"The Feeling"

Leading me on
Like a leaf on the wind
I watch myself align
Ascend and descend
And fall
To the ground
There's too much pressure on me now
What will lift me high
Is it gonna be
Real hope
Or the feelings that are holding me

Sometimes I wish I didn't have to feel it all
Sometimes I wish I didn't have to feel at all

If this is all that was keeping your faith together
It's no wonder that it severed
It's no wonder that is severed

From the branch
The vine keeping me alive
I watch myself resist
Just one more time
And fall
To the ground
There's too much pressure on me now
I take it all in
And never let it out

Sometimes I wish I didn't have to feel it all
Sometimes I wish I didn't have to feel at all

If this is all that was keeping your faith together
It's no wonder that it severed
It's no wonder that it severed
Can you hold to what will last forever
I promise that it's better
I promise that it's better

If this is all that was keeping your faith together
It's no wonder that it severed
It's no wonder that it severed
Can you hold to what will last forever
I promise that it's better
I promise that it's better

"I Want To Be All Right"

A long road and it never dies
Every day a chance to sink or fly
I pray the sea from all these drops will shine
With all the tears and choices maybe bringing life

To this dying world that's never the same
Too many roads to take, too many people to blame
Instead of clinging to the thing you know will never change
I wish for meaning, a hand to point the way

I
I want to be all right
I
I want to be all right

A lot of words for me to filter through
Digging in the depths for any glimpse of truth
And I keep hearing what is for me might not be for you
But I've seen the things my hands can do

So if there's hope entrusted to a fool like me
A world class screw up, then there has to be
A chance for anyone who's even willing to see
That there's life outside all of our histories

I
I want to be all right
I
I want to be all right
But that's not life
That's not life
So give me heaven tonight

I want to see that light
I want to be all right
But every choice of wrong and right
Defines how bright
So give me heaven tonight
So give me heaven tonight

"Leaving"

It wasn't anything particularly hurtful
The last words that you said
Just a repetition of what came to be expected

Just like the days I spend here
Neither heaven nor hell, just in between
So the way you've always treated me

So I'm leaving
I'm leaving

I remember I wanted to be just like you
But now it's all more clear to me
I took a part of you on, so now I'm killing it in me

By leaving
By leaving

Gotta grow up sometime
And life has no rewind
I can't make you love me any more
Though I've spent all this time
Giving you the chance to change your mind
It's all made up, and I'm no longer yours

I think every day about the son I want to have
Love for someone I've never met
And why you never thought of me like that
I see the love that other people have
And wonder why mine never stayed in tact
So intent on the impression that

I'm leaving
I'm leaving
I'm leaving

"Wait For Me"

You know my heart
I don't want to burn bridges down
Trying to build them wherever I can
But life isn't as simple as it was back then

When every question is a curse
And trying to help it makes it worse
And no feeling or emotion can reverse

I didn't gain the world, but somehow lost my soul
Did I trade away the only hope I know
There was a nothing in the wind
And I caught it in my hands
Singing "wait for me" wherever I go

Another bullet point
And it hits harder than before
Finds me on both highs and lows
And no amount of hiding can stop it making holes

Will that wind pass through
And carry me like a tune
I'm just tired of being used

I didn't gain the world, but somehow lost my soul
Did I trade away the only hope I know
There was a nothing in the wind
And I caught it in my hands
Singing "change for me" wherever I go
Where will I go

"I Don't Know If I Believe It"

The typical ways we fall into
They come and go just as we're breathing
There's a lot of talk and show
I don't know if I believe it

That someone like me could be
Whatever I want to
That someone like you could prove
I'm worth holding on to
Don't leave me
Don't leave me

So many things I dream but never leave my head
So many words to be heard but choose to stay unsaid
So many lines to unwind but they draw me in instead
Like I'm waiting, like I'm waiting

All the illusions of grandeur
The steady trails I fail to take
Could lead to something more secure
If I can ever cross that gate

If someone like you could be
The hand I hold onto
If someone like me could prove
How badly I want to
Don't leave me
Don't leave me

So many things I dream but never leave my head
So many words to be heard but choose to stay unsaid
So many lines to unwind but they draw me in instead
Like I'm waiting, like I'm waiting
I'm only staying

As far as I can from being anything
As close as I can to pretending
Because I don't know if I believe it

That someone like me could be
Whatever I want to
That someone like you could prove
I'm worth holding onto
That someone like you could see
What no one else sees through

"If Not Me, Somebody"

You're looking all around
Looking for love, can it be found?
And end up settling for less
The searching never rests, it only weighs you down
Not quite like the fairytale

You tell me that you want me
Tell me why my love's all you'll ever need
But I get the feeling
That you're just trying to fill another seat
If not me, somebody

Why the overkill
Voyage for a void that can't be filled
And it's always such a shame
If I don't play your game then someone will

When we're so lonely, lonely, lonely
We're singing if only, only, only
I could find the one

You tell me that you want me
Tell me why my love's all you'll ever need
But I get the feeling
That you're just trying to fill another seat
To make the emptiness postponed
When it's only going to leave you more alone
Choosing different paths to the same old road
So I know
If not me, somebody

It's always weeks that pass, a passing glance, a single dance
The feeling doesn't last, you're holding someone else's hands
Who knew you changed your mind that fast, forgot the not-so distant past
Or was it ever even me you were trying to grasp

You tell me that you want me
Tell me why my love's all you'll ever need
But I get the feeling
That you're just trying to fill another seat
To make the emptiness postponed
When it's only going to leave you more alone
Choosing different paths to the same old road
So I know
If not me, somebody

"You Don't Need Me Anymore"

You were caught in a storm
My voice was like claps of thunder
I tried to mend the sails you tore
A hand so you won't sink under

There was a flash of lightning
Broke the sound and led you home
A glimpse of what's always guiding
I reflected the light that shone

You found your way back to the shore
You don't need me anymore
You finally found what you're looking for
You don't need me anymore
You don't need me anymore

I slipped on a rock and fell
Into a shallow pool
With a thirst that it could not quell
In a swirling sea of fools

You were there like a voice of reason
You were there like a song of doubt
You were there for every season
But the tides change, even now

You found your way back to the shore
You don't need me anymore
You finally found what you're looking for
You don't need me anymore
You don't need me anymore

We push and pull
We rise and fall
I remember it all
I'll remember it all
But sometimes the waves we make
Don't move a thing at all

You found your way back to the shore
You don't need me anymore
You finally found what you're looking for
You don't need me anymore
You don't need me

"Little Did You Know"

I fell under the weight of your words
I didn't let it show
Kept piling up and up
Little did you know
Little did you know

I fell under the spell of my own curse
I couldn't let it go
Kept piling on and on
Little did you know
Little did you know
Little did you know

Wearing me down to a skeleton
An empty shell bent on hell again
When there's bones in my closet
That I'd rather not expose

But it's war for transparency
A battle for ignored propensity
That'll eat alive
What's kept inside, and grow

I clawed my way to the top much worse
Tried to scale it all my own
Dragging me down and down
Little did you know
Little did you know
Little did you know

Wearing me down to a skeleton
An empty shell bent on hell again
When there's bones in my closet
That I'd rather not expose

But it's a war for the best of me
With forward movement and apathy
With darkness all around me
And a far off light that glows

"The Latest Trend"

I've heard the same phrase about a million times
And everyone thinking they're so clever that it came to mind
But you stole from the same source, and of course
You claim it as your own

And everybody starts to sound like parakeets
Boasting by means of someone's more substantial feats
But plagiarized, so as to hypnotize
People into thinking it's your own

Yeah, and I know that everything is borrowed
Not everything we think is true
But I'd rather sample than just steal a chorus
And regurgitate it back to you

Think for yourself, think for yourself
Before long you start to look like everybody else
In the crowd, not yourself
Before long you start to look, start to look

Around at what's new, what's hip, what's it
But it's all been rehashed, you make it counterfeit
So why stoop so low, to try to show
The world just what you're worth

There's got to be something more than all of this
Outside the box, the language of convenience
And all the phrases that we throw around
No clue just what the words are worth

Yeah, and I know that everything is borrowed
Not everything we think is true
We came into this story in the middle
And what's next, we're all pointing to

So think for yourself, think for yourself
Before long you start to look like everybody else
In the crowd, not yourself
Before long you start to look, start to look

For the next thing
Like you're searching
Wandering aimlessly

In a way, being told
What to think
And I think it's really getting old
Yeah I think we're getting way too old
Not to think for ourselves

So think for yourself, think for yourself
You're the only one who thinks like you, and nobody else
So just behave, behave like yourself
Offer up an opinion even when it's not convenient
If it's your own but not spoken like a token, nothing's broken
But just to say it to mean it, and believe it has meaning
And stop streaming ideas that other people are feeding

Just to sound intellectual
And get a thousand likes on facebook

"Because I Believe (We) Left Eden"

I used to live my life straight out of pages
Written down by holy ghosts and sages
But some of it, I admit, lost in translation
Like love speaks loudest when you don't even say it

I left you in the dust, my friend
Without a single word, I hid
I guess my only regret, is maybe that
I never loved you the way that you needed

All those words filled up my mind
My head so heavy that my eyes went blind
If choice is really all the reason for this fight
Why did I let someone else decide

I used to be a kid so full of passion
But now it seems like that ambition's rationed
Not knowing where to invest, I detest it
My actions paint how much I'm double-minded

I left you in the dust, my friend
Without a single word, I hid
I guess my only regret, is maybe that
I was never the friend that you sorely needed

All those words filled up my mind
My head so heavy that my eyes went blind
Tunnel vision for the things I wanted in my life
When it was standing there the whole time

This life, is a broken mess and bleeding
But there's hope, for those that want to see it
I decide, always mindful of that teaching
Because I believe we left Eden

Those men, they lived
And wrote it down
It sits in front of me now
Their words
First hand accounts
I think I'll go and make mine now

"Drive Tonight"

I look to the sun, away it goes
I look to the sun, the way it glows
All hope and desire, such fire, I squint
To see that glint of hope again

I wanna drive tonight
Till it's me and the city lights
When there's nothing more inside
I want to escape my life
Running away for the hundredth time
Until I find my peace of mind

I reach for the stars, they come alive
I reach for the stars, with open eyes
I wonder is there a chance, to dance, like them
Or am I only falling

I wanna drive tonight
Till it's me and the city lights
When there's nothing more inside
I want to escape my life
Running away for the hundredth time
Until I find my peace of mind

Out there, I just might find
Out there, I just might find

I wanna drive tonight
Till it's me and the city lights
When there's nothing left to hide
I'm gonna chase that light
Running towards it for the hundredth time
Until I find that peace of mind

"Puzzled"

If the picture is humanity
And we are all the pieces
Why do we try to fit unevenly
Give ground to our diseases
And if this is life
Why does everything around us die
As we try to fit with it
To clothe ourselves as counterfeit
When it won't bring life

Something doesn't sit
Something doesn't fit
And we're getting into fist fights just to prove it
If something doesn't change
We're gonna spend our days
Clinging to bitterness just to reap more of it

If a picture of divinity
It'll never be complete
None of us can claim humility
When we're still practicing conceit
We refuse to meet in the middle
Afraid to taint our point of view
If your eyes are on the truth
Believe it'll ring through

Something doesn't sit
Something doesn't fit
And we're getting into fist fights just to prove it
If something doesn't change
We're gonna spend our days
Clinging to bitterness just to reap more of it
Until we become it

"No More Wars"

No more wars
No more pain
To bring us together
To make us feel same
No more enemies
No more attacks
No more stabbing brothers
In the back

I want to live
In a world so far
From where we are
I want to live
In a world so far
From where we are

No more decisions
No more mistakes
To haunt my nights
And worry my days
No more visions
Of untold fear
I want to see the future
Clear

I want to live
In a world so far
From where we are
I want to live
In a world so far
From where we are
Where we are

No more gray skies
No more dull eyes
Irises ignited by desire
To see a different fire
I want to live
I want to live there