Better Things

Everywhere you go no matter who you see she's still enticing
She's going to toy with your heart just like a boy on a string
Cause it's exciting

And now you're dying here
You should know why

You're only walking backwards when all you have is right in front of you
Yah it's difficult, sometimes impossible but it's the only thing you can do

It's time to leave it here, go somewhere else
But I don't blame you; you want to keep it here all for yourself

It's not as perfect as you think, so trade it in for better things
You doing so much for yourself so leave her tricks for someone else
To deal with, we're all in the same boat sinking, sinking, sinking
But it's not going down; no we're not going down

It's time to leave it here
No I don't care what they think
I'm going to leave her here for better things

Dead Poet

With all the broken windows and testimonies
You're the last thing that we need
Making senseless noises, over several passes
Hurling insults on the lawn
Literally

Another incident in too short a time
We're still the victims of the same disposition
With too much to learn, but not enough to prove
You're both desperate for a scapegoat
Within your reach

Cause there's no doubt to shed
On this positive description
The defense can rest

To say you're insecure, it's an understatement
I'm ashamed to say I'm scared
But you're the dangerous kind with that growing impulse
To take it out on someone
Come and chase us till you find us
Block us off, now we're surrounded
What's the reason? What's the purpose?
I don't care

Cause there's no doubt to shed
On this positive description
The defense can rest
We're done with you
Are you done with me too?

Why can't you agree just to disagree
It's always your way
If I don't agree, if I disagree
It's just the wrong way
No one wants to be around you
They want to think their own way

Cause there's no doubt to shed
On this positive description
The defense can rest
We're done with you
Are you done with me too?

Disarray

Think this over
If you don't it's going to take me under
When I can't afford to be a step down from anyone
That I've ever been

I've known for a while now
This inhibition has got a hold of my every move
It makes me want to step down from everything
I've been trying to be

Disarray, disarray let the disorder come
Just like in California, where I'm from, I'm from
And say like everyone
You know its in me
So tell me why I always disagree, disagree

Doing nothing
Has just as many consequences
I'm sure you know
But failing is the one thing above it all
That drives us away

Its my personality
I know you know it
Do you know what you mean to me
And did you know that you're the one thing above it all
But now you're going away

Disarray, disarray let the disorder come
Just like in California, where I'm from, I'm from
And say like everyone
You know its in me
So tell me why I always disagree, disagree

Familiar Feeling

I've had this picture of her
Etched on the inside of my skull
And she keeps on staring back at me
Through some enchanted portal

And no change could ease my longing
No words could sway my schemes
Every diversion feels like wasted time on lesser things

And you all wanna shoot me down
Shoot me down before I run with it

This familiar feeling
Yah its one in a million
You say its ridiculous
I say it could be too

I've had to keep this image
Of her so brash and cold
You'd think she's already deceased
That way I'd let her go

But no ghost has been so lively
No apparition's ever made
Someone so green with envy
That they'd make the same mistake

And you all wanna shoot me down
Shoot me down before I run with it

This familiar feeling
Yah its one in a million
How's it ridiculous if its coming true
Like a case reopen, for further consideration
I had the lifelong sentence but the facts were skewed

You all wanna shoot me down, shoot me down before I run with it x4

This familiar feeling
Yah its one in a million
Tell me how its ridiculous I said it
Tell me how its ridiculous I said it
Oh its a case reopen
For further consideration
You say its ridiculous I say it could be too

Here Goes

It's been a long time waiting
But not an illusion to me now
It's right in front of me

And I've always speculated
But this is sooner than I thought
We would converge again

Considering all of the times that I've acted out
This very scenario, you'd think I'm prepared for it
But I'm only drawing blanks

But there's not use in hiding now
And what's the harm in finding out

I'm gonna prime my senses
To pick up on a weakness
A fault in the edifice
You can be sure of it

And I get the feeling I've still got your figured out
I look through the smallest holes, in the thickest walls
And I can see everything

We could stand our ground and pass this up
But we won't be any better off
So I'll give it one more go if you want again
I'll give it one more go, so here goes

I don't waste anytime
Putting grudges aside
I'll put it all on the line just to know I'm right

One more night is all we need
To blind our eyes and let this be
And I'll give it one more go if you want again
I'll give it one more go, so here goes

My Albatross

I didn't see it no I didn't even open the door
I just walked on by too quick to recognize
Since then I've concluded that I'm legally blind
I don't wanna trust my own eyes

And if and when I choose to see
I'll be facing the responsibility
Of knowing but not divulging

Such a clever fraud but where's your camouflage
There goes your legacy, here comes my albatross

I'll never tell, no I wouldn't even fancy the thought
I'll just let it slide who knows how many times
My god its a miracle we've even survived
Under the gravity of your lies

And if I had the nerve to squeal
It'd induce in you a monstrous upheaval
And it'd consume us all oh no

Such a clever fraud but where's your camouflage
There goes your legacy here comes my albatross
You're not a clever fraud without your camouflage
There goes your legacy here comes my albatross

And if and when I choose to see
I'll be facing the responsibility
Of knowing but not divulging

And if I had the nerve to squeal
It'd induce in you a monstrous upheaval
And it'd consume us all oh no

Is this the legacy that you wanna leave
Tell me why I should believe
What they've taught me to believe
You're not a clever fraud
Without your camouflage
There goes your legacy
Here comes my albatross

Prasoid

Seven in the morning, on a Monday
I've been up since Sunday Evening
Everybody's drinking caffeine
Reading papers, braving freeways
But I can't say the same for me
And everyone keeps hinting that I'm damned if I do change
I'll be washing windows for a living
Soon enough they say
For now that's good enough for me

I said, escape with me to places I've been
Inside my head
And we'll stray, well beyond the paths that they've laid
And find out way

I'll tell you how it happened just a year or so ago
She told me on a Sunday evening
I was up till Monday's dawn
It's never been the same for me
The catalyst is missing, this experiments a bust
And all the scientists are guessing
But their estimation's wrong
They'll never find a cure for me

I said, escape with me to places I've been
Inside my head
And we'll stray, well beyond the paths that they've laid
And with it erase our fondest memories
I can't remember the last time I felt like doing anything

Each day, every day yields the same result for me

I find the one who wants the same things I want
To clear a way for me
Who's not afraid to leave it all behind just once
And take a chance on me

Protege

I'm getting scared of your attitude
Your dissimilated intentions are letting themselves free
So they can make their way towards me
And watch how they circle my every move
Like demons that sit on your shoulder
And tell you what to do
And now I owe it all to you

Yah you were my Protege
And I took you on
But I had faith in you for far too long
For you to let me down

You've manifested my darkest dreams
And left my a cumbersome burden
That made its way past you
Just like it always seems to do

You're so resilient I frightens me
Or maybe I'm jealous that you
Never seem to feel a thing
I want to make my self believe

Yah you were my Protege
And I took you on
But I had faith in you for far too long
Find a new identity
No its not that hard
When you've got everyone around you
To tell you who you are
And now I'm going down down and down and down
You're not going with me

Train Wreck

Sitting still on this sad song uncomfortable ride
Is pain enough to make the out of place passenger try
To jump the train while it still moves, still moves

Every mile down this one was street is a bust
No where to go but back around again
I keep on looking for a u-turn, u-turn

It controls the air flow
That feeds our soul
And nothing else no

Breath in, believe in
Something else
Not someone

Giving in to the sole end of being a crutch
Scares me enough about the sad place I'm being dragged
It's time to stand up on your own feet, own feet

Every discussion is a sad song heated exchange
Ringing in circles in my ears now I'm certain to quit
It should happen in the first place first place

It controls the air flow
That feeds our soul
And nothing else no

Breath in, believe in
Something else
Not someone

It can't be what you want
No we'll never be
It won't be what you want no, want no
We'll never be what you want no, want no x2

Window Shopping

I'm gonna stay up past two
And mend the cracks in the room
With anything that fills the space
Cause I don't wanna leave here for anyone

Maybe I'll go Window Shopping instead
Cause I don't wanna spend a dime
No I won't let them take me for everything

Cause if there's one thing that I've learned
These partitions tend to give
And always come caving in over me

So when the plaster crumbles
And the cracks reopen
I can take my leave
Without an exit strategy

Someday I'll change
I know all this will change
I could only go so long
Loneliness is bound to catch up with me

Until then I'll wait
Learn from all my mistakes
Drawing from a new design
Where everything in right were it's supposed to be

So when the plaster crumbles
And the cracks reopen
I can take my leave
Without an exit strategy x2

If there's one thing that I've learned
These partitions tend to give
And they always come caving in over me
But I've built it from the ground so who knows

When the plaster crumbles
And the cracks reopen
I can take my leave
Without an exit strategy x2