Here alone we wander and we roam
We cut our teeth in city streets and gutters we call home

Await the day the clouds will part
Deliver words we know by heart

Raise your voice
Or be a face in the crowd
Isn’t that what it’s all about?

So tempt me not with the life you have bought
Our keep is earned in the change that we sought

Explain away the tangled truth
Accuse away but without proof

Raise your voice
Or be a face in the crowd
Isn’t that what it’s all about?

Boots on the ground, aim tried and true
Bells toll the sound; impending doom

In our respite our numbers grew
Now it’s time to

Raise your voice
Or be a face in the crowd
Isn’t that what it’s all about?

We celebrate the downfall with ticker tape parades
Oblivious to the fucking mess left lying in the wake
“God grant me the strength to let my children starve”
He whispered to the dripping roof into the candled dark
Contemplate contracts of gold
Just wave your hand and relinquish control
Nine lives await to unfold
We bury ten thousand stories untold
First with insurrection batting eyes from afar
In skybox seats or hotel suites, six figure fucking cars
Contemplate contracts of gold
Just wave your hand and relinquish control
Nine lives await to unfold
Bury the stories

Control the heart
Control the mind
Control the hands

To build what they’ve designed
Lifetimes of silence and apathy
Ensure the prompt demise of our humanity
Contemplate contracts of gold
Just wave your hand and relinquish control
Nine lives await to unfold
We bury ten thousand stories
The stories untold

As long as I remember the rains been coming down.
Clouds of mystery pourin’ confusion on the ground.
Good men through the ages, tryin’ to find the sun;
And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain?

I went down Virginia, to seek shelter from the storm.
Caught up in the fable, we watched the tower grow.
Five year plans and new deals, wrapped in golden chains.
And I wonder, still I wonder who’ll stop the rain?

We heard the singer playin’, and how we cheered for more.
The crowd had rushed together, just tryin’ to keep warm.
But still the rain kept fallin’, fallin’ on my ears.
And I wonder, still I wonder who’ll stop the rain?

As I watch your life go up in flames,
you’ll swear up and down you’d like to change
but when the sun sinks slowly into the sky,
now you’re right
where you started again with nothing to say,
without an argument or case
and when it’s said and done and done and said,
and now what’s another day?

I can feel these changes right before my eyes
I see a dying fire inside your eyes, inside your eyes

When will you stop and realize,
the worth and value of your life?
as you suffocate yourself within this mindless,
9-5 wake up! there’s more!
and your life is nobody’s but yours
and now its said and done and done and said,
and now what’s another day?

I can feel these changes right before my eyes
I see a dying fire inside your eyes

You’re running circles around my slow pace
you’ve reached the finish line only to realize there was no race
I’m sick of being stepped on for the things I choose
I give and take and now I’ve taken all I could

And now I’ve taken all I could
And now I’ve taken all I could
And now I’ve taken all I could (now I’ve taken, now I’ve taken)
And now I’ve taken all I could (now I’ve taken, now I’ve taken)
And now I’ve taken all I could

Seven hundred miles to play to fifteen angry men.
I need some sleep.
They hate the songs.
We hate them too. Yeah.
This show is free.
Fifteen minutes in broke another fucking string.
Just call it luck.
They start to leave.
I start to plead.
Someone, someone yells you suck.

Suddenly that joe kicks on in my veins.
I cool down.
Things sound good right now.
Suddenly fists turn into brave ears, and move as one.
Funny how no one knows we came.
They wouldn’t come anyway.
Should I feel grateful to play.
I’m living life my way.
I fell in love with my enemies.
I let go of everything I had left at home.
I fell in love with my enemies.
I let go…

Two cool kids they came.
They’re hiding by the door.
Eyes wide with fright.
A guy, a girl, in love with the whole world.
It almost makes it right.

Suddenly that joe kicks on in my veins.
I cool down.
Things sound good right now.
Suddenly fists turn into brave ears, and move as one.
Funny how no one knows we came.
They wouldn’t come anyway.
Should I feel grateful to play.
I’m living life my way.
I fell in love with my enemies.
I let go of everything I had left at home.
I fell in love with my enemies.
I let go of everything I had left at home.

Every little thing
Every little thing
Every little
Every little thing
Every little thing
Every little thing
Every little thing must go wrong.

Every little thing
Every little thing
Every little
Every little thing
Every little thing
Every little thing
Every little thing must go wrong.

Am I loud and clear, or am I breaking up?
Am I still your charm, or am I just bad luck?
Are we getting closer, or are we just getting more lost?

I’ll show you mine if you show me yours first
Let’s compare scars, I’ll tell you whose is worse
Let’s unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

We live on front porches and swing life away,
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I’ll slave till the end,
I won’t cross these streets until you hold my hand

I’ve been here so long, I think that it’s time to move
The winter’s so cold, summer’s over too soon
So let’s pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow

I’ve got some friends, some that I hardly know
We’ve had some times, I wouldn’t trade for the world
We chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go

We live on front porches and swing life away,
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I’ll slave till the end,
I won’t cross these streets until you hold my hand

Swing life away [x4]

Sight unseen, the road stretched out before me.
Suffocate – the water rising slowly.
Step in time, agree to share this pain.
Live or die now, but still we suffer just the same!

I took my share and then told her, “I don’t want more”
We spend our lives, then ask you, what was this for,
We gave our time and still we came up short.

Cause this is all I’ve got, and I’ve nothing more.
We save the worst excuse, but the best in store.
Maybe now, we’ll finally even the score.
Are you counting? – do you even wanna know?

Cause unknown, the streets are never-ending.
Sinking down, with nothing to defend me.
Lie and wait, for some small show of mercy.
Questions change – but the answers always stay the same!

I took my share and then told her, “I don’t want more”
I fell so low, I touched the oceans floor.
But what the hell are we searching for?!

Cause this is all I’ve got, and I’ve nothing more.
We save the worst excuse, but the best in store.
Maybe now, we’ll finally even the score.
Are you counting? – do you even wanna know?

She lies awake now, and cried a thousand rivers.
The circumstance here, has led this child astray.
This candle’s fading, the dim light slowly withers.
You ask for guidance, but I just look away…

I have nothing more to say.

So let me down, because they never believed in you.
Seal this crown, and still we can see right through.

Cause this is all I’ve got, and I’ve nothing more.
We save the worst excuse, but the best in store.
Maybe now we’ll finally even the score.
Cause this is all I’ve got.
And now there’s nothing.

To all you people standing proud, thinking you know what I’m about:
I think you can fuck yourself
From your safe distance in this crowd
That’s when your voice becomes so loud
Still trying to keep us down

Walk one mile in shoes I never asked to fill
But still press on….

I slipped, I fell, then I lost everything
My hope, my faith, in what the future brings
In hopes of pushing past the ties that keeps us down
We sing together now.

Give me one reason to look you in the eye
Tell me exactly why it is that you think you are worth my time

To all the ones that shakes my hand
Then talk your shit behind my back
To those who claim they understand
But never heard a word of what I said
In spite of you I am still here
This vision has never been more clear
As we sing together now.

I’m about to have a nervous breakdown
My head really hurts
If I don’t find a way out of here
I’m gonna go berserk cause
I’m crazy and I’m hurt
Head on my shoulders
It’s going… berserk
I hear the same old talk talk talk
The same old lines
Don’t do me that today
yeah If you know what’s good for you you’ll get out of my way
cause I’m crazy and I’m hurt
Head on my shoulders
Going… berserk
I won’t apologize
For acting outta line
You see the way I am
You leave any time you can cause
I’m crazy and I’m hurt
Head on my shoulders Going… berserk
Crazy! Crazy! Crazy! Crazy!
I don’t care what you fuckin’ do
I don’t care what you fuckin’ say
I’m so sick of everything I just want to… die!

We’re not the first, I hope we’re not the last
‘Cause I know we’re all ready for that adult crash
The time is so little, the time belongs to us
Why is everybody in such a fucking rush?

Make do with what you have
Take what you can get
Pay no mind to us
We’re just a minor threat

We’re just a minor threat

Early to finish, I was late to start
I might be an adult, but I’m a minor at heart
Go to college, be a man, what’s the fucking deal?
It’s now how old I am, it’s how old I feel

Take your time
Try no to forget
We never will
We’re just a minor threat

We’re just a minor threat