Blood was like paste on the walls Bodies lay lifeless like dolls A moment that felt like days Lives extinguished in a rage So nauseous, I don't realize Incessantly feeding the flies In the moment of visceral haze The last thing you see are my crazed eyes The last thing you see are my eyes Fears lies beneath your facade In panic you scream for your God No way I'll ever abstain Blood falls from the ceiling like rain Patiently unleash my violence Ingesting the sweet sound of your silence In darkness this feeling I love To be covered in blood Blood from above This violence finally sets me free Brings demons back to torture me There's no god pulling at my strings I'm above all sorrow faith can bring Disengaged I see your face An adrenaline rush I can't replace Hands around your neck, your senses numb Staring into your eyes When the stillness comes

When the rain comes it seems that everyone has Gone away When the night falls you wonder if you shouldn't Find someplace To run and hide Escape the pain But hiding's such lonely thing to do (Chorus) I can't stop the rain From falling down on you again I can't stop the rain But I will hold you 'til it goes away When the rain comes you blame it on the things That you have done When the storm fades you know that rain must fall On everyone So rest awhile It'll be alright No one loves you like I do (Chorus) (x2) When the rain comes I will hold you

You can fall asleep on my knees, And I'l hold your hand. Separate yourself from the darkness in this world, And slip into a pacefull land. And hell will rise, As the sun falls down. So close your eyes, I'll wake you when the day sounds. They never gonna brake me, Never gonna change us. This war is not on flesh and bone, This war wages in us. And it burns like a fire. And it burns like a fire. And there's a voice inside my head, And it's telling me to be brave. When the darkness comes. And if you ain't scared, Then you ain't human. And it burns like a fire, It burns like a fire. And we're al running from our lives somehow, Terrified at what do we'll find, When the walls come falling down. When the walls come falling... When the walls come falling... And it burns like a fire, And it burns like a fire. (They never gonna break me, They never never gonna change us) And it burns like a fire, And it burns like a fire. (They never gonna break me, They never never gonna change us) Tell me, Did it feel right? (Never gona change us) To kill something so defenseless? (And it burns like a fire) Tell me, Did it feel right? To kill something so defenseless? (And it burns like a fire) Never gonna break me, They never gonna change us. And it burns like a fire, And it burns like a fire. They never gonna break me, They never gonna change us. They never gonna break me.

Sit around Sit around ?

There's a box up on the top shelf I moved out of reach so many years ago Filled with letters, filled with postcards All the pieces of a time I used to know I wonder if I took it down now Would I find the things I'd hidden there inside? Maybe I would find the ocean A wave would rise and I'd be taken by the tide They're not gone, they're not dead They're still living in my head Some I know, some I've never seen And I don't know where I'm led By what's living in my head When I walk, I know what bends my knee It has to be the ghosts in me There's some ruins in the backyard Someone built them there before we came around We don't know what they were made for We don't know what else is buried in the ground Maybe if we tried to listen Read the writing, learned the music to the songs We might find what we've been missing We might see what has been right there all along They're not gone, they're not dead They're still living in my head Some I know, some I've never seen And I don't know where I'm led By what's living in my head When I walk, I know what bends my knee It has to be the ghosts in me I saw a stranger on the front page I heard voices saying he had done the crime I saw a stranger on the sidewalk I heard voices saying walk the other side I saw a screaming politician My own voice said he was right and they were wrong I saw my lover in the kitchen My own voice was saying I can't stay for long They're not gone, they're not dead They're still living in my head Some I know, some I've never seen And I don't know where I'm led By what's living in my head When I walk, I know what bends my knee It has to be the ghosts in me

It hits you when you least expect You wake up, your life's a wreck No one told you hit the deck, incoming No one told you hit the deck It starts falling from the sky Eighty tons and eight miles wide It does no good to go inside It keeps coming It does no good to go inside But you are still a friend of mine Even if we have not spoken I have looked into your eyes Through the laughter and the smoke And I will curse the skies for you If it's all that I can do Maybe somehow I'll be there When you come up for air Time it moves in a straight line And every corner here is blind The world it can be so unkind, it keeps spinning There's no stopping to unwind If every breath we take's a risk And every step is a near miss How do we go on like this? We keep running How do we go on like this? You are still a friend of mine Even if we have not spoken I have looked into your eyes Through the laughter and the smoke And I will curse the skies for you If it's all that I can do Maybe somehow I'll be there When you come up for air It is everyone, not you So stop asking what'd you do We are travelling in twos It's stunning We are travelling with you You are still a friend of mine Even if we have not spoken I have looked into your eyes Through the laughter and the smoke And I will curse the skies for you If it's all that I can do Maybe somehow I'll be there When you come up for air When you come up for air

Say that we're through Since you've been gone, you don't feel blue Say we should part We've come too far to know where to start But I see the wind in the trees And the sound is so far away So please don't say, it's better this way Say it's not right We just don't work, and god knows we tried Say I was wrong Now you can see it was me all along But I read this chapter again The same one I read yesterday So please don't say, it's better this way I know we're back here again The same place we find ourselves in I'm not pretending that everything's fine I have no words of my own To unsow the seeds we have sown All I am asking is baby be kind Say that it's gone I should let go, try to move on Say that it's true You couldn't wait, you found someone new But I cannot tell you a lie My heart, it breaks every day So please don't say it's better this way So please don't say it's better this way

Sarah she can't fall in love She says I'm out of time It's getting so much harder to begin There's been so many calls here Nothing's coming across the line I'm all alone, all alone without a friend Henry he kept moving on He went from town to town He'd pack it up, try his luck again The houses he was building Never quite got off the ground He's all alone, all alone without a friend I don't know which man I'd like to be Tell me could you love a man like me When I started down this road I had one stop in mind Now I can't count the places that I've been I know I turned a corner But I must have missed the sign I'm all alone, all alone without a friend Once I was a welder Once a singer in a band A rich man with all the money I could spend One day I burned the costumes And I tore up all the plans All alone, all alone without a friend There's no other man I'd like to be Tell me could you love a man like me I might not be the man you thought you'd see Tell me could you love a man like me The skies are never empty And the lights are always on The streets go on forever without end There's someone always coming And there's someone who is gone All alone, all alone without a friend All alone, all alone without a friend

You hung your hat behind the door And it's still there, like it was before You don't live here anymore You hung your hat behind the door You used to rule with an iron hand You were the final word, you were the promised land Now you hold no keys, and you have no plan You used to rule with an iron hand We're made of strings, we're made of clay The nearest star is a long, long way They say you're coming back some day We're made of strings, we're made of clay I still talk to you sometimes And it seems strange after all this time Were you real? Were you in my mind? I still talk to you sometimes We're made of strings, we're made of clay The nearest star is a long, long way We might make it there some day We're made of strings, we're made of clay We're made of strings, we're made of clay

I've never been the bad guy, never thought I would Always took the high road, did the things I should Then they kicked me when I was down Now I'm turning this train around They taught me a lesson, they taught me twice There's only one ending for the one who's nice They said it's all gonna be just fine Then they walked out with what was mine Oooh, oooh, oooh Oooh, oooh, oooh I tried to stand up, I put out my neck I turned around there was no one else on deck I said the captain has run away I heard we'll all be the captain some day And I've been alive a long time And the load it gets heavy and high It gets hard to put your heart on the line Lord I tried, lord I tried, lord I tried I've never been the bad guy, but I played the fool All the kings and queens they're not playing by the rules When there's no hand left out for you You will learn what your hands can do Gonna change my language, gonna change my skin This one'll be concrete now no one's getting in You might not recognize my face There's a bad man in my place Oooh, oooh, oooh Oooh, oooh, oooh Give me my black hat, give me my gun I've never been the bad guy, now let's have some fun There might be blood left on the floor But I'll get what I came here for And I've been alive a long time And the load it gets heavy and high It gets hard to put your heart on the line Lord I tried, lord I tried, lord I tried