Why can’t I release a little bit sometimes?

The harder it is to make it seem all right is life.

Had a little problem

I tried to speak but the words wouldn’t come out right

Had a little breakdown

But now I’m calm I think I’ll be all right

I do recall

Time and place

With my fears

They’re in my room

On my walls

Inside me

They’re everywhere

Everyone’s gone

Away to celebrate

Everything’s blown

And now it’s time to plead

Why can’t I release a little bit sometimes?

The harder it is to make it feel all right is life.

Had a little problem

I tried to sleep but I couldn’t shut my eyes

Had a little breakdown

But now I’m free to roam your streets at night

I do recall

Time and place

With your fears

They’re in my room

On my walls

Inside me

They’re everywhere

Everyone’s gone

Away to celebrate

Everything’s blown

And now it’s time to plead my case

Everyone owns

A piece of my old tainted soul

Everyone’s gone

Away.

I’ve climbed the mountain

Can’t seem to find my way down

But

It’s my home

It’s my only…

The river’s rising

And my dream slips away

The river’s rising

And it’s making me drown

All this time

That’s been lost

I can see it now

Webs are gone—

Follow me.

Tending this garden

So many souls

Under the earth

We’ve lost all control

I’ve been trying

For some other way

But what do you know at the end of the day?

Believe in your martyrs

The elders will say

But what if their words suggest they’ve betrayed?

I’ve been

Broken

Not a word

Is spoken

If it’s a curse—you lift it away

And if I’ve been hurt—there’s no time to pray

For all the things I promised you—

Maybe my heart

Sit and I ponder

The end of our days

I cannot feel where I cannot pray

I’ve been trying

For some other way

But who do you know at the end of the day?

Sad songs in a world of grief

Got to find my way out, got to find my way out

Heads bowed in a world of fear

We need to find our way out, we need to find our way out

I’d tear my heart out for your hand

I’d slam my head against your door

You’d cut your wrist to watch me fall

Our darkness calls

Will you come over?

Someone must get over

Fields plowed, but nothing deep below

I cannot dig my way out, I cannot dig my way out

Arms bound, I’m pulled across your line

But you can’t buy your way out, I will not buy my way out

I’d tear my heart out for your hand

I’d slam my head against your door

You’d cut your wrist to watch me fall

Our darkness calls

Will you come over?

Someone must get over

Will you come over?

Someone must get over

I’d tear my heart out for your hand

I’d slam my head against your door

You’d cut your wrist to watch me fall

Will you come over?

I’d tear my heart out for your hand

I’d slam my head against your door

You’d cut your wrist to watch me fall

You got your wish

Now watch me

Fall, fall, fall

Watch me, watch me

Fall, fall, fall

Watch me fall, watch me fall.

When they left

They took everything

And they meant

To belittle you

But you pressed hard

And you made me feel so strong.

We’re not the ones who would leave this

We’re not the ones who would leave this alone

It hurts to think that we held on—

Now there’s nothing, nothing.

Since they left

The ground’s burned and bare

Someone said,

“The world’s forgotten you”

But we pressed hard

Cause you made us feel we belonged.

Can we carry on?

Fleeing the wheels that come

Will we be taken away?

We seem too broken.

Don’t go there

The road’s been tread

It’s simple

Undeniable

The power

Of life’s been shed

It’s simple

Undeniable

It’s over

It’s finished

Why can’t they

Why can’t they see me?

Some days

I’m open

Some days

I’m crawling

Right now—

Move closer.

Habit

Forming

Delta

Flight leaving

Moving in

This morning

Already

Left last night

Step into

Figured out

Where I’ve been

Now it’s sold

Everyone’s

Happier

But now I’m cold.

Packing

Pictures

Jealous

Martyrs

Almost there

Well, bless you child

Cause I’m willing

To give my life for it

Miracles

Seem

Out of reach

Out of time

Out of line

Out of reach

Out of reach

People

Seem

Out of reach

Out of time

Out of mind

Out of reach

Out of reach

Cause everything you hate

Is everything that you’ve created.

Face yourself.

Look fast

It’s all going to go

I tried to let you know

Always tried to make it right

Don’t want to put up a fight

Will you take a simple man?

Will you make Him understand?

Will you break it or give him a hand?

The art of making friends.

I know what you’re thinking about

You think you’ve got it all figured out

You get so lost in your day

I think you’ve got to get away

Can you find me?

You wanna know everything

Gotta let me know

Gotta let me go, let me go

Will you take a simple man?

Will you make him understand?

Will you break him or give him a hand?

The art of making friends.

The automatic friend…

Sit down

And make it hard on me

Allowed to live

No principles

You’re played out

And trapped within a role

You look to see

If they all approve

Lay down

Lying on your back

You missed your chance at superstardom

I find whatever I do

It counts slowly

I find whatever you touch

It drowns slowly

Used up

Like a core or rind

Chewed up and left to rot, decompose

Look out

The witness to my birth

To whore myself is not an option.

It’s a hopeless case

Finding my home

Big city dark lights

Won’t let me roam.

My ideals are set

Your nation is mine.

And I

Can recall a time

Where I

Thought this meant something

Not dicks and swastikas.

None of my foreparents

Gave themselves up for fear

The fear of the loss of honor

The fear that they might disappear

Given their only option

A vacuum that offers no love

The fool holds on to his possessions

What’s his and his alone.

Carry a light to guide us

Carry a light out for me

Make it a place of honor

Somewhere I’m proud to be.

Never thought I, never thought I’d see the day when you

Turned around and, turned around and walked away

Thought a lot, thought a lot about the time

The right, the wrong, the way that it’s cast.

Here I am

Carry a light to show us

What’s left of this evil place

Make it a space of honor

Somewhere I’m proud to rest.

Never thought I, never thought I’d see the day when you

Turned around, turned around and walked away

Thought a lot, thought a lot about the time

The right, the wrong, the way that we’re cast.

Here I am.

Sad songs in a world of grief

Got to find my way out, got to find my way out

Heads bowed in a world of fear

We need to find our way out, we need to find our way out

I’d tear my heart out for your hand

I’d slam my head against your door

You’d cut your wrist to watch me fall

Our darkness calls

Will you come over?

Someone must get over

Fields plowed, but nothing deep below

I cannot dig my way out, I cannot dig my way out

Arms bound, I’m pulled across your line

But you can’t buy your way out, I will not buy my way out

I’d tear my heart out for your hand

I’d slam my head against your door

You’d cut your wrist to watch me fall

Our darkness calls

Will you come over?

Someone must get over

Will you come over?

Someone must get over

I’d tear my heart out for your hand

I’d slam my head against your door

You’d cut your wrist to watch me fall

Will you come over?

I’d tear my heart out for your hand

I’d slam my head against your door

You’d cut your wrist to watch me fall

You got your wish

Now watch me

Fall, fall, fall

Watch me, watch me

Fall, fall, fall

Watch me fall, watch me fall.