Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace lyrics

How does it feel?
When you have it all?
How can you live?
With nothing at all?

Where do you run?
Where do you go?
When the holes in your truth
Are starting to show?

And the rain comes
And the world is on my head
Crave the sun
But I cant get out of bed

How can you take?
Without giving back?
How does it work?
When its really cracked?

How does it feel

And no wonder

She wakes up
Rage and grace
Pulling me closer, pushing away
And me
The sharpest thorn on your vine
Twisting and turning
Were all intertwined

Broken wing
Empty glass
Words that scream and bounce right back
She says, you know
Wed all like to rearrange

I wish I could fix you
And make you how I want you
I wish I could fix you
And I wish you could fix me

I wish I could heal you

One is for envy
And one just for spite
The cuts in my heart
They show in your eyes
Dont make it better
The twisting knife
Turns all by itself
Move on to someone else

Your self-liberation
Will leave this behind
Beyond slings and arrows
That rain on our minds
Youll make it better
Shake it off
It never mattered anyway

If we dont make it alive
Well its a hell of a good day to die

I am the one
Camouflage and guns
Risk my life
To keep my people from harm

Authority
Vested in me
I sacrifice
With my brothers in arms

Through this doorway
Whats on the other side
Never knowing
Exactly what Ill find
Locked and loaded
Voices screaming
Lets go!
Come on do it!
Here we go

Take a life
That others may live
Oh thats just the way it goes
Shut my eyes
It hammers in my head

Theres a moment in time
And its stuck in my mind
Way back, when we were just kids

Cause your eyes told the tale
Of an act of betrayal
I knew that somebody did

Oh, waves of time
Seem to wash away
The scenes of our crimes
But for you this never ends

Can you stay strong?
Can you go on?
Kristy are you doing okay?
A rose that wont bloom
Winters kept you
Dont waste your whole life trying

In my perfect isolation
I can stay here for awhile
Antidotes and revelations
Just extend my own exile

Wasting away
The worlds right in front of me
Funny you should say
That its all in my head
Wasting away
Were hitting rock bottom
And going down in flames
Well its not that bad

With my lack of observation
I can stay in here for days
Could you find my motivation
I cant see it through this haze

Lets make this complicated
Thinking is overrated
Were busting out
Of this shitty little town

Green grass and colored lenses
Tear down these picket fences
Burn in our beds
While the city lies sleeping

Why oh why?
Are we starting up and going down?
My oh my
Just the two of us in Nothingtown
Our superhero play
Well leave this town today
Hold on tighter
With my lighter
Shining through

This time youre really dead
Once followed, but always led
You thought youd rise above it all

Its all inside your head
All ripping it up in shreds
I know someday youre gonna fall

And I dont wanna say I told you so
But I told you so
Now youve lost control

And I dont wanna be the rise and fall
So gimme more or nothing at all

Youre in an awful way
Sucked in by what you crave

Now I dont know, and its hard to explain
But it seems like things are just kind of insane
Because the world is crying
But nobodys listening
So please leave a message on my cell phone

I see bullets getting better
Biblical weather
And that guy on TV is like a total asshole

Who are you wearing tonight?
Celebrity fundraiser, tight!
Black ties making wrongs right
Hows your social Band-Aid?

When the day begins
All the guilt sinks in
And I look on the wreckage of the night
Though I try to break free
The cycle breaks me
Am I ever gonna see the light?

All the friends Ive lost
And the pain Ive caused
Have never been enough just to make me stop
The lines I draw to look at myself
Are turning into somebody else

I know how this will end
But Im starting up again
Turned around, inside out

I am the one, your help Ive refused
Your offering hand just set off the fuse
I am the rock that pushes away
I gave up tomorrow to spite today

Too proud to beg
Too stubborn to try
Id look in your face
And spit in your eye

But Im willing to find whats really inside
And show I am strong enough to

Trust in you.
Trust in you.
Trust in you.
Pull me up
Quo modo shadow to light

Show me how to lie
Youre getting better all the time
And turning all against the one
Is an art thats hard to teach
Another clever word
Sets off an unsuspecting herd
And as you step back in the line
A mob jumps to their feet

Now dance, fucker, dance
Man, he never had a chance
And no one even knew
It was really only you

And now you steal away
Take him out today
Nice work you did