We've been abandoned Yeah, we've been left behind Red hot daggers in Our conscious through the long cold night Are we growing ugly? Are we Wasting time? Tell me...

The last words I heard before I slammed the door "You gotta be humble in this life" But my shoulders tell me that ain't right As I race down the stairs and step...

This marks the return of a threat that we should have never taken Back: To live our lives with unwavering intent and in the spirit of a New romance Growing up i...

We were young, numb, and violent all at once We were always smashing Glass but it was never enough to make us feel OK Are we normal boys? Is this the normal way...

Force fed from the outside We live a crowded life it seems Fragile Minds in a fast paced world Can't compute the images coming through The screens Can't seem to...

Making come true our modest impossible dreams Stuck in public school classrooms at age 15 Those long hot days just before the summer Knowing that we're stuck he...

We've been climbing uphill together, For three years and counting Life kicks us when we're down but we, We just keep trying What else can we do? Dwell on the pa...

This is a lesson in letting your guard down Sometimes open arms are an invitation for disaster So next time, I'll trust my fucking instincts Next time you come ...

Is it wrong to want to walk away when every day of your life looks Like today and today looks like a rotting lifeless gray? I don't know Where things went wrong...

The grass was never green There was never purity Some say it's all over stupid fucking jaded burnouts Young ones: carry on Destroy and annoy Hey! Hey! Hey! He...

I promised myself I wouldn't lead you on So here it is confused and flawed As foolish as these words may seem As foolish as I may be See, I'm just a factory wo...

No, this is not what we wanted Yes, this is all that we've got Listen to the streets in this town And you'll hear a plea for dignity in a life without It's near...

In this life there are no clean breaks But starting again is a chance that you can take I always thought that someday we would overcome the bad luck And from th...

The neighbor boy is home from the war His father's pride It spills across the factory floor And Jimmy, in the paper, I saw you Holding that gun And I read the i...

How did it feel to fail? How did it feel to feel? All of those times, We tried our very hardest, and our best was never good enough for Them Well, those days ha...

Driving in from the edge of town Ice cold winter sun is going down And I'm staring just the way I used to through that dirty all night restaurant window Just th...

Martin, I've seen the ones you oughta bleed They've been driving around in their big stylish cars Well, I think they oughta feel your pain Yeah I think they oug...

I sit on my roof and I smoke Stare across the street at the funeral home And drive out past the factories on the gravel roads where it gets so dark And I can se...

Down the old staircase I'm walking out the door I feel lost here Tonight, everything has changed since that summer before Stumbling Forward I'm glancing back Th...

Punching that clock Finding solace in your hidden thoughts Taking orders from fucking fools Everything about it grinds down on you Just do what you gotta do to ...

How did it feel to twice become a saint? How did it feel to twice be burned at the stake? Did you fly too high like icarus? Did you run to fast? Did you give to...

It's a good life if you don't weaken (so I won't weaken) And I'm a kid with a history of confusion The life that was pushed upon me Was one I could never lead C...

This is ambition: as ugly as it gets Uncommon kids and their fight Against an early death by common sense This is motivation: free of Contempt Our generation ha...

My name is Stagger Lee And I'm walking through the ice and snow And my girl threw me out last week and I'm fucking broke Only got a starter in my pocket and my...

We came crashing down, right on time, Like the twenty-ninth of twenty nine Days spent down on our knees, Watching stolen soil sift through our fingers So what t...

Perfect peace in solitude Perfect Peace in the crowd Do you see yourself in me the way I see myself in you? In everything I do I'm always cashing you Bursting w...

So what the fuck are you going to do, kid? Still ratting at the chains of the gates of the world But you can't quite pretend Still tasting youth's bitter exile...

Sustained by madness Sustained by Darkness Heroes and Fuck-ups bounding through time I sit alone I raise a strong drink To your songs Your words in think black ...

Cut through the haze The loneliness won't last Staring down the future Choking down the past Time is of the essence Watch the clock tick Youth is a waiting roo...

Between the world and me: pressure-splitting seams Imminent danger in The headlines Glamour on the TV Chasing fools gold Growing cold Drowning in anxiety Lack o...

Another new beginning: down the fucking drain Screaming "never again" As we watch it wash away God Damn Disappointment sure does have a Way of adding up But it'...

I'm walkin' past liquor stores and immigrant homes Check into cash And men with eyes like ghosts As boys we were taught to dream in stacks and rows Cause to dre...

I'm in an awful state It's getting late and I'm full of question My overactive mind has been wastin' all my time So I've been wandering aimless every night and ...