Thrice Album

We are saints made of plaster, our laughter is canned;
We are demons that hide in the mirror.
But the blood on our hands paints a picture exceedingly clear.

We are brimming with cumbersome, murderous greed,
And malevolence deep and profound.
We do unspeakable deeds, does our wickedness know any bounds?

Something's gone terribly wrong with everyone;
All the world is mad.
Darkness brings terrible things; the sun is gone-
What vanity! our sad, wretched fires.

We can't medicate man to perfection again;
We can't legislate peace in our hearts.
We can't educate sin from our souls, it's been there from the start.

But the blind lead the blind into bottomless pits,
Still we smile and deny that we're cursed.
But of all our iniquities ignorance may be the worst.

Oh, what little light we have!
It only serves to show
The snares and seeds of wrath
We have already sewn on every path.

There's many who'll tell you they'll give you their love,
But when they say “give” they mean “take.”
They'll hang ‘round just like vultures till push comes to shove.
They'll take flight when the earth starts to shake.

Someone may say that they'll always be true,
Then slip out the door ‘fore the dawn.
But I won't leave you hanging on.
Another may stay till they find someone new,
Then before you know they'll be gone.
But I won't leave you hanging on;
No, I won't be that someone.

And come what may, I won't abandon you or leave you behind
Because love is a loyalty sworn, not a burning for a moment.
And come what may, I will be standing right here by your side;
I won't run away, though the storm's getting worse and there's no end in sight.

Some talk of destiny, others of fate,
But soon they'll be saying goodbye.
But I won't leave you high and dry.
Because a ring don't mean nothing
If you can't haul the weight,
And some of them won't even try,
But I won't leave you high and dry;
I won't leave you wondering why.

And storms will surely come,
But true love is a choice you must make
And you're the one that I have set my heart to choose.
As long as I live, I swear I'll see this through.

We talk to much. We talk in circles
Till we're all spinning 'round
Reaching for reach, in this marry go round

We seem respent(?)
We call it progress
We seen this all before
When all said is done,
Leave cups on the floors

We set sail with no fixed star in sight
We drive by rail in candle light

We're building towers, with no foundation.
We're stacking stone on stone,
Whatever it takes
Makes our modern Books

True progress means, matching the world to
The vision in our heads
We always change,
When vision is dead;

We set sail with no fixed star in sight.
We drive by rail and candle light.

I drugged my heart with doublespeak
And all my misgivings disappear
It helps to keep my conscious clean
The ends will justify the means
And still I'm always careful what I hear

I don't wanna know who really pulls the strings
Just as long as it's not you or me

There's a jackboot toe tap keeping time
While the children dance and play
Honey if think you have seen a crime you just look the other way

I slowly cut my soul away
And piece by piece I sacrificed
To comfort and piece of mind
I keep my toes on the party line
There's nothing wrong dear don't think twice

I don't wanna know who really pulls the strings
Just as long as it's not you or me

There's a jackboot toe tap keeping time
While the children dance and play
Honey if think you have seen a crime won't you look the other way
There's a jackboot toe tap keeping time
while the children dance and play
Honey if think you have seen a crime won't you look the other
Look the other way

There's a jackboot toe tap keeping time
While the children dance and play
Honey if think you have seen a crime won't you look the other way
There's a jackboot toe tap keeping time
While the children dance and play
Honey if think you have seen a crime won't you look the other way

I drugged my heart with doublespeak
(I drugged my heart with doublespeak)
All my misgivings disappear
(all my misgivings disappear)
It helps to keep my conscious clean
(it helps to keep my conscious clean)
The ends will justify the means
(the ends will justify the means)
Still I'm always careful what I hear
(I'm always careful what I hear)

I am in exile, a sojourner
A citizen of some other place
All I've seen is just a glimmer in a shadowy mirror
But I know, one day we'll see face to face

I am a nomad, a wanderer
I have nowhere to lay my head down
There's no point in putting roots too deep when I'm moving on
Not settling for this unsettling town

My heart is filled with songs of forever
The city that endures when all is made new
I know I don't belong here, I'll never
Call this place my home, I'm just passing through

I am a pilgrim, a voyager
I won't rest until my lips touch the shore
Of the land that I've been longing for as long as I've lived
Where they'll be no penalties anymore

My heart is filled with songs of forever
The city that endures when all is made new
I know I don't belong here, I'll never
Call this place my home, I'm just passing through

It's a shame that some must go without,
I was no fool to think it might be my problem.
Needy hands were reaching out,
I kept my spare change and my pride.
And a tight fist.
(And a tight fist!)

Now at the last,
Everything has changed in this pale light
That death has cast on all I've done.
On all I've done.

I'm a good man on the whole.
Who can blame me for the guilt of another one?
I never killed, I never stole.
A small indulgence now and then -- so what of it?
I'm a good man.
I'm a good man.
Am I a good man?
I thought I was...

The rewards of this life now count for naught.
My body soon buried and left to rot.
Good times gone -- how quickly -- an honest past.
My God, now I see how I've squandered each and every breath!

Now at the last,
Everything has changed in this pale light
That death has cast on all I've done.
Now at the last,
Everything has changed in this pale light,
And looking back, I am undone.
I am undone

Fourteen years behind these bars
Twelve foot square of cold cement
I've lost nearly everything
For a crime of which I'm innocent

And all my sufferings lie in momentary pain
While the weight of an endless glory still remains... to me

Dead man walking down the hall
To meet a mess of wood and wire
Lead me to where mean fear to tread
Towards the thing I most desire

And all my sufferings lie in momentary pain
While the weight of an endless glory still remains
So throw the switch on, I know you ain't got a choice
The dawn is coming
All is well, I will rejoice

It never turned out right
With me and you
No matter how I try
To see it through
*We can not salvage it and start again*
Feels like trying to catch the wind
You are a door to which
I've lost the keys
we don't burn so well on this same page
*We can not salvage it and start again*
Feels like trying to catch the wind
And I can't carry on living like this
Talking through glass
You know that I can't be the one
To bare this through maims
You'll see your blames
You're so good to touch
You and your heart
Don't want to care too much
But fall apart
*We can not salvage it and start again*
Feels like trying to catch the wind
And I can't carry on living like this
Talking through glass
You know that I can't be the one
To bare this through maims
You'll see your blames
And so I'm left without a choice but walking out
*You are not whole*
Will never find someone like you
*You had me scream it* and believe you
but my heart is filled with doubt
Don't wanna leave but tell me what else can I do
can I do? [x4]

*We know you'll find sweet innocence*

I crewed on a fair golden ship that
Went down with the dawn of the world
You needed sense in to stop captain to die
For our sails had barley unfold

But we sank shortly after our riot
Once in flame in our power to kegs men
While I swam for my life became voices aloft
Joyful unearthly and dread

Singing over violence
Tie lairs mystery
In one word give his life to
Shade his enemy

Too bone tired to keep my arms moving
To swim or even grasp after straws
On the told you get down into its cold
And infinite indigo jars

I'm singing over violence
Tie lairs mystery
In one word give his life to
Shade his enemy

I thought I must be dead or dreaming
My captains still battered to trade
On the earthly and the over beaming platoon
Breathed his last insane gone with the waves

Your body is a bridge or
Crossing in the sea
Your body is a bridge or
Crossing in the sea

All you great men of power
you who boast of your feats
politicians and entrepreneurs(?)
can you safeguard your breath in the night while you sleep
keep your heart beating steady and sure
as you lie in your bed
does the thought haunt your head
that your really rather small
if there's one thing I know in this life
we are beggars all

all you champions of science
and rulers of men
can you summon the sun from its sleep
and does the earth seek your council on how fast to spin
and you shot up the gates of the deep
and don't you know that all things
hang as you by string o'er the darkness
poised to fall
if there's one thing I know in this life
we are beggars all