I don't want attention just the light to fade

Hello concrete, hello pain 

Looks like I'm paired with you again
Goodbye conference, so long belonging, hit the road
I'm celebrating, simply elated
By your real opinions hiding in disguise
There's no point in faking, 

It's on the table
I'll try not to care anymore

You misunderstand, 

I realize sometimes how difficult I am
My only goal was retribution
Will you join me in a toast 

With these dirty razor blades
Watch these crimson droplets wash mistakes away
 
Celebrate it, 

Wether you like it
With a dinner date of distrust and regret
I'll ask you freely 

If you really love me
Go and pull the trigger

I promise not to care anymore
 

I don't want attention just the light to fade
No intervention my decisions made
Don't pretend you care anymore 

Belvedere - Three's A Crowd

I won't end up in this cage

I'm sick of following their rules that they set for me
Sick of following their rules they won't let me breathe
Sick of following their rules cause they're not for me
Not for me 

 I'm sick of following their rules
 

It's the last thing I'll ever do
Fighting everyday they want me just to be the same
I won't end up in this cage
I'll never live my life that way 

 
Kickin' back they won't lock me in this cage
Kickin' back because I'm... 

 
Sick of following their rules that they set for me
Sick of following their rules they won't let me breathe
Sick of following their rules cause they're not for me
Not for me 

 I'm sick of following their rules
 

Fighting their rules, sick of following
Fighting their rules, sick of following. 

 
The last thing I'll ever do is follow you.

 

Backtrack - Their Rules 

I'm talking to myself, as crazy as it sounds I think it helps

The most jaded handle damage control
But I resigned before your funeral
It seems like every time I interfere
Good intentions lead to graves and tears

 

But I’m alright, I’m O.K.
Words you said to me so many days
I’m alright, I’m O.K., 

I’m O.K.

 

Listen Man, I’m talking to myself
As crazy as it sounds I think it helps
I don’t believe in afterlife at all
I have no faith the soul will carry on, 

You’re gone

 

But I’m alright, I’m O.K.
I can paraphrase an old cliché
I’m alright, I’m O.K., 

I’m O.K.

Where is my crutch, 

Where is my inner overhaul
The return to my distressed call
It’s ringing for them all

 

Listen, I can’t do this anymore
Detour the self-absorbed from the morgue
Listen man you were my only hope
There are no saving graces and no miracles

 

But I’m alright, I’m O.K.
I can paraphrase a million ways
I’m alright, I’m O.K. 

Joey Cape - Okay

Nothing will change until she breaks this life, this life-size mirror

She was done before the start, 

Always mending broken hearts
Making others miserable not knowing who she's hurting
Father said : "This day will be, one for everyone to see"
Is it true you'll follow suit and have you learned a thing ?

It's just a selfish way to go, it's safe to say she'll never know

For every person there's a whole life story waiting to be told
When she is happy it's OK, 

But then these people start to fade
Then we'll just watch her self-destruct as she gets old

She put up defensive shields, 

To walk through all of life's minefields
All defined by make-up and a car behind she's hiding
"Father do you have to go, left me questions I dont know"
Any answers or even close the life time lie was true

She's gonna move on with her life, 

And take it one heart at a time
And watch the little girl inside her wait behind as she goes on
But with this black heart she decides, 

Who she'll take in and shove aside
Until the day she sees that everyone is gone

Getting used to people leaving,

Thinking true love is deceiving
Soon she'll know how lonely it can be

Now was it really worth the pain ? 

A couple pills make her feel sane
While she lives out the story written for the part she is to play
With so much shame for her to hide, 

There's no more dignity, no pride
Then there will only be dark in her light of day

And she will only see a reflection, 

Of her father's rejection
Nothing will change until she breaks this life, 

This life-size mirror

No Use For A Name - Life Size Mirror

I know there is more I could be

We were invicible
We were invicible, we were alive
The start of fucking nothing 

How many times have I played memories in my head ?
And told them around ?
Past good times are hard to chase away, 

And not to worship
I cannot refrain, 

From setlling a frame of reference for what's on it's way. 

 
Wanna be back to where I started ?
Wanna be back to where I stayed ?
We don't know what we're gonna be
Wanna be back to where I started ?
Wanna be back to where I lost my way ?
We don't know what we're gonna be 

 
Let's fight for, let's fight for today
No use in chasing yesterday
We'll fight for, we'll fight for a new day
No comparing anything 

 
We were invicible, we were alive
The start of fucking nothing 

 
I won't be back to where I started
I won't be back to where I stayed
I won't be back to where I started
I won't be back to when I lost my way
I know there is more I could be
I won't be back to when I was blank before life got on my way
And I will get along ok with every highlights chasing months of dryspell
I know there is more I could be ! 

 
Let's fight for, let's fight for today
No use in chasing yesterday
We'll fight for, we'll fight for a new day
No comparing anything 

 
We were invicible, we were alive
The start of fucking nothing  

 

Wank For Peace - Twelve Cheese Sticks

It's not your fault

It's not your fault. 

I know what your thinking, 

Is this really happening, 

How can it be, 

How could this shit happen to me ? 

Well here it is, 

Something we could never expect. 

Here it comes, sit and wait patiently. 

Since the day that we were born 

We all always have been forced 

To believe what we were told, 

What they were taught before us. 

Their history books and newspapers exists 

As means for them to brainwash, and impose ignorance. 

Until the day that we die, 

We will be part of this lie 

That is all we've ever known, 

We'll know the reasons why.

They told you that things would improve, 

And that you have the right to choose 

How your going to live your life, 
It's up to you to win or lose. 

Like soldiers we march in line, 

Like each cattle goes to it's slaughter. 

Like soldiers we do as we're told, 

As will our sons and our daughters.

After The Fall - Soldiers 

And in the end it is only you, me and the violence...

A provocation to loneliness, 

When all the best ends up into a grand march that doesn’t fit you. 

Insisting looks and cheeps perfumes on trampled sidewalks are aggressions 

That I won’t answer to. 

I try, I swear, I doubt, I fail, I tried, I swear, I tried, I tried, I tried. 

Just another witness 

Ain’t seen it coming. 

I was sitting there and yes I could still watch silhouettes dancing, 

With some kind of interest. 

I ain’t seen it coming, month by month experimenting the distress 

Of not seeing sense in the cadence of bodies. 

I’m sitting back in place and watching the world of declining slowly as a grandpa. 

All wrinkles drawn with millions of shoes used on the side of complacency. 

It’s simply not for me. 

I tried, to give it all a sense. 

I tried to love perfume again. 

I tried to give it all a meaning. 

I tried to remember. 

In the morning of my world, all love has ceased. 

And in the end it is only you, me and the violence, 

With no kinda limitation. 

Before the death of all hearts, when all love will cease, 

The hope is saving. 

Give me a way to see clear in this foggy sea. 

Slowly we walk to the end of our dreams.

Birds In Row - You, Me & The Violence

To anything but simplicity, to anywhere from this city

How many miles
Until I get out of this rectangular box of hell ?
Because these four same faces
In these overcrowded spaces
Have me praying for the places
That will leave me one minute to myself
(Along with)
The foreheads glued to window-panes
The sore-backs from kitchen-wood floors
And all the sitting, sitting, sitting in a van
And yet I still want more ?

When there's a million more miles to roam,
I think of the life left for me back home :
A "paradise" to watch their "greener grass" grow,
And all the time to be alone ?

But two weeks home cripple me
Because the trees don't pass
And the lines don't move
As the white walls collapse
On my ramblin' boy blues that's howlin'
Howlin' for that open road because
No arms can hold
No home can warm
Like the gaze of the rays of a distant lost-highway sun.

When there's a million more miles to roam,
I think of the life left for me back home :
A "paradise" to watch their "greener grass" grow,
And all the time to feel alone.

Pave paradise

Put the keys in
Turn the engine
Let the big green van drive me from this city
To anything but simplicity
To anywhere from this city,
To anything but simplicity.

Have Heart - Pave Paradise

Wishing we could do this more

Here we go
Once again
Riding in our shitty van
Broken down in another town
Burning up freezing cold
Fuck this shit it's time to go
Only 18 hours to the show

Stand up
Fist up
Sing loud
The crowd
It's our dance of days

Giving all
That we can give
Wishing we
Could do this more
A short few times a year
Facing our parents fears
Throwing all caution in the wind
Coke bongs
And of course sing-a-longs
Josh smith hasn't heard half of these songs

These days are memories
These days are our memories

Casey Jones - Coke Bongs And Sing-A-Longs

It's like certain bands remind you of someone you hated

Look at the world in disbelief
You used to follow, now you lead
College has enlightened you
And you are proud to be different
And like different bands, different types
You ain't nobody's fool

It's like certain bands remind you of someone you hated
'Cause they didn't wear the right clothing
And there's only one true fashion
And a lot of the bands on the college charts are great bands
Till they get signed.
Then you hate them
It's such bullshit, 

You used to love them you hypocrite

Know it all, know it all
Did you really listen to that song ?
Could you ever write what you call wrong ?

I remember you and I
Listening to bands that we liked
Only the songs mattered to you
But now you're a D.J. and preaching that hype
"Corporate Rock Sucks"
"You know, college radio enlightens you"

It's supposed to serve as a means to expose new bands
Without prejudice, but it makes no sense
Safe harbor for the underground
Till the alternative becomes the popular sound
The bands are good 'til they make enough cash
To eat food and get a pad
Then they're sold out and their music's cliché
Because talent's exclusive to bands without pay

Know it all, know it all
Did you really listen to that song ?
Could you ever write what you call wrong ?
Know it all

Lagwagon - Know It All

I don't see anything around here that could make me wanna stay

And what if we were already in heaven ?
Just fucking tell me, what would hell look like ?

There's no way out
No need to shout

Even if it were the case
Even if I had the keys
Was it worth it ?
No it wasn't
No fucking way

I don't see anything around here
That could make me wanna stay

But where the hell could I go ?
The darkest hour is just before the dawn,
If there's one left.

Another Five Minutes - Before The Dawn

No matter the man or the machine, beasts will become what they were meant to be

For all those born to serve
And those that chose to hide
Let their sadness be our blessing
Let their losses lead the way

The dark horse will one day come
To free the light from all of us
One day the dark horse will come

For all those born to die
And those that lost the fight
Let their hard roads be our way out
Let their passion lead the way

No matter the man or the machine
Beasts will become
What they were meant to be
In the name of lovers
In the name of wars
We'll show the demons
For what they are

Dark horse ride
Towards the light
Dark horse ride
Onward

Converge - Dark Horse

Recycled air, the smell of sleep and disinfectant

I'm not sure what's worse
The waiting or the waiting room
"You're next sir" becomes a cruel taunt to you
Recycled air, the smell of sleep and disinfectant
Your God is a two door elevator

Do they even cure you ?
Cut me open drug me
Or is it just to humor us before we die
Repair all my defects
If only we could heal ourselves
We wouldn't need to be hooked up to these machines

Let's redefine
What it means to heal

Alexisonfire - Accidents

So put down that knife and come lie

And now I think I know
What's on your mind
Your eyes melt through me and it's no surprise
I can become you
And through your eyes I'll watch you

Lie to me
Step right over me
As I fall to my knees

Like a movie star
Like kerosene
Your burning arrows sinking into me
You're my favorite ache inside
So put down that knife and come lie

Down with me
Step right over me
You can do anything your heart pleasures
You can do anything you want

Just like before
She'll bring me down into that place
We come together and erase
Each other one more time

Step back as I set myself up for the kill
I might shoot myself in the foot while I swallow that pill
Stand right above us to unbreak my fall
Your sex with a razor and my blood tells all

Like a movie star
Like kerosene
Burning in my eyes
I can feel you now
Here I leave myself wide open now
I leave myself wide open now
It's all I ever knew

Strung Out - Razor Sex

(ouais, pardon aux familles, tout ça, mais j'ai pas trouvé la chanson en meilleur qualité, donc on va faire avec, hein)

You point at me, why can't you see, I'm not like you, don't wanna be

Getting looks from everyone
Staying cold, about to explode
You point at me, why can’t you see
I’m not like you, don’t wanna be

Don’t follow trends, I’m by myself
Outcast by choice

Telling me what you see
Will not become one of you
I’m a loser, yes I know
Yes I know, yes I know, yes I know

Don’t follow trends, I’m by myself
Outcast by choice

Agent Attitude - Repulsive Action

If your hearts so fragile, why do you place in the hands of others ?

Never been one for confrontation,
This rusty gate of a relationship keeps on squeaking.
I have finally had enough.

I can't recommend a remedy,
I've got problems of my own,
And I can barely find the answers to solve them all.

Anything can happen in a heartbeat.
Maybe we’re just friends,
Maybe we’re just more.

I always find my own solutions,
This stack of problems keeps on building,
And you’re the one to blame.

If your hearts so fragile,
Why do you place in the hands of others ?
These clumsy paws and stunted arms,
Can barely hold the weight.
It's just slipping through my fingers,
This liquid love these whiskey hearts.
We grow to miss them.

Fights & Fires - Haunted House

If nothing to refer to, no poetry no arts no design and no goal ?

Who should I be questionning when
There will be no god left ?
Where will my thoughts go, 

If no destination ?

If no one to answer ?
If nothing to refer to, no poetry no arts
No design and no goal ?

Shall I always remain quiet
Or dumb with my mind running fast ?
No catharsis allowed.

A thousand horses unchained,
Locked up in a dull circus.
And yet the voice remains

It will never be screaming
Again, never be yelling again.

Always remain.

An insidious whisper that's filling up the vase
With constant certainty.
And yet the voice remains,

Whispering there's no hope,
Whispering there's no love,
Whispering there's no joy,
Whispering : « Kill'em all ! »

Direwolves - Sighs And Whisper

Maybe it could leave me happy, maybe it could leave me broken

We were born where boredom's been sanctified.
And hope wears the same dust than all roads outgoing.
I'm sick of waiting, sick of living in this apathy.
Tonight's the night, the mounts will give up.
No need for muscles when you have a beating heart.
This is the story of not already broken dreams.
 

War's not over, I've just found the flag.
And I don't stand for the resigned one.
Maybe it could leave me happy,
Maybe it could leave me broken,
One thing is sure :
It won't leave ignorant.
 

And if I have one fear, 

It's to lay on regrets.
With no way to sleep before the sunset.
Haunted by souvenirs of days spent hoping 

That life ain't useless for a kid still dreaming.
 

Life won't build me no jail.

Birds In Row - A Kid Called Dreamer

In our dreams : We live and love equal

She watched us all put a price tag on anything we could.
Her gifts neatly repackaged and presented
In a way that is entirely misunderstood :
Watered down and compromised.
 

Lives that were once free have been stolen
So now she calls on us to steal them back.

"What's ours is ours, the little we have."

We wait patiently at the end of the table for their scraps.
We fight amongst each other and emulate the first
When we should identify with the last.

"Their suits are a symbol of the perpetual power of a dominant class.
See through the handshake and see the sneer in a smile.
You will all put your hand in theirs.  

But you must remember :
They keep their plates full through acts of oppression and lies.
Their cups of blood red wine flowing with the sweat of your kind."

She shakes and waves frantically to make us understand
That we will have to learn to know patience.

In our nightmares :
A utopia just beyond our grasp;
A hand scolded and burning with the boiling bloodlust of our past.
In our dreams :
We live and love equal;
We walk with bitter clarity, uncommon grace, and as tall as the rest.
Someday : glowing and radiant.

Verse - The Revelance Of Our Disconnect

You're too ugly and I'm too fat, what kind of seed are we to spawn with genetic cards like that ?

Fucking like bunnies
Breeding like rats
We're shitting out the babies and I'm telling you that that's
Mad against the better judgment in our human history
Take some time to think it over
It's not difficult to see
You can wait until you're older
Or you're in a better place
Just remember there's no winner in this fucked-up human race
I know you might be searching for some meaning on this earth
But don't be stabbing nature in the back by giving into birth

You're too ugly and I'm too fat
What kind of seed are we to spawn with genetic cards like that ?
Plus addiction and depression is just swimming in my cum
And we are weak and dumb

Fucking like bunnies
Breeding like rats
We're shitting out the babies and I'm telling you that that's
Mad against the better judgment in our human history
Take some time to think it over
It's not difficult to see

We're mostly runts and too high strung
In nature, mother eats the young
Who are we to breed ?
Put away your seed
We can't evolve an iron-lung

And you're too ugly and I'm too fat
What kind of seed are we to spawn with genetic cards like that ?
Plus addiction and depression is just swimmin' in my cum
And we are weak and dumb

Too many people on the way
World's growing smaller every day
As quantity grows, life quality goes
Our lives are sick and in decay

Leftöver Crack - Life Is Pain