Criminal Damage - No Solution

Criminal Damage
No Solution
2007

1) MY ESCAPE

as i greet another day and my mind begins to think
the last one rushes back and the weight is back again
sleep a brief respite from a hole inside my chest
gotta keep moving on and make it through the day
time is supposed to heal, but nothing seems to change
just want to get myself and my head in a better place

want to feel the world rush by and put my pain
behind me, put a hundred miles between it and me
want to feel my nerves slow down as adrenaline passes
through me. need a lonely road just to get away

spent another night nursing pain inside my room
drinking doesn't help when it's only just too soon
know a false way out isn't gonna ease my pain this time
gotta get away and give my mind a break
need to face the world, but there's only so much i can take
see her living shadow in everything all around me

want to feel the world rush by and put my pain
behind me, put a hundred miles between it and me
want to feel my nerves slow down as adrenaline passes
through me. need a lonely road just to get away

i just want to get away
and make it through another fucked up day
i just want to get away
it's my escape

2) MUDSLINGER

you use your politics as bait
and you're preying on people's sense of shame
you're playing games with people's lives
one day you're gonna realize
that we don't want to hear your shit no more

MUDSLINGER - WE WILL GET THE BEST OF YOU

you talk your shit and you talk too much
but you've got nothing to back it up
this life means too much to me,
'cause i've got nowhere else to be
and we're not gonna take your shit no more

MUDSLINGER - WE WILL GET THE BEST OF YOU

3) THE CHOICE IS CLEAR

another day of work, and i cannot believe
what i'm hearing on the news about the middle east
bombs from above killing indiscriminately, while
the tensions mount against the fleeting hope for peace

global domination is in play
but the real question is: will you participate?
how will you fit in their master plan?
with a gun in your hand?

another military draft doesn't seem a dream
they'll soon stretch thin and come for you and me
i'd rather put a bullet in some fucking brass' brain
than fight an endless war in someone else’s name

global domination is in play
but the real question is: will you participate?
how will you fit in their master plan?
with a gun in your hand?

4) EVERYTHING THAT BLEEDS

feeling numb and lonely
suddenly alone in the world
want to take my mind away
but it hanging on fills the void
never felt this pain before
never felt such a helpless wound
just don't want it all to end
but i know that time's coming soon

don't let it all slip by, don't wait,
don't take one bit for granted
never know when it could end
and you're just left with the memories
don't let a day go by when you know
that nothing lasts forever
everything ends that breathes and bleeds

so black and hopeless,
living feels like a dream
nothing can bring her back
and only time will ease the pain

don't let it all slip by, don't wait,
don't take one bit for granted
never know»when it could end
and you're just left with the memories
don't let a day go by when you know
that nothing lasts forever `
everything ends that breathes and bleeds

5) EMPTY EYES

what will they say about you when they write your history?
will you be known for your ideas or deeds?
or will the days that made up your life be swept away?
a life spent chasing heaven and a sense of immortality

wasted time and a squandered life
living dead with empty eyes
nothing left but numb and cold inside
your life's running out of time

and i don't know if there's meaning in any of this
or if it's just a game until we greet death's kiss
standing alone on the edge of time waiting for it to end
is there a god looking back or was it all a sham?

wasted time and a squandered life
living dead with empty eyes
nothing left but numb and cold inside
your life's run out of time

6) THE HEAT

lost in a dream that's your reality
pushing all of the world's problems far away

don't want to feel the heat
of the blazing fire around you
just want to wish it all away
anywhere you go the heat will find you

put a smiling face on a festering wound
but your rich facade is gonna crumble soon

don't want to feel the heat
of the blazing fire around you
just want to wish it all away
anywhere you go the heat will find you

7) MEDIA CASUALTIES

the night was hot and bleak but we weren't there
running through the streets but we weren't there
was the blood of the faceless that they call the enemy
and they kill in our name but we weren't there
and it's feels out of our reach cause we weren't there
just far enough away to obscure our reality

living in the comfort of our streets
safe from the war that we won’t ever see
we will not see the bodies in the streets
blood of our loved ones under our feet
just another yellow ribbon and number on the TV screen

they hide their own casualties so we won't care
it's all planned so well so we won't care
the lesson was learned well from another time and war
so they keep it all clean and we won't care
just control what we see and we won't care
sometimes i just can't believe how far they'll go

living in the confines of our streets
safe from the war that we won't ever see
we will not see the bodies in the streets
blood of our loved ones under our feet
just another yellow ribbon and number on the TV screen

8) WWIII

bombs are falling from blood-red skies
no reflections in helpless eyes
that have seen the horror of war
hell has opened at their front door

the living legacy of mankind-
the shadow of violence in our minds
war-scarred earth and feverish times
the manifestation of what's inside
will we ever see something more?
all this has been done before
a chaotic world in a chaotic craze
rolling forward towards a third world war

world war three, is it gonna be?
the future is a repeat of history...

9) NO SOLUTION

when you feel like you've got no voice
cause there doesn't seem to be a choice
all you see is a mess and all you seem to hear is noise

it doesn't matter which way you want to go
doesn't matter which side is right or wrong-
THERE'S NO SOLUTION

and we've all been there before
where the answers don't seem clear
it's all a tangled mess and we just don't want any more

doesn't matter which way i want to go
doesn't matter which side is right or wrong-
THERE‘S NO SOLUTION

doesn't matter which way i want to go
doesn't matter which side is right or wrong now
doesn't matter what i think is best to do
doesn't matter if i refuse to believe
THERE'S NO SOLUTION

10) VICTORY

day to day, conflicted
feels every choice is limited
even compromise is hard to find
everything feels tense again
defense affects every movement
tied in a knot that won't unwind

still feel and live inside the fire of passion
no amount of pain can take it away
gotta have a means to live
just want to feel what content is
even if it's chasing a futile dream

when the day comes
when we won't have to fight
when our pride is nonexistent
when we won't have to hide
inside shells of fear and loathing
when we won't have to find
ways to justify our means of living
we will have already won the revolution