Expression in Laymen’s Terms

The Wisdom of Accumulation

I keep wondering if they’ve thought about the top and what goes on inside their heads
They got so much money and the power to move worlds but somehow they can’t seem to see an end

How about an arms race where 4000 warheads is considered a weakened state and it just isn’t enough when you got the power to totally melt the world to me it makes no sense at all

They build it up and build it up like they think there’s something up there they build it up and build it up do they really thing they’re going somewhere I wish I could tell them but again I find myself thinking No…

Now with that last bit about said about the way things are I’d like to propose something else
I like to take that power and the monsters and their money and scatter them all into the wind

They build it up and build it up like they think there’s something up there they build it up and build it up do they really thing they’re going somewhere I wish I could tell them but again I find myself singin No…

I See Fire

The bars on the windows don’t make me feel more secure it just reminds me that we’re trapped in here
When I blink lately I see fire and if I keep them closed I’m free for a while
And there’s black but with stars of gold and the hint of something better that these streets now hold Something complete and a chance to believe and now I’m stronger since I see fire woah

I see fire burning I see fire burning I see fire burning Can you smell the hope
I see fire burning I see fire burning now we’re tearing up their shitty fuckin world

We met a short prophet with soot on her face standing on a box and screaming at the sky
I’m just once small voice but like a beacon of light I’ve drawn you to me to even up the score
I got hand full of matches and a heart of gold I’ve had this vision from out in the cold but that will change when I make you believe I’ve called you all together cause I see fire woah

You can’t defeat us or come between us but you may join us as we watch it burn

More Heart

Hey Joe I was listening and I want you to know I understand
It’s been my pleasure and my pain to contemplate your words
My pleasure cause I experience love my curse because your hurt goes off straight into my heart

Sing it… Cause I’ve got more heart… You can’t take that away… I’ve got more heart

Dear Jane it’s been too long since we’ve written or we’ve spoke
There was I time I used to care what everyone would think but now if you’re wondering about my heart you won’t have to look too far I wear it on my sleeve

Let’s go… I’ve got more heart… you can’t take it away… My empathy’s my strength Cause I’ve got more heart

I’ve got more heart I’ve got more heart I’ve got more heart than any of you

See Through

You're see through I can see through you You're see through I can see through you
I can see through I can see through your lies I can see through I can see through your lies
But what I can't do when I see through you I can't see through I can't see through your eyes
You're see through I can see through you You're see through I can see through you

I find it hard to understand what it is you think your doing or what it is you'll actually gain do you think you can trick the whole world and no-one will see that you’re a supercharged wraith I know what your doing and your tactics make me laugh but there’s people who don’t and that’s just fuckin sad You’re not out to save the world you’re not gonna give it a chance your the drunk behind the wheel of 20,000 tanks. You control what I see on my television and when I’ve called you on your occlusion you’ve even tried even tried to blind this punk on a mission but your pepper-spray has just sharpened my vision

It’s not cause I’ve got x-ray eyes it’s more about the fact that I’m so sensitive to lies
All you’ve managed to do is split the world in 2 and fatten your pockets but your profits won’t last the support that you gain is gonna spike and then crash cause you’ve taught all your cattle to revolve around cash
And even if you manage to stay on top for a while it’s rising up like my anger and bile
up from the streets all around you in through the same cracks I can see through and like water expands when the freeze up comes get my meaning it’s time to run

We’re in the midst of historical times looking back you won’t believe your eyes Stand up take warning another dictator’s on the rise another Mussolini with the world in his eyes.
You try to hold us down with deceit and lies but I’m not blind… Fuck you! I can see through you

Senseless

As the sun comes up and clears the fog
I can see the cracked promise and the cracked once was
of this urban sprawl
But the sun’s only literal and I can only just see and the fog will be back to cover even me and oh I will be

Blinded by the lies of the media and deafened by the drone of your pop culture the tasteless exploitation of those in need and the overwhelming stench of your rotting brains add to that the fact that we’ve all gone numb a bunch of fuckin junkies on a dead end run you may feel the same as me but oh can’t you see.

You’ve been beaten senseless by society and your freedoms thoughts and actions have been suppressed You’ve been beaten senseless, You’ve been beaten senseless, You’ve been beaten senseless by society.

Now that the false promise has filled your eyes and your ears are blocked by that deafening noise do you have a chance at all... no. You might think yes and you might try but as you get old your Ideals will die like the youth before.

Beaten by confusion and a thousand views, pulled in ten directions by those around you tested by institutions that will teach you there solutions paid for by a system that can’t afford to let you see that everything you think that you know at all has been written or approved by those in charge of your house, your job and your school and your food no don’t be fooled

Green Soldier

Well your dumb Uncle Sam has decided what's right and your Nazi dad says that you should go fight
You weren't sure why you were to do what you do but you didn’t actually think they were gonna tell you
That the only thing you actually represent is big business interests in a foreign land
Now you’re in a ditch alone with your thoughts this is one line you shouldn’t have bought

But it's time to go someone's gonna die but now you know your not sure why
Across the wire you see them line the lines and that they're just green soldiers molded in tan

Hey Green Soldier what are you fighting for Drop your gun and stop this war

Turn around you don’t have to die the real enemy is behind you
Pay attention and you’d realize creators of hate are what drive both sides
And has it occurred to you that those other guys have been lied to too.
They learned about god and they learned about truth and tricked into hating people like you.

You've got him now he's in your sights is your conscience gone he doesn't have to die
There’s at least one thing that you have in common it’s that you’ve all been lied to for your whole lives

Drain

The spray off the bus wheels makes him think he’s standing by the sea and coincidentally he really could be swept away
Down the Street in to the gutter towards the grate and down the drain
Washed away forgotten we didn’t need him anyway and

when he falls we’ll ignore him just the same

It’s not my responsibility we need the money to build bombs
We’ll throw away the weak our sick and our insane
It’s not my responsibility
It’s your responsibility
It’s not my responsibility
It’s your responsibility

One hit of the wrong shit and she doesn’t get a chance to scream
the poison dart stays in her arm as she slips from the light of day
Would a place to shoot have saved her when the tracks finally reached her heart
She hits the ground forgotten as the drugs rip her life out
And when she falls you’ll ignore her just the same

It’s not my responsibility we need the money to build bombs
We’ll throw away the weak our sick and our insane
It’s not my responsibility
It’s your responsibility
It’s not my responsibility
It’s your responsibility

You’re part of a social contract as a citizen of the world and when they fall you pick them up again.

It’s not my responsibility we need the money to build bombs
We’ll throw away the weak our sick and our insane
It’s not my responsibility
It’s your responsibility
It’s not my responsibility
It’s your responsibility

Expression in Laymen's Terms

I wake up in disarray and put on the same clothes
it’s been this way now for 15 days and I’ve got this feeling that my life’s a fuckin waste and
I wish that someone would put me out of my misery.

My hands shake just slightly and all my former friends avoid me
I’ll keep on running until exhaustion destroys me
You can avoid me but you can’t ignore me
I’ll keep this game up until it destroys me

I stumble out into the street and then I just fuckin stand there
I’d step in front of a bus but I can’t even bother and
when I’ve had enough of doing absolutely nothing
I take out my frustration on someone else’s property.

My hands shake just slightly and all my former friends avoid me
I’ll keep on running until exhaustion destroys me
You can avoid me but you can’t ignore me
I’ll keep this game up until it destroys me

Is it Enough

It’s been so long since I felt like I had it right
but I’ve got three strong reasons I’ll be alright tonight.
Two’ve got guitars and the others got my back.
I know what you’re thinking, will it be enough?

Is it enough, is the music enough, is it enough, well it’s enough for me

The amps go off and I feel like I’ve been dropped
I can’t help thinking I wanna stay inside that chorus.
There’s only one thing that’s ever kept me from harm
it’s my one true love and my favorite place to go.

Is it enough, is the music enough, is it enough, well it’s enough for me