1. Serve And Forget
2. Self Will
3. Change Is...
4. Blue Strip
5. No Apologies
6. Empty Hands
7. Forgotten Ideals
8. Inventing An Issue
9. Ego-Statistic!
10. Words
11. H.C.S.
12. Restraints
13. Instrumental Song (hidden track)
Serve And Forget
we can't fly on freedoms broken wings! they
give us one right. silent we can't remain. they ignore our
voiceless faces left blank from a life so mundane. 10 o'clock curfews
get the punks off the street. "get off your fucking skateboard boy.
now get on your knees!" another rule another frowning face.
another bored kid wrong time wrong place. another pointed finger
no one to confide. led by fear of failure they run and hide.
wrong time wrong place! a privilege and a right taken away with no
restitution. surrounded by more rules with no resolution. another
rule another frowning face. another bored kid wrong time wrong place.
trapped in a cage of authority we can't fly to freedom on broken wings.
wrong time wrong place. another rule another frowning face.
another bored kid!
Self Will
he made a deal with himself. again can he
humble himself. making promises he can't keep, to change not the
world just the way he feels the way he feels inside! again and again
i keep asking what's it gonna take? keep butting you're head against
the wall. you know how it feels. don't you wait till you're
on the brink, you're just a step away. it's the defects of his character.
he says he wants to change & then there's a loss of interest.
he feels fine once again. again and again i keep asking what's it
gonna take? keep butting you head against the wall. you know how
it feels. don't you wait till your on the brink, you're just a step
away. again and again i keep asking what's it gonna take? keep butting
you're head against the wall. you know how it feels. stop butting
you're head against the wall, you're just a step away.
Change Is...
life's a trial now you're sworn in. we're
so quick to condemn a man for wanting a new start. changes changes
we all make take a selfless look at humanity. through guiltless eyes
we half blindly see. reflections of our consciousness. when
the fog lifts truth plants its seeds. (2x) do i have to justify?
our truth can't hold an ounce of water as shallow as we are. read
read between the fuckin' lies. don't feed the fire that fuels the
hate. we can change it's not too late. through guiltless eyes
we half blindly see. don't feed the fire that fuels the hate.
a selfless look; hypocrisy? guiltless eyes they half blindly see.
(2x) we're so willing to look at the others defects never willing
to look inside. chip at the walls of inadequacy. leave no room
for failure to hide. we turn the cheek. we point the finger.
remember three point back at you. i ask myself again and again what
more can i do? change is the only thing.... change is the only thing
we can count on. are you willing?! to make a change for a better
tomorrow for a better today.
Blue Strip
pretty and confused at age 15 she had a lifetime
to lose. she had something to tell you, but no one would understand!...
would you understand? (x2) without protection her emptiness soon
filled. what she thought was the comfort was just another scam.
now she's all alone with a choice she must stand, cause the test turned
blue and the comfort turned into cold wet sand. it's been a long
nine months of identity denied. i sympathize with all her tears and
all the gut wrenched nights gone by. but the tears of separation
can never feel her empty womb. cost of lust leaves debts of sorrow.
she decided to keep it and give it away. now there's a whole new
void when something so precious is taken away. she decided to keep
it they took it away. now there's a whole new void when something
so precious is taken away. she decided to keep it and give it away.
again she's all alone alone with a choice she must stand because the test
turned blue and the comfort turned into cold wet sand.
No Apologies
no apologies for who i am. it's the reason
i'm on earth, celebrating a unique creation that's been evolving sense
my birth. many masters i've tried to please, i bowed to their judgement;
thinking they were right, but now the time has come to see my own light.
we're all perfect like the setting sun, there's no mistake about it, we're
all one. the universe does not conquer and divide; it embraces all
that it sees through loving eyes. no apologies for who i am.
for who i am no apologies.
Empty Hands
do you believe you control your own destiny.
moment to moment no reality. letting go doesn't come so easily.
how can we trust something we can't see. no fate in your heart leaves
you feeling kinda empty no fate you just live. moment to moment no
reality. reach out your hand don't ask what you might receive.
can you exist with no actuality? or are you wrapped up so tight in
yourself that you cannot breath are you wrapped up so tight that you can't
fuck'n breath? a shrug of your shoulders now your on your way a shrug
and now your gone.
Forgotten Ideals
i see you shooting star i wanna be right where
you are. no more subliminal my desires gone i no longer feel apart.
i remember a time i wanted to be just like you. i've seen you touch
the soul of the world then corrupt the ideals we held so true. now
i see right through the sick one sided truth of people like you.
you made me play the fool for thinking our friendship would ever stay the
same. i'm still mourning your good-bye i'm the kid falling asleep
to your sad lullaby. we'll never get back to the feeling we once
had. the feeling of our youth. now i realize we'll never recap
our youth and although we've spent some time i won't hold on, i won't forget.
now i realize i'll never find the truth by looking in your eyes. the answer
it lies within so i sit here with a depreciating grin.
Inventing An Issue
how can you not see the frustration in their eyes?
how can you not hear their adolescent cry's. there's children havin'
children there's, children turned to crime, the suit and ties campaign
to help with the kids lost through guided lines. sometimes i wonder
why these kids sit alone and cry. they look for a way out they wish
that they could die. you think your conditional love will somehow
make them see. well they close their eyes again they're all alone
and it's you they don't want to be! all the restrictions that you
made all the times you made them pray thinking this will somehow make them
learn. you told them they'll go to hell. you told them that they're
gonna burn! your so called good intentions, force fed interventions.
your so called good intentions, force fed manipulation. and with
all the restrictions that you made and all the times you made them pray
did you really think this would make them learn?
Ego-Statistic!
we used to talk of unity. some things don't
go as they're planned. we used to rely on our friendship but it slipped
right through our hands. yeah you know we're both to blame it's the
truth we can't deny. it's easy to point the finger. it's easy
to listen to what they say it's hard to believe we were once good friends.
how'd we let ego get in the fucking way? let's break down these frigid
walls. only then we will find time to reminisce. (2x) remember
the time you told me you told me to never give up. i made a change
i thought would help us both instead it was a kick in the gut. is
it too late to mend these ties? i'll wipe the jealousy from my eyes!
it's time to reminisce. (2x) is it too late for "sorry". (x4)
it's just another story of two friends split apart. well i don't
know how you feel but your stuck right in my heart. where's our strength
where's our common bond? where's the unity that kept us strong?
it's time to reminisce. (2x)
Words
when everything has been said and done and all
my thoughts have all been sung. will we spark the fire that ignites
your soul? turn a blackened heart into a prism of hope. when
everything is said and done are these words just another song? and now
that you know all my misery are you a fist in the air or are you apathetic
to me? set on a path of humility, the destination insanity.
when everything is said and done and i'm a poster boy for everything gone
wrong. when everything is said and done. judgment brings me down
to my knees and i'm so consumed in what you think of me. it feels
like i'm drowning in a sea of in-security.
H.C.S.
time for us to break the conditioning. we
must defy. manipulating material gain. no freedom of thought
our consciousness is slain. no freedom no thought no freedom!
we can't regain consciousness until we rebel. we can never rebel until
we achieve consciousness. no freedom no thought no freedom!
stand in opposition to that which they so blindly accept. we stand
in opposition. we stand in opposition. stand in opposition
to that which they blindly accept. (2x) stand!!!
Restraints
for too long i've tried to compromise my integrity
for someone else's dreams. i closed my eyes my mind and let them
lead me into submission. now i feel the lesser of two evils with
my head bowed down, tail between my legs. and i'm afraid this is
not me. inspiration it flies high when i'm looking up away from the
american lie. expectations fill my head with dreams i've never dreamt.
i pledge defiance to a society forged from anger, hate and greed.
hoping that someday my fight will catch on to you. now my pockets
full of lint and my heads full of expectations. i'm still trying
to build a guiltless fortress. i'm gonna take back what's mine my
heart, my body, my soul, my mind. you can have your restraints.
self righteous contradictions. take back what's mine my heart, my
body, my soul, my mind.
Instrumental Song (secret song)