1. Life During Wartime
2. Without Me
3. High Maintenance
4. Backyard Flames
5. Song Of My Returning
6. Once More Without Feeling
7. I Walk Alone
8. Train Station
9. Homesick Hopes
10. Work For Food
11. Brother
12. Swan Song
13. The Great Divide
Life During Wartime
Yeah we say making changes Starts by making changes
In the little things you do "Revolution begins at home" But for most of
us it ends there too We're doing sometrhing We're making changes Like Changing
the Kind of crap we buy We say it makes a difference But most of the time
That's just another lie It used to be "us" and "them" It used to be us
+ them And you + me And now we can't reach Our full potentail Without Common
enemy A real war to fight against Instead of our petty disagreements But
how can I rationalize My life during wartime lie A call to action and a
reaction Taking our lives in our own hands Instead of sitting around talking
About the same old stupid bands But war is going on right now and I'm not
doing anything about it Without a crowd I'm not so loud I can't do anything
by myself But that's just another lie.
Without Me
People came and go there's a lot of Places believe
me I know worth Going to worth leaving from but Please take me when you
leave or Believe in me and stay If is said I couldn't go on living without
you now That would be a lie But if you knew how it looks inside my head
my house is really bad enough But this is really bad it's pretty bleak
And I'll be very sad at the least if you decide to leave Without me cause
this only happens once in a great while while five or ten times in a lifetime
Maybe less I don't know but I don't Want to blow my chance this time around
I shouldn't be so worried I mean we just met but just like the first time
you saw me you said "now there's a guy who never sticks around" I guess
we Have that much in common and that's why you hunted me down Isn't that
sweet? Please Don't leave without me.
High Maintenance
I stroked your ego with a lubricant Until you stand
erect Instead of your limp guilt trips You should have come with a warantee
Cause talk is cheap And I think I'd like to trade you in.
Backyard Flames
I heard a song tonight It made me think of you
All the pain the loss of love That's gone from inside You both seem so
happy you could cry She says she don't love you anymore He says he doesn't
need her anyway Dreams have feltered Plans have failed the kids are caught
up in your wake I had a dream you were having a party Martinis, skins,
and backyard flames It seemed to last all night She says she don't love
you anymore He says he doesn't need her anyway She was Jusus you were Satan
Red lights flashing you saw green went ahead full bore.
Once More Without Feeling
Your time in the lights Came and went just as fast
Stolen from you in your moment of glory It's an old story It's an old ghost
you can't forget And you regret the way That it was taken away from you
Now you try to relieve what you could've been Mouthing the words You don't
even believe in And you're losing your shadow You're losing your dreams
You're losing everything And you can't get it back You say you didn't want
much You only wanted her and she's not much You mean it's easier to be
mean Than to say the way you really feel I wonder how much it would really
mean If it were real Well you take a sad song and make it last foever Over
and Over Double 'A' side promo Once more without feeling Once more without
failing One more time playing the stupid game Of holding on and not letting
theing's change Of holding on to old ghosts And never learning That you
can't get it back Now your losing your shadow You're losing your dreams
You're just a ghost of what you used to believe and you can't get it back
You couldn't hold on, you couldn't let go Ah, you moved too slow And you
can't get it back.
Song Of My Returning
The weary world is waiting For ambition to be played
Now young and not afriad I've got a challenge Every Challenge that I know
For I am just a sailor On a ship across the land Let me hold your hand
To bid farewell So I can knuckle to my knees But I'll be back again No
matter where I go For it's only love That frees the fire for burning And
I'll take you in my arms And tell you all I know As I sing the changing
songs Of my returning My drifting days prepare me To do battle with the
night A phantom of fight I've got to conquer All the courage of my fears
The answer lies in limbo And the harvest will be hard But sacred are the
stars That leave their mark upon The fast dissolving years Yes I'll be
back again No matter whre I go For it's only love That frees the fire for
burning And I'll teke you in my arms and tell you all I know As I sing
the growing songs of my returning Time must have her victory it's that
I've always known But I've won or lost alone And when a voice calls out,
"There's Someone you should meet" With every strength remaining I will
suffer one more scene I'll gather all my dreams And with my final breath
I'll lay them at your feet Yes I'll be back again No matter where I go
For it's only love That frees the fire burning and I'll take you in my
arms and tell you all I know As I sing the final song of my returning.
I Walk Alone
I walk a crooked twisting path That seems to be
landing nowhere I lead a loner's life Not what I meant to do I do what
seemed to be the right thing at one time But now that time has passed and
I'm the last one Walking down this path I walk along the same old streets
Where we used to meet by chance But now there's not one familiar face There's
not one knowing glance There's just my memory A problem that I seem to
have Is not being able to appreciate or understand The present until it's
past And so it goes away.
Train Station
Pacing, Thinking, Pacing, Thinking waiting, waiting
Waiting by the phone that never rings Waiting for the letter That the postman
never brings Telling me that you're sorry, that you miss me That I was
right that I was wrong That we could work it out and get along But I'm
waiting for the words that never come Sitting smoking in the doorway in
Dinkytown Waiting patiently for you to come around Thinking if I lok hard
enough Into each passing face Maybe they'll turn into you Or someone to
take your place But the people and days pass And I'm still sitting, thinking
Drinking on the platform at the station Drowning my sorrows Waiting for
the train to come Having so much fun, wish you were here cause it's been
years since the trains have run And I'm still waiting, waiting, waiting
Waiting for the words that never come.
Homesick Hopes
No one wants to hear his story Another boring kid
in town again Who stares at photographs Of far away friends Frustrated,
he can't think clear His aspirations seem sincere but how can he make them
all work out Homesick hopes and inside jokes They're all taking him away
He can't find a reason why A reason to stay It's been too long a lull and
All the self pity is getting dull today He can't find another way Sitting
down with his final mistake Thinking of another fake smile tonight He's
waiting for someone for someone to save his life He got a letter today
Steve moved to Knoxville' Another reason to stay.
Brother
Once I had a brother and we grew up Looking out
for each other And when he fucked up I did me best to cover his lies I
hid him from the cops When he was a runaway Put him up when he was on the
Streets with no place to stay And when he lied and stole I looked the other
way cause in time I knew he would find a way to get his life together and
we would be alright If we just stuck together And somehow we would both
make it through Somehow we would make it through Maybe I tried to hard
To be a brother There comes a time you gotta Burn your bridges to discover
What you are inside I thought I knew my brother But I was wrong Maybe I'd
been lying to myself All along when he burned his bridges He burned me
at the same time Well brother, brother How could you be so hateful So ungrateful
After all that we'd been through? some say you'll get What's coming
to you someday you'll get what's coming to you You stole my money then
my friends and now my girlfriend to You say you treat everyone like a brother
and it's true cause you screw over everyone The way that you screwed me
You're a tumor, a leach A sore that wont go away Leaving a path of discarded
people In your wake You're a thief, A theif who stole my trust And that's
the worst thing you could take But every underdog Must have his day So
you'd better stay the hell out of my way cause this dog's day is coming
soon and this dog won't let Bad feelings pass This dog wants grudges to
last cause this dog won't forget How he was done in well you selfish little
Mother Fucker I hope I never live to see you hurt another cause life you
touch Is life you smother Like mine.
Swan Song
Maybe I'm defensive cause it's my favorite song
but you cheapen the passion every Time you sing along and laugh you take
The photograpgh and recreate it piece by piece you stand the smae way and
wear the same clothes but you don't see the desperation and frustration
underneath The pose the real belief cause you're a second rate imitation
a watered down simulation of the real Thing and that alone wouldn't bug
me But it's you thinking that everything is And has always been that same
way Well it almost sounds like anger almost Looks like passion almost seems
like Real life worth living you congratulate Yourself for seeming so convincing
Then go home alone and find that something's still missing If this is waht
you wanted all along I guess we don't see sysy to sysy cause I'm looking
Around to figure out what went wrong so much potential should've added
up ever if we'd given up I'd understand But we tried so hard and got nothing
but A rented Hall with your shitty band who are we kidding we killed our
own Dreams befoire anyone else ever got the chance and now we don't even
dance so let's just go home Well it almost sounds like anget almost Looks
like passion almost seems like Real life worth living we congratulate Ourselves
for seeming so convincing then go home alone and find that Something's
still missing.
Work For Food
30 days of traveling In Whitville, Tennessee Got
3 dollars in my pocket Got 3 kids to feed My sign says I will work for
food My eyes say I'm in 'A working kind of mood I'm broke, no skill so
hard to live this way Looking like I do I can't Seem to get the time of
day 9 to 5 at Scotia Down at the mill For half as much money I've seen
a better man killed.
The Great Divide
Whatever happened to your truly? Now I'm
so spun, so high strung That I can't even sleep I just lie in bed awake
Grinding down my teeth Get back up to back out And walk the same old streets
Always searching, something missing Never satisfied Whatever happened to
you? Now you laugh at how you used to care You laugh at how you tried
You talk about how you weren't always tired all the time You laugh at how
we're going nowhere and then you ask me why We never do anything fun anymore
We we're not much fun anymore Whatever happened to you an me? Whatever
happened to our community? Do you think that We'll go down in history?
Or will we just be forgotten I don't want to be forgotten I'm so scared
of being forgotten That's my problem, I'm so scared We used to say look
both ways Before you cross our path Now we both turn away and there's nothing
left To Bridge the gap Between Whatever happened to us Do you think that
it's too late to start over again? You say you're tired of haaving
to start over again That's your problem, you're so tired that's my problem,
I'm so scared That it's too late, it's to late It's too late to start over
again.