from the album "Trapt"
HEADSTRONG
Circling your head, contemplating everything you ever said.Now I see the truth, I got a doubt,
A different motive in your eyes and now I'm out, see you later.
I see your fantasy, you want to make it a reality, paved in gold,
See inside of our heads, well now that's over.
I see your motives inside, decisions to hide.
Back off, I'll take you on, headstrong to take on anyone.
I know that you are wrong, headstrong, we're headstrong.
Back off, I'll take you on, headstrong to take on anyone.
I know that you are wrong and this is not where you belong.
I can't give everything away, I won't give everything away.
Conclusions manifest, your first impression's got to be your very best.
I see you're full of shit and that's alright,
That's how you play, I guess you'll get through every night, well now that's over.
I see your fantasy, you want to make it a reality, paved in gold,
See inside of our heads, well now that's over.
I see your motives inside, decisions to hide.
Back off, I'll take you on, headstrong to take on anyone.
I know that you are wrong, headstrong, we're headstrong.
Back off I'll take you on, headstrong to take on anyone.
I know that you are wrong and this is not where you belong.
I can't give everything away, I won't give everything away.
I know all about your motives inside and your decision to hide.
MADE OF GLASS
I don't know anything at all and I'm somebody else.It could take years to find you, it could take years to find myself.
And I don't need to hear your answer, I just need you to see
That I think it's time to break down these walls that we throw.
Am I still breathing? Have I lost that feeling?
Am I made of glass, cause you see right through me.
I don't know who I am and you're the only one who sees that.
I can't ask these questions that cannot be answered today.
And even if everything goes wrong and we start to fall apart,
I will understand where you are, I will understand this by myself.
And I don't need to hear your answer, I just need you to feel
Like there are no boundaries at all.
Am I still breathing? Have I lost that feeling?
Am I made of glass, cause you see right through me.
I don't know who I am and you're the only one who sees that.
I can't ask these questions that cannot be answered today.
Who am I today? I don't matter today.
And how far have we come? Too far to throw away the past.
Will you be there waiting for me?
I have to ask what we are, if I ask today it just won't last,
So I'll be here waiting for you.
Will we ever feel this good again? Will we ever feel this real again?
Will you ever be mine again? Will we ever feel this real again? Not today.
Who am I today? I don't matter today.
HOLLOWMAN
I can't remember the last time you cared about anything,The last time you allowed yourself to be seen.
So pretentious your lies, unrelenting disguise,
Creating tears in your eyes, your mind withers and dies.
Pretending to be something you are not, somewhere in the middle you are now caught.
You've never seen who you really are.
No life breathes in you, all the time you laugh, you wait, you cry.
No part of your life is true, all the time your life passes you by.
The last time you cared about anything, the last time you allowed yourself to be seen.
So pretentious your lies, unrelenting disguise,
Creating tears in your eyes, your mind withers and dies.
Pretending to be something you are not,
Somewhere in the middle you are now caught.
Now I see who you really are.
I don't ever want to see, I don't ever want to be like you, hollow man.
I don't care what you give, hollow man, you can't live like this.
Your voice is just a whisper, you call upon your blank thoughts as you try
To fit in where you missed her, you missed the chance to stop living a lie.
The last time you cared about anything, the last time you allowed yourself to be seen.
So pretentious your lies, unrelenting disguise,
Creating tears in your eyes, your mind withers and dies.
Pretending to be something you are not, somewhere in the middle you are now caught.
Now I see who you really are.
I don't ever want to see, I don't ever want to be like you, hollow man.
I don't care what you give, hollow man, you can't live like this.
Where is your sanity? Where is your self?
THESE WALLS
Something missing, left behind, search in circles every time I try.I've been here before, I've seen you before.
I can't escape, winding down these halls, hard to find a place where there are no walls,
And no lines begging me to cross, only straight ahead, better move along.
Like clockwork I commit the crime, I pretend to be everything they like.
I've been here before, I've seen you before.
I can't escape, winding down these halls, hard to find a place where there are no walls,
And no lines begging me to cross, only straight ahead, better move along.
And I trade everything for this. Why do I read the writing on the wall?
I won't lose my place in line, I've been here too long and I've spent too much time.
STILL FRAME
Please help me cause I'm breaking down, this picture's frozen and I can't get out of here.Believe me, I'm just as lost as you.
And every time I think I've finally made it, I learn I'm farther away than I have ever been before.
I see the clock and it's ticking away, and the hourglass empty, what the fuck do I have to say?
Please help me cause I'm breaking down, this picture's frozen and I can't get out of here.
Believe me, I'm just as lost as you.
Keep it inside, the image portrayed, as if I couldn't stand losing, as if I couldn't be saved, no way.
A small confession, I think I'm starting to lose it,
I think I'm drifting away from the people I really need.
A small reflection on when we were younger,
We had it all figured out cause we had everything covered.
Now were older it's getting harder to see what this future will hold for us,
What the fuck are we going to be?
Please help me cause I'm breaking down, this picture's frozen and I can't get out of here.
Believe me, I'm just as lost as you.
I'm just as lost as you, oh well, what am I going to do?
I'm afraid I'm falling farther away, I'm falling farther from where I want to be.
ECHO
Close my eyes, let the whole thing pass me by, there is no time to waste asking why.I'll run away with you by my side, I need to let go of this pride.
I think about your face and how I fall into your eyes,
The outline that I trace around the one that I call mine.
Time that called for space, unclear where you drew the line.
I don't need to solve this case and I don't need to look behind.
Close my eyes, let the whole thing pass me by, there is no time to waste asking why.
I'll run away with you by my side, I need to let go of this pride.
Do I expect to change the past I hold inside,
With all the words I say, repeating over in my mind?
Some things you can't erase, no matter how hard you try,
An exit to escape is all there is left to find.
Close my eyes, let the whole thing pass me by, there is no time to waste asking why.
I'll run away with you by my side,
I need to let go of this pride until this echo in my mind, until this echo can subside.
THE GAME
How have you been, nice to see you again, how quickly these conversations seem to end.You meet a friend every now and then, how quickly these relations turn into trends.
Put all your walls up and open your windows and close all your doors.
You catch yourself standing in front of the mirror and now you need more.
So what do you wish for to catch you as you're falling?
So easy to ignore, but now you hear it calling again.
I wouldn't want to be you (this lonely game that you play),
Between your walls you confuse (every heart that you break),
So afraid that you'll lose (always a void to replace),
I wouldn't want to play you.
You try and pretend the truth is hard to bend, how easy these translations can be read.
What if you were led to play a different game instead? How hard these frustrations are to mend.
Put all your walls up and open your windows and close all your doors.
You catch yourself standing in front of the mirror and now you need more.
So what do you wish for to catch you as you're falling?
So easy to ignore, but now you hear it calling again.
I wouldn't want to be you (this lonely game that you play),
Between your walls you confuse (every heart that you break),
So afraid that you'll lose (always a void to replace),
I wouldn't want to play you.
Does it matter to you?
Just wait.
WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE
You have a chance to really shine now, well, patience never was one of your true virtues.Stop trying to control everything and fuck what they say, what do you have to prove?
So why am I waiting, this life that I'm wasting, if that's what you mean.
How will this be when all is said and done, will I know where I'm from, remember me?
Where will I be, I guess I'm on the run and time is catching up behind me.
I'm scared to be the only one who sees the hourglass run dry cause too much time went by.
And why do I try to prove that I will be ready for everything thrown at me?
So why am I waiting, this life that I'm wasting, if that's what you mean.
How will this be when all is said and done, will I know where I'm from, remember me?
Where will I be, I guess I'm on the run and time is catching up behind me.
These thoughts trickle down, imaginary lines cut through the ground.
ENIGMA
Do we know how to get the message across? We turn the lights off to find a way out.No time to get through to grasp what was lost, don't turn the lights off and leave me in the dark.
I'm pleading, my soul is bleeding, I don't want to be left alone, not when I'm right next to you.
What are you thinking? It's so misleading.
Is it not for me to know? I think it's just hard for you to show.
We never spoke in the words that we want, we turn the lights off to find a way out.
We've never chosen to keep what we've got, don't turn the lights off and leave me in the dark.
I'm pleading, my soul is bleeding, I don't want to be left alone, not when I'm right next to you.
What are you thinking? It's so misleading.
Is it not for me to know? I think it's just hard for you to show. Why is it hard for you to show?
I thought it would be nice to lie down and close my eyes.
It never occurred to me that I am already asleep.
Don't be the one to be let go, don't be the one to be alone.
STORIES
I found a line and then it grew, I found myself still thinking of you.I felt so empty and now I'm fine, but still it's burning, when will you be mine?
Too much of the same stories in our lives, I think it's time for change, don't you?
Too much of the same stories in our lives, I think it's time for us to walk away from here.
Stories in our lives, we keep them all inside.
Look at me still in your mind, our memories so intertwined.
Well, you broke through and found your way, and so did I, no need to stay.
The same old picture, tried and true, we've been through there, let's look for something new.
Too much of the same stories in our lives, I think it's time for change, don't you?
Too much of the same stories in our lives, I think it's time for us to walk away from here.
Do you remember lying on the beach so late at night?
Do you remember running through the sprinklers that night?
Do you remember all the songs that I have wrote for you?
I remember the way you made me feel when I was with you.
I remember the smile that always brought me back to you.
That look in your eyes, I never thought that this could be untrue.
NEW BEGINNING
The pressure is building, I want to break away, motivation is lacking, the point starts to fade.I look to the bottom, still empty, still the same, I'm waiting for something to show me the way
To the path that I should take, it's just too real to go ahead and fake every step that I make.
Name your price, I would give anything, I want to start over again.
What do I want, I have nothing to say, whatever it is, I want it today.
Do we choose our own ground, do we choose to stay? Well, I've seen too many throw it away.
Do I see just one small chance to be myself, to try and make it last? Every step that I make.
Name your price, I would give anything, I want to start over again.
Name your price, cause I don't feel so right, am I the only one?
Why don't you show me to the path that I should take,
It's just too real to go ahead and fake every step that I make.
Name your price, I would give anything, I want to start over again.
Name your price, cause I don't feel so right, am I the only one?
from the soundtrack to "The Punisher"
LOST IN A PORTRAIT
I analyse everything, I know what you need, I answer by questioning all that I need,And I want to surrender, I want you to see all the sides, all the faces inside of me.
I see I'm not perfect, but that's all I see, lost in a portrait, in a picture of me.
This can't be everything I see, that my canvas is incomplete,
Your colour's everything to me, and my canvas will set me free.
My outline is solid and made up of pride, and the things that you say just burn in my eyes.
I want to surrender, I want you to find some comfort in the spaces between the lines.
I see I'm not perfect, but that's all I see, lost in a portrait, in a picture of me.
This can't be everything I see, that my canvas is incomplete,
Your colour's everything to me, and my canvas will set me free.
from the album "Someone in Control"
DISCONNECTED (OUT OF TOUCH)
You never listen to me, you cannot look me in the eyes,And I have struggled to see why it's so easy to push me aside.
I no longer believe that you were ever on my side.
How could you know what I need when I'm the last thing on your mind?
Too out of touch to touch you.
So disconnected, going through the motions again, so disconnected, everything goes over your head.
So disconnected, you got me hanging by a thread, so disconnected, when will this cycle end?
You don't really know me, I don't think you ever even tried.
We're on the same routine and still you never have the time.
What do you want me to be? Do you want me in your life?
I feel so incomplete, you left me too far behind.
Too out of touch to touch you.
So disconnected, going through the motions again, so disconnected, everything goes over your head.
So disconnected, you got me hanging by a thread, so disconnected, when will this cycle end?
It's too hard to just move on, it's easier said than done.
WAITING
I want to meet up with you and show you what I'm thinking, I'll take you anywhere that you want to go.I'm sitting here bored and lonely and you know that anytime you're free
To show me how you feel, we'll take it anywhere that you want to go.
And I'd make it right if you wanted it, I want it back more than you know.
I'd cross the line if you wanted it, I want you back,
And I'm waiting for you to get that feeling once again, reunited in the end,
And I've been waiting for you to capture my imagination cause I've been fooled by the illusions in my head.
Now I realise I never had it so good, you took me anywhere I wanted to go.
Now I'm sitting here dreaming of the days when anytime I wanted,
I could show you how I feel, I can't go anywhere that I want to go.
And I'd make it right if you wanted it, I want it back more than you know.
I'd cross the line if you wanted it, I want you back,
And I'm waiting for you to get that feeling once again, reunited in the end,
And I've been waiting for you to capture my imagination cause I've been fooled by the illusions in my head.
I'll take it anywhere, I'll take you anywhere you want to go.
VICTIM
Let me play, I've been dying to let you in; it's all I want to be, so won't you take it from me?And I wonder why the less I get the more I give, it's all I want to be, so won't you take it from me?
I want your eyes on me, I want your eyes to see, I want someone to notice me, I want to be your new victim.
No regrets, even if it's all I get, it's all I want to be, so won't you take it from me?
And it still hurts, it's never easy to forget; do I want to be, well, you never asked me.
I want your eyes on me, I want your eyes to see, I want you to notice me, I want to be your new victim.
I'm right here, so come and get me.
STAND UP
Why don't you let me be, leave me alone,You start a fire inside that I could never control, you want to see a reaction.
Come on and cut me down, you've gone as far as I'll go,
Now you're crossing the line and I am letting you know, well here's your reaction.
Stand up, I have had enough.
Walk away before I finish what you started, face to face I will put you in your place.
End this game before I finish what you started, face to face everything will change.
You planted the seed, how my anger has grown,
Got a feeling inside that I can't seem to control, you want to see a reaction.
Come on and cut me down, you've gone as far as I'll go.
Now you're crossing the line and I am letting you know, well here's your reaction.
Stand up, I have had enough.
Walk away before I finish what you started, face to face I will put you in your place.
End this game before I finish what you started, face to face everything will change.
Insult after insult!
LOST REALIST
My independence is calling my name, a doubtful voice divides my faith,My independence only hesitates, an unsure choice I can't embrace.
You're gonna have to carve me from stone, right to the bone, or I'll end up alone,
Playing the role of someone in control.
Why do I rush to slow down everything?
Will the dice ever roll, will I ever know, will the plot ever twist or will I still resist?
I've been playing the part of a lost realist.
My independence is turning the page, tomorrow comes, we start to fade,
My independence only complicates, it's not enough to meet halfway.
You're gonna have to carve me from stone, right to the bone, or I'll end up alone,
Playing the role of someone in control.
Why do I rush to slow down everything?
Will the dice ever roll, will I ever know, will the plot ever twist or will I still resist?
I've been playing the part of a lost realist.
I only keep what I give away.
SKIN DEEP
This attraction only to appearance, becoming your religion,Looks are everything, the only thing that means something to you.
Satisfaction only on the surface, your eyes are always focused,
Go on and let it show that there is no exception to the rule.
So fill the empty space with another pretty face.
You're skin deep, no one will ever be perfect in your eyes, only scratching the surface for your prize.
First impressions are over in an instant, you make your decision
Before you speak a word, you end your search, the page already turned.
Every conquest filled with disappointment, lacking any substance,
Now you're out of words, the lines are blurred, you're never gonna learn.
So fill the empty space with another pretty face.
You're skin deep, no one will ever be perfect in your eyes, only scratching the surface for your prize.
Look all your life for beauty this fine, so rare, so hard to find, never mind what's inside.
INFLUENCE
Liquid courage pouring down, sober surface hits the ground,The masquerade has started now and you have faded into the crowd.
How do you know just who your friends are?
How do you know when you've gone too far to get high again?
You always feel so alone, the real you is never shown, whose influence are you under now?
So much pressure to fit in, you never know when to begin, whose influence are you under now?
Liquid courage pouring down, sober surface can't be found,
There's no denial, you can't drown, well nothing's final, so turn around.
How do you know just who your friends are?
How do you know just who your friends are?
How do you know when you've gone too far to get high again?
You always feel so alone, the real you is never shown, whose influence are you under now?
So much pressure to fit in, you never know when to begin, whose influence are you under now?
I want this, do I want this?
REPEAT OFFENDER
Where do I turn, I'm always questioning my sanity; will I ever learn, I have always stolen my identity.Anyone forgive, anyone forget, I don't want a life without respect.
Feel there is nowhere that I fit, I am a repeat offender, I will live with this forever.
You have my word, there are only lies in my sincerity; I live in a world that gives no meaning to integrity.
Anyone forgive, anyone forget, I don't want a life without respect.
Feel there is nowhere that I fit, I am a repeat offender, I will live with this forever.
Someone take these handcuffs off my wrists and break the chain of habit.
BLEED LIKE ME
Have your nails scratched the deepest, have you broken skin this time,Made your mark and took me deeper as you drowned me with your eyes?
I held my hand over your mouth as you screamed at me to feel,
You felt my scars with understanding but I can't promise anything.
Can you tell that I pick my poison well, that I have no more to sell to you?
Is it really that important that I settle down, does it really even matter that I have my doubts?
I search for the one who bleeds, I reach for the one who bleeds.
I forget to dream in colour, I am better off alone, honest hearts are undercover, we are shadows on our own.
Lose ourselves in open waters, always swimming back to shore,
My addictions have no boundaries, now I'm crying out for more.
Can you tell that I pick my poison well, that I have no more to sell to you?
Is it really that important that I settle down, does it really even matter that I have my doubts?
I search for the one who bleeds, I reach for the one who bleeds like me.
I have my doubts and so does everybody else,
So help me take this all away, you got to help me take this all away,
Please help me take this all away and bleed like me.
USE ME TO USE YOU
It's hard to trust a stranger, but you're a stranger to yourself, so who's to blame?Drown away emotion as you numb yourself from any real pain.
There's nothing more real, then nothing's what it seems, we're always caught in between.
There's nothing left to feel, but still you cannot leave, you don't know what you need.
And I know that you use me to use you.
Loneliness a ritual, the walls we build around us feel safe.
The silence always comfortable, is this the only reason that you stay?
There's nothing more real, then nothing's what it seems, we're always caught in between.
There's nothing left to feel, but still you cannot leave, you don't know what you need.
And I know that you use me to use you.
Feel your arms around me, wondering where this will go,
I feel your arms around me, will you ever want this like I do?
I know that you use me to use you.
PRODUCT OF MY OWN DESIGN
I've opened my eyes, so tell me what I see; I've opened my mind, so tell me how to think.Use your big words and show me how to speak.
You can't life your life through me, I can't believe you think it's that easy.
Your walls of pride are only fencing you in, your ego's been playing games with your head,
You're not the mastermind, I am a product of my own design.
Following you and your promised guarantees, free to choose as long as I live your dreams.
You say my own weight could never be carried, I'll agree to disagree, I can't believe that you are that naïve.
Your walls of pride are only fencing you in, your ego's been playing games with your head,
You're not the mastermind, I am a product of my own design.
You were my eyes, you were my ears, you were my conscience all these years.
No more, my vision has never been so clear, looks like I have no one left to fear.
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