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Rise Against – Bricks

When faith alone is not enough,
To keep our heads barely above,
We look for reason and come up empty-handed.
And when our children fight our wars,
While we sit back just keeping score,
We’re teaching murder not understanding now.

We’re setting the fires to light the way,
We’re burning it all to begin again,
With hope in our hearts and bricks in our hands,
We sing for change

The lives our buried sons have laid,
Won’t cancel debts we’ve yet to pay,
In death, we justify anything now,
As long as we blindly obey and do exactly what they say,
We’ll have no one to blame, but ourselves now.

We’re setting the fires to light the way,
We’re burning it all to begin again,
With hope in our hearts and bricks in our hands,
We sing for change.

We run on the fumes of injustice,
We’ll never die with the fuel that you give us,
Keep it coming ’cause I’m prepared to burn,
Keep running, find me at every turn.

Your life around,
(into something true, into something true)
So turn your life around,
(into something true, something true)

We’re setting the fires to light the way,
We’re burning it all to begin again,
With hope in our hearts and bricks in our hands,
We sing for change.


Rise Against – Ready To Fall

Hold on slow down lets hear from the top now and tell me everything
I know I’ve been gone for what seems like forever
But I’m here now waiting
To convince you that I’m not a ghost or a stranger
But closer than you think
She said just go on she wants you
And same does your life by
Please don’t die on me

Wings won’t take me
Eyes closed face me
So take a step
But don’t look down
Take a step

Now I’m standing on a rooftop ready to fall
I’m think I’m at the edge now but I could be wrong
I’m standing on a rooftop ready to fall

Perpetual motion the image won’t focus
A blur is all that’s in
But here in this moment like the eye of the storm
It all came clear to me
I found a shelter to lean on
An infallible reason to live all by itself
I took one last look from the heights that I once loved
And then I ran like hell

Wings won’t take me
Eyes closed face me
So take a step
But don’t look down
Take a step

Now I’m standing on a rooftop ready to fall
I’m think I’m at the edge now but I could be wrong
I’m standing on a rooftop ready to fall

I count the times that I’ve been sorry
I know, I know
Now my conventions slowly drowns
I know, I know
If there’s a time these walls could guard you
I know, I know
Then let that time be right now

Now I’m standing on a rooftop
Now I’m standing on a rooftop ready to fall
I’m standing on a rooftop ready to fall
I’m think I’m at the edge now but I could be wrong
I’m standing on a rooftop ready to fall

And I’m standing on a rooftop (ready to fall)
And I’m standing on a rooftop (ready to fall)
And I’m standing on a rooftop (ready to fall)
And I’m standing on a rooftop ready to fall


Rise Against – Injection

Do you spend your days counting the hours you’re awake?
And when night covers the sky you find yourself doing the same
It’s a burden you’ve been bearing in spite of all your prayers
As a light turns off inside your heart
Can you remember what it’s like to care?

Knees are weak, hands are shaking, I can’t breathe

So give me the drug, keep me alive
Give me what’s left of my life
But let me go, whooaa
Pull this plug, let me breathe
On my own, I’m finally free
And let me go, whooaa

The trail of crumbs you left somehow got lost along the way
If you never meant to leave then you only had to stay
But the memories that haunt us are cherished just the same
As the words that bring us closer to the sky
No matter how I pray that I fall through these clouds
Leaves me screaming….

Give me the drug, keep me alive
Give me what’s left of my life
But let me go, whooaa
Pull this plug, let me breathe
On my own, I’m finally free
And let me go, whooaa

This grip loosens but it never breaks
(NEVER BREAKS!)
We carry nothing but a name you will forsake
Your words are always there to break my fall
(BREAK MY FALL!)
And I might find the comfort to see through it all

Guide me through unchartered waters
Before we lose our way again
Will you be my compass until forever?
Until forever ends!?

Knees are weak, hands are shaking, I can’t breathe

So give me the drug, keep me alive
Give me what’s left of my life
To let me go, whooaa
Pull this plug, let me breathe
On my own, I’m finally free
To let me go, whooaa

So let me go, whooaa
So let me go, whooaa


Rise Against – Chamber Of The Cartridge

Are you happy where you are?
Plan to this impending fate!
We’ll let the world carry our weight!
It’s bad brinks with every mile,
But we all live in denial.

Can we be safe has the damage all been done,
Is it too late to reverse what we’ve begun,
A lesson to learn in our crucial point in time,
Whats mine s always yours and yours is mine.

Let’s Go!

And so we carry on each day,
as in our lives were not so real,
every breath that we take we only suffocate