-Goats On A Boat-

Whatever happened to the integrity found within a family?
I return your glare, and my bones
Are chilled with some sort of sickening recipe of fear and anger

Day by day, time after time again, time after time again
You distort chronology, you foster of terror

Bury your diamonds, destroy your rubies

We are searching for security in tragedy
Take a look around and notice the black
(tapestries) drowning our (walls of) simplicity

We are the constant decay
Each note will disintegrate
Perched upon our towers, motionless and miserable ways
Here's to a comfortable casket
How deceiving is the cemetery of motivation
I wish to write, I wish to write, I wish to write a conclusion

-Number Three, Never Forget-

You've compromised your doctrines
You've compromised your doctrines
You've surrendered yourself, yourself to fashion

Come back to your faith; Come back to grace
Come back to your faith; Come back to grace

He sang with us and loved others
The death of obsession
The blood relationship, creates such a rotten demise
Oh Lord, oh lord
Such blackness portrays the love of a machine
I did not want you to join this culture
I did not want you to join this culture

So how can you be so proud?
So how can you be so proud?

-Number Three, Never Forget-

Oh, and yet I've been cleansed with the water
Oh, and yet I've been cleansed with the water
A purity no mind can grasp
A purity so cool upon my fingertips

The vision that I've seen: this is the action that spawns from the end
For the longest time, I've been watching the world breathe against (spiderwebs)

What lies here are mountains composed of tombstones, tombstones, tombstones
Examine these beautiful faces, keep singing now
Examine these beautiful faces, keep singing now
Examine these beautiful faces, keep singing now

Will we push bedlam noise to the state of blissfulness?
Display her beauty to the people

A purity no mind can grasp

-HTML Rulez D00d-

And yet i've been cleansed with the water.
A purity no mind can grasp.
A purity so cool upon my fingertips.

The vision that i've seen:
this is the action that spawns from the end.
For the longest time,
i've been watching the world breathe against (spiderwebs).

What lies here are mountains composed of tombstones.
Examine these beautiful faces, keep singing now.
Keep singing.

Will we push bedlam noise to the state of blissfulness?
Display her beauty to the people.
A purity no mind can grasp.

-Hey John, What's Your Name Again?-

The concept of fashion is the one to blame.
Painting the portrait of
Conviction-less existence.

Well, it must be difficult being so gorgeous.

Well it must be difficult,
Claiming to be the kings and queens
But it's all
But it's all
But it's all
But it's all for nothing.

This shall pass.
Megalomania.
This shall pass.
Megalomania.

Congratulations on mutilation for a life.
For a life.
Life, life, life, life, life, life.

I'm going to hope for you,
I'm going to pray for you amongst the wreckless and the black.
Salvation lies within.
I'm going to hope for you,
I'm going to pray for you amongst the wreckless and the black.
My time is yours my friend.

We all find ourselves so horribly weak.
(Oh God,)
Where's an offering.
Where's an offering.
Offering, offering.

-Don't Dink And Drance-

I would like to burn this down.
I would like to see it melt in yellow,
and observe a cloud of blackness rise.
Watch it rise as it is wrath himself.
Watch it rise.

Crows will flee the scene as if to remind
me how long it's been since I have seen a dove.
Melt in yellow as I do.
Exhaustion and mother of tribulation.
Wound by wound.
I torture myself.
Wound by wound, I will perservere.

Whiteness, present yourself,
as I know you are the sky and anchor of my being.
What we've known is like cigarettes.
Formaldehyde fingers.

-You Can't Spell Crap Without 'C'-

I wish to turn around and return (to her warmth and laughter),
but this calling is strong, and denial is impossible.
No measure of weight can justify what now presses into my chest.
To the road, your freedom is awesome,
but does it compare to the sweet embrace of my love?

Our convictions engraved by her marvelous hands.
My ears are upon the brink of detonation,
and the mud amongst the passage of my throat is drying to permanence.

Harvest the crop of memories.
To what's true, I offer thanks.
I've found what's pure and I've found what's sweet.
We are not barren

-This Song Is Called-

I am the speaker but what is responsibility?
This is beg of you, build me brick upon brick.
High tides; waves of hypocrisy.
I didn't think the clock struck more than twelve times.
I decided to name her insomnia.

"Her teeth (show) like white seeds in a scarlet fruit"
This I must tell you, old friend: fear beauty.
This is meager, this is feeble.
She was only a fiction and my creation

-Reptar, King Of The Ozone-

Bring it to your lips and experience the sulfur
infect everything that we've created.
Don't twist this around.

Don't attempt to justify what we know is wrong.
Tendons are torn and screams are released

into a poisoned, mathematic atmosphere.
We're composing our funeral songs, note by note.
With this I declare that tomorrow is an allusion.

What if the clouds are fragments of mistakes,
fabricated by the factories of our foolishness?
We're composing our funeral songs, note by note.
Prove me wrong

-The Scorpion Deathlock-

Distance decreases as if time is a dying cockroach.
Plagues enclose.
Sitting upon this wooden bench, I am helpless to billions of bullets.
In this moment I am helpless.

Why is it so difficult to see ourselves?
No poem I've wrote, Nor song I have sung, can halt the army of wrath.
Numbers Numbers Numbers Numbers.
In this moment I am helpless.

Serpents will transform into mice only to drown in the deepest red.
I've always expresses my thoughts in colors, but we remain blind.
Numbers Numbers Numbers Numbers

-Nickels Is Money Too-

Climbing into fire, her hands are forceful.
We're burying earth in earth.
White hands, soft hands: carefully.
This makes no sense.
What's that sound I hear?
I'm lost in a state of confusion.

Oh ground.
I despise you, but rejoice in your essence.
Envy will cease my sky.
Greed will cease my sky.
"Here's a farmer that hung himself on the expectation of plenty"
At this time I feel there is no bottom to earth.
Welcome to the museum of the dead; endless gore becomes reality.

Tradition's dug the grave.
The inferno has commenced

-Sassafras-

This is the faith complex
Where all takes is another step so we can then step again
Its not all about the numbers
This is the faith complex

Try not to write another disappointing letter to integrity
Only go faster when you've stopped and thought
Only go slower when you've learned of wisdom
Everything is a question of goodwill
But we're too busy delivering answers with arrogance
Isn't it funny how one's compassion diminishes when his or her own perils rise?

Perils rise
It's not all about the numbers

What should we ask for?
Who should we look to if all we know is burning bridges?
Don't speak to me like I'm a stranger
Turn your thoughts to the roots
As we've all been caught up in the branches
With roots above and branches below

Don't run if you don't know your walk
This is the faith complex
This is a memoir to friends persisting

-I Hate Buffering-

Confidence blurred by arrogance
And the self worship continues
Who is an artist?
You can't decide for yourself
Straight lines, I see straight lines
But they control sloppily, stupidly

Keep that golden, celebrity character to your own conscience
Take a breath and rest your jaw
A vertebrae with no spine
Our entertainment: a mockery
With every laugh and every joke the actors lungs become more dense with damnation
Don't mistake my intentions for superiority, lets make that clear

This isn't right and the worse part is we're not pretending
Don't memorize these names
Eternally

This world will run dry and we'll watch the clock
We'll watch what we'll become
Don't memorize these names

Eternally
Take a breath and rest your jaw
A vertebrae with no spine

-Assistant To The Regional Manager-

These writings are to those who have wept
These writings are to those who haven't looked deeply enough into the correct resolution.
Wrong again but stronger now, we can face this
Fight life with life
Fight life with life
All glory to the one in existence
Bring upon your name, your grace, your everything
All glory to the one in existence
Bring upon your name, your grace your everything

Hold hands and stare into the circle
What are we looking at?
Rumors and rumors and rumors
Rumors and rumors and rumors
Assembly: Disintegration

Rumors and rumors and rumors
Perish
Perish
Perish
Perish

Tombstones serve as mirrors and the graves are infinite
Take a look through the lens and through your eyes

End the partitioning
Wrong again but stronger now, we can face this
Fight life with life
Fight life with life
Fight life with life

Oh

Enemies, we'll go for your throat

-Dez Moines-

Fall to you knees (Accomplishing nothing).
Fall to your knees only to exercise your schedule.
Abandon calendar.
What has come with such preaching is loneliness.
Profit: Zero
Achievement: Zero.

Forward can't be stopped,
It just goes to show that some words are useless.
Take all your medals,
take all your ribbons,
take all your awards,
take them back to the ground.

Our youth is lost;
A product of the created circumstances.
All I can say is "maybe".
All I can say is maybe this is what I've been expecting all along.
Now's the time of weakness,
Now's the time of blood.
Perhaps even the whole-hearted had wished for this.
Now's the time of weakness,
now's the time of blood,
and still the time of lions.

Push everything.
Force everything.
We've all sung of the end,
But who truly understands it?
All along.

Forward can't be stopped,
It just goes to show that some word's are useless.
Take all your medals,
take all your ribbons,
take all your awards,
take them back to the ground.

-Big Wiggly Style-

Condemned
My regret is not writing more for you, lord
As this ocean comes to be deeper our vessels become less stable
Look to the sky
Encourage the elements of God

Rather than the jars that contain them
If on the ingredients of man were of such elements
If only
With great horror, I admit that we all live off the lust and misfortune of others
All live off the lust and misfortune of others

This is vision, not contradiction
I see greed in the face of a priest

And deterioration in the walls of cathedrals
What was right, now wrong
Casts a cold reflection on glory
Look to the sky

-Danger: Wildman-

I know a ghost
And when doubted his truth reveals incredible vengeance
Vanity is a sepulcher
Do as you please, shame will fallow
Languages rot and insects lose interest

Mountains of plastic: melting away
As long as these struggles are aimless
We will all be standing still

When worded correctly, truth is never a cliché
This is because so many are attached to their deaf ears
Collect the leaves
Count them
Name them
Study each and every single one of them

As long as the struggles are aimless
We will all be standing still
When worded correctly, truth is never a cliché
This is because so many are attached to their deaf ears
All mistakes can be marked by borders
All of love can be traced to a maker
It seems as if what is most important
Isn't noticed when forgotten
Do as you please, shame will fallow

The sun and the moon
You'll always take them for granted
What's delicate is lost
As the selfish forgot what is sacred
The humble forgot themselves
When worded correctly, truth is never a cliche
This is because so many are attached to their deaf ears

-Ben Has A Kid-

I mean this, I'm not sure if you could say the same
Week after week after week
Idolatry is wasted reverence, idolatry is the yellow on your teeth
Gasp for the truth you once lived
Beyond this world is what is always breathing
Beyond this world is worth dying for
I remember what you used to claim

You cant bury conviction with anything
Our message will grow
No matter the mistakes made with construction

Beyond this world is what is always breathing
Beyond this world is worth dying for
Gasp for the truth you once lived
I pray that stolen glimpses wont subtract from what we've been building
Keep stride persist in our march

-Wapakalypse-

Dear tomorrow
Find some sensibility
Respond to emotion
Dear politician,
Define sagacity,

One after another, nobody stands behind the ones they have chosen
One after another, nobody stands behind the ones they've selected
Nobody stands behind the nation they've selected


All chances of survival are beginning to, beginning to diminish
Comedy is no excuse for our own blasphemies
Mass media, mass pessimism, mass denial
My television tells me to panic, but I don't think I'll listen
The apathetic force us to persevere
The apathetic, with their backwards priorities
If only the strongest of stone was not necessary

One after another, nobody stands behind the ones they have chosen
One after another, nobody stands behind the ones they've selected
Nobody stands behind the nation they've selected

We could build a monument for memory:
Liberation includes a failure
Your rebellion is resultless
So, be angry at yourself
If only we did not deserve this

Your rebellion is resultless
So, be angry at yourself, yourself.

-Gimme Half-

Keep this on your mind
Keep it within your eyelids
We have ascended countless stairs
Perhaps it has interrupted our thoughts
Regret is an inception, regret is a beginning
Miles and miles of wires build the apparatus
But don't mistake power lines for shelter
I forgot and it will more than likely happen again

Drink and binge the waters of the sea
Keep this on your mind,
Keep it within your eyelids
Don't climb for a lifetime only to fall short of infinity

Everything is left
With faith, some minds are sand;
But I prefer concrete
This is whats going to separate us from them
Time for the next chapter
Keep this on your mind
Keep this within your eyelids

-Louder Than Thunder-

What would it take for things to be quiet?
Quiet like the snow.
And I know this isn't much
But I know I could, I could be better.

I don't think I deserve it;
Selflessness, find your way into my heart.
All stars could be brighter.
All hearts could be warmer.

What would it take for things to be quiet?
Quiet like the snow.
Are we meant to be empty-handed?
I know I could, I could be better.

I don't think I deserve it;
Selflessness, find your way into my heart.
All stars could be brighter.
All hearts could be warmer.

What would it take for things to be quiet?
Find your way into my heart
What would it take for things to be quiet?
Find your way into my heart
What would it take for things to be quiet?/p>

-Lord Xenu-

Gravity
Teach me the ways of retaliation
I'd like every backbiter to know that audience is always priority, rather than the stage
It all comes down to this
Look elsewhere for books of narcissism
Pride is a trend that is far past swollen
Death through windows
No longer can I live a life of no control
These stories we've been writing are water-thin
It's disheartening because I know that we are capable of vision
Blemishes are warnings so simply concentrate and apply pressure
And it's branches will be broken

The city to be punished
So many never listen
And I drown in disgust
When you will you ever remember?
When will you realize (that) false statements fall to the feet of dead Gods?
False statements fall to the feet of dead Gods!

-Escape-

There's no time. If your decisions include regret.
Then it's already too late.
There's no time. As clumsy as these beasts may be.
Their mass numbers make up for slow speeds.
Now is when you exert all of your energy.
Don't bother screaming,

Don't bother crying,
Ignore all hope of mercy.
There's no time. If your decisions include regret. Then it's already too late.
There's no time for even the slightest bit of remorse.
Try to contain every ounce of sorrow.
Our hearts have no room for this.
I am made of anger.

There's a proportion to be met between escape and defense.
Now is when you exert all of your energy.
Don't bother screaming,
Don't bother crying,
Ignore all hope of mercy.
There's no time. If your decisions include regret. Then it's already too late.

-Anatomy-

With contamination comes fever:
The disease is at its worst.
Teeth missing, Beyond repair,
Fragile flesh falling away.
With fever, with virus comes the harshest judgement.
Haunting elements create a horrific monster.
You've never seen such grey skin, freezing to the touch.

This is a call to arms, Human race.
With contamination comes fever:
The disease is at its worst.
Immune to water, Immune to weather all to spread the curse.
Bones brittle ready to snap, mind unstable highly enraged.
Dirt underneath the nails of fingers tearing at your sanity.
There is no changing structure,

There is no retracting anatomy.
This achitecture, It cannot be destroyed.
There is no retraction.

Close your eyes, but nothing changes.
We all know what brings this on.
Close your eyes, still nothing changes.
No one knows how to take it back.

-Outnumbered-

Are outnumbered...
The virus has completely devastated over 150 of the world's major regions,
and is spreading rapidly.
At this point in time we know of only one method of
killing the creatures: We destroy the brain.
Beyond the guard of any loved ones
who may have recently been in any sort of contact out be infected,
And if you find yourself out in a threatened position,
please do not hesitate to act.
Again, this is not a test.
This is not a joke.
We as a species are overwhelmed.
We are outnumbered!

Standing at accuracy's demise we have reached the new world wasteland.
Population converted: One by one (one by one), thousands upon thousands.
Like scavengers on waste, like vultures on the sick, zombies outnumber the living.
We are the outnumbered. We are the outnumbered.

Find your post, find your shelter (in hopes of outliving the undead.)
Build your walls, maintain protection (with ambitions of beating the odds.)
Find your post, find your shelter (in hopes of outliving the undead.)
Build your walls, maintain protection (with ambitions of beating the odds.)

In a sea of stinking rot, in a place where living humans are no longer the hunters,
All the money in the world won't satisfy the enemy... Hunted. Hunted. Hunted. Hunted.

Standing at accuracy's demise we have reached the new world wasteland. Go...
Mankind is the losing faction; retreat is eternally hopeless.

Find your post, find your shelter in hopes of outliving the undead.
Build your walls, maintain protection with ambitions of beating the odds.
Find your post, find your shelter in hopes of outliving the undead.
Build your walls, maintain protection with ambitions of beating the odds.

We are the outnumbered.

-Revive-

Science has become a child’s game.
There is no solution to bring away this plague.
No remedies have been discovered.

The cure is a shotgun, the cure is whatever blunt instrument one can salvage.
Whomever finds themselves too proper will be the first to perish.
And you know nothing that matters now.

We cannot restore (restore), we cannot recover (recover):
all is lost in the flood of the risen dead.
We cannot restore (restore), we cannot recover (recover):
all is lost in the storm of the disgraceful.

The incurable bring us our punishment.
Today’s destruction can only be measured in
in biblical... biblical proportion.

Let’s go...
My will is at God’s hand, never within man’s teeth.
My will is at God’s hand, never within man’s teeth.
My will is at God’s hand, never within man’s teeth.

Always wanting more, never enough,
until this day and age when there’s nothing left.
Always wanting more, never enough,
until this day and age when there’s nothing left.
Always wanting more. Never enough.

We cannot restore (restore), we cannot recover (recover):
all is lost in the flood of the risen dead.
We cannot restore (restore), we cannot recover (recover):
all is lost in the storm of the disgraceful.
We cannot restore (restore), we cannot recover (recover):
all is lost in the flood of the risen dead.
We cannot restore, we cannot recover:
all is lost in the storm of the disgraceful.
We cannot restore, we cannot recover:
all is lost in the flood of the risen dead.
We cannot restore, we cannot recover:
all is lost....

-Survivor-

I am one of the last few standing, a survivor on a farm,
Just along the outskirts of a small city.
Like most that have made it this far,
I live off of old canned goods and a healthy back stock of ammunition.

Greetings from extermination, Kansas - death in the midwest.
Greetings from extermination, Kansas - death in the midwest.

Even with the godless reaching my property every few days, I am tortured by solitude.
The whispering of the cornfields haunt me like the moans of my undead enemies.
My depression grows stronger: its bitter claws around my neck.
I will always be tortured... tortured by solitude.

Will anything get better for me?
I have watched the world die, all I know now is regret.
Will this sickness ever leave this world?
I have watched the world die, all I know now is regret.
I am haunted, I am haunted by all that surrounds me.
I have watched the world die, all I know now is regret.
What I’ve known has been taken from me.
I have watched the world die, all I know now is regret.

I am one of the last few standing, a survivor on a farm,
Just along the outskirts of a small city.
No one living has been within this house since my wife died two years ago.
Another occasion of when the undead came across some innocence...
...came across some innocence.

I will never see through this nightmare. I will never know sunlight again.
I will never see through this nightmare. I will never taste her lips again.

-Dead Throne-

What you hold dear is a false account.
What you hold dear offers no salvation. (salvation)
Trust in that I’m not right for this. (for this)
Know that I’m not the one to hold you up. (hold you up)
I can’t hold you. I can’t hold you.

Dead throne (dead throne),
we’ve put the world up onto a dead throne.
Dead throne (dead throne),
we’ve put the world up onto a dead throne.

She will slip... slip away.
You will see your downfall.

Dead throne (dead throne),
we’ve put the world up onto a dead throne.
Dead throne, we’ve put the world onto a dead throne.

I am guilty, I have fallen:
There are things that have come between you and me.
I’m so sorry (I’m so sorry):
Let all be put to shame who serve carved images.

We’ve put the world on a dead throne.
We’ve put the world on a dead throne.

-Untidaled-

Back for the fourth time around and still meaning every word.
Never more honest, always too tired.
Drowning in the pages I’ve planned:
Provoke, destroy. Provoke, destroy.
I could be the lost cause, for I am dead poetry.
In this reflection, we are perfect disorder.

Bring back balance, bring restoration.
I saw the waves again, I felt the impact.
I saw the waves again, I watched the current sway us.
Bring back balance, bring restoration. Go....

Lost in the clouds and my heart is sleeping.
Within the tide, although my eyes are dying.

Back for the fourth time around and
still meaning every word. (every word)
Never more blatant, always too thoughtful.
If I could change things, I’d change myself.

Time to be joyful in no consistency.
Faith can be our only regularity.
Time to be joyful in no monotony.
There are no final goodbyes, this is our certainty.

Bring back balance, bring restoration.
I saw the waves again, I felt the impact.
I saw the waves again,
I watched the current sway us.
Bring back balance, bring restoration.

And just like that my life ceased to be.

If I could change things, I’d change myself:
Sunk to the bottom of a deaf, lifeless world.

-Mammoth-

I won’t let this ruin me.

My orchestra, my indecision:
It all comes back full circle (from grace to all my hate).
I never meant to hurt anyone.
(anyone) I came for peace, and for great reason.
There is no solace,
there’s no alleviation in all our money,
or within her golden teeth.

Is this it? Is this how it goes?
I am the wretched one, I am the beggar’s hands.
It comes back full circle.
I cannot help but feel nothing.

Pick it up... Oh...
Such a bitter friend, change can be.
Remind me God, refresh what’s turned to grey.
Oh my intentions, you vanish with the wind.

Is this it? Is this how it goes?
I am the wretched one, I am the harlot’s bones.
It comes back full circle.
I cannot help but care no more.
Is this it, is this how it goes?
It all comes back full circle.
It comes back full circle.
I cannot help but feel nothing.

All that you know... I am all that you know.

He had a vision as to what comes next, so disregard this unholy place.

-Vengeance-

You are a sickness: My only sincere plague.
Is this what you’ve worked for? Running your false empire to the ground.
What is this substance that made your very own morals change?

It’s gone a little too far to turn back now. (turn back now)
It’s gone a little too far to turn back.
Always running I am the outcast. Keep running, keep running away.

On to the next one, how can you have no shame?
Gone (gone) is your reason,
think of from where you came. (where you came)
God as my witness, there will be no love lost.

This is my vengeance: From here on out it’s no regrets.
You are my sickness: I gave it all my very best.
This is my vengeance: From here on out it’s no regrets.
You are my sickness: I gave it all my very best. (my very best)

It’s gone a little too far to turn back now. (turn back now)
It’s gone a little too far to turn back.
Always running I am the outcast.
It’s gone a little too far to turn back now.
(it’s gone a little too far) (turn back now)
It’s gone a little too far to turn back.
Always running I am the outcast.
Keep running, keep running away.

On to the next one, driven by what you gain.
Broken honor, you came and you went.

We’re just another crack in the wall,
here with no love lost. (no love lost)

-R.I.T.-

Turn your back now...
Lose yourself in hesitation.
Dancing, dancing, always dancing, and staring at the floor.
The sun came out just long enough to go down. Oh....

She shows the symptoms of being my suicide.
I’m holding you to blame for this.
I won’t stop selling myself short.
The broken windows... All of the glass.
Knife in my hand... The questions I’ve asked.
I dream about her more nights than not.
I can’t drown this away. (I can’t drown this away)

With every single move that you make,
you come closer to breaking me.
With every single breath that I take,
you push further from helping me (but you can’t, you can’t).
I’m pulling the weight again.
With every single move that you make, I come closer to ending me.

I blame myself, and it’s not the first time.
You see me for what I am: Damaged.
Turn your back now...
I will bask in the blackness of my darkest days. Yeah....

With every single move that you make,
you come closer to breaking me.
With every single breath that I take,
you push further from helping me
(but you can’t, you can’t,
you can’t, you can’t).
I’m pulling the weight again.
With every single move that you make,
I come closer to ending me.
Self-loathing me.

-My Questions-

Something has got to give. Ya....
When did I start choking? When did I start drowning?
Is this what’s to become? All thoughts left to wait.
Is this what’s to become? Is this...

My questions (my questions): Unanswered (unanswered).
I wish... I wish this would break. I wish this would break.

What am I doing here? These waters extend for miles. Oh....
My heart remains the same. Ya....
Will I ever, ever stop choking?
Will I ever, ever stop drowning?
Oh how the faithful city has become a harlot.
I should not have put that on you.
Leave my body at the river,
let me pass along downstream. Oh....

Is this what’s to become?
My questions (my questions): Unanswered (unanswered).
I wish... I wish this would break.
I wish this would break.
My questions: Unanswered.
I wish this would break.
I wish this would break.
I wish this would break.
I breathe in your shadows and sleep in your disinterest.
I breathe in your shadows and sleep in your disinterest.
Let the tears fall, let me write some
sad songs that you don’t deserve, that you don’t deserve.
Let the tears fall. Will I ever, ever stop choking?
Will I ever, ever stop drowning?

-Kansas-

It is though God by command has withdrawn every other throne.
And God is saying, "No. These people will deal with me alone."

-Born To Lose-

Blessed be those who have no idols.
Invoke holy honor, sanctify the patient.
I don't see the world the same.
I'm no one's hero, so just forget my name.

I abhor you,
With every foolish thing that you say.

None of it is worth the time:
Another meaningless war.

You don't know what you need.
We're all so back and forth,
Nothing is as it seems.
You don't know what you need.
We make the same mistakes,
We've ruined everything.

What is it this time?
What must you call holy?
This is your lifeline,
Nothing is at it seems.
If I were you I'd give it up.
I'd give it up. I'd give it up.
If I were you I'd care.
I'm born to lose
With a noose around my neck.
World be damned and move forward.

I abhor you,
With every selfish thing that you say.

None of it is the worth the time.

You don't know what you need.
We're all so back and forth,
Nothing is as it seems.
You don't know what you need.
We make the same mistakes,
We've ruined everything.

Born to lose, born to lose
Born to lose
With a noose around my neck.

-Forever Decay-

Still broken. I can’t see anything but you.
I don’t even know if I want to.

I’ve been so wrong in this. What does this mean?
Where did it go? All is best, all is lost.
What does this mean? Where did it go?
All is best, all is lost, all is gone.

Forever in ruin, I can’t just disappear.
Forever in ruin, I can’t let go.
Forever in ruin, forever decay.
I can’t see anything but you. I can’t let this go.

Still searching.
I might be missing you for years (for years).
Every month feels like a lifetime.
When will this pass?

Goodnight, farewell, I’m nearly done with this day.
Goodnight, farewell, our grace has met its end.

Forever in ruin, forever decay.
She fell in love with the city,
and since then I don’t mean anything.
She fell in love with the city,
and since then I don’t mean anything.
Forever in ruin, forever decay.
Forever in ruin, forever decay.

I’ve been so wrong in this.
What does this mean? (What does this mean?)
Where did it go? (Where did it go?)
All is best, all is lost.

What does this mean? Where did it go?
All is best, all is lost, all is gone.
Forever in ruin, I can’t just disappear.
Forever in ruin, I can’t let go.
Forever in ruin, forever decay. I can’t see anything but you.

-Chicago-

In this grave hour, I have composed our final song:
The last words of our love lost. (of our love lost)

I called your hands home for years,
for years, for years, for years on end.
It’s become distant and I hate my helpless defiance.
No....

You have no problem finding me,
although you only commit unintentionally.
(unintentionally)

I do it for the Lord, I do it for Chicago.
I once lived for you, and I’ve never ever been
so wrong (wrong), wrong, so wrong (wrong), wrong.

We keep building, building to find no release.

-Constance-

What has exhaustion brought me?
Unvisited, but still too busy to close my eyes. (to close my eyes)

Maybe one day I’ll grasp the pattern,
maybe in time this will all be readable.
Maybe in time. (time)

As if the solitude could bring me any peace,
I was greeted with constance, I found no sleep.

These thoughts are nothing but wished away.
I can’t remember what it is to be content.
These thoughts are nothing but wished away.
(but wished away)
I can’t remember what it is to be content.
Eeah....

Show me the exit: Let the signals fade.
Maybe one day I’ll defeat the cycle,
maybe (maybe) in time (in time) I’ll be able to define this...
this wretched purgatory (purgatory).

As if the solitude could bring me any peace,
I was greeted with constance, I found no sleep.

These thoughts are nothing but wished away.
I can’t remember what it is to be content.
These thoughts are nothing (these thoughts are nothing)
but wished away (but wished away).
I can’t remember what it is to be content.
This is bound to fail. This is bound to fail.

Go ahead....

The enemy will not resist, deceived until the end.
I hate this persistence, my eyes may never close.
I hate this persistence, my eyes may never close.

-Pretenders-

Never have I been so disgusted,
never has it all been so clear to me. Ya....

Watch out for pretenders.

No one of any positive reputation will respect what you’ve done.
Judgment will befall your rule, the wrath will break your law.
Harshness will have His place on this. You fake, you were meant to fall down.

Stop (stop), restart (restart).
Baah.... Watch out for pretenders.
Obtain perspective, re-evaluate your inception. Endless imitation, obvious plagiarism.

I know how you function (I know how you function):
There will be an end to your profit, your possession.
How did it all become... become published? How can no one see these things?
How can no one see these things?
You fake, you were meant to fall.
How can no one see these things?
You fake, you were meant to fall down.
How can no.... How can no one....
You fake, you were meant to fall down.

And now the record went gold,
but not an ounce of sincerity was achieved.
I know how you function (I know how you function):
There will be an end to your profit, your possession.
How did it all become... become published?
How can no one see... see these things?

Stop, restart. Stop, restart.

-Holdfast-

We will not be forgotten: Holdfast. Holdfast.

I will never subject myself to the flames.
You are a demon to me, your power is but a fraction of me. (but a fraction of me)
And with that I... I make progress, within each step I move.

Save me, for the waters have come up to my neck.
(come up to my neck)
We will not be forgotten.
Glory to the patient and to those who have hope.
(to those who have hope)
We will not be forgotten.

Studying photos and deleting pictures.
With bleeding clouds ahead we pray for boldness,
we pray for boldness, we pray for undying grace.

Save me, for the waters have come up to my neck.
(come up to my neck)
We will not be forgotten.
Glory to the patient and to those who have hope.
(to those who have hope)
We will not be forgotten.

No... I don’t plan on going anywhere without you.
Holdfast. Holdfast. Holdfast.
My body was meant to rot, but these words will never pass.
Bless the Lord, oh my soul, for these words will never pass.

Save me. Save me. Save me. We will not be forgotten.
Save me. We will not be forgotten. Holdfast. Holdfast.
Save me. We will not be forgotten. We will not be forgotten.
Save me. We will not be forgotten. Holdfast...

-Gloom-

We wrote a song in the dark.
We drove a stake through her heart.
We ride the wind, we ride the waves.
We are aggression, we are pain.

We wrote a song in the dark.
We drove a stake through her heart.
He is the Lord, we are the listeners.
We will not die without a whisper.

I've seen what's fake,
I've seen the distraction.
And like a wick there's no end.
I've seen what's fake,
I've seen the distraction.

No end to my burning.
No end to my burning.
No end to my burning.

Don't let the devil speak.
Don't let the demons take us.

Watch your back, look over your shoulder.
This war is meant to be fought.

I've lost my temper.
And yet there's forgiveness,
There is purity.
Lay waste to golden crowns,
Find hope in clarity.

Let go.

We wrote a song in the dark.
We drove a stake through her heart.
We wrote a song in the dark.
We drove a stake through her heart.

Black heart, black song.

-Rumors-

Rumors break down to a future of failure.
Leaving me like this. Digging deep
In the nothing that I Have.
In the nothing that I Have.

Will I find encouragement
Hidden behind false ambition?

You were the one I never knew.
You were the one to fix what's left here.
You were the one I never knew.
I can't tell if I Want this to last.

Another day dies, trailing off.
Another day dies, trailing off.
You were the one I never knew.
You were the one to fix what's left here.

Hungry wolves haunting me.
Gold fading on rooftops.
Handsome wings left to fade.

So it goes. The narrative is unending.
Death is here, love is sending.

You were the one I never knew.
You were the one to fix what's left here.
You were the one I never knew.
I can't tell if I want this to last.

Another day dies, trailing off.
Another day dies, trailing off.
You were the one I never knew.
You were the one to fix what's left here.

(Rumors break) down to a future of failure.
Leaving me like this. Digging deep
In the nothing that I have.
In the nothing that I have.

Will I find encouragement
Hidden behind false ambition?

Digging deep in the nothing that we have.

-First Sight-

Promise the lake
Don’t try, don’t be
Exist just like me
Promise shame
Every bit of everything is screaming so quietly

Is there anything else to say?
Are there any more words to sing?
Right after doubting all the things you claim
Right before giving all of it away

I thought I was ready to write
But you had me years ago
You had me at first sight
Even if it means nothing now

Promise these hands
No more empty praise and worship
Get lost at first sight
I’m driving my car away
I’m heading north

I thought I was ready to write
But you had me years ago
You had me at first sight
Even if it means nothing now

It hurts most in the mornings
And I wish I was in Chicago
Their statements are all contradictions
And I don’t think they can figure it out

All our damages transform us
We’re like our own historians
Is there anything else to say?
Are there anymore words to sing?

Every bit of everything is screaming
Promise the lake
Get lost at first sight

-War-

Will I ever forgive myself?
The same question, it's never fading.
I watch her wings eclipse the light of day.
It keeps coming back. Right now

I'm fighting the war rather than war itself.
I'm caught in the midst of no redemption.
I'm fighting the war rather than war itself.
The same dream over and over, over and over.

I thought I could be more
Than simply a victim.
I fight through sleepless nights
Without an answer. Somehow

I'm fighting the war rather than war itself.
I'm caught in the midst of no redemption.
I'm fighting the war rather than war itself.

Some say there's hope in this, there is love.
Show me her eyes, I'll feel her hair.
I'll be back to déjà vu. Over and over.
The same dream. The same question.

Will I ever forgive myself?
Will I ever forgive myself?
Will I ever forgive myself?
Will I ever forgive myself?

-8:18-

Streets dawn with empty light.
Bullets clutter the sidewalk.
The gun trembles in a young man's hand.
The mother visits a grave site.

They ask why we suffer.
Oh God please answer.
Rivers run, mountains peak.
We all remain scared.

I try to remember
You and me together.
Rivers run, mountains peak.
We all remain scared.

It's so abrupt,
The life designed for us.
Reach out, end fear.
Reach out, end fear.

They ask why we suffer.
Oh God please answer.
Rivers run, mountains peak.
We remain scared.

The city mourns another loss.
But we'll pray forever.
Rivers run, mountains peak.
I know You're there.

-Sailor's Prayer-

Staying late for suffering.
Swaying back and forth like seas.
Staying late for suffering.
Swaying back and forth like seas.
I'm the one she'll never meet.

It's like the same thing,
You're just a little late.
I'm always hoping to maybe change.
It's like the same thing,
You're just a little late. I am away.

Staying late for misery.
I move back to you.
I move back to you.

The salt tastes just the same.
Thunder breaks overhead.
As I'm still away, we'll never meet.

It's like the same thing,
You're just a little late.
I'm always hoping to maybe change.
It's like the same thing,
You're just a little late. I am away.

It's like the same thing,
You're just a little late.
I'm always hoping to maybe change.
It's like the same thing,
You're just a little late. I am away.

Between sharks and kings,
It doesn't matter much to me.
And I'm still away.
I'm still away.

It's like the same thing,
You're just a little late.
I'm always hoping to maybe change.
It's like the same thing,
You're just a little late. I am away.

It's like the same thing,
You're just a little late.
I'm always hoping to maybe change.
It's like the same thing.

This is the sailor's prayer.
You can find love elsewhere.
This is the sailor's prayer.
You can find love elsewhere.

This is the sailor's prayer.
You can find love elsewhere.
This is the sailor's prayer.
You can find love elsewhere.

-Care More-

Talk to the radio.
Speak out loud, speak so true.
Sing to an old love.
Never forget, always embrace.

Something or someone try to see.
I need that much.
There's got to be more than this.
I need that much.

Try to see. Try to see.
Try to see. Try to see.

Walk to that old street.
It still remains, it hasn't changed.
Feel to what means most.
Never forget, always embrace.

Something or someone try to see.
I need that much.
There's got to be more than this.

-Martyrs-

Martyrs

Oh.

I know I'm always here,
And I will always beg,
'Forgive us'.

It's just that I am
I am always gone.

So we'll start with a question:
Why's this on me?
What's this have to do with faith?
It will always be 'us and me'...
I'm just sick of being

LONELY,

Like the winds and her faint breeze,

LONELY,

Like the church to 'set me free'.

I'm dead to those who tried to impress,
I'm dead to those who had my trust,
I'm dead to distance and to home,
I'm dead to me; I died by the Throne.

MARTYRS
MARTYRS!

Martyrs, hear me out:
Never claim what's not forever.

Oh.

Never claim what's not forever.

Judas, watch us weep.
(Watch us weep!)
Live and die, by your betrayal.

More doubts to be answered.
When is the Lord's hour?
There will always be 'us and me',
I'm just sick of being

LONELY,

Like the winds and her faint breeze,

LONELY,

Like the church to 'set me free'.

I'm dead to those who try to tried to impress,
I'm dead to those who had my trust,
I'm dead to distance and to home,
I'm dead to me; I died by the Throne.

MARTYRS
MARTYRS!

Martyrs, hear me out:
Live and die by your lover's heart.

Why's this on me?
Why's this on me?

MARTYRS
MARTYRS!

Martyrs, hear me out:
Live and die by your lover's heart.
Live and die by your lover's heart.

-Black & Blue-

I would like to learn
So I could do something.

Slaves to phones, abandoned homes.
Can you see this? Can you feel this?
It seems it's only obvious to me.
It seems it's only obvious to me.

From the grounds of time,
Can you see this?
And in the times of pain.
Can you feel this?
We cannot ignore
Can you see this?
What we need to hate.

You say your words like you're on repeat.
Why is it that you're so empty?
Watch the minutes pass, admit defeat.
We can't ignore.

Just watch her breathe.
Broken hearts, torn apart.
It seems it's only obvious to me.
She hasn't heard a thing.

Just watch her breathe.
She will never know alone:
A faction of blackened tongues.

You say your words like you're on repeat.
Why is it that you're so empty?
Watch the minutes pass, admit defeat.
Will you admit defeat?

You say your words like you're on repeat.
Why is it that you're so empty?
Watch the minutes pass, admit defeat.

I would like to learn
So I could do something,
But no one really knows
Exactly what I mean.

The blood that binds pours through you.
Blinded eyes soon black and blue.
The blood that binds pours through you.
Blinded eyes soon black and blue.

You say your words like you're on repeat.
Why is it that you're so empty?
Watch the minutes pass, admit defeat.

We cannot ignore what we need to hate.
Can you see this? Can you feel this?
Just watch her breathe.

-Transgress-

I swore to forever
And I'm sure it will happen again.
Another bend, another break.
Ceaseless habits under falling skies.

I don't know where to go from here.
I've become limitless.
That's how the story goes for me,
Not that they'll understand.

I am an apparition
And that's all I ever wanted.
That's how the story goes for me,
Between pages and handwriting.

With seven plagues,
And some roots, and a throne.
I'm back at where I started.

Didn't think it'd be like this,
Didn't think it'd be like this
Or maybe I knew all along.
I didn't see this through,
Didn't see this through,
So maybe it's where I belong.

Just you and me and you.
Just you and me and you.

Didn't think it'd be like this,
Didn't think it'd be like this
Or maybe I knew all along.

Break it.
The darkness sets in.
Another bend, another break.
Ceaseless habits under falling skies.

You, me, and you.
You, me, and you.

It won't be long for me
Or it might be forever.
This hopeless destiny:
A tragic, lost endeavor.

I'm back at where I started.

Didn't think it'd be like this,
Didn't think it'd be like this
Or maybe I knew all along.
I didn't see this through,
Didn't see this through,
So maybe it's where I belong.

Just you and me and you.
Just you and me and you.

-Number Eleven-

Looking for your name,
I sort through it all.
Listening in vain,
You hope for the worst.

Looking for your name,
Falling down shallow stairs.
Waiting for the rain,
Hands extended laughing out.

As she claims that she's too much
I will hurt myself.
As she claims that she's too much
I know I must

Give it time. Give it some space.
All in all, back at the same place.
Move away and start again.
All in all, back at the same place.

I'll take you at your word:
Passing with the wind and sea.

Looking for your name,
I sort through it all.
Listening in vain,
You hope for the worst.

Looking for your name,
Still here falling down.
Waiting for the rain,
Falling down over me.

Give it time, give it some space.
All in all, back at the same place.
Move away and start again.
All in all, back at the same place.

So I'll say it again.
So I'll say it again.
So I will say it again.
You won't know love without death.

No death, no love.

Recognize the once familiar.
Recall missed steps and broken vows.

-Home For Grave-

The normal man, promised all things
Brought into this, taken by pain
He mistook home for grave
The normal man, filtered by hate
Living to pay, buying what's fake

He mistook home for grave
It's not what we're made to be
So why'd he do it?
I guess he just did not know
I guess we just do what we're told
The anthem cries, but why listen?

I guess we just do what we're told
Betrayed again, betrayed again
What began as life for him was only sorrow, was only shame
It's like the story of disgrace
Fraught with peril every day
So why'd he do it?
I guess he just did not know

Given nothing, left so lonesome
He mistook home for his grave
It's not what we're made to be
So breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe
I guess we just do what we're told
The anthem cries, but why listen?

I guess we're just do what we're told
Betrayed again
What began as life for him was only sorrow, was only shame
It's like the story of disgrace
Fraught with peril every day
I guess we just do what we're told
Betrayed again, betrayed again
I guess we just do what we're told
The normal man passed away
Dead and gone

-In Heart-

Again, the same things part.
Flames fuel the company.
It's all invisible desperation.
Stop and stand and stare and break.

Let it be, walk away.
Ignore your instincts,
And let it be with the rest
. And as the game goes.
Turn back or burn down.

Through the bones we're all the same.
With burning wings we're led astray.

So we live with the dead.
Call it "the apathy of love".

Name it "her majesty".
Tell her that everything will be fine.
And as the lust still grows.
Ignore your instincts.
Turn back or burn down.

Through the bones we're all the same.
With burning wings we're led astray.
Through the bones we're all the same.

Through the bones we're all the same.
Push past the tissue and we are to blame.
In blood and organs we fall apart.
And in our likeness we join in heart.

Through the bones we're all the same.
Push past the tissue and we are to blame.
In blood and organs we fall apart.
And in our likeness we must join in heart.

-Planet A-

Uh, control for gateway
Orbit arm retracted, out
Roger, Houston
We have G.L.S. confirmation of fuel and main engine check
Roger control, How are we looking for that 11: 20 launch time, over
Looking good, commander, weather is first rate
Copy that Houston [radio cuts] Roger
Auto-sequence start in T-minus 30 seconds, gateway
Visors closed
External vent closed and hydrogen pressure building for takeoff
Roger, over
Gateway, this is Control, you are go for launch. Countdown management switch to on-board systems, over
We are go for launch, over

Radio check, go
Where shall we begin?

Not long ago, a young girl knew what she wanted to be
So she trained and she learned to travel and explore the unknown galaxy

Elizabeth had a dream
Maybe like you, maybe like me
Mankind searched the universe
Curiosity can be a curse
Elizabeth had a dream
Maybe like you, maybe like me

Exploration expanding
A dire mission withstanding
Far away a ship flew interplanetary
Elizabeth, the commander, she wasn't ready
For the malfunction, for the malfunction
The shuttle had been off
It was unprepared, it wasn't fit to fly
"Houston!" she screamed
"Houston, we've been breached!"

There was a survivor, just one survivor, without anyone
Without anyone

Elizabeth had a dream
Maybe like you, maybe like me
Mankind searched the universe
Curiosity can be a curse
Elizabeth had a dream
Maybe like you, maybe like me

A woman lives far away on an unknown planet called "A"
There was a survivor, just one survivor, without anyone

-Alien-

An extraneous existence
An earth-ending challenger
Encroaches upon humanity
Destruction, destruction they’re seeking destruction
Each ten feet tall, without remorse

Crawling along the walls
I see the eyes, I see the teeth
See the monster coming through the window
Closing, the doors are closing
I see the eyes, I see the teeth
See the monster

One cannot fathom such a phantom
The demon’s mouth hisses with acidic saliva
Acidic saliva

Crawling along the walls
I see the eyes, I see the teeth
See the monster coming through the window
Closing, the doors are closing
I see the eyes, I see the teeth
See the monster coming through the window

Game over, we’re done for

Crawling along the walls
Claws extended
No hope to persevere
Closing, the doors are closing
We’ve been surrounded
There’s no way out
Game over, we are done for

-Moongod-

Everyday at each moment
We walk along now
We look north now
I am a victim, a willing victim
Lost in the lights now
Starting over now

Moongod, where’s your glow?
Watch from anywhere
Listen without regard
It’s what you choose, it's what you choose
In between cancer and all the fire
It’s what you choose, it's what you choose

Watch over me, inspect my mistakes
Like a beacon, necessitate my regret
In an orbit unrelenting
It will all just be, I said let it be
I wish you didn’t have to see me like this
It’s all it can be, it’s what it should be

Moongod
Watch from anywhere
Listen without regard
It’s what you choose, it's what you choose
In between the cancer and all the fire
It’s what you choose, it's what you choose

How we look to be protected without age or
Void restriction

Watch from anywhere
Listen without regard
It’s what you choose, it's what you choose
In between the cancer and all the fire
It’s what you choose, it's what you choose

Moongod, Moongod
Watch over me, inspect my mistakes
Like a beacon, necessitate my regret

-Celestial Mechanics-

For the first time in three years,
official clocks will pause for Earth's rotation to realign with atomic time.
Fluctuation is due to Earth's interaction with the Moon:
primarily tidal acceleration.
This proess, this effect of tidal force,
slows our planet's rotation.

Angular momentum, in direct correspondence
with Earth's axial tilt is dampened.
An existing kinetic energy within orbit is lessened.
All the same, the reduction is notably fractional:
specifically, days on Earth grow 1.4 milliseconds longer every one hundred years.
To put that in a different perspective,
it won't be for another 100,000 years until each day is
about one and a half seconds longer than as they exist today.

-Supernova-

Where will you go?
Where will you go?
Where will you be?
When you forever sleep?
When you leave me?
If we could just stay here
Lose track of time
I would be just fine
In a galactic sea

Across the universe I am floating, apart from the ordinary
Do my friends miss me? Do they recall my name?
As I'm one with the supernova!
Light curves the sky, light curves the sky
No prediction, no anticipation
Light curves the sky

Where will you go?
Where will you be?
When you forever sleep?
When you leave me?
If we could just stay here
Lose track of time
I would be just fine
In a galactic sea

I'll never understand
I can't wrap my head around it
An explosion, disintegration
Radiates so beautifully

Where will you go?
Where will you be?
When you forever sleep?
When you leave me?
If we could just stay here
Lose track of time
I would be just fine
In a galactic sea

A star’s core collapses
A black hole might formulate
So much energy, I feel you burning up
I feel you burning up
I feel you burning

Where will you go?
Where will you be?
When you forever sleep?
When you leave me?
If we could just stay here
Lose track of time
I would be just fine
In a galactic sea
Where will you go?
Where will you be?
When you forever sleep?
When you leave me?
If we could just stay here
Lose track of time
I would be just fine
In a galactic sea

-Praise Poison-

"I heard the sound", the shout proclaimed
Now I'm here to praise poison
It's a Monday let me be mundane
How's there so much to speculate?
I can't stand to carry the weight

Call me “The Sound and the Fury”
Consider me dead and buried
I'm like the city's grime
No time for no crime

Praise poison

They fill your head with the devil and god
You're so bored, but there's a choice
You're screaming without a voice
They fill your head with the devil and god

Call me “The Sound and the Fury”
Consider me dead and buried
I'm like the city's grime
No time for no crime

-Daughter-

Over a lifetime
I never loved her
My daughter, my daughter

Seems to be a distorted shift
I'm lost now, I'm lost
In the universal absence
And it is dizzying, dizzying
Pitch black, pitch black
Over a lifetime
I never loved her
My daughter, my daughter

Before there were
Ships sailing under a swollen moon

But enough now, enough
Every memory awakens an agony
But enough now, enough
Every memory awakens an agony

Over a lifetime
I never loved her
My daughter, my daughter
Over a lifetime
I never loved her
My daughter, my daughter

I keep carrying the dead with me
So let us pity them, bury them all at once
I keep carrying the dead with me
So let us pity them, bury them all at once

-Worldwide-

From Milwaukee to Memphis, Pittsburgh to Portland, Maine;
I'm a little restless, feeling like a need a change
By way of Brooklyn and up to Boston
I'm disenchanted, considering every option

I'm thinking and thinking
That being around here has me sinking
And while home is always best
My neighborhood in the Midwest

I want to get lost in you, Tokyo
I've got a lot to say to you, Tokyo
It's nostalgic and quiet, but louder than silence
I want to get lost in you, Tokyo

Tokyo

Here's to folks in Michigan, back and forth to Chicago
Along the lake, within the snow

I'm thinking and thinking
That being around here has me sinking
And while home is always best
My neighborhood in the Midwest

I want to get lost in you, Tokyo
I've got a lot to say to you, Tokyo
It's nostalgic and quiet, but louder than silence
I want to get lost in you, Tokyo

I need more nights in Paris, more time in Stockholm
Some days I will be careless trying to feel known
I need more nights in Paris, more time in Stockholm
Some days I will be careless trying to feel known

I want to get lost in you, Tokyo
I've got a lot to say to you, Tokyo
It's nostalgic and quiet, but louder than silence
I want to get lost in you, Tokyo
Tokyo

-Lock & Load-

It's hard to name a tragedy when it keeps repeating
It's hard to name a tragedy: constantly defeated

Why can't a child walk down the street?
Slow motion bullets
Another slaughter every week
Slow motion bullets

Mothers, fathers, don't you know the numbers?
Mothers, fathers, don't you know?

Murder speeds out the chamber with fury and vengeance
There's no excuse for it, this senseless violence

That gun is a tragedy, on and on and on
Buy it background check free, on and on and on
Why can't a child walk down the street? On and on
Another slaughter every week. Slow motion bullets

For the love of God, no more lock and load
For the love of God, no more lock and load

For the love of God, no more lock and load
For the love of God, no more

-Flyover States-

Across land (across land), across sea (across sea)
We can't count the miles
The days, the weeks, the months, the years
We can't count the miles

Do you know what it's like? How is it when you fall asleep?
Have you ever been in love?
Can you explain to me
Since I keep trying to pretend, but it's better to keep quiet
Still it goes without saying that I can't help it

Across land (across land), across sea (across sea)
We can't count the miles
The days, the weeks, the months, the years
We can't count the miles now

If you wanted to trade places, exist in different spaces
One would have to erase this

-Detroit Tapes-

She left through the door so long ago
If she ever comes back I will never know
Driving south down highways of Ohio

I wanted to stay her gentleman
Her broken soldier
There are vultures that you can't see

She left through the door so long ago
If she ever comes back I will never know
Driving south down highways of Ohio

I've spent decades waiting downtown
And most of my friends are gone now
They drowned at the bottom of the bottle
There are vultures that you can't see
And I'm wondering when they'll feast

She left through the door so long ago
If she ever comes back I will never know
Driving south down highways of Ohio

-The Condition-

Can't look forward to anything
Can't say I'm waiting for a sign

Every light is red tonight
Every day: a useless fight
Burdened by obligation
This life will be named "The Condition"

Bound beneath the reign of the viper
And with that please cross me out
Cross me out, cross me out
Let me out, let me out
Let me out of this everlasting ice age

Can't look forward to anything
While in this condition
Can't say I'm waiting for a sign
I'm not waiting

The mystery is there is no mystery
Overlooked reason to history
The mystery is there is no mystery

Founded by abandonment:
An emptiness defined by silence
Founded by abandonment

Let me be free
Let me be free
Float away like dots in the sun
Let me be free
Let me be free

Can't look forward to anything
Can't say I'm waiting for a sign

Can't look forward to anything
While in this condition
Can't say I'm waiting for a sign
I'm not waiting

-To The Key Of Evergreen-

You hang your hand out the car window.
We travel by the roadway's hum.
See the signs pass.
Watch the fields go by.
Every mailbox.
Every streetlight.

Right here with me: exist amongst the wheat.
Amidst the leaves you watch listlessly.
To the key of evergreen, I listen to the whisper.

We'll climb the mountains before we meet the sea.
The rain will stop eventually.
I'll drive slow across black ice
And you'll be safe to rest your eyes.

Soon enough the sun will go down; but it's no bother, I'm not tired.
It's no bother.
I'm not tired. I'm not tired.

We'll climb the mountains before we meet the sea.
The rain will stop eventually.
I'll drive slow across black ice
And you'll be safe to rest your eyes.

We'll climb the mountains before we meet the sea.
The rain will stop eventually.
I'll drive slow across black ice
And you'll be safe to rest your eyes.

My lovely...
My lovely...
You'll be safe to rest your eyes.

-Submersion-

The idea is simple, to be underwater
Hold my breath, sink deeper
Say a prayer, sink deeper
You might consider this surrender, but I'm descending:
Constructing a most pleasant ending

I can still see the city, I can still recognize
To remain is to be separated

I can still see the city, to carry on is to be divided
I can still redefine
I've been spending time trying to keep outside of the light
I've been spending time at the bottom

You would not believe how true the salt feels
Oh God, the relief of oceanic sleep

I can still see the city, I can still recognize
To remain is to be separated
I can still see the city, to carry on is to be divided
I can still redefine

The cliché says that it's sink or swim
But that's another lie we've been drowning in

-Home For Grave, Pt. II-

By the time she heard the news
The funeral had taken place
But still the sadness transcended
Across a dozen states

She wished the trees weren't so still

"Oh Anna, my dear!"
She could nearly hear him
His words, sincere
The last time they'd spoken

Those moments in Indiana
Felt like yesterday
And that crash in Atlanta
Would always resonate

She wished the trees weren't so still
As if the pines could weep with her
She wished the trees weren't so still
As if the pines could weep

"Oh Anna, my dear!"
She could nearly hear him
His words, sincere
The last time they'd spoken

In the forests of Oregon
Her breath grew shallow
The air was fractured in the morning storm
And Anna's world felt hollow

She wished the trees weren't so still
As if the pines could weep with her
She wished the trees weren't so still
As if the pines could weep

Move along now, you're next
This line won't wait for us
Like Ian, soon Anna
We will all fail the test
Move along now, you're next
Move along now, you're next

This line won't wait for us
This line won't wait for us

"Oh Anna, my dear!"
She could nearly hear him
His words, sincere
Keep us all heartbroken

-Transit Blues-

Every morning, wake to the itch
The alarm clock ticks
Make some coffee, check the weather
Do my best to keep it together

You can't feel the transit blues
(You can't feel the transit blues without losing something you thought was true)

Soon it will begin
Soon it will begin
I can't expect the world to comprehend
The fits that I myself can't defend

Every afternoon
Avoid traffic, but feel frantic
My composure: a lost love letter
Do my best to keep it together

You can't feel the transit blues
(You can't feel the transit blues without losing something you thought was true)
You can't feel the transit blues
(You can't feel the transit blues without losing something you thought was true)

I can hear the questions now
Since journalism died somehow
The shout proclaimed: "The poison praised!"
They make my words an unmarked grave

You can't feel the transit blues
You can't feel the transit blues
(You can't feel the transit blues without losing something you thought was true)

Every evening I'll have a drink, start to feel better
Do my best to keep it together