Through the Eyes
Album - 30 ottobre 2001 - Debaser id 77202

(It's time...)

Step on up!

What makes me think that,
It'll all work out in the end?
Afraid to feel bad,
Better off to try and pretend
I'm immortal,
Immune to all that is wrong
Just keep on wishing,
Crossing my fingers so long
Is this helping?
I'm growing weaker each day
Can't stop whining,
Still afraid of what I might say
Or reactions,
That control us one and all

It's mine,
And it's pure and,
As decent as I can make myself
Inside, we all know,
Only the strong survive
Why don't you think about that?
Why don't you think about that?

So now I'm bleeding,
On myself yes once again
Seems I trusted another deceitful friend,
My fault, should've known the deal
Keep your friends close,
But your enemies closer; for real
Seems easy, but nothing could be so hard
Trying to guess life's dealing
What's the next card?
I'm surely folding,
I don't like this hand at all

It's mine,
And it's pure and,
As decent as I can make myself
Inside, we all know,
Only the strong survive
Why don't you think about that?

Keep those eyes wide open, here comes a blind side
Keep those eyes wide open, here comes a blind side
Keep those eyes wide open, here comes a blind side
Keep those eyes wide open, here comes a blind side
Keep those eyes wide open, here comes a blind side
Keep those eyes wide open, here comes a blind side
Keep those eyes wide open, here comes a blind side
Keep those eyes wide open, here comes a blind side

Maybe things happen for a reason,
And wherein lies the answer
To overcome the grieving,
Of life's unruly lessons
I'm handed in succession,
It builds my pain which makes me strong

It's mine,
It's pure and,
As decent as I can make myself
Inside, we all know,
Only the strong survive

Well it's mine,
And it's pure and,
As decent as I can make myself
Inside, we all know,
Only the strong survive

Why don't you think about that?
Why don't you think about that for a minute?

There's another reflection involved up in my mind
A wholeness that has just been lost
Striving hard for perfection but still nothing to find
Some value with a cheaper cost
And as I reach out to hear you the sound is so muffled
It makes a lesser man of me
So the only thing left to bring up to date is

You suck!
Watch me fall while I go down
I'm taking all you bastards to the ground with
me then I'll frown
On your fucking whole life
The systematic hype still means a bit much to me
Watch me fall while I go down
I'm taking all you bastards to the ground with
me then I'll frown
On your fucking whole life
The systematic hype still means a bit much to me

I'm at the point of retraction and still slipping further
This place is getting worse for me
There's such a lack of direction and models to live by
No bright skies ahead of me
And as I reach out for your hand
you turn and then wander
Why I simply just can't see

No separation of gender no difference in me
You're just leading me on and on and on
You lead me on and on and on and on

You suck!
Watch me fall while I go down
I'm taking all you bastards to the ground with
me then I'll frown
On your fucking whole life
The systematic hype still means a bit much to me
Watch me fall while I go down
I'm taking all you bastards to the ground with
me then I'll frown
On your fucking whole life
The systematic hype still means a bit much to me

Pretty soon it's gonna come back and be your turn
Pretty soon it's gonna come back and be your turn
Pretty soon it's gonna come back and be your turn
Pretty soon you're gonna be the one that burns
Pretty soon it's gonna come back and be your turn
Pretty soon it's gonna come back and be your turn
Pretty soon it's gonna come back and be your turn

Guess what?
You Suck!
Watch me fall while I go down
I'm taking all you bastards to the ground with
me then I'll frown
On your fucking whole life
The systematic hype still means a bit much to me
Watch me fall while I go down
I'm taking all you bastards to the ground with
me then I'll frown
On your fucking whole life
The systematic hype still means a bit much to me

Your turn now

This is my letter to you
We started following a certain description
We started simple and fair, once again
Before there wasn't any need for an answer
Things were much different then, but

Now you question who I am, who I am inside
Now there's nothing left to hide, so here it goes,
This is my letter

Hope you're alright, it's been rough for me
Thinking all night, about the places I'd be
If I'd maybe, just did a little bit more
You might've let me, become a man for sure
And if I might, express one concern
It seems an issue, all day at every turn
What's the next step, the latest hole in my life
What's next for me to learn?

What's next for me to learn?

Engulf myself into a permanent mystery
No one day just as the next (Not for me)
It's so confusing when I look at my history
I just can't handle that yet, no

Now you question who I am, who I am inside
Now there's nothing left to hide, so here it goes,
This is my letter

Hope you're alright, it's been rough for me
Thinking all night, about the places I'd be
If I maybe, just did a little bit more
You might've let me, become a man for sure
And if I might, express one concern
It seems an issue, all day at every turn
What's the next step, the latest hole in my life
What's next for me to learn?

One more friendship ends, and then for awhile
I can breathe again

Hope you're alright, it's been rough for me
Thinking all night, about the places I'd be
If I maybe, just did a little bit more
You might've let me, become a man for sure
And if I might, express one concern
It seems an issue, all day at every turn
What's the next step, the latest hole in my life
What's next for me to learn?

What's next for me to learn?

Here we go again
A very temperamental process, beginning with
all of our excess
Affecting our very own ingest, this side of
you is speechless
Overwhelmed within an abscess, creating new diseases
And infecting whomever it pleases, we've been
living this way for too long, too long
Then I noticed a difference, in the way that I
saw other insects
Who were living a life of indulgence, sheltered
by their parents
Such an unlucky existence, not given a
chance to experience
And make their own decisions, I wouldn't trade
my own mistakes at all

Reach out your hands!
Out for the ones who, aid when the going gets rough
Until the end! These are the ones who, help when
the times get tough
And times will get tough! Get up again
Times will get tough! Get up again

Here it comes once again

Just reach out your hands!
Out for the ones who, aid when the going gets rough
Until the end! These are the ones who, help when
the times get tough
And times will get tough! Get up again
Times will get tough! Just get up again

So maybe I am bound by fate
A problematic scarring induced by hate
It never seems to all pan out
Is that what all this teaching is needed to scout?
You seemed to have a bad effect
Your rules and contradictions I would neglect
Though not my fault you made me feel
Like my own education wasn't truly real

Then you came right in
Tearing out my soul
How could all this loss
Be your only goal?
I'm left standing here
Desperate in the cold
Since you took your life
Mine has not been whole

It has not been whole...

So there I stood, a scolded child
The reasons never questioned
My pain's been filed inside this place
That makes me feel
I learned life is unfair and that is very real

Then you came right in
Tearing out my soul
How could all this loss
Be your only goal?
I'm left standing here
Desperate in the cold
Since you took your life
Mine just has not been whole!

MY LIFE IS JUST NOT WHOLE!
My life is just not whole...

While you try to overcome the lesson
Making the most of those questions that just keep me guessing
I'm looking longer, harder, further than I ever have
Solitude breaking me down you always seemed glad
To rid yourself and stick me in that little pit
Personal growth as a child that mattered not a bit
Then I became the member that you hated most
Disrespecting the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
A small example of what the things you've done to me
Have changed in my life and changed the things that I can't be
I'll never be

Then you came right in
Tearing out my soul
How could all this loss
Be your only goal?
I'm left standing here
Desperate in the cold
Since you took your life
Mine just has not been whole!

MY LIFE IS JUST NOT WHOLE!

Come on and brace your fate.
Engulfed up in the rat race, we hold our futures down.
So just resist the plot and find the answer,
Etched eternal, as we self-destruct,
Day by day, one by one.

One more example of disrespect,
That you seem to offer, no more than complete neglect.
A generation with fate all tied.
This aint a game, we dont enjoy this ride.

Try to percieve the lie,
All caught up in your own high opinions of yourself.
Should be concerned about your life,
Theres been enough strife to crash a person's hope.
And as the days delay our every other move,
We've been consumed by apathy,
Thats right.
It has become a pain inside,
My brain is screaming,
Look what you've done to me.

CHORUS

Break.
It's just the break we're giving 'em.
It's just the break that you're giving 'em.

Layed to waste out in the open,
Turned away once again.
This isn't right,
This ain't supposed to happen.
Now life's too short,
We shouldn't have to die.
And I have had to stop all of my emotions.
Why?
Oh, bittering faith escapes again, again.

Just look at what we have done.
Will you look at who we've become?
Priorities astray,
It goes on and on each day.
We've wrecked their only try,
And still we wonder why,
We're recipients of hate.
Motherfucker!

Break your back,
Just once, and then you know,
You gotta face your fright,
That's right, yeah.
With your five-second morals and your three-second smile,
You just break your back,
Just once, and then you know
You gotta face your fright,
With your five-second morals and your three-second smile.

It up woke in me years ago,
How this was meant to be.
All of those falsehoods plain to see.
They dug,
And hung their greed.
Will there be profit you could see?
If only we were blind.
Lonley and sheltered,
Your life is free,
But it's still one step behind.

CHORUS
Just like me
They tried their rules on me
They tried their rules on me
They tried their rules on me, me, me...
I broke those chains and fucking split.
And so you,
And so you,
And so you,
Pass all the fascist asses
Ignore those classes
Of bottleneck masses
Producing an all but awful stench,
Delivering a section of all the money stole and spent.
As you start to reconize you're in the game
You start to recognize
And then from day to day
You see the playing board is you.

Growing afflictions head to toe,
This never should have been.
But placing blame is cowardly.
Restructure must begin.
Will there be profits you could see?
If only we were blind.
Lonely and sheltered,
Your life is free,
But it's still one step behind.

CHORUS

The playing board is you.
The playing board is you..
The playing board is you...

Here we sit
All alone in an outnumbered fight
Led to decipher between wrong and right
And some may fail
At this joke that some of us call life
Yes at this game that some call life

But the system can't bail me out of hell
I've made this discovery and it has helped
All I've got is myself, I have faith in that
Believe and one day, you'll do just as well now

As you were
You little puppet, you pauper, you freak, that's right
That's what some of them have said to me
So I object, and try to figure things out for myself
I'm building up full emotional wealth

But the system can't bail me out of hell
I've made this discovery and it has helped
All I've got is myself, I have faith in that
Believe and one day, maybe you'll do just as well now

The inner strength, is what the hate, it wants us not to feel
It's time that we helped, there's no room to fail
You already know the way out of hell
All we got is ourselves, I have faith in that
Believe and one day
We'll put the system in jail, we'll put the system in jail
I made it through scraped black and blue
But so can you
I made it through so black and blue
But you can too
I made it through scraped black and blue
But so can you
I've made it through,
We'll all make it through

Long.
I`ve Been Running away for far too long
Afraid of what
Afraid of what I know is soon to come
I may not be much of an example right now
But I can give you all of my knowledge on how
to get along in this place
right now all I can say

[Chorus]
Is that I will do the best that I can
to be a good example of man
I know one day that You`ll understand
you deserve the best that I am
you deserve the best that I am

It`s So hard
so hard to think about when I was child
so angry at life
I blamed the world for such a long long time
But Things happened so quickly
some people just go
I needed answers to heal me
I wanted to know how to get by
and now its my turn to say

[chorus]
Is that I will do the best that I can
to be a good example of man
I know one day that You`ll understand
you deserve the best that I am

Is that I will do the best that I can
to be a good example of man
I know one day that You`ll understand
you deserve the best that I am, I am, I am

This is all for you
everything in this world
everything in my world
everything in your world
things wont always go right in this life
theres always changes
we`ll make it

[Chorus]
Is that I will do the best that I can
to be a good example of man
I know one day that You`ll understand
you deserve the best that I am, I am, I am

Maybe nobody told you about this life
Maybe nobody answered your questions why
Simple revelations, they come in time
Those liars told us things would all be fine
Born out of whack, give him something possible
You thought it would've mattered
Not likely to change things we've come too far
Where innocent young kids are put behind bars
But it's an easy decision, banished so far
You're not as civil as you think you are
(Chorus)
You say we're all born out of whack
Well, don't act so surprised now, there's been
A lot going on
Since you realized that we're all just kids trying
To get along
So answer one thing
Are you gonna stay inside, are you gonna stay
Inside of your minds?
Are we all born wrong?
(Chorus)

[As printed in CD booklet]

So you think the areas gray, but it continues each day
A bad example of the attitude you portray
Act like I owe you my life, you should be
Burdened with strife
Can't find a single reason I could live with
You as my wife
So I continue to pray, and hope that
You'll go away
A bad addiction to a home wrecking thing who plays
With my heart and that's the bottom line
I feel so empty
What can you give me I can't give myself
And what part of my life can you fix, that I
Can't fix my damn self
God I'm losing patience each day, I've put
Myself in harms way
Can't seem to justify none of the s*** you say
Can't find another way out, there's nothing left
But pure doubt
I'm on the verge of pulling all my hair straight out
So if you listen to me, not to the powers that be
We're not supposed to be together, can't you see
Indecision is the bottom line, I feel so empty now
(Chorus)
I'm gonna show you now, this time I'm getting out
I've said it many times, but this time I have
Figured out
Just how I'm moving on, it's taken way too long
Inside I know I'll feel much better, when you're
Really gone
(Chorus)

[As printed in CD booklet]