'Wolves' - Rise Against

1. Wolves Light all the torches and wake up the King The smoke you've ignored is a flame you can't contain We circle the walls and claw at the dirt We growl from our guts and howl until it hurts I told her "come with me And I can take you from this place now Somewhere these roads don't go A place that we can start again" I grabbed her hand and pulled her close She looked at me and said "Hey I don't even know your name But I am ready to explode Like a tiger in a circus Cracking whips are all I know I'm searching for a sense of purpose" We are the wolves at the gate Our numbers growing every day, yeah You can't fight us all, no No, you can't fight We are the wolves at the wall We break in like a waterfall, yeah You can't fight us all, no You can't fight The water is breaching the walls of the dam Trampling dreams in a rush to higher land Are you ready to explode Like a tiger in a circus? This cage is all I've ever known But now you've given me a purpose We are the wolves at the gate Our numbers growing every day, yeah You can't fight us all, no You can't fight We are the wolves at the wall We break in like a waterfall, yeah You can't fight us all, no And we are not going away Roaming in numbers and chasing the scent Circling in for the kill And you are the winter, the long discontent We won't stop till we've had our fill (We are the wolves) Roaming in numbers and chasing the scent (We are the wolves) Circling in for the kill (We are the wolves) And you are the winter, the long discontent (We are the wolves) We won't stop till we've had our fill We are the wolves... *

2. House on fire I can see the storms in her eyes now I'm falling overboard in the waves In over my head and she's a high tide That keeps pushing me away I thought that we would build this together But everything I touch just seems to break Am I your sail or your anchor? Am I the calm or the hurricane? I feel the ground start to shake I hear a voice shouting move But there is no fucking way I'd leave you So I'll just hold you like a hand grenade You touch me like a razor blade I wish there was some other way right now, ohohohoh Like a house on fire we're up in flames I'd burn here if that's what it takes To let you know I won't let go of you, ohohohoh Is the soundtrack to our lives The bang of a slamming door What happens when we all start to feel like Nothing matters anymore Every day like a chambered round, a trigger pulled A hammer click, a breath we hold A world outside I can't control No matter what I do So I'll just hold you like a hand grenade You touch me like a razor blade I wish there was some other way right now, ohohohoh Like a house on fire we're up in flames I'd burn here if that's what it takes To let you know I won't let go of you, ohohohoh How is it a thing That we just wanna hurt each other I'm waiting out the rain Feels like it's gonna rain forever Someday you will learn That all I ever did was for you And I would do it all again I would do it all again 'Til then I'll hold you like a hand grenade You touch me like a razor blade I wish there was some other way right now, ohohohoh Like a house on fire we're up in flames I'd burn here if that's what it takes To let you know I can't let go of you, ohohohoh Of you, ohohohoh... Of you *

3. The violence Dancing on the crumbling precipice The rocks are coming loose just at the edge Are we laughing? Are we crying? Are we drowning? Are we dead? Or is it all a dream? The bombs are getting closer everyday "That could never happen here" we used to say Have these wars come to our doorstep? Has this moment finally come? Or is it all a dream? Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough? Is the violence in our nature Just the image of our maker? Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough? To become something greater Than the violence in our nature? Are we not good, good enough? Or is it all a dream? To a predetermined fate are we condemned? Or maybe we're a book without an end? We're not stories, we're not actors We're awake and in control And this is not a dream So can we break this mold And set in motion something new? Forgetting what we know An evolution overdue Fight the current Pull the ripcord Get away! Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough? Is the violence in our nature Just the image of our maker? Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough? To become something greater Than the violence in our nature? Are we not good, good enough? Well-trodden paths are all we take We need a storm, let's pray for rain now To wash these roads away Let's get off track and wander far Same roads lead to same destinations Follow nothing but your heart We're talking in our sleep And sleeping through our lives And we dream of the places where we never die We step from the shadows and into the light Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough? Is the violence in our nature Just the image of our maker? Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough? To become something greater Than the violence in our nature? Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough? Are we not good, good enough? Or was it all a dream? *

4. Welcome to the breakdown All hail the jester has landed In flyover country he sings We're charmed like a snake in a basket We should be coiled up and ready to spring Raising a cross just to burn it The clergy are selling their souls Clearing a path, ignoring the facts Intoxicated by the throne But we'll be standing here holding our ground come what may Like a ghost haunts from beyond the grave Welcome to the breakdown Welcome to the end of the road Welcome to the breakdown And we've got nowhere else to go When we all go deaf in the chamber of echoes Cheering the missile parade Agreeing to let all the banks rob the people Together we circle the drain We'll be standing here holding our ground come what may Like a ghost haunts from beyond the grave Welcome to the breakdown Welcome to the end of the road Welcome to the breakdown And we've got nowhere else to go Welcome to the breakdown Welcome to the end of the road This is a breakdown And we've got nowhere else to go It's a game, you've been played It's a flock, you're the sheep It's a pied piper song that has lulled you to sleep It's a lie and you fell for it, hook line and sinker A hand that you shook that then gave you the finger A fraud and a fake, a cowardly king A lie to your face, but you still kiss the ring This is the breakdown, this is the breakdown This is the breakdown! We are standing here holding our ground come what may Like a ghost haunts from beyond the grave Welcome to the breakdown Welcome to the end of the road This is a breakdown And we've got nowhere else to go Welcome to the breakdown Welcome to the end of the road This is a breakdown And we've got nowhere else to go It's not much but this is home And there's nowhere else to go! *

5. Far from perfect Keeping up appearances don't break now Or buckle from the weight Pretend to laugh but don't laugh too loud Do you feel the pressure building The anger spilling out now Meanwhile the cracks have formed on The masks we've worn up 'til now We are far from perfect But perfect as we are We are bruised, we are broken But we are goddamn works of art Works of art The pieces of our hearts all gravitated Together but before we could be part of this mosaic We had to break apart Like glass we're falling faster than stars Meanwhile the cracks have formed on The masks we've worn up 'til now Take a look We are far from perfect But perfect as we are We are bruised, we are broken But we are goddamn works of art In every color we shine A tapestry of scars With every thread We're growing stronger and moving on We're finding right ways despite the wrong ones We're clearing paths blocked by storms We're finding the beauty in what you've ignored We are far from perfect But perfect as we are We are far from perfect But perfect as we are We are bruised, we are broken We are goddamn works of art Yeah we are Perfect as we are Perfect as we are *

6. Bullshit Thank you for your silence, your continuing compliance It's your buried head so deep in sand that ushered in the virus Oh no please don't lift a finger, don't get up, just sit right there Don't worry about the thoughts inside your pretty little head So we stick to the script and recite your lines Don't break from the character just keep it inside But this is bullshit (bullshit) It's finally coming into focus (focus) You're lying and I think you know it but you're too afraid To face the storm you helped create Yeah this is bullshit (bullshit) And did you think I wouldn't notice? (notice) Cracks in your theory are showing like a broken vase Your grip around me dissipates And we are separated only by division and the walls that we create But we are more alike than different when we stop and take a minute face to face They say we're divided and we are conquered Yeah, but our enemies have never been each other, no Because this is bullshit (bullshit) It's finally coming into focus (focus) You're lying and I think you know it but you're too afraid To face the storm you helped create Yeah this is bullshit (bullshit) And did you think I wouldn't notice? (notice) Cracks in your theory are showing like a broken vase Your grip around me dissipates So we scale the walls and fire escapes A wheat paste brush and cans of paint To cover up your walls with something new Because we all know, oh Your signs say we're not good enough, not cute enough Not smart enough, not worth your love Out with the old and in with something new Bullshit, I'm not sorry to say That this is bullshit You been lying to me Bullshit and it always was And you know and you know and you know and you know That this is bullshit coming right at you Bullshit coming home to roost Bullshit and you're too afraid To face the storm you helped create This is bullshit, this is bullshit Bullshit and you're too afraid To face the storm you helped create * 7. Politics of love I hear your voice in the wind It follows me, it cuts right through the noise As we spin on dance floors made of ice So rest your hand in mine Steady now, ignore the sound The breaking lines The crack beneath our feet as time runs out Each night like a white noise frequency Broadcast the waves, I tune them out Clear signs outlined But I couldn't see what I see now I should've said something to you When I saw you walk away, instead I did nothing And now you're gone and it's too late We board up the windows we used to look through I should've said something, I should've said something to you Like buried seeds in the ground Invisible but growing Underneath pushing out Now tangled in the vine, I hear the sound Heartbeats from a world so far away The distant drums, I tune them out Each night right before I fall asleep I hear them now I should've said something to you When I saw you walk away, instead I did nothing And now you're gone and it's too late So we board up the windows we used to look through I should've said something, yeah, I should've said something to you I should've said something, yeah, I should've said something So we board up the windows we used to look through I should've said something, I should've said something, I should've said something Yeah, I should've said something to you * 8. Parts per million There's something wrong with the words that we're not saying And the silence we're creating like a ghost note symphony There's something wrong and the temperature is rising Ignoring every siren as we're marching towards a cliff But these are choices that we don't have to make Block out the voices 'cause they have led you astray What I've been trying to say to you is that There's something in the water, there must be something in the air Just 'cause I can't put my finger on it, it doesn't mean that it's not there We are all turned on but then we all tune out As we are hypnotized by the sparkling lies We fall under their spell But don't forget that these are choices That we don't have to make, so many voices That have led us astray, we can't keep anything down The room is spinning around There must be something in the water, yeah there's something in the air Just 'cause I can't put my finger on it, it doesn't mean that it's not there You are the grains of sand that slip through my hands again And we are the hourglass, love like a flame that can't be held Somewhere beyond the lives we burn, lies the point of no return Like the sand in the hourglass But there is something in your eyes that shakes me back to life And though I can't put my finger on it Now I know we're gonna be alright It's gonna be alright, it's gonna be alright 'Cause there is something in the water, yeah there is something in the water In this life we sink or swim or just float We all die yeah, but did we live at all? * 9. Mourning in Amerika Stand by to switch on, we fire on all pistons We're singing along but no one is listening From dusk until dawn we stay up to carry the flame And when it's all said and done in these alternate endings When nothing is left but the stragglers and empties We're sleeping it off just to wake up and start it again So burn the statues to the ground It's time to lay your weapons down Bound for glory on this train But there's a bridge out up ahead Noise cancel, drown the signal out Change channels, manufacture doubt When the only thing we'll fight for every day Is a better seat on a crashing... Plain to see but hard to breathe The streets are full of tumbleweeds And now it's morning in the streets of amerika But we don't go outside anymore The radio blasts hysteria With a television sideways on the floor Under moonlit skies and surveillance As we cheer from the stands in the stadiums On a jumbotron we all sing along to escape Once we were the lighthouse To the world's most desperate ships But what we became was a towering flame Leading the moth right into it Now we are waking up to the phone lines cut Because it's morning in the streets of amerika And we don't go outside anymore The radio blasts hysteria While the television's sideways on the floor With the teleprompter in our faces We don't even know what we're saying A car that's slowly crashing and we can't look away Parading to the edge of a cliff now We're trying to figure out how to get down While the night is fast approaching Will we even recognize our former lives in this artificial light? Morning in the streets of amerika And we don't go outside anymore There's something wrong with the stereo And the television's sideways We're mourning in the streets of amerika Mourning in the streets of amerika We're mourning in the streets of amerika Mourning in the streets of amerika * 10. How many walls How many walls can you put up? How many guns 'til you feel safe? How many times can we watch this story Over and over and over again? And how many years have we wasted Counting the lies that we've been fed? For something to change we have waited Over and over and over again I'm entertained by the monkey on your back But can we still call it a joke if no one laughs? It's either going up in smoke around me or according to plan A bittersweet disaster mounting over and over again How many walls can you put up? How many guns 'til you feel safe? How many times can we watch this story Over and over and over again? How many years have we wasted Counting the lies that we've been fed? For something to change we have waited Over and over and over again Chasing our own tail, the more we learn the less we know As the monsters lost in history are now making their return As we bow down, roll out the carpet red as rose We should have known How many walls can you put up? How many guns 'til you feel safe? How many times can we watch this story * 11. Miracle We scan the empty sky always without success We're lighting signal fires and spelling S.O.S. We stare at broken clocks, the truth comes twice a day While every second just slips away Are you going to wait here for a sign to let you know now? Are you going to sit there paralyzed by what you've seen? Or are you going to finally grip the wheel? I think you know how Is this more than you expected it to be? Don't wait for a miracle to tumble from the sky To part the seas around you or turn water into wine Don't wait for a miracle, the world is passing by The walls that all surround you are only in your mind The stage is set and the curtains pulled Ready or not, it's time, on with the show Now the crowds have grown impatient And the train has left the station And the candles you are lighting in the dark will fade away So what are you waiting for? A sign to let you know now? Are you gonna sit there paralyzed by what you've seen? Are you going to finally grip the wheel? I think you know how Are you gonna throw it all away? Don't wait for a miracle to tumble from the sky To part the seas around you or turn water into wine Don't wait for a miracle, the world is passing by The walls that all surround you are only in your mind When the weight we carry breaks us We're tempted to stay down But every road to recovery Starts at the breakdown But we don't need miracles to tumble from the sky To part the seas around us or turn water into wine Because we are the miracles, we happen all the time We're not scared of what surrounds us, we're not waiting for a sign We are the miracles We are the miracles We are the miracles Hey! *