STRAY FROM THE PATH LYRICS

1. Ring Leader

Thinking like everyone else is not really thinking
Thinking like everyone else is not really thinking
Thinking like everyone else is not really thinking
Thinking like everyone else is not really thinking
Thinking like everyone else is not really thinking
Thinking like everyone else is not really thinking

Fall in line
You obey (You obey)
What they say, they say, they say
Out of time
You can't see the signs
When the blind lead the blind
Smoke out the hives
Let 'em burn, let 'em burn (Burn)
You walk the line
Mimic every word and every turn
Just an echo, echo
You should let go, let go
Imitation is flattery
But this is a tragedy

Have you lost your goddamn mind?
Straitjacket, hypnotized
Have you lost your goddamn mind?
Straitjacket, hypnotized, yeah
Have you lost your goddamn mind?
Straitjacket, hypnotized
Have you lost your goddamn mind?
Straitjacket, hypnotized

Latching on like a leech (Like a leech)
But you don't practice what you preach (What you preach)
Desperate disciples riding the coattail
Dragged through the dirt trail
Dead in the water, lambs to the slaughter
Follow the pack, handed the future from the palm reader
Lost in the swarm, drinking Kool-Aid from the cult leader
Thinking like everyone else is not really thinking
This ship is sinking

Have you lost your goddamn mind?
Straitjacket, hypnotized
Have you lost your goddamn mind?
Straitjacket, hypnotized, yeah
Have you lost your goddamn mind?
Straitjacket, hypnotized
Have you lost your goddamn mind?
Straitjacket, hypnotized

When you're born in this world, you're given a ticket to the freakshow
And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat

The circus is nothing without the clown
We gave them a stage but we can tear it down

Tear it down
Thinking like everyone else is not really thinking
Thinking like everyone else is not really thinking

Have you lost your goddamn mind?
Straitjacket, hypnotized
Have you lost your goddamn mind?
Straitjacket, hypnotized, yeah

Straitjacket, hypnotized
Have you lost your goddamn mind?
Straitjacket, hypnotized

2. Kickback

[feat. Brendan Murphy]

I always knew that you'd draw first blood
You take but you don't give
I tried to live and let live, but you grew too fat
So now I have to cut the head off the tick
Get a grip before you slip on your stepping stones
I see the shiver in your bones
You know the fall is fast
A snake in the grass
Smoke and mirrors, pull the trigger
You're the driver, I'm the car crash

And you'll never see it coming
And you'll never see it coming

Kickback
Feel the kickback
Feel the, feel the
Feel the kickback
Feel the kickback
Feel the kickback
Feel the, feel the
Feel the kickback
Time to cash your reality check
'Cause you're talking out the side of your neck
You let your soul slip through the cracks
Ah, feel the kickback

I don't stress the self-obsessed
Can't get the feeling off your chest
Your head gets bigger by the second
But you know you're only second at best
Dearly departed
This was over before it even started
You know the fall is fast
Another snake in the grass, motherfucker
Smoke and mirrors, pull the trigger
You're the driver, I'm the car crash

And you'll never see it coming
And you'll never see it coming

Kickback
Feel the kickback
Feel the, feel the
Feel the kickback
Feel the kickback
Feel the kickback
Feel the, feel the
Feel the kickback
Time to cash your reality check
'Cause you're talking out the side of your neck
You let your soul slip through the cracks
Ah, feel the kickback

[Brendan Murphy:]
A cure collected from the ears of the immune
Like an insect clinging to an empty vein
With nowhere left to spread your plague
Return to the dirt from which you came
So spare me your sickness
If the venom hangs from hollow fangs
Uncommon extinction
As the swarm goes unsustained

"It's not your fault
It's just who you are"
Bullshit

3. The First Will Be Last

Listen
Hollow words are hollow points
Noise suppression
You don't hear them bang in the night
Apathy is your favorite weapon
The color ran from your face
As the blood left your body
Do you know what you've done?
Motherfucker, you should ask somebody

What goes around comes around
When a hand reaches out, you don't reach back
What goes around comes around
The last will be first and the first will be last

The last, first
The first, last
The last, first
The first, last

Look at you now, sound asleep in belly of the beast
Living lavish, the streets run savage
Can't smell the smoke in the breeze
Back to reality (Back to reality)
Hold your apology
Do you know what you've done?
Motherfucker, you should ask somebody

What goes around comes around
When a hand reaches out, you don't reach back
What goes around comes around
The last will be first and the first will be last
What goes around comes around
How could you see this shit and not react?
What goes around comes around
The last will be first and the first will be last
Last

How could you see this shit and not react?
Let me show you suffering

No coward is king
Let me show you suffering
No coward is king
Let me show you suffering

What goes around comes around
When a hand reaches out, you don't reach back
What goes around comes around
The last will be first and the first will be last
The last will be first and the first will be last
The last will be first and the first will be last

4. Fortune Teller

Fire walk with me
Yeah, yeah

I see my father's shadow
My soul is critical
My gut, my gravestone
Fire walk with me
I've talked with ghosts of old
The end to my end is my control
The future's in my bones
Fire walk with me
My hero is my victim
My angle in the system
Messiahs, slave drivers, pensions, prisons
Come on, fire walk with me
Run up, my hand is steady, come test me
From the ground up
Build a bridge, we'll burn it up
Fire walk with me

Fire walk with me
The end to my end is my control
The future's in my bones
Build a bridge, we'll burn it up, come on, yeah
Fire walk with me
Fire walk with me
The end to my end is my control
The future's in my bones
Build a bridge, we'll burn it up
Fire walk with me

(Yeah, yeah)
My fingers feel the fractures
My prophecy, my rapture
The knife that cuts the cancer
Fire walk with me
My fear is not my master
My darkness is my lantern
The question is the answer
Can you fire walk with me?

They can't catch us if we run
They can't catch us if we run
They can't catch us if we run
We don't answer to anyone

We don't answer to anyone
We don't answer to anyone

The end to my end is my control
The future's in my bones (My bones)
The end to my end is my control
The future's in my bones
Fire walk with me

5. Second Death

A cover up of the highest scale, they're never caught
The silence is deafening, yeah, it's forever bought
Word from the top, paid to shut up and take it
Blame the victims 'cause it's easy to believe that they faked it
A home for abuse in the church of lies
A garden of Eden around a house of ruined lives
A man of the cloth with the choir in his bed
Three thousand strong, but all fucked up in the head

There's a place in hell for bastards like you
There's a place in hell for the bastards like you
There's a place in hell for bastards like you
There's a place in hell for the bastards like you

The power of Christ compels you

Sick fucks in a position of trust
Stakeout by the playground
Waiting for the bus
Three from the pope
Should be swinging from a rope
Six year sentence, out in three with the first vote
The power of Christ compels you
To carry out your evil obsession
The power of Christ compels you
No god will ever hear your confession
Yeah

Violate then escape
They keep you safe within their walls
You can hide in the house of God
But what happens when the fucking cross falls?

What happens when the fucking cross falls?

There's a place in hell for bastards like you
There's a place in hell, you motherfucker

There's a place in hell for bastards like you
There's a place in hell for the bastards like you
There's a place in hell for bastards like you
There's a place in hell for the bastards like you

6. Beneath the Surface

Grace is overworked and she's just about to break down
Showed up late, now the boss is fucking let down
Treated like the trash that she's paid to throw out
Another check skipped by a punk kid with a big mouth
She's sent home, three kids in a townhouse
Bills are overdue, she's never gonna cash out
Daddy skipped town, so she carries the weight
Tell me, who's gonna put food on their plates?

You don't give a goddamn
You've got blood on your hands
You don't give a goddamn
Why can't you just understand?

My cover's not my story
Not everything's so black and white
Black and white
My cover's not my story
My cover's not my story
Not everything's so black and white

"Mary, come inside," Mom and Dad always say
"Don't talk to the neighbors, stay away, stay away
They can't relate to us 'cause they don't pray like us"
Anyway, just go about your life, don't inherit the hate
Now Mary's 25, she grew up
Something's screwed up
Mom don't wanna talk and Dad already blew up
Can't come home, the locks are changed
All because Mary wakes up next to Kate

You don't give a goddamn
You've got blood on your hands
You don't give a goddamn
Why can't you just understand?

My cover's not my story
Not everything's so black and white
Black and white
My cover's not my story
My cover's not my story
Not everything's so black and white, yeah

(My cover's not my story
My cover's not my story)
(My cover's not my story
My cover's not my story)

Turn the page before you burn the book
Take back the life you took
There's more beneath the surface

There's more beneath the surface
There's more beneath the surface
There's more beneath the surface

7. Something in the Water

'Round and 'round and 'round and 'round it goes
Negative, repetitive, that's how it is
Over and over and over and over again
Negative, repetitive, that's how it ends
'Round and 'round and 'round and 'round it goes
Negative, repetitive, that's how it is
Over and over and over and over again
Negative, repetitive, that's how it ends

Our fathers' fathers
Lived through the horrors
Old bones, grave robbers
The spear in the ribcage is now the bullet in the chest
The dead, they don't rest
There must be something in the water
There must be something in the water
The crusade is televised
The genocide is going live
It all goes black quicker than a flash flood
They're always hungry for blood

'Round and 'round and 'round and 'round it goes
Negative, repetitive, that's how it is
Over and over and over and over again
Negative, repetitive, that's how it ends
'Round and 'round and 'round and 'round it goes
Negative, repetitive, that's how it is
Over and over and over and over again
Negative, repetitive, that's how it ends

Our fathers' fathers
Hand-me-downs
The clip for the rounds
Just squeeze, don't choke
The future weeps in the shadow of the gun smoke
There must be something in the water
There must be something in the water
Over and over and over and over again
Violent men meet violent ends

It's the same shit I heard back in '96
You can't teach an old dog new tricks
Decades later I've seen the world's true view
Fox News is gonna flex and cast their image in you
Shareholders gonna flex and try to annex the truth
Apple bought the fantasy, the piles of eyes
On the line, new thrill ride, trials and lies
And while we sit there and eat up the words from their mouths
They force our ears to go deaf to the screams in the south

They're always hungry for blood
Red rivers run to the roots of the family trees
An heirloom for the centuries
The rotten fruit, the withered leaves
The path to death is destiny

The path to death is destiny
Ah, must be something in the water
Over and over and over again
Violent men meet violent ends

8. Holding Cells for the Living Dead

Stop shaking
The medication isn't taking
My pulse is racing as symphonies of screams down the corridors
And the squeak of the stretcher on linoleum floors fill the air with panic
This place is for the savage
A holding cell for the living hells
The drugged and the damaged
I can't hear another empty answer
We need a doctor in the room
She's gone too soon
She's gone too soon

She used to save me from the monsters underneath my bed
How can I save her from the one that's in her head?

A chemical imbalance
No diagnosis
Up the dosage
Up the dosage
Your mood is always swinging
Answer, the phone keeps ringing
It's crossed my mind at least a dozen times
That one day I'll find you hanging from the ceiling, yeah
One day I'll find you hanging from the ceiling

She's gone too soon

She used to save me from the monsters underneath my bed
How can I save her from the one that's in her head?

In her darkest days
I still carry all the weight
She tried to smile today
But everyone looked away
She tried to change her face
But she still feels the same

Stop shaking
Stop shaking
Stop shaking
Stop shaking

Stop shaking
Stop shaking
Stop shaking
Stop shaking
Stop shaking
Stop shaking
Stop shaking
Stop shaking
Stop shaking

9. Double Down

[feat. Matt Honeycutt]

[Matt Honeycutt, Drew York, Both:]
Turmoil
Don't believe their hate
Causing chaos, forced to reap the pain
This nation bleeds, we're sowing the seeds
Unify what destroyed the fucking dream
We told you to get out, but now you can't leave
No, no
We told you to get out, but now you can't leave

I will never lose sleep
Counting sheep, how 'bout you?
Swing and a miss, where's your follow-through?
Dropping like flies, we don't hide
You know where to find me
Locked away with a lot to say
Empty threats, no price to pay
Try to skew my view
We got eyes on
You know where to find me

You and I are not the same
We'll never let you be a part of our reality
You and I are not the same
We'll never let you be a part of our reality

SS
So shook
Can't take a hint
Can't take a left hook
Double down, motherfucker, I'll be back around
You know where to find me
Picked last in gym class
Keys to the green room, you ain't got a pass
Your pack is getting thin, pissing in the wind
You know where to find me

I'll bring a mic
I'll bring a mic
I'll bring a mic to a gunfight
I'll bring a mic
I'll bring a mic
I'll bring a mic to a gunfight

You and I are not the same
We'll never let you be a part of our reality
You and I are not the same
We'll never let you be a part of our reality
Never

[Matt Honeycutt:]
Teaching
Damage
War zone
In America
Hostile
Past the point of this pointless bullshit

[Matt Honeycutt, Drew York, Both:]
We told you to get out, but now you can't leave
No, no
We told you to get out, but now you can't leave

10. Actions Not Words

The innocent are truly guilty
Complacency is criminal, this shit is not subliminal
The failures in your face when your eyes close
All you know is tunnel vision, they don't go where the dark goes
High horses, of course it's easy living where the grass grows
Thoughts and prayers get us nowhere, so fuck what you heard
Actions speak louder than words

How real is your real world?
(You get lost in it, you fail victim to the cause of it)
How real is your real world?
(Two sides polarized social suicide)
How real is your real world?
(You get lost in it, you fail victim to the cause of it)
How real is your real world?
(What's left for the rest of us, huh?)

I watched the earth burn slow
I walked the ground where nothing grows
Everything is nothing, nothing's all they know
Everyone should be your brother but your care is a cover
So put the money where the mouth goes
Thoughts and prayers
Get us nowhere
Fuck what you heard
Actions speak louder than words

How real is your real world?
(You get lost in it, you fail victim to the cause of it)
How real is your real world?
(Two sides polarized social suicide)
How real is your real world?
(You get lost in it, you fail victim to the cause of it)
How real is your real world?
(What's left for the rest of us?)

When there's a knock on the door
Will you answer or ignore?
It starts with you and ends with more
The choice is yours

Change the world
Change the world
Change the world
Change the world
Change the world







STRAY FROM THE PATH LYRICS