1. COUNTDOWN

Stop and wait, hold your applause
3, 2, 1, but the camera's pause
Lights go out and the frame goes soft
The color's bled and the picture's off
Time, it seems to stop
You get a little bit but not a lot
Dangerous kids, a bunch of misfits
Show you what we got
Yeah, it's on tonight
I'm gone tonight
Playing way too hard just to fall tonight
Believe when I say when it's over
You won't believe anything that you saw tonight
So stop and wave to the silent crowd
3, 2, 1, and the empty sound
Applause, applause
Before we bring the fucking house down

Oh, it's taking control now
Breaking open the gates
And tearing them down
It feeds on the violence
Just a number to them
A face in the crowd
Unbreakable
You're selling yourself like a brand
And don't you know
How much you pay
To sit in the palm of their hand?

I'm just a fake, just a lie
You build it up and I'll break it down
And the truth, yeah, it's mine
And it's really all that I got
And time, it seems to stop
You get a little bit but not a lot
Dangerous kids, a bunch of misfits
Show you what we got

Open your eyes
You're treading water
Before you drown in the truth
Become the lie
I'd die tonight just to feel alive
(You're waking up)
We'll die tonight just to feel alive

This is a countdown to nothing
Here in the palm of my hand
So will you let me destroy you
Like the machine that I am?

And tonight
We'll die tonight just to feel alive


2. LIGHT ESCAPES

He used to lie awake counting breaths
Each one he used was one less left
Deep in his chest
The hope was gone
Of him getting out or him moving on
A hopeless song
Stirred in his head
Months at a time but he couldn't lie
He couldn't time and he couldn't rhyme
Or express himself to save his life

He'd put his favorite records on
Innerparty and Linkin Park
He'd close his eyes and he'd sing along
But he'd never make it on his own
It's not the time and it's not the place
To have to eat your words
Cause it's not the fall and it's not the fail
It's what you do right afterwards

And at these words I hope you rise
Dig in deep and then choose a side
Grab the mic and you'll shock them all
With your steady hands and wild eyes
Wild fires deep inside
Torch them all and leave none alive
If some survive then tell your friends
A broken watch, a bad time
So here's my match, let's burn them all
Before the fall of man
It's time to stand or stand for nothing at all

I hope you bury this deep in your mind
It carries on
(It's not like it was before)
It never dies
(So tell me now, what do you stand for?)
Before the scars and the secrets you hide
I'll burn them all
(It's not like it was)
Your ghosts inside
(So tell me now, what do you stand for?)

Not long ago the darkest place
Shadows live and light escapes
Empty hands and hollow eyes
That never give and only take
One mistake you'll come to see
Is how you doubted thoughtlessly
Is how you only recognize
The person that I used to be

So here's my match, let's burn it up
Take everything you can
Before you fly you know
You gotta learn to stand

And I've been there before
Their torches in hand
I'll steady my feet
And learn how to stand
And I'll burn alive
But you'll know who I am


3. HOSTAGE

I've got nowhere left to hide
No time left for a compromise
Do I push back harder than I have before
Or just fall if I can't decide?
That danger is real, I feel it all the time
So I wear it in the name to remind me why
Everything I gave up or I left behind
Just to be where I am tonight, yeah

But you can't touch me, I can't be touched
You can't hold me, the weight's too much
You can't buy me, I have no price
I have no backup, I have no crutch
One last attempt, all-out attack
And if you push me, I'll push you back
And should I fall, you'll go down with me
Make sure you remember that

Do you have what it takes to loosen the vice?
You live the excuse but it comes with a price
If you've got nothing at all
You've got nothing to lose
If you're too scared to choose
Then what are you waiting for?

There's nothing left inside of me
Cause I've given everything
You see it in my eyes
I'm ready to die
I'm ready to die for this

So give me your worst

You have to decide what sets you apart
If passion is dead or defines who you are
You can forgive, but never forget
If you're scared of the scars
Then you're already dead
You're already dead

So say the worst thing
The worst thing you can say to me

This is what it all comes down to
You either bend or you break
Will you destroy what destroys you?
If you give it all up they can't take it away


4. WE'RE ALL IN DANGER

We're all in danger

I got nothing to prove to you, I make it happen for me
I can see it on your face I'm where you wanted to be
So won't you tell me what it's like being second best
You can't take what's mine but you can have what's left
And I sold my soul to the biggest spender
Cause everybody's got their own fucking agenda
So show me now what they first saw in ya
And tear this place apart

There's something in me
And it won't leave me alone
I'll stop at nothing
I've told my lies I've paid my price I've broken bones
You'll never see what I see
And if you want it
Just try to fucking take it from me

Let's be nothing
How can I feel the same
I heard nothing lasts forever
With these lights in my eyes
If we stand for nothing
There will be no one to blame but the world
We'll get lost in the noise together
We're all in danger

This line we walk on
Is paper thin so I walk like I'm never gonna fall again
This line we walk on
Is paper thin so I walk like I'm never gonna fall

I'm just gonna let my gold define me
And glow from the back of my eyes and blind me
And grow from a seed deep down inside me
Until it's all that I am let it all define me

You don't know what it takes
What it takes to believe
You can say what you want
You don't fucking scare me
And you can say what you want
You don't fucking scare me
And you can say what you want
Yeah


5. WAKING UP

Yeah, here I stand
Holding on to memories
A box full of everything you meant to me
And it opens up and I pull one out
And I slowly start to read
I know you're gone
And even though it hurts to see
I carry on like it doesn't mean a thing
But I know deep down inside I slowly bleed

Yeah, but here I stand against the odds
Against the fights and against the fall
Against the winds and against the grain
You take it all, just leave my name
Cause after this, it's not the same
I pull a match out and start the flame
I can't think of us and what we became
So I close my eyes and I look away

I see through you like a ghost
Behind my footsteps in shadows
When god knows this is as far as I can go
This place is bleeding me dry
I tried to make things right
Another sleepless night

When morning comes
I hope you're somewhere else
It's better than waking up
And lying to ourselves

You cut me down
And I cut you back
We are the same inside

With my back against the wall
Against the fact that I'll never fall
And you deal with that
When you cut me back, you cut me deep
And I'll never show, so you'll never see
That I carry your scars with me

When morning comes
I hope you're somewhere else
It's better than waking up
And lying to ourselves

It makes you reconsider everything

I wish I was empty
Wish I was someone else
I've changed so much, I don't know myself
My shadow, I've got you figured out
There's nowhere for you now
I see through you like a ghost


6. DESTROY YOURSELF

I see the world from somewhere else
Lost in everyone
With every compromise, I lose myself
To the person I've become

You keep pushing me down
To get the upper hand
And try to hit me where it hurts

And maybe hope's a dangerous thing
And I'm broken in the end
You don't divide, you blur the lines
Destroy yourself and start again

You've seen the world alive through wild eyes
For everything it was
You hear the lies and leave the truth inside
To the person you've become

You keep pushing me down
But you don't understand
Yeah, it never works

The walls you built to keep me out
Kept you in

I will never be the same again


7. UNMADE

Give me a sec to collect my thoughts
I write them down and I dust them off
Just some book on a shelf with a missing page
And the front torn off
I guess the words I made got in the way
And never got across
I know we don't got much to say
But I miss the days when we used to talk
Waiting for change, but each day goes by
I remind myself that our time got lost
Do you ever think of me? or not at all...
Hope hurts most when the truth's involved
So just know, I hope you don't
Cause I do my best up against the wall

I don't want to float through life, I wanna drown in it
Break myself down, turn around in it
Take it until I've had enough and then build it back up
From the top to the ground again
So go ahead and say what you need to say
Cause those words might have hurt me yesterday
And dig deep in the cuts of my chest
Just to find out that you'll never get the best of me

So dear tragedy, have a seat
I don't give a fuck what you do to me
Cause yeah this light's going to burn out
But I can't fall, never learned how
And a light can hide when it's dark now
I told a lie when the truth would've worked out

There's nothing left for me to say
And all my friends gave me away
When every word has been unmade
You hide your eyes and fall away
If there's something left for you to say
Some twisted words, a shattered phrase
Rolls off the tongue, it falls and fades
Lied to your face, I'll never change

Am I sick of home, or just homesick?
Exhausting how I can't focus
Adjust and go, flux and flow
Smile so you don't notice
Cause right now, now's not a good time
You don't want to know me on the inside
Shadows move fast in a blackout
Lost in a dark place, gone, but I'm back now
At the start, wasn't no one there for me
To care for me, I tiptoed carefully
And yeah, you were looking to embarrass me
But you move in the dark so carelessly
And the worst thing? I miss you bad...
I hate myself for the times we had
Tell me now what it's like to know
Once you let go you can never get it back

They say when no one believes you, believe yourself
Stare in the mirror until you see yourself
Crawl until you walk until you free yourself
And when they start lending hands you won't need the help
But I'm lost in the glare of the limelight
Scared at the thought of my old life
Phone in my hand and it's midnight
All missed calls, guess I never got the time right


8. WHERE THE SKY BREAKS

(Instrumental)


9. PAPER THIN

I guess I never found the right time did I
to tell you I'm sorry I gave up
but until you're broken
you don't know what you're made of

There's a part of me that you'll never know
a filthy lie that I'm keeping close
cuts at the skin and it's sinking in
how deep it goes
and there's a piece of you that I'll never see
between the lines and found underneath
of these calloused eyes, yours and mine
but it never shows

I was a broken wreck, lost in noise
pulled me out and I found my voice
you told me once and I won't forget
you don't pull a punch, the fly south effect
and I'll face it down, not like you
the only way out is a way through
so put a hand up if you've had enough
and it's time to choose

I guess I never found the right time did I
to tell you I'm sorry I gave up
but until you're broken
you don't know what you're made of

I feel my heart caving in
this line I'm walking is paper thin
and it's hard to hide the scar beneath the skin
cause I've been burned and broke
and I wanted out, but I'm better now
and I know I won't be giving in

yeah, I can't help the way that I sound
or the fact you're not around
but you told me once before you left
how to live my life out loud
you can hide in the dark, but they'll never know you
or speak your mind and they'll never own you
it won't bring you back or the time we had
but I hope it shows you
it goes

We've been waiting

From the top of the world
I can see where the sky breaks
until you're lost in the dark
you don't look for the way


10. FRACTIONS

What should I do when the odds get stacked up?
Stand down or get backed up
Hold back or let loose
Not responsible if you act up
Fall down, get back up
Fighting for survival
If you're gone for my struggle
Then you'll be gone for my arrival

If you're going to take sides
Take care not to cross mine
And you can say you knew me
In my old life
Cause I will never be outdone
And you can never change the outcome

I watch it burn and get lost in the ashes
Lose it all as we drift into fractions
I'm a shadow, you're a light when the sun sets
If you can't meet me in the darkness
Then don't

The world starts to shake
It's unraveling
I've been waiting
You've been taking everything
I'd rather be dead
Dead to the world
Than something I'm not
I'm all I've got

Come alive when the light hits
If you can't meet me in the darkness
Then don't


11. DUST

(Instrumental)


12. CUT ME OUT

I walk in small steps, heavy doses
Head down so you never notice
Headphones on, a quiet song
Try to block it out, it's so hard to focus
I get lost in those tiny moments
And slowly start to breathe
Those words hurt, but I know that
I'm not broken until I bleed

So cut me out
Or cut me open for the last time
See if I'm hollow on the inside

Is this all we are?
Take turns at painful words and scars?
If there's any life left deep inside of me
I stand tall, you'll fall for anything

I walk in small steps, not holding back
Take time before I react
They're waiting for my fall so they can have it all
And I'm fine with that
Cause I've been down that low a lot
I know what it's like, but I never forgot
The best way to the bottom
Is the worst way to the top

Just look around you
You're living a lie like it's the only way
With tired eyes come darker days
Your time, it's all I ever wanted
But time is not the same as trust
Leave everything for them
But none for us

When the day comes
I stand tall, you'll fall
You'll see
You'll fall for anything