Rev

Ten Foot Pole Rev Lyrics
1.Broken Bubble

So you noticed that your city changed
The old familiar roads now seem so strange
Can you belive that there's paint on the walls
Kids are murdered in the high school halls
Wake up kid and stop your whining
Every silver cloud has a black lining
The word hasn't changed
It just broke your bubble
Now you see you can't hide from trouble
You were raised in the suburbs
Mom and Dad gave you the best
The referee has left the field
And you're all alone to face this test
Do you have the strength
To maintain your precious values
Are you in control of your own fate
Or will you become one of those guys
You used to hate
Sooner or later everyone wants the best
And your private world becomes like all the rest
Nothing is worse it's just touching you
For the first time you see the world zoo
It's not a question of staying alive
You don't have to fuck over others to survive
The question is what's good enough
How much do you need to stop being tough?


2.Closer To Gray

Clawing his way out of the doldrums
Getting sick and tired of coke and rums
We'll just have to wait and see
Because he's jumped on the wagin before
Only to crawl and beg for more
His pride is just another casuality
His pride is just another casuality
Can you see beyond today's euphoric state?
Do you remember how you'll feel tomorrow?
All the people that you hate
All the times you've had to wait
Every piece of food you ever ate
Reminds you of your fate
He's clawing his way out of a paper bag
Reaching for the life that he never had
And he's just one step away
He's going backwards on a two track
He's going one step forward and two steps back
Getting closer to gray
In the end there's only grieving
All his goals inside pulled thin air
Can you blame him if he's desperate?
There's nothing left for him to get
And he dosen't care that the people stare
And they do fucking stare


3.Co-Song

We've been hiding out forever
Waiting to release all our energy
That's still inside, it's time to get it out
Get it out of me

Something new
I want to make this time special
Something for you
Playing as hard as we can

Grind out the energy
I want to scream again

So you can hear me
Singing through my hands
Release it
Let it go, let it go

We've found a way to
Make up for the lost time
Turn it up and play it loud
Grind out the energy


4.Dying Duck In A Thunderstorm

Lyricist:Dennis Steven Jagard, Scott Radinsky

You heard the warnings, saw the signs
Do you still think we left you behind?
Don't you remember how we tried?
Another place, another time

Without reason, without rhyme
Can you imagine life without your pride?
You look up at me with those hurt puppy dog eyes
I never meant to hurt you

I'm sorry that I had to be the one to tell you
That you screwed up for the last time
I know that there were times before
When I said I would be there

That's when I thought the choice was mine
But now I've lived and I know better
Promises were never meant to be
Because I couldn't see that the things you thought you'd change

You had no will to rearrange
So you made a liar out of me
What else can I say?
I'm sorry to turned out this way

Do you think we'll ever be the same
I'd still call you my friend
But to you it's the end
I know you think that I'm the one to blame


5.Fade Away

Lyricist:Scott Radinsky

Keep on playing me, I'm not a toy
I'm different from everyone else, lies are what you believe in
Promises that you'll never keep, don't tell me stories of your
pastime
Glories they've faded away with the sun, faded away

I'm flying high above the gray, see it on the floor beneath
My feet can't control what's out of my hands
The river looks so deep and I don't want to swim
In the muddy waters that you offer me

I'm not going to waste no more of the good life
Watching you fade away hands on a watch turn like the
Wheels on a train and the days turn to weeks
The months seem the same

Look at all the bullshit that surrounds me
Plastic people, different countries speak different words
They're all the same, life for them is just a game
I want a way out but I'm stuck here
I need an excuse to be myself again

How long will I have to wait, just fading away, faded away?
I'm sitting in the back because it's where I belong
I don't say anything just try to get along on to the runway
To catch another plane, I'm going back home to be myself again


6.Final Hours

Lyricist:Dennis Steven Jagard, Scott Radinsky

I knew the day would come
Maybe, this would be the one
Where I would say goodbye
I've tried to understand the law
Of supply and demand

But it does no good to wonder
Why I wonder if my number is really up this time
There were other times before
When I thought it was over, somehow I made it

This far won't be lucky forever
These could be the final hours
I wish I could say
'I feel more than fear and bitterness'

I've given you everything I had
Maybe, I could have gave more
All I can do is wait and see
If these are my final, I'm waiting
Just waiting to see

Are these my final hours?
You're so afraid of how you look
And what they think of you

Don't you know what really matters
It's not you say, it's what you do
You make me laugh when you demand respect
I only give respect when respect is due

You're just a gambler
Politician chairman of the board corporate, suck ass
Playing the odds, gambling with lives
That too, you are no more than numbers and statistics


7.Muffled

Lyricist:Dennis Steven Jagard

I thought we solved this problem long ago
I thought we grew up but we still need to grow
Somehow, it rained on our common ground

Now, when dig in we slip around
I hear the sarcasm in your voice
Think of all the times you made me wait
Without thinking, without trying, I make that face

The face you fucking hate
It's always been this way between you and me
Can we ever change? Is this how it has to be?
We try to patch things up but it's not the same
We try to show respect, it's too late in the game

Can you take me back to yesterday?
So I can say all the things I didn't say
Maybe times were tough and maybe things were worse
But I don't remember it that way

The times, the wasted times there are times
When we seem so strong, then we forget that we
Don't get along, some of these times are not in a bar
I can't believe that we made it this far
I can't believe that we made it this far


8.My Wall

Lyricist:Steven Thomas Carnan, Dennis Steven Jagard, Peter Douglas
Newbury, Tony Palermo

A middle class mom crouches on the hill
Eyes behind binoculars, she sits so still
Spots a boy going under the freeway
Whispers in her radio, going for the kill

Open your eyes, you're fighting kids
Who only want to make their mark
Everything else you took away
You left them in the dark, open your eyes

Your way is not about beauty
It's about rights and choice
Speech isn't free
It is only for those who can afford to raise their voice

Say it is pollution, they say it is a sin
Mobilize their force to stop the demon within
They say it is not a battle, it is a full scale war
Recruiting volunteers like never before

Say it is so ugly, they say it is an eyesore
But remember, they're the ones who build department stores
Puts ads on the benches, signs on the windows
Asphalt where the grass used to grow


9.Never Look Back

Lyricist:Dennis Steven Jagard

Long, long time ago before the wind, before the snow lived
An old and aging man who lost his friend
He carried by his side, all the things he had in life
Left all the things that troubled him behind

He was once in a desperate need for attention
And so much more living his life with the question of conception
There is no more no more feeling sorry
And no more getting mad, yeah right, you got the answer

Through the years, he came to know
Sometimes, it's better to let it go and never look back
No matter what they said and then the ones
He learned to ignore the ones who always asked for more
Secretly, respect the life that he led


10.Old Man

Lyricist:Dennis Steven Jagard

You tell me of a place where everybody knew their
Neighbors, all the families helped each other and no one
Ever locked their doors, you tell me no one locked their doors
Old man please stay a while I know at first I seemed too busy

But now I'll make the time stay and tell me one more story
Tell me about the time you ditched school to go fishing
You thought the branch would hold your neighbor
Pulled you from the river he helped you wash your clothes

And stitch the hole in your trousers and your mom never knew
Why he giggled when he saw you a place where no one
Locks their doors a place where no one locks their doors
You tell me that you would show me only now it is too late

I would like to build community only now it is too late
Things can never be the way they were before you can't go back
To how things were before once the trust is gone
Once the trust is gone, once the trust is gone, you'll lock the
door

I can imagine that life but it seems so far from real
It's just like a story that's the kind of life I've never known
old
Man you're leaving now taking with you things I've never known
I wonder where you're going and if it would be like your old
home
I hope you find the place you're looking for


11.Think Of Tomorrow

Lyricist:Scott Radinsky

Looking in the mirror, what's left to see
Fragments of life, all the pieces are broken
The sky ways open to conquer the moon
I'm going to get there just watch me

Maybe tomorrow, I'll think of tomorrow
Inspiring words the Dalai Lama prays for us
Oppressor and friend, human understanding
We can build a better world

Oceans of wisdom speak out loud
We'll think of tomorrow
Tomorrow's children come out and play
When I have a kid of my own
What will I teach him?

Prepare him to be all alone
Because someday he'll be all alone
I have tried all my life to find the answers
But the only truth is what you feel inside
What's inside

When will we ever get along?
I sit by wondering
Environmental consciousness
You heard it all before

The present time is our future
Think, think of tomorrow
Tomorrow's children come out and play


12.World's Best Dad

Lyricist:Dennis Steven Jagard

They tell you there were better days
You can't remember through the haze
This is the only life you've ever known

They sigh and talk about fist fights
When you could go to sleep at night
Without avengers tearing out your wishbone

You pray to God and wonder just who's up there
What kind of father would leave his kids alone in a world
Where you're lucky if your mom cares

Hordes of people call the streets their home
They want to take away the guns
You want to get some bigger ones

Your defense is up to you and you alone
They think that they can stop the heat
But they don't understand the street

You don't want your girl crying on your tombstone
Living in that memory, don't understand what they see
So they pay cops to make it yesterday

You can't push back the hands of time
You want to know and keep on trying
Do your best to stay out of their way