1. CONFESSION

I call it a phase/I call it a phase
But bottoms of bottles are killing the pain
I call it a phase/I call it a phase

When no one’s looking, I take in all I can
I kiss the bottle until I can’t stand
And wake up grieving
And by noon I won’t care
I count the minutes 'til I start again

What have I become?
Have I come undone?

What fills the hollow
Distills the venom I need
So hard to swallow
The fact I need to be free

I call it a phase/I call it a phase
But bottoms of bottles are killing the pain
I call it a phase/I call it a phase

One turns to twenty
and now I’m interesting
I’m in control/I’m not one for restraint
My compass spinning
hell bent on making mistakes
You cannot hurt
when you cannot feel a thing

What have I become?
I have come undone!!!

What fills the hollow
Distills the venom I need
So hard to swallow
The fact I need to be free

What fills the hollow
Distills the venom I need.

I call it a phase/I think it's killing me!

The past has taught me
I won’t remember a thing
I’ll trade a night cap for some apathy

And wake up grieving
by noon I won’t care
I count the minutes 'til I start again!

What have I become?

What fills the hollow
Distills the venom I need
So hard to swallow
The fact I need to be free

What fills the hollow
Distills the venom I need
So hard to swallow
The fact that I need to be... free


2. CENSORSHIP

...Yeah!!!...
What will it take?/What will it take?

Give a man more than due
He’ll laud you all his days
But give him less than he mused
Oh god, you’re idol waste

What will finally earn your grace?
Are you not entertained?

When your expectations ride
On the backs of promised lies
Showing your worth is almost a curse
That leaves you high and dry

What will it take?

What of ends long pursued
Scaled and weighed for praise?
Heart regressed to follow suit
The art has lost its way

What will finally suit the taste?
Are you not entertained?

When your expectations ride
On the backs of promised lies
Showing your worth is almost a curse
That leaves you high and dry

When your expectations ride
On the backs of promised lies
Showing your worth is almost a curse
That leaves you high and dry...
Leaves you high and dry

Tell me what’s the point of this?
I’m lost in censorship
Tell me what’s the point of this?
I am lost!

When your expectations ride
On the backs of promised lies
Showing your worth is almost a curse
That leaves you high and dry

When your expectations ride
On the backs of promised lies
Showing your worth is almost a curse
That leaves you high and dry

What will it take? What will it take?
Yeahh!!!
Are you not entertained?


3. HONOR IS DEAD

Life and death are shaking hands
With no regard for my futile plans
And I’ve licked the wounds and tasted red Nothing mends now that honor’s dead

Yargh!!!

Life and death in every breath
I hope I choose the words that sell us best
And I’ve made my bed in a viper’s den
Nothing can save me now
that honor’s dead

I can’t rely on this anymore
I can't rely on this anymore

I watched them
Weave the noose around me
I watched them raise the gallows high
Never saw the fools that hung before me
Never saw a warning sign

Life and death are shaking hands
With no regard for my futile plans
And I’ve licked the wounds and tasted red Nothing mends now that honor’s dead

I can’t rely on this anymore
I can't rely on this anymore

I watched them
Weave the noose around me
I watched them raise the gallows high
Never saw the fools that hung before me
Never saw a warning sign

I watched them
Weave the noose around me
I watched them raise the gallows high
Never saw the fools that hung before me
Never saw a warning sign

My face is turning blue
From up here it’s the best view
My neck is breaking from my own weight and I’m supposed to say "thank you"

I can’t rely on this anymore
I can't rely on this anymore

I watched them
weave the noose around me
I watched them raise the gallows high
Never saw the fools that hung before me
Never saw a warning sign

...Licked the wounds and tasted red Nothing mends now that honor’s dead


4. LINES IN THE SAND

...Yeah!!!

Some men are born to reap the harvest.
Some men are born to sow the seed.
The lines between them are all drawn in.
The lie between them is belief.

If only we had eyes to see
The lines blurring

Fall in line if you're willing
Defend these shores to the bitter end
Everyone's got a reason
To name the victims and the villains
But who drew lines into the sand?

Does anyone know why we're fighting?
Does anyone know the other side?
The lines between us are all drawn by
The lies that we choose to believe

If only we had eyes to see
The lines blurring

Fall in line if you're willing
Defend these shores to the bitter end
Everyone's got a reason
To name the victims and the villains
But who drew lines into the sand?

Does anyone know the other side?

To build a wall/Between us all
It's our downfall/It's our downfall

Fall in line if you're willing
Defend these shores to the bitter end
Everyone's got a reason
To name the victims and the villains

Fall in line if you're willing
Defend these shores to the bitter end
Everyone's got a reason
To name the victims and the villains, but
Who drew lines into the sand?
Who drew lines into the SAND!!?


5. WORLD ON FIRE

The world has lost its mind
There are liars leading legions of the blind
And no one seems to see the cliff in sight
Are we/Are we
Too far gone to save our lives?

Our house on sand is sinking
How are we surprised?
Senseless is now a virtue to live by

Fools we are
Drawing from a well run dry
Fools we are
Defending truths we know are lies

Is there more than
Just performance in their show?
Either back in the hand you hold
Or learn to fold. Are we/Are we
Too far gone to change our minds?

Our house on sand is sinking
How are we surprised?
Senseless is now a virtue to live by

Fools we are
Drawing from a well run dry
Fools we are
Defending truths we know are lies

(Self destruction in the name of progress)
Oh I see the end...
Oh I see it Where...
Do we go from here?
Because faith is running thin...

Just look around the world is on fire!!!
On fire!!!... Yuh!!
Just look around the world is on fire!

Fools we are
Drawing from a well run dry
Fools we are
Defending truths we know...

Fools we are
Drawing from a well run dry
Fools we are
Defending truths we know are lies

Just look around the world is on fire!!!
On fire!!!


6. COMPASS

My sails are torn and I’m lost at sea
The stars refuse to guide me
The ocean’s churning
And I’m burning to see what
Horrors await me
Horrors await me

Hold my breath
Waiting/Watching for a break in the storm
For a course worth a chance
But all I am is whipping in the wind
For too long I’ve let it take me where it will

I see the waves building out of my view
I see the depths past the blackness
There’s no surprises left
To throw at me What’s
Another storm to sail?
Another storm to sail?

Hold my breath
Waiting/Watching for a break in the storm
For a course worth a chance
But all I am is whipping in the wind
For too long I’ve let it take me where it will

What’s the difference?
When the sea has taken all from me
What’s the difference?
I’m indifferent

Hold my breath
Waiting/Watching for a break in the storm
For a course worth a chance
All I am is whipping in the wind
For too long I’ve let it take me where it will


7. STONES THROWN

All the headlines read of tragedies
Force fed to fuel the hate
All the headlines read of tragedies
Stones thrown to separate!

So wake up!/wake up!
A stone thrown aimed to separate
So wake up!

All talk is cheap/When from the screen!
But we believe it all

All talk is cheap/When from the screen!
But we believe it all

If the mainstream’s reach
is what you preach
Whose pockets are you filling?

If the mainstream’s reach
is what you teach
Whose pockets are you filling?

So wake up!/wake up!
A stone thrown aimed to separate

All talk is cheap/When from the screen
But we believe it all

All talk is cheap/When from the screen
But we believe it all

Further and further
they divide us and conquer
Wake up and stand up
We’re in this together

Yuh!

Wake up!

All talk is cheap/When from the screen
But we believe it all

All talk is cheap/When from the screen
But we believe it all

But we believe it all/but we believe it all


8. CASCADE

(Yeah! Our time is borrowed and forced
We atrophy in your ascension for more)

The writing on the wall is fading
Cascading down and blacking out our light
(We atrophy in your ascension for more)

The words are weighed to chapters closing
The pages kept the ones
Who've lost their stride

I see you’ve written out the lines
Upon the course you’d have us ride
But what if we refuse to sign?...

And I won’t follow you down
(You fan the flames to torch the future)

While I watch you burn it to the ground
(You fan the flames to torch the future)

I think I found the answer to the question
Maybe moving on is our salvation

It’s pulling teeth to start again

Lines still remain Suspend your sentence
An open-ended story you would bind

This ink we bleed is drawn from knowing
You’d lose the plot in trying to survive

It’s pulling teeth to start again/and again

But what if we refuse to...

And I won’t follow you down
(You fan the flames to torch the future)

While I watch you burn it to the ground
(You fan the flames to torch the future)

I think I found the answer to the question
Maybe moving on is our salvation

Is this a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Is this your self-fulfilling prophecy?

And I won’t follow you down
(You fan the flames to torch the future)

While I watch you burn it to the ground
(You fan the flames to torch the future)

I think I found the answer to the question
Maybe moving on is our salvation

It’s pulling teeth to start again


9. SILHOUETTE

You’ve got a way of finding
Peace in being incomplete
A silhouette you exhibit
So you’ll never have to claim defeat

Because somehow, someway,
Some...One... found a reason to betray

Maybe I can be your shelter,
Maybe I can be safety
But this silhouette you exhibit
Will never let you be complete

Because somehow, someway,
Some...one... chose to throw this love
Away from this
You can find me waiting
When you’re ready

Away from this
Lay your torment down
Because I am with you now

Somehow, someway,
We’ll find a way to love again

Lay your torment down
It’s okay, I’m with you, with you now
I'm with you now

Away from this
You can find me waiting
When you’re ready

Away from this
Lay your torment down
Because I am with you now


10. BLOODLETTER

Blood Letter!
On a parchment so clean
But day by day the stainless
Fades from white to grey

Blood Letter!
Penned with pleading hands
A dialect of neglectedness
I’ll never understand

She’s writing red calligraphy
On the razors edge between
Hope and Loss. and out of ink.

Blood Letter!
Doesn’t wear it on her sleeve
But knows the brush and depth to cut
To make the canvas bleed

Blood Letter!
Emblazoned on her skin
A gallery of tempt and pain
For which there is no end

She’s writing red calligraphy
On the razors edge between

Hope and loss and out of ink
On the razors edge between

A badge of honor
Or a wound that’s festering

I want to understand
Why won’t she let me in?
Why won’t she let me in?

A cry for help is now bleeding out!
A cry for help is now bleeding out!

I should have known/That it wasn’t a show
I should have known/I should have known

She’s writing red calligraphy
On the razors edge between

Hope and loss and out of ink
On the razors edge between

A badge of honor
Or a wound that’s festering

I want to understand
Why won’t she let me in?

A cry for help is now bleeding out!
A cry for help is now bleeding out!


11. 130

Explosions shake the city
I thought it was part of the show
A craven is screaming prayers
In a tongue I don’t know

Paris lights are winking out
I can hear the city scream
While the faithful are rejoicing
In the sounds of tragedy

Find me one reason worth this hate
One reason worth this endless violence

Find me more one reason worth this hate
Because I have 130 reasons to change!

This stage should be a temple
Where anyone can sing
Yet we are one divided
Waging war over beliefs

Paris lights are winking out
I can feel the city scream
While the faithful are rejoicing
In the sounds of tragedy

Find me one reason worth this hate
One reason worth this endless violence

Find me more one reason worth this hate
Because I have 130 reasons to change!

130 reasons to change!

Parents’ cries are ringing out
While their sons and daughters bleed
And the faithful are rejoicing
In the sounds of tragedy!