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Educators 

Educators, please be patient

We're swimming through the sludge of mixed misinformation

A generation comes of age in arguments of who's to blame

A broken nation

They're yelling back and forth but nothing ever changes

Gather all the infidels, the saints and everybody else

And cut off that old leash that you clipped onto your belt

Got something to say or sell, speak but better know it well

Educators, take your places

I read the papers, listened to the anchors

Signed in pseudonyms, spoke by shadow covered faces

No one wants to claim the words that cause the world a world of hurt

It's getting dangerous

It's never just the truth, always interpretations

Gather all the infidels, the saints and everybody else

Have you not a single thought that you came up with yourself?

Your comfort is a prison cell, they locked the door and bid you well

Educators, man your stations

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Gather all the infidels, the saints and everybody else

If you're not gonna stand you'll be replaced by someone else

Got something to say or sell, speak but better know it well

Educators, take your places

Educators, man your stations

Educators, won't you educate 'em

Don't Cry To Me

Leaves her clothes by the door

She said she don't wanna bring in

A day's worth of bad decisions

He can't do this anymore

She said she feels indifferent

And losing love is part of existing

Don't cry to me

When something else goes missing

Lines the halls with broken mirrors

Shattered faces stranded

Trying times that she's abandoned

Adds another every year

Just so she can wreck it

Once she tires of the reflection

Don't cry to me

When you start second guessing

Don't cry to me when it's not what you wanted

Don't cry to me

Don't cry now, don't you cry

Don't cry to me

Don't cry to me

Cuz you feel like restarting

Don't cry

Don't cry

Don't cry

Don't cry

Leaves her costume by the door

The one that used to miss him

But that's not her anymore

Run With It

Songs and signed letters we didn't write to throw away

Flowers in old bottles, wasted now a drunk's bouquet

And even though it's said and done, I still see you in what's become the vase

Brown irises, red tulips, a rosy face

You and I were young for a little bit

Still painting on the stains of the pain of bliss

Yeah, we thought we had the world but must be too young for this

So we didn't run with it

Sounds of sad stations, the haunting harmony of trains

Lines of worn faces take the circles every day

The stops that we were riding through looked too much like missed opportunity

We left our chance on red and yellow seats

You and I had fun for a little bit

Before we saw what playing was turning into

We said we weren't grown up enough yet to commit

So we didn't run with it

And when time came 'round to point our fingers

All the fault came down to things that we said we were not quite ready for

Think we were just scared to admit

That we could've run with it

Yeah, you and I had love for a little bit

Before we knew what it was, we weren't scared of it

Now all I fear is I'm never gonna quit

(I'm never gonna quit)

Wishing I was ignorant again

But once you've been, you can't un-be it

(Still what I was)

Still not sure what we saw, but I can't unsee it

(And always will be)

All I know is we felt like no-one ever did

And we could've run with it

Yeah, we could've run with it

But we didn't run with it

Black And White

Open your eyes

Behind your lids you're seeing cold days, long nights

Not worth reliving all the bad things you've tried

This doesn't make 'em any better

Between the lines

I've tried to stay, but everyone knows

Sometimes there's blurry lanes and if you must go outside

Once in a while then what's the matter?

In black and white I see it

But I still don't believe it

She acts just like she rules

Over everything she sees

Reserves her special treatment

I shouldn't have got my feet wet

Thought I was king didn't have a clue

Was just a pawn moved by the queen

Cuz up in her tower she lies

Thinkin' that I'm so blind

Telling me I'm her guy

Wasting my time

But it's so black and white

That you were never mine

Idols and busts

Line the pathways to the places she trusts

But there's so many, is there nothing discussed

With her that won't be shared with others?

Heroes and fools

There is no in between when jealousy rules

It's never what it seems, you win or you lose

But neither nor ever recovers

It was so hard to see it

Man, I still don't believe it

She thought that she could do

Anything she pleased

A crown comprised of secrets

Words of others' regrets

And I was wrong to have assumed

Mine would be kept safe with the queen

Cuz up in her tower she lies

Thinkin that I'm so blind

Telling me I'm her guy, wasting my time

But it's so black and white

That you were never mine

No you were never mine

She sits confined

A little space, it's her own prison, her mind

But she would never ever go back in time

This is exactly what she wanted

The Mines

Another half-felt smile shot my way

But it makes it easier to sing

To a crowd of people that seem to say

Silent words but no one's prayin'

So how do we go from here to there?

Can't you feel the flow?

Meanwhile I'm just wasting time

Out here in the mines

Every day I'm older, a little bit closer

But I'm so lost in my mind

And I don't know yet where I'm going

Guess that's just a part of life

I'll sit right here and enjoy the night

Out here in the mines

Just walk the other way and bat an eye

Or you'll find yourself inside

The walls that talk to patronize

A part of you that's livin right

They'll ask what you've heard and who's it from

How did you not know?

So meanwhile I'm just wasting time

Out here in the mines

Every day I'm older a little bit closer

But I'm so lost in my mind

And I don't know yet where I'm going

Guess that's just a part of life

I'll sit right here and enjoy the night

Out here in the mines

The sand is fallin' all over the floor

The glass is broken in your hand

You can't come back here anymore

No, your time's come to an end

What did you think, you'd be here long?

You thought that it'd go slow?

Meanwhile I'm just wasting time

Out here in the mines

Every day I'm older a little bit closer

But I'm so lost in my mind

Still not knowing where I'm going

Guess that's just a part of life

I'll sit right here and enjoy the night

Out here in the mines

The Mines

So I'll be here, wasting time

Out here in the mines

Every day I'm older a little bit closer

But I'm so lost in my mind

Never knowing where I'm going

Cuz it's so hard to find

I'll sit right here and I'll watch the sky

Out here in the mines

The mines

San Jose

She said she's getting out of here

She's got to get away

She's sick of all these landlocked minds

This really ain't her place

It hasn't been the greatest year

Kinda goes without saying

That it's only gonna get much worse the longer that she stays

And I know

She won't miss me

She'll go

And leave me here in misery

I know there's nothing I could do to make you stay

I hope you find what you've been looking for when you get to San Jose

Wish I didn't have to stay behind

Wish I was better on my feet

But I can't blame that girl or leaving

This is where no one wants to be

My friends just wanna get high

All close their eyes so they can't see

The pantones of conscious, vivid life

While I'm stuck in this reality

And I know

She won't miss me

She'll go

And leave me here in misery

She can't stop dreamin' about that California bay

I hope you find what you've been looking for

When you get to San Jose

And I know

She won't miss me

She'll go

And leave me here in misery

I only wish there was some other way

I hope you find what you've been looking for when you get to San Jose

When you get to San Jose

And if you find what you've been looking for

If you've finally found your place

I hope it's all you wanted and more

When you get to San Jose

Skylark

I'm a skylark, I'm flyin away

I use my heart to navigate

Cuz I'm much too far up to see where I am

A flock flew by I tried to chase

To join them in the song they sang

But I fell behind, and they flew away

Now I'm far from home

The wind must know

After all, it's been here since the start of time

So I'll go

Wherever you guide my wings, I'll fly

I'm a one-man band with a one-man audience,

I sing to the winter sky

Wondering where I'll find the lowlands

Or if the place has passed me by

Cuz the more I fly, the more it seems

The sky's become a home to me

But there's no birds up here, no trees

My echo is my lone company

And the sky's dark

It's no place for a skylark

Aurora's green pastels behind

Push me towards a warmer light

My instincts say that it feels right

So I follow

But below the clouds

I can tell that it ain't so cold on the ground

But I won't look down

I've come too far to stop right now

I'm a one-man band with a one-man audience,

I sing to the winter sky

Wondering when I'll find the lowlands

Or if the chance has passed me by

Cuz the more I fly, the more it seems

The sky's become a home to me

But there's no birds up here, no trees

My echo is my lone company

And the sky's dark

It's no place for a skylark

What did I ever do?

To become a vagrant fool?

Cuz all I've done

Was for the best

Now look where I am

I'm a skylark, I'm flying away

I thought my heart could navigate

But I'm too far, far away

To know where I am

I'm a one-man band with a one-man audience

I sing to the winter sky

Hoping that one day I'll find lowlands, knowing I'll just keep trying

Cuz the more I fly the more I know

The sky's my only true home

But I did it to myself, I suppose

Just thought you couldn't be alone

If you followed your heart

I'm a skylark

Mischief Makin'

The faces, the reputations

Laughing through cigars

Dreamt of graduation, but woke up in a sleepwalk

Cuz now they're all off in bigger places

Looking for lives that don't seem small

I stay behind

Like a painter trying to catch a moment

Before it falls away

Spent so much time

And I'm brushstrokes from the perfect portrait

But all the light has begun to fade

So get ready, take your heart, and go

You can't be dreamin anymore

Has no one said "you've come of age"?

You've passed the day where you must grow

And nothing holds you back like hope

That there's still something left to chase

So grow up, give up, dreamer, wake

We're tongue tied for conversation

Our lips lie and our eyes steal

Ain't it overrated

Pretending we aren't kids still?

Saw so many shades before the changes

Not just blanket black and white

But overall,

It was nothing more than Mischief makin'

That made our colors blaze

And no one called those times when time stopped "wishful thinking"

Until they saw the world in grays

Now get ready, take your heart, your home

And put your mind above your soul

Force your eyes open awake

You've passed the day where you must know

That too much faith will leave you broke

The table's titled, the story's staged

So wise up, wake up, dreamer, break

A victim of mind,

Of secondhand truth

A victim of time

To run out of youth

But when the light went away

No difference was made

To the painter who knows that it goes every day

For the scene never fades

To he who has Mischief left to make

So get ready, don't ever let go

Your mind's a hard thing to ignore

But a dreamer's heart won't ever change

Color your canvas full of hopes

And dip your brush 'cuz life's so short

And we're all dying anyway

So go on, let Mischief be made

There's so much Mischief left to make

Let it live on, dreamer

Paint