01 AIN'T MY BITCH

Outta my way, outta my day
Out of your mind and into mine
Into no one, into not one
Into your step but out of time

Headstrong, what's wrong
I've already heard this song before you arrived
But now it's time to kiss your ass goodbye

Dragging me down
Why you around
So useless
It ain't my fall, It ain't my call
It ain't my bitch
It ain't my bitch

Down on the sun, down and no fun
Down and out, where the hell you been
Damn it all down, damn it unbound
Damn it all down to hell again

Stand tall, can't fall
Never even bend at all before you arrived
But now it's time to kiss your ass goodbye

Dragging me down
Why you around
So useless
It ain't my fall, it ain't my call
It ain't my bitch

Outta my way

Outta my way, outta my day
Out of your mind and into mine
Into no one, into not one
Into your step but out of time

Headstrong, what's wrong
I've already heard this song before you arrived
But now it's time to kiss your ass goodbye
And now it's time to kiss your ass goodbye
Time to kiss your ass

Dragging me down
While you around
So useless
It ain't my fall, it ain't my call
It ain't my bitch

No way but down
Why you're around
No fooling
It ain't my smile, It ain't my style
It ain't my bitch, oh, it ain't mine

Ain't mine, your kind
You're stepping out of time
Ain't mine, your kind
You're stepping out of time

Taking me down
Why you around
No fooling
It ain't my fall, It ain't my call
It ain't my...ooh...bitch
You ain't mine

02 2X4

I'm a gonna make you, shake you, take you
I'm a gonna be the one who breaks you
Put the screws to ya, yeah my way
Yeah, come on and come on, come and make my day
Make my day

Well, you got some hell to pay, I steal your thunder
The joy of violent movement, pulls you under
Ooh bite the bullet, well hard
Yeah but I die harder, so go too far
Too far

(Friction, fusion, retribution)
(Friction, fusion)
I can't hear you, talk to me
(Retribution)
I can't hear you, so talk to me
(Friction, fusion)
I can't hear you, are you talking to me
(Retribution)
I can't hear you, are you talking to me

I can't hear you, time to meet my lord
I can't hear you, talk to two by four, hey

I'm a gonna make you, shake you, take you
I'm a gonna be that one who breaks you
Put the screws to ya, my way
Hey, come on and come on, come and make my day
Make my day

(Friction, fusion, retribution)
(Friction, fusion)
I can't hear you, talk to me
(Retribution)
I can't hear you, come talk to me
(Friction, fusion)
I can't hear you, are you talking to me
(Retribution)
Ooh, I can't hear you, are you talking to me

I can't hear you, time to meet my lord
I can't hear you, talk to two by four, hey hey

Yeah, talk to two by four
It don't take no more
Come on, yeah
(Come on o'er...)

Come on, come on over
Talk to two by four

Talk to the two by four

(Friction, fusion, retribution)
(Friction, fusion)
I'm gonna make you talk to me
(Retribution)
I'm gonna trick you, ooh so talk to me
(Friction, fusion)
Hey I can't hear you, are you talking to me
(Retribution)
I can't hear you, you talking to me

I can't hear you, time to meet my lord
I can't hear you, talk to, talk to two by four
She don't take no more

03 THE HOUSE JACK BUILT

Open door, so I walk inside
Close my eyes, find my place to hide
And I shake as I take it in
Let the show begin

Open my eyes just to have them close again
Well on my way, but on my way to where I've been
It swallows me as it takes me in its fog
I twist away as I give this world the nod

Open door, so I walk inside
Close my eyes, find my place to hide
And I shake as I take it in
Let the show begin

Open my eyes, just to have them closed once again
Don't want control
As it takes me down and down and down again
Is that the moon or just a light that lights this dead end street
Is that you there or just another demon that I meet

The higher you are, the farther you fall
The longer the walk, the farther you crawl
My body, my temple, this temple it tilts
Step into the house that Jack built

The higher you are, the farther you fall
The longer the walk, the farther you crawl
My body, my temple, this temple it tilts
Yes, this is the house that Jack built

Open door, yes I walk inside
Swallow me so the pain subsides
And I shake as I take the sin
Let the show begin (Let the show begin, let the show begin)

The higher you are, the farther you fall
The longer the walk, the farther you crawl
My body, my temple, this temple it tilts
Yes, this is the house that Jack built

The higher you are, the farther you fall
The longer the walk, the farther you crawl
My body, my temple, this temple it tilts
Yes, I am, I am, I am

Open my eyes
It swallows me
Is that you there
I twist away
Away, away, away

04 UNTIL IT SLEEPS

Where do I take this pain of mine
I run, but it stays right by my side

So tear me open, pour me out
There's things inside that scream and shout
And the pain still hates me
So hold me, until it sleeps
(Until it sleeps)

Just like the curse, just like the stray
You feed it once and now it stays
Now it stays

So tear me open but beware
There's things inside without a care
And the dirt still stains me
So wash me until I'm clean

It grips you, so hold me
It stains you, so hold me
It hates you, so hold me
It holds you, so hold me
Until it sleeps
(Until it sleeps, until it sleeps)

So tell me why you've chosen me
Don't want your grip, don't want your greed
Don't want it

I'll tear me open, make you gone
No more can you hurt anyone
And the fear still shakes me
So hold me until it sleeps

It grips you, so hold me
It stains you, so hold me
It hates you, so hold me
It holds you, holds you, holds you
Until it sleeps
(Until it sleeps, until it sleeps)
(Until it sleeps, until it sleeps)

I don't want it
I don't want it want it want it want it want it no

So tear me open but beware
There's things inside without a care
And the dirt still stains me
So wash me till clean

I'll tear me open, make you gone
No longer will you hurt anyone
And the hate still shapes me
So hold me, until it sleeps
(Until it sleeps, until it sleeps)
(Until it sleeps, until it sleeps)

05 KING NOTHING

Wish I may, wish I might
Have this I wish tonight
Are you satisfied
Dig for gold, dig for fame
You dig to make your name
Are you pacified

All the wants you waste
All the things you've chased

Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there's no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the king
But the castle's crumbled
And you're left with just a name

Where's your crown, King Nothing
Where's your crown

Hot and cold, bought and sold
A heart as hard as gold
Yeah, are you satisfied
Wish I might, wish I may
You wish your life away
Are you pacified

All the wants you waste
All the things you've chased

Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there's no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the king
But the castle's crumbled
And you're left with just a name

Where's your crown, King Nothing
Nothing, where's your crown

I wish I may, I wish I might
Have this wish I wish tonight
I want that star, I want it now
I want it all and I don't care how

Careful what you wish
Careful what you say
Careful what you wish, you may regret it
Careful what you wish, you just might get it

Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there's no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the king
But the castle's crumbled
And you're left with just a name

Where's your crown, King Nothing
Nothing

No, you're just nothing
Where's your crown, King Nothing
No, you're just nothing
Absolutely nothing

Off to never never land

06 HERO OF THE DAY

Mama, they try and break me

The window burns to light the way back home
A light that warms no matter where they've gone
They're off to find the hero of the day
But what if they should fall by someone's wicked way

Still the window burns, time so slowly turns
Someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flames, do you feel your name
Can't you hear your babies crying

Mama, they try and break me
Still they try and break me

Excuse me while I tend to how I feel
These things return to me that still seem real
Now, deservingly, this easy chair
But the rocking stopped by wheels of despair

Don't want your aid
But the fist I make
For years can't hold or feel
No, I'm not all me
So please excuse me while I tend to how I feel

But now the dreams and waking screams
That ever last the night
So build the wall, behind it crawl
And hide until it's light
So can you hear your babies crying now

Still the window burns, time so slowly turns
And someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flames
Can't you feel your names
Can't you hear your babies crying?

But now the dreams and waking screams
That ever last the night
So build a wall, behind it crawl
And hide until it's light
So can't you hear your babies crying now

Mama, they try and break me
Mama, they try and break me
Mama they try
Mama they try
Mama, they try and break me
Mama, they try and break me
Mama, they try and break me
Mama they try
Mama they try

07 BLEEDING ME

I'm digging my way
I'm digging my way to something
I'm digging my way to something better
I'm pushing to stay
I'm pushing to stay with something
I'm pushing to stay with something better

I'm sowing the seeds
I'm sowing the seeds I've taken
I'm sowing the seeds I take for granted
This thorn in my side
This thorn in my side is from the tree
This thorn in my side is from the tree I've planted

Ooh, it tears me and I bleed
And I bleed

Caught under wheels' roll
I take the leech, I'm bleeding me
Can't stop to save my soul
I take the leash that's leading me
I'm bleeding me, whoa
Ooh, I can't take it
Caught under wheels' roll
Oh, the bleeding of me, yeah
Of me, yeah
The bleeding of me

Caught under wheels' roll
I take the leech, I'm bleeding me
Can't stop to save my soul
I take the leash that's leading me
I'm bleeding me, whoa, whoa
Ooh, I can't take it
Caught under wheels' roll
Oh, the bleeding of me

I am the beast that feeds the feast
I am the blood, I am release
Come make me pure, bleed me a cure
I'm caught, I'm caught, I'm caught under

Caught under wheels' roll
I take that leech, I'm bleeding me
Can't stop to save my soul
I take the leash that's leading me
I'm bleeding me, hey
Oh, I can't take it
I can't take it, I can't take it
Oh oh, oh the bleeding of me

Ooh, come on and bleed me

I'm digging my way
I'm digging my way to something
I'm digging my way to something better
I'm pushing to stay
I'm pushing to stay with something
I'm pushing to stay with something better
With something better

08 CURE

The man takes another bullet
He keeps them all within
He must seek, no matter how it hurts
So don't fool again

He thinks the answer's cold and in his hand
He takes his medicine
The man takes another bullet
Yeah, he's been fooled again

Uncross your arms
Take and throw them to the cure, say
I do believe
Uncross your arms now
Take em to it, say
I do believe
Yeah I do believe

Yeah, the lies tempt her and she follows
Again she lets him in
She must believe to fill the hollow
She's been fooled again

Uncross your arms
Take and throw them to the cure, say
I do believe
Uncross your arms now
Take them to it, say
I do believe
Whoa, yeah I do believe
Yeah yeah, oh

Betting on the cure
It must get better than this
Betting on the cure
Yeah everyone's got to have the sickness
Cause everyone seems to need the cure
Precious cure

Betting on the cure
Cause it must get better than this
Betting on the cure
Yeah everyone's got to have the sickness
Cause everyone seems to need the cure
Yeah, precious cure

I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe
I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe
I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe

I do believe, I do believe
I do believe, I do believe, I do believe

Betting on the cure
Yeah, it must get better than this
Need to feel secure
Yeah it's got to get better than this, this, this
It must get better than this
Betting on the cure
Yeah everyone's got to have the sickness
Cause everyone seems to need the cure

I do believe I do believe I do believe

09 POOR TWISTED ME

Oh poor twisted me
Oh poor twisted me
I feast on sympathy
I chew on suffer
Yeah I chew on agony

Swallow whole the pain
Oh, it's too good to be
That all this misery
Is just for oh poor twisted me
Poor twisted me

Poor mistreated me
Poor mistreated me
I drown without a sea
Lungs fill with sorrow
Lungs fill with misery

Inhaling the deep dark blue
Oh, woe is me
Such a burden to be
The poor mistreated me

To finally reach the shore, survive the storm
Now you're bare and cold, the sea was warm
So warm, you bathe your soul again
Baby, again and again and again, yeah yeah

You finally reached the shore, survived the storm
Now you're bare and cold, the sea was warm
So warm, you bathe your soul again

Good to feel my friend
Oh, woe is me
Such a burden to be
Oh poor twisted me, yeah yeah yeah
Oh poor twisted me, yeah

Oh, yo, yo, poor twisted me

10 WASTING MY HATE

Good day, how do
And I send a smile to you
Don't waste, waste your breath
And I won't waste my hate on you

Ain't gonna waste my hate
Ain't gonna waste my hate on you
I think I'll keep it for myself

Ain't gonna give no more
Ain't got the time to help you score
I think it's time you pleased yourself
Yourself

Good day, how do
And I send a smile to you
Don't waste, waste your breath
And I won't waste my hate on you
Waste my hate on you
Hate

You think you're worthy now
You think enough to even raise the brow
And to laugh and tip that two pronged crown

Well I see my hands, I see my feet
I feel that blood that pumps in beat
But where the hell's my mind going now
Dead gone now

Good day, how do
And I send a smile to you
Don't waste, waste your breath
And I won't waste my hate on you
Waste my hate on you

Think I'll keep it for myself
Hate

Ain't gonna waste my hate
But I'm so greedy when they say
Better to give than to receive

Ain't gonna waste my hate, no no
Ain't got time to waste my hate on you
I think I'll keep it all for myself
For myself

Good day, how do
And I send a smile to you
Don't waste, waste your breath
And I won't waste my hate on you
Waste my hate on you

Think I'll keep it for myself, yeah

Hate

11 MAMA SAID

Mama, she has taught me well
Told me when I was young
Son, your life's an open book
Don't close it fore it's done
The brightest flame burns quickest
That's what I heard her say
A son's heart's owed to mother
But I must find my way

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Or let this heart be still

Rebel, my new last name
Wild blood in my veins
Apron strings around my neck
The mark that still remains
Left home at an early age
Of what I heard was wrong
I never asked forgiveness
But what is said is done

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Or let this heart be still

Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
So let this heart be still

Mama, now I'm coming home
I'm not all you wished of me
A mother's love for her son
Unspoken, help me be
Yeah I took your love for granted
And all the things you said to me
I need your arms to welcome me
But a cold stone's all I see

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Or let this heart be still

Let my heart go
Mama, let my heart go
You never let my heart go
So let this heart be still

Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
So let this heart be still

12 THE THORN WITHIN

Forgive me father, for I have sinned
Find me guilty of the life I feel within
When I'm branded, this mark of shame
Should I look down, disgraced
Or straight ahead and know that you must blame

I am the secret
I am the sin
I am your guilty
And I, I am the thorn within

Forgive me father, for I have sinned
Find me guilty when true guilt is from within
So point your fingers, point right at me
For I am shadows and will follow you
One and the same are we

I am the secret
I am the sin
I am your guilty
And I, I am the thorn within

I do your time, I take your fall
I'm branded guilty for us all

So point your fingers, point right at me
For I am shadows and will follow you
One and the same are we

I am your secrets
I am your sin
I am your guilty
And I, I am the thorn within

I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within

13 RONNIE

Story starts, quiet town
Small town boy, big time frown
Never talks, never plays
Different path, lost his way

Them streets are red, red, I'm afraid
There's no confetti, no parade
Nothing happens in this boring place
But, oh my God, how it all did change

Now they all pray
Blood stain, wash away

He said
Lost my way this bloody day
Lost my way

I heard it, he said
Lost my way, this bloody day
Lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today

I always said something wrong
With little strange Ronnie Long
Never laughed, never smiled
Talked alone for miles and miles and miles

Gallow calls, son I say
Keep your smile and laugh all day
Think once again in this boring place
For little boys, how they soon change

Now they all pray
Blood stain, wash away

He said
Lost my way, this bloody day
Lost my way

Yeah I heard him, he said
Lost my way, this bloody day
Lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today

Yeah well all the green things died when Ronnie moved to this place
He said don't you dare ask why I'm cursed to wear this face
Now we all know why the children called him Ronnie Frown
When he pulled that gun from his pocket, and they all fall down, down, down

He said
Lost my way, this bloody day
Lost my way

Yeah, yeah I heard it
He screamed
Lost my way, this bloody day
Lost my way

All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today, that's right

All things wash away
And they all fall down
But blood stained the sun today

All things wash away
And they all fall down
But blood stained the sun today

14 THE OUTLAW TORN

And now I wait my whole lifetime, for you
And now I wait my whole lifetime, for you
I ride the dirt, I ride the tide, for you
I search the outside, search inside, for you

To take back what you left me
I know I'll always burn to be
The one who seeks so I may find
And now I wait my whole lifetime

I'm outlaw torn
I'm outlaw torn
And I'm torn

So on I wait my whole lifetime, for you
So on I wait my whole lifetime, for you
The more I search, the more my need, for you
The more I bless, the more I bleed, for you

You make me smash the clock and feel
I'd rather die behind the wheel
Time was never on my side
So on I wait my whole lifetime

I'm outlaw torn
I'm outlaw torn
I'm outlaw torn
And I'm torn

Hear me
And if I close my mind in fear
Please pry it open
See me
And if my face becomes sincere
Beware
Hold me
And when I start to come undone
Stitch me together
Save me
And when you see me strut
Remind me of what left this outlaw torn

Hear me
And if I close my mind in fear
Please pry it open
See me
And if my face becomes sincere
Beware
Hold me
And when I start to come undone
Stitch me together
Save me
And when you see me strut
Remind me of what left this outlaw torn