Good Morning Corporate America
Today will be the day I finally even up the score
I’m finally giving up, can’t play this game no more
I’ve made a resolution: everyone goes down today
Take myself out too, authorities won’t have their way
Corporate America this is your wake-up call
Another round of ammo sprayed through your cubicles
Shot rings out, vengeance in a nameless crowd
Another day closes, Dow is up the men are down
Explosion of wealth, it’s all in someone else’s hands
Jealousy so sick, bound me to unreal demands
Go and grab a gun and give them all what they deserve
Losing every day, I live my life on my last nerve
True justice won’t be served till blood spills on the office floor
Cause that’s just how I cope with everybody having more
Then everyone will remember that I never lost this game
Then I took myself out, 14 men and women slain
Before I took myself out I sent 14 men straight to their graves
There’s no use in running, I aim for whatever moves
Take out anyone falling in my line of view
Then finally the justice upon which I have so longed for
Now that you’re all dead, no need to live anymore
A message to the world to sound for years and years to come
Don’t lose others’ money and don’t have any of your own
Because no one is to blame for his own incompetence
Justice with a gun, doesn’t it make perfect sense?
Killing for my loss is the only recompense
(Bridge)
But... everyone’s on the run, fuck you I called shotgun!
Everyone’s on the run, who will be the victim?
Everyone’s on the run, work now, it’s just no fun
Everyone’s on the run yeah on the run
Yeah, corporate America this is your wake-up call
Another round of ammo sprayed through your cubicles
Never go to work and never trust a man again
Working for your life, better off just stay in bed
The sun goes down upon the urban madness
Reds on the horizon blend with the corporate bloody mess
This will be the message to sound for years and years to come
Unless again tomorrow someone brings another gun
I know again tomorrow, someone brings another gun.
(Bridge)
Left Behind
This memory it still burns my mind, like the sun the day I left you behind
All the heat and the fears, the flashes from our lives
You walked away down that gravel road, all I could do was stand and watch you go
Deep breath to hold my tears, turn around and go home
Then you walked away, on that summer day
Everything behind, you know I swear I thought you’d die
Left Behind
Relentless sun on a tragic day, I turned around to watch you walk away
Clouds gathered above me, the whole world it turned gray
The sky fell down and I sunk below, and I felt, yeah, you would never know
This guilt just like that storm, inside me it still grows
And you walked away, sunny till that day
Everything behind, you know I swear I thought you’d die
Left Behind
Buried my head in my regrets, everything I’ve ever loved I’ve left
Packed my bags, left you there, headed back out West
Look it was me there all along, always pretending to be strong
Did you ever think I could have been so wrong?
And you walked away, sunny till that day
Everything behind you know I swear I thought I’d...
Crashed
Here we go, no control, man overboard
Don’t let go, we’ll make it home, we’ll make it home
But you hit the gas, face to the glass
Teeth in the dash, I knew you’d crash
But we walked away (I don’t think so)
Blood on my face
And left the car (I don’t think so)
And no one saw
Broken bones, drunk and stoned, tried to run home
Got fucking lost, ran from the cops, trails of blood, trails of blood
The dizziness, no oxygen
No direction, and I’d do it again
But we found our way (I don’t think so)
Scarred to this day
My friend we lived (I don’t think so)
And I’d do it again
Here we go, no control, overboard, don’t let go, make it home, make it home, Crashed
Sullen
Another cry for help, I’m left here by myself,
The razor blades free memories trapped inside my hell
Remote and TV guide, a sanctuary to hide
At least another 13 reasons not to end this lie
So I hate, it all turns to red
And all the blood I’ve bled, and this pounding in my head
Makes me wish you all were dead
14 years I blame it all on you
Left alone in everything I do
And all my helplessness,
Something you can’t address
The more I lose my mind, the easier to hide
Run from all the memories from this embittered life
There’s no where to look ahead, all my dreams are dead
Along with every bit of hope that I’ve ever had
And I hate, that I can see the end
This pounding in my head, and I’ll the blood I’ve bled
It makes me wish you all were dead
You’re dead
Turtle
I can’t see inside your head and now I’m sick of trying
I push, you hurt, I ask, you nod and then I heard you crying
You tell me later on, by then the blood is drawn
Who knows when you’ll take off and hide from all your worries
I walk on eggshells even so the path often eludes me
You say we’ll be okay, but sometimes I don’t know
(Chorus)
Silence is your best friend, you cling when fear sets in
Please let me in your troubled world
Instinct you hide your thoughts, from me why can’t we talk
Please let me in your troubled world
I don’t intend to torture you so why does it still happen
I have to ask you ‘what did I do,’ the usual ‘oh nothing’
I’m tired of this game so please just let me lose
Let me in I want to help include me in your pain
If not, you’ll wither all alone, suffering in vain
You say we’ll be okay, now I know that’s a lie
I hung the phone up and I threw it at the wall
I stood by every time and watched you take the fall
(Chorus)
Barfbag
One day he awoke and stared at the wall
A shadow of a man, not a man at all
He looked at the mirror and cried in disgust
At the immature boy he now could not trust
Shameless, nameless, painless, brainless
Regret your mistakes, lament your misdeeds
False starts are redone from this point proceed
Look back on your youth, your legacy torture
You think of those times, in your mind fast forward
Shameless, nameless, brainless, painless,
TRUE
Recognition of words left unsaid
Realization all that shit in your head
Appreciation, the role that they played
Procrastination one day I’ll repay
Shameless, nameless, brainless, painless
TRUE
Frontier Friday Nite
I’ll keep this chair, losing all my money, a Frontier Friday Nite
Another card, another drink please, another face and I’m all right
Winning cards, like seeing smiling faces, the happiness I knew
Now here alone, so still but running, another race I’ll lose
And you know all of my failures should be another man’s fortune
My luck it fades so fast
This game we play, these cards we’re dealt
And I don’t think I’ll last
I’m cashing out, sick of always losing, so if I walked away,
Would you remember, I’m finally giving up so, please don’t hold my place
Fuck your rules, intolerable standards, cause I know they’re not right
Here’s my cards, I finally fold sir, and I give up on life
Infected Youth
Here is your collection of your ill, infected youth
So misunderstood, just construe an image, hide the truth
To keep them off the streets, you’ll just lock them up in jail
Neglected and forgotten, lives their lives in utter hell
(Pre-chorus)
But what the fuck is really wrong with being young?
Shut your mouth you’ve got nothing to say
As if I gave a fuck anyway
Just what the fuck is going on these days?
(Chorus)
Every time you turn around, you’ll hear the motherfuckers go
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Don’t give them anything, try and stand your ground, hear the motherfucker’s go
Yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah
They’re all coming after you
Don’t try to understand them or don’t try to get them help
Everyone is safer if they’re left alone all by themselves
To think about their crimes in dark and solitary cells
Out on good behavior, you expect them to reform in hell?
Pre-chorus
Chorus
Never once given a chance, they make mistakes, the stigma lasts
But have you ever tried to help, to understand a life in hell?
One kid goes down, one kid to the ground, one in the federal pen
One kid goes down, one kid to the ground, wash away this mess
One kid goes down, one kid go the ground, one six feet below
But they’re all dead or locked away, so no one every knows
But I know.
Black Sheep
Sunken footsteps, roadmap for your life
Stumble upon them, careful fall in line
Tell you to fight, to try, expectations it’s a lie
Know your life was never on the line
But you hide, turn inside, collapsing underneath your smile
Every part of you that’s you decays in time
And the undertow (I can’t help you)
Drags you below
You try so hard, but for what you don’t know
Wish I hadn’t done the things I’ve done
Build up your foundations like you say
The tide crashed in, washed them all away
In time, you’ll find, the strength you have comes from your own mind
One day this will all be far behind
Now stray, far away, it’s time that you controlled your fate
And Amy if you never return, I’ll understand
The undertow (I can’t help you)
Drags you below
Struggle for air, in a world you’ve never known
Wish I hadn’t done the thing I’ve done
Bring it Down
Isolation, solitary, trapped in my self-restrain
Deep reflection, introspection, spiral downward in this shame
Thinking too loud, it’s weighing me down, why couldn’t they let me go?
Pulling harder, squeezing tighter, your hands, around my throat
No, please let go, daddy please, please let go
Falling forward, noises unheard, close my eyes and I clench my teeth
In the darkness, I fall in sickness, the pain that I don’t see
But I’ve tried and I’ve tried to put it all behind me
I lied, denied, I’d hide, contrive to live my life...
To break out free
In time we all must break out
Shed light on shadows of doubt
Pick feet up off the ground
To scale that wall and bring it down, Bring it Down
Locked up, forever locked out
Held down never once allowed
So I told them all to fuck off
I told you I would bring it down, Bring it Down
Isolation, solitary, now I say fuck this shame
Blew the whistle, stopped the clock cause, well that’s not my game
Shame, please let go, bring it down, bring me down, I brought it down
In time we all must break out
Shed light on shadows of doubt
So I told them all to fuck off
I told you I would bring it down, Bring it Down