Showbread

I've got great plans for a better place to live by taking twice as much as I could ever give we could make a better world by burning down the whole place but we're too stupid to see our hands in front of our face To give up on your generation means a better w...

I'm nauseous, or maybe just inspired So truthful, I begin to tire, No less then everything. No haiku, no paper packaged thing, Patronized you harmonize, a thorax rattles so, Like idealistic jargon every self-respecting hopeful should know. I know the road to...

I walk the world on insect legs beneath an unforgiving sun Eat the dirt throughout my days On the dirt and dirt I come undone Messiah born in Bethlehem won't find me lying there The world's too big for him to see me or hear the things I've said Hold me to you...

I am made of parts that freeze and ligaments that atrophy Though they look they'll never see They don't know something's wrong with me And just as well, I'll never tell what's underneath the scales I've worn to thin to honor you, my every effort fails Bur...

Sing with me child, As my ears are bleeding, the dreams that we have now, seemed so fleeting. still your cradle, with no effort sways, where this monochromatic record is played. and i'll purse my lips to blow kisses goodbye, It's so easy if you never ask yours...

we're all burning alive (burning alive). no one is special anymore (no one). your education assembly line (descending). cap and gown, i hope you're happy. this is not being alive, this is not life. i dare you to open your eyes. place one finger to my bottomles...

I’m gonna shed my skin, deactivate my head The skin that I regenerate looks like the skin that I just shed I’m better suited being typical I keep choking down the cockroaches until I get full A centipede! Yeah, a centipede! The trunk moves independently...

Razor blades and a bottle of pills won't make me change the way that I feel When life gave up on me, I just gave up on life it spills over your lips and wraps around me like a gift in fear of temporary placement, on the table we made with the letters we wrote...

Tonight's twilight will be the last seen by our eyes, So if it seems so beautiful, kiss the beauty goodbye, Oh my little cornea, please say that you are no more, And ears please swear you did not hear this creaking in the cabin floor, I'll forgive my eyes for...

baby you know there's few things that can make me care, i'm already dead, i'm wasting away, i'm in love with my despair, so tonight, lady hold on tight, before i drown in an ocean of starlight, i hope it's easy for you to see, i'm in love with you, but sadness...

welcome to a dead end, a wall stronger than you could ever imagine, a breeze of things remembered only cuts like the desperation, that gasps and gives up, there is nowhere left to go, and nothing left to lose, we let ourselves inside become one disgusting skin...

My bones don't click in place when i sit on the machine Not as of late do i integrate, scarcely say what i mean This thing was built with one of my ribs I was there when it was given a name But I've been overpowered by those who took it away It doesn't ev...

welcome to mediocrity, where america's youth are ignorant lemmings, i have no sense of self or individuality, i am what they want me to be, i am ordinary, never your own, slaves to an image, independence can't exist in a cliche, and that is what you are, stupi...

what does a man gain for his labor under the sun? generations come and generations go... all streams flow to the sea, yet the sea is never full, all things are wearisome, more so than one can say, what has been done will be done again and again, i saw the tear...

I was looking for you when I first heard the sirens The ambulances filled the streets The masses screamed and called for help You were no where next to me The soldiers came to round up the living And take them away to somewhere that’s safe But if I cant...

today i'll give up on you, cause holding on to hope is something that seems hard to do. nowadays hopelessness and i make a great team, we see eye to eye. and this never ending cycle makes me sick. it's what i've come to in this place, and i am what makes it. i...

It turns my stomach every night like scattering bats in disrupted flight the idea of ideas and tired points to pierce the skin little children lining up and losing all of their time Losing all their time I don't have the time for my own lifetime when you bli...

Well it's way too late, baby the talons of cynicism are already buried in my brain when "do as I say, not as I do" is the broken glass that I drag my naked body across I'm thinking of you, and I don't want to give up but I'm a quitter thanks to you, do you thi...

Madness is like love, it makes you see the world a different way Maybe love just helps you say the things that madness can’t convey When an evil spirit leaves a man, it goes flying through the desert Looks for a place to stay and then comes back And that’s wh...

When you close your eyes even your eyelids are beautiful for so long there have been traces of you in blood vessels inside my skull that coarse you eagerly through me into my hands that reach for you I love you and I always will it's all so sweetly beautifully...

Lord, here I am I’m lost, I can’t find my way Like Adam and Judas before me I’ve gone astray Life is endlessly brief And we languish in death throws within her And I have no fight left in me Have mercy on me Lord, a sinner 

The love letters that lead to bliss, Embracing, youthful, love's first kiss, Stops after school, the parents are fooled, Thinking they'll be home so soon, She waits for him in parking lots and hallways everyday, And he smiles anticipating, thinking of the word...

Murder, seizing my arm, to puppeteer direction to kiss these sweet sinful lips of my demise I want to drive nails into the hands of my will, and trade it in for yours Falling in love with a fantasy to watch my life slip slowly out of me to bathe in the crimso...

I’m nobody singing to nobody, so no one hears the things I say I’ve seen what it means to be somebody and I’d much rather fade away We’ve been obstinate all along, we haven’t given an inch And when someone asks what it sounds like when you die I’ll tell them i...

If I start writing you a letter tonight I'll be writing for hours It doesn't seem like I can say anything Unless it's everything. If it could ever find its way to an envelope It won't find its way to you You're a million miles away. It always seemed that wa...

Oh Lord, I’m sick of myself I’d rather bury it than carry it I’m desperate for help And barely sentient means I’m just being me Follow suit the destitute my modus operandi A face that’s marked by pallor means you’re wasting away So get a tan and raise your ha...

it is so that my transgressions have born a withered fruit, the sun has scorched the rising plans; alas they have no root, the bleached bones of animals bound by leather strips, dance through the air with laughter as i wield this wicked whip, as you did warn m...

Turning over in interrupted slumber, You ponder others, growing ever wakeful, You've locked the vermin in the other bedroom, To be so perfect causes you to feel so thankful, Now find the fault because your boyfriend can't read, Reflecting on to you is all the...

She's driving these nails of restless anti-submission into a head full of the naive light of day and then bury this ax with my name into the belly of the never ending stay the torment refuses to lift off the ground and the contradictions don't make a sound unt...

I want to throw up, but for now I hold back I can’t express just how I’m feeling, its true You want to grow up, but there’s a problem with that There’s no where to go for someone who’s as stunted as you Its true that I’m disgusted with myself as well My t...

After all of this we’ve been dismissed by those who prefer to eat dirt We’ve been gladly exempt, we are racked with contempt And we happily wish you this hurt My skull is on fire with barbs and black spires My synapses shriek in the flames Yet we reel with des...

i close my eyes and i see you wrapped in a sheet of sleep, as everyone's eyes age, your deep blue remains untouched, an angel's finger tips touch the surface, an ocean of the bluest saline, having some trouble trying not to feel so broken hearted, i'll give my...

Dance with me baby, let me hear your voice Oh if I didn't wanna fall for you I never had a choice Smear the makeup on my face run your fingers through my hair I can not keep my heart from you and I don't even care Yeah, you turn me inside out You make me shake...

You’re being coy with me? You were timorous and got me in the palm of your hand I’m just an idiot wrecking my way to you But I still get to be your man Out of my mind There never was a method to my madness, it’s true But I’m out of my mind for you What drive...

Good God, where does it end? You have been waiting in line To have a phone chord or a cable fed right down your throat Don’t struggle or it will bend and be a waste of time To drain the depth of you from somewhere there You’ll only choke What seems to be...

i rip the label off my forehead, the one that you conveniently placed, to keep me under your thought control, this time the enemy will be faced, there's no way this injustice will go unnoticed, i'm not a percent, i'm not a number, ignorance has become comforta...

I used to believe in something and something believed in me But now I see I forced myself cause believing in nothing is scary Now there’s nothing left to lose and we’ve been wearied and refused I am an unbelieving wreck. Will you please lift me by my neck? Ho...

It must have been easier when we were younger and the world takes place two feet outside your head Then something expanded and you start to feel stranded so you scramble outside of the skin that you shed It must have been easier when the lights were brighter a...

Forgive me children for I have sinned I never asked you first the way in which I wrote this song, the pen which scribed the verse I never stopped to think of you Each chord change, each refrain was done so with you not in mind The farthest from my brain Alre...

Something keeps me awake, something outside is stirring Through the dark and over the grass The rabbits and snakes are concurring They sing in the soil and bones rattle loud They cry out as this they do see Someone in those walls is suffering proud For y...

Someday they'll write a book about you, because you're so selfish, it's funny. So self-absorbed, this thunderous horde, of you, you, you. So self-absorbed, this thunderous horde, of you, you, you. Yeah, I'd love you, but you love yourself. And you'd love me,...

Shall we use needles or knives to realign your spine? the tissue degenerates so rapidly perhaps it proves it is the time to cover your face and smile at me to see if I am out of sight, denying ventricle flow revel in your plight tonight, you're such a wonderfu...

[Featuring Reese Roper from Five Iron Frenzy and Roper] I used to dream that I could fly Just above the whispered clouds, beneath the somber sky I had a dream I was alive I dreamt that love would never die, goodbye Dreams were cheap and hope was easy (so lig...

To be common place would be unique, but we're so obscure we're incoherent, like toungeless vigilantes choking just to make you choke. Rattling, rattling. No nails to hold ideas in place, no expression on your face. Music and her patrons are dead and irrelevan...

When I was a baby I could close the world up in fleshy pink mitts Now the world flays the infant palms and the bones drip out in its spit When I was small I reached up so high and grasped at the morning star Now the wormwood topples down on me and smashes all...

How long does it take to grow a new head And watch the old husk wither and fall? I am molting and leaving the powerless shell A great becoming offers me her all When I rise I crush you beneath my feet Disappearing, vanishing into me I watch the world become...

Before there was anything I loved you endlessly There are no words to make way for this truth This love for you inside of Me And if I paint a sky with bronze Or blanket you with stars It's not enough to prove to you This love inside My heart What if I knit...

We've come so far, and here we are. Admits the endless hum. No wind worth chasing. No revolution. No blazing battle drum. We laughed as we said, "the music is dead." We've plucked out our eyes; we've shattered its head. My work is so weary so let it be said "...

Where is the light that I thought I was promised? Where is the truth, and the hope and the way? I've lost my footing, my spine, my eyes Everything keeps slipping away Where is the storybook ending The love, the joy, the laughter? Is all there is just nothing a...

Father hear my voice, be it small Here I am, though I am nothing at all Dost thou still see something to love in me? If it be, You will carry me away That I might live today 

Dear God, why should I think You’re good in a world that’s falling apart? The flags and lies, picket signs raised high, the endless enveloping dark Now here we sit, drifting further from You, two thousand years on their way out Now here I am, as I’ve grown to...

I remember everything, to be what I've become A willingness for anything that can and must be done I remember writhing in the womb wrapped up in viscous gloom My will is calling out like a sweeping plague Swallowing the mountains and the deserts and the rain...

I now pronounce you man and life Without the bones that kept you from sagging like a sack of skin A trash bag full of fluid that the man you used to be is drowning in The roles reversed, we got confused Lost track of who we were Thought humility meant to be ca...

I tried to run across the water and I sank into the deep Listlessly beneath the sea, within it’s murky keep I want to keep my dinner down but I threw it up today See how agonizingly propelled without delay? I can’t breathe and I don’t want to anymore I c...

The world is big and empty With tentacles and a mouth The world is in my body I'll tear the world out The mouth yawns open The mouth never sleeps The mouth never closes So I pull out its teeth I am lost inside the mouth I am lost The world is big and barren...

Should you hurt yourself or simply sleep? I shall collect myself after i weep, A garb myself in ocean blue, With no method of goodbye for you, Should the marsh render a crane to cry? And should the sea suspend it's gulls to fly? I lend myself under their wings...

Whisper something to me so I can hear your voice I’m pushing you away, my will be done, it is my choice You sing to me in inky black with tendrils flailing wildly Yet I remain in solid stone, no force on earth will move me Why does it seem that all is sli...

The promise of forever, the lie of mortal flesh and blood the song of Solomon singed by the emotionally stunted heart of deception how hard is it to make up your mind? I love you, I need you only you forever Then I peel these pages on the calendar off the sk...

It's Sunday morning and like sheep with no Shepherd they're turning off alarm clocks and ironing ties above reproach is where we'll be in the eyes of the lesser as they see our family van on it's way to church, on it's way to tithe fundamentally you'll find it...

In the beginning there was black, and now there's me I bend the neck until it cracks and suck the open bleed I rise up above the spit with talons brightly bared And hew the children into two, I simply do not care I am, I am Open up now world, I have arrived...

I remember you When you are wrapped in darkness When the world closes her eyes I remember you I think of resting with you When you finally go to sleep Meet Me in the closet of your heart So that you may lay at My feet "Who is this?" they said to Me 'That the...

I keep clawing at my ears and they keep ringing I keep filling them with dirt and still they go on singing Where are you going, where have you been? The voice, it wants to leap from me or take me from within But I am not a robot and I am not a slave I will no...

you are taking time away from us, discipline becomes necessary, when it's undeserved and incredibly unjust? and the clock drags razors over naked flesh, cause i can't find a way out of the loneliness, in securities driving nails under my skin, time slowing to...

My dearest friend, if I sing you this song, will you hear it from up in heaven? I’m still down here in this ugly place, but up there’s where I’m heading When they tell you I’m coming, please wait for me in front of the house that I’ll live in And when Jesus wa...

You talk so much that you must think your tongue spools out from your brain But those around you demand your wisdom to combat the lowly inane Oh how you make me hate the freedom of speech because you use it like your throat sprung a leak And actions do speak c...

revolution. revolt not by your worldly nature, put it into my hands and wait and see. i'll bring the authority to it's knees, through Christ who strengthens me. but the public school and community have organized to defeat me, through conformity and worldliness...

That thing inside my ribs is like a pile of reptiles. Pressed on splintered vertebrae, so cold, so claustrophobic, Echoing in hollow fuit are orders sent with love to you To serve a will more shallow still than paramecium I'll bet your hands are beautiful. I'...

Is it time that I said some things that I've been meaning to say? I gather up the words, and I can't seem to gather up a way it's just that I hoped there would be something more when I think of us, and when I think of what's in store so what if I just asked yo...

People are afraid to say what they mean, or keep on talking if it's not about them I don't say I hate them before they hate me I've just shut down cause I know what we're all thinking we're just going by the numbers, dragging along were just clinging on to som...

This letter won’t make it to you in time Introverted by your distance from me, and by mine But the chameleons who sift through the trees Are garnering a bouquet in my head’s faculties And its filled with scales and perfumes wearing thin There is no flaw i...