The Role Of Smith

Tabula Rasa The Role Of Smith Lyrics
1.Dead Air

Lyricist:Doran Shelley, Leonard Haynes, Paul Fox, Thomas Johnston

Give me the reason, I can't see ahead
What's stopping me, who's stopping me?
When is the next time my one chance
Will pass me by again?

Repetition's killing me
(Like this city)
Repetition's killing me
(Like this city)

And I tried believing this would make more sense
So I won't cut myself short
I've crossed this dead end one too many times before
To see it end

Burning out this phrase again
Replaying over time in my head
Burning out this phrase again
Replaying over time in my head

Can't hold my breath and hope the air will clear
Can't rely on time if that window shuts
I've crossed this dead end one too many times before
To see an end

Save me
My ending is far too clear
This doesn't stop here
This doesn't change anything

Save me
My ending is far too clear
This doesn't stop here
This doesn't change anything

Burning out this phrase again
Replaying over time in my head
Burning out this phrase again
Replaying over time in my head


2.Just Guns And...

It doesn't matter what we see, we're safe out here
Continue to listen to what there saying
Give the new place time, we're fenced in with all white
We've got guns and we're praying all night

Is your mind at ease
When you sleep?
Diffuse the threat
With small casualty
This hoax just
Something you bought
Care to try again?

Just created this pristine life to live
Everything all in order with wife and kids
Distance blurs what you see, as you're hiding from the truth
Are you sure everything looks fine to you?

Is your mind at ease
When you sleep?
Diffuse the threat
With small casualty
This hoax just
Something you bought
Care to try again?

Just fill them with fear so you can justify
What you want them to do
No turning back, how long can you pacify your youth?
The lash back will break the walls you've built out here
The foundation is breaking, the bomb is set
Can you put out the fuse?

The time is set
The countdown is close
So brace yourself
Find something to hold

The illusion will break down
You chose not to see
No town can save you know
It's time to leave again

Is your mind at ease
When you sleep?
Diffuse the threat
With small casualty
This hoax just
Something you bought
Care to try again?

Just fill them with fear so you can justify what you want them
to do
No turning back, how long can you pacify your youth?
The lash back will break the walls you've built out here
The foundation is breaking, the bomb is set
Can you put out the fuse?


3.Keith Song

This day is gone
I'm starting over
Without a path that's drawn
Everyday I'm older

Where is this dream I'm riding on?
Is this the chance to make it closer?
So many years to learn
That this is far enough
Take me home

Should we learn or realize this is for nothing?

Where is this dream I'm riding on?
Is this the chance to make it closer?
So many years to learn
That this is far enough
Take me home

There is a last time you will see us
When over years we'll learn this didn't mean that much
This is a hard life that wears us all down
And over years we'll learn this didn't mean that much
It's time to find our home


4.Are We In Our Nation's Capitol?

Even to this day the things she's said
Are somewhat overblown
This is just the way you invite her to tell
Another likely story

She's gone, she's gone
And we're all better off now

She's dug into your bones and bled you through
Your privacy is gone
Can't you see? She'll steal each breath you breath
And won't stop until you're broke

She's gone, she's gone
And we're all better off now

Only hope that you won't leave out
Each and every way she stabbed your back
You sought out to block out
It's something I can't comprehend

I refuse to understand
There's no point of view
That makes sense

This situation's wrong
Everything has been said
Why not play along?

Only hope that you won't leave out
Each and every way she stabbed your back
You sought out to block out
It's something I can't comprehend


5.There Is A Fine Line Between Genius And Insanity

This is not the way out
It's clear to you
And speaks some truth
So in the end
I might know what to say

A combination of
Carelessness that's managed for years
Will guarantee
I've not seen the end
Of sleepless nights or mornings when I can't get out of bed

It's taking over
Just can't motivate myself
What do I have to prove
And would I want to?

This is not the way out
It's clear to you
And speaks some truth
So in the end
I might know what to say

Calm down
I've had a good run
Up until now

It's taking over
Just can't motivate myself
What do I have to prove
And would I want to?

Hold on till I find my tongue
I've been careless with words before

Guilt
Keeps calling out
And still stops before I
I was just one
Just one chance away
To leaving this place
To find my way
That I'll never take


6.Nashville

Left so early for a reason
Poetry digest from that night
The place we slept was so deceiving
Keep a switchblade by your side

Better watch the steps we take
Security
Check our vans, let us escape this place
Security

How'd the five of you enjoy the show?
'Cause no one else came

A roof top view of the city
Always kept a watchful eye
For what these people were doing
They don't want us to stay

How'd the five of you enjoy the show?
'Cause no one else came

We all began to turn in,
Tired from the night
The last ones up
Saw what was happening
All night long
People walking through these doors
Something's going down
Should we get out now?

Better watch the steps we take
Security
Check our vans, let us escape this place
Security


7.Jumping The Shark

Wait in line for another purpose to fall in place
No conciliation in staying here alone

Retrace back to a date when this all started
And set us in our ways
When minds were made and sides were taken for what I can't
remember
A line drawn in the sand

Wait in line for another purpose to fall in place
No conciliation in staying here
Can't shake the feeling of those who watch us will send us all
away
For what we don't believe

They will reuse us just like their own hands
Pawns for the using in their games, dismissed until the end
They will reuse us just like their own hands
No chance in fighting, we're in their hands, a commitment till
the end

This will be remembered
The reason we had to leave
Elect, elect again

They will reuse us just like their own hands
No chance in fighting, we're in their hands, a commitment till
the end

They make us see it their way
We can't change our minds
They make us see it their way
We're born to live this way


8.More Words Than Not

A constant mislabel of our spoken generation
When did us children grow to feel so out of touch?
Our sky's been exploding this we're watching on the TV
The only chance of change is when we switch it off

Watched for hours
To find out
We're not all dying
We're lied to until our...

Fear has enabled them to transfer more confusion
The senses need to feed so we just eat it up.
The constant bombardment we so thoughtlessly sit through
We have a chance to change but we can't turn it off

Watched for hours
To find out
We're not all dying
We're lied to until our...

Graves,
And what we've seen has their ratings up one more
Day,
And our attention is craving

We can't find a reason just to think all for ourselves
And question their motives
Your hand controls it

Watched for hours
To find out
We're not all dying
We're lied to until our...

We're so encouraged to find out
So the TV stays on
(When was the last time you thought about what you know)
(And who told you what to believe?)


9.How Old Are You...?

Here is the path I'm shown
Step by step was not my choice
One more year to go
So this map has been cut short
What's in this job that I've been learning?
Who's satisfied?
What happens when my cliff has come, should I jump or hold
To a safe place at that time?
Thoughts I can't control
Push all plans I've had aside
With one more year to go
A chance to change I'll never know
Which is the way that I will step into some life
Trying to stand straight, trying to conform
To the first person in my line

This is the way we operate
Life made easy
Look towards no identity
(Slip into the crowd)
(Because it's easy)
(No one will miss me)


10.If You Kill Me, I'll Never Know

I want to leave when I see you coming
My time spent waiting for the end to all of this
Won't remember me
Please don't remember me

Your cause for stealing kills me
You never meant much, never meant much to me
Your cause for stealing kills me
You never meant much, never meant much to me

You'll see when all the people around you
In time will lose all hope, then you will see an end
Won't remember me
Please don't remember me

You've made your choice, our words don't mean a thing
You'll never change, please don't defend it

Your cause for stealing kills me
You never meant much, never meant much to me
Your cause for stealing kills me
You never meant much, never meant much to me

You can't see what's really happening
You can't start over, defeated when you're dead and in the
ground
You can't see, it isn't what you think
Can't take an easy way out

Each time you're closer to the ground