from the album "Tip"
QUICKSAND
Slow, sinking feeling kills the mood you're conveying,And it pulls me far down below, it might be best if you go.
Can it not wait and hope for the best, will it not stop a while to rest?
I need to get up, never mind cause I've done enough,
Cause the world waits around, but I keep slipping and losing ground.
Do I not try so hard, so good?
I can't keep changing just because you think I should.
I said all I need to and you don't understand still.
Wish you saw, picture my mind's eyes are deep and they're cynical.
One taken, four more kills the pain, healing that sore.
I've taken what's left, I took it all and now you won't let me forget
Now that the world waits around but I keep slipping and losing ground.
Do I not try so hard, so good?
I can't keep changing just because you think I should.
Stop your talking down, I lack the strength to sit or stand,
I lost my self confidence in the quicksand.
Not now or ever, sink slowly, my treasure.
TIP
I gave it all, I gave it up, then I took it in and got enough butI try to cancel out whatever I can't laugh about.
So what does that say? There can't be anyway.
I've done my worst and no one knows.
One more day to fool them all, one more day to drop the ball,
One more day to fade away.
Fill a head with sand just to make it better,
I had the chance to beat it in, but I never; I should have taken it right then.
One more day to fool them all, one more day to drop the ball,
One more day to fade away.
Now you've been taken, you won't stop shaking.
Embrace every minute, you're all that's left in it.
It's not happening, some other day you'll fool them all,
One more day to drop the ball, one more day to fade away.
SHUDDER
So sad to everyone, did not occur to you,Wake up an empty shell, someone to crawl into.
Dead days refuse to dream, the blanket still asleep,
Concealing every flaw til you uncover me.
Could it be that I'm fading far away, straight out?
No truth I can confirm, no truth that I can sense,
Passing time I can't recall, the truth it surfaces.
Open eyes, open heart, open up and fall apart.
Could it be that I'm fading far away, straight out of it?
I'll be that burden you bear.
AWAKE AND DREAMING
I can't lose anything, so what's left is mine, and I win this time.Consolation day, I'll make up a way, I'll know now just what to say.
And I'll get away from you, wait and I'll be begging,
And I'll get away from you and pull you down.
I saw it all again, fading memory became clear to me.
I try but I can't say that I'm yours for good, support me you said you would.
And I'll get away from you, wait and I'll be begging,
And I'll get away from you, I'll pull you down.
Awake and dreaming, I'm only sleeping.
ABOVE
Inside I'm gone, you knew that all along.Without the distance, you never get away.
Plastic bag image, it's over now, the colour fading is all the way to grey.
We are strong but we're dumb, we look above.
Trusting the instinct, it's not about what you think,
The one reaction is only to obey.
And I'm staring all around, not far down,
Judge the distance from the ground and pray.
We are strong but we're dumb, we look above.
CONDENSER
Felt the best that I can feel, censored every memory,Give me yours so I can feed mine.
Anywhere but far away, can't be what you meant to say,
I won't miss you in the meantime.
All jokes aside, you should decide if it pleases or pains you.
You should be allowed, but you were beat out, so nothing can save you.
(That's just what I see, that's what I came to see, now you shut me out.)
Closing up into the end, try to start it up again,
Lower voice and tired heartbeats.
Take away the self esteem, force it through to get relief,
Taking everything that I need.
All jokes aside, you should decide if it pleases or pains you.
You should be allowed, but you were beat out, spirits all keep coming down,
Come around with answers, I'll cut my teeth in slivers.
You're up and gone and senseless, broken open your abscess.
Is it all or is it none? I can't decide,
Closing all the one-way doors til I am left outside.
That's just what I see, that's what I came to see.
Now you shut me out, I feel left out.
THIN SPIRITS
Another face, another empty space.The feelings fade and all the lonely ones are left hiding.
(There's no way that) your spirit's so thin, there's nothing left to take.
Without rhyme or reason, you point the other way.
I don't need to watch as you go down in flames, I said over and over.
The water comes and leaves its faint traces.
You're bored to tears, I'll keep you here but you won't listen.
(There's no way that) your spirit's so thin, there's nothing left to take.
Without rhyme or reason, you point the other way.
I don't need to watch as you go down in flames, I said over and over.
GLIMPSE
Tell me what you need to hear and I'll tell it to you again,I can fake it all if you can too.
Will it stop from bleeding naturally enough?
Can I hold my tongue in, silent the words are slow and repeating.
I know you, why don't you take what you need and then go away?
Die to get another glimpse in, so I'll watch the water rinse
Until we all get washed away, I never needed someone comforting me.
I don't think I told you how I feel tonight,
You perfect little angel, you're beautiful even now.
I know you, why don't you take what you need and then go away?
Die to get another glimpse in, so I'll watch the water rinse
Until we all get washed away, I never needed someone comforting me.
Down I go.
COSTUME FOR A GUTTERBALL
The mask keeps on slipping and tearing, the holes are big enough to see.I strain and I'm bending to hear you, what did you tell me?
So slow, you see me disappear, taken in, taken away,
Caught in another memory, looking for something left to see.
Now I want something.
The one in the corner, it's moving, slowly up, slowly down,
Never too brilliant or clever, it won't turn around.
The mask keeps on slipping and tearing, the holes are big enough to see.
No one will know that I'm looking, they can't get to me.
So slow, you see me disappear, taken in, taken away,
Caught in another memory, looking for something left to see.
Now I want something.
TEMPORARY ARMS
I burn and melt and stick and fade, your temporary arms invade,One of many last warnings cannot wipe the conscience clean.
The strain wears in, you whore me in again.
Cannot connect the smirking world, the poison flowers come uncurled
If I believe I'm dreaming.
And if they find you lost again, what will you tell them then?
Collapsing in again, you found what makes it sore,
You triggered off the feelings that you felt before.
I come crawling up again, I need to eat, I need a friend, someone with me.
No better feeling than escape, avoid the feeling so you're
Collapsing in again, you found what makes it sore,
You triggered off the feelings that you felt before.
All the guilt pulls away, if only forever.
You replace the name, you replace the fear,
And I can't come out, but I want you here.
I'm laughing now and then it floods, but not out loud.
And I come crawling up again, I need to eat, I need a friend.
I feel you up and feel you down, I need your space, I need it now.
Collapsing in again, you found what makes it sore,
You triggered off the feelings that you felt before.
Another circumstance has gone and shut you down,
Another fear awakened in the fault you found.
SWALLOWTAIL
Let me in and let me go, tell me that I need to know.Swallow the key.
You feel compelled but it's far too late to try and tell me now,
So I'll try to suck it out, open mouth feels warm, secrets swollen so sore.
We all know and we can't ask why, you turned into an ugly butterfly.
That shape of you closes in and forms a shade of grey, hanging over, hanging me.
Open mouth feels warm, secrets swollen so sore.
We all know and we can't ask why, you turned into an ugly butterfly.
Sorry you're gone, the voices left me thinking, I'm sorry.
The words that I've forgotten now try to come but can't come out.
from the album "The Greyest of Blue Skies"
FIRST TIME
I had never thought we were hanging on,But the fall looks very far, staring at the ground.
What flesh will do to you will do to me too.
Be free and on your own, it's not that simple, it's never that simple.
It feels like the first time that we'd fallen behind,
And we faltered too far down, no one could save us.
It feels like the first time, and we're standing above them,
And no one can touch us, the worst is over.
I could say to you a bitter word or two.
There's no stopping now, just get it out in the air.
Heard it through the fog, and hurt by it all.
I'd take it back today, but it's out of my hands.
It feels like the first time that we'd fallen behind,
And we faltered too far down, no one could save us.
It feels like the first time, and we're standing above them,
And no one can touch us, the worst is over.
Lost in the film again, all the signs were showing,
Watching a single frame when the wind begins.
You're never anywhere, cause you're caught in my weather every time.
It feels like the first time we'd fallen behind, no use is the other one to wait,
And I can hold on, as sure as I'm strong, get over the faithful yesterdays.
DRAG YOU DOWN
It's biting, it's teething, it's biting, I'm bleeding.It's calling, it's crawling, it's calling and I'm falling.
The perfect sound of middle ground.
Pull me under before I try to drag you down,
Someone has to pull me under before I try and drag you down.
They're fighting, they're growing, they're fighting and they're growing.
I'm biting, I'm teething, I'm biting and they're bleeding.
Biting and teething and bleeding,
Pull me under before I try to drag you down,
Someone has to pull me under before I try and drag you down.
MY CAROUSEL
Spotlights are roaming, the show will begin, but don't give my circus away.I hope it ends before you know me, I've lost it completely.
My faith is lost again, I'd say, I'm tired of this place and I want to go
Riding my carousel, they can never tell.
I'm spinning and turning, always revolving.
You should have seen it, where were you?
I needed a stage to walk all over you.
That's better, I'm throwing my three ring away,
And I can hear you say, I'm tired of this place and then I think of
Riding my carousel, they can never tell.
Spinning, turning, always revolving.
Close all of the doors, lock me away, I'm happy I'm here, so let me stay.
SICK OF IT ALL
Are the sins getting staler, does every moment move past you?Does it feel like forever, and shouldn't you be laughing too?
Take a look how they found you, take a look what they've done to you now,
So what was it they wanted, sullen and haunted? If only you saw it coming.
How far down would you fall if you never came up again?
Cause you're so sick of it all and you want to change everything.
Just how deep would you go to see through it all?
If you could consume her, would you say you were finding your way out?
Is anything coming clearer, smashing your mirror? Still you can see you're guilty.
How far down would you fall if you never came up again?
Cause you're so sick of it all and you want to change everything.
Just how deep would you go to see through it all?
Coming closer, my composure turning inside out in her,
Calling home all alone, you can call, I won't answer,
Any question in my head remains until you feel the same,
Never telling how I felt is all I ever cared about.
How far down would you fall if you never came up again?
Cause you're so sick of it all and you want to change everything.
Someone somewhere should know if you ever come back around.
Just how deep would you go to see through it all?
FOR THE OCEAN
Without it I'm failing, my heart waits in the wings alone.The stages I go through keep coming time and time and time again.
Do you wonder how I stay so complacent?
It's like waiting for the ocean to save you from the waves
When you're so far under, silent, never moving.
You've taken your timing, so flawless, executing me,
So fearless and hopeful, can you imagine such a scene?
Do you wonder how I stay so complacent?
It's like waiting for the ocean to save you from the waves
When you're so far under, silent, never moving.
Waiting for the needle to take away the pain
Until finally we numb our every border.
BROKEN WORDS
Your sweet little hands brush right past me.Sometimes you don't understand why you can't reach.
I bite when I don't want to bend, how silent I can be, so she is silent too.
She's the one who saw my words, broken, torn at the seams,
And broken words are all she heard, now she's walking away from me.
Some never meant and some meant well,
The difference between us is so hard to tell.
I was so shaken but now all I see is everything she meant to me.
She's the one who saw my words, broken, torn at the seams,
And broken words are all she heard, now she's walking away from me.
SUFFOCATE
Talk to me, can you listen to me now, do you understand, can you identify?But it's as if you seem to make a small effort, but you bend, you're bending my mind and
You try to suffocate and smother me, covered so I can't breathe,
When we collapse, our weakened hands fall together at once, abandoned,
They'll force you down and strap you in, now we agree and understand.
Speak slowly, you got to get it all out now, what are you saying?
Just remember we will always be here, just in case you have been waiting,
Waiting to show us something or give us some sign,
As if you're gonna suffocate, smothering, covered so you can't breathe.
When we collapse, our weakened hands fall together at once, abandoned,
They'll force you down and strap you in, now we agree and understand.
Gently lure your submission, all the while suspicion grows.
So be sick of listening to senile old and staggering naïve youth.
Pick us up when we collapse, our weakened hands fall together at once, abandoned,
They'll force you down and strap you in, now we're agreed and understand.
BONES + JOINTS
Cloud my eyes and tell me what to see, I'm falling.Every way I turn, the same disease, but I like it.
Brace myself and hit the wall with ease, colliding, I'm not minding the pain.
I've been down here before, all my bones and joints are sore,
Dig my way out of the wreck again.
I've been down here before, lost myself and so much more,
Find my way out of the game again.
Open up my head and take it in, just like always.
Think about the ball and take a swing, loaded trapeze.
What you need the most from me is yours,
I'll continue to deceive you, my friend.
I've been down here before, all my bones and joints are sore,
Dig my way out of the wreck again.
I've been down here before, lost myself and so much more,
Find my way out of the game again.
You lost what made you you, or maybe you never knew.
I can't stay here anymore, give it all or you're on your own.
I will leave you.
FAMOUS
Wait, if everything's going great, can you remember a day to tell?If someone should wish you well, then there's a narrow chance.
All I want from you my dear friend, I've already got.
I could show you how, and you say you got that feeling again,
It won't be long enough, but it may never end, I know.
Wait, I thought I had something to say, I will remember someday.
Fate found you buckling under the weight, and you thought you would last.
And all I got from you my dear friend, I don't even want.
I could show you how, and you say you got that feeling again,
It won't be long enough, but it may never end, I know.
Follow your answers, but you look so bitter.
Who are you? Are you famous, important?
Don't you stop that glitter, no.
All I wanted from you is all forgotten for you.
And you say you got that feeling again, it won't be long enough,
But it may never end, I know.
WALKING IN MY SHOES
I would tell you about the things they put me through,The pain I've been subjected to, but the Lord Himself would blush.
The countless feasts laid at my feet, forbidden fruits for me to eat,
But I think your pulse would start to rush.
Now I'm not looking for the absolution or forgiveness for the things I do,
But before you come to any conclusions, try walking in my shoes.
You stumble in my footsteps, keep the same appointments I've kept,
If you try walking in my shoes.
Morality would frown upon, and decency look down upon
The scapegoat fate's made of me.
But I tell you now, my judge and jurors, intentions couldn't have been purer.
My case is easy to see.
I'm not looking for a clearer conscience, peace of mind after what I've been through,
But before we talk of any repentance, try walking in my shoes.
You stumble in my footsteps, keep the same appointments I've kept,
If you try walking in my shoes.
Now I'm not looking for the absolution or forgiveness for the things I do,
But before you come to any conclusions, try walking in my shoes.
STAY AND DROWN
Good God, have I been dreaming this paralysing feeling?Was I left alone? Where have you gone?
Were you somewhere else just sleeping?
If I wait to wake you, I'll never ask you,
Would you take my hand in the deepest end,
Would you stay and drown in me?
My open eyes see everything,
But I'm passing all the days through a window pane,
And as the scene would change, I'd stay the same.
This paradise was nothing new, but the paradise gets tired of you.
A single conversation stole my attention.
Would you take my hand in the deepest end,
Would you stay and drown in me?
My open eyes see everything, and you see nothing, and don't forget it.
from "WWE Anthology"
SLOW CHEMICAL
The wonder of the world is gone, I know for sure.All the wonder that I want I found in her.
As the whole becomes a part I strike to burn, and the flame returns.
Every intuition fails to find its way,
One more table turned around and back again.
Finding I'm all lost and found when she's not around,
When she's not around, I feel it coming down.
Give me what I could never ask for,
Connect me and you could be my chemical now.
Give me the drug you know I'm after,
Connect me and you could be my chemical.
When everybody wants you,
The chemical goes so slow and everybody wants you,
So give me what I could never ask for,
Connect me and you could be my chemical now.
Give me the drug you know I'm after,
Connect me and you could be the chemical.
from the album "Finger Eleven"
OTHER LIGHT
Never tell your friends, they'll never understand,Confessions only burn themselves in the fire.
Choke on every word that no one's ever heard,
Your sentimental thoughts are strangled and tired.
See it in another light, you'll see it working out alright.
I know I won't change any mind
As long as they're still changing mine.
As simple as they can, they're telling you again,
What they think you've done is so unbecoming.
But you don't have to take every old mistake,
And always see it as a fall while you're running.
See it in another light, you'll see it working out alright.
I know I won't change any mind
As long as they're still changing mine.
Saw it in other light, I saw it work out alright.
I know I won't change a mind as long as they're changing mine.
COMPLICATED QUESTIONS
Easy to be taken with everything you're saying,Make us perfect and say it all again,
But if every single second's killing,
Tell me I'm dreaming, I'll sleep it all away.
Tear out this love, tear up the root, tear out this love, tear me from you.
You know you can tell me anything you want to,
Tell me something that I'd never know.
Could be cautious as the words roll over your tongue,
I'm stung with sick discovery.
Tear out this love, tear up the root, tear out this love,
Tear me from these complicated questions,
Taking all the empty spaces inside me.
I don't want to hear these simple answers.
Complicated answers never did you any justice anyway,
I don't want to hear you lie to me.
Complicated as we are we're gonna have to burn it all away.
Tell me now if every single second's killing, tell me I'm dreaming.
Complicated questions, take up all the empty spaces inside me.
I don't want to hear these simple answers.
Complicated answers never did you any justice anyway,
I don't want to hear you lie to me.
Complicated as we are we're going to tear out this love,
Tear up the root, tear out this love, tear me from you.
STAY IN SHADOW
So cold that you cannot cope, with a frozen heart,I guess we blow apart, I guessed it from the start.
Stay in shadow, I'll run this world out.
Stay in shadow, it's running out of time.
Stay in shadow, I want to watch it drown, stay in this now.
Don't say because you can't say what we should have been,
Don't show what I resent, don't know cause I forget.
So cruel to be so blind, darkness was on my side.
Now that you've come and gone, I know where I belong.
Stay in shadow, I'll run this world out.
Stay in shadow, it's running out of time.
Stay in shadow, I want to watch it drown, stay in this now.
Light is leaving as I watch you go, light is leaving inside of my soul.
GOOD TIMES
Something has stuck in underneath my skin,Eyes all looking in for something within, somewhere in here.
Now everything I say gives this all away,
Senses deadened again, nothing lives today, not in here, here in your head.
Careful what you're feeling on the inside,
You should try to remember the good times and the high life.
Are you feeling alright?
Felt that I belonged, and now I feel that gone,
Where it all went wrong, I traced it all along, back here again.
There was something calling me to negativity,
Dark covering me, shrouding every scene I'm cast in.
Careful what you're feeling on the inside,
You should try to remember the good times and the high life.
Are you feeling alright?
Careful when you're feeling out of your mind,
You should try to remember the storm lines in the spotlight
Til you're feeling alright.
Please answer, I'm calling just to find out
If you could be here for me when I crack.
The answer came, I found it buried in the trash there, I saw it stare.
ABSENT ELEMENTS
Everyone plays along, get them giving or steal the life they're breathing.They'll grow sickened, take their secret codes and signals, discover all they know.
Keep up the pace now until it all dries up.
You'll never find out now that all these absent elements
Build your comfortable defence stronger still, like an emptiness.
Way too early to consider losing, vacant staring may discover some reflection,
Or may discover none, just think what you've done, and watch it all add up.
You'll never find out now that all these absent elements
Build your comfortable defence stronger still, like an emptiness you'll never fill.
THOUSAND MILE WISH
Forgive me if now I wear the face of worry.This time alone could never cause any doubt, but I've been cold too long.
Such a strange time to find myself coming down as the rain.
With all these holes, my love, to fill up from the middle,
This storm could stay all night.
So can you stay until we close our eyes, til your dreams hold mine?
Just stay until we know we tried one more time.
Cause laughing lovers can overcome their closest demons,
And they'll go on and they won't let go.
They saw something that they know has never come so close.
Can it stay here for us, for now, can it stay til we know ourselves?
I'm torn as I tell.
You're the story that I know and fell from.
I'm so far into your story, I don't know why.
We think we're in control when we lie between the lines.
We'll find a line to follow.
It's got to show real soon or we'll never each this high.
We climb a little further, cause there's nothing we can't get around together.
Further gets colder until nothing was all that I saw around.
So we stay until the ground that we can't come down from splits us away.
Maybe stars know why we fall, I just wish they were thinking out loud.
I could wish all night.
CONVERSATIONS
Something changing, the secret is building.Almost over and somehow seems a beginning.
Losing focus, it must be boring.
Looking forward never turns out the wrong way.
(speaking to no one)
Conversations alone complicate us together on our own,
Conversations alone, so alone.
No one calling, but someone is bound to reply.
No one out there, but someone hears every word.
I know we're playing the same game, easing the conscience by.
(speaking to no one)
Conversations alone complicate us together on our own,
Conversations alone, keep us from being alone.
The road was taken, the path leads on til a new one's left to clear,
The signals given, the show turned on til emotion cut too near.
The road was taken, the path led on, the signals given, the show turned on,
Still receiving, and still believing, the time that you take isn't gone.
Conversations alone complicate us together on our own,
Conversations alone, keep us from being together on our own.
THE LAST SCENE OF STRUGGLING
The static grows and kills the message,Unclear as the wind blows, thin whispers through all the wreckage.
You said you planned to fail, looking so safe but sorry.
So be sure to bang the nail and seal the exit out.
Feel the way through your revelation, does it feel the way you want to?
Just say it like it's all true, just tell it like you want to.
You bled along the edge of reason,
You could have changed your mind into the driest season.
Don't explain, I know the lives that you let go,
The ones you thought you knew, held onto deep dark truth.
Feel the way through your revelation, does it feel the way you want to?
Just say it like it's all true, just tell it like you want to.
Calculate one last scene of struggling,
As I'm sinking I'll be looking for you, cause you'll know who to blame,
But you can't stop the plan, cause supply met demand.
PANIC ATTACK
Thought I could fake this thing alright, thought it could somehow get me by,Watching the doctors as they slide needles into my eye.
Thought I could finally get around, laughable symptoms keep me down,
Faces I see all keep me blind and now their redemption's mine.
Now that I can't exchange actions for words,
Now that I found these inside fears the worst,
Now that I know there's no place left to hide,
Can I become all I thought I might?
As the leaders who follow the path of whoever was standing round them,
Call to say what I'm missing and into a detail they always go.
Don't believe them, but offer condolences under the circumstances.
All too often I'm missing the spirit to fit in, so call me out.
Thought I could soundly sleep tonight, positive, clear and breathing right,
Panic attacks, panic attacks me now, seems like a fair redemption.
Thought I could fake this thing alright, thought it could somehow get me by,
Watching the doctors as try slipping a needle in my eye.
THERAPY
Wide awakened out of spinning round the safest orbit.You controlled the ordinary, I was grateful for it.
Wide awake in the beginning, trembling after the fall,
Only half my world remembers while the other half revolves.
Cut off cause I can't remember a face that could cut me deeper,
But hearts could never leave me bleeding.
Becoming the cause and burden, the lesson begins unlearning,
And it has never been forgiving, my dear.
It's all too familiar, I've been here before,
I'll carry this weight for your smallest reward,
Because I'll continue to break down the door,
Just let me in, I swear it will not be like before.
Can't think of what to say, I can't think of what to do,
I just think I might be losing my mind.
Can't stop this agony, cancel my therapy cause
I just thought of you and now I feel fine.
Collecting the strangest conscience, apathy returns its offence,
But only after I get moving.
Relax and begin the change in time for the newest age,
To help me find out what I'm missing in here.
It's all too familiar, I've been here before,
I'll carry this weight for your smallest reward,
Cause I'll continue to break down the door,
Just let me in, I swear it will not be like before.
Can't think of what to say, can't think of what to do,
I just think I might be losing my mind.
Can't stop this agony, cancel my therapy cause
I just thought of you and now I feel fine.
I covered all the ground til I uncovered our design,
And every second I have spent has come to remind me in time.
Wide awakened out of spinning round the safest orbit.
You controlled the ordinary, I was grateful for it.
ONE THING
Restless tonight, cause I wasted the light,Between both these times, I drew a really thin line.
It's nothing I planned, and not that I can, but you should be mine across that line.
If I traded it all, if I gave it all away for one thing, just for one thing,
If I sorted it out, if I knew all about this one thing, wouldn't that be something?
I promise I might not walk on by, maybe next time, but not this time.
Even though I know, I don't want to know, yeah, I guess I know, I just hate how it sounds.
OBVIOUS HEART
The obvious heart has come to collect, cause it tore apart like a tortured insect.The obvious heart waits here to heal and balances out a subtle reveal,
Cause there's a remedy close in a familiar dose,
This bitter pill to swallow is last in the bottle tonight.
You're empty, it's alright.
Full of yourself, no need to explain to anyone else,
Broken in time, taken what's left, no need to deny the cause or effect.
Cause there's a remedy close in a familiar dose,
Now you can find out who knows,
Soaking in truth that she says and taken chances.
This heart is not a broken one, but where have all the colours gone?
It's still among the lucky ones.
This heart is not a broken one, but where have all the colours gone?
You're still among the lucky ones, and burning longer than the sun.
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