1. AFTER THE EULOGY

Rise [x8]

Written signed off in the obituary what happened to us
Where's your anger? Where's your fucking rage? Watered down senses lost
Lazy privileged denial and self gratified
A tradition passed down to our blood stained hands

Give in
Give up
Give in
Give up
Rise [x3]

Contented to strive for new worthless slogans
We miss our potential for action and substance
Contended to lie in our boring vomit
Suggesting arrangements while others are dying

Stand up
Fight back
Stand up
Fight back

How many starving millions have to die on our front doorsteps
How many dying millions have to crawl to our front doorsteps
Written signed off in the obituary what happened to us
Where's your anger? Where's your fucking rage? Watered down senses lost

Where's your anger?
Where's your fucking rage?
[x8]

Content and corrupted contrive and disgusting
Dig a whole it's all over forget the words
And good intentions
Unless we rise, unless we rise

Rise [x3]

Tear it down

Rise [x14]


2. ROOKIE

I never thought this could be me
I guess you never do until it's happening to you
Like all the fun turns into shame
And all the "could have beens" rearrange
So little time so many crimes guilt like a chain chokes my will away
Redemption never seemed so cruel
And all my gods never seemed so weak
Wake up engage now derailed and enraged it used to be so easy
Get up i'm game now sick and i'm tame counting cost with lost
Where is the hope they gave
Don't think that i can't hear you laugh
I used to be a lot like you but now i'm only me
Drink to pills to shots turns into shock a habit and a pawn
For every hand goes round the pain gets so damned loud
The hammer hits and i'm down
Trust no one
Hey why should i they gave me the poison dressed like life Cheated smacked up and diseased cry to sleep and fight to eat
Used to be a pro at this
Now I've broken my own wrist
Rotten teeth and life unsung you'll forget me when I'm gone


3. PARIAH UNDER GLASS

Symbolized patronized and then tossed out dry revolution or humiliation
Promise the bread the wine a life that shines
Pick them up from the floor to get knocked down again
When you're bored with your mission and a new one begins
Ride - your new thrill ride
Smug - it suits you well
God - in your new science lab
Master - of your new promised land
Echo care and fake some tears to show your opponent
Throwing bones with bread and circus to disguise the proof
You only empower yourself when those in need become your new
Test subjects in your smear campaign 101
Recycle control from their hands to your own every word is
Dropping empty promise again focus away from day to day For your own ends
Their means are dying
Shame - the act is old
Count - your saintly sermon cells
Angel - for your own rewards
Bring - the mercy merchants down


4. WHEN RHETORIC DIES

We raise the flags and statues to our mission we've spoken out
In slogans and in campaigns talked and talked on almost every issue
Where oppression of the masses is the constant theme but What does this mean to a little town in iowa where the Jobs have gone downstream down south and out
Where their fingers used to work to the bone all day
Profits rise and fall and starvation is a game
Where is the food that used to cover their table
Where is the sense of pride at the end of the day
To the face of a thriving corporation what could a dying family
Possibly say
On the face of every american worker
Is the constant fear that their job won't remain
As the c.e.o is planning his vacation to kill or be killed Is the nature of the beast
Stand in line take a number you sell your soul then watch it crumble
Into a pile of rubble that used to be
Your job
Your life
Your family's daily bread dry and stale malnourished kids
The house is sold for a degrading bid
Do we continue to talk or do we take a hammer to their chains


5. STILL WAITING FOR THE PUNCHLINE

I want to find the water
That will wash this whole damned slate clean
Break down
Break up
We sleep in what we create
Right now i'm living so much hate
Right here my sin's have all been paid to you your friends
And for your sake
I feel dirty and so depraved
My knees have bled to hold you here but now i've lost the taste
For lies force fed as time well spent
And if another angel says just grin and bear it
I might be forced to smash his head against the wall and Never sin again against myself or trust in anyone
Write me off for suffering it's a joke
I give up


6. THE ABOMINATIONS OF THOSE VIRTUOUS

We rely on subtle points and stabs at biting humor to Reveal our tired roles of slave and domination who did you Enlighten today humiliate to sell your point of view
Create and image for mass
Consumption insecurities as intellect
See your soul in your eyes hope your trophies will not mind
I'm sick of this grain of salt that i must take you with i Wanna lash out but i bite my lip
The talk gets older and the lines get stale
Your chance at
Godliness has already failed
You can't deny your thirst and drive for your time in the spotlight
Why are you so damned sure that you shut your friends out
I have learned to shut out every hateful word you'll never see the friends you've lost
From behind your transparent mask
I haven't grown to hate you i've just grown to forget you
You label me class rank and station your intellectual Masturbation you're absolutely intoxicated with your own mouth running in circles
Your tounge always tends to lose it
Every chance you get you abuse it
You have now spent a lifetime killing time
I'm sick and tired of your reaction
Why don't you shut the fuck up and when you discover just How easy it is to impress without demanding attention for No reason maybe you'll believe me
Your own will to power has come back to haunt you


7. OUR TIME HONORED TRADITION OF CANNABALISM

From black panthers and the c.i.a.
Into a sharp wit with a stupid slag
We've gone and dug our own hole cause everybody knows
We eat our own so busy fighting each other while the real Bastards fun for cover
We shoot our own leaders down before those in power get the chance
So they sit back and laugh while we destroy ourselves
Wake up and shut up we've become our worst enemy
Turning inward to our own detriment
Forgetting the message we were to end
We've lost count up victims roll call
They're all our own look back at what we've done
Drove out the wrong side kicked sand in our own eyes
With every heroes welcome is another group on the side
Ready to fire if they step out of line
Just one mistake
And jealous hands claw away hope for a better way you Bought it forget it goodbye
So saints be on your does and heroes be not proud
Because as soon as the people rise someone will tear you Down wake up and shut up we've become our worst enemy


8. (COMPASION) AS SKULL FRAGMENTS ON THE WALL

Front and center...
Ten percent pulled apart vilified tolerate but only to patronize
Hang a noose like a crucifix dangles high
Leg breaking for your sheep becomes suicide
Sticking to your guns provokes an ugly picture
Of a child gagging on those same guns transforming more self loathing youth
From queers to corpses in two seconds flat
You've got correction tape for every transgress
Immediate approval for distress
Call out your icon from its whites washed tomb
Your perversion your blame your truth trigger finger Prints in a pool of blood
Pray for us that our sins will come undone
Now that you've decided in all of your tirade
That we are not worthy to live
You will burn in hell for everyone you've killed
For every drop of blood that you have ever spilled
diseased and deranged
Became a draining mass of death at your request
In your prayers in your speeches you claim our death


9. MY LIFE IN THE KNIFE TRADE

How many times have I noticed that our eyes hardly ever meet?
From your judgment seat I can feel the anger for my very being.
Fill me in on when you became such a big part of my life
that I should bother with all your lies designed to bring me down.
Wrong again. Don't depend on any reaction again.

I remember the icy walls that shot up from no where.
And I can see every lie that you've ever told yourself.
You bleed me dry, and I don't ask why
but I'm left with the dust.
Juda's kiss, I dismiss, thank you all for this. I am unjudged, I am..

Wait again... I'm not through with the screaming.
I contend that you've got nothing better to do...

Trade my life for a barrel of gold.
Find someone else before I get too old.
If I live my life for aesthetic gain,
will you repay me with all your shame?

I can see every light inside your brain
go on every time that I walk by for nods and whispers.
Your comfort in my suffering is no longer disturbing.
I'm lost beyond your petty stopwatch in life's real time, life's real...

Wait again... I'm not through with the screaming.
And I contend that you've got nothing better to do.

Trade my life for a barrel of gold.
Find someone else before I get too old.
If I live my life for aesthetic gain,
will you repay me with all your shame?

Don't get up...
I was only leaving the room.
When the door of your judgment swings back around again,
maybe I'll stop to watch your act,
and I'll go on my way...

I've seen quite enough of too many childish games.
I'm ashamed of every moment that I ever gave them the time of day.

All the worst of enemies
are somehow always
friends that used to be.


10. ACCROSS FIVE YEARS

I said i'm crazy one more time
Picked up the phone and wondered why
So many years of hidden
Dreams pushed down too far to ever win
Locked doors
And hidden ghosts denied by myself with every joke
This was not
This could never be me remembering so many times so many lies
So many lies
Ran so fast the years passed blind
So much
Time lost killing five
Whatever poision you may
Drink another list of "no's" persist
Antique and out of reach
I lost my life and take it back
Crashed this side of happiness
Hit the floor or hit and miss without the strength to Follow through
Walked right past this life in you
Just one more kiss just one more chance
One more life or circumstance one more call taking a Chance on circumstance


11. TWELVE STEP HAMMER PROGRAM

Bring it on
I've got your life when I've got your fear i'll give you All what you want to hear
You've got me figured out so perfect
I'm on the couch lying to your face
Just to see
What you can cut and paste of my life on your next banner
Wait I'm not finished with you yet
Race run frantic eating from my hand come on
Scrape your knees to the finish line the weak get pulled And you're left behind
You think you know me feel the comfort
The rug gets swiped and you've fallen down
So many times that you have kissed the ground
Just for a piece of fact or fiction
Consider yourself the punchline in my new gag thank you Very much you've given us all a fantastic laugh
Bring it on
Nose to nose and toe to toe tell me everything you know
Or is everything for show tabloid garbage in your fangs
Suck you'll be duped again i get the last laugh in the end


12. UNSPOKEN REQUEST

Failed coercion leads to intrusion and the blood forever runs
In her head into her hands between her legs where his mind lies
Power drives him into murder innocence
On the rack of his devices vices and designs
She will never scrub the stains from her arms from her neck
From her legs the dirt will remain as a reminder of his hateful face
Reach in rip apart the inner fibers of her soul
Boy you'll never know how it feels to fear the shame
Feel free to walk down any dark street without fear
Without shame no one is gonna touch you and you don't need Protection she shouldn't need protection!
And you can sit there with that stupid smile on your face And try to convince me that you care defined by your power
Defined by her body the innocence she feels everybody else Contains it's lost it's gone but i guess it doesn't matter anyway
Reach in rip apart the inner fibers of her soul
And you can sit there with that stupid smile on your face And try to convince me that you care defined by your power Defined by her body defined redefined fucked tortured and Discarded and if he ever cares maybe he will feel ashamed For everything he's stolen for all the trust she gave Possessed and broken she cries but it's not our problem
Pull down your goddamn blinds he will never think he's Wrong she will think you're wrong she will never feel quite right


13. THE FORCE MAJEURE

On shift from 9 to 5 then from 6 to 3 steals the soul Machine forever tuning
Class rebellion under noses the boss is feeding on the Living corpses
Their broken backs call for us to rise
But for now we'll all just smile and sympathize
Denied movement now lost replaced by fear
We ask nothing less then settle for nothing more
Behold the capitalists bathing in the blood of the working class
Martyrs bleed until spoken to
Vultures get fat from the harness coup
Revolution another empty promise of the leftist elite
Frustration another soul is crushed under the rulers feet
And as the boot is forced into their teeth
Our safety is their defeat
Your station has been assigned your rebellion will be Confined tired doctrines killing just as many as he Leaders they decry
Their backs all well patted
For a job well done without the shackles
Callused hands and drying hearts rise up and destroy the Disease that stole your soul


14. TIMOTHY

Ends and means redemption
Of your past are painful reminders
Take these wings
And make good on all the promises un-kept in this life
The judgments weighed against you
Fell away to embrace your memory again
Take these wings And make good on all the things that were controlling you
And then destroyed you and your short breath of life
Fulfill all of the unsaid promises you made
To family and friends
Through blessings and understandings
And I can't seem to understand why
The end of your pain meant the end of a rope
But I guess it's the only freedom that you've ever known
The price you've paid is dying alone
Please bless this child
All that he's dreamed
All that he worked for
Every dream
Make his love, his compassion
Inspiration to us all