Born to Be... Lyrics

• SAFE & SICK
  Why won't they just leave me alone
  Why can't they just leave me alone
  Sick & tired of shrinking from the phone
  Do what you like!
  Think for yourself
  But I don't want to hear about it
  Shut Up! Go Home!
  For God's sake just leave me alone
  Why don't you just leave me alone?
  
  & Every time I try to think, my senses start to freeze
  Distraction is a way of life, my walls crumble down all around me
  I try to live my life as though there's something to believe
  But deep in my heart I know it's just not worth it
  & so I guess there must be something wrong with me
  
  I never learned how to ask for help
  Promises are all just lies wrapped in felt
  Nothing to do but keep on looking for answers
  Nothing to do but keep on asking myself
  
  How can I feel safe inside
  When I'm so damn sick inside
  How can I be so safe and sick inside?
• WHY ARE YOU?
  Feels like I'm going crazy, but I don't want to be a victim
  Looks like I'll never find a home
  Spend my days kicking over thrones
  Divided into sections; my consciousness becomes a weapon
  But finding nothing worth the fight
  Tunr on itself at last and dies
  
  I fled my family; they tried to stich me to a straight line
  Where all the people look the same, clean cut & morally decayed
  Who wore the foundry down right after burning the museum?
  Then put the pieces on display before they blew us all away
  
  [chorus]
  Still you ask me why I do the things I do
  ...Right Now!
  Never questioned anything you thought you knew to be true
  I guess I know why I'm here, why are you?
  
  I got no right to speak because my life is mostly fiction
  35 minutes on the stage then fade once more back into haze
  Still crave some purity, 'cos deep inside I know I'm dirty
  Yet if I chip the filth away how much that's me would still remain?
  
  [chorus]
• JACK MOVE
  You know , there's only so much water in the well
  Only so many questions have straight answers
  Who can tell?
  Do your possessions really make you feel secure?
  I never had the guts to say it this straight
  But then I never felt so goddmaned sure about it
  Never needed
  We conceded
  Still they cheated
  It's a JACKMOVE!
  We could find a
  Way to fight it
  But we don't understand
  
  Another fight breaks out...there's hatred in the air
  Could try to find a way to stem the tide
  I guess you just don't fuckin care
  You keep on acting just like everything is fine
  Never took anything for granted except everything sometimes
  We could find a
  way to fight it
  Never mind it
  It's a JACKMOVE
  Never needed
  We conceded
  We don't understand
• POSITIVELY SORRY
  Made commitment to keep on trying
  Then tried again & again
  Took enough to try to get me by
  Exploding through the enemy on the inside...my friend
  It never was a gentle path we parted
  Drowned in a bucket of sin
  Swallowed something just to get me started
  Then found myself abysmally alone in my head
  
  Has there ever been a word that mattered?
  Quit telling me how to be
  Following schemes to make your wallet fatter
  There's nothing in your world that I would much care to be
  We traveled under many broken banners
  It's like I live in a dream
  Ain't got no use for all your mindless standards
  I'm positively sorry, but I can't feel a thing now
  
  We'd better find a way...
  We'd better find a way to live
• BECAUSE YOU SAY
  Things were hazy at first, until I got that call
  They said 'Your brothers got their backs to the wall'
  And there's a tap on the line
  right now they're pulling your file
  I'd strongly recommend you disappear for awhile
  
  I'm not going to hate you because you say
  I'm not going to kill because you say
  Are you so lost in your delusion
  That you'll take it all the way?
  I will not help destroy the world because you say
  
  They blasted mountain of coal
  & poured an ocean of steel
  To prove their destiny was manifest & really for real
  Then the forests aflame to make the room that they'd need
  To stuff the babies into body bags
  To prove that we're free
  
  I'm not going to hate you because you say
  I'm not going to kill because you say
  So you can bust me for sedition now
  &Throw me in a cage
  I simply will not kill a man because you say
  
  I can't take this too well
  I could change my ways
  I know now that nothing can prove anything
  
  Soon the specter was strangled as it rose from its crib
  They auctioned off all of the rebels at a reasonable bid
  And the production lines pumped out the products to sell
  &Just in case we don't consume enough...
  Built weapons as well