STRIFE LYRICS

1. Intro

2. Waiting

Reach back and release the power held in each
The tools of knowledge we have received
Our youth removed stripped of verity
But a voice is crying out and we'll take it back...
We'll take it back
Take back our hopes our dreams
All within the reach of those who believe in what can be
In faith I wait
I'll do what it takes
My voice is still crying out
And we'll take it back...
We'll take it back...
Waiting...
Waiting
I'll fucking hope
I'll fucking dream
I'll fucking believe
But I'm still...waiting
Waiting
I'll see the ascension of this disease
Am I alone in my dream
I'm still waiting
Waiting
Waiting
I will wait

3. Force Of Change

Resistance in a time of mass self-destruction
Makes the few who walk the straight edge
A growing force of change
Committed through gripped by the plague of a nation
Consumed by intoxication and confined by a crippling greed
In...my...rage
I walk the path of true change
Commitment sworn in the name
Of those who still walk the straight edge
Convictions held to my grave

4. Stand As One (Redemption)

The fight for what's right does not lie in closed minds
Search inside and you will find the answers lie within the reach of those who try...
to live their lives
Free from hate
It's time to break... chains that bind
Hate confines
Stand as one
Standing strong
Make the choice and make it clear
A voice of one I've got to hear
We've got to try... to live our lives
Free from hate
It's time to break... these chains.... stand as one
Standing strong
Standing strong
Stand as one

5. Grey

The future is dead for many of those who have fallen refusing to let it go
Addiction we're victim of affliction
We're choking these walls are caving in
We keep pushing
This world is bleeding
Is this our destiny?
We've built and constructed a false progression
Is this our destiny?
It's not just the fire pumping through our veins
It's not just the cancer we inhale
It's not just the poison we keep drinking... it's everyone
It's you and me
We keep pushing
This world is bleeding
Is this our destiny?
We've built and constructed a false progression
Is this our destiny?
It's not just the actions of our hate
It's not just the division we create
It's not just the one sex, color or creed... it's everyone
It's you and me
Is this our destiny?

6. Will To Die

Emptiness again
Left alone again
Left to question all that's happened
No one cares
No one tries
All that's left is the will to die
Try...
Try to hold on to what's left inside
Empty (and this emptiness I'm left with)
Searching (has me reaching for a reason)
Lonely (this loneliness consuming)
Reaching (I'm searching for the answers)
Will you do the same?
Try...
Try to find peace

7. Blistered

Blistered by a raging sun's flames
Mankind sealed its fate in its haste
Warning signs sent time after time
We just sit back in all this waste
All this waste
And I will not wait
I'll climb from this place
I'll climb to the truth
To the truth
Blackened skies poisoned ashes cried
Mankind sealed its fate in it's haste
Warning signs sent time after time
We just sit back ignore the waste
All the waste
An I cannot wait
I'll climb from this place
I'll climb to the truth
To the truth
To the truth
Looking to the skies I can see the ashes falling
Looking to the shy I can see it all coming down
I can never give up
I can never give up my fights right
I can never give out
I can never give out because mine is right
My fight is truth
My fight is truth

8. Forgotten One

Broken dreams broken home nowhere to go
Shattered life left without a reason why
Void inside no one there to hear your cries
Alone and cold no one there for you to hold... for you to hold
Forgotten one the time has come
To take control join with those forgotten too
In this place a sense of worth is finally gained
Take my hand together we'll forget the past
Take the stand together we can change our lives... change our lives
Forgotten one the time has come
You... me... us
The time has come to take control

9. I Wish I Knew

Still hanging on the words from your lips
Still trembling at my fingertips
The end came sooner than expected
It came without warning without mercy
Believe in me you said... you said
Trust in me you pled... you pled
It's all misled
Why did I believe
How could I not see
I wish I knew... so where do I go from here?
Where do I belong?
If not amongst you then with who?
With who?
I wish I knew...
I wish I knew...
I wish I knew...
I wish I knew...
With who

10. To An End

Because I stand in this defiance I wear the mark of those
Who choose to refuse self-destructive points of view
And with each day spent in self-perseverance
My voice is strong against what's wrong forcing it to end
Forcing it to end
Standing in this defiance and wearing the mark of those
We chose to refuse our system's defective views
And with each day spent in our self-perseverance
Our voices strong against what's wrong
We're forcing it to end
We're forcing it to an end

11. Overthrow

Overthrow... attacks on one's own will only to defeat the whole
The true fight lies against the ignorance of the outside world
We cannot succumb to the conflicts of this inter-segregation
The creation of something pure has been infected by a prejudice
This movement can only survive with the committed support of all...
Overthrow
Overcome
Rise above
Rise as one...
Restricted the advancement of this voice is stifled by itself
When those who hold it in their grasp have become the enemy...
I... cannot stand alone
We must not accept this trend
With hands held high and fist clenched tight to put an end to this infest
End this dissension...

12. Outro

STRIFE LYRICS