STAPLE LYRICS

1. Dictatorship Vs Democracy (DVD)

Vicious cycle of life... I find that I kill myself every time I look away from you
But I often gaze another moment. Incited scars reopen,
Bleeding again, and they're bleeding at my request
Freely given, and we choose the choice to lose (now we know)
As these scars are screaming at me - just why we've chosen poorly.
Could it be our chance to see why we believe that we need you instead of following numbly?
Ride on, ride strong, soldier, march to the dictated beat.
Have you ever known how victory feels unless you have felt defeat?
Don't want the pain of free will stolen and mindless mechanical will chosen
Cherish the loss - there is no concept of gain without cost.
I fall, and I fall freely. Incited scars are bleeding and now I believe. I freely believe.
When I hit the ground and bloody palms I raise,
The arms that pick me up convince me there's no better place.

2. Pop

Tolerate my stance today. I've found my truth in my own way.
So play the blaming game today. This intolerance, it cannot stay.
So play the naming game that you've made for me. Tell me who I can and cannot be
Intolerance for me is plain to see, my truth's not the truth you want it to be.
Tell me the lies, I want the sincere lies. Base them all on how I feel.
Tell me the lies - only if they're sincere lies. And I'll believe that they are real.
Excuse me and my faith today...It's arrogance, it's pompous claims.
Excuse me and my choices today. They don't sit well with you, so they cannot stay.
"It's true for you, but not true for me."- So let's just be one big complacent family -
Until my "arrogant" claims to faith anger you and you prove that your philosophy's not true.
We can't both be right, and I want the truth

3. Fists Afire

Charge the gates, ye proud and strong - are we not invincible?
These are the lives we own, we rule and rule alone
Is this the night we asked for? We're all the things that we swore
That we would never be...basking in our apathy.
Institution revolution. Raze this ground, fight for your life (with vengeance tonight)
Taken by forceful intrusion, we will live before we die.
Is now not the time to raise our fists in defiance
Of this night that steals our dreams of all that we once hoped that we'd achieve?
Fight with fists afire and watch this city burn down.
Tonight we show the day the light our passion can create.
We watch this city burn down! We fight tonight to live before we die! Raise your fists afire!

4. The Songwriter

The date was set, this night was saved
(the music played)
For holy vows to be unmade
Silent bouquets fell to the floor
(with no remorse)
Forsaking what they're living for
Your passion cut so deep, it bled
But now, the songwriter is dead
Now here's to the way, here's to the truth
Here's to the life that you once knew before your passion died inside of you
Now here's to the song that you once played
Before all meaning died and all the words faded away
We are composers who have fallen
We are the poets who've died young
We are directors who've forgotten
We are life's writers and all our hope is gone
How far will we fall?
Our passion dies, here tonight.
We've forsaken our first love...
Look how far we've fallen from!

5. Impressionable

Can I wait when your mighty arms are all that's holding me?
Can I wait when everything is crashing down on me?
When life is too much to bear will I stay there?
I saved this dance for you. I wore my finest suit.
I cleaned myself up and I memorized all the moves.
Oh how I long for this song to play forever and forever more.
Through it's duration I live, and you're the melody that I live for.
But the song ends, and so plays the all too familiar last note
Leading so gracefully into the song that only I wrote
Whisked away, now holding onto a memory of the song I once knew.
Complacent, yet remembering how I felt when I felt you.
I'm new. I'm frail. I'm fragile...
So impressionable, yet so hard to change.
Change me!

6. Remember Sammy Jenkis

Memories inside have captured me
They're sitting by my bedside and captivating my mind
Vengeance is mine, or soon will be
Revenge is my time-line; your payback is my deadline
Is it everything I thought that it would be?
Licking all of my wounds so faithfully
Wanting peace, but flaunting this disease
As this pain sleeps so bitterly
This is life...
What a glorious means to find release
It's your eye for my eye
Can I keep living with this pain for my "relief?"
It's your eye for my life
Bottled up inside, and swallowing me
I've fallen in love with hate, and now I'm finding that it's too late
This bitterness won't leave, so now I see
By harboring these memories, they now own me
"Retribution's on the line. You'll get yours and I'll get mine."
It's not everything I thought that it would be -
Living with the past, so fervently
And all that I've learned through this misery
Is that memory is treachery

7. 5 Minutes Strong

Under microscope again. Are you my family or friend?
Good intentions, I'll accept it, but these are unqualified judgments.
5 minutes strong and you've known me life long.
5 minutes strong.
You've known me five minutes and my life is slipping,
So tell me about my life because the clock is ticking.
My first impression is all I'll give. Take it and run. I know the deeds I've done.
The prayers of the righteous availeth much,
Much more than their "guiding" touch.
Have you ever been faithful when you're under fire?
Shunned, but still remained the martyr?
Is this the integrity that you seek?
Experience it, please, before you speak.
Thank you for being there for me, in all honesty.
But could it be that my heart bleeds with the same sincerity?
I love when I'm feeling tall as I smile at the crowd that claims my fall.
I love when I'm feeling tall, because I stood up through it all.

8. Rise Of The Robots

Here they come. They're marching my way again. I can see my reflection in their metallic skin.
Here they come. They're marching my way again. Conformity is their staple and status their weapon.
Oh, my precious sold out reputation. It means so much more than my beliefs...
Will I face full attack from you? Will I break again like I've been known to?
Fallen face first on my conscience today, but it's so much more comfortable this way.
"Come to me, my little sweet. I've got scores of processed friends for you to meet.
You've always been my favorite dish. You're number 85 on my list.
Come to me, my little baby. Please say yes, not no or maybe.
Come to me my little treat. The system's hungry and it wants to eat."
I already know that you don't love me so. And if I stay the same, you'll walk away.

9. Deathtrap Daisy

Thinking of you...Amazed by your disguise. You look so beautiful with death in your eyes. I'm breaking free from you and it's the best/the hardest thing I could do. You'd never know that I loathe you.
Do not lust in your heart after her beauty. Or let her captivate you with her eyes. [Prov. 6:25]
So in love with the memories of you that I have fallen away.
I'm so alive in the memories of you that I have died today.
God please kill the lady that's inside of me....Stay out of my house! You're not welcome here! I'm so free without you, yet so aware that I am hanging on by a thread of grace and nothing more. Sweet Jesus have mercy when she knocks on my door.
The prostitute reduces you to your weakest. Adulteress preys upon your very life. [Prov. 6:26]
Hosting her was the choice I made, competence was the currency paid.
Hence, my true love I'd forsake. Eyes maintained for her she'd take.
I'm breaking for my heart to find innocence I've left behind.
God Almighty, giver of peace, grant to me the strength I seek.

10. Red Brush Strokes Wave Goodbye

Colors do not lie...red brush strokes wave goodbye.
I've looked into your eyes for the last time.
Close those tainted eyes. The view is so amazing with them shut tight.
Seeing your history die, awashed in white.
Your heart no longer beats inside this chest of mine
And I've never felt more alive
Goodbye to you and all that we've been through
Hello, beautiful peace realized of knowing I'm no longer you.
And though you beckon, these red strokes still remain.
Reminding my heart that I am not the same.
Close those misleading eyes...All the lies you try to disguise.
You offered so many things...so many things you said you could do...
The thing that you couldn't offer was the thing that killed you -
And it screams - it's the truth.
Goodbye to you and to all that we've been through
They're so beautiful...the painted skies I fly in, freely, without you

11. Crusader

Call to arms, there's a holy war tonight.
You and me and it's time to fight
Prideful times for prideful eyes
Brother, I see right and you see blind
Respect my rights and my right beliefs
It's death to non-compliancy
And we all fall down, as this body breaks to pieces
Unity is breaking down. Hello, self-righteousness.
United, we're divided and we fall to our demise
And we all are breaking down. There's a holy war waged against our own side.
Segregate the masses, keep our corporate consciences feeding
Send more fire down from the pulpit; convince me that's just what we're needing
Onward, good soldier, you'll find this is the price you pay.
Your comrades are all occupied, stuck in their own ways.
And all the while we've fought so hard, blind, inflicting our own scars.
Forgetting where the battle's waged, it didn't even occur to us that we're already saved.
Embrace our death... It's you and me.
So we fall, proud and tall. All for one, none for all.







STAPLE LYRICS