We want it all and we want it now Tonight I'll watch your fires burn out With guns in hand we pry these guns from yours And it's burning down the walls you built high And there's a steady stream of anger And it's spilling from the coasts A tidal wave A

You laugh creating a lightness in my chest Your eyes they penetrate me (Your answer's always maybe) That's when I got up and left Like the angel you are They turn the lights down low In shadows hiding from the world Only coming out when it gets cold The

We're setting the fires to light the way, We're burning it all to begin again, With hope in our hearts and bricks in our hands, We sing for change. When faith alone is not enough, To keep our heads barely above, We look for reason and come up

What we are is the sum of a thousand lies What we know is almost nothing at all But we are what we are 'till the day we die Or 'till we don't have the strength to go on 'Till we don't have the strength to go on Welcome home They have tampered with the

But we don't go outside anymore The radio blasts hysteria While the television's sideways on the floor We're mourning in the streets of Amerika Mourning in the streets of Amerika Stand by to switch on We fire out all pistons We're singing along But no

Like broken mirrors It's been years Since our luck ran out and left us here Ten million shards of glass and tears But now we are Awake enough to show what we hear Reflections of an unfamiliar face A fate that we deserve Now it's your turn

Spin out of control Try to recover, but collide with each other We spin out of control There, high on the watchtower Keeping the peace Whatever that means 'Cause you see the world through Cross hairs and TVs don't you Ten foot walls built around us

I will fly into outer space I will die, to love another day I float away, but you're my gravity We rise again, and lose our gravity We rise again, and loose our gravity I was there on the day truth died Blood on my hands throw 'em up in the sky I was the

Stay alive, stay alive for me You will die, but now your life is free Take pride in what is sure to die Now the night is coming to an end The sun will rise and we will try again I will fear the night again I hope I'm not my only friend

Our lives will not be lived in vain We're throwing wrenches in the gears These machines feed on the tears of broken lives and dying dreams Are we so alone, So distant, So forgotten, As we think ourselves to be? These are our lives But did they ever even