The main attraction: distraction
Got you number than number than numb
Empty your pockets, son
They got you thinkin' that
What you need is what they sellin'
Make you think that buyin' is rebellin'
From the theaters to malls on every shore
The thin line between entertainment and war
The frontline is everywhere, there be no shelter here
Speilberg, the nightmare works, so push it far
Amistad was a whip, the truth feathered and tarred
Memories erased and burned and scarred
Trade in your history for a VCR

Cinema, simulated life, ill drama
Fourth Reich culture: Americana
Chained to the dream they got you searchin' for
The thin line between entertainment and war

There be no shelter here
The frontline is everywhere
There be no shelter here
The frontline is everywhere
There be no shelter here
The frontline is everywhere
There be no shelter here
The frontline is everywhere

Hospitals not profitful
The market bulls got pockets full
To advertise some hip disguise
View the world from American eyes
The poor adore keep fiendin' for more
The thin line between entertainment and war
Fix the need, develop the taste
Buy their products or get laid to waste
Coca-Cola was back in the veins of Saigon
And Rambo too, he's got a dope pair of Nikes on
And Godzilla, pure motherf***in' filler
Get your eyes off the real killer

Cinema, simulated life, ill drama
Fourth Reich culture: Americana
Chained to the dream they got you searchin' for
The thin line between entertainment and war

There be no shelter here
The frontline is everywhere
There be no shelter here
The frontline is everywhere
There be no shelter here
The frontline is everywhere
There be no shelter here
The frontline is everywhere

American eyes, American eyes
View the world from American eyes
Bury the past, rob us blind
And leave nothin' behind

American eyes, American eyes
View the world from American eyes
Bury the past, rob us blind
And leave nothin' behind

Just stare
Just stare
Just stare
Just stare
Relive the nightmare

What I believe is all that I am
Take it away, I'm only a man
Back from the dead and now it appears
I'll be the one to take back the fear

Kill or be killed, that isn't me
Maybe it's you dying to be
Somebody else. Man of the year
But I am the one to take back the fear

Don't want anything taken away
Taken away from me
It's all that I believe

Message of hate, fading away
My love and my failures "one in the same"
Now that I'm back, painfully clear
But I'll be the one to take back the fear

When it seems that everything was all a dream
Everything's not what it seems
Even I cannot believe in me easily

I've got a bad disease
But from my brain is where I bleed.
Insanity it seems
Has got me by my soul to squeeze.

Well all the love from thee
With all the dying trees I scream.
The angels in my dreams (yeah)
Have turned to demons of greed that's mean.

Where I go I just don't know
I got to got to gotta take it slow.
When I find my piece of mind
I'm gonna give you some of my good time.

Today love smiled on me.
It took away my face say please
All that you had to free
You gotta let it be oh yeah.

Where I go I just don't know
I got to gotta gotta take it slow.
When I find my piece of mind
I'm gonna give you some of my good time.

Oh, so polite indeed
Well I've got everything I need.
Oh make my days a breeze
And take away my self destruction.

It's bitter baby,
And its very sweet.
I'm on a rollercoaster,
But I'm on my feet.
Take me to the river,
Let me on your shore.
I'll be coming back baby,
I'll be coming back for more.

Doo doo doo doo dingle zing a dong bone
Ba-di ba-da ba-zumba crunga cong gone bad

I could not forget
But I will not endeavor
Simple pleasures aren't as special
But I won't regret it never.

Where I go I just don't know
I got to got to gotta take it slow.
When I find my piece of mind
I'm gonna give you some of my good time.

Where I go I just don't know
I might end up somewhere in Mexico.
When I find my piece of mind
I'm gonna keep you for the end of time.

I gotta get this s*** off my chest
Another sucker behind a desk
You try to tell me that you know best
Snap your fingers, snap your neck

Sunshine has always been an enemy
(Sunshine an enemy)
My life a chemical insanity
(My life will kill me)
Sundown is bringing out the freak in me, wired
Getting higher

Chorus:
So check your attitude at the front door
I'm really getting tired of taking
All of your s*** when I'm sober
I'm thinking that I'd rather be stoned
Yeah

I gotta get this s*** off my back
I run in circles but I won't crack
So f***ing sick of your politics
Snap your fingers, snap your neck

Sunshine has always been an enemy
(Sunshine an enemy)
My life a chemical insanity
(My life will kill me)
Sundown is bringing out the freak in me, wired
Getting higher

So check your attitude at the front door
I'm really getting tired of taking
All of your s*** when I'm sober
I'm thinking that I'd rather be stoned

Why you always waste my time, I don't know
Man, I'm thinking that I'd rather be stoned

I am my worst epitome, wired
F***ing higher!

So check your attitude at the front door
I'm really getting tired of taking
All of your s*** when I'm sober
I'm thinking that I'd rather be stoned

So check your attitude at the front door
I'm really getting tired of taking
All of your s*** when I'm sober
I'm thinking that I'd rather be stoned
(Snap your fingers, snap your neck)
I'd rather be stoned
(Snap your fingers, snap your neck)
I'd rather be stoned...

That's funky!

I dig my toes into the sand
The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket
I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless
And in this moment I am happy
Happy

I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were, here

I lay my head onto the sand
The sky resembles a back-lit canopy with holes punched in it
I'm counting UFO's, I signal them with my lighter
And in this moment I am happy
Happy

I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were, here
Wish you were here

The world's a rollercoaster
And I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care
But my hands are busy in the air, saying

I wish you were here
I wish you were
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were, here
Wish you were here

Hate, something, sometime, someway
Something kicked on the floor for
Me, something inside
I'll never ever follow
So give... me... some... thing... that... is... for... real
I'll never ever follow.

Get your boogie on.
Get your boogie on.

Hate, something, somewhere, each day
Feeling ripped off and given away.
This s*** inside.
Now everyone will follow
So give... me... noth... ing... just... feel
And all the s*** will follow.

God pains me
The more I see the lie.
Who wants to see?
God told me
I've already got the life
Oh, I say...

God pains me
They'll never see the light.
Didn't want us to see?
God told me
I've already got the life
Oh, I say...

Each day I can feel it swallow
Inside something torn from me
I don't feel your deathly ways
Each day I feel so hollow
Inside always beating me
You'll never see
So come dance with me.
Dance with me.
Dance with me.
Dance with me.
Dance with me.
Dance with me.
Dance with me.
Me!

God pains me
The more I see the lie.
Who wants to see?
God told me
I've already got the life
Oh, I say...

God pains me
They'll never see the light.
Who wants to see?
God told me
I've already got the life.

Got the life.
Got the life.
Got the life.
Got the life.
Got the life.
Got the lie.
Got the life.
Got the life.
Got the life.

i need an answer
some way to understand
this feels so convincing
and a little out of hand
so tell me one thing
who gave you all those scars?
that took away your innocence
you push away with everything you are

i cant take this anymore
i'm tired of breaking
i'm tired of faking

CHORUS:
i want the world to see
you sold a broken dream
you were not there for me
i was unraveling
all that we never knew
that could've been me and you
but you took everything
now it's just you unraveling

so here we are now
break whats already broken
i guess i could've seen this coming
if you'd been around
lets tear the past wide open

i cant take this anymore
i'm tired of breaking
i'm tired of faking

CHORUS:
i want the world to see
you sold a broken dream
you were not there for me
i was unraveling
all that we never knew
that could've been me and you
but you took everything
now it's just you unraveling

what have we become?
the hopeless dramatic
i think it's over...
we hope to find the truth still breathing
can we survive the low?

i want the world to see
you sold a broken dream
you were not there for me
i was unraveling

CHORUS:
i want the world to see
you sold a broken dream
you were not there for me
i was unraveling
all that we never knew
that could've been me and you
but you took everything
now it's just you unraveling
unraveling...

I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface,
Don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your sh***
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)

I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
I've become so tired,
So much more aware
I'm becoming this
All I want to do,
Is be more like me,
And be less like you

Can't you see that you're smothering me?
Holding too tightly, afraid to lose control
'Cause everything that you thought I would be,
Has fallen apart right in front of you
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
And every second I waste is more than I can take

I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
I've become so tired,
So much more aware
I'm becoming this
All I want to do,
Is be more like me,
And be less like you

And I know I may end up failing too,
But I know you were just like me with someone disappointed in you

I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
I've become so tired,
So much more aware
I'm becoming this
All I want to do,
Is be more like me,
And be less like you

I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
(I'm tired of being what you want me to be)
I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
(I'm tired of being what you want me to be)

Wish I may
Wish I might
Have this I wish tonight
Are you satisfied?
Dig for gold
Dig for fame
You dig to make your name
Are you pacified?

All the wants you waste
All the things you've chased

And it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger, but there's no one around
Just want one thing, just to play the King
But the castle crumbled and you're left with just a name
Where's your crown, King Nothing?
Where's your crown?

Hard and cold
Bought and sold
A heart as hard as gold
Yeah! Are you satisfied?
Wish I might, Wish I may
You wish your life away
Are you pacified?

All the wants you waste
All the things you've chased

Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger, but there's no one around
Just want one thing. just to play the King
But the castle crumbled and you're left with just a name
Where's your crown, King Nothing?
Where's your crown?

Huh!

Wish I may, wish I might
Have this wish, I wish tonight
I want that star, I want it now
I want it all and I don't care how

Careful what you wish
Careful what you say
Careful what you wish you may regret it
Careful what you wish you just might get it

Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger, but there's no one around
Just want one thing, just to play the King
But the castle crumbled and you're left with just a name
Where's your crown, King Nothing?
Nothing

Oh, You're just nothing
Where's your crown King Nothing?
Oh, you're just nothing
Absolutely nothing

Off to never never land

(Verse 1: manCHILD)
I push my pen past the breaking point, the point of no return
Past the pointed fingers, past the point at which you learn
Past ideas and perceptions, past lies and deception
Pass my life around the room to try to make the right connections
My obsession is this; past cash, past crime
Past beats, past rhymes, past life and past time
After time, time is money, time out, timing is everything
Your mind's my forty acres, on these fertile plains I'm settling
I'm steadily gold medaling in peddling what's the truth
Point my finger to the heavens and grip the heart to break it loose
I'd bear my soul to save the youth and place myself upon the altar
Make this world a better place both for my wife and for my daughters
And that's a hard lesson to learn, because mankind's so unkind
Like political prisoners who threaten the agenda of One Time
One rhyme can't change the world, so make no mistake
And that's just my point.yeah, that's the point I'm trying to make

(Hook)
One rhyme can't change the world, but sill I'll never back down
Speak my peace on microphones and fade into the blackground
What's wrong has prospered too long, it's time to take it back now
Write what's right upon walls and fade into the blackground

(Verse 2: Sintaxtheterrific)
Sintax the backlit shadow box backdrop
Silouette of the sunset across the concrete blacktop
Bet He's more brilliant and beautiful than we thought
Burn fame on the fingers of flame from sunspot
Then bask in the black where the spotlight's not
Mic rock late at night so nobody can watch
Some serve in daylight, Christ taught behind the scenes
So I caught his sunstream with the sea of the unseen
Humility sunscreen, I thank God for anonymity
My geneology is a forest of family trees
More branches than a bank, thank you's to pass around
Put gratitude on paper, extend my words like verbal pounds
Remember my past like people in small towns
Regard simple truth and profound, then write 'em down
I've found I like to watch autumn leaves just fade to brown
They turn without a sound, I'd like to fade into the blackground
Then drown the well renowned, pound my pride until it backs down
Clown myself just so that Yahweh can abound
Soul Heir the manCHILD and Sintaxtheterrific
We ripped it for a lifetime, but we'll vanish in an instant
Blink once and you missed it

(Hook)
What's wrong has prospered too long, it's time to take it back now
Write what's right upon walls and fade into the blackground
One rhyme can't change the world but still I'll never back down
Speak my peace on microphones and fade into the blackground.

(Verse 3: manCHILD)
I build this lifeline in the nighttime, hide my presence in this place
Anonymity's a witch, but I've grown acccustomed to her face
And it's broken, camouflage my emotions, chosen token
Spoken to those cold and frozen and watched new life awoken
Got that close to closing notion, overdosing on the ocean
No one knows this unsung hero, the dirt that makes the tree grow
But it's all right, I'm a peace in the puzzle like Bill Cartwright
Programmed to command the mic with deepspace5 all night
I'm the fly on the wall who's watching each and every bar fight
I'm the brick wall backdrop that's decorated in the starlight
Mars ILL, we do battle deep in the belly of the beast
And as the b-boy backspins, we be the cardboard that's beneath
See this wedding of art and science and let's all live and grow together
I'll choose to keep the memories and you can choose to buy the records
Maybe make that life better, leave that soul no longer vacant
And let the prejudice skeptics keep warm with blanket statements
With patience I set my paces on city streets of Atlanta
While my people being slandered by that false propaganda
Got answers, got questions, gotta teach and learn lessons
ManCHILD spits one rhyme and it tastes like sunshine
Holy, divine design, peace to the nines worldwide
Play my part to perfection and softly fade into the B-side

(Hook)
One rhyme can't change the world, but still I'll never back down
Speak my peace on microphones and fade into the blackground
What's wrong has prospered too long, it's time to take it back now
Write what's right upon walls and fade into the blackground
Refuse to be pimped into a record label's cash cow
Speak what's real upon reels and fade into the blackground

Freezin', rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again
Oh, feelin' maybe he'll see a little better set of days, ooh, yeah
Oh, hand out, faces that he sees time again ain't that familiar, oh yeah
Oh, dark grin, he can't help, when he's happy looks insane, oh yeah

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away
Someday yet, he'll begin his life again
Life again, life again

Kneelin', looking through the paper though he doesn't know to read, ooh yeah
Oh, prayin', now to something that has never showed him anything
Oh, feelin', understands the weather of the winters on its way
Oh, ceilings, few and far between all the legal halls of shame, yeah

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away
Someday yet, he'll begin his life again
Whispering hands, gently lead him away
Him away, him away
Yeah!
Woo...ah yeah...f*** it up

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away
Someday yet, he'll begin his life again, yeah
Oh, whispering hands, gently lead him away
Him away, him away
Yeah!
Woo...uh huh...yeah, yeah, mommy,mommy

Odd one you're never alone,
I'm here and I will reflect you.
Both of us basically unatached to anything or anyone,
Unless we're pretending.
You live your life in your head,
Some call it imagination.
I'd rather focus instead on anything,
Except what I'm feeling.

What I'm feeling.
Odd one.

Hey, it's gonna be o.k.
Hey, we're gonna laugh at this one day.

Odd one, I wish I was you,
You're never concerned with acceptance.
We are all desperatly sucking out and fitting in,
With anyone who will accept us.
But not you, odd one.

Hey, it's gonna be o.k.
Hey, we're gonna laugh at this one day.

Hey, it's gonna be o.k.
Hey, we're gonna laugh at this one day. [x2]

Don't let someone, tell you you're noone.
Don't let someone, tell you you're noone, odd one.

Lost in a dream
Nothing's what it seems
Searching my head
For the words that you said

Tears filled my eyes (eyes)
As we said our last goodbyes
This sad scene replays
Of you walking away

My body aches from mistakes
Betrayed by lust
We lied to each other so much
That in nothing we trust

Time and again
She repeats let's be friends
I smile and say yes
Another truth bent
I must confess

I try to let go, but I know
We'll never end 'till we're dust
We lied to each other again (but I wish I could trust)
But I wish I could trust

My body aches from mistakes
Betrayed by lust
We lied to each other so much
That in nothing we trust (in nothing we trust)

God help me please, on my knees (on my knees)
Betrayed by lust (by lust)
We lied to each other so much (so much)
Now there's nothing we trust

WHISPERED:
"How could this be happening to me"
"I'm lying when I say 'trust me'"
"I can't believe this is true"
"Trust hurts"
"Why does trust equal suffering"
"Suffering"

My body aches from mistakes
Betrayed by lust
We lied to each other so much
That in nothing we trust (in nothing we trust)

God help me please, on my knees
Betrayed by lust
We lied to each other so much (so much)
Now there's nothing we trust (nothing we trust)

My body aches from mistakes
Betrayed by lust (by lust)
We lied to each other so much (lied to each other so much)
That in nothing we trust

God help me please (help me please), on my knees
Betrayed by lust (lust)
We lied to each other so much
Absolutely nothing we trust!

*Lyrics in parentheses sung by Jen Ledger.
I'm just a step away,
I'm a just a breath away;
Losin my faith today,
(Falling off the edge today!)

I am just a man,
Not superhuman;
(I'm not superhuman!)
Someone save me from the hate;

It's just another war,
Just another family torn;
(I'm falling from my faith today!)
Just a step from the edge,
Just another day in the world we live;

I need a Hero,
To save me now!
I need a Hero!
(Save me now!)
I need a Hero,
To save my life!
A Hero'll save me!
(Just in time!)

I gotta fight today,
To live another day;
Speakin' my mind today,
(My voice will be heard today!)

I've gotta make a stand,
But I am just a man;
(I'm not superhuman!)
My voice will be heard today!

It's just another war,
Just another family torn;
(My voice will be heard today!)
It's just another kill,
The countdown begins to destroy ourselves!

I need a Hero,
To save me now!
I need a Hero!
(Save me now!)
I need a Hero,
To save my life!
A Hero'll save me!
(Just in time!)
I need a Hero,
To save my life!
I need a Hero!
Just in time!

Save me just in time...
Save me just in time...

Who's gonna fight for what's right,
Who's gonna help us survive,
We're in the fight of our lives!
(And we're not ready to die!)

Who's gonna fight for the weak,
Who's gonna make 'em believe,
I've got a Hero!
(I've got a Hero!)
Livin' in me!

I'm gonna fight for what's right,
Today I'm speaking my mind,
And if it kills me tonight,
(I will be ready to die!)

A Hero's not afraid to give His life,
A Hero's gonna save me just in time!

I need a Hero,
To save me now!
I need a Hero!
(Save me now!)
I need a Hero,
To save my life!
A Hero'll save me!
(Just in time!)

I need a Hero!
Who's gonna fight for what's right,
Who's gonna help us survive!

I need a Hero!
Who's gonna fight for the weak,
Who's gonna make 'em believe!

I need a Hero!
I need a Hero!

A Hero's gonna save me,
Just in time!