"Playing Favorites"

A bitter saint, a mile away
Huddled in the dark
While a victory cry, from the other side
Is beating in their hearts
From a bright lit stage, a heated place
I'm freezing on the ground
You can't tell me, everything's okay
That the world I know is sound

[chorus]
Everyone gets their wildest dreams
While mine are stripped away from me
I just don't understand it
Are you playing favorites?
Cause no one has to feel this way
Why'd you set the bar so far away
You make it seem so easy
For everyone but me

A different path for everyone
Not everyone's the same
But have I only climbed this high
So I'm the first to feel the rain?
Because trial by fire doesn't seem to apply
When you're waiting at the bottom
If this is the path I meant to travel
Why is everything wrong?

[chorus]
Everyone gets their wildest dreams
While all of mine are stripped away from me
I just don't understand it
Are you playing favorites
Playing favorites

I don't want to spend my life alone
When I've never even really had a home
Was I raised for the slaughter, ahh
I've always been the easy kill
But I thought that you were different
So now I'm trying to ignore it
Because I know that you mean every word you say
And always will

[chorus]
Everyone's faces on magazines
It feels like I'm surrounded by celebrities
And I'm the one listening
While no one picks me up to read
So can you send me a savior
One who doesn't play favorites
While I'm hanging on the arms
Of broken dreams

"Neon Dreams"

Angelic sounds from the pit of hell
And it's a mystery to me
Came a symphony from a hollow shell
A vessel for the melody

With a simple spark to ignite these eyes
A city full of faces
We're all lit up like a sea of fire
The gravity of a hundred places

All of the lights are flashing in time
And the rhythm syncs up to a dream of mine
That goes, ooh, ooh
Is that where I'll go
And every song as I'm singing along
Can't help feeling like I'm doing it wrong
And so I sing, ooh, ooh
Am I losing control

All that I want in the palm of your hand
A crown you've already claimed
And all the push and pull from my wandering soul
Is it my failure to blame

Cause I engage, retreat
Like the pulsing beat
And it's never gonna stop
Who doesn't want to reach the very top?

All of the lights are flashing in time
And the rhythm syncs up to a dream of mine
That goes, ooh, ooh
Is that where I'll go
And every song as I'm singing along
Can't help feeling like I'm doing it wrong
And so I sing, ooh, ooh
As I'm losing control

For every dream just out of your reach
Lift your hands to the sky
Is there a hope you can hold
That won't just pass you by
I want to chase it like it can't be blotted out

All of the lights are flashing in time
And the rhythm syncs up to a dream of mine
That goes, ooh, ooh
That's where I wanna go
And every song as I'm singing along
Can't help feeling like the timing is wrong
I sing, ooh, ooh
Am I losing my soul

"Transperception"

Don't believe your eyes
When the lights are flashing fiction
"If it's visible, it's tangible"
You're buying the disguise
It's in plain sight
Don't mean it's right
The truth you've followed all your life

Perfection isn't easy to find
Direction, blind leading the blind
When we're born into the world, unchained
Told to follow all we can explain

Do you ever wonder
Do you ever fall back on what you know
And find yourself falling on the cold floor
Because the world you thought you knew
Was crumbling in front of you
I don't know the answer
But I know I'll spend my life
Chasing all the answers
One question at a time

Opinions, we've got them
But I'll hold onto mine
Because I know that what I know
Will change in time

Perception, reflections
Of the water that we drink
We can't be content in knowing
But we can never cease to think

Do you ever wonder
Do you ever fall back on what you know
And find yourself falling on the cold floor
Because the world you thought you knew
Was crumbling in front of you
I don't know the answer
But I know I'll spend my life
Chasing all the answers
One question at a time

And our lives, like pages in a book
It's all on paper, take a good hard look
But the lines outside are where I wanna be
I never want to be found, with my hands paper-bound

Do you ever wonder
Do you ever fall back on what you know
Oh, just to find yourself on the cold floor
Because the world you thought you knew
Was a cloud of dust in front of you
I don't know the answer
But I won't give up the fight
Never settle for the senses
To tell you what is right

"Nothing For Me Here"

I've had about enough
Reason has lost its ground
It doesn't matter how much I care
Everybody lets me down

So much for honesty
So much for commonality
I'm the only one, the only one
Who really understands me

Not a soul to lift me up
Not a single bag of bones
Not a villain or a saint
Can give me hope I'm not alone
And all these voices are a choir
A cacophony in my ears
The song they're singing to me
Is there's nothing for me here

Life in all its corridors
I'll never reach the end
There's always one more corner
In this maze, another bend

And everything's a paradox
I love and hate the same
The reason that I'm still here
The reason for this pain

Not a soul to lift me up
Not a single bag of bones
Not a villain or a saint
Can give me hope I'm not alone
And all these voices are a choir
A cacophony in my ears
The song they're singing to me
Is there's nothing for me here

I could retreat
Into my tiny empire
Where I can pretend I'm king
But still at some time
Have to open the gates
And face the reality
Still there's nothing there for me

"You Don't Know"

You don't know
Please don't act like you do
Your viewing-from-afar radar is skewed
If only you'd adjust your blurry point of view
You'd see that blind guesses rarely come back true

I really wish that you
Weren't so wrapped up tight
In what you think you know and what you actually might
When it all falls back to the bottom line
Do you really trust yourself so much to steer you right

[chorus]
Don't listen to me
Don't listen to you
Don't know what to believe,
Don't imagine the truth
If you dig real deep
You just might break through
To the other side
And let it find you

You take a little piece
And make it so much more
What you've obscured, oh you seem so sure
I know you want to believe
But all you do is ignore
Everything around you, I can't take it anymore

[chorus]
Don't listen to me
Don't listen to you
Don't know what to believe,
Don't imagine the truth
If you dig real deep
You just might break through
To the other side
And let it find you

Let it find you
Let it find you
You've been running around
Trying to figure it out
You collect your thoughts
And let them all spill out
But if you'd guard your head
Show some restraint instead
And refrain, yeah
Maybe you could start again

[chorus]
Don't listen to me
Don't listen to you
Don't know what to believe,
Don't imagine the truth
If you dig real deep
You just might break through
You just might break through
You just might break through

"Every Second To Survive"

No amount of joy can cure me
I've finally reached my end
I'm too tired to try to fight it
And too alert to pretend
When every hill leads to a valley
I'm just slipping out and in
There's no way to enjoy the heights
When you know you'll fall again

O, how I have fallen
I don't want to be alive
You say the only way to be awake
Is to die
But I've tried every angle
With my heart and with my mind
But still I'm empty handed
No matter what I try

Grace can sure forgive me
But it can't erase the past
And it comes to take a bite of me
It's come to take my last
And everyone's a hypocrite
But no one seems to see
While the ones who catch a glimpse of it
Never caught a glimpse of me

O, how I have fallen
I don't want to be alive
You say the only way to be awake
Is to die
But I've tried every angle
With my heart and with my mind
But still I'm empty handed
No matter what I try

The places, that you've taken me
All the days of light and awakening
I can't seem to taste the memory
While I'm here in the darkest cave
Feeling lost, double-crossed, depraved
And not an honest line to cast for me

Friend and foe all look the same
Yeah, no one on my side
If love is really what you say it is
Then why does it turn out a lie
I come so close to safe haven
Only then to realize
Every thing is tainted
Every second to survive

"Life Like A Picture"

The closer I get
The more distant I feel
I reach out to touch
See if anything's real
As I'm shouting across
In every word that I speak
And I'm wondering if
Anybody hears me

[chorus]
Is this a blessing or a curse
I want to be a part so bad it hurts
Like a petri dish to a scientist
I'll always see, but never know
How it feels to live in the world below

I'm on the outside looking in
I stand aside, watch as it all happens
But there's a wall of glass I can't get past
Reminding me I'm not the same
And I won't feel any other way

[chorus]
Is this a blessing or a curse
I want to be a part so bad it hurts
Like a petri dish to a scientist
Just a glimpse can't quench this thirst
I'm tired of standing on the outside
I want to feel out there, what I feel inside

[instrumental]

[bridge]
Worlds away
Worlds away
And I won't be the same

[chorus]
Is this a blessing or a curse
Cause I try so hard it only makes it worse
As I bruise my hands trying to understand
Why the efforts never work
I lay myself aside and see
If this is how it's got to be
Then I'll stand in the background
Yeah, even if it hurts

"We Are The Broken"

We are the broken
Full of affection
Looking for life
In need of direction
We band together
In wake of our need
Our burning desire
To see us complete

We are the broken
The cast aside
The fallout of fiction
Folly and lies
We scale to the top
Try to see in bird's eye
We know we weren't meant
To feel dead in this life

[chorus]
Oh, to be whole
A luxury that we have never known
Oh, our muted souls
Are coming up for air to take control

We are the broken
Tired and torn
Daughters and sons
Since the day we were born
And we're growing up
But we're still the same
We live in this mess
Because we're all to blame

[chorus]
Oh, to be whole
A dream of lights that keeps us all aglow
Oh, our muted souls
Are bleeding at the seams to know control

Give me anything to see the other side
Trapped in a hurricane, it's only the eye
When all seems clear as day
When I know it's still so very far away

"A Leaving Legacy"

You can escape by the skin of your teeth
But you still won't get away
From the problems you're putting on repeat
Until you finally choose to change

Look at yourself, look at
Look at yourself
Is this really who you want to be?
Over and over

[chorus]
Lie to yourself
You do your deeds in the daylight
Fight for yourself
And soon enough there'll be nothing to fight for

You can save face, but make no mistake
You're not fooling me
You're leaving behind all you're leaving behind
A leaving legacy

And I won't stand by
As you burn it to the ground
Over and over

[chorus]
Lie to yourself
You do your deeds in the daylight
You do what's wrong when it feels right
With only yourself to comfort
In your forsaking arms

"I'm Wrong"

I tried to swim, but instead I'm sinking
I thought I'd fly, but I'm falling down
Thought that I could see to the finish line
But I'm further away than when I started

Efforts displaced, all the time that's wasted
Trying to find the way by our own means
The journey is important, but so is the destination
Yeah it gets to the point where I just can't take it

[chorus]
And ooh, I'm wrong
Been fighting to be right for far too long
And ooh, I'm wrong
There's freedom in this failure

All my hopes are broken, can you see them shattered
I've been set adrift by my own line
The heart is a compass, it leads to life or destruction
At the bottom you can see what really matters

And I, want to go where you lead me
But I know it means you have to defeat me

[chorus]
And ooh, I'm wrong
Been fighting for myself for far too long
And ooh, I'm wrong
There's freedom in this failure all along

And ooh, I'm wrong
I can't pave the way or even follow the sidewalks
And all my life I've tried to call the shots
Can't even call it in the air
And decide how the coin drops
Or claim the day that my heart stops, heart stops

And ooh, I'm wrong
But knowing that you're right
Might be the only chance I've got