The Offspring - Rise and Fal Rage and Grace One is for envy And one just for spite The cuts in my heart They show in your eyes Don’t make it better The twisting knife Turns all by itself Move on to someone else Your self-liberation Will leave this behind Beyond slings and arrows That rain on our minds You’ll make it better Shake it off It never mattered anyway If we don’t make it alive Well it’s a hell of a good day to die All our light that shines strong Only lasts for so long And it’s ashes to ashes again Should we even try to pretend? All our light that shines strong Only lasts for so long The banner you’re waving Is burning and red It’s blocking the sunlight That shines overhead You against the world Diamonds and pearls Voices inside you churn Watch the city burn Your own liberation Will leave them behind All the slings and arrows That rain on your mind Don’t make it better Break it cause It never mattered anyway I am the one, your help I’ve refused Your offering hand just set off the fuse I am the rock that pushes away I gave up tomorrow to spite today Too proud to beg Too stubborn to try I’d look in your face And spit in your eye But I’m willing to find what’s really inside And show I am strong enough to Trust in you. Trust in you. Trust in you. Pull me up Quo modo – shadow to light Quo modo – shadow to light Quo modo – pull me up Pull me up Cause I am ready … (waiting…) I am the one who blames only you The flame in my eyes now blackens my view I am the one who wanders alone Darkness inside blocks how you’ve shone Who tied the other End of my rope? I want to move on I want to have hope So I’m willing to change I’m going to try To show I am strong enough to Show me how to lie You’re getting better all the time And turning all against the one Is an art that’s hard to teach Another clever word Sets off an unsuspecting herd And as you get back into line A mob jumps to their feet Now dance, fucker, dance Man, he never had a chance And no one even knew It was really only you And now you steal away Take him out today Nice work you did You’re gonna go far, kid With a thousand lies And a good disguise Hit ‘em right between the eyes Hit ‘em right between the eyes When you walk away Nothing more to say See the lightning in your eyes See ‘em running for their lives Slowly out of line And drifting closer in your sights So play it out I’m wide awake It’s a scene about me There’s something in your way And now someone is gonna pay And if you can’t get what you want Well it’s all because of me Now dance, fucker, dance Man, I never had a chance And no one even knew It was really only you And now you’ll lead the way Show the light of day Nice work you did You’re gonna go far, kid Trust, deceived! With a thousand lies And a good disguise Hit ‘em right between the eyes Hit ‘em right between the eyes When you walk away Nothing more to say See the lightning in your eyes See ‘em running for their lives Now dance, fucker, dance He never had a chance And no one even knew It was really only you So dance, fucker, dance I never had a chance It was really only you With a thousand lies And a good disguise Hit ‘em right between the eyes Hit ‘em right between the eyes When you walk away Nothing more to say See the lightning in your eyes See ‘em running for their lives Clever alibis Lord of the flies Hit ‘em right between the eyes Hit ‘em right between the eyes When you walk away Nothing more to say See the lightning in your eyes See ‘em running for their lives I am the one Camouflage and guns Risk my life To keep my people from harm Authority Vested in me I sacrifice With my brothers in arms Through this doorway What’s on the other side Never knowing Exactly what I’ll find Locked and loaded Voices screaming Let’s go! Come on do it! Here we go Take a life That others may live Oh that’s just the way it goes Shut my eyes It hammers in my head Where it’ll end nobody knows Take a life That ten others may live Oh that’s just the way it goes It’s playing over and over in my head Where it’ll end Nobody knows Stay the course Reasonable force I believe I serve a greater good Smoke and dust Enemies are crushed Nothing left Where a man once stood Through this doorway What’s on the other side Never knowing Exactly what I’ll find Locked and loaded Voices screaming Let’s go! But I’m just doing what I’m told Take a life That others may live Oh that’s just the way it goes Shut my eyes It hammers in my head Where it’ll end Nobody knows Take this life That ten others may live Oh that’s just the way it goes It’s playing over and over in my head Where it begins And where it’ll end Nobody knows Bang bang it hammers in my head Bang bang it hammers in my head Bang bang it hammers in my head In my head In my head Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me Locked and loaded Gonna find my truth Now I’m busting through All hell breaks loose And you can all hide behind your desks now And you can cry, ‘teacher come help me!’ Through you all My aim is true How does it feel? When you have it all? How can you live? With nothing at all? Where do you run? Where do you go? When the holes in your truth Are starting to show? And the rain comes And the world is on my head Crave the sun But I can’t get out of bed How can you take? Without giving back? How does it work? When it’s really cracked? How does it feel … And no wonder Hearts and minds have been won How does it feel… And I wonder How it’s all come undone And the rain comes And the world is on my head Crave the sun But I can’t get out of bed Want it You got it You’re sorry You bought it You’re sliding Want it You got it You’re sorry You bought it Can’t hide it Tell me who do you see Cause you look a lot like me How can you take? Without giving back? Who do you see? Cause you look a lot like me When the day begins All the guilt sinks in And I look on the wreckage of the night Though I try to break free The cycle breaks me Am I ever gonna see the light? All the friends I’ve lost And the pain I’ve caused Have never been enough just to make me stop The lines I draw to look at myself Are turning into somebody else I know how this will end But I’m starting up again Turned around, inside out Cause this way Takes me nowhere – I can’t can’t see a way out Takes me nowhere – I can’t can’t see a way out Takes me nowhere – I can’t can’t see a way out It beats me up When I go there – I know I could start again When I go there – Oh no, here we go again Takes me nowhere – Oh no, here we go again It beats me up Open on this scene A familiar dream Of you telling me what I already know Though the truth seems near You can’t get there from here But you sure know where you’re gonna go As the rumor wind blows My infamy grows Seeing friends above And I hit another low The picture I paint to look at myself Is turning into somebody else I know how this will end But I’m starting up again Turned around, inside out Cause this way But today, if I change And stop digging my own grave I will try, to set things right Cause this way There’s a moment in time And it’s stuck in my mind Way back, when we were just kids Cause your eyes told the tale Of an act of betrayal I knew that somebody did Oh, waves of time Seem to wash away The scenes of our crimes But for you this never ends Can you stay strong? Can you go on? Kristy are you doing okay? A rose that won’t bloom Winter’s kept you Don’t waste your whole life trying To get back what was taken away Though the marks on your dress Had been neatly repressed I knew that something was wrong And I should have spoke out And I’m so sorry now I didn’t know Cause we were so young Oh, clouds of time Seem to rain on Innocence left behind And it never goes away Let’s make this complicated Thinking is overrated We’re busting out Of this shitty little town Green grass and colored lenses Tear down these picket fences Burn in our beds While the city lies sleeping Why oh why? Are we starting up and going down? My oh my Just the two of us in Nothingtown Our superhero play We’ll leave this town today Hold on tighter With my lighter Shining through These city streets are burning Rose red your wheels are turning Make me believe Someday we could really leave Blindfold a new direction Stop asking better questions Don’t figure out That we’re never getting out Why oh why? Are we starting up and going down? My oh my Just the two of us in Nothingtown Our superhero play We’ll leave this town today And I’ll row it if you steer it I’ll yell until you hear it Hold on tighter With my lighter Shining through Why oh why? Are we starting up and going down? My oh my Just the two of us in Nothingtown Our superhero play Our dreams get in the way And I’ll row it if you steer it I’ll yell until you hear it Hold on tighter With my lighter Shining through Still stuck in Nothingtown Still stuck in Nothingtown Come on let’s go Now I don’t know, and it’s hard to explain But it seems like things are just kind of insane Because the world is crying But nobody’s listening So please leave a message on my cell phone I see bullets getting better Biblical weather And that guy on TV is like a total asshole Who are you wearing tonight? Celebrity fundraiser, tight! Black ties making wrongs right How’s your social Band-Aid? I don’t know much I don’t know too much But I know this Shit is fucked up! I guess it’s all about the dream The ends justify the means You know it’s all about the dream The ends justify the means Now thank god for the media, for saving the day Putting it all into perspective in a responsible way With more celebrity news Typical bullshit views I think we’re losing this fight Sponsored by Bud Light And now we’re rockin’ the casbah And taking the flak The genie’s out of the bottle, and we can’t put it back All this stuff It’s overwhelming my brain Can you see the storm comin’? It’s coming this way I don’t know much I don’t know too much But I know this Shit is fucked up! I guess it’s all about the dream The ends justify the means You know it’s all about the dream The ends justify the means Shopping Sprees, RPG’s Ecstasy Atrophy Genocide Pimp my ride Politize Euphemize Injustice everywhere Apathy I don’t care Hurricanes Climate change Huh! Therapy, I won’t tell Rehab and LOL Worldwide calamity TV Reality Euthanize, supersize Death squads and boob jobs VIP infamy Gratify instantly I don’t know much I don’t know too much I don’t know much I don’t know too much She wakes up Rage and grace Pulling me closer, pushing away And me The sharpest thorn on your vine Twisting and turning We’re all intertwined Broken wing Empty glass Words that scream and bounce right back She says, you know We’d all like to rearrange I wish I could fix you And make you how I want you I wish I could fix you And I wish you could fix me I wish I could heal you And mend where you are broken I wish I could heal you And I wish you could heal me Ha la la la …… A beaming sunrise buries the night The setting sun destroys the light Then she says, baby, I’ve gotta get going Cutting each other Without even knowing She sees a million stars like holes in the sky All God’s tears for her they cry And I am in her rain In my perfect isolation I can stay here for awhile Antidotes and revelations Just extend my own exile Wasting away The world’s right in front of me Funny you should say That it’s all in my head Wasting away We’re hitting rock bottom And going down in flames Well it’s not that bad With my lack of observation I can stay in here for days Could you find my motivation I can’t see it through this haze Wasting away The world’s right in front of me Funny you should say That it’s all in my head Wasting away We’re hitting rock bottom And going down in flames Well it’s not that bad Wishing away The world’s right in front of me Call me anyway Cause it’s all in my head Wasting away We’re hitting rock bottom And going down in flames Well it’s not that bad Wasting all my days What would Ivan say Wasting all my days What would Ivan say Wasting away We’re hitting rock bottom Call me anyway Cause I got two friends Wasting away We’re going down together And all in all it’s not so bad All in all it’s not so bad It’s hard to know Where to start and where to go I will never say these words again This time you’re really dead Once followed, but always led You thought you’d rise above it all It’s all inside your head All ripping it up in shreds I know someday you’re gonna fall And I don’t wanna say I told you so But I told you so Now you’ve lost control And I don’t wanna be the rise and fall So gimme more or nothing at all You’re in an awful way Sucked in by what you crave They just can’t wait to see you crawl And you can only laugh Give in to the other half They’re only tearing down your walls They’ve come to see you rise and fall They’re only tearing down your walls They’ve come to see you rise and fall And I don’t wanna say you’ve lost control - — — — — — — — Rise and fall is Good and evil, Appearance and reality, Judgment and reflection. It is to judge and to be judged, To dream and to accept. It is Triumph and despair, Wish and realization, And we are both.
