Staind- Break The Cycle

OPEN YOUR EYES

As I walk along these streets
I see a man that walks alone
Distant echo of people's feet
He has no place to call his own
A shot rings out from a roof overhead
A crack head asks for change nearby
An old man lies in an alleyway dead
A little girl lost just stands there and cries

What would you do, if it was you
Would you take everything
For granted like you do

A boy just 13 on the corner for sale
Swallows his pride for another hit
Overpopulation there's no room in jail
But most of you don't give a shit
That your daughters are porno stars
And your sons sell death to kids
You're so lost in your little worlds
Your little worlds you'll never fix

You turn away
As I walk along the streets
Soaking up the acid rain
Underneath the taxi cabs
I hear the streets cry out in vain

PRESSURE

I just need this to be all right
I can't feel this another night

I can't take this I come unglued
I might breakdown in front of you
Necessary to medicate
I'm not sleeping can't stay awake

Can't see through this
Too much pressure
Drowning in this

Too much pressure
If you need me I'll be here
Half unconscious to escape my fear

My head hurts this shit isn't getting me high
My chest is so tight I think I am going to die
My stomach's in knots and the room starts to spin
As I wait for this Valium to slowly kick in

FADE

I try to breathe
Memories overtaking me
I try to face them but
the thought is too
Much to conceive

I only know that I can change
Everything else just stays the same
So now I step out of the darkness
That my life became 'cause

I just needed someone to talk to
You were just too busy with yourself
You were never there for me to
Express how I felt
I just stuffed it down
Now I'm older and I feel like
I could let some of this anger fade
But it seems the surface
I am scratching
Is the bed that I have made

So where were you
When all this I was going through
You never took the time to ask me
Just what you could do

IT'S BEEN AWHILE

It's been awhile
Since I could hold my head up high
Since I first saw you
Since I could stand on my own two feet again
Since I could call you
But everything I can't
remember as fucked up as it
all may seem the consequences
that I've rendered I've stretched
myself beyond my means

It's been awhile
Since I could say that I wasn't addicted
Since I could say I love myself as well
Since I've gone and fucked things
up just like I always do
But all that shit seems to
disappear when I'm with you
But everything I can't remember
as fucked up as it may seem
The consequences that I've rendered,
I've gone and fucked things up again.
Why must I feel this way
Just make this go away,
Just one more peaceful day

It's been awhile
Since I could look at myself straight
Since I said I'm sorry
Since I've seen the way
the candle lights your face
But I can still remember
just the way you taste
But everything I can't remember as
fucked up as it all may seem to be
I know it's me I cannot blame this on my
father he did the best he could for me

It's been awhile
Since I could hold my head up high
and it's been awhile since I said
I'm sorry

CHANGE

If ever you had said to me before
That I would live this life that I am
Living now I guess it's all so strange
To feel the way I do inside but
Have so much that I could feel some
Pride for in my life so why is it that
I feel like this

How do I feel? I've been here before,
I've felt this
Retreat to a place, a place within me
I need this. Keep it all down, bottled inside
It breaks me to torment again and
Torture me like it used to

I try and try to break away from all the hate
I'm feeling for everyone of you that's ever
Done me wrong. I need to justify the reasons
For the way I'm living. I guess I can't cause
I don't feel like I deserve it

So now the waves they have subsided
And my soul is bleeding I can't take away
The shame I feel, forgive me

CAN'T BELIEVE

Respect, respect what is found
Respect should abound
Respect everything that you leave
I can't believe
Can't believe
And I, I can't believe
I can't believe all the travesty
Surrounding me, I, I want to flee
I want to flee from everything
In front of me I
Can't believe
Never again, trusted in you
Fuck everything that you think I should be
I stand, never again, never again

Can't believe

EPIPHANY

Your words to me just a whisper
Your faces so unclear
I try to pay attention
Your words just disappear
'Cause it's always raining in my head
So I speak to you in riddles because
My words get in my way. I smoke the
whole thing to my head and feel it
Wash away 'Cause I can't take anymore
Of this, I want to come apart,
or dig myself a little hole inside
your precious heart
'Cause it's always raining in my head
Forget all the things I should have said
I am nothing more than a little boy inside
That cries out for attention,
though I always try to hide
And I talk to you like children,
but I don't know
I'll do the right thing
If the right thing is revealed
But it's always raining in my head
Forget all the things I should have said

SUFFER

The more you see the more you do
The televisions feeding you
With what you wanna hear
Anger and fear
Because you suffer..

The hate you feel you won't go away
Your all programmed to feel this way
To live another day
Within a world
That longs to suffer..

And then I come to find
Everything's ok
Seen this all before
But that was yesterday
Try to walk right through
The messes that I've made
Just let me enjoy
The life here that I have

Tried to give this all to you
Can't take anymore to deal
With this it hurts inside I know
Why I hide
Cause I suffer

I tried to keep it all inside
Never leave me too much pride
I forced it all down inside
Forced myself
To make me suffer

And then I come to find
Everything's ok
Seen this all before
But that was yesterday
Try to walk right through
The messes that I've made
So I can enjoy
The life here that I have

And then I come to find
And then I come to find
Everything's ok
Seen this all before
But that was yesterday
Try to walk right through
The messes that I've made
So I can enjoy
The life here that I have

SAFE PLACE

Another Day
Inside my world
I'm married to you
and this road
A road that never let's me sleep
so there's no way to escape
the demon I am
forced to keep
And then I find you here
Through your eyes
everything's clear

And I'm home
inside your arms
but I'm alone for now
I mean the best
with what I say
It doesn't always sound that way
I never learned to
work things out
cause in my family
all we ever seem to do is shout

But then I find you here

Through your eyes
everything's clear
And I'm home
inside your arms
but I'm alone for now
And when I try to sleep
the drugs I take
are killing me
I think of you
to ease my pain but your so far
Now it's time to say goodbye
I love you baby please don't cry
'cause then I'll find you here
Through you eyes everything's clear
and I'm home inside your arms
but I'm alone for now

FOR YOU

To my mother, to my father
It's your son or it's your daughter
Are my screams loud enough for you to hear me?
Should I turn it up for you?
I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you said
This silence gets us nowhere
Gets us nowhere way too fast
The silence is what kills me
I need someone to help me
But you don't know how to listen
And let me make decisions
'cause I sit here locked inside my head
remembering everything you said
The silence gets us nowhere
Gets us nowhere way too fast
All your insults and your curses
make me feel like I'm not a person
And I feel like I'm nothing
But you made me
So do something
Because I'm fucked up because you are
Need attention, attention you couldn't give
I sit here locked inside my head
remembering everything you said
The silence gets us nowhere
Gets us nowhere way too fast

OUTSIDE

and you bring me to my knees again
all this time that I could beg you please in vain
all the times that I felt insecure for you
and I leave burdens at the door

(Chorus)
I'm on the outside.
I'm looking in.
I can see through you.
See your true colours.
'Cause inside you're ugly.
You're ugly like me.
I can see through you.
See to the real you.

All this time, that I felt like this
won't end. Was for you.

And I taste, what I could never have.
It's from you.

All those times, that I tried,
My intentions, full of pride
And I waste, more time than anyone

(Chorus)
I'm on the outside
I'm looking in
I can see through you
See your true colours
'Cause inside you're ugly
You're ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you

All the times, that I've cried
All that's wasted, it's all inside

And I feel, all this pain
Stuffed it down, it's back again

And I lie, here in bed
All alone, I can't mend

And I feel,
Tomorrow will be okay
But I know..

(Chorus)
That I'm on the outside
I'm looking in
I can see through you
See your true colours
Cause inside you're ugly
You're ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you

WASTE

Your mother came up to me
she wanted answers only she should know
only she should know
It wasn't easy to deal with the tears
that rolled down her face
I had no answers
'cause I didn't even know you
But these words
They can't replace the life you
the life you waste
How could you paint this picture?

Was life as bad as it should seems
that there was no more options for you
I can't explain how I feel
I've been there many time before
I've tasted the cold steel of my life
crashing down before me
but these words they can't replace
the life you, the life you waste

Did daddy not love you?
Or did he love you just too much?
Did he control you?
Did he live through you at your cost?
Did he leave no question
for you to answer on your own?

Well fuck them
and fuck her
and fuck him
and fuck you
for not having the strength
in your heart to pull through

I've had doubts
I have failed
I've fucked up
I've had plans
doesn't mean I should take my life
with my own hands
but these words
they don't replace
the life you waste

TAKE IT

I feel like this won't go away
No matter how hard I try
Squeeze my eyes shut so I can't see
The pain in you, this pain in me - in me

But everything that I can
say to you won't help you
everything you need is right
in front of you
Just take it

I know that I am really not here
To represent what I am not clear about
in my head, sometimes I feel
fucked up just like you do
like you do

Try to make it through the daily pain
that you feel
maybe tomorrow won't be so bad
I know it 'cause I once felt that way
Nothing I could say
Made it go away
I live through this
I still feel this
I just live for my tomorrow
Just make it go away
she makes it go away

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