Call To Preserve

Could we waste anymore time on this? It's a strange thing to show love with your fist We screamed until they went deaf We pushed until they bled A slave to your politics (Won't be a slave) The way they use our God (the way they use our God) To justify...

You want into where I wouldn't go myself The recesses of inside look like someone else The thought of letting you see just how far I've given in Like shrapnel being pulled out of my skin Pressure's closing in I'm just as weak as I've always been I can't...

Where do you go from there? Make your sacrifice to a dead alter You've followed the letter And still don't have the answers Standing empty after all the motions you've done You've tried to make peace but the guilt still weighs you down You've got to let...

I can't stay in this place Just after four years I can see their eyelids getting heavy Between the 9 to 5 and the drunken nights It's just empty promises and empty lives And everything that held us together is gone Paved over and forgotten (x2) We never...

I refuse to be Another cog in their machine I can't take part in your decaying tradition No love. No heart A perversion of what you set out to start Void of a substance, a decaying tradition Your need for assimilation Attacks the vulnerable With a hea...

You thought you'd prove them wrong You thought you were too strong But everyone that professed their love Would pick up and run And they promised to stay behind Under a dark blue sky Now they've all walked away Left you waiting in vain It's an empty s...

Build your walls, gouge out your eyes People become what's in the way Salvation is a numbers game Condescend without any shame So just close your eyes and keep your hands clean Anything to keep us from looking at pain in the face Dominate, eviscerate...

Won't bring me down to my knees I won't fall victim to this I'll no longer stand back And watch those who are dear to me fall behind Fight till the end 

We live in darker times But a distant light still shines This world wants to mold you They want to suck you dry But don't let them make you forget That these times of uncertainty Are coming to an end You still carry the promise That this light Has no...

This is a new beginning Death cannot stand in the way This is a new beginning This is a force of change/x2 Force of change One voice that will be heard This is a call to preserve For all who have made the promise For those who seek the truth/x5 

I used to want you to notice the hidden messages in my sigh About loss and isolation. You could say it would be my goodbye I'd sing a song of deep despair just to see if you would hear But no such thing happened; no rescue would come back here Maybe I'd j...

Nature plays you for a fool You've lost all your control Your mind betrays your body Your body betrays your soul No excuse for the ones you use A slave to attention Their dependence comforts you You don't need love, do you? Just a collar to pull A sle...

Hindsight isn't always 20/20 When you romanticize history I've been filling in all the gaps about how things used to be I'm only better off because I prefer you the way I remember I guess "us" sounds better in past tense, the present would never be better...

I said I'd never go back again I'm holding embers in my hands It was compromise after compromise I pulled closer and still nothing satisfied Every attempt to feel something Pushes you further away I can't recognize myself I became someone else I pushe...

What have we become? Another faceless generation Another victim found nameless Born at the bottom Without a chance Let down by our own impulses Shut out by our own emotions Remnants left in ashes But now is where it ends Picked up, (picked up) from...

I've watched it rot away Every defense I had fell into decay I've watched it fall and break Every defense I had fell into decay I'm running out of space for things to say I'm tired of spending my life lamenting to a page I'm losing ground, I'm losing sl...

Waking up From an apathetic life The last of the malcontent Won't be held back By a failed cowardice Won't dig our own graves (x2) We won't dig our own graves Won't sleep in the daylight Or abandon the lost in the dark We'll be the cause of the stir...

People these days take their life for granted. Life's a gift and should be enjoyed to the fullest. Not behind a cloud of smoke in a drunken haze. Life's too short to give in to that nonsense. Who wants to die before their time? Their purpose in life stripped a...

Just give me a light for my path Show me the parts of my heart only You can see Just give me a light for my path Show me what You see I've been downtown for far too long Living with burn-outs in the filth of the city Nothing to do, nowhere to go Findin...

You drown yourself in a drink I'd rather be lost at sea The constant struggle to breathe Never the life for me I don't want to see Through the eyes of a hazy mind Or look at the future And blindly, blindly close my eyes Don't try to say You live your...

I can't accept this life you say We're all supposes to "live" some day Uplifting a crutch that weighs down on you Uplifting a world where I see no value Oh! I can't accept this society This will never be apart of me You can give in and feel nothing at...

War! This is my war I will not back down Straight edge I stand now and forever (x4) I won't hold back I'll never give in I will stand strong I will stand free This is my war I will not back down I will stand for this I will stand up for what is r...

Look up and open your eyes See everything you meant to be Selling yourself short When there's only so far you can see Though your body is broken Your soul remains intact Finding wholeness in the places that you lack Look up and see, who you are has bec...

I don't hate you kid I just hate what you did You put yourself here To let your stupid flesh live What did you expect to gain? You should have known That all you'd feel is pain You look for guidance In all the wrong places Pack your calendar with date...

I'm just trying to better myself I'll leave behind what I don't need But you're so quick to judge when I've tried to be accepting You think you know my thoughts But you still think I'm looking down on you What else do you want me to do? I don't think I k...

That blood was shed for you Yet you take it in vain Why do you mock His name? Why do you? He still died for you His body was beaten His back was torn Pressed on His head Was a crown of thorns He carried your cross To the grave The truth was shown...

Your heart is closed just like your mind All you know is to blame authority Fight the system and buck the trends When there is nothing left to prove, what will you believe? Put down my beliefs Say your mind is free How are you so tolerant? When you won...

(We've come from isolation but we're never alone) (x4) When the sun sets on everything you know How will you know where to go? I've spent my whole life running And now I'm left with nothing to show Now my life ahead Looks nothing like how I thought it w...

I can't see it your way I will never see it your way I've never wanted to dull the pain To stop thinking about today The world may look safer to you From the bottom of a bottle But I've never wanted to ever see it that way Numbing the body, numbing the...

Why'd you do this to yourself? Where's your sense of pride? All that for two seconds of pleasure To let yourself die We won't live for this We won't stand for this Rise above, now is the time to break free Stand strong, don't let the enemy bring you d...

My hands hold nothing There's no place to rest my head As the long nights turn into sunken eyes And the letdowns turn into regret Everything they needed me to be Slips through my fingers. So temporary But I'll stop and strive to be content In their wor...

This one's for my friends You can always count on me I'll always be by your side Through the best and through the worst I've got your back and I know you got mine/x2 The promise we've made together Is a tie that can't be severed Cause through everyth...

So sick of defending myself Creating a facade for everyone else We live so guarded; you'd never know we're alive Worried they'd damage what's inside After years of being guarded our defenses are wearing thin Becoming vulnerable to live, to live again We'...

Everything's broken. Death and disease Drying eyes does nothing. They still cry, still scream Do we curse our hearts that are made of stone? Or eyes for the terrible things we see? We're raising our fists to the sky We have no answers to this mess We n...

I've known what's true from the start Burned in my mind, written on my heart Watching those who did not last Doubt brought them down, sinking fast Memories of past mistakes Broken promises, bad choices made Trying to use them to change my course Hoping...

It's ours Songs lose their meaning Where we live doesn't feel the same When we ask and get no answer So we question our right to peace And I'm sleeping in strange towns Hundreds of miles from a familiar coast Landlocked and fed up These open spaces fe...

We were all born with vices We've never had control We've been locked in a battle off ill will and defeated soul We are the exiled stuck in our own vices We walk this desert without end We are the exiled stuck in our own vices No matter how much we plan...

Push through the night Running with all we've got Through streets with self abandoned Down highways waiting for dawn Empty pockets, but we're not poor Always looking for a brighter sky Always praying for better times Don't care about the pain Don't ca...

You let your friends down You let your family down You turned your back on us all/x2 You cannot run and hide We will always be here You turned your back Then you broke down /x2 You broke down (x4) Your life Is not your own/x2 You let your friends...