Godsmack

The Departed

To think, beyond what you could think
And feel, beyond what you can feel
To see, beyond what can be seen
And be beyond what we believe
I know you know something
So many miles and miles away
In separation we come together
It never ends change has just begun
Believing as we release the departed.

To know what no one else could know
Away, into the unexplained
Redeem our soul into my body.
To think my soul's been damned again and again and again
I know you know something
So many miles and miles away
Why can't we do better
As the line between begins to fade
In separation we come together
It never ends, change has just begun
Believing as we release the departed
In separation we come together
It never ends change has just begun
Believing as we release the departed.

Trying to be
Higher than I am
Trying to see
Beyond what I can
Trying to be
Higher than I am
Trying to see
Beyond what I can

In separation we come together
It never ends change has just begun
Believing as we release the departed
In separation we come together
It never ends change has just begun
Believing as we release the departed

As we release the departed
As we release the departed
As we release the departed

I Blame You

Shifting through the ashes in scratching through my life
how sick is it to live with the promises
no rhyme or reason expect another fight
and my decisions are based on your ignorance
and I blame you for everything you do for the scars I bear and breathing all my air
for everything I ever do I blame you I'm taking every prisoner
through the ups and downs and my ship ain't gunna sink to the hypocrites
reach deep inside me and tear away my soul and
nobody left to comfort me anymore and I blame you I blame you for
everything you do for the scars I bear and breathing all
my air for everything I'll ever do I blame you I blame you
for everything you do for the scars I bear
and breathing all my air for everything I'll ever do
I blame ooooh I blame you ohhhh I blame...

Whiskey Hangover

So what if I never wanna be sober?
So what if I wanna be numb all the time?
I can't justify why I'd wanna go slower.
Taking my time just ain't my style, yeah.

I walk dead or alive.
I waste my time whenever I like.
I'm feelin' okay, with my whiskey hangover.

So what you cleaned your act up so far.
So what if I'm pissing into the wind, again?
Have you ever thought that I'm not who you are? (baby)
'Cause even when I lose I know how to win again. (And again and again)
So sick of you preaching all the time.
Just keep your shitty advice inside.

'Cause I walk dead or alive.
I waste my time whenever I like.
I'm feelin' okay with my whiskey hangover.
(Oh yeah yeah)
'Cause I walk dead or alive.
I waste my time whenever I like.
I'm feelin' okay with my whiskey hangover.
Oh yeah!
Oh yeah!!
Let's go!

One sip ain't gonna do shit.
In the second sip I begin to admit
That the third one down is what makes me feel alright.
And number four I slam down to the floor.
By five I'm ready to fight all night.
And then six, seven, eight to make me break your face
Sometimes.

'Cause I walk dead or alive.
I waste my time whenever I like.
I'm feelin' okay with my whiskey hangover.
Oh yeah yeah.
'Cause I walk dead or alive.
I waste my time whenever I like.
I'm feelin' okay with my whiskey hangover.
With my whiskey hangover.
With my whiskey hangover.
With my whiskey hangover.
With my whiskey hangover.
Yeah!

Shadow Of A Soul

Anywhere I go, anything I try
Anyone I love is compromised

Everyone I see, staring on back at me
Why can't you let me be

Ohhh, so far from home being shallow and alone
and why can't you see its tearing away what I used to be
I'm a shadow of a soul

I don't know how to run, I don't know where to hide.
The old me is dead and gone inside

What will you think of me, when all that you'll ever see
is only a part of the other me.

Ohhh, so far from home being shallow and alone
and why can't you see its tearing away what I used to be
I'm a shadow of a soul

Ohhh, I'm so far from home being shallow and alone
and why can't you see its tearing away what I used to be
I'm a shadow of a soul

Forever Shamed

When will it ever end and when will my life begin...

No sweat, no regrets run down my back
A fine line just right before I crack
oh man to see me and then wave your finger up in my face
Believing in what you say and promising another day

Will it ever end, when will my life begin
All this built up pain forever plaguing me
Its the last time, its my lifeline
Its the last time that I'll be forever shamed

No breath and disrespecting all my time
Dividing and speaking out of line
Tell me the reason oh everybody needs to feel your pain
So draw the line back to me
and save me from insanity

Will it ever end, when will my life begin
All this built up pain forever plaguing me
Its the last time, its my lifeline
Its the last time that I'll be forever shamed

When will it ever end, when will my life begin
All this built up pain forever plaguing me
Its the last time, its my lifeline
Its the last time that I'll be forever shamed

Ha, ha!

Will it ever end, when will my life begin
All this built up pain forever plaguing me
Its the last time, its my lifeline
Its the last time that I'll be forever shamed

When will it ever end, when will my life begin
All this built up pain forever plaguing me
Its the last time, its my lifeline
Its the last time that I'll be forever shamed

Forever shamed! Forever!

Good Day To Die

Who really knows what rights all the wrongs anyway?
Who really cares what people do or say?
No matter where this life takes me
I'll never let it compromise
Too much luck to bet it on do or die

Cuz I've seen everything that I could see
And now I can say goodbye today
With all I know
Its time I said goodbye
Today is a good day to die

Lived by the rules you that you gave me and fell apart
All the wrong turns down a dead end street so far
I stretch my wings and breathe in different day
Alone and broken is the price I pay
But that's ok

I've seen everything that I could see
And now I can say goodbye today
With all I know
It's time I said goodbye
Today is a good day to die

Never fought out alive
Taking all I can take
It's time to say goodbye
It's a good day to die

Cuz I've seen everything that I could see
And now I can say goodbye today
With all I know
Its time I said goodbye
Today is a good day to die

Devil's Swing

One step back from a beat down maniac
I'm tired of taking a back seat from all the other demons
that are stealing all the good shit
leaving me with nothing but my hands

Another stroke down my back tasting all the flames that are
licking around my neck and making me insane
as they pull me down, pull me down into my grave
I can't get away

Ooooh, it doesn't mean nothing
until your deep inside dancing to the Devil's swing
Whoa, it doesn't mean a God damn thing
dancing to the Devil's swing.

Spit down inside I'm begging for another ride
I'm trying to find a way to keep it all and
satisfy the needs I'm craving and
I'm not taking it lightly
Oh no!

I'm living inside, a dead lie
controlled by the Devil's eyes and I don't mind it
Draw my ace up and roll my snake eyes nightly
Hold on baby!

Ooooh, it doesn't mean nothing
until your deep inside dancing to the Devil's swing
Whoa, it doesn't mean a God damn thing
until your deep inside dancing to the Devil's swing.

Whoa, dancing, dancing to the Devil's swing.

Play with my insanity
Live inside my darken dreams, my darken dreams
hail to the Devil's swing

Ooooh, it doesn't mean nothing
until your deep inside dancing to the Devil's swing
Whoa, it doesn't mean a God damn thing
until your deep inside dancing to the Devil's swing.
Whoa, it doesn't mean a God damn thing, a God damn thing
dancing to the Devil's swing.

What If?

Been disconnected for so long
And left my mark here along the way
So many years have come and gone
So many fears have remained the same

I see a faith
I swim and play
Yet drowning all possibilities
Beyond what I believe and know
I cut the cord free of home again

It turns to silence
A silence sometimes I can hear
Internal violence
A struggle deep within what if

What if I leave, could I still breathe
What if I breathe, could I still be
And if I leave, would I be me

I lost my hope along the way
I lost my hope along the way

It turns to silence
A silence sometimes I can hear
Internal violence
A struggle deep within what if

What if I leave, could I still breathe
What if I breathe, could I still be
And if I leave, would I be me

What if
What if
What if

It turns to silence
A silence sometimes I can hear
Internal violence
A demon deep within what if

What if I leave, could I still breathe
What if I breathe, could I still be
And if I leave, would I be me

What if
What if
What if

Love-Hate-Sex-Pain

In this life I'm me,
Just sitting here alone
By the way I tried to say I'd be there
For you
Walk the silent emptiness
That leaves me by my hands
And throw away
What I don't understand, as a man

Love-Hate-Sex-Pain
It's complicating me sometimes
This love-Hate-Sex-Pain
Is underestimating life

And I wonder as I tear away my skin
It's taken me so long to stitch
These wounds from where I've been
And mother please don't bury me
I'm waiting for my life
It's hard to say that I will be complete
Before I die

Love-Hate-Sex-Pain
It's complicating me sometimes
This love-Hate-Sex-Pain
Is underestimating life

Don't you worry please
Don't leave me
Because I slowly slip away
Though love, hate, sex, and pain
I fall away into
Love, hate sex, and pain

Love-Hate-Sex-Pain
It's complicating me sometimes
This love-Hate-Sex-Pain
Is underestimating life

Love-Hate-Sex-Pain
It's complicating me sometimes
This love-Hate-Sex-Pain
Is underestimating life

War And Peace

Here we go!

Dance with the devil inside of me
I'm longing for a second chance
And taste what seems to remind me
of all my skulls and skeletons

Live and let live
Die and let die
War and peace in my hand - my temptations
This war and peace inside will take me to the end

Hell awaits
its closing in on me
it strokes its hand down on my back
and no more mistakes
my intentions are finally clear from how I've always been

Live and let live
Die and let die
Live and let live
Die and let die
War and peace in my hand - my temptations
This war and peace inside wont end
War and peace in my hand, yah
This war and peace inside will take me to the end

War and peace in my hand - my temptations
This war and peace inside wont end
War and peace in my hand, yah
This war and peace inside my head will take me to the end

. Saints And Sinners

Yeah!
Grown from a seed of hope I've never known
Been raised by the surroundings of a home so cold, so cold
If I only knew what I know

I'll shake my fist up to the sky
Just keeping my dreams alive
I'm one part saint and two part sinner,
And the last part is still on the line

We pray even when we know nobody cares, ah ya
And make everything we know turn into fear
And then disappear
If I only knew what I know

I'll shake my fist up to the sky
Just keeping my dreams alive
I'm one part saint and two part sinner,
And the last part is still on the line

I'll shake my fist up to the sky
Just keeping my dreams alive
I'm one part saint and two part sinner,
And the last part is still on the line
Ya... Ya... Ya...
Eye for an eye they told me for some time
No way to hide from what's inside, what's inside of me!

I'll shake my fist up to the sky
Just keeping my dreams alive
I'm one part saint and two part sinner,
And the last part is still on the line

I'll shake my fist up to the sky
Just keeping my dreams alive
I'm one part saint and two part sinner,
And the last part is still on the line

Cryin' Like A Bitch

Strut on by like a king
Telling everybody they know nothing
And long live what you thought you were
And time ain't on your side anymore (anymore)

And so you tell me I
Can't take my chances
But I told you one too many times
And you were crying like a bitch

I'm tougher than nails
I can promise you that
Step out of line
And you get bitch-slapped back
And you can run
Your little mouth all day
But the hand of god
Just smacked you back into yesterday

And so you tell me I
Can't take my chances
But I told you one too many times
And you were crying like a bitch

And you wonder why
No one can stand you
And there's no denying
You were crying like a bitch
You were crying like a bitch

Blinded by your sacred faded past times
Only time is your enemy
Granted a second chance
To prove that your arrogance
Is stronger than you'll ever be
Is stronger than you can be

Oh stronger than you can be
Oh stronger than you can (be)

And so you tell me I
Can't take my chances
But I told you one too many times
And you were crying like a bitch

And you wonder why
No one can stand you
And there's no denying
You were crying like a bitch

You were crying like a bitch
You were crying like a bitch
You were crying like a bitch

Oh Bitch

I Thought

Face down licking the concrete child
I thought I knew you oh so well
How many times will she feel so low
How many reasons for her to live in hell

I thought I told you all this too many times
I thought I knew you why'd you keep it silent from me
I thought I told you all this too many times
I thought I knew you why'd you keep it silent from me

Taken in too much anything
They've beaten her down to the ground
And only time will tell me
If shes gonna make it her way or turn it upside down

I thought I told you all this too many times
I thought I knew you why'd you keep it silent from me
I thought I told you all this too many times
I thought I knew you why'd you keep it silent from me

I'm broken down, I know what its like
To want you close to me, baby

A taste, a bite, a sleepless night
Another promise, another dream (Another promise, another dream)
She can't confide She'll hold it inside
Till she's losing every inch of reason

I thought I told you all this too many times
I thought I knew you why'd you keep it silent from me
I thought I told you all this too many times
I thought I knew you why'd you keep it silent from me

I'm broken down, I know what its like
To want you close to me, baby
Yeah, no, yeah

Safe And Sound

I Realize How You've Been Broken
To bear the Guilt of Sins Unspoken
Your Distant eyes in pained expression
Unrecognized in your reflection

Where do you run to now?
When will you ever feel safe and sound?

I Understand They Once Controlled You
Condemned Your Thoughts and Never Told You
Erased your Self-Esteem And Trust
Stripped Down to Nothing
The innocence of a child
Is forever lost

No One Can Hurt You Now
You're Here and You're Safe and Sound
Safe and Sound, Oh Yeah
Where do you run to now?
When will you ever feel safe and sound?
Safe and Sound
You're Safe and Sound

NO!

No one can hurt you now
you're here and safe and sound
Safe and sound
Where do you run to now?
When will you ever feel safe and sound?
Safe and Sound
You're Safe and Sound

One Rainy Day

Oh man, I'm tired and lonely
Again, why must it be
A man is drowning slowly
And he can't keep above
Gone way to deep, oh yeah

Open skies are falling
Tears are coming down
Like a drop of rain falls to the ocean
And comes back around
One rainy day

Oh so many times I should've crawled when I went running by
And since then I've been left feeling traumatized
Raped and drained of an innocence
A gift we've lost over time
And still I gaze through this one rainy day
Alone with no one by my side

Open skies are falling
Tears are coming down
Like a drop of rain falls to the ocean
And comes back around, yeah
I swear I've given, I've given you all I can
Never will you ever make me feel this way again, oh
On this one rainy day

Hey, open skies are falling
Tears are coming down
Like a drop of rain falls to the ocean
And comes back around
One rainy day
One rainy day
Oh one rainy day
It's been just, one rainy day

Mama

Oh mama what have I gone and done?
With all these years that I've been gone
My life changed me way too fast
I don't know if I could last

Help me find my way, and mama save me
Help me find today, mama please come and save me, oh

Oh mama if you could've only seen
Everything I've done and where I've been
If only one thing I would ask
Why did you let me grow up so goddamn fast?

Help me find my way, and mama save me
Help me find today, mama please come and save me, oh

There's nothing more that you can do
It's gone beyond what you can't help me through
An emptiness has covered me
Oh mama come and save me

Help me find my way, and mama save me
Help me find today, mama please come and save me, oh
Help me find my way, and mama save me
Help me find today, mama please come and save me, oh

There's nothing more that you can do
It's gone beyond what you can't help me through
An emptiness has covered me
Oh mama come and save me
Oh mama come and save
Oh save me... no!
Oh please mama save...

Temptation

It craws down deep inside
Without a pulse or a will to die
Now i've known the simplifies
And now it takes what it takes
Unless the feeling suffocates
Its nothing new, it'll get its way
Another thing that i'll see
Is how it gets inside of me
And tears away my life

It's time to love, its time to hate
It's commin face to face trying to desicrate
No time at all to break away
Temptation still got a hold on me

It's awake even when you sleep
It breathes without a heartbeat
Making me incomplete
And now I know what I know
Expect the demon down below to surface through my moral soul
And now it looks to be smiling as it's killing me
Day to day I lie

It's time to love, its time to hate
It's commin face to face trying to desicrate
No time at all to break away
Temptation still got a hold on me
It's time to love, its time to hate
It's commin face to face trying to desicrate
No time at all to break away
Temptation still got a hold on me

It's time to love, its time to hate
It's commin face to face trying to desicrate
No time at all to break away
Temptation still got a hold on me
It's time to love, its time to hate
It's commin face to face trying to desicrate
No time at all to break away
Temptation still got a hold on me

Voodoo Too

(I'm not the one who's so far away)
(I'm not the one who's so far away)

Open your eyes, a chill passes you by
A premonition coming strong
Rich with desire, superstition in disguise
Draws me into where I belong

Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a fallen sky?
Fly to the heavens that watch over you, telling me it's a voodoo
Voodoo too

In, still the body, so warm with every breath
Dance to a vision so seductive
Rain down upon me, it cleanses me with every drip
A send you promised for the nourishment that I've been gifted

Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a fallen sky?
Fly to the heavens that watch over you, telling me it's a voodoo
Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a fallen sky?
Fly to the heavens that watch over you, telling me it's a voodoo
Voodoo too

Voodoo too, it's all voodoo too

Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a fallen sky?
Fly to the heavens that watch over you, telling me it's a voodoo
Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a fallen sky?
Fly to the heavens that watch over you, telling me it's a voodoo
Voodoo too

It's just voodoo too, it's all voodoo too, it's just what you do

Bleeding Me

Way, way down inside there's a hollow soul
An emptiness shatters tomorrow
And I find it hard to breathe for me in your company
Seems I've been taken for granted

And you're breaking and bleeding me down to nothing
It's tearing me down
You're breaking me and bleeding me down to nothing
Yeah!

Maybe, this time baby it's meant to be
No more suffocating you or me, oh yeah
And I payed the price but you sentencing me to life
And I feel I bought in my time

And you're breaking and bleeding me down to nothing
It's tearing me down
You're breaking me and bleeding me down to nothing
Again

You're breaking me
And bleeding me
Again
You're bleeding me, you're bleeding me

And you're breaking and bleeding me down to nothing
You're tearing me down
You're breaking me and bleeding me down to nothing
You're tearing me, tearing me down again
Tearing me down again
You're breaking me and bleeding me
Bleeding me again

No Rest For The Wicked

Walked a fine line, slipped the edge under me
Rise above a suicide, taking it out of me
Got a feeling, it's going far away, yeah
Licking the wounds from yesterday

Gonna fly, taken my time, strip down to nothing
Gonna try, but there's no rest for the wicked

Been through the skin of a dragon a thousand times
In every day I live for you, still I'm not alive
Got a feeling, I'm gonna fall away
Gimme a sign, one reason that I should stay

Gonna fly, taken my time, strip down to nothing
Gonna try, but there's no rest for the wicked
Gonna fly, take my time, strip down to nothing
Gonna try, but there's no rest for the wicked

Are you ready to know just who I am?
Do you think you can make me a better man?
Crack me open, expose me to your ways
Ignorance and arrogance on my way
Oh yea
No rest for the wicked baby!

Gonna fly, take my time, strip down to nothing
Gonna try, but there's no rest for the wicked
Gonna fly, take my time, strip down to nothing
Gonna try, but there's no rest for the wicked

Hollow

One more step and I could fall away
If it happened would it matter?
And I can't tell if I should go or stay
Same old picture feel so hollow
How can anybody know what's best for me?
Another page I turn in shame
And my decisions brought me to my knees
I needed someone to blame

I feel so hollow
I feel so hollow
Time to do what's best for me I believe I can change

Once upon a time in broken dreams
Reflection's that I can't face
So hold your breath and make a wish for me
Take me to a better place
Time always seems to be passing by
It never waits for me
If I could do it all one more time
I wouldn't change a thing

I feel so hollow (feel so hollow)
I feel so hollow (feel so hollow)
I feel so hollow (feel so hollow)
I feel so hollow (feel so hollow)
Time to do what's best for me I believe I can change

Shine Down

So tired sleeping through the day
Bloodshot eyes and sweat from my body
And I picked my head up yesterday
Found the reason of hope left inside of me

But I still believe in immortal love
And I know there's someone above

Shine down, don't take it away from me, no
And I know you know how, yeah
Shine down, just give me a chance to feel it
It's taken forever to get me off the ground

A dead silence overwhelming me
Day and night takes it's toll on my sanity
And I know I've been away too long
All these years I've been hiding
I'm feeling I'm coming strong

But I still believe in immortal love
And I know there's someone that's up above
Show me a path to find my way
And give me a reason pray

Shine down, don't take it away from me, no
And I know you know how, yeah
Shine down, just give me a chance to feel it
It's taken forever to get me off the ground

Shine down, don't take it away from me, no
And I know you know how, yeah
And shine down, just give me a chance to feel it
It's taken forever to get me off the ground
Shine down
Shine down
Oh, shine down
Oh baby, yeah, yeah, yeah
Shine down
Oh, shine down
Oh, shine down
Oh baby shine down

The Enemy

Hey! Oh, Mr. backstabbing son of a bitch
You're living in a world that will soon be dying
And I know, everybody knows you try to be like me
But even at your best, as a man you couldn't equal half of me

I am realizing, that everybody's lost their simple ways
And now that is here, I see it all so clearly
I've come face to face with the enemy, oh the enemy!

You! You're another shit talking punk to me
You're living inspiration for what I never wanna be
And I see, you've been blinded by what you believe
And now back up and sit down, shut up and act like you need to be

I am realizing, that everybody's lost their simple ways
And now that is here, I see it all so clearly
I've come face to face with the enemy, oh the enemy!
Come to me, come to me, the enemy, come to me, come to me

So predicting, you're the reason why
I lie
Simple decision took me too much time
To fly
Oh, check me, check me...

I am realizing, that everybody's lost their simple ways
And now that is here, I see it all so clearly
I've come face to face with the enemy, oh the enemy!
Come to me

Speak

Free, you better love me
And hide or run away
From all your yesterdays

Speak the truth or make your peace some other way, oh yea, yea
Well I never knew, but I believe that your trust in me
Will speak to me!

And way beyond your controlling mind (mind)
And no more believing in all your precious lies

Speak the truth or make your peace some other way, oh yea, yea
Well I never knew, but I believe that your trust in me
Will speak to me!
Speak the truth or make your peace some other way, oh yea, yea, yea
Well I never knew, but I believe that your trust in me
Will speak to me!

Speak the truth or make your peace some other way, oh yea, yea
Well I never knew, but I believe that your trust in me
Will speak to me!
Speak the truth or make your peace some other way, oh yea, yea
Well I never knew, but I believe that your trust in me
Will speak to me!
Speak
Speak
Speak
Speak
Speak!

Livin' In Sin

Once again my friend
Storm clouds are rolling
Broken inside myself
Can't seem to break this chain
Can't break it!

And I've seen it all
And I've walked it tall
Lived in this sin
Where do I begin?

Caught between the lines
My life of worthless lies
Shedding my skin to begin
A life that I don't know how to live
I can't take it!

And I've seen it all
And I've walked it tall
Lived in this sin
Where do I begin?

I don't know now
Where to go now
I don't know if I'll ever again... no
It's all broken
Not a word spoken
And I don't know how to go, how to.. god help me now!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

And I've seen it all
And I've walked it tall
Lived in this sin
Livin' in sin
Livin' in sin
Livin' in sin
Livin' in sin
Where do I begin?