"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

"Bitter Life"

As broken as I am
I know that I am justified
In saying, come down off your high
Horse, you're just the same as I
We're only human after all
And it's your proving attitude
That runs me dry

Preaching from afar
But never hearing anything
I don't need a healer
All I needed was a friend
But no one wants to know
Just want to act like they know
Driving me to the end

[chorus]
And ooh, it's a bitter life
When the ones who're in the wrong know what's right
And ooh, it's a bitter life
When the arrows pierce the heel from your own side

Please remove your crown
Before coming here to me
Cause iron sharpens iron
But yours only makes me bleed
Cause the low need to be low
All the broken in their need
So leave me be

[chorus]
And ooh, it's a bitter life
When the ones who're in the wrong know what's right
And ooh, it's a bitter life
When the arrows pierce the heel from your own side

You cripple me
And I cripple you, too
You're no good for me
And I'm no good for you
Blinded by a light
That never wanted to last
But the part that hurts the worst
Is that you never cared to ask

Ooh, it's a bitter life
Ooh, it's a bitter life
And we're the ones who've got to make it right

"Nothing Lasts"

I saw the last strand
Fall away
It didn't matter
It didn't stay

When everything I know
Just fades
I'm not surprised
When it goes this way

And it's my own hand
That's pushing away

[chorus]
Hey!
Can you even hear me?
Hey!
Are you listening?
Hey!
Do you think you're helping?
Hey!
Doing this to me?

Stomach aching
All the same
Sour affection
And sweetened pain

Suffocating
Me with your voice
I'm out of options
This is my choice

Cause you can stand there and tell me that it's love
But my voice never reached your ears with your eyes fixed above

[chorus]
Hey!
Can you even hear me?
Hey!
Are you listening?
Hey!
Do you think you're helping?
Hey!
Doing this to me?
Hey!
Cause I'm all alone now
Hey!
And I'm moving past
Hey!
It's just one more tell-tale sign
To me, that nothing lasts

(Hey)
It isn't all about you
(Hey)
Why can't you see outside?
(Hey)
I'm turning up real loud now
Cause you won't listen otherwise!

Hey!
I want something real
Hey!
Not just something to feel
Hey!
And I'm sorry that
Life left me here under the wheel
But I don't need your hand
To understand
And what you think is helping
Is only hurting

"Truth That I'm Looking For"

Washing my hands
With dirty water
The stains
They remain

Lighting the way
Without a fire
Still I wade
Through the cave

Truth, that I'm looking for
Truth, that I'm searchin'
Still find myself
The same jaded person
When I settle for what I know

Watching the days
Pass me by
Rust inside
It's my pride

Belief without faith
Ain't worth believing
It's a lie
When we act like we know
When we say that we don't
When we tell them we're sorry
It's all just a show

Truth, that I'm looking for
Truth, that I'm searchin'
Still find myself
The same jaded person
When I settle for what I know
When I settle for what I know
What will I have to show?

Oooh
Oooh

Life, that I'm looking for
Love, that I'm looking for
Hope, what I'm looking for
Hope, that I'm cravin'

Truth, that I'm looking for
Truth, that I'm searchin'
Still find myself
The same jaded person
Hope, that I'm dying for
Hope, I'm worth savin'
Hope, ain't inside of me
It's a light on the outside
Of all that I know
And I will not settle
No, I won't let go

"Turn Against Me"

I laughed aloud at the sound
Of my own voice coming out
You see the comedy is that it wasn't me
Or at least that's what I want to believe

Words that seem absurd
To think they'd come out of my mouth
Who's the ventriloquist, making me talk like this
With the world upside down

[chorus]
It's like an outside looking in
Like a bird's eye view looking out of body
Seeing someone from a third person
And realizing I'm the somebody
Not a body snatcher
But still a stolen identity
Who do I become
When I turn against me?

Take my place, but still my shape
Showing on the outside
But just a hollow shell of former self
I'm not the only one who can tell

So what sucked me dry of my own life
Be it leech or parasite
I know whatever caused it
I'm the one who allowed the problem

[chorus]
It's like an outside looking in
Like a bird's eye view looking out of body
Seeing someone from a third person
And realizing I'm the somebody
Not a body snatcher
But still a stolen identity
Who do I become
When I turn against me?

I am, split down the middle
And I fall to either side
My heart, it aches like a riddle
As I'm turning with the tides
And I know that I'm hurting
But I can't stop questioning why

[chorus]
I'm on the outside looking in
Like a bird's eye view looking out of body
Trying to find myself
Like a search for a missing body
Yeah, what can cure the dead in me
Yeah, what can cure the dead in me
What can cure the dead in me
When I turn against me