New Dead Ends

Defeatist

I’ve wasted my life / It’s not too late to pick this shit up

I stood in my own way / You watched, afraid: “Can we be saved?”

The damage we sustained / We’ll carry to our graves

When it’s all in your head / It makes no difference

What the truth is / Cause you can’t fix it

Self destructive and pessimistic / Hindsight blinds ambition

When the clock strikes down, Will your time be up?

Or will you get a grip And say you’ve had enough?

And I / reject / the thought that we can’t help ourselves

I am not defined by my mistakes, But rather what I make of them.

How I carry them along the way, and if I’ll fold / under the weight

Can we be saved, / Or were we yesterday? / Can we be saved, today / In our own way

Defeatist: Put it down / Pick it up. / Defeatist: Put it down / forever

Return to Sender

Knock your head when you least expect it

Memory lost to the depths time

Reminiscent of old, but this time it’s different

Perspective warped, this time it's mine
These walls that surround me resonate of the past

The reason instrumental, something we all know will last

Whispers of existence / speak of what persisted

Looking back in the mirror / future becomes clearer

Now that I’ve come full circle, how did we get here?

A boomerang, now in focus, it's so clear

Consequence fade, memories made. I have changed

Stranger in a familiar place / Packed my bags to save my face

Would you recognize me, or is it too late

Reenforce what's been written / Fortify all that is good

Now that we’ve come full circle, how did we get here?

A boomerang, now in focus, it's so clear

Consequence fade, memories made. We have changed

Parallel lines / congruent times

Eclipsing what we seem to see as our own lives

Tangent to mine / built up for why

Constructing toward the future on this grave of mine

Parallel lines / congruent times

Tangent to mine / this grave of mine

Curtain Call

This is your final warning / For the curtain call

You can’t hide now / Lock you up, or ship you off?

Remember when you told me to sit down in front of all those kids?

Told me my ass was too big?

Or when you said you’d like to bone me?

Over the PA? Mother fucker, I was 16

Or when you preyed on me?

Made me that mixtape in the 8th grade?

Fiona fucking Apple, are you kidding me?

Abolition or isolation?

Lock you up or ship you off?

Not our choice to choose what happens to you

But it wasn’t your right to abuse

A wolf in sheep’s clothes / Your existence, we loathe

Your sins we expose / watch your legacy decompose

They say talk is cheap, you have no shame

Just secrets to keep and no one to blame

You've done wrong / Suffer for your sins You’ve done wrong / Criminal

Abolition or isolation?

Lock you up or ship you off?

Not our choice to choose what happens to you

But it wasn’t your right to abuse

Abolition or isolation?

Lock you up or ship you off?

Not our choice to choose what happens to you

But it wasn’t your right to abuse

Abolition or isolation

Lock you up or ship you off

Rabbit Hole

Hopeless / Swallowing the bullshit

End this / you need to quit

See the lies in the facts you built / Tapping out, absolving you of your guilt

All twisted up in your tunnel vision / it’s up to you; it's your decision

Bullshit spewing motherfucker / Left us all with one another

Maybe blunt but we’re never wrong / Always an asshole, never a con

Always an asshole / never a con

Soulless / choke on the words you spit / Focus

Built to Break

Obsolete / commodity / incomplete / you stole from me

Dependent / on dysfunction / with the guise / of permanence

Begging for a resolution / Like a bullet in my head

No choice no voice no expectations of what comes next

Spoon fed solutions / Sick of the quick fix

It’s not picture perfect / It’s fucking useless

Waiting for the downfall of it all / told that there’s meaning in the fall

It was broken from the start / planned to fall apart / We lost the starting spark

I’ll come crawling back for another round / no need to make a fucking sound

Catalyst for happiness / now has let me down / let me, let me, down

Don't let me down

Here it goes again / This cycle so unsettling
Never set to end / Perpetuating misery
No surprise / you left us stranded / full of lies / its built broken

Broken now and disappointed / who am I if not exploited?

Lost without identity / forgot who we want to be

Billboards brighten up the sky / Tear them down, tear them down

Sold us on another lie, for the last time

If we are what we consume / then I’m set to self destruct

Faulty wires and loosened screws And nobody gives a fuck.

Set to self destruct

Feedback Loop

I did my time / Enduring the lies that you told me / Remember when you said we were family?

Loose ends you tried to tie up around me / But the knots were frayed (but the knots were frayed)

That’s not how the story ends / Turned your back on all your friends

Pushed away every amend / We heard it before and we’ll hear it again

A reflection you’ll never see / An apology you’ll never hear

We could have worked it out / Now it’s for the last time

Blacked out in the kitchen / Caught up in the feedback loop

Self proclaimed protagonist / Got your own version of the truth

Say what you wanna hear / nose up, eyes shut, mouth open

Get fucked for once / we’ve had enough

And I'll take no joy / I'll take no blame / Living a lie / in god damned vain

Blacked out in the kitchen / Caught up in the feedback loop

Self proclaimed protagonist / Got your own version of the truth

Say what you wanna hear / nose up, eyes shut, mouth open

Get fucked for once / we’ve had enough

Blacked out in the kitchen (Caught up in the feedback loop)

Caught up in the feedback loop (Got your own version of the truth)

Say what you wanna hear / nose up, eyes shut, mouth open

Get fucked for once / we’ve had enough / Get fucked for once / we’ve had enough

Running Out of Time

We’re always running out of time / Nowhere to nowhere to hide

If life is worth the wait / Then why do we procrastinate, yeah

We’re always running out of time

One life wasted crossing t’s and dotting i’s

Never really wondered was it worth the sacrifice

You say we keep on going / Going ‘till we're gone

Watching the glass shatter as we move onto the next one

We’re always running out of time / Nowhere to nowhere to hide

If life is worth the wait / Then why do we procrastinate, yeah

We’re always running out of time

Parasite

It’s not a compromise / if you’re the one to gain / Turning a blind eye / to other’s pain

The parts don't seem to fit / Manifested ignorance / Too exhausted to fight / too tired to quit

Let me let you die tonight / you crossed the line

So benevolent, so charitable / to toss down the line

You won't wake up the rooster / No, you'll feed the hand that bites

How could you forget / your own responsibility

The lies they sold for free / that kept us waiting

Hard to be the good guy / with intentions wearing thin

Amazed at your reflection / your disposition makes me sick

You think you're a rebel / we all know your kind / Everything I hate / with nothing inside

The world is your oyster / to claim as your own / Anything you want / while given the throne

You think you're a rebel / we all know your kind / Everything I hate / with nothing inside

The world is your oyster / to claim as your own / Anything you want / while given the throne

It's the beginning of everything wrong

We cannot stand by / idle to parasites

Resistance is key / persistent we’ll be / choke on the lies that they sold you and me

Resistance is key / persistent we’ll be / resistance is key / persistent we’ll be

Misogyny

You’re a fucking loser and I think you fucking suck

Looking at your face makes me want to throw up

You talk (AND TALK) and talk, but not one work I can make out

Drawing circles in the sand waiting for everything to go — south

I’m not your mother, not your lover, you can save it for your shrink

Have you been lying all this time? Yeah, it really makes me think

That you just take (AND TAKE) and take, but I have nothing left to give

Another pawn in your game, but that’s no way to live

Misogyny, always gets the best of me

Don’t pull me in, I’ll never win / Don’t pull me in, I’ll never win

Misogyny, always gets the best of me /

Don’t pull me in, I’ll never win / Don’t pull me in,

Misogyny, always gets the best of me

Don’t pull me in, I’ll never win / Don’t pull me in, I’ll never win

Misogyny, always gets the best of me

Don’t pull me in, I’ll never win / Don’t pull me in, I’ll never win

We have had enough / Talk your shit, we’ll call your bluff

Neon Glow

What's killing us today / that we are blind to? / Veiled acceleration, if we only knew

Only to surface once it can't be denied / By then it's too late to stem the massive tide

How much more fucking pain / will we all have to show? /Feint accumulation, no way we could know

penance will only come once we are not alive / By then the reaper will silently rise

By then the reaper will silently rise

Generations before / bore the burden / left to be the sequel

Corporations beget / built the broken / decay into the weaker

Who do we trust when the trust is broken? / dollar signs are the bottom line

Can’t escape from the final outcome / because the truth is hard to hide

Generations before / bore the burden / left to be the sequel

Corporations beget / built the broken / decay into the weaker

Lying in places that we can’t find

Where will we go when it’s hard to hide?

Buried the truth underneath the shine

Swept aside all of the grit and grime

Crafting an exit before the fall

Watching the walls close in on us all

Chirality

The sum of its parts / will not always equal

What everyone here expects it to be

We must not forget / that order is crucial

And some of them won’t ever be able to see

I can’t fathom a world where these two are the same

Won’t live in your reality, it is just insane

I’lll take the right, you’ll take the left

No doubt we’ll ever meet again, a fitting image

I'll take the right, you take the left

Together we can sort out what we need and leave the rest

Bonds were made / built to break / by design

Hand that was off to begin / Gave me nothing to hold on to

Chirality it seems to me / More than just reality

Chirality; it’s not up to me

Reflections of demons / distort without reason

Reflections of demons / contort into treason

I won’t rot

Manic/Panic

Warped by the mind and fucked in the head

A slow trickle filling this cup up with dread

Maintain composure, it won't seem to quit

Melting away with each piercing drip

Acting unaffected by this new self hate / it’s on your face

Racing undetermined, leave it up to fate crushed by the weight

Paranoid and trapped / you've got me bounded

Lost by perception / trapped in unfounded

A misplaced reaction / presented a crisis over and over again

Internal confliction / we/ve come to despise us

Never was true to begin

My whispering screams now ain't what it seems

Can't tell my nightmares from my sweet dreams

My mentality breaking ranks and shooting off blanks

Hey thanks for the angst

I stay where I love and hate my fate

Consuming too much off my empty plate

From organic manic to panic and im going down like the fucking titanic

Drop the compulsion of anxiety

Never as simple as it used to be

Drowning in logic but it's dark to me

Without direction / I cannot see

Mist blinds us all / No end in sight

Reject your church / Deny your steeple

In one hundred years it's all new people

Reject your church / Deny your steeple

In one hundred years it's all new people

Reject your church / Deny your steeple

In one hundred years / its all new people

Reject your church / Deny

Holding Out for Humanity

Programmed to fall down / Felt the weight of the world on my fingertips

Pre-planned the fallout / And it took all that I had to keep from losing grip

Don't sell me a dead end / Don’t peddle the new lie (blind lead the blind)

Absorbed in the pretend / Left to only ask why

Holding out for humanity / But I’m surrounded by inopportunity

On the brink of insanity / They got me losing sleep and missing out on peace

No justice, just missteps / Pull through and push back til the end

Don’t sell me on a new dead end / If you’ve lost the plot just turn the page again

With all that’s left behind we’re all we have / Brace for impact, we’re all have

I will negate / The avalanche of hate / Raining down (raining down)

I won’t wait / Let’s start today / Burn it down (Burn it down)

I won’t commit to the ignorance / And the indifference

And to your definitions / Of what it means to be human

We can be better than this / And it’s time for us to prove it

No normal, just regrets / New lows I’m trying to forget

Can’t keep up indifference / Push it all away

Holding out for humanity / They got me losing sleep

Burn it down / set your mind ablaze