Lifetime (New Age Records)
Dwell: I'm having trouble seeing through the haze i try and clear the fog away from my memory of those days i fought so hard to make it through the rain it sickens me to look at you, all i see is pain i can't dare, hold my stare i look at you and all i remember how easy i lose, how quick comes failure i cry open up the sky now i look and don't know what to say i look above with questions of long forgotten days i can't forget past pain i felt the sun will shine and all of the ice will melt never again, not this time never bring me down with your hateful, selfish lies i rip the blackness from the sky and pray for light to fill my eyes.
Find: Take me to a place where i know i belong take away my anger and replace my hate with love find my reason hiding behind my second skin find what is pushing me, it starts from deep within take apart my insides go over all that is wrong take out what is bad, but leave enough to remain strong i won't stop, i will not until the day through these eyes i despise so much hate don't tell me "give it up", walk away push myself to the edge help me find want to find what is inside, why am i alive?
Souvenir: Do you remember when unity meant something? we we're gonna be friends until the very end do you remember when hardcore was everything? dancing, diving, always good times but, i guess it had to end young and full of energy punk rock shows every friday night was the life for me we swore we'd change the world, we swore with sincerity but a few years down the line punk proved a false reality minor threat, 7 seconds, s.s.d. straight edge hardcore was introduced to me and in my heart, like stone it's etched forever free it's been a life time now since i felt your walls surrounding me remember when. i can't help but get down at the state of things today are unity and togetherness remnants of yesterday? sorry, i'm not willing to throw it all away our memories are souvenirs of yesterday i still feel the passion and the energy i can't help but feel hardcore as a part of me times will change and people change and so will styles but something in the music just makes me smile remember when.
Gone: I believed in you, i believed what you said i believed when you told me you would never change but before like a knock on the door i heard you coming and i played like i wasn't home no need to try and remember why because the good old days weren't always good now that you're gone i'm not so sure but at least i won't wonder anymore you're gone, i know i can't believe in you anymore i can't believe the things i hear it seems that my friends have all disappeared why can't you ever be straight with me? why can't you come back to me? can't stand the way it was.
Tradition: When they say that i'm too far gone tradition keeps me from moving on it condones death and excuses hate but trust comes natural in it's warm embrace i stand and face this awful place i don't agree but can not escape i will not see the same out of date excuse for pain hate passed down from father to son and taught to every generation will you be the one to break tradition's chain of pain and hate? break it.
Background (New Age Records)
You: You took the best of her when you had sex with her you took the the best of me I trusted and you fucked me and it will take some time to see you up again and if it´s lack of care you will not find me there and it wont be as hard if love is guiding you and it wont be as hard if love is pushing you it´s all you.
Pieces: When nothings left but shattered pieces of my dream i find it hard to face the day my motivations disappeared it seems pieces of my dreams lying on the ground i close my eyes but i hear their sound so when i turn around and see those pieces on the ground i go on back pick them up and build it up like stone now i stand stronger i benefit from pain i find it easier to face the day my heart knows nothing but gain.
Myself: I think i´ve done it this time i think i´ve crossed that line that i´ve been ignoring for so long comfort in fear tucked away i feel warm and unafraid surrounded in shame falling to pieces nobody sees this i hide it well in myself what i see.
Thanks: You my friend special friend i give thanks to you my dear friend i won't pretend and say til the end but take time now and say thank you i never said i was the best friend i could be the friend that you need but still i take time to thank before a face in the crowd is what our friendship become i thank you for the time talked all night and for the time you told me i´d be alright thank you for listening and hearing my side thank you for being my friend thank you for being alive.
Up: I thought i'd roll off your back i thought you´d be tougher than that i´ve been acting really shitty you´ve been so stressed but sometimes you´re just a pest but counting your inadequacies seems a little silly pointless comes to mind i hope you didn't mind all those times i didn't call sometimes i don't care at all this is for you this is about you just get up you make me laugh and i can't count the times you´ve made me smile so get up you're beatiful but you're down.
Bedtime: I'd love to stick out my tongue and catch the rain in my mouth but never take the time i see you i want to tell you maybe a hello see if things worked out for you i´d love to but never do let me get under your covers let me hide away from all my loose ends they just pile on i try to find out where the road begins it's like turning on the brights on a fog filled night if i´d had to i keep my friends i remember me and frog walking through town drunk as hell no regrets but better days ahead fall asleep my flowerbed.
Old Friend: Here she comes again my old friend emptiness faithfully by my side no dividing us it's funny how she comes around like clockwork when i hit the ground i try to concentrate and stretch a smile across my face you are the one to set the sun and your coldness lingers on grab the clouds from out of sight turn our morning into night you're the cold flowing through my veins that turns my laughter to a scream and everytime we think its done your right behind us listening on.
Ghost: My eyes skim the crowd i try and find you as if you were never there but i could have sworn i saw you standing there with that look in your eyes proud and strong by my side you're on my mind you're still on my mind you're out there i feel it there's talk that you're dead but you're hearts still beating.
Alive: For some reason i belive in burying myself in good feelings warm warm feeling sometimes there's nothing else alive you're living you're breathing you're bitching even more your tunnel and all its darkness what is the act all for alive.
Background: I fight to keep afloat i go under none the less i fight for a breath of air search but it's not there in this sea of people i find i am not an equal i'm not satisfied should my dreams be denied catch me at a good time see a man with purpose otherwise you'll find me with the rest blending into the background i want to kick myself but im busy resting i wonder why i complain when i'm equally to blame hardcore is not a background beat for you to move your dancing feet it's feeling living breathing it's the life for those who love living it's outrage energy compassion not hate not violence or fashion so i ask you and i am left to wonder what you'll do when you've dragged it under find some trend people care about dress the part then tear its heart out let's ask ourselves who's to blame the ones who destroy or the ones who let it.
Jersey's Best Dancers (Jade Tree Records)
Turnpike Gates: We would drag ourselves to bed and sleep took everything i had i kept it up till he would call you made me feel like a criminal and then there's you you kept a smile though i would always walk the wire you gave it all i gave you reason to have doubt-i had to get out of there i took the stairs i don't wanna fight with you if i can't be the one to have you-you sat that chair like a queen in the kitchen i memorized the lines your eyes made at every squint you shot my way-but you're miserable and i'm useless always making up excuses i made you cry too many times so i'm hanging up that line i'm throwing rocks at your floor i'm knocking down your front door i'm desperate tonight and i just wanna fight it's my conclusion that lets me act so cold so now i'll go and you wanna be just left alone put down that phone 'cuz if you want me just call out "hey boy."
Young, Loud, And Scotty: Is it silly to think that this will never happen again? but of course i'll call you tonight did you know you missed my birthday? the loneliest it gets is when the wind begins to chill and when i stand the top of your old street the church top brings a stillness to me and i can't think of anything i'd rather do then have my heart broken by you. could we be saved by inventions and hopes 'cuz i'm not alright the night seems to swallow me whole and spits out second guessing i remember ever since that first day i saw you on the street i've always wanted you in the worst way but now i can't compete and i'm so, and you're so, we're both so fucked up. isn't it about time that we try and get it right i can't sleep on no more floors and i can't stay up no more nights i'd like to know what's going on could you please pick up the phone i started a million letters to you but i couldn't finish any of them...
Francie Nolan: I know you're just confused and i know i ain't the best but why not put my heart to the test can you turn the light on now i'm gonna grab my coat i'm not sticking around to watch you gloat this time-'cuz it gets only close enough so you'll know you'll never have her heart just sometimes words and long waits in-between when she tries hard to be mean you'll never have her heart but you'll probably hate her you know she's just a name but with smoke in her hair i could still smell how sweet she would be to kiss and we talked about nothing until she had to go where second chances and small talk could have kept me up all night.
25 Cent Giraffes: It was too loud to hear what you were thinking and somehow i knew i would be sleeping alone tonight but i figured that's alright could you still walk home with me? i don't wanna be wondering you couldn't keep me here it's you or two months on the road just two months waiting by the phone-she grew wings and i grew wheels and now the dust covers my heels-i sent your letter next day air no-dozed alot and sat and stared i couldn't make it fifty pages in that book-i'll pull into town when the saddest sun sets down and i'll see you at the show i hope you'll go you'll be there just waiting for me.
Hey Catrine: Hey Catrine i know it's true when i'm sitting in my room but sometimes knowing is not enough when time is what we've lost.
Bringin' It Backwards: No one's stabbing you in the back and no one's gonna take away the feelings you got so stop creating misconceptions inventing enemies and deceptions.
How We Are: The kids won't come around tonight they're staying home and what if we played to only twenty-three it's how we are and i heard you got us figured out and now there's talk about the band but we don't hear 'cuz we don't care it's how we are we'll go our way we may have changed but we're still here and we came to play.
Theme Song For A New Brunswick Basement Show: Could it be a stranger night? the basements filled with kids i don't know not beautiful like your songs but all awkward and alone and don't belong-i saw a vacant seat i sat down next to you i thought of all the boys that wanted to-i laughed out loud do you hate this band too? i smiled a nervous smile but i warmed up and acted cool standing by the stove and your eyes made it strange and i felt out of place wondering if you could take her place.
Cut The Tension: When i feel that coming tension i wanna run in your direction when panics got me by the collar i need to go your way-if it feels right i'm gonna stay out tonight cut the tension cut right through i'm coming straight for you (and it's true) tonight i'm on my way she smiles she holds her head just right because she knows she's the one that i can't touch.
The Truth About Lars: I chose a life of missed callings and lost hopes of empty trains and railway dreams losing fast and gaining steam i was born tonight down highway skies when miles race under my head i'll remember what you said and i'll stay out till it's done for me and my legacy will be one that keeps me pushing me away so it's back to engines underfoot and miles of great disdain they never understand the way i walk and you know just the way i talk that keep me from knowing when i should see the things you're showing me and it's you i want to do this to and it's looks like that that'll make me stay with you keep your cool i'll be home soon and know that it's you.
The Boy's No Good: The boy's no good yeah he's a fuckin' hood he won't treat you like he should i heard he's making time with this friend of mine i heard he's talking trash i saw that kid last night he's starting fights he's got that nervous twitching he's just not the kid for you he's all dressed up he's got nothing to do but he's got something he's cool as anything but he's no good that boy's a fucking creep-the boy's no good, he's a hood, he won't treat you like he should i said the boy's no good, he's a hood, he won't treat you like i would listen to what i say he'll fuck you anyway i wanna have my say the boy's no fuckin' good.
The Verona Kings: It's when we find the sound we're after the record seemed to skip and the singles way too short the speakers pounding out the songs we'd love to do without so i'll drag it down until it burns and you can practice taking turns they don't hear it they don't feel it they can't see it turn it up-you keep talking out of tune boy and money's still too tight and the set was way too short it seems we're finding out the creeps we'd like to do without and they'll drag us down until it burns and we'll be counting lessons learned.