Is this an over-reaching arm Or is this compassion? Is this a handout undeserved Or a just reparation? And like a single domino That falls while the rest stay vertical Will you fear these empty fairytales Or will you believe them? Come in, all of the cold

Do you still believe in all the things That you stood by before? I hope they're on the front lines Or at home keeping score Do you care to be the layer of the bricks that seal your fate Or would you rather be the architect Of what we might create? Are

Well I won't be caught living in a dead end job While praying to my government guns and gods Now it's us against them We're here to represent To spit right in the face of the establishment. And now I don't believe (ain't got no faith in nothing) Stand on

Through chaos as it swirls It's us against the world Just erodes us in the rain Oh morning come bursting, the clouds amen Lift off this blindfold, let me see again Bring back the water, let your ships roll in In my heart she left a hole The tightrope

Ooo 1, 2, 3, 4 fire's in your eyes Ooo 5, 6, 7, minus 9 lives And this chaos, it defies imagination You've arrived at panic station You won't get much closer Till you sacrifice it all (all) You won't get to taste it With your face against the wall (wall

And I can't tell if you're laughing Between each smile there's a tear in your eye There's a train leaving town in an hour Its not waiting for you and neither am I One last thing I beg you please just before you go I've watched you fly on paper wings half

Whatever you may hear or see Us of constant banging Throwing fists against the wall How cruel time can be When you wake you'll know I'm gone And where I'm going there's no one So don't follow me Don't follow me

Where I'm at? (Where) Where I go? (How) How did I get here? (How did I get here?) Walk around with a Smithfield (Smithfield) I'm from the south, had a gold grill (Gold grill) Remember doin' shows in Mobile (Mobile) Go against me and it's roadkill

This is cardiac arrest Of a world too proud to admit our mistakes That's how we'll know This is not a test, oh no When our rivers run dry and our crops cease to grow And when our summers grow longer and winters won't snow From the banks of the ocean and

Angels love bad men that's how it's always been They give their whole hearts when they fall Love holds their hearts against the wall When his stolen gold has turned to rust He rides off in a cloud of dust Lookin' for a border he can cross She'll stand by