The Unraveling lyrics

speak with hesitation

talk with reservation

blood on your hands

dried long since
but guilt still glowing in your eyes

you hide behind

(and now this blood has long since dried)

your perfect crime

(guilt still glowing in your eyes)

never ask why you try

now I've watched you stack

the mistakes you've made

on top of the lies

to hide them

your excuses just don't add up

and all these things that we tie together

keep unraveling apart

and the light that used to burn so bright

now is dark
with anger-laced intent we set fire

to the bridges that remain

and they're wading thru the current now.

and they drown in the flood of the tears

that have been wept

and i scream to the sky

"no, you are not alone...)

I'm not fucking blind to the way

that you talk around the truth

not just what you say

but what you do
played this tug of war way too fucking long

like every time

again I've lost

you've won

you took advantage of the trust that I gave

took my forgiveness

rubbed it back in my face

reaching for words but there's nothing to say

I'm left to wonder

will this ever be the same

come warm your hands on hellfire and brimstone

empty the pockets of the innocent victim

bound by fear

we misplace trust
in your voice

inside these walls

convincing us we have no choice

gaze upon these stare of naivete

two thousand years replaced

with eighteen inches of our faith

bound by fear

we misplace trust

in your voice

inside these walls

trying to make a difference

but where the fuck did you go wrong?

lying to all the names and faces
that have been there all along

how can you ask me to just forget?

all the sick lines

and the words you said

how can you ask me to just forget?

deny the promises you've made

the things you said

that you hold dear

behind your empty words

you hide and wait

the years unfold in one moment

the voices that we heard so loud

are now suddenly silenced

inside this crowd

and you're surrounded by the lives

of those who found something to hold

so bringing everybody down

is all you know

you've been hiding so long

you can't find yourself

in this sheltered life you live

when everything you want is at your fingertips

all these days

I'll forever cherish

in the confines of my heart

the faces of ten years ago
like fingerprints on my heart

how can I breathe

when fear chokes my every breath?

how can I balance

six inches from death?

now, the momentum we've created

comes to a screeching halt

this angel comes crashing down

on her hands and knees she crawls

how can I breathe

you talk about the way things were

but I can't hear what you're saying

a time when life was not this hard

blessed by the innocence

is the best yet to come?

or did it pass by long ago?

are we holding on to a thread

of something already dead?

Im not your reason to stand up straight

shoulders back chest out and eyes raised

stepping back, I hesitate

fighting back the impulse

turn my head and close my eyes

spending these nights awake and cold and paralyzed

wonder how we got this far and

never realized the common thread that binds our lives
and I know you hurt

but I can help you if you can...

take my hand

and we'll live inside the dreams we left behind

take my hand

as we move from this place to a better life

take my hand

buried words

under lights

soundtrack to this stagnant life
this meaning lost in translation

message sucked out of his hands again

this could be my great awakening

but how would I know

cuz it's all noise to me

are these words falling on deaf ears?

staring at the empty stares

realize that he no longer cares about the wrong or right

the downward spiral begins tonight

wait,

I'm not listening to you now

I wasn't listening to you then

I know that nothing will be the same again
there's only so much I can handle

only so much I can take

before my knees start to buckle

and my arms start to shake

have we been here before?

will we be here again?

I don't know how much of me you expect standing here right now

I beg for you to let go

in the face of change

is when she turned to me and said,

"i'm not sure anymore..."

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?

now's the time

to rearrange your life

live for something

outside of your own mind
we all dream

the same dream everynight

to burn the world that you call civilized

alive and well

i live to be alive

i live to always strive

for something more

alive and well

i'll never understand

the who, what, why or when

of you tonight...

we face the stares of judgement

as I watch your life go up in flames you'll swear up and down you'd like

to change but when the sun sinks slowly into the sky now you're right

where you started again with nothing to say, without an argument or case
and when it's said and done and done and said and now what's another day?

I can feel these changes right before my eyes

I see a dying fire inside your eyes

aside from the name that holds us together

now I think we'd fall apart
it's the years we'll pretend we've forgotten

that separate our hearts

and I don't remember the way this was

but the pictures prove I knew you once

and where is the source of our mistakes

I'm afraid one day we'll drift so far

we'll wake up not knowing where we are

these words accomplish nothing if I'm gone

it's all the same thing

now that it ever was

except now you've strayed too far

need you to stop digging your hole
and follow the path we light

don't need an invitation to be reconciled

'cause these home fires are burning

stare into your empty eyes and wonder...

"how could something so right turn out so wrong?"

you spent your time making excuse

with your eyes glazed and half-smiled explain to me the details of your god-given right you point your finger in my face but you cant remember what you did last night *it's all fun and games til you try to justify, it's all fun 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 some

Getting trampled under boots of progess

Ignore the pleading of the nameless faces

Now with our backs against the wall

How long til we fall?
Do away with all the underprivileged

their demographic doesn't fit your image

Turn your blind eye when duty calls

How long til we fall?

(In With The New)

This is something that you can't ignore

A simple thing worth fighting for

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

[Originally by Black Flag]

I'm about to have a nervous breakdown
My head really hurts
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 do 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

To all you people standing proud, thinking you know what I’m about:

I think you can fuck yourself

From your safe distance in this crowd

That’s when your voice becomes so loud
Still trying to keep us down

Walk one mile in shoes I never asked to fill

But still press on….

I slipped, I fell, then I lost everything

My hope, my faith, in what the future brings