1. Shadows Of Defeat
2. Blueliner
3. The Hardest Part
4. Eighteen Seconds
5. Heresy, Hypocrisy, And Revenge
6. Self-Fulfilling Catastrophe
7. Article IV
8. Indoctrination
9. Shit-Talking Capitalists
10. Letters Home
11. 30 Day Wonder
12. Dear Cammi
13. Yesterday Died-Tomorrow Won't Be Born
14. Winning The Hearts And Minds
15. A Time And A Place
16. Second Coming (Battalion Of Saints
cover song)
17. After The Nightmare
18. My War (Black Flag cover song)
Shadows Of Defeat
These walls keep closing in Iím just a mannequin
itís time to go Don't come too close to me I canít find no space to breathe
it's time to go My touch the kiss of death More sick with every breath
I just canít seem to slow it down now Why line up to conform Why wear a
uniform to grow old and die In this same fucking town Obsessed with misery
Life holds no joy for me itís time to go No colors only gray I die a little
everyday itís time to go Iím born wrong too dead to feel Wake up itís all
to real itís time to go Switched off thereís no more pain Padded walls
Iím half insane itís time to go
Blueliner
Been set up to take the fall Tried hard not to
lose it all but I shot straight right from the start A slow death from
a broken heart but It doesnít mean a thing When my hearts in the songs
we sing Iíve seen so much change Still the strength remains Our words bounce
off your heads You donít hear a fucking thing weíve said man I know your
type and I canít relate A small mind filled up with hate Too try to act
so satisfied like you've somehow won No rewards for the ones who try to
get things done Just to survive it's hard to learn this game I won't be
the first to take the blame The pressure builds up day by day We've worked
too hard to throw it all away
The Hardest Part
I used to think you were on my side We never found
a place to hide I let it go on too long like so many times before I don't
know where I should start It seems like the hardest part To take your pretty
world and tear it all apart Let it go I canít fix you anymore Let it go
time to be stronger than before Let me go crying all the time Let it go
and trust me Iím not worth your waste of time For the sake of sanity Letís
erase those memories Thereís nothing left here that will take the pain
away Thereís no more mystery Just too much history Someday youíll understand
itís really for the best Connection rejection Your tears wonít carry me
away Completely forget me Just let it go now Itís time to move on
Eighteen Seconds
Every interaction tainted with objectification
Does it make you cool to put her in her place? How would you feel
if it was your sister? Youíre a poor excuse for a man
Heresy, Hypocrisy, And Revenge
Look or what youíve left for me Now that youíve
moved on Wonít pass for therapy Just one more scar that's never gone You
tried to break me down Time and time again Rejection feels to scream But
I can't make a sound It's me you tried to hide As I hold you in my arms
As I feel your body broker Is this just a dream? Disappointment follows
me It's always just behind Self doubt bred solitude Frustration robs me
blind No pain no part of me I have grown numb and cold Self-centered fantasy
Obsessed with self control This is your worst fucking nightmare One chance
a clean break Much more than I can take Lies cast shadows Dark things nobody
knows You've lost who's won? My revenge has just begun I've just
begun And I'm coming home.
Self-Fulfilling Catastrophe
Words spoken monotones There's violence in your
pretty homes Unfaded memories of the times we used to play No colors anymore
There's laughter locked outside the door The trucks go rolling by On the
freeways just behind you It's a self-fulfilling catastrophe Sometimes I
give myself the creeps Watch your problems disappear And then reappear
as mine Come take a look at me I'm the poster boy for sympathy I can't
find my way out of this place I've spent my life Some things we never tell
Looking back it's just as well No comfort from anyone A frightened child
with no place to run Can you hear me calling out your name? Calling
out but nobody's there
Article IV
Crawling through the mud all night long Hunted
like rats by the viet cong Fields of death bodies piled up higher Through
the silence of the Tet cease fine The will to Fight seems so long gone
While back at home they sing a protest song They burned them once then
they shot them twice Shot three times for the blood of christ Sue sets
en the days of rage Whatís said and done by the chosen ones Sun sets on
the days of rage As your cities burn the revolution comes Crowd control
becomes a police state On the streets of Chicago 1968 The last call for
civil liberty The Black Panthers versus O.P.D. From the Berkeley campus
to the fields of Kent State The national guard must retaliate The guardsman
smiled said he had as choice All he could see was the blood of christ Yes
should see the things they've done today Our national guard fining into
an unarmed crowd What about our human rights? What about our sense
of community? First California then the world
Indoctrination
Try to turn away From the spectacle of living everyday
The fear you cultivate The jingoist hysteria The lust for blood for god
and state Indoctrinate the children With your vitriol and lies Then poison
their humanity Put blinders on their eyes Flesh blood burning lights A
propaganda scam Sequestered and obedient To god and uncle Sam First we
need a threat To the democratic interest we protect Create an air of fear
So we can vilify then justify Support the troops who fight and die They
lie we die
Shit-Talking Capitalists
Clear heads yes filled with lies How dare you look
them in the eyes I used to want the things you had Now I know it was just
a fad You lied and I'm still fucking waiting And you-you still talk your
shit I thought we stood side by side To make a change I know I tried Boasting
heart that wasn't there You raped the scene that thought you cared In it
for the cash right from the start Now you're all washed up and you've got
no heart I can still see you hide Inside your shell of delusion not fooling
yourself I can still see the sarcasm on your face As you say that you're
doing it ìfor the kidsî Nothing mattered but the money and lies And now
we all see through your pathetic disguise And we'll watch you fall
Letters Home
So many things I never said All those regrets and
broken promises Would it have mattered if I had Told you everything I felt
Admitted I was scared of losing you Would you have understood? Remember
when you said you'd wait forever And I thought it was true And as this
broken heart just keeps on beating I'll send these letters home to you
Because I don't know what else to do I'll wait for you I guess it's been
seven weeks And I can't get you of my mind When will I find my way back
To where we were when I left The tape you sent my pillow's drenched with
tears Confirmed my worst fears
30 Day Wonder
The distance between the things you say And your
actions tell me everything You never could so Iíll keep my grip and stay
away Why should I waste my time When you can't tell wrong from right?
If you had your way I'd embrace convention And lose my will to fight Distractions
keep me off my game And I can't help but wonder if it was you Would you
still feel the fucking same? Closed out shut down it doesn't matter
to me Because I've got the truth Sick lies close ties your cheap talk ainít
enough Because we've got the truth Iíve got no time for narrow minds just
playing the role You played the role Played out your self doubt is going
to force you to fold Because you got caught up playing the role
Dear Cammi
I told you twice to stay away I know the games
you're going to play I'm trying to walk the straightened line I don't need
your problems killing my time Sometimes I feel just like a puppet on a
string Everybody talks so loud and I can't hear a thing Each day I find
away to keep myself away from you Don't you try to comfort me I don't need
your sympathy This is how it's supposed to be Looking through your jaded
eyes It's so easy just to criticize I'm trying to do the best that I can
I don't expect you to understand Don't mean a thing to me you run around
like rats Speak with authority but never with the facts I've been afflicted
yeah I'm addicted to you
Yesterday Died-Tomorrow Won't Be Born
There's something lost somewhere inside Another
darkened room where dreams all go to die Once more a tear drops slowly
to my feet Again I recognize the triumph in defeat so tell me What can
I do when it all falls apart? Torn straight through tell me how to
feel My broken dreams a life in disarray I shut my eyes my silence is my
cell Cold sweats and nightmares keep me awake The time keeps running down
on how much I can take Ripped myself to pieces on the fragments of a dream
Grim retrospective of a life torn at the seams When the emptiness becomes
too much The voices lie I can't trust my touch The pain of living the fear
of death You choose
Winning The Hearts And Minds
When might makes right you want to bet The U.S.A.
is now a terrorist threat Free elections another casualty On the covert
war on freedom and democracy Spray paint (blood stained) walls fading light
The death squads are coming to your town tonight M-16 to your head lie
through your teeth Or you might end up dead Those stubborn peasants remain
opposed To the western puppet that we've imposed Not to worry they'll see
it our way The C.I.A. trained death squads will crush the coop within a
day Hahahahaha laugh it away You're making friends with the U.S.A.
A clear conscience when the price is right After all who needs human rights?
Police state now you rule by fear To stabilize this hemisphere for what?
A Time And A Place
I've played off devastation I told you it didn't
mean that much But this world keeps on closing in on me Whenever we fall
out of touch It's those subtle difference Keeping up appearances for what?
It gets the best of me Sometimes it's better not to know I've tried so
many times To tell you how I feel But foreverís such a long, long time
and this apology's for real Now there's a time and a place for saving face
There's a time when it's all too much Through the hardest times Through
the thick and thin I've always played it off And kept my grin But this
life's too short to waste on pride This is the time and the place for me
To clean up my side
Second Coming (Battalion Of Saints cover song)
It streaks across the sky towards Bethlehem A shining
star filled with hope and love. Second coming, the new Christ won't
survive It's a second coming the Christ will die He thinks he'll rid the
world of it's sins. But he'll feel the nails go right into his hands.
Think about the first time that he came, All the millions that died in
his name, The apocalypse is oh so near, Soon enough we'll be in darkness.
When the world finally got wise He got a spear right into his side.
After The Nightmare
Like rats from the wreckage We patrol the decay
Through the ash and the darkness The scavengers pillage what's wasted away
And power corrodes and compromises The hands once held so high The lies
the vain plead for their very lives No sunlight or shadow Just the rotting
remains Of the clergy pariah And the millions of sinners shackled in chains
Drowning in blood and holy water The bombs turned the battlefield to dust
So what's left of the world To divide and to dominate And rape and defile
Or oppress and discriminate It's all over did anyone get their way
My War (Black Flag cover song)
My war you're one of them You say that you're my
friend but you're one of them You don't want to see me live You don't want
me to give Cuz you're one of them My war you're one of them You say that
you're my friend But you're one of them I might not know what a friend
is All I know is what you're not Cuz you're one of them My war you're one
of them You say that you're my friend But you're one of them I have a prediction,
it lives in my brain It's with me every day, it drives me insane I feel
it in my heart, that if I has a gun I feel it in my heart, I'd wanna kill
some I feel it in my heart, the end will come Come on! My war you're
one of them You say that you're my friend But you're one of them Tell me
that i'm wrong Try to sing me your ego song You're one of them My war you're
one of them You say that you're my friend But you're one of them My war.