"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

"Roxas"

The white and black all fade to grey
What I feel isn't real, or so they say
When I see all the same colors on full display
But the way that I see isn't quite the same

Through my hollowed out eyes I sing this song
When I know what is right but I'm told it's wrong
This chain of memories is only stringing me along
Guess I'll wait until it's gone

[chorus]
Oooh
I just want to be whole
Oooh
I just want to be whole
Give me back my soul

See the sun set after every day
From the top of the world, from up above the grey
And oh, what I'd trade if I could just stay
In my own little world on a world far away

But in my retreat I'm the one that I chase
With my other half missing, at the end of the race
It's self versus self, only without a face
Like the real me is lying in a comatose state

[chorus]
Oooh
I just want to be whole
Oooh
I just want to be whole
Give me back my soul

An in-between life
Out of my control
Never really broken
But never really whole
Trying to retrieve
The part that they stole
But if you've never really known the heat
You can never feel the cold

[chorus]
Oooh
I just want to be whole
Ooh
I just want to be whole
Give me back my soul

"Paperthin"

I can't tell you
How asleep I've been
Want to lock myself inside and hide within
When the daylight
Like a closest friend
I've pushed away as an enemy again

When not a single word can peirce this hide
But the bullets still rip through the other side

[chorus]
Like I'm paperthin
Like I'm paperthin

New day comes
And I see the sun
See it as an opportunity to run
Not a line
To keep me from undone
Trapped in the things that I've become

When all your habits become a habitat
See how weak you are when you're laying flat

[chorus]
Like you're paperthin
Like you're paperthin
Just a fragile thing swept up
And blown in the wind
Looking for a way to begin again
Like you're paperthin

When you're folded and coiled
Future's always getting foiled
Life isn't always what you make of it
Sometimes you gotta suffer for the sake of it
And all of your greatest plans
Get blown away like grains of sand
Stand up for the things you can't
At the most, just to say you can

[chorus]
We're all paperthin
We're all paperthin
We're all fragile things swept up
And blown in the wind
Looking for a way to begin again
Paperthin

If strength is only when you win
We've all been porceline
Life is more than the number
That you're placing in

And I know I'm gonna fall
I may build up my paper walls
But it's in anticipation
Of a wrecking ball

"Monochrome Home"

The city that I live lit up in lights
The city that I've been in my whole life
Most of it a fight, most of it not right
A home to some, but I can't call it mine

So I hang up the coat on the back of a chair
And my mind drifts off to a place somewhere
Thinking this could be the start of the rest of it
When I want something more, so desperate

[chorus]
Feels like another life
And I'm living outside of mine
A plain filled with colored lights
But with nothing else there inside
My mind caught up
In midnight wishes
But it's a different world
And I can't forget this

The places that I've gone, all memories
Like nothing really real inside of me
When I've got scars to prove, got scars that bleed
But to me, the past feels like it's make-believe

And so I think of hope, one that I once had
And I think of peace, if I can get it back
Wondering why I always settle for the counterfeit
When I want something more, so desperate

[chorus]
Feels like another life
And I'm living outside of mine
A plain filled with colored lights
That are dead on the inside
And the colors that I wanna see
Are all black and white to me
When the monochrome starts to look like home
I think it's time to leave

Yeah, I think it's time to leave
Yeah I think it's time
I think it's time

Feels like a moment's time
Gone in the blink of an eye
Years wasted on holding pride
That I don't want to multiply
And I don't want to see the sun
Until I believe in the sunlight
Oh, I want to make it right
Bring the dead tones back to life
Oh, I want to make it right
Bring these dead leaves back to life

"Dusty Times"

I saw the lights from the lakeside
Igniting the sky
Down a dirty road, down the street from home
Reflections in my eyes

I saw the canyon before me
Who knows how caves are created?
But we've been hollowed out, down to a shallow sound
Coming off of the pavement

[chorus]
Moth and rust
Destroying us
These are dusty times
Do you see our crimes?

I saw the fix and the fracture
The broken bones peiced together
But was it just a bandage job
Just waiting to shatter

Cause with temporary and secondary
You never can be sure
I see a light behind me
A light so pure

[chorus]
Moth and rust
Destroying us
These are dusty times
Do you see our crimes?
Do you see my crimes?

We fade away
Attention has gone astray
I saw my jaded heart
And then the world went dark

[instrumental]

And then I saw a spark

"Level"

Stealing my only voice
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
But I just can't live that way
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
So maybe you could sympathize
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
Find it in your heart to forgive me
I'm sorry, I'm sorry

[chorus]
Can't keep this up
Can't even get what I want
The thought of losing you
Is now, just a distant thought
So find some common ground in me
Yeah, find some commonality
Or wreck the place from head to toe

I know I have a choice
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
But none of mine have worked thus far
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
When I operate in another's space
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
If that's the way it works I'm not cut out
I'm sorry, I'm sorry

So I apologize a thousand times
And hope that something bounces back
To change my mind or fill a space
Of something that I lack
But it's all the same, it's a different game
And I won't change your mind
Not with honesty or selfish pleas
Yeah, it always comes right back to me

[chorus]
Can't keep this up
Can't even get what I want
The thought of hurting you
Is now, just a distant thought
So find some common ground in me
Yeah, find some commonality
Or tear me down from head to toe

Cause I don't know
Where I fit
And every time I even try
I only quit
So let's get down to the heart of it
Yeah, help me make some sense of it
I'm a lost soul singing

[chorus]
Can't keep this up
Can't even get what I want
The thought of failing you
Is still such a burning thought
So find some common ground in me
And make a space to bend my knees
And break me down from head to toe

"Stealing Heat"

I recognize this isn't all about me
But still I only see through my own eyes
I'll try to take away whatever helps me see it clearer
But I'm just a small fry swimming through a big life
Picking peices off of the surface

[chorus]
Act, react, it's all a motion
Thought and feeling, dead emotion
Am I parrot or just a lemming
Stealing heat from all around me
I'm only as alive as I would have you think

Monkey see and do to live and prove
Making systems fit for human eyes
I can admit that every one of us is evil
It's what you do to love that makes you
Start ignoring the world that plagues you

[chorus]
Act, react, it's all a motion
Thought and feeling, dead emotion
Am I the flame or the sparks that came flying
Stealing heat from all around me
I'm only as alive as I would have you think

You've only got one chance
And it doesn't start tomorrow
Reflection or refraction
The drive or the reaction
Make it count

Creatures of habit, chameleons
You and I and everyone
Trained to fit the situation
You've only got one life
Just make it count

"Zombie Dance"

We crave elation, yeah we're looking for a thrill
The height of life sometimes is just the thing that kills
Looking like a walking skeleton of former self
Stumbling the streets like you're in a trance
All the walking dead do the zombie dance

Every undead, filling a space they won't reclaim
Following in line to find themselves a missing brain
In one big train, where everybody thinks the same
You could rise above if you had the chance
But all the walking dead do the zombie dance

Communicate in grunts in passing by
Passing blunts with reddened eyes
Staggered gestures like you're barely alive
Waking up a bit more dead
Recollect and find your head
If you could, would you have your innocence instead?

Sit in a decaying, fading state
Waiting for a substance to stimulate
Substance is exactly what you need to break
Away from the line of mindless ants
Yeah, all the walking dead do the zombie dance

Limbs are falling off, use your idle hands
To try and break away from this thoughtless dance
Coming to the point where no one has to stand
Everyone's the same, no one has a stance
Yeah, all America does the zombie dance