~Rise Against~

Would God bless a murder of the innocents? Would God bless a war based on pride? Would God bless a money-hungry government? Noooo! Would God bless our ineffective court system? God bless the sweatshops we run. God bless America? God bless America? Noooo.

We’re broken but still breathing We are wounded but we are healing We pick up right where we left off Breathe on the ashes that remain So that these coals may become fire to guide our way

We’re all okay until the day we’re not. The surface shines, while the inside rots. We raced the sunset, and we almost won. We slammed the brakes, but the wheels went on…

If we just took a step back A bigger picture we might view Perhaps the man in the gutter Is not so different from you

Can there be a place to call our own? Can there be a road that takes us home?

In the face Of change That’s when she turned to me and said “I’m not sure anymore” And there Amidst the waves and the cloudless skies That blanket the year before I watch my life wash ashore Have you ever been a part of something That you thought would never end? And then, of course it did Have you ever felt the weight inside you Pulling away inside your skin? And then something had to give Now the lines are drawn Is this feeling gone? The best parts of this have come and gone And now that is all this is With the reasons clear We’ll spend another year Without direction, full of fear And now things will be different There’s nothing simple when it comes to you and I Always something in this everchanging life And there probably always will Now that time is getting harder to come by, The same arguments are always on our mind Kill this slowly fading light Now the lines are drawn Is this feeling gone? The best parts of this have come and gone And now that is all this is With the reasons clear We’ll spend another year Without direction, full of fear But now things will be different And now something Has kept me here too long And you can’t leave me If I’m already gone Well now something Has kept me here too long And you can’t leave me If I’m already gone Now let’s say that something Has kept me here too long And you can’t leave me If I’m already gone And we make the same mistakes We’re always hanging on Break the promises we’re always leaning on All this time spent waking up {Now I} keep this line open to get this call from you {As you} speak the words that keep me coming back to you Now this time it’s all different Now something Has kept me here too long And now I’m gone

I have learned to stand up and just to walk away.