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| 3:19 | 
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When our rivers run dry and our crops cease to grow
And when our summers grow longer and winters won’t snow From the banks of the ocean and the ice in the hills To the fight in the desert where progress stands still When we’ve lost our will That’s how we’ll know This is not a test, oh no This is cardiac arrest Of a world too proud to admit our mistakes We're crashing into the ground as all fall from grace When the air that we breathe becomes air that we choke When the marsh fever spreads from the swamps to our homes When your home on the range has been torn down and paved and The buffalo roam to a slaughterhouse grave What more will it take For us to know This is not a test, oh no This is cardiac arrest Of a world too proud to admit our mistakes Kissing the ground as well fall from grace This is a chance to set things straight To bend or break the rules back into place There is no middle ground, no compromise, we’ve drawn the line With perfect aim, we stand back and throw Glass windows break and it’s all about to blow Lights go out as we pass the torch again In hope that it stays lit Neutrality means that you don’t really care Cause the struggle goes on even when you’re not there Blind and unaware That’s how we’ll know This is not a test, oh no This is cardiac arrest Of a world too proud to admit our mistakes We're crashing into the ground as we all, yeah we all, all fall from grace |
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| 2. |
| 4:02 |
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Far from home on a road unknown Where the vultures circle on winds that blow From northern skies that haunt these waking moments Our shadows cast by the mountain range Our calloused souls, we find a way Through desperate eyes, we long for the horizon While this sun is rising, yeah We are the long forgotten sons And daughters that don't belong to anyone And we are alone under this sun And we work to fix the work that you've undone When cries for help go unanswered And signal fires just burn and burn We wonder if we're waiting here for nothing 'Cause our lips are sewn our ears are filled With the constant drone of the unfulfilled But we'll never fall if we stand for something We stand for something, yeah Yeah, we are the long forgotten sons And daughters that don't belong to anyone And we are alone under this sun And we work to fix the work that you've undone Don't fall, I see lights in the distance They're not far away Stand up 'cause the sky is turning gray There's hope in these footsteps of persistence So don't go astray These lights get closer every day 'Cause we are the long forgotten sons Yeah we are the long forgotten sons We are the long forgotten sons And daughters that don't belong to anyone And we are alone under this sun We work to fix the work that you've undone What you've undone |
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| 3. |
| 3:43 |
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To the sound of a heartbeat pounding away
To the rhythm of the awful rusted machines We toss and turn but don't sleep Each breath we take makes us thieves Like causes without rebels Just talk but promise nothing else We crawl on our knees for you Under a sky no longer blue We sweat all day long for you But we sow seeds to see us through 'Cuz sometimes dreams just don't come true We wait to reap what we are due To the rhythm of a time bomb ticking away And the blare of the sirens combing the streets Chased down like dogs we run from Your grasp until the sun comes up We crawl on our knees for you Under a sky no longer blue We sweat all day long for you But we sow seeds to see us through 'Cuz sometimes dreams just don't come true Look now at what they've done to you White needles buried in the red The engine roars and then it gives But never dies 'Cuz we don't live We just survive On the scraps that you throw away I won't crawl on my knees for you I won't believe the lies that hide the truth I won't sweat one more drop for you 'Cuz we are the rust upon your gears We are the insects in your ears We crawl We crawl We crawl... all over you We sow the seeds to see us through Our days are precious and so few We all reap what we are due Under this sky no longer blue We bring the dawn long over-due We crawl We crawl We crawl... all over you |
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| 4. |
| 3:09 |
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She got down on hands and knees, one ear against the ground, Holding her breath to hear something, but the dirt made not a sound tonight Echoes of songs still lurk on distant foreign shores, where we Danced just to please the gods that only ask for more, and so it goes But still we give ourselves to this We can't spend our lives waiting to live On cold nights In a prayer for dawn But daylight Isn't what she wants The concrete Calls my name again I'm falling Through the cracks I slip The postcard says wish you were here But I'd rather I was there, holding On to the simple things before they disappear, that's what I meant But that was then, and this is now I'll make it up to you somehow On cold nights In a prayer for dawn But daylight Isn't what she wants The concrete Calls my name again I'm falling Though the cracks I slip A destination A fading smile Another station Another mile Another day gone I swore that i will Be there before dawn So be there i will She got down on hands and knees, one ear against the ground, Holding her breath to hear something, anything at all The Dirt Whispered, "Child, I'm coming home." On cold nights In a prayer for dawn But the daylight Isn't what she wants The concrete Calls my name again I'm falling Though the cracks I slip I slip Through the cracks I slip Through the cracks I slip Through the cracks I slip Through the cracks I slip |
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| 5. |
| 3:05 |
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There, high on the watchtower Keeping the peace Whatever that means 'Cause you see the world through Crosshairs and TVs don't you Ten foot walls built around us White picket death So quiet, so safe If we fall there will be nothing No one to catch us Sit back and watch as we Spin out of control Spin out of control Try to recover, but collide with each other We spin out of control Something I can't change I was born in a place That lives by the sword And thus to it's blade we're condemned Don't you understand why We scream "no more" My dreams are of children Orphaned by blood Spilled at these hands And here on the graves Of the innocent We raise our flag Spin out of control Spin out of control Try to recover, but collide with each other We spin out of control Some things you don't forgive some things you don't forget Sometimes the fate you suffer is so much worse than death We're way off course now and we're drifting off to sea So cut the anchor on your heart to be set free Spin out of control Spin out of control Try to recover, we have to recover Before we crash, one after the other Spin out of control! |
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| 6. |
| 3:42 |
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We are the children you reject and disregard These aching cries come from the bottom of our hearts You can't disown us now, we are your own flesh and blood And we don't disappear just because your eyes are shut, now tell me Love, loss Like a bullet's path Tear through The cavity of my chest Lights out Because the fuse has blown As their castles crumble slowly We watch them fall Their crown slips from heads unworthy As we gain control This is the family that we crossed or never had This is a war that was lost the day it began 'Cause it's the race we run, but it keeps us at the start And it's the song I sung from the bottom of my heart, that's how we Read you Like a polygraph Not one Single bone in your back Own up To how you let us down As their castles crumble slowly We watch them fall Their crown slips from heads unworthy As we gain control Except for you and me, love Everyone's the same, we know But if to live, we have to be numb I'd rather know the pain, I'd rather know This happens almost never But it happened once to me And this will never be the same The ends we seam together I'm not after fame and fortune I'm after you When I've served my time I swear I Will come back for you As their castles crumble slowly We watch them fall Their crown slips from heads unworthy And right on to ours I'm after you... |
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| 7. |
| 3:27 |
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Welcome home While away They have tampered with the locks And your things they rearranged "We propose... ...A better way" Said the note they left behind In their wake of disarray You fell in place Don't fall asleep They'll find us here I know a place To disappear As a voice proclaimed What we are is the sum of 1000 lives What we know is almost nothing at all But we are what we are 'til the day we die Or 'til we don't have the strength to go on 'Til we don't have the strength to go on Let us cry Let us be Let us open up our hearts Without fear of anything Faith alone's All we need To traverse this burning bridge Now before it gets too late You claim, "it's fine" But the heart reveals What smiles betray Your sad, sad eyes Gave you away Don't you know What we are is the sum of 1000 lives What we know is almost nothing at all But we are what we are 'til the day we die Or 'til we don’t have the strength to go on 'Til we don't have the strength to go on Our shoulders bear an awful weight But still we trudge on just the same Our colors run then leave a stain They blacken our once honest name How can we argue, tell me Over the fury and the fire How many times can we tell you that we Are not like you, we see right through The poor disguise that fails to fool The wary eye is trained on you What we are is the sum of 1000 lives What we know is almost nothing at all But we are what we are 'til the day we die Or 'til we don't have the strength to go on 'Til we don't have the strength to go on What we are is the sum of 1000 lives What we know is almost nothing at all But we are what we are 'til the day we die Or 'til we don't have the strength to go on 'Til we don't have the strength to go on Yeah, we don't have the strength to go on |
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| 8. |
| 4:06 |
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I can still remember The words and what they meant As we etched them with our fingers In years of wet cement The days blurred into each other Though everything seemed clear We cruised along at half speed But then we shifted gears We ran like vampires from a thousand burning sons But even then we should have stayed But we ran away Now all my friends gone Maybe we’ve outgrown all the things that we once loved Runaway But what are we running from ? A show of hands from those in this audience of one Where have they gone ? Identities assume us As nine and five add up Synchronizing watches To the seconds that we lost I looked up and saw you I know that you saw me We froze but for a moment In empathy I brought down the sky for you but all you did was shrug You gave my emptiness away But you ranaway Now all my friends gone Maybe we’ve outgrown all the things that we once loved Runaway But what are we running from ? A show of hands from those in this audience of one Where have they gone ? We’re all ok, until the day we’re not The surface shines, while the inside rots We raced the sunset and we almost won We slammed the brakes, but the wheels went on We ran away Now all my friends gone Maybe we’ve outgrown all the things that we once loved Runaway But what are we running from ? A show of hands from those in this audience of one Where have they gone |
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| 9. |
| 3:35 |
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All we are is entertainment Caught up in our own derangement Tell us what to say and what to do All we are are pretty faces Picture perfect bottled rage Packaged synthesized versions of you We've all made petty fortunes but we can't afford a life Confined to pull-out quotes and hotel rooms They all scream California and its toppling empire But can't you see the end is coming soon Come on come on the new sensation Guarantees then obligations Spotlights follow every single move Basking here on ten foot stages Pouty lips and oh so jaded All as if we have something to prove Despite these petty fortunes we still can't afford a life Confined to pull-out quotes and hotel rooms They all scream California and its toppling empire But can't you see the end is here And if we cared at all about this unknown plight then we'd do something more to finally make this right Is this only entertainment Pull the curtains, places please We've learned to sing and dance and cry on cue But this is more than entertainment In a world so sick with pain This is the only thing that's real or true We've all made petty fortunes but we can't afford a life Confined to pull-out quotes and hotel rooms They all scream bloody murder over graves already dug But can't you see the end |
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| 10. |
| 4:13 |
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He said, "Son,
Have you seen the world? Well, what would you say If I said that you could? Just carry this gun, you'll even get paid." I said, "That sounds pretty good." Black leather boots Spit-shined so bright They cut off my hair but it looked alright We marched and we sang We all became friends As we learned how to fight A hero of war Yeah, that's what I'll be And when I come home They'll be damn proud of me I'll carry this flag To the grave if I must Because it's flag that I love And a flag that I trust I kicked in the door I yelled my commands The children, they cried But I got my man We took him away A bag over his face From his family and his friends They took off his clothes They pissed in his hands I told them to stop But then I joined in We beat him with guns And batons not just once But again and again A hero of war Yeah that's what I'll be And when I come home They'll be damn proud of me I'll carry this flag To the grave if I must Because it's flag that I love And a flag that I trust She walked through bullets and haze I asked her to stop I begged her to stay But she pressed on So I lifted my gun And I fired away And the shells jumped through the smoke And into the sand That the blood now had soaked She collapsed with a flag in her hand A flag white as snow A hero of war Is that what they see Just medals and scars So damn proud of me And I brought home that flag Now it gathers dust But it's a flag that I love It's the only flag I trust He said, "Son, have you seen the world? Well what would you say If I said that you could?" |
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| 4:02 |
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It kills me not to know this but I've all but just forgotten what the color of her eyes were and her scars or how she got them as the telling signs of age rain down a single tear is dropping through the valleys of an aging face that this world has forgotten there is no reconciliation that will put me in my place and there is no time like the present to drink these draining seconds but seldom do these words ring true when I'm constantly failing you like walls that we just can't break through until we disappear so tell me now if this ain't love then how do we get out? because I don't know that's when she said I don't hate you boy I just want to save you while there's still something left to save that's when I told her I love you girl but I'm not the answer to the questions that you still have but the day pressed on like crushing weights for no man does it ever wait like memories of dying days that deafen us like hurricanes bathed in flames we held the brand uncurled the fingers in your hand pressed into the flesh like sand now do you understand? so tell me now if this ain't love then how do we get out? because I don't know that' s when she said I don't hate you boy I just want to save you while there's still something left to save that's when I told her I love you girl but I'm not the answer for the questions that you still have one thousand miles away there's nothing left to say but so much left that I don't know we never had a choice this world is too much noise it takes me under it takes me under once again I don't hate you I don't hate you so tell me now if this ain't love then how do we get out? because I don't know that's when she said I don't hate you boy I just want to save you while there's still something left to save that's when I told her I love you girl but I'm not the answer for the questions that you still have I don't hate you I don't hate you, no |
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| 4:03 |
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A sinking ship, an awkward kiss A chance to set things straight The kind of hurt that burns and burns Like fires we can't contain We hole up in a shelter made of bones and ice and there we'll wait So start again with steady hands This time nothing gets in our way But as we peek a little closer what do we see ? A crack in the surface A flaw in the plan (Plans we made together, almost buried in the sand) A cadence imperfect Like a building condemned (Can we indemnify ourselves if we don't face what we're against) A promise kept The dirt unswept A poorly worn disguise A child unloved that then grows up To love what we despise We're broken but still breathing We are wounded but we are healing We pick up right where we left off Breathe on the ashed that remain So that these coals may become fire To guide our way A crack in the surface A flaw in the plan (Plans we made together, almost buried in the sand) A cadence imperfect Like a building condemned (Can we indemnify ourselves if we don't face what we're against) I walk on wounds That seldom prove to slow me down I laugh this constant pain away So you can't tell But there it lies under the smiles It drains me mile after mile But seldom proves to slow me down Here I go Should we just hold on To what remains of What we thought was lost But it's just a crack in the surface A flaw in the plan (Plans we made together, almost buried in the sand) A cadence imperfect Like a building condemned (Can we indemnify ourselves if we don't face what we're against) |
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| 4:02 |
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To the ends of this lost world You have marched and you have sworn To a tainted crown of thorns As the hungry sails unfurl We are thrusted from the shore And it's you that we stood for The blackest night The midnight sun The covered tracks The days spent on the run The strangers we've become These whereabouts unknown Please know you can come home It's alright I long for the moment Our silence is broken It's alright Another place, another time We took the same side of the line Yeah we saw eye to eye Even then the saddest sounds Were nothing laughter could not drown But we are not laughing now I see your face In my sights I hesitate And then look for a sign Somewhere in the sky These whereabouts unknown Please know you can come home It's alright I long for the moment Our silence is broken It's alright Even together we stand apart Swallow the sun, erase the sky An invitation that's been denied Where did you go? Where did you go? Your whereabouts unknown Please know you can come home It's alright I long for the moment Our silence is broken It's alright All is forgiven If you could just listen It's alright, it's alright |
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| 14. |
| 3:23 |
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Even though we know, yeah, We know, Our time has almost come, We're all overdue. Can there be a place to call our own? Can there be a road that takes us home? We toe the line (toe the line). We go along (we go along). We toe the line To you now. When it rains it pours Like summer storms, the skies as grey as leaves. The rivers flood the banks and spill into the streets. But the people laughed and swore that they'd restore The city piece by piece. And then the clouds gave way as if to agree; When it rains it pours. The mystery unknown now unfolds, The life that we once owned, first bought, then sold. Like messengers of war, we've no control. To oceans unexplored, This ship sails through. We toe the line (toe the line). We go along (we go along). We toe the line To you now. When it rains it pours Like summer storms, the skies as grey as leaves. The rivers flood the banks and spill into the streets. But the people laughed and swore that they'd restore The city piece by piece. And then the clouds gave way as if to agree; When it rains it pours. It pours. (It pours). When it rains it pours, When they die we mourn, When it hit, we swore, Now we want not more. Like a saint re-born, Like a rose in a storm, Like a child un-born, A child un-born... It's the coin we're tossing into the well, It's misfortune that we could not foretell, It's the dry spell. When it rains it pours Like summer storms, the skies as grey as leaves. The rivers flood the banks and spill into the streets. But the people laughed and swore that they'd restore The city piece by piece. And then the clouds gave way as if to agree; When it rains it pours. It pours, When it rains it pours. |
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