Taking Sides

You chose your side
Get used to being on your own
I'm moving on, I'll be safer all alone
You're a loaded gun
So shoot me to the ground
Before I go
You wanna end on your terms
Well take the blow

You chose your side
Get used to being on your own
I'm moving on, I'll be safer all alone
You're a loaded gun
So shoot me to the ground
Before I go
You wanna end on your terms
Well take the blow

There's nothing lying underneath
What I say is always what I mean
I don't want to play the villain
All I say is what I'm feeling
And today I'm feeling--

What is that heat crawling under my skin
Ripping me apart from within
Making me insane, I know you're to blame
Who do you think you are?
Trying to tear me apart
With my own words.

Our eyes were made of fool's gold
Took so long but now I know
Our hands were never full of anything
My lips only speak words
Taught myself the meaning of
My ears never hear what they want...

Informal Apologies

I don't want to be that disappointing thought
That wakes you up in restless sweats at three in the morning
That one mishap you're used to hating
Wishing that I could be gone for much more than I disappear for

Now I could make a simple statement saying that "I'm sorry"
But sorry seems to never do
Apologies are only accepted in paper form
Sign at the x and let's pretend this never happened

Sometimes you jump into the flames
Burn yourself down, but not in vain
Make your mistakes
But don't regret
You lived your life to the fullest

Cause you're the one who dances on the sun
Yeah, you're the one who always finds the pieces
You're the one who never loses faith
Because inside, you have something to believe in

I've worn out my welcome and I know you're tired of fixing me
I'm tired of begging, believe me
I have no idea how to feel anymore
My mind is more tangled than my tongue
My eyes blinded by the sun
What I want, even father away
And yet still I stay
Staring off in the distance
Since when did I become
A star-gazer...

He came and stole it
I let him take it all
I had a whole body
I let him take it all
The center of myself
I let him take it all
The isolation of my core
He wanted that and then some more

The Box

Sickening how it runs through your veins
In a cramped space
Everyone knows your name
You, yourself and I
It's left you in a bind

Stay right here, you'll fit in fine
It's for the best
Your isolation
Because you know what's inside

Out there's so unfamiliar
The world is too peculiar
You know what lies inside
It'd never lie.

Reach a Hand (lyrics)

This heart's on display again
A stupid little case again
It's stopping for good once again
You say you want to hear it beat

These eyes are going blind again
A sight unseen again
It's going black for good again
You say you want them to see

But you never reach out over
Come on, reach out over here
You hear what you want to hear
The begging and fragile plees
Come on, reach out over here
Reach a hand out over here

Those ears have shut themselves again
A sound settled gone again
It shuts songs off for good again
You say you want to sing to me

Well sing to me, and breathe in me
Grab my heart and make it beat
All for my blind eyes to see

You'll never reach out over
Come on, reach out over here
You hear what you want to hear
The begging and fragile plees
Come on, reach out over here
Reach a hand out over here

You lie so much
Think I believe

I know

You'll never reach out over
Come on, reach out over here
You hear what you want to hear
The begging and fragile plees
Come on, reach out over here
Reach a hand out over here
Reach a hand out over here
Grab my heart and make it beat.