Radical Face

I was ten years old Bloody nosed in my face And I watched you watching In the darkest of the day You said that I'd be fine But first I wore you with hurts It takes a little hell To know what heaven is worth That some other time You gotta lose what's r...

My feet plow on From light to dawn My empty belly and my body aches Ain’t hard to take Next to the weight I carry in my chest A pound of flesh Could never tip the scale that I’ve made I should have stayed But I was never wise I hear your voices in...

It's hard to keep the rainclouds out When the windows never close And the house feels like a graveyard now Like the floorboards hide the bones And I have lost your face It slips between my fingers now And all the world is gray As though you took the col...

There, along the road, was a tiny home The yard held dead machines behind its fences Like they were it's kids Broken down, but still worth a lot to someone It made me stop and grin Light from a dying moon It blurs our eyes And we wear a cape of firefli...

We were tight-knit boys Brothers in more then name You would kill for me And knew that I'd do the same And it cut me sharp Hearing you'd gone away But everything goes away Yeah everything goes away But I'm going to be here until I'm nothing But bones in the...

The hole in the floor boards The cot near the front door The moon was gone; from side the world was dark as nightmares You took all my fears and, You wrapped them in wonders But there's no magic inside the moon It's just a rock you can't reach I was ne...

Back when I used to wander, I was always out looking for signs But they were never there, so I'd pull 'em from the air We all believed in something, but like you I can't say why It's just a whisper in our ear, or a bottle for our fears Hold me to light, l...

When you last left me my blood was in a jar And you kept it on your mantelpiece I couldn’t count on anyone to stand there behind me And keep the dogs from dragging me off with them While I slept you crept in and pulled the rug right out from under me Then...

Cut my head on broken progress Cut my hands while building castle walls Nobody dies before they sleep So fluff your pillow baby Squeeky wheels with abject ideals welter do so headaches do us all nobody tries they all just sink the cops tore the playgrou...

This started simple Like it always does With not much to lose I thought I had control That I could always walk away If things turned bad We were thick as thieves 'til I became the one Who always went too far And I couldn't hear you Now here I stand A pick i...

My voice never made it in time And they hung me out to dry My words never bother to rhyme And I always wonder why So now I've taken to chewing bottles To see if I still bleed The king has to beg for his meals The times just get me down But I'm just a s...

The castle has fallen The birds have left their nest The government is getting wasted And the people locked everything else The diagram is faulty We haven't learned to speak The prize is truly priceless But I don't dare to compete I never really had a...

So here's the deal I know enough to know I've lost I've got no flag And all my confidants are spies And all the paperwork's been signed Or so I'm told And the world has lost its ears So I'll save my breath Time was never on my side And now the clocks...

Hello, hope, it’s been a while I thought I was damned to watch life through my hands Now I’m not in the place I thought I’d be Makes looking back a whole lot simpler I thought that I could be the difference I thought I could outsmart all the pain But li...

when i was just a boy still owl-eyed i liked to drink the rain to taste the sky i tried to count the stars while in my bed to keep the thoughts of monsters from my head and i believed the stars were wishes i believed the world was good i believed things...

Father was drunk on the porch Quietly cleaning his guns While we sat and watched the sunset from the roof Drinking stolen beer the day I turned twelve Mama was losing her mind So we built a home in the woods And I carved our names in the side with a kni...

Head above water Now the waves have space in between And I can see the words up above me Where just some trite advice that said: "Remember to breathe" Well, I guess you got what you're after If you're after a life on your knees Everyone just want to be...

Dreams, like coins down a well Till I realized I was dumb for believin' To the bird with no flight The skies don't ever offer respite So I wandered off And went to fill the halls of my shadow But everything costs Proof was etched into the backs of my ha...

So we start with my father as a boy barely spoke a word of english fell in love from a distance. He watched her working from the back fence. He learned some words and some clever turns of phrase from his father's book of poets. She wasn't taken in that insta...

The cross in the middle of the room But the ghost who sleeps in the kitchen sink And the one who shines my shoes all put the money in a bag And left the house before the blizzards came The summer's got his teeth in me again But my bones are sweating and...

Well, hold me against the floor Find something to bind my hands 'cause I don't know where I have been And I don't know what I have seen But the puzzle is carved into me And I know that I miss you But I don't even know your name Oh, when you're near me I feel...

I've got no need for open roads 'Cause all I own fits on my back I see the world from rusted trains And always know I won't be back 'Cause all my life is wrapped up in today No past or future here If I find my name's no good I just fall out of line B...

I was born when they took my name When the world turned wicked, when I joined their game But I turned and fought them Like you always knew I'd do I sat and dreamed at the foot of your bed You split my skull and reached inside my head And pulled out the...

I thought I'd walked a thousand miles But it was all inside my head My feet were almost where I started off And I couldn't tell you why I'd bled And I'm not surprised by what was said But it still hit me all the same Just 'cause you see the storm It doe...

Another evening spent In the corners of my brain Where I wander off into the dark And I close my eyes and hope The wolves won't follow me But hope's hard of hearing So I'm waiting for the teeth I had to learn that the helping hand Can be the same that...

I can hear the car As it rumbles up the driveway But I'm too scared to look, So I curl up beneath the window And I pray they won't find me And I pray that I'll keep still I see your face in the glass With branches growing from your mouth You wear the...

When you were young you'd bite your tongue calm, always did what you were told never ran your mouth lived life on tiptoes only felt peace if by yourself where mistakes don't count there's a hole in your chest from the time that you was born one that d...

I left my home on hollow bones While you were curled and sleeping And I wandered far beneath the concrete star And I slept along the highways But even though I've been lost all the time I've got hooks in my sides that you left there But you're not the...

With all their words still inside me But no idea what I should say I watch you sleeping through the window And say goodbye when I'm on my tired way And now I'm lost, and I'm divided A civil war inside my head I don't know why you still haunt me I only...

TV sets on fire, I sit and watch the flames, As the laugh tracks come tickle, Our hairs. There's car parks in the yard, Let's hang them from the rafters, And call it our junkyard chandelier. We may not have much, But it's enough to keep us living, T...

Grandma's singing in the bedroom it's a near forgotten lullaby that she used to sing when I wasn't well father's outside chopping firewood like he did when he'd been drinking or when he and mom were at it again grandpa's rocking chair is rocking I can...

You, beneath the bed, I know all your tricks I've seen you watching I've seen you drifting away I've seen you floating along I've seen you disappear Now, there ain't a cloud in sight And through the snow and the branches I can count all your teeth Yea...

So, I'm writing you this letter in between rests, 'cause yesterday a bullet found my chest, and I don't got the energy to dress myself, and I can't walk without help. And I I can't remember why I joined this war and I can't tell you what we're fighting...

Well, the men arrived as the sun began to set And they pulled a wooden crate 'bout six feet long I could read the news in their downcast eyes My boy had passed away So I stepped inside 'Cause there was nothin' left to say 

It's time to collect the bones We don't mind because we can't go home We choke on our shooting stars But can't quit because we've come this far We can't quit because we've come too far A handful of apple cores A mouthful of razor blades We're always on the hu...

Your gut says "turn away and walk back the way you came" That these woods are not for those awake I watch your feet step through the fallen leaves And I hear your heart play its broken beat Then I smell the sickness you've got in you And I understand the...

No sleep, there is no comfort in the pillow My mind starts drifting thru the woods Climb up the moonlight ground beneath me 'Til I find myself all rapt up in the fog above the world And up here those walls will never reach me I am not bound by where I'm...

I was just a boy My father seemed a mountain then With a voice that could shake the seas My mother's ghost hung across his shoulders And he said she was still watching over me My brother was home Just returned on army leave Told his stories with a dist...

As the warmth of the sun leaves my back And these bruise colored skies turn to black None of these faces look the same And not a one knows my name Oh, I am a long way from home This road is now my only friend It welcomes me through straights and throug...

We crept from the room The moonlight spilled down the hall And I tiptoed with you Then we climbed out the window And there in the yard Our nightclothes blowing in the breeze And you looked up at the sky And said the moon would be ours And all this tim...

Evening in the garden Surrounded by fireflies We'd only just moved in I spent my time alone there reading and planted one thing a day While shoveling the yard my spade hit a metal box And in it was a diary The cover old and frayed It said "I don't k...

As Mother Nature sings Her requiem The machines all gather around and sing along We hang from kites until the tide comes in It'll be another week before we know what's wrong We watch the trees turn into skeletons As the leaves float to the ground and fil...

The rain clouds chased me down And now I hang from a thread Could you put down the scissors? It's time I pull the plug But I never learn And I never listen Revolution hums my tune It's never the same It's never that different And when the cavalry co...

I wish I had more nice things to say But I was raised not to lie I'm either honest, or I'm an optimist But never both at the same time And everyone knows the deal Gotta take what you can 'cause anything I don't steal Just winds up in someone else's hands The...

The sweat cuts rivers in the dust On your face While the wheels beneath complain The wind still whistles through the haze The sun shines like a razorblade And the bones of crops and banknotes pave the way The highways are lined with graves Like the fin...

Little boy at your mothers side Watching on as your daddy comes to die. As they rope his neck, his hands both shake Then they kick the stool from the wooden deck they made. But as he's strangling there He says he's sorry for his sins. You watch him wort...

My wisdom teeth still stab my cheek And I'm always sucking aspirin The life I stole is full of holes And my pants don't fit me right My dreams are old and faded and My head feels thick and useless We're on the road to nowhere But we won't arrive tonight so let...

My life started slow in a town of idle minds Our daydreams filled the space between our simple drama And my mom was strange, but she'd always liked to sew And all my clothes smelled like the room I was born in My dad was calm, never used two words when one...

Drawn into the frost on the glass was a map pointing to my secret hiding place It led you to the tree with the split in its trunk on the way into your family's yard In that tree you saw I'd brought the dog back to life I watch you from the branches while y...

Through rolling hills and many miles of blood We slept in the rainfall and marched through the mud And you were not like anyone I'd known You spoke with impunity, had nothing to atone And quiet evenings you told me what you thought about Servants and kin...

All the trees stood like skeletons Silhouettes of spilled ink And the snows fell in sheets and got wrapped around our feet We built the fire evermore with winter beating at the door Brother's eyes were getting heavier His bony hands cold and white And I could...

I tied your shoes while you sat and watched the rain Hands folded across your lap, and the dull work of paints across your face Mom down the hall Bible pressed to her chest When she swore the Devil hides in everything, and her room was the only safe haven l...

I fell asleep in a chair by the fireplace And I woke up in the kitchen sink With an umbrella full of holes atop my head and I fell asleep on the table with your picture in hand And I woke up in the cupboard With some scrapes on my arms and a mouthful of hell...

Well, the world might cut you down again But you know the way back home And your best might not be good enough But just know you're not alone And if you slip and lose your way again Well, I'll know that you will be all right You still gotta try If you...

Smile Teeth broken Play piano Take a number When snows come And the trees all Start to crumble I'll be waiting Ask me Is there fire? And I will smile My teeth are broken I play guitar now And break the strings off I need the metal...

It was the year my son was born The same year my sis' walked into the woods And was never seen again I still call her name sometimes, just in case The snows came at noon And the sky was a bitter blue Some were callin' it a punishment from God Then my dad sai...

My heart's lost in the movies My laughs fit for TV My thoughts are radio friendly What've you done to me I've seen all this before My head's a civil war When I'm bored When I'm bored But I'll do what I can There's nothing in my plans But staying sane But sta...

We were sun-burned and shoeless kids It was the dead of July We were skippin' stones in the failing light I smelled the fire place Although we were miles away We were infinite There was no time in those days When all we knew wasn't stolen There was nothing re...

I watched the sun across the furniture, And I didn't flinch when it all got burned away And while in the middle of those fires, I always found myself with nothing much to say And I used to wish my blood would travel, That my genetic line, it wouldn't end...

I heard you tellin' lies I heard you say you weren't born of our blood I know we're the crooked kind But you're crooked too, boy, and it shows Some get dealt simple hands Some walk the common paths, all nice and worn But all folks are damaged goods It...

I saw your daughter yesterday as I was idle on the porch she slept-walked from your house down the walkway as though she'd done it all before and the moon was out and in her gown beside the riverbed she got down on her knees and wrapped her long hair u...

Skies black, cold and vacant now I sat on the hillside The stars up above me Like pinholes in velvet I listened to the song That I hoped I'd never hear And off behind me Guns snap like insects We're fighting for causes We don't really fathom But we'...

Open eyes adjusting to the dark The growlin' of machinery Can't say if it's night or day And you know, somewhere in there you know There will be a price to pay 'til all this goes away So we walk the empty halls, the dirty walls We smear our names in them Dirt...

There ain't no moon tonight It's hard for me to see But if I can catch a glimpse of you It helps me feel at ease It helps me sleep All my life I've watched you dance along To music that I can't hear I ain't equipped to hear those songs I like the way...

Well, as a child I mostly spoke inside my head I had conversations with the clouds, the dogs, the dead And they thought my broken, that my tongue was coated lead But I just couldn't make my words make sense to them If you only listen with your ears... I ca...

The lightning climbing up the walls The finger drawings on the glass The map of those who used to live here Until the gilded hand was broken Often there's a voice in my sleeping mind The words inside my skull at night But once I wake, I cannot read them...

Some say our dreams are a distant road Down which our hearts would like to go But I have always stayed in place Under that old illusion that it's safe You said the ship in port is the safer one But it's not the reason it was made So forgive me if I wand...

The ghost inside my head, it never sleeps It just rearranges thoughts and leaves me numb for weeks But I'm okay, yeah I feel fine Because I know there's more than one way to lose my mind Lose my mind Lose my mind Lose my mind The crows are at the fence...

It was the dead of winter The cold was in our bones And our shelves stood barren As we had ever known So our mother stands on the porch one evening The silent crack in her stony mask she looked up at the sky, and said "please" And by the turn of summ...

Swin­ging in the bac­ky­ard Pull up in your fast car Whi­stling my name Open up a beer And you say get over here And play a video game I’m in his favo­rite sun dress Wat­ching me get undres­sed Take that body downtown I say you the bestest...

The voice of our age is singing sad, sad songs I'm doing my best to keep from adding yet another one I've heard it said that the writing's on the wall But I must read through glasses 'cause the words are out of focus Pick it all apart until there's nothing...

The skeleton's hanging from the door My heart is beating on the floor Still they leave me here Scribbling theories across the wall I'm shooting the sky down to watch it fall Still they leave me here So I can lie in peace Devil's in the attic singing ver...

I fall asleep in a comforting mess The room is yellow and the windows the deadest white I smell the ghost of your dinner And the space heater is glowing like a miniature gate to hell I hear the dogs as I dress myself "I pin the letter on the back of a pap...

Well, some of us will be revered, and some forgotten And some of us will sleep out in the rain And some of us will die lonely And others' in grace and warmth But in the end we all go the same And some of us will be worn down with time And others' will be famo...

Show your hands if you're leaving your coat of paint If you're bolted to heavy things like anchors hidden somewhere 'neath your skin Or if your head's just an empty box If your heart has become spare parts If your days are down to something you must bear...

Sleep don't visit, so I choke on sun And the days blur into one And the backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done Sheets are swaying from an old clothesline Like a row of captured ghosts over old dead grass Was never much but we made the most Wel...

Familiar ground's a distant thing When you travel vague and crooked roads And the sun's a scab on vacant skies Now we always hope we're still alone There's too much time for idle minds Imagination's armed with hooks and knives We count our fears to pass...

I see the winter, she's crawling up the lawn I feel her breathing beneath my palms She tears the trees down while curses roll from her tongue Got eyes like anvils and storms for lungs Hiding in our house, sunburn in his mouth, Summer's in our basement n...

I saw your father in the hall His ghost is living in the walls I heard him crying while you slept I heard him breaking things after you left I watched you crawl into my bed With curses spilling from your head You said "We're just the walking dead" So I...