1. N3-13

(Instrumental)


2. ALLEGIANCE

We all end up in ditches, or the inside of a bodybag.
This nation's run by riches, while I fucking rot in rags.
Stand and salute, Stand absolute.

I pledge allegiance to the red, white and blue.
A more perfect union for me and you.

Fall in line like the rest, with a gun to my head,
A hand on my chest and a knife in my back.

Pledge my allegiance to the flag, the only one that will ever stand.

Stand before those who kneel,
Upon a foundation rooted in false ideals.
Kneel.

Failure is second nature when your worth is ruled out by paper.
Grown weak, I've grown weak.
Light escapes my eyes.

Gasping for air.
And now its clear to me its not safe anywhere
Despite the scars I wear, I have nothing to show.
But my empty pockets and broken bones.
It's just the way it works. Its what i call home.
I'm forced to follow and never stray.
Swept beneath and I'm fucking betrayed.

And now I clearly see,
It's all clear to me

I will never be free.

There's no point in trying.
Cuz I can never win.
There's no point in trying.
Defeat will creep it's way in.
There's no point in trying, cuz I can never win.

So I will pray
To an empty sky, a sky that's gray
For the fucking day without leaders or slaves.

Cuz we all die the same,
Just faces to names.
We stand by and wait to fill vacant graves.

No Leaders No Slaves


3. FAILURE

Looking inside myself

I've come to realize

I am a failure

To those that truly rely

I've come to terms with this

It's something I must accept

It's in the core of my existence

Time and time again it is said

I am a failure

It seems like no matter what, my actions are always wrong

I'm merely trying my best

To live my life, to be a better person

But this conscience can be misleading

In directing my path

It seems so hazy

Like a ship without a sail

I have no direction

I need some guidance

Guide me in the right path

Oh, God

I need some guidance

God, I need you now

If you even exist

They won't die for me

Why would they die for you ?

We are worthless in their eyes

I am scum
I am filth
A systematic failure

Burned

I have failed many

Look at me know

These demons are here

There is no answer


4. SUFFER THE CHILDREN

Last in line

But I'm first to die

Strip me down, turn it off

Leave me blind

I just need a vice

I don't wanna see what's in front of me

I don't wanna breathe

I don't wanna think

Swallow them down, dosages increase

Bury the sound, of these tired screams

Drowning yourselves, have another drink

You sold yourself, to be fucking free

Suffer the child, let it die

Beautiful skin

Putrid bodies

I wanna be like everyone around me

I wanna feel like everybody else

American youth

Born fixed in the noose

American youth

Opposition is no use

Strip me down

Leave me blind

Put my mind at ease

Please release the grip that's suffocating me

Kill it off

Kill everything

I can't live with this anxiety.


5. COMMON PRACTICE

Common practice, nothing new

Another self entitled boy in blue

Go ahead, make your empty threats

If I don't follow I'm as good as dead

You hide behind your fucking badge

Washing clean blood from your hands

Who is it that you protect

Mistaking my fear for respect

Fuck you and everything that you stand for

I see you lying through your teeth

About the bodies in the street

Go aheah make your empty threats

If I don't follow I'm as good as dead

I will not fear for my life

You're just a coward with a gun

Low and corrupt

Keeper of none

You're just a coward with a gun

You're just a coward with a gun

If the people are dirt then what does that make you?

If the people are dirt

Then you're one of us


6. GRAY

All my life searching for acceptance. Never respected, spit on, fuckin rejected. Just living life is a constant fight, not dark enough but my skins not white.

And I will never belong.

So line your fucking aim,
because my skin is stained.

Made to feel like less than I am
In a so called promise land.

Condemned always in between.
Born on the soil, everybody is my enemy.

I don't belong on either side.

I am dead in their minds, I am dead in their eyes.

So set your sights before I set mine.

The reaper holds no grudge, death is colorblind.

So line your aim, It all ends the same, I am your equal in the ground.

Tired of feeling like its never enough.

Words keep sinking in, these wounds will not shut.

They won't let me in, they won't let me be.

Cast your fucking stones, let them rain on me.

Lost in a crowd, still singled out.

Only your equal in the ground.

The reaper holds no grudge.

Everybody dies.

There are only shades of gray.

We are all just fucking prey.

So line your fucking aim

Put that bullet through my brain.

Anything to get away.

Anything to find my place.

I'm not like you.

I bleed just like you.

I'm not like you

I'm nothing like you

I bleed just like you

And I just want to belong.


7. HYRON

Time always seems to stand still
When you're waiting for the end

I ask myself

Am i just another number
Amongst the living dead

I am no one, useless, no voice, no identity. Without a single say in anything.

Just a victim of circumstance

I'm left alone with nothing left

I put my life into your hands

I played along, stuck to the plan

I put my life into your hands

Without a voice

Without a say in anything

Kept my mouth shut

Til I can't breathe

Sewn my eyes shut so I can't see

Wait for it to strike me down, like the coffin's final nail.

Wait for it to strike me down, the path bestowed, the debt I'll owe, the fucking burning of my home.

Set in this constant comatose

All I hear is all I'm told

I never had control.

Oh how I've stayed my stay, ignored the voices hoping they would go away

Pay no attention to the things they say

How I have to choose, how I have to play their game

And my screams are drowned out, in a sea of others like me.

Its waters reflect, all I see is me, I am everyone, I am everything

All just numbers in the scheme of things

I'm trying to be

I'm dying to be

This american standard

But every step I take is just two more backwards

This place is killing me