Kutless Album

I'm looking down into the eyes of hopelessness
They're crying out to me
I see the pain it's so much more than youth should know
It tears me apart
What can I do to change what I see
This vicious cycle must come to an end

[CHORUS:]
Can't you see, we're crushing the hearts of the innocent
We're teaching them to fail
And how it breaks me to see how we're living and punishing the ones that need us
to care
To see them hurting
Feels like knuckles to the back of my head

Where have the days gone that a promise was forever
Families stuck together

We wonder why their generation struggles to get by
There's no one to help what can I do to change what I see
This vicious cycle must come to an end

Tell me something I don't already know
I know that you can't stand these things I'm preaching in the streets
But how can I contain the truth I hold inside
With all the hurting people that I see so I don't mind
Putting up with you, and all the things you say
I'm not about to stop or even change my ways

[CHORUS:]
There's nothing you can say
That will take me away from this life
There's nothing you can do
To shut me up when I'm speaking the truth

Into the bridge and ending last line:
(to shut me up, to shut me out when I'm speaking the truth)

You may not like all I have to say
But you can't prove that everything is filled with empty words
I know my life and inside how I've changed
A testimony to the truth I speak, so I don't mind
Putting up with you, and all the things you say
I'm not about to stop or even change my ways

I've been hiding, hiding for so long right behind my digital mask
I've been trying to be someone I'm not
All these perfectly fake people push us to insane ideals
They're nothing more than counterfeit images

That push me away, to bleed out the pain
Don't you dare to make another move

[CHORUS:]
Put the knife away that's not what anybody needs
There's a better way than everything now that you see
Stop comparing who you are to who you want to be
Let's step out beyond the surface

Don't give in to everything the world around tells you to be
Open up your mind release yourself
Stop the lying stop comparing who you are to what you see
Never letting fear hold back the change

And push you away, to bleed out the pain
Don't you dare to make another move

On a plane somewhere again
I take my place in line just like every other time
I slide into my window seat
She was sitting there
One seat over so I said "Hello, how are you today?"

With my smile I could see the hope within her eyes
And I knew that something's different today

[CHORUS:]
Though everything's the same inside there's something real
A faith which causes me to change. (But what's different now)
A spark is gleaming in my eye like diamond stars that fill the sky
I think a smile says it all
A smile says it all

The conversation presses on
As miles pass below, she said I have to let you know
You seem so different to me
There is a joy inside
The love of God is all I know from which this could originate

With one smile I could see, the faith we share inside
And I know that something's different today

[BRIDGE:]
I see what a smile can say about me
I know that words are not always what speak
Sometimes it's not what I say
That the world around me seems to understand

I have fallen to my knees
As I sing a lullaby of pain
I'm feeling broken in my melody
As I sing to help the tears go away

Then I remember the pledge you made to me

[CHORUS:]
I know you're always there
To hear my every prayer inside
I'm clinging to the promise of a lifetime
I hear the words you say
To never walk away from me and leave behind
The promise of a lifetime

Will you help me fall apart
Pick me up, take me in your arms
Find my way back from the storm
And you show me how to grow
Through the change

I still remember the pledge you made to me

[BRIDGE:]
I am holding on to the hope I have inside
With you I will stay through every day
Putting my understanding aside

And I am comforted

Can you feel the pains in life?
Wrapped around you like they're chains
Restricting all your dreams
Do you wonder if there is a way?

A way to set you free
Set you free

[CHORUS:]
So tell me all your dreams
Tell me all your fears and what you're longing for the most
It's not another way that'll end up the same for it's under my control

Do you feel the winds of change
Soon this weight will fall away
And take you to a place
Only found through these winds of change

A breeze that's new and free
New and free

I'll be the one who you can cry to
The one who will give you wings
I will give wings

[BRIDGE:]
Someday we'll sail away
Mounted up on wings like eagles
We will run and will not fade away

Another beautiful morning
The sun seems a little brighter today
It's my reward for stepping into the moment as I am seizing the day

[CHORUS:]
I'm soaring now somewhere in the sky
The rush of air never wanting to come down
There's nothing that I've ever felt like learning how to fly
I'm learning how to fly

The freedom to be in the moment
The reason for making a memory
Never wasting all that comes my way as I take in what I see

I thank God for our freedom
There's nothing wrong with enjoying things in life
Spread the word that a smile's not beyond us
This is a call to act and seize your day

Empty reasons for my past
Excuses do not hold
I'm struck with my affliction
An inner perfect storm
Why didn't someone warn me
To save me from my self
The pain is self inflicted
The decisions were my own

Now listen to history

[CHORUS:]
There's so much I could say
There's so much that I've learned don't make my mistake
There's no time to delay
Take my hand and learn from my heartache

Take a look into the past see all the things I've tried
Looking for a truth inside but only finding pain

See these deep and painful scars, cutting to the bone
Do you want to look like me? With a broken, empty life

[BRIDGE:]
Some things you may never understand
But knowledge from lessons not your own
Can save you from the unknown which may stop your fall

You tell me it's nothing but I see it's something in your eyes
A fear is there
You say you don't need me, don't try to deceive me
By pulling the wool over my eyes

There's nothing wrong with needing help sometimes
What are friendships for
Now please

[CHORUS:]
Don't push me away condemn your pride
Sometimes we all need a hand to get by
Don't push me away condemn your pride
When tears start to fall then with you I will cry

No one is perfect, it just isn't worth it to stand on your own
Though fear is there
Don't be ashamed to ask me to help you
To deal with the thoughts, spinning your head

There's nothing wrong with needing help sometimes
What are friendships for
Now please

[BRIDGE:]
You can lean on me
Stand by my side, we will fight
We are much stronger as one

I thought I had it all under control
I thought my fate was still in my hands
All of my plans were firmly set
By the words that I say

I forgot how quickly things can change
Now my vision can not be the same

[CHORUS:]
My life is not what I thought
I'm not where I planned to be
Though something's gone
There's nothing wrong with my changing world
Though something's gone
There's nothing wrong with my changing world

I need to let go of my destiny
I need to trust in things unseen
I believe in having faith
Though I yield my control

I forgot how quickly things can change
Now my vision can not be the same

[BRIDGE:]
I'm embracing all of my fears
I am watching them turn to delight
The very fears which were gripping my mind
Are now the hands shaping and sculpting my dreams

He's driving down a road to nowhere
The moon reflects off his spotless car
Speeding away from all he's known
To greener grass on the other side

[CHORUS:]
He's a million dollar man
He's got everything he wanted
But now what he wants is what he had
But he threw it all away
For a life filled with cars and rings and everything that money can bring

Now everything is not what he thought
As guilt reaches in for all of his wrong
The profit is worthless when you're alone
The grass isn't greener on this lonely side

He threw it all away

Oh the memories
Of all the things that shouldn't be
They take you away from all you should be
Don't let it go by as if you agree

[CHORUS:]
Nightmares of the past will fade away
The future of your name is what will stay
Never try to blame the past for everything you say
You have the power you need to change your legacy

Do you really want to be just like the very ones you blame
who take you away from all you should be
Don't just stand by as if you agree
Think of the future and when you are gone how will you be remembered then
For all time you can be the one who changed the name