Riot Act (album) lyrics

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01 - Can't Keep

I wanna shake
I wanna wind out
I wanna leave
This mind and shout

I've lived all this life
Like an ocean in disguise
I don't live forever
You can't keep me here

I wanna race with the sundown
I want a last breath I don't let out

Forgive every being
The bad feelings
It's just me
I won't wait for answers
You can't keep me here

I wanna rise and say goodnight
I wanna take a look on the other side

I've lived all these lives
It's been wonderful at night
I will live forever
You can't keep me here

02 - Save You

Gonna save you fucker, not gonna lose you
Feeling cocky and strong, can't let you go
Too important to you

Too important to us, we'd be lost without you
Baby, let yourself fall, I'm right below you now

And fuck me if I say something you don't wanna hear, fuck me
And fuck me if I you only hear what you wanna hear
Fuck me if I care but I'm not leaving here

You helped me when I was down, I'll help where you're down
Why are you hitting yourself, c'mon hit me instead

Lets pick up your will, it's grown fat and lazy
It's sympathetic as well, don't go on me now

And I'm not living this life without you, I'm selfish and clear
And you're not leaving here without me, I don't wanna be without
My best friend, wake up to see you could have it all, all

Whoo!

'Cause there is but you, and something within you
It's taken control, let's beat it, get up let's go

Oh, you're in your own world, let's see the whole world
Let's pick up your soul

And fuck me if I say something you don't wanna hear, fuck me, fuck me
Fuck me if you only hear the tremble in your head

Please help me to help you help yourself
Help me help yourself, please want me too, please let me to
Help you

03 - Love Boat Captain

Is this just another day this god forgotten place
First comes love, and then comes pain, let the games begin
Questions rise and answers fall, insurmountable

Love boat captain
Take the reigns and steer us towards the clear
Here
It's already been sung but it can't be said enough, all you need is love

Is this just another phase? Earthquakes making waves
Trying to shake the cancer off? Stupid human beings
Once you hold the hand of love, it's all surmountable

Hold me and make it the truth..
That when all is lost there will be you
'Cause to the universe I dont mean a thing
And there is just one word I still believe
And it's love

It's an art to live with pain, mix the light into grey
Lost 9 friends we'll never know, 2 years ago today
And if our lives became too long would it add to our regret?

And the young they can lose hope 'cause they can't see beyond today
The wisdom that the old can't give away
Hey
Constant recoil
Sometimes life
Don't leave you alone

Hold me and make it the truth
That when all is lost there will be you
'Cause to the universe I don't mean a thing
And there is just one word I still believe
And it is love, love, love, love, love

Love boat captain
Take the reigns, steer us towards the clear
I know it's already been sung
Can't be said enough
Love is all you need, all you need is love, love, love

04 - Cropduster

Light green to green, dark green, brown
Every life is falling down
Brown to black, it's coming back
Dies to be part of the ground
Seed to seedling, root to stem

Eyes, no eyes, there's no difference
Every life is looking in
Swallowing seeds on the deathbed
Dig a hole in the garden

Everyone is practicing
But this world's an accident
I was the fool because I thought

I thought the world
Turns out the world thought me
It's all the other way 'round
We're upside down

Daddy's gone up in flames
But this ain't no movie
This ain't no book you can close
When the big lie hits your eye

Everyone is practicing
Our world's an accident
I was the fool because I thought

I thought the world
Turns out the world thought me
It's all the other way 'round
We're upside down
Down, down, down

Let the fluency set it down, down
Let the fluency set it down
There's an upside of down

The moon is rolling
The moon
The moon is rolling 'round the world
The world
The world

05 - Ghost

The mind is grey, like the city
Packing in and overgrown
Love is deep, dig it out
Standing in a hole alone
Working for something that one can never hold
A face in the clouds
Good place to hide oh my oh

So I'm flying  (away, away)
Driving  (away, away)

Finding hope and ways I missed before, I missed before

The TV, she talks to me
Breaking news and building walls
Selling me, what I don't need
I never knew soap made you taller

So I'm riding  (away, away)
Hiding  (away, away)

So much talk it makes no sense at all
My senses have gone, AWOL, AWOL, AWOL

So I'm hiding  (away, away)
Driving  (away, away)

Passing new friends I won't know at all
Won't know at all

It doesn't hurt, when I bleed
But my memories they eat me
I've seen it all before
Bring it on 'cause I'm no victim

Dying  (away, away)
Dying  (away, away)
Dying
Dying

06 - I Am Mine

The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure, as each breath goes by
I only own my mind

The north is to south what the clock is to time
There's east and there's west and there's everywhere life
I know I was born and I know that I'll die
The in-between is mine
I am mine

And the feeling, it gets left behind
All the innocence lost at one time
Significant behind the eyes
There's no need to hide
We're safe tonight

The ocean is full 'cause everyone's crying
The full moon is looking for friends at high tide
The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied
I only know my mind
I am mine

And the meaning, it gets left behind
All the innocence lost at one time
Significant behind the eyes
There's no need to hide
We're safe tonight
Whoa

And the feelings get left behind
All the innocence broken with lies
Significance between the lines
We may need to hide

And the meanings get left behind
All the innocence lost at one time
We're all different behind the eyes
There's no need to hide, yeah

07 - Thumbing My Way

I have not been home since you left long ago
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven

Counting steps, walking backwards on the road
I'm counting my way back to heaven

I can't be free with what's locked inside of me
If there was a key, you took it in your hands
There's no wrong or right, but I'm sure there's good and bad
The questions linger overhead

No matter how cold the winter, there's a springtime ahead
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven
I wish that I could hold you
I wish that I had
Thinking 'bout heaven

I let go of a rope, thinking that's what held me back
And in time I've realized, it's now wrapped around my neck
I can't see what's next, from this lonely overpass
Hang my head and count my steps, as another car goes past

All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives
Choosing the shiny ones instead
I turned my back, now there's no turning back

No matter how cold the winter, there's a springtime ahead
I smile but who am I kidding?
I'm just walking the miles, every once in a while, get a ride
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven  (3x)

08 - You Are

This broken wheel is coming undone
And the road's exploding
But you're keeping me strong
Rolling along with you

Love is a tower
And you're the key
Leading me higher
When you let me in

Keeping us close, so close
On down the line

Sometimes I burn like a dot on the sun
With no one knowing
But you're keeping me strong
Moving along with you

You are a tower
Of strength to me
The darkening hour
Sees light again

Ooh wah, ooh wah, ooh wah, ooh wah
You are, you are, you are, you are, you are

Love is a tower
Of strength to me
I am the shoreline
But you're the sea
The sea

You are, you are, you are, you are, you
You are, you are

09 - Get Right

I want for to lay down
I'm waiting till sundown
I'm searching the haystacks, water is sunshine
Wait for the moment
The moment between us, the fire is made now
Hot to the touch

I wanted to get right
I wanted to get right
I wanted to get right
With you

Bakers dozen parades
Stand and debate
Out single file, nine in a row, swear if you most
Keeping your boots on, float with the now, hot to the touch
Concrete underground, cast out everyday
Drags of society
Underbelly, beside me, rejoice and follow thee

I wanted to get right
I wanted to get right
I wanted to get right
With it, with you

10 - Green Disease

It's a disease, and they're all green
It emminates from their being
?tion, with occupation

And like weeds, with big leaves
Stealing light from what's beneath
Where they have more
Still they take more

I know, then I don't
There's a stowaway with my throat
It's deceiving
I don't believe him

We can scream, out our doors
Behind the wall a fat man snores
In his dreams he's
Choking tea leaves

Well I guess
There's nothing wrong with what you say
But don't sell me
"There can't be better ways"

Tell the captain
"The boat's not safe and we're drowning"
Turns out
He's the one making waves, waves, waves

I said
There's nothing wrong with what you say
Believe me
Just asking you to sway
No white
Or black
Just grey
Can you feel this
World with your heart and not your brain?

11 - helphelp

Tell me what I wanna hear
This shit's to good to be true
My dear

Tell me lies
Tell me lies, tell me
Tell me lies, tell me

Help me  (3x)
Help me  (3x)

Storybook keeps from hurting me
You see
Shell of the man from the sea

Tell me lies
Tell me lies, tell me
Tell me lies, tell me
Tell me why
Tell me why, tell me
Tell me why, tell me
Tell me lies
Tell me lies, tell me
Tell me lies, tell me

Help me  (3x)
Help me  (3x)

Reservoir
Of hate and fear
Invisible
In repair
A hundred thieves
Cast a spell
This is hell

Help me  (3x)
Help me  (3x)

The man they call my enemy, I've seen his eyes
He looks just like me, a mirror

The more you read, we've been deceived
Everyday it becomes clearer
Clearer  (5x)

Not my enemy
No, not my enemy
Don't speak for me
No, not my enemy

12 - Bu$hleaguer

How does he do it? How do they do it? Uncanny and immutable
This is such a happening tailpipe of a party
Like sugar, the guests are so refined

A confidence man, but why so beleaguered?
He's not a leader, he's a Texas leaguer
Swinging for the fence, got lucky with a strike
Drilling for fear, makes the job simple
Born on third, thinks he got a triple

Blackout weaves its way through the city
Blackout weaves its way through the city
Blackout weaves its way

I remember when you sang
That song about today
Now it's tomorrow and
Everything has changed

A think tank of aloof multiplication
A nicotine wish and a Columbus decanter
Retrenchment and hoggishness
The aristocrat choir sings
"What's the ruckus?"
The haves have not a clue
The immenseness of suffering
And the odd negotiation, a rarity
With onionskin plausibility of life
And a keyboard reaffirmation

Blackout weaves its way through the city
Blackout weaves its way through the city
Blackout weaves its way

I remember when you sang
That song about today
Now it's tomorrow and
Everything has changed

I remember when you sang
That song about today
Now it's tomorrow and
Everything has changed

Change, change, change

13 - 1/2 Full

Climbing over mountains
Floating out on the sea
Far from lights of a city
The elements they speak to me

Whispering that life
Existed long before breed
Balancing the world
On it's knee

Don't see some men as 1/2 empty
See them 1/2 full of shit
Thinking that we're all but slaves
There ain't gonna be

No middle anymore
It's been said before
The haves be having more
Yet still bored

Won't someone save?
Won't someone save the world?

World

World  (3x)

14 - Arc

(Vocals)

15 - All Or None

It's a hopeless, situation
And I'm starting to believe
That this hopeless situation
Is what I'm trying to achieve

But I try to run on
This all or none, all or none

Here's the selfless confession
Leading me back to war
Can we help that, our destinations
Are the ones we've been before

I still try to run on
But it's all or none, all or none

To myself I surrender
To the one I'll never please

But I still try to run on
Oh I still try to run on
But it's all or none, all or none