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Bury the hatchet No, bury your head No, bury the truth No, bury your dead This opens more doors than it closes The decision was always yours The key was in your hand the entire time I can’t even lead you to water anymore Hit the same note on the piano Does the rhythm make it music? Saying the same thing to me day after day Doesn’t make you a singer Time to change your tune Sterile waiting room Head in hands A collection of strangers All desperate for answers Hang in the air like a word Levitation Hang in the air like a Secret What’s that shadow in the distance Unidentified Approaching It’s not a costume If you wear it all year long If you’re not a ghost What’s with the white sheet? Loss What's the cost What's the gain Hide the skulls Behind the clothes All in all I can’t imagine A better way To spend the day All in all I can’t imagine Taking that risk

These are the words I should have said I love to see you smile I can’t help but stare I see you in all the colors Blue green purple orange and red You lift me up like smoke And put my heels over my head You are every Thing I could ever Want Mutual growth Is What everyone should strive for You are everything I need And I’m so scared to lose you to push you away Look inside myself to see What I should have seen All along It’s you Always has Been you So here it is The truth about The way I was The way I am I am not worth Your time anymore I love the way your heart sound when you’re lying next to me You should not tolerate My shit anymore Your heart I will never break Smiles never fade away Could you ever Picture renewed Life among us What do you see? I promise you How could I become a better person Without introspection This is not an empty Prediction The rain will wash away Every mistake I've ever made And give me a Clean slate Clean slate Every choice leaves a scar And the past grows so far Try to find the light before it's too late and we are all dead

Discard your masters The way we were isn't set in stone Gather the knowledge Can't spew fire where we built a home Destroy Destroy everything you thought you ever knew This is not who you are This is not who you should be Try to be something more Something even better Than something you ever thought you Could possibly be Grow into another Learn, unlearn, relearn If your heroes are standing above you With their boots on your neck Do not fret Remove them Do not fear yourself We are not who you remember Us to be We opted to grow into Less toxic People who only want to Share with you The humans we have become

Paint the walls. The wood is splitting and I won't stand for it. Put up a fresh coat, cover up the lies. I'm getting a headache. Splitting my cranium. My walls are getting closer. Square feet area shrinking. I think I need to move out. Leave me alone! Just crawl out my front door. Oh stand aside. Be polite, I'll show you out. Pace back and forth and back and forth. Please don't leave me all alone. I'm sorry, please come back in. I can be so rash sometimes. Would you like me to prepare some tea? A Glass of Green Tea. What the fuck are you doing? I said get the fuck out. Get the fuck out of my house or I'll fucking kill you. Finally, Peace at last. Boy I sure hope it lasts. Boy, my house sure is small. Misunderstanding paranoia. Circulating my psychosis. Renovate mass phobia. Disregard my diagnosis. I need one more line. What are you planning to do? When your life finally breaks? When your wrists finally leak? When your lungs fill with black?

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king. When the king commands silence all the people sing. The bigger they are the harder they fall.

Sometimes words speak louder then actions since we are reduced to these letters. You are everything but a stranger and that is for the better. The view from up there must beat the one down here. But wrong turns right. But up comes down. And that is where we will meet, dear. You have a good head on your shoulders but the crown weighs too much. I pray for your voice and I breathe for your touch. For quite sometime this quote of mine has been dancing around in my head. My God, it is stuck behind my eyes. These leaves, they fall stiff in cold December. I have an open hand and a bitter heart. Slow wit and a sharp tongue. You can only be blinded if you see the light, and I’m going deaf from the roar overhead. Home is years away and the calendars are getting longer. The days are getting hotter. I hope that sorry helps because if not then you must be helpless.

Sent down from the heavens. Destroying everything that's in my path. Shedding all the blood of man. Bow down to me your new master. Burning bodies like they were sticks. Unless they're marked with the 666. It's time to bring you back. Show 'em how to shake that ass. Reality. Your empire already fell. Follow me back to your Hell. Suffering! Fires rain from blessed skies at hand. Burning all your toiled land. Spoiled camgirls take your business. Strippers of the Apocalypse, you will win this. Breakdown. Nothing now. Misery loves company! The skies rain upon the children, Upon their graves. Your makers have fallen. Your masters are calling! The demons are crawling

Soundclip Headlights lead the way It’s just the two of us tonight Yellow lines bend and sway Summer heat lingers in the shade of the night My head does not like to elevate Turn the radio up It keeps the rest of the world out Summer soundtracks can last a lifetime Trade in mom’s sedan Fit everyone in the van I’m sorry Dan, we let you down again Fuck that band! I’m going to keep playing until midnight Go for a swim and start again Make an album in a minute This is going to make us famous Promise we can sell a ticket Backup signals don’t alert every cycle But draw every pair of eyes Coffee shops lead to church group stares Take a running jump and make a getaway Nothing was certain except for everything Having everything and nothing all at once Drifting to the middle of the universe All alone and all together Going back to the lake too many times Only to go back to the desert Sepia tone every time Have you heard this song before? I found it in Top Ten Breakdowns Of All Time Part 64. Check out this lyric interpretation video Did you hear the new song on my home page? MySpace. Top eight. Yeaaaaaaaaah Post every band we’re playing with in a bulletin Loosen your grip on reality By staying up late This time we’ll finish the trilogy Background noise for song title conversations Don’t ask about our name You’ll get no explanation I’ll come over tonight and write a new song, give me 5 or 10 Send me the file on MSN Messenger We’ll write the lyrics and vocals as we go Just one take Just one more song and the album’s complete Print one hundred copies with the man's supply CD release shows were all for a grade Opener got famous but we stayed the same Sloppiest pits I've ever seen Keep the movement going because everyone else quit Either making babies or singing like a cue stick A town full of dead air Get back in the van Get a printout from mapquest again Full tour of the valley Two dates! Watching our heroes from the side stage Our villains are onstage Don’t care about getting sponsored by music companies We have our own instruments That get thrown on the floor Just hook us up with sugar shells and flavored water Pretzels and tea The creativity of youth combines comedy and brutality Why would anyone think of that Ten years later we'll be stuck cleaning up that mess But it's all worth it Every listener But even without, it's just to create I don’t know about you but I’ve never been happier than making music in this band

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Running, fighting, on a ship. Afraid to catch a splinter. The cabin boy stole my girl. I will take his dinner. Spontaneity. This fire burns for us all. I am weak but you are destined. There should only be you and me. My head became the skull of a dragon. Your fucking cottage will be burned down into ice. Risks are not Your strong suit. Forget that I am you This is insomnia. I don’t know what’s in front of my eyes. I crave death. I will find you. Find the best view. Cork your fucking wine. I smell so divine. Thank you for your time, obese help desk dame. I am the scream at the void I am the void screaming back Your car I will key. If your car was your kidney. And I will ride through the town. I know that it was all for show. I stop, I stop, I stop, I go. I wish I knew the currency to invest in my future and not the past me. You know I am not that way. You know I don’t have a say.

I have found the formula. This will make me all powerful. Wait! Stop, this is madness. You should use your intelligence to help those less fortunate. It is my intelligence. The people are idiots. But for no longer. Hahahahaha. Not even for science will we suffer. Not even these test tubes can hold in our hatred. This blinding white light reflects our lab coats. We study we study we study. Science science science. You are a fool. What will be left to study when you are all there is. Anatomy was never one of your strong suits, Dr. Jenkins. And apparently neither is logic. You will destroy yourself. It is in your nature. You are a fool. You are the fool, Dr. Lankanotvich. We are scientists, not mere men. Embrace your power. And join me.

That’s all I could really ask for. That’s all I can really want. Raindrops are falling on my head. This rain cloud is my paranormal activity, my dark cloud of bugs. I am plague. When I was a figment of your imagination, I haunted your dreams more than I cared. All alone, I’ll do my best to haunt you again. These feet have walked the gravel too much. I can feel you watching me every second of the day. Legs tire, knees weak. Your breath freezes me in my tracks. These creatures are with me. With me With me. With me. With me. You confiscate my sanity Leaving me to crawl on my knees. Too enthusiastic Too anxious. This hell burns darker when you whisper in my ear. Your eyes seem brighter when I say nothing at all. When I was a figment of your imagination, I haunted your dreams more than I cared. All alone, I’ll Do my best to haunt you again. I want you to see me every time you close your eyes. I gasp at the thought of your dark cloud. I gasp at the thought of you. I’ve never been one to dwell On you But you’ve exhausted all options And now I feel obligated to say that you This is the last time this will cross my mind I swear to all listening Never again Will I waste my patience, time or effort When this was so effortless Effortless Don’t say that you want me. Want me. Want me. All you do is haunt me, now. Haunt me now. When I say this, please understand the ship is sinking with no sight of land. I’m watching as you slowly drown and wish someone would grab your hand I see your thoughts all leave your head. Your mouth still moves but nothing’s said. I scream out to my only friend: I loved you ‘til the very end. Don’t say anything at all. I can always haunt myself.

Fierce teeth bite my . . . Don’t break your writing pencil. I see what you can’t see. Cut the adultery. We are all just children still. Your eagle’s flying higher still. From sea to shining sea. Oh, God. I can’t see where I put my hands. Oh, God. Echo Time's too slow Her still singing limbs. Who knows what trouble I’m in. Lost in the eyes of fantasy. Lost in the realm of heresy. Fierce teeth bite my . . .

Empty headed I wont dread it And I won’t make like I never said it Pieces pieces puzzle pieces Put them together while wearing a blindfold Mixed in a grab bag Bought but never sold Scatter brained sustained The volume is red in every channel Panned far left, far right I swear to god if it’s seven to one It’s one track one path But branches reach out and tear my clothes When I retreat They’ll say I was never The one Let them slander My past I will survive Again Birdsong screeches so I close my eyes Pause my gate and darkness falls It’s over before it began Spread too thin I’m given a purgatory but it slips away I spent too long looking off to the side Empty Headed I refuse to Live a life that Is not mine There is Nothing You can do to change me There is Nothing That I won’t try first It’s a wasted effort This station’s sitting in a crowded frequency Sometimes, sometimes I see ghosts Their voice a murmur They poked out holes for their eyes

Let there be blood, they cried. without taking a second to think of the outcome. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Just terrors of wars and wars of terrors. Well, this is the way it's always been. from the streets to the sands. Through the oceans and onto lands. where the smoke blots out the sun. they say when we die we have time to be one. and strength and dignity are her clothing they claim. But they defiled her likes rapist and tore out her roots. Where is the fruit she once gave? We begin and it starts with you. the lines been drawn and now its time to choose. breathe in breathe in. Is this real enough for you? Tyrants of men have defiled her grounds. and when we found out the alarms weren't sound. breathe in breathe in. is this real enough for you? The time will come where we lock arms. When there walls are down. "He will shine down his light upon us and he will take back what is rightfully his. and we will purify our hands in her soil and she will rid us of this tainted poison." And will scream to a new beat. Leading the generations to come. In a world where live for tomorrow. and world where we live in every second in it. as we breathe. For the sake of it all. Make yourself clean. and let every thought be worthy. warm your hearts. We begin and it starts with you. the lines been drawn and now its time to choose. breathe in breathe in. Is this real enough for you? Tyrants of men have defiled her grounds. and when we found out the alarms never sound. breathe in breath in. is this real enough for you? stand with us in the masses. and sing songs of victory. Dont take a single breath for granted. And live as today as if it were your last. For the sake of it all. Make yourself clean. and let every thought be worthy. We begin and it starts with you. the lines been drawn and now its time to choose. breathe in breathe in. Is this real enough for you? Tyrants of men have defiled her grounds. and when we found out the alarms never sound. breathe in breathe in. is this real enough for you?

I don’t know what you had wanted. But I don’t think it’s what you got. Share your worst fears. Don’t focus on yesterday Focus on what’s to come Tomorrow Do what you said that you would do For your future self Nothing sinks faster than when it’s full of guilt. And I’m sad to say, you’ll be at the bottom in a matter of seconds. Sink faster. I hope the salt reminds you of home. I hope you grasp tightly when you’re alone. I hope you scream with no hope to be saved. I hope this is what you craved. The inner me I can’t control. For the thoughts in my head weigh more than gold.

You could sing me a song but you lost your voice And you know I hate this lack of noise I left a red X on your door. What’s it for? Our honeymoon home on the edge of a cliff. Cloud 9 evaporated a puddle of shit. Plastered paint is left so wet. How unfortunate. You can't find the words. I’ll take you home. Squee is friends with the son of Satan. He has been abducted by aliens. Squee will be so fucked up. He watched Johnny rip another man’s brains out. While I’m younger, see I’ll try to appease My future self’s needs Planting fruitful seeds Lest I fail that do my best to stand Seeing my true self Being all I can All the salt from the sea cannot dry your eyes. And all you try to be cannot cover your disguise. You can cry all you want until water fills your lungs. And leave without singing your songs.

I can't focus. You are distracting me. Put on some clothes, you freak. Listen listen why won’t they listen? Watch TV while there’s abuse in the kitchen Bury grandma while their baby is missing Not the disease but we are a symptom Tied your neck piece too tight. I'm sorry we've lost it all. I will paint you like a canvas. My brush is so tired. Lack of knowledge. I will not open my eyes if I have you to see when I awake. I'm telling you to bleed the way you do. You answer to earn. Let's cap the top at the end of your tongue. This ocean is drowning me. There's something in the air. Your body's out there. You say it's not. This is the first time I have ever seen myself without this mask on. How can you breathe with the plastic over your face

JACOB: "Art must make sense." PATRICK: Why do we brag about who we have seen naked? Get her stupid, strip her down, and knock her up, okay kid? Don't forget to call the doctor. He has the coat hanger to unlock her. You'll never fail if you never try. You'll never sing with the birds if you never fly. You'll never get what's yours if you only try for mine. You'll never live your life if all you do is die. We kill our saviors before we try to understand. Sic semper tiranus VS Et tu brute. J: Don't be so weak that you are dead. Don't waste your life while you have it. P: Swallowed by the darkness. Swallowed. Swallowed by the darkness. Swallowed by lack-thereof. Swallowed by the darkness. Swallowed whole. Swallowed by the absence of rational logical intelligent thought. J: Baby don't faze me. I'm in the middle of suffocating. Download a track and then sit back. We are PlasticBag FaceMask.

JACOB&PATRICK: I feel you washing /clean/ the filth from these /walls/ we used to call /home/ sick and without a /cure/ these thoughts in my /head/ toward the light /beyond/ who I once thought you /were/ we always doomed? J: eating sheer darkness (save us) ingesting our poisons. Force it down. Naked in an empty tub just in case. I walk dead center of the tracks for you. Promise not to check my shoulder. How long is forever? J: I can't help but feel my heart is beating slower P: There's a layer of grime that blinds my eyes. The more I try to see, the more the light truly hides. I feel the eyes that surround me, watching, but I'm left with no more hands to hold. I'm reaching and screaming for anyone at all. J: Weak hands shake, the eyes ache, scent of rot, hollow flesh. J&P:I'm hoping and praying that someone will come; no one ever does. J&P: I can't feel my face, the chains on my wrists hold me down. Stone is my bed, will be my grave. The pains of hunger have long since passed. It won't be long before my body decays, most of it has already gone

JACOB&PATRICK: Cut me out of the picture. Anything's better than this harsh stricture/It remains so complicated/Where's the line to stand alone? Inherit this sadness with my throne/All my senses aggravated/White shirt stained red with blood. It flowed like words straight from my tongue/All your moves were calculated. J: This world, in God's eyes, is a cannonball. Kids fuck and drink. Is that really life? What do you think? We're just bullets in space. P: When I try to sing they tell me I should scream. When I try to scream they say I should sing. The kids like it, so it must be cool. We sag our tight pants, dressed up like fools. Bodies weighed down by metal and ink. Standards so low we can no longer sink. Is there no end to this hypocrisy? I know there’s some of you in all of me.

JACOB: It ain’t easy being an optimist. Oh wait never mind, it is fucking easy. J&PATRICK: (Try to look forward. Don't just hold back.) When they speak in riddles, (don't take it as gospel.) When you hear the devil's fiddle (play the songs of apostles,) don't let your thumbs twiddle (or become unlawful.) P: They say there's nothing new, under the sun. If you can't sing along, then you can't have fun. I know when you realize, you'll all see the truth. And when the time arrives you will all follow suit. J: In this lifetime we've been rebels and artists, doing things our way. J&P: Why don't you use that brain of yours to think of something (something unique) that hasn't been done yet? (something to call your own) I think it could do the world some good. I mean, (Mean what?) That is why we exist. P: These fields once flourished with light and color that welcomed all with passion. Now we all just stand in line and nod our heads with no reaction. J: I can feel the moisture from your cave growing moss and mold and hosting the parasites you once knew to fear.

JACOB: I didn't OD, this is just a setback. I'll still party when I get my life back. PATRICK: How are we supposed to continue living if all we do is make the same mistakes? Open your goddamn minds. We could sound like everyone else if we wanted to. J: I hope I won't see you when you're crawling back. When I am right about your fate. P: All the originality left with the (overdoses). A straight-edge band (trying new things) has promise to make it to (retirement). Watch us grow old while (our fan base) stays the same age. P: Speed it up or slow it down. It all sounds the same. Seriously. Welcome in a new age of an old idea.

JACOB: And the devil chewed you up and then he spit you out. But you don't even know what I'm talking about. PATRICK: Tell me stories of your life. Whisper secrets in my ear. Trace my spine with sharpest knife until my veins are running clear. J&P: Our tongues remain our sharpest blades/You don't exorcise in Mordor/Hearts of gold and minds of steel/We're just stabbing, stab, stab. Wasted facelift. J: Walk towards death, step by step, regret you left, mind is bent, We walk towards death, theres no turning back, the walls rise each side, arms can't reach the stone J: And the devil chewed you up and then he spit you out. But you don't even know what I'm talking about. You were too blind to see you can't just walk right into the city of Mordor. P: When we put our minds to it, it's amazing how far we can go. If only we'd focus on what ought to get done instead of second breakfast. P: No matter the fellowship, no matter the gold. No matter the weapons and armor you hold. No matter the courage, no matter the strength. No matter the distance. No matter the length. No matter the key. No matter the door. One does not simply walk into . . .

J: Scared of my own shadow, I can't figure out how to run from my nightmares when there's no way to wake up. Nothing has changed. I cannot shake this dread. P: I'm still lost and beyond recognition. Mother nature's been nothing but cruel. I no longer seek redemption. There's no way around so we'll have to go through. Is this a tomb? Is this a casket? Is there light somewhere beyond what my eyes can see? You're nothing but a false memory created to justify who I used to be. J: 0:46-1:21 Loved by nothing is my homeless and lost I found myself blending in with the shadows engulfing me choking the screams for help me end this now 1:25-1:40 J&P: My bones have grown too big for my skin, I can feel you escape my grasp. I only wanted to keep you safe. I newer wanted to be the cause of your fear. I told myself I'd never leave, just never dreamed that you'd do it first. P: Coming of age just means digging a grave, just means being alone 'til you're nought. Lather on products and oils and falsehoods until your skin starts to wrought. Philogynist enemies. Misogynist tendencies. The apples of eyes are all rot. The fruits of our eden have long since been beaten and forced to be something they're not. J&P: If it's not our fault then where is the credit due, if it's not our fault then where does the blame go? It is not our fault

JACOB: Hey hey what's up? I don't mean to bring you down but there's been some things on my mind lately. Kids always talk about it. Hey did you hear this band? I put the headphones on. It's the same shit I've heard before man. What the fuck happens? Why are minds so dull? When a band gets famous when they aren't unique at all. PATRICK: Break across the next generation and throw you to the horizon. Shall we see how long this gap will take to close? I predict a failure in our midst.

JACOB&PATRICK: Watch me step onto this street/Horns will blare as fenders greet/Headlights flash from my new friends/as they all witness the end/The rain outside reflects my eyes/as pedestrians fly/No chance now for a glass slipper/Cobblestone walk; Jack the Ripper. P: Where there was once brightness in your eyes now I find only dark. We've reached the end of the tunnel and found that there's no light. J&P: I've gone off the deep end now. My dreams are all I remember/I see white silhouettes with faces shaped like those that I once knew. Angels reach for me but I've already lost control/Just a shooting star across an asphalt sky. Too late to make a wish/Too late to take it back. J: Drifting gently in a box. Close out the world, it's not good enough. Forget your place. don't press the brakes. A dozen lost lives and it's all your fault. P: Darling, darling, could this be witchcraft. Witness this ambulance, these lights flash and fade. Like you. J: Your life is fleeting, but you still live like shit. You spread filth because of it. Please leave me out of it. J&P: Break away, the ponies have escaped. I will never leave you as long as you stay this good to me. P: This stampede of flame and water collides so gracefully/with our/bodies/How ever will we make it through this venture/Time to go. J: Can you feel it now? What you have been waiting for. Can you feel it now? Is it what you've dreamed of?

J: Black ants circle the carcass, one says their words at the pit. Cut all the plants to decorate, we all must follow the script. As I take my leave of this, each guest lends a hand. Submerging myself further now, deep down this was my plan. P: I have tasted the fruit of the basket. I have known the taste of its flesh. I have seen the satin of caskets and bid my time until I meet death. I have smelled the funeral flowers. I have heard the organ's call. I have seen the church's bower and felt the rise before the fall. J&P: Please remember when I cast out. Escape these walls that have kept me grey. All my demons. There will never be another chance to run. And I'm alone. I never thought I'd see the light of day. For the first time. But here I am basking in the sun. They have made me. My only fear is that I'll miss the shade. So much stronger. And long for the time when we were one. P: Bodies surround me, longing for nothing but the return of their youths. Something so small and take from so many. My only weapon is myself. My only defense. My body covers the fire and leaves me in more places than I've ever been. J: This air is not natural. Gray fields stretch evermore. Claws grate on ears, push me left and right. J: Towers of livestock built a maze that believes itself a hunting serpent. Its limbs march onward with blind vigor. I am not my own, I am owned. Wether in my cell or under glass I feel a chill hold my spine. J&P: When we come to find you, there will be no hope left. Know that we can't forgive, what you have done to us. Inside you must have known, one day we'd be your end. There's a light in your eyes, we'll leave when that's darkness.

PATRICK: Kiss and tell? An idiot would. Tell me all you have to say. Endure the pain of what you have to show. Live through me. You will never regret this, never. JACOB: Raise your voice my friends, degrade the silence. Break the quiet down. P: Breath so solemn that it hurts to breathe. Is there no other way to get this need. I feed on the whispers that pulse through the floor. Reach back and notch your bedpost once more. P: Break free from these shackles. Free yourself from my bonds. Have you ever felt so violated? J: Break your irons in degradation of the silence. Use your freedom, create new noise.

PATRICK: Wretch. My fingers, they bleed. I bit them to the bone. JACOB: Won't this slow down, and only speed up when we want it to? This feeling is worn out, now knowing just what to do. J&P: I feel her with me, when I know she's not. Where has she gone? Does she remember? J: Face first in failure. Failing in everyone else's eyes. Why don't you just live for yourself and fuck everyone else. J: Won't this slow down, and only speed up when we want it to? This feeling is worn out, now knowing just what to do. P: Mercy, behold her. The fire has spread through the roof. The angel of death does a saint's work. The fire has spread.

JACOB: Bring it down. PATRICK: Break the future with memories of the past. The lives you have taken will not be forgotten. J: Go home. P: Try to wipe the blood from your hands. Believe everything you hear. Become the useless, empty, hollow, calm, chasm. Become the shell of the dreams you once held. Become the bastard mongrel. J&P: This is no place for you. You might as well go home while you still can.

PATRICK: Look me in the eyes. My reflection dances across your face. I see you all the time, but you don't even remember my name. I want nothing more than to fall through you and feel your salt surrounding my body. JACOB: Swimming through stars, we sail through nebula. Casting out bright orbs of hope, we explore. P: I long for your touch. But every breeze through your curls breaks me down piece by piece. And I'm left with longing agony. You bite your lip; I bite my tongue. J: Black holes will never swallow us. Foundations of lore are from us. P: The moment I see you, my mind is soothed, rocking back and forth, cradling the world. There's a softness to you. I would dissolve if ever allowed to be cradled in your arms for just a moment. These are the secrets I'd share if you'd only ask. J: We gaze down at Earth's mountains and oceans, giving its children fear and awe. P: The way it all looks from here makes my blue moon turn to gold. So take my hand my dear, as we sail through the stars. Finding who we really are. J: Such a tragedy on a white dwarf's last day. But we can only hope that our young will create their own source of life's beginning. P: Two elements always tugging, trying to keep each other for themselves. Each day I try to learn more about you. Each day you caress my face and turn the other way. I know there's a depth to you none have ever dared to find. I'd dive deep if you let me. I'd crumble if you left me.

PATRICK: When the dust finally clears, I wipe the sweat from my brow. A place unfamiliar, I climb above the flames and shout at the top of my lungs. What is this place? Beating, banging foreign drums. It pulses through my chest and pushes the air from my lungs. J&P: Tell me, do you remember? (I remember you so well.) Tell me, is it December? (This weather is giving me hell.) JACOB: You're feeling sour, sour on my mind. You're giving me a bleeding heart-burn this feeling out like a tic. P: Will I one day (be free?) Am I forced to (suffer) through this day after day? There's a voice inside my head, says, J&P: Tell me, do you remember? (I remember you so well.) Tell me, is it December? (This weather is giving me hell.) J: I recoil into myself. Shut inside till the next drought. P: Your sweetness covers the salt of my, words that I left behind. There's a place beyond the pines. Reminds me that you were mine.

PATRICK: My life was built on a foundation of assumptions. Incomplete truths whispered slowly in my ear. When your weight leaves my shoulders I'll be free from all my fears. JACOB: If this keeps up I swear you're dead. Focus on the meaningless is a fool's way to live. Tear it all down, down below creation. P: Is this all a game to you? If life is for the living then how dead do you have to be inside before we are all allowed to abandon ship? Prepare for mutiny. J: Shut up, I won't hear it. Sit down, I don't want to see it.

JACOB: I feel it burning, and I just want to dive in headfirst with you. But I sense the claws latch on and pull me back to where I'm from. Nothing changes unless I change myself. I know I'm mostly just a prop but I could use a rewrite. PATRICK: There's a voice in my throat, but I know it's not (my own). It coughs and wheezes and has claimed me as a throne. It scratches at (my words) and throws them like a stone. J: I want your sympathy, but do not look at me, I don't know what to say, so please don't talk to me P: I stare at the depth of the blue in the sky and sink into the dirt. I imagine the weight of the world upon me and collapse into myself. J&P: I used to have eyes for only you. How could I have been so blind? There's a place I once called home, but it was never really mine. I've risen from the ashes, and now I miss the flame. I tell myself I'm changing, but know I'm still the same. J: I'm hiding, it's blinding. raise the flag, cover it all, feed the dark, hone the wall. I peek through and burn myself, it's not worth it but I'm curious, what's happening across the glass but i'll just keep my distance J&P: I used to have eyes for only you. How could I have been so blind? There's a place I once called home, but it was never really mine. I've risen from the ashes, and now I miss the flame. I tell myself I'm changing, but know I'm still the same. I'm still the same.

P: This house feels alive, it smells of death, it looks like decay. the growth J: on the walls, i swear i saw it move. in its clutches, this place is being taken J&P: back by the earth it came from. P: There is something else here. J: Memories dance before me but they feel artificial, welcoming a guest. P: A shadow faces my back faster than my eyes can turn. The farther I walk into this circle i feel my chest J&P: constrict J&P: and my blood run cold. J: Four walls can't always make a home. I search for a door. I search for an exit. I search for the meaning behind my solitude. My escape is hopeless. I woke alone but know there's another near me, biding its time, waiting to strike. I know there's another right behind . . . P: I shiver. It is near. I have felt, this before. If death wants, to take me, I can not, fight it back. J&P: The ambience grows louder and piercing. It is coming from nowhere

PATRICK: No lights shine from these curtained windows. Clouds obscure the moon in the sky. There they lie, unaware of these watchful eyes. JACOB: A childhood killed before it began. A royal family left with just one son. What has this act of violence created? P: The axe has fallen, just two strikes. The future holds so much. I've tasted blood, I've taken life. It's mine. J: Footsteps down a frozen hallway. A sick noise shakes a child awake. Ceiling leaks red rain. Crawls out into an evil realm. From the threshold, sharpened metal silver hiding behind maroon blinds young eyes. P: As blood fills their mouths, I rise. P: What's this? You survived all? You remain far too small. Forget your parent's fall. Orphaned too young to recall. J: So scared, crawl upstairs to where my nightmares breed, find my parents dead, love is dead. The Night's moon as bright as his axe that night.

JACOB: "Oh, dear brother, please. Forgive our beloved father for promising me happiness and health but removing you from home to survive on your own. You went against his values and his love, but he was our father all the same. Help me find who ended our family." PATRICK: "Find someone for me, capable and strong." TYLER: "Perform this job for me. In turn for him. You will never get close to the killer. You are a runt like father. Pathetic and weak. Don't return until it is done." J: Sent out empty to cold, wet streets. Hunting a man I do not yet know. Is his sentence just or am I as vile as my enemy? I never wish to know this man. Only to discover the destroyer of my world. Interrogating. Hiding. Stalking. My prey is closer every passing minute. A bludgeoned greeting. The gift of a duct tape jacket. For it's a cold walk to the dump tonight where your remains will equal the garbage. What will I become for this? This is not a road I dreamt to take. Would my creators judge me? I can not do this. I will not do this. I can not . . . The moonlight's flash on my victim's frames triggers the sight in my mind Of the tool of my parent's demise. This fucking scum is nothing more or less than the killer to me. Inch by inch his face caves in. My hand, the molder of flesh and bone. Your end was not worthless, my friend. You will be joined by whom I seek.

JACOB: So soon my artwork is appreciated by workers of a similar medium. I find myself in a dark place on a street I never knew. "Only the finest eat here, Sir." My admirer sits to propose an alliance. PATRICK: Could this be him? A face so young. So bold. So true. An artist of an equal darkness. A voice in his head that commands evil. "I saw your work, oh protege. Though I was the only one. Your attack, well-planned, but chaotic. Merciless. Come work for me, for there is no better job in town. Complete this contract and watch yourself rise." J: At last, the moment has come to make a name for myself. A shroud. A cloud. To travel behind my victim's heart. "I accept."

REMI: I've finally fucking got you. Too much time spent waiting. No one will convict you of your crimes. And so I'm here to deliver your justice. You think that you could run forever? I'm sick of sitting down, you're done. The courts may buy your bullshit. Tossing your case out with ease. Although there's no formal evidence I know of all your deeds. And I drink these nights away. Praying to God that I may. Find you in a situation like the one we're in now. Time to die you fuck.

PATRICK: "Here it is. This will make or break you. Within these pages you find a man. A man who may have betrayed us. A betrayal to me is a betrayal to you. Do not fret and do not fear. I have seen your craft. You will impress." JACOB: In the wild once again. The tail of a man none the wiser of what will be. Darkness approaching. Secrets uncovered and lies revealed. "Sir, here's the man stealing from your riches." NOAH: "Let me go!" J: "Listen to him cry, beg, and plead." N: "No!" P: "No, no, no. You do not speak. You just listen. You think I do not know who you are or what you do? You are the filthy, slithering swine of this organization. If you had a heart I would rip it from your chest. I will spew the evil from your guts. I want you to know that I am going to your house tonight and I will slit the throats of your family while they sleep. They will never know you're gone." J: "Allow me, sir. Please. I will rid this rat from your world." P: "No! I've something just for him. A blade sharp and still stained with blood of old. Allow me." J: Wearing a new shade of red. Mind far behind the eyes. A final display of punishment. Lines his bird in row. P: "Remove this filth from my sight. Heed this though, young man: Do not be known. Do not be seen. Do not be heard. Do not be felt."

JACOB: In over my head, again. The weight of a man on my shoulders. This shroud of darkness could not be thick enough. What do I do? Burned, buried, or diced? Discretely erasing a life. The snap of a twig. The blast of a gun. Two dead, a man and a woman, lie before my feet. Witness. Innocence. What have I done. Witness. Innocence. What have I done to this man and this woman? Am I now the same as him? One becomes three. Three bodies in the quarry. What have I done? Neglect to check my work. Erase my tracks. Reckless.

JACOB: "Oh, dear brother, I found him. Your associate, my boss, and our neighbor. He is the killer. He ended our father's reign. Rising to this city's throne. With your inherited power we must cause his fall." TYLER: "How could you be so blind? I thought you would have been on my side. Maybe I guess just not this time. How could you be so blind? I gave them both enough time to share what should have been mine. All mine. I threw him where you can not find him. I can't believe I did this to him, but I had to. What can I say? What do I do, now?" J: "Dad was right to cast you out. Your greed and hatred festered from the start. Now I know the birth of your strength and gold. You disgust me. How dare you sit in his chair, in this tower, in this room? I'm finished with your existence." Another bullet from my scythe. Another piece of family lost.

PATRICK: Could I have been a fool? Trusted too soon? JACOB: A second class member buried in distrust. Falling behind in my mutinous scheme. "Excuse me, Boss. I'll be back soon." Someone close behind. Mind bent on destruction. Following. Heart racing. A stranger. Gun pulled. Aiming at my goal. A shot. A shout. The stranger falls down. My prey still stands. My gun warm. From outcast to savior.

PATRICK: Come, Boy, and you shall see the proper methods of this craft. You threw three bodies from a dock? Seek deeper waters and make sure they won't float. Not even fisherman's nets will find the mass graves you leave for this Earth.I beseech. Don't allow your defenses to be breached. No noise. No lights. This is a job for the dead of night. Cut them piece by piece! Throw them overboard! Each bag you release will meet the ocean floor! Now you are a cog in the machine! Now you are the silent killer this world needs! We send our sins to sink! The sea swallows them whole! Set them free. This is the circle of life. The unfortunate truth for those of us in this business. Survival of the fittest and we are the strongest ones. Liars sink. Traitors sink. Corruptors sink. Bastards sink. You would sink. I would sink. Never underestimate the power of your will. You can commit so much violence if you just put your mind to it. Try it! Now you know what to do next time. The art of your life and this is your masterpiece.

JACOB: Odds stacked against me at the family gathering. Odds stacked against me in my revenge. PATRICK: Paranoia. I fear my defenses have been breached. An old friend has perished and I think I know why. J: Infiltration. Discretion. Killer with an invitation. Chameleon. P: A party. A remembrance. Let us honor him. I hope only I know of our connected pasts. J: Familiar environment. Hire foolish men. Distractions. His deadly heirloom is rightfully mine and will sever him limb from limb. His deadly heirloom in rightfully mine and so is my revenge.

JACOB: Up the stairs. Through the threshold. Eying every villain. Weighing my decisions. Told I'm requested for private counsel. PATRICK: "You have shown me true respect. You have earned this prize for your allegiance. My eyes are open from this tragedy. This man was my friend. I could perish at any moment. I want you to have my empire when I'm dead. Will you accept?" J: A fight breaks below. "You are finished. Through. This empire is mine. Not for you. One fatal mistake. The child you passed. That was me. You should never have come to that home that night." P: "What is this? A final betrayal? Who are you to finish me?" J: "I am your pupil. I am your wealth. I am your nightmare. I am my father's son." P: As blood fills my mouth, I fall.

JACOB: Marathons in mile high shoes. I swear they mocked your defenses. Woke up in Lady Luck's clothes. Brick walls on the offensive. PATRICK: Veins throb. Hangovers. One night stands. Cash never stays in the wallet long. Twelve hour days. I've never seen the sun. J: Twelve days of sleep. I built an iron mask. 9 to 5 a war inside my head. Clouded. Warhead. J&P: Meaning's left us. Blank page best seller. Breathing faster. Falling last in the race. Sin inside us. Where did I once begin? Paint my skin white. Hide even my eyes. Sweat drips. Sheets soaked. Curtains revealing weakness. Shiver through the night. Night terrors my only guest. Six shooters ring from the high windows. This is the big city, Baby. Bright lights. Dark nights. J: You must admit, you've never known cold. This season's mist has taken the bold.

JACOB: Journey home, random destination. A bed to sleep in keeps the demons at bay. J&PATRICK: Sketch from corner to corner. Just pay the bills and you will never feel lonely again. J: Go out and play, just mind who you take gifts from. Go home and pray, and don't dare miss a single one.

PATRICK: Cold cement beds where the world is welcome. Just to feel. JACOB: They feast on flesh. Losing proof of who you were. Find out who you were in the past and shout out to find it. The echoes never grace your ears. P: We have a gun and a trigger and the bullets to deliver. Our brains can't wait to see the sun.

JACOB&PATRICK: Products of our own devices. Now we are falling down this hole we have dug ourselves. J: Face it, you are lost. Taste it, taste the shame. Forget, lose each night. Repeat, repeat. Falling down. P: This youth is. Drowning. Burning. Freedom rings in our ears. J: Peaks looming and staring. Witness. P: We treat the whole wide world like a gift to us. J: It is not ours.

PATRICK: This is life as we know it coming to a close. All the money raised is going to the pits. JACOB: Forward time and lose your mind and unleash it all on the kids. P: Burning all our babies, for they need not suffer. J: Recycle all the people, get back your five cents. No more mouths to borrow, no more lungs to feed from. No pain, no Gein.

PATRICK: Reach inside yourself to find what's left. JACOB: Car's on empty, bank's on empty, dream's are full, but the map is gone. P: Preaching the bleeding. These three words. You will burn. J: Gravity fluctuates when you skate on Escher concrete, Rag doll, cut your strings, pick yourself up, put your feet down. P: Our teeth rot from our mouths. Our tongues are not our own. I taste the blood in my gums. J: Bus stop cardiac arrest trash can hospital. Make a voice, tear down emptiness, push the matter up, draw the eyes in your direction, draw the fate in your reaction. Watch your work glow. P: Friends. Listen to me. Hear all my pleas. I'm down on my knees. Won’t you try to set this life straight? Don't be a waste of time. These complications. These segregations.

PATRICK: Pray to your god. Go home. Crucified in stone. JACOB: Stone chamber, damp hallways, finding riddles in the scraps. Press on, each key, unlocks a monster. Walk. Violent or fake, your mind unravels all the same. Can't find enough matches in the dark, The tools are missing in the lake, Need to bury this lost art, The monsters chase relentlessly, The path leads me to this church, The altar continues to bleed. J&P: Mother. Where are you? Father. Where are you? These demons have taken me in. They are calling me their own.

PATRICK: Browning leaves. Keys to the city. Let me inside your mind. JACOB: How long in a padded cell? Cotton seeps out my mouth. P: Don't leave me all alone. J: Hands pressing against my skull. 10 to 20 seeking escape. The walls don't hold the right key. A key of tissue never unlocked anything. J&P: Go home. Go home. The beasts are out. They feast on us. P: Bubblegum pink walls ooze your dreams to green.

JACOB: In-room delivery, I send it back with vomit. Walls changing hue, like a student's belt. Learn your steps child. Learn your steps child. PATRICK: We sit fetal at best. Laugh at ourselves with no excuse to jest. Crest fallen, destitute, pathetic crawling creatures.

JACOB: Restraints, I'm limbless, they're lucky this time. But a kiss, I'll spit, You're welcome my dear, take care. Take care! PATRICK: Pieces of pieces of pieces left behind. The fire has engulfed us. We're stuck! We're stuck! There is no safety in these numbers. J: Would you like to stay in my cloud sometime? You did one hell of a job! Keep screaming! I love it! P: He's always right behind you. He's always thinking mean. Creep upon the victim. Leave no trace behind. J: God, you're mine. Going home, I'm still with you. See your husband? It's just me. You're all I think of. I'm all you think of.

PATRICK: Please the kings. The peasants will only cause hurt. JACOB: Keep screaming, I love it! P: These scissors have split and taken our eyes with. Blindly wander down the pit. Goddamn, what a fortune. J: Keep screaming, I love it. Just one more stain you have to clean. Until next time. Until next time my dear. I'll see you again.

JACOB: You'll always be mine. PATRICK: Blessed be thee. The bugs have multiplied. We are without our savior. He abandoned all to rot. J: You're my beast, my pet. I'll never let you go. Even after I'm dead. You're stuck with me, you miserable shit. This is what you get.

Ben Doyle. O'Doyle Rules If Ben can't do it, no one can. Why? Because he is the man. He knows the future and the past. Get in his way, he'll kick your ass.

All these Parnassian phrases I try to utter. Well, I must say, you're a real humdinger. And I am a monad. Watch these sentences I build. Please, I beg you not to fleer. Focus. I feel like all the planets dancing on your orrery. And as you spin me on your fingers, I can't help but joggle. And I become dissilient. Watch me dissolve Daughter You shake in your steps The gears keep grinding Steam spewing from the pipes Counting every breath Let go Just let go I feel like a bauble. I feel like a jester's scepter. I know you lift your peplum for all of the tongues who ask. I know you lift your chambray for every voice you hear. I know you wear your toile for all of your male callers. I’ve provided all you need Unstable trace leviathan Cache from cold and twisted womb Alone abomination Drain the excess Maintain your gingham. Maintain your habiliments. Skedaddle.

This road you paved for me has become anfractuous. Counting every breath Check your bordereau. It's printed with an ikat. Skedaddle. All this world can be is serotinal. All this world can be is pari passu. I was born drowning Like a roach in a mall A mole’s den in a concrete ash tin My friends are on the other side of the looking glass Dying each day and safer than I I’m feeling compressed The weight of the world on both sides Current so turbulent he tosses us around Left standing on your hands Can’t tell up from down Come home so we can auspicate. Come home.

We are God's cause for washing away the world You sailed in on your corsair. You rule your own gynarchy. All these bulbous creatures riding on our feet. And all they ask is for a pittance. And so they meander, never knowing where to go. And beg us as troubadours to listen to their songs. But of all their doggerel lines That manage to bedraggle me. Their Viceroy of Country has left me lower than any. "I know just where to look when you’ve been gone too long." And it says: "I know just where to look when you’ve been gone too long." And it says: "I know just where to look when you’ve been gone too long." And it says: "I know just where in Hell to look when you’ve been gone too long." From this quincunx of branches. Hang ten gibbous men. Though their necks are broken, they all play their psalteries. And through an od force the hangman finishes them. They are limp and lifeless, lacerated straight through. Without sign of espousal

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In brighter days than this, We were closer than this. We've forgotten the equation, so now we are a fraction of what we should be. The sun seems to always be setting now. Everything is orange and a darker version of itself. Everybody has that one. Whose face will never leave them. It floats among the memories. That you both created. Getting harder to see you now. I don't know what steps to take or in what direction. Don't forget. I loved you when. Don't forget. Remember when. I dropped my rusted bicycle into the weeds. To let it sink into the soil. Soon my roots will devour it all, And lift it atop my branches. I'll give everything I can to you, Until they read "Return to Sender." But, now that she's gone. And you've been up for three whole nights. Can you think of a better way out of this mess? That you both created. I won't dissolve but I can feel myself fall. I won't dissolve but I can feel the coming fall. My head feels empty. There's something wrong and I'm not okay. Remember when you would catch me every time I fell? Well, I'm falling. On the shore you walked from me. The sand less soft than it was before. Sticks to my clothes as I make tracks on the shore. Is this how I lose you? Can you even still feel? I know that you are still real. All dressed up for sex appeal. Don't ever leave me again. My world's empty without you in it. And if you can't forgive my sins. Then I'm better off dead. I wish for once that we could follow the rules of this madness. We set before ourselves because they only ever lead to sadness. And I know that my desires may sometimes bring out the worst of me. But if part of you still wants to see then please won’t you set her free. Just set her free. I start to follow vapor trails in the sky. Leading me to new possibilities. But you are on the planes that lead me far ahead, Past hills I can't scale. I dig tunnels with tooth and nails to get there, Until I break bone and find comfort in the grave that I dug for myself.

The floor creaks under your feet Drowning out the silent roar Eyes gaze barely from a safe distance Rooms, floors, memories Shifting, sifting Empty bed Never slept Floor littered with words Walls littered with fears Ceiling caving in Crushing all I've said, accustomed to the dark Ceased my struggle Stopped the begging Forgotten freedom Gaping mouth Jaw unhinged This darkness swallows me whole I hear my mind dripping on the floor, This is unrelenting Tormented hearts, repeating Missing pieces, stolen Punisher; relentless, unmerciful You're trapped! Imprisoned Fouled the incantation I feel a creature living in The shadows beneath both my eyes Hiding in my darkened circles Blackening my sight and my mind Your demon looks so much like mine My demon looks so much like you Secrets found in a red velvet bag Will you ever see your friends again? No one could guess this is what life had in store, So unfair and cruel but this isn't life anymore Those you knew changed Growing outward, grasping and reaching Like vines, twisting around the trees, killing them, suffocating Murder Premeditated Resignation Withering Forgotten the use of friends Hydratation from the blood that forms in my mouth Bubbling sores Feast on the flesh that is presented Get out of my head Whose eyes are these that watch me? Never seen I know they are there. Patient and lingering. Passionate suffering No longer seeking a light to blind me The darkness has blinded me enough Stories plastered on the walls Dripping to the ground This building sinks lower in hell Taking shape based on your will It's alive because of her They died because of her The men are just puppets Pulled by their own unraveling seams Living an endless cycle Empty torment now I start to feel it the nightmares are just beginning Thick Calloused These scars make up my whole body A dead tree in the wind I have no more leaves to give I hoped to get used to these pains But that time has yet to come I doubt that it ever will This feeling of dread rises inside me Becomes my gravity and crushes me until I give in Secondary witness, experience death Find sympathy Agonizing thirst, fatigue, hunger Pretty little noose Inviting deathbed Be swallowed whole Welcomed with open arms, claws Vice grips in eternity of rot and decay Your new friends are here No more smiles, no more laughing Eyes staring infinite The company is full Hell is full Will you ever find your friends again? Your demon looks so much like mine My demon looks so much like you And now I start to feel it The nightmares are beginning

JC and Phoebe- Walk out of the basement Haven’t seen your face yet Never see the sunrise anymore Counting many sheep as I choke in my sleep And cough up a tumor Let me sleep Let me sleep Patrick- I hate the sound of my pulse in my ears I love the idea of my hollow veins The human condition is terminal Jacob- The night’s arms never really let go for me Or maybe it’s me that keeps hold Its fingers fit between mine perfectly While you move to the city of angels I’ll sleep in the city of owls Patrick- Death is guaranteed Satisfactions is guaranteed Every dead tree Started as a seed A box lined with satin Is the last home you’ll ever need Jacob & Patrick- Today there is a god falling from the clouds A behemoth, leviathan. ancient and extinct we flood the crater for summer and burn the fossils fuels to fly in our private box We close our eyes and dream the end of the road Forever beaten and battered like the bat out of the sky The night’s arms never really let go of me It's our favorite past time. To die before our friends so the funeral hall stays full. It's a lucrative business. To bury the skeletons of those we once knew. Six feet below our lives. One stone marker. Life moves on and so it goes Patrick- Walking hand in hand with happiness We pass the graves of my friends So I ask it, "More or less, "how does it feel to be dead?" Josh- Porcelain teeth embellish a fist full of gold rings Fever dreams; Ruby red in pleasure and must The way I’ll never know your body, I’ll never know it Jareth- Wander the astral gate Foot caught in the fray Wander the astral haze Foot caught in the fray There's horses dead near the off ramp Farmers flourishing from the sides Delivery man without remorse for the slaying of felines Josh- You without me: Me without you Never Brandon/Roger- Dressed in cold sweat, now I realize. Her stained sheets won’t take me back again

Patrick and Jacob- Whoever said, "Follow your heart, it will lead you home" never knew that you would lead me straight to Hell. And now that I'm here I don't feel so at home. I have a million bad dreams. You're in every single one. My dream girl has turned into the things of nightmares. Now you make me want to stay awake. And I'm so glad you're in my head because only a sick mind could conjure something so cruel. Jacob- A congregation of machines commanding machines An infinite kinetic cycle Fueled by extinct resources Creating wasted energy Like blood through veins Like ants through soil Clockwork The gears turning nothing Patrick- I wish I could call home. But all I get is a dial tone. Now I'm out here on my own I miss the way things were back then. This thinking. Lightness of being. These thoughts are unsinkable. Jacob- When I’m gone, You’re still home Isn’t hell just a life on repeat? Patrick- I have to cover my Mouth everytime you try To speak your words are Making me sick Jacob and Patrick- He is becoming. I am left standing. I’ve been brought home to be left dying on the ground. Feel the air's freezing. Now my time's fleeting One breath, now I'm gone. Told you once to do unto my now this is the price for insolence. Jacob- Back out, these thoughts inside are twisting me around Patrick- It used to be just your name on my lips, but in a twist of fate it's turned into your kiss. Jacob- You’re in the walls but they’re not closing in Its not me, you wrote your life sentence My shoulders are broken by the weight of the guilt I’m buried inside this castle I built That’s all. that’s all, I can’t take much more of this Put up a shield but I’m gasping for air Off the playground now so nothing is fair Round and round and round I’ve done this once or twice before Take me out Inside The Sun- My cave, hide me, hide animal Erodite, troglobite Under the ground, cannot be found My cave, my wall Kill one, feed/love all Mandibular serration Let all mouths feed Patrick- I know you have a minute to spare for all these minute men in your life. Hahahaha. I know you can give me a second of your time. Noah- All good intentions lead straight to hell This isn’t a home, this isn’t a comfort The thought of you waiting at the door Eats the paint right off the walls Forever an insomniac To the sound of your voice Am I delusional or disillusioned? I used to trust myself Until now hisSIXnames- I will cut you from my mind. I will cut you out of my mind. A million second chances and every single time I was your asshole.

Josh/Bob- I remember the skies As I left the forest I remember the taste I remember the dread As I returned home Jacob- Is this your greatest gift? Tore us apart A cloud of ashes sending hail upon us Free field trip to a sanitorium Patrick- Your body is cold, but I'll be your sun. Your body is light, but I'll be your gravity. With limbs wrapped tightly, I know no other home. Skin like snow, I'm covered. I'm pure. Nate- And I bleed everyday And I carry my crows I find My true love, not lost Steven- I just feel so helpless Can you hear me I feel so helpless Can you hear me I just want you to help me Jacob- I sit here and question if I am making myself unhappy by desire When I learn happiness is not found in you I feel my chest rise But do I deserve happiness? We are all addicts and I am not exception Addicted to vices, Addicted to gifts, Addicted to sweetness Addicted to you Is darkness my addiction? Cameron- Walked in the shallows Bare feet in the mush Snakes bite my ankles Dark air, dark musk Musty and damp I said it to begin with Bury my face in my hands and cry Jacob- Behind a light of blood and oceans Is this your greatest gift? You created all this yourself Weak hands, but a strong mind, Unwired, unstrung With its own reticle, framing all those on your list Erase the names, fill the board with the small tasks necessary to thrive I implore Cameron- Selfish, I waited for the space between my teeth to close Selfless, I left my jaw plated in gold at the foot of your bed Sinister, I pressed my tongue into the inside of your cheek Sincerely, I craved the way your eyes hid and forever Patrick- The water from your eyes seeps through my skin. I can feel it swell my bones. You need razors made of gold to match the heart that's pumping blood through the gaps in your wrists. Bathwater tinted red, I kiss your scars just to make them blush. This is the closest I have ever felt to you, watching you fade from me. Gioia- From darkness comes a light. Was running, I took flight. But the shadows won't fade. When night falls a new cycle starts. Though it feels like an ending For day and night part. Jacob- I only apologize so many times Before it becomes a lie Hiding in the shadows afraid to speak Shattered glass leaking into my home Lacerating my feet Like a leash tied to the stake I’ve written myself into the villain of my own story For only rescuing myself in distress This happens every day, every place The oldest story ever told The oldest song ever sung Yet here we are again Spinning the wheel Nicholas- ???? Patrick- And anymore, I don't have the answers. The faded smell of your hair Shiver from cold water. If you did it again I wouldn’t stop you. Jacob- Thrown in the lost and found And finding all I ever wanted Has been there all along There is nothing more To see that the road we’ve taken has ended before us Now you’re gone and all I can think about is How I’ve wanted more I’ve needed more than this Tyler- Just speak up, just say it There’s people outside And they want to know were you happy Been hiding And it looks the same Your face is lying You don’t look like you did Way back when Before you had Are you still lying? I miss who you were back then Why did you have to change? Or at least try Because you’re still you, at least on the inside And that’s the sad part

Buddah- ???? Jacob- Your arms hold an inner rain But you know you can’t Blood can’t flow like this Track marks on a road of gold Can't renew your lease at home Can I give you a second go? Patrick- Patrick- Porcupine pin prick Couch cushion zipper’s stuck Empty pocket, empty words Liquid gold or liquid luck? Remi- Tetanus Encrusted veins Genitals mashed up with hate Tongue shaved down to nearly nothing Without eyes, you’re quite disgusting Wrapping the bag around your head Trust me, you’ll be just fine (Your last vision) Because although you’ll wish you could (From across the room) I won’t let you die DoomKnobs- I own the biggest castle With the strongest fucking walls And I’d promise you sanctuary But I’d rather see you fall The first time I cared at all I wound up broken in a stall Breathing vomit til I puked Ashes on my finest suit I lack the fire, grab the bellows Hoping for help from my fellows Grinding up the days today And I like it, so I think I’ll stay Yes I have the biggest castle I promise you’re not worth the hassle Lead to me your sick and weary I’ll send them back home just as dearly Nowhere to hide from me (You better watch your white shirt) Be the man I want to be (You better watch your white shirt) And just because the people hate me (You better watch your white shirt) I work on killing all who I see (You better watch your white shirt) I shouldn’t have to tell you My castle is the strongest And while I may forget you Your effort was the bombest The strangest dog in my possession His bark so pure it’s worth obsession I can’t imagine life without it Although I wish his throat were slit Fury leading to a hopeless battle Envy tells me I must bat her Lust brings it all back around And anger makes it safe and sound One more line about the castle It’s in the pictures on your mantle Break into your house for sure Find the matches, start the burn Leading me to wonder if I’m even worth the dirt And while your words bounce off me it never leaves me hurt YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR WHITE SHIRT Nowhere to hide from me (You better watch your white shirt) Be the man I want to be (You better watch your white shirt) And just because the people hate me (You better watch your white shirt) I work on killing all who I see (You better watch your white shirt)

Michael- ???? Jacob- A flaccid oil drum, throw your trash into the basket Bonus free-throw points if you make it Naked lungs, no liver failure Gold bricks amongst the mold Hold tight, internal stitches Not a scar to behold Not one scar I can’t see why life’s worth living any other way These ropes tied to me drag me downward With weights inside the vat Patrick- I think you've always heard it wrong. You've become a sheep in wolf's clothing. You stand taller than your legs can stretch. I can hear your bones popping. Come down here with the rest of us. Nicholas- ????

Patrick and Jacob- The whole world dissolves in my Erlenmeyer flask A compound too unstable for any other man All our bonds have broken I watched you rise like steam from the flame. I wish we could go back to the science again. Remember we were scientists? Remember we were the best of friends? Now our cards are on the periodic table Now our acids are bases again. Patrick- My dear friend, it's been ages since we last spoke. And I see you have built an empire on the soiled remains of our once respected science. This could be the foundation for progress. But you’ve turned it into oppression. Patrick and Jacob- The whole world dissolves in my Erlenmeyer flask A compound too unstable for any other man All our bonds have broken I watched you rise like steam from the flame. I wish we could go back to the science again. Remember we were scientists? Remember we were the best of friends? Now our cards are on the periodic table Now our acids are bases again. Patrick- I see you standing on your tower so tall. But I remember how all your ideas were so small. Jacob- You don’t understand the gravity of this situation My knowledge is so vast it would flood the world if a leak were sprung by a skull incision How dare you call yourself a scientist You’re nothing more than a sci-fi hobbyist I’m so smart I could be a god But then I wouldn’t exist Being that self aware Is what makes me a scientist Patrick- You don't understand the gravity of the entire planet. I think your mind has sprung a leak because you've become a time bomb. You have made yourself a god and now it's my turn to make sure you don't exist. Jacob and Patrick- Ya'know, I think you should just give my way of life a shot. It's really not that bad. I think you should open up your mind because it's not getting enough oxygen right now. I mean, I have my own castle. It's pretty cool. Yeah, you have your own castle, and you're way way up on the top floor. I think you're the one that's not getting enough oxygen here with how thin the air is, and how thin your logic is, and how thin your way of thinking is. Well, you know what's not thin? What? My castle, these fat stacks, and your mom. Boy, you aren't even familiar with carbon and its many oxides. You should blow my . . . More glass for my vials and flasks, or annotate my research notes because my writing is grotesque. You are just my errand boy. Like a Cratogeomys Goldmani. Now get me a C8 H10 N4 O2, so I can create something great. By the way, I just called you a gopher. Now where's my damn coffee? Congratulations! You memorized the Period Table. You could be a writer for Breaking Bad. Good job. Evolution was wasted on you. After 25,000,000 years you're the result. You can tie your shoelaces without bending over. Your IQ is three digits only because of a decimal point. Never give me a piece of your mind, I don't think you can't afford it. Well, your mind is just like Pi! Irrational! Your quanta is made up of an unusually high amount of strange particles! You're really on the trailing edge of the bell curve! You must be from the shallow end of the gene pool and I think it needed some more chlorine! Well, you're being particularly unevolved today! Stop functioning from your Lymbic system! I'm- I'm not, though! You're like the failed first attempt at Frankenstein's monster! I'm Frankenstein's best monster! Look at my fucking castle! Yeah, well, bro, you better watch your white coat! Yeah, I bet you wish you could! Your eyes are blinded by my white coat! Blinded? Blinded! Blinded by this huge ego of yours! My ego could take your ego! Patrick and Jacob- The whole world dissolves in my Erlenmeyer flask A compound too unstable for any other man All our bonds have broken I watched you rise like steam from the flame. I wish we could go back to the science again. Remember we were scientists? Remember we were the best of friends? Now our cards are on the periodic table Now our acids are bases again. Jacob- This isn't over. Like a dog I lick my wounds. Or a dragon. But I know dragons don't exist. That's why I'm a scientist. But this isn't over.

Patrick- I wish that I could see what comes. I want to see my life with you and know all we go through because I, I know. Stephen- Have you met her? Chained to the wall Voice like a feather Delicate Have you met my Justine? Locked in her state of repose I know that she loves me I know that she loves me Jacob- All these worldly items keep sticking onto life Like thorns on a shirt I’m going to drop them all And won’t ever watch them fall Sitting in the tundra with torn clothes miles away I consider life a challenge I’ll enjoy myself when I’m dead Patrick and Jacob- The sky's alive. Nothing good has come from this It's come alive. Your pulse has gone cold It's teamed up with the sun. Our transmissions are blocked Swallowed whole. And you are left I always trusted you. Boiling on the street Blue majesty. Blue devil. Patrick- White hot as my finger twitched. Knock, knock on the door to unhappiness. Jacob and Patrick- You can’t take my life away, not even I can It is more a skeleton than what I have inside Wasted opportunity, day left unseized You sucked all my blood like a leech With nothing clinging to me I feel the cold breeze it all seems out of reach. Muscles atropheing. Or are they just sore? I wish it could be my call What hold did it have on me before when I don’t miss it at all? From my box I see the stars. They keep me lit. I know no other sheep to count. Kyo- Can't you see my mind is falling? In my eyes, the darkness calls my name. And there's nowhere to hide It's inside us all 'Cause when it enters inside It's inside your souls Feels like the rest of me Feels like the rest of us just died Died All around the macabre bush The monkey chased the weasel All around the mo-berry bush Pop goes the weasel

Buddah- ???? Nathan- What were you trying to say When you looked me in the eye And said that you love me You lied, why? Why? Why would you lie? Keanu- Don’t you worry none, you best be glad Everyone’s in black and they better be sad Only red roses, none of that colorful shit Buried in a cheap suit, that’s what I need None of this bullshit, none of this greed Only red roses, don’t forget. Buddah- ???? Patrick- If I took away your excess Would you still think you had enough? Jacob- I woke up screaming HEY! Ghosts like echoes lingering over me HEY! I’m being watched HEY! I can’t expect this ship to stay afloat Yet you pour all your faith over the rail And pull the hood over your eyes All smiles here captain I wish this port were as safe as the sea Patrick- When we die Who will know we were ever we? There will be no memories. Don't forget me. hisSIXnames- Didn't I kill you? The last time I killed myself. Your soul is a filthy hotel. If you had a heart I would reach right in and rip it apart. A lunch line for the demons drooling hungry waiting for the feast. I will be released. Ryan- There’s a head in Stephen’s shed Patrick- I am not your undoing I am not your monster Jacob- Tighten the leash around the tree Soft eyes stare up at me Small heart glows lightly inside Drown them in acid You worthless filth Lashing hateful whips Shredding his mind, no skin left dry I hope I die, I hope I die But what am I? Just a pilot, unaware There is nothing I’m in control of but my eyes Wreck the ship and let me fly Cut the leash Logan- Dread the day that I can’t turn left out of my driveway Simply because of your geographic location on the map I’ve invested in things before Bad friends, bad trends, and wasted whores I’ve invested in things before I’ve been under pressure and won’t invest anymore Everyone is fucking worthless Next to them you’re almost perfect That’s what makes you worth it Our value is measured by

Josh- I filled my bag with too many bones What a burden to bare Now I open my bag for you Feed me your skeletons Jacob- You accept that you’re lost in this modern art It’d be nice if you thought we’d restart. Patrick- What I am saying The hollow balloon animals Yelped Feeling like static electricity The empty-headed people Popped Think beyond the surface level There is a way to realize The things we hold most dearly Are all just human inventions Remi- The word hate, fuck you We got our speed from mom and dad Surprise hysterectomy I'm fucking gluten free You won't believe how fucking glutenless I am How can you fucking call this aluminum Breakdown via breakdown via 45 revolver you stupid cunt Scalping children at a children's beauty pageant With my hair as long as my lifespan I'm gonna squirm Patrick- Endless Endless Tell me where to send this Outside orders Tell me how to mend this Imagine how water would have tasted When it was all new Recycle the recycled What is so different about you? Nicholas- ???? Patrick- Your voice never ceased, even in my sleep. Jacob- What are you? Always reappear, but always elusive Quiet, sleek, sneak, pace Power hidden underneath Coated in ash, trails behind He walks through the door, hesitates Eyes lock, charges, weapon drawn With murderous fury Contact, a flash, I woke up screaming But did I really wake up?

Phoebe- Fireflies they’re gonna die Hail falls out of the sky Hold hands As we walk with the dead Please shoot me in the head It’s for the best Don’t let me kiss your flesh I want to believe and they wanna deceive I saw the truth and I could hardly breathe It’s an inside job I don't wanna leave this file closed tonight I know what I saw and something doesn’t feel right Corina- Every time I slip it rips through my fingers That rope I left above has grown older and colder A haze of starry night is the only comfort in my absence The night will hold all my lies alive Dalton- I was not the man I thought I was Picking and stabbing at the wounds That are scabbing and it hurts But it's worth it Just to crush your head beneath my foot One day I’ll feel the relief of watching you sleep forever and ever If you die before I wake, I pray to the lord you live another day Just so I can send you to him, on his way Jacob and Patrick- Can't escape this feeling that I'm glad Your plans have failed by your own hand All your bones have broken You sent yourself on a fools errand Your veins are empty, desperately arid Don't forget to write her for all she's done Decaying alone while you sleep in gold Nothing ties better than vine and thorn