"Privilege"

Some things only exist if you believe
Read too much between the lines and see
Connections, misdirections, disbelief

Some things stand before we breathe
Have to adapt to the scenery
If you ever want it to change
Some times ignorance is necessary

I'm not saying we were never at fault
I'm just saying that if we continue on it's all
In our defense, unneeded
History needs not repeating
I'm not saying we're not capable
I'm just saying that it's cyclical
Don't start the engine running
If you can see yourself becoming

Some things don't need to be said
Let them live on in men's heads
For fear of what might spread

Some topics I've come to dread
Conclusions drawn and grown and fed
If there's an elephant in the room
Let's shoot it dead

I'm not saying we were never at fault
I'm just saying that if we continue on it's all
In our defense, unneeded
History needs not repeating
I'm not saying we're not capable
I'm just saying that it's cyclical
Don't start the engine running
If you can see yourself becoming

"Who Is My Accuser?"

Enemies on every side
From behind the battlelines
From behind their peering eyes
Into each aspect of my life
Who are you to be the judge?
You press and pry, I still don't budge
By tooth and nail you hold your grudge
But still don't love

Who is my
Who is my accuser
Seems like everyone these days
Who is my
Who is my accuser
Who is my
Who is my accuser
Enough hate in the world without your grace
From behind your lips of praise

Enemies in my own court
Always quick in their retort
Where truth runs thick, their patience short
I barely hear it anymore
I drowned the sound out long ago
In pursuit of a place I've yet to know
The closer to it, my accusers grow
Making clear my friend or foe

Who is my
Who is my accuser
Seems like everyone these days
Who is my
Who is my accuser
Who is my
Who is my accuser
Enough hate in the world without your grace
From behind your lips of praise

Rise up against me
Is there anybody for me?
Rise up against me
Casting stones not designated for me
Rise up against me
Tell me that you're for me
Rise up against me
But won't stand up for me

"Nom de Plume"

You're going by a different name
As if a marriage of ideas could make it change
But the only thing that's different is the way it's sang
Because your heart has stayed the same

What's in a name, oh what's in a name

A pseudonym when you take the stage
A platform to perform your claims
Subscribed to ideas that are easy to phrase
When they're written page by page

What's in a name, oh what's in a name
Everything, everything
What's in a name, oh what's in a name
Everything, everything

Take your own name
You use the wrong name, in vain
Take your own name
You take the wrong name, in vain

"Dead And Temporary"

Not everyody thinks the same as you
Accepted any form of truth
Until the real one flitted into view
Challenging the single side
You never challenged in your mind
All the things you thought
But never quite thought through

If you could open your eyes
Wide
Enough to see beyond what's ordinary
Cause through the world's
Eyes
Investments end in dead and temporary

Breaking down all the walls
They would hate to see dissolve
You've been waiting all your life
To find the answer
And now that it's on full display
They'll come creeping to reclaim
What they lost that now is found
Freed from the cancer
So there's your answer

If you could open your eyes
Wide
Enough to see beyond what's ordinary
Cause through the world's
Eyes
Investments end in dead and temporary

Our understanding is a crutch we needn't lean upon
When the things that we believe in, always here and gone
I've accepted all these lies, I've held them far too long
Keeping me from freedom, from moving on

"A Beautiful Mind"

I see your blue eyes
Windows to the world behind
What could be
A beautiful mind

I see your histories
At least the slightest glimpses
What tore apart
A beautiful mind

And if all was in line
Heaven in the present time
What a beautiful mind
What was designed
To be a beautiful mind

Your mind a convict
Convicting you of wrong, it
Won't let you see
A beautiful mind

Your heart in shackles
Your heart the apple
Of my eye
Your beautiful mind

And if all was in line
Heaven in the present time
What a beautiful mind
What was designed
To be a beautiful mind

What a beautiful soul
Chasing after figments of fool's gold
Do you really know
Do you really know

"Break-Up Artist"

Breaking hearts you never really held
After time do the disappointed faces start to meld
Together, never, truly together
The tether, weathers
Your greatest endeavor

You're using shades
And colors that were once betrayed
In your own skin, they're deeper in
Beneath the surface
Perpetuate
Till you feel safe
Until you've fulfilled your purpose

Saying words you never really meant
Do you still pretend that you're the innocent
Transgressions, pressing, these unlearned lessons
Confessions, undressing
Just another session

You're using shades
And colors that were once betrayed
In your own skin, they're deeper in
Beneath the surface
Perpetuate
Till you feel safe
Until you've fulfilled your purpose

"Conditional"

When nobody cares about you
But they're told to
Love becomes a law
Nobody wants to follow
But they do
Maybe they're scared
Or they don't know how to
But there are so very few
Who would stick out their neck to
Who would stick out their neck for you

And your love, oh your love
It looks just like the world
Is it placed upon places and times spent together
But oh, I remember a time
When I was a stranger with nothing to offer
With no familiarity
And love reached out to me

When no one really wants to know you
They'll still tell you
Who you are
What you lack
What to choose
And I would never do the same
Some people fight to stake their claims
And there are so very few
Who would lay down their lives to
Who would lay down their pride for you

And your love, oh your love
It looks just like the world
Is it placed upon faces apart from the others
But oh, I remember a time
When I was a stranger with nothing to offer
With no familiarity
And love reached out to me

Love isn't blind-eyed
Cold-shouldered
Love lent me an ear
And I was won over
When I was a stranger with nothing to offer
Open arms, they led me in
Oh, where have they been