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"homesick" call her not kill her | compound fracture | our fault | no one's leaving postcards from coolidge | stomping ground | wilmot don't spend your life | saviors | superhero | homesick "burnt bridges, new beginnings and leftovers" stars and stripes | arm in arm | disease and everything | new dawn new morning homeless not hopeless | morning news | generator | smoldering bridges revolution 2 | so long | burning ember call her not kill her i took a phone call at work today from a war veteran of vietnam he was staying at the v.a. hospital he stayed a few days then he got kicked out he's got a home, a wife, and some grandkids he's gonna be ok but the man that shared the bed next to his he was a homeless veteran and he got kicked out the same day see both of these men felt they were treated wrong by the doctors and nurses at the hospital so they decided to call their senator they said 'let's call her' the doctors heard 'let's kill her' a simple misunderstanding of words got them thrown out of treatment and for six whole days after that they got fucked with everyone from here to washington d.c. but see the man who called me up he didn't have a problem at all he called me about his homelss friend he said he was afraid that he would kill himself he told me that his friend was so tired of never knowing his place in this world he asked me how anyone can care about a homeless man and i reminded him that he did so we just kept talking about everything that's fucked up in this world he asked me i was a christian man he said that he could hear it just in my voice his words made me wake up and he reminded me that we can still make a difference cuz sometimes we all get so tired that we forget how to care and sometimes we all just forget about our own place in this world to help each other and stand by each other make a bigger difference than we'll ever know compound fracture what a pretty picture painted the stuff dreams are made of everything was in place friends below, friends above a community built from nothing no work to be proud of where were all the friendships when push came to shove - no love a pain in my ass a crack in my heart wall set it up just to watch it fall apart a part of my past, a lost memory i don't want to remember i don't want to remember shit started to wear thin we all saw it coming no one did a fucking thing and now all we've left you is our broken dreams - so i dream did you see it deteriorating were you just going to let it crumble away but from the ashes we'll come back stronger than ever, stronger than you you have met your match you haven't seen me in action i won't let you get ahead before that happens i'll be dead our fault take away the lights, take away the planes take away the guns and drugs and t.v. screens take away everything and i guarantee we'll still make it everyday take away the cars, take away the buildings take away the shopping malls and video games take away the distractions and maybe we'll be reminded we're human beings we've lost our innocence already we've poisoned our land with all our cities we're killing ouselves from the insides polluting our bodies, polluting our minds take away the colors, take away the classes take away the rich and add them to the masses and when we're on the same side we'll see we're the only ones left to blame for everything take away the violence, take away indecision take away mistrust and take away fear take away all the hate please take the sorrow and the sadness and all will be left is peace no one's leaving you see mom and dad fighting all the time but they keep on saying everything is alright they keep telling you that's just what grown ups do we still love each other and no one's leaving but that was 10 years ago and now you're out there on your own you've got a place, you've got a lover moving in now six months go by and all you do is fight you're miserable around each other but no one's leaving and no one understands why you're fighting all the time but you keep on saying everything is alright there's nothing wrong with you that's just what grown ups do we still love each other and no one's leaving. postcards from coolidge i left them all behind now i regret everything take another look at myself put my heart back on the shelf and worry about tomorrow, tomorrow and i know that i can't get away from myself, no never and i know that i can't stay away from you, even if i wanted to if i close my eyes i can see us laughing all night long if i could get it back i would but i know that i can't get away from myself, no never and i know that i can't stay away from you, even if i wanted to stomping ground it's been pushed out of my life somehow by forces unseen and unmatched i couldn't see it or hear it until now i've just sat back and watched i left the nights to be amoung the days and how i've missed those streets i can feel the concrete hard as it lays creeping up through my feet oh take me back to my stomping ground oh take me home to the streets at night i can feel the air at night getting colder and a pressure's lifted up this night still welcomes me now that i'm older it's telling me to listen up put your shoes on and leave your roof it's time to come outside and breathe true love never dies and i'm your proof out here with me you're free oh take me back into your soul oh take me home to the streets at night you don't have to stay here just walk with me tonite wilmot so i'm down on my luck things are really fucked up and i could really use some change it's really hard to find work when you sleep in the desert i never asked for life to be this way and i don't need your attitude when you got some place to go when it's cold so i don't live my life like you i'm still a human being, flesh and blood and breathing it wasn't always like this i wasn't born in a ditch and i don't really plan to stay this way i've got my ambitions and my dreams shine like the fucking sun i just need some help with something to eat and i thank you for your time and your contribution it seems like no one wants to hear my story sometimes i get so lonely and a little bit fucking crazy but good night, take care, and stay free don't spend your life i've spent my life searching for the answers and the only thing i've figured out you'll be searching forever you gotta be happy with what you got you gotta know the difference between what you get and what you want all the things you tried to figure out all the things you have forgotten about don't spend your life justifying morals you have to take what you've learned and try to accomplish your goals you gotta be happy with what you got you gotta know the difference between what you get and what you want saviors we've broken so many barriers so why's it so hard to keep on moving i never thought i'd see so much heart coming from a group of kids growing up in a world like this there's been more pain than pleasure you can see the distrust in their eyes but hopeful for a day take and take just to give it away saviors save me broken hopes set to fly free saviors save i never thought i'd still be here after all these years i guess the phase is over we turned friends into family we made commitments to be here one and all to take the fall for each other and to be there to catch each other when we fall superhero do you know what it's like to be the wife of a dead man? do you know what it's like to be the dad of a dead son? have you ever had to worry about the lives of your family? have you ever had to worry about what your kids are gonna eat today? real trouble, real problems we need a superhero no red capes, no superstrength did you know that there are people dying even as we speak did you realize that those people are our friends and families but we're too caught up in a war that just can't be won and our brothers in the desert are being slaughtered by the hundreds real bodies, being buried we need a super hero, no red capes no superstrength, we have no superheroes no i take that back see that man on his roof top pulling his family from the waters he's a superhero no i take that back see that kid volunteering giving it all he's got to make sure your family lives he's a superhero no i take that back see that mama and her baby sitting at her husbands tombstone he's a hero, she's a hero, she's a superhero homesick do you remember when desperation wore a bigger patch on our arms sheilding us from the horror of isolation now those days are all but gone the nightmares passed me on and finally i can see we're family i thought we were family back then sleeping on the floors living lives without expense but then the price was never lost a decade left to memory a debt unpaid to those we cost we called it home so long ago now it's left alone and i'm not homesick anymore stars and stripes taken for granted, an open hand pleading for change he was just 18 service to country, that's what a letter said one day and the rest is history so go ahead and hit the panic button and sending kids off to war how can you die for an ideal when no one knows what their fighting for if they make it home at all they'll watch the fucking blood spill back to the earth again stars and stripes is sleeping in the bushes have you seen his expressions there's still a kid beneath the skin and he looks like me 40 years from now, will we see the same faces on our children so whether or not the wars been lost this country has failed us now reintegration has a cost and the trauma trickles down whether it's Vietnam or the current occupation for oil in Iraq the kids are fighting in their minds when they get back arm in arm lets put the kids to bed, and take off everything and fuck in the backyard like we did when we were younger I'll smoke a cigarette, we'll brew up some coffee so I don't fall asleep, arm in arm while we're watching TV i know we never planned for anything like this but I don't regret anything i know sometimes you feel tied down so let me tie you down with the promises we made to each other in '03 stolen words from a birthday card, an inside joke that went too far i guess that's what you'll get when you're sharing half a brain i know our lives have changed forever but I know it's for the better The promise is worth keeping, shhhhh... the kids are sleeping disease and everything i've given everything, i've fucking given everything just to watch you lie, and turn and steal more of my time you're like a fucking plague disease and everything i really should just move on, but I want to watch you suffocate and I'm sorry that I'm smiling, while I'm watching you deteriorate but I've seen you turn to black everything you've ever touched and i guarantee the punishment still won't be enough new dawn new morning i woke up to the sunshine, change is coming you can see it in their eyes a glimmer of hope, breaking the frustration can mean everything when you're searching for salvation and i won't say that we're saved yet, but i think we're on our way the new dawn is coming, bringing the new morning the clouds are lifting and let the sun come shining in take away the pressure to breathe in the fresh air it looks like we're on the road to a new beginning i know it's no revolution but the voices spoke clear enough through the confusion we need a different way of living our own lives but that cold November morning i was warm inside and it's all right, history's been made and i'm young enough to fight so where we gonna go from here? it really feels like anywhere the chance is yours for the taking and you can lead me there no more living under spite the answers in our sights yeah tomorrow brings the new day whether it's wrong or if it's right homeless not hopeless he's left out walking the streets at night killing time and patience waiting on the sun to rise to start a new day just like yesterday still trying to hold your head up high, with the summer sun beating you down homeless not hopeless, god bless you, please help and I drown myself in alcohol just to keep from thinking how fucked up my situation is and maybe if I get so drunk tonight maybe I won't wake up in this mess maybe I won't wake up at all / and finally get some rest my story's just the same as everyone else's in your eyes i must have done this to myself, or did I just quit trying? no, I lost my job then my apartment no, my car got repossessed now I've got no where to go but still I woke up again today got my sign and everything I own on my back and I'll be at the overpass until the sun goes down waiting for salvation to take me away, waiting for salvation to take it all away morning news i don't sleep at night i don't sleep cuz i'm paranoid I don't watch the news because it makes me sad because i know that this world is cold and it's mean and it's fucked paranoid terrified insecure and the media makes me freak it makes me feel like a creep and i can't be myself because i know if i did it would be catastrophic and it'd blow up in my face a disgrace yeah paranoid terrified insecure generator phoenix arizona the valley of the spun a city born from desert but it's been so long since i've felt that desert beneath my own feet the steel and the concrete have taken everything do you remember standing beneath that old tree with the stars shining so brightly do you remember the faces when we still had dreams and the generators humming here i come guys i got it if you look around this city you can still see those trees wonderfully arranged by the city's planning and zoning and if you look real hard at night you can still see those stars shinethrough our polluted skies and city lights the city life ain't me do you remember the batcave and vegan food and touring bands afraid of snakes do you remember moonshooters and hanging outside the bar and honking at hookers do you remember the pool hall i never so many kids from a town that small do you remember the house parties the flat bed trailers and our small town community smoldering bridges i may have done some things in my past i'm not proud of but i've got to keep on moving i may have lost some people that i used to love but that's all gone now smoldering bridges i've let the dust settle around here let everybody get comfortable maybe a little too for my taste i've burned some bridges that i never meant to burn then again there are some that I lit and i'm happy that their gone - smoldering bridges old memories let me fly old memories light up the sky let them burn revolution 2 i'm a punk first i'm a husband first i'm a friend first i'm a father first i'm the only one who can decide what's right for me in this world gone crazy i'm a sinner i'm a user i've wasted so much time getting my shit together i've got my heart stuck in everything so i ain't walking away unless you're coming with me and there's something going wrong we've got our backs against the walls it's time to stand up and see who's been picking up the right messages punks more than just a fashion punks more than just music it's unity it's brotherhood it's salvation from the masses it's the ideas and the ideals that you and me we will be counted on and there's nothing wrong with another unity song at least that's what it means to me so long a tad bit nauseous a little bit sad tonight where has all my happiness gone i've tried so hard to make my ends meet i can't figure it out so i hit the streets you can only be so mad for so long another day awake another night gone by where has all my companionship gone i feel so alone tonight nothing else felt right i can't figure it out so i hit the streets tonight things can only go so good for so long everyones smiling everyone's shit eating grins make me question mine if i could only see what makes everybody happy maybe i could join in on the line things can only go so bad for so long burning ember i saw you this morning held up by the bus stop waiting for the green line to take you away was watching closely to see if there was a light left in your eyes i thought i saw it flicker, flicker then fade away i couldn't take my eyes off you because i knew if i looked away for even a second you'd be lost forever it's like the wind was blowing and i was trying to hold onto that burning ember i saw you again today in the faces off 1000 people still holding on to that dream their eyes were worn and blurry but hopeful for a day when they could see the light like you had long ago shining on everything long ago you had a life full of passion long ago you could set a spark and ignite everything long ago you had an eye for excitement another cocktail set ablaze with flames to the ceiling contact: Billybridwell@yahoo.com