NUTSHELL

We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home

Oooh...oooh
Oooh...oooh

My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead

Oooh...oooh
Oooh...oooh


BROTHER

Frozen in the place I hide
Not afraid to paint my sky
With some who say i've lost 
My mind
Brother try and hope to find...

You,were always so far away
I know that pain
So don't you run away 
Like you used to do

Roses in a vase of white
Bloodies by the thawns
Beside the leaves that fall
Because my hand is pulling them
As hard as I can

You,were always so far away
I know that pain
And I won't run away like I 
Used to do

Pictures in a box at home
Yellowing and green with mold
So I can barely see your face
Wonder how that colour tastes

You,were always so far away
I know that pain
So don't you run away 
Like you used to do


NO EXCUSES

It's alright 
There comes a time

Got no patience to search
For peace of mind
Layin' low
Want to take it slow
No more hiding or
Disguising truths i've 
Sold

Everyday it's something 
Hits me all so cold
Find me sittin' by myself
No excuses then I know

It's okay 
Had a bad day
Hands are bruised from
Breaking rocks all day
Drained and blue
I bleed for you
You think it's funny,well
You're drowning in a tomb

Yeah it's fine
We'll walk down the line
Leave our rain,a cold
Trade for warm sunshine
You my friend
I will defend
And if we change,well I
Love you anyway


SLUDGE FACTORY

You insult me in my home 
You're forgiven this time
Things go well your eyes dilate
You shake, and I'm high?
Look in my eyes deep and watch
The clouds change with time
20 hours won't print 
My picture milk carton size
Carton size
Carton size

Call me up congratulations 
Ain't the real why
There's no pressure besides brilliance 
Let's say be day 9
Endless corperate ignorance lets
Me control time
By the way,by the way,by the way,by the way

Once again you see an in
Discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you kindly gurgle out a date 
For me

Now the body of one soul I adore 
Wants to die
You have always told me you'd 
Not live past 25
I say stay long enough to repay
All who caused strife

Once again you see an in
Discolored skin gives you away
So afriad you kindly gurgle out a date 
For me


DOWN IN A HOLE

Bury me softly in this womb
I give this part of me for you
Sand rains down and here I sit
Holding rare flowers
In a tomb...in bloom

Down in a hole and I don't know 
If I can be saved
See my heart I decorate it
Like a grave
You don't understand who they 
Thought I was supposed to be
Look at me now a man
Who won't let himself be

Down in a hole,losin' my soul
Down in a hole,losin' control
I'd like to fly 
But my wings have been so denied

Down in a hole and they've put all 
The stones in their place
I've eaten the sun so my tongue
Has been burned of the taste
I have been guilty 
Of kicking myself in the teeth
I will speak no more 
Of my feelings beneath

Oh I want to be inside of you

Down in a hole,losin' my soul
Down in a hole,feelin'so small
Down in a hole,losin' my soul
Down in a hole,out of control

I'd like to fly but my 
Wings have been so denied

ANGRY CHAIR

Siting on an angry chair
Angry walls that steal the air
Stomach hurts and I don't care

What do I see across the way
See myself moulded in clay
Stares at me,yeah i'm afraid
Changing the shape of it's face
Candles red I have a pair
Shadows dancing everywhere
Burning on the angry chair

Little boy made a mistake
Pink cloud has now turned to grey
All that I want is to play
Get on your knees,time to pray boy

I don't mind,yeah
I don't mind,I-I-I
I don't mind,yeah
I don't mind,I-I-I
Lost my mind,yeah
But I don't mind,I-I-I
Can't find it anywhere
I don't mind

Corperate prison,we stay
I'm a dull boy,work all day
So i'm strung out anyway

Loneliness is not a phase
Field of pain is where I graze
Serenity is far away

Saw my reflection and cried
So little hope that I died
Feed me your lies,open wide
Weight of my heart,not the size 

Pink cloud has now turned to grey
All that I want is to play
Get on your knees,time to pray


ROOSTER

Ain't found a way to 
Kill me yet
Eyes burn with stinging 
Sweat
Seems every path leads me to 
Nowhere
Wife and kids household pet
Army green was no safe bet
The bullets scream to me from somewhere

Here they come to 
Snuff the rooster
Yeah here come the rooster
You know he ain't gonna die

Walkin' tall machine gun man
They spit on me in my homeland
Gloria sent me pictures 
Of my boy
Got my pills 'gainst
Mosquito death
My buddy's breathin' 
His dyin'breath
Oh god please wont you help
Me to make it through


GOT ME WRONG

Yeh,it goes away
All of this and more of nothing
In my life
No colored clay
Individuality not safe
        
As of now I bet you've got me wrong
So unsure you run from something strong
        
I can't let go
Threadbare tapestry unwinding slow
Feel a tortured brain
Show your belly like you want me too
        
As of now I bet you've got me wrong
So unsure we reach for something strong
        
I haven't felt like this in so long
Wrong, in a sense too far gone from love
That don't last forever
Something got to turn out right
        
You sugar taste
Sweetness doesn't often touch my face
Stay if you please
You may not be here when I leave


WOULD?

Know me broken by my master
Teach thee on child of love hereafter

Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way

Drifting body it's sole desertion
Flying not yet quite the notion

Am I wrong?
Have I run to far to get home
Have I gone? 
And left you here alone

If I would could you?

FROGS

What does friend mean to you?
A word so wrongfully abused
Are you like me ,Confused
All inclued but you
Alone....

The sounds of silence often soothe
Shapes and colors shift with mood
Pupils widen and change their hue
Rapid brown avoid clear blue

Why's it have to be this way
Be this way

Flowers watched through wide 
Brown eyes
A child sings an unclaimed tume
Innocence spins clod coccon
Grow to see the pain too soon


OVER NOW

Yeah it's over now
But I can breathe somehow
When it's all worn out
I'd rather go without

You know it's been on my mind
Could you stand right here 
Look me straight in the eyes and say
That it's over now

We pay our debt sometime

Well it's over now
Yet I can see somehow
When it's all gone wrong
It's hard to be so strong

We pay our debt sometime

Guess it's over now
I seem alive somehow
When it's out of sight
Just wait and do your time

You know it's been on my mind
Could you stand right here 
Look myself in the eyes and say
That it's over now

We pay our debt sometime