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EVERGREEN TERRACE
Writer's Block (2004)
Burned Alive By Time (2002)
Loosing All Hope Is Freedom (2001)
Writer's Block
1. Maniac
2. Zero
3. Plowed
4. Stars
5. Knowledge
6. Mad World
7. The Kids Aren't Alright
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. Dying Degree
1. Maniac
[Michael Sembello Cover]
Just a still town girl on a saturday night, lookin' for the fight of her life
In the real-time world no one sees her at all, they all say she's crazy
Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart, changing woman into life
She has danced into the danger zone, when a dancer becomes a dance
It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire
On a wire between will and what will be
She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
On the ice-build iron sanity is a place most never see
It's a hard warm place of mystery, touch it, but you can't hold it
You work all your life for that moment in time, it could come or pass you by
It's a push of the world, but there's always a chance
If the hunger stays the night
There's a cold connective heat, struggling, stretching for defeat
Never stopping with her head against the wind
She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
2. Zero
[Smashing Pumpkins Cover]
My reflection, dirty mirror
There's no connection to myself
I'm your lover, I'm your zero
I'm in the face of your dreams of glass
So save your prayers
For when we're really gonna need'em
Throw out your cares and fly
Wanna go for a ride?
She's the one for me
She's all I really need oh yeah
Cause she's the one for me
Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness
Cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me
Intoxicated with the madness, I'm in love with my sadness
Bullshit fakers, enchanted kingdoms
The fasion victims chew their charcoal teeth
I never let on, that I was on a sinking ship
I never let on that I was down
You blame yourself, for what you can't ignore
You blame yourself for wanting more
She's the one for me
She's all I really need oh yeah
She's the one for me
She's my one and only
3. Plowed
[Sponge Cover]
Will I wake up
Is it a dream I made up
No I guess it's reality
What will change us
Or will we mess up
Our only chance to connect with a dream
Say a prayer for me, say a prayer for me, say a prayer for me
Say a prayer for me, say a prayer for me
I'm buried by the sound
In a world of human wreckage
In a world of human wreckage
In a world of human wreckage
I'm lost and I'm found
And I can't touch the ground
I'm plowed into the sound
To see wide open
With a head that's broken
Hang a life on a tragedy
Plow me under the ground
That covers the message
That is the seed
Say a prayer for me, say a prayer for me, say a prayer for me
Say a prayer for me, say a prayer for me
I'm buried by the sound
In a world of human wreckage
In a world of human wreckage
In a world of human wreckage
I'm lost and I'm found
And I can't touch the ground
I'm plowed into the sound
Will I wake up
Is it a dream I made up
No I guess it's reality...
4. Stars
[Hum Cover]
She thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars
She thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars
She's not at work, she's not at school
She's not in bed, i think i finally broke her
I bring her home everything i want, nothing that she needs
I thought she'd be there holding daisies, she always waits for me
She thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars
I found her out back sitting naked looking up and looking dead
A crumpled yellow piece of paper, seven nines and tens
I thought she'd be there holding daisies, she always waits for me
She thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars
I thought you'd be there holding daisies, you always wait for me
She thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting...
5. Knowledge
[Operation Ivy Cover]
I know that things are getting tougher
When you cant get top off from the bottom of the barrel
Wide open road of my future now...
Its looking fucking narrow
All I know is that I don't know
All I know is that I don't know nothing
All I know is that I don't know
All I know is that I don't know nothing
We get told to decide
Just like as if im not gonna change my mind
All I know is that I don't know
All I know is that I don't know nothing
All I know is that I don't know
All I know is that I don't know nothing
Whatcha gonna do with yourself
Boy better make up your mind
Whatcha gonna do with yourself boy
You're running out of time
This time I got it all figured out
All I know is that I don't know
All I know is that I don't know nothing
All I know is that I don't know
All I know is that I don't know nothing
All I know is that I don't know
All I know is that I don't know nothing
All I know is that I don't know
All I know is that I don't know nothing
Thats fine
6. Mad World
[Tears for Fears Cover]
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
Cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad world, mad world, mad world, mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
Cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad world, mad world, mad world, mad world
Mad world, mad world, mad world
Mad world, mad world, mad world
If I'm in your world
Mad World
7. The Kids Aren't Alright
[Offspring Cover]
When we were young the future was so bright
The old neighbourhood was so alive
And every kid on the whole damn street
Was gonna make it big and not be beat
Now the neighbourhood's cracked and torn
The kids are grown up but their lives are worn
How can one little street
Swallow so many lives
Chances thrown
Nothing's free
Longing for what used to be
Still it's hard
Hard to see
Fragile lives
shattered dreams
Jenny had a chance, well she really did
Instead she dropped out and had a couple of kids
Mark still lives at home cause he's got no job
He just plays guitar and smokes a lot of pot
Jay committed suicide
Brandon od'd and fucking died
What the hell is going on
The cruellest dream, reality
Chances thrown
Nothing's free
Longing for what used to be
Still it's hard
Hard to see
Fragile lives
shattered dreams
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
[U2 Cover]
I can't believe the news today
I can't close my eyes and make it go away
How long...
How long must we sing this song?
How long? How long...
Tonight... we can be as one
Tonight...
Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall
Sunday, bloody sunday
Sunday, bloody sunday
Sunday, bloody sunday (sunday, bloody sunday)
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
The real battle we've begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
Sunday, bloody sunday
Sunday, bloody sunday
How long...
How long must we sing this song?
How long? How long...
Tonight... we can be as one
Tonight...
(tonight) sunday bloody sunday
(tonight) sunday bloody sunday
Lets go
Sunday, bloody sunday
9. Dying Degree
[Nofx Cover]
Dresser drawers are filled with pocket change
Coupons out, cigarettes smoked down to the butt,
Is this what dreams are made
Adding up subtracting down you find
Yourself sucking the rind
Dying degree, graying amie
Final payment made - had you forgot?
The rightful owner of one deluxe cemetery plot
Paisley satin lined how apprapoe
What a better way to go
Dying degree, graying amie
No more eating crumbs
When my pension finally comes
You kids won't eat mush anymore 'round me
Dying degree, graying amie
Burned Alive By Time
1. Understading The Fear That Lies Within
2. No Donnie, These Men Are Nihilist
3. Burned Alive By Time
4. Dear Live Journal
5. Funeral Grade Flowers
6. My Heart Beats In Breakdowns
7. Taking Care Of The Dead Fish
8. Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
9. Absence Of Purpose In The Succession Of Events
10. Heavy Number One (AKA: Shizzle My Nizzle)
1. Understading The Fear That Lies Within
This is everything you know, goodbye.
Take my hand. Here it is.
I will go. I'll be with you.
I will go. I'll stay with you.
See these scars?
They're for remembering.
Priceless mistakes will steal everything.
Who will be your voice?
Who will hear your cries?
Looking back I now know what makes us break.
Fear of all things you don't understand.
Remind me, this numbing has made me see.
Remind me, this numbing has let me sleep.
Remind me now.
Looking back I can see I don't know anything.
I just feel numb.
I just feel numb.
2. No Donnie, These Men Are Nihilist
Pride caused the fall.
Like the ashes you came from,
you'll burn the sky, and when you're gone, no one will cry.
Drown the towns with apathy, set our hearts in water.
Kill the scene with treachery, quenching all, all of our fires.
When you're gone no one will miss you
and when you're dead no one will cry.
Kiss your life goodbye.
You believe in nothing.
3. Burned Alive By Time
This is something I can't handle, I wish I had your strength.
Just one ounce, just one ounce would make me warm again.
Lessons in the wind.
Time's cold hand affects me and bleeds me dry.
I am beaten until my eyes are swollen shut.
Carry the weight of your time, still moving.
Standing up straight while confined, still proving.
Swallowed by humility.
Fear the new change coming.
Still afraid to let it be, facing lifes uncertainty.
Take the new change running.
Only fear, comformity will change you!
4. Dear Live Journal
All eyes must be on you.
It's a pity you're addicted too.
Now go ahead, manipulate them.
Initiating doubt, a new dynamic found.
By sharing all your weightless problems.
All on the outside looking in.
Take this moment to see what you've begun.
Display this moment to show what you've become.
moment "to show" what you've become.
Defined by what you sell, those lies packaged well.
But you know that we can see right through you.
Attention's wearing thin so type it out again.
I hope this all made you happy.
Forfeit all of your integrity for a temporary high.
Lay it all out for the world to see.
Manufacture one more lie.
5. Funeral Grade Flowers
This has come to end.
In moments these flowers will bloom and rot.
In moments your beauty, laid to waste.
Your convictions felt.
Your convictions denied.
Your convictions felt.
Waiting as I saw you fading.
Like everything in time you weathered and you died.
Pull the pedals and rot.
Dead eyes for false lies.
6. My Heart Beats In Breakdowns
Busted scars cut wide open.
Bleeding hearts drip to the floor.
Waiting tender touches to heal unseen wounds.
The brightest eyes can see right through me.
Only her eyes are the remedy.
Exit anger through affetion.
Exit through my finger tips.
Exit anger through addiction.
Exiting to your finger tips.
Trying hard to reach out and touch what's too far away.
Distance will be the death for me.
Replacement comes in the form of dreams.
7. Taking Care Of The Dead Fish
Looking back, no regrets, just lies.
Only pain in descriptions of despite.
This will never be, you will never listen.
Emotions break like glass when memories brush back.
This will never be, breaking from this cycle, falls from the outside.
I can't sleep with your dreams.
I can sleep with my dreams.
Looking back, no regrets, just lies.
Only pain in descriptions of despite.
While you're awake with nightmares of haunting.
Did you forget something?
You forgot to say "goodbye".
This will never be, you will never listen.
Emotions break like glass when memories brush back.
This will never be, breaking from this cycle, falls from the outside.
8. Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
I hope I never give up.
So afraid I'll break the skin.
Do you feel the pain I own?
Can you see the pain I love?
Wrap my arms around my dreams.
Wake up to an empty room.
When will I have hope?
When will I have hope again for this world I hate?
With every ounce of flesh I will strangle self to a new way, new way of life.
Wrap my arms around this dream of apathy.
Strange lust of self conceived inveracities.
Never give in... never!
9. Absence Of Purpose In The Succession Of Events
[Instrumental]
10. Heavy Number One (AKA: Shizzle My Nizzle)
Dying in this dead world.
Bleeding, pass down the days gone.
Surrender is your last acceptance.
This fall just broke my hands.
Forget wiping the slate, let's just destroy the past.
Still alive with the knife as the blade digs your grave.
My back bleeds.
The curse is set the stone is cast.
My back bleeds.
From friends, to idols, to ashes.
Friends... idols... ashes.
Loosing All Hope Is Freedom
1. Sweet Nothings Gone Forever
2. Tevis Sux
3. Failure Of A Friend
4. Embrace
5. Manifestation Of Anger
6. What Would Jesus Do With A Weapon
7. In My Dreams I Can Fly
8. Behind My Back
9. This Wonderful Hatred
10. Look Up At The Stars And You're Gone
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
1. Sweet Nothings Gone Forever
betrayed by a love. sweet nothings gone forever.
please let me go.
you dont know what this has done to me.
i cry for you.
your words hold true though the stainglass windows of my broken soul.
i will stand up strong, reach the end of this quest, one more time.
hold me up again one more time.
praise. hold me up again.
2. Tevis Sux
now i know the consequence of my sins.
take me lord just as i am.
only you can see through into my mind and through all the lies.
and you looking into my heart where we start to breakdown.
peering through my heart now i know the consequences of my sins once before but never again.
3. Failure Of A Friend
through preperation and years of screaming.
it has come down, it has come down to this.
i dismiss all the action taken to scar me.
i'll take it upon myself to bear the pain even as the sale covers the wounds.
and you will never know how this has hurt me
i'll take it upon myself to bear the pain even as the salt covers the wounds
4. Embrace
these walls that we build save me from myself.
in exchange of life for blood i am justified purified made right in your eyes.
for you justified by faith alone in you purified by grace alone.
forgoing the stain of pride with knowing our pain subsides.
we build the walls.
i feel the bite of this world
but i cling to you even under persecution in this world that i hate,
i wait your embrace.
5. Manifestation Of Anger
why do i take my anger and hide in in my heart,
for me to manifest it and it to rot my soul.
pushing out all i had for you now i take my life in your hands.
for i am forgiven.
falling down i cry to you in my hour of darkness.
take my life in your hands for i am nothing without you.
tear the walls down i know that you will in these days
i look away from the light that set forth my freedom.
my heart burns from you to take it all.
6. What Would Jesus Do With A Weapon
the blood that stains your hands will never be washed clean.
shooting victims with the weapon of our design you knew all along teaching us to give in.
so bleed us dry.
i will not be a martyr for your crusades.
this war will never be for you.
7. In My Dreams I Can Fly
im screaming out but you dont hear what i say.
Im grounded now in my dreams i wish to fly away.
i scream with my anger my lungs gasp for oxygen.
when this comes i wont wake up.
i can sleep through lies and infidelity.
i will give all i can.
i will give all i have but i fear its not enough.
im screaming out but you dont hear what i say.
im grounded now in my dreams i wish to fly away
8. Behind My Back
so you think that you are better,
better than this better than all. broken.
you dont know just how i feel.
you dont know just what is real.
so why did you say those things to try and hurt me.
did you think that you were better than this better than all.
9. This Wonderful Hatred
wonderful.
gossip wonders from your mouth to kiss the ground.
did i ask to see you did i ask to follow your words.
its all you want to know.
you let this come between us and your actions break us.
i held onto everyone of your words just to be cut down.
this wonderful hatred finds its way to me
and in your tone i can hear all the lies.
this wonderful hatred towards your words
are like the embers that burn.
it dosent make a difference you want it all.
they turn to ashes and pass us by like the days we never had.
10. Look Up At The Stars And You're Gone
mans fall, a cause for my hatred.
it turns rage and is repressed inside to strike me blind with my anger stricken with rage.
but in me a passion dwells to give all that i have.
i can no longer hide this hate for the world.
i can no longer hide this hate for what you've done.
you take your broken path but never expect me to follow,
ill take your tired lies and shove tham all back down your throat.
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
[U2 Cover]
I can't believe the news today
I can't close my eyes and make it go away
How long? how long must we sing this song?
How long? how long?
Tonight we can be as one - tonight
Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across a dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won?
The trenches dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
How long? how long must we sing this song?
How long? how long?
Tonight we can be as one - tonight
(Tonight) Sunday, bloody Sunday
(Tonight) Sunday, bloody Sunday
Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Wipe your tears away
(Wipe your tears away) Sunday, bloody Sunday
(Wipe your tears away) Sunday, bloody Sunday
And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
The real battle yet begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
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