You offer too much to me Much more than I can use Your perfect treachery Comes so easily I'm lost don't know what to do Her pain was distracting me As I sifted through the truth Was it all just necessary suffering? Pleasure I must refuse I'm coming apart My soot covered heart It tries to restart But I need the right kind of fuel baby She creeps inside There's nowhere to hide Oh no I won't be made your fool baby No one taught me how to play the blues I just play them naturally No one tells me what to do It ain't easy being free Every time I look at you There's a beautiful sickness rising inside of me I'm coming apart My soot covered heart It tries to restart But I need the right kind of fuel baby You creep inside There's nowhere to hide Oh yes I know I'm just your fool baby

You know I used to think I needed this kind of thing Somebody to tell me I was gettin' sloppy And occasionally, that's exactly what I need Somebody to tell me when my shirt's lookin' dirty Well you my friend, are takin' things a bit to far Tellin' me how to live and how to be a big star Well the things I do, or the things I don't do Don't necessarily always have to concern you Well I'm never gonna be the way you want me to be So why can't you just give up already Can't you see, you're not helpin' Why can't you just let me be Let me be, let me be Let me be, let me be the way I wanna be Well now everybody starts to roll their eyes As the brutal truth you tell starts to feel like lies How can you say you're so honest and true? When the ones you love, make you act so cruel I know things don't always go the way you want But that don't mean, you can ridicule and taunt I know I ain't perfect, but I ain't that bad Even you yourself said, I'm the best you've ever had Well I'm never gonna be the way you want me to be So why can't you just give up already Can't you see, you're not helpin' Why can't you just let me be Let me be, let me be Let me be, let me be the way I wanna be You're like the ice to my fire When I'm trying to get higher You can't help but bring me down The world starts to spin faster It's a natural disaster As the fight goes another round So come on, come on This is a game that no one's ever won Well I'm never gonna be the way you want me to be So why can't you just give up already Can't you see, you're not helpin' Why can't you just let me be Let me be, let me be Let me be, let me be the way I wanna be Let me be, let me be baby Let me be, let me be the way I wanna be

I'm a cheater I do it easier baby I'm a cheater I do it easier baby I will not fit in your box I will break through all your locks I will change the way you see If you let me I'll set you free I'm a cheater I do it easier baby... Your perception is a lie I see the pain you can't disguise There is a conflict in your eyes I expose the the truth you try to hide I'm a cheater I do it easier baby... I’m a cheater... Every rule we will unglue And all your tyranny we’ll undo When the war it does come home We will be standing with our own We will not fit in your box We will break through all your locks We change the way you see If you let us we’ll set you free Let’s be cheaters let’s make it easier baby... I’m a cheater...

You can’t change a thing You can’t change anything They try to make you believe It’s so overwhelming And little old me could never do anything, well You think you’re free, come on man Wake up and smell reality You think you’re free, then prove it Yeah prove it to me Eventually you’ll have to wake up Eventually you’ll have to see It all leads back to money And keeping you in your place But don’t take my word for it Look at your life and tell me what you see Even me, I’m just as apathetic Sometimes I let them get their fingers in me You think you’re free, come on man Wake up and smell reality You think you’re free, then prove it Yeah prove it to me Love is an infection And only real love can’t be cured Love is an infection The kind of love that’s felt not heard Love is an exception In a regulated world Maybe I’m wrong Maybe this is just another, rebel song But then again you never know (you never know) Maybe they’ll hear it and actually do some good Maybe I’ll listen to my own words for once And do the things I should ‘Cause when they come to take me away They might be disappointed, ‘cause I’m here to stay No matter what they say Like a poison idea, you can’t seal away No matter how hard you try Real knowledge, real freedom, real love Will never die Never die… I’m not for sale Not my heart and soul If I try and fail I might try some more But if I’m lucky I might find somebody (find somebody) And we can spread the good word about being free We can find a better way and truly be happy You can’t please everybody But you can try to please yourself In process I’ve learned to care more For someone else, because Love is an infection And only real love can’t be cured Love is an infection The kind of love that’s felt not heard Love is an infection I’ll care even when it hurts (In a regulated world)

Take it Don’t dare, to stop and think Because thinking might bring truth And who would truly, want that They’ll have you enjoy each swallow They don’t want you to think, just to follow Listen to them They know what’s best But you who would expect Anything less After a while You won’t even Feel the need to gag Let it become second nature Let the resistance die You have nothing to fear, nothing to fear It’s all so simple, yet so unclear The pain killers make it all So unclear

She walks in so cool and divine With a voice so low, how could she ever be declined But I’ve seen a lot of strange things In this town Oh I’ve sat there and watched As it all boils to the ground From some dark corner in the room She blows me a kiss Like any other fool I find her I find her hard to resist I know a guy like me should feel ashamed But it feels so good when we play the game And I’ve seen a lot of strange things In this town Oh I’ve sat there and watched as it all Boils to the ground I tell her it’s a fluke I say it’s a mistake Some better guy will come along If she just waits But she says Oh baby things don’t change slow So let’s have our fun We’ll run wild While we’re still young

We never knew, what we had We couldn’t tell, the good from bad And though our thoughts Were black as death You woke me up, from my endless rest And now I see, what we used to be Is nothing but, a memory I buy my time, and count the days Into the sun, I melt away And it’s another sad story to tell Just another opinion of hell I’ll let it go before I’m done I just hope I’m not the only one Oh I’m sure I’ll find love from someone I just hope I’m not the only one… Be my conscience, be my light Help me find some peace tonight Won’t you teach me, what’s wrong what’s right Guide me to a better life Truth be told I never wanted to know If you are the person that you show And though our words, are black as death You’ll always be, safe in my head

Well here it is, it’s come to this No point in denying, it can’t be fixed I don’t need, your pity So long overdo for complete release From this restraint, of all the constant hate Overbearing emotions we’ve had to face So I think it’s safe, to say We’ll both be better off this way Though we departed, I was not broken hearted I held my head up high Without your control, now I am whole Don’t have to listen to your lies So long, goodbye It was worth a try But in the end it all has to die And it’s a shame, how I’d hate to waste All the time that you gave to me But it’s too late, I guess it’s just fate ‘Cause we’ll both be better off this way

How long does it take for open wounds to heal Endless days go by and I can still feel The wounds of another day They were self inflicted anyway And it gets harder everyday It gets hard but this won’t fade away It gets harder everyday But this, will never fade away As much as I would like to say There was an excuse, for what I have done It doesn’t do justice To the battles I should’ve won

Here he comes it’s the man himself Standing at the corner of twelfth and main Dancing in the shadows to the tune of this song He is here to remind me of my rug covered stains But I don’t care to recall I can stand and face him like I know I should With this whole place staring me down For I can take a sugar pill And tell myself that it’s god But I think you’d tell me I’m wrong And I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to shut you out When I locked the doors I shut it all behind me Left you waiting in the cold And for one moment we lost our heads We were lookin’ at the time on his backwards clock He said hey we’re coming up roses And it came as an awful shock When I found that it was a lie After we had said that we could never be fooled Even though giving in can sometimes look so good I’m left tongue tied Drained out of my mind From all of this apathy

Silence follows each step you take Bringing you closer, to everything you hate Once more you’ll try, to justify yourself You’ll follow your broken pathways Into everything you’ve ever known Into everything you’ve never known Softly and surely It begins, to come clear Making sense, of all your fears Once more you’ll try, to justify yourself But we all know, that there’s no way in hell That you could ever, do that And no more (and no more) Do I feel the shame For the things, I’ve done in this world ‘Cause I’ve given up (given up) Trying to convince myself I’m not exactly, where I belong Maybe this, doesn’t mean anything to you But it will always, mean everything to me Hopelessly adhering to, what I still believe