So absorbed in Review Committed to the bit as laid down in your trails Determined to ease and liberate So I'll help light a Match to guide you down And as my baggage seeps to the bottom of the sea I'll drown the Memories Carry on at ease Don't close your eyes Revel in Goodbyes Your Dissembled Guise Place it in the tides This Place of highest Grace no place where we cry wolf Palliate the Truth It's a long defeat As Cassandra's weeping revolves get carved in stone A tragedy in progress Determined to bring the lighthouse down and to denounce the waves that clear your sight So from the Lightbulb's Peak Rains Greek Fire to the beach igniting underneath what is dear to me

Sensations's a product No stand-in for a reason Sing it proud it's wallets out to prove that it's so easy Affection is currency opiates to believe in parasocial adderall for lowlifes Eat your heart out, honey There's a major reason why when the trail for awed thiefs dries up they will leave you here to (die) Flashing lights and thunder will not faze you safe inside tear the ground from underneath our feet and we will learn to (fly) You storm against mirrors trying to push them out your way but the frame in which you're portrayed stays the same And as you race against red lights you will swerve along the way 'cause your center's what their influence betrays They got nothing but resentment for you Cynics preying on delusions blame and naiveté We got nothing We got nothing to prove So we run with the hunted out in left field

Another failure to operate This goddamn brick house will stay the same The same old face by another name Ambition, Derision This is our own decision This will be rectified through tired bones through bloodshot eyes Liberty is not a side effect live free or die And when the pain subsides Whats yours is yours whats mine is mine Liberty is not a side effect live free or die Another failure to operate Misinformation to point the blame The voice will change but the song remains Another Failure Another mistake towards a slow decay we're counting the hours as they turn to days We want the airwaves back We want to live this way To break the hold of talking heads We want the airwaves back Today's the day, bring out your dead We want to live this way

Oh, this feels so pathetic Like a strain on my back feel my brain stuck in static and blindsided by what's next If I could only get the words out right We'd start fistfights in the basement I'd hope we'd make it out alive Discord in my head This strife will never let my actions ring true My only regret is that I never could convey this to you But when the lightning hits It hits so close to home auspicious like a virtue And in the brightest bliss It looks a lot like hope I swear I'll never fail you How I long for carthasis cull the counter attack Trebuchets stuck in traffic Call the longbow archers back If I could only get the gradiant right I'd spit outbursts to the canvas instead of steering clear of sight The darkest of black Can only be sustained on bolts from the blue My only regret is that I never could convey this to you

The Window's cracked open and the songs stroll into town The numbers fall into place when no one is around Max Martin know's his place in life but noone knows his name and it is all the same to me But then i wonder what Max Martin dreams about at night The California girls or It's alive When Max Martin sings he sings it out loudly he puts his favorite records on and dances like noone watching When Max Martin sings He's moving a mountain He puts The Troubled Stateside on and feels a little less alone His get-up is spotless as the client's come to town He tells himself to sit straight when other's are around Max Martin knows this nagging voice that tells him "kill the dream" I want to hear the symphony And then I wonder What Max Martin dreams about at night The California Girls or It's alive When Max Martin sings he sings it out loudly he puts his favorite records on and dances like noone watching When Max Martin sings He's moving a mountain puts Five Stories Falling on and feels a little less alone For the first time for the first time he decides he needs to step down write a song that's just his own Not to show, not to tell, not to sell to anyone else this song is just his own

Hallowed be the god of thunder blessed be the thief Arbitrary Ghosts of entropy are rummaging the streets All hail be the golden towers built upon defeat When the travesty of cowards is written on your face Never will there ever be a better time to put blood red hands under blinding lights still we act like we aren't running out of time this should start to sink in Never will there ever be more righteous hate than the rebound strife on every single life this takes still we act like we are not afraid to change this should start to sink in Sold short on pocket change We go it alone 'til the false hopes on the high road won't deceive us anymore Changed short on life support Your idol's a joke When its point is trite and pointless suplant brittle cornerstones Hallowed be the greater number Praise the great divide When the thining herd of bears and bulls demands your sacrifice All hail to impersonators fuel to fan the flames When the morbid lure of promise is poisoning our veins I want the blowouts and slowdowns to be all-out end of patience, fuck the radiance of old crowns I want the meak and the bleak to come 'round When the end expands we'll extend hands at sundown graveyard shift soiree We stay at work all day debtors, minimum wage red letters, bills to pay See the strained get impaled by progress Nail it to their door, settled scores, let's end this Frauds and liars the walls are caving in the ground below you is wearing paper thin Frauds and liars the walls are caving in the ground below you this should start to sink in I want to see none above I want the view to be clear I want to be all of us I want the score set on an even playing field I want to see none above I want the failsafe to fail I want to see all of us braving the undertow as every levee breaks

When the word gets rinsed put your nets out From the major scale there's no way up When the growing pains pull all stops out and the patterns fade the pull remains Our favorite funerals for the constant haunts and blown out frauds There is no writing on the wall it's just futile plots of squandered gods Deploy the destitute the choir calls for coarse recruits Those elusive gripes of invalid lights wolf down all the time If the feeling would be mutual now We would get some gasoline and cast the vestige out If we stood together we could disarm this town Please make it move just make it move Ironic access gave the game away as the tensions rise but the numbers stay the same Erattic Nothing left to hold us back Nothing left to hold us A trade-off from a rock to a hard place sick of waiting rooms of decay and outworn grace Burned out on sympathy it's the modern build's inherent tilt burned out on solidarity Our prodigal sons won't act as one Option paralysis reform convulsed on impetus We're unsatisfied with the wars to fight in our part time lifes If you see it like i see it now we should get some kerosene and burn the rat race down next of kin in desperate need of new holy grounds Please make it move Just make it move If one of us raised a lion's heart if ire came of age Down the stairs at the sanctum door where it's dim and cold If one of us took the mantle up if bearings were laid bare Maybe we would not have to admit that's how it ends

Deadpan like a funeral day it's hard enough to long for what we're forced to obtain gruesome like our last estate divided by the holes we made faint gunshots in the rain the stalemate stays (It stays) For mothers and daughters man the barricades A future so disposable It's not nothing to me Our mothers and fathers dig out early graves forced into casket lotteries It's not nothing to me Absent options of escape are ardous like the heavy head we try to displace Funneled from the murderous rage to hope of being redeemed one day to trauma at the wake The stalemate stays (It stays)

Broken homes for broken oaths in blood and silence Signal fires on the shore engulfed in violence What's left is something grander than pain Only cherish what will not fade away You'll come to understand this was designed as a last stand Uproar calls for you to leave right now You will figure things out I'm gonna stare the sun down Daggers in my eyes but it's too soon to settle on a truce I'm gonna stand atlantic Waves roll through my veins and you will soon curse my wasted youth The decline of borrowed time comes to hail marys vouch not only for what's right but necessary And what's left is every color but gray Only cherish things that do not change Try to understand Life won't reward you in the end but the place where two plus two's still four I'll place the barricades

Great expectations placed on an unsuspecting mind allow the distraction behind unmedicated eyes Hey, you keep your chin up our kin won't give in to the blues Our nature is ardent We raise our shield for the abused When the fight is over No one's crowning you to be king These Trials won't make you stronger when the final battle begins Big shoes to fill the long walk ahead in darkness A monument to a time and a place so solemn Bootstraps to pull to escape the self-made hardships Each one of us alone has to face the problems But you you called me up to tell me that you've been unwell The day i turn my back on you is also the day they'll bury me And from the smallest view on valve TVs we see their guiding light crash overseas They march their truth to their solution That's no bloodless revolution And all i wanted was you It's said life's a garden and the roots they start to grab hold They sure tone down the burden of disdain at the factory door Hell is a thousand needles and the wolves stacked up at the gates We prayed for better numbers Pipers play and so the rats emerge a contagion sworn to wait its turn A prescription from the darkest mind marching on in goose step to kill the light Commiseration gilds the chopping block Rohrschach tests that tend to thin the flock A prescription from the darkest times press gang deviation to get in line Hell their light grows brighter than the thousand torches we hold They're putting out our lighters To see if we can stave off the cold When the fight is over and they're calling out for your blood it will not make us stronger Fooled them once, fooled them twice when the lie that you try to advertise Just goes to show That the blood you bleed's never the blood you own Fooled them once, fooled them twice But the scorn that you try to amplify just goes to show that the fire you start will come to eat your own The fire will come to eat your own So desperate measures shine in desperate times It's last ditch efforts when our hands are tied So maybe chasing an illusion will bring the righteous into light But all that i wanted was you When anthems ring out like a battle cry This house no longer has a flag to fly If everything that led us up to here is just defiance They'll answer to my name They can keep digging 'til I'm six feet deep I will not fail on your humanity I'll be the poster boy for "give 'em hell" I'll be the antidote to poisoned wells I'll have to push my dedication to a point beyond damnation I couldn't do more than to try I've been a free person and you have to do what is right For if a person's not free everything is starting to die