Dream of Waking  AFI

I feel it washing over me, the slow poisonous tide.  Pins and needles dance on me.  Sickness undefined.  Now I'm afraid to face the sky.  Please someone hear my haunted cries.  Please let them wake in me.  with eyes sewn shut I still can see al that is surrounding me.  I end up somewhere, somewhere between... between a dream and motionless reality, will I forever life?  I feel binding so smoothly.  I see myself below.  I feel it gnawing, eating me.  Poisonous and slow.  My mind it speeds.  My voice has died.  God let me make the faintest cry.   Opened up and for the taking just one touch and I'll be yours.  Opened up wide for the breaking.  Just one touch and I"ll be yours.   What's on the other side of the mirror?  To cry, I try, to break the static keeping me here in between

those lyrics are more grotesque then i thought.  the best part is at the end.

Caught in a world that's plagued by something they call love.  A paradigm of illness is the beast I have become.  The sights that I have seen could nearly bring me to my knees.  I've seen exactly what it is I never want to be, but I keep it deep inside myself.  It's within me.  Keep it deep within yourself and sink with me.

Last night I had the misfortune to see it all first hand.  "Evacuate the premises" was the innate first command.  What drives the need for all of this?  And will I never understand?  Has someone failed to tell me of this master plan? 

The Mother In Me-AFI

I'm always around you to show that I care, but I don't know what for.  It seems to me that you couldn't care less so I'm not gonna do it anymore.  I see no reason why I place such a value on you.  My thoughts have changed now.  I open my eyes, and now I'm through.

Looking back at my short life, the few that I've found, all your misconceptions pummel me to the ground.  Now I look at your small life and it doesn't mean a bit.  I pick my self from off the ground because I don't care.

They say all good things come to an end, I wish this didn't apply.  You were once someone I called my friend but that's all now changed and I don't know why.  Things are very different now.  You've got nothing to say.  It's sad when someone you know very well decides to die and go away.

Rizzo in the Box-AFI

When no one looks the clouds come rolling in.  And under darkened skies the buildings grow big teeth and eyes.  They breathe and walk through unending doors, Eating restaurants, and barbershops, and hardware stores.  With catch phrases and jingles stealing, Steel and concrete lies,  The corridors of Babylon are craning for the skies.

Who's behind the curtain anyway?

Who pulls the levers and tells the lies?

Giants rome the land today

Gaining dominance with every stride.

Oh don't you cry for the mom and pops. Nothing but dry eyes for integrity's demise.  Hulking machines grind as whistles blow, Corporate Darwinism crushes everything below.  Advances in efficiency increasing productivity are narrowing the margin for liberty.

This house is haunted by the ghost of Adam Smith, the wealth of nations and the further death of innocence.  To rule the world, the desire of every man, The earth is shaking, there are giants in the land

DOWN WITH THE GIANTS

DOWN WITH THE GIANTS

See the bloodred sun is rising on the broken carnage from the darkest days. Giants locked together arm in arm pushing all the meek out of the way

WHO'S BEHIND THE CURTAIN ANYWAY?

WHO PULLS THE LEVERS AND TELLS THE LIES?

GIANTS ROME THE LAND TODAY

GAINING DOMINANCE WITH EVERY STRIDE