The Illusion Of Progress

Staind The Illusion Of Progress Lyrics
1.This Is It

here we are
there's nowhere else to go and that's so far
from where we all could be but you can feel
like, dissapearing, you should take this for what it's worth
this is it, and it feels, and it feels like this is good
enough for, could it be that the grass is always green

There you are
you dream of something better, what's so wrong with
what you thought was true and, all the colors are
dissapearing, you should take this for what it's worth
(this is it) this is it...
If you feel like dissapearing, you should take this for what
it's worth
(this is it) this is it...
If you feel like dissapearing, you should take this for what
it's worth

If you feel like dissapearing, you should take this for what
it's worth
this is it, and it feels, and it feels like this is good
enough for, could it be that the grass is always green


2.The Way I Am

I'm not very good at just paying attention
I'm not very good at remembering things that you say
I'm not very good at persuing redemption
I'm not very good at concealing the hand that i play

It's the way I am, you'll never change
The way I am, or re arrange
The way I am, just let me be
The way I am, it's the way I am

I'm not really sure of the coming attractions
I'm not really sure of the illusions we read on the wall
I'm not really sure of the preaching we practice
I'm not really sure if we notice it before we fall

It's the way I am, you'll never change
The way I am, or re arrange
The way I am, just let me be
The way I am, it's the way I am

I'm not very good at just paying attention
I'm not very good at remembering things
I'm not very good at pursuing redemption
I'm not very good at concealing the hand that i play
When I'm trying so hard just to beat you
I'm not really good at controlling my fate
I'm not really good at controlling my anger
I'm not really good at subduing my hate
I'm not really good
I'm not really good
I'm not really good

It's the way I am, you'll never change
The way I am, or re arrange
The way I am, just let me be
The way I am, i'ts the way I am


3.Believe

I sit alone and watch the clock
Tryin' to collect my thoughts
All I think about is you
And so I cry myself to sleep
And hope the devil I don't meet
In the dreams that I live through

Believe in me
I know you've waited for so long
Believe in me
Sometimes the weak become the strong
Believe in me
This life's not always what it seems
Believe in me
Cause I was made for chasing dreams

All the smiles you've had to fake
And all the shit you've had to take
Just to lead us here again
I never have the things to say
To make it all just go away
To make it all just disappear

Believe in me
I know you've waited for so long
Believe in me
Sometimes the weak become the strong
Believe in me
This life's not always what it seems
Believe in me
Cause I was made for chasing dreams

It's my life, it's my choice
Hear my words, hear my voice
And just believe

I sit alone and watch the clock
Tryin' to collect my thoughts
And all I think about is you
If you believe in me
Life not always what it seems
Believe in me
Cause I was made for chasing dreams

Believe in me
I know you've waited for so long
Believe in me
Sometimes the weak become the strong
Believe in me
This life's not always what it seems
Believe in me
Cause I was made for chasing dreams


4.Save Me

This Dark Road
Another Cigarette
I'm Getting Sick Of This
The End Is Near
I'm In The Thick Of It
And I'll Be There Soon
If You Can Handle It

Just Save Me
From All That I Am
You Save Me
For The Fuck Of It
Save Me
Just Hold Out Your Hand
You Save Me
From All Of It

I Try To Speak Myself
You Can Do It Too
I Need No One's Help
I'm Needing Only You
So Just Pray For Me
And Deliver It
You Never Take From Me
What I'm Giving

Just Save Me
From All That I Am
You Save Me
For The Fuck Of It
Save Me
Just Hold Out Your Hand
You Save Me
From All Of It

And All That I've Become Is You
The Only Good In Me Is You
And After All Of This
The Day Will Come To Find Out
Will You Take Me Or Forsake Me
So Pray For Me
Am I Forgiven
For What You Take From Me

Just Save Me
From All That I Am
You Save Me
For The Fuck Of It
Save Me
Just Hold Out Your Hand
You Save Me
From All Of It
Come Save Me

Pray For Me
Am I Forgiven


5.All I Want

What I leave,
When you go,
What I see,
And what you show,
And what I guess,
And when I don't,
Is something you all ready, all ready know,
I can't live without,
All I think about,
All I want is you,
You're all I dream about,
I can't live without,
All I want is you,

The things I do,
I go through,
And all I see,
When Im awake,
And what I make,
The shit that I take,
Is something you all ready, all ready know
I can't live without,
All I think about,
All I want is you,
You're all I dream about,
I can't live without,
All I want is you,

Is you,
Is you,
Is you,
You're all I dream about,
That I can't live without,
All I want is you

I can't live without,
All I think about,
All I want is you,
You're all I dream about,
I can't live without,
All I want is you,
I just can't live without you,
When all I think about is you,
And all I want is you


6.Pardon Me

I'm One Stop From A Breakdown
Two Steps From Being Safe
Just Try To See This Through
I'm Three Steps From This Nightmare
And Four Steps From The Door
The Rest Is Up To You

Pardon Me While I Just Turn My Back
And Walk Away
Pardon Me If I Can't Listen
To The Things You Say
Pardon Me If I Can't Fake It
While You Still Believe Pardon Me

I'm One Step From Forgiveness
And Two Steps From My Grave
We're All Just Passing Through
Three Steps From Redemption
Four From The Devil's Door
On A Path That Leads To You

Pardon Me While I Just Turn My Back
And Walk Away
Pardon Me If I Can't Listen
To The Things You Say
Pardon Me If I Can't Fake This
While You Still Believe Pardon Me

Pardon Me While I Just Turn My Back
And Walk Away
Pardon Me If I Can't Listen
To The Things You Say
Pardon Me If I Can't Fake This
While You Still Believe Pardon Me

I'm Two Steps From Salvation
But I'm Only Taking One Pardon Me


7.Lost Along The Way

We Change The Rhyme
Forget The Reason
Waiting For The
Change Of Season
Drawing Near
It's Almost Here
So Save Tonight
Forget Tomorrow
Say Goodbye
To Time We Borrowed
It's Always There
It's In The Air
Like Voices In The Rain
Like A Song Without A Name
Like Angel's Wings
And Whisperings
Of Love We Lost
And Found Along The Way

Do You Take The Time
To Really Wollow
In The Footsteps
That You Follow
Gets You Where
Gets You Anywhere
So Here Today
And Gone Tomorrow
With The Time You
Had To Borrow
It's Always There
It's In The Air
Like Voices In The Rain
Like A Song Without A Name
Like Angel's Wings
And Whisperings
Of Love We Lost
And Found Along The Way

Like Voices In The Rain
Like A Song Without A Name
Like Angel's Wings
And Whisperings
Of Time We Lost
And Found Out In The Rain
Like A Song Without A Name
Like Angel's Wings
And Whisperings
Of Love We Lost
Of Love We Lost
And Found Along
The Way

We Found Along The Way


8.Break Away

Misery
The Company It Keeps
Is For Me
All These Things
We Keep Repeating
Like A Wheel
That Keeps Turning
If I Could Break Away
From This Moment
Break Away
What Is Real
Never Showing
Break Away
How I Feel
If I Could Break Away

Apathy
The Ignorance It Brings
The Tragedy
Of All These Things
We Keep Repeating
Like A Wheel
That Keeps Turning
If I Could Break Away
From This Moment
Break Away
What Is Real
Never Showing
Break Away
How I Feel
If I Could Break Away


9.Tangled Up In You

You're My World
The Shelter From The Rain
You're The Pills
That Take Away My Pain

You're The Light
That Helps Me Find My Way
You're The Words
When I Have Nothing To Say

And In This World
Where Nothing Else Is True
Here I Am
Still Tangled Up In You
I'm Still Tangled Up In You
Still Tangled Up In You

You're The Fire
That Warms Me When I'm Cold
You're The Hand
I Have To Hold As I Grow Old

You're The Shore
When I Am Lost At Sea
You're The Only Thing
That I Like About Me

And In This World
Where Nothing Else Is True
Here I Am
Still Tangled Up In You
I'm Still Tangled Up In You

How Long Has It Been
Since This Storyline Began
And I Hope It Never Ends
And Goes Like This Forever

In This World
Where Nothing Else Is True
Here I Am
Still Tangled Up In You
Tangled Up In You
I'm Still Tangled Up In You
Still Tangled Up In You


10.Raining Again

A Piece Of Glass
In The Sand Under Your Feet
It Cuts You Deep
And Makes You Hate The Beauty
That You See
And You Wonder Where You Are
How You Ever Got So Far
Now You Question What Went Wrong
It's Your Heart

It's Raining Again
There's A Dark Cloud
Over Your Head
It Follows You 'Round
It's Bringing You Down
It's Raining
It's Raining Again

A Wilted Rose
Your Decay Is All You See
You Buy The Flaws
And Miss The Beauty
That Is Yours For Free
Realize You Are So Far
From The Things That Matter Now
And You Only Wonder How
It's Your Heart

It's Raining Again
There's A Dark Cloud
Over Your Head
It Follows You 'Round
It's Bringing You Down
It's Raining
It's Raining Again

Come On
Come On Get It Right
Come On
Come On Make It Right
Come On
Come On It's Alright

It's Raining Again
There's A Dark Cloud
Over Your Head
It Follows You 'Round
It's Bringing You Down
It's Raining
It's Raining Again
It's Raining
Raining Again
There's A Dark Cloud
Over Your Head


11.Rainy Day Parade

You The Great Pretenders
Learn To Paint Your Pictures
While You're Stepping Over
Fallen People
Laying In The Streets
You The Great Offenders
Only Your Views Matter
While Your Heart Grows Colder
I Wish That You Could
Open Up And Feel
For A While
See If You Can Take It
Feel, Your Alive And This Is All Part Of It
Feel, Could It Be That We're All Afraid
'Cause It Feels
Like A Rainy Day Parade

We The Great Believers
Blood Is Legal Tender
And I Will Not Surrender
What It Was Our Fathers
Died To Bear
We The People Stated
Not Negotiated
Just To Be Forgotten
I Wish That You Could
Open Up And See
For A While
See If You Can Take It
See, Your Alive This Is All
Part Of It
See, Can't You See
That We're All Afraid
'Cause It Seems
Like A Rainy Day Parade

What I See
Is All To Real
What I Need
Is What You Steal
And All I Reap
Is What You Take
Upon My Back
On Which You Break
And I Just Wish
That We Could
Rise Above This Feel
For A While
See If You Can Take It
Feel, Your Alive And This Is All Part Of It
Feel, Could It Be That We're All Afraid
'Cause It Feels
Like A Rainy Day Parade


12.The Corner

It Sheltered Me From Nothing But The Weather
I Called It Home For A Moment Of My Life
This Place I See Just Doesn't Look Familiar
I Wonder If It Looks The Same Inside

So There's The Corner That I Sat On
The Road I Walked Home In The Rain
And There's The Star I Used To Wish On
It All Just Seems Like Yesterday

Days Go By
Nothing's Getting Clearer
Can't Change My Mind
My Troubles Are The Same
Faces Change
The Names They Are Familiar
And The Streets I See
Will Stand The Test Of Time

So There's The Corner That I Sat On
The Road I Walked Home In The Rain
And There's The Star I Used To Wish On
It All Just Seems Like Yesterday

And Those Stars
Stars Still Shine
Shine Down Through The Rain

And There's The Corner That I Sat On
The Road I Walked Home In The Rain
And There's The Star I Used To Wish On
It All Just Seems Like Yesterday

And I Stare Out This Dirty Window
As This World Goes Slowly By
And Somewhere Out There Is The Future
That I Once Thought Had Passed Me By

Sheltered Me From Nothing But The Weather


13.Nothing Left To Say

Talk To Me
You Never Talk To Me
Do We Suffer From
Social Atrophy
And When The Conversation's Over
When The Conversation's Over
We've Taken What's Been Given
And We Throw It All Away

Walk With Me
Come On And Walk With Me
Take A Look Around You
Do You Like What You See

We've Taken What's Been Given
And We Throw It All Away
It's Hard To Be Forgiven
When There's Nothing Left To Say

When The Conversation's Over
The Silence Just Gets In The Way
Conversation's Over
Talk To Me
Don't Ever Talk For Me

We've Taken What's Been Given
And You Throw It All Away
It's Hard To Be Forgiven
When There's Nothing Left To Say

There's Nothing Left To Say


14.It's Been Awhile (Acoustic)

It's been awhile
Since I could hold my head up high
And it's been awhile
Since I first saw you
And it's been awhile
Since I could stand on my own two feet again
And it's been awhile
Since I could call you

And everything I can't remember
As fucked up as it all may seem
The consequences that I've rendered
I've stretched myself beyond my means

And it's been awhile
Since I can say that I wasn't addicted
And it's been awhile
Since I can say I love myself as well
And it's been awhile
Since I've gone and fucked things up just like I always do
And it's been awhile
But all that shit seems to disappear when I'm with you

And everything I can't remember
As fucked up as it all may seem
The consequences that I've rendered
I've gone and fucked things up again

Why must I feel this way?
Just make this go away
Just one more peaceful day!

And it's been awhile
Since I could look at myself straight
And it's been awhile
Since I said I'm sorry
And it's been awhile
Since I've seen the way the candle lights your face
And it's been awhile
But I can still remember just the way you taste

And everything I can't remember
As fucked up as it all may seem to be I know it's me
I cannot blame this on my father
He did the best he could for me

And it's been awhile
Since I could hold my head up high
And it's been awhile
Since I said I'm sorry


15.Devil (Acoustic)

She sits alone again and tries her best
Not to pretend that all she use to live for was a love that was
unfair
Everytime she needs to feel the things
that she believes will fill the void inside of her cause he was
never there
She said i swear im not the devil although you think i am
I swear im not the devil
She said i swear im not the devil although you think i am
I swear im not the devil

He tries to sleep again
And he wonders when the pain will end
The cuts, they may run deeper than his cracking outer shell

He looks with tired eyes
At all the people hypnotized
And wonders what can save him
From his self created hell.

And he said i swear im not the devil although you think i am
I swear im not the devil
And he said i swear im not the devil although you think i am
I swear im not the devil

I always fail to see the little things in front of me
The things that mean so much to you
A way to let you know
That i appreciate the way you always tolerate
But sometimes when i medicate
Frustration in you shows me how you feel
But i swear im not the devil although you think i am
I swear im not the devil
And i scream i swear im not the devil although you think i am
I swear im not the devil


16.Schizophrenic Conversations (Acoustic)

Are you afraid, afraid of the truth
In the mirror staring back at you.
The image is cracked but so is the view, here.
And the strength of a tree begins in the roots
That I tend bury into you
At least now the storm can't blow me away.

So crawl inside my head with me.
I'll show you how it feels to be,
To blame like me.

Should I be afraid of this face that I see
In the mirror staring back at me?
So cold were the days when I listened to you.
And you say that I'm weak so show me the proof
Because I still exist in spite of you
But I won't compete with you every day.

So crawl inside my head with me.
I'll show you how it feels to be,
To blame like me.

Schizophrenic conversations that
I'm always having with myself.
I hear these voices in my head competing.
Maybe I could use a little help
I still have schizophrenic conversations
Where there's no one else around to hear.
I long for solitude and peace within me
Void of all the anger and the fear.

So crawl inside my head with me.
I'll show you how it feels to be,
Fucked up like me.

I'll show you how it feels to be
To blame like me
Ashamed like me