The Offspring

Once i had a friend that i could count on
So i thought
Well so it seemed
But times of need are not enough
To prove your friendship to me now
Once i saw a face that i believed in
But a mask was all there was
So who wears the masks and who wears the faces
Well i guess i'll never know

But as i stand here alone in a room full of people
With nothing to say
Beer on their minds, and smoke in the air
Call them feiends but they just don't care

Friend for life
Such shallow words for brokrn minds
Show me a friend for life
Cause i'll be waiting for that day to arrive
When i'll feel alive
I'll be waiting for that day

Once i found a love i had to know
Now we might know each other just too well
Cause when we're together we just can't get enough
Or is it we just can't get what we want
Once i saw a dream, i had to chase it
Dreams quickly turn to reality
Who's at fault in this game of yours and mine
Well i guess i'll never know

But as i sit here alone
Think of the girl who came softly inside me
The look in her eyes, the smell of her hair
Call her my own but is she really there?

Love for life
Such noble words for noble minds
Show me a love for life
Cause i'll be waiting for that day to arrive
When i'll feel alive
I'll be waiting for that day

Once i had a friend that i could count on
Times of need are not enough
Once i found a love i had to know
Now we might know each other just too well
Once i saw a dream i had to chase it
Dreams quickly turn to reality
Now let me close my eyes
Because i don't want to see anymore

Time has washed away
And now i may wonder
How did it all slip by
Cause i always thought
We had forever
Future calls to me
To take me away from things
I don't want to leave behind
Like i'm slipping away
I can't hold on

Find that path alone
Crossroads lead me away
But thats not what worries me
I just want to know whats home

Through it all
My mind still wanders
To the one who touched my soul
Though her road leads away
She's still my
True love
I could believe

Will is not enough when all those
Lost days stand in the way
But she was
My hopes and dreams my
Whole world
I could believe

I still want to know
Who can see for me
Crossroads tell me

Now you'll have to trade
Your past away
And find another day
So is change a friend or an enemy

Through what comes to pass
I'll find my way
I've seen it all before
But is the best you can be
The best thing to be
Some people say
You're just wasting time
But thats not what worries me
I just want to know whats home

In your plane in the blue sky
You roam again
Word that echo in your mind
Make you heart beat faster
This is no vietnam
We will win in iran

The president said let it ride
Islam be damned
Make your last stand
In tehran

Warrior, the time bombs
About to go
What will you feel
Will you even wonder
If the man that'sin your sights
Ever kissed his girl goodbye

The president said let it ride
Islam be damned
Make your last stand
In tehran

Great satan
Our flags our burning

Soon america may find
Its young men in the sand
Where there casualty
Is just a number
In iran

The president said let it ride
Islam be damned
Make your last stand
In tehran

Ask me no questions and i'll tell you
I'll tell you no lies
When all is said and done
Does it really matter who's wrong or right
Don't ask me for a reason, i can't explain
Why we hurt one another again and again
As i lie bleeding here i still
I still reach for you

A thousand days
Have passed away
A thousand days
Were captured in her eyes

Your eyes are open now but you know
Its still hard to see inside
When action and intention
Are two seperate things
Now i somehow wish i could explain
Why we hurt each other again and again
Like someone on his dying breath
I still reach for you

A thousand days
Have passed away
A thousand days
Were captured in her eyes

Forever we've been
Trapped by our hearts
Trapped by our minds
I'd like to leave
I'd like to win at love

But i just can't let it go
And i just can't watch it slipping away
And i just can't let it go
And i just can't stand another minute

Maybe now someday our shattered lives
Will mend themselves again
But now a million miles away
I still wish i could
And though i somehow know, i can't explain
Why we hurt another again and again
Like someone on his dying breath
I still reach for you

In a world without leaders
Who'd start all the wars?
The world that your saving
Will always be yours

Kill the president
Listen to the voice of reason
Unify with that single line
Stop the man with the power
Of the goverment
A leader's not the center
Of democracy

In a world without leaders
Who'd make people starve?
The world that we're saving
Will always be ours

Everyone says
Well maybe i'll make a difference
Thinking they've got plenty of time
But you're squezed
A little tighter everyday
Finished before you can commit a crime

In a world without leaders
Who'd start all the wars?
The world that your saving
Will always be yours

Kill the president
Listen to the voice of reason
Unify with that single line
Stop the man with the power
Of the goverment
A leader's not the center
Of democracy

America
All of your eminies
Come from within
But you lash out so
It is seen
Like some frightened child
In an angry world
Or the fall of rome
Your demise comes
From your own hands

In a world without leaders
Who'd start all the wars?
The world that your saving
Will always be yours

In a world without leaders
We might have a chance
But we'll never see it
As long as there's

Clouds pass over the moon
Like an eye that shows impending doom
Tension in this misty air
Souls pass into the room
Drawn in by a lost memory
You will join them in the moonlight

You are my offering
Your soul transcends
The centuries of pain
Your misery in life
Is your ecstasy in death

Time passes like the wind
As we race to beat days dusky grin
Mornings just a moment away
Your body glistens in candlelight
As we all look on in fiendish delight
The ritual is just beginning

Come fulfill the prophecy
With our demons of debauchery
As virgins and spectress sing
This madness will never cease

In the dead of night
You will follow
In the footsteps of many others
Who have come before
I will show you the altar
Your aztec eyes, egyptian hair
Your beauty bestoved upon my lair
I've loved you before, in other lives
But youve never ment as much to me
Never meant as much to me as now

In this night of sacrafice
Where blood is spilt
That will never spill again
But in your linen robes
We want you now
We want you now
You could never ask for more than that

You are my offering
Your soul transcends
The centuries of pain
Your misery in life
Is your ecstasy in
Come fulfill the prophecy
With our demons of debauchery
This madness will never cease