House of Heroes Album

7:00 am on Circle Street
Sprinklers ring out a symphony
All the kings and pawns off to work for their perfect lawns

But me, I'm still dreaming of Sandy
Maybe I'll spin out to her side of town
Or maybe bum a ride with Bunny when his parents aren't around

Try in vein you may
You know we are the same
And when you call me name

Rebels we become
In tracks where lions run
Red beneath the raging sun
Like wildfires we burn relentlessly

The mexicanos stare us down
Dogs are barking on Sandy's side of town
I keep it cool all the way to her front porch

Her brother growls behind a hangover
And I can smell her hair already, yeah
The summer started when our feet crossed the open door

We are the singers of the songs
The weakest are the strong
Nothing is right, but nothings wrong

Heroes we become
In tracks where lions run
Red beneath the raging sun
Like wildfires we burn relentlessly

Our faith is small but it is strong
Enough to carry on
Though we are poor we shall not want

Rebels we become
In tracks where young lions run
Red beneath the raging sun
Like wildfires we burn, we burn

Heroes we become
Where saints and sinners are one
Red the raging sun
Like sons of earth we yearn, we yearn
Like kings of men we learn, we learn
Like wildfires we burn relentlessly
Relentlessly

This elevator goes straight to the top of the line
Everybody's talking about it
This elevator don't stop ‘til we learn how to fight
Everybody's talking about it
Why don't we shout about it?

I want to know what you know when you know
I want to go where you go when you go
I want to know how it feels at the front of the line

This elevator goes straight to the top of the line
Everybody's talking about it
This elevator runs hot ‘til we learn how to shine
Everybody's talking about it
Why don't we shout about it?

I want to know what you know when you know (woah)
I want to go where you go when you go (woah)
I want to know how it feels at the front of the line

I want to know what you know when you know (woah)
I want to go where you go when you go (woah)
I want to know how it feels at the front of the line

Time tears our hope, and the change comes so slowly
To who much is given, much will be asked

Everybody's talking about it
Why don't we shout about it?

I want to know what you know when you know (woah)
I want to go where you go when you go (woah)
I want to know how it feels at the front of the line

I want to know what you know when you know (woah)
I want to go where you go when you go (woah)
I want to know how it feels at the front of the line

This elevator goes straight to the top of the line
This elevator goes straight to the top of the line
This elevator goes straight to the top of the line

So don't shut up about it

I got my G.E.D. with a 2.2
I couldn't take 4 more in a business school
Just to spend another 20 in a cubicle
So I got a summer job cleanin' swimming pools
I saw my little angel in a one-piece suit
She had a high class mind and her face was cute
For the first time I didn't know what to do
I said i better start to make the cash
Love is for the middle class

If all I had was love
Would I still be lovely?
If all I gave was love
Would you give up on me?
But if you measure love in false securites
I owe you nothin' at all
Don't owe you nothin' at all
Don't need your lovin' at all
Don't owe you nothin' at all
Hey

Your daddy got in trouble with the I.R.S.
Left your mama with a baby and a pile of debt
sent you off to public school with all the rest
Now you're lookin' for a man who can pay the rent
For the first time you don't know what to do
Your head say no, but your heart says true
When every other man just put you last
I said I better make the cash
Love is for the middle class

If all I had was love
Would I still be lovely?
If all I gave was love
Would you give up on me?
But if you measure love in false securites
I owe you nothin' at all
Don't owe you nothin' at all
Don't need your lovin' at all
Don't owe you nothin' at all
Hey

Oh, I wouldn't mind if we nickel and we dime it just to be together in the end
Maybe just a little till we make it to the middle and they're takin' half of every cent
If you find a brother who can take you from the gutter then I get it if you gotta go
But does he really see you like I know I really see you, does he love you with his rebel soul?
Like I can love you baby, like I do

I said I better make the cash
Love is for the middle class
I said I better make the cash
Love is for the middle class

If all I had was love
Would I still be lovely?
If all I gave was love
Would you give up on me?
But if you measure love in false securites
I owe you nothin' at all
Don't owe you nothin' at all
Don't need your lovin' at all
Don't owe you nothin' at all
Don't owe you nothin' at all
Don't need your lovin' at all
Don't owe you nothin' at all
Hey

We gotta hold onto hope
In this heartless world, we gotta hope
We gotta let it go
Or it will eat us alive, we gotta let it go

Do you know me?
Do you trust me?
Can you find me?
Do you love me?

What if I told you we were so far away?
What if I told you would you go with me anyway?
What if I told you we were so far, so far away?

You gotta tell me the truth
If they take that too, then we have nothing to lose.
You gotta let me through
I can make a way if you light the fuse

I know you see me
I know you need me
If you believe me
Then I can be me

What if I told you we were so far away?
What if I told you would you go with me anyway?
What if I told you we were so far, so far away?

What if I told you we were so far away?
What if I told you would you go with me anyway?
What if I told you we were so far, so far away?

We gotta hold onto hope
In this heartless world, we gotta hold onto hope!

What if I told you we were so far away?
What if I told you would you go with me anyway?
What if I told you we were so far, so far away?

What if I told you we were so far away?
What if I told you would you go with me anyway?
What if I told you we were so far, so far away?

Midnight at the school behind the bleachers
There's gonna be a rumble
The lions and the kings
And my baby, she cries in her bed and she worries
And my baby, she prays
God save the kings of the world

Promise me you won't do anything crazy
I promise you I won't do anything, baby
Promise me
I promise you nothing

We're outcasts only cause we chose to dream
We're princes who'd rather dine with thieves
We're honest only cause the truth, it can not hide
God save us, the foolish kings

Midnight at the school behind the bleachers
There's gonna be a rumble
But the cops won't be notified
So the lions bare their arms
But the kings gonna break the hearts of their babies tonight

We're daring only cause we've none to lose
We're lions missing half our teeth
We're honest only cause the truth, it can not hide
God save us, the foolish kings
God save us, the foolish kings

And we fight cause
We'd rather break our bones
Than brave this loneliness
We draw blood cause we're just trying
To draw out some significance
But I met God on the street tonight
And he said, choose your battles wisely
Or you'll never find me
Promise me you won't do anything crazy
Promise me
I promise you
I promise you one thing

We're devils trying to earn our angels wings
We stumble at every turn indeed
We're desperate, chasing down the love to just survive
God save us, the foolish kings
(Promise me you won't do anything crazy)
God save us, the foolish kings
(Promise me, promise me)
God save us, God save us
The foolish kings

Here's to wasted time
Here's to wasted time
Watching the trees
Swaying in the breeze

The corners of my mind
The corners of my mind
Are folding to meet
Like a secret that you keep

I'm here until you crash into me
I'm here until you crash into me
I'm softened by the salt in the sea
I'm alive, and you are everything

Here's to yours and mine
Here's to yours and mine
Everything
Everything we dream

Here's to what's gone by
Here's to time it flies
Fly by the sea
A sea of shimmering green

I'm here until you crash into me
I'm here until you crash into me
I'm softened by the salt in the sea
I'm alive

I'm here until you crash into me
I'm here until you crash into me
I'm softened by the salt in the sea
I'm alive, and you are everything

Until I become one with the salt in the sea
I will stand up straight
And let you roll right into me

Until I become one with everything I dream
I will give you praise
Praise eternally

I'm here until you crash into me
I'm here until you crash into me
I'm softened by the salt in the sea
I'm alive

I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive

The summer that I turned 16 I had my independence day,
Snuck down to the rich neighborhood near the fireworks display,
Green lawns washed in black all reflecting exploding light,
We crept up to a house big and white with back door open wide.

There's no honor among suburban paupers.

Independence day for a petty thief,
Independence day for a scoundrel.

Young and old they stared like zombies at the red and blue and grey,
Every soul was in the bleachers about four blocks away,
From inside it sounded like thunder claps, or a town being laid to waist,
My heart was beating a boom, boom, boom, boom as we filled up our pillow case.

Free, dumb.

Independence Day for a petty thief,
Independence Day for a scoundrel.

Independence Day for a petty thief,
Independence Day for a scoundrel.

The summer that I turned 16 I had my Independence Day.

Somebody knows
The secrets we've been keeping
And the looks that we've been stealing
They're a ticking time bomb

And when it blows
The wreckage and the wasteland
Will be refuge from the quicksand
We've been sinking down in

What's the worst they can do to us now, baby?
We're making fiction, turning friends into foes, maybe
We still have something if we let it it all out
Let it all out
Oh no

Somebody knows
They're following the clues and
Tying up the loose ends
That we left at the scene

And when we're exposed
A jury of our peers can
Deliberate the facts and
Hear our last play

I can hear 'em say:
"I want the truth, I want the truth"
I know you know I know
"I want the truth, I want the truth"
I know you know I know
Somebody knows!

"I want the truth, I want the truth"
Let me hear you say it one time
"I want the truth, I want the truth"
You know I know you know

Somebody knows
Somebody find me out
Somebody turn me in
Somebody bring me down

(Lock the doors)
This city hides a secret at it's breast
(Shut the windows)
I feel its icy fingers on my neck

(Lock the doors)
We built our perfect dream on shifting sand
(Shut the windows)
Scattered in one motion of God's hand

(We leave tonight)
Take only that which you can't live with out
(We leave tonight)
Hot wheels on the cold ground

We disappear, we burn down
A black wind carries us out
We disappear, we fade out
With one glance in the rear view mirror

(Suburba)
It stocks your streets a lion in the reeds
(Suburba)
Wakes you in a panic from your sleep

(Suburba)
Your vanity and strength are washed away
(Suburba)
Like the concrete moon is washed out by the day

You disappear, you burn down
A black wind carries you out
You disappear, you fade out
You're just mist and the sun is rising now

Oh no
Guarantees won't save our dreams
And what we lost we must not know
Oh no

My lady, unpredictable
She preach file and brimstone in the study hall
In darkness, she's a lightening bolt
She's so powerful

My lady, undeniable
She drops bombs of truth till your defenses fall
She don't worry bout a thing at all
She's impossible

She come down, only to wind up again
When I doubt, she can be my medium
She come round, and she saved the day
She mighty mighty
She mighty mighty

My girl pray the rosary
Before she take down the powers of bigotry
She walk close, with the Holy Ghost
And she's haunting me

She come down, only to wind up again
When I doubt, she can be my medium
She come down, only to wind up again
She come round, and she saved the day
She mighty mighty
She mighty mighty

My lady she's a pretty little
Mighty mighty pretty little thing
My lady she's a pretty little
Mighty mighty pretty little thing
My lady she's a pretty little
Mighty mighty pretty little thing

She come down, only to wind up again
When I doubt, she can be my medium
She come down, only to wind up again
She come round, and she saved the day
She mighty mighty
She mighty mighty
She mighty mighty (Yeah!)

I worked for so long
With the weakest of hands on the coldest of shores
The wind and the rain
Fill me with doubt but you've never been wrong before

I pray for the sun
Some guidance, some truth, some glimpse of the things to come
With only your song
Your love made me strong when all hope was gone

All through the night I was falling
Straining to hear your voice calling
You never gave up, never gave in, never quite gave up on me
You are my constant

We always want time
To hoard up our treasures and bury our dead
It's true what he said
The foxes have holes but the king has no place for his head

I pray for relief
But relief doesn't come, just the will to press on
With only your song
Your love makes me strong when all hope is gone

All through the night I was falling
Straining to hear your voice calling
You never gave up, never gave in, never quite gave up on me
You are my constant

All through the night, Your love is faithful to me
All through the night, your love is right here with me
All through the night, your love is holding me

All through the night I was falling
Straining to hear your voice calling
You never gave up, never gave in, never quite gave up on me
You are my constant

All through the night I was falling
Straining to see your light shining
You never gave up, never gave in, never quite gave up on me
You are my constant
You are my constant
You are my constant
You are my constant

When I was young I thought like a child
And so I reasoned by why I could see;
Childishly, Show me the truth

Is a kingdom just beyond reach?
Or is it hidden where it's plain to see
Draw the curtain: Revelation!

Make clear to me
The mystery

There's a spirit fire growing inside me
Burn me down, burn me down
There's a holy fire growing inside me
Burn me down, burn me down
Let it out...

Like a shadow, like the sea mist
I cannot grasp it, yet it exists
In the background: Eternity

Make clear to me
The mystery

There's a spirit fire growing inside me
Burn me down, burn me down
There's a holy fire growing inside me
Burn me down, burn me down
Let it out...

What will we do with all the old made new?
What will we do with all the dead made young?
What will we do with all the false made true?
What will we do? What will be done?
What will we do?

Revelation!
Eternity!
Make clear to me
The mystery

There's a spirit fire growing inside me
Burn me down, burn me down
There's a holy fire growing inside me
Burn me down, burn me down
Let it out...

Can we leave?
Can we get out of this dump?
Thirty miles to Galveston
Thirty miles and then it's done

And I believed
That we had what it would take
But the best laid plans can fail
And the surest levees break
And make just mud

Remember us?
Remember what we use to love?
Your laughter kept us warm
And we always had enough
And don't you see?
How we choose our destiny?
You're not a victim, not to me
Perception is reality

But if you wanna leave
Then maybe you should get up and go
If you're gonna leave
Maybe you should be alone
Go ahead and go
Go ahead and go
But know, I was right

And now you're free
Out there on that slippery slope
All the rope you'll never need
But who laughs at your jokes?
You call me
Couldn't find a better man
It's not so comforting
When no one holds your hand

But if you wanna give up
Maybe you should get up and go
If you're gonna leave
Then maybe you should be alone
Go ahead and go
Go ahead and go
But know, I was right

Woah!

Oh, no
But if you wanna give up
Maybe you should get up and go
If you're gonna leave
Then maybe you should be alone
Go ahead and go
Go ahead and go
But know, I was right
I was right

Hate to say this
Hate to be this way
I hate it, but it's honest

Hate to say this
Hate to be this way
I hate it, but it's honest

And you only want
What you can't have
And it's not love
If you can't stand

I'm right! I'm right, I'm right, I'm right,
I'm right, I'm right, I'm right, I'm right!

I'm right! I'm right, I'm right, I'm right,
I'm right, I'm right, I'm right, I'm right!

I'm right! I'm right, I'm right, I'm right,
I'm right, I'm right, I'm right, I'm right!

But if you wanna give up
Then maybe you should get up and go
If you're gonna leave
Maybe you should be alone
Go ahead and go
Go ahead and go
But know, I was right

Be patient with me
I'm planting the seed
And soon, I will be in bloom, my Love

So be patient with love
It's always enough
The ghost and the dove
I'll give my love

And I see you
And I know the truth
No, no, and I still want you
You are the grace that I believe in

And I am blind in the darkness of the night
But I'll see when the darkness meets the light
And I'm drawn to what, what is right in my heart

Be patient with me
Oh, my Love