1. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (Live To Tell)

To all my friends, I'm already dead.
Can't keep these voices out of my head.

I just want to be pure.
Why can't I just be pure?
I'll live for your sins if you'll die for mine.
Time to wave a white flag or I'll draw the line.
Let's make a toast to a new era of terror.
I'm living proof of man made error.
They say these demons put up a fight,
But barking dogs will seldom bite.
I'm done playing god,
I'm barely cured.
Addicted and self afflicted, this must be endured.
I just wanna be pure.
What am I chasing?
Nuerotically numb to all these dreams I'm defacing.

Somewhere along the way, I lost the light
that used to shine from the shore so bright.
And sometimes, I swear, it feels like I won't survive,
But I swore to myself
that I'm gonna' live to tell the tale of how I learned to sail
against the wind, on a sinking ship
through the storm in my head that I thought would never end.

This world is sick.
This compass isn't broken, there is no north.
We're in the middle of the ocean so we stay the course.
I will beg for no man.
Because I'm in love with the end of my life.
Attente Tormente. Today me, tomorrow thee.
"He who lives on hope will die fasting."

Never turn your back on the sea,
'Cause once you do, take it from me,
You'll never outrun the ocean with her waves in your lungs.
And we could drown in vain
or become living proof,
and I don't know about you..

But I'm gonna' live to tell the tale of how I learned to sail
against the wind, on a sinking ship
through the storm in my head that I know may never end.

My generation would die for a fucking feeling.
I would die to feel alive.
I would die for a feeling.

2. Animal Masks

This is a sensory overload,
Time set to explode.
Does it distress you not to be in control
Your ministry of conspiracy is just the same as tyranny
An industry of misery.

Once upon a time,
We lost what made us a part of this kingdom.
Animalia, we are your servants.

What makes you so divine?
Your exhausted ignorance or your lack of spine?
Why can't you see me for me?
Tune in, we're broadcasting icons for hire.
An adonis principality in an image empire.

I wish you'd just take it off, I want to see you without the face that you hide behind.
A sheep with wolves eyes, a mirror showing lies.
I wanna see those eyes, stranded and helpless for the first time.
The way they're meant to be.
But will they ever learn to see?

So we run away from each other, away from the things that we love.
'Cause we'd rather be fucked up and weak than be who we know we could be.

Animal identity.
Oppressive entity.

I will channel my hate cycles.
Enumerate your idols from your reproduction bibles.
Follow the pack mentality, it's only primal.
Hate - it's my revival.

All the world's a cage and we are major failures.
All the world's in rage and we are the unfavored saviors.

Sensory overload,
Time set to explode.
This is a sensory overload.
Just so you know, you're not in control.

I look in your eyes and god is not there.
This imperfections obsessions half-holy love affair.
What do we idolize when our angels are carbon copies?
Nothing will stop me.

All the worlds a cage.
All the worlds in rage.

3. Beautiful Secrets

We have such a dark history.
She was always there.
Letting go of coins into passed away pay-phones,
Listening to me gasp for air.
She's in between the lines,
Each word a different lie.
Crying out "god bless you."
God bless the ones we forget.
I've had my wars, trust me.
I fought my world, trust me.
Turnstile trials swing us round to your confession.
An orchestra of jackals sing notes of my depression.

You're my favorite lullaby,
Sing that song one last time tonight.
When I am lost, you'll always be my true north.
Little candle in the dark,
Burn forever in my heart.
And keep me warm, always.
I'll keep you warm, always.

I wish we'd go back.
I'd change us - make us new.
I'd build an empire just for you.
Your cheap-shots,
Your bottled thoughts.
Our loudmouthed romance came off as vainglorious.


I know we shouldn't,
You say it all the time.
But I can't help it,
and why should I?
This is why we're here,
Trembling in the dark.
We're young and we can
escape if we want.
I keep these secrets we made
close to my heart,
Nobody else will ever know
how beautiful they are.
'Cause they belong to you and me,
and nothing can ever take that away.

I'll keep you warm, always.

4. Lifer (Requiem Of a Mad Man)

I'm sorry mom I hope that praying starts paying off.
Holy schizophrenic sinners, pigs headfirst in the trough.
They can't string up a dead man dying free.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free,
But I discovered that prisoner was me.
They locked me up and threw away the key.

Make them go away -
All the leeches in my brain.
I feel them tugging at the strings,
and singing songs inside my veins.
I've been locked inside for so long.

'Cause motherfucker, I die with grace!
Front and center with gods spit on your face!
I am a lone lifer.
'Cause motherfucker, I die with grace.

Let me count the ways I tried to die today..
Oh, sweet angel, find father justice.
And tell him I'm not okay, for fuck's sake.
Drilling in your holy slogans,
Welcome to the city of oblivion.
Where it doesn't matter if you have
an opinion,
C'mon, C'mon, let's take our medicine.
Don't tell me your troubles, 'cause we all had it rough.

I am the adapter.
A bipolar master actor.
You will feel my rapture.
They tell me I am the lone lifer.
Stay out of my head,
I won't take your medicine.
'Cause I will die with grace.


5. Water In The Desert

None of you seem to understand,
I'm not locked in here with you..
You're locked in here with me.

Why do I need this so badly?
Is this my act's finale?
It comes to me like water in death valley,
The abyss stares right through me.

Where did the last five years of my life go?
Where did they go?

How did I end up in this hole,
adorned in thorns and bones?
The child in me, overexposed.
My eyes, oh, my eyes!

And then the water dried up in the ocean,
and then I knew I was drowning.
In this world where we are grains of sand,
a drop of water is all we have.
So we savor it all until it's gone.

I think you've been afraid for your whole life,
When people looking in from the outside.
Impending peril, I hear them drumming.
Black lungs and beaten sons - I know what's coming.

I have never been so alone.
This life is yours to atone.
Too young to face demise,
Will your values see the next sunrise?

Why won't you answer me?
You fucking coward,
Get on your knees.

We're done running.
This time we're going to stand our ground.
No respect. No hope. No home.
We're screaming out loud.

And then the water dried up in the ocean,
and then I knew I was drowning.
And when all the hope I had was gone,
I knew I'd only last so long.
And like an anchor falling from the sky,
I hit the bottom.

Part of the dream that's due in time.
They're building bridges for us now.
Why do we think we're living a lie?
The fear - the regret -
For lives we have left behind.
Not knowing what's next in time.

We're done running.

6. Con Artist Culture vs. Pax Americana

Pave the way for a precipice.
Why's the world so oblivious?
Stop consuming - start producing.
Pave the way with potholes.
Ideology, monstrosity,
A society of Hollywood atrocities.
I won't be a part of the american dream.
Never be a part of the adrenaline genesis.

We've always been taught to stay in line,
And we always thought that our dark thoughts were crimes,
so we kept quiet all our lives.
But no longer.

This generation should really learn to swim,
before the water rises above our heads.
Don't change the station,
I want you to hear this,
through all the static.

Maybe we should stop doing what we're told.
If you believe in something real, in something more,
Maybe it's time that we explode.

Radicals dolled up in innocence.
Virgins ate alive by pheromone vengeance.
Justice is blind.
She can't acquit us of our crimes.
I can't keep quiet.
Children force - fed pharmaceutical diets.
Because these soldiers aren't coming home.
So we make the devil's bed,
So it's time we lay in it.
So we make the devil's bed,
It's time to lay in it.
A pill for every bullet,
A troop for every dollar.
Muzzle us up with pop culture shock collars.
So we make the devils bed,
It's time that we lay in it.

Technicolor lacserations raping a sleeping nation.
The soapbox superiority kickin' in.

So tell all your children
We decided for them
This is the world
That they will raise their kids in.
And spend their lives
forever rebuilding
from all our ruins.

Let's just stop doing what we're told.
If you believe in something real, in something more,
then it's time for us to explode.

7. Happy Hunting (A Title She Deserves)

You're just another target.
I can be anywhere at any time.
I'll be laughing behind the wheel when our cars collide.
Take all those childish bedpost notches in stride.
If there's a god, he's not on your side.
This is a hate I've held onto,
A specific distaste.
4 years of letting go now it's time to have you erased

I'm alive, I'm alive
with this hate I despise.
And I try and I try,
but I can't seem to bury this rage.

Don't we all become monsters sometimes,
when all the horror that we see leaves us blind?
And we can't find our
way through the dark.
We're all monsters.
And don't we all just lose patience,
Waiting for our stories to make sense?
Don't we all become?
Doesn't everyone?

To all of you who've done me wrong,
Well now you have your very own song.
I hope yours is the face I step on.
We're all in line,
I'm fucking coming.
Happy Hunting.

I'm fucking coming.

Everything goes red.
I'll bring this whole town down on your head.
You claim life's a tragedy,
While you ruin girls and stain my city.
Cradle to the grave.
Everything goes red.

There was a time when our eyes were as blue as the sky,
'Till our lies came to life and took from us our innocence.

Don't we all become monsters sometimes,
when all the horror that we see leaves us blind?
And we can't find our
way through the dark.
We're all monsters.
And don't we all just lose patience,
Waiting for our stories to make sense?
Don't we all become?
Doesn't everyone?

8. Pick Your Poison

Oh, how the walls close in
and then the room starts to spin,
and the helplessness begins.
Just take my hand,
I'll make you well again.
No one will find us where we're goin'.

Oh, how the walls close in..
The lies are counting my mother that I deceive.
Found myself praying in something that I don't believe.
Chaos is chaos, but you don't have to die to commit suicide.
Pick your poison.

So let me destroy myself in silence.
And let me just lose control with violence.
I wanna' feel alive and feel free again,
I just hope I survive all these demons.
This road I've wandered down
Is just a dead end.
And one day I'll turn around,
I just don't want to yet.

To be a demon,
Lost a forever broken heathen .
Pick your poison, light up and breathe in.
A self made monster misconstrued with misfortune you tied the noose.
What are you going to lose?

Your cruelty clings to my broken wings.
You wrote this in your scarlet letter.
You're a whore for feelings.
A touch me junky scraping by the skin of someone who's better.

The pins been pulled,
Who's gonna hear the ticking time bomb baby?

You've got it wrong.
Weakness is the body leaving pain.
You like the way it hurts. The scar, The stain.
You're in the gutter,
The kind of filth that makes me shutter.
You can't change what will remain the same.

I don't think you'll ever understand.

9. The Souvenir Scheme

We'll take flight from shore to shore.
Make maps, the world is finally yours.
This is what we do.
Burning down the beaten path.
Pushing forward with broken backs.
We've made it through.

So bottle up your hopes and dreams.
Our lives a memento caught in a souvenir scheme.
Ignoring all the signs,
And skipping over landmines.
My brothers are all that I can trust,
While I can't seem to satisfy my wanderlust.
Burning down the beaten path.
Pushing on with broken backs.

Everyone is living a fucking lie.

Sometimes I have to remind myself,
When I'm broke and I'm lost in the world
that there's nowhere else
I'd rather be than
wandering with my makeshift family.

I was 1,000 miles from home,
I was sleeping on floors and losing everything I owned,
just wandering aimlessly into the unknown.
And we built an arc that could save us,
and we took a risk that could break us at any moment.

Hey you!
Yeah you, I'm fucking talking to you!

Don't look down on me,
You're fucking with a dynasty.
No one wants to your victory.
You haven't seen the last of me.

And we'll follow the road
any way that the wind blows.
'Cause this love is for life,
we couldn't change it if we tried.

10. Whispers

I hate the spring time
When our leaves begin change.
And yesterday suddenly feels
so far away.
And here we are,
But nobody is the same.
How do we stop ourselves from aging?
How do I keep you from fading away?

And her ghost is all I see,
and she's always dancing.
I'm afraid to fall asleep,
for fear you'll disappear.

I thought I heard you whisper in my ear,
But just as you were here you disappeared.
And now there's nothing left of us.
I said that I would save you, but I won't.
I thought I knew what love was, but I don't.
And now there's nothing left of us,
but whispers in my head.

Remember winter,
when the snow was warm as love?
And the world ended at the highway,
and started at your door.
Feels like someone turned all the clocks forward.
And I can't remember when I woke up
and wasn't who I was before.

Promise me you'll never change,
like the moon and the sun and the stars.
And no matter what they say,
You're beautiful the way you are.
Promise me you'll never change,
Even though I know you can't.
Just promise me anyways.


11. The Golden Rule

My muse, you are supposed to be my journey.
You promised me a way out.
Three hour drives are three hours alone.
Three hour drives are better than our broken home.
Your lips were the softest yet,
When you promised me we'd be out west.
The most desirable hues of greens and blues,
When I knew your skin for an eternity.

And We had everything,
We had everything.
And then you threw it away,
and I'll never understand why.
And then they withered away,
all the flowers in your eyes.
And how could I be the same
after watching all my stars fall from the sky?
There's no light.

Her lips, as vermillion as burst capillaries.
Can you feel the gravity when you love me?
Do unto others as you would do unto you.
You with another, I'm what you were willing to lose.
That's what makes sweet exodus taste like pleasure.
I will reflect an end to my every endeavor.

Was it all a dream?
and if it was can I go back to sleep
Our memories and how you always promised me
You'd forever be mine.

Don't try and tell me my feelings.
Reach out and try fix me.
You've got a big mouth for such a small person.
Three hour drives are three hours alone.
Three hour drives are better than our broken home.
I have never felt so lost.
Like I let you break my heart by choice?
If you listen closely that's me forgetting
The sound of your voice.

Was it all a dream?
We had everything.