The Continental Divide

War Tapes The Continental Divide Lyrics
1.Mind Is Ugly

Everything's my fault
Everything at all
Tonight I'm giving up
Tonight I'm losing control

I want to start a fight
With someone close to me
Burn down every bridge
And get lost in the regret

I never wanted you to know
I never wanted you to see me this way
I'm not the man you think I am
And when I think,
My mind is ugly

My time is running out
My youths depleting
With every smoke I smoke
And every drink I drink

I could try to sound tough
I could try to sound wise
But words don't mean a thing
When you're not listening

I never wanted you to know
I never wanted you to see me this way
I'm not the man you think I am
And when I think,
My mind is ugly

I never wanted you to know me.

My mind is ugly. My mind is ugly. My mind is ugly.


2.Rightfully Mine

I'm the one who's struggling
In a world gone mad
I suffocate in the ocean air
Just to call this place my home

It took no time at all to cast away this place
The sorrow in my heart is sinking fast everyday

It's only one night away
I can hear my fate chasing after me
And in the final fight, when no one's around
I feed the fire that burns inside

And take what's rightfully mine
Take what's rightfully mine away

These days don't separate
I've seen them come and go
I've torn the pages from past
And turned my back on what I know

It took no time at all to cast away this place
The sorrow in my heart is sinking fast everyday

It's only one night away
I can hear my fate chasing after me
And in the final fight, when no one's around
I feed the fire that burns inside
And take what's rightfully mine

It's only one night away
And the darkness takes it's toll on me
And in the final fight, when no one's around
I feed the fire that burns inside

And take what's rightfully mine
Take what's rightfully mine away


3.Air Filled Romance

Drifting past old stomping grounds
I can't help reminisce
That's why I came here tonight

Wasting time down the barrel I find
A lonely memory
That's why I came here tonight

Desperately I fight
And I break down

Tell me how this world refused to turn
Back in the day when the air filled the romance
Take me back to that chapter in my life
Back to the days when the air filled the romance

Pints behind I stumble inside a faded scenery
And that's why I drive all night
Taking a ride up the mountain I climb, I've never felt so alive
And That's why I drive all night

Desperately I fight
And I break down

Tell me how this world refused to turn
Back in the day when the air filled the romance
Take me back to that chapter in my life
Back to the days when the air filled the romance

I miss the air from the from the last breath of my purity
I miss the air from the last words you shouted at me
I miss the air from the golden rooftops we sat on
I miss the air from my first love..

Take me back to that chapter in my life
Back to the days when the air filled the romance

Filled the romance, filled the romance
The air filled the romance


4.For Eternity

And it's much worse then a heart attack
And it's much less then a kiss on the neck
You feel it coming on, You feel it come alive
And tremble in the dark of your mind

For Eternity, I'll see you walking away
In a moment of history

And it chisels at my spine
This fragment of a moment in time
You feel it dissipate, You feel is slip away
And nobody can see the vivid memory inside of me

For Eternity, I'll see you walking away
In a moment of history
Nostalgia stings and it sinks it's teeth into me
And I know it's just a taste of what's to come

On the coma coast the kids dance with the ghosts
And the palm trees sway to the same old songs
I moved my life 3,000 miles away
And found myself with the same pain

For Eternity, I'll see you walking away
In a moment of history
Nostalgia stings and it sinks it's teeth into me
And I know, and I know it's just a taste of what's to come..


5.Fast Lane

Light years in my car
Seem longer than before
Alone on the moon or alone in my room
I saw a field of glass
Through a telescopic mass
It con-caved my heart
You pulled my life apart

Do you realize
Or even compromise
Your vicious demise
You counter clockwise inside
Aren't you a little scared of never getting there
You've got your whole life
But the clocks ticking fast

On the Zodiac Road
I'll drive you home
We'll go where we go
And we'll know what we know

I'll take you down
I'll take you down
The PCH, the Interstate
The long way home
And all the tunes,
All the tunes
I'm not listening

On the zodiac road
I'll drive you home
We'll go where we go
And we'll know what we know


6.Night Unfolds

The night unfolds and pain takes hold, I know
A year has passed since we collapsed but oh so
It's harder now to trust my heart
And I can't stop trying to claw inside

Cause everything you know is coming away
It's coming away, coming away
And everything you know is changing everyday
And I just can't decide

With hope I've lost a friend I know
I wander streets inside my mind all alone
(I still love you..)
Cause everything you know is coming away
It's coming away, coming away
And everything you know is changing everyday
And I just can't decide
Cause everything you know is coming away
It's coming away, coming away
And everything you know is changing everyday
And I just can't decide


7.Dreaming Of You

I've seen this all before
From the backseat of my life
On a rundown suburban road
That winds and winds
But you never really find
Anything

I saw you in a dream
A dream that always seems
To be real
The truth is nowhere near
And I don't care
I'll just sleep my life away
While dreaming of you
(Dreaming)

And in a different time and place
In a house I've never lived
I hear you knocking at my door
So hard I try
But you never want to come inside

I saw you in a dream
A dream that always seems
To be real
The truth is nowhere near
And I don't care
I'll just sleep my life away
While dreaming of you

I hear you knocking at my door
(I hear you knocking at my door)

You went away
You're nowhere near

I saw you in a dream
A dream that always seems
To be real
The truth is nowhere near
And I don't care
I'll just sleep my life away
While dreaming of you


8.She Lied

Time will tell and so will those little things
You keep tucked in your head
Because I wasn't born with enough of an innocence
To keep coming back for more

She must of lied to you
Before I had her
She must of lied to you
Before I had..

All day long I sit and communicate with the dead
Corpse that I call my girlfriend
And she's only half of the girl that I met
see it takes true love to watch her decay

She must of lied to you
Before I had her
She must of lied to you
Before I had the time to sit and think about those little things
That creep inside and tear me apart

Ahh! I'm sorry, I never meant to hurt you.
But I'm going down that road alone, and I'm never coming back.

All day long I sit and communicate with the dead
Corpse that I call my girlfriend

She must of lied to you
Before I had her
She must of lied to you
Before I had her.

Her.. her.. her.. her..
Heart. Her Heart. Her Heart..


9.Start Again

Seven lies and I've had it with this game
I want to start again
And the world drapes it's arms around my neck
I want to start again, start again

And the lovers and the fighters take their swings at me
I'm reaching out once again
To a world that left in silence

If I could go back
To the way things were
Or at least to the way you were

Let me start again, my friend

Tell me it's off
I'm dancing in fire that you took from
The loneliest flame.

If I could go back
To the way things were
Or at least to the way you were

Let me start again
I want to start again, my friend


10.Use Me

Strange as it may seem
All this love is bothering
Consuming all my air like a vacuum

You're climbing up my back
Clawing away at your past
I'm blocking out the rays that have burned you

And nothing comes out right

You use me now
It's never easy to find out how
You have to use me

You use me now
So stop trying to fight all the time
And just use me

We're a wonderful machines
That scream at walls and overheat
Slowly coming to a halt on the freeway

Can you honestly explain
Why nothing ever seems to be
Good enough for you
Or bad enough for me?

And nothing comes out right
No nothing comes out

And we're moving on this evil song
In hopes to keep us stabilized
Because in your eyes is a place to hide
And terrorize the fear of losing
You use me now
It's never easy to find out how
You have to use me

You use me now
So stop trying to fight all the time
And just use me

So just use me, just use me


11.Rightfully Mine

I'm the one who's struggling
In a world gone mad
I suffocate in the ocean air
Just to call this place my home

It took no time at all to cast away this place
The sorrow in my heart is sinking fast everyday

It's only one night away
I can hear my fate chasing after me
And in the final fight, when no one's around
I feed the fire that burns inside

And take what's rightfully mine
Take what's rightfully mine away

These days don't separate
I've seen them come and go
I've torn the pages from past
And turned my back on what I know

It took no time at all to cast away this place
The sorrow in my heart is sinking fast everyday

It's only one night away
I can hear my fate chasing after me
And in the final fight, when no one's around
I feed the fire that burns inside
And take what's rightfully mine

It's only one night away
And the darkness takes it's toll on me
And in the final fight, when no one's around
I feed the fire that burns inside

And take what's rightfully mine
Take what's rightfully mine away


12.Air Filled Romance

Drifting past old stomping grounds
I can't help reminisce
That's why I came here tonight

Wasting time down the barrel I find
A lonely memory
That's why I came here tonight

Desperately I fight
And I break down

Tell me how this world refused to turn
Back in the day when the air filled the romance
Take me back to that chapter in my life
Back to the days when the air filled the romance

Pints behind I stumble inside a faded scenery
And that's why I drive all night
Taking a ride up the mountain I climb, I've never felt so alive
And That's why I drive all night

Desperately I fight
And I break down

Tell me how this world refused to turn
Back in the day when the air filled the romance
Take me back to that chapter in my life
Back to the days when the air filled the romance

I miss the air from the from the last breath of my purity
I miss the air from the last words you shouted at me
I miss the air from the golden rooftops we sat on
I miss the air from my first love..

Take me back to that chapter in my life
Back to the days when the air filled the romance

Filled the romance, filled the romance
The air filled the romance


13.For Eternity

And it's much worse then a heart attack
And it's much less then a kiss on the neck
You feel it coming on, You feel it come alive
And tremble in the dark of your mind

For Eternity, I'll see you walking away
In a moment of history

And it chisels at my spine
This fragment of a moment in time
You feel it dissipate, You feel is slip away
And nobody can see the vivid memory inside of me

For Eternity, I'll see you walking away
In a moment of history
Nostalgia stings and it sinks it's teeth into me
And I know it's just a taste of what's to come

On the coma coast the kids dance with the ghosts
And the palm trees sway to the same old songs
I moved my life 3,000 miles away
And found myself with the same pain

For Eternity, I'll see you walking away
In a moment of history
Nostalgia stings and it sinks it's teeth into me
And I know, and I know it's just a taste of what's to come..


14.Fast Lane

Light years in my car
Seem longer than before
Alone on the moon or alone in my room
I saw a field of glass
Through a telescopic mass
It con-caved my heart
You pulled my life apart

Do you realize
Or even compromise
Your vicious demise
You counter clockwise inside
Aren't you a little scared of never getting there
You've got your whole life
But the clocks ticking fast

On the Zodiac Road
I'll drive you home
We'll go where we go
And we'll know what we know

I'll take you down
I'll take you down
The PCH, the Interstate
The long way home
And all the tunes,
All the tunes
I'm not listening

On the zodiac road
I'll drive you home
We'll go where we go
And we'll know what we know


15.Night Unfolds

The night unfolds and pain takes hold, I know
A year has passed since we collapsed but oh so
It's harder now to trust my heart
And I can't stop trying to claw inside

Cause everything you know is coming away
It's coming away, coming away
And everything you know is changing everyday
And I just can't decide

With hope I've lost a friend I know
I wander streets inside my mind all alone
(I still love you..)
Cause everything you know is coming away
It's coming away, coming away
And everything you know is changing everyday
And I just can't decide
Cause everything you know is coming away
It's coming away, coming away
And everything you know is changing everyday
And I just can't decide


16.Dreaming Of You

I've seen this all before
From the backseat of my life
On a rundown suburban road
That winds and winds
But you never really find
Anything

I saw you in a dream
A dream that always seems
To be real
The truth is nowhere near
And I don't care
I'll just sleep my life away
While dreaming of you
(Dreaming)

And in a different time and place
In a house I've never lived
I hear you knocking at my door
So hard I try
But you never want to come inside

I saw you in a dream
A dream that always seems
To be real
The truth is nowhere near
And I don't care
I'll just sleep my life away
While dreaming of you

I hear you knocking at my door
(I hear you knocking at my door)

You went away
You're nowhere near

I saw you in a dream
A dream that always seems
To be real
The truth is nowhere near
And I don't care
I'll just sleep my life away
While dreaming of you


17.She Lied

Time will tell and so will those little things
You keep tucked in your head
Because I wasn't born with enough of an innocence
To keep coming back for more

She must of lied to you
Before I had her
She must of lied to you
Before I had..

All day long I sit and communicate with the dead
Corpse that I call my girlfriend
And she's only half of the girl that I met
see it takes true love to watch her decay

She must of lied to you
Before I had her
She must of lied to you
Before I had the time to sit and think about those little things
That creep inside and tear me apart

Ahh! I'm sorry, I never meant to hurt you.
But I'm going down that road alone, and I'm never coming back.

All day long I sit and communicate with the dead
Corpse that I call my girlfriend

She must of lied to you
Before I had her
She must of lied to you
Before I had her.

Her.. her.. her.. her..
Heart. Her Heart. Her Heart..


18.Start Again

Seven lies and I've had it with this game
I want to start again
And the world drapes it's arms around my neck
I want to start again, start again

And the lovers and the fighters take their swings at me
I'm reaching out once again
To a world that left in silence

If I could go back
To the way things were
Or at least to the way you were

Let me start again, my friend

Tell me it's off
I'm dancing in fire that you took from
The loneliest flame.

If I could go back
To the way things were
Or at least to the way you were

Let me start again
I want to start again, my friend


19.Use Me

Strange as it may seem
All this love is bothering
Consuming all my air like a vacuum

You're climbing up my back
Clawing away at your past
I'm blocking out the rays that have burned you

And nothing comes out right

You use me now
It's never easy to find out how
You have to use me

You use me now
So stop trying to fight all the time
And just use me

We're a wonderful machines
That scream at walls and overheat
Slowly coming to a halt on the freeway

Can you honestly explain
Why nothing ever seems to be
Good enough for you
Or bad enough for me?

And nothing comes out right
No nothing comes out

And we're moving on this evil song
In hopes to keep us stabilized
Because in your eyes is a place to hide
And terrorize the fear of losing
You use me now
It's never easy to find out how
You have to use me

You use me now
So stop trying to fight all the time
And just use me

So just use me, just use me


20.All The World's A Stage

I'm walking out
On my fears that have held me back
For once in my life
My heart isn't sinking fast

Ghosts in walls tell us story's
Of the times that we had

All the world's a stage
And the ever changing souls
In the house we grew up
Is the house they grew old

All the world's a stage
And the ever changing souls
In the house we grew up
Is the house they grew old

And I'm reaching back
In the summer air I feel you there

No one's home let's fade into the past
And take take all our time
Because the world slowly dies when we're holding

All the world's a stage
And the ever changing souls
In the house we grew up
Is the house they grew old

All the world's a stage
And when I look into you
I get the feeling our love
Will soon start a new

And I don't have the time
I don't have the mind
To keep those dreams alive
Cause everyone you love
Has a truth inside that keeps us whole

All the world's a stage
And the ever changing souls
In the house we grew up
Is the house they grew old

All the world's a stage
And when I look into you
I get the feeling, I get the feeling
I'm telling you, I'm telling you

(All the world's a stage
And the ever changing souls
In the house we grew up
Is the house they grew old)