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Never Coming Home
03:41
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Take a good look.
Take a deep breath.
Take your last steps.
Walk it all back.
Walk the first day.
Walk your first steps.
See them grow up.
See them fall down.
See them move on.
Call your last friends.
Call your ex-wife.
Call your lost kids.
See if they call back.
You think they’ll call back?
We’ll see.
We’ll see if they come back home.
Come Home
Nothing really changes, it’s like we’re trading places.
We’ll see if they come back home.
Nothing really changes except our hands and faces.
We’ll see if they come back home.
Knew it from the start, you got a sickness in your heart.
We’ll see if they come back home.
And if they come home, would they find you alone, talking at holes in the wall?
When they talk back, does it sound like a laugh?
The past reaches through it all, and if it reaches any more it would find you on the floor.
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2. |
Witness
03:33
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With the past as our witness and the future our judge, we all will take the stand for the hurt that we’ve done. Find your god, find your heart, find your innocence.
And then rip it out.
I’m like a dream waking up seeing I wasn’t real.
I’m like these stripped down walls–I don’t know how to feel.
I’m like a song written wrong but the band plays on. And the band plays on.
One rough start…a worse end.
Witnesses, start praying again.
No one else is here, let it go.
I can’t be your light on. I can’t.
But if I can’t be your light, I will find you in the dark.
Count backwards starting from ten.
Do we really go alone in the end?
Take a breath, let it out, now do it again.
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3. |
Barely Hanging On
04:50
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I waited up all night for you to get it right.
You want to see my world? See everywhere I go?
I’ll leave the door unlocked so you don’t have to knock.
I waited up all night.
Every night I still wait for severance.
Every night you still prey on emptiness.
Can’t you see that nothing is here? It’s all gone.
Disowned life, disowned heart, and the list goes on.
Talking back, starting fights, talking lies, waiting up, wanting more, giving less.
No one sees you like I see you in me.
I just want you to know it’s okay.
And you know there’s no way anyone can take you home.
We all die alone.
But no one cares like I care when you’re gone.
No one knows that you’re even gone.
2010. You’re back again, this time a bit older.
You haven’t slept.
Your love’s been kept in between these boulders.
You ring it out.
The waves call out, they feel you reaching for her.
No one sees you like I see you in me. And I see.
I just want you to know it’s okay.
And you know there’s no way anyone can take you home.
We all die alone.
But no one cares like I care when you’re gone.
No one knows that you’re even gone.
I waited up all night, til you could get it right.
You want to see my world? See everywhere I go?
But it’s done. I’m gone. I’m lost. I’m barely hanging on… I waited up all night.
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4. |
Go Cold
03:41
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We drew maps on the walls so you could follow us out.
God made different plans for our hearts.
But we’re no god fearing men, we don’t pray when we should.
God wouldn’t hear it if we did.
Last time I checked, there’s a stain where the rooms connect.
From the floor to the walls, you were never gonna give up your home.
And that’s all that’s left. That’s all you are.
And they ripped you up and threw you out like you were nothing at all.
That’s all that’s left. That’s all you are.
We turn to relics of flesh from some god that we’ve wronged.
Last time I checked, there’s a stain where the rooms connect.
From the floor to the walls, you were never gonna give up your home.
They say god made different plans for our hearts.
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5. |
Disappear
03:58
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If it’s not the same, then you should be leaving. Not staying and pleading for your own sake.
If you’re not to blame, then I guess I’m taking the faults of whomever that wants to share.
It’s just not giving. Threats aren’t worth taking. And words aren’t worth saying when you can’t hear. The clocks are all breaking. The home of our making is sold to the liars and cowards that all disappear when you fall into emptiness.
I’m getting home, I’m getting drunk. I’m writing words that could be your thoughts.
I’m supposed to stop, I’m supposed to be something better than you could be.
I’m wide awake, I’m all alone. I’m on the floor and I don’t see your call. I want to leave. I want to fall. I want to close my eyes and disappear.
Disappear.
There are no more yesterdays. No tomorrows–just today forever.
No passed on, no rest in peace. Just a single word that turns our lives into a flat line.
Ripped into a space where nothing stops our minds from burning–
Can’t repeat the words you said.
Can’t recall a time when this was really worth the thought.
Can’t repeat the words you said.
Can’t recall a time when everything was in its place, and everyone was thankful for all the time that they had left, and for all that wasn’t ruined.
Can’t repeat the words you said can’t recall a time when can’t recall the words you said–
Language is homogenous.
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6. |
Reprieve
05:00
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Been awhile since we’ve been speaking.
Been awhile since you’ve been drinking.
Fifty years come and gone.
Now we’re tracing back each line to a time when you weren’t caught up.
To a time when you were happy.
I don’t think that we can go back, and I don’t think that it’s worth trying.
Nothing’s there. It’s washed away, and the ocean never stays the same.
But you can still see where the waves crest, a kid that’s not done living.
Living everyday feeling sorry for yourself… you’re gonna have to get up and tell someone else.
I’m losing hope.
I’m just wishing that you’re gonna hear me.
I’m just wishing that you’re gonna see me.
I’m just wishing that you’re gonna love me.
I’m just hoping that you see.
You should know your kids don’t blame you.
You should know that we’re just tired.
We lost our fight, our resolve. And now we’re losing all our words.
Cause we know you won’t go quickly.
And we know you won’t go easy.
Living everyday feeling sorry for yourself… you’re gonna have to get up and tell someone else.
I’m losing hope.
I’m just wishing that you’re gonna hear me.
I’m just wishing that you’re gonna see me.
I’m just wishing that you’re gonna love me.
I’m just hoping that you see.
Looking at yourself at the end of the day, you think you worked real hard? What am I gonna say?
I think you lost your love. It flew away.
You took the chance to leave when you should have stayed.
No one’s gonna blame you when you’re gone, and no one's gonna tell you you were wrong.
We all just have to wait for that fucking call where they tell us that they found you dead in the hall.
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7. |
Take Flight
04:01
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Another scream pulled me out of sleep.
Down the hall? Or was it in my dreams?
Or maybe it’s nothing more–waking up always feels worse than it did the day before.
Like a dream thrown down a well.
Liquid fear I cannot expel.
Only drink, only think of a way I can get back to sleep.
I take the long way home to keep you out of my head.
I’m stuck with you like the fly tangled up in the web.
Nothing stays like the hurt of a loved one’s haunt, and nothing leaves like you left when the love was gone.
No reprieve when the words get said.
No remorse for the life we shed.
Just counting lines twenty times so my words will be what they preach.
Or what they hide.
I take the long way home to keep you out of my head.
I’m stuck with you like the fly tangled up in the web.
Nothing stays like the hurt of a loved one’s haunt, and nothing leaves like you left when the love was gone.
When the love was gone, you flew away.
And in the time past, I can now see what I did to me.
And what I did to you, what I did to everyone I ever knew.
True pain doesn’t leave. True hurt always stays. So you live with it, care for it, love it, or pain will up and carry you away.
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8. |
Find Your God
04:02
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No one lives without a cost.
You default? Die with your word.
Hope they’re worth it.
You owe a debt, and you should have paid.
I can’t help. Nobody can.
You’re on your own.
And what’s it like? You parted the veil.
Are we gone? Are we just lost?
Not gone, just lost.
Call my name. I’ll call yours out.
Through the wind, we’ll be at peace.
Hey, I’m not all gone. I’m not quite done.
I’m still just waiting for the fear to take me home.
Hey, if it’s your fault, then it’s mine too.
I’m still just waiting for the fear to take me home.
Call my name. I’ll call yours out.
Through the wind, we’ll be at peace.
Hey, I’m not all gone. I’m not quite done.
I’m still just waiting for the fear to take me home.
Hey, if it’s your fault, then it’s mine too.
I’m still just waiting for the fear to take me home.
Waiting for a god that burned his throne.
We were always meant to see that the true heart of humanity is finding love when we hurt all the time.
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9. |
Hurt All The Time
05:26
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I put that hole in the wall. I told a lie. I told you that it wasn’t my fault.
But I think I knew just where you’d be. I think I was trying to set you free.
Your arms the walls, your legs the floor. Your words ring out, but will ring no more.
The lights go out. The heat won’t hold. We shut the door and your soul goes cold.
We sold you to the first guy who came along and put down his name.
But when he stops and looks he might see…
… he might see that you’re creeping up the walls and out of this old home.
And it’s hard that you’re leaving. Going somewhere words could never go.
But I’ll still try. I’m still singing. Do you hear it even as you go?
Close your eyes. It’s like dreaming, or so they say, but I don’t buy a word.
And when time grows old,
And the world goes cold,
Will I see god’s hands?
Or will we be opened up then the screen cuts to black?
Cause your death taught me that this life is not free.
We won’t walk away from the sins of our pasts or the ghosts of the family tree.
I don’t wanna go cold I don’t wanna let go I don’t wanna go cold I don’t wanna let go I don’t wanna go cold I don’t wanna let go I don’t wanna go cold I don’t wanna let go I don’t wanna go
With the past as our witness and future our judge, we all take the stand for the hurt that we’ve done. And as that time comes I do hope that you see that your love never left and you finally can be free.
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