I'm falling fast through shades of white
And broken glass gets in your eyes
Fading out and diving fast
I feel the air as it flies past

And all I see is my whole life
One rushing scene for it all
Each moment lost as seconds die
As to the ground I fall

All of my life
All of my years
All of the wasted time
Too many tears I've caused
To make it all worthwhile
Why can't I make out a smile when I
Will never see this world again

So this is how it has to end
Why did it all seem so pretend
Life isn't much until it's through
Blame who I want but I know the truth

Because I see my whole life
Another scene as before
What a waste of all that time
It should have been much more

All of my life
All of my years
All of the wasted time
Too many tears I've caused
To make it all worthwhile
Why can't I make out a smile when I
Will never see this world again

So this is it
My whole life
Selfish to the final drop
No turning back
No second try
I hit the ground and it all stops

If I can hold on just a little bit longer, just a little bit longer
Prove everyone wrong, show them my dreams are much more real than they seem
Go out for a drive, this place is a death trap, trying to hold me back
Gonna get out, gonna make it my own way, see what's on the other side

'Cause it feels like the end of the world
And it feels like the ground's giving in
Caught in the cycles of my mind
And there's something that I can do about it

Out all alone, I feel like a stranger, the world is so strange outside
Five years gone, now I'm trying to find what it is that I left behind
Go out for a drive, my mind is a deathtrap, trying to hold me back
It's not what I dreamed, the places may switch but the sorrow still grows inside

And it feels like the end of the world
And it feels like the ground's giving in
Caught in the cycles of my mind
And there's nothing that I can do about it now

I need the time to find all the reasons
For what's going on in my head
Gotta get back and pick up the pieces
And start all over again

Wherever I go I carry it with me
Uncertain for all of these years
The time and the place won't get any better
Until my conscience is clear

I'm not holding on
To something I can never be
I'll keep going on
Accepting what is true and what will be

See this life before you
See the sun in the sky
Can you grasp the fading fire?
Can you reach that high?
When you were a kid they filled your head
With dreams of shooting stars
The sum of the parts could not come close
To what you think you are

But in a moment
In an instant
The dream was gone
In a moment
In an instant
You're all alone

Given the chance you'd run off
And leave all you have behind
Seems everything you wanted to be
Just didn't fit in the design
And this morning you awake alone and afraid
Feeling like somebody else
How much more can you take
Before you lose yourself?

That's all in the past now
You've made some strides
So close you can hold the flame
Changed your perspective
Let go some pride
Sold out for the greater gain

Now that everyone knows who you are
They tell you that you're so profound
Turn away from those who got you this far
You say you don't need them, don't need them, don't need them now
To thine own self you're only true
Now fear consumes all you do

'Cause in a moment
In an instant
It could be gone
In a moment
In an instant
You'll be alone

This is what you thought you wanted
This is what you thought you needed

This is what you worked so hard for
This is what you broke your back for
And the hearts of everyone you knew
Seems your spotlight made a monster out of you
But in your defense
To thine own self you were true

'Cause in a moment
In an instant
It all was gone
In a moment
In an instant
You're all alone

Reap what you sow and choke it down until you're full
Bury yourself in filth just like an animal
Not quite the way you planned for everything to go
Climbing so high to fall so low

So what's it worth
To scratch the surface
Of what used to be your life?
Was it the best
That you could offer?
Every day more questions
Why?

Enough I said
Just let it go
You've gone beyond your own control
It's always the same day after day

The distance between
The head and the heart
Existing together but light years apart
Still going around instead of getting through
The different extremes
Between then and now
When I reflect on it I wonder how
I'd walk away instead of run to you

Tell me again
How it's changing
How it's going to be all right
But today
I've spent a lifetime
Trying to bring you back to life

Enough, I should just let it go
It's far beyond my own control
Still it's the same day after day

The distance between
The head and the heart
Existing together but light years apart
Still going around instead of getting through
The different extremes
Between then and now
When I reflect on it I wonder how
I'd walk away instead of run to you

Day in day out the same every time
The more I give you the less you provide
All these things you're doing to yourself just close me out
Long ago you held all our hopes inside
I remember now but you don't even try
If you won't help yourself I have to decide
To make the choice and leave it all behind

(Did you ever ask yourself why?
Did you ever even try to be free?
Wasting through your life and not even see it at all
Do I really feel the need to return
To the way it was before I had learned?
That in the end there's no one else to blame but you)

Look around
We're gonna loose control
Too far gone to know what's right
Consumed by the goal
Give it up
Time is on our side
Step out of the race for a minute
And find some place outside and think about

Progression for possession
How much is too much to ask for?
Obsession is aggression
Push each generation more to:

Accelerate, procreate, animate, subjugate, accentuate the negative
Graduate, eviscerate, fascinate, impersonate, invalidating what you give
Subordinate, sophisticate, infatuate, recreate, escalate decline within
Accumulate, isolate, suffocate, incinerate, terminate and start again

So you go
Pushing your way through
Guess you don't really give a damn about
Anyone but you
So much for trust
Defined by what we make
But there must be something deep inside
A feeling you can't shake that tells you

Progression for possession
How much is too much to ask for?
Obsession is aggression
Push each generation more to:

Accelerate, procreate, animate, subjugate, accentuate the negative
Graduate, eviscerate, fascinate, impersonate, invalidating what you give
Subordinate, sophisticate, infatuate, recreate, escalate decline within
Accumulate, isolate, suffocate, incinerate, terminate and start again

No time left to talk about it
Nothing more to feel
Too closed-off to see beyond
Your fate already sealed
One wrong move in the grand design
And the whole thing falls apart
It's never enough just to have enough
Just got to leave your mark before you break

Progression for possession
How much is too much to ask for?
Obsession is aggression
Push each generation more to:

Accelerate, procreate, animate, subjugate, accentuate the negative
Graduate, eviscerate, fascinate, impersonate, invalidating what you give
Subordinate, sophisticate, infatuate, recreate, escalate decline within
Accumulate, isolate, suffocate, incinerate, terminate and start again

No time left to talk
Nothing more to feel
No time left at all
Nothing more to know

What's wrong little man?
We gave you a job now just go do it!
No, you don't understand
It's only fake if you don't believe in it
Turn the lights up
Write the perfect lines and we'll be through
And can you make up
Something we can all dance to?

Oh, there are those
Who take as much as you are willing
And you know
The face is greater than what you say
You're too slow
Just tear yourself down and put it up for sale
Let it flow
Or shut your mouth and get out of the way

What? Are you joking?!
Did you really think you had authority?
Can't be that you really
Believed we took you seriously
Here ya go, a paycheck
That should shut you up for now
Have you met your replacement?
He's not too bright but he's not as down as you

There are those
Who take as much as you are willing
And you know
The face is greater than what you say
You're too slow
Just tear yourself down and put it up for sale
Let it flow
Or shut your mouth and let the music play

(Instrumental)

A thought
A word
But something must be missing
A question of the heart we learn to hide
When all
Is done
And no one wants to listen
It's easier to leave it all aside
But this time I can't turn away
From what I feel inside

Gaining sight, I'm holding out
This distrust has led to doubt
The motives I see clear behind the mask
Where are the signs that I need most?
And where is the guiding holy host?
Some kind of direction is all I ask

'Cause I need something more to go on now
A reason to believe in something more somehow
I'm not drawn to the mass suggestion
What I need is mine alone
Pushing me in so many directions
This fight inside goes on and on
And I'm not afraid to walk this road alone
Though the road that opens to me has become the great unknown

Outlooks fall as the cynic rips
Venom pours from fingertips
Anger is so easy when they can't hit back
Assault on sense in every scene
Shutting out becomes routine
Guarded to the point that fear is fact

I just need something more to go on now
A reason to believe in something more somehow
I'm not drawn to the mass suggestion
What I need is mine alone
Pushing me in so many directions
This fight inside goes on and on and on

Tearing down my own illusions
Holding on and flying blind
Start to see my own conclusions
But other voices end my peace of mind

Now it comes, the time to find
What I can stand to leave behind
Is it worth the ties that I might break?
Takes strength to stand alone
Once you know you don't belong
I've been fed as much as I can take

And I try to break away
Done with holding out for more
And hanging on like something's going to change

So many days to fall behind
So many ways to lose your mind
Gotta raise your voice or get drowned out
So many people that I see
Follow what the next believes
The mob is just too dense to go without

And I try to break away
Done with holding out for more
And hanging on like something's going to change
Like something's gonna change

This is what it comes to
Another point of view
Talk but no one hears
Disillusioned to disappear
Institutions use the name
Making masses all the same
To keep you in line

And I try to break away
Done with holding out for more
Now I see that nothing's going to change