LYRICS
HIDDEN WORLDS
American Junkie
Go ahead replace me
With whatever I see staring back at me
It’s never been my strong suit
To see much past the pursuit
The ends always justify my means
That’s how it goes when you’re apart of the machine
Don’t waste any of your considering
Because it’s taking over everything
Yeah it’s taking over everything
‘Cuz My needs
They got no ceiling
I got no time
For any other feeling
Just let the flashbulbs help me to breath
While the blue tint screen tells me what to believe
Don’t you know I’m free!
At least, that’s what they tell me
Go ahead erase me
Light up my veins til nothing remains
Get lost in the sweet embrace
The bittersweet taste of settling
But there is no relief to the sound
Of this car crash or anything else
In this town
So we cling to the words
From the first lips or rescue ships
Who say that we’ve been heard
‘Cuz My needs
They got no ceiling
I got no time
For any other feeling
Just let the flashbulbs help me to breath
While the blue tint screen tells me what to believe
Don’t you know I’m free!
At least, that’s what they tell me
‘Cuz my needs
They got no ceiling
And I got no time
No time for you!
Area #51
You could never anticipate what was about to take place
In a breath everything is strange
This can’t be real
How am I supposed to make sense of this cliff?
When everything has changed and the pieces no longer fit
It’s a tight rope to the other side
My knees are weak and there’s no place to hide
Such a shock to the system
And your heart won’t listen
It was never going to be what you had in mind but
There were pieces left behind of a love that grew
Inside of you
There’s never a right time
There’s only now
You’re whole world is blowing up
While you wonder
Did you give enough?
You’re gone and never coming back
And I don’t know what to do with that fact
It can’t be true
Now what do I do?
Ghost of Rome
Do as I say, not as I do
I’m not here to care about you
The things I abide I don’t question why
It all depends - What’s my end?
You see there is no truth
It’s just a tool that you can use for you
I thought you knew
Saw the wink and got the cue
That we got nothing to lose!
This Gilded Age
See it rage, like a real wild fire
Scorching the earth
With the glee of a holy choir
You thought the outrage would dissuade
Ha! That’s how the money gets made
So once again we’ll draw the shades
And evade the blame - c’mon!
This Gilded Age
See it rage, like a real wild fire
Scorching the earth
With the glee of a holy choir
Time and time again
we’ve been shown…
Time and time again
we’ve been shown…
We’re another ghost of Rome
This Gilded Age
See it rage, like a real wild fire
Scorching the earth
With the glee of a holy choir
Give It Up
Don’t look down
Just keep your eyes on me
We’re finally gonna leave
This town
Better thicken up that skin you’re in
Or the thin ice is gonna do you in
Learn to ignore
All of the static
Outside your door
Slowly the wheels start to turn
But nobody seems to be listening
Everybody wants the last word
Expectations are the death of freedom
Throw them all away they’re just an illusion
Even though we know we don’t need them
We spend so much time in our minds trying to meet them
Who cares anymore if they know your name?
Sunlight still feels the same on your face
So find mercy in your days
You’ve got nothing to prove
But there’s still no time to lose
You can have the life you want
If you live it
You can have the love you need
If you give it
So give it
Give it
Give it up
The Jones March On
Did you really have to do it?
Tear a hole into the sky
Till darkness fell on everyone
And wrapped them in eternal night.
But that was your plan all along,
To sound the siren’s song.
Until all your dogs started barking
To the sound of the wind
Back home.
The wind back home.
(Instrumental break)
Resist,
Resist the man who knows the price of everything.
But never the value,
Who uses Jesus like a bar of soap.
Ooh the jones march on.
Nothing
Has ever made you feel so small
As this
Moment of absolute free fall,
And it’s squeezing
The life out of you
While they sit and watch
Like it’s nothing new.
And the Jones
March on
Sea of Doubt
You’re swimming in a sea of doubt
You’re not sure if
You’ll ever swim out
It’s a constant state of attack
Checking your back
Ready to attack
It’s the letting go
The letting go
That saves us from
The undertow
Winter came before they knew
Where to go and what to do
It’s hard to be an optimist
When you’re dodging you’re own fists
Frozen in time
All they couldn’t leave behind
All because they refused to read the signs
It’s the letting go
The letting go
That saves us from
The undertow
You’re swimming in a sea of doubt
You don’t know if
You’ll ever swim out
Shadow Conspiracy
I know where you go to disappear
The distant look in your eye makes it clear
And it’s no surprise
You greet another sunrise
You can’t see it, still you feel it
Either way, the day will come
of bitter hearts
or bitten tongues
Either way, the day will come
of bitter hearts
or smoking guns
We’re a walking contradiction
Blessed with double vision
Blurring facts with fiction
Inside your head a ricochet fantasy
Like the fractured wisdom from a fever dream
Where nothing is exactly how it seems
You can’t see it, still you feel it
Either way, the day will come
of bitter hearts
or bitten tongues
Either way, the day will come
of bitter hearts
or smoking guns
We’re a walking contradiction
Blessed with double vision
Blurring facts with fiction
So It Goes
Time’s crime is that it stole your youth
Trapped it in black and white from the photo booth
When you had nothing to lose
So now when you look back
You can find yourself trapped
In those moments that never seem to last
So it comes
So it goes
The fleeting feeling
That we’re in control
In time it all comes back to you
In different shades of blue
Everything we lose
In time it all comes back to you
In different shades of blue
It’s always been you
You and I used to rule the world
A puppet on a string we would watch it twirl
The envy of every boy and girl
But all the plans that we made
Soon gave way to the weight
Of all the things we didn’t say
As those late nights turned into early days
In a flash you’re taken back
To walk the streets of her laugh
The days may move slow
But the years move so fast
So it comes
So it goes
The fleeting feeling
That we’re in control
In time it all comes back to you
In different shades of blue
Everything we lose
In time it all comes back to you
In different shades of blue
It’s always been you
In another time
In another place
Maybe you’d be mine
Lament, Repeat
Light the fire
Burn the bridge
It’s time to let it all burn down
You know
That nothing else will grow
Till the ashes hit the ground
There’s no need
For anger to be
Your anchor now
Is it too late
For it to come back?
Will the years now
Just fade to black?
There’s no need to
Explain
Some things just
Never change
The door is open
But your feet won’t leave
You’re finally free
Yet still you’re dragged out to sea
Soon you’re left floating on
The winds of memory
Is it too far gone
To ever come back?
Will the years now
Just fade to black?
There’s no need to
Explain
Some things just
Stay the same
Inner Space Monologue
We pretend
We don’t know the end
But we’re born to die
So dry your eyes
Or laugh til you cry
What if?
This.
Is it.
Play your cards
Don’t hold them close
There’s nothing to win
Betting on a ghost
What if?
This.
Is it.
So strike the rock
One more time…
It’s absurd
By design
It all happened so fast!