Foundations To Burn

Justify, as if it were our right to say

Now decide, which liar you trust and which one chose our fate

Fed in time as a choice we think we're making

It's the guns that we know vs. the guns we never will

When illusions burn where will we be left standing

Still with the guns that we know vs. the guns we never will

Pacify, with false hope of safety within

Never mind that they were never there where could we begin

We call upon god for which killing's permitted,

and then brag out loud that our side made the grade

We better pray, with this as our position

Our wrongs don't come back and burn us down to the ground

And what gives us the right to judge without reprisal

To strike retaliation and wash our hands of blood

And who gave us the crown to claim that we're divine

Without needing repentance and drive them into hell

9) Management Vs. Labor

Sacrifice, did it really mean that much to them

As it was killing you

They've locked you out after all that you have done for them

You toil yet they profit more

Save yourself today in tearing down the design that they built with our hands

Struggle by to feed your kids while theirs grow fat, privileged and disdained

They've bled you dry

Until all that's left of you is sold to build their paradise

What have we worked for we've been scraping by for all our lives

Only to find that we're left behind

We'll own our own time and give you nothing in return

Our next meal will come from your table

So our lives can become something more

Than what you buy and sell

America will be reborn

10) High Wire Escape Artist

Bleed out all empathy this vessel has no spirit left to hold on to lies I've lived in full

How long can I hold tight with every movement

Tension binds and denies my true nature

The Balance has shifted warped sick and twisted

Grabbing at angels when I fall

Because I am more than this idol endless recital

For all my demons to applaud

I am free

Hide myself from it all while every fear is

Screaming night into dawn until I find

I have to believe them (lies)

In order to attain fulfillment

I have to succumb to (lies)

All my inner fears that tear at me

I will never believe them (lies)

I'm sick of the weakness that controls me

Now that I've fallen - I will not repent

11) White Wedding Dress

Every day she fears her life will end

Every time the call rings they are late

They never come quite in time to see his fist

Leave its mark on the side of her disgrace

They'll never charge him anyway and you know it

Say we can't get involved today

So where's the choice and who protects her now

Bruised and battered the blood has stained her gown

Useless screams for help can't save her now

Choices rendered the house is burning down

No one will ever understand

cause they don't have to feel his crushing hands

And the ears that ignored her screams before

are now wondering what she did it for

But with a bottle of kerosene she found her freedom

And then burned the bastard to the ground and ran

The fire will now wash away the blood on her white wedding dress

12) On In Five

Force-fed on a hunger strike, tag them dead before you focus in,

spoon feed the impact that you leave us with

Bring denial with a worldwide expansion team brand so deep into our minds

That it soon becomes our history and image that's been marketed well

On the assembly line of our lives, shut it down before it ever starts

Turn on to the weakness we've been raised upon (we'll turn you off again)

You've written up all the answers we've followed them word for word

Disguised as our own subconscious defining our wrongs and rights

No more working on the strings you've made us

Drive the stake into your hardened hearts we're done begging for the scrapes

You throw us we'll take the truth and our lives

Investigate and drain us we've found you out regaining

All the knowledge that you hid,

you are no longer needed we'll keep our own hearts beating

Against the pulse that you denied

Demand it back our lives our minds you stole them,

nothing else will quench the hunger that will turn you off

And certify that we are free to find our own truth without you

This is not a test. This is not a test.

Yes it has come to this. This is not a test.

13) With Every Intention

Not in the running

But this rain is nothing new to me anyway

I see my refelction

No where near who I should be

The spirit is willing but

The anchors of my flesh still hold me down

With every distraction

I lose more of who I should be

Had many time to try

Before I realized

The flaws in my desgin

May have led me to ask why

Why'd you make it me so weak?

I tried but I'm incomplete

Is this all there is?

All there is to me?

How many chances

At redemption do I think I'll ever get

Keep changign my rhythms for a shot at somethign more

Miracles happen

So why do I feel like I'm being left behind

It's still in my nature

To look for what I can't find

Is this all there is?

Is this all there is to me

I should be all better now

This is all there is to me

I can pick myself up again

Is this all there is?

I hope that one day I'll make a stand

But rigth now

This is all there is to me

No matter how I dream

I will never be complete

Cause right now this is all there is to me

Yeah right now this is all there is to me