TRUTH IS TWISTED - i'm feeling good when i'm feeling low i feel like telling you where to go you say "let it it out tell me i'm your bro trust me" then you tell everyone you know you're always at my emotions so interested the mouth is an evil place where the truth is twisted. i don't trust anyone at all so i'll just sit here and bend steel and stare at the wall. life in hell.

KNOW? - feet firmly planted on the ground (can't be shot down) face cleanly ripped in two (can't tell which one is you) apprehension about who you are (how far is too far?) is the line blurred just for you? home...

THE BOX - well i don't know how this all started but right now the skin i've lost is just sitting there and it hurts to much to reach out and grab it. slap it back on i know if it falls off again or if it doesn' fit anymore there won't be another chance i'll take the time to try it again so i sit here in the box just me and my skin and a small hole in the corner where the sun shines in that amkes shadows on the wall as i watch the world passes me by again

MANILLA - was so normal as a lad, kissed his mom and hugged his dad and his freinds the fun they had, playing war and acting bad, the days went on but time stood still and all those people made him ill, couldn't stand the cliques in school crawled inside his head until... walked the halls(walking home?) from school yelling slogans at the people who to him were a reminder of the kids who used to laugh at him now he's proven what he expected all along seeing all those empty souls unhappy faces growing old and then he laughed. how does it feel to die slowly?

CRAWL - piece together particle by particle smash at everything complete arrange in sequence so some semblence can be reached distorted dreams of dying in my sleep what i'm wearing now is stained the words i'm thinking cause me pain away from you crawl inside my brain to find out where the stains are hiding pliers vice grips paper clips to pick out all the dying take my fist and smash the wall to deaden all the pain doubting every movre i make it's driving me insane break the bottle shards of glass that stab into my skin will it end the pain or is it happening again?

BAIL OUT - blow off that depressant top what remains is not fluf pick that ladder climb up just don't jump float above no need to fly dunk those bastards pass them by look gold chain tanktop in the eye and jump. if you don't jump i'll push you off.

SNAP - how many times will it splinter before it breaks? and if i stumble will i fall or be the better for it all? they say they're coming by today but no one's home we won't be seeing anyone tell them to go. i need a clean break just let me fall will i be the better for it all? and if i fall down what do i become a preacher? a poet? a bum? what do i become?

ANOTHER SAPPY SONG ABOUT HATE - I'm callous and i don't care anymore, i'm jaded and i won't fall for anything there;s a hole in my head but i can't see out. ship to shore our captains lost become ceramic and turned to dust dredge for try to grasp life boats dropped can't be saved lines are being crossed and their skins are coming off lines are being drawn out and the bands are getting bought out everything must go burn it all down comfort and joy are a complete farce.

JILL'S THE BEST - Life in penasquitos is so tragic my dear jill, Shoot that dope and load the gun and take your little pill. Asked her on a murder spree but she won't kill respect her when she finally does but i bet she never will. 19 years of lonliness that i can't understand stares all day at morrissey's face it sits on her nightstand, cries when he says "torture me" he's her man makes me want to smash her face and put this to an end. I hate everyone, they hate me, and i hate them. I don't realize why i hate this life.

BL'INK! -When i was young I saw the scoreboard never changed and now i scream at the planes and throwing rocks at punks who sat on concrete blocks while the band played "junkies Running Dry" It's a cliche to say that I support Your scene competition means nothing to me when people change their face who never made their place it fucking stinks.

PEGBOY - Those Needles kept you warm and now they do you harm just yesterday I took a look at your life and thought a waste of space(and time) a whore to the warmth you never lost but callous makes you feel strong.

LOUIS HOPELESS IS A ROCKSTAR - ....and they're wasting too much time figuring out the meanings when what they end up finding is that it's the point they're missing, picked up wrong impression stuck in the wrong direction don't ask to help you oput we don't have sympathy. hopeless or spitefull, useless or helpful, genius or imbecils i just can't take them anymore. reject that state or mind where you show the world your'e feeling fine, just go home and hide.

RINSE - this last drop of hate has flowered into a certain beauty of it's own. I nuture it i feed it and i watch with pride as it takes root and thrives. this last drop of rain has dried the tears i shed has washed the blood from my sores and rusted these chains

TEXAS 10 - A bushel of stars and a thousand small white crosses lead me back to you A bushel of stars and a thousand small white crosses and the blood on the highway a family of five i saw burn alive all thats left is the blood on the highway i have no reason to feel this way but i was bored you were the same as all the others who have played watch me climb and watch me reach the short peak watch me stumble watch me slip and lose my grip and if i fall from grace with drunken gods bow your heads and laugh out loud.

8 1/2 - I can feel the hate but i can't feel the bleed i can taste the end but i can't see a thing i can feel the cold but i can't feel the bleed and when it all comes down i can't reach right in and tear it out and now i scream for help in silence. Always seems the same playing all your little games and getting caught in everyway. digging holes in my skin, laugh out loud when she begins crying as the pain sets in scream as my life caves in... you could tell me lies to cover up my eyes.

BATTLE HYMN FOR THE RECLUSE YOUTH PART ONE - An artery of held back emotions has burst The thread of this fabric has lost its wax And I've become unglued, there's nothing I can do to make a fist and tape it up and take it out on you No this ain't the bomb it's an air raid siren You can make your excuses but I'm not buying it. No nothing has changed.

THE WAKE - Remember those nights drinking in the park? I carried you home when you couldn't walk And those bottles that we shared are broken, buried under sod like those days when we were buds So pass the jug around today I put another friend into the ground Pass the jug around for them someday we'll see you again All the good people die and the assholes stick around isn't it frightfully romantic? No we won't hang our heads for long we'll drink and sing some more songs it's all frightfully romantic Pass the jug around.

SUBCONTRACTOR - When pouring foundation be careful it might not set And building frames make sure you mitre corners nice and tight Board your windows up when skies turn grey it might start falling everything you build eventually gets destroyed Don't chisel under rock you might get crushed.

2:07AM - I'm not in prison but I'm a prisoner of affection and I have everything I want but i have none of it on me cover me with faith in a shroud of shame I'm draped and shoot me up with lies that's one of Strawman's lines and you can call me arrogant but I'm better than that lonely drunk and fat Late night and mind's filled the last of my wine spilled it's seven minutes past two o' clock my latest brush with bad luck.

ALL I CARE ABOUT IS ME, MY RUM AND YOU - Bad luck and bad timing, bad booze and bad rhyming thats my ticket to the big bad blue well I've lost faith and lost hope and spend my life heartbroken (lost at Tekken 2) the big bad blue kicked myself for all the things that i've done to deserve this ticket to the blig bad blue you are some kind of wonderful you make my nightmares go away nut brown eyes and angel hair if you're from heaven take me there.

AL QUINT IS AN EMO PUSSY - Wonder why I'm so depressed? Fuck the world and then I'll take you with me.