Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
Album - 11 giugno 2008 - Debaser id 493888

I am the one, camouflage and guns
Risk my life to keep my people from harm
Authority, vested in me
I sacrifice with my brothers in arms

Through this doorway what’s on the other side
Never knowing exactly what I’ll find
Locked and loaded
Voices screaming "Let’s go!"
Come on do it! Here we go!

I'll take a life, that others may live
Oh that’s just the way it goes
I'll shut my eyes, it hammers in my head
Where it’ll end nobody knows
I'll take a life, ten others may live
Oh that’s just the way it goes
It’s playing over and over in my head
Where it’ll end nobody knows

Stay the course, reasonable force
I believe I serve a greater good
Smoke and dust, enemies are crushed
Nothing left where a man once stood

Through this doorway what’s on the other side
Never knowing exactly what I’ll find
Locked and loaded
Voices screaming "Let’s go!"
But I’m just doing what I’m told

I'll take a life, that others may live
Oh that’s just the way it goes
I'll shut my eyes, it hammers in my head
Where it’ll end nobody knows
I'll take this life, ten others may live
Oh that’s just the way it goes
It’s playing over and over in my head
Where it begins, and where it’ll end nobody knows

Yeah, go!

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Bang bang - it hammers in my head [x3]
In my head [2x]

You know I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I'll fear no evil for Thou art with me
Locked and loaded
Gonna find my truth
Now I’m busting through
All hell breaks loose

And you can all hide behind your desks now
And you can cry, "teacher come help me!"
Through you all my aim is true
My, my aim is true!
My aim is true

How does it feel?
When you have it all?
How can you live?
With nothing at all?

Where do you run?
Where do you go?
When the holes in your truth
Are starting to show?

And the rain comes
And the world is on my head
Crave the sun
But I can't get out of bed

How can you take?
Without giving back?
How does it work?
When it's really cracked?

How does it feel

...
And no wonder
Hearts and minds have been won
How does it feel...
And I wonder
How it's all come undone And the rain comes
And the world is on my head
Crave the sun
But I can't get out of bed

Want it You got it You're sorry You bought it You're sliding
Want it You got it You're sorry You bought it Can't hide it
Tell me who do you see
Cause you look a lot like me

How can you take?
Without giving back?
Who do you see?
Cause you look a lot like me

When the day begins
All the guilt sinks in
And I look on the wreckage of the night
Though I try to break free
The cycle breaks me
Am I ever gonna see the light?

All the friends I’ve lost
And the pain I’ve caused
Have never been enough just to make me stop
The lines I draw to look at myself
Are turning into somebody else

I know how this will end
But I’m starting up again
Turned around, inside out
Cause this way

Takes me nowhere – I can’t can’t see a way out
Takes me nowhere – I can’t can’t see a way out
Takes me nowhere – I can’t can’t see a way out
It beats me up

When I go there – I know I could start again
When I go there – Oh no, here we go again
Takes me nowhere – Oh no, here we go again
It beats me up

Open on this scene
A familiar dream
Of you telling me what I already know
Though the truth seems near
You can’t get there from here
But you sure know where you’re gonna go

As the rumor wind blows
My infamy grows
Seeing friends above
And I hit another low
The picture I paint to look at myself
Is turning into somebody else

I know how this will end
But I’m starting up again
Turned around, inside out
Cause this way

Takes me nowhere – I can’t can’t see a way out
Takes me nowhere – I can’t can’t see a way out
Takes me nowhere – I can’t can’t see a way out
It beats me up

When I go there – I know I could start again
When I go there – Oh no, here we go again
Takes me nowhere – Oh no, here we go again
It beats me up


But today, if I change
And stop digging my own grave
I will try, to set things right
Cause this way
Takes me nowhere – I can’t can’t see a way out
Takes me nowhere – I can’t can’t see a way out
Takes me nowhere – I can’t can’t see a way out
It beats me up

When I go there – I know I could start again
When I go there – Oh no, here we go again
Takes me nowhere – Oh no, here we go again
It beats me up
oooh

Letâ??s make this complicated
Thinking is overrated
Weâ??re busting out
Of this shitty little town

Green grass and colored lenses
Tear down these picket fences
Burn in our beds
While the city lies sleeping

Why oh why?
Are we starting up and going down?
My oh my
Just the two of us in Nothingtown
Our superhero play
Weâ??ll leave this town today
Hold on tighter
With my lighter
Shining through

These city streets are burning
Rose red your wheels are turning
Make me believe
Someday we could really leave

Blindfold a new direction
Stop asking better questions
Donâ??t figure out
That weâ??re never getting out

Why oh why?
Are we starting up and going down?
My oh my
Just the two of us in Nothingtown
Our superhero play
Weâ??ll leave this town today
And Iâ??ll row it if you steer it
Iâ??ll yell until you hear it
Hold on tighter
With my lighter
Shining through

Why oh why?
Are we starting up and going down?
My oh my
Just the two of us in Nothingtown
Our superhero play
Our dreams get in the way
And Iâ??ll row it if you steer it
Iâ??ll yell until you hear it
Hold on tighter
With my lighter
Shining through

Still stuck in Nothingtown
Still stuck in Nothingtown
Come on letâ??s go

She wakes up
Rage and grace
Pulling me closer, pushing away at me
The sharpest thorn on your vine
Twistin' and turnin', we're all intertwined

Broken wing
Empty glass
Words that scream and bounce right back
She says, "You know, we'd all like to rearrange"

I wish I could fix you
And make you how I want you
I wish I could fix you
And I wish you could fix me
I wish I could heal you
And mend where you are broken
I wish I could heal you
And I wish you could heal me

A beaming sunrise buries the night
The setting sun destroys the light
And she says, "Baby, I've gotta get going"
Cutting each other without even knowing

She sees a million stars like holes in the sky
All god's tears for her, they cry
And I am in her reign

I wish I could fix you
And make you how I want you
I wish I could fix you
And I wish you could fix me
I wish I could heal you
And mend where you are broken
I wish I could heal you
And I wish you could heal me

Broken wing
Empty glass
Words that scream and bounce right back
She says, "You know, we'd all like to rearrange"