Now you see me
Differences of opinion
Matters supersede
Why would I be quiet
This isn't destiny
Stop acting like it's set in stone
It's a matter of mentality
Not presidency over home
If you could get by
Without cutting throats
Do you see a reason not to try
Because I don't
Shouldn't you **** up your pride
Work it out

You've never seen a life so worthless
I thought every life meant something
But everybody's on their own
Taking shots at the fall of Rome
There isn't a reason for you to try
Maybe you should just
Sit back
For the ride

The world's run on greed
So it's **** your needs
For the American dream
I mean, take a  look at Steve
He doesn't care you're starving lean
And honestly why should he
When he's got a new car
Does big things at work
Then goes off to the bar
Gets drunk with forty friends
Then goes home to his wife on the fringe
While you're stuck out in the cold
What's life, and what's home
Welcome to the world where you'll never know

You've never seen a life so worthless
I thought every life meant something
But everybody's on their own
Taking shots at the fall of Rome
There isn't a reason for you to try
Maybe you should just
Sit back
For the ride

Why should we pay to feed
It's just a basic necessity
Can we barter, at least
Not everybody can eat
Each man's your brother
Each woman a sister
Oh, but why bother
We're just needless wishers

I've never seen a life that's worthless
Every life always meant something
Nobody should be on their own
We could stop the fall of Rome
There isn't a reason you shouldn't try
You can't just
Sit back
For the ride

She made a shoe maker into a king
With just a nod, a smile, and a wink
Maybe just only for a day
They had created their
Kingdom come
But while his hands were tattered
And old
Her hands were the softest
And destined
To be
Great

Not quite eighteen so time's still a lot
But not quite sure how I'll use it
Should I spend what I have as I keep going
Or take from the past and put it forward
I think too much and maybe
I laugh too little but
Time has told me to plan ahead
Several months have aged me beyond what I was
Seeing things now for what they are
Instead of what I want

I notice there's some pain in me
Maybe I use it to elevate
My mind and ideas, it seems
It holds me down
If this is your decree
Just make some sound
Heal me
With your hands
And with all of your heart
Or most, if you can
I don't pretend to deserve saviour
But oh, would I adore it
Your voice, with words like Heyward
Would you want to, if you could
Save me, that is
Do you believe in better good
Or am I lost like ashes
To ashes and then I fall
My future
My fate
Rests with you

You have loved yourself and no one else
And you see what it's doing to others
When all they want is to offer you help
A younger you felt your mother
Use her fingers over shoulder blades to trace
The spot where she figured angels insert wings
But now, grey and rough is in their place
Broken skin, pale face, the blood it brings

To see them on the streets and they look coldly
Upon you as you're beaten and grow older
And you wonder sometimes have you fallen from grace
Oh, the feeling it gives you at times
To think that you've come from a greater place
Perhaps it was such a great escape
What if you passed, fell through Heaven's lace
What's it like, dear, to be an angel incarnate

A little undisputed
But I never liked your words
You got your point across, yeah
But the point dug in and hurt
Words could scar me
Almost as bad as my arms
Still, did you imagine
What you'd say and how
Or when you sat me down
Did it all just come out

I really can't blame you
Of course it had to be done
You pointed out the flaws of mine
Slowly, one by one
And given is this chance to me
To change at once, for good
I won't really thank you though
Your ideas changed me enough
I'm now just a poor boy
Sore heart, but living new

As I sit down to think
I slowly close my eyes
To feel it flow openly
It's been a little while
But it hasn't been easy
I'm going out of my mind
It was so good for my body
To let the air ******* blood
So why count the days since
I can't use angry thoughts
They can't help me abstain
From making dark red blots

Pills and drinks don't mix
Knives are just a problem
Doctors want a quick fix
But life's already awful
Self help clinics
With aggravating offers
But I don't see a fault line
So I don't have a problem

To me this is normal
So what's with all the drama
Can't you let me do this
Stop forcing help like cough drops
Medicine's no answer
It's simply not a sickness
Scars will just scab over
Are your glasses so tinted
Let me deal with myself
And you go do your own stuff
Stop playing with my health
I mean, I'm still alive

Pills and drinks don't mix
Knives are just a problem
Doctors want a quick fix
But life's already awful
Self help clinics
With aggravating offers
But I don't see a fault line
So I don't have a problem

Not a mental condition
It's not what you're thinking
No mental remission
Just a lack of a feeling
I simply don't care
For friends that are leaving
I don't even need them
Just less reason for me to bleed
A global indifference
That's not new to me
It causes no problems
But I can't seem to dream

Pills and drinks don't mix
Knives are just a problem
Doctors want a quick fix
But life's already awful
Self help clinics
With aggravating offers
But I don't see a fault line
So I don't have a problem

It's hard for me
To understand
How we all think
We've got time on our hands
We like to live
Like we're dying slow
But in reality
We've never lived at all

i can feel the space between our hearts
in the earth beneath my feet
and know that where emotions lay
distance will never steal
into your night like i would
and i'll be there while you sleep
if you close your eyes
feel my chest, hear me speak
i'll trace patterns through your dreams
the spaces distance cannot steal

Jesus, I know this is unreasonable
It's always been the dumb little things
That I'm never good at picking up on
And I'll admit, I saw some of it before
But now the comparisons are creeping in
When set alone it's insignificant
And it wasn't even a lie at that
At most you bent the truth a bit

She bent the truth around her fingertip
Every small thing added up
And eventually I had noticed
But by then it was out of control
I get ******* in people so easily
It's a weakness that I try to avoid
I really hope that I'm wrong about this
But I can't help but panic that you're lying

'You should inspire yourself'
Said a councilor at one time
'Inside you will find what you need'
And clearly he said the right lines
Finding myself empty was harsh
And it woke me from my sleep
And instead you all filled me in
Your hopes are now my dreams

Because I don't live for myself
And I don't think that I will
I'm just not a worthy cause
And I won't bother to heal
'You should follow your heart'
But what does that even mean
I've written my future off
And your wish is my command

To say what you want me to
Or do what you'd ask of me
As long as I'm of some use
I permit you to use me
If you should deem me worthy
My servitude becomes a drug
My function is inspiration
Your master-ship shows love

I may be on hands and knees
But it's for the pursuit of heart
I simply follow your leadership
I state that it guides my soul
By now I find that I'm wrong
But I'm just too afraid
If I seek out a better purpose
Then your love is betrayed

What can be said of a man who never sleeps
Than perhaps he lives a fuller life?
Yet, a lesser would seem more fitting
When every moment woken is a contemplation of wrongs
Breathing would lose purpose without dreams
All while nightmares paint on eyelids
Leaving each blink a tragedy
Bloodshot dementia crawls through your head
When all you dare ask for is a calmer scene
You lose faith in tasks and track of time
A moment slept becomes the silver stag
Sought after and grasped for but never caught
As the volume steadily groans about
Voices in and out with solemn style
Broken glass to feet leaves faint traces
But all feeling had since departed
You'd wonder, if thought weren't so illusive
Are you even awake at all?