"God save us everyone will we burn inside the fire of a thousand suns for the sins of our hands the sins of our tongues the sins of our fathers the sins of our young"

"Come down far below We've been waiting to collect what you've let go"

"All I wanna do is trade this life for something new holding onto what I haven't got."

"What was left when the fire was gone? I thought I felt right, but the right was wrong"

"When life leaves us blind Love keeps us kind"

"You're pushing back down blackout, blood in your eye"

"I used the deadwood to make the fire rise the blood of innocents burning in the skies"

"And in the end we were meant to be apart in separate chambers of the human heart"

"I am not a pattern to be followed the pill that I'm on is a tough one to swallow I'm not a criminal not a role model not a born leader, I'm a tough act to follow"

"Are you lost, in your lies? Do you tell yourself I don't realize your crusade's a disguise? Replacing freedom with fear, trading money for lives I'm aware of what you've done."

"Ten years old, and it's something to see another kid my age dragged under a Jeep taken and bound and found later under a tree I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me"

"My brother had a book, he would hold it with pride a little red cover with a broken spine on the back he hand-wrote a quote inside "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.""

"I'm not a robot I'm not a monkey I won't dance, even if the beat's funky"

"With hands held high into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up to swallow you Amen"

"Fuck this hurts, I won't lie Doesn't matter how hard I try."

"And the shadow of the day will embrace the world in grey and the sun will set for you"

"In this farewell there's no blood there's no alibi"

"Shotgun opera, lock and load"

"Y'all oughta stop talking, start trying to catch up, motherfucker"

"Say your prayers and stomp it out when they bring that chorus in"

"I bleed it out, digging deeper just to throw it away"

"So let mercy come and wash away"

"Put me out of my fucking misery"

"I dreamed I was missing"

"When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed"

"I've become so numb, I can't feel you there"

"We're just rolling with the rhythm Rise from the ashes of stylistic division With these non-stop lyrics are life, living Not to be forgotten, still unforgiven"

"I'm tired of being what you want me to be"

"Here we go for the hundredth time hand grenade pins in every line throw 'em out and let something shine going out of my fucking mind"

"Lauryn said money change the situation Big said it increase the complication Kane said don't step, I ain't the one Chuck said an Uzi weigh a motherfuckin' ton"

"Caught in the undertow"

"Don't turn your back on me, I won't be ignored"

"I don't know what's worth fighting for, or why I have to scream I don't know why I instigate, and say what I don't mean I don't know how I got this way, I'll never be all right So I'm breaking the habit I'm breaking the habit tonight"

"I don't know who to trust, no surprise"

"If I could change I would, take back the pain I would, re-trace every wrong move that I made I would if I could stand up and take the blame I would, I would take all my shame to the grave."

"Find a new place to hang this noose String me up from atop these roofs Knot it tight so I won't get loose"

"One minute you're on top Next you're not, as you drop Making your heart stop Just before you hit the floor"

"Yo, peep the style and the kids checking for it The number one question is how could you ignore it We drop right back in the cut over basement tracks With raps that got you backing this up like rewind that"

"All right now, wasn't that fun? Let's try something else"

"This is the last smile that I'll fake for the sake of being with you."

"Reverse psychology is failing miserably, it's so hard to be, left all alone. Telling you is the, only chance for me, there's nothing left but to turn and face you."

"And now for a lesson in rhythm management"

"I wanna be in the energy not with the enemy"

"A little piece of paper with a picture drawn floats on down the street til the wind is gone and the memory now is like the picture was then when the paper's crumpled up, it can't be perfect again"

"The journey is more important than the end or the start"

"Now you got me caught in the act you bring that thought back"

"If I let them go I'll be outdone, If I let try to catch them I'll be outrun."

"It starts with one"

"Time is a valuable thing, watch it fly by as the pendulum swings."

"Graffiti decorations, under a sky of dust A constant wave of tension, on top of broken trust The lessons that you taught me, I learned were never true Now I find myself in question"