Foreword

Why are we still here 

What keeps bringing us back

I'll never know or be able to answer that
 
Spent 20 years in basements and all these crowded bars 
 
I've experienced love I've experienced loss 
 
Given up on the idea of an ordinary life
 
I've fell apart in the break of never ending blurry highway lines 
 
Any mile marker could have been my permanent address 
 
Spent countless nights locked in with brothers arm and arm

Ive seen blood, traded tears for the feeling of comfort and the safety of warmth
 
At this station I'm not sure how much more I can offer

Like a cancer it feeds off of me
 
It always knows when I'm down 
 
Always there to pick me up help me carry on for another round
 
I've experienced love I've experienced loss

Foreword

Honestly in 10 years you never turned me off
That happens to me way too often these days 

There was never a time You didn't kiss me back
And I never asked for more

Even though we're fighting and calling an end
You still make my heart drop like the days when this began

Chorus
I think back to the days 
When we shared the same house
There was a point when I looked up over the railing
You were all done up for your night on the town
Verse 
Instantly I froze there 
I still have you framed in my head

Holding you was always my fav
You fit perfectly under my chin

Forever yours
I'm left with forever is trust
I could tear this town apart filling that void with lust

That's not the point of this
It's about the one who gave up and ran away
You always be stuck in me 
Like the ink that I can't wash from my skin
Chorus
I think about the beginning 
We were on our way
We made a beautiful life together
I cherish her every day
She will always be ours 
You can never take that away
She will always be ours 
Outro
I will raise and love her
You can't stand the sight of my face
She'll always be the piece of me that you see everyday
I hope she reminds you 
Nothing perfect can ever stay
And that love dies
Just like flowers left in an empty vase

The Great Domestic Divide

You got blood dripping from your nose
You're not fooling anyone
Might be a verse here very undecided
 Pre chorus
you thought that you would be over it 
By now
You thought you would be over it
Verse
No dr's or medicine that can cure your disease 
There's no pills or prescriptions
To give you the help you need
Pre chorus
you thought that you would be over it 
By now
You thought you would be over it
Chorus
Never any truth in your crooked smile
Never any honesty in the un even line
Never any truth in your crooked smile
Never any honesty in the uneven line
 Bridge
Never any answers at the bottom of a bottle
Never any answers just wasted time
Never any answers at the bottom of this bottle
Never any answers just wasted time
 Pre chorus
you thought that you would be over it 
By now
You thought you would be over it
 Chorus
Never any truth in your crooked smile
Never any honesty in the un even line
Never any truth in your crooked smile
Never any honesty in the uneven line
Never any answers at the bottom of a bottle
Never any answers just wasted time
Never any answers at the bottom of this bottle
Never any answers just wasted time
 Outro
Wasted 
Wasted 
Wasting time
 
Wasted
WastedWasting timeSo fuckingWasted Wasted Wasting timeWastedWastedWasting my tim

Snake Oil Salesman

Freedom Rock

We've said things that I may keep until I pass
Dehydrated, blistered hands and sunburned skin
There's no way that we will ever last

Pre Chorus
Treading water we're burning energy
We're honestly going nowhere fast
Treading water we're burning energy

Chorus
The River sure did rage
Made us realize
The importance of these days
This could be it for us I say
Strong chance
That it might end here tonight

Verse
Stupid choices led us here
As we sat on the banks paying for our mistakes
The sky opened up and cast its punishment
all over our dirty face

Pre Chorus
Treading water we're burning energy
We're honestly going nowhere fast
Treading water we're burning energy

Chorus
The River sure did rage
Made us realize
The importance of these days
This could be it for us I say
Strong chance
That it might end here tonight

Outro
I never want to walk down that road again with you
Suddenly you realize just how much you miss your shoes


Prison Wolf

To the lost on their own
Hope they find their mistaken souls
To the lost on their own 
Dear humble Holy Ghost 
 
Pre chorus
So they dance
With two broken feet
Here in our corners alone
It's the safest retreat
 
Chorus
Spinning and spinning
Round and round
Helping hands pull us up 
Only to knock us down
Crawling and scraping
At the ground
Helping hands pull us up
Only to knock us down
 
Verse
To the lost on their own
Hope they find their mistaken souls
These are the decisions that they made alone
Our humble Holy Ghost
 
Pre chorus
So they dance
With two broken feet
Here in our corners alone
It's the safest retreat
 
Chorus
Spinning and spinning
Round and round
Helping hands pull us up 
Only to knock us down
Crawling and scraping
At the ground
Helping hands pull us up
Only to knock us down
 

To The Lost

Well you wanted a reaction

Sorry to say this is the best you get from me
 
You're a consequence of your own actions 
 
When did five years become these past seventeen 
 
Heavy is the head that wears that crown 
 
So tell me who's calling who out now

Chorus
I still remember the smell of that basement 
 
I remember the railroad tracks, the wet pavement
 
Standing under the street lights 
 
Where you saved me

Verse 2
Cold night on the beach 
 
A tired lifeless body lay at our feet
 
His soul was already tortured and raised

Peaceful and calm while the chemicals set the pace

Chorus x2
I still remember the smell of that basement 
 
I remember the railroad tracks, the wet pavement
 
Standing under the street lights 
 
Where you saved me x4
 
Bridge
You never quit and I never stopped trying x4

Outro
95 is when you saved me (it all came crashing down ) x4

5 - 17 - 33

Just Say Nice Things

(Quiet)
Please lower me down gently 

Always try to say nice things when my name comes up

Remember our conversations

Yeah know I was always a little off ( a little louder )

(Normal Beat)
Sometimes too detached 

I promise you all that it wasn't your fault
There was something wrong internally with my wires
They were always perpetually crossed ( long swell )

(Full On Loud & Driving)
I could never explain this

Better yet maybe I never tried

I reveled in the silence and the isolation

Somehow always finding a way to hide
 

Just Say Nice Things

Take it back to square one
caught up in your own delusion
you're never getting out
you always bury yourself
a constant game of catch up
will you ever wake up
you're never getting out
you always bury yourself
Chorus
you always seem to bury yourself
when will you open closed eyes
you always seem to bury yourself
you do what you can to scrape by
Verse
we're tired of living hand to mouth
we sacrifice sleep for a living
how will you tell your friends your family
i've never felt this empty before
nothing left inside of me
Chorus
you always seem to bury yourself
when will you open closed eyes
you always seem to bury yourself
you do what you can to scrape by
Bridge
Fall risk I can make you fall for me
fall risk I can bring you down with me
fall risk you're never what you seem
Outro
Fall risk
such a fall risk
I'm a fall risk....................I'll bring you down with me

Gunner's Daughter