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(ALL LYRICS BY ISAAC IRVINE)
PUPPET SHOW Piles of bodies strewn all around me this act of terrorism frightens and confounds me and before my best friend's laid to rest Channel 3 wants interviews, psychologists want tests (chorus) Try to make sane from insane You don't care about the pain To you it's just another media game You want a million answers, I have one If you loved him like a son maybe he would not have resorted to the gun You wanna know what was the final straw What pushed them to the edge and made them do it all All these answers I don't care and I don't need I just want to sleep at night and not see my friends bleed NO REGRETS Looking back to all the things I screwed up in my life and all the times I sat and wished that I could make them right But now I've realized that things were for the best So remember all the good things and try to forget the rest All those stupid things you did are what made you who you are So hang up all of your regrets or you won't get to far You've got to live and learn 'cause we all make mistakes You're living in the past and now it's time to.... Awaken from this slumber This strange spell that you are under In the back of my mind I'll always wonder What If I did things differently Now I'm finally starting to see That's what made me me ALL ALONE Two in the morning, disturbing phone call From a mother's trembling face the tears begin to fall Midnight race to the hospital but it's already to late Few too many beers and a set of car keys claimed another victims fate Mass hysteria on the final night Oxygen masks mixed with angels flight So many questions to which no answers will be found As another piece of your family will soon be laid into the ground Makes the calm crazy, drives the strong to their knees Nothing runs deeper than the blood of the family No longer feels the pain inflicted by his lifestyle too wild No one has felt pain like the mother whose lost her child Some will remember the troubles he caused His fall backs and and personality flaws We'll reminisce to the days gone by And hear memories of laughter between a mother's cries Time will pass, some will forget There remains one whose wounds have not healed yet All have lives of their own All will grieve and move on But one's pain will never be gone A mother is all alone All Alone REMINISCE Hop on my Bigwheel and cruise around the block Get in the last few minutes of play before it's 8 o'clock I hear momma callin' from across the street It's past my bedtime or else it's time to eat So sorry Momma but you're just gonna have to wait We gotta finish our baseball game it's inning 28 Chop off my sister's Barbie Doll heads Wait 'til she falls asleep and hide them in her bead Hide and go Seek, Cops and Robbers We'll play smear the queer 'til somebody gets clobbered I Wanna go back I Wanna go back We were ninja's killing snowmen with our swords made outta brooms G.I.Joes and Transformers strewn across my room We'll play Atari for an hour or two Hell we'll play until our faces turn blue Makin' forts and boobytraps in the woods in the backyard Finding something dumb to do was never that hard First kisses, hits and misses, things to cherish, things gone rotten Things lost deep in your mind, things never to be forgotten I Wanna go back I Wanna go back SHADES OF GREY I can see it in your eyes, see it your eyes see it in your eyes it's me you despise I can see it in your eyes, see it in your eyes You're believing all the lies I see it in your eyes You're blaming me and I'm blaming you and there isn't one damn thing that either of us can do Cause' you think I get all the breaks I think all you do is take We both end up empty handed, No one gets the cake There's a fine line between black and white On the outside we appear as different as day and night But deep inside our souls we share the same pain We're both at the bottom of the heap and it's driving us insane United we stand, and divided we fall And we keep on falling 'til there's nothing left at all But still you stand on the other side Even though we're in the same boat I guess it'll always be that way your hands around my throat There's a fine line between truth and lies Keep that in mind the next time you hear your families cries Live your whole life filled with hate, you have nothing to gain We both gotta make it in this world and it's driving us insane VOICES I hear voices, voices in my mind Voices from the past that always seem to find Seem to find their way, way into my head Whispering to me what other people said Said to me. I try to ignore, ignore what they say But these voices they won't go away These voices, they come from all around tell me how to live, try to bring me down down to earth, but earth is so boring they don't want me hope, don't want me to dream Dreams are a waste of time that's what they say I don't want to listen but they won't go away I hear voices, voices from my heart that tell me not to stray, stray from the path The path I want to take, take what I want Want outta life, life that is mine Do what I feel is right The voices are still there but what they try to say I will ignore I will make them go away OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND Sleeping on a bed of dirty needles and a pillow made of trash A stale half eaten doughnut the last meal that he had Bullets ring out in the night, under a chair he hides A broken door with broken windows protects him from outside Mother comes home half past two with a lost look on her face The mother that he used to know is in another place A scar across his forehead cruel reminder of a dad Who put him in intensive care the last time he was bad Close your eyes, Nothings wrong, Close your eyes Teacher thinks he's trouble sits him in the back of class As long as he don't cause her trouble she will let him pass Quietly he sneaks through school. Now where can he be? The product of society that we no longer see. Close your eyes, Nothings wrong, Close your eyes How can we expect a child like this to succeed When we can not even fulfill his most basic needs Love, Respect, A helping hand are things he's never known Equal Opportunity an idea that we have sadly blown THINGS COULD BE WORSE Nuclear Arsenal aimed at my head Armageddon's around the corner why the hell get outta bed Things are all gone wrong and it feels like I'm cursed Things could be better and things could be worse These kids in the streets kill each other with their guns They leave their friends a bloody mess that doesn't sound like fun Life is not a movie there's no time to rehearse Things could be better and things could be worse You could be lying in a ditch, with crows picking at your eyes While midgets poke you in the ribs, and pluck hairs off your thighs Pollution and smog make it very hard to breathe Oxygen tank up my butt, that's probably what I need Or maybe I could get a supermodel for a nurse Things could be better and things could be worse I should be a HAPPY CAMPER and turn the other cheek When life is going poopy and the future's looking bleak So much gone wrong I could write another verse Things could be better and things could be worse SIXTEEN Sixteen and on the street, begging for some food to eat Where did you go wrong? Yesterday at play, today another runaway Where do you belong? Looking for something else out there, looks like it found you Thought you'd live life without a care instead you live without a clue My life sucks and no one cares, this stupid world isn't fair I'm gonna show you all! You don't care about me, Just wait and you will see I'm gonna be 20 stories tall Looking for something else out there, looks like it found you Thought you'd live life without a care instead you live without a clue I'm gonna be an actress, I'm gonna join a band I'm gonna make it big and have a million fans I don't need you, I don't need anybody Nobody cares, Nobody cares about me I'm only doing this to make some extra dough To get back on my feet then things will start to flow Oh GOD, Please get him off me, wasn't supposed to be like this Is this how my life ends? Tell me now will I be missed? PICTURES Pictures in my mind, leave me bitter and unkind So excuse me if I don't feel the way you do All around, on the ground the suffering can be found And I want to help but I'm not sure how too I know they have it rough but I just can't do enough So I wonder if I should even bother Poor girl just wants some food, bet it would change your attitude IF you found that hungry girl to be your daughter And still we turn the other cheek And I for one am feeling cowardice and weak We go through life with our eyes closed But in our hearts and minds we'll always know Was at the end of my rope and had given up all hope But now I see that's just the easy way out And I know many have more but my health I'm thankful for I don't need everything that's not what I'm about So if you've got what you don't need, please don't resort to greed Share your power don't abuse it I'm left with a choice armed with only my voice And you can bet that I intend to use it I'm not going to turn the other cheek No more feeling cowardice and weak Go through life with my eyes open wide And when someone needs my help I won't run and Hide I won't run and hide SUCKER PUNCH Well I worked my whole life for other peoples benefit Let them tell me what to do, when to run and when to sit At the end of it all I was left with nothing All the money all the pride, it all went straight to them And now I'm old and gray and I got no money left for my final resting days They left me with a pile of depends and a crummy company watch After 30 years a firm handshake feels like a sucker punch to the crotch They told me I've been replaced and my replacement don't need lunch breaks or any office space In fact he don't even need to be paid 'cause my replacements mass produced and man-made BORDERLINES The pursuit of happiness is in great demand Immigrants run across the border to escape their homeland They want to be like you and me to be free You want them out want armed guards on the borders You're already in now you want restraining orders You won't let them be like you and me, to be free Laser turrets, electric fence and a moat Send out ships to sink refugee boats Lock the door and swallow the key Make the standard of living better for you and for me We all were lucky were born here by chance Grew up listening to the same old song and dance This is the land of opportunity Think again, those rules don't apply To all the people stuck on the other side of the borderline Hey....but you're doing fine Laser turrets, electric fence and a moat Send out ships to sink refugee boats Lock the door and swallow the key Make the standard of living better for you and for me A man with four children dreams of a better day When he can make the hunger pains of his children go away Sneaks across the border gets a job, finally has reason to believe A bus ride home with shackles is what he receives If the choices to make all were mine we'd be living in a world without a single borderline |
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