1. Only The Strong



what makes you think that it'll all work out in the end.

afraid to feel bad. better off to try and pretend. I'm

immortal, immune to all that is wrong. just keep on wishing.

crossing my fingers. so long. is this helping? i'm growning

weaker each day. can't stop whining.

still afraid of what i might say or reactions, that control us one and all.



[chorus]

It's mine, it's pure and as decent as i can make myself.

Inside, we all know, only the strong survive.



Why don't you think about that?

so now i'm bleeding on myself yes once again.

seems i trusted another deceitful freind. my fault. should've known the deal.

keep your friends close, but your enemies closer, for real.

seems easy, but nothing could be so hard. trying to guess lifes

dealing. what's the next card? I'm surely folding.

i don't like this hand at all.



[chorus]



Keep those eyes wide open, here comes a blind side.



maybe things happen for a reason and wherein lies the answer.

to overcome the grieving of lifes unruly lessons. i'm handed

in sucession. it builds my pain which makes me strong.



[chorus]



Why don't you think about that??





2. Payback



There's another reflection involved up in my mind

A wholeness that has just been lost

Striving hard for perfection but still nothing to find

Some value with a cheaper cost

And as I reach out to hear you the sound is so muffled

It makes a lesser man of me

So the only thing left to bring up to date is



[chorus]

You suck!

Watch me fall while I go down

I'm taking all you bastards to the ground with

me then I'll frown

On your fucking whole life

The systematic hype still means a bit much to me

[repeat]



I'm at the point of retraction and still slipping further

This place is getting worse for me

There's such a lack of direction and models to live by

No bright skies ahead of me

And as I reach out for your hand you turn and

then wander

Why I simply just can't see

No separation of gender no difference in me

You're just leading me on and on and on

You lead me on and on and on and on



[chorus]



Pretty soon it's gonna come back and be your turn

Pretty soon you're gonna be the one that burns



[chorus]



Your turn now





3. My Letter



This is my letter to you



We started following a certain description.

We started simple and fair once again

Before there wasn't any need for an answer

Things were much different then



[Chorus]

But now you question who I am.

Who I am inside

Now there's nothing left to hide.

So here it goes

This is my letter

Hope you're alright. It's been rough for me

thinking all night. About the places I'd be

If I maybe, just did a little bit more you might've

Let me, become a man for sure

And if I might, express one concern it seems an

issue. All day at every turn

What's the next step, the latest hole in my life

What's next for me to learn



Engulf myself into a permanent mystery.

No one day just as the next.

not for me

It's so confusing when I look at my history.

I just can't handle that yet.

No



[chorus]



One more friendship ends.

And then for awhile.

I can breathe again



[chorus]





4. Get Up Again



Here we go again



A very temperamental process, beginning with

all of our excess

Affecting our very own ingest, this side of

you is speechless

Overwhelmed with an abscess, creating new diseases

And infecting whomever it pleases, we've been

living this way for too long, too long



Then I noticed a difference, in the way that I

saw other insects

Who were living a life of indulgence, sheltered

by their parents

Such an unlucky existence, not given a

chance to experience

And make their own decisions, I wouldn't trade

my own mistakes at all



[Chorus]

Reach out your hands

Out for the ones who, aid when the going gets rough

Until the end.

These are the ones who, help when the times get tough

And times will get tough.

Get up again.

Times will get tough.

Get up again



Here it comes once again



[chorus]





5. Whole



So Maybe I am Bound By Fate

A Problematic Scarring Induced By Hate

It Never Seems To All Pan Out

Is That What All This Teaching Is Needed To Scout

You Seemed To Have A Bad Effect

Your Rules And Contradictions I would Neglect

Though Not My Fault You Made Me Feel

Like My Own Education Wasnt Truly Real

Then You Came Right In Tearing Out My Soul

How Could All This Loss Be Your Only Goal

I'm Left Standing Here Desperate In The Cold

Since You Took Your Life Mine Has not Been Whole

So There I Stood A Scolded Child

The Reasons Never Questioned My Pains Been Filed

Inside This Place That Makes Me Feel

I learned Life Is Unfair And That Is Very Real

[Chorus]

While You Try To Overcome The Lesson

Makeing The most Of Those Questions That Just

Keeps Me Guessing

I'm Looking Longer, Harder, Further Than I Ever Have

Solitude Breaking Me Down You Always Seemed Glad

To Put Me down And Stick Me In That little Pit

Personal Growth As A child That Mattered Not A Bit

Then I Became The Person That You Hated Most

Disrespecting The Father, Son, And Holy Ghost

A Small Example Of What The Things You've Done To Me

Have Changed In My Life And Changed The Things

I'll Never Be

I'll Never Be

[Chorus]





6. Amendment



Come on and brace your face

Engulfed up in the rat race we hold our futures down

So just resist the plot and find the answer

etched eternal

as we self destruct



[Chorus]

day by day

one by one

more example of disrespect

that you seem to offer no more than complete neglect

a generation with fate all tied

this aint a game

we dont enjoy this ride



try to perceive the lie

all caught up in your own high

opinions of yourself

should be concerned about your life

theres been enough strife to crash a persons hope

and as the days delay our every other move

we've been consumed by apathy

thats right

it has become a pain

inside my brain is screaming

look what you've done to me



[chorus]



Break

its just the break we're givin em

Break

its just the break that you're givn' em

Break



layed to waste out in the open

turned away once again

this isn't right

this ain't supposed to happen

now life's too short

we shouldn't have to die

and i have had to stop all of my emotions

why

oh bittering faith escapes agian, agian

just look at what we have done

will you look at who we've become

priorities astray

it goes on and on each day

we've wrecked their only try

and still we wonder why

we're recipients

Of hate Motherfucker



break your back

just once and then you know

you gotta

face your fright

that's right

yeah

with your five second morals and your three second smile

you just

face your fright

that's right

yeah

with your five second morals and your three second smile

you just

face your fright

that's right

yeah

with your five second morals and your three second smile

you just

face your fright

that's right

yeah

with your five second morals and your three second smile

you just





7. Scheme



It woke up in me years ago how this was meant to be

all of those falsehoods plain to see they dug

and hung their greed

will there be profit you could see if only we were blind

lonely and sheltered, our life is free but it's

still one step behind

just like me, they tried their rules on me

they tried their rules on me, me, me

i broke those chains and fucking split

and so you and so you and so you and so you

pass all the fascist asses ignore those classes

of bottleneck masses

producing an all but awful stench, delivering a

section off all the money stole and spent

as you start to recognize you're in the game

growing afflictions head to toe, this never

should have been

but placing blame is cowardly restructure must begin

will there be profit you could see if only we were blind

lonely and sheltered your life is free, but it's

still one step behind

[chorus]

yes and the playing board is you...





8. What I Have To Do



Well it seems as though everyone's been led astray far away from.

From what we know, still can't find a reason or

the right words to say. It'll be ok.



[Prechorus]

Wrapped up in all the things that are wrong.

It's the only trial so far, as the verdict falls down you still break away.



[chorus]

Caught up in a social degradation, you can't even see the truth.

We're only half as good at personal relations, look around and see the proof.

Only a few of us go in the right direction, even though we're singled out.

It's the only thing that keeps

me alive, I do what I have to do.



How was I to know, force fed corporate trials each day, every single day.

But we must grow, echoing the single most thing in the way.



[prechorus]

[chorus]



Not slipping, still drifting, falling one step further from the norm.

What is the norm? Not living, longing, trying so much

harder than before. What if I, what if I run far away?

Would I still be seen the same? Break away.



[chorus]



It's what I want.





9. Inner Strength



Here we sit all alone in an outnumbered fight

led to decipher between wrong and right

and some may fail at this joke that some of

us call life

yes at this game some call life

but the system can't bail me out of hell

i've made this descovery and it has helped

all i've got is myself i have faith in that

believe and one day you'll do just as well now

as you were you little puppet you pauper you

freak that's right

that's what some of them have said to me

so i object and try to figure things out for myself

i'm building up full emotional wealth

[chorus]

the inner strength is what the hate it wants

us not to feel

it's time that we helped there's no room to fail

you already know the way out of hell

all we got is ourselves i have faith in that

believe and one day

we'll put the system in jail, we'll put the system in jail

i made it through scraped black and blue

but so can you i made it through so black and blue

but you can too i made it through scraped

black and blue

but so can you i've made it through

we'll all make it through

[chorus]





10. Best I Am



Long.

I've Been Running away for far too long

Afraid of what

Afraid of what I know is soon to come

I may not be much of an example right now

But I can give you all of my knowledge on how

to get along in this place

right now all I can say



[Chorus]

Is that I will do the best that I can

to be a good example of man

I know one day that You'll understand

you deserve the best that I am

you deserve the best that I am



It's So hard

so hard to think about when I was child

so angry at life

I blamed the world for such a long long time

But Things happened so quickly

some people just go

I needed answers to heal me

I wanted to know how to get by

and now its my turn to say



[chorus]



This is all for you

everything in this world

everything in my world

everything in your world

things wont always go right in this life

theres always changes

we'll make it



[Chorus]





11. Out Of Whack



maybe nobody told you about this life

maybe nobody answered your questions why

simple revelations they come in time

those liars told us things would all be fine

born out of whack give him something possible

you thought it would've mattered

not likely to change things we've come too far

where innocent young kids are put behind bars

but it's an easy decision banished so far

you're not as civil as you think you are

[chorus]

you say we're all born out of whack

well don't act so surprised how there's been

a lot going on

since you realized that we're all just kids trying

to get along

so answer one thing

are you gonna stay inside. are you gonna stay

inside of our minds?

are we all born wrong?

[chorus]





12. Reliance



so you think the areas gray but it continues each day

a bad example of the attitude you portray

act like I owe you my life you should be

burdened with strife

so i continue to pray hope that

you'll go away

a bad addiction to a home wrecking thing who plays

with my heart and that's the bottom line

i feel so empty

what can you give me that I can't give myself

and what part of my life can you fix, that I

can't fix my damn self

god i'm losing patience each day i've put

myself in harms way

can't seem to justify none of the shit you say

can't find another way out here's nothing left

but pure doubt

i'm on the verge of pulling my hair straight out

so if you listen to me not to the powers that be

we're not supposed to be together can't you see

in decision is the bottom line i feel so empty now

[chorus]

i'm gonna show you now this time i'm getting out

i've said it many times but this time I have

figured out

just how i'm moving on it's taken way too long

inside I know i'll feel much better when you're

really gone

[chorus]





13. One More Time



There must be something you can recommend.

I've lost my faith in man again

So sick of trying to pretend.





Same pain over and over again

How much longer do you think we'll stand.

So little left here to live for

By the time my life is at its end.



[Chorus]

I want it back one more time

Let me try one more time.

Live my life one more time

We never seem ready for this



It keeps on haunting me day after day. Am I

going about things the right way

Which truth's to pass and with which truth's to say

It's all so hard I'm just so damn afraid

Had about as much as I can take.

So little left here to live for

By the time my life is at its end.

I'll want it back



[chorus]



I need the chance to live my life one more time

Give me the chance to live my life one more time