from the album "That Which Divides"
POINT AND CLICK
Tightly grip my hand on my gun.My finger's on the trigger and you are all in my scope now.
My ego's getting bigger and the world is looking so much smaller now.
This is the land of the free, do what, do what I please, no gun, no respect, no time to reflect.
People have died for this so since we're getting used to it I might as well use my gun.
Shoot it enough and it starts to become a little fun.
So bang bang, I feel the power, my freedom needs protection on this hour.
Tightly grip my hand on my gun.
My finger's on the keys, the people will hear my voice now.
And I don't have an answer, so I'll create another witch hunt now.
This is the land of the free, do what, say what I please, no voice, no respect, no time to reflect.
People have lied for this so since we're getting used to it I might as well use my gun.
Shoot it enough and it starts to become a little fun.
So bang bang, I feel the power, my freedom needs protection on this hour.
(What is this country coming to?)
When I say, "Take this gun from my cold dead hand," there's a certain pride that rings in me,
And I feel I'm becoming much more of a man, pride runs through my veins and I am free,
Because I can, because I am, because I need you to understand my point of view,
And you will see that's what freedom really means to me,
So look into this gun and into my eye and hold your hands in prayer to heaven high.
It's as easy, easy as one-two-three, just point and click and you will be free.
CRASH ME
I'm not done with the things I said I'd do, and I'm not finished coming after you.My head was broken on the side of the road, but now I've cleaned up, I'm in control, got to get another taste of you.
One shot, hit the road, you drive me out of control; lust and speed, got to get the crash and the burn I need.
I'm not afraid to take you on another run, put on your gloves, buckle up, let's have some fun.
You've got to have courage to embrace your dreams, I'm gonna strap you in and make you scream, cause this rollover could be the final one.
One shot, hit the road, you drive me out of control; lust and speed, got to get the crash and the burn I need.
I'm not ashamed that I looked at the blood on the highway; baby, hitch a ride with me, I think you're going my way.
We're cut and we're bruised but it feels so right the next day, so I got to heal up for another round of you.
I'm not sorry about the things I have to say, I was never much for guilt or penance anyway.
You see, I'm in love with your favourite sin, so open wide up and let me in, I've got to get another crash today.
One shot, hit the road, you drive me out of control; lust and speed, got to get the crash and the burn I need.
INSPIRATION SPAWNED BY A CORPORATE TAKEOVER
I hid a part of me from the world who sold my soul for free, and each day that passes by is a cost I can't deny.But as they slept, this piece I kept, it grew inside of me, and now I finally have the strength to give it another try.
I hope I've learned to love and accept the things you take for granted, and I hope I've truly found my way.
I've got to try and learn to forgive and forget the thoughts they've planted, or this empty shell is here to stay.
It's time to say goodbye, it's time to question why, and it's time to find a way to leave nothing for tomorrow that can be lived for today.
So I've been here for years and years and learned the steps I've made,
And it's not too late to face the truth, stop this whole fucking crusade.
Who's who to say who is right? I'm offended by the fact that we must accept that freedom will only come with a fight.
It's time to say goodbye, it's time to question why, and it's time to find a way to live for today.
It's time to say goodbye, it's time to question why, and it's time to find a way to leave nothing for tomorrow that can be lived for today.
THIS SECRET
I feel important cause I know something you don't know, and I believe in trust,And I want you to feel important too, so for this little secret we must,
We must keep it locked away, keep it held within the circle of us.
I feel so alive, this urge to tell you things, when we have this between us I feel excitement that it brings.
So love this pact between us, lover.
We feel together, closer now we share this common bond, and we can confide in the things we know,
And I want you to feel special too, so for this sacred gift I give you, you can never show.
Just keep it over others, keep it buried deep within your soul.
I feel so alive, this urge to tell you things, when we have this between us I feel excitement that it brings.
So love this pact between us, lover.
All this time, you kept it locked inside, this weight is killing me, paranoia takes my mind.
You kept it hidden well, so don't call it betrayal, just this once, can I tell?
Just this once, can I tell that you love me, love this pact between us, can I tell?
THINGS YOU KNOW
You can cut my skin, I completely give in to this pretty little hell that you made for me.The truth I was told limits what I can find, so tie me up, you see, I don't mind.
I give myself completely to you and I'll do all the things that you want me to do,
So hold me underwater or beat me to the ground, it's the only way your freedom can ever be found by you.
The song I'm singing you, you've already heard; the sin I'm showing you, you've already learned.
Get down, throw down, get down to the things you know.
Once I give in the real work can begin and you can focus on the moment when you started to live.
This world may be sick, but I know you can heal, there is pain you can give so I can learn how to feel.
In all my days I will come back to you, when you lie to yourself you believe the truth.
In love, in trust, in hate, in vain, your reckless sense of God will kill again and again.
The song I'm singing you, you've already heard; the sin I'm showing you, you've already learned.
Get down, throw down, get down to the things you know.
You still seem nervous to come with me.
The song I'm singing you, you've already heard; the sin I'm showing you, you've already learned.
Now it's you and me and the key is beginning to turn.
You still seem nervous so I'm just gonna say it, you're about to see the world as it really is.
Get down, throw down, get down to the things you know.
SATE
My hands were always there for you, but you didn't stay; I drove the nails through them to make it real, I thought maybe you'd stay.Now years and years have gone and you had your say; the story keeps changing on its own, it's different today,
But if you love me, if you'd love me, you'd be safe; and if you love me, if you'd love me, you'd be saved.
My heart has beat and bled for you, and I give love; wrote a book of words explaining truth and the beauty above.
Now all my patience pouring through, and this pushing shoves my belief on you, and yet I'm not what you're thinking of,
But if you love me, if you'd love me, you'd be safe; and if you love me, if you'd love me, you'd be saved.
If salvation isn't enough, this moment could be tough, I'll have no other way to see you through.
If I can't make you believe and want to be with me, I just don't know what damage he might do.
You can't imagine the hell he'll put you through.
So if you love me, if you loved me, you'd cheat fate, and all the promises of never dying you could sate,
And all your fears and all your questions would go away, so if you loved me, you would stay.
WAKE UP
You never really had a chance to find a reason, and you never really had a chance to find your way.She never had a problem taking daddy's money, and she never had trouble making sure you'd pay, so let's go.
You never had a more life-defining moment, and you never ever had a better time than now.
Years of falling and years of crawling behind them, but now you're rising far above the crowd, so let's go.
Wake up to the sound of screaming, wake up to the sight of a whole new day,
And all your life surrounds you with no meaning, but I am still right here to show you the way, so wake up.
THE LINE
We meet as one, in truth and in love, we twist and we turn, we grow and we learnTo be as one, and answer to no one, but then fate, in hate, turns you on me.
Drew a line in the sand and things go just as planned for you, but as for me,
You crossed the line with me this time, you crossed the line.
It hurts and it stings and this pain, it brings the worst in me, and now I see
That my life and my death demands your breath, and this time I know I've drawn the line.
Drew a line in the sand and things go just as planned for you, but as for me,
You crossed the line with me this time, you crossed the line.
Frustration and trepidation leads to meditation and motivation,
I'll twist this tension and apprehension into an invention of a whole new me.
You crossed the line so far away from me, you crossed the line too far away to see that
I'm on my own now, crossing my own line, all alone now, and it feels just fine.
Far away there's someone else who's feeling just like me, all alone, their future's unknown, but they're beginning to learn how to see.
After all this time, after all this pain, all I only ever wanted was for you to believe,
So take my hand, eyes wide open, and cross right over with me.
REACHING FOR SOMETHING NEW
Everything has been written, and everything has been done, and every word has been spoken, and every song has been sung.The only thing you can do now is live for yourself, the only thing you can do now is reach for something else.
I remember the moment, you don't think so but I do, I still remember the words you said, remember them coming true.
The only thing I can do now is say goodbye to you, the only thing I can do now is reach for something new.
THE SAME CHANGE
You asked until I spoke, you pushed until I broke, now everything that happens will remain.We talk TV, radio, politics, I told you so, nothing really ever seems to change, it's the same.
The world crashes down and the damage is done, now the guilt sets in from the prize you've won,
And I know you feel it's different this time, that one more step will cross the line.
Well, we live and love and hope and breathe and talk and cry and fight and scream
About wasted words over God's creation, freedom's lost in this goddamn nation,
And on it goes til nothing is left, nothing is saved, nothing is kept.
By now it should have been plain to see just how sacred you are to me,
But you let it go, I gave it my all, once again I'll take the fall,
And now we go a final round, silence is such a violent sound.
You asked until I spoke, you screamed until I broke, yet with everything that happened, we remain,
And still I have hope in a world who cannot cope, I trust that you will help me find my way today, so why must it change?
from the album "Strong Words for Strong People"
HOPE
I had the needle to my arm, but I pulled it away; I never wanted you to try, I only wanted you to stay.When things got worse and I started to fall, it was so hard to face the truth that you never knew me at all.
I should have held my tongue, but I said it anyway, now all the things you know are gonna make us pay.
Nine times out of ten I tell myself if I could quit it'd be okay,
And now the love we had, the love we shared will never be the same.
I'm a fool to say there's still hope, somehow, someway, I'm a fool to say there is no God cause still I pray that
When they come for me, will you die for me?
You got me dreaming in red, a mad crazed bizarre, a blood-soaked vision of where we fell and of who we are.
And I die in my dreams almost every night, you know one false martyr is never enough so I guess we'll be alright.
I'm a fool to say there's still hope, somehow, someway, I'm a fool to say there is no God cause still I pray that
When they come for me, will you die for me?
I had the needle to my arm, but I pulled it away; I never wanted you to try, I only wanted you to stay.
And it's days like these I come undone from the lies we live and the wars we won, and there's nothing left to do now but go away.
I'm a fool to say there's still hope, somehow, someway, I'm a fool to say there is no God cause still I pray that you'll come back to me one day.
When they come for me, will you die for me?
EMPTY
I'm all alone in this empty room, she's full of life in this empty tomb.Got to get away, keep running away from these empty fools with empty hearts and empty souls in this empty nation with empty rules.
The future's a lie, it doesn't exist, and the past is nothing but a memory.
This moment is the only thing that matters now, that will ever be.
I was never enough for your empty view, fell in love with an empty dream when I fell for you.
I never lied, I was never fake, because an empty heart can never break,
So take this empty gun to my empty head, hear the empty chamber ring out loud until every voice is dead.
REVOLT
Today's the day for a revolution, got my hands on a future that is slipping away.Today's the day for a revolution, revolt against myself, it's the only way.
It's not enough that they try to define me, try to make me something I can never be.
I tell myself, kill the role inside me that's tearing down a path that won't set me free, revolt.
Today's the day for a revolution, there's no escape, you're all coming with me.
Today's the day for a revolution, got my eyes on the focus of the enemy.
Now's the time for a new religion, the idol in your mirror is destined to fade.
Tell yourself, save the hope inside you, fucking up the system that makes you a slave, revolt.
Revolt the god that makes you hate, revolt the lie you can never fake, revolt the love that never came to be.
And the tyrant screams with blood on his hands, "Kill all of those who fear my demands."
Well, alone I make my stand, not even death is going to stop me.
Today's the day, revolt. (Revolt your god.)
NEED
Know thy weapon, know thy enemy, love my creation that gets me what I need.Move into your head and set your world on fire, I'll make you love me as I destroy what you desire.
And I need, I need you, just say you want me, say you want me too.
Unravel secrets, uncover lies, unclench the fist that holds the dagger in my side.
In the bloodstained streets I'll end your rise to power, I'm creeping up on you, getting closer every hour.
And I need, I need you, just say you want me, say you want me too.
One man's killer is another man's friend; it's the way of things, it'll never end.
INJECT
Words turned around, we pushed each other down; rejected, neglected, it ends without a sound.Nothing left to say, seems no other way; erected, perfected, this wall is here to stay.
Still not satisfied, safe behind the lines; selected, injected, I choose to step outside.
Survival is a chore, creates another war; detested, molested, abused until you're sore.
Infected, abused until you're pure.
The love you couldn't show, the truth you couldn't know tore apart the insides of a life you couldn't own.
Reaching into me, determined to be free, resurrected, I injected a cure you couldn't see.
Injected, it's all inside of me.
Injected, don't stop until you're sure, injected, always room for more.
Injected, give me something pure, injected, always room for more.
EVERYTHING
I know it sounds cold but they finally convinced me, I know it sounds cold but it's not that hard to see.I brought it on myself, I brought you this misery, so take it all for you, leave nothing for me.
It's everything you wanted, it's everything around you, it's everything the world had commissioned to sell.
It's all you ever wanted, it's all you ever dreamed of, this heavenly seduction in the ashes of hell.
So take it all from me cause I can write another one, take it all from me so you'll have something to sell.
It's all you ever wanted, it's all you ever dreamed of, this heavenly seduction in the ashes of hell.
I know it sounds cruel but they finally convinced me, I know it sounds sick but it's not that hard to lie.
You brought it on yourself, this false sense of certainty, so get out there and kill me, you'll make more if I die.
It's everything you wanted, it's everything around you, it's everything you feel but you don't know how to say.
It's all you ever wanted, it's all you ever dreamed of, a path laid before you since you can't find your way.
So take it all from me cause I can write another one, you take it all from me so you'll have something to sell.
It's all you ever wanted, it's all you ever dreamed of, this heavenly seduction in the ashes of hell.
You can take everything from me just to be free.
So pluck out my soul and fill me up with shit, and put me on a store shelf and say you made it.
It's all in the truth, it's all in my heart, it's all in the hope you can never tear apart.
So take it all from me cause I can write another one, take it all from me so you'll have something to sell.
It's all you ever wanted, it's all you ever dreamed of, this heavenly seduction in the ashes of hell.
BLOOD & PEACE
One more chance to dive right in and swim where the danger lurks,One more war to make things right, anything to make it work.
Cutting and scraping through flesh and bone to stop the heart that beats deep in me.
Now that you've left me all alone, my wounds can finally bleed.
And I've got blood on my hands and it won't wash away, I've got blood on my hands and it's here to stay.
You've got me backed in the corner now, there's nothing I can do.
I can try to pretend that I'm never going to lose my faith in you.
Desperate, there's no way out, this vicious tongue unfurls,
I'd lay down my life for a moment of peace in this world.
And I've got blood on my hands and it won't wash away, I've got blood on my hands and it's here to stay.
When all of the world has washed away, I'll still look for you beneath the grey.
While the image of your scars will never fade, they're proof that you survived your yesterday.
I feel the blood running through my hands and I feel the warmth just beneath my skin.
You said afterwards that we'd stay friends if only I could find peace once again.
But I've got blood on my hands again, you draw blood, I bleed peace, we make amends.
And we both knew how this would end, you bled our love away.
STRONG WORDS FOR STRONG PEOPLE
Strong words are needed in this life, strong words, they circle through my mind.It's our chance to say them one more time, strong words are needed in this life, one more time.
You could have saved me, I know you tried, you could have told me but you couldn't decide.
Your golden lips gave nothing to me, to find love in words is what I need.
I could have changed things, God knows I tried, but ash-covered clipped wings can never fly.
Their solemn vows meant nothing to me, to find truth in words that scold me is what I seek.
Strong words are needed in this life, strong words, they circle through my mind.
It's our chance to say them one more time, strong words are needed in this life, one more time.
The end comes to take us, it's a matter of time, with each passing moment left far behind.
When final words are never enough, I'll wish you peace, my enemy, I'll wish you love.
Strong words are needed in this life, strong words are weapons in my mind.
It's our chance to say them one more time, strong words are needed in this life,
(And you swore that you'd never tell me, and you swore that you'd never say goodbye.)
