Blaze

Hello, welcome to the show Thought we broke up years ago What's up, I just shit my pants Gambled and I lost Good times, just blew out my knee I've fallen and I can't get up Oh shit, I think I broke my back Where's the wheelchair? I'm old school I'm played out Osteoporosis, glaucoma and neurosis The vultures circling above our balding heads Second verse, the same as the first I forgot the words again Railer, lost my inhaler Who's got a smoke for the Caper? Hold on let me catch my breath All right, I feel better now Take it to the bridge I'll never be Ozzy On stage when I'm fifty I'm gonna look like Elvis By the time I'm forty We're already bogus We're already fading We'll never be The Rolling Stones I'm staying home Dementia and senility My failing muscles atrophy I've lost all ability Falling apart Blue hair, brown teeth Failing livers, defeat Maybe we will try to pull it off For another year

Waging war on the arms race of sound Turn it down Pull the plug Imminent surrender Ringing in the new Dark Age Shut down the noise-aholics Put down the quiet-ophobics In a daydream of peace In a calmness too brief My lullaby is killing My lullaby be stilling It could be such sweet silence From static from violence from... Volume is the modern currency Everyone competing for air space Everybody's dumb Shouting muddled words as though they're deaf Big brother isn't watching anymore He knows we are distracted and absorbed Broadcasting our grief Our imagination's atrophied We can't think If I could sing them all to sleep If I could sing myself deaf Wouldn't it be lovely? Doesn't it sound perfect? Every generation hates the next I will save the millions from a slow insufferable death I'll put them to sleep Save them from progressive misery I'm counting If I could sing myself to sleep If I could sing myself deaf Wouldn't it be lovely? Doesn't it sound perfect? My lullaby is killing My lullaby be stilling Memorized. Involuntary I think I can change the world

Max says everybody's angry Max says he'll never leave his home Max says that heaven's another place It's there his grandparents have gone Max has ten years on this birthday A year ago this world had made him cry Max sees his world through the brightness Eyes to learn Hope to glow in the dark And he will aim toward the sky Deep blue. The silver lined white clouds divide Max says everybody's nasty Says they start too many fights Max wrote a letter to god today His god could never tell lies Max says he's always been faithful He prays for them Max bets they all will be saved And he will aim toward the sky Deep blue. The silver lined white clouds so divine But Max won't get what he asked for Not here. Not now In the end we will leave him a pile Mountains of anguish assured for his climb And Max inherits his birthright Inbred. Inborn

You won't find me condescending at your closed door You won't hear how I feel. Say you've been there before The holiday's the hardest time to fill in all the blanks And you don't need anyone to show you those mistakes Wrap yourself up in only math of our world Fill up the holes in your full heart with details For all the riddles solved and every puzzle you complete Can't seem to find the pieces to the heart that beats You'll master every task but always by the book Then log it in your past with risk that you once took They left you then, they'll hurt you now Can't get too close to you or you will cut them down And any fool can play I'll raise the stakes with another turn We risk, we roll and we burn At arms length you never get hit There's too much to gamble when you let someone in My true friend I'm spewing And only one more positive I just might spill some notable insight I didn't think before I purged So here I am attempting to unlock your closed door I wouldn't break it down 'cause you'd be gone for sure You might say something nice of me and send it in a card Or under whiskey breath slur kind words at the bar And you're sinking me While you stay afloat in the tank you built We drop, we'll never learn

I'm all right Tell me you're all right Almost there Barely here I knew that this day would have to come Wailing on the wall Watching giants fall I know there's a message to receive Written in debris It's meaning's hard to see The loss of innocence Means nothing in the new world All our hands are red Everyone is guilty now I'm all right... Tell me you're all right Stop my eyes ... Open wide Another idiot glued to the box Frozen to the screen Scared to turn it off Quiet shock gives way to righteousness Rattle on the bars Vengeance will be ours Fanatics on their knees pray for a swift and just revenge Become what they condemn Mirror image men Hands across America, let's catch contact hysteria Our flag erects from broken homes July 4 for evermore Colors of democracy Fly from every SUV The Misspelled bumper sticker's here Where did all the honor students go? Numbers on the news This time with familiar names This time on familiar ground This reality in your back yard So the fences fall Will you redefine them all? Will you choose shelter or empathy? The world we share has come too close With borders blown from glass We collect stones and cast them They say the party never stops But I know we cannot get off Another idiot comes on the box Breathing privileged air Preaching to the fair Rallying one muscle under god Leading on the cheer Leaning on their fears The state of ignorance means nothing to the faithful God is with us now They disregard the world beyond the wall

Bitter X it must feel better Holding that grudge It's a feeling so familiar Not unlike love Unrequited she's scarred in hatred Yesterday's moving [repeat] It's easier to locate A better nest Tell them you never lived in such a mess Emily at her best in black Reminds them all to stand back At a distance they won't notice the act All that she lacks You can see up close she's bitter Remembering wasted dinners Can't expect the creep to stay long But he's not the one who pissed her off Today is denial [repeat] It's easier if she won't See him again He's just another trip best forgotten Emily may be odd But she always gets even It's not unlike love Emily will find him again Another short-term boyfriend Emily, you'll always be alone Tomorrow is heartbreak [repeat] So bitter X I'm sorry Sorry I bit that hook I'm just a bad clich in your black book

I can't make the damn phone ring It's simply pathetic if I call you anymore I can't figure it now We tallied our scores I got knocked out I know when you come to town I know where you drop your dime and whom it's for I'm not good enough to time your cup of coffee 15 years... was long enough Look at me. I'm an old colleague Another hard knocks day acquaintance Finally you are free of me It must be true or you'd give a minute But it's always my fault Always it's your forgiveness This unbalanced resolve I must be hateful So I hang up the phone Call it a small sacrifice You still hear me now Dear you, the vinyl it was blue Stalking poor Blake commiserating drunks at sea Do you remember when Jawbreaker rocked "The boat"? I'm sure you do...and don't Look at me. I'm an old fly buddy Just a blue coach class acquaintance Finally you are free of me It must be true 'cause it only makes sense I can still see you now Pictures are in every town I can still write it down "I must be hateful" I can hang up the phone Even at those lofty heights You still hear me now