How long must she stand
Before the ground, it gives way
To an endless fall
She can feel this
War on her face
The stars on her pillow
She's folding in darkness
Begging for slumber

I'm not blind
I can see it coming
Looks like lightning
In my child's eye

I'm not frantic
I can feel it coming
Violently shakes
My body

Her son's slanted
Always giving her
The sideways eye

I used to be crustacean
In an underwater nation
And I surf in celebration
Of a billion adaptations

Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave
Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave

I feel the need
Planted in me
Millions of years ago
Can't you see
The oceans size?
Defining time
And tide
Arising
Arms laid upon me
Being so kind
To let me ride

Consider me an object
Put me in a vacuum
Free of all conditions
Free of air and friction

Yeah, I'll be hanging upside down
And there I will swing
For all eternity

Feel it rising, yeah, next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose, with no fear of falling

Consider me an abcess
Leave me in my vacuum
Blood on all the pistons
Running my transmission

If I keep holding out, will the lights shine through?
Under this broken roof, it's only rain that I feel
I've been wishing out the days, come back

I have been planning out, all that I'd say to you
Since you slipped away, know that I still remain true
I've been wishing out the days

Please say, that if you hadn't of gone now
I wouldn't have lost you another way

No more upset mornings
No more trying evenings
The American Dream
I am disbelieving

When the gas in my tank
Feels like money the bank
Gonna blow it all this time
Take me one last ride

For the lights of this city
They only look good when I'm speeding
Gonne leave 'em all behind me
Cause this time

I'm gone

Long gone
This time I'm letting go of it all
So long

Underneath this smile lies everything
All my hopes, anger, pride and shame

Make myself a pact, not to shut doors on the past
Just for today...I am free

I will not lose my faith
It's an inside job today

I know this one thing well

I used to try to kill love, it was the highest sin
Breathing insecurity out and in

Searching hope, I'm shown the way to run straight

You're always saying that there's something wrong
I'm starting to believe it's plan all along

Death came around, forced to hear its song
And know tomorrow can't be depended on

I seen the home inside your head
All locked doors and unmade beds
Open sores unattended
Let me say just once that

I have faced it, A life wasted
I'm never going back again

I escaped it, A life wasted

There is a marker, no one sees it 'cause the sand
Has covered over all the messages it kept
Misunderstanding what original truth was
And out expanding in a faith, but not in love

What went wrong?

Walking tightrope high, over moral ground
Seeing visions of falling up somehow
Do come down

With the living, let, what is living love
So unforgiving, yet, needing forgiveness first

Why deny?
All the troubles when combined
With the missing link
It don't feel like
Home now

That you're gone
All the troubles
Suddenly explained infinitum
You're always wishing and
Never here at
Home

You
All the dreams we shared and
Lights we turned on
But the house is getting dark

And I don't want to know your past
But together share the dawn
And I won't need

Nothing else

Big man stands behind an open door
Said, "Leave your lady on the cement floor."

"Got some kicks, wanna take a ride?"
I said, "Yeah..."
"Take your pick, leave yourself behind."
I said, "Yeah..."

I've no fear but for falling down
So look out below, I am falling now
Oh please understand, I just need my friend
A way home

Tried to walk, found a severed hand

He's got a big gold ring what says "Jesus Saves"
And it's dented from the punch thrown at work that day
When he smashed the metal locker where he kept his things
After the big boss said, "You best be on your way"

Yeh
So This life is sacrifice

Oh yeh
Jumping trains just to survive

Well, his wife and kid are sleeping but he's still awake

I've faced it, a life wasted
I'm never going back again
Haven't tasted it, a life wasted
I'm never going back again

I've escaped it, a life wasted
I'm never going back again

I felt the earth on Monday, It moved beneath my feet.
In the form of a morning paper, Laid out for me to see.

Saw his face in a corner picture, I recognized the name.
Could not stop staring at the, Face I'd never see again.

It's a shame to awake in a world of pain
What does it mean when a war has taken over

It's the same everyday in a hell manmade