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Текст песни:

I can still remember
The words and what they meant
As we etched them with our fingers
In years of wet cement
The days blurred into each other
Though everything seemed clear
We cruised along at half speed
But then we shifted gears

We ran like vampires from a thousand burning sons
But even then we should have stayed
But we ran away
Now all my friends are gone
Maybe we′ve outgrown all the things that we once loved
Runaway
But what are we running from?
A show of hands from those in this audience of one
Where have they gone?

Identities assume us
As nine and five add up
Synchronizing watches
To the seconds that we lost
I looked up and saw you
I know that you saw me
We froze but for a moment
In empathy

I brought down the sky for you but all you did was shrug
You gave my emptiness a name
But you ran away
Now all my friends are gone
Maybe we′ve outgrown all the things that we once loved
Runaway
But what are we running from?
A show of hands from those in this audience of one
Where have they gone?

We′re all ok, until the day we′re not
The surface shines, while the inside rots
We raced the sunset and we almost won
We slammed the brakes, but the wheels went on

We ran away
Now all my friends are gone
Maybe we′ve outgrown all the things that we once loved
Runaway
But what are we running from?
A show of hands from those in this audience of one
Where have they gone?

@ Rise Against

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In the face of change
That’s when she turned to me and said,
"I’m not sure anymore..."
And there amidst the waves
And the cloudless skies
That blanket the year before
I watch my life wash a shore

Have you ever been a part of something
That you thought would never end?
And then of course it did
Have you ever felt the weight inside you
Pulling away inside your skin?
And then something had to give

Now the lines are drawn
Is this feeling gone?
The best parts of this have come and gone
And now that is all this is
With the reasons clear
We’ll spend another year
Without direction, full of fear
And now things will be different

There’s nothing simple when it comes to you and i
Always something in this everchanging life
And it probably always will
Now that time is getting harder to come by
The same arguments are always on our mind
We’ve killed this slowly fading light

Now the lines are drawn
Is this feeling gone?
The best parts of this have come and gone
And now that is all this is
With the reasons clear
We’ll spend another year
Without direction, full of fear
But now things will be different

And now something has kept me here too long
And you can′t leave me if I’m already gone

Well now something (hey) has kept me here too long
And you can′t leave me (hey) if I’m already gone

Now let′s say that something (hey) has kept me here too long
And you can′t leave me (hey) if I’m already gone

Make the same mistakes we′re always hanging on
Break the promises we′re always leaning on
All this time spent waking up
{Now I} keep this line open to get this call from you
{As you} speak the words that keep me coming back to you
Now this time it′s all different

Now something has kept me here too long and now I’m gone...

@ Rise Against

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Warm yourself by the fire, son,
And the morning will come soon.
I’ll tell you stories of a better time,
In a place that we once knew.

Before we packed our bags
And left all this behind us in the dust,
We had a place that we could call home,
And a life no one could touch.

Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!

Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!

Down!

We are the angry and the desperate,
The hungry, and the cold,
We are the ones who kept quiet,
And always did what we were told.

But we’ve been sweating while you slept so calm,
In the safety of your home.
We’ve been pulling out the nails that hold up
Everything you’ve known.

Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!

Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!

So open your eyes child,
Let’s be on our way.
Broken windows and ashes
Are guiding the way.

Keep quiet no longer,
We’ll sing through the day,
Of the lives that we’ve lost,
And the lives we’ve reclaimed.

Go!

Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!

Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!

Don’t hold me up…
(I don’t need your help, I’ll stand my ground)
Don’t hold me up…
(I don’t need your help)
No! No! No!
Don’t hold me up!
(I don’t need your help, I’ll stand my ground)
Don’t hold me up!
(I don’t need your help, I’ll stand my ground)
Don’t let me down, down, down, down, down!

@ Rise Against

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Are we so alone?
So distant,
So forgotten,
As we think ourselves to be?

These are our lives
But did they ever even matter?
Are we worth remembering?

These machines feed on the tears
Of broken lives and dying dreams
We’re throwing wrenches in the gears
Our lives will not be lived in vain

When this is all said and done
We spent this life on the run
Judged by the company we keep

Our language, buried inside
These lungs that keep us alive
We breathe so selfishly

Promises we plan to break
Are made in whispered voices
‘Cause our despair knows many names

We make mistakes
But we apologize with roses
We never stop to smell along the way

These machines feed on the tears
Of broken lives and dying dreams
We’re throwing wrenches in the gears
Our lives will not be lived in vain

When this is all said and done
We spent this life on the run
Judged by the company we keep

Our language, buried inside
These lungs that keep us alive
We breathe so selfishly

We fell from the sky today
We melt into balls of clay
We sell ourselves everyday
Don’t tell me how to live this way

Pushed so far to the edge
We teeter just on the brink
You can lead me to the bloodbath
But you can’t make me drink

As these machines feed on the tears
Of broken lives and dying dreams
We’re throwing wrenches in the gears
Our lives will not be lived in vain
My life will not be lived in vain

@ Rise Against

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Chairs thrown and tables toppled,
Hands armed with broken bottles,
Standing no chance to win but,
We′re not running, we′re not running.

There′s a point I think we′re missing,
It′s in the air we raise our fists in,
In the smiles we cast each other,
My sister, my brother.

About the time we gave up hoping
We′d ever find these locks still open,
Stumbling on stones unturned,
The hurt we feel, we all have earned.

The lines we cross in search of change,
but all they see is treason.

Although we have no obligation to stay alive
On broken backs we beg for mercy, we will survive
{Break out} I won′t be left here
Behind closed doors.

Bonfires burn like beacons,
Guiding the lost and weakened.
Flames dance on crashing waves,
Guiding ships who′ve gone astray

Time out, let′s stop and think this through,
We′ve all got better things to do,
Than talk in circles, run in place,
Answers {are} inches from our face.

Although we have no obligation to stay alive
On broken backs we beg for mercy, we will survive
{Break out} I won′t be left here
Behind closed doors.

Black eyes, broken fingers,
Blood drips and I let it run
down my lips into my swollen gums.
When hope is non-existent,
Our instincts all scream Run,
We never turn our backs or even bite our tongues.

Although we have no obligation to stay alive
On broken backs we beg for mercy, we will survive
{Break out} I won′t be left here
Behind closed doors.
{x2}

@ Rise Against

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Wait,
I′m not listening to you now
I wasn′t listening to you then
I know that nothing will be the same again
There′s only so much I can handle
Only so much I can take
Before my knees start to buckle
And my arms start to shake

Have we been here before?
Will we be here again?
I don′t know how much more of me you expect

Standing here right now
And I beg for you to let go
I dread the day you finally do
And I fight for your attention
Too little too late or too much too soon
And how will this plague the time
We share from here on out
And how long will this taint
All these words spilling from my mouth

Have we been here before?
Will we be here again?
I don′t know how much more of me you expect

Standing here right now
Standing here right now
I′m standing!

And have we been here before?
Will we be here again?
I don′t know how much more of me you expect

@ Rise Against

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To the sound of a heartbeat pounding away
To the rhythm of the awful rusted machines
We toss and turn but don′t sleep
Each breath we take makes us thieves
Like causes without rebels
Just talk but promise nothing else

We crawl on our knees for you
Under a sky no longer blue
We sweat all day long for you
But we sow seeds to see us through
′Cause sometimes dreams just don′t come true
We wait to reap what we are due

To the rhythm of a time bomb ticking away
And the blare of the sirens combing the streets
Chased down like dogs we run from
Your grasp until the sun comes up

We crawl on our knees for you
Under a sky no longer blue
We sweat all day long for you
But we sow seeds to see us through
′Cause sometimes dreams just don′t come true
Look now at what they′ve done to you

White needles buried in the red
The engine roars and then it gives
But never dies
′Cause we don′t live
We just survive
On the scraps that you throw away

I won′t crawl on my knees for you
I won′t believe the lies that hide the truth
I won′t sweat one more drop for you
′Cause we are the rust upon your gears
We are the insect in your ears
We crawl
We crawl
We crawl... all over you

We sow the seeds to see us through
Our days are precious and so few
We all reap what we are due
Under this sky no longer blue
We bring the dawn long over-due
We crawl
We crawl
We crawl... all over you

@ Rise Against

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On clearer days I can see the lights from my bedroom door,
On windy nights I can smell the lake as it drifts to me from the shore
The traffic lights silently change a thousand times a day
But I′m still waiting, yeah, and I′m still waiting

And if my hand could block the sun,
Would we ever wake up?
And if I turned back all these clocks,
Would that be time enough?

I can′t remember exactly when this longing began
But I know it wasn′t before the day you touched my hand,
Laugh and shout in blissful daze and numbers are exchanged,
But I′m still waiting, yeah, and I′m still waiting

And if my hand could block the sun,
Would we ever wake up?
And if I turned back all these clocks,
Would that be time enough?

So put your hands where I can see them,
And shut your mouth, I know who you are,
In a world void of feeling or heart
I know that we are the torches in the dark

Let′s break this down, let′s make this count,
Let′s leave this one-horse town, no better time than now
[Repeat x2]

The angels dance like feathers float, they′re here to see and to be seen,
The clock strikes two, the music slows and each one slowly dons their wings,
Once outside they all pair off and hand in hand they leave
But I′m still waiting, yeah, and I′m still waiting

And if my hand could block the sun,
Would we ever wake up?
And if I turned back all these clocks,
Would that be time enough?
Will we ever wake up?

@ Rise Against

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Simply because you can breathe,
Doesn′t mean you′re alive,
Or that you really live.
This life has taken its toll
And she just doesn′t know,
How much more she can give

But here, at the top of the world, where I raise my hands and I clench my fists,
They stand before me below, demanding the answers with flips of a switch

I don′t understand where you got this idea,
So deeply ingrained in your head
(That this world) is something that you must impress,
Cause I couldn′t care less

A need for revolution′s rising, it comes to the surface, gasping for air,
We’re not putting up with this planet one more day much less one more year

I don′t understand where you got this idea,
So deeply ingrained in your head
(That this world) is something that you must impress,
Cause I couldn′t care less

So here and now, in our rotting nation
The blood, it pours, it′s all on our hands now
We live, in fear, of our own potential
To win, to lose, it′s all on our hands now

And I have an American Dream,
But it involves black masks and gasoline,
One day I′ll turn these thoughts into screams,
At a world turned its back down on me

I don′t understand where you got this idea,
So deeply ingrained in your head
(That this world) is something that you must impress,
Cause I couldn′t care less

@ Rise Against

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We are the children you reject and disregard
These aching cries come from the bottom of our hearts
You can′t disown us now, we are your own flesh and blood
And we don′t disappear just because your eyes are shut,
Now tell me

Love, Loss
Like a bullets path
Tear, Through
The cavity of my chest
Lights, Out
Because the fuse has blown

As their castles crumble slowly
We watch them fall
The crown slips from heads unworthy
As we gain control

This is the family that we crossed or never had
This is a war that was lost the day that it began
′Cause it′s the race we run, but it keeps us at the start
And it′s the song I sung from the bottom of heart,
That′s how we

Read, You
Like a polygraph
Not, One
Single bone in your back
own, Up
To how you let us down

As their castles crumble slowly
We watch them fall
The crown slips from heads unworthy
As we gain control

Except for you and me, love
Everyone is the same,
We know, we know, we know, we know
But if to live, we have to be numb
I′d rather know the pain,
I′d rather know, I′d rather know
This happens almost never
But it happened once to me
And this will never be same
The ends we seam together

I′m not after fame and fortune
I′m after you
When I′ve served my time I swear I
will come back for you

As their castles crumble slowly
We watch them fall
The crown slips from heads unworthy
Right on to ours, but I′m after you

@ Rise Against

Текст песни:

Hold on slow down again from the top now and tell me
everything
I know I′ve been gone for what seems like forever
But I′m here now waiting
To convince you that I′m not a ghost or a stranger
But closer than you think
She said, "just go on to what you
Pretend is your life but
Please don′t die on me"

Wings won′t take me
Heights don′t phase me
So take a step
But don′t look down
Take a step

Now I′m standing on the rooftop ready to fall
I think I′m at the edge now but I could be wrong
I′m standing on the rooftop ready to fall

Perpetual motion the image won′t focus
A blur is all that′s seen
But here in this moment like the eye of the storm
It all came clear to me
I found a shoulder to lean on
An infallible reason to live all by itself
I took one last look from the heights that I once loved
And then I ran like hell

Wings won′t take me
Heights don′t phase me
So take a step
But don′t look down
Take a step

Now I′m standing on the rooftop ready to fall
I think I′m at the edge now but I could be wrong
I′m standing on the rooftop ready to fall

I count the times that I′ve been sorry
I know, I know
Now my compassion slowly drowns
I know, I know
If there′s a time these walls could guard you
I know, I know
Then let that time be right now

Now I′m standing on the rooftop
Now I′m standing on the rooftop ready to fall
I′m standing on the rooftop ready to fall
I think I′m at the edge now but I could be wrong
I′m standing on the rooftop ready to fall

Now I′m standing on the rooftop (ready to fall)
Now I′m standing on the rooftop (ready to fall)
Now I′m standing on the rooftop (ready to fall)
Now I′m standing on the rooftop ready to fall

@ Rise Against

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So look in my eyes, what will you leave behind once you′ve gone? (so precious)
You got what you came for now I think it′s time to move on (when will you say)
But these ghosts come alive like water and wine
Walk through these streets singing songs and carrying signs,
To them these streets belong

My atonement lasts the best part of eternity (eternity)
Ran out of hands to count the sin that breeds inside of me (inside of me)
Not this hate but the loneliness has left me here into this mess of

My hands are soaking in the blood of angels
On broken wings, they collapse (will I see the break of day!)
Dark clouds exploded and torrents of rain fell
All these lost halos wash away

Head hung from shame we bear a weight that brings me to a crawl (to a crawl)
These years of longing tell of decades of unanswered calls (unanswered calls)
For a change, cause every day we slip and fall
Kicked while were down, our fists clenched into a ball

My hands are soaking in the blood of angels
On broken wings, they collapse (will I see the break of day!)
Dark clouds exploded and torrents of rain fell
All these lost halos wash away

So look in my eyes, what will you leave behind once you′ve gone? (so precious)
You got what you came for now i think it′s time to move on (when will you say)
But these ghosts come alive like water and wine
Walk through these streets singing songs and carrying signs
To them these streets belong

@ Rise Against

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So come test me, so come break me
So come on intoxicate me
With hands tied behind my back I fight
And wait for you to strike

A new problem we cannot stop them
We′re outnumbered and uncautioned
A rally cry rings out into the night

So pride yourself on what you are
And hold them all to words they can′t take back
I′ve seen a place (it comes) to me in dreams
Where fires die but light still shines for us to see

What did you have to say?
Give me your logic, your definition
The words you twist to justify your position
Of mass starvation and blind airstrikes
Every problem is solved with a fight

Peace won′t be found
Till we′re underground
As long as we live without a sound

So pride yourself on what you are
And hold them all to words they can′t take back
I′ve seen a place (it comes) to me in dreams
Where fires die but light still shines for us to see

Would God bless a murder of the innocents?
Would God bless a war based on pride?
Would God bless a money-hungry government? Noooo!

Would God bless our ineffective court system?
God bless the sweatshops we run.
God bless America?
God bless America? (Noooo)

@ Rise Against

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Break through the undertow, your hands I can′t seem to
find,
Pollution burns my tongue, cough words I can′t speak so I

Stop my struggling, then I float to the surface,
Fill my lungs with air, then let it out

I give it all, now there′s a reason why I sing,
So give it all, and it′s these reasons that belong to me

Rock bottoms where we live, and still we dig these trenches,

To bury ourselves in them, backs breaking under tension

For far too long these voices, muffled by distances,
It’s time to come to our senses, up from the dirt

We give it all, now there′s a reason why I sing,
So give it all, and it′s these reasons that belong to me

Breathe (breathe), the air we give (give), the life we live
(live), our pulses racing distances,
(Breathe) so wet my tongue (give), break into song (live),
through seas of competition

So please believe your eyes, a sacrifice,
Is not what we had in our minds,
I′m coming home tonight, home tonight

We give it all, now there′s a reason why I sing,
So give it all, and it′s these reasons that belong to me

Today I offer all myself to this I′m living for my dying
wish,
I give it all, now there′s a reason, there′s a reason, to
give it all

@ Rise Against

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[Spoken:]
(It is, in the end, whatever the Hell I want it to be,
And when I′m through with it, it′s gonna blow a hole,
This wide, straight through the worlds own idea of itself.
They′re throwing bottles at your house.
Come on, lets go break their arms.)

You talk about the way things were,
But I can′t hear what you′re saying.
A time when life was not this hard,
Blessed by the innocence.

Is the best yet to come?
Or did it pass by long ago?
Are we holding on to a thread,
Of something already dead?

I′m not your reason to stand up straight,
Shoulders back, chest out, and eyes raised.
Stepping back, I hesitate.
I can′t let myself be taken.

Is the best yet to come?
Or did it pass by long ago?
Are we holding on to a thread,
Of something already dead?

You can′t change your mind, expect me to care.
You can′t just snap your fingers and expect me to be there.
[2x]
Can′t just change your mind.

The reception fades, the signals breaking up.
And am I moving on or am I giving up?
If you walk away from this with anything,
Live your life today.

@ Rise Against

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If I could paint how I feel,
I′d draw bullseye on your forehead
My anger is not misdirected
Unless it somehow misses you

Time spent on hate, is time gone to waste,
I watch you point and click your life away

So cast the stones that I′ll gladly catch
And I′ll throw them right fucking back,
I stand behind the things I say,
You type the words you won′t say to my face

Time spent on hate, is time gone to waste,
I watch you point and click your life away

It seems you′ve let me go again,
Just like the day you let me in,
The best of intentions, you were never mine to begin with

So step away from the fucking screen,
See a world outside your scene,
Maybe then you will know
And realize the lack of threat you pose

@ Rise Against