MACHINE HEAD THE MORE THINGS CHANGE... TEN TON HAMMER I am the thing that makes you SICK I am the blame that gets placed QUICK Detect the crack within your lie I'll be the wrath of your disdain I'll be the fear in you ingrained Become the fact that you deny Chorus: I can feel this pain is real I hate deep down inside And like broken glass you'll shatter With bloody fists I'll batter Like a ten ton hammer I'll be the trembling in your breath Tickle of blood upon your flesh You'd love to watch me take the fall I'll be the thing that you despise 'Cause I'm the path to your demise And I'm a be there standing tall Chorus I can't stand or take another day my friend You can learn a thing or two Chorus --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TAKE MY SCARS It's been around for a thousand years And it'll be there for plenty more It is the face hidden in disgrace That has become now open sore It is a false messiah It is the face of pain The bringer of the bittersweet The heretic insane Chorus: Take my scars Through hands of God I found a better way To break the walls Fed all the lies and desensitized Taught to believe that it is the way Taught to divide and why You'll never understand my rage You've never had to borrow You've never have to steal You eat it with your silver spoon For me it's real Chorus Lead: Robb Blood and concrete Piss and wine Whores that fuck To feel divine They'll clean their needles In their shrine In ignorance It's bliss you find Why can't you fuckin' open Open up your eyes --------------------------------------------------------------------------- STRUCK A NERVE Give me power to end all of the strife Courage to the pro-life I don't want to see You can't change me You tell me not to bow Just follow for now You're oh so holier than thou Chorus: The more things change The more they stay the same The more Things change The more They stay the same Give me patience to deal with all the strain Balance to take the fuckin' pain I don't want to fake And I won't break We're to happy to be In our apathy We smile single file to the line Chorus So c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon We gotta wake up You don't know you're right You right from wrong We gotta wake up --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOWN TO NONE Chorus: Bow down to no one Bow down to none Straight down Been going Been sleepwalkin' In a violent haze This world In ruin The chain shackles Like a foul disease Chorus This rage This struggle It is a feeling That's devouring Can't break Can't fuckin' give in The pain will lead us Through the blistering Cold --------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE FRONTLINES And I watched through bitter eyes As the blood filled in the cracks, BLACK A burning effigy Told me I should kneel 'cause I'm worshipping With terror, a disease Burn the sacred oil Chorus: They told us there'd never come a day They told us that we need not worry So we fucked around, thought this shit would change And turned our eyes away I am the siege And the rush you will feel, THRILL Exploding out of me Through clenched teeth I will scream out We're suffering With malice you deceive Puke sold as salvation Chorus Lead: Logan And I watched it slip away And you watched it slip away And we watched it slip away 'Cause no no took a stand --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPINE Bitterness infested, justice is molested Govern my contested ways As a child arrested, as a man detested Happiness inside my pain You hate my life Because you see my strife Could never understand or try It makes me mad Because it makes me sad But I don't care why Pre-Chorus: You fake it, mistake it Fuck it away Your lying is trying My dignity Chorus: I see right through your soul Can't help but feel this cold But this city made me so Life filled with deception, unwanted inception Want redemption for it all All my life frustrated, pushed, alienated Wait for me to take a fall My faith has waned Because I feel the strain In my eyes it's all gone wrong We'll rise above From this lack of love It won't be long now Pre-Chorus Chorus Lead: Logan I'm not the only one Can't be the only one No --------------------------------------------------------------------------- BAY OF PIGS I gotta rise, I'm sick of your lies And I won't be your scapegoat now Ain't gonna bend and won't 'til the end Understand on my word I vow A pig, a pig, that's all you'll ever be REFUSE TO COWER TO THE SWINE I'm sick of it, at the end of my wits Next time that you fuck with mine I'm gonna snap like I never have before Chorus: Your law's the flaw Upon this nation Your lies despised By generations I got a friend might not walk again And your laws never helped at all Go fuck your clause, your probable cause Power trippin' above us tall Afraid, afraid and so you better be 'Cause when I call you're not around Serve and protect and give some respect 'Cause next time that you shake me down I'm gonna snap like I never have before Chorus Your lies despised Your law's the flaw Upon this nation Upon this nation Upon this nation Your lies despised By generations --------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIOLATE I want you to know this I want you to know just what I feel You told me through sacred lies I told you once with bloodshot eyes You told me don't ask Just stay away from me You told me it'd be alright I told you once, then told you twice You can't face Can't you face me Chorus: I won't pray for you I can't pray for you Because you took it away Because you took it from me First verse Chorus Thought I could never ever fuckin' find another Get a muthafuckin' chance again Because the power is the rage that can devour Gotta make that fear descend Without it, you ain't shit And you ain't shit to me Berating, a scathing Grave indignity I see the look inside your eyes It makes me sick Defiling innocence Is how you get your kicks You violate, and then you think yourself a man You violate, and then you call yourself a man Don't come my way Don't care what you say Pray you fuckin' die Before you feel my... Rage... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- BLISTERING You stabbed me in the back over a sliver A feeling I have been betrayed Both hands broken together Clenching fists cause the rage Chorus: It comes in spades From a life of pain I don't care 'cause I don't give a fuck It tears a path right through me A systematic vision of survival A struggle I alone engage Tension burning inside me Blood so sweet cause revenge Chorus Revenge is mine Suffering divine Fractures break through bone Frustration won't let go Filled with lead and dumped into the river And buried in a shallow grave Both hands broken together Clenching fists cause the rage --------------------------------------------------------------------------- BLOOD OF THE ZODIAC A blind man asked an angel Could you please help But was told Take me from this altar I won't falter But I might fall This bitter man would understand Through all his life, a needle had Been his saviour, been his God So he tried to make a change Tried to rearrange Gun at his side, suicide Pre-Chorus: I can't help feel I been mistreated Won't you listen to me Chorus: Despise all that I see All that I feel All that I want to be Burned, blistered and raw Tearing apart All that is sane to me A wise man, half pariah Half messiah Came to seed Rain down blood like fire Born to sire Racist breed His dominance of ignorance Was rhetoric that made no sense Some believed in all the lies But in my mind I know what's wrong Way too fucking strong Taste the revenge on my tongue Pre-Chorus Chorus Lead: Logan Lead: Robb And now is my time to rise And now is our time to rise Our time To rise Ignorant, indignant Promises made in vain Rise, I can't see like you Rise, I can't feel like you Rise, never be like you Rise, time for all us to Rise... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------