Rise Against

[LongLife]

Death Blossoms

Death Blossoms

On dirt like stone
The life paste, the bones of men
That sought to overthrow
Or all that remains

Oh, what they stole
Was innocence, the slate once clean
Has gone as black as coal
Time and time again

Take a look around
The tide is turning upside down
The image of the world
Reflects inside the child's eye
This world

No self-control
No sense of time
No bleeding hearts, no long good-byes
We grow colder every day

But is it all a show?
A game we play
Society vice queens, so fucking bored
And so cliche

Take a look around
The tide is turning upside down
The image of the world
Reflects inside the child's eye
We eat our own to stay alive

Slow and steady now
Slow and steady now
Slow and steady now
Slow and steady now
Slow and steady now, it's time

Take a look around
The tide is turning upside down
The image of the world
Reflects inside the child's eye
We eat our own to stay alive

Around, take a look around
Watch this world reflect
Inside a child's eye
We eat our own to stay alive

 

[LongLife]

For What It's Worth

For What It's Worth

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, listen, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

I think it's time we stop, listen, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side

Now you better stop, listen, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

Now you better stop, listen, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Now stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going...
You better stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

 

[LongLife]

Generation Lost

Generation Lost

Getting trampled under boots of progress
Ignore the pleading of the nameless faces
Now with our backs against the wall
How long till we fall?

Do away with all the underprivileged
their demographic doesn't fit your image
Turn your blind eye when duty calls
How long till we fall?

(In With The New)
This is something that you can't ignore
(In With The New)
A simple thing worth fighting for
(In With The New)
cause now they're tearing down our doors
So she screams out the window,
"I've had it up to here"
So sick and tired of wondering
where I'll be next year...

Caring less about the homeless millions
All the petty problems that go with them
Reap the profit that reaps their lives and
Tell me that it's fine

Throw them out and call it relocation
Lower-income-housing quick solution
A Generation lost

(In With The New)
This is something that you can't ignore
(In With The New)
A simple thing worth fighting for
(In With The New)
cause now they're tearing down our doors
So she screams out the window,
"I've had it up to here"
So sick and tired of wondering
where I'll be next year...

Now in the whirlwind of my life
Is where you presently reside
Can I pretend you don't exist
Maybe just for ten more minutes?
My hearts been broken into two
and rusted from years of disuse
So will you place upon it your hands
Will you help it beat again?
[2x]

It seems the whole world's turned on me
(Bound and gagged) in the land of the free
Let's talk this over, this game is over
In with the new, out with the old
Hearts of the world have grown so cold
This game is over, let's talk this over

 

[LongLife]

Gethsemane

Gethsemane

(Gethsemane!)

It was the perfect night
then you had to go and ruin it with a kiss now
I'm trapped inside here
the innocence we held once so carelessly
has been suffocated in this breathless moment

[Chorus:]
Believe in me and I will believe in you
You're asking of me everything
so I'll give it all to you

With arms raised to the stars begging them to listen
With legs littered with scars cut from these olive branches
Now, point of return now crossed and our hands left shaking
tonight we give in to temptation

[Chorus:]
Believe in me and I will believe in you
You're asking of me everything
so I'll give it all to you

Someone stop my mind from screaming
It's so loud I can't hear myself think
Life, Death, Religion, Survival
It makes no sense
Never try to tell me that I'm a coincidence

[Chorus: x2]
Believe in me and I will believe in you
You're asking of me everything
so I'll give it all to you

And if I never have you, then I can never lose you
Now, everything here is a lie
Where is the truth?
Where is the fucking truth?

 

[LongLife]

Give It All

Give It All

Break through the undertow, your hands I can't seem to find,
pollution burns my tongue, cough words I can't speak so I

stop my struggling, then I float to the surface,
fill my lungs with air, then let it out

I give it all, this is the reason why I sing,
So give it all, 'cause it's these reasons that belong to me

Rock bottoms where we live, and still we dig these trenches,
to bury ourselves in them, backs breaking under tension

For far too long these voices, muffled by distances,
it's time to come to our senses, up from the dirt

We give it all, this is the reason why I sing,
So give it all, it's these reasons that belong to me

Breathe (breathe), the air we give (give), the life we live (live),
Our pulses racing distances,
(Breathe) so wet my tongue (give), break into song (live),
Through seas of competition

So please believe your eyes, a sacrifice,
is not what we had in our minds,
I'm coming home tonight, home tonight

We give it all, this is the reason why I sing,
So give it all, it's these reasons that belong to me

Today I offer all myself to this I'm living for my dying wish,
I give it all, now there's a reason, there's a reason, to give it all

 

[LongLife]

Join The Ranks

Join The Ranks

With your eyes
Glazed and half-smiled
Explain to me the details
Of your God-given right

You point your finger
In my face but
You can't remember what
You did last night

It's all fun and games 'til
You try to justify,
It's all well and done 'til
You question the choices in your life

Join all the millions
Of victims who prescribe
To this mediocre life
And all these years
Have been lost looking for something
that you'll never find

It's all fun and games 'til
You try to justify,
It's all well and done 'til
You question the choices in your life

 

[LongLife]

Little Boxes

Little Boxes

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes, all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
They're all made out of ticky-tacky,
And they all look just the same.

And the people in houses
who went to the university,
where they were put in boxes,
And they all came out the same.
There's doctors and lawyers
And business executives,
They're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf-course,
And drink their Martini dry,
And they all have pretty children,
And the children go to school.
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
They all get put in boxes
And they all come out the same.

And the boys go into business,
And marry, raise a family,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
Yeah a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

 

[LongLife]

Making Christmas

Making Christmas

This time, this time

Making Christmas

Making Christmas

Making Christmas, making Christmas
Is so fine

It's ours this time
And won't the children be surprised
It's ours this time

Making Christmas

Making Christmas

Making Christmas

Time to give them something fun

They'll talk about for years to come

Let's have a cheer from everyone
It's time to party

Making Christmas, making Christmas

Snakes and mice get wrapped up so nice
With spider legs and pretty bows

It's ours this time

All together, that and this

With all our tricks we're

Making Christmastime

Here comes jack

I don't believe what's happening to me
My hopes, my dreams, my fantasies
Hee, hee, hee, hee

Won't they be impressed, I am a genius
See how I transformed this old rat
Into a most delightful hat

Hmm, my compliments from me to you
On this your most intriguing hat
Consider though this substitute
A bat in place of this old rat
Huh! No, no, no, now that's all wrong
This thing will never make a present
It's been dead now for much too long
Try something fresher, something pleasant
Try again, don't give up

All together, that and this
With all our tricks we're making Christmastime
[instrumental]

This time, this time
Making Christmas, making Christmas
La, la, la
It's almost here

And we can't wait

So ring the bells and celebrate

Cause when the full moon starts to climb
We'll all sing out

It's Christmastime
Hee, hee, hee

 

[LongLife]

Sight Unseen

Sight Unseen

Sight unseen, the road stretched out before me.
Suffocate - the water rising slowly.
Step in time, agree to share this pain.
Live or die now, but still we suffer just the same!

I took my share and then told her, "I don't want more"
We spend our lives, then ask you, what was this for,
We gave our time and still we came up short.

Cause this is all I've got, and I've nothing more.
We save the worst excuse, but the best in store.
Maybe now, we'll finally even the score.
Are you counting? - do you even wanna know?

Cause unknown, the streets are never-ending.
Sinking down, with nothing to defend me.
Lie and wait, for some small show of mercy.
Questions change - but the answers always stay the same!

I took my share and then told her, "I don't want more"
I fell so low, I touched the oceans floor.
But what the hell are we searching for?!

Cause this is all I've got, and I've nothing more.
We save the worst excuse, but the best in store.
Maybe now, we'll finally even the score.
Are you counting? - do you even wanna know?

She lies awake now, and cried a thousand rivers.
The circumstance here, has led this child astray.
This candle's fading, the dim light slowly withers.
You ask for guidance, but I just look away...

I have nothing more to say.

So let me down, because they never believed in you.
Seal this crown, and still we can see right through.

Cause this is all I've got, and I've nothing more.
We save the worst excuse, but the best in store.
Maybe now we'll finally even the score.
Cause this is all I've got.
And now there's nothing.

 

[LongLife]

Swing Life Away

Swing Life Away

Am I loud and clear, or am I breaking up?
Am I still your charm, or am I just bad luck?
Are we getting closer, or are we just getting more lost?

I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse
Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

We live on front porches and swing life away,
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand

I've been here so long, I think that it's time to move
The winter's so cold, summer's over too soon
So let's pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow

I've got some friends, some that I hardly know
But we've had some times, I wouldn't trade for the world
We chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go

We live on front porches and swing life away,
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand

Swing life away [x4]