The dawn is breaking Your hands are shaking The doorway has shown new light The window has stripped the black of night And the sun has your soul Pushing you down the corridor of your... Your shoes are tied tightly Your eagerness to learn is mighty Throw the calendar in the trash Tomorrow begins from yesterday's ash And the sun has your soul Pushing you down the corridor of your life And the sun will guide your way Every time the darkness starts to fade...

This year I missed the audition To own everyone's television I knew that I would just regret it After we all see the final edit I don't care what the judges say I'm gonna do this any way I'm done with reality TV scams Don't believe what you see on cam I'm just starting. Ain't no way I'm giving up now. A starving artist If that's what i have to do to myself Don't let the marketing team Take away your rock n roll dream Go with your instinct Doesn't matter what the Simons think Are we victims? Are we slaves? To the garbage polluting the airwaves The market doesn't care about ability If you're not blessed with marketability America wants more models with voices We don't want artists that make their own choices Disposable music for the masses Let see who's career burns out the fastest I'm just starting. Ain't no way I'm giving up now. A starving artist If that's what i have to do to myself Don't let the major labels Sit around an office table To write all your number one singles You're better off singing car lot jingles The company has the product and they sell it to me They take the focus off the quality of the melody Base your taste off what you've heard before, familiarity Lace it with edginess, but bleep out the profanities Hip hop cameos bring an urban appeal To teenage suburban bitches who be keepin it real Auto tune me in the studio, I'm ready to go It's what the corporate producers don't want you to know How can we call ourselves musicians When the enemy is the music business? Don't give up on the fight. Put your faith in every song you write. I've just started Tearing up this industry now A starving artist I'd rather just do all this myself I'm just starting. Ain't no way I'm giving up now. A starving artist If that's what i have to do to myself Don't let the producers put you down When America votes on how you sound Don't change your image Just to suit what the Simons think

There's a smog coming over the horizon, it's making me ill But no one is panicking, No one is dancing, They look like mannequins, how can they stand so still? It seems that my wings have just outgrown this nest. I'm learning to fly. Will you wish me the best? I'm looking for a new foundation Everyone around here's gone off the wall I'm looking for a new sensation I'm still rocking, but no one's on the ball. (I'm still rockin ya know?) I'm looking for some new relations But I can't seem to find anyone at all. This is what you'd call self preservation When I'm not social I'll be driving nowhere, as long as it's out of this town Where I won't hear the sound of the voices that get me down, somewhere where stupid people are not allowed. Some folks just lack common decency. But If I run fast enough, there's still might be hope for me. We don't have to go out tonight.

Sometimes a love comes about Someone turns your insides inside out. Since your heart is out in the open. They stamp it to the ground til its broken It takes a little while to recover You're not out there looking for another You lie awake at night holding your chest And all you feel is emptiness Now If ya don't mind waitin', I'll come around, just wear me down. A broken heart takes time to mend. I'll call you when mine beats again. Handing out your throwaway kisses To anyone you know that won't miss it Ya ever have an apathetic slow dance? I guess it some kinda hand me down romance Not the kind that drove me insane The kind you'll never feel again When the one you loved takes away The strength you need to face the day Now If ya don't mind waitin', I'll come around, just wear me down. A broken heart takes time to mend. I'll call you when mine beats again. And if ya don't mind staying another round to watch me drown I swear I'll make it up to you, And say the things that you want me to. Now if ya don't mind waiting around Sorry if the way I've been is dragging you down. Now If ya don't mind waitin', I'll come around, just wear me down. A broken heart takes time to mend. I'll call you when mine beats again. Now if ya don't mind, If ya don't mind. ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh A broken heart takes time to mend. I'll call you if mine ever beats again.

Every night it's the same bad dream Jocks, preps, geeks, prom queens hurt my self esteem Dirty looks, thick books, hallway makeout sessions Dozing off in class right before the teacher asks me questions I never thought I'd be here again But when I fall asleep somehow now is then When I finally figure out that it's all a dream I wake up and scream... I don't wanna go back to school I wanna stay at home and make rockin tunes I don't need no fall back plan I just need to rock out with the band Flashback to the present, now I'm 25 It's been a rough ride but I'm still alive I got laid off, I got no money, but got bills to pay Now that I'm a grown up, I'd be a toys r us kid any day rent, gas, beer, groceries and car insurance but for the 9 to 5 I don't have the endurance When the bill collectors call me and tell me that I'm late I just say I want to bang on de drum all day I don't wanna get up for work I wanna stay at home and be a jerk I don't wanna go find a job If I rock this hard, can I be a slob, please? I don't wanna go back to school I wanna hole myself up in this room Don't need no, masters or doctorate The school of rock n roll says that I'm the shit Son, you have to think about your future You don't want to grow up to be a loser Maybe not, but all I know is... I don't wanna go back to school I wanna stay at home and make rockin tunes I don't need no fall back plan I just to need to rock out with the band I'm not gonna go back to school I don't care if ya mama thinks I'm a fool I don't care if I make it far So just leave me alone with my guitar I'm not going back You can't take me back

I'll drive her back home Through Pennsylvania mountains, through rain and through snow To visit all of her favorite people again Deep in the heart of the state of Michigan She shows me downtown, all the lights on the street Pass pubs and breweries and places to eat Her elementary school, and venues for first dates We leave all our worries in New England states. She's leaving her heart in Ann Arbor. Every time she leaves it gets harder and harder. To say goodbye to her mother and father. I guess we'll have to visit a lot more. She asks, "why must we to live so far?" She goes through old boxes of useless old junk And anything worth keeping we'll pack in the trunk So many memories were left in the basement Like the stuffed teddy bear that her parents made her It's good to talk to family without being on the wire As we walk through the mall and go shopping at Meijer This store has everything you'd possibly ever need The way this place feels makes me not want to leave I ask her why she left this town when she was so young She said to appreciate where she is from Away from her world we started to drive And that's when I noticed a tear her eye She's leaving her heart in Ann Arbor. Every time she leaves it gets and harder and harder. To say goodbye to her mother and father. I guess we'll have to visit a lot more. She asks, "why must we have to live so far?" She's leaving her heart in Ann Arbor Every time she leaves it gets and harder and harder. To say goodbye to her mother and father. She's losing out on years of their lives. That's why we'll have to visit a few more times.

Is that your smile? The one that took so long to find out How to make itself move and dance and play and drive across the earth I'm your mechanic The one that helped you understand it If you need work on anything else at all, just call Say hello to the answer to this riddle Put your last buck down on the hand that grabs You'd be another lost soul if nobody cared So put your lifevest on and let the current carry you home I'm so ecstatic That we made magic out of tragedy You swam from a sinking ship, you were well equipped to take a dip, a dive Your heart was pounding You thought that maybe you might be drowning But at the bottom of the ocean floor there was an open door to my heart And we both know that this love is like an ocean Our love is like an ocean So vast, so wet, so slippery, so full of fantastic mystery

Excuse me if I struggle with the words to find To fully express this conscious state of mind But I want you to know That I am happy with who I am And I'm ready to breathe in deep and see out the master plan See how all the flowers died So thank the heavens we're still alive They didn't have the things that we do You have me, and I have you The worst is over for some but yet to come for others The ones who choose to be fighters, and hurt the lovers You'd be happy to know That I have finally figured out, (yeah) Why for so many of them, things have gone awry in this living hell And if we keep it together I think that we'll be fine So lets hold on forever, and leave this shithole behind

I've seen so many rainbows They all look the same though 40 days and nights alone With static on the radio I don't believe in global warming cuz I'm so cold It's a sad sad summer when you're living in a cloud It's a sad sad sad summer, when the world is keeping you down Can't go outside today I think my bed is where I'll lay Another storm, another robbery If you could, just call the cops for me I don't believe in human empathy in such a godless world They say things will be better in 2012 as long as you don't get ahead of yourself I'm tired of seeing my breath.

Imagining you standing there Eye lined, with streaks upon your hair The orange leaves fall around you Dead butterflies' surround you Can we meet in the hall where I can take your hand Can we meet in a time when we're both too young to understand Alas it's summer's end It's time to fall in love again Write me notes When you're in class Address to present from the past To love the breeze in the new cold Is to love the one that you hold The one that I held dearest Was a fantasy, but now I'm a realist Can we replace the subject with one who would reciprocate Can we replace the time with a latter point in this game of fate Alas it's summer's end It's time to fall in love again Every year the harvest brings Such bittersweet and hurtful things May I rest my head upon your sweater We've waited far too long to be together Alas it's summer's end It's time to fall in love again Write me sweet nothings from yesterday Mail them to this current day Alas my loneliness has suddenly come to an end Autumn leaves outline our bodies in the grass

In and out of institutions False claims made of prostitution Medicated disorientation Though I didn't take my medication I swear to god I made a decision To leave some anthrax in your kitchen Threats of biochemical warfare? Wake up girl, it's just a nightmare I can't remember the story That I told you early this morning All the time it gets harder To cry wolf, cuz people get smarter People say that I'm dramatic Go to AA, but I'm no alcoholic I just need someone to listen To something I made up just this instance I can never remember who I hated someone I had a life with who I never dated? Reliving the history of things that Daddy did to me I can't remember the story That I told you early this morning All the time it gets harder To cry wolf, cuz people get smarter I will never learn from past mistakes I'm addicted to the bad choices that I make I will never apologize I'll just build more lies on existing lies. I can't remember the story That I told you early this morning All the time it gets harder To cry wolf, cuz people get smarter I'm hanging on to only one memory. The time that you said you loved me.

Whatever happened to common sense Making decisions, and thinking for oneself? We must rely on books of suggestions Ask no question, have no objection Non beilievers are heathens and demons Keep screaming that Jesus will heal us Does it even matter at all? Was I created or evolved? The moral of this story Is take the moral from the story Focus on literal statements of snakes and apples is what made this place full of assholes Non beilievers are heathens and demons Keep screaming that Jesus will heal us I'd rather be seeing, people treating people like people are supposed to be treated. Non believers are people, just people Who don't believe Jesus will be here. Please just stop preaching, and please just start teaching your offspring to be decent human beings

People create themselves No identity can be hell "Who am I?" You wanna scream No one gives a damn about me Where is the one that will hold my hand? Listen to these words, I hope you'll understand. Care for what it is you're caring for Someone will love you for who you are, not what you are Don't hestitate, yet you don't have to rush Love will find you, but only if you trust That beauty is in the essence. Not in your first impression This I can say to you from experience. Me, I've wasted too many days. Wasting away, until I believed in these words that I say... Care for what it is you're caring for Someone will love you for who you are, not what you are It gets so hard in this aesthetic world With picture perfect boys, and picture perfect girls If I could travel to the past, and speak to my past self. I'd say this Like I wished someone said to me. Something I thought would have helped... Care for what it is you're caring for Someone will love you for who you are, not what you are They say that Beauty is only skin deep. I'd say that we're all just as ugly underneath...