SCAPEGOAT LYRICS

1. Zombies

Well never fear my dear
Stay right here
Close to me
Veer yourself away from the windows

I've got my shotgun,
Bring on the dead ones
And my wrath will soon ensue
They were never meant to walk
Will we make it out alive?
God, give me the strength and the nerve
To pop a zombie's head like a zombie deserves

Well the whole world turned upside down
When the zombies rose forth from the ground
Now the whole world continues round
With the zombies

So glow, glow, glow
In the shower of shameless pride
Cleanse as he would have cleansed
God give me the strength and the nerve
To pop a zombie's head like a zombie deserves

I've got my shotgun, and she goes boom
God give me the strength and the nerve
To pop a zombie's head like a zombie deserves

Well the whole world turned upside down
When the zombies rose forth from the ground
Now the whole world continues round
With the zombies

So glow, glow, glowing the shower of shameless pride
Cleanse as he would have cleansed
God give me the strength and the nerve
To pop a zombie's head like a zombie deserves

I've got my shotgun, and she goes boom
Boom

Well the whole world turned upside down
When the zombies rose forth from the ground
Now the whole world continues round
With the zombies

Well they rose forth from the ground
And they turned this whole world upside down
And now thy wrath be spread abound
With the zombies

Well the whole world turned upside down
Yea the whole world turned upside down
Now the whole world is upside down
In a brand new way

2. The Hurricane

Stride forth as you would in last days
It's time to wake up, get up and get out
Or get the fuck out my way
Yea I'm hell bent on a mission
I'm steadfast for a cure
I aim to shake the beasts foundation
To it's very core
I'm coming for ya, that whore
To make a change

Question authority
Question the government
Question all you assume to be true
We made our money off the towers we tombed
We made our money off our land on the moon
Question the government
I want some fucking proof
I want the God damn truth
Was there ever a man on the moon?

Come on baby tell me come on

Hey you down below
You may not have a stage but you have stone
So let us be your rock, to rock and roll
And dance the way you do
Dance the way you do

Change your ways
Question authority
Question the government
Become a staple for your peers through the end of days
Question all you assume to be true
Cause these days they send you to the gallows for questioning
(We made our money off the towers we tombed)
(We made our money off our land on the moon)
(Question the government)
I want some fucking proof
I want the God damn truth
Was there ever a man on the moon?

R.!
F.!
I.!
D.!
Chips in every single person that you see
Overtaxed, overworked, underpaid
Now we're tagged with a radio frequency
It's time to wake up and smell the shit
(We're not that far off)
We're neck deep in it

Let us be your rock, to rock and roll
And dance the way you do
Dance the way you do

Their lies were formed to slowly eat at you
The bugs under my skin are on the creeping again
Join in hands or let us remain
An accomplice in the shadows of our government's gain

Change your ways
Question authority
Question the government
Become a staple for your peers through the end of days
Question all you assume to be true
Cause these days they send you to the gallows for questioning
(We made our money off the towers we tombed)
(We made our money off our land on the moon)
(Question the government)
I want some fucking proof
I want the God damn truth
Was there ever a man on the moon?

Was there ever a man on the moon?
Was there ever a man on the moon?

3. Something In The Way

There's something in the way you held your head
And the light silhouetting the sight
Something's gotta give in this image
For the beauty's ensuring soar eyes and
No one ever knows who will
No one ever knows who won't
No one ever knows who will and who won't

We're practicing the art of wasting away
In the brace of each others arms
Under the sun, my lover and me
What a picture in my wallet this would be
It's all that I need

There's something in the air in which you stand
And the aroma that passes in the wind
Something's gotta give in this image
For the beauty's ensuring my end and
No one ever knows, but i've been dying to tell you
No one ever knows, it keeps me dying to tell you
No one ever knows who will and who won't

We're practicing the art of wasting away
In the brace of each others arms
Under the sun, my lover and me
What a picture in my wallet this would be
It's all that I need
It's all that I need
It's all that I need

She's all that I need
She's all that I need
She's all that I need
You're all that I need
You're all that I need

We're practicing the art of wasting away
In the brace of each others arms
Je suis, my lover and me
What a picture in my wallet this would be

We're practicing the art of wasting away
In the brace of each others arms
Under the sun, my lover and me
What a picture in my wallet this would be
It's all that I need
It's all that I need
It's all that I need

4. Criminal

These days are deranged
We're zombies to the system
Like monkeys in a cage
Cause these days when all we are, are rats in a maze
I'm sick of just a cookie, I want some fucking cake

And I said 'Hey! What a thought?!'
I know it might sound crazy but I think the magic in this world is away
No doubt I'm claiming that the magic in this world is stolen away with age
And I know it to be due in part to society

I'm finding it criminal that the magic in this world
Has long been jarred up in a bag
And stolen away with age
Just a little bit criminal
As the thief is disguised through the money and the lies til we find
We're being stolen away with age

(We're stolen away)
(We're stolen away)
We're stolen away
When black and white replaces grey
(We're stolen away)
And the child within is lead astray

And I said 'Hey! what a thought?!'
I know it might sound crazy but I think the magic in this world is away
(No doubt I'm claiming that the magic has long been chained)
No doubt I'm claiming that the magic in this world is stolen away with age
And I know it to be due in part to society

I'm finding it criminal that the magic in this world
Has long been jarred up in a bag
And stolen away with age
Just a little bit criminal
As the thief is disguised through the money and the lies til we find
We're being stolen away

We're stolen away
We're stolen away

We're stolen away
We're stolen away
We're stolen away
We're stolen away

And I said 'Hey! what a thought?!'
'Hey! what a thought?!'
I know it might sound crazy
'Hey! what a thought?!'
We're stolen away with age
And I know it to be due in part to society

I'm finding it criminal that the magic in this world
Has long been jarred up in a bag
And stolen away with age
Just a little bit criminal
As the thief is disguised through the money and the lies till we find
We're being stolen away

5. Dead In The Nethers

Slowly, suddenly
I'm slowly slipping through the cracks of life
(He said what?)
I'm slowly slipping through the cracks of life
(He said what?)
I'm fucking dying in the cracks of life!
(You're fucking joking right?)

The system
It fucks you
Don't believe what the media tells you
And it's always the same in the morning

Slowly, suddenly
I'm slowly slipping through the cracks of life
(He said what?)
I'm slowly slipping through the cracks of life
(He said what?)
I'm fucking dying in the cracks of life!
(You're fucking joking right?)

The system
It fucks you
Disregard what the television tells you
Population control in the morning

Well I'll right my wrongs
With a new kind of song
Never forgetting what I have
A pen and a pad, a pen and a pad is all that I have
And I'll write my words,
With the tone of the absurd
Never forgetting what i have
A pen and a pad, a pen and a pad these weapons I have

What you choose to move
Or be let moved
Will be the tune we play to you

Well I'm a servant of God
I'm on a mission and I will not be stopped
I'm moving in full swing, not knowing where I'm going
Questioning everything
I have

These weapons i have
These weapons i have
These weapons i have

A dark path through which the future is left unsure
I'm at war

Slowly, suddenly
(He said what?)
Slowly, suddenly
(He said what?)
I'm fucking dying in it slowly
(He said what?)
I'm in the cracks of life
(You're fucking joking right?)

6. The Witness

And oh what a day it was
Sun shining, blinding through the trees
Enough to bring my ego to it's knees

Then along she came
Through the sun and the rain
Through the thick of the fog
Through my fear and my pain
She was a true messenger from God
She was, showing me a sign
Wanting me to keep hope alive she said

'Plant a seed
Watch the magic ensue
Let it blossom be it loved
By something higher above
Let it be known to others that it's yours and your own
As you bathe in the light of the glory that's bestown'

And let the rest roll off with the rest of the run off
Just let the rest roll off with the rest of the run off
Just let the rest roll off with the rest of the run off
Just let the rest roll off with the rest of the run off, she said

And oh was it a dream or not
It hasn't as of yet lost its buzz
Never the less it was what it was

And I know that she came
Through the sun and the rain
Through the thick of the fog
Through my fear and my pain
She was a true messenger from God
She was, showing me a sign
Wanting me to keep hope alive
And so I fight
The fucking whore of the earth
Trying to drag me down, down, down
The devil's playground

'Plant a seed
Watch the magic ensue
Let it blossom be it loved
By something higher above
Let it be known to others that it's yours and your own
As you bathe in the light of the glory that's bestown'

And let the rest roll off with the rest of the run off
(I'm bathing in your light)
Just let the rest roll off with the rest of the run off
Just let the rest roll off with the rest of the run off
(I'm bathing in your light)
Just let the rest roll off with the rest of the run off

In the back of my mind
I let it unwind

God please give me a sign
Adonai be the skip within my stride
For when the whole world sees black and white
Adonai, I see your light

I see your light
I see your light

So through the dark I fight

Oh God
I'm going out of my brain
This world is fucked or I'm fucking insane
Am I insane?!

The fucking whore of the earth
Trying to drag me down, down, down
(The devil's playground)

'Plant a seed
Watch the magic ensue
Let it blossom be it loved
By something higher above
Let it be known to others that it's yours and your own
As you bathe in the light of the glory that's bestown'

And let the rest roll off with the rest of the run off
(I'm bathing in your light)
Just let the rest roll off with the rest of the run off
Just let the rest roll off with the rest of the run off
(I'm bathing in your light)
Just let the rest roll off with the rest of the run off, she said

She said
She said

7. The Room In Which I Sit

Well demons crawl along the walls
Through out the room in which I sit
Yea I'm living it again
Yea I'm living it again

I've made the mistake of letting you in

Same shit, same stench in the wake of the life that I have lived
I'm at the lowest of lows
When low and behold there comes along
That very light in which I've longed
Just to succumb to the opposition

You can never outrun
The past and the things that you've done
Get out of my head

Fuck that I'll never bow to circumstance
It's not what I've done it's what I do
That determines where my soul is headed to
The path I walk, and of it's truth

The time has come
To witness what you've become
I'm going out on a limb here man
But im sick of my sin

Well history repeats itself there in
It is what it is
I should have learned this the first time through
I've made the mistake of letting you in
Only to be buried again in my sin

Again
I've done it again
I'm lost from within
I've done it again
I've lost it
Same story as the last CD
Different me
But am I simply repeating history?

Same sad spot, same gist, same scene
Now do I let go, or repeat history?
Same alone, same all alone
I can't let her go

Well history repeats itself there in
It is what it is
I should have learned this the first time through
I've made the mistake of letting you in
Only to be buried again in my sin

Well history repeats itself therein
Well history repeats itself therein
(I'm letting you in)
Well history repeats itself therein
Well history repeats itself therein

8. The Creative

Our story's been shelved away
And I'm locked inside
Between the depths of page
I now age

But as the river bends bending til it's destined end
This is what he said
And if we never speak again
I will pretend
Cause I've got the imaginative
Along with the creative
Said along with the creative

(I toss and turn)
And I cannot get you out of my dreams
(You fill my mind)
Despite my every try
(Is this for real?)
I'm lost within the seams
(So wrong, so right)
Of a lie

But as the river bends bending till it's destined end
We can only bend so far before we break
And when the waves refuse to break
Then the ground will surely shake
And quake, that it did on that day

And if we never speak again
I will pretend
Cause I've got the imaginative
Along with the creative
Said along with the creative

Along with the creative
Alone with my creative
I'm stepping back to redefine what I'm created for
What I'm created for

For all the things we have lost
(I'm stepping back to redefine what I'm created for)
It seems that nothing worth having comes without it's cost
(I'm living life through the eyes of a creator)
And I'm coming to find
(I'm stepping back to redefine what I'm created for)
The power of my mind
A conscious state of mind

And if we never speak again
I will pretend
(Whatever I want, we're all one in the end)
Cause I've got the imaginative
Along with the creative
Said along with the creative

And so it comes to be
I've created a world in which you're right here next to me
Where all things, all thought transcends reality
I've created a world to which the world will never see

9. Bonnie And Clyde

Our story starts with a boy
Who finds himself in a girl
Outdone, outgunned, on the run without a care in the world
See they had justification
In believing freedom is free

Or so they thought
I guess they must have been mistaken
When they figured freedom couldn't be bought

I think I'm at it again
Cause it feels like
It seems like everyone's eyes are burning a hole in my confidence
And paranoia's at an all time high, as my chest gets tight
FYI, in the midst of a panic attack it's harder to breathe

So from what were they running
And to whom was there crime
You can call it as it lies, for the truth will be disguised over time
Some may say it was nothing, some may say they were strange

Or so they thought
I guess they must have been mistaken
When they figured freedom couldn't be bought

I think I'm at it again
Cause it feels like
It seems like everyone's eyes are burning a hole in my confidence
And paranoia's at an all time high, as my chest gets tight
FYI, in the midst of a panic attack it's harder to breathe

Oh yea it's harder to breathe
It's harder to breathe

I'll cross your T's if you dot my I's
I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine back until the day that we die
We made a pact that they wont take us alive so let's die
Die like Bonnie and Clyde

So throw me a bone
I would die for the world if the world would have it so

They'll probably knock us off
They'd never let us go
So when you find me dead
With a bullet in my head and a note
Be it known I wasn't alone

I think I'm at it again
Cause it feels like
It seems like everyone's eyes are burning a hole in my confidence
And paranoia's at an all time high, as my chest gets tight
FYI, in the midst of a panic attack it's harder to breathe

I'll cross your T's if you dot my I's
I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine back until the day that we die
We made a pact that they wont take us alive so let's die, oh die
Die like Bonnie and Clyde

10. Mother Nature's Revenge

I may be young, but I've got nerve
Nerve enough to say the things that need be heard
I want to save the world
One soul at a time
And I won't stop at the drop of a dime
I won't stop

Soil your carpet, and the carpet you'll clean
As she reaps her sweet revenge upon our scene
Mother nature is handing 'em out
She's ringing hell's bells, bells?! Ah, hell
She's waited on us for so long and now she's happening

Open your eyes, reset the standard
Hold high yourself above the filth
Cause karma's coming around

The end is near, and in clear view
And will be until we change the things we do
We need to work for love, and join in hands
And defend what we hold so grand
I've got a list of demands
And I will see them through

Soil your carpet, and the carpet you'll clean
As she reaps her sweet revenge upon our scene
Mother nature is handing 'em out
She's ringing hell's bells, bells?! Ah hell
She's waited on us for so long and now she's happening

Open your eyes, reset the standard
Hold high yourself above the filth
Breathe in new life, sheep seek your shepherd
Govern this grace we've all been dealt
Cause karma's coming around

And we're all just parasites
And the earth gives back in spite
Of all the hurt that we bring her
You'd think we'd treat her better if we actually knew her
Yea we're all just parasites
We're all just parasites

The kink in the design
Was perfect in design
The parasite

Yea, I'm awaiting the coming of new age
As I sift through the sands of the times
(Sift back to the day when the bells first chimed)
And yea I'm being broken of the "thought to be so"
Life's the reason, we're the rhythm, I'm the rhyme
And the voice of the times
And I will

Open your eyes, reset the standard
Hold high yourself above the filth
Breathe in new life, sheep seek your shepherd
Govern this grace we've all been dealt
Cause karma's coming around!

And we're all just parasites
(We're all just parasites)
Yea, we're all just parasites
We're all just parasites
We're all just parasites
We're all just parasites

11. Manatee

In a perfect world
All people would agree
That given the circumstance we better start to believe
We all are just running
From something we'd never foresee
The ending of humanity, yea

In a perfect world
All people would agree
That given the circumstance
We better get the fuck on our feet
Because we all are just running from something
Something we could never foresee
The ending of humanity
We'll be swimming with the manatee

Our faiths have torn this world apart
We've been misguided, misdirected, misinformed by those elected
And now it's time to take a stand abroad
Praise Jesus, praise Buddha, praise Allah, praise God

Well I'm making amends with myself
To better discern myself
For the better of my own health
I'm learning to love myself
While digging up the dirt I've been dealt

Cause we all are just running from something,
Something we could never foresee
The ending of humanity
We'll be swimming with the manatee

Black or white
Yellow, red
We're the same
It's time to dust off them water wings

Black or white
Yellow, red
We're the same
It's time to dust off them water wings

Well I'm making amends with myself
To be discern myself
I'm making amends with with myself
For the better of my own health

Well I'm making amends with myself
I'm making amends with myself
I'm making amends with myself
I'm making amends with myself

for the better of everyone's health
(I will face myself)
It's best we amend with ourselves

In a perfect world all people would agree
That given the circumstance we better begin to believe
Cause we all are just running from something
Something we'd never foresee
The ending of humanity
(Where you gonna run?
What you gonna do?
Where you gonna turn?
When are we gonna learn?)
We'll be swimming with the manatee
In a perfect world we'll be
(Where you gonna run?
What you gonna do?
Where you gonna turn?
When are we gonna learn?
You better begin to believe it baby)
In a perfect world we'll be
In a perfect world we'll be
You and me in eternity

12. Buy Me An Orangutan

This is the last song
In which I fester my anger
I've been down that road
More than I can remember
My lifetimes have been countless
I'm a mouse in a wheel who's assumed he's been boundless
I've got a Wii, a 360, a PSP
And I'm still so unhappy
What will it take to break through the fake
Consumeristic ways that have lead to our heartache

We're chasing false ideals
We're bred to think are right
We're running in the wheel
The wheel of black and white
Shades of grey, I'm dying to see
In an engine that's ran off of duality
It's cowboys
And Indians
It's batman
And bad guy
We're fucked

We're fucking so pathetic
We must be monkeys

Yea that's right put on those dancing shoes
Like you did your water wings
Now break it down
From the two step to the chugga-chugg-chugg
To the part after this one
To the part after that one

We're all one in the same

Aliens up high
Saucers in the sky
New wave, new age
A new day to turn the page

Hey
Why all the secrecy?
I wanna know what monsters lurk the beds above our heads
(The boogey man is dead)
Yea hey
Dismiss conspiracy
Dismiss everything
Everything is but a dream
So dream
Yea dream
The American dream
The American screams

Oh God, I'm fuckin so pissed off
I've worked this dream for a decade and I'm still not paid
Yea fuck you, who say I do it for the money
I can't even afford bread, butter, and honey
I'm fuckin hungry for riches
Hungry for fans
Hungry for love
And a better fucking band
So hate me now that I've spilled you my heart
Since I've ripped up my dream and I've torn it apart

Now I can be what you already hate
now I can be what you already hate
I've blown out my brains and I've dug my own grave
This song is the truth of to which I'm a slave
Drop us now, better now than be later
Same sad song, same stupid player hater
All you bitches I just called out the shitter
Band of the month meets the new pinch hitter
This song is a joke and the ball's out the park
Cats out the bag, dog's barked its bark
Desktop is dying, can't even record
I need a new drive of which I cannot afford
I could carry on, but you'd get so bored
Fuck you again, I'm so fuckin floored

13. Trees

Well so long's been the day since I braced a tree
Since I, tried to conquer something bigger than me
For I thought
That I could never go back
Yet here I stand in the midst of them
Learning what it means to be a child again
And I know
It's not too late to go back

And won't that be the day?
When we molecularly meltdown the walls we once held raised
And suddenly, suddenly we're climbing trees
Limber are our members like the children that we use to be
When you say play
When you say play

Well my joints don't hurt when they normally would
And my knees are doing things that I never thought that they could
They're going back in time
Empowered by the memories, of me as a youngin running through the trees
And i know, it's not too late to go back
Cause I'm back now

And wont that be the day?
When we atomically breakdown the walls we once held raised
And suddenly, suddenly we're climbing trees
Limber are our members like the children that we use to be
When you say play
When you say play
It's time for us to play, oh
It's time for us to play

Well times are dire and I think it's time we found a way
To bring our inner children back from where they've gone astray
For life is short and sure to expire
It's time we spread love instead of spreading the fire
Yea times are dire, I'll say it again
To truly change the world, we need to change the way we're living
For life is short and I think it's time we found a way
To kick our shoes off and play

And wont that be the day?
When we molecularly meltdown the walls we once held raised
(Walls we once held raised)
And suddenly, suddenly we're climbing trees
Limber are our members like the children that we use to be
When you say play
When you say play

Well I'll be everything that you want me to be
(Well I'm a child in your eyes)
And I'll give my life to humanity
(I am always in your eyes)
I'll make my way to the top of the tallest of trees
Spreadin seeds, spreadin seeds, spreadin seeds, spreadin seeds

So make me only in to what you want me to be
And I will spread the truth from the top of the tallest tree
When you say play
When you say play
When you say play





SCAPEGOAT LYRICS