Moving The Needle Move The Needle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You say you've had enough but You sound like a broken record Burying your head in the sand Like you're looking for treasure You want things to change Without a plan to exchange is Nothing short of deceitful I'll go on record to say it's Long past time we actually Skip the shit and Actually move the needle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We've been skipping and Tripping ourselves up and For what They've been baiting and We just keep waiting for The song to change So strange It time to move the needle On this feeble attempt To keep the record spinning As it always has before Let's raid the record store Let's pick up where they left off And finally move the needle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You say you've had enough but You sound like a broken record Carrying your bread in your hand Like you're breaking it together You want things to change Without a target in range is Somewhere short of peaceful I'll go on record to say it's Long past time we actually Skip old hits and Actually move the needle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We've been skipping and Tripping ourselves up and For what They've been baiting and We just keep waiting for The song to change So strange It time to move the needle On this feeble attempt To keep the record spinning As it always has before Let's raid the record store Let's pick up where they left off And finally move the needle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The world keeps spinning The air keeps thinning Keeping us busy Keeping us dizzy So we don’t realize The same song has been Playing all along Stuck in the same groove Buying the fake news The needle stuck in our arm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We've been skipping and Tripping ourselves up and For what They've been baiting and We just keep waiting for The song to change So strange It time to move the needle On this feeble attempt To keep the record spinning As it always has before Let's raid the record store Let's pick up where they left off And finally move the needle

Keep Running (aka One Last Stop) Keep Running (aka One Last Stop) ~~~~~~~~~~~ I’ll know a day wasn’t wasted As soon as I have tasted All there is to taste I’ll go to my grave With nothing to save Nothing left undone I’ll meet my maker Without a sign of a traitor On this brave face When I die It’ll be the last time I will be content to Stay in one place ~~~~~~~~~~~ No rolling in my grave for me That’s no way to spend eternity I want to live like death Is waiting around the corner Watching me run circles Like I’m running from the coroner Till I’ve done all there is to do When I stop, then you can Pick my plot, plant my cross Then and only then I can finally sleep it off (Till then...stay off my F’ing lawn) ~~~~~~~~~~~ I’ll know a day wasn’t wasted As soon as I have tasted All there is to taste I’ll go to my grave With nothing to save Nothing left undone I’ll meet my maker Without a sign of a traitor On this brave face When I die It’ll be the last time I will be content to Stay in one place ~~~~~~~~~~~ I know there is a countdown Till we all move underground But right now we live Live like we are giving downtown A run for its money I want us all to be out of breath When we finally face a death So never stop Never stop till we drop Never stop running ~~~~~~~~~~~ No rolling in my grave for me That’s no way to spend eternity I want to live like death Is waiting around the corner Watching me run circles Like I’m running from the coroner Till I’ve done all there is to do When I stop, then you can Pick my plot, plant my cross Then and only then I can finally sleep it off (Till then...stay off my F’ing lawn)

Self Made Man Self Made Man ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I never knew my father As well as I thought I should I tried to be a good son Hoped I made him proud In the best way I could Spent half my #life visiting The other half convincing Myself that’s just the way it is That I was and that I am good ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I’m a self made man Though that was Never really the plan If I could have made the choices They wouldn’t have been the same Everybody knows a child’s voice is Never ever weighed the same as It’s hard to know how to be A shining knight, an armored man When you’re just the pawn being Played in someone else’s game ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I never had the role model That I always hoped I would I tried to fake my way through #life and love and prayed In the best way I could Spent half of my #life off course The other half in divorce Convincing my babies that They would be and are so good ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I’m a self made man Though that was Never really the plan If I could have made the choices They wouldn’t have been the same Everybody knows a child’s voice is Never ever weighed the same as It’s hard to know how to be A shining knight, an armored man When you’re just the pawn being Played in someone else’s game ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The eternal struggle The internal juggle Of a man who never grew up I see that little boy Looking up to me Looking for the man I could never be Neither of us knowing.... Which way was up ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I’m a self made man Though that was Never really the plan If I could have made the choices They wouldn’t have been the same Everybody knows a child’s voice is Never ever weighed the same as It’s hard to know how to be A shining knight, an armored man When you’re just the pawn being Played in someone else’s game

A God I Want To Meet A God I Want To Meet I'm not so sure I have anything worth saying I'm not one who gets answers when praying But I can't remain silent Sit here and just hold my tongue The world around you girl Is broken and so violent I have to pray I find the Right words and find the Strength to just start playing And hope you sing along Lord we're trying but still The bodies are lying in the street This just can't be part of your plan Why did you die for our sins If this is the world you left us in Are your hands still tied and The nails still in your feet Help this fellow broken man To understand why You are The God I would want to meet I'm not sure I have A soul that's worth saving I'm not one who does That well with waiting But I can't remain silent Sit here and just hold my tongue The lives around us Lord Heartbroken and ambivalent I have to pray I find the Right words and find the Strength to just start playing And hope they sing along Lord we're trying but still People are dying on their knees This just can't be part of your plan Why did you die for our sins If this is the world you left us in Are your hands still tied and The nails still in your feet Help this fellow broken man To understand why You are The God I would want to meet My days are numbered And there's no escape Maybe I've been praying to a Superman without the cape But, I'll keep singing Keep bringing the like minded Who still have something to say We may all be broken But we're all still hoping That You're not too far away Lord we're trying but still The poor are crying in their seats This just can't be part of your plan Why did you die for our sins If this is the world you left us in Are your hands still tied and The nails still in your feet Help this fellow broken man To understand why You are The God I would want to meet

Lay Me Bare Lay Me Bare ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Strip me bare Take away all my possessions All the sources of my obsessions All the distractions that I hide behind All the collections that clutter up my mind Pry all these crutches from my clutches And we'll both find the real me ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There's nothing I need More than you and me I've been blind but now I see I've just been keeping These restless hands busy Sometimes the hardest thing It giving up what's been easy Hiding behind these distractions Has just been a way to hide… Hide behind a fractured me ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Strip me bare Take away all my excuses All the sources of my abuses All the definitions I used to define All the reminiscence of my troubled mind Pry all these crutches from my clutches And we'll both find the real me ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There's nothing I need More than you and me I've been blind but now I see I've just been keeping These restless hands busy Sometimes the hardest thing It giving up what's been easy Hiding behind these distractions Has just been a way to hide… Hide behind a fractured me ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I want to hear every whisper That’s carried on the wind I want to live in every experience That I find myself in Feel every breath Embrace every death Of things I held onto too tight Lay me naked Lay me bare Then I'll truly have The only things I truly need tonight ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There's nothing I need More than you and me I've been blind but now I see I've just been keeping These restless hands busy Sometimes the hardest thing It giving up what's been easy Hiding behind these distractions Has just been a way to hide… Hide behind a fractured me