1. Fuck What You Heard
2. Struck Down By Me
3. The Paint Chips Away
4. My Cross To Bear
5. What Makes Us Strong
6. Can We Start Again
7. I Once Was Blind
8. Place In The Sun
9. Her Lucky Pretty Eyes
Fuck What You Heard
So for the first four months it was bad And certainly
best for you that I didn't Carry a gun or know where you lay your head
at night And it was not her as everyone had thought But you, how easily
you were able to turn away From all that we were Those things that you
said Admit it, your words they came as cheap as your breath And with even
less meaning, you selfish fuck The next time that you tell me that you
love me Please look me in the eye so that I can see the twitch And I will
fight to keep my balance Pray to hold my temper Ten years of history traded
away for a nickel and The world's most crooked grin You would not know
'nobility' if it jumped right up And punched you in the face And this rock
won't turn to a butterfly No matter how hard I squeeze But I will face
it while you look the other way Face it (Always facing it) I believe that
it's the only way So many moments wasted on you and this rage Waiting for
the dust to settle Or these tears to dry or the axe to fall Something has
got to give
Struck Down By Me
Calling you out for the last time Come show your
face for the first time I've got a head full of questions And a busted
heart filled with lies Won't spend one second on my knees Will not be thankful
for what I have not asked for Or apologive for hating all that my eyes
see This solution is my salvation Life is too slippery for books clarice
The time has passed for tricks like faith and grace The beast laughs more
and more everyday Evil has never been afraid to show it's face Just look
to the front page Look into the face of the starving Or infants born with
a disease they will never understand For every miracle one million bodies
Piled high in your name I'm calling you out Come show your face Stand before
me I will destroy you Shed your mask and I will destroy you The priests
that serve so proudly in your sons name As sick as any monster that walks
the streets And I'd walk away just to see you cry Leading young boys into
the hell That they have preached against Once You tell me how they can
ever trust in Cause loving words are only words when loving words mean
nothing One single word that you have said Your empire has been built on
the guilt of the meek To your heart... and I walked away So many lives
imprisoned And I haven't seen, seen that smile for a while And a shame
that spins out of control in your name And now I'm choking on my self-segregated
heart Young Tommy who finds you only in his father's shiny handguns Marches
his truth straight into school Points the barrel and pulls the trigger
And bodies turn into colored rain Tell me a story I can believe Look me
in the eye And tell me a story that you believe
The Paint Chips Away
We just can't go on No not like this The center
will not hold So many voices with so much to say But frozen when it's time
to lift a finger And fix what has been broken for so long You have not
taken one true step towards leaving the Pettiness that you claim that you
left behind This scene that that you are such a proud part of Buckles when
you're ego strikes Sinks under the weight of your apathy Your actions erase
the good in your words And your compassion's as empty as your pride It's
not enough the things that you say It's how you live your life day by day
Forget what you are I wanna know who you are It doesn't matter what you
call yourself It's how you carry yourself Are you really here to help?
My Cross To Bear
There are no words Nothing can ever be said To
make sense of the exit that you made Or this sadness forced on our lap
Left us struck with these haunting questions Where are all the beautiful
answers Where is the button to push that takes it all back I should have
been there Crossed burning bridges to meet you Where was I when you ran
out of walls to punch And I know that you wouldn't want us to blame ourselves
Or anything but the world And that your actions well they were never tender
But still nothing prevails like the emptiness Of a world forever without
you I can still see the way that your teeth showed When you smiled Hear
the sound of your guitar I think of the things that should have given You
the strength to go on The horror of our last words Still ringing in my
ears Anything we would've done Anything to keep you around Sometimes you
just can't keep The madness at bay alone We have all been there before
No one makes it here alone
What Makes Us Strong
Reasons not rules Six simple words A wise man sang
to me So many years ago Stood by me through All of life's changes The only
advice that I have to give Reasons not rules make us strong
Can We Start Again
Can we start again Go back to what it meant back
then Open minds and open hearts The things that set us apart Was it more
than words And do they still apply And do you still believe Well so do
I. I was a 15 year old kid With nowhere to fit in I just wanted to
skate Listen to my Suicidal tape When someone told me about a place Where
the strange were accepted And judged by what's inside A scene of truly
open minds Somewhere, somehow, everything has changed Look at what we've
gotten ourselves caught up in The same mindless clicks The same high school
shit All the walls you scream about breaking down I've watched you build
brick by brick Do you still believe... I do Look beyond the 3 chords that
fill your lives Look beyond the gossip and the lies Beyong the dullest
of outsides Look beyond Try harder See what's inside this burning in my
heart Born under the same songs that you know But our blood will never
blend Until you let those doors go
I Once Was Blind
Welcome to the day that you opened your eyes So
wide that it nearly took your life away And you are finally seeing all
the things That you have been missing Could it really be that you have
been so blind Or just merely looking the other way Today the world comes
into focus And the hardest truth that you have ever known Grabs you by
the throat There never was a light at the end of the tunnel The tunnel
you have been trapped in all these years And one simple answer cuts down
all of your questions And two and two suddenly makes five And it's a revelation
that you can no longer hide from You are falling, sinking, drowning, burning
in lies (There is nothing left for you to hold onto) You've found the landmine
with your foot And your world is about to flip upside down Falling lower
than you've ever been You will have to fight to ever get up again It's
uglier than it's ever been This World But it's yours now and you finally
know What you are up against It's up to you to take it This World You stick
out your tongue and taste the rain Because there will be no going home
again This is the hollow point The truth that you've been searching for
All these long years All the horror that you've uncovered With you now
and forever more The bullet that tears right through you Leaves you broken
Scarred for life All the lies that your teachers told you All the things
your parents said Soaked through with gasoline Gun shots echo through your
head This world will run right through you This world will run you through
Place In The Sun
Would you believe that the last time these skinned
knees healed It no longer amazed me like it used to and I hate to say it
but... Things they suddenly made a simple kind of sense The horror, the
mad ness, the helplessness of it all That there is indeed beauty as well
as blood In life's ocean of disasters These shattered dreams and deathead
promises Will not stand forever like graves But one day grow legs and slowly
walk away In between the tornadoes and stomped on untrue love letters There
will be those shining gentle moments Like the last page in your favorite
book or How badly I miss my mother But how much I've come to love my father
And you scream that it's been forever since You witnessed blue skies But
trust me when I say that yes This too will pass It will quiet Literally
nothing stays the same Just look to the clouds and you shall see Always
changing forever moving on again and again Life's one worthwhile guarantee
Her Lucky Pretty Eyes
How did I not know that your words meant less than
dust And were born of an idea that you had heard but having Nothing in
common with truth or with trust Everything that you swore so quickly snatched
away And me left without a heart and nothing to hold onto But still so
much to feel While my house burned down you didn't bring water but gasoline
And all I ever hated rose right up and bled through you Now I can only
regret every moment that we spent Every second we shared only makes matters
worse For I have seen the truth behind the sparkle in your eyes I finally
see the ugly behind your pretty disguise Now I can't stop wishing that
you had never looked my way And you have the nerve to ask me why Why the
fuck did you tell me about magic and then Show me the strings Why did you
whisper that your heart was in my teeth When that was the first place that
you kicked me as I lay helpless on the ground Yes all that once was has
turned to the blackest of hate Instead of wishing you the best I will be
rooting for you to fall As I learn the most painful lesson of all That
a lie is a lie is a lie is a lie I don't give a fuck how pretty it's disguise