"Even Victory Brings Loss"

So long we've been fighting this
Going back to the precipice
And retracing
With the hope we'll see the day
When all these ties to terror will release
And these neverending fires cease
In the daylight
How many fighters lay deceased?

We lay in broken pieces
In the aftermath, we can't go back
To the way it was before
We've overcome, but come undone
Our ships burnt at the shore
This ain't Hollywood, there aren't no
Perfect endings anymore
Victory is just defeat that you endure

Life fades, it's a mystery
How it lingers still aloft
In the background gaze
While our semblance fades
Still clinging to that cross
And there's a heartbeat underneath this flesh
Even though the flesh betrays
If we make it to the ending
Will there be something left to save?

We lay in broken pieces
In the aftermath, we can't go back
To the way it was before
We've overcome, but come undone
Our ships burnt at the shore
This ain't Hollywood, there aren't no
Perfect endings anymore
Victory is just defeat that you endure

What we've lost along the way
What we've lost along the way
We've all lost along the way
So stand today

"Defeatist"

You try so hard
At the outset
The beginning of the race
But then lose heart
When the pain sets in
You can't keep up the pace

You make excuses
And they're good ones, that's for sure
But that path is useless
Drawing circles, that's no cure

So you can never know
How far you can go
If you don't test it
Start investing
In the one that you do you control
It's your attitude that dictates where you'll go
Oooh, oooh

When your life's
Depleted
You're at half tank and half mast
But the only thing you're mourning
Is the outcome of the past

You're never quite defeated
Till your own lots, you have cast

So you can never know
How far you can go
If you don't test it
Start investing
In the one that you do you control
It's your attitude that dictates where you'll go
Oooh, oooh
Don't lose hope
Oooh, oooh

You trip and fall
And say "that's all
The strength I have in me."
But you'll lay right there
Going nowhere
If you don't get up on your feet

"Spotlight"

Black and white
Not everything is black and white
But still we divide
Ourselves under the premises of wrong and right

Under a different light
Our problems look the same in time
A different side, and now I'm the enemy
But who is right, oh who is

Run, run away
Into the present, to the future
Run, run into the place where
Light surrounds you
And leave, leave behind
The tattered images engraved into our minds
Hate doesn't deserve a spotlight

Black and white
People are black and white
And everything in between
Though with walls unseen
We seem to be on separate sides

Black and white
The truth isn't always black and white
And there may not be one right way to fix this
But I know we're all guilty that it exists

And so I'll run, run away
Into the present, to the future
Run, running for that place where
Light surrounds you
And leave, leave behind
The tattered images engraved into our minds
Hate doesn't deserve a spotlight

So let's run, run away
From all of this into the future
And see, the ways that we're the same
All one people, many cultures
We need, we need each other
Sometime's the way's unclear and unsure
But I know that hate doesn't deserve a spotlight

"The Witness"

Waking from the dead ain't easy
But it happens all the time
Breaking free from old confines

I've seen chains fall
Where logic dissolves

Man's wisdom
Made undone
Make you second guess your eyes
Bear witness
To all this
Miraculous design

Write down
Don't forget
What you've seen here
What you believe here
In this moment of time
It just might save your life

I've seen chains fall
Where logic dissolves

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"Hold Me Close"

Dropped down on this rock

Given nothing but a mind to question

Is there God in the sky above?

Am I here to learn some lesson?

I was told what I need to know

What's good and bad and black and white

Find out further down the road

That they aren't always right

So hold me up

Hold me close

Because this feeling is all that I know

I'm not alone

So hold me close

I followed this old rope

Down to the end of it and back

Seems like the more of it I tread

The more places I found slack

It didn't add up, filled with plotholes

That were not my own ideas

Seemed like the more of mine I supposed

The more the path ahead came clear

So hold me up

And hold me close

Because this moment is all I know

I'm not alone

I don't know what is home

But just hold me close

"Deadhead"

I came back empty handed
And an empty seat as well
The night was fresh upon me
All alone as I could tell

No I didn't mind the solitude
For the time to clear my head
With an empty slate in front of me
While the midnight streets are dead

And I've heard
That we grow
When we remove the things we know
Replace the dead
That we sew
For something better there instead

I came to the conclusion
As I carved the winding roads
That I can need people
Just as much as I need to be alone

And there's nothing wrong
With needing time
There's so much that happens slow
So give it time

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"Injustice"

There is no justice
There is no fair
There is no justice
Anywhere

Where is the justice
Where is the truth
Destined to carry
This burden of proof

I once knew a man
Who robbed me blind
Didn't listen to reason
Of any kind

But a man's got to eat
A man's got a job
We all earn our keep
Whether we judge or we rob

When truth and injustice
Breathe the same air
There is no justice
Anywhere