BREAK THE CYCLE Open Your Eyes//Pressure//Fade//It's Been Awhile//Change// Can't Believe//Epiphany//Suffer//Safe Place//For You// Outside//Waste//Take It//  Open Your Eyes As I walk along these streets I see a man that walks alone Distant echo of people's feet He has no place to call his own A shot rings out from a roof overhead A crackhead asks for change nearby An old man lies in an alleyway dead A little girl lost just stands there and cries What would you do, if it was you Would you take everything For granted like you do A boy just 13 on the corner for sale Swallows his pride for another hit Overpopulation there's no room in jail But most of you don't give a shit That your daughters are porno stars And your sons sell death to kids You're so lost in your little worlds Your little worlds you'll never fix You turn away As I walk along the streets Soaking up the acid rain Underneath the taxi cabs I hear the streets cry out in vain  Pressure I just need this to be all right I can't feel this another night I can't take this I come unglued I might breakdown in front of you Necessary to medicate I'm not sleeping can't stay awake Can't see through this Too much pressure Drowning in this Too much pressure If you need me I'll be here Half unconscious to escape my fear My head hurts this shit isn't getting me high My chest is so tight I think I am going to die My stomach's in knots and the room starts to spin As I wait for this valium to slowly kick in  Fade I try to breathe Memories overtaking me I try to face them but The thought is too Much to conceive I only know that I can change Everything else just stays the same So now I step out of the darkness That my life became 'cause I just needed someone to talk to You were just too busy with yourself You were never there for me to Express how I felt I just stuffed it down Now I'm older and I feel like I could let some of this anger fade But it seems the surface I am scratching Is the bed that I have made So where were you When all this I was going through You never took the time to ask me Just what you could do  It's Been Awhile And it's been awhile since I could Hold my head up high And it's been awhile since I first saw you And it's been awhile since I couldn stand On my own two feet again And it's been awhile since I could call you And everything I can remember As fucked up as it all may seem The consequences that are rendured I stretch myself beyond my means And it's been awhile since I couldn't say That I wasn't addicted and And it's been awhile since I couldn't say I Love myself as well, and And it's been awhile since I've gone and fucked things up Just like I always do And it's been awhile, but all that shit seems to disappear When I'm with you And everything I can remember As fucked up as it always seemed The consequences that I've rendured Have gone and fucked up things again Why must I feel this way Just make this go away Just one more peaceful day And it's been awhile since I could look in myself straight And it's been awhile since I said I'm sorry And it's been awhile since I've seen the way the candles light your face And it's been awhile but I can still remember just the way you taste And everything I can remember As fucked up as it all may seem to be, I know its me I cannot blame this on my father He did the best he could for me And its been awhile since I could Hold my head up high And it's been awhile Since I said I'm sorry  Change If ever you had said to me before That I would live this life that I am Living now I guess it's all so strange To feel the way I do inside but Have so much that I could feel some Pride for in my life so why is it that I feel like this How do I feel? I've been here before, I've felt this Retreat to a place, a place within me I need this. Keep it all down, bottled inside It breaks me to torment again and Torture me like it used to I try and try to break away from all the hate I'm feeling for everyone of you that's ever Done me wrong. I need to justify the reasons For the way I'm living. I guess I can't cause I don't feel like I deserve it So now the waves they have subsided And my soul is bleeding I can't take away The shame I feel, forgive me  Can't Believe Respect, respect what is found Respect should abound Respect everything that you leave I can't believe Can't believe And I, I can't believe I can't believe all the travesty Surrounding me, I, I want to flee I want to flee from everything In front of me I Can't believe Never again, trusted in you Fuck everything that you think I should be I stand, never again, never again Can't believe  Epiphany Your words to me stay a whisper Your face is so unclear I try to pay attention Your words just disappear CHORUS: Cuz its always raining in my head Forget all the things I should have said So I speak to you in riddles Cuz my words get in my way I soak the hole thing to my head And feel it wash away Cuz I cant take anymore of this I wanna come apart And dig myself a little hole Inside your precious heart CHORUS I am nothing more than A little boy inside That cries out for attention Yet I always try to hide Cuz I'd talk to you like children Though I dont know how I feel But I know I'll do the right thing If the right thing is to feel CHORUS  Suffer The more you see the more you do The televisions feeding you With what you wanna hear Anger and fear Because you suffer.. The hate you feel you won't go away Your all programmed to feel this way To live another day Within a world That longs to suffer.. And then I come to find Everything's ok Seen this all before But that was yesterday Try to walk right through The messes that I've made Just let me enjoy The life here that I have Tried to give this all to you Can't take anymore to deal With this it hurts inside I know Why I hide Cause I suffer I tried to keep it all inside Never leave me too much pride I forced it all down inside Forced myself To make me suffer And then I come to find Everythings ok Seen this all before But that was yesterday Try to walk right through The messes that I've made So I can enjoy The life here that I have And then I come to find And then I come to find Everythings ok Seen this all before But that was yesterday Try to walk right through The messes that I've made So I can enjoy The life here that I have  Safe Place Another day Inside my world I'm married to you and this road A road that never lets me sleep So there's no way to escape these demons I am forced to keep And then I find you here Through your eyes, everything's clear And I'm home inside your arms But I'm alone for now I mean the best with what I say It doesn't always sound that way I never learned to work things out Cuz in my family all we ever seem to do is shout And then I find you here Through your eyes, everything's clear And I'm home inside your arms But I'm alone for now Alone for now But then I find out here Through your eyes everything's clear And I'm home inside your arms But I'm alone for now And when I try to sleep The drugs I take are killing me I think of you to ease my pain But you're so far Now it's time to say goodbye I love you baby please don't cry Cuz then I'll find you here Through your eyes everything's clear And I'm home inside your arms but I'm alone for now  For You To my mother, to my father It's your son or it's your daughter Are my screams loud enough for you to hear me? Should I turn this up for y ou Chorus I sit here locked inside my head Remembering everything youve said This silence gets us nowhere! Gets us nowhwere way too fast The silence is what kills me I need someone here to help me But you dont know how to listen And let me make my decisions Cuz I sit here locked inside my head Remembering everything you've said This silence gets us nowhere Gets us nowhere way too fast All your insults and your curses Make me feel like im not a person And i feel like i am nothing But you made me so do something Cuz im fucked up because you are Need attention, attention you couldnt give I sit here locked inside my head Remembering everything youve said This silence gets us nowhere Gets us nowhere way too fast I sit here locked inside my head Remembering everything you've said This silence gets us nowhere Gets us nowhere way too fast  Outside And you Bring me to my knees again All the times That I could beg you please All the times That I felt insecure, for you And I leave My burdens at the door CHORUS: But I'm on the outside I'm lookin in I can see through you See your true colors Cuz inside you're ugly You're ugly like me I can see through you See to the real you All the times That I felt like this wont end, its for you And I taste What I could never have, it was from you All the times That I've cried My intentions, full of pride But I waste, more time than anyone CHORUS All the times That I've cried All this wasting It's all inside And I feel All this pain I stuffed it down It's back again And I lie Here in bed All alone I cant mend But I feel Tomorrow will be ok CHORUS  Waste Your mother came up to me She wanted answers only she should know Only she should know It wasn't easy to deal With the tears that rolled down her face I have no answers cuz I didn't even know you Chorus But these words They can't replace The life you The life you waste How could you paint this picture? was life as bad as it should seem that there were no more options for you? I cant explain how i feel Ive been there many times before Ive tasted the cold steel of my life crashing down before me CHORUS Did daddy not love you Or did he love you just too much Did he control you Did he liv through you at ytour cost Did he leave no questions for you to answer on your own? Well fuck them And fuck her And fuck him And fuck you For not having the strength in your heart to pull through I've had doubts I have failed I've fucked up I've had plans Doesn't mean I should take my life with my own hands CHORUS  Take it I feel like this won't go away No matter how hard I try to Squeeze my eyes shut so I can't see The pain in you this pain in me - in me Chorus But everything that I can say to you Won't help you Everything you need is right infront of you Just take it I know that I am really not here To represent what i am not clear about in my head Sometimes i feel fucked up just like you do - like you do CHORUS Try to make it through the daily pain that you feel Maybe tomorrow wont be so bad I know it cuz I once felt that way Nothing i could say Made it go away I lived through this I still feel this I just live for my tomorrow Just make it go away Just make it go away She'll make it go away She'll make it go away