REDEEMER LYRICS

1. Intro

My glass is empty.
I'm beginning to think that I've missed my chance for that ever overflowing.
Love is not love if that love's got its limits.
God is not God if that God knows condemning.

2. Dead Weight

Sadness set in around sunset.
Uninvited, yes.
But it's all in how you handle it.

I've seen better days, but I'm trying to mend.
The candle can only burn at both ends for so long.
Dead weight is pulling me under.

Sink or swim,
I dig the grave I've been living in.
When I lived through hell, I found there's far worse things than death.
What if I'm waiting for a peace that I can't have?
What if they're right and I pushed that grace out of grasp?

The silence is deafening.
The misery is setting in.
I fear that I'm just making waves...
To keep from drowning in unhappiness.
The silence is deafening.
The misery is setting in.
I feel myself sinking again.
Suffer to survive.

The grass was never green on either side.
I think of nothing but I,
And focus only on the shadows when the sun shines.
Growing up,
I found out nothing was good enough.
I'll fight my way to the surface or bust.
Under the weight of hopelessness, feeling crushed.
Can't give in to giving up.

This world showed me no love.
I bit the bullet and toughened up.
They'll give you nothing, their words are vacant.
This life is what you make it.

3. Judge

Destructive seeds sprout best from the back row of seats.
I'm trying my best to forgive the body that forgot me.
I don't live in fear or crumble at the feet of a tyrant.
I was never called to judge the non-compliant.
Hate for its own sake is blindness.
I was never your enemy.
Condemnation was never my place.
"God is love" doesn't mean that some don't make the cut.
I've never known grace to mean that a good man is not enough.
Hell has raged inside.
I boasted faith when I was scared to die.
Now, I see that salvation isn't part of a bargain I'm holding up.
I was never your enemy.
Condemnation was never my place.
If you only know God as a judge,
I'd rather meet him by gavel than live on the run.

4. Catching My Breath

Another town, another down.
I've never felt as alive as I do now.
I don't know if I'll ever go back.
Give me twenty heads in a dim-lit basement.
Fort Ryland nights. The California backyard that made me.
The open road can take me.
I wouldn't trade this for anything.
We'll never be the same.
The friends we made.
We sang along.
The Colorado smoke screen lingered on.
I found life in that eerie wooden shack
that once harbored death.
The van. The overnight drives.
The starry skies.
This is my life, my love, my everything.
Don't let the open road take me back.
I wouldn't trade this for anything.
We'll never be the same.
And we all knew Wolf never stood a chance.
I'd trade these luxuries for a crowded van.
This is all I live for: this is my everything.
This is all I'm good for: this is all that's left for me.
The open road can take me.
This is all I live for: this is my everything.
This is all I'm good for: this is all that's left for me.
Give me twenty heads in a dim-lit basement.
Fort Ryland nights. The California backyard that made me.
I wouldn't trade this for anything.
We'll never be the same.

5. Elitist

Your family is no family to me.
You preach unity like you know what it means.
So call me a newjack, an outcast.
You're another elitist.
I'll be the back of your pack.
The self-esteem boost that you needed.
Elitist.
Stake your claim with the cowards.
Get your kicks on your false sense of power.
Choose your enemies wisely.
You turn your nose up at the likes of me.
Elitist: hierarchical waste of time.
No friend of mine.
Elitist: shun one, shun the family.
Step to them, step to me.
I've had enough.
You're no better than me.
You're no better than us.
Unity.
Respect.
Weed out the arrogant.
Protect what's left.

6. Below The Belt

You call yourself a friend, but you'd turn on me in a heartbeat.
In the midst of slander, you're the last to speak.
When it's blow for blow, you'd be the last to swing.
Last to swing.
You're worse than the worst of them.
And when you're needed most, you'll be the worst of friends.
Respect doesn't mean a thing.
To a fraud, loyalty means nothing.
When you need me next, remember what you did.
When you turned your back on someone you called friend.
I called you brother.
You abandoned me.
How dare you say I never have your back?
I gave you everything.
But you still walked away.
I'm done.
This is the last time; bending over backwards to say goodbye.
My trusted ally,
you left me to die.
You call yourself a friend, but you'd turn on me in a heartbeat.
In the midst of slander, you're the last to speak.
When it's blow for blow, you'd be the last to swing.
Last to swing.

7. See Red

My anger is getting the best of me.
Fury raging, taking every joy I try to keep.
I'm at the end of the road.
The bend in the rope.
The voice in my head screaming,
'Choke, you can't cope anymore.'
Solace was another empty promise
Holding deceit just behind grinding teeth.
I'm sick of failing,
sick of struggling for self-symmetry I can't reach.
And I'm empty on the inside.
I wear this smiling guise with pride.
If I'm angry, then I'm alive.
I'll drown trying to turn this tide.
In my head, I built a prison from the scars of my past.
In a bed of my own bones,
laid every pleasant memory to rest.
I'm dying here.
My anger is getting the best of me.
Fury raging, but I'll sail on to calmer seas.
Can't get a grip.
End of the road.
I want no part of this.
Bend in the rope.
Trying to cope.
Finding routine in suffering.
Bend in the rope.
Trying to cope.

8. Broken Son

Another broken son from a broken home.
Another troubled youth with nowhere to go.
You're no more a man than I am your child.
You're just another crook with a crooked smile.
Who do you think you are,
tearing my family apart?
I will not call you father.
Don't you call me son.
You are no father and I'm no fool to what you've done.
You're a snake in the grass.
Don't play the martyr with a murderous past.
I used to call that house my home.
You're not welcome here; give up the ghost.
The memories we made before that man destroyed everything.
My father held me in that room.
But my mother's eyes were fixed on you.
Leave well enough alone.
Another broken son from a broken home.
I've become a man despite you.
Another troubled youth, but I'll make it through.
Violent and angry.
I am the way you made me
and I'll never be the same,
but I'm better off that way.
So, tell me, was your fling worth it?
Does he make you feel alive?
Do you see the face of my father when you look in my eyes?
Can you look in my eyes?
Another broken son from a broken home.
Another troubled youth, with nowhere to go.
I've become a man despite you.
Another troubled youth, but I'll make it through.
I'll make it through.

9. Still Raining

I was once so alive and the world was so colorful.
If I open my eyes will the color return?
I know this hurricane.
I've felt these waves.
Will You calm the storm in me?
I can't help but think this is only routine.
I bow my head but where is my faith?
Where do my words fall?
Am I the last thing on Your mind?
Do You overlook Your children's cries?
Give me a sign,
so I know that I'm not walking blindly.
I'm struggling.
Show me that I haven't left Your arms.
Have I left Your arms?
I'm broken.
I'm dying
Is this what You wanted?
This storm isn't letting up.
I thought I was stronger than this;
I wont make it.
I say amen time again,
it's still raining.
Why is it raining?
You've kept me alive this long.
You know my weaknesses.
God, keep me strong.
Then I hear Your voice in the breeze.
I can feel the angel's wings around me.
Your love surrounds me.
When I curse your name with the breath you gave.
When I cast all blame on my creator.
I've done everything.
I've done everything to make you turn against me.
How could you love me now?
But You love my when I am weak.
You love me when I'm broken.
When I doubt Your name, I forget everything you gave.
You love me the same.







REDEEMER LYRICS