Boysetsfire

My eyes have burned
With a fire that I could not prevent
It burned their nation's children
And crushed their patriot
Dead the hate we sent them so many years ago
Returned to haunt them
Leads us against the foe
With out fire
Their land
Our fire
Their wounds
My hands are cold with your blood
Torn to shreds with our kill toys
Sit back and watch the fun
Rated, screened, censored, sedated
Spoon-fed their noxious lies
So many times we've watched silently

How many times can you grovel, how many times can you kneel?
Salute your own surrender, going down with the ships again.
Take this in, silence is golden. You're trapped, You're trapped.

(Good intentions)
Good intentions
(Covered in blood)
Covered in blood
(Get on your knees)
On your knees boy.

..............

The pooling of blood
From your neck to the floor
Makes a beautiful trophy
To parade and even the score
Their words in stone of persuasion in sound
Fall on open ears
And sewn shut mouth taught the answers
Ignored the questions
As we vomit choke and die
Truth is truth is lie
As history portrays this time
Truth is truth is blind
Their money pays for the transcripts we sign
Derailed from birth designed to serve
Everyone knows the solution to the problems
We bought
Credentials unneeded decide for you
The books are written our choice is proof

Always had the dream
Now I have the action
Spent my time hearing "this is wrong"
Broken down disasters smoke filled empty rooms
And life of eye to eye to head to head
You'll never understand what this means to me
Not for approval, not yours anyway
Arrange by the numbers
Arrange by your casualty
Defined by a submission to a common sense
That never had anything to do with me
As friends are made and lost
I always look back smiling
Never moved by struggle fate or cost
I'd rather stay a loser
And laugh at common sense
Then rely on safety nets and reminisce
As they struggle for mediocrity

fall, kneel and beg
crying and blind
just try harder
and you will find the way to everlasting sight
don't take this light away, it never did you any harm
just when i thought that i'd find my way
pageantry are all the same
so here i am
defiled and divine
self respect should never have to bleed from my knees
don't take this light away, it never did you any harm
just when i thought that i'd find my way
pageantry are all the same

wait, wait, wait for something to happen
wait, wait, wait to understand
wait, wait, wait for something to happen
wait, wait, wait to understand

i slip, i grasp, i always miss in cycles
fallen angels never regain control
fallen angels never fully regain control

So you been to schools
For a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car
Thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl

Play ethnicky jazz
To parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin that you know
How the niggers feel cold
And the slums got so much soul

It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear...
Brace yourself, my dear...

It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough, kid, but it's life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife

You're a star-belly sneech
You suck like a leach
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch
So you can get rich
But your boss gets richer off you

Well you'll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake

Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son......
What you need, my son......

Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack

Pol Pot Pol Pot Pol Pot Pol Pot etc....

Cause it's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul

How many triggers
Take down an innocent victim?
What does your badge cover up?
How much training does it take
To look into his mother's eyes?
And lie to cover up
It'll be alright
You can probably sleep well tonight
If your conscience doesn't burn
Explain to me
And a young man's family
What your bullets can't explain
And lie as you curse their children
I wonder if they'll understand
And hide the casualties of war
Black and white and poor all over
Survival of the fittest
Wallets turn to critics
Hurry scramble for your out
But don't forget when your victims have had enough
The gun can be turned around
It'll be alright
You can probably sleep well tonight
If your conscience doesn't burn
Explain to me
And a young man's family
What your bullets can't explain
And lie as you curse their children
I wonder if they understand
Hide the casualties of war
Black and white and poor all over
Stand and deliver
Justice from your ego
Slash and burn and then sort out
Rage doesn't care where the scope is centered
Human targets turn to bloody trophies
How does it feel to be the one on top?
Enjoy that feeling and hold it tight
Cause soon the gun will be turned around
The gun will soon be turned around
Time runs out in the blink of eyes
Record everything you've done all over
You forget that we have nothing left to lose
And you lie as you curse their children
I wonder if they understand
Hide the casualties of war
Black and white and poor all over
Lie as you curse their children
I wonder if they understand
It'll be alright
You can probably sleep well tonight
If your conscience doesn't burn
And explain to me
And a young man's family
What your bullets can't explain
Explain to me
And a young man's family
What your bullets can't explain

She packed my bags last night, preflight
Zero hour, nine a.m.
And I'm gonna be high
As a kite by then

I miss the earth so much
I miss my wife
It's lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight

And I think it's gonna be a long, long, time
'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Ah, no no no...
I'm a rocket man
Rocket man
Burnin' out his fuse
Up here alone

And I think it's gonna be a long, long, time
'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Ah, no no no...
I'm a rocket man
Rocket man
Burnin' out his fuse
Up here alone

Mars ain't the kind of place
To raise your kids
In fact, it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them
If you did

And all this science
I don't understand
It's just my job
Five days a week
A Rocket Man
Rocket Man

And I think it's gonna be a long, long, time
'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Ah, no no no...
I'm a rocket man
Rocket man
Burnin' out his fuse
Up here alone

And I think it's gonna be a long, long, time
'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Ah, no no no...
I'm a rocket man
Rocket man
Burnin' out his fuse
Up here alone

And I think it's gonna be a long, long, time

It's no wonder we're all scared
When our submission makes demands
And who the hell are you
Is it asked or forced to do

Do you pray for holiness
Or just prey on my willingness
To starve, beg, consume
For something you can't prove

If I'm unworthy, it's you that brought me here
I sacrificed so much just to let you own my fears
Please don't let go of me

And I will carry on
With your burden on my shoulders
Where's the white washed tomb out of which your god's been exhumed

A corpse to force my guilt
Through lips you thought you'd sealed
And sins you can't let go
Have blinded you on your throne
And left me here alone

If I'm unworthy, it's you that brought me here
I sacrificed so much just to let you own my fears
Please don't let go of me

While god sleeps the righteous feed upon the meek.
What kind of father sits and lets his children bleed
Don't just stand there show us all if this is true
That your love and mercy isn't for a chosen few

If I'm unworthy, it's you that brought me here
I sacrificed so much just to let you own my fears
Please don't let go of me

shackles kill but look so lovely
maintain reputation
squeezed to fit the mold she's made to
living their aesthetics
giving freely but dishonor
sun peeling resource
glued to paper for their anger, her beauty

someone please acknowledge me
whatever it takes for you to love me

fill me full of shame and let me be a part
in your insignifigant worl
(i will live and die)

pills and fingers help sustain her
need for their approval
eyes as dark and caring holes to
pluck out when unneeded
faith in what she thought she was is
steadily decaying
in her blood she writhes for hours
their victim

someone please acknowledge me
whatever it takes for you to love me

fill me full of shame and let me a part
in your insignifigant world
i will and die

My mouth is full of your inspiration
Cut me, size me down for your regulation
Nothing stands so close to driving
Nothing gets tense or biting
Nothing stands in the way
It's all right
Your walls are still white
Location is everything, or so it seems
Writing down all your "wrongs" or "rights"
In a book you call your own
Stand down
Silence kills the revolution
All that remains stagnant
Dies submission is your resolve
They've given you all the calls
Sucker punched again
Blind... blind... blind

take your reason
' ' ' ' ' ' '
place your bet, boys
' ' ' ' ' '
forget the bloodstains, remember your vision
it's all on your back now, slave
it's all in your trigger finger
you are now the witness of a country's pride
take it to the not-believers
it's your god-given right
' ' ' ' redemption
' ' ' ' '
can you take the screams
when they get stuck in your ears?
slave!
master!
the job gets done for the good of the masses
salvation's a corpse with a morning child
salvation's your leader
burning out the miles
you are now the witness of a country's pride
take it to the not-believers
it's your god-given right
' ' ' 'redemption
' ' ' ' '
can you take the screams, boy?
when they get stuck in your ears
"such a fucking machine"
"trained to kill"
"such a fucking machine"
"yes sir, i will"
(x8) (4th and 7th "yes sir i will" = "*trained to kill*", 6th "yes sir i
will"= "i'm a machine", 8th "yes i will"= "*waaaahhh*!!!"

*note: ' = unknown syllable
* = at the same time as next line

I could lie here for a day
Tongue tied and out classed
Never missing their world that used to be my life
And I can't remember what it was
That I always wanted
But it should have always been this rhyme and reason
Not withstanding
Folded into beauty
And if I hold this here forever
I will never down
And when I loose my ground
I can always remember
This is my reason
You are my reason to stay
I have shed this dry hard shell
Traded its comfort for your eyes
Played with denial
And then denied my own defenses
It's no longer a part of me
These questions, insecurities
You will always be the most magnificent creation

They say that what does not kill you
Only makes you stronger
Well maybe some of us are just too sick
And tired of being so damn strong
And I can't reach for a reason to look in your eyes
Like it doesn't matter at all.
Falling down, crying out
And I'll remember spinning around in circles
Just anticipating what the next stranger is going to do to me
And I'll remember what you did to me
Lying on your kitchen floor
Burning with hate
I want to rip your hands off
I want to rip your tongue out
For every time I have cried
Every time you have lied
Pushed down
Laughing in my face
Pain I've never felt
Hate I've never screamed
And I can't still remember that fucking look in your eyes
Screaming at me like it doesn't matter at all
And now eyes will always lie

I am here, take this
I can't feel anyway
I can't hurt
I can't bleed
But I can kneel as well as you once did

Deep inside, I can hear the screams
Growing louder everyday
Crying out for a new rain

Manipulate my submission
To put your pain onto myself
Momma said that she would save me
The Angels said that they would save me

Deep inside, I can hear the screams
Growing louder everyday
Crying out for a new rain

I can fly
I can fly away
I can fly away from you
Daddy, catch me
I can fly, I can fly away
I can fly away from you (repeat)
Daddy, I can fly away
So why's the pavement look so damn close
Why's the pavement so damn close
Why's the pavement so damn close

Spineless bastards Blood caked bones to bang their drums Resonates in all of us as we dance like suckers In blind delusion Kissing the master's feet Kissing the master's ring Sacrifice ourselves and others to their charm We cheer with every bomb blast ripping through every village Mourning our parents of disemboweled children We split their faces We laugh in their faces Kill yourself with a noose of your own device Strangle off the flowers and leave the thorns to fight Let the peasants eat shit They're surely used to it Our lives grow on And when the next group of unfortunates get their turn at the gas chambers How loud will you cheer for the soldiers marching them on The rich stay rich And the poor die of quietly The power remains the same