Rise Against

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 Stare into your empty eyes and wonder...

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...

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...

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...

There's a struggle coming, but to conquer, first they must divide. The machines keep humming night and day. How are we so unaware, Why are you not afraid? Protests are drumming while you turn your nose and roll your eyes, Knee-jerk reactions so ingrained...

The pain, disorder A cataclysmic dawn We trusted but something has gone wrong We bought it But woke to find it gone Impact in 5, 4, 3, 2 brace, for fallout The radiation creeps On cats' feet We scatter in the streets She asks me "do you think it's sa...

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 We shound have been there long ago Shouldn't take this long We stumbled acc...

(Are you ready to rock?) 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 Alive and well I live to be alive And I live to always strive For som...

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 calloused fingers are wrapped around a black ball-point pen, These eyes don't w...

Anyway you want it Any way 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 She loves to groove She loves a lot of things All night All night Oh every night So hold tight Ho...

We've been alright up to now, but the air that we breath is about to run out. We've rehearsed our lines clear and loud, but the cue never came and the lights, they never went out. So we're passing the time, while time passes us. The fast lanes a term never app...

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 u...

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 We ran like v...

I watched the rise and the fall of the common man I lived to see your steps walk back I watched the walls all crash down, crumbling Just to be rebuilt while we slept We threw swords in the oceans wide and deep We promised peace but the peace won’t last...

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 And you walked a rugged mile You looked for work and money And you walked a rug...

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, My s...

Simply because you can breathe Doesn't mean you're alive Or that you really live This life here has taken its toll And she just doesn't know How much more she can give But here, at the top of the world I raise my hands and I clench my fists, They st...

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? If I pretended I was blind And...

This place rings with echoes of Lives once lived but now are lost Time 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 “I don’t love you anymore” Is all I remember you tel...

So come and test me! So come and 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 can't stop them! We're outnumbered and uncautioned, a rally cry ring out into the night. So p...

Tune the electric bass to the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th string. The boy's no good. Yeah, he's a fuckin' hood. He won't treat you like he should. I heard he's making time with this friend of mine. I heard he's talking trash. I saw that kid last night. He's startin...

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...

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 There’s a place that I’d rather be There’s a voice deep inside of me Saying the progress we are making Is not progress at all Into a...

We crack the code, we transmit coordinates Black the glass, windows and doors Searchlights swing low, we duck and we roll The voice on the wire is calling Broadcast signal frequency the light goes out But what if they're just listening to every sound?...

Our building 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...

Hey, man now did you hear Your final days are near? A free fall of fire and ice And explosions in the sky A fate that we deserve There's no escaping No, No it's your turn Now it's your turn It's been years Since our luck ran out and left us here Li...

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 let's not praise the past,...

Thank you for your silence, your continuing compliance It's your head buried 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...

Breathe deep and easy, swallow this pride. Stare at my shaking hands through bone-dry, blood shot eyes. Clock strip the hours, I count the miles. Will you be there waiting, awake until sunrise. I have traveled in darkness, for what seems like days, I, co...

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 happ...

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...

We're losing daylight but I can't work any faster Under the veil of dusk 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 would you ask me to change? This drought bleeds on now we're dancing...

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 doo...

On dirt like stone The lions pace, the bones of men That sought to overthrow are all that remains Oh, what they stole Was innocence, the slate once clean Has gone as black as coal Time and time again Take a look around The tide is turning upside dow...

The city grieves, like widows clasping folded flags against their hearts. Raindrops feel 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 w...

All the way at the bottom of these barrels we cried out so ashamed of our tears that we blame only ourselves and that's when they win they keep us convinced to lift up our chins these playing fields are level we all have a chance with that they dismiss the fas...

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 And if walls could speak I'd pray That they would tell me wha...

We don't sleep very much. These triggers ache for the touch. Where's the strength we relied on? Here alone, like a crutch Maybe that's what keeps us up All the night with a light on... Glowing screens simulate Ads that no longer take place Can...

And 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 befall the only life we know Were they bur...

All we are is entertainment Caught up in our own derangement Tell us what to say and what to do All we are are pretty faces Picture perfect bottled rage Packaged synthesized versions of you We've all made petty fortunes but we can't afford a life Confi...

Undercover of the dark night Avoid the cloud of street lights And disappear at dawn Camouflage ourselves again by Hiding here in plain sight Waiting for a sign to come Its the lottery of life We all better just get by But some of us escaped Found a bette...

In the face of change Is 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 I watch my life wash ashore Have you ever been a part of something That you thought woul...

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 have we been here before? will we b...

Keeping up appearances Don't break now or buckle from the weight Pretend to laugh but don't laugh too loud Do you feel the pressure building The anger spilling out now Meanwhile the cracks have formed on The masks we've worn up 'til now We are far fro...

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 don't wanna be dead Someday we'll all be rich Someday I won't listen to you bitch I'll turn up the volume...

I can't even think of words to match the way I'm feeling I don't even think a book could say enough for you I can only try my best, to put it in a song I guess You try to speak, I know you tell the truth If I could freeze a small amount of time together...

There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware I think it's time we stop, listen, what's that sound Everybody look what's going down There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's rig...

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 And we don't disappear just because your eyes are shut, now tell me Love, loss Like a bullet's pat...

Getting trampled under boots of progress Ignore the pleading of the nameless faces Now with our backs against the wall How long till we fall? Do away with all the underprivileged their demographic doesn't fit your image Turn your blind eye when duty calls How...

It was the perfect night Then you had to go and ruin it with a kiss, now I'm trapped inside here The innocence we held once So carelessly Has been suffocated in this breathless moment Believe in me and I will believe in you You're asking of me everythin...

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 Ref. I give it all, This is the reas...

We celebrate the downfall with ticker tape parades Oblivious to the fucking mess left lying in the wake "God grant me the strength to let my children starve" He whispered to the dripping roof into the candled dark Contemplate contracts of gold Just wave your...

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 are these words falling on deaf ears? staring at th...

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 So start again with steady hands This time nothing gets...

is this the point where we give up? now is this the point where we give in? now is this the point where we turn ourselves in? or is this the time to ask questions? or is this the time to seek answers? now is this the time to throw it all in? when enoug...

The day I learn to fly , I'm never coming down On perfect wings I'll rise through the layers of the clouds And from there I see the neon grids of cities And six million people that keep their fires lit I threw a party in my name But the hours crawled by...

"Help Is On The Way" 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 Crescent City sleeps, While giants in the sky, Preparing to unleash, Let loose a mighty cry. Can nobody save us? Will...

He said, "Son, Have you seen the world? Well, what would you say If I said that you could? Just carry this gun, 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 alri...

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). We go along (we go along). We toe the line To you now. Wh...

I can see the storms, in her eyes now We're falling overboard, in the waves In over my head and she's a high tide That keeps pushing me away I thought that we would build this together But everything I touch just seems to break Am I your sail or your anc...

How many walls can you put up? How many guns 'til you feel safe? How many times can we watch this story over, and over, and over again? And how many years have we wasted counting the lies that we've been fed? There's something to change We have waited ove...

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 I call home No longer recognize this face as my own Somewhere this fate, I lost...

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...

Wrapped up in short black coat worn thin A hand around her match to block the wind She smiled as the smoke escaped her lips And let her hand fall gently away from his 'Cause it's late now And I'm tired of all these games and the cold night stings my ski...

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 It's all fun and games 'til You try to justify, It's all fun and done 'til You question th...

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 So quiet, so safe If we fall there will be nothing No one to catch us...

This night will fall like any other Daylight subsides and shadows crawl Up from under black corners hiding Something stirs, oh so restless Cracked windows open wide Deadbolt turns, doors creak open Whispers and moonlight there to guide Come raise your...

(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...

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 theres no war outside our heads Why are we losing?...

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 Like the angel you are You laugh crea...

Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes, all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one They're all made out of ticky-tacky, And they all look just the...

Far from home on a road unknown Where the vultures circle on winds that blow From northern skies that haunt these waking moments Our shadows cast by the mountain range Our calloused souls, we find a way Through desperate eyes, we long for the horizon...

Woah, woah... Woah, woah... Bang bang go the coffin nails, like a breath exhaled, Then gone forever. It seems like just yesterday, how did I miss the red flags raised? Think back, to the days we laughed We braved these bitter storms together Brought to...

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 someth...

Stick to your guns, they fail to protect I've seen this before and we died in the end Lept without looking we land in the flames We don't even care anymore We're tired of being ignored Speak up now Yeah, we're not alone This is not a joke Pick up the...

Love like a 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 Oh why for us child, do the stars refuse to shine? Somewhere strung out...

Like a new day rising Like a calm before the storm Like fog lifting from valleys On a sleeping forest floor Eyes open slowly as the dust is shaken off To gaze upon the wreckage That the midnight hands have wrought And now I I feel my temperature risi...

We're not the first, I hope we're not the last. 'Cause I know we're all heading for that adult crash. The time is so little, the time belongs to us. Why is everybody in such a fucking rush? Take your time. Try not to forget. We never will. We're jus...

We scan the empty sky Always without success We're lighting signal fires And spelling S.O.S We stare at broken clocks The truth comes twice a day While every second just slips away Are you going to wait here for a sign to let you know now? Are you goi...

Mother tell your children not to walk my way tell your children not to hear my words what they mean what they say mother mother can you keep them in the dark for life can you hide them from the waiting world oh mother not about to see your light...

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'...

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...

I'm about to have a nervous breakdown My head really hurts And if I don't find a way out of here I'm gonna go berserk cause I'm crazy and I'm hurt Head on my shoulders It's going... Berserk! I hear the same old talk talk talk The same old lines Don't do me tha...

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...

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio. Gotta get down to it Soldiers are cutting us down Should have been done long ago. What if you knew her And found her dead on the ground How c...

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 landed somewhere far from here with no one else around to catch you falli...

There's something wrong with the words that we're not saying And the silence we're creating like a ghost note symphony There's something wrong and the temperature is rising Ignoring every siren as we're marching towards a cliff But these are choices that w...

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? My gun is bigger than yours So let's arm the masses...

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 The breaking lines The crack beneath our feet as time runs out Each night like a w...

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, And a life...

To the sound of a heartbeat pounding away To the rhythm of the awful rusted machines We toss and turn but don't sleep Each breath we take makes us thieves Like causes without rebels Just talk but promise nothing else We crawl on our knees for you Under...

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 But closer than you think She said, "Just go on to what you...

((intro) it is, in the end, whatever the hell I want it to be and when I'm through with it it's going to blow a hole this wide, straight through the world's idea of itself they're throwing bottles at your house come on, let's go break their arms) y...

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 six inches from death? Now, the momentum we've created...

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 And I don't think you see The places inside me that i find (toget...

...so please don't ask me how i ended up at my wits end and breaking down. pages torn from books we never read, cuz we're plugged into this grid. don't pull this plug right now, or then we really have to live. [pre-chorus] when i die, will they remembe...

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 Chorus: That's why...

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...

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, th...

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 Is all you know You've been hiding so long...

Mom and dad went to a show They dropped me off at Grandpa Joe`s I kicked and screamed, Said : please, oh no! Grandma take me home / x8 Had to eat my dinner there Had mashed potato`s and stuff like that Couldn`t chew my meat too good Grandma take me...

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. How can you ask me to just forget? Deny...

come warm your hands on hellfire and brimstone empty the pockets of the innocent victim bound by fear we misplace trust in your voice inside these walls convincing us we have no choice gaze upon these stare of naiveté two thousand years replaced with e...

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 [Chorus] Countdown, to the very end, Equality, an invitation that we...

Floating in the clouds, 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 t...

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... Life for you, has been less than kind S...

"What are you talking about? America's not gonna 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 think your country will last?...

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 Lets compare scars I'll tell you whose is worse Lets unwrite these...

The music played with a calming frequency. The speakers gently seeped the sound 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 th...

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! You took advantage of the trust that I gave (I gave!)...

A currency of heartache and sorrow The air we breathe is stale with mold To shadows we are slaves digging deeper every day But emptiness is growing so old Headlamps light the tunnels we wander They shimmer and they dance on the walls We're lost inside t...

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 that only ask for more,...

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 Because I found God (...

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 Millions in the unforgiving sun Here arm-in-arm We parade th...

Man walks along the railroad track And he's going some place, there's no going back The Highway Patrol chopper coming up over the ridge Man sleeps by a campfire under the bridge The shelter line stretching around the corner Welcome to the New World Order...

In fields where nothing grew but weeds, I found a flower at my feet, Bending there in my direction, I wrapped a hand around it's stem, I pulled until the roots gave in, Finding now what I've been missing, But I know So I tell myself, I tell myself it's...

There’s a fire on the borders and it’s burning down the walls you built high And there’s a steady stream of anger and it’s spilling from the coasts A tidal wave And the words say we reap what we sow So where I bury you I’ll build home In line to recl...

Welcome home While away They have tampered with the locks And your things they rearranged We propose a better way. Said the not they left behind In their wake of disarray You fell in place Don't fall asleep They'll find us here I know a p...

And all these things that we tie together Keep unraveling apart And the light that used to burn so bright Now is dark With anger-laced intent we set fire To the bridges that remain And they're wading through the current now. And they drown in the flood...

Dancing on the crumbling precipices The rocks are coming loose just at the edge Are we laughing? Are we crying? Are we drowning? Are we dead? Or is it all a dream? The bombs are getting closer everyday Like it never happened here we used to say Has t...

Once upon a time I could take anything, anything. I Always stepped in time, regardless of the beat I moved my feet, I carried weight What I could not do i faked And I dug seeking treasure Just to wake up in an early grave So I stopped right then 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? These machines feed on the tears of broken lives and dying dreams We’re throwing wrenches in the gears Our li...

If I could paint how I feel, I'd draw bullseye on your forehead my anger is not misdirected unless it somehow misses you time spent on hate, is time gone to waste, I watch you point and click your life away so cast the stones that I'll gladly catch and I'll...

So look in my eyes, what will you leave behind once you've 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 like water and wine Walk through these streets singing songs and carrying...

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 if my hand could block th...

Seven hundred miles to play to fifteen angry men. I need some sleep. They hate the songs. We hate them too. Yeah. This show is free. Fifteen minutes in broke another fucking string. Just call it luck. They start to leave. I start to plead. Someone, so...

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 cloud) Feet dangling from a rooftop, s...

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 s...

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 where ever it takes us, Whatever it faces and wherever it leads, So wake me when it's through, I don't want to feel th...

I fell for the bait again, a fork in a road and one durance and upon those stones I lay out alone to find you... And a whisper like leaves, in the wind, an air so pure it could wash away sin... A message like a stranger we take kind to... And the night...

Here along we wander and we roam We cut our teeth in city streets and gutters we call home Await the day the clouds will part Deliver words we know by heart Raise your fucking voice Or be a face in the crowd Isn't that what it's all about? So tempt me not wi...

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 but I...

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? I've stood where you stand But all, can you... Wait for me now and take off thi...

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 (guilt still glowing in your eyes) never ask why you lie...

All hail, The jester has landed In flyover country, he sings We're charmed like a snake in a basket, We should be coiled up and ready to spring. Raising a cross just to burn it, The clergy are selling their souls. Clearing a path, Ignoring the facts, I...

What are we gonna do? Said the hungry child to a father with empty hands What are we gonna do? When the smoke clears And reveals no promise land What are we gonna do? I don't know, it's a long long way to go. What are we gonna do? Spaced across...

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 The blackest night The midnight sun The covered tracks The day spent on...

We request to negotiate We come to you unarmed We desire to communicate You cannot do us harm For one sacrifice, they have schemes and ask me to follow their path to the afterlife I've got an appetite for nice things and the dreams that my enemies could be bl...

As long as I remember the rains been coming down. Clouds of mystery pourin' confusion on the ground. Good men through the ages, tryin' to find the sun; And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the rain? I went down Virginia, to seek shelter from the stor...

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 Somew...

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 That tries to separate the skin...

Settling in here for the long haul Can't hide forever is what they say In like the wind Out with a bang Meanwhile nothing has changed With each word slowly uttered A storm brews in her eyes A miss shot at the buzzard Time whether wasted Or well-spent...