"And now there will be no mistaking, the levees are breaking" - just love the mental image of a gushing flood of destructive water, and the metaphor it presents "Lift me up, let me go" - simple yet beautiful "Remember all the sadness and frustration, and let it go... Let it go" - such an uplifting and striking contrast to their usually somber lyrics "Blackbirds following me, I'm digging out my grave" - once again just creates a vivid image of misfortune And basically any line from Mike's verses in Bleed It Out. They are just fucking awesome.
"All you've ever wanted is someone to truly look up to you, and six feet, underwater, i do" "god save us everyone when we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns, for the sins of our hand, sins of our tongue the sins of our father the sins of our young" and the whole end section of Blackout, its amazing.
"Do the Ernie, do the Bert, shake your milky, chocolate shirt." "I used the deadwood to make the fire rise, blood of innocence burning in the skies."
"Holding on to what I haven't got" "God save us everyone when we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns, for the sins of our hand, sins of our tongue the sins of our father the sins of our young" "When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done"
There's a metric shit-ton more, but for now, here's what's off the top of my head... "I'm swimming in the smoke of bridges I have burned." "Raindrops put the rhythm on the pavement and drips from the blacktop into the basement. Traces of the rain prevade this to erase your hate and take this from the fakeness." "Everything falls apart, even the people who never frown eventually break down." "You wanna try to hear the thunder hit? You're gonna have to follow me under it." "I remembered black skies, the lightning all around me. I remembered each flash as time began to blur. Like a startling sign that fate had finally found me." "So give me reason to prove me wrong." "This is the sun behind the rain, even though sometimes I feel I can't stand another minute." "Sometimes the sun doesnt shine your way. Sometimes the sun doesn't shine your way. Sometimes the night doesn't turn to day. Sometimes the light's so bright it burns through the night and keeps the darkness at bay." "I watch how the moon sits in the sky on a dark night, shining with the light from the sun. But the sun doesn't give the light to the moon assuming the moon's gonna owe it one." Apparently, I love weather... can you tell?
"Don't want to reach for me, do you? I mean nothing to you, The little things give you away" "Shotgun, opera, lock and load Cock it back and then watch it go" "I watch how the moon sits in the sky On a dark night, shining with the light from the sun But the sun doesn't give the light to the moon Assuming the moon's gonna owe it one"
"Spit drips from the jaw of the witless witness Cryptic colloquialism shifts your midrift Dark all I do embark the shadows Involved with my thought catalog, analogue, rap catalog Keep my distance, and fear resistance, hurt by persistance The twisted web of tangled lies Strangles my hope to waste and numbs the taste And I'm forced to face these hate crimes Against the state of being Feeling the weight-less-ness pressed between the ceiling Reeling around room Riding a bubble of sound proof It's the frequency making you Sha-Shake with every boom Involuntary muscle contraction Ignoring and drinking musical gas fueled euphoria The sound pounds to make the dead flush To have you a head rush with red thoughts and said stuff" ~ Rap Solo at the end of 'And One "It's not where it goes, it's where it can lead you to." ~ Robot Boy Demo "The hardest part of ending is starting again." ~ Waiting For The End
"The things I want to say to you get lost before they come, the only thing that's worse than one is none" "The hardest part of ending is starting again" "When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind"
''Wake in a sweat again, Another day's been laid to waste, in my disgrace'' ''When our heads betray our hearts, we fake what we don't know, and if our doubt begins again, the answers find us in the end, so in the meantime we'll pretend, and fake what we don't know'' ''Do you feel cold and lost in desperation, you build up hope, but failure's all you've known'' ''If anger's a gift then I guess I've been blessed'' ''She couldn't stay here, she knows you won't let her down'' There is a lot more..
lol, i can tell wonder if mike was writing lyrics while it was raining then he saw the sun behind the rain
A small spot of light floods the floor and pours over the rusted world of pretend - the eyes ease open and it's dark again.