WISDOM IN CHAINS LYRICS

1. People Die

In this life people die, you can cry all you want and ask yourself why but you’ll never know.
That’s just the way it is.
You get that call late at night.
Your eyes will swell, you’ll grip the phone tight.
People die, that’s just the way it is.
You think you’ll live forever, but trust me you will die.
I wish my words can comfort you, but people they all die.
Take these words, and take them from me, people die that’s just reality.
You’ll sit and watch everyone cry, you can’t change anything so you don’t even try.
You think you’ll live forever, but trust me you will die.
I wish my words can comfort you, but people they all die.
Pain and loss, I’ve had my share.
Some lose hope and some use prayer.
Me, I’ll just maintain until death looks my way.

Fall in love, have some kids.
Find your passion, truly live.
Cause people die, that’s just the way it is.
You’ll sit and watch everyone cry, you can’t change anything so you don’t even try.
The end is coming, it’s almost here.
People die.

2. When We Were Young

Take a look at my hands.
Layers of struggle cover bones and muscle.
Callouses mark the tools of my trade.
Take a look at my face.
My eyes sink back and my pupils get blacker as they strain to find some light in this place.
Days of my youth, they went so fast, we loved so hard we didn’t feel the crash.
We just pressed on flying straight into the sun, we burned so bright when we were young.
Time flies so fast on a BMX when you’re riding with friends till 4 am.
We played basketball till the sun came up. That’s how we do.
Gravediggers club. We never sleep.
I’d steal my food and run the streets.
We’d laugh all day and talk all night.
Skateboard and a duffel bag that was all I needed.
When we were young, we weren’t scared of growing old.
We weren’t scared to chase a dream.
We weren’t afraid of anything at all.
When we were young I couldn’t see the broken hands but the means were worth the end.
We didn’t care when we were young.

3. Resonate

You fucked up but that’s OK.
I’ve been there myself so I understand.
But you sneak and hide, won’t look me in the eye.
Insincerity is emotional charity.
Your apology came too late. Something doesn’t resonate.
You did me wrong but made me wait.
Why’d you fucking hesitate?
Too much time, grow the fuck up.
You’ve known me too long. You owe me too much.
It’s only getting worse, the longer you wait and I feel my tolerance turning to hate.
Your apology came too late. Something doesn’t resonate.
You did me wrong but made me wait.
Why’d you fucking hesitate?
You apology came too late.

4. How Far Will You Go

You want it.
You want it.
You think it’s going to set you free.
When you make it what’s your next step?
Will you quit the chase?
All you ever wanted is there in your hands.
All you ever needed.
All you ever need whenever you demand.
Any way you want it. Any way you can.
The power of the people, the power of the people at your command.
All you ever wanted is there in your hands.
All you ever needed.
All you ever need whenever you demand.
Any way you want it. Any way you can.
How far will you go?

5. Songs To My Killer

I just sat and I stared after I have become aware that my bed and my room was my coffin and my tomb.
If it’s the universal plan. If it’s out of my hands I’ll embrace my fate.
Save your tears I’d rather celebrate.
I could meet you when I’m done but halfway is much more fun.
So I’ll gather all my people, we can eat, drink, sing, until we’re done.
At the moment when I die I look my killer in the eye and I smile, so he sees.
He tried but he couldn’t take this from me. No!
Save your tears I’d rather celebrate. Whoa!
I’ll smile so he sees he tried but he couldn’t take this from me.
Let’s celebrate, sing songs to my killer. Raise a glass to the death of me.
Let’s celebrate, drink drink to my murder.
Dance with the one who lays me in the deep.
At the moment when I die I look my killer in the eye and I smile, so he sees.
He tried but he couldn’t take this from me.
Let’s celebrate, sing songs to my killer. Raise a glass to the death of me.
Let’s celebrate, drink drink to my murder.
Dance all night with the enemy.
Sing these songs to my killer.
Won’t you help me celebrate?
Drink drink to my murder.
Dance with the one who lays me in the deep.
Celebrate.
Dance with the one who lays me in the deep.

6. Thorn In Your Side

I was born to let you down. I was born to disappoint you.
I always tried but never failed to fall short of your expectations.
You wanted me to be, what I could never be.
So when I became what I wanted you never wanted me.
I started to believe that I was meant to be nothing more than a thorn in your side.
I was born to let you down. I was born to disappoint you.
I always tried but never failed to fall short of your expectations.
For years it bothered me, I could not accept defeat.
Could not accept the pain, could not resist the hate.
But now I made my peace and it’s so clear to me.
It isn’t what I wanted but it’s OK.
I was born to let you down.

7. Mathematics

Did you ever think about forever?
It’s an obsession of mine.
At times I’ve been so deep that it made me cry.
Could the world keep turning in the absence of time?
Could I even exist if I’m not yours and you’re not mine?
When I was 5, 39 was a very long time.
I imagined myself dead and gone long before I arrived.
But I’m still waiting for the apex of my life.
I’m so glad I’ve waited. So glad I proved you right.
I’ll wait forever if I’m waiting for you.
If It takes forever I’ll wait here for you.
All the time since I was 5 went by in the blink of an eye.
Forever is ahead and never behind.
If I could bottle this moment in the back of my mind, I could spend forever living in your light.
I’ll wait forever if I’m waiting for you.
If It takes forever I’ll wait here for you.
All we are, all we are is what we’re waiting for.
If I could spend it with you, I only want you.
I don’t think I can love you more but I’ve been wrong every time I said that before.
I truly adore you. This love is the truth.
It’s the heartbeat of light, the god rhythm is the night.
You’re my forever, I’m glad I got to spend it with you.
I’ll wait forever if I’m waiting for you.

8. Fatherless

We’re incomplete. The world is sick.
Half the earth is fatherless.
A missing piece of broken soul.
Try, but you can never find it all.
Searching for approval.
on the fence of false confidence.
A mother’s arms and a mothers love.
Try to fill the void where the father was.
Fatherless child.
Yeah, you want it.
Yeah, I know you need it bad.
Break the cycle. Care for the fatherless child.

9. Best Of Me

Real as earth and sky above.
The realest thing I ever felt was love.
When I hold you in my arms I know it’s true.
We are born adrift in this endless mist of loneliness.
just hold on tight to me, I’ll hold on tight to you.
We’ll make it through.
My shining star. You’re the best I ever did.
And you know I’ll never quit on you.
You lift me up so high above it all.
You’re the best I ever did.
It pours from my pores and pools on floors on a stage and a mic at night on tours.
I spit it in the face of all my friends. I spit it in a sea of angry men.
So full of love, so full of hope.
For years I thought I lost them both.
My heart is so full.
you save me from myself.
My shining star. You’re the best I ever did.
And you know I’ll never quit on you.
You lift me up so high above it all.
You’re the best I ever did.

10. The God Rhythm

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11. Violent Americans

Grew up fighting, swinging hard.
Protect your brothers, protect the yard.
We played with sticks and rocks for toys.
4 little violent American boys.
Why are we violent?
I’ve got no excuse.
Culture of violence, when will we let it loose?
My father’s blood is African, my mother’s is Bavarian.
Poverty mixed with competition makes violent Americans.
Why are we violent?
I’ve got no excuse.
Culture of violence, when will we let it loose?
Are you the same as me with some undiscovered source of all this rage?
And you can’t stop it. You can’t cap it and you can’t contain.
Because you don’t know why you feel this way.
Like somebody else is pulling your strings.
From centuries ago, some genetic memory.

But we keep running. We’re running from the flood.
Violence is in our blood, it’s in our blood.
We’re running from the pain.
If we can’t stop ourselves we just repeat again.

12. Joey Ramone

When I think of the beginning, he was singing how to pay for memory.
Half forgotten, half remembered, always cherished because I paid for memories.
I was walking in the moonlight, he was with me when I paid for memories.
13, laying in my bed, covers pulled up over my head.
Joey Ramone rocking in my head. Uh oh, I’m already loco.
13, with a bad bad brain. A lost boy in Pennsylvania.
Joey sang so sweet to me. Uh oh, I’m already loco.
There’s a danger when you pay for memories.
It’s a long way back when you pay for memories.
Gabba gabba hey! Gabba gabba ho!
I met him once at a punk rock show.
He shook my hand and he shook my soul.
Uh oh, I’m already loco.
Too tough to die but when I leave, sprinkle my ashes on Rockaway Beach
Life’s a gas, at least for me. Uh oh, I’m already loco.
Here today, gone tomorrow?
Why not make a memory?
Here today, gone tomorrow?
Why not pay for some memories?

13. Skinhead Gang

In my life I’ve met a few steady proper skinhead crews.
But in ’92 there was a crew that banged, a wild untamed skinhead gang.
I was young but I knew better, they claimed “white power” and they fought whoever.
These skinheads were out for blood.
Thought they were invincible. Casino in Mount Pocono.
They ruined Airport Music Hall. A time bomb ready to blow.
July 15, 1992 they murdered a homeless dude.
Beaten and stabbed to death.
Lynch turned state’s evidence.
Ritchie Krutch lost his tooth. Kicked in the face by skinhead boot.
Neil Rappley lost his life. Stabbed to death by skinhead knife.
To all the skinheads old & new, don’t end up in a bonehead crew.
Respect the culture, respect your roots.
Be a steady proper skinhead crew!

14. Outro

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WISDOM IN CHAINS LYRICS