1.Mouthbreather
I know you thought I would go quietly
but I never asked you for permission to believe
in something bigger than us both.
I think you owe me an apology.
You left me waiting in the desert for the sand.
I aim my mouth at the sky.
Only to find my lungs have filled with sand.
I let the sun burn me down before I let you inside
I clear my throat.
It's just a matter of time before you set something innocent on
fire
just to watch it run.
So keep forcing me into survival mode
I need to know what it's all worth.
I'll chase that dream down that same one-way dead-end road
Until I find another reason to stay home and let it go.
I will keep my eyes on the road and my heart to myself.
2.Running Through Walls
I clutched the wheel, burned the trail in search of someone's
master plan,
but I dragged myself into the ground in search of a fabled
promised land,
this could be my destiny or the death of me, whatever answers
first,
I could care less at this point, as long as my story gets told.
The empty dunes whispered certain doom and irrational fears
began to swallow my every thought and burn inside my ears.
It's louder than the bombs that scream in my dreams.
can my will alone erase the things I've become？
It's hard to see passed all my failures and loss
When I'm stuck on the path to self-destruction.
Back and forth across the plains, no chance of love, no sign of
rain
You killed yourself to live, but your heart gave up before your
body did.
Back and forth across the plains, a fractured heart no sign of
rain.
Until my head caves in, I'll kill myself just trying...
I swallowed pill after pill with the blood of Christ, cuz heaven
needed me,
but when I got there, all the beer was gone and the angels
clipped their wings.
I crashed face-first into a stubborn mule to get my point across
then I woke up with shards of glass in my eye and seven years
bad luck.
I'm confessing, this burden of free will is a blessing.
So I'll be the judge, the jury, and the executioner.
The faulty noose at the gallows pole.
Back and forth across the plains, no chance of love, no sign of
rain
You killed yourself to live, but your heart gave up before your
body did.
Back and forth across the plains, a fractured heart, no sign of
rain.
Until my head caves in, I'll kill myself just trying to live
Back and forth across the plains, no chance of love, no sign of
rain
You killed yourself to live, but your heart gave up before your
body did.
Back and forth across the plains, a fractured heart, no sign of
rain.
Until my head caves in, I'll kill myself just trying to love
Cast me to Hell,
I do not seek redemption.
Cast me to hell,
I was born to be a martyr.
Cast me to Hell,
I do no seek redemption.
Cast me to Hell,
I was led into temptation by a man just like you.
I'll see your saint and I'll raise you an ape with no soul
3.Smoke Breaks
Slave away, for the price of your youth
You can earn yourself a dying wage
You're worth your weight in the sweat
That you spill for the good of the company
At the end of the night
Counting on your smoke breaks
You seem to move a lot of product
But the product doesn't move anyone
And that's the honest to god damned truth
Did you answer the call when it came
Or did you call it a day？
Like my father, like my father
He buried his passion
Sacrificed the twelve-bar blues
To take on the real world
At dawn I awoke to go back to the clockwork
Where I sing my songs to whoever will listen
A glimpse of the good life beyond 9 to 5 to
The has-beens, the no ones, civilians and children
On the company dime
Burning all your smoke breaks
You seem to move a lot of product
But the product doesn't move
Trudge on, workhorse
God help you all, you're just getting by
Trudge on, workhorse
God help you all, you're just getting by
You run like a river
Without a prize in your sights
Bleed on, bleed on, bleed yourself dry
Bleed on, bleed yourself dry
This road is my bride
She will wreck your life
It's for me to decide
How you'll wreck your life
Cut the queen, just try
She will wreck your life
It's for me to decide
How you'll wreck your life
Cut the queen, just try
She will wreck your life
It's my life to wreck in my own way
4.Need New Conspirators
Tell me, how many years have you felt so sick？
To the kids who care more about these songs
than the wars they've been fighting for so fucking long
There's something wrong with the soundwaves in the air, there's
something wrong,
It's on the tip of your tongue and it's time you give a shit
We got the songs all wrong again (and we don't fit in)
we got the songs all wrong again (and nothing speaks to me like
it did)
And I know you know, I know you know, I know you know I know
you.
Tell me, how many years have you felt out of touch？
To all the kids who cared more when they were young
about the wars they've been fighting since before we were born
There's something wrong with the soundwaves in the air there's
something wrong,
It's on the tip of your tongue and it's time you give a shit
We got the songs all wrong again (and we don't fit in)
We got the songs all wrong again (and nothing speaks to me like
it did back then)
How many years has it been, since you lost the feeling？
Since you lost something to believe in？ I need something to
believe in,
We're so tired of playing dead, bring me all of the
disillusioned dreamers
(How many years have you felt so sick, I ask)
All of the forward thinking allies
(How many years have you felt out of touch and old？)
All of the ones who feel outnumbered
(To all the kids who care more, care more, care more, care more)
I need new conspirators, bring me all of the new rule smashers
(How many years have you felt so sick, I ask)
All of the hungry innovators
(How many years have you felt out of touch and old？)
All of the fearless creators
(To all the kids who care more, care more, care more, care more)
I need new conspirators.
5.Shouting Fire In A Crowded Room
We have followed our leaders into the vault of a burning bank
We raised our children on dead end roads waiting to death in the
summer wind
Looking for answers that I was never meant to find I swallow my
tongue in defeat
Before I drown face down in the street
Waiting for the ambulance to arrive
I saved myself from you gagging to death on these prayers
My agony is self-inflicted
Burn my body at the stake
My love in effigy
My songs are gasoline in the mouth of a coward shouting 'fire'
I swallow my questions down in fear
Before I know too much of myself trying to explain what keeps me
falling to my knees.
The burden of living proof, I saved myself from you.
In case of a new emergency, I saved myself from you.
When nothing moves in the wake of regret, I saved myself from
you.
I saved myself from the arms of corruption.
6.Needs
As the moon waxed and waned,
He felt the depth of his love shoot right to the surface.
Overwhelmed by the once suppressed need to devour something
whole.
The shapes began to shift and right before his eyes,
his angel became his meal.
Call off your hunt, that kill is mine.
I'm leaving town with the her blood on my breath,
Lord knows when we'll feed again.
I walked away with her hand on my chest,
Lord knows when we'll feed again.
Angel, keep your wings clean, and don't get near him if he isn't
'Me'
Angel, until his eyes go red to blue, keep your thoughts as pure
as gold,
Cuz he can read your mind and his head ain't right, no.
Before the fever leaves our home, play for his salvation.
He'll say he means no harm.
Eclipsed eternally now by the echoes of her final breath.
Roaming tormented from town to town to forever stalk the
highway.
The shapes began to shift and right before my eyes, you became
my meal.
Call off your hunt, that kill is mine.
7.Meet Me In The Bone Orchard
Once again, I need your skin, these teeth will take too much,
they always do.
Sever me, desire bleeds you dry, coercion takes to long.
Drain you and leave.
You never felt so alive, until you put in your midnight eyes.
These bones you cracked on the run will be left to bleach in the
sun.
Smother me, these idle hands will be the death of us (at least
one of us)
Salivate; it makes me sick, was I born this way？
You wish you were, you never felt so alive until you put in your
midnight eyes
These bones you cracked on the run will be left to bleach in the
sun
You simply refuse to accept no consolation gift
These offers I will reject, I won't be swinging by my neck
the cold moon will always eclipse the truth spilling from your
lips
These offers I will reject, I won't be swinging by my neck.
Give it up, know when to quit, are you in control？
A balancing act on a burning tightrope
Hunger pains until you get your way, until you get your way
Until you get your way, nausea.
Keep chasing the sound in your head
down a road that will never end
It eats away at you, and you cannot abandon it.
You should have fled when you still had the chance.
You should have fled when you still could have.
Suffocate your hope.
Keep chasing the sound in your head,
down a road that will never end.
It eats away at you and you cannot abandon it.
8.Crowbait
Dream poacher, you list it in a hailstorm of flies,
the maggots sung under your pen in every word you wrote.
Bait for the crows, taunt the hungry when they call out for me,
Never learner, still running that broken mouth of ours over
broken promises.
Masquerade with the walking dead, you don't look the same.
Abscess face with narcotic slouch, you weren't built this way.
They took dead aim; exposed evidence; they washed their hands of
this ordeal.
Silenced your pleas; 'Some can't be saved.'
Bankrupt soul, you dove headfirst into a shallow grave
What drove you to this？
Now this guilt will plague my nights
Dream burner, I never said that you were a lost cause.
'Never better,' still running away on a crooked path, as crooked
as your spine.
Empty shell of someone I once knew, you don't speak the same.
Slipping back into familiar coma, you won't die in vain.
I'll carry your dead weight till I fall victim to my own vices.
Dead weight, I'll cart yours till I fall flat on my own face.
Still trying to kill all the ones you claimed left a hole in
your perfect life.
still running way from the only arms who wanted you was one.
And you were the only good thing left in this good for nothing
town.
Help me clean my filthy conscience, so I can get on with my
pointless life.
And you were the only good thing left in this good for nothing
town.
9.When Exiting Your Vehicle
You and I are not survivors, decorated victims of a losing war,
All dressed up in our defensive wounds.
We are the ghosts.
Haunted by the living ones.
Every day apparitions.
Haunted by the sound of our own voices.
We are the ghosts.
Faithlessly wandering around.
And I'll wander around. Yeah, I'll wander around.
Passing through, I'm just passing through.
Stranded here forever.
Caught in the middle of our own exorcism.
The human body is a grave.
This world is purgatory.
We are prisoners of our selves.
Stranded here forever.
Haunted by the living ones.
10.Night Errors
All your moves are an act to me, If I'm dismissive,
the red on your hand and the stutter in your step gave me
permission.
Who's broken heart did I abduct to feign these tears？
Who's battered soul did I usurp to howl like this？
The blade sharp and well groomed, but the execution lacked
vision.
I was deployed to revive the lull in your casual blackouts.
Who's phantom hand did I possess to get this feeling？
One foot on the stage, one foot in the grave.
The only time you feel alive is when you're on fire.
There's a tempest raging on and on in my body.
You picked your battles, I just loved to fight.
lost some, won some, then I lost count.
You can't see eye to eye when you're drinking from a different
well.
I'm unopposed to replaying the dying picture.
I couldn't shut your laughing eyes, they just kept on getting
louder and louder.
Grand delusions rub my ego so raw. I wasn't burn with this thorn
in my side, no.
I stole every kiss from the sight of the crash.
if you believe these outrageous claims,
Then I'll take you to the black hole.
Where no one escapes
11.Crawling Home
I just can't leave this alone; meat for the wolves pulling flesh
from the bone.
This is blood that I draw from a stone.
And a scar to remind me of where I was born.
This is what it takes to forgive myself for you.
Don't ask me what I am becoming.
Something that you cannot comprehend.
Completely unacceptable results.
Damaged and desperate.
I am crawling home.
And it feels like something is wrong
When I'm not tethered to this hotel bed
I do what I can to make sense of this mess that I made for
myself, in my head.
One day at a time.
When I leave there will be no goodbyes, no explanations.
This is just something I need to do for now.
When I die there will be no funeral, make no arrangements.
What happens on the road will kill us all.
Don;t ask me what I am becoming, something that you cannot
comprehend.
Completely unacceptable results.
Damaged and desperate,
I am crawling home.
Show me if this is where I belong
12.Devolver
We crawled out of the ocean for the evolution
to conduct the grand finale.
She wants so badly to return the favor,
to bring you back home.
Everything's breaking, the cycle is void.
So we fed on the bones of the weak with a rabid bite.
We fucked on in the glow of the bomb.
Everyone's racing, there's blood on the streets.
You bred the new pets, they all caught the plague.
Just human error, lean in and weep.
Don't weep. You made this. Now bask in it.
Ring it in. Brand New. Ice Age.
And I hope you can swim.
If we don't make it out alive,
What comes after oblivion？
We'll all take turns wearing the ring,
The spotlights will blackout the holes in the sheets.
We stretch out for miles and just like a scar along the face of
the earth,
It's to bad that you wont be here forever
I know you just wanted to.
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