As I climb the mountain, walk the ridges
I look behind at burning bridges
running faster from the smoke
this disaster has me woke

Searching for the best in me
Working on the recipe
for happiness I've not yet known
This final chance will not be blown

Chorus
What I find that rings so true
do your time, don't let it do you
When the day comes, look back and laugh
while entering life's second half
you might stumble, you might fall
Don't end up back behind these walls

End chorus

My life became colder the day that I fell
It's a shame I got older in this prison cell
There's more I know that's meant for me
As my age grows half a century

Soon I will see life through different lenses
not through wire, and miles of fences
Though my freedom is near, it hasn't come yet
and this place struck a fear that I'll never forget

Chorus twice
end

I find it very troubling
that those who make the rules
like preying on the feeble minds
assuming we're all fools
Thinking no one ever questions
the measures they will take
causing everyone to panic
cause there are "others lives at stake"

There was a time in Germany
when this once occurred
countless people slaughtered
they were "thinning out the herd"
They tried to justify their means
anyway they could
convincing useful idiots
that it was "for their good"

One must refer to history
this now is in our land
some will be taken forcibly
some will smile and take their hand

CHORUS
The old world was just fine with me
I hope the new will never be
Their taking freedoms one by one
We must stand tall, and work as one
We won"t bow to false authority
We're the non silent majority
END CHORUS

So from our homes we'll start to pour
There are more of us than them
Like uncaged lions we will roar
to fix a future looking grim
They tell us to have no large groups
as if it's been rehearsed
but soon we'll jump through no more hoops
this crowd won't be dispersed

CHORUS x2

END

Places I've been
Things I've seen
Most are vile
most unclean
The loss of my most sacred dreams
Arouses my mind's inner screams

I've slipped and tripped
Too quick to fall
I'm now equipped
to say fxxx it all
and kick down the regressive wall
that's held my life up by the balls

CHORUS
Making a change in my world
I'll pick up my own slack
Making a change in my world
Taking what's mine back
This life I've been livin"
can't be the fate I've been given
It's past time to rearrange
I now realize that, I must take my life back
If I don't then nothing will change
END CHORUS

Was running blind
and paid no mind
That I had fallen way behind
I've tested and been put to test
and now must overcome
this fear of success.

BRIDGE

It's better to be glad you didn't
than wishing that you hadn't
I wish I would have known
that this was causing my life's madness
Before wasting anymore precious years
sunrises and sunsets
I'll be facing all my darkest fears
and horrible regrets

CHORUS X2
END

The sun glares through the blinds
I guess it's time
to face the music that I wrote.
I wonder does she miss me,
as I drink this fifth of whiskey.
I try to keep composure
as I contemplate the closure.

Chorus

All day, in the back of my head,
Am I trying to revive,
what is already dead
Allllll day,
in the back of my head..
the back of my head

End chorus


Every minute, every hour
I'm seeking power
to remove you from my thoughts
There was no time for preparation,
and I try self medication
I constantly feel haunted
thinking was I ever wanted

Chorus 1X

With comfort in chaos
and complacency in each loss
slowly my chin begins to lift.
My soul is finally shot
I guess I've given what I've got
No more putting people on a shelf,
It's time I did that for myself.

Chorus x2
end

I think of all the obstacles that I still must overcome
As I sift upon the rubble, of what I once called home
Staring at these broken walls, feels like I’m doing time
God, if I could just recall, the reason or the rhyme.
It started off a weekend thing, the age of seventeen
I didn’t know the hell that it would bring, embracing yet so mean.

Chorus number one:

Just a kid tryna’ get through
The world I’d been hurled into
I’d watched others go through the pain
But I was naive, so I rolled up my sleeve
and put evil right into my veins

End chorus

The next years flew by, countless times I had died
Waking up pissed of to be revived
“Don’t waste that on me, it’s useless you see
Save someone who likes being alive”

Through many altercations and incarcerations
I’m on the outside finally clean
A few months at full throttle, I said “I’ll just hit the bottle”
It’s legal and on every street!

Chorus#2

Now I’m still tryna’ get through
The world I’d been hurled into
hollow spikes I now leave behind
the addict’s curse of “which is worse”
The needle or the pint
END CHORUS#2

Replaced with rotgut vodka, I no longer pierce my skin
But wake up shaking just the same, the devil has its friends
If your deciding which is safer, it will only lead to crisis
cause that’s what always happens when we’re switching deadly vices

Chorus 1
Chorus2
End