1. HOW TO START A FIRE

Lets set this city ablaze
we'll burn down the
monuments and build
mountains in our place we
could see everything.
We could start a fire (we could start a fire)
and all shine in its light
shine so bright we burn in
eyes and heal the stories
ending.

This is the last
time we will ever bleed to
feel alive.
Consider this a rehearsal your
heart of hearts rekindled. [2x]

The last
time we will ever bleed to
feel alive.

Catching the fruits of our
labors and holdig our
hearts in our hands
waiting for you to sound a
prayer in the form of an
anchor replied by holding
you up in red skies bound
by love.
Let's set this city ablaze we'll learn
how to start a fire(we'll learn
how to start a fire) shine
so bright we burn in eyes.
(we could start a fire).


2. THE SOUND

If I only had an ocean to compliment the sky
I'd pull it down and paint it for you and I'd never question why
Cause "red would mean you loved me"
And "blue would mean you cared"
But black my heart when left alone to cold and killing stairs
This is the burning of a dream
This is the burning of a dream

[Chorus]
The sound now turns to silence
But I'll keep spinning around
Naked in the rain of my own tears
As they fall into the bucket of your apologies
While closing everyone else's eyes
Because your own are shut
Not to see the volume rise again

Feels like I'm waiting in the last hiding place on earth
Haman's noose tight round my neck but im saved
and for 100,000 memories been washed ashore
Be swept again by forever
And sailed away from you

Now the rain has ended
So the sun can shine through me

[Chorus]
The sound now turns to silence
But I keep spinning around
Naked in the rain of my own tears
As they fall into the bucket of your apologies
While closing everyone else's eyes
Because your own are shut
Not to see the volume rise again

Only you could row my boat ashore
Only you could set my fears at rest
But until lack of sympathies regress
I'm still waiting...
I'm still waiting for your call

[Chorus]
The sound now turns to silence
But I keep spinning around
Naked in the rain of my own tears
As they fall into the bucket of your apologies
While closing everyone else's eyes
Because your own are shut
Not to see the volume rise again.


3. A BLANK PAGE EMPIRE

Thoughts pass by like a river flow
Must be hard to keep track where you came from
I float down and stand right next to you
But something is causing a lull in the traffic
The empire is moving, the grass overgrown

I'd blow this whole world to pieces to not be alone
The shovel's been digging all day long
It can't even seem to make a scratch
A scratch in the surface what is the purpose?
I'll always be stopped by the
"why can't i, why can't i be you?"
and put those hands away
I go through this everyday...

Sounds like a radio tuned to whitenoise softer, slowly softer
Can't this thing go any faster?
For everyone to see, it's only killing me

Awake in this cold cell I, I just hope you're happy
Awake in this cold cell I break my body against the wall
Awake in this cold cell... I am my only devil
Why can't I be you and put those hands away
I go through this everyday

Sounds like a radio tuned to whitenoise softer, slowly softer
Can't this thing go any faster?
For everyone to see, it's only killing me.


4. AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGEMENT

With starving appetites for arguments
you remind me of a secret
I was never supposed to tell.

The time is over, the verdicts in: Everybody's right, everybody wins
The time is over, the verdicts in: Everybody's right, everybody wins

Didn't you know you were a saint, what a shameful fall from grace
But I'll catch you, I'll catch you
Everybody's waiting for that something they can hold onto
while tripping over our own words to self-dug graves for an excuse to fall
Becuase every failure's just as sweet as the last

The time is over, the verdicts in: Everybody's right, everybody wins
The tims is over, the verdicts in: Everybody's right, everybody wins

Didn't you know you were a saint, what a shameful fall from grace
But I'll catch you, I'll catch you
Everybody's waiting for that something they can hold onto
while tripping over our own words to self-dug graves for an excuse to fall
Becuase every failure's just as sweet as the last

As a dream comes
when there are many cares
so the speech of a fool
when there are many words
the sun it misses summer in winter.
Didn't you know we wear
the same pretentious name
lets trade for awhile
i'm so curious

Everybody's waiting for that something they can hold onto
while tripping over our own words to self-dug graves for an excuse to fall
Becuase every failure's just as sweet as the last.


5. I AM

I am the water, I am waves crashing onto you
I am the blank wave, I am the madness, the dark, the hunt, the cage, the race
I am rejection, I am redemption
I am desire for obligation, I am forever, but I could be never if thats what you want.
I am the desert, I am oasis for strength, the weakness for arguments sake
I am rejection, I am redemption, I am desire for obligation, I am one step closer for you
Please tell me when you're through, because I may not be through with you
You're loss to sustain, but I will remain and true to form. If this was the last breath I ever took would you take the time
to look, and would you know?
Or would you know?
Or would you know?
Becuase I am the water, I am waves crashing onto you
You could pretend to be, but you will kill me when you're through.


6. PRIDE WAR

You'd trade our starving eyes
for a tar and feathered heart
a 25 cent execution
to hear your anthem praises
played on frequency decayed
a breath of frigid self-made winter.

Sing out and sing loud
we'll sing as loud as you do
and hold on hold on
cause this is the end of the line
I'm not falling.
Of beautiful and sacred things
and your immaculate disguise
I'm trading it in
for my pride war emblem.

As if I'd fall to pieces
in the wake of your design.


7. ON LEGENDARY

Now that we're one now
Softly whispers saving grace 6:19 as I awake
And stronger than last year
My eyes closed
Stars can see me
Stars will meet me on the ground
On the ground

Summer is gone and winter is never too far now
And my poor arms (my arms are aching) outstretched so long that my bones are now breaking
But there you come with a smile that'd send any man to his knees
And I feel I've begun now that we're one now
You graciously add to
I graciously add you to my heart
To my heart

Summer is gone, and winter is never too far now
And my poor arms (my arms are aching) outstretched so long that my bones are now breaking
But there you come with a smile that'd send any man to his knees
And I feel I've begun now that we're one now
Now that we're one now.


8. INSINCERITY AS AN ART FORM

It's been a long time since I felt the rain upon my head
It's been a long time since I felt the rain upon my head
A moment in seperation the foreground dont seem so bright
These angels in my head are in between the shadow and the light.
Were my arms to short to ransom you from broken skin and black and blue
Stitch your eyes so you could read this forever
Dead and broken and I'm backwards turned to love
My heart in a box I send you
for a sky held up by stars
Were my arms to short to ransom you from broken skin and black and blue
Stitch your eyes so you could read this forever
It's been a long time since I felt the rain upon my head
Your varying degress of grayness tugging the deepest of heartstrings.
Were my arms to short to ransom you from broken skin and black and blue
Stitch your eyes so you could read this forever
Were my arms to short to ransom you from broken skin and black and blue
I'll stitch your eyes so you could read this forever.


9. THE DEEP

You'll be a wolf devoured by a lion
cause you look like a lamb
but baptized in fire
fearing yet hoping the best
has swallowed you asleep once again.

I should go to sleep
I fear I'm running out of time
(waits for no one).

Sometimes I feel I should
sever my limbs
so I could never crawl home
back home to you
waiting and watching to see
if you'll follow me to my grave.

I should go to sleep I'm running out of time waits for no one.
I might not wake up next to you
excuses, excuses, excuses, excuses
make excuses for eating your young
let's lick the wounds
and find out where we came from
when copperas has faded
I hope you'll still be by my side
this is not dystrophy but desire,
desire for comfort in the dark
call me a mocking bird and it's done.


10. AURORA BOREALIS (IN LONG FORM)

Oh my god I've been waiting for you
all of my life
the trees are tired from breathing
sharks keep moving - never stopping
sharks keep moving on
cut out my eyes to spite
my heart wish for sleep but never stopping
assignments pile up.

Watch out baby - going way too fast
without eyes in the back of your
never know where you came from
please let me crash now break my body
split myself in two
split myself into you.