Plot two


For all our shattered hopes and trying times,
Anchor's weight on inspired lives.
Deadbolts on doors lock away our
peace of mind.
So few, so few moments of freedom,
With ages in between,
And sterilized routines.
I am so sick of these nights pretending
It's just the way life has to be.
While we sacrifice our dreams
For safety nets,
Answers without questions asked.
Faces on floors, tears for days we can't get back.
So few, so few moments of freedom,
With ages in between,
And sterilized routines.
The lights dim down so low, grief piles high.
No sign of certainty, treading seas of crooked smiles.
Looking deep into the greenest eyes.
Blurring lines with truths that lie.
Like wolves in sheep's disguise,
Out with the claws.
One step.
One breath.
May be all that I have left.
White knuckles to the end,
This is our revenge.

Rethink, return


One last time
And then we will make the choice to
Change our ways

Man's greatest excuse has gotten hold of us
It eats away at decisions and promises we made
Stealing our success and taking our triumphs
For another day
Don't let go
It's not too late to rethink and to return to
The hour when our desire freely ran
It's the greatest shame, carved out on the ones who've turned away
giving up their dreams for mediocrity
Never knowing, never thinking they've signed their lives away.

But what's to be said for us who take life by the hand?
We will prove wrong all of our critics and smash our greatest doubts
We will see heights
See heights we never thought we'd reach

I know the pain that keeps up down
Somehow self doubt keeps us from breaking ground
We need to reclaim control and get ourselves on track
Forget out mistakes
We've made so many but there's no going back
Don't let go
It's not too late to rethink and to return to the hour when our desire freely ran

Rethink, return
There's no looking back
We can be free through this struggle
Decide to find strength in your beliefs
There's no looking back
We will be free

Small dreams


Do you recall seeing no way that we could get through?
Those nights spent thinking, "Our dreams may be just small enough to come true?"
So steal away.
Steal away and let these days
Witness the death of fear,
See our confusion clear,
Unravel everything we thought we were,
Sink hopes that let us down,
Save us from feet striding on careless clouds.
We grew up too fast,
There's no use in running now.
We grew up too fast,
We'll get through somehow.
No telling what's around the corner,
But we'll find a way to wrestle it down.
Making loud mistakes to drown our concerns,
They said we'd never learn.
Take this for what it's worth.
So steal away
and let these days
be the fade, black and white to gray.
We grew up too fast,
There's no use in running now.
We grew up too fast,
But we'll get through somehow.

Speed of dark


The body's singing without speaking.
You bit your brass ring off like a monster,
wouldn't leave you alone.
You skinned the bastard to his bones in case you got cold.

Normally sent with a dream,
I had to laugh when I woke to the sound of the gun.
That was the best nightmare that I just woke up from.
Normally sent with a heart attack,
all your attempts were canonized.
Blessed with a wreck of a heart of lead,
I broke my back to spite my spine.

Delightful ring around your neck, you fool them all.
Don't I feel so goddamn worthless.
I'll bet that took all of your last nerve,
but you're used to this.
it's not plugged in, but the phone is ringing.

Time's up for devouring, your appeal's waning.
You want to right the wrongs,
but you chewed up everyone that you spit on.
Sometimes halcyon weeks make me believe
I should be relieved enough.
You were the best nightmare that I just woke up from.

The last night that I waited on
(You'll lose your sleep in time)
Your mind knows what your body wants
(You'll lose your step in time)
You move so fast sometimes.
I fell so far behind.
You'll lose your step in time.

Textbook case


Are you happy with the way you're living?
Alone in the dark
Turned your back on the ones who waited for you
While you had gone awry
Always chasing the one who won't ever run you dry
If you've got money, he's got the time
Cast aside everything you held dear
And now it's been so long it seems it never was at all

Breaking bottles, all is lost
Your addiction, have a cost
No excuses, I won't buy in
They're nothing but lies

Years past, everyday a new face to try on
Discourse as cheap as the highs you ride on
Believe me, I've tried to wait patiently, but it's getting hard
So hard for me not to speak, here's what I think

You're everything I never want to be
I hate to see a life so compromised
Potential sold just for a selfish drive
Every waking moment when we fail to change
There are choices made, we must search out life for today
Strength to live life for today

The kids can eat a bag of dicks


The sudden sight of mirrors brought the hero's demise.
Hey operator, stop acting civilized.

I want to be you.

And the ones to resurrect sex and death bought the copyright.
They ate shit on the record. Did you get the mix right?
Not quite.

I want to be you.

With a graceful fall did you waste it all?
I found a way for the rest of you.
I missed me too.

Tell me that I'm not so weak.
Tell me that I'm not alone.

Fuck me if it pours, you're not built for this.
But it's not raining is it?

I want to be you.

And we've got the rest of our lives to be our fathers.
What a dream to wet the eyes!

I want to be you.

With a graceful fall did you waste it all?
I found a way for the rest of you.
I missed me too.

Tell me that I'm not so weak.
Tell me that I'm not alone.

Do I hear you crawling on your back?
Do I hear you folding up to fear?
Brave you, I missed me too.

We Are All We Have.

The king is dead


The knife or the rope or the lemon, this brain and I.
The sight of the drop got me off the roof.
Hey, the garage looks cleaner when you look at it sideways, from high.

To finally admit we are born alone and that your only one's got an only one of their own.
We'll get the right sun block for the nice explosions.
Oh, the king is dead.

To absolve the joy from me is to erase what made me a slave.
I'm a king to be.
I traded my life for art and the guilt is weighing down my arms.

Tell me again what a monster is, give me the words to describe.
Can you tell me what the use of endorphins is when my city dies at night?
Take away the sentence of house arrest and watch me ruin it right.
Put me in the back of an ambulance cause my city dies tonight.

I see the levity of every meeting of the minds.
I lie to myself.
It's my right to do.
I'm separated like an elevator door for privacy from my eyes.

To finally admit we are born alone and that your only one's got another robot to take the throne.
Heartless of the world deny the king is dead.
Fuck, the king is dead.
Heartless with your burning eyes.
The king is dead.
Fuck, the king is dead.

To wade through the virus of your lies is to cheat it through.
Death is only in my eyes.
And the sinking feeling came over me and it said, "never again, never again".
The king is dead.
Tell me again what a monster is cause my city dies tonight.

The pool


The room's new carpet, and the walls' apartment hue add to the visitor feeling I'm used to.
The morning window's freezing from outside. It wakes me up.
Wasting air to the falling light.

Angel, you picked me up but the devil wants me too.
I never gave a fuck, so why should you?

I awoke in a fog with an ache, at a loss.
You were faking through relationships to rot.
This is not my home anymore.

All my accomplishments are joined with asterisks,
so in a few years they're meaningless.

Darling, I can't erase it, but could you forget my lies?
We were the slut and the self-made mess.
Please know I tried.

Smile, smile.
Smile for all.
I can't smile anymore.

I skip rocks to mock the clashing tide.
It's encroaching on our side.
The wave parade is drowning me out too.
It breaks me up.
Wish I could have done more to you.
They used your body up, leaving your guts dry.
But you never gave a fuck so why the fuck should I?

Now the face escapes me, but the shame's forever.
When I get the nerve to test the death for life renewal,
you'll find me lying at the bottom of the pool.
And when I'm face down in that water, don't pick me up.
Cause I'll be face down in that water next to you.
It will be better underwater.
Don't pick me up.

The soft sell


No matter where we run, it's only a car-length away.

This is the time, if it were up to me now.
This is the time, we can rise from the ground.
This is the time, hold onto me now.

No matter where we run, we'll do this til our legs will break.

In a bed for liars, can we be true for once?
Am I the ruiner of you too much?
I am so fucking bored.

And ever second is an hour.
What's a minute when you weren't counting it?
Cause every new day's a struck match, a falling out.
Now it's doctor's scripts and 666.
It's a voodoo doll stabbing at the chest of the heartless.
Can't you refrain from all that shit for now?

Give me the warmth of an island,
give me the sense of a want to go home.
Give me a loss due to damage,
give me the strength or the balls to be hated.

I am so fucking bored.

This is the time, if it were up to me now.
This is the time, we can rise from the ground.
This is the time, will you look to me now?
This is the time, hold onto me now.

They like their turtlenecks ribbed


Be true to self.
Don't be what you're not.
Hold on to what you've got.
Thanks a lot.
You fucking asshole.

That's fascinating news.
Now give me something i could use.
Like how to work this detonator now
This clubs got tons of assholes,
And the prettiest turtlenecks.

It's a holy water super soaker fight.
And all the denim left in Texas won't make you right.