Wasting away within the shadows
All the voices I hear
They whisper softly to me
What is it you're afraid of?

Why can't this world revolve around me
to shelter me from fears of failure loneliness and greed?

Does this hope I hold
amount to nothing? I can't bring
this feeling I will never know

This road of broken dreams has crumbled
caved in left nothing
Not even space to walk alone

So fade away fly away
Time to burn the past away
Ash and rise again don't fear

Just fade away face away
Push on forward every day
Live your dream today right here

Just fade away

Staring at people pass around me
and I can't believe my eyes
This can't be destined for me
but it's what I'm afraid of.

So focused waiting for that chance of mine to appear within my sight
Can't see what's taken from me.

Could these hopes I hold
amount to nothing I can't bring
This feeling I will never know.

Although my road to dreams
has crumbled caved in left nothing
I finally see how I can go.

So fade away fly away
Time to burn the past away
Ash and rise again don't fear

Just fade away face away
Push on forward every day
Live your dream today right here

Just fade away...

Just fade away face away
Time to burn the past away
Ash and rise again don't fear

Just fade away fly away
Time to burn the past away
Ash and rise again don't fear

Just fade away face away
Push on forward every day
Live your dream today right here

Every hour, and every day
There's hostility my way
And it's a miracle I'm standing

Too much problems
and too much pride
can spell assisted suicide
But I'm so broke I'd do it solo

Every word I have to say
just avoids what really stays
The worries doubts and fears of mine, they haunt me

And when I realize the time that's passed
I'm frightened even more
Cause all I see is times ten tomorrow

Gotta find a way
To make the most of every day
So every minute's like a lifetime

Gotta have some fun
Because tomorrow never comes
What you live is called today

I walk along a crowded subway
But no one knows I'm there
Well maybe not
It's just that they don't care

It drives me crazy so insane
So much it seems sanity's inane
Please take my mind
Right now I don't mind.

And the thoughts I have each day
Could make me wish my life away
And it's because of those that see right though me

And all my worries and my fears
That I might drown within my tears
Might become the truth that I see tomorrow

Gotta find a way
To make the most of every day
So every minute's like a lifetime

Gotta have some fun
Because tomorrow never comes
What you live is called today

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

I can't breathe
Your stares are suffocating
And I can't see
I'm blinded by my pain
I can hope
Persistence is my ally
One more wish
Maybe it'll come true

[I can't breathe I'm trying
Was I just born blind
I can hope that I can carry on]

Gotta find a way
To make the most of every day
So every minute's like a lifetime

Gotta have some fun
Because tomorrow never comes
What you live is called today

[I have to find a way
to make the most of every day
And I have to have some fun
If only there's a way]

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

Shackled tied to the floor
The gong has rang
You can't take no more

Darkness muffles your plea
To the land that forsakes thee
with no regrets

So why can't we swim forever
We'll swim forever
We don't know how far we all can go
So why don't we swim forever
We'll swim together
We'll float forever on our face

Screaming without a voice
To wield all your anger
To break status quo

Stepping on every piece
To cut through the silence
within their minds

So why can't we swim forever
We'll swim forever
We don't know how far we all can go
So why don't we swim forever
We'll swim together
We'll float forever on our face

[All you peasants get back in line
Or I'll execute every last one of you]

Walking to the edge
To witness erosion
The world I know's crumbling under me

[And I hate being dragged let alone
Stomped and trampled over it's wrong
Concentrated never faded
Can't escape the walls they've made]

And I've no time to see
If father time's friendly
Or if he's just stealing it from me

[Each second passes feels like a year
Lost within the silence I fear
There's no will no voice it's gone]

So why can't we swim forever
We'll swim forever
We don't know how far we all can go
So why don't we swim forever
We'll swim together
We'll float forever

So why can't we swim forever
We'll swim forever
We don't know how far we all can go
So why don't we swim forever
We'll swim together
We'll float forever on our face

[And I hate being dragged let alone
Stomped and trampled over it's wrong
Concentrated never faded
We've escaped the walls they've made
Each second pass what feels like a year
Free from all the silence and fear
With our will our voice it's gone]

Nothing safe about it
Roam the streets but I'm not free
I'm bound within the eyes of everyone
But I can't stand alone
My heart is like a river stone
Though solid strong it's
Weathered from the punishment endured
It's driving me insane
Being jealous of a window pane
So clear you go by never knowing that it's really there
And what I hope to be
Innocuous transparent and then
Maybe I'll be free

Standing proud? I doubt it
Cause no one's perfect deep inside
But people pass their judgment like the time
Each second one by one
Symbolic of a loaded gun
Belittling me like a wound gone straight into my head

I'm saving time to pray
It helps me pass the time away
What a sad world my life seems to be
But better life alone
Than passing on to never know
The feeling to be free

[And it's saving time to pray
It helps me pass the time away
And now with better life alone
Than passing on to never know how
Free I am]

I've crashed and burned
I failed to fly
I'm choking on the shadows half alive
Though I believe that I must try to breathe

[With one more moment
one more chance to breathe]

Something strange about it
I roam the streets but I'm not free
I'm bound within the eyes of everyone
But I can't stand alone
My heart is like a river stone
Though solid strong it's
Weathered from the punishment endured

I can't drive myself insane
Being jealous of a window pane
So clear you go by never knowing that it's really there
And what I hope to be
Is confident not judged upon
Then maybe I'll, maybe I'll be free
Maybe I'll be free
Maybe I'll be free

[I can't see how I could get away from here
To get away from me, I took time to breathe
I'm found and now I'll finally
Scream my heart out loud]

[Staring eye to I can't win this
Fight I raise my white flag high while I'm]

Blown faced with this solitary cold confined implosion
I'm trembling it's growing
This self inflicted rebel revolution
It's mutiny
Defenseless unstable, confused and unable
Conflicted divided, conscience vs pride

And I'm staring eye to eye
I'm scared to move
I raise my white flag high today
It's over

I'm stuck in this river bend
Of upward flowing droll naive emotions
Unflattering devotion
To tired archaic moral constitutions
It's tyranny

You useless unstable
Confused and unable
Conflicted, divided
No backbone or pride

And I'm staring eye to eye
I'll never move
So raise your white flag high today
It's over
It's over
It's over

Together forever
Together forever with you
Together forever
Together forever with you
Together forever
Together forever with you
Together forever
Together forever with you
Together forever
Together forever with you
Together forever

[Staring eye to I can't win this
Fight I raise my white flag high today]