Potential Wasteland Lyrics.

Legacy

We’ve built up
And burnt down relentlessly
To pass the time before it cripples us
The sun doesn’t rise and it doesn’t fall
We’ve got no expectations to defeat
We’ve got nothing at all
There’s nothing that can move us
There’s nothing that could set us free
There’s nothing that could make us want more
It’s the last thing we need
We’ve broken every window
Broken every dream
There’s nothing to take from us
We’ve broken everything
We’ll all fade away
With nothing to say
Leave behind nothing
That’s our legacy
We burnt everything to the ground
To keep us from being found
There’s nothing to take from us
Nothing you can corrupt
That’s our legacy
If these hands were meant for anything
It was to build up to burn down
There’s no faith in that dense sky
And we need a reason to keep burning
To praise the wasted lives we lead
We build and we burn
To prevent ourselves from misfortune
We build and we burn
To see the empires crashing down, crashing down
There’s nothing to be found
To give fading away a name
To prevent ourselves from misfortune
We build and we burn


New Lows

I give up
I’ve been trying for several months now to get it all into words
But the truth is I’ve become useless at making any sense of this
I’ve been turning open roads into dead ends
Everything is fucked up again
Just like the look in your eyes when you say you don’t know me anymore
My stomach is torn
My nerves are fucked
And I’m still on the floor
I’ll let my anger drive tonight
I’ve got nowhere else to go
I won’t spend another night here
On the floor
With my eyes on the door
Waiting for someone to save me
I’m stuck and trying to break free
From broken faith and this empty city
From the place that I let take all the blame
From the place that projects exactly who I’ve come to be
Maybe it’s all inside my head
I’ll see how much sleep I can deprive myself of this week
I can’t live comfortably until I’m comfortable with everything
It’s too easy to get caught up in this
I don’t want to be okay with it
I’ve got nowhere else to go


Traditions

We live as half dead fathers
And single mothers
Like a punctured heart beating but not for much longer
Like the kids that walk the streets at night
To build up courage to take their own lives
Just as sons and daughters are shipped off to war
Convinced it’s our freedom that they are dying for
While past soldiers turn alleys into homes
To shelter the sorrow they just can’t let go
The whole world has gone mad
And we’re taking it down with us
We are destroyers of our own fate
We’re all losing our minds
Our hearts grow colder with time
Convincing each other everything is fine
“Its the way life is supposed to be”
we carry a tradition that breaks us down
built on fear, failure, and despair
[we travel in circles, there’s no need to keep running]
oh the broken lives we lead….
We’ve all gone mad
The whole world has gone mad
And we’re taking it down with us
We fade away patiently
In broken homes we’ll never own
The hopeless beg to be left alone
“all we ask is to be left alone”
what will it take to not take this anymore
to take back your life
take back control
reclaim your unconquerable soul
you’re murdering life living on your knees
under another’s control
find your own way home.
The whole world has gone mad
And we’re taking it down with us
We’re destroyers of our own fate
We’ve all gone mad
And we’re taking the world with us
We’re the masters of our own fate.


Undefined

I've seen the undefined
it travels through the city lights
through their eyes and corrupts their minds
some search their whole lives to find the undefined
There's no wonder why we come out at night
the sun falls while we're broken and alone
and we're willing to follow any light
I've seen the undefined
it travels through the city lights
through their eyes and corrupts their minds
some spend their whole lives hiding from the undefined
we keep reaching out to the hand that pushes us away
hoping for a sign of life or a reason to stay
we don't have the time to waste
if we stay here we'll be victims of fate
we destroy everything for the peace of mind
of something better out there in time
To keep your heart you've got to lose your mind.


Potential

We’re trying to build faster than things can fall apart
We’re still looking for what we lost.


Wasteland

We plan for the great escape
Trading broken lines for broken faith
Somehow this city always…
Home is a hole,
We dug up insecurities and frail bones
Of failed nomads,
Wanderers who wonder what happens
With the outside world when spent inside
We swore we wouldn’t live like them
We swore we’d never sleep again
We don’t sleep because we can’t
I meant every word I said.
We break for the great escape
Trading broken lines for broken faith
Somehow this city always finds me
It’s the widowed room next door
It’s the vacant heart beating under the floor
The nothingness as you sleep through it all
It’s still not enough to send you running away
They all say it’s not so bad to live this way
Somehow you choose to stay
Descending comfortably
In a city where everything falls apart
Or everything stays the same
We all know what these mountains contain
And we’re to blame
The open road is all I need
To find a way out
And never look back at this
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