'THUS II' Lyrics

Killing the Beautiful
You gave yourself the ax
With no chance to come back
Like sugar twisted heat
a smell not quite as sweet

Poignant truth drains soil from the ground

Not buoyant as they drown

So how'd you know how to hurt without the pain...?

To kill the beautiful people...?
You've got to know that your fiction
is fixing to kill you

Someone had you attacked 

with no chance to react
dropped what they couldn't use
and rearranged the facts


Poignant truth drains soil from the ground
Not buoyant as they drown

So how'd you know how to hurt without the pain...?

To kill the beautiful people...?
You've got to know that your fiction
is fixing to kill you


Lease On Life

My life reads like a users guide
to losing someones mind
and I'm still surprised I was able
to live this kind of life while

 I was writhing in pain

and laying on my side
That's when I realized
What real life was like

This lease on life has run up and I can't catch up

If I keep on writing how then can I read on?

This bookmark in the pages

of my ages
Holds me in a chapter
you don't read til after
you see lifesigns
well where is my lifeline?

Writing out pages

to keep me from dying
Prolonging life sources
Reads like beating dead horses


This lease on life has run up and I can't catch up
If I keep on writing how then can I read on?

I can't turn my own pages

I can't turn my own pages
I got hooked on my own remedy
At least I did it on my own...

This lease on life has run up and I can't catch up

This lease on life has run up and I can't catch up

Between the Lines

Well I suppose you think you're pretty smooth
And I'm pretty sure I don't come off too astute
But I don't have to know you all that well, I know your type
Already had my taste, don't need another bite

Cause it's easy reading when you read between the lines...


The words you put in my mouth

Won't stop truth from coming out
Ain't gonna feel to proud when 
You see them chewed and spit out
I can't take the way you lie
And I don't like what's true
I hate the things I have to say
When I'm talking about you

Cause it's easy reading when you read between the lines...


Low Life


Cause someones' satisfaction hangs within the balance

The root to evil's left to grow within my grounds
I took the higher route in lew of digging dirt and chosen silence
Guess I'm still expected to grow money trees

But that's okay

When you get paid

Take me out on another ride

Cause you can't admit it-

And when supposedly you hit the ceiling of your feelings

Why could you not have spoken to me of it clearly
Instead of breaking through the roof and tangling your family
inside a low life's non-existent money tree?

Guess I can't blame

You for your way


Take me out on another ride
Cause you can't admit that
You know that I'm right

I know it's a 92

And I don't mean a thing to you
But I've worked my bones harder than you 
to get your bones back to you

So I'm at peace, but only with myself


So I'm at peace, but only with myself

So I'm at peace, but only with myself

The words you say

The games you play:


Take me out on another ride
Cause you can't admit it
You know that I'm right

Clones

I figure all the things I attain
I'll lose again someday
Am I the only one wondering
what the point is in making good decisions?

Saving up your duckets

For the day it's raining buckets?
I ain't ever paid my way
Out of a stormful of rain

The farther we get from the goals that we set

The harder it is to hold on to your head
Don't tell me again, cause I know what I said
I'm better off dying than dead

I'm saving up my tolerance

In case I never get to join the resistance
I turn around to see you joining
I'm now a member of that which I don't see the point in

Maybe I would have done a little better

If I fell in line instead of
Zygotes, gametes, and clones (as)
My sole postulate for drones


The farther we get from the goals that we set
The harder it is to hold on to your head
Don't tell me again, cause I know what I said
I'm better off dying than dead


I've gone too far in the wrong direction

To go back and try reconnecting
I've paid dearly for all decisions 
I've made and all I can say is


The farther we get from the goals that we set
The harder it is to hold on to your head
Don't tell me again, cause I know what I said
I'm better off dying than dead


Crime Scene

Stealing, stolen
Bleeding, broken
Healing, tolling
Defeated, swollen
I fought the good fight
Apperently
The good cause was slightly
Too good for me

I feel so alone

I feel so alone
I am the scene of a crime
Won't you cry for my horrible life?

I'm feeling ditched 

cause I can't deny you
So I'm jumping ship
to vilify you

You've got a vision

And I've got mine
I can see everything
and you're fucking blind


I am the scene of a crime
Won't you cry for my horrible life?
On your shoulder my tears crocodile
Watching you out the corner of my eye

Made my plan and took my stand
Held out my heart right in my hand
But no one seems to take that bait
And now it's too late for me to change

So what do I do?
What will I be?
What can I be?

I am the scene of a crime
Won't you cry for my horrible life?
On your shoulder my tears crocodile
Watching you out the corner of my eye

Surface Depth
You say I live my life ten miles below the ocean
In a bubble with no light and I'm just floating
You say 
My plans and schemes
Meaningless dreams
I swim too deep
Well that's how it seems

To someone who wants to say
They know what it's like at the deep end
I say it ain't for sure
And I think you're just pretending

To worry I won't survive the depth
This story has got another end

Levity
that's something that I know I'm known for
Among my friends
If that is what we must call them
Poverty
Sometimes, emotionally
But in the end
Maybe you just don't know me

Pride yourself in knowing where my surf is
Predicting where I'm going
But up there on the surface
You've got no way of knowing

It's easy
To survive
Where you can breath
But with closed eyes

You can't possibly 
See where you are going
Fundamentally
Mentally we're all growing

I prefer to keep my eyes open
My story will have another end

Levity
that's something that I know I'm known for
Among my friends
If that is what we must call them
Poverty
Sometimes, emotionally
But in the end
Maybe you just don't know me

You and me
Are at opposite ends
This story
I think has found an end

Levity
that's something that I know I'm known for
Among my friends
If that is what we must call them
Poverty
Sometimes, emotionally
But in the end
Maybe you just don't know me

A Brighter Future
I never said that I had any plans for you
So you tell me what you think I am supposed to do
Go find my life or simply continue
To be the messenger for your bad news?

I got your busy work but when it comes down to the line
The profit will be yours and breaking even will be mine

Yes it will
Yes it will

If I could see a brighter future it's only when I'm watching yours
The light at the end of the tunnel is only when I'm turned around
This story has no ending
It's like I'm just pretending
And the story's sad...

You never say exactly what it is you mean
How am I supposed to discern between ambiguity
You got me running everywhere and all around
Yet I'm supposed to continually keep my head down

"Keep your head down!"

I'll do the dirty work but when it comes down to the line
You'll see just how dirty these hands can get of mine

If I could see a brighter future it's only when I'm watching yours
The light at the end of the tunnel is only when I'm turned around
This story has no ending
It's like I'm just pretending
And the story's sad...

Ponder the quality of life when I spend
Each and every day trying to get to the end
Feels like the story's ending
But then I'm just pretending
But the story's sad...

And if I could see into the future
I still don't feel reassured 
cause the light in the tunnel
is behind me

If I could see a brighter future it's only when I'm watching yours
The light at the end of the tunnel is only when I'm turned around
This story has no ending
It's like I'm just pretending
And the story's sad...

Leave Me
What's the point in these gears turning if they're just grinding and burning?
Why spin my wheels in the flood if it sinks me deeper in the mud?
Why keep on page turning if I don't feel I'm still learning?
Why not skip to the end and then throw it to the wind?

Cause there's nothing left to do
Why so concerned with what I choose?
I suggest to you listen to your words
Not mine and their intended use

I'm holding up this tent with sticks I found
And your outside world is raining down
My bubble world is gonna float to the surface
Long as I'm not troubled with your second guesses
Leave me
Leave me

All good things in life escape when you're holding them too close
And opposites attract when you can't let them go
It's hard to catch the wave when you're so out of phase
When all the words and phrases you say go to saving face

Don't you have something else to do?
I'm concerned with what you choose
What I suggest to you
is forget me and remember you

I'm holding up this tent with sticks I found
And your outside world is raining down
My bubble world is gonna float to the surface
Long as I'm not troubled with your second guesses
Leave me
Leave me

"You won't be moving up"
This is not my lot in life
"There's nothing you could have done"
I expected a lot from life
"In your youth, questioning"
Rejected the elders' state of mind
"If you want to be a man you'll leave yourself behind"
I'll never leave it all behind

YEAH!

I'm holding up this tent with sticks I found
And your outside world is raining down
My bubble world is gonna float to the surface
Long as I'm not troubled with your second guesses
Leave me
Leave me

The Line
Frustrated and wholly out of self control
Taking a day off 
of all this I've been putting on
I just need time
To get a good space
Every day's the same
Gonna change the pace

Cause I have to say that line again
No ink left, just grinding the pen
Another day another dime instead
No reason for me to pretend

If there's anything you want to tell me
Say it now or wait for the day that
Somebody wants to soak up your rules
Bury themselves in your box of tools

Cause I have to say that line again
No ink left, just grinding the pen
Another day another dime instead
No reason for me to pretend

I can feel my animal cry
Cause I'm not being treated
Like a human being
You say I'm flammable and 
I won't last
Well here's how I catch on fire

I am through with being screwed
It ain't just me cause you should be too
All the food that you have chewed
Someone threw it out and gave it right back to you

Cause I have to say that line again
No ink left, just grinding the pen
Another day another dime instead
No reason for me to pretend

I have to say that line again
I have to say that line again
I have to say that line again
I have to say that line again

The Way We Want
I can't discern where I end and where they begin
Chasing their spiral my head ends up reeling
Like a silent voice I'm always hearing
Whether or not I listen to what they're saying

"Why can't you be the way we want?
Why can't you be the way we want you to be?"

Why can't you be the way we want?
Why can't you be the way we want you to be?
We'll give you what 
we say you want
Everybody else
Can't be wrong...

And while you're teaching, preaching they are preying
Sneakin deep inside all our childrens' dreaming
Streamlining them with their time-bomb scheming
Until one day they get to thinking:

"Why can't I be the way they want?
Why can't I be the way they want me to be?"

Why can't you be the way we want?
Why can't you be the way we want you to be?
We'll give you what 
we say you want
Everybody else
Can't be wrong...

Statistics, ballistics, ignore the homeless misfits
Blacklisted Citizens, not feeling the stimulus

Why can't you be the way we want?
Why can't you be the way we want you to be?
We'll give you what 
we say you want
Everybody else
Can't be wrong...

Dead End
I've been painting a long time
But you don't get the picture
Screaming inside 
While you quietly quote scripture

It's in your nature to do what you do
But your type of creature seems so unnatural to me

I am filled up without
And with you I am empty
Years later I figured out
Adding you subtracted me
Our lives are not intended
to be all that dead ended
Drive this stake into the minds of men

I thought I had something stuck in my eye and when
I looked away I realized it was you

Between love and hating
And other lines I can read between this
Hopeful hiding
and hateful patronizing

I am filled up without
And with you I am empty
Years later I figured out
Adding you subtracted me
Our lives are not intended
to be all that dead ended
Drive this stake into the minds of men

This cycle has repeated
Long before Thus
This cycle has repeated
Long before the Dawn

And now you've had your chance
To turn around and go back
It's down to you and I
And I ain't wasting anymore time

Drive this stake into the minds of men
This utensil through my head

Easy Taget (Secret Track!)
Underestimated and boxed into your cardboard
And whenever you need me I know that I am harbored
But when you got opinions my favors get discarded
Like heavy cargo thrown overboard
A Sinking barge

Since I seem so motionless
I make an easy target
for broad accusations 
that find their angles at the charges

Cause I don't watch the market
and don't play a hidden card or
Get beneath others' armor
I'm only working out of ardor

And I accept my place in the order
Cause in the end it never matters
When you're dead
What you worked so hard for...




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