Actor / Observer - Hold Fast Hope

Treading through the waves, barely keeping pace I don't even know where to find my place Sewing seeds of doubt, in one ear and out When the hell does it stop? Murder in the streets, tyrants sending fleets Victims painted red, they're getting in our heads Fabricated tales, make us fight ourselves To push consumer sales, oh the irony Tell me how to reconcile what i see from outside the fold Propaganda weaponized from side to side, or so I'm told There's no faith When your words don't fall in place With any sense of stability Deceived by our eyes and our ears Left alone with ourselves 'Till we disappear They lure you in with insincere Platitudes that feed your fears A prophet and a preacher is that really what you see? Indoctrinate the faithful who you willingly mislead One by one by one they follow Feed the hollow, repeat the cycle again There's no faith When your words don't fall in place With any sense of stability Deceived by our eyes and our ears Left alone with ourselves 'Till we disappear One by one One by one Disappear One by one One by one One by one, they follow One by one, they follow One by one, they follow One by one Losing touch with reality An overwhelming numb So let me be While you're... Broken Shallow hearted Narcissistic Self destructive Paralytic Saprophytic So sadistic Fucking monsters

Falter, from riddled dreams that broke your tongue Exposure, daisy chained to the ones you love And when what's empty starts to fill A shrill of pain begins to build below Tell me just how you feel When truth becomes the thing you're running from I figured I'd be there As the color returned to your face Constantly pushing away Denial became your faith Cries from your mother That ripped through your father Who lied to his children To keep them apart Fire, light the match to kill the messenger And bury the truth I'll take the blame the way I always do To save you, from all the pain that grey brought you They told you how to feel Locked away your only voice Broken yet surreal The only way out is to run Dismissing everything they taught you Starting new again Fire, light the match to kill the messenger And bury the truth I'll take the blame the way I always do To save you, from all the pain that grey brought you

I don't want to waste away And as the fox lays bleeding on his side Tom Wolf calmly waiting for his hide Hey Mr Fox get ready to die, I've been hunting for days Give me the light from your eyes How did this happen? Rick Fox replied I was walking carefree, when surprise from the side What can I say? I've always been sly I'm your worst nightmare, are you ready to die? I don't want to waste away I want to live another day What could you possible say to make me change my mind? Tom Wolf said while cleaning his canines What if I told you a skulk of my kind, just two clicks west You won't believe your eyes You're telling me there's more? Oh yeah, plenty more! Walk over there your jaw will hit the floor I'll take you up on that, hey what's your name? Rick Fox, you'll never see me again! Tom Wolf wandering through trees Perplexed by the decision he's made Was it two clicks west or east, if he doesn't eat he won't make it another day I'm so lost I can't find anyone What did he say? I think I past that tree, I'm so beat No sign of anything to eat I should've stayed, can still taste him on my teeth I don't want to want to waste away Am I the predator or prey?

Forget my name Forget my name Why did i put up with this Through all these years i'll never miss Little black sheep pulling wool from her sweater "If I change myself more, maybe life will get better You ever think about what I've been going through? I bet you never noticed the distance, huh? And if I pull this trigger then they'll know that I'm gone. And In a couple of years they'll forget my name If they ever even knew it at all Would it make a difference to this empty life? When there's nothing here for me except for lonely sleepless nights How long do i keep telling myself it's fine? Until I run away down the road Let's not pretend that what I'm leaving behind is home What do I say? What can I do to get through to you? Goodbye Forget my name Forget my name I've been trying to fit into the wrong mold Something save me before I give up on it all Everybody's watching you They know just what it is you do You ruin everything you touch You'll never change, you're just bad luck Everybody's watching you They know just what it is you do You ruin everything you touch You'll never change, you're just bad luck I want to drift into the sea (Go ahead we have you) Let it swallow me whole I feel nothing beneath my skin (Go ahead we have you) Let it swallow me whole I can't go on like this Life's meaningless So forget my name