes, guilt like a chain chokes my will away Redemption never seemed so c...

The blame is static air Dressed up and second guessed I am insolence and raw power Beyond the need to confess This wild invocation The beast within Spitting in the face of submission Rebranding deadly sin My heart beats with savage blood From the fi...

The embodiment of innocence stripped from her own territory. America's child has passed so close to freedom. Now closest with her maker, the ten lifetimes of terror were experienced by this frail body. Where have our children gone? They are not to be f...

Just enough freedom to forget you're a slave, Just enough anger to make sure we get paid Easy does it baby don't lose your head—cause we both know That ideals don't sell come now pass us the saccharin Part 1 then part 2 who knew you had it so easy (...

I've seen it before everyone seems eloquently bored The laughter stops and starts again too forced So what's the use in trying anymore, nothing makes you stop and notice (and where did you go) When did you give up and decide you had enough? In the la...

We rely on subtle points And stabs at biting humour To reveal our tired roles Of slave and domination Who did you enlighten today Humiliate to sell your point of view Create an image for mass consumption Insecurity as intellect See your soul...

How many triggers Take down an innocent victim? What does your badge cover up? How much training does it take To look into his mother's eyes? And lie to cover up It'll be alright You can probably sleep well tonight If your conscience doesn't bu...

I am here, take this I can't feel anyway I can't hurt I can't bleed But I can kneel as well as you once did Deep inside, I can hear the screams Growing louder everyday Crying out for a new rain Manipulate my submission To put your pain onto...

We rely on subtle points and stabs at biting humor to reveal our tired roles of slave and domination who did you enlighten today humiliate to sell your point of view Create and image for mass Consumption insecurities as intellect See your soul in your ey...

You can't hold it in forever the darkness soon will rise And vomit out on the floors of obsession the monster you gold inside You can run and hide... but there's no escape Control is bursting at the seams again The [?] calls tonight [?] like a mad man...

I could lie here for a day Tongue tied and out classed Never missing their world that used to be my life And I can't remember what it was That I always wanted But it should have always been this rhyme and reason Not withstanding Folded into beaut...

On shift from 9 to 5 then from 6 to 3 steals the soul Machine forever tuning Class rebellion under noses the boss is feeding on the living corpses Their broken backs call for us to rise But for now we'll all just smile and sympathize Denied movement...

My life Charred remains of a flame that's burned out My lips move but they won't make a sound I stand motionless, eyes to the ground Back for more With reopened scars i remain Battered savagely, knees start to shake I just stand there, I take it,...

Spineless bastards Blood caked bones to bang their drums Resonates in all of us as we dance like suckers In blind delusion Kissing the master's feet Kissing the master's ring Sacrifice ourselves and others to their charm We cheer with every bomb...

The pooling of blood From your neck to the floor Makes a beautiful trophy To parade and even the score Their words in stone of persuasion in sound Fall on open ears And sewn shut mouth taught the answers Ignored the questions As we vomit choke...

Ends and means redemption Of your past are painful reminders Take these wings And make good on all the promises un-kept in this life The judgments weighed against you Fell away to embrace your memory again Take these wings And make good on all the...

From mass graves we learn to sing From hallowed ground to self esteem We can set aflame the night, and burn away these tired lives And do more than just survive Past the point of surrender Because there's nothing left if nothing's gonna change The time...

You're just another anthem guided by your bullet And you can take this all to hell with your fucking victims Down a toast of their blood with your wine While refining your ego's defense The glory of bullets, the fire, the mobs action to riot Will end...

bring it on i've got your life when i've got your fear i'll gice you all what you want to hear you've got me figured out so perfect i'm on the couch lying to your face just to see what you can cut and paste of my life on your next banner wait i'm not fi...

Failed coercion Leads to intrusion And the blood forever runs In her head Into her hands Between her legs Where his mind lies Power drives him in To murder innocence On the rack of his devices Vices and designs She will never scrub the s...

Failed coercion leads to intrustion and the blood forever runs In her head into her hands between her legs where his mind lies Power drives him in to slaughter innocence On the rack of his devices vices and designs She will never scrub the stains from...

Wheels turn crush me, I am the machine Heaven helps those Who forget to dream I see a spark, Great is what we are Eyes toward my reward, Compensated for I am no-one, I am nothing. Mold me, make me Into something you find worth in, Deem...

They don't even have to kick down our doors We let them in with a smile and a thank you Media ingrained police state Our fears create the cycle of reliance And if you think for one fucking second That they're not bleeding you for all their worth Di...

Where were you the day they stole our innocence? And arranged a sacrifice for everyone in town. To bore the words yet to be written underground To save the money on the kerosene they need. Were you awake or were you sleeping? Or just too afraid to di...

We raise the flags and statues to our mission we've spoken out In slogans and in campaigns Talked and talked on almost every issue Where oppression of the masses is the constant theme But what does this mean to a little town in Iowa Where the jobs ha...

Every day she fears her life will end Every time the call rings they are late They never come quite in time to see his fist Leave it's mark on the side of her disgrace They'll never charge him anyway and you know it Say we can't get involved today...

It’s no wonder we’re all scared when our submission makes demands And who the hell are you is it asked or forced to do Do you pray for holiness or just prey on my willingness To starve beg consume for something you can’t prove If I’m unworthy it’s you that...

Not in the running But this rain is nothing new to me anyway I see my refelction No where near who I should be The spirit is willing but The anchors of my flesh still hold me down With every distraction I lose more of who i should [Chorus:]...