1. Fire Engine Red
2. Enter The Unapproachables
3. Yesterday's Headlines
4. Great Leap Forward
5. Cheyenne
6. Libertine
7. Trial Of The Century
8. Nobody Likes A Cynic
9. Year Of The Rat
10. Pisces/Almost Home
11. Defusing The Popular Struggle
12. All The Joy You've Ever Known
13. Blue Black Eyes
14. Spit You Out
Fire Engine Red
you talk funny where're you from california i hate
california forgotten stories of excess both real and fiction too many hollow
lives spent chasing benediction we plummet to the earth like scores of
fallen angels play out our tragedies on empty weathered stages but before
we lose it all the final curtain call conflicted and dejected and dejected
beware the opulence inherent in confusion when reality's obscured by clouds
of disillusion held under far too long by the weight of our existence we
labor fruitlessly against both time and distance but before we lose it
all the final curtain call conflicted and dejected what's in the past can't
be undone you've got to separate to become one your indecision hides the
guilt just underneath your clouded eyes so sick you'd sell your soul for
another fifteen minute lie.
Enter The Unapproachables
yeah you don't speak not a single word can't correlate
a single thing you've heard you just erase all the things we've said with
a mask of disapproval and it's always about you convinced yourself there's
better things to do like building a wall hey hey you double up at the thought
of fun you're not concerned about anyone you're alone when the sun goes
down like a cold forsaken shadow and you're trapped inside yourself nothing
can reach you nobody matters anyway just building a wall hey hey hey taking
a fall hey hey hey and it's always about you convinced yourself there's
better things to do you're looking outside for purpose and piece of mind
and you may never find you'll never find freedom.
Yesterday's Headlines
running short on imagination still we waste it
all on words spoken without the benefit of our minds the candle burns the
edges fray our best intentions waste away and everybody loves the things
we've done and on and on and on life appears weightless for everyone but
me this world grows heavier everyday deterioration growing old before my
time nobody cares nevermind we all prey on a vain condition and the hopelessness
of it all these days there's nothing we can trust the dreams we made we've
seen them fade trampled by our sad parade yet we're so pleased with what
we've done and on and on and i'm done life appears weightless for everyone
but me this world grows heavier everyday deterioration growing old before
my time nobody cares the mind breaks down when it dies our machine's doubled
in size to orchestrate the grand collapse i see us all trapped in its path
there was a time we were unbound as if we'd never hit the ground but just
like rain we can't keep from falling.
The Great Leap Forward
once were standing for something with true strength
and heart but the old manifesto has splintered apart driven from homes
to the depths of despair hear the cries of the innocent ring through the
air genocide a new class warfare pushed aside to make all the people one
drop dead because freedom's a cancer and state sponsored terror's the new
land reform blinded by pride and national impulse weaned on the doctrines
of lenin and marx a blood red scar on the new face of china exploding like
tinder too close to the spark genocide the new class warfare pushed aside
to make all the people one drop dead because freedom's a cancer and state
sponsored terror's the new land reform oh this time it's genocide and the
terror comes from within nobody's safe from the latest wave as the new
repbulic's in we'll do away with agrarian notions bleed the population
into fear you can't stop our populist expansion you've got no freedoms
here hey.
Cheyenne
an infant reared on hatred never learns to hold
diversity inviolate while so called moralists proclaim they've got the
test to monitor the ways our love's expressed so just think it through
hatred is the stillborn child of ignorance and boredom such a narrow view
means seeds of tolerance are sown by those who can't afford them what will
you do it's not too late for you to change your xenophobic point of view
now your pontifications leave us draped in disbelief why should we suffer
for the fear that's underneath if we could learn to cherish what sets us
apart keep love instead of fear within our hearts so just think it through
hatred is the stillborn child of ignorance and boredom such a narrow view
means seeds of tolerance are sown by those who can't afford them what will
you do it's not too late for you to change your xenophobic point of view
big fucking man contestant in a freak show so quick to terrorize someone
you hardly know don't see the pain when will you realize that love is never
wrong just learn to empathize.
Libertine
i've been put down and pushed around but they won't
break me i still believe been cast aside stood up for ridicule but i'm
still here i feel the same this one's for those who'll never understand
it's not a blueprint or a master plan all i know is nothing that i've done
before held me so strong never steered me wrong and with every passing
day distills my dedication in a clouded world you kept me clear and there's
a part of you in all i've done been second guessed thought immature but
for what it's worth know that i'm still here i wonder what i could have
done instead to quell the anger boiling in my head unlike so many things
you've never let me down never steered me wrong and with every passing
day distilled my dedication with you i've never felt alone and as i stumble
through these days i hope you'll understand it's so much more than a phase
it's everything i am when i've strayed in darker times when i'm feeling
left behind you're always there the music somehow seems to get me by.
Trial Of The Century
what does it mean when you're sixteen the world's
a cold and lonely place but you're still kicking every door down in the
place the war of words they're so uptight you pass a hundred sleepless
nights and the worst is yet to come or so they say here comes seventeen
and just beyond there's tolerance and empathy to protect you from them
all a stand of evergreen just like the places we would always talk about
to catch you when you fall you hear a knock outside the door it never rains
here anymore so now there's nothing new to wash away the pain a frightened
face your clouded mind the memories you've trailed behind and seventeen
still feels light years away here comes seventeen and just beyond there's
tolerance and empathy to protect you from them all a stand of evergreen
just like the places we would always talk about to catch you when you fall
nobody seems to understand you as you're grasping for that innocence sequestered
in your mind was it guilt or were they blind all this time a frightened
face your clouded mind the memories you've trailed behind and seventeen
still feels light years away here comes seventeen and just beyond there's
tolerance and empathy to protect you from them all a stand of evergreen
just like the places we would always talk about to catch you when you fall.
Nobody Likes A Cynic
cause trash like you will never have the means
with which to live in any modicum of luxury or vague derivative of comfort
don't stray beyond your class you'll never crack this ceiling made of glass
oh just live to work and then expire keep your mouth shut you might retire
with something more than debts stretched far beyond your means pledge allegiance
to the corporate machines don't you dare step out of line everything will
be just fine but you'd better mind your place just learn to be a good consumer
you're now a number you've no longer got a face oh oh oh oh let my anger
be my declaration my dissent my participation resistance isn't any use
just comsume obey and reproduce the next working class who'll shoulder
your burden of despair your empty cries for a living wage our system doesn't
care we don't care that our system won't provide for public health we don't
care that you're left out in the cold all by yourself we don't care.
Year Of The Rat
a fool's crusade a proxy war we justify we keep
the score with millions dead too blind to see the cryptic clash of world
war three did your country's sons and daughters die to make this world
a safer place or do we just defy flesh and blood become one the stakes
keep rising the time has come the band performs a martyr's versse and the
dominoes fall in reverse did your country's sons and daughters die to make
this world a safer place or do we just defy the lines are drawn don't you
see it's too late to turn back now we won't abide a stalemate the end is
predicated on the loss of life what's so sinister we're only trying to
do what we think is right conscience administered by the ones with the
shortest sight this business will get out of control it will get out of
control and we'll be lucky to live through it.
Pisces/Almost Home
the sense of fear on which you feed when the people
can't believe the things they read we've been brought up to feel left out
eclipsed by the shadows of our doubts the pieces rise and rearrange and
all the smiling faces seem so strange with tacit symmetry and prose i feel
the doors behind me close you're here alone inside this crowd you've faced
the world and made us proud but when the bitterness returns there's nothing
left to hide the burns burns i've waited i've written on promises and dreams
a thousand times still relegated to these lines like water untainted the
sad quixotic trail i've left behind somehow it echoes in my mind and it
almost feels like coming home.
Defusing The Popular Struggle
think i'm gonna like this democracy stuff once
lost we will never find our way shutting down we're devoid of things to
say our prospects are growing worse with every hour with no voice it seems
we've got no power overcome by headlines we believe what isn't true you've
got no empathy for anyone but you moral contradictions and subjective hollow
tomes perpetuate the fear asphyxiating us at home so seems like there's
no place left to hid from the cold amorphous dread that we all feel inside
actions might dictate who survives the hopelessness which punctuates our
empty lives could there be something i need a reason could there be anything
at all systems of technology that once kept us informed now endeavor to
perpetuate the norm privatization of concentrated wealth while millions
still suffer in dilapidated health so who cares to calculate what indigence
will cost how can we replicate urbanity that's lost the curtain falls on
the ultimate disgrace we hunger for equality though we've never had a taste
so seems like there's no place left to hid from the cold amorphous dread
that we all feel inside actions might dictate who survives the hopelessness
which punctuates our empty lives could there be something i need a reason
could there be anything at all the irony will make you laugh intervene
on our behalf to undo this mask of false complicity the right wing despotic
government has manufactured our consent can we entrust ourselves to transorm
their doctrine to dissent.
All The Joy You've Ever Known
when there's something that won't let you sleep
can you live with the secrets you keep all the pain all the pride all the
poison you've taken that's killing you inside there's a manifested bitterness
in all the joy you've known there's no point in redemption some things
are better left alone i've waited for freedom from bondage of self grown
tired of grown cold grown sick of the doctrine the lies that i've been
told there's a manifested bitterness in all the joy you've known there's
no point in redemption some things are better left alone.
Blue Black Eyes
outlived a wasted life too soon to say goodbye
one plot to call your own now it's our turn to cry i've been through this
before these things are hard to take was it too much to live for one choice
you felt you had to make and i've pissed my time away through countless
life long wasted days why are all the simple things so lost in sorrow and
my perspective so unclear life's cold and think with lies seen through
the blue black eyes we squander as we smile things which once appeared
worthwhile how views on life distort when we see a life cut short no cause
to calculate absentia renders no debate and i've pissed my time away through
countless life long wasted days why are all the simple things so lost in
sorrow and my perspective so unclear through pain i've grown to learn just
as long as life still burns won't sit around and wait until i burn down
heaven's gate i know that i've pissed my time away through countless life
long wasted days why are all the simple things so lost in sorrow and my
perspective so unclear.
Spit You Out
uh we must therefore ensure that those idiots out
there don't get into trouble by actually using their theoretical right
to vote to interfere where they don't belong like in the public arena rejection
like a promise unfulfilled from an emptiness distilled as one final sign
perpetuates our slow decline we've failed the systems we've created drag
us down on crowded streets we'll die alone our dreams are only flesh and
bone one day some way when you fall apart and waste away you'll see no
doubt this world is gonna spit you out drained no sign of life this world
of lies is gonna cut you down to size one day some way when you fall apart
and waste away you'll see no doubt this world is gonna spit they'll spit
you out like a spoke in their machine some people break like glass it just
might be your final chance to feel can you distinguish fate from what seems
real enamored by the romance of regret i come pulling all the stops putting
rain on all of this when the siren's in my sleep and her sorrow at my kiss
i can't turn away all the have to when you pray all her vanity and vain
pinning on her crazy face here in my head i hear you say here in my head
i hear you pray time is what it's made made by others i regret remember
me i hear it said out of faces i forget hope you get up off your feet shake
the dust out of your shoes city lights and all my jazz all my demonstrations
too here in my head i hear you say here in my head i hear you pray time
is what it's made made by others i regret remember me i hear it said out
of faces i forget here in my head i hear you say here in my head i hear
you pray here in my head i hear you say here in my head i hear you pray.