Wednesday, May 30, 2012

"Where You Are"

Looking for a light, looking for a light
When it's shining just as bright as the dead of night
Seek and you will find, heard it all your life
Feels just like the time to give up the fight
When it's only uphill

I hope that they'd know you
Not a sheet of stained glass
I hope that they'd see through
All of the countenance
I hope that they'd find you
That they'd find you where you are
Where you are

Confusion settles in, where do we begin
When a home as thick as skin is all we've ever been
Growing paper-thin from the fight within
We won't win until we question the questions

We've been told before, like a final score
But we just want to be sure

I hope that they'd know you
Not a sheet of stained glass
I hope that they'd see through
All of the countenance
I hope that they'd find you
That they'd find you where you are
Where you are

Would you show me where you are
Ahhhh

We want to know you
Not a sheet of stained glass
Help us to see through
All of the countenance
We're aiming to find you
We just want to find you where you are
Where you are

Sunday, May 13, 2012

"Mother's Day"

You talk in hymns
And psalms you've heard
But do you ever try
To find your own words
Cause you've used a script
For your whole life
Without looking up
To meet my eyes

And from afar, you exclaim
But you never really cared to know my name
And from the stage, you explain
But you never really cared to know my pain

You've hurled advice
And explanations
You've stifled out
My lamentations
Trying to solve
The things I face
By using truth
But lacking grace

And from afar, you exclaim
But you never really cared to know my name
And from the stage, you explain
But you never really cared to know my pain

The distance kept
I took the steps
Away from you
In self-defense
And I can't help
But run away
From a megaphone
That won't hear my say

So I walk alone
Without your love
Feel I'm better off
From the lack thereof
Not a preacher nor a parent
But you act the parts the same
With a distant shout, you drown me out
Till there's nothing left to say

And from afar, you exclaim
But you never really cared to know my name
And from the stage, you explain
But you never really cared to know my pain

No you never really cared to know my name
No you never really cared to know my name
No you never really cared to know his name

"Who Do I Believe"

Everyone's got some truth
Swimming amongst the lies
And I hate to wade through
But it's hard not to sometimes

With trust, just like a gift
I use to give away so free
To have everybody turn
And never give it back to me

All my walls
I've let fall
I've lost parts
In disbelief
As I stand
With empty hands
Oh, who
Do I believe

Everyone's got some story
An angle, a different light
You can paint the past in glory
Just to believe you did it right

So then where is kept the sacred
All the things the world can't touch
Where no one can spill your secrets
Or taint with moth and rust

All my walls
I've let fall
I've lost parts
In disbelief
As I stand
With empty hands
Oh, who
Do I believe

Life desensitizes
Trading truth when the need arises
Truth and love capsizes
Long before we realize it's
All we really need

Sunday, May 6, 2012

"PokèRock: Pokèface"

Muh muh Munna, Muh muh Munna
Muh muh Munna, Muh muh Munna

I wanna breed 'em like they do on 34
Counting down steps while riding my bike back and forth
I'll keep on trying till I get the one I need
Release 'em if they have the wrong ability

Ho-Ho-oh, Ho-Ho-oh
The nature's Rash, I needed it Lax
Ho-Ho-oh, Ho-Ho-oh
An everstone could make this go by so fast

[chorus]
Can't beat my, can't beat my
No you can't beat my Pokèmon
(Metagross has got Clear Body)
Can't beat my, can't beat my
No you can't beat my Pokèmon
(Won't get beaten by nobody)
P-P-P-Pokèrus, P-p-p-Pokèrus
P-P-P-Pokèrus, P-p-p-Pokèrus

I'll use a setter for some entry hazards first
Layers of Spikes will make your chances all the worse
I think I've got the perfect strategy to win
And pray that no one that you use has Rapid Spin

Ho-Ho-oh, Ho-Ho-oh
Oh I forgot, that Glalie knows Block
Ho-Ho-oh, Ho-Ho-oh
It's Pigeot, I'll set up Stealth Rock

[chorus]
Can't beat my, can't beat my
No you can't beat my Pokèmon
(Volcarona has Flame Body)
Can't beat my, can't beat my
No you can't beat my Pokèmon
(Won't get beaten by nobody)
P-P-P-Pokèrus, P-p-p-Pokèrus
P-P-P-Pokèrus, P-p-p-Pokèrus

Put the Drought on with your Groudon
Weather teams are so easy
I'll predict 'em and then switch 'em
Take the lead without blinking

You can Choice Scarf all you want
And keep your Focus Bands too
'Cause I've got strategy, strategy
Turn your luck into tragedy

[chorus]
Can't beat my, can't beat my
No you can't beat my Pokèmon
(Metagross has got Clear Body)
Can't beat my, can't beat my
No you can't beat my Pokèmon
(Volcarona has Flame Body)
P-P-P-Pokèrus, P-p-p-Pokèrus
P-P-P-Pokèrus, P-p-p-Pokèrus

P-P-P-Pokèmon, P-p-p-Pokèmon
Muh muh Munna, Muh muh Munna

P-P-P-Pokèmon, P-p-p-Pokèmon
Muh muh Munna, Muh muh Munna

Friday, May 4, 2012

"The Sky And My Skin"

You're playing to my weakness
I know that you don't see this
The same way
Vying for attention
But missing the connection
That it plays

And it goes on and on again
You've got to fight yourself to win

[chorus]
Don't you believe
Don't you believe
That there's beauty beside
What we can see
You could be
So, so free
To remove the photo lens
By embracing what's within
You've got it within

You're swimming in the deep end
What you're sowing, we're all reaping
All the same
And we're in this together
With a focus on forever
We could change

And it goes on and on again
The battle starts where I begin

[chorus]
Don't you believe
Don't you believe
That there's beauty beside
What we can see
You could be
So, so free
To remove the photo lens
By embracing what's within
You've got it within

I look outside myself to find
All the things I fight within
There's not a war that I don't face
Between the sky and my skin
Above the insecurities
The fears that we all face
There's a world we build together
We could make a better place

Don't you believe
Don't you believe

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

"Visually Impaired"

Perfection in front of me
And I'm falling to my knees
A beauty I've never seen
Like out of a dream

And it's falling all around me
The stars in the sky as they watch through the trees
And it's falling off of me
The burden of a lifelong disease

[chorus]
Watch me, move the whole world
Till it's me, that you see
Watch me, catching on fire
In the back of your mind
I've been here all this time

Perfection in front of me
And I'm calling conspiracy
Is it just too much to believe
Or am I tired of seeing

Have I fallen too deep?
The light through the cracks is what keeps me breathing
I'm just trying to keep
Myself from going too far beneath

[chorus]
Watch me, move the whole world
Till it's me, that you see
Watch me, catching on fire
In the back of your mind
I've been here all this time
Trying to break the pieces free

It's never enough
It's never enough for me
You can blind my eyes with disbelief
But I'm never going to see
What's in front of me
What's in front of me

Wait now, listen to the sound
Of a steady pulse beating
There, in the background
It's calming, and I'm content to know
I could never visualize it
No, not ever on my own