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 * 10. Generation Loss

Getting trampled under boots of progess, Ignore the pleading of the nameless faces, Now with our backs against the wall How long 'till we fall?

Do away with all the underpriviledged, Demographic doesn't fit your image, Turn your blind eye, when duty calls How long 'till we fall?

Chorus (In With The New) This Is something that you can't ignore, a simple thing worth fighting for, 'cause now they're tearing down our doors. So she screams out the window, "I've had it up to here" So sick and tired of wondering where I'll be next year...

Caring less about the homeless millions, All the petty problems that go with them. Reap the profit that reaps their lives and Tell me that it's fine.

Throw them out and call it relocation Lower-income-housing quick solution A Generation Lost

Chorus

Now in the whirlwind of my life Is where you presently reside. Can I pretend you don't exist maybe just for ten more minutes? My heart's been broken into two, and rusted from years of disuse. So will you place upon it your hands, and will you help it beat again? It seems the whole world's turned on me (Bound and Gagged) in the land of the free, Let's talk this over, this game is over. In with the new, out with the old, Hearts of the world have grown so cold, This game is over, let's talk this over. ||
 * 9. Hairline Fracture

A sinking ship, an awkward kiss A chance to set things straight The kind of hurt that burns and burns Like fires we can't contain

We hole up in a shelter made of bones and ice and there we'll wait So start again with steady hands This time nothing gets in our way But as we peer a little closer what do we see ?

A crack in the surface A flaw in the plan (Plans we made together, almost buried in the sand) A cadence imperfect Like a building condemned (Can we indemnify ourselves if we don't face what we're against)

A promise kept The dirt unswept A poorly worn disguise A child unloved that then grows up To love what we despise

We're broken but still breathing We are wounded but we are healing We pick up right where we left off Breathe on the ashes that remain

So that these coals may become fire To guide our way

A crack in the surface A flaw in the plan (Plans we made together, almost buried in the sand) A cadence imperfect Like a building condemned (Can we indemnify ourselves if we don't face what we're against)

I walk on wounds That seldom prove to slow me down I laugh this constant pain away So you can't tell But there it lies under the smiles It drains me mile after mile But seldom proves to slow me down Here I go

Should we just hold on To what remains of What we thought was lost

But it's just a crack in the surface A flaw in the plan (Plans we made together, almost buried in the sand) A cadence imperfect Like a building condemned (Can we indemnify ourselves if we don't face what we're against) ||
 * 8. Re-education Through Labor

To the sound of a heartbeat pounding away To the rhythm of the awful rusted machines We toss and turn but don't sleep Each breath we take makes us thieves Like causes without rebels Just talk but promise nothing else

We crawl on our knees for you Under a sky no longer blue We sweat all day long for you But we sow seeds to see us through Cause sometimes dreams just don't come true We wait to reap what we are due

To the rhythm of a time bomb ticking away And the blare of the sirens combing the streets Chased down like dogs we run from Your grasp until the sun comes up

We crawl on our knees for you Under a sky no longer blue We sweat all day long for you But we sow seeds to see us through Cause sometimes dreams just don't come true Look now at what they've done to you

White needles buried in the red The engine roars and then it gives But never dies 'Cuz we don't live We just survive On the scraps that you throw away

I won't crawl on my knees for you I won't believe the lies that hide the truth I won't sweat one more drop for you 'Cuz we are the rust upon your gears We are the insect in your ears We crawl We crawl We crawl... all over you

We sow the seeds to see us through Our days are precious and so few We all reap what we are due Under this sky no longer blue We bring the dawn long overdue We crawl We crawl We crawl... all over you ||
 * 7. Audience Of One

I can still remember The words and what they meant As we etched them with our fingers In years of wet cement The days blurred into each other Though everything seemed clear We cruised along at half speed But then we shifted gears

We ran like vampires from a thousand burning sons But even then we should have stayed But we ran away Now all my friends gone Maybe we’ve outgrown all the things that we once loved Runaway But what are we running from ? A show of hands from those in this audience of one Where have they gone ?

Identities assume us As nine and five add up Synchronizing watches To the seconds that we lost I looked up and saw you I know that you saw me We froze but for a moment In empathy

I brought down the sky for you but all you did was shrug You gave my emptiness away

But you ranaway Now all my friends gone Maybe we’ve outgrown all the things that we once loved Runaway But what are we running from ? A show of hands from those in this audience of one Where have they gone ?

We’re all ok, until the day we’re not The surface shines, while the inside rots We raced the sunset and we almost won We slammed the brakes, but the wheels went on

We ran away Now all my friends gone Maybe we’ve outgrown all the things that we once loved Runaway But what are we running from ? A show of hands from those in this audience of one Where have they gone ? ||
 * 6. Ready To Fall

Hold on slow down Again from the top now and tell me everything. I know I`ve been gone for What seems like forever But I`m here now waiting To convince you that I`m not A ghost or a stranger But closer than you think She said just go on to what you Pretend is your life but Please don`t die on me

Wings won`t take me Heights don`t phase me So take a step But don`t look down, take a step

Now I`m standing on the rooftop ready to fall (ready to fall) I think I'm at the edge now but I could be wrong I'm standing on the rooftop ready to fall

Perpetual motion the image wont focus A blur is all that's seen But here in this moment like the eye of the storm It all came clear to me I found a shoulder to lean on An infallible reason to live all by itself I took one last look from the heights that I once loved And then I ran like hell

Wings won't take me Heights don't phase me So take a step But don't look down take a step

Now I'm standing on the rooftop ready to fall (ready to fall) I think I'm at the edge now but I could be wrong I'm standing on the rooftop ready to fall ||
 * 5. Collapse

When our rivers run dry and our crops cease to grow And when our summers grow longer and winters wont snow From the banks of the ocean and the ice in the hills To the fight in the desert where progress stands still When weve lost our will

Thats how well know This is not a test, we'll know This is cardiac arrest Of a world too proud to admit our mistakes We're crashing into the ground as we all fall from grace

When the air that we breathe becomes air that we choke When the marsh fever spreads from the swamps to our homes When your home on the range has been torn down and paved and The buffalo roam to a slaughterhouse grave What more will it take

For us to know This is not a test, oh no This is cardiac arrest Of a world too proud to admit our mistakes Kissing the ground as we all fall from grace

This is a chance to set things straight To bend or break the rules back into place There is no middle ground, no compromise, weve drawn the line With perfect aim, we stand back and throw Glass windows break and its all about to blow Lights go out as we pass the torch again In hope that it stays lit

Neutrality means that you dont really care Cause the struggle goes on even when youre not there Blind and unaware

Thats how well know This is not a test, oh no This is cardiac arrest Of a world too proud to admit our mistakes We're crashing into the ground as we all, yeah we all, we all fall from grace ||
 * 4. Survive

Somewhere between happy and total f **wreck, Feet sometimes on solid ground and sometimes at the edge, To spend your waking moments, simply killing time, Is to give up on your hopes and dreams, give up on your

[Chorus:] Life for you, has been less than kind, So take a number, stand in line, Weve all been sorry, weve all been hurt, But how we survive, is what makes us who we are.

An obvious disinterest, a barely managed smile, A deep nod in agreement, a status quo exile, I shirk my obligations, I miss all you dead-lines, I excel at quitting early, and f** up my life...

[Chorus]

All smiles and sunshine, a perfect world on a perfect day, Everything always works out, I have never felt so f **great, (All smiles and sunshine, a perfect world on a perfect day, Everything always works out, I have never felt so great.)

(Life isnt like this) [x4]

Life isnt like this [x2] (Life isnt like this) [x3]

Are we verging on an answer, or f** up our lives?

[Chorus]

(Who we are), Its what makes us who we are, (Who we are), Makes us who we are, (Who we are), Its what makes us who we are, (Who we are). ||
 * 3. Give It All

Break through the undertow, your hands I cant seem to find. Pollution burns my tongue, cough words I can't speak so I stop my struggling, then I float to the surface, fill my lungs with air, then let it out.

I give it all ooh, this is the reason why I sing. So give it all ooh, cos it's these reasons that belong to me.

Rock bottoms where we live, and still we dig these trenches, to bury ourselves in them, backs breaking under tension.

For far too long these voices, muffled by distances, it's time to come to our senses, up from the dirt.

We give it all ooh, this is the reason why I sing. So give it all ooh, cos it's these reasons that belong to me.

Breathe(Breathe), the air we give(give), the lives we live(live), our pulses racing distances(Breathe). So wet my tongue(give), break into song(live), through seas of competition.

So please believe your eyes, a sacrifice, is not what we had in our minds. I'm coming home tonight, home tonight...

We give it all ooh, this is the reason why I sing. So give it all ooh, and it's these reasons that belong to me.

Today I offer up myself to this. I'm living for my dying wish. I give it all ooh, now there's a reason, there's a reason, to give it all. ||
 * 2. Paper Wings

One last thing I beg you please, just before you go I've watched you fly on paper wings half way round the world until they Burned up in the atmosphere and sent you spiraling down Landed somewhere far from here with no one else around To catch you falling down and I'm looking at you now

And I cant tell if you're laughing Between each smile there's a tear in your eye There's a train leaving town in an hour It's not waiting for you and neither am I

Swing for the fences son, He must have told you once That was a conversation you took nothing from so raise your Glass now and celebrate excatly what you've done Just put off another day of knowing where your from You can catch up with yourself if you run

And I cant tell if you're laughing Between each smile there's a tear in your eye There's a train leaving town in an hour Its not waiting for you and neither am I

Is this the life that you lead? Or the life that's left for you? Will you take the road thats been laid out before you Will we cross paths somewhere else tonight? Somewhere else tonight

And I cant tell if you're laughing Between each smile there's a tear in your eye There's a train leaving town in an hour It's not waiting for you and neither am I And I cant tell if you're laughing Between each smile theres a tear in your eye Theres a train leaving town in an hour Its not waiting for you and neither am I ||
 * 1. Chamber Of Cartridge

This is Noise

Down beyond these city streets through gutters filled with black debris, in alleys void of any light where nameless things live out of sight. Down through the scrapers of the sky past neon words glowing all night Echoes by names between each car, are you happy where you are?

Blind to this impending FATE we let the world carry your WEIGHT. It's back breaks with every mile but we all live in denial! [WhooaWhooooaWhoooaWhoa]

Can we be saved? Has the damage all been done? [WhooaWhooooaWhoooaWhoa] Is it too late to reverse what we've become? [WhooaWhooooaWhoooaWhoa] A lesson to learn at a crucial point in time [WhooaWhooooaWhoooaWhoa] What's mine was always yours and yours is mine... Let's go!

And so we carry on each day, as if our lifes are not so grey, while every breath that we take we only suffocate. Brush past a myriad of scenes a homeless vet crashed on wall street, A single mom of three, a TV personality!

Blind to this impending FATE they let the world carry their WEIGHT. Its back breaks with every mile but they all live in denial! [WhooaWhooooaWhoooaWhoa]

Can we be saved? Has the damage all been done? [WhooaWhooooaWhoooaWhoa] Is it too late to reverse what we've Become? [WhooaWhooooaWhoooaWhoa] A lesson to learn at a crucial point in time [WhooaWhooooaWhoooaWhoa] What's mine was always yours and yours is mine...

Save us, from what we have become tonight.... EYES, glazed with distrust, No sense of wrong or right [x3]

Can we be saved? Has the damage all been done? [WhooaWhooooaWhoooaWhoa] Is it too late to reverse what we've Become? [WhooaWhooooaWhoooaWhoa] A lesson to learn at a crucial point in time [WhooaWhooooaWhoooaWhoa] What's mine was always yours and yours is mine... ||