Caught in this ruthless cycle Treading a treacherous path On It goes on As we thirst for change The dearth goes on and on (On and on) On It goes on All the holes get deeper Still they continue to... Dig on They paint the streets crimson and lead Pave it with the underprivileged Adorn it with hearts of grief and dread Drenched in floods of “change” By the same old whores Donning different masks In their ivory towers of indifference ‘Cause power heeds only wealth’s commands Our voices - just chatter We watch them rise Hope welling from our eyes Discounting all the cries How many times before And how many times more Must we fall prey to this design? They rise Only to crush every fiber of our dreams anew Rights denied They want us deaf and blind and numb and mute To perpetuate the abuse So when blood flows far from where we stand It is of no consequence Until all that is wrong becomes ignorable Or better yet - worthy of support We watch them rise Pride gushing from inside Reaching feverish highs How many times before And how many times more Must we fall prey to this design? We’ve seen this all before The deplorable But we chose to turn our heads Until the knock is on our door With all that we’ve ignored What makes you think you can’t be next? Trapped in this ruthless cycle On this familiar path Where we lie still and unquestioning As we get trampled on By the chosen gods Still we watch them rise Faith swaying our minds Letting reason die How many times before And how many times more Must we fall prey to this design? We’ve seen this all before It goes on and on We’ve been through this before It goes on and on

Why do I feel like I'm being dragged and drowned That I should have wings but instead I have this world weighing me down I've always followed my own path I make do with what I find But why am I still in a place where I want to be farthest away from Where every hope-filled start of a different day Quickly succumbs to the same decay It's getting harder to see the beauty in this existence When everything I long for can't be found It drags me further and further down I don't want to feel this way anymore I don't want to be this way anymore But I can't help it, I can't help it To deny what I feel inside would be to add another lie In a lifetime of lies and denial Hollow smiles and empty laughter Can no longer mask the void that has been pulling me under All I want is to stand firm in spite of it all But how could I when there's no solid ground to stand on Still, I try, but I fall, I try and I fail (Will) I always live life on my knees One with dirt and defeat I don't want to be this way anymore I don't want to feel this way anymore I don't want to live this way anymore I don't want to feel this way anymore 'Cause sometimes I feel that life doesn't want me around anymore That my presence here has long ran its course When almost every battle is lost When I need a welcoming hand, opportunity shuts its doors I'm slowly drifting towards dejection's all too familiar shore I don't want this negativity inside me I tried to disown it but the burden's truly mine to carry I know now that I have to embrace it to fight it Before it weakens me completely, overwhelms me And becomes everything that I am I don't want to feel this way anymore I don't want to be this way anymore I don't want to feel this hurt anymore I don't want to live like this I don't want to be this way anymore I don't want to feel this ache anymore I don't want to be this way anymore I don't want to feel anymore All I really want is to find true joy in this life In a world where everything revolves around how much you have And what you are is what you can show for it The material, the artificial, the inconsequential Which only serves to magnify the hole where my heart used to reside As all life ends in the saddest of ways I know mine will be the same But when time finally takes away my need for air I want these questions to remain Am I wrong to ever feel this way? Am I wrong to ever feel this way? Am I wrong to ever feel this way? Am I wrong to ever feel this way? Am I wrong to ever feel?

As we make our way Towards another day All the lost, hopeless, desperate, and aggrieved We're caught in this mess We know nothing, so we guess While feigning comprehension like the rest As if no one could tell Behind the masks we wear Each of us is going through some kind of hell With no more lies to sell And a truth we can't dispel This place is but a lonely crowded cell And how we lose our way In trying to find a better place But all the searches seem to be in vain Are we only here to bear the pain? We're all caught in this mess We know nothing, so we guess Still feigning comprehension like the rest As if no one could tell With no more lies to sell There is no one here not experiencing hell Just trying to find our way In this truth-forbidding place Where all the searches seem to be in vain It seems we are only here to bear the pain Of another day Ah yes, another day Why am I feeling nothing but the strain Of living another day Ah yes, another day I would rather not feel anything Ever again As we lose our way In this love-forsaken place Where all the searches seem to be in vain Are we only here to bear the pain? We were all given the gift of flight With a paralyzing fear of heights We have all been given this gift of flight With a paralyzing fear of heights In a world that is nothing but cruel You have to go through all the filth to last a day The world is nothing but cruel You have to go through all the filth to last a day Oh sacred breath of life Why is every chance to live you denied? Oh sacred breath of life Is it easier to leave you behind? Than try to find our way In this love-forsaken place Were all the searches fruitless and vain? Are we only here to bear this pain? Over and over again Until it all finally ends

Just when I felt I couldn't go on That all the reasons have all gone You became one When I knew there wasn't any sense To breathe a life so meaningless You gave it worth When I thought I've reached the end You gave me the will to start again...and to mend You give me something worth living for You showed me a world still worth fighting for When life just makes it unbearable 'Cause of you, I trudge on When all that faith did was blind my eyes I couldn't see past everyone's disguise You gave me truth When all the hurt would not subside I felt I've died far too many times You made me new When I thought I've reached the end You gave me the will to live again...and just mend You give me something worth living for You showed me a world still worth fighting for When life just makes it unbearable I will trudge on Alone again I know I'll never be alone again Know that you'll never be alone again I know I'll never be alone again No, you'll never be alone You are how I get through my bleakest days You are why I get through my bleakest days You are how I get through my bleakest days You are why I get through the bleakest In all this darkness You, here, light my way Everyday You give me something worth living for You showed me a world still worth fighting for When life just makes it unbearable You give me something worth living for And much more So much more In a place of heartache and not much more You are the reason I hang on

Inconceivable This can't be happening My world shook The nightmare crushing every blissful dream When I saw what remained I could not even bear to imagine the fear you must have felt When it all fell and I was not there I wish I could have been there with you ‘Cause there’s no one more precious and pure Each smile can drown my heart with joy The contentment I feel just watching you grow And now you are there In uncertainty's fold Without my hand to hold Without my hand to hold I would have dried every tear Assured you that there's nothing to fear ‘Cause I'm here And I will never leave your side But I have to contend with the fact that I am helpless outside When I saw what remained I could not even bear to imagine the fear you must have felt When it all fell and I was not there I wish I could have been there I would have gladly taken your place Erase this ordeal Obliterate any trace of today But I can’t I’m still here Waiting for you to be safely in my arms Unharmed For however long it takes I will call your name Hoping my voice makes you less afraid ‘Cause I'm here Still here I'm not leaving I’m not leaving you Then they brought you out Breathless and limp That’s when the heavens sent Its cruelest shards to my heart, through my skin How am I supposed to accept this? How am I supposed to get through this? How am I supposed to carry on? Carry on, knowing... I will never see you smile again I will never hear you laugh again Never feel your touch again I will never be with you again Did you even hear me before you left? Now that you are gone Somehow life still spins on But only because it has to... Life only goes on because it has to

All we are is what we are And we're barely Hanging on this fleeting line Like fumbling puppets of time Grabbing everything as fast as we can In an attempt to make things better Helplessly feeble minds with futile tasks To find happiness within this mortal grasp So sure we've found it in every feeling of gain Only to watch it all dissipate When beauty starts to fade When youth turns to gray When strength begins to wane When all the gods have failed When all the glory turns to shame When values are sent to the grave This life is meaningless and grey When even love turns to disdain When everyone just goes away And even love turns to disdain When everyone just goes away Until we feel nothing but the drain By hanging on this fleeting line Us - fumbling puppets of time Still clutching whatever we can Desperate to make things better Hopelessly feeble minds and such joyless hearts Maybe real happiness was not meant for us Triviality embraced to numb the hurt For what’s been missing We hold on to what we can But everything will still be nothing in the end When the bitter wind is done blowing our sandcastles clear When the bitter wind is done blowing our sandcastles clear We hold on as tightly as we can But everything still turns to nothing in the end When the bitter wind is done blowing our sandcastles clear When the bitter wind is done blowing our sandcastles clear We hold on to what we can But everything becomes nothing in the end When the bitter wind is done blowing our sandcastles clear When the bitter wind is done blowing our sandcastles clear

In a world that is becoming much too dark Where each silver lining has all been blocked By the blackest clouds of each passing day Unfeeling - has it always been the usual way? When did it become so easy to dehumanize To ignore the life in somebody else's eyes And keep on going like there's nothing wrong “The world revolves around me alone” I wish I didn't have to see What it has all come to now 'Cause I think that I can no longer take What this place has become I need some kind of vessel Something to take me where everything is better And pain is of another world Will I catch a glimpse of heaven Or is it just this constant hell? I need some kind of vessel To course hope in my heart again I wish we didn't have to be What has become of us now 'Cause I'm losing all my faith That there are better days to come I need some kind of vessel Something to take me where everything is better Where hate is but another word Could there really be a heaven Or is it just another lie they tell? I need some kind of vessel To take me far away from here 'Cause I'm sick and tired I'm so sick and tired I'm sick and tired I'm so sick and tired I'm sick and tired I'm so sick and tired I'm sick and tired of this world that I see The sadness it brings If this is all that there is I don't want to be here I need some kind of vessel Something to take me away From all this pain From all this hate From all this greed From all this death From all this grief From all this guilt From all that I feel Take me away Take me away Take me away Take me away From all of this

What we long for What we crave for What we thirst for What we desire What we hope for What we dream of all our lives What we pray for Our real messiahs There are no greater gods Than the ones we believe Than the gods who will feed our ambitions When want becomes need What we steal for What we kill for What gives less value to other lives What we live for What we are willing to die for Why souls are sold for a price The prize 'Cause there are no greater gods Than the ones we believe Than the gods who will feed our ambitions When want becomes need There are no greater gods Than the ones we believe Than the gods who will feed our ambitions As want turns to need And as the world turns So too shall we yearn for more And as our time burns So too shall we yearn for more Then more and more 'Cause we... We want to rule We want to own So let it be known That we... We want it now We want it all We want everything Live your lie for the gods Live your life for the gods Bow to the gods Kneel to the gods Worship the gods Be consumed by the gods Worship the gods Bow to the gods Kneel to the gods Be consumed by the gods Power is our god, and Greed is our god, and Fame is our god, and Hate is our god Power is our god Greed is our god Fame is our god Hate is our god And we serve them well We serve them well We serve them well We serve them well We serve them well We serve them well We serve them well We serve... 'Cause there are no greater gods Than the ones we believe Than the gods who will feed our ambitions As want becomes need There are no greater gods Than the ones we believe Than the gods who will feed our ambitions As want turns to need

Like the banished light Of another bleak night All the chaos gave in to the weight of my eyes Suddenly I’m somewhere That I’ve never been Yet somehow certain this is where I belong Where I find peace in everything Away from the noise and the static of the real And all the hurt that the heart is filled with They are much too distant now to feel Now that I’m here Where everything collapses, not towards ruin But to give way to something wholly beautiful No pain, no hate, no greed, no grief, no enslaving need to be fulfilled No, not here Where I’m at peace with everything No pointless repetitions of the real And all the hurt that the heart is filled with They are much too distant now to feel I’m already here Indescribable. Inexplicable. Never felt before. A completeness. Indescribable. Inexplicable. Never felt before. This utter joy… Of being able to stand without the fear of falling Where I am able to breathe and know its meaning Now that I’m rid of the burden of all my longing I’m finally able to be what I can only dream of being Brokenness unexisting Everything, at last, is clear That this is the only essence of living I hope I never have to leave this plane again Where I’m at peace with everything Away from the losing battles of the real And all the hurt that the heart is filled with They are much too distant now to feel I’m finally here Not a tear I am here Just here