BOY FALLS FROM THE SKY
You can change your mind but you cannot change your heart
Your heart knows when you’re hiding
Your heart knows where you are
I’d be myself, If I knew who I’d become
You don’t have to fl y too high to get too close to the sun
See the boy fall from the sky
You will always be in front of me, even as I disappear from view
For I have done not a single thing without the thought of you
But no, not here, not now, no way
I’m not ready to give up the fi ght
If I can use a single thread to cross the sky
Then why is the eye of the needle still your heart tonight
See how the boy falls from the sky
Oh oh oh oh
The city conducts a symphony
I’ll search through trash for a melody
That might lead us back to dignity in this junk yard of huma
To let you go without regret
I will forever hold you always in my heart inside
Over the screams and the siren’s wail
The only thing not up for sale
Are lovers like lights on a midnight train?
Hearts like thunder with no sign of rain
Lightening splits the sky, kisses your face
Yours is the sacrifi ce, yours is the grace
I hear your voice inside my head
I will listen to nobody, not to no one else
From the bridge where we both stood and stole the view
I saw the you in me and the me in you
These are the threads that bind
The ones we have to weave
They will hold us true, I believe
I believe
Beli-eve
Believe
Believe
Believe
Believe
Believe
RISE ABOVE 1
And you said rise above
Open your eyes up
And you said rise above
I can’t, I can’t
How long will it take
Before these feelings go away?
How much longer do I wait
And are there any real answers anyway?
Your silence in a crowded room
Louder than the loudest tune
I hang on every word
And you said rise above
Open your eyes up
And you said rise above
I can’t, I can’t
I miss you in everything
I was traveling too fast to take you in
I know silence is no crime
I just wish I could hear you fi ll it up
One more time
Yes, I know what you’d say to me
Exactly what you’d say to me
I still hang on every word
And you said rise above
Open your eyes up
And you said rise above
Yourself
In a time of treason
Is there time for trust?
Where there’s no them, only us
Is there time for reason?
Has your heart had enough?
Is it time to let go?
And rise above
And you said rise above
Open your eyes up
And you said rise above
Yourself
PICTURE THIS
Picture this
Open the iris, open it up wide
The world changes shape with the color of your eyes
Picture this
You are already where you wanna be
Now close your eyes, what does it look like?
Picture this
The world is spinning on a tiny pin
Nobody knows the danger we’re in
On this sunny day (on this sunny day)
Let your imagination run away
On this sunny day (on this sunny day)
Sunny days
See the future through the haze
Picture this
I wanna believe you and I’m gonna try
But I fi nd it hard to see me through your eyes
Picture this
Realise this is a dizzy high
I could fall, and fall, and fall
On this sunny day (on this sunny day)
Let your imagination run away
On this sunny day (on this sunny day)
Sunny days
See the future through the haze
Love, is this love? (Is this love?)
On this sunny day (Just crimes, peace wars, true lies. I can see a noble shame.
I can see a living death.
I can see a healing pain, a pure decay, a helping hurt, a freeing jail)
On this sunny day (Hate, war, hurt, shame, death, pain)
On this sunny day (Hate, war, hurt, shame, death, pain)
On this sunny day (Hate, war, hurt, shame, death, shame)
I JUST CAN WALK AWAY SAY IT NOW
Say it now, say it now
Explain to me why this happens every time
Give me any kind of sign
‘Cause I just can’t walk away
You wait
I won’t
I leave
I don’t
I memorize what I have to say
But he doesn’t say it anyway
Say it now, say it now
Explain to me why this happens every time
Give me a clue or tell me why
I just can’t walk away
Walk, walk away
Walk, walk away
Needing, aching, lying awake
In a room in my heart
Right here you stay
A heartbeat away
Yet we’re miles apart
You know that love can’t live without honesty
But there are dangers in the daylight and the shadows with me
Say it now, I wish I could say it now
Say to me the words I need to hear
Why you just don’t disappear
And why I just can’t walk away
Say it now, say it now
Say to me the simple words I fear
I know why I’m here
‘Cause I just can’t walk away
Walk, walk away
Walk, walk away
Walk, walk away
Walk, walk away
BOUNCING OFF THE WALLS
Someone else has woken up inside of me
Something has just turned on a light in me
I feel a force fl ow through every artery now
I can’t get down, I woke up on the roof again
Round and round, spinning on the spot again
I can’t explain the who, the where, the why, or the when, how
And I feel it in my veins
It’s a feeling I can’t tame
Can anyone please explain
Why, why, why
Why I’m bouncing off the walls
Bouncing off the walls
Bouncing off the walls
Bouncing off the walls
A sun spot I’m atomic energy
The atom split but left the best part of me
It’s not static, just electricity – wow!
Bouncing off the walls
Bouncing off the walls
Bouncing off the walls
Bouncing off the walls
Bouncing off the walls
Bouncing off the walls
Ohh… ohh…
And I feel it in my soul
What I need to control
And I feel it in my bones
Let’s rock and roll
Roll, roll, roll, roll
Bouncing off the walls
Bouncing off the walls
Bouncing off the walls
Bouncing off the walls
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Alright!
PULL THE TRIGGER
Spider-Man? Spider-Man
Enhanced genetics?
Spider-Man?
Super-human kinetics
Spider-Man?
Muscle augmentation. And look at that, web bio-generation.
This, this looks like my work.
It’s getting out. Your research. Your life’s work. Your precious research.
Your secrets. Getting sold. Getting bought.
It isn’t possible.
Isn’t it?
It’s not.
Or is it?
Maybe it was Kassidy. You relied on loyalty
All your staff where did they go?
And what did they take and what did they know?
Our funding dried up, they weren’t getting paid.
How’s it feel to be betrayed?
They’re leaving like rats from a sinking ship,
you’re losing control, you’re letting it slip! Time to get it
You’ve been stabbed in the back!
Are you gonna roll over, play dead?
Or attack?
(Competition? I don’t have any!) Wake up son!
Someone’s cheating you!
You do have competition and they’re beating you
So fi ght back! (What?!)
Are you just gonna wait?
It’s an arms race, boy, you can’t hesitate!
We want new men!
A new breed of Marines!
Not human!
We want fi ghting machines!
A new species! One that’s harder to kill!
And what if I won’t?
We’ll get someone who will!
Don’t just think of you
Think of God and country
Join the proud and few who know best for their country
Get some patriotic pride or we’ll sell it to the other side!
How do we win? By living in fear!
How do we win? Get the enemy clear!
How do we win? By saying it’s done in retaliation!
How do we win? By clearing them out!
How do we win? By murdering doubt!
How do we win? ‘Cause we’re in the right
Get in line or say goodnight!
So deliver!
I ain’t working for you
We want bigger!
That ain’t something I do
Pull the trigger! Start being a man! Take care of business or get off the can!
Start making! And you’ll be in control! Start taking!
You wanna suck out my soul?
Get funded! Or your baby won’t live!
I’m gonna say “No!”
You mean “affi rmative”!
Yes sir!
Hut! Hut! Hut! Hut!
Hut! Hut! Hut, two, three!
Hut! Hut! Hut! Hut!
Hut! Hut! Hut, two, three!
Spider-Man!
NO MORE
Don’t talk, just walk
going nuts, hate my guts
get good grades, another shoves
stop being a loser, stop being in love
and why do i need these stupid glasses
I’d give my life to be
anyone but me, yeah
anyone but me,I want to be anyone but me
this isn’t home, just a house
broken door, broken glass
Dad’ll yell tune him out
he’s drunk by now, he has to shout
keep on walking, just ignore
just get to your room and shut the door
let me disappear or just be
anywhere but here
everyday is like a war , and I’m losing it
I’m taking hits from every side, every side that there is
Everyday I feel the walls are closing in, credits now begin
Gotta get myself right out of this place
Anyone but me ( I count the grass as it grows)
Anywhere but here ( I go to sleep in my clothes)
(But the shoes don’t fit)
I am not what I’ve been told (Where do I, where do I live?)
I am not what I’ve been sold (What do I take?)
I’m at the point of possibilities (Who will I found?)
I can almost glimpse infinity (When is the time?)
I am not where I belonge (Is it now?)
And I can see an open door
And I can’t live like this, no more
I can’t live like this, no more
I can’t live like this,
no more
no, no, no
no, no, no
no, no, no more
DIY WORLD
‘Cause we can be what we wanna be
And we need to be what we gotta be
That’s what we oughta be in the DIY world
‘Cause we can be what we wanna be (Tomorrow belongs to the brave)
And we need to be what we gotta be
Do it yourself, do it yourself, DIY world
Gamma rays, tidal waves, infl uenza there’s so many ways
The human race can take a hit
We’re gonna sink but you can swim
If you don’t mind a little change of skin
Designer genes are a better fi t
‘Cause we can be what we wanna be
And we need to be what we gotta be
That’s what we oughta be in the DIY world
Tomorrow belongs to the brave, not the slave, but the brave
(Tomorrow belongs to the brave all to the brave)
‘Cause we can be what we wanna be
And we need to be what we gotta be
Do it yourself, do it yourself, DIY world
Rising seas? No more trees? Then be a freakin’ fl eet of killer bees
We’re masters of creation
DNA is the way, now that evolution’s had its day
The intelligent design solution
And we, we could live for a thousand years
‘Cause we can be what we wanna be
And we need to be what we gotta be
That’s what we oughta be in the DIY world
‘Cause we can be what we wanna be (Do it yourself)
And we need to be what we gotta be (Yourself, do it yourself)
That’s what we oughta be in the DIY world (Do it yourself, yourself, do it yourself)
‘Cause we can be what we wanna be (Tomorrow belongs to the brave, not the slave
And we need to be what we gotta be (But the brave)
Do it yourself, do it yourself, DIY world
And we, we could live (we could live) for a thousand years
IF THE WORLD SHOULD END
Don’t think about tomorrow
We’ve only got today
There’s nothing that I want from you
Not a word you have to say
You are all I need
And all I can defend
All I need to hold on to
If the world should end
In my imagination
I could not have made this up
In a world stranger than fi ction
Ours is no fi ctional love
I can see the you
Under your second skin
I can feel your heartbeat quicken
Quicken and then slow
There’s nothing else I need to know
And there’s nothing
You need to pretend
If the world should end
And the sky tonight is luminous
For all the wrong reasons
And ev’ry doorway is hiding something
And if this world should all come crashing down
I wouldn’t care at all
And if there’s no tomorrow
I’ll have today again
There’s no time for sorrow
When there’s no such thing as time
And if the darkness will descend
Don’t need a saviour or a friend
I can say I’ve really loved
If the world should end
SINISTEREO
Now come thoughts that you shall not banish
Secret fears, visions ne’er to vanish
Crawling shapes now come
Writhing out
T’cast their shadows over this human rout
You set yourself on fi re
You set yourself on fi re
You set yourself on fi re
Breath of our breath with no blood or bone
Never grows weary
Never grows old
Mutters and mumbles in
Infi nite ways
Ever the tyrant to the willing slaves
You set yourself on fire
You set yourself on fire
You set yourself on fire
Much of madness and more of sin
No government of this vast formless thing
You set yourself on fire
You set yourself on fire
You set yourself on fire
You set yourself on fire
A FREAK LIKE ME NEEDS COMPANY
If you’re looking for a night out on the town, you just found me
(A freak like me needs company)
I’m a 65 million dollar circus tragedy
(A freak like me needs company)
I’m not rollin’, baby rollin’ in the green but I’m unique (freak) – a freak (freak!)
I’m the new Coney Island and all the rides are open and free
On me!
(Freak like me needs company)
All the weirdos in the world are here right now in New York City
All the brazen boys and girls dressed to kill without pity
All the weirdos from out of town and all the freaks always around
All the weirdos in the world are here in New York City tonight
Here in New York City tonight
I got a crew of party animal mutants by my side
(A freak like me needs company)
Demon hairdo evil dressers who just won’t be denied
(A freak like me needs company)
The crossroads of the road just need a little tweak (freak) from a freak (freak)
I said goodbye to my straight life cuz I love a freak
(A freak like me needs company)
All the weirdos in the world are here right now in New York City
All the brazen boys and girls
eacocks, posers show no pity
ll the weirdos from out of town and all the freaks always around
ll the weirdos in the world are here in New York City tonight
ere in New York City tonight
Ohh…
RISE ABOVE 2
When the ones who run the fi rehouse are the ones who start the fire
And the lawless make the laws and every preacher is a liar
When the ones who damn the innocent
Are on the nightly news and front page
An old man said to me it’s not who but what you know
And knowledge isn’t wisdom without control
Better still to be the changes that you want to see
But they come slow, I know
And you said rise above
Open your eyes up
And you said rise above
I can’t, I can’t
For every heart that bleeds
Will colour your world red
And the sorrow in the night
Will be the blue you cannot shed
But your strength will be a visio
Beyond visibility
And the gift you have within
Will give you new eyes to see
That you can rise above
Swing through the skies above
And you shall rise above
Yourself
Know that I’ll be watching
Know that I’ll be waiting
Standing on the precipice
I can soar away from this
And you can rise above (Free your soul)
Open your eyes up (Rise above yourself and take
And you can rise above (The need to love)
Yourself (To release yourself and rise above it all)
And you can rise above (I will be there)
Open your eyes up (You were never alone)
And you can rise above (Inside your dreams)
Yourself (I’ll been watching and waiting for you)
Open your eyes to love
And you can rise above
Yourself
And every heart that bleeds
Will colour your world red
nd the sorrow in the night
ill be the blue you cannot shed
d your strength will be a vision
beyond visibility
All the gift you have before you
Will give you new eyes to see
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