BURDEN OF A DAY LYRICS

1. For Tomorrow We Die

We set our sights on something
That's just beyond our reach
It's not what we expected
We will bleed
We won't stop this
We will not let it go
We wont stop we're not letting go
We wont stop we're not letting

We felt the fire in our hearts
Burning with the thought of living on and on and on and on
You set us apart
We won't lay down and die tonight
Die tonight
Worth something
We're something now, something now

You can kiss and tell but we won't back down
You can kiss and tell but we won't back down

We can feel you in our heart
You will lead us in your steps
We can feel you in our heart
We can feel you in our hearts

We're not dead yet
we are still alive
but not tonight
we'll die some other time
[x4]

2. High Noon

With contrite hearts on the blackest of days
We've done our deeds but now we have to pay
The social call; the presidents not home
The gossip line "we never would have known"

I awoke to the sound of singing in the streets [x2]

The sorrow fell like the setting sun
On dusty streets the sound of running in our heads
As we hung like leaves from the trees
Shooting from the hip we live our lives so precariously
Breathing deeply for the last time I can see
The lights shining just for me...

Built to last
This winters going to end
The sun will shine on our faces
Life begins...

Swing low, Sweet chariot
Carry me home [x2]

Ride till sunset leave it all behind [x2]
and go

Cowboys never die [x4]

Built to last
This winters going to end
The sun will shine on our faces
Life begins...

When life ends life begins [x2]
Again and again.

3. Escapism As An Art Form

Here we go!
Would you paint me something pretty
This bloodstained canvas wreaks of failure
Colors are smeared by turpentine
Grasping to every written word you’ve ever said
Toy soldiers
We’re guided by children’s hands

Running faster
Faster, faster
We’re ticking time bombs counting down and setting to explode
Bursting forward
So misguided
I’m sorry dear
Won’t you dry your crying eyes tonight?

Before this happened we were hidden still
Deep in conversations with ourselves
Would you take me someplace beautiful, beautiful?
So distinct I won’t come back
I won’t ask for more

Running faster
Faster, faster
We’re ticking time bombs counting down and setting to explode
Bursting forward
So misguided
I’m sorry dear
Won’t you dry your crying eyes tonight?

Our last request
Our last request
This is our last request
It's all that we've been living for
This is our last request
It's all that we've been living for

And this will be our cry
We’ll run until we die
Until we die
Body bleeding
Bruised and beaten
Still we cry
We’ll run until we die
Until we die

4. No Blood No Foul

Into the fray we can't jump to conclusions
For we are not what it seems like
Give me your hand, give me your hand

I came to you
you promised me
that you were on just a temporary phase
sheets in the wind
no harm at all
No blood, no foul

But now you're hurt
Your pain is deep
And it's just killing me to see
Tonight I'd do anything to untie you
from this locomotive

If falling faster helps
I'll sink into oblivion
I'll sink so fast your head will spin

You hold the vapor in your hands
To disregard the scent that pulls you out
This fleeting glimpse is all you have
Please don't blink twice
It will disappear before your eyes

I saw the look in your eyes
Screaming out for mercy
Sidestepping series of disappearing waves
Of disappointment
All the things that hold you back
Please tell me why you won't let me in
You're slitting your own neck
And I can't stop you from trying

If falling faster helps
I'll sink into oblivion
I'll sink so fast your head will spin

You hold the vapor in your hands
To disregard the scent that pulls you out
This fleeting glimpse is all you have
Please don't blink twice
It will disappear before your eyes

Your heart is beating faster now
With abrasive syllables, you stumble for a shaky word
My heart is bursting for the time
When sleep won't come
Until safety rings in my ears
But I'll never be able to sleep
I'll never be able to sleep again
But I'll never be able to sleep
I'll never be able to sleep again

Thanks for coming, thanks for coming
He said as he walked up to the steps
With our heads held low
Aware of our cracked faces in the sun
We had been running for so long
We had been running
That our shoes were as paper
as we struggled on these blistered feet

His words are as a gentle breeze
We had been sweating
grief stricken tears we had been crying
But it was finished all along

Now we can hold our hears up high
And say that it was worth the climb
The struggle for our very soul
The struggle was not ours at all

5. "Oh The Humanity" (A Prologue To Tragedy)

As the shots rang out on the motorcade
We felt nothing at all
We said it happens
Yeah it happens all the time
With a dealer’s hand we gently build our house of cards
As kings and queens are dining in your yards
We tied this up
With a bow
The science of rock and roll
To bleed a dream with a stolen chance
The art of life is a fleeting glance
We close our eyes
The air is cold I breathe tonight
The frosted lends
It dims our eyes
With our clenched teeth we numbly bite
And gently crack our pearly whites
With vengeance we could light the flame
But instead we choose to proudly look away
With tear-filled eyes and aching arms
He stares at his useless hands
We dropped the ball
We lost it on our own
As the torrents fell on the sleeping town
We felt nothing at all

6. Ashes To Ashes

‘Til we die
With a separation of life and limb
A rolling stone gathers no moss
Keep moving on from what we know went wrong
Time is precious
We don’t have long
Take full advantage
So we will live and won’t look back
To keep our dreams alive
And we will live and not retract
For what we feel will die
With strength of heart
We’ll push our passion on and on

[Spoken]
Why do we cry such bitter tears for life that is no longer ours
With dirty faces and mud-caked shoes
We dance to be different but we are all the same
Take us to a place where envy ceases to be green
and the color red covers all our sins and blacks out our eyes

With no regrets
Live today with no regrets
With a song in our hearts and breath in our lungs
Our eyes burn with vision
Ashes to ashes
We all fall down

7. Hello My Name Is Euphoria

To view the world through the bottom of an empty glass
These blurred images of smiles of so-called friends
You're so tired
The weight of the room is set to strangle
Her arms go limp and so she closed her eyes

This always happens in the night
It happens every single time
You feel the turning of the knife
In your gut and neon blinds your eyes

Sing the song of sorrow
The past is no tomorrow
Starting now there will be a brand new day

Cut deep, scars bleed;
These wounds will heal

The memories will fade away [x2]

You said the nights were too long,
But with bloody knuckles we carried on
You said the lights were too bright
In your eyes and sang your sad songs
We buckled down and broke the bottles spilling dreams across the street
Erase the images the pitter pat of tiny feet.

Sing the song of sorrow
The past is no tomorrow
Starting now there will be a brand new day

8. Cupid Missed His Mark

Disenchanting and contagious when we think that we're in love
Superfluous, disengaging when we think we are in love
Pointless words when it comes to push and shove
We're just kids in grown up bodies, right?
I am right aren't I?
We thought we were in love

This love is the tie that binds
A noose around our necks [x2]

You created me to love so much deeper than that
Please let me fall again. I'll never come back

We can fall, just one time
It still hurts in rewind
You can heal broken hearts
And replace with spare parts

I keep my heart in my pocket
It's weighing my shirt down
Bleeding through the fabric and bursting with the sound
What if my heart beats too fast?
I'm longing for your still small voice
Viens bloom with blue like roadmaps
We fell against our will
What if my capillaries won't stand and lapse?
We fell against our will...

Honestly, honestly...
Would you say those things to me? [x4]

Get on your horse and ride [x2]

9. Anatomy Of A Scene

As the they stand in ruins of cities
the children play in ashes
knee deep
in our neglect
our bags in overhead compartments
so secure
we walk with the world underneath our feet
inside these cocoons made of band-aids and foam
to stop the noises from bleeding in
we like our music loud and different to alienate the masses
run into the nightmare of self absorption
we are what it takes to survive
into the night we fall as pilots in paper planes
we race against this coming rain
out running this chance
to prove that we are alive and we're here to stay
we let this go
our only chance to say
our lives meant something more
the air our fists are beating
inside our hearts are bleeding
we race to the end
tonight we’re dancing on the edge of reason
pushing envelopes
as if the postman could be tried for treason
our canopy's covered in graffiti
with no parachute we'll crash and burn
baby burn
without your calming fire we'll burn
brilliantly without a cause...

10. Bite The Bullet

the guests have gone
our hearts have beaten with the last song sung tonight
resilience coursing* in our veins
we're picking up the pieces as we watch them fall

like a cannonball
we watch you fall
[x6]

bury me deep in this mausoleum
bury me to my neck so i can't feel my limbs
we're not going to make it
not this time
when you say that could you look me in the eye

let's paint this town in a sheet of red
and burn like passion in our hands
[x3]

we'll burn with passion
we'll burn with passion

we'll burn
come on baby!
and just let it go


[*Note: in the cd cover, it reads
"resilience RUNNING in our veins",
but you can clearly hear "coursing" in the song]

11. Sound Of Solace

you placed the sound of silence in my ears when i'm calm
like sleeping underwater with dreams of you swirling around
i'm engulfed
don't let this fade away
never let this go
the storm above us is pounding
ships are cracking at the hull

under all this it's tranquil
wrapped up in you
breathe into me the breath life so i will never die again
breathe into me the breath life so i will never die again

and i will rise to the surface
trying to swim against the beating waves
i slip and fall
the water pounding in my lungs
the fear of failing pulls me
it marks my demise
like salt in open wounds
light burns my sun baked eyes

the sound of silence in my head
(solace is found in silent conversation)
you speak without using your words
(solace is found in silent conversation)

[talking in the background:]
thoughts are carried up on angels' wings
words speak volumes when they are unspoken
my head is mute
but my heart still sings

you bought me you brought me out
[x4]

thoughts are carried up on angels' wings
take me away
solace is found in this
silence

breathe into me, my father
breathe into me, my friend
[x2]

take some time to listen to me
please hear me out
i can't let you go that way

take some time to listen to me
please hear me out
i can't let you go that way
(look into his eyes and tell him he's not wanted
look into his eyes and tell him he is not your friend)

12. Lost In The Shuffle

We are lost in a sea of faces
The registry has lost our places
Can we find where we belong tonight
Say it isn’t so
We have no place to go
Through the snow
The numbness in my bones
The weatherman was wrong again today
I feel like I don’t belong here
I can’t breathe in this air
As I look up to the sky at night
There must be a better place for me
As my throat closes tight
The words
This is not my home
We can’t go home
This world is not our home





BURDEN OF A DAY LYRICS