RED/BLUE/BLACK/WHITE

Chase the night
Laced in light 
It’ll break the knife 
It’ll break the knife
It’ll break you

Nothing’s forever
I’ll never forget
Pacing long hallways
Filled with regret

Emptiness, permanence
Swallows me whole
Nothing can save me
I’ve sold my soul

This could be better
If I fall to my knees
Could it be better
When all I can see is

Chase the night
Laced in light 
It’ll break the knife 
It’ll break the knife
It’ll break you

Running from nothing
And everything same
Who am I
What am I
Nothing to gain

Every emotion tries to escape
Swallow down hard
As you run across yellow tape

This could be better
If I fall to my knees
Could it be better
When all I can see is

Red Blue Black and White

Chase the night
Laced in light 
It’ll break the knife 
It’ll break the knife
It’ll break you

EXIT WOUNDS

Only 20 broken and I’m non stop shaking and I 
keep shaking and I 
keep shaking 
only hoping that I won’t stop faking that I 
keep faking that I 
keep tracing 

Are you so different
Are you so different now


I am a non-believer
Left you all behind
Without a second place

I am a true deserter
But some things stay with you
Some things stay

I am the non believer 
I am the true deserter 
Watch out the past is teething  
Make sure the futures breathing 


I was given money so I stopped time thinking that I 
Stopped thinking that I 
stopped thinking
I was making wishes when you won’t stop facing a lie
stop facing a lie
stop facing 
If you would listen now 
But you won’t listen 
If you’d just listen now 
Just keep missing 


I am a non-believer
Left you all behind
Without a second place

I am a true deserter
But some things stay with you
Some things stay

FINAL NIGHT AT THE DUPLEX

I’m not a bad kid
Just toeing the line
We stand in circles
To pass the time

Another bust
Our final grand ball
You’ll self destruct all on your own
I’m not a bad kid
Just toeing the line
Between what’s theirs and what is mine

You say misfortune
Happens to the best
Natural disasters
Are part of the test

The waves keep coming
It’s part of the plan
The tide will calm again
I’m not a bad kid
Just toeing the line
I’m scared and know
It’s worse this time

I’ll die, die faster 
I know we’ll reunite again

ESCAPE FROM WIDE ISLAND

You sit there silently groaning
Impatient for me to numb
I brace myself for moving time
Oh, I wish you hadn’t gone

Oh, I wish you hadn’t gone
Wish you hadn’t 
Wish you hadn’t
Wish you hadn’t gone

I can feel you everywhere
Everywhere 

I can feel you everywhere
Everywhere
Everywhere

You watch by apprehensive
Fragile with what you say
As long as you stick to the script
I’ll get better some day

I’ll get better
I’ll get better
I’ll get better some day

I’ll get better
I’ll get better
I’ll get better some day

LIKE A WRAITH…

I’m out on a line
And pulling back

I’m not in my mind
But can’t see the past

I’m past that line
But you can see

I’m falling behind
The truth will find me

Stay with me
I’m learning 
I’m learning 

I was told the truth was why the teachers did their part
But they always seem so caught up in the fold where I became the fallen 

I was told the proof would make the preachers fall apart 
but they only seem to watch the young and 
prey when I would taste the fable 

Running in place
Can’t get on track

Fading away
And I’m never coming back

On thin ice
Cracked and frozen

Passing the time
To not feel broken

LAST CALL, FOR ANXIETY

Reaching
I keep reaching
I keep reaching
I was breathing 
But now I 

Save 
your days
Make them live up
But don’t wake me now

Take
A break
I won’t give up
But don’t leave me out

Why won’t you leave me now
Why don’t you hear me now
Why cant you see me now
Why won’t you be me

Why won’t you leave me now
Why dont you hear me now
Why cant you see me now
Why can’t you

Break apart their lives
Seek the hidden treasure
I can make them understand 
But I prefer the pain to measure
I became the only watchman
In a time when friends were dead
If I had a second chance 
I’d only put my men ahead

Maybe one more night
Take the learning lesson
I would etch them ever-present
But I guess I’ll wait for heaven
If takes a thousand trials (short) 
Besiege your son and never guess him
I’ll be waiting past the gates 
Another chance and I won’t miss it

I’ll just wet the beak and 
wait a week til i can 
see the floor beneath my feat and  
solve the problems then

Make me feel the heat and
Catch me in the street 
I won’t be faced with one
I’d rather wait and take on ten

Cuz I’m never gonna make em mine
Cuz em never gonna take a lie
No Im never gonna give it time 
I’d make them face the knife

take another bump of ice, 
(nights young)
pick another lover 
(die young)
make another mother cry of
just another case of 
(bad batches)

Reaching
I keep reaching
I keep reaching
I was breathing 
But now I 

Break apart their lives
Seek the hidden treasure
I can make them understand 
But I prefer the pain to pleasure
I became the only watchman
In a time when friends were dead
If I had a second chance 
I’d only put my men ahead

Maybe one more night
Take the learning lesson
I would etch them ever-present
But I guess I’ll wait for heaven
If takes a thousand trials
Besiege your son and never guess him
I’ll be waiting past the gates 
Another chance and I won’t miss it

DREAMS DYING ON A DANCE FLOOR

I am flesh and bone
All skin
Knees and toes
Hardwire overload
Just punch it in
And you’ll crack the code

And I’m running out of battery
Make love to an LED
Stuck to my hand like glue
Falling face-first into you
Swipe up if you’re feeling low
If you got no place to go
And I wish I could go back for more
Dreams dying on the dance floor

If you wanna feel something, 
Well hey
Better run away
Better run away

I was just in line 
all in all 
Stake the vantage of 
Open mind

It was just one time 
I saw more 
He said it’s alright 
Don’t you cry 

You are skin and guts
Play once
And you’ve had enough

Hollow empty core
Are you still there?
Lemme check your pulse

And I’m running out of battery
Can somebody please plug me
Swiper right if you feel inspired
And you’re not too flat out tired
Bet you wish you could go back for more
If your soul isn’t dry enough 
To fit in a plastic cup 
Dreams dying on a dancefloor

CAUGHT IN A TRAP

Small steps
Back and forth
No need to keep up

If you look closely
You’ll see that they’re all stopped

Frozen in time
Frozen in place
Frozen in mind
At the same old pace

Broad strokes
Frowned upon 
Can’t seem to wake up

Another inch pointless
Like them you’ll end up stuck

Caught in a pattern
A spinal tap
The same sad cycle
Caught in a trap

It keeps me missing mom and my old hideaway 
But the sting that follows always tends to choke the honest answer for my... 

Take these and call me if the pain still finds a way
I trapped the stanza in a capsule if the past won’t take a break 
Below lies 

Can’t be like them
Silence will kill me
Choose words carefully
This life is not for me

Trapped and redundant
I’d lose my mind
Fading like shadows
Tethered to time

I face my monsters
Dead in the eye
I face my monsters
So I could survive

HOW TO MAKE IT THROUGH ACT III

Take
My faith
It’s safe 
To leech upon the offspring
But I can’t 
Seem to place 
Each mistake 
I kept holding on... 
The chance to fall in love 

Change my son 
Find us 
Break for once 
Find us

I’ve been living under broken sun 
Never told, I was the only one 
If they take another life before 
The source we hide will hunt

Take
My faith
It’s safe 
To feast upon the offering
But I can’t 
Seem to place
Each mistake 
I kept calling off
The chance to fall in love