The Blue Print

The cost of corruption an all consuming ache
appallingly seductive in this modern age
in our twilight time we become birds of prey
the cost of corruption to always get our way

When the lights show up the kids they disappear
When the lights show up we become everything we fear
Oh the fights and the blow ups we see our elders in the mirror
When the lights show up the kids they disappear

A vision the blueprint the antithesis of fate
A stark isolation while we sit and wait
Generation Y they act so in control
but there comes a time when you lose Rock n Roll

Am I the Only One?

We have seen many things in our time
but nothing can prepare you for those times like now
Hanging by a string we watch for falling things
Hanging by a string and losing patience

We can live without our things anytime
but when they try to take away the light in your eyes
Hanging by a string we watch for falling things
Hanging by a string and losing patience

Am I the only one who cannot overcome?

Storms my rise lightning strikes in our path
its a dust bowl ballad we’ll take our chances like the grapes of wrath

Napoleon Complex

Strangled we are stranded with rain for days
Held hostage like a prisoner to our mistakes
Chained to this life but we’re starving for more
but we’re chained to this life and starving for more.

It feeds off you like a parasite it drains your life
there were promises boastful promises
like napoleon elba was too small
Chained to this life but we’re starving for more
but we’re chained to this life and starving for more.

Don’t you want more?
There’s got to be more.

You can’t hold back on love
Why are you holding back on love?

Indifference in the Age of Decline

Indifference in the Age of Decline
there are no borders there are no lines
Indifference in the Age of Decline
We got no heroes and we got no shrines

I suppose we just shut it off
after seeing so much disregard
its not how its supposed to be
we all just want to believe
that every little wrong we’re going to make them right

Indifference in the Age of the glow
our apathy is in digital
a second life because the first one is broken
unsocial mediums where no true words are spoken

Make up your mind
its the second guessing are we regressing
make up your mind
we’re losing feeling its day in day out.

The Wayside

Off the grid in the shadows where we live
in the sad excuse for what we call a home
under sized amongst the wealth before our eyes
we tell ourselves this is not the end

Well a roof is just a peak
even better if it doesn’t leak

The sun will set and make us all forget
that we’re living underwhelmed on the wayside
but we take comfort in knowing that where ever we’re going
in the end we’re all together as we lay aside

Blue collar heart with white collar hands
I never jumped in the pile of dirt
a test of will there is gold in them hills
if i could just get past the prospect of fear
we are seekers but what do we seek?
And when we get there what will we see?

The sun will set and make us all forget
that we’re living underwhelmed on the wayside
but we take comfort in knowing that where ever we’re going
in the end we’re all together as we lay aside

Our life is just a page in a story that never ends.

Empires

It’s the subtle pull your conscience makes
its the loudest roar when an engine breaks
its a fleeting pulse an annoying buzz
that never stops and never loves

fall in line its always there
all the time to make you feel unaware

Empires and flat tires
who will rescue us and save our lives?

It’s a bulletin it’s a ticker tape
it pulls you in there’s no give or take
it’s unwillingness it’s sacrilege
it’s telegraphed but so is everything

Shimmer

Would you notice if I wasn’t here?
To shimmer like a glimmer in a dream
Is it on purpose
did you find your way
well sit right back because your on track today

There is a house where no one lives

It wasn’t me and it wasn’t you
it probably has more to do with all those things we can’t control
It took a piece of me and a part of you
disintegrate and broke in two
there are some thing we can’t control

There was something in the debris
in the remnants we uncovered a mystery

In that house where no one lives

Heart hangs low

Just answer me this question
I need to know that its okay
when your life is like a movie
turned into a single frame

when your heart hangs low
15 years of letting go

There are no answers without questions
there is no love without regret
I can’t be the thing you long for
and you won’t soon let me forget

when your heart hangs low
15 years of letting go

It’s a silent opera
It’s a fall from grace
It’s a goddamn winter on a frozen lake
It’s a vacant building on an empty lot
It’s a deserted island that time forgot
but we carry on

when your heart hangs low
15 years of letting go

Barbarians

If you were told there was something great
waiting for you well its not enough
Patterns and trends
Here than away can’t stay in one place
Because its not enough

Home away betrayed because its not enough
Worn out ways they’re displays but there not enough
You cannot change what’s inside of you there is nothing left to become
Show me a way its okay its just not enough

If I could fade and just wither away
break out of here because its not enough
The rich and the poor in a barbarian state
ruthlessly bore and its not in us.