PAIN OF SALVATION LYRICS

1. Accelerator

I know what you're thinking
I must be the problem here
I think too fast, talk too loud
I barely touch the ground
Yes, I must be the problem here

I know what you're thinking
I must be the problem here
Charred ground all around
Sooty feet, a wild look of despair
Surely, I must be the problem here

'Cause outside there's a world on fire
And as I'm standing right here
Reeking of smoke, gasoline and pyre
I smell just like your worst fear
Though every step in my wake is charred ground
I swear, I'm not to blame here
I'm doing my best to fight fire with fire
Accelerator

Like fire knows flame
You know my name
Spokesman of the
Restless and untamed
Accelerator
Accelerator

Like fire knows flame
You know my name
Spokesman of the broken and insane
I'm accelerator
Accelerator

You know what I'm thinking?
What if I am not the problem here?
You think so slow, plan too much
Had the matches all along
What if I am not the problem here?

Yes, lately I've been thinking
That you might be the problem here
Sane, seemingly sound
Pointing ink stained stubby fingers all around
While our houses burn down to the ground

And outside there's a world on fire
And you're still debating
While the flames run higher and higher
Incinerating

We give you the brilliant, the crazy, the fools⠀
The gifted and the troubled

You normals will follow the ones you choose
Now, maybe that's the problem?

We're the ones who can save you all
Accelerator
We're the ones who can solve it all
Accelerator

We're the ones who can save you all
Accelerator
We're the ones who can solve it all
Accelerator
⠀
Don't kill every flame 'cause you're scared to get burned
Accelerator
Sometimes it's the fire that saves the world
Accelerator
Accelerator

2. Unfuture

Welcome to the new world
Safe
Sound
Sublime
A better and improved world
For our mankind

Welcome to the new world
Please wait in line
Just sign the dotted line, Sir
Don't waste our time

When the last drop of solidarity
From the age of Aquarius
Has boiled down to a tiny trickling stream
Little grey men peek out on us
Safe from their bunker paper piles
You see
They can kill but they don't like the wild

We know it all
But what have we learned?
We have it all
But what have we earned?
We control it all
But what do we yearn?
We stand so tall
But what have we burned?

Welcome to the new world
All want, no need
See, the less your heart is in it
The less you'll bleed

Welcome to the new world
Birthing the grind
Now we only need a new you
And you'll feel fine

Safe from the passionate storm wave
The hungry ocean of Life at our doorstep
Now still
We crawl out to rule another day
And we are happy
In our own detached little way
"Now may the ocean sleep forever"
We pray
"Let the weather stay mild"
We say
You see
We can kill but we really don't like the wild

Welcome to the future
Welcome to the grind
Welcome to the new you
Just leave yourself behind

3. Restless Boy

A restless boy in a world too slow
A flame born into cinder, ash and glow
I've given everything, gave it up
Yet find myself alone and no way back home

A restless boy in a world too slow
A flame born into cinder, ash and glow
I've given everything, gave it up
Yet find myself alone and no way back home

A restless boy in a world too slow
A flame born into cinder, ash and glow
I've given everything, I give it all
I fell in myself, alone

I can see that you're trying to understand
Make it to the top or just take it to the tip of my hand
I can see that you're trying to understand
Make it to the top or just take it to the tip of my hand

I can see that you're trying to understand
I can see that you're trying to understand
I can see that you're trying to understand

This is just a test
This is just a test
This is just a test
This is just a test
This is just a test
This is just a test
I can see that you're trying to understand
This is just a test
Make it to the top or just take it to the tip of my hand
This is just a test

Oh, oh, oh
This is not a test

4. Wait

I have left you in the rain again
You're still hoping for me to change
Again
For how long can you wait?

I have left you in the rain again
You're still hoping for me to change
Again
For how long can you wait?

Wait
Wait another day
Wait another night
Just wait another week
Just wait another month
Just wait another year
For me to become I
For things to become right
While life will pass you by

I will always try to change for you
But I can seem to figure out
How to

(Life will pass you by now, while you wait for me)

My heart and soul reside in you
They do
But my mind lives in each thought that passes through
For how long can you wait?

Wait
Wait another day
Wait another night
Just wait another week
Just wait another month
Just wait another year
For me to become I
For things to become right

My life will pass you by

5. Keen to a Fault

There's a spot up in the ceiling
I'm staring at when we touch
It is not that I'm not feeling
I'm feeling too much

There's this moment when you're thinking
That I'm not fully here
It is not that I am not listening
I'm listening to

...everything that's all around
The constant movement of the sky and ground
Your voice just simply one of the thousand little sounds

The roaming rivers in my mind
We're fractals on the tide, our scope but pixel wide
And you think I fail to see your side?

Human human precious thing
The center of your everything
Concluding therefore that you must be interesting

You talk about your jobs and dreams
Your relatives, vacation plans, and football teams
My mind just swiftly flows upstreams

Every time I close my eyes
I can hear the roar
A thousand voices telling me
You're heading for a fall
Every day you lecture me
On measure and control
I cut my wings to keep you near
'Cause I'm keen to a fault

You keep talking about focus
Keep narrowing down my view
But I feel so much more broken
When I think like you

Where you used to see dysfunction
You must learn to see me
I was learn for multireading
Born to the stars

I was born to dream

6. Fur

[Instrumental]

7. Panther

You wanna be my friend?
Well, come visit me, I'm right here
Here in the deep end
Storm-born, lull-bred, semi-tamed
We seem to be the same, but I pretend
Raw muscle in a noble frame
Graceful and wild, I'm feline
In a world gone canine
And so I'm holding my breath
Just waiting for the lull to end

It was the wild who once willed this world
Now the paper people try their best to keep it conserved
With their papers and pens, scissoring pretty pink pins
Keeping it tidy and trimmed like a big paper bin!

Aah-ah-ah-ah (Like a big paper bin)
Aah-ah--oh-ah-oh-ah (Like a big paper bin)

How does it feel to be you?
Say, how does it feel to be you?

Anyway, who the hell do you think you are?
Medicating everyone who's operating on a faster speed than you are?
Sure, you may be right
We might be burning our candles in every end
But what the fuck, at least we burn, right?
You? Well, meanwhile you're just standing there
Just watching it, just measuring
And harvesting its flame, snuffing it
While pretending to be defending normality
A never ending story of whatever you call sanity
Calling us defective, really?
Well, I just keep burning clutch
Trying to keep the slower pace of you, the so-called normal
The so-called effective

How does it feel to be you?
She once asked me
I said, I feel like a panther
Trapped in a dog's world

How does it feel to be you?
She once asked me
I said, I feel like a panther
Trapped in a dog's world

How does it feel to be you?
She once asked me
I said, I feel like a panther
Trapped in a dog's world

How does it feel to be you?
She once asked me
I said, I feel like a panther
Trapped in a dog's world

How does it feel to be you?
She once asked me
I said, I feel like a panther
Trapped

How does it feel to be you?
She once asked me
I said, I feel like a panther
Trapped in a dog's world

A dog's world
A dog's world
A dog's world
A dog's world

8. Species

These woods are so dark
I can't see my hands or my feet
Still I'm not afraid
I feel in my place and at ease
When mankind is asleep
I feel I can finally breathe
Out here it is all clear
There's a cost for my every need

I stopped watching the news
A long time ago
No disaster felt new
The same old mankind that I know

My warmth comes from the trees
And my food comes from the sea
My supply of water drains visibly
With each slow cup of tea

I stopped feeling alone
A long time ago
I'm surrounded by life
I'm surrounded by home
I stopped watching the news
It was hurting me so
All that matters bleeds through

Like plutonium glow

Sometimes I hate my fucking species
Yet most days
I'll do anything to please it

My generation was fooled to pursue our dreams
But it is not what it seems
You never need what you want
And you rarely want what you need

My generation was told we could be anything
But that's a hope that deceives
Those who fail will feel flawed
But still fuller than those who succeed

(Run run run forever)

Heal our time
Please heal our time
Heal mankind
Please heal mankind
Oh
Heal our time
You can heal our time
But don't heal my mind

Sometimes I hate this fucking species
Don't heal my mind
Yet I'll do anything to please it

Sometimes I hate my fucking species
But try just anything just to fucking please it

Sometimes I hate my fucking species
You try just anything to fucking please it

Sometimes
I hate this fucking species

9. Icon

She keeps on calling me
I keep hanging up
It's not that I don't want to talk
I just fear listening

As a child it worried me
That all the ones I loved would one day die
I still recall when I realized
I couldn't save them no matter how I tried

I couldn't wait to be a man
The grown-ups seemed to handle life just fine
But here I am
Still terrified
See, growing up will just teach you how to smile

I followed you from the sun in my childhood
I followed you through the river to the sea
I followed you where the waves turn to wasteland
I followed you
Now they follow me

As a child I felt too old
And now when I'm grown-up I feel too young
A different kind so I've been told
Just slightly out of reach and out of time

I count the years to understand
The faces of the friends I used to know
I close my eyes and they're still the same
How to mourn the living
That are still around
Yet somehow gone

I followed you from the sun in my childhood
I followed you through the river to the sea
I followed you where the waves turn to wasteland
I followed you
Now they follow me

I'm on my way now

I'm mostly doing fine
They rarely see me cry
But you are always on my mind
I'll live another night, I'll walk another mile
But you are always on my mind

I'm mostly doing fine
They rarely see me cry
But you are always on my mind
I'll live another night, I'll walk another mile
Still you are always on my mind

She keeps on calling me
She keeps on calling calling calling calling calling

I'm on my way now

She keeps on calling me
I'm on my way now
She keeps on calling calling calling calling

I keep hanging up

10. Fifi Gruffi

[Instrumental]

11. Unforever

[Bonus Track]

I live forever and a day
I watch the sand fall from the sky
I watch the mountains turn to sand

I live forever and a day
I watch the sand fall from the sky
I watch the mountains turn to sand

I live forever
I live forever







PAIN OF SALVATION LYRICS