Change

here, I wait / for a good thing to resolve
when I'm sinking in a ship I can't control
and I'm sick / with a smile I try and hide
broken pieces of a lie, I can't let go

I never meant to let you down again
I had it all but watched it drown

why does every good thing have to end?
I've burned every bridge before it began / and, now, I'm sinking)
I changed, a man I thought I'd never be
I've burned every bridge before it began / I swear, I'm gonna change

here, I wait / swimming in a sea of dark
I'm lost in the current of my faults
here, I sink / holding on with all I had
the tide will rise / I'm gonna own what's mine

I never meant to let you down again
I had it all but watched it drown

why does every good thing have to end?
I've burned every bridge before it began / and, now, I'm sinking
I changed, a man I thought I'd never be
I've burned every bridge before it began / I swear, I'm gonna change

all I wanna do is break free
all I wanna do is break free

I never meant to let you down again
I had it all but watched it drown

why does every good thing have to end?
I've burned every bridge before it began / and, now, I'm sinking
I changed, a man I thought I'd never be
I've burned every bridge before it began / I swear, I'm gonna change

I swear I'm gonna change
I swear I'm gonna change

(all I want to do is break free)
all I want to do is break free / I swear I'm going to change

Dedicated

I have a dream of a scene between the green hills
Clouds pull away and the sunlight's revealed
People don't talk about keeping it real
It's understood that they actually will
And intoxicated and stimulated MCs
Staring in the trees, paranoid, are gone in the breeze
Watch them flee, hip-hop heads
Take a walk with me and what you'll see
Is a land where the sand's made up of crushed up wax
And the sky beyond you is Krylon blue
And everybody speaks in a dialect of rhyme
And MCs have left materialism behind them
Meanwhile I just grip my mic
And hope me and my team make it through alright
Because say what you will, and say what you might
But don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night

Because this is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same ol' same
And dedicated to the people advancin' the game
What's real is the kids who know that something's wrong
What's real is the kids who think they don't belong
What's real is the kids who have nowhere to run
Who are hiding in the shadows waiting for the sun

I've seen a lot of shit, I've talked to a bum
Out on Sunset Strip, he asked me How would you feel
If everybody acted like you didn't exist
You'd lose your grip, probably eventually flip
So let it be known, the only reason that we do this
Is so you can pick it up and just bang your head to it
While MCs fight to see who can be the commonest
We float overhead like a space odyssey monolith
Over-seeing the game, over being part of the same ol' thing
It's all gonna change in a hurricane of darkness and pain
And acidic rain and promises that you won't do it again
Meanwhile I just grip my mic
And hope me and my team make it through alright
Because say what you will, and say what you might
But don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night

Because this is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same ol' same
And dedicated to the people advancin' the game
What's real is the kids who know that something's wrong
What's real is the kids who think they don't belong
What's real is the kids who have nowhere to run
Who are hiding in the shadows waiting for the sun

Pulling me close, the shadow is warm inside
This is where I feel at home, this is my place to hide
Pulling me close, the shadow is warm inside
This is where I feel at home, this is my place to hide

This is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same ol' same
And dedicated to the people advancin' the game
What's real is the kids who know that something's wrong
What's real is the kids who think they don't belong
What's real is the kids who have nowhere to run
Who are hiding in the shadows waiting for the sun

This is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same ol' same
And dedicated to the people advancin' the game
What's real, everybody who doesn't feel safe
What's real, everybody who knows they're out of place
What's real, anybody with nowhere to run
Who hides in the shadows waiting for the sun

Wish

This is the first day of my last days
I built it up, now I take it apart
Climbed up real high, now fall down real far
No need for me to stay
The last thing left, I just threw it away
I put my faith in God and my trust in you
Now there's nothing more fucked up I could do

Wish there was something real
Wish there was something true
Wish there was something real
In this world full of you

I'm the one without a soul
I'm the one with this big fucking hole
No new tale to tell
Twenty-six years, on my way to Hell
Gotta listen to your big time
Hard line, bad luck, fist fuck
Don't think you're having all the fun
You know me, I hate everyone

Wish there was something real
Wish there was something true
Wish there was something real
In this world full of you

I want to but I can't turn back
But I want to

So Far Away

Save me now from this mess that I've created
All the souls have gone
And I'm stranded here with doubt and fear alone

Tell me how, I'm involved for all this madness
I don't know what's wrong
But I can not help but try to push it

So far away...
(I don't need to be inside of me)
So hard to say...
(I don't wanna say it anyway)

Save me now, I'm the mess I have created
And my soul has gone
for some reason all I do is push it

So far away...
(I don't need to be inside of me)
So hard to say...
(I don't wanna say it anyway)
So far away...

Its so far away...
(I don't need to be inside of me)
So hard to say...
(I don't wanna say it anyway)
So far away...
(I don't need to be inside of me)
So hard to say...

I don't wanna say it anyway