1.Sum of it All
What is the trade-off in your life, What did you pay？ What is
the price？ What did you way it up against？ Was it worth it？ My
dreams run amok, they don't take in my means. They break in then
break out, they're making a scene. I wake up and leg it and
chase them with both hands. They float and don't care where my
feet land. You've？ gotta stay fed but you've gotta stay friends,
what I'd do for the roof over my head
The blood, the sweat, the tears I've shed.
What I'd bend for the ends, well.. that depends
on the？ prize and the pride of the name that I inherited;
dirty hands; clean heart; rose up from the sediment
I ain't trying to build a mansion or expand a settlement
or be an empty-headed guest on Letterman (fire!)
Gotta keep the engine purring, and the fire stoked,
redemption round the corner, holding onto higher？ hopes.
Bigger than the music and all the liner notes - the good, the
bad and everything that I had hoped.
What is the trade-off in your life, What did you pay？ What is
the price？ What did you way it up against？ Was it worth it？ You
compromise so much that you forgot what you want. You are the
sum of it all, is that what you want？
Report read 'she's a dreamer, something wrong, we should screen
her'
How could they know the carnival in her fix when life got grim.
If only they could taste the real thing,
beneath their feet, beyond the ceiling.
Like hounds, they'd be stuck on it, chasing, loving, hating,
bathing, shaking it. They'd be doped on the feeling of it,move
mountains clothed in it.
Battle waves that swallow ships just to get a hit
I run myself (away-oh) into the ground (away-oh).
I live up to my father's name
Once more at a crossroads, looking up at signposts.
All of those lives you'll never live and cannot know. So I
wonder, will I wander or hold my line？ And I find myself longing
for what can never be mine
This tale's tied together with invisible threads, lingering on
what she said. What if instead of a missed opportunity, it just
wasn't meant to be？ Please believe I never faked what it meant
to me. Everything must change, don't I know it, in？ a moment,
hesitate and you've blown it.
You want to know the possible,
but it would freak you out if you were shown it,
so I'm holding my course until this road？ ends. I know the pen
is constant, but the ink is transient. More inclined to letting
it ride than planning it.
So I take my lumps, 'cause I wrote this story： it's always feast
or famine; always death or glory.
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