MODERN LIFE IS WAR LYRICS

1. Old Fears, New Frontiers

Old fears. New frontiers.
Old fears. New frontiers.
Old fears. New frontiers.
Old fears. New frontiers.
Old fears. New frontiers.

2. Health, Weath, & Peace

In the pursuit of health, wealth & peace
Try not to dwell in the rear view on momentary street.
Shun substance for distraction.
You can't squeeze love from hateful action.
Picking up the pieces from the days when
youth was my religion & friends were gods.
Awoke and aged atheist in a cold sweat
Begging for recompense.

Accepting myself, accepting my condition.
Avoiding attachment & following my vision.
The changes I waited for never came.
My struggles of yesterday are my struggles of today.

Give me your heart again, I'll give you mine.
And maybe again, maybe in time...
Our spirits burning bonfire bright in the inky night.

3. Chasing My Tail

Steal my heart in the summer. Thoughts & visions from
another time cloud my mind. Thinking I was not meant
to live this long. Thanking an absentee god that I
did not take that accidental fatal fall. Distractions
as lifeblood. Stranded drunk on a humid night.
Pushing ply. Burning sky. Making peace with vice,
constantly increasing the pressure in my life.
Aim & Ambition. You've come at age. The money must be
made, the bills must be paid. I live hand to mouth
& simplify. The things I can't afford to lose
have multiplied. Friends have scattered.
I miss them all so much. I'll see you at weddings
& funerals. We'll catch up & we'll wish each other
well. Only time will tell. I wish you well.

Scrape & crawl to gain position
Chasing my tail in the land of competition.

Scrape,
Crawl,
Scrape,
Crawl,
Scrape,
Crawl,
Scrape,
Crawl,
Scrape,
Crawl,
Scrape,
Crawl,

[Repeat]

4. Media Cunt

Your greasy lips & your glassy eyes gave
you away. I suspected you've been infected
by the diseased discharge of the media
cunt. So little room to exist between
the honest truth and a crippling worldview.
Decadent, begging for pleasure. Like a druggie
on a hamster wheel begging for forever.

I'm so sorry about you.

You used to say you wanna live with dignity
and die on your feet. I hate to see you
retreat. It's too early to accept
defeat. We're all standing on shaky ground
and my knees are trembling too. It doesn't
mean I have to lie down. Nobody's dunce.
Nobody's fucking clown.

I'm so sorry about you,
I suspected you've been infected.
I'm so sorry about you.

5. Blind Are Breeding

Is this bitter disdain or just yearning?
Am I standing still or am I slowly turning?
Welcome me back and make the embrace warm.
Cause I'm still screamin' at the same walls
I was screamin' at five years before.
Fight invisible enemies. Warriors without a war.
Our condition remains unchanged until there is
something worth dying for.. If you don't understand,
I understand. It's ok. If you don't understand,
I understand if you just walk away. Money blown.
Opportunities thrown out the windows of rented
rooms. Nothing humbles the anger of youth like
a few more years of truth. I'm just as guilty
as anybody else. I know what's right, can't
put desires on the shelf. I've got a list,
if you've got one you know, you never reach
the end... It just grows and grows.

The wise are panicked.
The blind are breeding.
Sing the kings & queens
of broken dreaming.
The sadness lingers.
The bliss is fleeting.
Sing the king & queens
of broken dreaming.

6. Fever Hunting

There is a certain constant tension inside my skull.
Insecurities that used to make me crazy
now just make me dull. So I'm scrounging
in a western void searching for relief.
You can check out early & die while you're young
or peak, wither & wait for disease.

The party has died. Hangover subside.
With clamped open eyes I watch the death
tolls rise. I hunt with open wounds &
sorrow by my side. The hacks & actors
are pretty and convincing, but it is you & I
who shine the lovely light.

The fever hunt rages on inside my head.

Unrelenting heat. Death: Become dirt. You can't
choose. I am tearing through the obese &
subdued. Gutting and dropping those who try
to drag me down. To see is to suffer.
There is no relief. Your heaven on Earth is hell to me.

You can laugh along with the laugh track.
You can wear ambition as disguise.
You can exploit everyone around you.
You can call it a struggle to survive.
I hunt with open wounds & sorrow by my side.
The more I see the less I need.

The fever hunt rages on inside my head.

7. Dark Water (Nightcrawler)

Balance is bittersweet when all you know is madness.
Count my blessings. Poke out my eyes.
Privilege magnified & shoved in my face
when I walk through the tunnels where
the invalids lay.

I'm wading in dark water when I should be in bed.
With a head full of magic & a heart full of dread.
My labors of toil. My labors of love.
Streetlight pale. Goddamn the sun.

We're all dangerously close to the bottom.
Anguish & Joy could be slammed shut.
In the wink of an eye.. In the inky night.
I'm a nightcrawler & I don't know why.

Balance is bittersweet when all you know is madness.
Count my blessings - Claw out my eyes.
There's no rain to wash the piss stench away
when I walk through the tunnels where the invalids lay.

I'm wading in dark water when I should be in bed.
With a head full of magic & a heart full of dread.
My labors of toil. My labors of lust.
Streetlight pale. Goddamn the sun.

We're all dangerously close to the bottom.
Anguish & Joy could be slammed shut.
In the wink of an eye.. In the inky night.
I'm a nightcrawler & I don't know why.

8. Brothers In Arms Forever

Some days I pray for collapse. Pray for my comforts to be snatched
From my soft hands. For the rug to be pulled from beneath
my soft feet. Maybe then finally, a true piece of mind
could be mine. Until then I need you now more than ever.
Permanent changes falling down like the weather.
Unconditional love, I need someone I can trust.
Even if all that's been broken can't be pieced back together,
after all you said you would be my brother in arms forever.

When I saw you after you got sick I got choked up.
Perfect injustice. Tongue tied staring into your babies eyes.
Unconditional love, I want to be someone you can trust.
Even if all that's broken can't be pieced back together.
After all I said I would be your brother in arms forever.

Somethings you've lost you can't get back.
Too many years spent on the wrong track, like a lonesome train.
But don't count us out just because our plans fell through our
fingers like grains of sand. We need each other now
more than ever. Permanent changes are falling down like
the weather. Unconditional love. We need someone we
can trust. Even if all that's broken can't be pieced back
together. After all we said we'd be brothers in arms
forever.

We always said we'd be brothers in arms forever.
Now you're sick - we're still brothers in arms forever.
All things have changed but we're brothers in arms forever.
In a violent world we're still brothers in arms forever.
Through thick and thin we're still brothers in arms forever.
Distance & time we're still brothers in arms forever.
We always said we'd be brothers in arms forever.
Don't let me go we're still brothers in arms forever.

9. Currency

Poverty of spirit. Economy of disappointment.
Laborers of the concrete reservation.
I'm a broken record now. Skipping for a
decade now. Still trying not to drown in
this dead eye sea. Is it real? I don't
know, but I feel like it's surrounding
me. And I will never know if I was
truly seeking shelter from the world
outside. I was looking for my truth maybe
I lost my mind, goddamn you know it
took some time to find a balance to
check myself. Now I face myself, and ask
myself... I know you were there but what
were you there for? Fuck your style, I
wanna know what you bled for, when no one
was watching... When no one would listen..
When passion was the currency when no check
was written. Growing up was confusing. Archives
of shame to show. I might not have made it all
alone so I thank you if you spoke to me or if you
listened when I was face to face with another tough
decision. And if today you are seeking shelter from
the world outside, consider me on your side with
a condition & warning that I won't waste time on
petty politics or bullshit party lines. I've made the same
mistake so many times before, I can't afford to
make them anymore. I wouldn't try to tell you how to
live but believe me when I say..

Your friends are precious & they're slipping away.
Your time is precious & it is slipping away.

10. Cracked Sidewalk Surfer

I am rising with the concrete tide. Bumps'n'cracks
shake loose the cobwebs in my mind.
Bail or smash. For old mistakes I won't do time.
Sincerely sorry if I was a fool. If I acted
arrogant or cruel. My vessel moves forward so
must my soul. Shouting matches with father
time about my former sins. Burning
in my thighs, salty sweaty eyes, get
me where I'm going. I'm starting to feel
young again. Don't get. Don't get. Don't get.
Don't get lazy. You'll get. You'll get. You'll get.
Stuck again. My vessel moves forward so
must my soul. No time to go crazy so I
must roll... before this shell goes
arthritic & rusts. Yes, I still know your
expectations. No, I still don't give a fuck.
Momentum must be maintained. So don't get
lazy You'll get stuck again. Rising with
the concrete tide. Bumps'n'cracks shake
loose the cobwebs in my mind. Bail or smash,
for old mistakes I won't do time. Sincerely
sorry if I was a fool if I acted arrogant
or cruel. My vessel moves forward so must
my soul. No time to go crazy so I must
roll.

11. Find A Way

I believe I am here to create.
Armed with love & knowledge I will find a way.
If you believe you are here to create.
Seek love & knowledge and you will find a way.
If we believe we are here to create.
Armed with love & knowledge we will find a way.

And I know there are those that would like
to see me fail. I wish you health.
I wish you wealth. I wish you could
understand that there is nothing that
you could do to me that's worse than
what I've already done to myself.

The Old Fears are Still Here. Still
New Frontiers are Still Waiting.
If the Fear cripples You and
You lose your chance to try.
You'll have to live with your own
Wasted Life.

I believe I am here to create.
Armed with love & knowledge I will find a way.
If you believe you are here to create.
Seek love & knowledge and you will find a way.
If we believe we are here to create.
Armed with love & kinowledge we will find a way.







MODERN LIFE IS WAR LYRICS