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1. The Takedown

I feel things changing when I move
(Its a distance, Its a difference)
I'll cross this planet without you
(and you might call this a downfall)
Its one long night that I'm passing through
(Its a dark one what have I done)
Its one long night...

Don't turn your back on me now
You can't do this
Don't say you can live without
You can't do this alone
How did I end up like this, the lonely one,
Your greatest take down?

You take me down

Left last night with a long goodbye
(With some red wine through a phone line)
I told you thoughts that multiply
(That I don't know how to let go)
We've been here many times before
(I am empty, when you leave me)
What's one more?

Don't turn your back on me now
You can't do this
Don't say you can live without
You can do this alone
How did I end up like this, the broken one,
Your greatest take down?

You take me down
You take me down

I won't get by
I won't heal in time
I won't get by

Don't turn your back on me now
You can't do this
Don't say you can't live without
You can do this alone
How did I end up like this, the chosen one,
Your greatest take down?

You take me down

12. Rough Draft

1-2-3-4

Like a Saturday night I'll be gone
Like a Saturday night I'll be gone
before you knew that I was there

So you wrote it down
I'm supposed to care
Even though it's never there
Sorry if I'm not prepared
Is it hard to see the things you substitute
For me and all my thoughts of you
It's eating me alive to leave you

Maybe it's childish and maybe it's wrong
But so is your blank stare in lieu of this song
Maybe it's childish and maybe it's wrong

Don't wanna be, don't wanna be wrong
You're leaving me, you're leaving me in lieu of this song
Don't wanna be, don't wanna be wrong
You're leaving me, you're leaving me in lieu of this song

I'm breathing in your skin tonight
Quiet is my loudest cry
Wouldn't wanna wake the eyes that make me melt inside
And if it's healthier to leave you be
may a sickness come and set me free
Kill me while I still believe that you were meant for me

I'm finding my own words, my own little stage
my own epic drama, my own scripted page
I'll send you the rough draft, I'll seal it with tears
Maybe you'll read it and I'll reappear
From the start it was shaky and the characters rash,
A nice setting for heartache where emotions come last
All I have deep inside, to overcome this desire
are friendly intentions and fair-weather smiles

And I don't wanna be, don't wanna be wrong
you're leaving me, you're leaving me in lieu of this song
Don't wanna be, don't wanna be wrong
You're leaving me, you're leaving me in lieu of this song

Like Saturday night I'll be gone
Like Saturday night I'll be gone
Like Saturday night I'll be gone
Like Saturday night I'll be gone before you knew that I was there

11. A.W.O.L.

Maybe it's not over yet
Somewhere inside him there must be some
New dream awaiting to topple the rest
When he finds himself
Feeling alive yet alone
Maybe the best he can get is still out of his reach

Ran from the life that he hates
Hoping to find some new beginning
Abandoned the future they gave and
Took away knowing what they would say

Destined to rise above all of the
Simplified answers they gave him
Back there when surrounded by
Love he could not make sense
Of feeling alive yet alone
Maybe the best he can get is
Simply burned by fate

Yet he knows he's the champion of the planet
But he's told he was wrong for somehow deciding to...

Run from the life that he hates
Hoping to find some new beginning
Abandoned the future they gave and
Took away knowing what they would say

10. For Pete's Sake

So I'm left wondering
there is so much left I wish that I could say to you
Silence I keep
For fear of breaking myself down and maybe getting through
getting through to you

For Pete's Sake
Let's see straight, yeah
Clench your fists up in rage
Hurts to know
We could throw
All this time away

Let's try and work it out
Please don't be angry anymore, I'm on your side
And I don't want to fight
Put this hate aside
Get back to a place where you and I can still be friends

Woah... You want it
Woah... You need it
Woah... You want it
Woah...

For Pete's Sake
Let's see straight, yeah
Clench your fists up in rage
Hurts to know
We could throw
All this time away

And all the answers you're racing to find out
They might outrun you in the end
And all the answers you're racing to find out
They might outrun you in the end

9. Rock Star Land

Other versions of this song:
Rock Star Land from ep "Still Standing"
Christmas break of ninety eight just flipped me upside down
One coast out to the other following the sound
Headed west to get the best of what we all knew then
One ocean to another waves come crashing down
Carrying just me aunt Stephanie she held my hand
Told me why I was
Blazing down that highway on my way to Rock Star Land

California, a place they say glistens gold.
I wanna go there and never come back home.

Staring up at freeway signs in dreams that make me sad
One coast out to the other
One ocean to another
We cruised out to the other side
Loved us in Nebraska how they cheered us in Mattane
Told me why if I was
Blazing down that highway on my way to Rock Star Land

8. October Nights

Warm October nights
You came and cuddled next to me baby yeah yeah yeah
Our noses brushed so close
I wished it was our souls
Drifting off to sleep
I could hear the little snores you made
watching eyes shut tight
Like doors to something sweeter where you rest

Tear me off a piece of blanket
keep me warm and we can make it
Here's my heart, I'll let you break it
Touched your skin and I can't take it

Light will creep in soon
And I still haven't slept a wink baby yeah yeah yeah
I wish the sun would hide its head
So I could watch you dream some more
Wish the sun would hide its head,
So I could watch you dream some more.

I wanna watch you dream some more
I wanna watch you dream some more
I wanna watch you dream some more
I wanna watch you dream some more girl
I wanna watch you dream some more
I wanna watch you
I wanna watch you dream some more
I wanna watch you dream some more girl
I wanna watch you dream some more
I wanna watch you

Tear me off a piece of blanket
keep me warm and we can make it
Here's my heart, I'll let you break it
Touched your skiiiiiiiiiiin

7. Cigarette

Watching the days burning out like a cigarette, just a few drags to go
You built me up and you broke me down somehow
Everything just seemed so clear to me, nothing left to know
I'll love you right and I'll love you pure, right now

How can you say, that it's too late
To save us now

And I would wait for you (oh), if you would wait for me (yeah)
And I will wait for you (oh), if you will wait for me (yeah)

Intoxicated the edge is serrated, so easily torn from the core
I blushed the first time that you blushed the last time my eyes hit your mind
Regenerated these feelings of hatred, I long for your love evermore
You built me up and you broke me down this time

And I would wait for you (oh), if you would wait for me (yeah)
And I will wait for you (oh), if you will wait for me (yeah)

How can you say, that it's too late
To save us now

How can you say

6. Big Apple Heartbreak

This can't be home anymore
This can't be home anymore

If you think I have not been missing the way she breathes
you are mistaken my friend I've fallen down
So put your mouth on my bloody knees

One night with me and I've broken your trust
I hate to be the bond you know is gonna bust
Hurting lungs from breathing sighs of disgust

This can't be home anymore
This can't be home anymore

Now cold concrete blank walls are
Staring into your lonely eyes
I duck behind them and hope that you won't call
And ask for answers to why I made you cry

I never wanted us to fade out
Resting on a love that fell apart
Where are you, I need you
You still have, still have my heart

I never wanted us to fade out
Resting on a love that fell apart
Where are you, I need you
You still have, still have my heart

One night with me and I've broken your trust
I hate to be the bond you know is gonna bust
Hurting lungs from breathing sighs of disgust

This can't be home anymore
This can't be home anymore

Open up my heart
Open up my heart
Open up my heart
Open up my heart

3. Radio Song Girl

building trust on pulling teeth again
guess she knew that good guys never win
something's broke in me, i hate this fucking feeling
i can't stand to lose this

thought i'd never fall
thought this boy could take them all
i was wrong, so wrong
now i'm guess i'm too far out of her world
radio song girl
she'll never stumble into my world
radio song girl
it's your world, you're cruel

waltzing downward, tripping on your words trying to
tell her that she's won the rest of you
gone down, in defeat take this fucking feeling
i can't stand to lose this

thought i'd never fall
thought this boy could take them all
i was wrong, so wrong
now i'm guess i'm too far out of her world
radio song girl
she'll never stumble into my world
radio song girl

2. Millennium Changed

Focus on the distance and you fall
Deep inside of all the memories
You choose not to recall

Don't let go
Friends are always learning
Going to get things you couldn't hold

Doesn't mean that they don't care for you
They're just moving on

Doesn't mean that they don't care for you
Their just moving on

This is just to compensate
Changes on my mind I made
Dreaming with you
But I cannot stay

All the times we had are gone
All the things and all the songs
Knew we wouldn't last forever

Nothing in this world comforts you [x2]

Focus on the distance and you fall
Deep inside of all the memories
You choose not to recall

Don't let go
Friends are always learning
Going for things you couldn't hold

Doesn't mean that they don't care for you
Their just moving on

This is just to compensate
Changes on my mind I made
Dreaming with you
But I cannot stay

All the times we had are gone
All the things and all the songs
Knew we wouldn't last forever

Nothing in this world comforts you

Nothing in this world comforts us

Sorry that I left you all alone
Sorry I'm not going back for more

1. Lesson Learned

it's six in the morning,
you still haven't slept yet
you're tired from all yesterday,
but all you can do is
just try to wake up
and prepare for what tomorrow will bring,
it's cold out it's raining,
no one to complain
just wishing the time will go by
sitting here anxious a touch too ambitious
so tell me what time do we end
this on going process
cuz someday you'll have to begin,
working your ass off while they sit relaxing

do the same thing day after day
working only cuz i do it the right way
and soon these things will change
you lost all you live in the world underneath
[repeat]

woke up this morning
you realized it's ok
you're taking some time to just look at the sky
the sun is still shining,
i realize that life isn't working from 6
and not thinking twice,
you still got your brain and
you still got your life,
but your running out of things all the time
misunderstaments about how we live
running around all the time

one day these thoughts will come together,
one day this shit will work out fine.
it's just like they said it, but it seems like forever,
yes i'm distorted a blur in your mind,
and the ever race you run, it's only with yourself.
overcome the obstacles you just you need you,
nobody else

10. On The Brink

well I'm on the brink, of something horrible
Just what it is I’m not to sure
But I can’t take it anymore (round 1 fight)

I can’t explain the feeling that I feel,
I’m not even sure that they’re for real
Doesn’t work to end in sour tales
Go to sleep so I can wake up
Wondering why things are this way
What the fuck did I say?
To make you hate me any way

I'm on the brink, I lost my self control
I didn’t think that this would happen to me anymore
Just want to be a babe for once

I can’t explain the feelings that I feel,
I’m not even sure if they’re for real
Doesn’t work to end in sour tales
Go to sleep so I can wake up
Wondering why things are this way
What the fuck did I say?
To make you hate me any way (you lose)

9. Anywhere But Here

Some guys-ooh,they're really something
They're always acting like they're so hot
And you-you don't seem any different
I keep a wishin' but I guess you're not

You wanna what?
I don't think so.
I don't waste my time on guys like that
You might be tough
But that's not enough to make it last
You wanna what?

Those eyes-ooh,I see right through'em
The way you stare gives you away
Don't even go there-ooh,you just don't get it
Real love can't be that way

You wanna what?
I don't think so.
I don't waste my time on guys like that
You might be tough
But that's not enough to make it last
You wanna what?

Ooh, don't you think you oughta be ashamed
Ooh, I hate to tell you I don't play that game

You wanna what?
I don't think so.
I don't waste my time on guys like that
You might be tough
But that's not enough to make it last
You wanna what?

You wanna what?
I don't think so.
I don't waste my time on guys like that
You might be tough
But that's not enough to make it last
You wanna what?

7. Doesn't Matter

Procrastination, the small conversation
the tensions beginning to build up inside
no one else's point of view
has ever been to what you think is right

that's not the way it started
but that's how it's become
what started as equality
is now business that you run

wondering what went wrong
wondering just how long the road ahead will be
joy has compromised
dotting all the I's, crossing the T's

one out of one
its a realization of peoples reflection
of what you believe

anyone who now looks back
be ready to die
the fought will change

so please don't get me wrong
we share our common goals
inside of me sees how you are
so go one with the show

wondering what went wrong
wondering just how long the road ahead will be
joy has compromised
dotting all the I's, crossing the T's

see where it gets us
well see where we hang out
but nothing can keep me from coming this way
look at the sins and banged up poverty
like which you remain in

i won't buy what your selling
i feel my eye repairing
always makes a chance
to be seen

2. Time Will Tell

seeing what the cause has left us
there's no strength to minimize
they try and so hard to change us
but we see through these conscious eyes
there will be nowhere to point the blame
cause it'll lay on top of everyone
there's still time now to be save but there's
still so much that must be done

sit and yourself just when your final days will come
in a never ending war somehow they think they're already won
and one day we'll see who's right
and one day they'll see just what they've done
one day they'll see the obvious
time will tell it won't be long

will we be inferior

surpassed by the machines we build
will there be a judgement day
all i can say is time will tell

1. Two Quarts

born into this world,
no choice to decide,
what we're doing now
is what we do in life
tell us what we have
just can't follow right

somehow i don't believe
not for one second
i think it's all a game
someone's having fun
playing with our minds
as if they've already one

there is nothing left
here to call my own
there is no new sound
there is no new show
everything's been done
what's been fun?

the only thing i've got
has abandoned me
taken away my life
sit and think poor me
there is nothing left
here to see

i wanna know right now
1234 go

there is nothing left
here to call my own
there is no new sound
there is no new show
everything's been done
what's been fun?

born into this world,
no choice to decide,
what we're doing now
is what we do in life
tell us what we have
just can't follow right

somehow i don't believe
not for one second
i think its all a game
someone's having fun
playing with our minds
as if they've already won

i wanna know right now

8. Get Off The Couch

We're jamming
In the bedroom
Mom will be home pretty soon
She'll make us turn it off
Why can't you see that it's not that bad?

Gives us a reason to get off the couch
Gives a purpose to my petty existence
Why can't you see my point of view this once?

Well mom kicked us out
There's no point to scream and shout
She'll always get it her fucking way
We gonna have to find another place to play

To Give us a reason to get off the couch
Gives a purpose to my petty existence
Why can't you see my point of view this once?

11. Goodbye

You hung me out to dry
(You're no longer by my side)
You said that we're through
(What else can I do)
All those things you said
(I thought you really meant)
Were all just bullshit lies
(No longer by my side)

Miss your long blonde hair, miss your sweet blue eyes
Miss your big blank stare when you're by my side
I lost myself somewhere, somewhere back behind
Gotta help me find myself, no longer by my side

You hung me out to dry
(You're no longer by my side)
You said that we're through
(What else can I do)
All those things you said
(I thought you really meant)
Were all just bullshit lies
(No longer by my side)

Miss your long blonde hair, miss your sweet blue eyes
I even miss your bitching, don't even ask my why
I lost myself somewhere, somewhere back behind
Gotta help me find myself, no longer by my side

7. For The Longest Time

Originally by Billy Joel
woohoohoohoo for the longest time
woohoohoo for the longest time
if you'd say goodbye to me tonight
there would still be music left to write
what else could I do
I'm so inspired by you
you haven't been there for the longest time
if you say that i'm the one that's wrong,
would i have the strength to carry on
that's where you found me,
when you put your arms around me
you haven't been there for the longest time
woohoohoohoo for the longest time
woohoohoo for the longest time
I'm that voice your hearing in the hall
and the greatest miracle of all
is when you found me,
when you put your arms around me
you haven't been there for the longest time
If you said that i'm the one that's wrong
would i have the strength to carry on
i'll take my chances
i forgot how sweet romance is
you haven't been there for the longest time
woohoohoohoo for the longest time
woohoohoo for the longest time

6. Me First

We'll leave this shit behind
Our moms, our dads, our lives
Leave them all back there
Leave it back without a care
Friends and familes too
Leave them back at home with you
Checking out of our home town
Gonna make it somehow

We'll leave this shit behind
Leave this shit behind
Leave this shit behind
Behind, behind, behind

Going to California
Money is one thing we don't have
Have to play shows along the way
Have to make it our way fast
Just the 5 of us crammed into the bus
Checking out of our home town
Gonna make it somehow

We'll leave this shit behind
Leave this shit behind
Leave this shit behind
Behind, behind, behind

Leave this shit behind
Leave this shit behind
Leave it all back there
Leave it back without a care
Friends and families too
Leave them back at home with you
Checking out of our home town
Gonna make it somehow

5. Up Hill Both Ways

Other versions of this song:
Up Hill Both Ways from album "Where We Stand"
Everytime I try to read between the lines
I'm left wondering that I did so wrong
Everytime I try, try to rationalize
When everyone went wrong why didn't we die?
Everytime I think about what it would be like
without all the things you give to me
All these thoughts keep runnning thru my head
Nothing to beleive
Look back find the things I lost
There's nothing left there so it seems
Up hill both ways
Nothing left to say
I don't know how I made it this far
I don't know how I made it last this long
I don't know why I try
All these things keeps going thru my head
Don't know which way to turn
Each path goes up hill both ways
Nothing but dust
Since I learned, up hill both ways
Nothing left to say
I don't know how I made it this far
I don't know how I made it last this long
I don't know why I try
Up hill both ways
Nothing left to do now
I don't want nothing today

4. American't

The land of the free
The home, the deprived
For years just sat back while others were asleep
But now the times are changing
Are you gonna stay the same?
We change the point of view while you point the blame on me
on me on me on...
You're nothing, nothing, nothing without your lies
You're nothing, nothing, nothing without your lies
You're nothing, nothing, nothing without your lies
You're nothing, nothing, nothing without your lies
Without your lies, without your lies

We take responsibility for things that you say
away you push it off, push it off on someone like me
Someone who cares just a little too much
You're using just another fucking crutch like me
Like me like me like me...

You're nothing, nothing, nothing without your lies
You're nothing, nothing, nothing without your lies
You're nothing, nothing, nothing without your lies
You're nothing, nothing, nothing without your lies
Without your lies, without your lies...
Lies...

2. Possessions

Possessions
The last thing on my mind
I don't give a fuck about the ties or kind
I don't want all the things you have
I love my life,it really isn't that bad

The last thing on my mind
Is to give a fuck about the ties or kind
On my mind

You are a rich kid with a rich mom and dad
I can have anything I want;I can have anything you have
Have,boats,trains,planes,or cars
I don't have to work,dad will get me really far

The last thing on my mind
Is to give a fuck about the ties or kind
On my mind

[Piano Interlude]

Well,you are a rich kid with a rich mom and dad
Anything I want,anything you have
This whole country could be mine
I have enough money to buy anything anytime

* When We're Old Men

I've spent all of my time on the road
Sleeping my days away but you should know
That I'm reflecting on who I've let go
The people I've hurt in ways I'll never know

And I never meant to be hurtful to you
Please don't hate me
All I can say I did, All I could do
Please don't hate me for this

I've spent all of my nights wide awake
Wishing for some kind of poison to take
So that my conscience would just take a break
I am so tired of the noise that it makes

I'm guilty enough without hearing it twice
Please don't hate me
You won't give it up but it's all in your eyes
Please don't hate me for this

I've spent every second I've had
Counting the minutes and I'm going mad
I am redefining the words I am sad
Nothing I've done ever hurt quite this bad

And I'm sure that I will heal faster than you
Please don't hate me
I don't expect you to know what to do
Please don't hate me

When we're old men we will not be alone
Not be alone anymore (Not be alone)
[x2]

* Violins

Originally by Lagwagon
I am just another fool, and I have to, keep telling myself that
I am just a hypocrite, and I have to, keep calling you one
And I forgot to bite my tongue, and my assumption, was the mother of all mistakes
So I assume the role, open my mouth, and clumsy words escape

So why you, wanna be there, you could be here, you are slipping away

I awake with your replacement, a bottle in my grasp, in an unfamiliar place
Because you put me out, the butt of a sick joke, into this ashtray life
As you come and go, and I forgot to service you, and we broke down
And you can't live with my mistakes, so I assume false grace
Open my arms and grasp at something true

How are you, how have you been, girl I miss you, wanna see you again
So why you, wanna to be there, when you could be here, you are slipping away

I bring out the worst in you, and you try and let me know
You bring out the worst in me, anxiety, anxiety
I'm trying to let you go, you say I'm giving you the creeps
So I assume the role, open my claws and grasp for your heart

How are you, how have you been, girl I miss you, wanna see you again
Into you like a mortal stake so vindictive
Your love's slipping away

Violins, into this ashtray life
Violins, the butt of your sick joke
Violins, I'm trying hard to let you go
Violins

* Oh, My Love

Originally By John Lennon
oh my love for the first time in
my life
my eyes are wide open
oh my lover for the first time in
my life
my eyes can see
i see the wind, oh i see the
trees
everything is clear in my heart
i see the clouds, oh i see the
sky
everything is clear in our world
oh my love for the first time in
my life
my mind is wide open
oh my lover for the first time in
my life
my mind can feel
i feel sorrow, oh i feel dreams
everything is clear in my heart
everything is clear in our world
i feel life, oh i feel love