- 220 Years
I never wondered I never bothered I never cared what I wanted to be about I have more truth than lies to me (always wonder how to walk away) show me and help me fight it I can't see to break this the bottle it rests if my hand who's gonna learn to break this who'll start the riots who's gonna break it down I never wondered I never bothered I take the day I'm severed and build what can be built on it I have more truth than lies to me (always wondered how we fell this way) this makes me whole this makes me whole (charge the body)
- A Flight And A Crash
Here's one of time passed of a flight and a crash, over and again,
In Boulder and San Francisco, a halfway house pack home
Back out of his head.
Out searching, for the escape.
for an answer, or a reason that his poison has deleted,
Anything worth all that's wasted now,
finds no difference where he's standing
'cause he's standing with a shotgun and a needle.
- Alachua
Words of war don't mean shit if the war's for nothing I'll wait for now so show me how this all works cause all these things just seem empty and that's what hurts so I can't help but to question what was real or what was concealed did you need to abandon and change face if you started today - would you miss it cause we've been blind I don't want to believe that the truth is lost so easily was it a mistake taken the wrong way through our worst days or did loyalty not mean a goddamn thing in the ending if you started today - would you miss it cause we've been blind and I don't want to believe that the truth is lost so easily so I can't help but to question what was real or what was concealed though trial and error did take place did you need to change face and abandon what was is real or what we felt pulled heavy weight what grounded us what astounded me was it all for nothing
- Another Way
So
What's wrong with this way?
Besides the fact that it's
Not in the book you read
You see
I've found a way
And it works
At least for me
- Better Sense
To shed skin and begin an intake that will make a difference in clear thinking for conquering any fear that is thrown in direction when at a weak point or time of suffering the edge won't quit if there is no gibing in to what drags on to be negative or seem wrong to live to carry back home with full intent and better sense recognize what is false and part with it knowing doubtless by instinct which triggers thought on how to grow in soul without gold or praised lies which keep the sheep all right with anything that seems safe and convenient
- Call It Trashing
Something react with a shake and
A bang to resurrect
A dead beat, rhythm of a slant and a pose
Of chivalry that's far front its best,
So over-rated,
So bits and pieces,
Accelerated,
- Choked And Separated
I'm sick of standing with my hands in my pockets, I'm coming in.
Been broke down, choked out, not speaking, not breathing in.
Are we gonna fix it?
When are we gonna start?
If it's really too late, I guess I'm looking back.
If it's really just time, you can have all of it.
If that's where we think straight, I'll do anything to keep us from feeling choked and separated.
'Cause it's all the same things again and again.
- Difference Engine
Proceed to find my eyes so I can recognize a will of strength a will of truth and solemn meaning pocket shaved eye if I could show that I could hold up my head up high you would that this moves me (this sparks me) so I will show that I can hold my head up high so we can get moving this engine's burning on come time when it's you and I and all that's left is our pride face to face and in our faces is the distinction this engine's burning on and my friends to take me back where we begin through evolution and to where we end so educate slowly to forget where do you link it how do you link it
- Drag My Body
Well I got my heart up in a beautiful mess
I should’ve known better when I took the risk
To wreck myself and to gamble while broke
Shaking something mental at a loss for the words I’d once known
I traded two steps forward for three steps back
To get to know the meaning of showing respect
I found the pedestals and burned them down
To kill my idols and to bury the thoughts underground
- Driving Home
i know the sink and the rot got feeling "is this happening to me?"
i know what it's like to want to end it all
driving home between the lines in the road
i swear that i've been through this before
when nothing makes much sense
except for doing yourself in
razor blades are hard to hold
- Drunken Third
2:30 is lucky its late I'm still thirsty the band is still playing we're amped and still waiting lots of talk lots of plans lots of everything (still waiting) lots of people letting politics control the scene...and who's listening it's time to take our place lock ourselves stand together accept the other face load ourselves we can't break this we're not done yet I can see a stand if we learn how to know how to let it go feels good connecting with the union all singing full hearted frustrated but backed up by my friends gotta try gotta fight gotta never quit your're forgetting why we're here and what we're fighting for and who's listening LOCK ON
- Elektra
As we stand united
There's forces to fight us
More taking than giving, an idea for living, but not the right one
Why fall without a fight
Hold your ground and stand
I'll sing until I die, so I'll live again
I don't want to stand divided
Hold my breath for decision
- Exister
Better run, better tell the others,
Cause I don't control it anymore.
Gonna find some kind of cover,
And let it burn.
You live and you learn.
Another time.
Another place.
- Facing And Backing
I'll stand and push forward with outing hands and clear lines and I'll figure some definition I'm spent but still building out the words drawn the lines now you're sending me around again I've seen better days still I'll hold my ways what I don't need I won't take wide eyed different view stationed and seeing use cause it works for me that way I let it out don't know if it's true it's what I see and I'm just letting it shine cause you're missing all the energy you're nothing and mean nothing at all instead your legs should be standing up instead of folding your hands you should be giving them out instead of turning your back you should be showing your face why do you walk away
- Free Radio Gainesville
Let's electrocute
Send ourselves in
Constant airwaves ringing out
From voice to ear to free ourselves from...
There's an army charged,
Ready, armed
To educate and demonstrate
- Freightliner
driving all night and now your finally back again
tell me where you've been
southbound gotta get back home
you're in town a couple days
lets get on our way
gonna raise some hell
arm and arm we'll break the take down
- God Deciding
Transgressions are made
while cowards convey
with a demon's ear, fixed and set to slay.
While the statue awaits
to be whittled away
with a mock of a slogan hiding filth with fear.
- Home
I can see my eyes and see your lips move close to mine.
Hear your words so crystal clear with your breath in my ear.
Still So far away from you, it cuts so quick and clean.
Still so far away from you but I still want more.
I can close my lips before I taste ours soaked in wine.
Lay my head upon your breast and count your beats and smiles.
- I Was on a Mountain
I was hanging on by a little thread.
Just minutes before I was on a mountain.
I screamed "I can see all."
The ground broke from the sound.
It was all built on nothing.
Caution: the solid ground that you
Are on will slide from under you.
- Incisions
why do i feel that i need something more
than a quick release from my emotions stowed up inside of me
one day i will break free on the inside
would it seem right if i just walked away on the outside
could you be mine cause i won't ever stray
(i can see it again)
i will sink my soul in you and you can see it through with me constantly searching for the flawless combination
when its found it feels completely useless
- Ink And Lead
In the distance, far away but clear
Was a light that blinded everything and near,
Was an opening so inviting
That question and fear just disappeared
Then the path was seen
Like recalling dreams
With the wits of knowing them both apart
- It's Hard To Know
We couldn't help but cry,
when we were brought to life.
Drug out by the cold slapped a few times,
to the rhythm of the flickering lights
with tightly closed sore eyes.
We grow,
to either be or hate what's cold
and that's when we learn to know.
- Just Don't Say You Lost It
Take a ride out of the city not yet on empty singing to myself like I've done so many times cause you're not around to ride with me I'll ride the ride anyway you're not around at all and I feel sick wide awake heaven's sake I'm sunk and breaking up this time who's signing off who's had enough this time you're done and we're breaking up so don't think trust is flowing easy now is when to question the questions when I used to trust you like I trust myself and what is trust when it's not sacred and so what will you say when it's time to cut me loose from your new life don't say you lost the feeling I'll bring it
- Last Goodbyes
I just drowned,
Finding myself to the middle,
Never mind the common sense,
The taste's about to take,
When it's under crumbling walls,
Who says it's better?
Or receive the golden letter,
- Loft
And the beauty wreaks my soul (and I'll see the light all night) and the power kills my will and this feeling leaves me cold and this power kills my will where could we run why could we try and the structure wrecks my soul and the power kills my will and this meaning leaves me cold and this power kills my will what would it take to find a place without a name (i won't lie down my hands for this) it wrecks my it shows me it sees me where I need
- Mainline
Never mind all the riddles, we're all sick the same
Bled dry and beaten but still quick to blame
All the marks, all the nicks on all the ragged excuses
Never mind all the railing, they'll all get their own
Shot down and plundered, shipped out and sold
For all the marks, all the nicks by all the pessimistic tricks
- Man The Change
Connections with systems belly up before I'm up and running scratching off what leaves me in the dirt ready and willing with hands that I can't stop killing I still feel left down in the dirtå??ut I'll run I'm up now but still weighed down completions don't always come easy when you've gathered much to much to move I've got to start the leveling out my anger side for side I've got to start with one reach at a time and I'll roll on through the remnants of what I've come to know roll on through and find what we can by sifting through the ashes it's time to find the exits
- My Little Monkey Wrench
Baby, I am waiting for a ride
and it may take some time,
but you know I would fly if I could fly,
climb if I could climb and my dreams,
as everything with me, are just like that,
where I see the place I need to be
but not the way there.
- Never Ender
We choose directions
We draw the lines
From which we choose the sides
That keeps us honest
That keeps us tight
And aware of our actions
So how can we change
- North And About
We've seen three roads before watching the states through the windows makes me feel all the more when there's a purpose that can make me sure I'll show my glory in time as we spread this truth I'll take your glory feed till I'm full so I can give you more never thought my dreams would soar at least as high as they're soaring makes me feel all the more now that I've broken free and I'm living it through what more could I need when I'm with my friends I'm not ejecting
- One Step to Slip
It's one step to slip off the edge to trip,
And roll tumbling over everything standing in the way,
That's bled dry and decayed.
All and all we walk or crawl.
Either way still cevering ground,
In banners or bandages.
All and all we walk or crawl,
- Position
Prepare yourself for the moments of the breakdowns of the questions this is what keeps us going down so don't let it push us inside this is what I despise is that treason since my days I've learned some certain ways to keep away from certain ways it's what I've learned it's what I've made sometimes I am put down but I'm sure to stand up like a champion like a soldier with strong will sure I think like anyone about what is about to come but what is the point in dwelling when we all could be sharing this is what I've learned and made and I won't back down from my right of standing or from my choice of position
- Powder
I never thought I'd know, I know what's in me and what grows,
What's willing and obscene, what grows inside of...
I never realized the glow, the glow that we all know,
The glow inside of me.
I know what's on my mind,
Breath, see, feel what we find and it's all good.
- Practice in blue
i walked outside my door
to find what i'm looking for
a line a phrase a single word
one truth that will help me stand
wish
i
could
- Present
I felt laughter I felt the circle was intact can't explain but I'll show it so you can have it and keep it for yourself can't define the power redefinitions of dreams that will come true can't explain but I'll show it so you will have it the next time we meet we come together we throw our worlds aside for that can't explain I'll show itso you can see us and feel us give our hearts I shake so badly feel an itch grinding up and down my spine can't explain but I'll show you so you can have it the next time we meet purpose shines body's numb this is what we are this is what we live this is how we take this is how we give (cause that's my friends) this is my present to you
- Remedy
I need a remedy of diesel and dust
Something I can taste with a fix I can trust
Another high, more potent than lust.
Eating and repeating
like the workings of rust and time.
I woke to the sound and the rhythm of rain
dancing down on the window pane.
- Rock Singer
Rock Singer: let it go son you're not a violent one you're speaking words that are speaking like you're ten foot tall I don't blame you what else have you to do when your life exists of covering up your own self truths it's down to nothing so come around to my front door and face me you're at a loss for words rock singer if it fills you up bring it on how do you sleep with yourself do you feel the hatred open up some you'll find the difference from mouthing off and shooting off your guns that are filled with blanks why do you scrape this you're digging without a tool you wish you had a line cover up your lack of truth you said it feel that it's authority think it's a priority .
- Seein' Diamonds
I remember seein’ diamonds
What ever happened to them?
You smashed them all when you flew away
You just fought everyday
Later console talkin’ bitter
You never believe it’s the same
Little War?
- So Many Days
Is there something wrong
Do ya hate this song
'cause I'm singin about it again
Did ya know the words
Before you read them
Did ya notice
She had it and she wants it again
He had it and he lost it again
- Sons And Daughters
How unfortunate that it has come to this,
we all pay to die as rogues, as workers,
nomads and searchers, sweat to shackles and leads to lies.
Still we're all under lock and key,
who are we but savages hooked on accessories,
numb and dumb to what else we could do or be?
Repercussions at a lull, slow me down,
let me come around to those starving in the streets,
- Springtime
There's a little bit of springtime in the back of my mind
That remembers when there was a time
When we danced and laughed an spent some time drinking wine
And somewhere in there
There's a little child without a thought
Without a doubt that every cloud is silver lined
He is warm and everything is new
And everything is clean and everything is free
- State of Grace
Oh, I for one may not shy,
Away from the fact that I'm sick,
And too tired to stand this,
It all seems contagious.
I know a few would back that up,
Can't say a few is not enough,
To skip a beat in this motion sickness.
I'd second that emotion.
- Sweet Disasters
So things are not the same
Cut all loss and walk away
What was said is done
so independence comes
and there is none the like
No more lonely souls
under changing leaves
and no more weary wrecks
- Take It As It Comes
There are roads that lead to the unknown with tools that do nothing less than tax you to the bone I find hope when there are wills to carry on and push to continue their songs those souls stand out with presence noticed those souls speak loud while their voices carry over and over while shinning light in humble aura of honest right show me how show me now how to recognize the coming of a breakdown show me now show me how how to recognize a breakdown because I want to take it as it comes deal with what goes wrong with my chin always up and my feet planted sure in the ground
- the ebb and flow
I get deflated thinking about this now
but i've got got so far away
from where I thought I would be
and this town with it's burning air
and downpour everyday is weighing hard on me.
But I can't fight the ebb and flow,
it's still pulling me.
- The End
If I could just begin
To forget where I have been
Maybe we wouldn't be here,
But I pace withing a haze.
I keep bumping into days
And waiting for them to end.
These complicated words are coming down.
- The End Of The Line
It hurts so bad inside
Dialing into the payphone that's outside of the show
Cause everywhere I go my head is just a wreck
And it's no secret I've been dealing with,
But all I know is that I want to go
To the end of the line but it's obviously time
to stop this empty train and let somebody in.
- The Passing
It was a day and passing
Someone thought someone was in the way
No one caught what I caught (No!) but I caught it full on
I didn't want to be mixed up that way
Die? Still Alive
Not today - anyway
‘Cause I know one thing
- The Sense
This is not a model
fit for any mold.
The twisted old and bitter tongues
are reckless just as they are cold.
Dwelling on the dying
is wet fingers to the flame.
And I cannot say that I believe
in everything that you propose to me.
- The Sleeping Fan
run motor
run the motor
run spinning rotation
the spinning rotation
and finding the rhythms
the motion
the aspirin
you could wake me up with silence and i could lose all control
- The Traps
I said alright, cause you never know,
You never find what you want if you stay too close.
I headed out in the morning rain,
Past all the stands on the side of the old highway.
But they don't need to know
We see the ones waiting to greet you.
All of the guns kinda give 'em away.
It ain't no fun lookin' in the rear view
- Things On A Dashboard
And I build up words, time, and hunger.
And I think of words, time, and hunger.
When I wake up all I see are passers,
(I gotta nice seat to the next show. I got sweat and wind and I'm thinking...)
So I sit up, not to miss the passer.
(...That I'm gonna get back home to this again.)
Waiting for tomorrow. I'm far from empty.
- Trademark
Look around then look down are you rising up or are you stagnant break free from your boundaries hold back for nothing cutlooose separation and find what's real you fly high so you think but I see you?falling sinking I'll align what's correct in the eyes may not always be right know your story break free from the bullshit hold back for nothing cutloose assumption?
- Trusty Chords
"You'll get it right sometime. You will."
I tell myself that everyday.
"You don't need to latch on to anything.
You'll just end up back here
In your little limbo scene."
It's repetitious and exhausting.
I might need some therapy;
Anything to keep me in check through the day.
- Turnstile
Raise your voice in swells
Find your meanings, then
Use your signs inside
To relive, and live again
No point in holding back on what you're holding
No matter it be shit or it be golden
Foundations shift, instead of shifting
- Wayfarer
It's a gamble, double down or don't.
Just step out if you want to or stay in if you're bold.
It could be a sure shot or just as well a fold.
Since guessing is never easy and wishes never sold like gold.
The wheels are turning and the world is burning as all fall to sweet defeat.
It is so complete.
- Where We Belong
slid back and watched the year turn sat still walked through what i learned jerked tears then grined to cheeks and yearned for what had been lost and what had been found tables turn when knocked down let's stand them upright and follow our sights to where we belong slid back and watched the year turn sat still walked through what i learned jerked tears then grined to cheeks and yearned i yearned can't think of turning back clocks can't run for what has been lost and we can't sulk in what once drowned us because we will drown again and cease to win the constant battles that we wake up with now stronger and warned we should live without scorn and renew what we can no year could cut us like that one is we don't sit and drown in wonder time passed we failed we crashed but who is to say we can't start over start now start right stay tight and we can live side by side
- Wrong And Righteous
I've been told where I should stand just this side of the line that says that is wrong and this is righteous don't cross that line and keep your voice down because no one wants to hear of other ways cause we all need to be saved from mistakes we've made but not me I'll live out my life the way I see and I'll sink my faith in what's in me and in truth and where freedom lives where we choose not damnation not lines that split us up and no I don't want to be saved from this world cause I believe it's beautiful and worth fighting for