Thrice

was holding on to a branch in the river, so scared of letting go And praying only that someone would stop the flow I heard a voice like the sound of an ocean - above the river's rush A song as old as the world, and my heart was hushed And I could hear it c...

"A Living Dance Upon Dead Minds" Album: The Illusion Of Safety (2002) love everywhere, exploding, maims and blinds, a living dance upon dead minds, love everywhere, exploding, maims and blinds, a living dance upon dead minds but surely does not forget (peris...

Well you know I hardly speak And when I do, it's just for you I haven't said a word in weeks 'Cause they've been keeping me from you But there's a way where there's a will You know I got no need for stairs So step out on the window sill And fall with me into...

"A Subtle Dagger" Album: The Illusion Of Safety (2002) It infiltrates, Insidious; It feigns at love, Betrays our trust, In what we've known, Since we were born. The truth we've found in all we see, Points to design. Still our chests swell. We'll never find, T...

Misguided satellite I circle by habit, can't find my orbit to save my life I want to fall, I want to burn, like an ignorant craterless meteorite Long ago I was derailed, long ago the mission failed but in the distance there appears a light Disgruntled archite...

wake up everyone! It's not too late to save the remnants of our hearts, so stop giving up our last shot at love, our only chance to find the meaning of the beat beneath the blood we laugh at honor and are shocked when we find knives in our backs we follow tho...

You came to me I know not how And showed me what true love is You promised me That you would stay Forever here to hold my hand Hallelujah Sweet Rose of Heaven I will praise you With song forevermore I bring to you My broken life You mend and mak...

The weight of the world is on my shoulders And it's just too much to bear. It's not that I'm growing callous, I'm just too tired to care. So drop your expectations, Let go of any dependencies, Forget your disapproval 'Cause I'm setting myself free.Lo...

One day the dreamers died within us When all our answers never came We hid the truth beneath our skin but Our shadows never looked the same a ghost is all that's left Of everything we swore we never would forget We tried to bleed the sickness But w...

We are saints made of plaster, our laughter is canned; We are demons that hide in the mirror. But the blood on our hands paints a picture exceedingly clear. We are brimming with cumbersome, murderous greed, And malevolence deep and profound. We do unspea...

Our lives built on tin cans and string But the cornerstone laid is a wondrous and beautiful thing Sure in the ground While the North wind is taking it's toll You have helped me to find my way back and to anchor my soul Safe in the sound Oh you know me...

Mother crow Feels no pain Speaks no word Speckled egg Hatching slow Bible black Baby bird One day Fly over me Placed you in Flannel coat Months fly by Grow your bones Feathers, skin Bible black By and by You will spread your wings One day Fly over me 

"As The Ruin Falls" Album: Identity Crisis (2001) Only now that you have taught me (but how late) my lack I see the chasm and everything you are was making my heart into a bridge by which I might get back from exile and grow man and now the bridge is breaking...

It's a shame that some must go without I was no fool to think it might be my problem Needy hands were reaching out Kept my spare change and my pride in a tight fist Now at the last Everything has changed in the pale light That death is cast on all I've...

it's been so long, and tin cans and string for years is all that we've known, could it be you're really here 'cause my eyes are open, and everything still moves in slow-motion, breathless and blue, and behind your eyes the sea oceans of light envelop me but...

Leave me here and lock the door; latch the windows, lose the key. But you'll be back some day. What else then is true for, if not to starve and wait for spring? So I'll just sit and wait. Oh, swing the door wide open; show me your jaded eyes. I will turn them...

All you great men of power, you who boast of your feats - Politicians and entrepreneurs. Can you safeguard your breath in the night while you sleep? Keep your heart beating steady and sure? As you lie in your bed, does the thought haunt your head That you’re r...

"Betrayal Is A Symptom" Album: The Illusion OF Safety (2002) Faith, is not something that i grasp its something that i fake, as I'm slipping, as I'm falling through the cracks, faith without actions is a mask, for making the same mistakes as I'm slipping as I...

What's the use in hoping when you always get let down what's the use in smiling when all you wanna do is frown I'm drowning, in a sea of hate-filled eyes and she's screaming but no one hears her cries Is anybody hear to see a band? Did anybody come to hear a...

Is this everything, I've dreamed of so much more between the end and where we lie here all our hopes and dreams are scavenged from the floor and fed into machines that feed on vacant eyes all of my dreams, always find me far beyond these fake fluorescent skies...

Somewhere down the way, there's a hidden place that anyone That all of us could find But all our maps have failed, so venture through the veil and realize That these roads are intertwined Far beyond those walls, gleaming black and white Further than our...

I keep swingin' my hand through a swarm of bees 'cause I I want honey on my table. I keep swingin' my hand through a swarm of bees 'cause I I want honey on my table. But I never get it right. No, I never get it right. I keep swingin' my hand through a...

I was always one of the righteous Never lived outside of the light Kept a close watch on the whiter(?) ones Disguising the dead bones inside Disguising the dead bones inside I was always one of the good ones Keeping tabs(?) on everyone else Sure that I...

You carve your name in your neighbor's door, and it's blood on blood Just making sure that he knows the score, but it's blood on blood We're gearing up for a holy war, it's either them or us So ship 'em off to another shore, but it's still blood on blood...

We wave our flags, we swallow fear like medicine We kiss the hands of profiteers and their congressmen But I've seen too much (of this fear and hate) I've had enough (and I'm not afraid) To raise a shout, to make it clear — this has to end There's blood...

The shutter opens but never closes, I am lost waylaid, in light trails. Endless moments, overlaid and burned across a melee of scattered braille. This image is a night-terror transforming, Without the hope of morning. My nemesis, I feel it coming for me,...

Woke up to a brand new skyline We licked our wounds and mourn the dead Swallow the story hook and sinker Is that what we meant when we said That we never would forget? Are we fools and cowards all To let them cover up their lies? Cause we all watched the buil...

A coin tossed into the air will come down, it will come down somewhere. Your life is a coin in the air, it will come down somewhere. Every coin does ring; every coin will fall. Stop your wavering. Now's the time so call it out. Call it in the air. You hav...

Cut these thorns and kick these stones, and keep those birds at bay. Plant deep and dark, and help my heart receive the words you say. The words you say are somehow lost on me, they die on deafened ears; when You open - Up your mount to speak I hear but I...

Dear prodigal you are my son and I Supplied you not your spirit, but your shape. All Eden's wealth arrayed before your eyes, I fathomed not you wanted to escape. And though I only ever gave you love, Like every child you've chosen to rebel. Uprooted flo...

We talk too much We talk in circles Till we're all spinning around, Reaching for rings, On this marry-go-round The scenery spins We call it progress I've seen this all before When all said is done, Wake up on the floor We set sail with no fixed sta...

They are sick, they are poor And they die by the thousands and we look away They are wolves at the door And they're not gonna move us or get in our way 'Cause we don't have the time Here at the top of the world Feeling alright Here at the top of the wo...

Come all you weary with your heavy loads Lay down your burdens find rest for your souls Cause my yoke is easy and my burden is kind I’ll take yours upon me and you can take mine Come all you weary move through the earth You've been spurned at fine restaurants...

I stand on the cliffs with my son next to me This island our prison, our home And everyday we look out at the sea This place is all he's ever known "But I've got a plan," He sung Wax and some string, some feathers I stole from a bird We leap from the cliff an...

"Deadbolt" Album: The Illusion Of Safety (2002) When deadbolts awake you from deja vu dreams, At four in the morning you know where I'll be Out running red lights asleep at the wheel The sirens feed my nightmares I just close my eyes and I'm already there It...

I always thought, always thought, that there was something different, setting us apart That I was led, I was led by men with sober minds and sympathetic hearts I swore an oath, swore an oath, but never knew just what it was to take a life To play at God, pl...

It's not what you think Just one more little bet Just another cigarette Just one more drink So lend me just a little more You know cancer can't catch me Let's have another drink or three Don't be a bore But oh, don't I know I'm just digging my own g...

I woke, cold and alone Adrift in an open sea Caught up in regrets And tangled in nets Instead of your arms wrapped around me And I wept, but my tears are anathema here Just more water to fill my lungs I hear someone scream "God what is it we have done?...

We were sons of insurrection, doomed to face the dark alone. 'Till vicarious perfection, dearly won, was made our own. So where's your landslide, where's your victory? Tell me now, where's your sting? Unassailable you waited, the great enemy of man, 'Till...

I drugged my heart with doublespeak And all my misgivings disappear It helps to keep my conscious clean The ends will justify the means And still I'm always careful what I hear I don't wanna know who really pulls the strings Just as long as it's not you or me...

There's a darkness that is brighter than our light There's a danger love, to holding on so tight I'm finally seeing I've been seeing this all wrong I'm finally seeing Now that everything belongs Yeah, everything belongs Everything belongs There's a sh...

I know one day, all our scars will disappear, like the stars at dawn and all of our pain, will fade away when morning comes and on that day when we look backwards we will see, that everything is changed and all of our trials, will be as milestones on the way...

how can you be sleeping, waves like weapons crash o'er us, cry for mercy and hold fast hope who of us is cursed, or do we have to ask search your souls and hold fast if no one speaks a word, then let the lots be cast truth be told and hold fast white death w...

Hold up a light, steady a bright Out like a knife through the cold and dark These eager flames can't be contained Cities are claimed by the smallest spark It's raining and I know we're tired But try to raise your lamps a little higher up Hold up a ligh...

The blue light spills like oceans we smile and let it in it cures us of our questions like hoods on peregrineknowledge locked in a tower barons will hold the key but if knowledge is power, know this is tyranny all we're asking for is what's ours You...

Those flowers I found you Were the truest red that I'd ever seen Till you cut yourself on their thorns You winced and I kissed you, And I kissed your palms and we both laughed So unaware of the gathering storm It's gonna rain, it's gonna rain, till th...

"Identity Crisis" Album: Identity Crisis (2001) Image marred by self infliction, Private wars on my soul waged Heart is scarred be dual volition, Juxtaposed and both engaged Kindle flame, a test of faith, Pray help me see it through I put all my trust in you...

We're more than carbon and chemicals We are the image of the invisible Free will is ours and we can't let go We are the image of the invisible We can't allow this, the quiet cull We are the image of the invisible So we sing out this, our canticle We are the im...

I am in exile, a sojourner A citizen of some other place All I've seen is just a glimmer in a shadowy mirror But I know, one day well see face to face I am a nomad, a wanderer I have nowhere to lay my head down There's no point in putting roots too deep when...

"In Your Hands" Album: Identity Crisis (2001) Am I talking to myself again Is there anybody listening Are you taking this in Am I wasting my breath Tell me is the wind in your sails Worth everything you give Are you looking for something Forgiveness I leave...

here's always something, somewhere, that's running through my mind I know it's going nowhere but I still chase it There's always something, somewhere, that I'm supposed to find It's like a piece is missing, and I can't place it But I wanna feel the ocean'...

Can we, can we kill each other quickly? quick enough so i won't feel it? a shot of strobe light anesthia and I'll be fine'cause I'm beginning to feel cold my hands are shaking from fear, white from clutching my pride, red from cutting you, and blue fro...

once again these bitter herbs the perfect compliment to all your cryptic words I nod but don't know what to say, but I know you and I believe you're who you say you are so I? I will follow you, lay down my life I would die for you, this very night once again...

I've seen his ragged shoes The soles are worn straight through Well I proclaimed The king has sang the blues If you've got better news Then make it play He laid aside his crown All our crimes he carried Was lifted from the ground With our burdens bur...

What are we all living for? If nothing's worth dying for tonight Your dreams are not enough What I need is love That's worth laying down my life Sing along, Just like they taught us It's soothing your mind this lullaby No heaven above us Just mile after mile...

I speak in many tongues to many men; Argue with angels and I always win, But I don't know the first thing about love. I prophesy and know all mysteries; All hidden things are opened up to me But I don't know the first thing about love I have the keys t...

we move for all mankind, a million miles from everything we've ever known and we're on their hearts and minds, a million heads are bowed to bring us safely home hemmed in by emptiness, a million ways that everything could be undone this hollow in my chest is f...

Are you ready? Are you alive to all that moves in me? Are you steady? Are you alarmed that I am incomplete? Are you ready for my soul? What if I'm broken from the start? And what if I never heal? Are you ready for my soul? What if I open up my heart?...

the towers that shoulder your pride the words you've written in stone sand will cover them, sand will cover you the streets that suffer your name your very flesh and your bones sand will cover them, sand will cover you so put your faith in more than ste...

I see through your eyes You breathe with my lungs I strain with your ear to make out The words your mother sung I bless with your hand (I bless with your hand) You pray on my knees (you pray on my knees) It's my blood in your veins And your heart is bea...

"Phoenix Ignition" Album: Identity Crisis (2001) Like a phoenix ignition like a crematorium Like a swelling volition from the barrel of a gun From the ashes and the embers like a rocket I'll ascend Like a cry gone up for a fallen friend I'LL ASCEND Everyday t...

O. we promise pretty things, And we pledge with diamond rings; We profess undying love. But does that word hold any weight? We reserve the right to break Any vow that draws our blood. Our word is so faint and feeble, Broken by the slightest breeze...

I know what lies beneath, I've seen the flash of teeth. Conspiring with the reef to sink our ship. The wind's a cheating wife, her tongue a thirsty knife. And she could take your life with one good kiss. Can you see the sky turn red? As morning's light breaks...

The sky took its cue, every color and hue on display Till thick veils of indigo signaled the end of the day But each landscape that lies in the mirror of your eyes turns to grey On the edge of a knife, it's like you're living your life on a stage You're t...

[Verse 1] We scoff and roll our eyes Yeah, we've heard this all before in a different guise These shrill alarmist fears We don't deign to entertain them, covering our ears [Chorus] So where will we go when the waters threaten to wash us away? And all o...

Do you believe in heaven above Do you believe in love Don't tell me a lie Don't be false or untrue It all comes back to you Open fire on my burning heart I've never been lucky in love My defences are down A kiss or a frown I can't survive on my own...

Your eyes, followed me here. Your eyes, seamless and sure. They leave me broken and, in need of a cure. Your eyes, followed me here. Your eyes, sifting my soul. They leave me broken and forge diamonds from the coal. They race me along the infinite synapse of...

So Strange I Remember You in protest of a prayer, and falling back from seas we fear to sail i swear i saw the shooter, gold deep and double dare, postmortem warnings seem inclined to fail,feigning an apology. those words they never left your lips, those...

Wake, stand and feel your worth, O my soul. Kneel and know the word that can save us all. We are fuel and fire both. We are water. Wed with wine and ghost. We are wrought with breath and dirt, washed in second sight. Woven through the earth, wreathed in ring...

I sit here clutching useless lists And keys for doors that don't exist I crack my teeth on pearls I tear into the history Show me what it means to me in this world Yeah in this world 'Cause I am due for a miracle I'm waiting for a sign I'll stare straight int...

You were a silhouette, a shivering shadow in the mingled ash and snow I took your fevered hands - felt like embers of the world's dying glow And you were feather light as I carried you quietly through the crumbling streets And in the fading light I could se...

"T & C" Album: Identity Crisis (2001) in my head everything was perfect and every note resounds in harmony but all i seem to offer up are dischords and every note i sing sounds out of key and every time i play with passion and my voice cracks i start brea...

It never turns out right for me and you No matter how I try to see it through We gather ourselves up and start again Feels like I'm trying to catch the wind You are the door to which I've lost the keys We are a puzzle with a missing piece We gather ourselves...

There is truth beneath the floorboards There is hope in brick and stone They tell me just to shut my mouth Leave well enough alone But I think maybe all that's needed Is a match and gasoline Because I don't think that any one of them believes that there...

Late night, brakes lock, hear the tires squeal Red light, can't stop so I spin the wheel My world goes black before I feel an angel lift me up And I open bloodshot eyes into fluorescent white They flip the siren, hit the lights, close the doors and I am gone...

true friends stab you in the front keep you from getting what you want when one more fix could kill you they help you realize that you're more and less than you first had believed you've so much to give and there's so much you need shortcuts through graveyard...

You try to keep me out of sight You try to keep me out of sight and out of mind Out of mind You try to keep me from the light You try to keep me from the light, but I know it's mine I know it's mine You’re rigging the game You’re part of the system I...

we dream of ways to break these iron bars we dream of black nights without moon or stars we dream of tunnels and of sleeping guards we dream of blackouts in the prison yard heartbroken, we found (a gleam of hope) harken to the sound, (a whistle blows) heave...

There was a time when I tried to hold the ocean in my fists When I mistook the language for the light There was a tightness that gripped my soul and bubbled at my wrists And choked me within inches of my life But now I'm letting go And I can finally brea...

The lion's outside of your door The wolf's in your bed The lion's claws are sharpened for war The wolf's teeth are red And what a monstrous sight he makes Mocking man's best friends Both the wolf and lion crave The same thing in the end The lion's ou...

The tyranny of deterioration It worries me that it's all just a waste of time Taking one step forward, two steps back Still I believe there's a thread through the thorns And I believe that somewhere it's warm And I believe that it's ever bright beyond thi...

It's coming down, it's coming down, it's coming down These clouds could never hope to save us From such a juggernaut of weight We all dance a jingo cabaret It's coming down, it's coming down There're shadows forming on the pavement We face a watershed of hate;...

There's many who'll tell you they'll give you their love, But when they say "give" they mean "take." They"ll hang 'round just like vultures till push comes to shove. They'll take flight when the earth starts to shake. Someone may say that they'll always be tr...

My lover's arms Well they beg me to stay I know the stars They will sweep me away My daughter's eyes They are two tiny seas Whose water will rise And they will run down her cheeks Father where do you go? So far out upon the sea when are you coming h...

All that I've known's within the walls of this room where there's a window Roughly boarded up It's true the gaps are patched but even through the tiny cracks, I feel a wind blow I see a light of strangest hue And there's nothing I can say There's no way...

"To What End" Album: Identity Crisis (2001) to what end do we proceed so boldly if all we are is chemical reactions and what world have you deftly sold me if you reduce me if I have no soul to touch no heart to love no evil to rise up above no angels and no...

"Torch To End All Torches" Album: Identity Crisis (2001) Misguided satellite i circle by habit cant find my orbit to SAVE MY LIFE i want to fall, i want to burn like an ignorant caterless meteorite long ago i was derailed, long ago the mission failed but in t...

All my life, I've been treading paper in the space between the words. And there implied is that I'm but another body for the birds, Carrion, absurd and accidental atoms - beating air, Carrying on; unwitting orphan of an unyielding despair. But linger on, j...

Mix the chemicals right, dear Mix the chemicals right Yeah, the margin of error is slight Mix the chemicals right, dear Mix the chemicals right Yeah, you know that you could save my life There is a risk There's a risk when you're dealing with love Yo...

"Ultra Blue" Album: Identity Crisis (2001) Unabashedly pursue, the Truth that we cannot deny A revelation shining through, orchestration Adonai A revolution ultra-blue, and a melodic battle cry And though you say there'll be no coup, we'll never know unless...

The air my lungs first loved Carves craters from my eyes They said "breathe deeply son Or be the next to die" Beneath the falling night And heaven's shutting gate Pray keep your tongue held tight Or suffer the same fate The blood on our black gloves It is n...

"Under Par" Album: Identity Crisis (2001) Its my life! you set bar too high your expectations have become my failure a shell you see so shallow but deep inside my heart beats just the same as yours the same blood through these clean veins can't you see that i...

"Unquestioned Answers" Album: Identity Crisis (2001) Your traps are all baited your scales are all weighted but not resisting you would surely drive me insane so im caught and convicted, my rights are restricted the imbecile dynasty continues to reign your a...

Just a little sleep, a little slumber Little folding of the hands to rest That's what we tell ourselves But we know we're gonna just Lay here till the sun's gone west But there are foxes in the garden And there's an armed man at the door When the win...

Our idols lay in ruins We'd have saved them if we could But we still choose to worship The places where our idols stood.still believing They can save us, I've lived this way too long to turn back now Presuppositions set in stone his coffin sealed by...

You told me not to worry It's all for the greater good Who made you judge and jury Who gave you the axe and hood You wanted it sealed I'll tell the real story I'm the bird that sings I'm the whistleblower Wake up and take warning Congressmen and kin...

Standing knee-deep in cold water, swiftly moving Somehow I knew I lost something Waiting waist-deep I saw a book there, in the river Waiting for me to find it there I tried to read it, neck deep, treading water The tide pulled me out to sea Then with w...

You were built for blessing, But you only make them bleed, You don't care, you don't care. And bruises are but shadows Of the blackness that you breed, But you don’t care, you don’t care. The light that's left inside their eyes is darkened day by...