1000 ways: of living clean / to waste my time / to bow and pray / to waste my mind // 1000 ways: to pay off sin / or deal with it / to slip on faith / to ostracize // 1000 ways: to brutalize / to dominate / to love for life / of spreading hate.
I don't like to see the same thing twice / when it comes to this, I don't feel there really is much choice. // I don't even care about the way they think things are. / that which is my want is that what stands out in a crowd. // no more blond pornography. // I had never seen something so close to the edge / of beauty and it seems, different than the rest. // no more blond pornography.
christian fundamentalists.
I don't think I need to see your side / I'm not sure I want your piece of mind / there's no thing that you can say to change / the more you try the more things stay the same // just like all things that aren't here forever / just like all things that can not stay in focus / just like all people who don't give a fuck / and all things being equal, I'd sooner take the change. // I don't think I need to feel your shame / say no to god, and you will feel the same / try to make your own way through this hell / don't make me turn back to give you help // I don't think I need to see your side / I'm not sure you want to see me try / there's no thing that you can say to change / the more I try the more I stay the same / the more you try the more I stay the same / and all your lies are the most I've gained. // just like all things that aren't here forever / just like all things that can not stay in focus / just like all people who don't give a fuck / and all things being equal, I'd sooner take the change // I don't think I need to see your side / all your errors will just prove me right / the only reason that I care to stay / is the laughter I feel for the things you say. // just like all things that aren't here forever / just like all things that can not stay in focus / just like all people who don't give a fuck / and all things being equal, I'd sooner take the change.
I'm alive and I sin / better lose than I should win / I abhor what you uphold / better hold me tongue than I should scold // am I too fit to survive? / am I too good to be alive? / is it fair that I should breathe? / While others suffer, I can see. // I'm so weak I can not live / I should die and reminisce / there's one more fact I can not hide: / I'm too good to be alive. // I'm too fit to survive / I see the world through demon's eyes / I prey on weak, exploit, abuse / I am the state that controls you.
I try hard to stay alive / try real hard to survive / I don't care if you don't live / I don't give a fuck about you // I must control what's mine / take whatever I can find / I'll take it if its yours / I don't care who found it first // I'll leave my past behind / I've done wrong but I don't mind / My action is justified / I don't give a fuck about you.
I can't decide when I've had enough / I can't decide when I am done / I'll never know when I'm through with this / I'll never know when I am done. // the more that you want me to be / the less that I want to stay / the more that you want me to speak / the less that I have to say. // I don't know if I care to stay / I don't know if I can remain / I don't know what you want from me / I don't know if you've stayed the same // I don't care // I don't know what I'm going to do / I never know when I am through / I can't seem to face the truth / I can't seem to take the blame // You don't think that I even try / I don't think that I could have lied / You don't think that we will survive? / I don't care if we live or die // I don't care.
I'm atypical and influenced / I wear leather boots and a big-ass grin / I am lookin to fight, I am lookin for war / I am feeling the need to settle the score // one more time, I am over the line / there's no turning back, I have entered the fire // life treats you fair, but it treats me rough / how should I act when you tell me 'life's tough'? // I can take your lives, I can take your hopes / I will be the star of your favorite shows / I will take your life, I will steal your hopes / I will show you the god that you've never known // I am just what the world needs--another star / I am just what the world needs--just some sound bite / I am just what the world needs--a new excuse / I am just what the world needs--a brand new god // I will take your lives and consume your hopes / will you stay the same, or will you somehow learn?
like a book burned for one page / an animal without a cage / like a dead man with no grave / another soul that won't be saved // like innocent is beaten down / like men lay hidden in the ground / or children screaming with no sound / their drunkard owner's bottle found // as if I'd die and leave no trace / another mitre cuts your face / it only leaves you with the taste / of poisoned arrows out for play // all I've learned about myself: I have found I'm monsterous. // like the mind forgets to think / the inner circle starts to shrink / this hemisphere about to sink / no longer such a constant thing // like a preacher loosing faith / a hidden gospel comes to age / forbidden fruit is turning ripe / as all god's creatures turn to night // all the worthless burning bright / the ugly creatures masked in night / they're never ready for the fight / and those that died were never right // all I've learned about myself: I have found I'm monsterous.
you say you know / what is best for me / I know what is best for me / I know what you need to see // you say you know // you're telling me / what I want to hear / my mind and tongue speak differently / when you tell me what to say // you're telling me.
conditioning and rationale / powerless and meaningless / judgments fade you without fail / nonetheless, its nothing less // never opened, always closed / only opened to oppose / ignorance will always know / all there is that is to know // talks incessant and inane / action nothing under fame / slander, truth is all the same / always venture, never gain // there's nothing more for you to know / no integrated inner goals / no more morals you won't show / there's nowhere more, and you won't go // nothing can be done / no words have effect / no one really cares / just show some respect // unappointed as egress / expectation, pointlessness / make no motion to confess / that nonetheless, its nothing less // institution is repression / for the morals that it sends / will not stop and will not listen / in itself onto an end // education is obtrusive / pointless, and its piracy / conformity and mass-production / bustin out a mold on me. // nothing can be done / no words have effect / no one really cares / just show some respect.
I'm going home.
The burden of proof lies with me.
I am the way, the only path / I am the truth you can't see past / I am the light that mimes the sun / I am the truth to which you run. // I am the way / I am the truth / I am the light / I am the way, the truth, the light. // I am, as long as hours pass / the only hope that's meant to last / you build your faith upon your trust / and pick apart the rational / no other way to stay lit up / as angels fall to take you out / tempting voices in your ear: / "resist the call of demon's fear" / I save you from the dark of night / no longer such the constant fright / and when you think your faith will last, / I slip the knife into your back // I am the way into the night / I am the truth that steals your sight / I am your only source of light / I am the source of doubt and fright / I let you make your stakes in me / to be the truth that sets you free / I turn my back when you're in need / and make you think it wasn't me. // I am the way into the night / I am the truth that steals your sight / I tie you down to set you free / and still you place your faith in me.