Etiqueta: Rise Against

We don’t belong (we don’t belong)
We go along (we go along)
We don’t belong
To you now

When it rains it pours
Like summer storms, the skies as grey as leaves
The rivers flood the banks and spill into the streets
But the people laughed and swore that they’d restore
The city piece by piece
And then the clouds gave way as if to agree
When it rains it pours

The mystery unknown now unfolds
The life that we once owned, first bought, then sold
Like passengers on board, we’ve no control
To oceans unexplored
This ship sails through

We don’t belong (don’t belong)
We go along (we go along)
We don’t belong
To you now

When it rains it pours
Like summer storms, the skies as grey as leaves
The rivers flood the banks and spill into the streets
But the people laughed and swore that they’d restore
The city piece by piece
And then the clouds gave way as if to agree
When it rains it pours
It pours
(It pours)

When it rains it pours
When they die we mourn
When it hit, we swore
Now we want not more
Like a saint re-born
Like a rose in a storm
Like a child un-born
A child un-born…

It’s the coin we’re tossing into the well
It’s misfortune that we could not foretell
It’s the dry spell

When it rains it pours
Like summer storms, the skies as grey as leaves
The rivers flood the banks and spill into the streets
But the people laughed and swore that they’d restore
The city piece by piece
And then the clouds gave way as if to agree
When it rains it pours
It pours
When it rains it pour
*

Oh, what they stole
Was innocence, the slate once clean
Has gone as black as coal
Time and time again

Take a look around
The tide is turning upside down
The image of the world
Reflects inside the child’s eye
This world

No self-control
No sense of time
No bleeding hearts, no long good-byes
We grow colder every day

But is it all a show?
A game we play
Society vice queens, so fucking bored
And so cliche

Take a look around
The tide is turning upside down
The image of the world
Reflects inside the child’s eye
We eat our own to stay alive

Slow and steady now
Slow and steady now
Slow and steady now
Slow and steady now
Slow and steady now, it’s time

Take a look around
The tide is turning upside down
The image of the world
Reflects inside the child’s eye
We eat our own to stay alive

Around, take a look around
Watch this world reflect
Inside a child’s eye
We eat our own to stay alive
*

Glowing screens simulate
Lives that no longer take place
Can this be what we’ve become?
Paper thin, overweight
Pills to arouse or sedate
Still we don’t know what we want

We can’t let go
Can’t you see?
To lose control
Is to be…

Finally free!
First a spark
Then a flame
Now a fire
We explode
Into the darkest of nights
Disconnect
Cut the cord
Lines are dead
Now they’ll know
With everything comes a price

And each day we are torn
Between the right and the wrong
Between life and convenience
Why lose sleep? Why complain?
There’s always channels to change
It’s like elective amnesia
As we grow older in this place
Let’s just start over
Let’s erase
What they’ve made!

First a spark
Then a flame
Now a fire
We explode
Into the darkest of nights
Disconnect
Cut the cord
Lines are dead
Now they’ll know
With everything comes a price

It could be minutes away
It could be hours or days
Before the bottom falls out
Before the ground gives way
Into this debt we are born
A debt we try to repay
And yet we blacken the sky
Smoke rising out of the flames
Now they’ll know…

First a spark
Then a flame
Now a fire
We explode
Into the darkest of nights
Disconnect
Cut the cord
Lines are dead
Now they’ll know
With everything comes a price
(First a spark)
(Then a flame)
(Now a fire)
We explode
We explode
With everything comes a price
(Disconnect)
(Cut the cord)
(Lines are dead)
We explode
We explode
*

Control the heart
Control the mind
Control the hands

To build what they’ve designed
Lifetimes of silence and apathy
Ensure the prompt demise of our humanity
Contemplate contracts of gold
Just wave your hand and relinquish control
Nine lives await to unfold
We bury ten thousand stories
The stories untold
*

What if I’m right and you are wrong?
What if you knew it all along?
What if I figured out that I did not belong?
What if it always bothered me?
What if I never did believe?
Would it be wrong if I decided I should leave?

If I pretended I was blind
And struck it from my mind
Would it still be there?
What if I’d do anything to make it seem all right?
It’s all right

What if it’s all inside my head?
What if those words were never said?
Would it be easier if I could just forget?
What if I didn’t run away?
Could it be any other way?
Would it be wrong if I decided I should stay?
Hey, yeah!

If I pretended I was blind
And struck it from my mind
Would it still be there?
What if I’d do anything to make it seem all right?
It’s all right
It’s all right
It’s all right
It’s all right

And now, if I pretended I was blind
And struck it from my mind
Would it still be there?
What if I would do anything to make it seem all right?
It’s all right

Now, what if I’m right and you are wrong?
What if you knew it all along?
What if I figured out that I did not belong?
What if it always bothered me?
What if I never did believe?
Would it be wrong if I decided I should leave?
*

And there amidst the waves
And the cloudless skies
That blanket the year before
I watch my life wash ashore

Have you ever been a part of something
That you thought would never end?
And then of course it did

Have you ever felt the weight inside you
Pulling away inside your skin?
And then something had to give

Now the lines are drawn
Is this feeling gone?
The best parts of this have come and gone
And now that is all this is

With the reasons clear
We’ll spend another year
Without direction, full of fear
But now things will be different

There’s nothing simple when it comes to you and I
Always something in this everchanging life
And it probably always will
Now that time is getting harder to come by
The same arguments are always on our mind
We’ve killed this slowly fading light

Now something has kept me here too long and you can’t leave me if I’m already gone

Make the same mistakes we’re always hanging on
Break the promises we’re always leaning on
All this time spent waking up
Mow I keep this line open to get this call from you as you speak the words
That keep me coming back to you now this time it’s all different

Now something has kept me here too long and now I’m gone…
*

(In With The New)
This is something that you can’t ignore
(In With The New)
A simple thing worth fighting for
(In With The New)
cause now they’re tearing down our doors
So she screams out the window,
«I’ve had it up to here»
So sick and tired of wondering
where I’ll be next year…

Caring less about the homeless millions
All the petty problems that go with them
Reap the profit that reaps their lives and
Tell me that it’s fine

Throw them out and call it relocation
Lower-income-housing quick solution
A Generation lost

(In With The New)
This is something that you can’t ignore
(In With The New)
A simple thing worth fighting for
(In With The New)
cause now they’re tearing down our doors
So she screams out the window,
«I’ve had it up to here»
So sick and tired of wondering
where I’ll be next year…

Now in the whirlwind of my life
Is where you presently reside
Can I pretend you don’t exist
Maybe just for ten more minutes?
My hearts been broken into two
and rusted from years of disuse
So will you place upon it your hands
Will you help it beat again?
[2x]

It seems the whole world’s turned on me
(Bound and gagged) in the land of the free
Let’s talk this over, this game is over
In with the new, out with the old
Hearts of the world have grown so cold
This game is over, let’s talk this over
*

Unless we save our lives
From the coming tide
That seeks to drown us in its waves
But if we sell our soul
For the chance of gold
Then we’ll rue each passing day

And I swear this place once was alive
The streets all pulsed like living veins
Heart was beating cars with blood
The buildings breathe each time they sway

Time of death
Punctuated by the bells
The sky turned red
Then came the rain

Come on let’s save our lives
From the coming tide
That seeks to drown us in its waves
But if we sell our soul
For the chance of gold
Then we’ll rue each passing day.

They drown, they’ll crush you from the top
I’d rather die,
I would rather chase them down
These worlds are crashing forward,
They try to set alight
Build our true fates while they drown

Like fallen soldiers on these fields
We spared our lives
Bodies holed up on the wheels
I swear we tried
I gave up on this godforsaken sight,
And felt it all pass by.

Come on let’s save our lives
From the coming tide
That seeks to drown us in its waves
But if we sell our soul
for the chance of gold
then we’ll rue each passing day.

So save our
(Save our lives)
Our lives,
it’s coming clear,
Yeah it’s been coming clear
(Coming clear)
To me…

We’ll never sell our soul
For the chance of gold
And we’ll live each passing day
*

Hollis Brown
He lived on the outside of town
Hollis Brown
He lived on the outside of town
With his wife and five children
And his cabin fallin’ down
You looked for work and money
And you walked a rugged mile
You looked for work and money
And you walked a rugged mile
Your children are so hungry
That they don’t know how to smile
Your baby’s eyes look crazy
They’re a-tuggin’ at your sleeve
Your baby’s eyes look crazy
They’re a-tuggin’ at your sleeve
You walk the floor and wonder why
With every breath you breathe
The rats have got your flour
Bad blood it got your mare
The rats have got your flour
Bad blood it got your mare
If there’s anyone that knows
Is there anyone that cares?
You prayed to the Lord above
Oh please send you a friend
You prayed to the Lord above
Oh please send you a friend
Your empty pockets tell yuh
That you ain’t a-got no friend
Your babies are crying louder
It’s pounding on your brain
Your babies are crying louder
It’s pounding on your brain
Your wife’s screams are stabbin’ you
Like the dirty drivin’ rain
Your grass it is turning black
There’s no water in your well
Your grass is turning black
There’s no water in your well
You spent your last lone dollar
On seven shotgun shells
Way out in the wilderness
A cold coyote calls
Way out in the wilderness
A cold coyote calls
Your eyes fix on the shotgun
That’s hangin’ on the wall
Your brain is a-bleedin’
And your legs can’t seem to stand
Your brain is a-bleedin’
And your legs can’t seem to stand
Your eyes fix on the shotgun
That you’re holdin’ in your hand
There’s seven breezes a-blowin’
All around the cabin door
There’s seven breezes a-blowin’
All around the cabin door
Seven shots ring out
Like the ocean’s pounding roar
There’s seven people dead
On a South Dakota farm
There’s seven people dead
On a South Dakota farm
Somewhere in the distance
There’s seven new people born
*

I took my share and then told her, «I don’t want more»
We spend our lives, then ask you, what was this for,
We gave our time and still we came up short.

Cause this is all I’ve got, and I’ve nothing more.
We save the worst excuse, but the best in store.
Maybe now, we’ll finally even the score.
Are you counting? – do you even wanna know?

Cause unknown, the streets are never-ending.
Sinking down, with nothing to defend me.
Lie and wait, for some small show of mercy.
Questions change – but the answers always stay the same!

I took my share and then told her, «I don’t want more»
I fell so low, I touched the oceans floor.
But what the hell are we searching for?!

Cause this is all I’ve got, and I’ve nothing more.
We save the worst excuse, but the best in store.
Maybe now, we’ll finally even the score.
Are you counting? – do you even wanna know?

She lies awake now, and cried a thousand rivers.
The circumstance here, has led this child astray.
This candle’s fading, the dim light slowly withers.
You ask for guidance, but I just look away…

I have nothing more to say.

So let me down, because they never believed in you.
Seal this crown, and still we can see right through.

Cause this is all I’ve got, and I’ve nothing more.
We save the worst excuse, but the best in store.
Maybe now we’ll finally even the score.
Cause this is all I’ve got.
And now there’s nothing.
*

Come raise your lantern to the sky
Can we illuminate this night?
We’ll dance like heathens round a flame
While the world sleeps we are awake

The black brook calls
It sings a chorus
While the gathering swells
The flames grow tall
Right before us
As drums keep pounding
And the masses now are fusing
Bodies pressed and tangled
As we revel in confusion
Our inhibitions thrown into the fire

Come raise your lantern to the sky
Can we illuminate this night?
We’ll dance like heathens round a flame
While the world sleeps we are awake

Here in the dark we are safe from the judgement
Now arm in arm locked tight so no one gets in
The heaven-sent say, «Child, you are hell-bent.»
But hell is not where we’re going
Hell’s where we’ve been

Come raise your lantern to the sky
And let’s illuminate this night
We’ll dance like heathens round the flame
And while the world sleeps we are awake

Raise your lantern to the sky
And let’s illuminate this night
We’ll dance like heathens around the flames
And while the world sleeps we are awake
We are awake
(raise your lantern to the sky)
We are awake
We are awake
(now raise your lantern to the sky)
We are awake
Yeah we are awake
*

This time, this time
Making Christmas
Making Christmas
Making Christmas, making Christmas
Is so fine

It’s ours this time
And won’t the children be surprised
It’s ours this time
Making Christmas
Making Christmas
Making Christmas

Time to give them something fun
They’ll talk about for years to come
Let’s have a cheer from everyone
It’s time to party
Making Christmas, making Christmas

Snakes and mice get wrapped up so nice
With spider legs and pretty bows
It’s ours this time
All together, that and this
With all our tricks we’re
Making Christmastime

Here comes jack
I don’t believe what’s happening to me
My hopes, my dreams, my fantasies
Hee, hee, hee, hee
Won’t they be impressed, I am a genius
See how I transformed this old rat
Into a most delightful hat

Hmm, my compliments from me to you
On this your most intriguing hat
Consider though this substitute
A bat in place of this old rat
Huh! No, no, no, now that’s all wrong
This thing will never make a present
It’s been dead now for much too long
Try something fresher, something pleasant
Try again, don’t give up

All together, that and this
With all our tricks we’re making Christmastime…

This time, this time
Making Christmas, making Christmas
La, la, la
It’s almost here
And we can’t wait
So ring the bells and celebrate

Cause when the full moon starts to climb
We’ll all sing out
It’s Christmastime
Hee, hee, hee
*

You point your finger
In my face but
You can’t remember what you
Did last night

It’s all fun and games ‘til
You try to justify
It’s all well and done ‘til
You question the choices in your life

Join!
All the millions
Of victims who prescribe
To this mediocre life

And all these years
Have been lost
Looking for something
That you’ll never find!

It’s all fun and games ‘til
You try to justify
It’s all well and done ‘til
You question the choices in your life

In your life…
In your life!

It’s all fun and games ‘til
You try to justify
It’s all well and done ‘til
You question the choices in your life
*

Invest time, invest life
Invest it all, reinvent yourself
Before you know it
Your essence is renewed with something fresh
Your will, your way
Will earn respect in your day
Let the glory sharpened knife
Carve the future of your life

Let’s not praise the past, just a fact
Built to last
Old school or the new
Doesn’t mean a thing if your heart’s not true
Greedy ones faded fast, we’re here
Built to last
For the fun, not a fad
The love and the truth so powerful

Work out the snags of the past
Work out the snags that won’t last
Mistakes have finished my brothers
Mistakes will guide all the others
Your will, your way
Might shape a better day
Eradicate the stagnancy
Eradicate it like disease

Let’s not praise the past, just a fact
Built to last
Old school or the new
Doesn’t mean shit if your heart ain’t true
Greedy ones faded fast, we’re here
Built to last
For the fun, not a fad
The love and the truth so powerful
The love and the truth so powerful

As we’ve seen around the world
We won’t go away
Cause we’ll always feel this way
We’re here to stay
And our impact will be felt
We won’t go away
If we feel it, if we feel it
We’re here to stay
*

Await the day the clouds will part
Deliver words we know by heart

Raise your fucking voice
Or be a face in the crowd
Isn’t that what it’s all about?

So tempt me not with the life you have bought
Our keep is earned in the change that we sought

Explain away the tangled truth
Accuse away but without proof

Raise your fucking voice
Or be a face in the crowd
Isn’t that what it’s all about?

Boots on the ground, aim tried and true
Bells toll the sound; impending doom

In our respite our numbers grew
Now it’s time to

Raise your fucking voice
Or be a face in the crowd
Isn’t that what it’s all about?
*

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes, all the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
They’re all made out of ticky-tacky,
And they all look just the same.

And the people in houses
who went to the university,
where they were put in boxes,
And they all came out the same.
There’s doctors and lawyers
And business executives,
They’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf-course,
And drink their Martini dry,
And they all have pretty children,
And the children go to school.
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
They all get put in boxes
And they all come out the same.

And the boys go into business,
And marry, raise a family,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
Yeah a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.
*

Stop my struggling, then I float to the surface
Fill my lungs with air, then let it out

I give it all, now there’s a reason why I sing
So give it all, and it’s these reasons that belong to me

Rock bottoms where we live, and still we dig these trenches
To bury ourselves in them, backs breaking under tension

For far too long these voices, muffled by distances
It’s time to come to our senses, up from the dirt

We give it all, now there’s a reason why I sing
So give it all, and it’s these reasons that belong to me

Breathe (breathe), the air we give (give), the life we live (live), our pulses racing distances
(breathe) so wet my tongue (give), break into song (live), through seas of competition

So please believe your eyes, a sacrifice
Is not what we had in our minds
I’m coming home tonight, home tonight

We give it all, now there’s a reason why I sing
So give it all, and it’s these reasons that belong to me

Today I offer all myself to this I’m living for my dying wish
I give it all, now there’s a reason, there’s a reason, to give it all
*

We’re not the first, I hope we’re not the last
‘Cause I know we’re all ready for that adult crash
The time is so little, the time belongs to us
Why is everybody in such a fucking rush?

Make do with what you have
Take what you can get
Pay no mind to us
We’re just a minor threat

We’re just a minor threat

Early to finish, I was late to start
I might be an adult, but I’m a minor at heart
Go to college, be a man, what’s the fucking deal?
It’s now how old I am, it’s how old I feel

Take your time
Try no to forget
We never will
We’re just a minor threat

We’re just a minor threat
*

Walk one mile in shoes I never asked to fill
But still I press on…

I slipped, I fell, then I lost everything
My hope, my faith, in what the future brings
In hopes of pushing past the tie that brings us down
We sing together now.

Give me one reason to look you in the eye
Tell me exactly why it is that you think you are worth my time

I slipped, I fell, then I lost everything
My hope, my faith, in what the future brings
In hopes of pushing past the tie that brings us down
We sing together now.

To all the ones that shake my hand
Then talk your shit behind my back
To those who claim they understand
But never heard a word I said
In spite of you I am still here
This vision has never been more clear
As we sing together now.

I slipped, I fell, then I lost everything
My hope, my faith, in what the future brings
In hopes of pushing past the tie that brings us down
We sing together now.
*

I have traveled in darkness, for what seems like days,
I, come from the sinkholes, collapsed under this weight.
I know not your sorrow, but I know mine,
So say you’ll stay and dance with me tonight.

In the glow of twilight, our world is finally calm.
I felt it complete me, when the stars give way to dawn.
A language universal, but I speak not its tongue.
Is this a night that spans forever, or a dawn that never comes.

I have traveled in darkness, for what seems like days,
I, come from the sinkholes, collapsed under this weight.
I know not your sorrow, but I know mine,
So say you’ll stay and dance with me tonight.

Tomorrow we might wake in servitude and silence
I will give you everything if only you would have me
Tomorrow we will sweat and toil,
Our hands will quiver caked with soil,
Tomorrow we’ll give it one last chance,
But tonight we dance,
But tonight we dance!

And for this, I travel in darkness, for what seems like days,
I, come from the sinkholes, collapsed under this weight.
I know not your sorrow, but I know mine,
Just say you’ll stay and dance with me tonight.
*

I’m about to have a nervous breakdown
My head really hurts
And if I don’t find a way out of here
I’m gonna go berserk cause
I’m crazy and I’m hurt
Head on my shoulders
It’s going… berserk

I hear the same old talk talk talk
The same old lines
Don’t grill me that today
Yeah If you know what’s good for you you’ll get out of my way
Cause I’m crazy and I’m hurt
Head on my shoulders
Is going… berserk

I won’t apologize
For acting outta line
You see the way I am
You leave any time you can cause
I’m crazy and I’m hurt
Head on my shoulders
Is going… berserk

Crazy! Crazy! Crazy! Crazy!
I don’t care what you fuckin’ do
I don’t care what you fuckin’ say
I’m so sick of everything I just want to… die!
*

It was the perfect night
Then you had to go and ruin it with a kiss now
I’m trapped inside here
The innocence we held once so carelessly
Has been suffocated in this breathless moment

[Chorus:]
Believe in me and I will believe in you
You’re asking of me everything
So I’ll give it all to you

With arms raised to the stars begging them to listen
With legs littered with scars cut from these olive branches
Now, point of return now crossed and our hands left shaking
Tonight we give in to temptation

[Chorus:]
Believe in me and I will believe in you
You’re asking of me everything
So I’ll give it all to you

Someone stop my mind from screaming
It’s so loud I can’t hear myself think
Life, Death, Religion, Survival
It makes no sense
Never try to tell me that I’m a coincidence

[Chorus:]
Believe in me and I will believe in you
You’re asking of me everything
So I’ll give it all to you

And I don’t
Believe in you
Never safe from you [?]
Believe in me
You’re asking of me everything
So I’ll give it all to you

And if I never have you, then I can never lose you
Now, everything here is a lie
Where is the truth?
Where is the fucking truth?
*

Tune the electric bass to the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th string.
The boy’s no good.
Yeah, he’s a fuckin’ hood.
He won’t treat you like he should.
I heard he’s making time with this friend of mine.
I heard he’s talking trash.
I saw that kid last night.
He’s starting fights.
He’s got that nervous twitching.
He’s just not the kid for you.
He’s all dressed up.
He’s got nothing to do, but he’s got something.
He’s cool as anything, but he’s not good.
That boy’s a fucking creep.

The boy’s no good.
Yeah, he’s a hood.
He won’t treat you like he should.
I said the boy’s no good.
He’s a hood.
He won’t treat you like I would.
I said the boy’s no good.
Listen to what I say.
The boy’s no good.
He’ll fuck you anyway.
The boy’s no good.
I’m gonna have a talk… the boy’s no good.
The boy’s no fuckin’ good.
*

Anyway you want it
That’s the way you need it
Anyway you want it

She loves to dance
She loves to sing
She does everything
She loves to move
She loves to groove
She loves the lovin’ things

All night
All night
Oh every night
So hold tight
Hold tight
Oh baby hold tight

She said
Anyway you want it
That’s the way you need it
Anyway you want it
Anyway you want it
That’s the way you need it
Anyway you want it

I was alone
I never knew
What good love could do
Then we touched
And we sang
About the lovin’ things

All night
All night
Oh every night
So hold tight
Hold tight
Oh baby hold tight

She said
Anyway you want it
That’s the way you need it
Anyway you want it
Anyway you want it
That’s the way you need it
Anyway you want it
*

Mom and dad went to a show
They dropped me off at grandpa Joe’s
I kicked and screamed
Said «Please, don’t go»

Grandpa take me home

Had to eat my dinner there
Mashed potatos and stuff like that
I couldn’t chew my meat too good

Grandpa take me home

Said «Why don’t you stop your crying
Go outside and ride your bike?»
That’s what I did
I killed my toe

Grandma take me home

After dinner, I had ice cream
I fell asleep and watched TV
I woke up in my mother’s arms

Grandpa take me home, never take me home
Grandpa take me home
I wanna be alone
*

Men walkin’ ‘long the railroad tracks
Goin’ some place there’s no goin’ back
Highway patrol choppers comin’ up over the ridge
Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Shelter line stretchin’ ‘round the corner
Welcome to the new world order
Families sleepin’ in their cars in the Southwest
No home, no job, no peace, no rest

Well the highway is alive tonight
Where it’s headed nobody knows
I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
Searchin’ for the ghost of Tom Joad

He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
Waitin’ for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
In a cardboard box ‘neath the underpass
Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
Bathin’ in the city aqueduct

Well the highway is alive tonight
Where it’s headed everybody knows
I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
Waitin’ on the ghost of Tom Joad

Tom said «Mom, wherever there’s a cop beatin’ a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there’s a fight ‘gainst the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me Mom I’ll be there
Wherever there’s somebody fightin’ for a place to stand
Or decent job or a helpin’ hand
Wherever somebody’s strugglin’ to be free
Look in your eyes Mom you’ll see me»

Well the highway is alive tonight
Where it’s headed everybody knows
I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad

Well the highway is alive tonight
Where it’s headed everybody knows
I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad
With the ghost of old Tom Joad
With the ghost of old Tom Joad
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