WAGE WAR LYRICS

1. Two Years

It's been two years since I've spilled
Out my heart on a blank page.

Some seem to think that it's art.

But I'm just trying to fight my demons.

Always learning from my mistakes.

I'm still trying to make a difference.

Forever looking for my place.

Forgive me.

2. Southbound

Define me as a failure.
Only the shadow of a man.
I will suffer the judgement passed by those who simply
Do not understand.
Who I am. The way I think.
The pain that sets in underneath.
And when I try to be myself it seems like the
Insecurity gets the worst of me.

The distance. It makes me sick
But there's a new way that I'm coping with conviction
And I don't expect you to understand it
I can't leave these words unsaid
'Cause it's a product of the battle
That's in my head
And I can't pretend that it never haunts me
I'll tell you from the top. It's only skin deep
I don't know what I believe
But it's not the way it's supposed to be

Over these past few years
I admit that things have changed.
Dreams became reality. But the pleasure became pain.
I've loved.
I've lost.
You wouldn't know what it cost
After every sacrifice I have made.
I'll take this to the grave

You can be who you want to be
But your nightmares live in the same dream
Go be who you want to be

3. Don't Let Me Fade Away

We all hide behind a mask
A product of our own self destructive past
We all ache for something deeper than the surface
Searching for anything to break the name worthless
Worthless
If only we could see the damage we cause ourselves
It often seems our best intentions pave the road to hell

We do it to ourselves
Its got me overwhelmed
I've never fallen this far
Its never been this dark

Take me back to better days
Before I was a slave to the choices that I have made
There's gotta be a better way
This can't stay
Don't let me fade away
Don't let me fade away

Don't let me fade away
Don't let me fade away
I just can't make another day
Don't let me fade away
Don't let me fade away
I've been torn down to nothing

We all want to be set free
Enslaved to emotions or someone
We're ripping at the seams
Can't seem to stop the bleeding

Too blind to see the cycle repeats feels like I'm made to fail
You pick the coffin and I'll drive the nail
You pick the coffin and I'll drive the nail

Take me back to better days
Before I was a slave to the choices that I have made
There's gotta be a better way
This can't stay
Don't let me fade away
Don't let me fade away

Don't let me fade away
Don't let me fade away
I just can't make another day
Don't let me fade away
Don't let me fade away
I've been torn down to nothing

We all hide behind a mask
We all want to be set free
We all hide behind a mask
We all want to be set free

We all hide behind a mask
(If you can hear this if you can feel this)
We all want to be set free
(If you can hear this if you can feel this)
Don't let me fade away

Give me a sign
Tell me everything will be alright
Give me a sign
These idle hands adept for a crime

4. Stitch

Leave me in the dark with a hole for a heart
As low as I can get burn the bridge rip the stitch out
Pick it up

I can't pretend like its all part of the plan
I can't hide it blindsided I can't fight it its more than I can stand
Broken but I guess you knew that it would be this way
Loose ends tie the knot and wait for your chance to run away

I could never make you stay
You'll run away
I'll always be your greatest mistake
So run away
Just another game that you played
You'll run away
Three years in the making but I guess we weren't worth saving

We weren't worth saving

Leave me in the dark with a hole for a heart
As low as I can get burn the bridge rip the stitch out
Guess I'll play dead its all in my head
To you I don't exist call it bliss rip the stitch out
What

Bitter to the core
Always want more
Take what you can get but I'll bet that its never enough is it
Pull the knife out of my back
Let it all fade to black
Made it so clear
I think we're done here

Bitter to the core
Always want more
Take what you can get but I'll bet that its never enough is it
Pull the knife out of my back
Let it all fade to black
Made it so clear
I think we're done here

Leave me in the dark with a hole for a heart
As low as I can get burn the bridge rip the stitch out
Guess I'll play dead its all in my head
To you I don't exist call it bliss rip the stitch out

Leave me in the dark with a hole for a heart
As low as I can get burn the bridge rip the stitch out
Guess I'll play dead its all in my head
To you I don't exist call it bliss rip the stitch out

You were the light I could never see in myself
I would've stood by you until the gates of hell

5. Witness

I buried the judgment
I covered my tracks
Soon to be forgotten
There's a new life ahead

It was my hope that was fading
I was caught in a trap
It's the burden of failure
I carried on my back

Let's get this straight
A lot has changed in the last year
Thought I had everything together
But watched it all disappear
I put my faith in the wrong things
When I woke up, it was gone, I gave up on me.

Didn't even recognize myself
Self worth is not found in someone else
Chase what you want
Never give up
Salt the wound, all ties are cut

Now I see
I was broken to be made a better me
Had to learn to let it go and let it be
Sometimes we're too blind to see

The hardest lessons that we learn
Are the ones where knowledge must be earned.
It's what makes us human. It's what gets us through it.

Weighed down by the pressures of saving face
This is a dark world, I'll be your witness

Learn to let it go and let it be

6. Deadweight

Mirror mirror on the wall
The man I see is at fault
When did I become everything I hate?
Internally bound. I'll self destruct
Bleed out until I think I've had enough
But it never is. I swear it never is

It's like I'm out of my mind
Relapse. Repeat. Never the last time.
I can't take much more.
I've never been this low before

Deadweight
All you do is
Break me
Leave me feeling
Empty
Now I long to be set free
You're my own misery

To be honest. I've grown to love the pain
So what's it worth when you can't sleep? Can't think
You'll do whatever it takes
To feel just the little things.
Trapped inside my head.
I'm hanging by your thread

You and I
Are running out of time
We can't coexist
You took what was mine
So. You see
It's you or it's me
Now I'm seeing red
Yeah why don't you just drop dead

No longer part of me

7. Gravity

I'm losing grip
I'm out of touch
Too late to say I've had enough

It's like every breath
Could be my last
My demons won't stay in the past

All alone
On my own

Pull me close
I feel the water reach around my neck
Don't let go
Just show me that there's better days ahead
Make me see
I'm only half the person I should be
Pull me close
Set me free from this gravity

I can't move forward and keep looking back.
Hindsight has left me where I'm at

I tried to run
But I couldn't see
That you were right beside me

There is a light in the tunnel. But it's distant
On my own I don't think that I can fix this
Set me free from this gravity.

8. Never Enough

I refuse to think your abandonment has become
The commonplace.
You needed to be set free.
You needed to be rid of me.
Running around in circles.
I am just trying to place the blame.
I thought we said forever.
I thought you felt the same.

Stuck in a frame. You remain my conscience
We were broken before we bent

I can feel it now
You're there but you're not
I'm picking up what we've lost
Lay me in the ground
Just throw it away
There's nothing more you can say

I'd like to think that the love that we had was
Different than the rest.
'Cause I've never felt that way
I never would have second guessed
But things are different now
Being selfless let me down
Never again will I let you in

I'm not as strong as you think.
I'm tired. I'm weak.
Like an anchor tied to my feet.
You left me to sink

No turning back this time
I'll leave it all behind

I did everything I could to rise above.
I gave you all I had. But it was never enough.

Set free

9. Indestructible

To all the ones who have helped
Me along the way
I owe a debt I can never repay

Carried on the shoulders of strangers
No room for doubt. Lead by faith. Never failure
You paved the way. But to my dismay
The great unknown could be an early grave.

On a long road. With the end in our sights.
Tragedy takes it away. Like a thief in the night.
I pray it's not over. Won't remain broken.
I'm looking for closure.

I'm scared
Didn't think it'd come with a cost
That people would change.
That lives could be lost
I'm having nightmares
Where fate leaves us for dead
Never imagined a price on our heads

I woke up screaming. I felt my heart sink in
I miss the days when I felt indestructible
We're veering overlines
That shake me every time
I miss the days when I felt indestructible

It wasn't supposed to be like this
I lived in a world where darkness didn't exist
Mortality is a beautiful thing.
Embrace it. Don't waste it.
You're the one who pulls the strings

Heavy win
Heavy loss
I'm moving forward no matter what the cost

I woke up screaming. I felt my heart sink in
I miss the days when I felt indestructible
So write this on my stone if I don't make it
Home
I tried my best. But I'm not indestructible

Even through the darkest nights.
All hope is not lost

10. Disdain

Oh what a mess we've made
To hell with the love.
Just keep breeding the hate.
It doesn't matter what is true.
What is right or just.
Never sleep.
Never think. No we'll never trust.
Outrage. Fed up with the system.
Outbreak. Everybody is a victim.
Enslave and we think we're free

But all I see is violence
But I just can't sit and watch in silence
I think it's time that
We take back what we lost.
We're branded by disdain
There's nothing to gain

I'm not one to be all political
But it's a problem when
Everyone's hypocritical.
You can't lead if you can't admit you're wrong.
Our innocence is gone
I can't read the headlines
Another murder in the streets. He was only 9
God. Are you listening?

Think for yourself
And nobody else
We can't trust the lies we're fed
Or we're all as good as dead.

11. My Grave Is Mine To Dig

I run away from everything that's good for me
When every voice that you hear is the same one.
All you can think to do is run
Make no mistake. I'm everything I say I hate.
Hypocritical. Lost individual. No longer worth
Your faith.

I know I can be better than this
Masquerading has never done me justice
I am what I am
A boy not yet the man I want to be
Despite what I have led you to believe.
I'm nothing as I seem
No ground beneath my feet.

I can't seem to get away from me.
This person in the mirror's not the same one
That I want to be
Is there more than what I see?
Sometimes it's hard to let go. When I don't
Know what lies in front of me.

Get away from me

Death to self is much easier said than done

Pain is what has set me free.
I had to go through hell
To find what's best in me.

Still think I can be better than this
Despite the weight that is my conscience
Life was never fair
But I am never broke beyond repair
Still searching for any place
That I can call my home.
And even though I'm lost. I know I'm not alone.

If I could change myself. I would but I don't know where to begin
My grave is mine to dig

12. Johnny Cash

Let me tell you the saddest story
Love lost. Left broken and empty
Put my heart in the hands of another
Set a fire to the past and watched me burn

Somehow I guess it's better this way
Looking back. Was it all just a mistake?
Thought I could live in the arms of another
But I guess I wasn't enough for her

I wanna feel the love you can't live without
The one that Johnny Cash wrote all his songs about.
But I gave it all away for no return
Guess it's just another lesson that I'll never learn.

I've been putting myself through your hell
Holding on to things that don't even matter now.
You found your place in the arms of another
But now I see it's just the way the earth will turn

I wanna feel the love you can't live without
The one that Johnny Cash wrote all his songs about.
But I gave it all away for no return
Guess it's just another lesson that I'll never learn

Can't seem to fill the void that lives in my chest.
Thought I was what you need, but I'm just second best.
I'll never give it all away again. I swear
Don't even look for a heart.
You'll find there's nothing there

I can't take it back
All the years that we spent
Together have come to an end
Regret is all I had
Not sure I would if I could do it all over again

I can't take it back
The memories. The pictures.
I love you's will wither
Regret is all I had
But this is the last song I'll write about you

Forget my name
Forget my face
It was all just empty space
Dead weight
No longer part of me.







WAGE WAR LYRICS