Hope Of The States

I lived my life between the cracks
I carry sadness on my back
I lose, I know, I always will
I broke your heart and you broke mine
I'm hoping that before I die
I make you up, I hold my due

You live your life without me now
I sit around and wonder how
I ever let you go again

I've got so much good in me
Why can't anyone but you see?

I waste my life when you're not there
I drank until I don't care
I'm sorry for everything



I've got so much good in me
Why can't anyone but you see?
I've got so much good in me
Why can't anyone but you see?

I've got so much good in me
Why can't anyone but you see?
I've got so much good in me
Why can't anyone but you see?

We'll pull it down, piece by miserable piece
Refuse to live our lives
Sell out the only friends we know
We fight together
We die together

We'll pull it down, piece by miserable piece
Refuse to live our lives
And sell out the only friends we know


We fight together
And die together

So my throat is in bits
And my lungs are real sick
I could plaster on a fake smile
And ruin my life in style
I'll build my home with useless guilt
With all the ones that didn't fit
Fill your heart with love today
Until it's all okay
If you're happy in the world tonight
You're lucky that you made it
And everything's alright
If you're lonely and asleep at night
I'm sorry that you're lonely
And nothing's turned out right



If you're happy in the world tonight
You're lucky that you made it
And everything's alright
If you're lonely and asleep at night
I'm sorry that you're lonely
And nothing's turned out right

I've seen broken people smile, they're lying
You can't buy us with your dollar bills
You can't rule the world with your broken rule
No one hopes for anything
When there's nothing at all
No one hopes for anything
When there's nothing at all

What's become of me, I'm trying
Hold me in the dying light
I feel something coming when we've all got nothing


We all hope for anything
When there's nothing at all
We all hope for anything
When there's nothing at all

I'm all washed up at twenty and it's all my fault
If love's an illness then I hope I get it
I got it wrong, I got it wrong, I got it wrong
I spend the rest of my life trying to make it right
Somewhere there's a fight
We are fighting for something we lost
Something that we find
Might save us or make things right

I hope I get the chance to finish what I started
I've always felt like it might be too far
I hope I'm wrong, I hope I'm wrong, I hope I'm wrong
I'm holding on, I'm holding out for something more



Somewhere there's a fight
We are fighting for something we lost
Something that we find
Might save us or make things right
Somewhere there's a fight
We are fighting for something we lost

So my throat is in bits
And my lungs are real sick
I could plaster on a fake smile
And ruin my life in style
I'll build my home with useless guilt
With all the ones that didn't fit
Fill your heart with love today
Until it's all okay
If you're happy in the world tonight
You're lucky that you made it
And everything's alright
If you're lonely and asleep at night
I'm sorry that you're lonely
And nothing's turned out right



If you're happy in the world tonight
You're lucky that you made it
And everything's alright
If you're lonely and asleep at night
I'm sorry that you're lonely
And nothing's turned out right

Nehemiah, last survivor in this cynical world
Sparks come from anywhere, it's the fire that matters
Nehemiah, you are the leader, we all just follow
Sparks come from anywhere, it's the fire that matters
Hear us singing, we sing yeah yeah yeah yeah
No self pity, we sing yeah yeah yeah yeah

Friendly fire, burn the liars, don't feel like your alone
Let them all hide behind their flags and old lies
Nehemiah, sing to the stone, make it turn around
It's all decided before you're born

Hear us singing, we sing yeah yeah yeah yeah
No self pity, we sing yeah yeah yeah yeah

People come on, make a stand
Come on people try again


You're not alone when the lights go off
Stand together when it all stops

Every little second we sing, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
No self pity, we sing yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah...

People come on, make a stand
Come on people try again
You're not alone when the lights go off
Stand together when it all stops

I've got no good in me for anybody
I've been ruined by the lies I told to everybody
It's so desperately sad that my life has come to this
I hope there's something better than this for me
I used to think I had something to say
But my dumb ideologies gave me away
I keep my mouth shut, but it's always the same
Over and over and over again

Today I am wrong again, but it's not surprising
Once more heaven has forgotten me so everybody
Clap your hands together for me, as I watch my world collapse
Don't waste your sympathy on me, cause I made it all

I used to think I had something to say
But my dumb ideologies gave me away
I keep my mouth shut, but it's always the same


Over and over and over again

My mistakes happen so much it's success
But I'll drag you all down into my sorry mess
I said I was sorry, but it's always the same
Over and over and over again

I have been doomed from the first time I tried
To find something to save me from all of my lies
I'm always fake, and it's always the same
Over and over and over and over again

I am burning in a smoke-choked house but
Tonight is empty of warm glows and whispered good nights
Riot, disorder, set the banks on fire
Some old war song used to play here
Once I heard it and the sound it made was sad but hopeful
Stand up, be counted, no one's buying me

I've seen broken people smile, they're lying
You can't buy us with your dollar bills
You can't rule the world with your broken rule
No one hopes for anything
When there's nothing at all
No one hopes for anything
When there's nothing at all

What's become of me, I'm trying
Hold me in the dying light
I feel something coming when we've all got nothing


We all hope for anything
When there's nothing at all
We all hope for anything
When there's nothing at all

Mouths of dust and ruptured windpipe
Fairytales for lying cheats
They're lashing out like wolves in barbed wire
Ring the bells and start the fires now
The red, white and the blue
Has always been what led you
If you don't do something
They'll steal it all from under you

Board decisions, poor children
Watch the world through gunsight eyes
I hijack trainwrecks, sell the wheels
No way out unless you steal it all

The red, white and the blue
Has always been what led you


If you don't do something
They'll steal it all from under you
You beat us black and blue
We're coming back to find you

The red, white and the blue
Has always been what led you
If you don't do something
They'll steal it all from under you

Blind men saw what no-one ever saw before
Someone with nothing standing on the edge of the earth
All roads lead to somewhere else
I know I lost my way
Don't make me a leader, I'll lead you all wrong
Let me just sing sad songs to right all their wrongs
There ain't a change coming soon
Couldn't even save us, no saviour am I
They sold us out for nothing, there's something to say
It's getting worse every day

Empty hearts and winter riot hopeless blues
Ideas for falling why don't you just hold on?

Don't make me a leader, I'll lead you all wrong
Let me just sing sad songs to right all their wrongs


There ain't a change coming soon
Couldn't even save us, no saviour am I
They sold us out for nothing, there's something to say
It's getting worse every day

I couldn't even save us, no saviour am I
It's always that for nothing, there's something to say
It's getting worse every day
I know I'm lying, but I can't let you down anymore
I'm not the one to lead you all