Unreleased Songs

The Briggs Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.Let Them Know

Lyricist:Joseph Peter La Rocca

Prepare yourself for some new ideas
Or a resurgence of old standards
Open your eyes and take a look around

Revolution can be more than a dream
In a flash of brilliant light
Millions upon millions can be seen

The pressure's building up
To the point of no return
When the skies fall and the seas start to burn

Zimmerman was in control
Zimmerman let them know
There's trouble on, trouble on the horizon
The sound of revolution is seldom heard

Not attempted or maybe just ignored
Open your ears and listen to the warning

The pressure's building up
To the point of no return
When the skies fall and the seas start to burn

It's the end of the earth
No time to play it safe
Sink or swim, rise up or fall
It's time to make a change

It's the end of the earth
No time to play it safe
Sink or swim, rise up or fall
Something's got to change

Breaking down all the walls
Till every last one of them falls
It will begin when all else ends

Prepare yourself for some new ideas
Or a resurgence of old standards
Open your eyes and take a look around

Revolution can be more than a dream
In a flash of brilliant light
Millions upon millions can be seen

It's the end of the earth
No time to play it safe
It's the end of the earth
No time to play it safe
Sink or swim, rise up or fall
Something's got to change

Breaking down all the walls
Till every last one of them falls
It will begin when all else ends


2.Bored Teenager

Lyricist:Joey La Rocca

This is a story of a bored teenager
Stuck inside a category line
He had to abide by all the time

Then one day this bored teenager
Got tired of always playing their game
They all want to look the same

But you want to stand out from the crowd
All you do is try, try, try
But you're not gonna get out this time

Get back in line
You're never gonna change the whole world
Get back in the line
Must have been a fool to think that things could change

Get back in line
Rock the ship and get thrown overboard
Get back in the line
Must've been a fool to think you could change the world

This is a story of a bored teenager
Cast outside by different frame of mind
By the shallow assemblage he left behind

Sooner or later his boredom turned to anger
Kicked in the face by his so called friends
A brutal cycle that never ends

But you want to stand out from the crowd
All you do is try, try, try
But you're not gonna get out this time

Get back in line
You're never gonna change the whole world
Get back in the line
Must have been a fool to think that things could change

Get back in line
Rock the ship and get thrown overboard
Get back in the line
Must've been a fool to think you could change the world

Stay in line, what for?
Stay in line, what for?
Stay in line, what for?

Stay in line, what for?
Stay in line, what for?
Stay in line, what for?

But you want to stand out from the crowd
All you do is try, try, try
But you're not gonna get out this time

Get back in line
You're never gonna change the whole world
Get back in the line
Must have been a fool to think that things could change

Get back in line
Rock the ship and get thrown overboard
Get back in the line
Must've been a fool to think you could change the world

Rock the ship and get thrown overboard


3.One Shot Down

Lyricist:Joey Larocca

No one's there but I'm not alone
My skin's no longer my own
I'm a parasite host, merely a ghost
Of who I used to be

There's a killer running free
They say he looks just like me
Voice in my head, I was misled
By a stranger with my face

Now I got nowhere to run
I got nowhere to hide, someone disguised as me
Committed double homicide but it's to late
They won't stop till they have someone to blame

One shot down, two shot down
A pistol that belonged to my daddy
One shot down, two shot down
A life sentence for my conscience
With no chance of parole

Vigilantes at my door
They show no remorse
The gallows set, the town is met
For a hanging in the square

It's a fate that's worse than death
Choking on every breath
There's no escape, accept my fate
An eye for an eye

But its too late for me
To start to have regrets today

One shot down, two shot down
A pistol that belonged to my daddy
One shot down, two shot down
Personality fractured in two

One shot down, two shot down
They got what they deserved
Now they're laying in the dirt


4.Top 40

Lyricist:Joey Larocca

Idle fame with a plastic smile
Controversial relations keep you on top for a while
At the top of the charts, the bottom of the barrel

Success depends upon the company you keep
Compositions sugar-coated with messages puddle deep
Emotions bought and sold and the going rate is cheap

Gimme gimme gimme a lesson in pop star 101
'Cause I can smile and I can dance
Pull my strings and give me some cash

Because I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Lead a normal life and work like all the others
Top 40 look out, 'cause I'm gonna be number 1

Business tycoons are writing songs in crayon
Consumer reports show what needs good distribution
Appeal to the masses, the best as you can

Radio DJ's spreading your disease
Infectious transmission from sea to shining sea
Music without soul, an empty shell

Gimme gimme gimme a lesson in pop star 101
'Cause I can smile and I can dance
Pull my strings and give me some cash

Because I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Lead a normal life and work like all the others
Top 40 look out, 'cause I'm gonna be number 1

Radio dial, it can be heard for miles
But the only thing coming through is a narrow point of view
Just think one day, this could be you

Gimme gimme gimme a lesson in pop star 101
'Cause I can smile and I can dance
Pull my strings and give me some cash

Because I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Lead a normal life and work like all the others
Top 40 got no soul but it will when I take control

Because I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Lead a normal life and work like all the others
I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Lead a normal life and work like all the others

I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Lead a normal life and work like all the others
I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Lead a normal life and work like all the others

Gimme gimme gimme a lesson in pop star 101
Gimme gimme gimme a lesson in pop star 101
Gimme gimme gimme a lesson in pop star 101
...


5.Heroes By Choice

Lyricist:Joey Larocca

Can you hear the silence now?
The sound of oblivion
Mournful misfortune of the heroes
That we now have lost
Recognition of their past glories
Esteem that will never die

Heroes by choice or
Heroes by chance
Motive secondary to outcome

Buried inside an unmarked grave
No stone to tell us where they lay
So we pay our respect
In hope our memories won't fade
Seen heroes rise, seen heroes fall
Their mark can't be taken away

Heroes by choice or
Heroes by chance
Motive secondary to outcome

One, two, three, four

(Never die, never die)
(Memories will never fade)
(You can't take it away, you can't take it away)
(You're our heroes, you're our heroes)


6.Dungeon Walls

Lyricist:Joey Larocca

Pacing back and forth
The only comfort is the sound
Of the clanking of the shackles
As each footstep hits the ground

Made it through each lonely day
Only with the dream
Deep inside my heart
I know that someday I'd be free

Stuck inside these walls
Drenched in misery
I only have myself to be
My own worst enemy

Imprisoned in my thoughts
Insanity is nigh
Rotting like a foul corpse
And running out of time

Turn the key, unlock the gate
I'm going home, I'm going home
Curse this place and every blessed stone

Hooray! Hooray!
Out of the dungeon walls
Hooray! Hooray!
Never thought I'd see the light of day
Hooray! Hooray!
Out of the dungeon walls

See the city lights
I can smell the salty breeze
And the wind as it call
I'm out of the dungeon walls

I fell to my knees
As I kissed the sweet night
Said goodbye as it vanished
Into the morning light

Shed a tear for every line
I marked upon that wall
Everyday alive but
Without living at all

Freedom has its price
A price that I will pay
There's no fortune in this world
Worth losing one more day

I know I'll go to Heaven
I've already been to Hell
It's deep inside those dungeon walls
The place that I did dwell

Turn the key, unlock the gate
I'm going home, I'm going home
Curse this place and every blessed stone

Hooray! Hooray!
Out of the dungeon walls
Hooray! Hooray!
Never thought I'd see the light of day
Hooray! Hooray!
Out of the dungeon walls

See the city lights
I can smell the salty breeze
And the wind as it call
I'm out of the dungeon walls

Turn the key, unlock the gate
I'm going home, I'm going home
Curse this place and every blessed stone

Hooray! Hooray!
Out of the dungeon walls
Hooray! Hooray!
Never thought I'd see the light of day
Hooray! Hooray!
Out of the dungeon walls

See the city lights
I can smell the salty breeze
And the wind as it call
I'm out of the dungeon walls

I'm out of the dungeon walls


7.Song Of Babylon

Lyricist:Jason Larocca

How long must we wait?
Will this be the fate from a familiar past?
Now, when from these hills
Come the deafening shrills of peace at last

And he says, 'Son, you're gonna burn
You're gonna get what you deserve'
I don't think we've struck a nerve
What will it take for us to learn?

Your hands are like dust
As they betray the trust of everyone
And they all wave goodbye
As they light up the sky, each and every one

And he says, 'Son, you're gonna burn
You're gonna get what you deserve'
And I don't think we've struck a nerve
What will it take for us to learn?

This is a call to everyone
To sing the song of Babylon

How long must we wait?
Will this be the fate of a familiar past?
Yeah, when from these hills
Come the deafening shrills of peace at last

And he says, 'Son, you're gonna burn
You're gonna get what you deserve'
And I don't think we've struck a nerve
What will it take for us to learn?

Yes, he says, â½Son, you're gonna burn
You're gonna get what you deserve'
I don't think we've struck a nerve
What will it take for us to learn?


8.Down

Lyricist:Jason Larocca

No one's there but I'm not alone
My skin's no longer my own
I'm a parasite host, merely a ghost
Of who I used to be

There's a killer running free
They say, he looks just like me
Voice in my head, I was misled
By a stranger with my face

Now I got nowhere to run
I got nowhere to hide
Someone disguised as me
Committed double homicide but it's too late
They won't stop till they have someone to blame

One shot down, two shot down
A pistol that belonged to my daddy
One shot down, two shot down
A life sentence for my conscience
With no chance of parole

Vigilantes at my door
They show no remorse
The gallows set, the town is met
For a hanging in the square

It's a fate that's worse than death
Choking on every breath
There's no escape, accept my fate
An eye for an eye

But it's too late for me
To start to have regrets today

One shot down, two shot down
A pistol that belonged to my daddy
One shot down, two shot down
Personality fractured in two
One shot down, two shot down
They got what they deserved
Now they're laying in the dirt


9.3rd World War

Lyricist:Joey Larocca

We'll come home when the battle's over
We'll come home with clothes all drenched in blood
This is the life we chose
This is how the story goes
For those who fight in the 3rd world war

It's us against the world today
You know, could go on forever
(Forever)
Pollute our minds with what they say
You gotta run alone but I know it ain't so
(Ain't so)
We can have it our own way
But we gotta learn to work together
(Together)

I see them capitalizing on other peoples woes
I see them on the streets and everywhere I go

We'll come home when the battle's over
We'll come home with clothes all drenched in blood
This is the life we chose
This is how the story goes
For those who fight in the 3rd world war

You try to understand everything we say
You try to analyze everything we do
Ask me what it is that we're fighting for
It's for freedom that we fight the 3rd world war

Living in the world today
I see that things could be much better
(Better)
But I'm never gonna give up
Not gonna lay my head down, no never
(Never)
You live your life for just one day
The faceless never remembered
(Remembered)

I see them capitalizing on other people's woes
I see them on the streets and everywhere I go

We'll come home when the battle's over
We'll come home with clothes all drenched in blood
This is the life we chose
This is how the story goes
For those who fight in the 3rd world war


10.Waiting In the Shadows

Lyricist:Jason Larocca

We've got a problem here, I can't go anywhere
Someone locked the door and threw away the key
Your weapon lives on fear but you won't find it here
I've gone my whole life letting it control me

But there's a criminal overt and subliminal
Who won't let us walk alone
Check under your thumb, not everyone's that dumb
Don't think that you could go unnoticed this long

Somewhere in this city, walking the streets
Waiting in the shadows
I feel uncomfortable, somewhat untrustable
With the consequence of your actions

There's never warning signs seems like he's doing fine
But underneath this there's a different man
Was it ever true? We thought that we knew you
But now she's dead on the floor

I'm leaving the ways, these are numbered days
We can't stand to let this go on anymore


11.This Ship Is Now Sinking

Lyricist:Chris Arredondo, Jason La Rocca, Joseph La Rocca, Ryan
Roberts

Slam the door shut again
We can't let them hear our voices anymore
I'm afraid that isn't up to me
We have no say in this matter anymore

But the only way to know
Is to just wait and see
We're waiting so patiently

At the bottom of the sea
We will rest in peace
'Cause there's no one around
To hear you make a sound
This ship is now sinking

So sink, we'll just fucking sink
And no one will remember that this was ever here
Don't laugh, this isn't funny now
This conspiracy of silence can't be happening

But the only way to know
Is to just wait and see
All the witches will float
And all the innocent will sink

At the bottom of the sea
We will rest in peace
'Cause there's no one around
To hear you make a sound
This ship is now sinking

The only way to know
Is to just wait and see
We're waiting so patiently

At the bottom of the sea
We will rest in peace
'Cause there's no one around
To hear you make a sound
This ship is now sinking
This ship is now sinking, sinking

At the bottom of the sea
We will rest in peace
'Cause there's no one around
To hear you make a sound
This ship is now sinking


12.This Is L.A.

Lyricist:Chris Arredondo, Jason La Rocca, Joseph La Rocca, Ryan
Roberts

This is LA, our city our home
Los Angeles, we never walk alone
Forever true we'll stay, in tribute to our city
No matter where we go, this is our home

On the sunset strip, the devil's hard at work
If you wanna play you gotta pay, you know
To keep the clubs from going under
That's the price to grace the floor, as every fool before

Underneath the haze, in the streets of this maze
All the way from the 10 to the 5 to the 134
These streets are nothing but a parking lot
But I don't care 'cause I'm not going anywhere

This is LA, our city, our home
Los Angeles, we never walk alone
Forever true we'll stay, in tribute to our city
No matter where we go, this is our home

It's 2 am again, when will I ever learn?
If those warm winds blow me home tonight
I'll have a place to lay my head
I'll leave my troubles at the foot of my bed

On the west coast shore, it's been far too long
So what if I got no money in my pockets
I'll always stand up strong
'Cause I'm in the city where I belong

This is LA, our city, our home
Los Angeles, we never walk alone
Forever true we'll stay, in tribute to our city
No matter where we go, this is our home, alright

This is LA, our city, our home
Los Angeles, we never walk alone

This is LA, our city, our home
Los Angeles, we never walk alone
Forever true we'll stay, in tribute to our city
No matter where we go, this is our home

This is LA, our city, our home
Los Angeles, we never walk alone
Forever true we'll stay, in tribute to our city
No matter where we go, this is our home

Forever true we'll stay, in tribute to our city
No matter where we go, this is our home


13.Media Control

Lyricist:Jason La Rocca

What are you willing to fight?
Are you afraid that you just might
Find something that you're afraid of
And run away in fright

Well I ain't gonna take it anymore
(What do you say?)
'Cause I know what you're fucking with me for
(What do you say?)
You're trying to keep me down from seeing what's beyond that
door

The truth is not what you see
(Media control)
Selling chaos on TV
(Media control)

The truth is not what you see
(Media control)
Selling chaos on TV
But don't think you fooled me

You know the words but you can't sing the tune
1939 it all happened too soon
But you played it like you meant to lose
You tied your fate right in a noose

But if sanity is my TV
(What do you say?)
Than I don't know whats happened to me
(What do you say?)
Your lies are a billboard telling me that I can't really see

The truth is not what you see
(Media control)
Selling chaos on TV
(Media control)

The truth is not what you see
(Media control)
Selling chaos on TV
But don't think you fooled me

I won't take to long to tell you all so long
I ain't ever coming back coming back

The truth is not what you see
(Media control)
Selling chaos on TV
(Media control)

The truth is not what you see
(Media control)
Selling chaos on TV
But don't think you fooled me

Don't think you fooled me


14.Back To Higher Ground

Lyricist:Joseph Peter La Rocca

I'm introduced to a plague of ignorance
Might be my own but I can't be too sure
Looking to rescued with no sign of deliverance
That can't exist, it can't exist

Hearts can grow so cold
In the heat of the moment
It freezes over like the devil's abode

Don't look so troubled
You're the salt of the earth now
We can't regress, we can't regress

Back to higher ground
Reaching up, we won't back down

Hope can dry up like the LA river
But droughts never last forever
A thirst for more is just human nature
We can't regress, no we can't regress

Socially conscious or self-consciously social
Show my true colors like a waving flag
Make up in strife for direction that I lack
We can't regress, we can't regress

Dancing on the grave
To the sound of savage victory
With the power we possess
We can't regress, we can't regress

Sing a song of freedom
Pay homage to the fathers
That paved the way for sonic liberty
A note that rings so true in all of us
We can't regress, we can't regress


15.My Own Enemy

Lyricist:Joseph Peter La Rocca

You make words of hate flow like water
Cascading down from my mouth
Make no mistake
I'm not good for your health

I'll make your dreams turn into nightmares
I'll turn your mind into stone
When that one goes rolling
Maybe you'll find one of your own

Putting civility to rest
Changing hands into fists
Turmoil easily erupts
I hope the dead can sleep standing up

I wouldn't be so paranoid
If the world wasn't out to get me
I'm so paranoid
Now I've become my own enemy

Look over my shoulder
Is my conscience watching me again?
He doesn't understand
The means justify the end

You could give me love or your warfare
You could leave me all alone
Nothing stays the same
But some things never seem to change

It's impossible to trust
Such friendly enemies
You can bury secrets deep
But they never will be put to sleep


16.Harder To Stand

Lyricist:Jason La Rocca

You don't know what to do
You're sitting there and you're all alone
You've taken everyone for granted now
You've got no place to call your home

Open up this, cut again
So it can remind you of the pain
That won't change the way you feel
When it goes away, you bring it back again

It may be harder to stand than fall
It's so easy to be nowhere
When you're nothing at all
Keep digging deeper this hole
'Til you cannot turn to anyone at all

Blaming everyone is so easy to do
And your shadow never seems to move
This scenery has got to change now
I don't really think it's good for you

You're scratching at your bandages
Never letting them heal the scars
Is misery your new best friend
Or have you forgotten who you really are?


17.Face Off

Lyricist:Jason La Rocca, Joseph Peter La Rocca

I think I've gone insane
What I tried to say
Doesn't matter now
You didn't listen anyway

Say it to my face
Show me what you got
You never show me who you are
Only who you're not

Woah, what did you say?
I'll let you think
While I stand here
And wait

Who are you to judge?
Those who know too much
You try to bring me down
But I'm never gonna budge

I'll say it to your face
I'll show you what I got
This is who I am
You can't make me what I'm not

Woah, what did you say?
Let you think while I stand here and wait
Let you think while I stand here and wait
Wait

Hey, what did you say?
What did you say?
Doesn't matter now
I won't listen anyway

Say it to my face
Show me what you got
You never show me who you are
Only who you're not

Woah, what did you say?
Let you think while I stand here and wait
Let you think while I stand here and wait
Let you think while I stand here and wait


18.My Defense

Lyricist:Jason La Rocca

But of course I'll say nothing of the sort
Don't let me have control of my art
Honesty and an empty bank account
Are my gun and hand full of rounds

But we've said it all along
The president was wrong
The only thing left
Is a hope that now is gone

And I want someone to say
That they'd listened to me
And if I learned one thing today
Is that you'd probably sue me for honesty

The floor is open we'll be taking questions now
Ask how to lose your mind I'll try to show you how
You left me tattered up and torn
You've been digging graves since the day that you were born

But we're frightened and alone
A place that I call home
The way to my heart
Is a knife through the bone

And I want someone to say
That they'd listened to me
And if I learned one thing today
Is that you'd probably sue me for honesty

The floor is open we'll be taking questions now
Ask how to lose your mind I'll try to show you how
I've left me tattered up and torn
You've been digging graves since the day that you were born

But we're frightened and alone
A place that I call home
The way to my heart
Is a knife through the bone

And I want someone to say
That they'd listened to me
And if I learned one thing today
Is that you'd probably sue me for honesty


19.Head Shrink, Dead Shrink

Lyricist:Joseph Peter La Rocca

Look inside my head
Tell me what you see
The truth is you see nothing
'Cause you don't know me

Intelligent facade
I know you're just a fraud
You hunt down
And feed on peoples insecurities

How many minds
Do you think you can control
You take diamonds and turn them to coal
Head shrink, dead shrink
Get your hands off of my mind

You think you set us free
Making us deaf, dumb and blind
Your definition of freedom's
Much different than mine

Afraid of what we'll see
If you don't steal our soul
Afraid of what we can, we can do
If we're not under your control

You tell me not to say a word
I have a voice and it will be heard
Head shrink, dead shrink
Get your hands off of my mind

Look inside my head
Tell me what you see
The truth is you see nothing
'Cause you don't know me

Afraid of what we'll see
If you don't steal our soul
Afraid of what we can, we can do
If we're not under your control

You tell me not to say a word
I have a voice and it will be heard
Head shrink, dead shrink
Get your hands off of my mind


20.These Streets

Lyricist:Jason La Rocca

What is it he should do? What is it he should do?
He's lived through each day
With out words to say
These empty pockets are nothing new

Losing his mind in this age and time
What is a boy to do?
Walking these streets with no shoes on his feet
All he can do is lose what to do

Too many words to say, too many words to say
So many people in this town
But there's no one around
These empty pockets are nothing new

Losing his mind in this age and time
What is a boy to do?
Walking these streets with no shoes on his feet
All he can do is lose

What is it he should do? What is it he should do?
He's lived through each day
With out words to say
These empty pockets are nothing new

Losing his mind in this age and time
What is a boy to do?
Walking these streets with no shoes on his feet
All he can do is lose what to do


21.Dead Men (Don't Tell Tales)

Lyricist:Joseph Peter La Rocca

With his final chance at liberty
Prepared to meet his fate
Too late for introductions
No longer will death wait

The way that things can change
In the brink of your demise
You never thought in all you're years
Your truth could tell you lies

Woah

With the slightest sense of dignity
He left his world behind
Upon his deathbed
Uncertain what he'll find

A coward to his heart
A solider in his mind
Marching to the battlefield
To a war that has no time

Woah

Trapped behind a wall of shame
No one can hear your cries
You find your actions similar
To the one's that you despise

Do the bottom of your boots
Have the blood of other men?
Or just the dirt from the streets
Of the city you live in?

Woah, yeah

You left your dreams to die
But they never seem to miss you
You'd love to tell me why
But dead men don't tell tales

Woah


22.Red Alert

Lyricist:Joseph Peter La Rocca

You're never gonna walk away from this
Nothing's gonna save your life
But you're waiting for the real apocalypse
But you couldn't see the light

You find something to keep you satisfied
But not for as long as you'd like
So you find a vice to buy you some time
But you couldn't afford the price

Now you're in the same situation
That you were before you came
When it's all said and done
Will you still feel the same?

Red alert
Run and hide, you're under attack
We're in a state of alert
Red alert
You've made your bed now there's no turning back
We're in a state of

You're living a lie
Prepare to die
Time's turning out, it goes
Tick, tick, tick, tick gone

Now you've backed yourself into a corner
Now you got no place to go
You thought that you found a new world order
But disorders all you know

You've got plans for a revolution
But it's harder done than said
When you find out that it's just an illusion
You'd be better off dead

Now you're in the same situation
That you were before you came
When it's all said and done
Will you still feel the same?

Red alert
Run and hide, you're under attack
We're in a state of alert
Red alert
You've made your bed now there's no turning back
We're in a state of

You're living a lie
Prepare to die
Time's turning out, it goes
Tick, tick, tick, tick gone

Making allegations, complicating situations
You thought, you made a name for yourself
But you're to blind to see
That you didn't change anything at all

Hide your head from the bed you made yourself

Red alert
Run and hide, you're under attack
We're in a state of alert
Red alert
You've made your bed now there's no turning back
We're in a state of

You're living a lie
Prepare to die
Time's turning out, it goes
Tick, tick, tick, tick gone

Bleeding heart, a dying soul
Staged as revolution
But your mind don't change
You still feel the same
Another false solution


23.All On Me

Lyricist:Christopher Arthur Arredondo

So your battle is over
To us the war has just begun
Another soldier surrendered
But we'll fight the war and win at all costs

You couldn't take all the madness
You couldn't take all the pain
Didn't know what we were fighting for
You made me realize it's all

It's all on me
Why'd you give up the fight?

Because of your surrender
We're behind enemy lines
You didn't just leave your brothers
When you fled you left your honor behind

I can take all the madness
I can take all the pain
I know what I'm fighting for
You made me realize it's all