1. GONE

Never home to fulfill her needs
Is it over?
Distance feeds anxiety
Is it over?
Another town I cry and hug my knees
Is it over?

The distance grows
I want to come back home

Another day away
Another fight you face alone
I'm gone
I'd like to save you from the pain,
a thousand miles away
I'm gone

Mother's due for deadly news
Is it over?
Another night, medication and tubes
Is it over?
I wish I'd never seen cancer
I'd die just to find that answer
Is it over?

The distance grows
Her heartbeat's slow

I can't take this anymore

It won't be long
Keep holding strong


2. SALEM (BURN THE WITCH)

Where does your misfortune grow?
From a humble house, with a cross burning slow?
You fear she will challenge your throne
So you dig the dirt and it's selling like gold

10 fingers 10 toes point, but not a damn one back at you
It's your fault you fall apart
The problem is in you

Burn the witch
Or stone and rope to bind her soul
Sink or swim
And watch the truth drown below

You search the hills, swift and true
Look outside yourself, for it cannot be you
The town gathers and slander ensues
Not long 'til she's cursed, not long 'til she's through

You've done the work of a saint, but with the devil's hand
With cauldron gossip you pray, to restore this land
Holy and dead, holy and dead
Remember the plank?

You've got a tree instead

This will all be over soon
She's melting through
But your dark clouds still remain
So grab another one without a name


3. FAT KID

Once upon a time
I survived by eating my way through life
Bruised from head to toe to ego
This abuse is getting old

But it's okay,
I'm that kid that's just a little overweight
So I eat to ease the pain, but one day

I'm gonna rule the world, steal your girl
Not bad, not bad for a fat kid

But I'm okay, It won't be too long until I have my way
I'll make being fat such the rave today

Dance, Dance, Dance
Everybody at the party come on
Dance, Dance, Dance
Everybody at the party raise your fists
This is our chance

Help me now, I've lived in fear for years
Loved by no one And it's not fair...
Weather friends, this is the end, you'll see
Thin was in, but now it's out, and fat is what it's all about

(Whatcha gonna do fat boy?)
(Whatcha gonna do?)


4. WAITING ON RAIN

Broke and broken child
Veiled to the eyes of humanity
She is left wanting
She is left with nothing
She is nothing

Tonight she cries
Evanescent to indifferent eyes
Tonight she screams to the sky

Waiting on rain to come
Wash away
I don't ask for a break of day

Boy that hides his tears
Silent scars and poison tongues that stain his skin
Shaded world sees black and white
Chained to ancient walls
Sad world can't be colorblind

Tonight he cries
Evanescent to indifferent eyes
Tonight he screams to the sky

I send a vicious scream on dying wings to you
Sent to heaven straight from hell

I don't ask for a break of day
Just pour the rain


5. THE CLEANSING

I smell your rot a mile behind
You've destroyed these lives so I
Have made your grave with the dogs
By grace our paths have crossed
And all tolerance is lost
What is the price on your head?
I'll take it with these hands
Rip flesh from bone and claim what we own

For every generation there comes a time
To join the gray or become what is right
You stayed in shadows and preyed on the blind
You're cyanide

Father, You know I'm seeking honor
Wanting life for my brothers
I will fight, the ones who stole the sun and left us night
They're cyanide

Father guide my hands
And I will cleanse this land
End the enemy
The innocent be freed
You and me

I fight for fathers daughters, sons and mothers
Raped and murdered, bound and tied
You came inside
You took their lives
Yeah I pray...I pray you die

So I will fight the decadence that leeches our innocence
They're cyanide


6. BLUE AND GOLD

Phone call, Sunday afternoon
Springtime, this flower's lost its bloom
I was not there, and it is not fair
Your innocence and youth
Carried you this far

Just to be removed

And tonight, the stars will shine
And fill my life, you've left me behind

She's walking through the blue and the gold, the new and the old
With the ancient Father, of every daughter
I know that we'll make it through this night

Dreaming, a panoramic view
Canvas memories, bring me back to you
We lived and laughed, we lived so fast
I can't stand to see the truth
Now your masterpiece
It paints the news


7. DIRGE

You're the ghost in my mind
Thorn in my side
Sober in my dreams, you're dead in real life
The ghost in my mind
Is how you used to be so alive
And now you're fighting just to put the bottle down


8. FELL IN LOVE WITH A GHOST

It's the season for reasons to justify treason
You're leaving and letting me die alone
The spirits you wear show the sins that you bear
With every drink you are letting me go
I'm the one that pays

Go
Let me let you
Go
Set me free

You're the ghost in my mind
Thorn in my side
Sober in my dreams, you're dead in real life
What goes through my mind
Is how you used to be so alive
And now you4re fighting just to put the bottle down

Put that bottle down

Sleep tonight
Close your eyes
Sing your dirge
Say good night

While you4ve been sleeping
I've been dreaming
Of a life without repeating
The same old suicide
Round and round we'd ride
So you'll be sleeping
I'll be leaving
Six feet under wake up screaming
One day you will know
You were dead, I had to go


9. THE FEW NOT FLEETING

I was born to walk on water
I came to be the few not fleeting
I still bleed like any other
I came to be the few not fleeting

My body's numb and my will breaks
Head immersed beneath the waves
Sky's light begins to fade
It's the end they'd say
Eyes dilate
Spot of sun's not too far away
Hope is not lost I must hold on

I am only a man
But I will be more, more than I am
Fighting I will stand
I am one against a sea that runs

Our scars bind us as brothers
I came to be the few not fleeting
Define what makes a man, it's how we stand when we suffer
I came to be the few not fleeting

There's no escape from the gale's rise
Though fear in my heart, there's a fire in my eyes
It seems that everything in the stars and the sky is against me
I won't go without a fight
I'll breathe in hope and bathe in light


10. BULLETS AND BLUE EYES

These dark and cloudy ideas are grounding my head down
With bullets and blue eyes, and a white flag disguise
Pull up the sheets and sing me back to sleep

What would you say?
What would you do if I told you our love was through?
If I walked out the door, left your heart on the floor?

I'm tired of holding my breath for countless days now
I bet you're someone you cannot recognize
Can you look yourself in the eyes?

What would you say?
What would you do if I told you our love was through?
If I walked out the door, left your heart on the floor?
If you were to stay, what would you change?
What would you do to prove?
Could you die to yourself just to love someone else?

Hold me, hold me, hold me, closer
You never hold me when you're sober
To hell with our love
You drink the blood
And I'll drink the wine


11. LOVE ?

I caught you
But you wanted the stars
Did I not shine?
I showed you you
You showed me me
And this is how love is supposed to be

I'm waiting for you, waiting
I'll be here,
Please change your mind and come home tonight

I'll sing it 'til the stars fall down
I'll sing it 'til my lungs dry out
I can sing it all night long
But you never listen when I sing this song

Lie to me
And try to make me believe
That I can save you, unchain you
From your mind that takes, cause your heart won't break
And this is how love is supposed to be?

You said it best
Logic will break your heart
You don't know it yet
It's torn your world apart
Do you always run
When the stakes are getting high?
If loving you is the death of me
Then now's the time to die

Goodbye to you baby
Goodbye

I'm not waiting
I've made up my mind, don't come home tonight

I'll sing it 'til the stars fall down
I'll sing it 'til my lungs dry out
I can sing it all night long
But you didn't listen when I sang this song


12. IT SEEMS

Alone in the room, TV on
Like the white screen his life's gone
A moving shell, a wandering ghost
A shadow of a man who nobody knows
He hardly speaks when you say his name
He's just embarrassed to say
Anything to anyone
In his mind there's no way out

He said he wants to die
He wonders how anyone survives
Being overlooked and trite

As seasons change
And trees grow bare
His reflection's a stranger
Back it won't stare
It's like everybody else
Just too busy for his simple self

He walks 13 blocks to the city's cross
Puts dust on his knees
Prays for a god that doesn't leave
It's lonely here in hell
He prays to be somebody else
In his mind there's no way out

In the sand he sinks to his knees
Mobile world around, just out of reach
Tears rolling down his cheeks
He has to believe, believe in himself

Put up, hold out
Break down, scream loud
Wave fists, and shout
It's done
It's done
Now stand tall, prove all
Push on, now you see
It's your life, It's your fight
Live free, don't hide
You've got to believe