OPEN YOUR EYES

As I walk along these streets
I see a man that walks alone
Distant echo of people's feet
He has no place to call his own
A shot rings out from a roof overhead
A crackhead asks for change nearby
An old man lies in an alleyway dead
A little girl lost just stands there and cries

Chorus:
What would you do (What would you do)
if it was you (if it was you)
Would you take everything
For granted like you do

A boy just 13 on the corner for sale
Swallows his pride for another hit
Overpopulation there's no room in jail
And most of you don't give a shit
That your daughters are porno stars
And your sons sell death to kids
So lost in your little worlds
Your little worlds you'll never fix

Chorus:
What would you do (What would you do)
if it was you (if it was you)
Would you take everything
For granted like you do

You turn away (x4)

As I walk along the streets
Soaking up the acid rain
Underneath the taxicabs
I hear the streets cry out in vain

Chorus:
What would you do (What would you do)
if it was you (if it was you)
Would you take everything
For granted like you do (x2)

PRESSURE

I just need this to be alright
I can't feel this another night
I can't take this I come unglued
I might breakdown in front of you
Necessary to medicate
I'm not sleeping, can't stay awake

Chorus:
Can't see through this
Too much pressure
Drowning in this
Too much pressure

If you need me I'll be here
Half unconscious, escape my fear
I can't take this I come unglued
I might breakdown in front of you
Necessary to medicate
I'm not sleeping can't stay awake

Chorus:
Can't see through this
Too much pressure
Drowning in this
Too much pressure

My head hurts this shit isn't getting me high
My chest is so tight am I going to die
My stomach's in knots and the room starts to spin
As I wait for this Valium to slowly kick in

Chorus:
Can't see through this
Too much pressure
Drowning in this
Too much pressure (2x)

FADE

I try to breathe
Memories overtaking me
I try to face them but
The thought is too
Much to concieve

Pre:
I only know that I can change
Everything else just stays the same
So now I step out of the darkness
That my life became 'cause

Chorus:
I just needed someone to talk to
You were just too busy with yourself
You were never there for me to
Express how I felt
I just stuffed it down
Now I'm older and I feel like
I could let some of this anger fade
But it seems the surface
I am scratching
Is the bed that I have made

So where were you
When all this I was going through
You never took the time to ask me
Just what you could do

Pre:
I only know that I can change
Everything else just stays the same
So now I step out of the darkness
That my life became 'cause

Chorus:
I just needed someone to talk to
You were just too busy with yourself
You were never there for me to
Express how I felt
I just stuffed it down
Now I'm older and I feel like
I could let some of this anger fade
But it seems the surface
I am scratching
Is the bed that I have made

But I never meant to fade away
I never meant to fade..

Chorus:
I just needed someone to talk to
You were just too busy with yourself
You were never there for me to
Express how I felt
I just stuffed it down
Now I'm older and I feel like
I could let some of this anger fade
But it seems the surface
I am scratching
Is the bed that I have made

I try to breathe..

IT'S BEEN A WHILE

It's been a while
Since I could
Hold my head up high
And It's been a while
Since I First saw you
And It's been a while
Since I could stand
on my own two feet again
And it's been a while
Since I could call you

And everything I can remember
As fucked up as it all may seem
The consequences that i've rendered
I stretched myself beyond my means

And It's been a while
Since I can say
That I wasn't addicted and
It's been a while
Since I can say
I love myself as well and
It's been a while
Since I've gone and fucked things up
Just like I always do
and it's been a while
But all that shit seems to disappear when I'm with you

And everything I can remember
As fucked up as it all may seem
The consequences that I've rendered
I'm gone and fucked things up again

Why must I feel this way?
Just make this go away
Just one more peaceful day

And it's been awhile
Since I could
Look at myself straight
And it's been a while
Since I said I'm sorry
And it's been a while
Since I've seen the way
the candles light your face
And it's been a while
But I can still remember just the way you taste

And everything I can remember
as fucked up as it all may seem
To be,
I know it's me
I cannot blame this on my father
He did the best he could for me

And it's been a while
Since I could
Hold my head up high
And it's been awhile
Since I said I'm sorry

CHANGE

If ever you had said to me before
That I would lead this life
That I am living now I guess it's all so strange
To feel the way I do inside and
Have so much that I could feel some
Pride for in my life so why is it that
I feel like this

Chorus:
How do I feel? I've been here before
I've felt this
Retreat to a place, a place within me
I need this
Keep it all down, bottled inside it breaks me
to torment again and
Torture me like it used to

I try and try to break away from all the hate
I'm feeling
for everyone of you that's ever Done me wrong
I need to justify the reasons for the way I'm living I
guess I can't cause
I don't feel like I deserve

Chorus:
How do I feel? I've been here before
I've felt this
Retreat to a place, a place within me
I need this
Keep it all down bottled inside it breaks me
to torment again and
Torture me like it used to

"My life is the 23rd hour of day
Once said that everything goes, by yesterday

So now the waves they have subsided
And my soul is bleeding
I can't take away all the shame I feel
Forgive me

Chorus:
How do I feel? I've been here before
I've felt this
Retreat to a place, a place within me
I need this
Keep it all down bottled inside it breaks me
to torment again and
Torture me like it used to

Again..

CAN'T BELIEVE

Respect.
Respect what is found
Respect should abound
Respect everything that you leave

I can't believe
Can't believe (x2)

And I, I can't believe
I can't believe all the travesty
Surrounding me
I want to flee
Well, I want to flee from everything
In front of me

I can't believe
Can't believe (x2)

Never again, trusted in you
Fuck everything that you think I should be
I stand.
Never again, never again

I can't believe
Can't believe (x4)

EPIPHANY

Your words to me just a whisper
Your face is so unclear
I try to pay attention
Your words just disappear

Oh
'Cause it's always raining in my head
Oh
Forget all the things I should have said

So I speak to you in riddles
'Cause my words get in my way
I smoke the whole thing to my head
And feel it wash away
'Cause I can't take anymore of this
I wanna come apart
Or dig myself a little hole
Inside your precious heart

Oh
'Cause it's always raining in my head
Oh
Forget all the things I should have said

I am nothing more than
A little boy inside
That cries out for attention,
Yet I always try to hide
'Cause I talk to you like children,
Though I don't know how I feel
But I know I'll do the right thing
If the right thing is revealed

'Cause it's always raining in my head
Forget all the things I should have said.

SUFFER

Suffer x3

The more you see the more you do
The television's feeding you
With what you want to hear
Anger and fear
Because you suffer

The hate you feel won't go away
You are programmed to feel this way
To live another day
Within a world that longs to suffer
(Suffer)

And then i come to find
And everything's ok
Seen this all before
But that was yesterday
Try to walk right through
The messes that i have made
Just let me enjoy
The life here that i live

I try to give this all to you
Can't take anymore to deal with this
It hurts inside
I know why i hide
Cause i suffer
(Suffer)

I tried to keep it all inside
It didn't leave me too much pride
I forced it all down inside
Forced myself to make me suffer
(Suffer)

And then i come to find
And everything's ok
Seen this all before
But that was yesterday
Try to make it through
The messes that i have made
So i can enjoy
The life here that i made

And then i come to find..

And then i come to find
And eveything's ok
Seen this all before
But that was yesterday
Try to walk right through
These messes that i have made
Just try to enjoy
This life here that i have

WARM SAFE PLACE

Another day inside my world
I'm married to you and this road
A road that never lets me sleep
There's no way to escape these demons
I am forced to keep

Chorus:
And then I find you here
Through your eyes
Everything's clear
And I'm home
Inside your arms
But i'm alone for now

I mean the best with what I say
It doesn't always sound that way
I never learned to work things out
'Cause in my family all we ever seemed to do is shout

Chorus:
And then I find you here
Through your eyes
Everything's clear
And I'm home
Inside your arms
But i'm alone for now
Alone for now

And I try to sleep
The drugs I take
Are killing me
I think of you
To ease my pain
But you're so far

And now it's time to say goodbye,
I love you baby, please don't cry..

Chorus:
And then I find you here
Through your eyes
Everything's clear
And I'm home
Inside your arms
But i'm alone for now
Alone for now

FOR YOU

To my mother, to my father
It's your son or its your daughter
Are my screams loud enough
For you to hear me?
Should I turn this up for you?

Chorus:
I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you said
The silence gets us nowhere,
Gets us nowhere way too fast

The silence is what kills me
I need someone here to help me
But you don't know how to listen
And let me make my decisions

Chorus:
I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you said
The silence gets us nowhere
Gets us nowhere way too fast

All your insults and your curses
Make me feel like I'm not a person
And I feel like I am nothing
But you made me, so do something
Cause I'm fucked up, because you are,
Need attention,
Attention you couldn't give

Chorus:
Cause I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you said
The silence gets us nowhere
Gets us nowhere way too fast

I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you said
The silence gets us nowhere
Gets us nowhere way too fast

OUTSIDE

And you,
You bring me to my knees, again,
All the times
That I could beg you please, in vain,
All the times
That I felt insecure, for you
And I leave
My burdens at the door

Chorus:
But I'm on the outside
I'm looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
Cause inside you're ugly
You're ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you

All the times that I felt like this won't end
Its for you
And I taste what I could never have
It was from you
All the times that I've cried
My intentions, full of pride
But I waste more time than anyone

Chorus:
But I'm on the outside
And I'm looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
Cause inside you're ugly
You're ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you

All the times that I've cried
All this wasted, it's all inside
And I feel, all this pain
I stuffed it down, it's back again
And I lie, here in bed
All alone, I can't mend
But I feel
Tomorrow will be ok

Chorus:
But I'm on the outside
And I'm looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
Cause inside you're ugly
You're ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you

WASTE

Your mother came up to me,
She wanted answers
Only she should know,
Only she should know

It wasn't easy to deal
With the tears that rolled down her face
I had no answers 'cause
I didn't even know you

But these words they can't replace
The life you,
The life you waste

How could you paint this picture?
Was life as bad as it should seem
That there were no more options for you?

I can't explain how I feel
I've been there many times before
I've tasted the cold steel of my life crashing down before me

But these words they can't replace
The life you
The life you waste

Did daddy not love you?
Or did he love you just too much?
Did he control you?
Did he live through you at your cost?
Did he leave no questions for you to answer on your own?

Well fuck that
And fuck her
And fuck him
And fuck you
For not having the strength in your heart
To pull through
I've had doubts
I had failed
I'd fucked up
I've had plans
Doesn't mean I should take my life with my own hands

But these words, they can't replace
The life you
The life you waste

But these words, they don't replace
The life you
The life you waste.

TAKE IT

I feel like this won't go away
No matter how hard I try to
Squeeze my eyes shut so I can't see
This pain in you
This pain in me,
In me

Everything that I can say to you
Won't help you
Everything you need is right in front of you
Just take it

I know that I'm really not here
To represent what I'm not clear
About in my head
Sometimes I feel fucked up just like you do,
Like you do

But everything that I can say to you
Won't help you
Everything you need is right in front of you
Just take it

Try to make it through the daily pain
That you feel
Maybe tomorrow won't be so bad
I know it

'cause
I once felt that way
Nothing I could say
Made it go away
I lived through this
I still feel this
I just live for my tomorrow

Just make it go away
Just make it go away
She'll make it go away
She'll make it go away

OUSIDE

And you,
You bring me to my knees, again,
All these time
That I could beg you please, in vain,
All the times
When I felt insecure, for you
And I leave
My burdens at the door

But I'm on the outside
I'm looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
Cause inside you're ugly
You're ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you

All these time that I felt like this won't end
Was for you
And I taste what I could never have
It's from you
All those times that I've tried
My intentions, full of pride
And I waste more time than anyone

But I'm on the outside
I'm looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
Cause inside you're ugly
You're ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you

All the times that I've cried
All this wasted, it's all inside
And I feel, all this pain
Stuffed it down, is back again
And I lie, here in bed
All alone, I can't mend
And I feel
Tomorrow will be ok

But i know
That I'm on the outside
And I'm looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
Cause inside you're ugly
You're ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you