1.Afterlife
I've tasted fire I'm ready to come alive
I can't just shut it up and fake that I'm alright
I'm ready now
I'm not waiting for the afterlife
Let it burn the way the sunlight burns my skin
The way I feel inside, the way the day begins
I'm ready now
I'm not waiting for the other side
I'm ready now, I'm ready now cause
Everyday
The world is made
A chance to change
But I feel the same
And I wonder why
Would I wait till I die
To come alive？
I'm ready now
I'm not waiting for the afterlife
I still believe we can live forever
You and I we begin forever now
Forever now
Forever I still believe in us together
You and I we're here together now
Forever now
Forever now
Or never now cause
Everyday
The world is made
A chance to change
But I feel the same
And I wonder why
Would I wait till I die
To come alive？
I'm ready now
I'm not waiting for the afterlife
Everyday
A choice is made
Everyday
I choose my fate
And I wonder why
Would I wait till I die
To come alive？
To come alive
Everyday
Everyday
Everyday I still feel the same
And I wonder why
Would I wait till I die
To come alive？
I'm ready now
I'm not waiting for the afterlife
I'm ready now, I'm ready now
I'm ready now, I'm ready
I'm ready now
I'm not waiting for the afterlife
2.The Original
Got your hands in your pockets
Like you're ready to pay
Got your eyes out of socket
Like you're a mile away
Mouth shut like a locket
Like you've nothing to say
Speak your mind up come on baby free yourself
Ain't no one to do it
Free yourself
Ain't nothing to it
Free yourself
Yeah don't let nobody try and take your soul
You're the original
So you say you're just a lost soul
I know you better than that
So you say you're just lost in the wash
I know you better than that
So you say you're just a face in city race
Wasted and sick of it all
Speak your mind up come on baby free yourself
Ain't no one to do it
Free yourself
Ain't nothing to it
Free yourself
Yeah don't let nobody try and take your soul
You're the original
Free yourself
Ain't no one to do it
Free yourself
Ain't nothing to it
Free yourself
Yeah don't let nobody try and take your soul
Free yourself
Ain't no one to do it
Free yourself
Ain't nothing to it
Free yourself
Yeah don't let nobody try and take your soul
You're the original
3.The War Inside
Put your hands up open wide
Put your hands up side by side
Age don't matter like
Race don't matter like
Place don't matter like what's inside
Let the kick drum kick one time
Breathe out let your mind unwind
Eyes on the ceiling
Looking for the feeling
Wide open let your own eyes shine
Yeah, it's where the fight begins
Yeah, underneath the skin
Between these hopes and where we've been
Every fight comes from the fight within
I am the war inside
I am the battle line
I am the rising tide
I am the war I fight
Eyes open open wide
I can feel it like a crack in my spine
I can feel it like the back of my mind
I am the war inside
I get the feeling that we're living in sci-fi
I get the feeling that our weapons are lo-fi
Ain't no killer like pride
No killer like I
No killer like what's inside
Yeah, it's in the air we breathe
Yeah, it's in the blood we bleed
Beneath these dreams and what we've seen
We are the kids of the in-between
I am the war inside
I am the battle line
I am the rising tide
I am the war I fight
Eyes open open wide
I can feel it like a crack in my spine
I can feel it like the back of my mind
I am the war inside
Put your hands up open up wide
put your hands up side by side
Age don't matter like
Race don't matter like
Place don't matter like what's inside
Yeah, every thought or deed
Yeah, every tree or seed
The big things come from the little dreams
Every world is made by make believe
I am the war inside
I am the battle line
I am the rising tide
I am the war I fight
Eyes open open wide
I can feel it like a crack in my spine
I can feel it like the back of my mind
I am the war inside
4.Restless
I am the sea on a moonless night
Calling falling, slipping tides
I am the leaky, dripping pipes
The endless, aching drops of lights
I am the raindrop falling down
Always longing for the deeper ground
I am the broken, breaking seas
Even my blood finds ways to bleed
Even the rivers ways to run
Even the rain to reach the sun
Even my thirsty streams
Even in my dreams
I am restless
I am restless
I am restless
I'm looking for you
I am restless
I run like the ocean to find your shore
I'm looking for you
I am the thorn stuck in your side
I am the one that you left behind
I am the dried up doubting eyes
Looking for the well that won't run dry
Running hard for the other side
The world that I've always been denied
Running hard for the infinite
With the tears of saints and hypocrites
Oh, blood of black and white and grey
Death in life and night in day
One by one by one
We let our rivers run
I am restless
I am restless
I am restless
Looking for you
I am restless
I run like the ocean to find your shore
Looking for you
I can hear you breathing
I can feel you leading
More than just a feeling
More than just a feeling
I can feel you reaching
Pushing through the ceiling
Till the final healing
I'm looking for you
Until the sea of glass we meet
At last completed and complete
Where tide and tear and pain subside
And laughter drinks them dry
I'll be waiting
Anticipating
All that I aim for
What I was made for
With every heartbeat
All of my blood bleeds
Running inside me
Looking for you
I am restless
I am restless
I am restless
Looking for you
I am restless
I run like the ocean to find your shore
Looking for you
I can hear you breathing
I can feel you leading
More than just a feeling
More than just a feeling
I can feel you reaching
Pushing through the ceiling
Till the final healing
I'm looking for you
5.Blinding Light
Hey boy, don't believe them
Their old lies never could come true
Hey boy, don't believe them
Everything that they told you to
Hey boy, don't believe them
We're the nation that eats our youth
Hey boy, don't believe them
None of us are bulletproof
Yeah
Deep down there's a boy inside
Asleep, waiting for the sun to rise
Wake up, wake up
Still looking for the blinding light
Still looking for the reason why
Still looking for the sun to shine
Take me higher and higher
All my life I've been living in the darkest night
Still looking for the blinding light
To take me higher and higher
Hey girl, be yourself now
Don't believe what they told you to
Hey girl, be yourself now
Your skin's more than a pin-up suit
Hey girl, don't conform now
No one else's got soul like you
Hey girl, you're a strong one
But none of us are bulletproof
Yeah
Deep down there's a hope inside
You got wings but you're scared to fly
Wake up, wake up
Still looking for the blinding light
Still looking for the reason why
Still looking for the sun to shine
Take me higher and higher
All my life I've been living in the darkest night
Still looking for the sun to shine
Take me higher and higher
Deep down there's a hope inside
Brighter than the fears in my mind
I keep looking for the blinding light
It's a hope that keeps me alive
Wake up, wake up
Keep looking for the blinding light
Keep looking for the reason why
Keep looking for the sun to shine
Take me higher and higher
All my life I've been living in the darkest night
Still looking for the sun to rise
To take me higher and higher
Blinding light, the blinding light
Yeah I've been waiting all my life
To take me higher and higher
Blinding light,
you're the vision that gives me sight
All the blinding light,
take me higher and higher
6.Selling The News
Welcome to the Holy City; The Silver Screen
Built with the lends of the low self esteem
A teenagers plea for meaning and means
We're selling the news
See, opinions are easier to swallow than facts
The greys instead of the whites and the blacks
If you shoot it too straight it won't come back
We're selling the news
See, money speaks volumes louder than words
And virtues with wings, maybe not quite at first
But salaries are payed with the eyes not the verbs
We're selling the news
See, all men are equal; all is for sale
A powerful dog has been chasing his tale
The lowest common demonstrator prevails
We're selling the news
I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything is in-between
The fact is fiction; The fact is fiction
I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything is in-between
The fact is fiction
Suspicion is the new religion
America listens as the story is told
With the eye on the truth as the story unfolds
But the ratings determine which story was sold
We're selling the news
Begging the question, longer in fears
Stroking the eyes and tickling ears
The story is seldom just as it appears
We're selling the news
I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything is in-between
The fact is fiction; The fact is fiction
I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything is in-between
The fact is fiction; The fact is fiction
I can see your talking heads
On the television set
On the internet they say
The fact is fiction
Suspicion is the new religion
Substance, Oh, Substance; Where have you been？
You've been replaced by the masters of spins
Who make good looking books and write history in
We're selling the news
The lines start to blur; I get so confused
They get shiny new models mixed up with the blues
They get binary code mixed up with abuse
The facts are simply one option to choose
When nothing is sacred, there's nothing to lose
When nothing is sacred, all is consumed
We're still on the air, it must be the truth
We're selling the news
I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything is in-between
The fact is fiction; The fact is fiction
I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything is in-between
The fact is fiction; The fact is fiction
I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything I see is green
The fact is fiction
Suspicion is the new religion
7.Thrive
Been fighting things that I can't see
Like voices coming from the inside of me
Like doing things I find hard to believe in
Am I myself or am I dreaming？
I've been awake for an hour or so
Checking for a pulse but I just don't know
Am I a man if I feel like a ghost？
The stranger in the mirror is wearing my clothes
No, I'm not alright
I know that I'm not right
A steering wheel doesn't mean you can drive
A warm body doesn't mean I'm alive
No, I'm not alright
I know that I'm not right
Feel like I travel but I never arrive
I wanna thrive not just survive
I come alive when I hear you singing
But lately I haven't been hearing a thing
I get the feeling that I'm in between
A machine and a man who only looks like me
I try and hide it and not let it show
But deep down inside me I just don't know
Am I a man if I feel like a hoax？
The stranger in the mirror's been wearing my clothes
No, I'm not alright
I know that I'm not right
A steering wheel doesn't mean you can drive
A warm body doesn't mean I'm alive
No, I'm not alright
I know that I'm not right
Feel like I travel but I never arrive
I wanna thrive not just survive
I'm always close, but I never enough
I'm always in line, but I'm never in love
I get so down, but I won't give up
I get so down, but I won't give up
Been fighting things that I can't see
Like voices coming from the inside of me
Like doing things I find hard to believe in
Am I myself or am I dreaming？
Am I myself or am I dreaming？
Am I myself or am I dreaming？
Thrive, thrive, thrive, thrive
No, I'm not alright
I know that I'm not right
A steering wheel don't mean you can drive
A warm body don't mean I'm alive
No, I'm not alright
I know that I'm not right
Feel like I travel but I never arrive
I wanna thrive not just survive
I wanna thrive not just survive
Feel like I travel but I never arrive
I wanna thrive not just survive
I wanna thrive not just survive
I wanna thrive not just survive
Feel like I travel but I never arrive
I wanna thrive not just survive
8.Dark Horses
I've made my mistakes
I've seen my heart cave in
I've got my scars
I've been to hell and back again
Born for the blue skies
We'll survive the rain
Born for the sunrise
We'll survive the pain
We're singing
Hey, You can't count us out
We've been running up against the crowd
Yeah, we are the Dark Horses
We're singing
Wait! It's not over now
We've been down but we've never been out
Yeah, we are the Dark Horses
We found a way out
The city takes everything it can
But outside the crowds
I can feel my lungs again
Born for the blue skies
We'll survive the rain
Born for the sunrise
We'll survive the pain
We're singing
Hey, You can't count us out
We've been running up against the crowd
Yeah, we are the Dark Horses
We're singing
Wait! It's not over now
We've been down but we've never been out
Yeah, we are the Dark Horses
We're singing
Laa la-la-la-la-laa
Laa la-la-la-la-laa
Born for the blue skies
Born for the blue skies
Born for the sunrise
We'll survive the pain
We're singing
Hey, You can't count us out
We've been running up against the crowd
Yeah, we are the Dark Horses
We're singing
We don't care what they say
We know we'll find a way
Yeah! We are the Dark Horses
Yeah Laa la-la-la-la-laa
9.Souvenirs
Here's to the twilight
Here's to the memories
Tthese are my souvenirs
My mental pictures of everything
Here's to the late nights
Here's to the firelight
These are my souvenirs
My souvenirs
I close my eyes and go back in time
I can see you're smiling, you're so alive
We were so young, we had no fear
We were so young, we had no idea
That life was just happening
Life was just happening
Here's to your bright eyes
Shining like fireflies
These are my souvenirs
The memory of a lifetime
We were wide-eyed with everything
Everything around us
We were enlightened by everything
Everything
So I close my eyes and go back in time
I can see you smiling, you're so alive
I close my eyes and go back in time
You were just a child then, and so was I
We were so young, we had no fear
We were so young, we had no idea
That nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts
Nothing lasts
You and me together
Were always now or never
Can you hear me？
Can you hear me？
I close my eyes and go back in time
I can see you smiling, you're so alive
I close my eyes and go back in time
You were wide-eyed, you were wide-eyed
We were so young, we had no fear
We were so young, we had just begun
A song we knew, but we never sang
It burned like fire inside our lungs
And life was just happening
(and nothing lasts, nothing lasts forever)
And life was just happening
(and nothing lasts, nothing lasts forever)
I wouldn't trade it for anything
My souvenirs.
10.Rise Above It
Another couple kids with their heads on top
Just another stranger just another plot
Another track home where the city streets stop
Just another kid with another bored cop
Just another lemon into lemonade job
Just another rust and dust facade
Just another key stuck broken in the lock
Just another scarecrow choking on a cough
Oh come on!
It feels so typical
I guess I'm looking for a miracle
Rise above it, rise above it
I don't care what their telling me
We could be what we want to be
Rise above it, rise above it
Listen up loud listen up listen here
Just because you're running
Doesn't mean that you're scared
Just because it's law doesn't mean it is fair
Never let another tell your soul what to fear
Here we go again give it one more try
Don't believe the system's on your side
Just another lover turned enemy fight
Just another blood and nicotine sky
Oh come on!
It feels so typical
I guess I'm looking for a miracle
Rise above it, rise above it
I get so sick of it
It feels so counferfeit
I rise above it, rise above it
Hear our voices rise
Hear our battle cry
We've been under the curse
With our arms raised high
Hear us sing tonight
Like the last night on earth
We will rise like the tide
Like dead men
Coming back to life
We are rising
Rising
Turn it up now, listen loud and clear
Just because you're present
Doesn't mean you're here
Oh come on!
It feels so typical
I guess I'm looking for a miracle
Rise above it, rise above it
The curse is broken
The system is broken
Rise above it, rise above it
Let's rise above it
We can rise above it
Let's rise above it
Rise Above It
Let's rise above it
11.Vice Verses
Walking along the high tide line
Watching the pacific from the sidelines
Wonder what it means to live together？
Looking for more than just guidelines
Looking for signs in the night sky,
Wishing that I wasn't such a nice guy
Wonder what it means to live forever？
Wonder what it means to die？
I know that there's a meaning to it all
A little resurrection every time I fall
You got your babies, I got my hearses
Every blessing comes with a set of curses
I got my vices, I got my vice verses
I got my vice verses
The wind could be my new obsession
The wind could be my next depression
The wind goes anywhere it wants to
Wishing that I learned my lesson
The ocean sounds like a garage band
Coming at me like a drunk man
The ocean tells me a thousand stories
None of them are lies
I know that there's a meaning to it all
A little resurrection every time I fall
You got your babies, I got my hearses
Every blessing comes with a set of curses
I got my vices, I got my vice verses
I got my vice verses
Let the pacific laugh
Be on my epitaph
With it's rising and falling
And after all, it's just water
And I am just soul
With a body of water and bones
Water and bones
Where is God in the night sky？
Where is God in the city light？
Where is God in the earthquake？
Where is God in the genocide？
Where are you in my broken heart？
Everything seems to fall apart
Everything feels rusted over
Tell me that you're there
I know that there's a meaning to it all
A little resurrection every time I fall
You got your babies, I got my hearses
Every blessing comes with a set of curses
I got my vices, I got my vice verses
I got my vice verses
I got my vice verses
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