A Hope You Hold - Tim Arnold & Jonathan Hill

Treading through the waves, barely keeping pace I don't even know where to find my place Sewing seeds of doubt, in one ear and out When the hell does it stop? Murder in the streets, tyrants sending fleets Victims painted red, they're getting in our heads Fabricated tales, make us fight ourselves To push consumer sales, oh the irony Tell me how to reconcile what i see from outside the fold Propaganda weaponized from side to side, or so I'm told There's no faith When your words don't fall in place With any sense of stability Deceived by our eyes and our ears Left alone with ourselves 'Till we disappear They lure you in with insincere Platitudes that feed your fears A prophet and a preacher is that really what you see? Indoctrinate the faithful who you willingly mislead One by one by one they follow Feed the hollow, repeat the cycle again There's no faith When your words don't fall in place With any sense of stability Deceived by our eyes and our ears Left alone with ourselves 'Till we disappear One by one One by one Disappear One by one One by one One by one, they follow One by one, they follow One by one, they follow One by one Losing touch with reality An overwhelming numb So let me be While you're... Broken Shallow hearted Narcissistic Self destructive Paralytic Saprophytic So sadistic Fucking monsters

Falter, from riddled dreams that broke your tongue Exposure, daisy chained to the ones you love And when what's empty starts to fill A shrill of pain begins to build below Tell me just how you feel When truth becomes the thing you're running from I figured I'd be there As the color returned to your face Constantly pushing away Denial became your faith Cries from your mother That ripped through your father Who lied to his children To keep them apart Fire, light the match to kill the messenger And bury the truth I'll take the blame the way I always do To save you, from all the pain that grey brought you They told you how to feel Locked away your only voice Broken yet surreal The only way out is to run Dismissing everything they taught you Starting new again Fire, light the match to kill the messenger And bury the truth I'll take the blame the way I always do To save you, from all the pain that grey brought you

From my door, The barriers you see I never saw In my mind You talk about a problem I can't find He for She? She for He? Ask what love would want What love would want Of you or me He for He? She for She? Ask what love would want What love would want For you or me Time to tell, Tell you how it is before you yell Fear you feel will fill you up with nothing but more fear He for She? She for He? Ask what love would want What love would want Of you or me He for He? She for She? Ask what love would want What love would want For you or me