The Bruisers Album

I can't get what I want
Stood up shot down and it's all happening again
Guess I gotta learn everything the hard way
I'll get right back up and do it all over again

All messed up no place to go
The only way I've ever known
All messed up no place to go

You don't know what you want
Come on and show me something
I haven't seen before
You're talking like you got it together
But it's nothing I haven't seen a thousand time before

All messed up no place to go
The only way I've ever known
All messed up no place to go

I'm sick I'm tired and so dead up
Where's the newest scene and what's the latest sound
Can't you see it's all been done before
And you can't see it cause you just weren't around

All messed up no place to go
The only way I've ever known
All messed up no place to go

Don't let me bring you down
When I'm too tough to be around
Just walk right on by and don't look back
There's a lonely man with eyes of stone
He's seen more trouble than you'll ever know
A piece of him got left behind just walk on by

Cause it's 40 miles of bad road
And I got troubles on my mind
It's 40 miles of bad road
And you ain't got the time so walk on by

When you catch me feeling low
Don't ask unless you wanna know
When you see it in my eyes just turn and go
Thinking bout driving through the desert tonight
Don't know if it'll help but it just might
I'm a million miles away just walk on by

Cause it's 40 miles of bad road
And I got troubles on my mind
It's 40 miles of bad road
And you ain't got the time so walk on by

Do you wanna take drive
Is that what it takes to make you feel alive
You got your own problems and brother I got mine
Cause we all know that's the way it goes
And we all know that it's a long bad road
And sometimes I think t hat's all we'll ever know

Cause it's 40 miles of bad road
And I got troubles on my mind
It's 40 miles of bad road
And you ain't got the time so walk on by

Up in flames and down and out
That's where you find out what it's all about
We're the same they got both you and me
This road ain't easy street
You gotta make your own breaks
Or you're gonna get beat
And spend the rest of your life trying to find
Where you got lost

Go ahead try and break your chains
That's when you'll see that it's all a game
The deck is stacked and the won't let you win
On the street there's a neon sign
It say's take it easy boy cause it's the end of the line
It's a dead end street and it'll break a good man's will

Oh going up in flames
Oh going up in flames
Oh keep trying but it's all the same
Oh going up in flames

I just don't want to hang around
In the bars the streets or the slums in this town
This place is nowhere and that's just where you'll stay
You could say that you think I'm wrong
But you wouldn't last in these shoes for long
Trying to face a future that's going up in flames

Oh going up in flames
Oh going up in flames
Oh keep trying but it's all the same
Oh going up in flames

There's shattered glass on the rocks by the riverbed
Where I used to go to try and clear my head
That's where I found that life is just a game
And that's where I heard the night first call my name

It's a hard line I'll be walking till the end of time
It's a hard line my friend
It's a hard line harder than you know
It's a hard line my friend

The man I am today is not the man I've been
I'm never going back to learn those lessons again
I won't be a face in the crowd that got left behind
Looking for something I'm never going to find

It's a hard line I'll be walking till the end of time
It's a hard line my friend
It's a hard line harder than you know
It's a hard line my friend

You chose your path my friend I chose mine
And maybe we'll meet again at the end of the line
All I've ever got is plenty of hard time
Cause this life I chose is a hard, hard line

It's a hard line I'll be walking till the end of time
It's a hard line my friend
It's a hard line harder than you know
It's a hard line my friend

When you hear me knocking don't you give a second thought
You know who I've been running with and you know that I've been caught
Nothing I can say can change the way that I've lived my life
When you hear me knocking at the gates of hell tonight
You know I'll be knocking at the gates of hell tonight

So when you hear me knocking open up and let me in
Cause this is not a game and nobody ever wins
I could tell you I'm sorry for the things I've said and done
But I'm doing it again it seems my minds a loaded gun
My mind is a loaded gun

There's a stretch of road I've driven at least a thousand times
It's the kind of road that don't forgive my thoughts and selfish lies
I'm headed down that road again and I know I just might
See your face through the bars of the gates of hell tonight
Through the bars of the gates of hell tonight

I thought I'd found my way out but it's too late to put it right
It's the heart of midnight and my luck's run out tonight
I tried to put the past behind I thought I'd seen the light
But it was just the flames burning at the gates of hell tonight

Time is now how much more do you need
To stand up and fight for what you believe
Because in this life you go around just one time
It could all end tomorrow so open your eyes and

Keep on fighting
For what you believe
Never give in

The sure things in life are that you live and you die
You're remembered by what you leave behind
The mark that you leave might carry you on
Or be buried with you then you're dead and gone

Keep on fighting
For what you believe
Never give in

Existence is a struggle well it is quite hard
We take it all for granted till it's in our yard
And then you long for the wasted time that you have lost
There's no going back cause you had your shot

Keep on fighting
For what you believe
Never give in

He bought the car for 500 bucks
It took every cent he had
With a cross taped to the dash for luck
Never wanted anything so bad
Nobody knew he left town that day
Cause they never know he was there
The funny looking kid with the cheap tattoos
And grease stuck in his hair

But he just said
That's the way it goes
When you're around nobody knows
And when your gone life goes on
With a loveless heart and a tank full of gas
He headed out onto the overpass
Gonna take that road wherever it goes

That was 4 or 5 years ago
And that old car's running still
He thinks about going back sometimes
But he knows that he never will
He's been playing with fire and he's been burned
And it's got him feeling low
He just laughs and turns the radio on
Cause that's the way it goes

But he just said
That's the way it goes
When you're around nobody knows
And when your gone life goes on
With a loveless heart and a tank full of gas
He headed out onto the overpass
Gonna take that road wherever it goes

He pulled into town around 9 o'clock
And that's when that old car died
On an empty street with no cars in sight
He just pushed it to the side
He looked up and saw that girl drive by
He just turned and watched her go
She was the best damn girl he'd ever seen
He just laughed cause that's the way it goes

But he just said
That's the way it goes
When you're around nobody knows
And when your gone life goes on
With a loveless heart and a tank full of gas
He headed out onto the overpass
Gonna take that road wherever it goes

Cruisin' down the boulevard where
Chrome was king in the street lights
Where dreams came true every Saturday night
Turning on the radio the nights just came alive
And we thought that life was just to drive

I want, I want to see the day
When we hold to our dreams
Not throw them all away
Once when we were young
We thought our dreams could be real
We packed them into American steel
Life was like a movie then but it was so damn real
We had a fire in our hearts an American steel

Rolling past the boneyard full of memories covered in dust
Forgotten relics that have all been left to rust
Found someone's old '57 someone's dream got thrown away
It makes me burn to see it here today

I want, I want to see the day
When we hold to our dreams
Not throw them all away
Once when we were young
We thought our dreams could be real
We packed them into American steel
Life was like a movie then but it was so damn real
We had a fire in our hearts an American steel

One look in the mirror to comb my hair
Turn the key and I don't care
About anything but miles and miles of road
I know I can't feel this way forever
But here and now I got it together
I got a fire in my heart and American steel
Don't you have any memories that you could never throw away
Something that makes you what you are today
I'm rolling past the graveyard of American dreams
Left to just fall apart at the seams

I want, I want to see the day
When we hold to our dreams
Not throw them all away
Once when we were young
We thought our dreams could be real
We packed them into American steel
Life was like a movie then but it was so damn real
We had a fire in our hearts an American steel

It's a place where greater men than I have gone
And I know my chance will come before too long
To break the chains throw my soul to the wind and rain
To leave behind the light that burns until dawn
If you want to taste the wine you gotta go
At black midnight it's something we all know
The end of the line is a place that we're all going to find
You can meet it on your feet or on your knees

That old open road is fighting for your soul
It's gonna keep on pushing you to decide
Between what is and what may never be
From yourself there's no place left to hide

There are chances that you'll wait for years to see
And places where you'll wish for years to be
And while you're gone you may find your chance has come and gone
You'll chase the wind forever desperately
What keeps a man from chasing down his dream
And what keeps that dream from ever being what it seems
At black midnight it keeps him there until the light
While that highway keeps calling out his name

That old open road is fighting for your soul
It's gonna keep on pushing you to decide
Between what is and what may never be
From yourself there's no place left to hide

Do you ever find yourself living in the past
The life that you lived it was not meant to last
Playing cut throat with an ace up your sleeve
The walls are closing in and you can't leave

Badlands you're living badlands

An empty bottle or maybe it is much more
Your day began by getting up off the floor
You said that you would change but that was yesterday
Feeling so damn weak your mind just goes astray

Badlands you're living badlands

The chances that you're taking are ore than what's given
You've got no excuses for the way that you've been living
Just what exactly my friend have you become
I want some answers not your excuses only you have none

Badlands you're living badlands

I got a car shining bright as day
Tearing it up trying to get away
I'm no dreamer I'm just waiting on the day
When my luck changes and things start going my way

And I hope that tomorrow ain't
More of the same
Death and taxes and who's to blame
I'm a hard working man
That's my claim to fame
And that ol' freeway's calling out my name
Looking for better days

Just when I thought I finally got it down
The rent goes up and my car breaks down
It's a wicked thing when luck turns on you
And if it don't work out what are you gonna do

And I hope that tomorrow ain't
More of the same
Death and taxes and who's to blame
I'm a hard working man
That's my claim to fame
And that ol' freeway's calling out my name
Looking for better days

When I get my chance I'll put it all behind
And I'll take whatever comes cause it's all mine
I'm hitting the gas I got the windows down
And just for a while nothings gonna get me down

And I hope that tomorrow ain't
More of the same
Death and taxes and who's to blame
I'm a hard working man
That's my claim to fame
And that ol' freeway's calling out my name
Looking for better days

I save all my suffering for myself
I won't share the things I feel with anyone else
Try to bury the night leave it far behind
Don't want to call it by name but I think it's the end of the line

End of the line

With a loveless heart I'll face you up tonight
Cause you're the only true thing I have left in my life
I'll carry those demons wherever I go
There's a hot wind blowing but it won't bring me home

End of the line

We're all losing grip we're all on the edge
High above the street on our own personal ledge
I don't know your problems and I can't life your life
We've got a different ball and chain and I can't stop the night
Give me air I need room to breathe those demons are in me
And I can't make them leave
I'm coming up for air and I get pushed back down
It's all up in flames and I can't put them out
Thought I was ready but I watched my chance pass by
And the road I've chosen is coming to the end of the line

End of the line