The Way

The Way - Comes the Void

Whispers and dreams.
Terrified screams.
I’m going to find my way home.

Faceless and raw
The weight of it all.
Take me where I belong

Sinister days
Tangled in haze
The path behind me is gone

Palindrome tears
And sacrificed years
I’m going to find my way home

Find My Way Home

Late last night I got the call.  I hadn’t heard the news.
Years have passed since we last spoke, but still I’ve thought of you.
We held the music in our hands back when we were young
Still the band keeps playing on, though the crowds are gone,

Waiting for the funeral, somehow make it through 
We’re all here, together now, this tribe of misspent youth
Waiting for this trip to end, let’s all meet at the lake.
 Our hope lives on, the crowds have gone, the band, they could not wait

If we dream of spoken words, will our voices echo, rhyme?
as the pictures fade, how can we brave another time?
Another of our tribe has cleared the way 
I hope that I’m not last.  
For now the band is back in tune and the music plays so fast.
One more chance don’t let it pass.  I hope it hasn’t passed 
‘cause the music plays so fast 
 The music played so fast
But the music played too fast
The music played too fast

Tribe Of Misspent Youth Version 3

Occupy

Colonize

Life should be a little easier, I heard the young man say.
Time is an just a promise, thoughts of better days
Can’t pay the rent, can’t pay the bills, can’t buy the baby’s food
Everything is falling down and there’s nothing I can do
It’s all too much

It’s all too much
Can’t win this game 
We are the weak
We are the rage

It’s all too much
Can’t find a way
Out of this mess
It’s all too much
It’s all too much

Our failing hopes deceive us, with promises of light (life)
The battles fought between us, and the ravages of night.
The theory of the leisure class, a payment overdue
I swear I did every thing that they told me to 
It’s all too much


It’s all too much
Can’t win this game 
We are the weak
We are the rage

It’s all too much
Can’t find a way
Out of this shit
It’s all too much
It’s all too much


Fingers to the bone
Ripping out my heart (gripping in my heart)
Serpent’s gripped around the blade
Tearing me apart

Strangled in the noose tonight by blind hypocrisy
Tape my mouth and cut my throat 
My silence will not be
It’s all too much

It’s all too much
Can’t find a way
Out of this shit
Out of this maze

It’s all too much
Can’t win this game
It’s all too much
It’s all too much

Days of rage, death of greed
Riots in the streets
Another strike at the heart of the system
Social mobility
Tragedy and the common man
What has happened to the American dream?
Everything is falling apart
Justice quarantined 


It’s all too much

Disorderly Conduct (It's All Too Much)

Thirteen men,
On patrol
Firefight
Ambushed from behind

Bullets fly
Shattered bone
Blood red sands
Will we survive this night?

The coward dies a thousand times, but the valiant face death once.
To the glorious sounding, the haze of early morn’s light
Tommy’s boot is filled with blood
A round straight through his thigh
Do what we must to find another way home

Was this our fate?
Blood upon this land
Blood upon this land


Know we’ll die
Our last stand
Time has come
Shells are raining down

Destiny?
Infantry
Nicotine
Mental poisoining


The coward dies a thousand times but the valiant taste death once
To the glorious sounding, the haze of early morn’s light

Tommy’s wound is getting worse
Alverez just died
One last chance to find another way home

Kill the man, take the land
Find another way home
Follow orders and fight the demons inside
Make our stand to flee this land
Watch my best friends die
Do what we must
We’ll find another way home

Nicotine (Find Another Way Home)

Intro
Not the world I left behind
This is not my home
Brothers fight and mothers cry
This is not the way

Verse 1
Fault lines
Fractured society
Now choose your side
We must find our way

Isolate
The media distorts
Demonstrate
Destroy those in the way

Chorus
I search this great divide
I don’t know if you ever knew me
You don’t know how this feels, how I feel inside

I search great divide
I wonder if you ever loved me
You don’t know what it means, how hard I try

Verse 2
I see you
And you see me
The battle rages on
Can we find our way?

Parallel lives
Divided we can’t stand
Separate
Seems the only way

Disengage
Seems the only way

Bridge
We’ve lost our way
The space is growing
We’ve lost our way
The cracks are showing

The window closing

Chorus
I search this great divide
I don’t know if you even see me
You don’t know what I want, what I need inside

I search this great divide
No more chance to come together
There’s nothing left of us, nothing left to find

Pandemic (The Great Divide) Mastered

A new age of empires,
A new age of empires,
A new age of empires arrives

The ground it rumbles under blood red skies
The invasion has begun
Soldiers now marching to the drums of war
Any resistance quickly overcome

An operation, a mission of peace
It’s just diplomacy
We came here with valor to free this land
A savior from oversees

A new age of empires arrives

I try to remember how it used to be
Remember those faces in the night
I try to remember how it used to be
Remember those faces in the night







Buildings crumble as the missiles fall 
The bringer of the sun
Centuries of horror on this hallowed ground
This is just another one

Bodies lay littered on these shattered streets
A nation under siege
A hundred thousand dead in the blink of an eye
They say the strong must rule the weak

A new age of empires,
A new age of empires,
A new age of empires arrives

Not long ago as the path unfolds
I pledged my life
Just a young man with a wife at home
Seven months of living fear,
I volunteered
To serve my country and protect the world
They said that we would be liberators
Come young man 
Help destroy this evil and save this land
But all I see is the blood I’ve spilled
I’ve done my time
Don’t know if I’m ever going home

All of these men will know my name
All of the heroes
And all those faces
All of these horrors I can’t take away
They will know my
They will know my
They will know my name


I try to remember how it used to be
Remember those faces in the night
I try to remember how it used to be
Remember those faces in the night

A new age of empires,
A new age of empires,
A new age of empires arrives

A new age of empires,
A new age of empires,
A new age of empires arrives

A new age of empires arrives

Find My Way Home

Steve Purtee