Watching all the insects march along

Seem to know just right where they belong

Smears of face reflecting in the chrome

Hiding in the crowd I'm all alone

No one's heard a single word I've said

They don't sound as good outside my head

Looks as though the past is here to stay

I've become a million miles away

Why do you get all the love in the world?

All the jagged edges disappear

Colors all look brighter when you're near

All the stars afire in the sky

Sometimes I get so lonely I could

Why do you get all the love in the world?

Why am I always watching from the outside?

On the other side of the glass behind glass

Always watching everyone separate

Watching always don't touch this is getting deeper

As time goes by the water's getting colder

Here I am surrounded by people but still all alone

Even with myself imprisoned in my head

And there doesn't seem to be any way to get out

And I am so fucking sick of here wish I was there

Right beside is still a million miles away

Behind these bars in a rut anyplace will do

Hello? Didn't think so

Broadcasting only static coming in

No one can hear me when I'm in here

You Know What You Are?                                                      oben

I tried to sneak myself through

I tried to get to the other side

I tried to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide

For a little bit of time even made it work okay

Just long enough to really make it hurt

When they figured me out and it all just rotted away

Don't you fucking know what you are?

Go on get back to where you belong

You better take a good look because I'm full of shit

With every bit of my heart I have tried to believe in it

You can dress it all up you can try to pretend

But you can't change anything

You can't change anything in the end

Don't you fucking know what you are?

Go on get back to where you belong

Remember where you came from

Remember what you are

Not one of them you belong with

You're only fooling yourself

Go on get back to where you belong

You are not one of them

You belong with us you're only fooling yourself

Come back where you belong back

To nowhere back to nothing

Back to that lonely place inside your head

Come back to where you belong

You're so fucking stupid and pathetic

What you're trying to do

We will never let you go

That was a lie you must have wanted to believe

You didn't really believe that did you?

Well it runs too deep it runs too deep my friend

Better start to look at things through different eyes

Don't you know fucking know what you are?

Go on get back get back get back to where you belong

The Collector                                                                           oben

I pick things up

I am a collector

And things, well things

They tend to accumulate

I have this net

It drags behind me

And it picks up feelings

For me to feed upon

There are times, plenty of times

I wish I could let it go

But they start to breathe

And they start to grow inside me

There are times, plenty of times

I wish I could let it go

But they start to make me think

Things I don't want to know

I'm trying to fit it all inside

I'm trying to open my mouth wide

I'm trying not to choke and swallow it all

Swallow it all, swallow it all, swallow it all

I am the plague

I am the swarm

All you hurt sticks on me

And I keep it warm

They make me stay

They won't let me leave

There are so God damned many of them

It gets hard to breathe

I'm trying to fit it all inside

I'm trying to open my mouth wide

I'm trying not to choke inside

I am a good boy and I will swallow it all

Swallow it all, swallow it all, swallow it all

Every last one, every last one

Every last one, every last one

Are you listening?

Yes I am building something bigger than the world

Something terrible with all of this

The Hand That Feeds (Album Version)                                   oben

You're keeping in step in the line

Got your chin held high and you feel just fine

Because you do what you're told

But inside your heart it is black and it's hollow and it's cold

Just how deep do you believe?

Will you bite the hand that feeds?

Will you chew until it bleeds?

Can you get up off your knees?

Are you brave enough to see?

Do you want to change it?

What if this whole crusade's a charade

And behind it all there's a price to be paid

For the blood on which we dine

Justified in the name of the holy and the divine

Just how deep do you believe?

Will you bite the hand that feeds?

Will you chew until it bleeds?

Can you get up off your knees?

Are you brave enough to see?

Do you want to change it?

So naive to keep holding on to what I want to believe

And I can see but I keep holding on and on and on and on

Will you bite the hand that feeds you

Or will you stay down on your knees?

Love Is Not Enough                                                                 oben

The more that we take, the paler we get

I can't remember what it is, we try to forget

The tile on the floor, so cold it can sting

In your eyes is a place, worth remembering

For you to go and take this, to smash it apart

I've gone all this fucking way

To wind up, wind up, back at the start

Hey the closer we think we are

Well it only got us so far

Now you got anything left to show

No, no, I didn't think so

Hey, the sooner we realize

We cover ourselves with lies

But underneath we're not so tough

And love is not enough

It hides in the dark

Like the withering vein

We didn't give it a mouth

So it cannot complain

It never really had a chance

We'd never really make it through

And to think I believed

Believed I could get better with you

Hey the closer we think we are

Well it only got us so far

Now you got anything left to show?

No, no, I didn't think so

Hey, the sooner we realize

We cover ourselves with lies

But underneath we're not so tough

And love is not enough

Left for dead, and all used up

Every Day Is Exactly The Same                                              oben

I believe I can see the future

Because I repeat the same routine

I think I used to have a purpose

And then again that might have been a dream

I think I used to have a voice

Now I never make a sound

I just do what I've been told

I really don't want them to come around, oh no

Every day is exactly the same

Every day is exactly the same

There is no love here and there is no pain

Every day is exactly the same

I can feel their eyes are watching

In case I lose myself again

Sometimes I think I'm happy here

Sometimes I still pretend

I can't remember how this all got started

But I can tell you - exactly - how it will end

Every day is exactly the same

Every day is exactly the same

There is no love here and there is no pain

Every day is exactly the same

I'm writing on a little piece of paper

I'm hoping someday you might find

I'll hide it behind something

They don't look behind

I am still inside here

A little bit comes bleeding through

I wish this could have been any other way

I just don't know what else I can do

Every day is exactly the same

Every day is exactly the same

There is no love here and there is no pain

Every day is exactly the same

And I've rehearsed my lines

And I know what's coming next

With Teeth                                                                                 oben

She comes along, she gets inside

She makes you better than anything you've tried

It's in her kiss, the blackest sea

And it runs deeper than you dare to dream it could be

With teeth

She's holding on

With teeth

Wave goodbye, to what you were

The rules have changed, the lines begin to blur

She makes you hard, it comes on strong

You've finally found, the place where you belong

With teeth

I can not go through this again

With teeth

She is the greatest lie of all

She will not let you go, keeps holding on

This time I'm not coming back

Only                                                                                            oben

I'm becoming less defined as days go by

Fading away (you might say) I'm losing focus

Kind of drifting into the abstract in terms of how I see myself

Sometimes I think I can see right through myself

Less concerned about fitting in to the world

Your world that is because it doesn't really matter anymore

None of this really matters anymore

Yes I am alone but then again I always was, as far back as I can tell

I think maybe it's because, because you were never real to begin with

I just made you up to hurt myself, and it worked. Yes it did

There is no you, there is only me

There is no fucking you, there is only me, only

Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye

And it turned out to be a scab

And I had this funny feeling like I just knew it's something bad

I just couldn't leave alone

And I kept picking at that scab

Like it was a doorway trying to seal itself shut

But I climbed through

And now I'm somewhere I am not supposed to be

And I can see things I know I really shouldn't see

Now I know why and now I know why

Things aren't as pretty on the inside

There is no fucking you, there is only me, only

Is this really all there is?

Is this really all there is?

Getting Smaller                                                                        oben

Getting a little erratic here

And I don't know who to trust

I guess they got a way of reading my mind

I guess I got to adjust

I got my arms that flip flop flip flop flip

I got my head on a spring

Well I thought I got you on my side

I haven't got fucking anything

I'm just a face in the crowd

Nothing to worry about

Not even trying to stand out

I'm getting smaller and smaller and smaller

And I have nothing to say

It's all been taken away

I just behave and obey

I'm afraid I am starting to fade away

Can kind of see out the cracks

When I press up to the wall

I'm not looking to stand up real high

I'd be happy to crawl

I think I'm losing my grip

But I can still make a fist

You know I still got my one good arm

That I can beat, I can beat myself up with

I'm just a face in the crowd

Nothing to worry about

Not even trying to stand out

I'm getting smaller and smaller and smaller

And I have nothing to say

It's all been taken away

I just behave and obey

I'm afraid I am starting to fade away

Hey and for what it is worth

I really used to believe

That maybe there's some great thing

That we could achieve

And now I can't tell the difference

Or know what to feel

Between what I've been trying so hard to see

And what appears to be real

My world is getting smaller every day

Hey hey hey hey

And that's ok

Sunspots                                                                                     oben

Sunspots cast a glare in my eyes

Sometimes I forget I'm alive

I feel it coming and I've got to get out of its way

I hear it calling and I come cause I can't disobey

I should not listen and I shouldn't believe but I do, yes I do

She turns me on, she makes it real

I have to apologize, for the way I feel

My life it seems has taken a turn

Why in the name of God would I ever want to return?

Peel off our skin we're gonna burn what we were to the ground

Fuck in the fire and we'll spread all the ashes around

I want to kill away the rest of what's left and I do, yes I do

She turns me on, she makes it real

I have to apologize, for the way I feel

And nothing can stop me now

And there is nothing to fear

And everything I'd ever want

Is inside of here

Now I just stare into the sun

And I see everything I've done

I think I could have been someone

But I can't stop what has begun

When everything is said and done

And there is no place left to run

I think I used to be someone

Now I just stare into the sun

The Line Begins To Blur                                                            oben

There are things that I said I would never do

There are fears that I can not believe have come true

For my soul is too sick and too little and too late

And myself I have grown too weary to hate

The more I stay in here

The more it's not so clear

The more I stay in here

The more I disappear

As far as I have gone

I knew what side I'm on

But now I'm not so sure

The line begins to blur

Is there somebody on top of me?

I don't know, I don't know

Isn't anybody stopping me?

I don't know, I don't know

Well I'm trying to hold my breath

I don't know, I don't know

Just how far down can I go?

I don't know, I don't know

As I lie here and stare

The fabric starts to tear

It's far beyond repair

And I don't really care

As far as I have gone

I knew what side I'm on

But now I'm not so sure

The line begins to blur

Beside You In Time                                                                   oben

I am all alone this time around

Sometimes on the sides I hear a sound

Places parallel I know it's you

Feel the little pieces bleeding through

This goes on, and on, and on

Now that I've decided not to stay

I can feel me start to fade away

Everything is back where it belongs

I will be beside you before long

This goes on, and on, and on

We will never die, beside you in time

Right Where It Belongs                                                            oben

See the animal in his cage that you built

Are you sure what side you're on?

Better not look him too closely in the eye

Are you sure what side of the glass you are on?

See the safety of the life you have built

Everything where it belongs

Feel the hollowness inside of your heart

And it's all right where it belongs

What if everything around you

Isn't quite as it seems

What if all the world you think know

Is an elaborate dream?

And if you look at your reflection

Is that all you want it to be?

What if you could look right through the cracks

Would you find yourself - find yourself afraid to see?

What if all the world's inside of your head

Just creations of your own?

Your devils and your gods all the living and the dead

And you're really all alone?

You can live in this illusion

You can choose to believe

You keep looking but you can't find the woods

While you're hiding in the trees

What if everything around you

Isn't quite as it seems

What if all the world you used to know

Is an elaborate dream?

And if you look at your reflection

Is that all you want to be?

What if you could look right through the cracks

Would you find yourself - find yourself afraid to see?

Home                                                                                        oben

Everything is catching up with me

I awake to find I'm not at all where I should be

And it feels I'm getting to the end

And it's hard to figure out what's real and what's pretend

To break from what we're tied to

God knows how much I've Tried to

And I am still inside you

I escape every now and then

And to think I find myself back here again and again

I used to know who I was until you came along

I return to the only place I've ever felt that I belong

To break from what we're tied to

God knows how much I've Tried to

And I am still inside you