half asleep (trever keith)

Wake up now this time
you've been hiding
underneath the covers of your bed again
it's alright
I thought that I
could make this
into anything I wanted
suppose that I've forgotten
how to dream?
we could steal a little time away
and think of something more to say
to make it seem like it's alright
I thought that I
might feel something
different this time
instead I don't
feel anything at all

are you awake or am I talking to myself?
because I was hoping you weren't listening
you're such a fake
and I don’t know if I can tell
I wish that I could fall asleep again
wake up now this time
you're not fooling anyone
pretending that you're still asleep
but I don't mind
you said if I
woke up then I might never be able
to get myself to fall asleep again

are you awake or am I talking to myself?
because I was hoping you weren't listening
you're such a fake
and I don't know if I can tell
I wish that I
could fall asleep again.

another day

Another day
another evaporating dollar
so this is the way it goes
when you live in squalor
endless days
endless hours
the minutes linger
the seconds follow

every morning I wake
to crushing darkness
and a pool beneath my bed
every night I bleed out
what's good and right in me
you can see me
in the early morning shadows
gathering up what's left of me
making haste
before the world impinges on me

I'm just a hardcore kid
working a dead-end job
trying to avoid the scene
on my side of town
trying to turn this dust
into something better
trying but always failing
to make a rewarding tomorrow

my mistakes are monolithic
and true to form, immovable
what you see is what you get
more and more
there is less and less
so the story goes
so the song ends
tomorrow
is another day my friend.

screamager (therapy?)

*You don't need the lyrics*

girl

I don't say it enough
but I'm saying it now
I'm on the edge
and I'm saying it now
girls come
and girls go

you're the one
yeah, you're the one
a helluva girl
born and raised
hell on wheels all the way
you're the one
you're always fun
broken, bleeding
but you always run
you're the one

I don't say it enough
when I'm down
you erase my frown
you're mean
you're wise
you see right through me
when you look me in the eyes
nothing matters
like the deep, dark night
that's when I get
to hold you tight
in my hands
you melt
we mend
and tomorrow
we begin as one
you're the one.

toes (lights)

*Don't judge me, asshole.  Also, do you really need lyrics?  Okay, here they are.  Asshole.*

If you are a cliffhanger ending
I'm the one that doesn't know anything
like a magpie and a ring
I'm always going to be looking right to you

oh, you capture my attention
carefully listening
don't wanna miss a thing
keeping my eyes on you
got me on my toes

if I were to hide out on the sea
you'd be whispering from the westerlies
in any book I'll ever read
you'd be the line that sticks out to me
out to me

oh, you capture my attention
carefully listening
don't wanna miss a thing
keeping my eyes on you

oh, you capture my attention
I'm anticipating
I'm watching, I'm waiting
for you to make your move
got me on my toes
got me on my toes
got me on my toes

got me on my toes
got me on my toes

oh, you capture my attention
carefully listening
don't wanna miss a thing
keeping my eyes on you

oh, you capture my attention
I'm anticipating
I'm watching, I'm waiting
for you to make your move
got me on my toes
got me on my toes
got me on my toes.

sundog

I've got you and
you've got me
everybody's talking through
their fucking teeth
nobody's listening

there's a seismic shift
in the world today
everybody's talking
about the sky turned gray
everybody's talking and
nobody's listening

everything you do
that's true in this world
will come back to you
will come back to you
everything you say
is like sand in my eyes
but go ahead and say it anyway
just remember
nobody's listening

the preacher man
said there's something I should know
said it once
said it real slow
everybody gets
one life and one death
after all this
we all end up with nothing
why you want to
spend your life like you do
is beyond me
I'd say it to your face
but I know
nobody's home
nobody's listening.

shattered faith (bad religion)

The scientist purported that there ain't no purpose
and the theologian told me that it's all been designed
and I'm trying to maintain objectivity
the world won't illuminate what really matters
and I'm an imperfect moral meaning extractor
processing the complexity

born of the earth (are we blind? )
we weren't given a choice (there's no way)
what about free will? (what we have)
do we have a voice? (is shattered faith)
see them run in place (here and now)
in the human rat race (no reward)
so much dead weight (no debate) to our disgrace (accept your fate)
life begins when you accept your fate

paralysis from forces raging out of control until
my confidence and will are at an all-time low
just directionless wandering
eternal life, eternal truth, eternal secrets
isolated hopes and hypotheses just
leave me feeling so hungry

born of the earth (are we blind? )
we weren't given a choice (there's no way)
what about free will? (what we have)
do we have a voice? (is shattered faith)
see them run in place (here and now)
in the human rat race (no reward)
so much dead weight (no debate) to our disgrace (accept your fate)
life begins when you accept your fate

right or wrong,
the main criterion is what you do and not what you say
the roads you take, the friends you make and those you throw away
the method is a simple synthesis of the past and present state
you never lose if the path you choose is one you can easily navigate

I had a dream, light and carefree
but now there's doubt and gravity
but I won't run in place (are we blind? ) in the human rat race (there's no way)
I can set the pace (what we have) and accept my fate (is shattered faith)
shattered faith (here and now)
shattered faith (no reward)
the part of me (no debate) I can't erase (accept your fate).