The Hopeful

Oh, sweetie
Spare your energy
Don’t act like you’re impressed
By this mediocrity and mess
Like a moth to a flame
You’re caught up in this game
One you’re bound to lose
Yet this is what you choose
I could play too
So many things I could do
But I know I’ll be led astray
We’re just better off this way
So many are ready to worship you
Clearly, you don’t need me to do it too
I’ll stay well out of your sight
Someone, someday, will treat you right

The Still Warm Asphalt In The Evening

Keeper Of The Truth

Keeper of the truth 
Keeper of the truth 
You’re keeping things away

And wasting all your youth 

But you have things to say

And you have deeds to do

Don’t let it be a waste
Give yourself another taste

Keeper of the truth
Keeper of the truth
Don’t avert your eyes from me
Even if you’re feeling blue
There are sights you have to see
You have places to be
Don’t allow yourself to freeze
Just keep moving with the breeze

A Concrete Moment

Liars & Snakes

This little trickery
Means nothing to me
Means nothing until there’s no one around to see

Behind closed doors
Wrestling on the floor
Fighting for our lives, like we never have before

When we hear our names
We just turn away
Never looking up, just a way of saving face

Liars and snakes
We’re raising our stakes
Pretending and cheating, doing whatever it takes

Town

So you stare at the spot
On the wall, in your room
In the house that you grew up in
In the town you dislike
With the people you despise
In a country so full of ignorance
You’re better than all of them