And in the dark The same old scars Wake me up to bleed again When it's done Will the new day sun Burn what's left of me to mend Will you know my name
It's been too safe It's been too safe for too long So little reaction to get it better right or wrong And I'm feeling restless here good intentions
couples gather on the street no way they notice me but i watch them walk together and it reminds me of nights when everyone was gone and i ended
the pain will come with the morning sun will the night betray the day blistered skin withered from within scratch to shed this shell away will you
Near the gateway to Mojave I saw a place Both beautiful and blistering And cruel and cold the same The sun was like a lion Bearing down upon its prey
The sun, the air, the faithful crashing of waves Carefree comforted knowing eyes watched over me Even now I taste the salt on my lips being dried by the
Tried to set me up Not that I deny my carnal mind But when I was down you couldn't be found But to assist in my self-inflicted pain I had enough I gotta
A careless leper Too comfortable in his own world To notice the the older wounds Have new infections With new intentions Darkness settled in behind me
Somewhere down below the calm of the surface White-hot reason burns an open road Like the hammer to the iron from the furnace I?ll let it take me; I?ll
Never been one to follow the process Never needed more lines in the sand Know what I want and I know what I don't want Don't need the angry elephant Don
In the smallest of hours a thought pulled me out Of perfect, numbing, ordinary dreams It pulled me from the deep Restless, a pressure and tension had
I broke it And I?ve never felt so high So open I?ve been walking through the fire and I ? (Chorus) Wish you were with me I?d do anything, anything
When I was a mountain, strong with stone, silver and gold Strip-mined wildly, spent it all Leaving only stone (Chorus) But Grace, are You hangin? on
I was almost home when I noticed the blood was mine And standing at my door Was a stranger with the widest smile I?d ever seen ?Hello, there.? From
You play the firing squad; I?ll be the target I?ll just stand here broken-hearted and amazed You are the angry mob, I hear you callin? Your Straw-man
Blindsided by the harshest of truths The cruelest of cruel Is that the best you could do? Well, I?m not hangin? around to let you figure it out Took your
The brutal force of time is never at rest And gaining steady every time that we stop To look back ?We?ve come a long way!? (Chorus) In praise of forward