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Half Life

by Footlong

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1.
Feel the Rain 04:11
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A foggy haze blankets the sky The street light’s glowing yellow Power lines are buzzing In the quiet still of night I say goodbye and watch you Disappear into the shadows Wondering how it’s so easy for you To walk out of my life Hear the bell ring, a distant sound Calling you back home But to move on You’ve got to face the storm You’re running from Feel the rain break through the clouds Open your arms Let it wash away the pain The time has come to wake your ghosts Or go on dying You turn the key and open the door To a cold and dark apartment You hesitate to turn on the lights Afraid of what you’ll see Photos on the wall Tell the story when it started Now they fill the pages Of a book that you can’t read Hear the bell ring, a distant sound Calling you back home But to move on You’ve got to face the storm You’re running from Feel the rain break through the clouds Open your arms Let it wash away the pain And all the ghosts under your house Will rise up to be born again Don’t hang yourself with all your doubts Cause there’s so much more to live So make a choice, cause I can’t watch You slowly dying A thunder rumbles inside of you But it barely makes a sound The earth crumbles beside you But your feet’s stuck on the ground Lightning crashes and sparks fly But you fail to even see What you want, what you really need Feel the rain break through the clouds Open your arms Let it wash away the pain And all the ghosts under your house Will rise up to be born again Where have you gone? My long lost friend Cause there’s so much more to live So make a choice, cause I can’t watch You slowly dying
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Promised Land 02:58
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I can hear his commanding voice Sitting around the kitchen table I can still see your eyes light up Listening to all his myths and fables Everything you’ve done Been a desperate cry to get attention And still you couldn’t become Who he wanted you to be Just open your eyes Cause beneath it all You’re still a wounded child And you’re throwing away your life Looking for the missing piece A promised land you’ll never reach You’ve played the role of a loving wife But you couldn’t commit To the home you created You’ve tried letting your spirit fly But you wound up lost Distracted and jaded Did you think you could find? A formula to fix what’s missing Are you really surprised? That he couldn’t be replaced Just open your eyes Cause before you know it Time’s passed you by And you’re throwing away your life Looking for the missing piece A promised land you’ll never reach Because it doesn’t exist
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Farther You Fall 03:37
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The perfect home, the life you made You work so hard to play the charade Something’s wrong, you cannot hide it Something missing, you cannot find it Nights in the office eat you away Detached and distracted Marking the days You keep on moving Scared of feeling lost And the farther you fall One day you reach a place Devoid of joy or anger The farther you fall One day you find yourself Waking up to a stranger You sit at the table, with nothing to say Just the sound of silverware Hitting the plate No one hears your thoughts screaming No one feeds the hunger your feeling You turn out the lights And reach for a kiss Like you’re going through motions Checking off a list Lying awake You struggle to hold on But the farther you fall One day you reach a place Devoid of joy or anger The farther you fall One day you find yourself Waking up to a stranger The farther you fall One day the house you built Is abandoned and in danger The farther you fall One day you find yourself Waking up to a stranger The farther you fall Dark and silent you lie You can no longer deny The cancer growing inside It’s eating you up The farther you fall You keep running so hard No matter how long or far You can’t escape who you are It always catches up The farther you fall It’s time to tear off the mask Drive the train off the tracks And finally begin to ask What you really want The farther you fall You’re running out of time Slowly dying inside Stop wasting your life And finally wake up
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Gone 03:18
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Heading home to where I dwell The car just seems to drive itself As the stop light turns to red I close my eyes so I can see A sudden flash of clarity From the traffic in my head But before it comes into focus The moment is gone, gone The moment is gone Gone before my eyes Past our old familiar place The memories we threw away Being young with nothing to lose Now I know I took for granted The happiness that I was handed But dumb enough not to choose And before I had a chance to notice I look up and you’re gone, gone I look up and you’re gone Gone before my eyes How I wish for simpler days Running through this endless maze Trying to make sense Everything I’ve had and lost Reaching for the things I want On the other side of the fence And before I get where I’m going My time will be gone, gone My time will be gone Gone before my eyes Hold on to each moment Cause there’s so much buried Right beneath the surface Before you even notice, it’s gone
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Warning 03:00
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Another lie, another cover And all we hear are the sides that blame each other The same old lines For what they’re selling While the truth gets lost in all the yelling It goes on and on and on and on Till it hard to tell what side you’re on It goes on and on and on and on Till it’s hard to know what’s right or wrong This is a warning What you’re destroying Cannot be put back together This is a warning We’re sick of you whoring yourselves In the name of power and greed This is a warning You can’t keep ignoring us Cause we won’t be here forever It’s hard to care When there’s nothing to believe The TV plays a perfect image Every word has been planned out and scripted No one hears what goes unspoken Backroom deals where promises are broken It goes on and on and on and on While one by one our heroes fall It goes on and on and on and on Till the fabric of our trust is gone This is a warning What you’re destroying Cannot be put back together This is a warning We’re sick of you whoring yourselves In the name of power and greed This is a warning You can’t keep ignoring us Cause we won’t be here forever It’s hard to care When there’s nothing to believe
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Save Me 03:01
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Alone I look upon an endless sea Aboard a boat I built to carry me To a place I’ll never reach And now my throat is dry My skin is worn Walking the beaches of another port Because nothing’s as it seems Are you out there In the ocean sounds? Is the lighthouse still calling? Cause I’m adrift and ready to be found Will you hear my final plea? Save me The warning signs that I chose to ignore The safety lines that I threw overboard Cause they were weighting down on me I watch the other ships roll into shore Wondering what it is I’m looking for Or who I’m supposed to be Are you out there? In the ocean sounds Is the lighthouse still calling? Cause I’m adrift and ready to be found Will you hear my final plea? Save me
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Seasons Of Your Life 03:32
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From winter into spring With every new beginning There’s the fear of never knowing where you’re at And summer days will come When you’re everything to everyone Chasing after love that never lasts Well I know, The riddle may seem so hard But it’s not that complicated There’s only one thing you need to know Hold on to the light the shines inside you Through the darkest winter nights Listen to the voice That’s there to guide you Through the seasons of your life The autumn harvest brings A job, a home, a family And the weight of all the choices that you made Winter comes along so fast It’s hard to find a place to rest Coming to peace with what remains Well I know The riddle may seem so hard But it’s not that complicated There’s only one thing you need to know Hold on to the light the shines inside you Through the darkest winter nights Listen to the voice that there to guide you Through the seasons of your life They’ll be times when the path’s unclear And times you’re lost and lonely Look inside For the strength to show you the way Hold on to the light the shines inside you Through the darkest winter nights Listen to the voice that there to guide you Through the seasons of your life From winter into spring With every new beginning There’s a promise that your light will never fade
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Don't Walk Away 04:03
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The car is packed You wave goodbye Everything you own inside Driving off you fade into the bright morning sun It’s all just begun I remember how it felt On the way to find yourself Living every day With the hope of what’s to come What you might become But dreams grow old and plans change Tell me what will be left When your choices fade Don’t walk away From where you came from Don’t walk away I’ve been where you will go There’ll come a day You’ll turn the corner To find your way back home Speeding up, you miss the signs Chasing a moving finish line It’s hard to feel like your getting anywhere When you’re on the run Shot out the barrel of a gun Someday you’ll have many things With all the pain and joy they bring Struggling to remember how it felt When you had nothing Tied to no one Because every fork along the road Leads you back to the same old place Don’t walk away From where you came from Don’t walk away I’ve been where you will go There’ll come a day You’ll turn the corner To find your way back home
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Watching Over 04:06
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Everywhere I look It feels like someone’s watching over Telling me what to think Giving me the guilt I’m supposed to shoulder I don’t want your I don’t need your Prophets or your laws I don’t want your I don’t need your God It’s time to open our eyes And finally wake up from this slumber Two thousand years of lies Have cast the spell that we’ve been under I don’t want your I don’t need your Prophets or your laws I don’t want your I don’t need your God
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Pictures 03:35
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And there she lies, A smile on a photograph The only remnant Of two lives crossing paths And all the promises We thought would always last Have fallen victim to the wrath of fate In my mind I see her face Every wrinkle leaves a trace The picture still remains Frozen in time Somewhere buried in a drawer she hides In every letter and card I find The words cry out as she comes to life If just for one last goodbye In my mind I see her face Every wrinkle leaves a trace The picture still remains Frozen in time
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In His Name 04:14
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Can you help me understand Cause there must be something there That I don’t get or I can’t grapple Why the words of an invisible man Keep leading armies of our children into battle In the churches and the mosques they kneel To justify the hate they feel It’s time to smash the altar And let reason take the stand Stop polluting our minds With the dogma of God and nation Making us choose a side In a war we didn’t create Fighting for a lie That’s been passed down through generations How many more must die In his name Can you help me understand How you’re so sure you figured out what you don’t know Why you fight for a plot of land Knowing for a thousand years It’s laid barren and fallow And they quote what the scripture says To justify the hate they spread It’s time to smash the altar And let reason take the stand Stop polluting our minds With the dogma of God and nation Making us choose a side In a war we didn’t create Fighting for a lie That’s been passed down through generations Would you believe in the God To which you pray With no one there to blame
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Paradox 04:31
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I wander through a foreign land Following the path of those before and after me Build a castle made of sand Knowing one day it’ll be washed out to sea The more I learn The less I know Still the question remains Am I just a speck of dust? A traveler lost in time? Still the question remains Does anything I do really matter? Still the question remains Everything I believe I can’t prove or quantify Just a joke In the paradox of life Here and gone within a flash It’s hard to see through all the noise to what is real Moments slipping through my hands And I’m left here trying to recapture how they feel The more I learn The less I know Still the question remains Am I just a speck of dust? A traveler lost in time? Still the question remains Does anything I do really matter? Still the question remains Everything I believe I can’t prove or quantify Just a joke In the paradox of life

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released March 5, 2011

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