Damnaged lyrics - The Color Morale
You did well, devil.
Family life.
It's like puzzle pieces disconnected.
Pictures frames will never find.
This broken home my demons still reside.
You would think we could have lived together with all this hell inside.
Mother, I just needed you to know.
Something good grew out from all of the cracks inside our broken home.
I am a lonely soul, a kid flying his kite alone.
Or am I just a head in the clouds, welcoming wind every time there's a storm?
Where do I go now?
I grew up in a house God built with the devils blueprints with no foundation found.
I went to hell to have some words with the devil about what he did, but it was empty.
Everyone moved out.
Mother, I just needed you to know
Something good grew out from all of the cracks inside our broken home.
And father, I needed you the most
But I'm still a kid in aging skin, a hypocrite trying to grow.
Every time I try
To bury the wreckage of that old house in my mind.
I see the same crow on the power line.
He could have flown to any other home,
But he'll never stop chasing mine.
He’ll never stop chasing mine.
It's a strange kind of comfort
Learning to always love
The cracks inside broken homes.
Mother, I just needed you to know
Something good grew out from all of the cracks in our broken home.
And father, I needed you the most,
But I'm still a kid in aging skin, and I will always love you both.
Family life.
It's like puzzle pieces disconnected.
Pictures frames will never find.
This broken home my demons still reside.
You would think we could have lived together with all this hell inside.
Mother, I just needed you to know.
Something good grew out from all of the cracks inside our broken home.
I am a lonely soul, a kid flying his kite alone.
Or am I just a head in the clouds, welcoming wind every time there's a storm?
Where do I go now?
I grew up in a house God built with the devils blueprints with no foundation found.
I went to hell to have some words with the devil about what he did, but it was empty.
Everyone moved out.
Mother, I just needed you to know
Something good grew out from all of the cracks inside our broken home.
And father, I needed you the most
But I'm still a kid in aging skin, a hypocrite trying to grow.
Every time I try
To bury the wreckage of that old house in my mind.
I see the same crow on the power line.
He could have flown to any other home,
But he'll never stop chasing mine.
He’ll never stop chasing mine.
It's a strange kind of comfort
Learning to always love
The cracks inside broken homes.
Mother, I just needed you to know
Something good grew out from all of the cracks in our broken home.
And father, I needed you the most,
But I'm still a kid in aging skin, and I will always love you both.
Outer Demons lyrics - The Color Morale
We'll all stop singing songs
And start singing out our pain instead
I hope one day to bury the past so deep
My ghost can't find it
Is this you being yourself or
Acting on part to please someone else
Take a look at your health
Take a look in someone else's eyes
But don't deface yourself
Go on, try to delete me
Deceive me, you can't
I will destroy you
That demon inside before it destroys everything
At some point
You'll have to make a few decisions
Boundaries don't keep anybody out
They only fence us in
I've got myself and no one else
Our demons are made from a past
But we leave them a home in hell
I've got myself and no one else
And I am just fine with this
I've got myself and no one else
But I'm not okay, who am I kidding?
Is this you being yourself or
Acting on part to please someone else
Take a look at your health
Take a look in someone else's eyes
But don't deface yourself
Go on, try to delete me
Deceive me, you can't
I will destroy you
That demon inside before it destroys everything
I will destroy you
Leave now
While you still have the legs to take you
Go on, try to delete me
Deceive me, you can't
I will destroy you
That demon inside before it destroys me
Maybe I don't need to
Find a demon that plays well with mine
Maybe I need to let go
Of the hell I keep raising inside on my own
On my own
And start singing out our pain instead
I hope one day to bury the past so deep
My ghost can't find it
Is this you being yourself or
Acting on part to please someone else
Take a look at your health
Take a look in someone else's eyes
But don't deface yourself
Go on, try to delete me
Deceive me, you can't
I will destroy you
That demon inside before it destroys everything
At some point
You'll have to make a few decisions
Boundaries don't keep anybody out
They only fence us in
I've got myself and no one else
Our demons are made from a past
But we leave them a home in hell
I've got myself and no one else
And I am just fine with this
I've got myself and no one else
But I'm not okay, who am I kidding?
Is this you being yourself or
Acting on part to please someone else
Take a look at your health
Take a look in someone else's eyes
But don't deface yourself
Go on, try to delete me
Deceive me, you can't
I will destroy you
That demon inside before it destroys everything
I will destroy you
Leave now
While you still have the legs to take you
Go on, try to delete me
Deceive me, you can't
I will destroy you
That demon inside before it destroys me
Maybe I don't need to
Find a demon that plays well with mine
Maybe I need to let go
Of the hell I keep raising inside on my own
On my own
Prey For Me lyrics - The Color Morale
When you are changing the life you know,
this can be oh so hard to face.
But what’s worse is regret that one day you’ll wake up.
Pretending to love someone before you love yourself.
When will our hearts be free?
Because our ribs are cages.
Where do I belong when everything I've loved has come and gone?
Where do I belong when even my own shadow leaves me when darkness comes?
There's got to be a crack in everything.
Otherwise, a light could never find it's way in.
Years of love are lost in the hatred of a moment.
You'll never know what it's worth until it’s a memory, so you should own it.
One person’s insecurity can become a reality
for someone else when we use each other to find love in ourselves.
When will our hearts be free?
Because our ribs are cages.
Where do I belong when everything I've loved has come and gone?
Where do I belong when even my own shadow leaves me when darkness comes?
When will our hearts be free?
cause our ribs are cages.
Where do I belong when everything I've loved has come and gone?
Where do I belong when even my own shadow leaves me when darkness comes?
When darkness comes, when darkness comes, what do I need?
this can be oh so hard to face.
But what’s worse is regret that one day you’ll wake up.
Pretending to love someone before you love yourself.
When will our hearts be free?
Because our ribs are cages.
Where do I belong when everything I've loved has come and gone?
Where do I belong when even my own shadow leaves me when darkness comes?
There's got to be a crack in everything.
Otherwise, a light could never find it's way in.
Years of love are lost in the hatred of a moment.
You'll never know what it's worth until it’s a memory, so you should own it.
One person’s insecurity can become a reality
for someone else when we use each other to find love in ourselves.
When will our hearts be free?
Because our ribs are cages.
Where do I belong when everything I've loved has come and gone?
Where do I belong when even my own shadow leaves me when darkness comes?
When will our hearts be free?
cause our ribs are cages.
Where do I belong when everything I've loved has come and gone?
Where do I belong when even my own shadow leaves me when darkness comes?
When darkness comes, when darkness comes, what do I need?
Lifeline (Left To Write) lyrics - The Color Morale
Without our ups and downs,
We're all just living dead.
I put my pulse on paper
Because I want out from inside of my head.
Don't write yourself off.
Say what you think and mean what you say,
Unless you're OK living life
with a pulse that's flatlining.
I guess we only get a chance
To write our stories once.
We need to look back and say
that one time was plenty enough.
Are we confusing our heart with our mind?
Are they on the same page or did
we write one off and push the other behind?
Take me anywhere but here,
Away from these insecurities I fear.
Take me anywhere but here,
Just make sure if you are the one that will have me,
You know just what you're taking.
You know you had a darkness inside,
Floor to sky, left to write.
It was on the record we made last time.
And any writer writes afraid of the next line,
To put down on paper the things
he's tried to erase in his mind.
And I am no longer afraid of mine,
A writer that found a reason for the pain inside.
A word is dead when it's said, some say.
I say it just began to live that day.
I said it once I'll say it again.
Maybe you weren't listening.
I said it once I'll say it again.
To live backwards isn't evil, it's rewriting.
Take me anywhere but here,
Away from these insecurities I fear.
Take me anywhere but here,
Just make sure if you are the one that will have me,
You know just what you're taking.
I said it once
I'll say it again.
I said it once
I'll say it again.
Are you listening?
Are you listening?
The best stories are written
when they're spent rewriting
We're all just living dead.
I put my pulse on paper
Because I want out from inside of my head.
Don't write yourself off.
Say what you think and mean what you say,
Unless you're OK living life
with a pulse that's flatlining.
I guess we only get a chance
To write our stories once.
We need to look back and say
that one time was plenty enough.
Are we confusing our heart with our mind?
Are they on the same page or did
we write one off and push the other behind?
Take me anywhere but here,
Away from these insecurities I fear.
Take me anywhere but here,
Just make sure if you are the one that will have me,
You know just what you're taking.
You know you had a darkness inside,
Floor to sky, left to write.
It was on the record we made last time.
And any writer writes afraid of the next line,
To put down on paper the things
he's tried to erase in his mind.
And I am no longer afraid of mine,
A writer that found a reason for the pain inside.
A word is dead when it's said, some say.
I say it just began to live that day.
I said it once I'll say it again.
Maybe you weren't listening.
I said it once I'll say it again.
To live backwards isn't evil, it's rewriting.
Take me anywhere but here,
Away from these insecurities I fear.
Take me anywhere but here,
Just make sure if you are the one that will have me,
You know just what you're taking.
I said it once
I'll say it again.
I said it once
I'll say it again.
Are you listening?
Are you listening?
The best stories are written
when they're spent rewriting
Scar Issue lyrics - The Color Morale
Today feels like it might be the wrong day for me to die.
I’ve been spending too much time believing in self-created lies
And words are just words, until they're put in to work.
And I’m standing so firm in this, firm in this.
Leave a mark upon the world, not across your arms,
a mark upon the world too beautiful for scars.
I can only hold up half the sky at one time
and I got through today so I could help you sleep at night.
I feel a tired in my eyes trying to find the sunrise
and I’m learning that life is getting through the night.
Leave a mark upon the world, not across your arms,
a mark upon the world too beautiful for scars.
I understand you.
A track record of track marks,
a small collection of stories
that never get told again.
I understand you.
Take pride in all the marks upon your soul.
Oh, they should show you
you've been through a hell of a life alone.
Leave a mark upon the world, not across your arms,
a mark upon the world too beautiful for scars.
I’ve been spending too much time believing in self-created lies
And words are just words, until they're put in to work.
And I’m standing so firm in this, firm in this.
Leave a mark upon the world, not across your arms,
a mark upon the world too beautiful for scars.
I can only hold up half the sky at one time
and I got through today so I could help you sleep at night.
I feel a tired in my eyes trying to find the sunrise
and I’m learning that life is getting through the night.
Leave a mark upon the world, not across your arms,
a mark upon the world too beautiful for scars.
I understand you.
A track record of track marks,
a small collection of stories
that never get told again.
I understand you.
Take pride in all the marks upon your soul.
Oh, they should show you
you've been through a hell of a life alone.
Leave a mark upon the world, not across your arms,
a mark upon the world too beautiful for scars.
Suicide;Stigma lyrics -The Color Morale (feat. Dave Stephens of We Came As Romans)
So much heart, so much time, but not enough.
Self-inflicted pain can come and
Remain in the fear inside of all of us,
Desperately and endlessly
Trying to find a means to some kind of peace.
We can't learn when things come easy.
Now that we are prepared for war,
We have an effective means to
Preserving peace for each and everyone.
The chances of you even being born
Were forty million to one.
There's two parts of the statistic;
I want you to live.
Suicide doesn't end the pain,
it passes to the ones you love and remains.
Take yourself out of the equation
And the problem stays.
When I speak such a word,
Are you uneasy with how it's heard?
The stigma will never leave
Unless all of us can just start talking.
The only people I know resting in peace
Without fear or anxiety are the deceased.
That's why they say "may the dead rest in peace."
The things we feel we could never change,
Can end up changing everything.
Now that we are prepared for war,
We have an effective means to
Preserving peace for each and everyone.
The chances of you even being born
Were forty million to one.
There's two parts of the statistic
And I want you to live through one.
Sometimes to win a battle inside, you need to start a war.
Sometimes to win a battle inside, you need to start a war.
Now that we are prepared for war,
We have an effective means to
Preserving peace for each and everyone.
The chances of you even being born
Were forty million to one.
There's two parts of the statistic
And I want you to live through one
I want you to live through one.
I want you to live through one.
Self-inflicted pain can come and
Remain in the fear inside of all of us,
Desperately and endlessly
Trying to find a means to some kind of peace.
We can't learn when things come easy.
Now that we are prepared for war,
We have an effective means to
Preserving peace for each and everyone.
The chances of you even being born
Were forty million to one.
There's two parts of the statistic;
I want you to live.
Suicide doesn't end the pain,
it passes to the ones you love and remains.
Take yourself out of the equation
And the problem stays.
When I speak such a word,
Are you uneasy with how it's heard?
The stigma will never leave
Unless all of us can just start talking.
The only people I know resting in peace
Without fear or anxiety are the deceased.
That's why they say "may the dead rest in peace."
The things we feel we could never change,
Can end up changing everything.
Now that we are prepared for war,
We have an effective means to
Preserving peace for each and everyone.
The chances of you even being born
Were forty million to one.
There's two parts of the statistic
And I want you to live through one.
Sometimes to win a battle inside, you need to start a war.
Sometimes to win a battle inside, you need to start a war.
Now that we are prepared for war,
We have an effective means to
Preserving peace for each and everyone.
The chances of you even being born
Were forty million to one.
There's two parts of the statistic
And I want you to live through one
I want you to live through one.
I want you to live through one.
The Ones Forgotten By The One Forgetting lyrics - The Color Morale
All these voices in my head.
I’ll never know just what I'll feel,
let alone what will be said.
We all forget the things we say
but we never forget how we felt
when we let ourselves feel.
One head so many voices.
Maybe I'll spend my whole life licking wounds.
My tongue feels likes it's got two jobs
to twist and say shit I don't need to.
And to come between my stomach and my head,
separate, which one of you do I listen to?
Parts of me miss pieces of you.
Oh all these voices in my head.
I’ll never know just what I'll feel,
let alone what will be said.
We all forget the things we say
but we never forget how we felt
when we let ourselves feel.
One head so many voices.
Maybe I'll spend my whole life licking wounds.
My tongue feels likes it's got two jobs
to twist and say shit I don't need to.
And to come between my stomach and my head,
separate, which one of you do I listen to?
Parts of me miss pieces of you.
Oh all these voices in my head.
Developing Negative lyrics - The Color Morale (feat. Craig Owens of Chiodos)
I never knew exactly how this could feel.
Retelling stories from a movie life from reel to real.
You're still slowly developing and you'll die
if you're exposed to too much light at one time.
People like us have learned to feel at home
in the darkest corners of their minds.
What hurts me the most is hiding the scars across my body
and not knowing if they had a reason to close.
You and I know the price now its time to make change.
Listen decisions will need to be remade.
I told you sometimes days like these don't change.
I know you and I we have the same trouble keeping blood in our veins.
Addiction its not so much about us overcoming.
Sometimes maybe it’s more about us just replacing.
Look you and I will always have this song
just like I know I had a reason to write it.
Its not just a breathless sing along.
I will relive this so that you'll never have to feel alone.
I will relive this when you're alone
I will be the voice inside of your headphones.
I told you sometimes days like these don't change.
I know you and I we have the same trouble keeping blood in our veins.
I know some days I wish I could just erase the past
but if I hide my wounds ashamed then you'd never know we’re the same.
Let my darkness illuminate take my hand and let me light your way.
Just keep the blood inside your veins.
You and I know the price now its time to make change.
Listen decisions will need to be remade.
I told you sometimes days like these don't change.
I know you and I we have the same trouble keeping blood in our veins.
Retelling stories from a movie life from reel to real.
You're still slowly developing and you'll die
if you're exposed to too much light at one time.
People like us have learned to feel at home
in the darkest corners of their minds.
What hurts me the most is hiding the scars across my body
and not knowing if they had a reason to close.
You and I know the price now its time to make change.
Listen decisions will need to be remade.
I told you sometimes days like these don't change.
I know you and I we have the same trouble keeping blood in our veins.
Addiction its not so much about us overcoming.
Sometimes maybe it’s more about us just replacing.
Look you and I will always have this song
just like I know I had a reason to write it.
Its not just a breathless sing along.
I will relive this so that you'll never have to feel alone.
I will relive this when you're alone
I will be the voice inside of your headphones.
I told you sometimes days like these don't change.
I know you and I we have the same trouble keeping blood in our veins.
I know some days I wish I could just erase the past
but if I hide my wounds ashamed then you'd never know we’re the same.
Let my darkness illuminate take my hand and let me light your way.
Just keep the blood inside your veins.
You and I know the price now its time to make change.
Listen decisions will need to be remade.
I told you sometimes days like these don't change.
I know you and I we have the same trouble keeping blood in our veins.
Is Happiness A Mediocre Sin? lyrics - The Color Morale
Am I defined by the hell you left me in
or the influence I make while living it?
Sometimes you find yourself stuck in the middle of nowhere,
but the middle of nowhere is where we find ourselves
and only time will tell how long we stay.
The hardest part about feeling
like life has fallen apart
is that feeling for some of us
hat it always will because it always does.
I see that things are getting bad again.
I'm not seeing you lately, you've been hiding.
Let's get lost together in a new direction.
We may not have it all together
but together we can have it all.
But we're still here and only time
will tell how long we stay.
The hardest part about feeling
like life has fallen apart
is that feeling for some of us
hat it always will because it always does.
You call it a demon.
I call it self sabotage in hiding.
You call it a demon.
Or is happiness a mediocre sin?
or the influence I make while living it?
Sometimes you find yourself stuck in the middle of nowhere,
but the middle of nowhere is where we find ourselves
and only time will tell how long we stay.
The hardest part about feeling
like life has fallen apart
is that feeling for some of us
hat it always will because it always does.
I see that things are getting bad again.
I'm not seeing you lately, you've been hiding.
Let's get lost together in a new direction.
We may not have it all together
but together we can have it all.
But we're still here and only time
will tell how long we stay.
The hardest part about feeling
like life has fallen apart
is that feeling for some of us
hat it always will because it always does.
You call it a demon.
I call it self sabotage in hiding.
You call it a demon.
Or is happiness a mediocre sin?
Between You And Eye lyrics - The Color Morale
And now I know there's a place in my mind I go.
Secluded, where my head is quick but my heart is slow.
I bottle things up for too long waiting on someone to find me.
I'm a message lost in a sinking sea.
We all want to be found and held so close
so all that we know that is broken falls back together.
No one is ever going to believe in yourself for you
and every false belief that you think is true was put inside of you.
Imperfection and not accepting who you are, I'm guilty too.
Your imperfections make you perfect to me.
Now learn to just stay you.
Everyone you know is fighting a battle of their own.
Now do unto yourself what your neighbors never show.
What a world we live in we’re falling for everything and anyone but us.
You just want somebody to love the hell out of you
but you will never find that kind of love in someone before yourself.
We all want to be found and held so close
so all that we know that is broken falls back together.
No one is ever going to believe in yourself for you
and every false belief that you think is true was put inside of you.
Imperfection and not accepting who you are, I'm guilty too.
Your imperfections make you perfect to me.
Now learn to just stay you.
I understand you more than you think I do.
Stop looking up to me start looking up to you.
Imperfection and not accepting who you are, I’m guilty too.
Will you spend another day believing what the world wants you to?
No one is ever going to believe in yourself for you
and every false belief that you think is true was put inside of you.
Imperfection and not accepting who you are, I'm guilty too.
Your imperfections make you perfect to me.
Now learn to just stay you.
Learn to just stay you.
Secluded, where my head is quick but my heart is slow.
I bottle things up for too long waiting on someone to find me.
I'm a message lost in a sinking sea.
We all want to be found and held so close
so all that we know that is broken falls back together.
No one is ever going to believe in yourself for you
and every false belief that you think is true was put inside of you.
Imperfection and not accepting who you are, I'm guilty too.
Your imperfections make you perfect to me.
Now learn to just stay you.
Everyone you know is fighting a battle of their own.
Now do unto yourself what your neighbors never show.
What a world we live in we’re falling for everything and anyone but us.
You just want somebody to love the hell out of you
but you will never find that kind of love in someone before yourself.
We all want to be found and held so close
so all that we know that is broken falls back together.
No one is ever going to believe in yourself for you
and every false belief that you think is true was put inside of you.
Imperfection and not accepting who you are, I'm guilty too.
Your imperfections make you perfect to me.
Now learn to just stay you.
I understand you more than you think I do.
Stop looking up to me start looking up to you.
Imperfection and not accepting who you are, I’m guilty too.
Will you spend another day believing what the world wants you to?
No one is ever going to believe in yourself for you
and every false belief that you think is true was put inside of you.
Imperfection and not accepting who you are, I'm guilty too.
Your imperfections make you perfect to me.
Now learn to just stay you.
Learn to just stay you.
Throw Your Roses lyrics - The Color Morale
I can see your eyes looking up at me
to see if anyone is noticing.
No one has been there to listen
all the more reason to sing.
I promise this won’t last forever.
I don't want to let you make that choice.
You don't need to abuse your arms but use your voice.
I know right now you think that no one is listening.
If we fall together, we'll live forever and never grow alone.
When I look out, I see a field of youth
and it is filled with doubt.
A field of flowers pulling their petals off way too soon.
One by one. Dropping like flies no one is speaking up.
I know right now you think that no one is listening.
If we fall together, we'll live forever and never grow alone.
You can grow out from decay
but what you do with your today
can resonate to everything, keep growing.
We've been pulled from the earth.
We know but we can still grow though.
We've both started to die and slow.
Why pick ourselves early?
We're dying here anyways.
Remember I can show you light,
but you will have to learn
how to grow on your own.
What is a rose with no thorn?
I know right now you think that no one is listening.
If we fall together, we'll live forever and never grow alone.
You can grow out from decay
but what you do with your today
can resonate to everything, keep growing.
to see if anyone is noticing.
No one has been there to listen
all the more reason to sing.
I promise this won’t last forever.
I don't want to let you make that choice.
You don't need to abuse your arms but use your voice.
I know right now you think that no one is listening.
If we fall together, we'll live forever and never grow alone.
When I look out, I see a field of youth
and it is filled with doubt.
A field of flowers pulling their petals off way too soon.
One by one. Dropping like flies no one is speaking up.
I know right now you think that no one is listening.
If we fall together, we'll live forever and never grow alone.
You can grow out from decay
but what you do with your today
can resonate to everything, keep growing.
We've been pulled from the earth.
We know but we can still grow though.
We've both started to die and slow.
Why pick ourselves early?
We're dying here anyways.
Remember I can show you light,
but you will have to learn
how to grow on your own.
What is a rose with no thorn?
I know right now you think that no one is listening.
If we fall together, we'll live forever and never grow alone.
You can grow out from decay
but what you do with your today
can resonate to everything, keep growing.
Hold On Pain Ends lyrics - The Color Morale
And sometimes the most beautiful pain in life
is the kind you can't disguise or hide.
And the hard truth about life.
If I'm not allowed to give up on mine,
you are not allowed to not even try.
One day at a time you'll have to remake
the same decision as the one I made last night.
You and I have already started to die.
And now that I understand, why I've never felt quite so alive.
And I feel like I've sang about scars a hundred times
but for the record I’ve found the reason for mine.
And sometimes we need to find a reason
for the pain in our own lives.
Mine was you and I promise this song
is a place for the truth.
We can’t keep hiding and hurting.
I know I’ve tried to.
One day at a time we just might have to remake
the decision every day for the rest of life.
You and I have already started to die.
And now that I understand, why I've never felt quite so alive.
And I feel like I've sang about scars a hundred times
but for the record I’ve found the reason for mine.
And for the record, I'm in California still writing one day at a time.
And for the record, I refuse to be ashamed of all my scars.
You and I are both the same.
We've already cheated death so many times.
If we’re going to die, why not cheat it again tonight?
You and I have already started to die.
And now that I understand, why I've never felt quite so alive.
And I feel like I've sang about scars a hundred times
but for the record I’ve found the reason for mine.
is the kind you can't disguise or hide.
And the hard truth about life.
If I'm not allowed to give up on mine,
you are not allowed to not even try.
One day at a time you'll have to remake
the same decision as the one I made last night.
You and I have already started to die.
And now that I understand, why I've never felt quite so alive.
And I feel like I've sang about scars a hundred times
but for the record I’ve found the reason for mine.
And sometimes we need to find a reason
for the pain in our own lives.
Mine was you and I promise this song
is a place for the truth.
We can’t keep hiding and hurting.
I know I’ve tried to.
One day at a time we just might have to remake
the decision every day for the rest of life.
You and I have already started to die.
And now that I understand, why I've never felt quite so alive.
And I feel like I've sang about scars a hundred times
but for the record I’ve found the reason for mine.
And for the record, I'm in California still writing one day at a time.
And for the record, I refuse to be ashamed of all my scars.
You and I are both the same.
We've already cheated death so many times.
If we’re going to die, why not cheat it again tonight?
You and I have already started to die.
And now that I understand, why I've never felt quite so alive.
And I feel like I've sang about scars a hundred times
but for the record I’ve found the reason for mine.
Burn Victims lyrics - The Color Morale
They say the things that love you will never stay, is that really true?
I guess you made everyone leave before they could hurt you, but who taught this to you?
Hurting people will always be hurting people, it was you that made me me
Every storm made me soak to find strong roots, I am reminded, I am reminded
All my roots are starting to show yet I'm still trying to grow
And I am reminded, I am reminded there is still hope
And I hope one day you will understand pain is just a brand
I've given my life to keep it away from your skin
And I hope one day you will understand pain is never planned
And the start of a cycle is always the end when we are the victims
And that's how I know I need to write about this for you
The youth that never got told the truth
That's my problem, I've got intentions on both sides
Stitched together with lies and more songs left to write
Do things., write this time about how to untangle all the knots that we keep tied
My stomach is weak because you made me me and someone made you you
We are the victims and I am the hope
And I hope one day you will understand pain is just a brand
I've given my life to keep it away from your skin
And I hope one day you will understand pain is never planned
And the start of a cycle is always the end when we are the victims
And I hope one day you will understand pain is never planned
When the start of the cycle is always the end when we are the victims
You, you are the victim and I am still learning that I can be the hope
I guess you made everyone leave before they could hurt you, but who taught this to you?
Hurting people will always be hurting people, it was you that made me me
Every storm made me soak to find strong roots, I am reminded, I am reminded
All my roots are starting to show yet I'm still trying to grow
And I am reminded, I am reminded there is still hope
And I hope one day you will understand pain is just a brand
I've given my life to keep it away from your skin
And I hope one day you will understand pain is never planned
And the start of a cycle is always the end when we are the victims
And that's how I know I need to write about this for you
The youth that never got told the truth
That's my problem, I've got intentions on both sides
Stitched together with lies and more songs left to write
Do things., write this time about how to untangle all the knots that we keep tied
My stomach is weak because you made me me and someone made you you
We are the victims and I am the hope
And I hope one day you will understand pain is just a brand
I've given my life to keep it away from your skin
And I hope one day you will understand pain is never planned
And the start of a cycle is always the end when we are the victims
And I hope one day you will understand pain is never planned
When the start of the cycle is always the end when we are the victims
You, you are the victim and I am still learning that I can be the hope
Smoke And Mirrors lyrics - The Color Morale
If you give up on me, then I give up on everything
I didn't come this far to not tell you the truth
And you'll know it's true because the answers that I tell you will make you all feel sick
Feel hateful, feel useless and used, just remember that every piece of trash
Was one time itself first used
Say the word
Say the word and I will go quickly to a light
Too much of any one thing at a time will leave you blind
Say the word and I will go quickly to a light
Too much of any one thing at a time just left me blind
You need to get through what you are going through
Some day someone, somewhere will need you
If you give up on me, then I give up on everything
Back and forth my reason grows, I didn't choose this I was chose
Back and forth my reason grows, I didn't choose this and I want to go
Home is where the hurt is and no one even knows
Say the word and I will go quickly to a light
Too much of any one thing at a time will leave you blind
Say the word and I will go quickly to a light
Too much of any one thing at a time just left me blind
If you give up on me then I give up on everything
If you give up on me then I give up on everything
I didn't come this far to not tell you the truth
And you'll know it's true because the answers that I tell you will make you all feel sick
Feel hateful, feel useless and used, just remember that every piece of trash
Was one time itself first used
Say the word
Say the word and I will go quickly to a light
Too much of any one thing at a time will leave you blind
Say the word and I will go quickly to a light
Too much of any one thing at a time just left me blind
You need to get through what you are going through
Some day someone, somewhere will need you
If you give up on me, then I give up on everything
Back and forth my reason grows, I didn't choose this I was chose
Back and forth my reason grows, I didn't choose this and I want to go
Home is where the hurt is and no one even knows
Say the word and I will go quickly to a light
Too much of any one thing at a time will leave you blind
Say the word and I will go quickly to a light
Too much of any one thing at a time just left me blind
If you give up on me then I give up on everything
If you give up on me then I give up on everything
Learned Behavior lyrics - The Color Morale
We are the same disease
One way too old
One way too young to treat
Our feet stuck in the same concrete
We just want to be free
Aren't you sick of knowing that you could truly be
Something that stays and makes a difference before it leaves
Aren't you sick of hearing all the pain in me
Aren't you sick of being sick from the same disease
Come to me with anything that you'll ever need
Come to me when you're rebuilding
Sometimes it's good to build up walls, not to keep anyone out
But to see who cares enough to knock them down
We can start again
With our names written in new cement
We can write the date
Right after we dig ourselves out of the messes we've made
You'll never know
What you have until it's gone
Through hell for you
Come to me with anything that you'll ever need
Come to me when you're rebuilding
Sometimes it's good to build up walls, not to keep anyone out
But to see who cares enough to knock them down
You'll never stop making mistakes
But if you learn from them you will never make the same ones twice
Next time there may be no next time
Come to me with anything that you'll ever need
Come to me when you're rebuilding
Sometimes it's good to build up walls, not to keep anyone out
But to see who cares enough to knock them down
One way too old
One way too young to treat
Our feet stuck in the same concrete
We just want to be free
Aren't you sick of knowing that you could truly be
Something that stays and makes a difference before it leaves
Aren't you sick of hearing all the pain in me
Aren't you sick of being sick from the same disease
Come to me with anything that you'll ever need
Come to me when you're rebuilding
Sometimes it's good to build up walls, not to keep anyone out
But to see who cares enough to knock them down
We can start again
With our names written in new cement
We can write the date
Right after we dig ourselves out of the messes we've made
You'll never know
What you have until it's gone
Through hell for you
Come to me with anything that you'll ever need
Come to me when you're rebuilding
Sometimes it's good to build up walls, not to keep anyone out
But to see who cares enough to knock them down
You'll never stop making mistakes
But if you learn from them you will never make the same ones twice
Next time there may be no next time
Come to me with anything that you'll ever need
Come to me when you're rebuilding
Sometimes it's good to build up walls, not to keep anyone out
But to see who cares enough to knock them down
Living Breathing Something lyrics - The Color Morale
Question everything
Have I already been buried
I can see no light but I am still stuck here breathing
Maybe a wretch like me is supposed to stay forever buried
So you can see the analogy of what happens to you when you keep things buried beneath
I have been buried for years but why am I still breathing
I don't make mistakes
I bury them
Suffocating soul that the devil just won't claim
I dug this grave now it's time to tell the truth from it
You put one foot on the lid when did I let it close
One foot on the lid 5 feet left to go
Forgive your enemies but never forget their names
I am my own worst enemy
Suffocating soul that the devil won't claim
I don't if I believe in you anymore but everything needs an analogy
Have I already been buried
I can see no light but I am still stuck here breathing
Maybe a wretch like me is supposed to stay forever buried
So you can see the analogy of what happens to you when you keep things buried beneath
I have been buried for years but why am I still breathing
I don't make mistakes
I bury them
Suffocating soul that the devil just won't claim
I dug this grave now it's time to tell the truth from it
You put one foot on the lid when did I let it close
One foot on the lid 5 feet left to go
Forgive your enemies but never forget their names
I am my own worst enemy
Suffocating soul that the devil won't claim
I don't if I believe in you anymore but everything needs an analogy
Strange Comfort lyrics - The Color Morale
How am I supposed to write about hope with catchy hooks and melodies and make you sing along
Well I titled this whole album before I tried to write a song
And the truth is hope can be a burning sun
The closer that you seem to get the quicker you get lost in the sight of
It keeps casting it's shadow of our burdens behind us and the more we try stand inside the light
The more a darkness seems to grow
Is darkness the shade where I've found peace
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
Like a weathered oak with know hope carved in me
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
You can take the life from me but I'll always be here standing, still
Every time you need me
Hope is at the root but each day
It's still casting a shadow of my darkness behind me
And the more I try to show you with the light
The more a darkness seems to follow
You will never change what you refuse to face
Like a shadow we always grow every time we try to find the light
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
Like a weathered oak with know hope carved in me
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
You can take the life from me
Maybe this time I need to be
Maybe this time I need to be me
You don't know who you are anymore
Tonight I don't know either but we are standing still
We can't be moved
When hope is at the root of you
Every time the wind grows still and I continue to lose movement
You are there to walk up chin down and carve your name
Every time the wind grows still and life pushes you further
Come carve your nameI know I'm lost with no motivation to find my way back
I left myself down a paper trail of the pages of my mind, now I want them back,
I'm somewhere between no courage among the other things I lack
Lost in desperation where an ember turns to an ash
Somewhere along this path I crossed the line
Broken promises I've made without thinking twice
Left my second thought and reason behind
All in the name of making this world mine
All in the name of building my own
Why do I think that I have to live this life alone, I know I'm lost
I know, I know I'm lost, I know, I know I'm lost
But what scares me the most is I'm starting to feel at home
I know, I know I can't stay here forever, when we lose ourselves we find each other
I find this strange comfort in being lost in life
Wherever I end up will I belong there this time?
So when you feel your heart sink into your chest
Don't forget everything is okay in the end
We are not okay but this is not the end yet
We are not okay but this is not the end yet
We are not okay but this is not the end
I know, I know I'm lost, I know, I know I'm lost
But what scares me the most is I'm starting to feel at home
I know, I know I can't stay here forever, when we lose ourselves we find each other
Know hope in me
Well I titled this whole album before I tried to write a song
And the truth is hope can be a burning sun
The closer that you seem to get the quicker you get lost in the sight of
It keeps casting it's shadow of our burdens behind us and the more we try stand inside the light
The more a darkness seems to grow
Is darkness the shade where I've found peace
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
Like a weathered oak with know hope carved in me
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
You can take the life from me but I'll always be here standing, still
Every time you need me
Hope is at the root but each day
It's still casting a shadow of my darkness behind me
And the more I try to show you with the light
The more a darkness seems to follow
You will never change what you refuse to face
Like a shadow we always grow every time we try to find the light
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
Like a weathered oak with know hope carved in me
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
You can take the life from me
Maybe this time I need to be
Maybe this time I need to be me
You don't know who you are anymore
Tonight I don't know either but we are standing still
We can't be moved
When hope is at the root of you
Every time the wind grows still and I continue to lose movement
You are there to walk up chin down and carve your name
Every time the wind grows still and life pushes you further
Come carve your nameI know I'm lost with no motivation to find my way back
I left myself down a paper trail of the pages of my mind, now I want them back,
I'm somewhere between no courage among the other things I lack
Lost in desperation where an ember turns to an ash
Somewhere along this path I crossed the line
Broken promises I've made without thinking twice
Left my second thought and reason behind
All in the name of making this world mine
All in the name of building my own
Why do I think that I have to live this life alone, I know I'm lost
I know, I know I'm lost, I know, I know I'm lost
But what scares me the most is I'm starting to feel at home
I know, I know I can't stay here forever, when we lose ourselves we find each other
I find this strange comfort in being lost in life
Wherever I end up will I belong there this time?
So when you feel your heart sink into your chest
Don't forget everything is okay in the end
We are not okay but this is not the end yet
We are not okay but this is not the end yet
We are not okay but this is not the end
I know, I know I'm lost, I know, I know I'm lost
But what scares me the most is I'm starting to feel at home
I know, I know I can't stay here forever, when we lose ourselves we find each other
Know hope in me
In Light In Me lyrics - The Color Morale
How am I supposed to write about hope with catchy hooks and melodies and make you sing along
Well I titled this whole album before I tried to write a song
And the truth is hope can be a burning sun
The closer that you seem to get the quicker you get lost in the sight of
It keeps casting it's shadow of our burdens behind us and the more we try stand inside the light
The more a darkness seems to grow
Is darkness the shade where I've found peace
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
Like a weathered oak with know hope carved in me
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
You can take the life from me but I'll always be here standing, still
Every time you need me
Hope is at the root but each day
It's still casting a shadow of my darkness behind me
And the more I try to show you with the light
The more a darkness seems to follow
You will never change what you refuse to face
Like a shadow we always grow every time we try to find the light
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
Like a weathered oak with know hope carved in me
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
You can take the life from me
Maybe this time I need to be
Maybe this time I need to be me
You don't know who you are anymore
Tonight I don't know either but we are standing still
We can't be moved
When hope is at the root of you
Every time the wind grows still and I continue to lose movement
You are there to walk up chin down and carve your name
Every time the wind grows still and life pushes you further
Come carve your name
Know hope in me
Well I titled this whole album before I tried to write a song
And the truth is hope can be a burning sun
The closer that you seem to get the quicker you get lost in the sight of
It keeps casting it's shadow of our burdens behind us and the more we try stand inside the light
The more a darkness seems to grow
Is darkness the shade where I've found peace
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
Like a weathered oak with know hope carved in me
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
You can take the life from me but I'll always be here standing, still
Every time you need me
Hope is at the root but each day
It's still casting a shadow of my darkness behind me
And the more I try to show you with the light
The more a darkness seems to follow
You will never change what you refuse to face
Like a shadow we always grow every time we try to find the light
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
Like a weathered oak with know hope carved in me
So maybe this time I need to be standing for someone to believe
You can take the life from me
Maybe this time I need to be
Maybe this time I need to be me
You don't know who you are anymore
Tonight I don't know either but we are standing still
We can't be moved
When hope is at the root of you
Every time the wind grows still and I continue to lose movement
You are there to walk up chin down and carve your name
Every time the wind grows still and life pushes you further
Come carve your name
Know hope in me
Silver Lining lyrics - The Color Morale
Some days you're the pigeon and some days you are the statue
Some days you're meant to just sit back and observe
While the world takes its turn and just shits all over you
Some days you need the rain because no one gets paid
To come clean up the messes that life makes all over you
I don't know who I am in this moment
I know I disappoint you
You don't know who I am anymore
Well that makes two of us
Are you following a god and this song got in the way
I'm sorry I'm sorry but I am not sorry
Is this the truth, the light, the sight, the roots, or the noose
Everyone is religious only until they don't need to be anymore
That's not faith no not to me
All I have let to make are memories and mistakes
And new questions I'll take to the grave
Do you know how it feels to have your past sink it's teeth right into your back
Only to turn around and see yourself
Keep the hell away from me
The devil you know is better than the devil you don't
Keep the hell away from me
You can still lead a positive life with a negative mind
Keep the hell away from me
Some days you're meant to just sit back and observe
While the world takes its turn and just shits all over you
Some days you need the rain because no one gets paid
To come clean up the messes that life makes all over you
I don't know who I am in this moment
I know I disappoint you
You don't know who I am anymore
Well that makes two of us
Are you following a god and this song got in the way
I'm sorry I'm sorry but I am not sorry
Is this the truth, the light, the sight, the roots, or the noose
Everyone is religious only until they don't need to be anymore
That's not faith no not to me
All I have let to make are memories and mistakes
And new questions I'll take to the grave
Do you know how it feels to have your past sink it's teeth right into your back
Only to turn around and see yourself
Keep the hell away from me
The devil you know is better than the devil you don't
Keep the hell away from me
You can still lead a positive life with a negative mind
Keep the hell away from me
Steadfast lyrics - The Color Morale
We've been deserted, that doesn't mean that we deserve it
Is it worth it, keeping ourselves at bay
Set sail, you've spent way too much time living your life, in exile
To say goodbye, to the shoreline
Maybe if I'm sent off to sea, I'll find out what this means to me
I've got a message I carry, that I have forgotten to read
Maybe if I'm sent off to sea, I'll find out what this means to me
I've got a message I carry, that I have forgotten to read
I don't need another day, floating away
Lost in the sea of regret I've made
I want to wash up new for once
For once I don't want to float face down
We've been deserted, that doesn't mean that we deserve it
Is it worth it, keeping ourselves at bay
You can try and fail, but don't fail to try
Do I deserve this
If you're deserted, you can't desert it
You can never leave an island in your mind until you lose sight of the shoreline
You can try and fail, but don't fail to try
Some people spend their entire lives in exile
You can't never leave, an island until you lose sight of the shoreline
Times like these they come in waves
Make your footprint and send it right back away
All you're saying to me tonight, here in the open skyline
Without darkness, no star can learn to guide the way
Maybe if I'm sent off to sea, I'll find out what this means to me
I've got a message I carry, that I have forgotten to read
Maybe if I'm sent off to sea, I'll find out what this means to me
I've got a message I carry, that I have forgotten to read
You are not as lost as me
You are not as lost as me
No your not, no your not as lost as me
If you were and you were I wouldn't be here writing
No your not, no your not as lost as me
If you were if you were I wouldn't be here writing
Some day you will find me
Is it worth it, keeping ourselves at bay
Set sail, you've spent way too much time living your life, in exile
To say goodbye, to the shoreline
Maybe if I'm sent off to sea, I'll find out what this means to me
I've got a message I carry, that I have forgotten to read
Maybe if I'm sent off to sea, I'll find out what this means to me
I've got a message I carry, that I have forgotten to read
I don't need another day, floating away
Lost in the sea of regret I've made
I want to wash up new for once
For once I don't want to float face down
We've been deserted, that doesn't mean that we deserve it
Is it worth it, keeping ourselves at bay
You can try and fail, but don't fail to try
Do I deserve this
If you're deserted, you can't desert it
You can never leave an island in your mind until you lose sight of the shoreline
You can try and fail, but don't fail to try
Some people spend their entire lives in exile
You can't never leave, an island until you lose sight of the shoreline
Times like these they come in waves
Make your footprint and send it right back away
All you're saying to me tonight, here in the open skyline
Without darkness, no star can learn to guide the way
Maybe if I'm sent off to sea, I'll find out what this means to me
I've got a message I carry, that I have forgotten to read
Maybe if I'm sent off to sea, I'll find out what this means to me
I've got a message I carry, that I have forgotten to read
You are not as lost as me
You are not as lost as me
No your not, no your not as lost as me
If you were and you were I wouldn't be here writing
No your not, no your not as lost as me
If you were if you were I wouldn't be here writing
Some day you will find me
Hole Hearted lyrics - The Color Morale
Am I stuck inside my own mind or am I just an insect in amber frozen in a moment and forgotten in time
Where is my mind
I don't want the world to see me I want the world to see where it is I've been
I just want someone to feel like they can be something
There's got to be more than feeling this alone
I've been through enough to leave me alone
Now I feel so confused
Maybe I was made to learn on my own
I don't want to go to the grave wondering what I could have made
Will I ever change
I don't want to live day by day wondering if I'll ever change
Get back
I don't want to live day by day
It's never too late to make the change
Everyone you've known
These moments you're lost and alone
You've pushed everyone away even when they tried to stay
Where did this come from
Enough is enough
I've been through enough to leave me alone
Now I feel so confused
Maybe I was made to learn on my own
I can't do this on my own
Where is my mind
I don't want the world to see me I want the world to see where it is I've been
I just want someone to feel like they can be something
There's got to be more than feeling this alone
I've been through enough to leave me alone
Now I feel so confused
Maybe I was made to learn on my own
I don't want to go to the grave wondering what I could have made
Will I ever change
I don't want to live day by day wondering if I'll ever change
Get back
I don't want to live day by day
It's never too late to make the change
Everyone you've known
These moments you're lost and alone
You've pushed everyone away even when they tried to stay
Where did this come from
Enough is enough
I've been through enough to leave me alone
Now I feel so confused
Maybe I was made to learn on my own
I can't do this on my own
Saviorself lyrics - The Color Morale
I wish I had more time to sort out all of this inside my mind
I only have one day
It's given at dawn and at dusk it gets taken away
I can't control what I think
So how can I control what I say
I don't know who I am at the moment and I can't pray
I can't pray for the answers anymore
I only have myself to blame for losing control
I've always needed something maybe I needed to be alone
And I don't need to be saved
I'm not saying that it's too late
But way too much has changed
You call it savior
And I call it a learned behavior
You call it the light I refuse to see
And I call it the mask I've seen underneath
Just do and say the same thing
No opinion preserved in stained glass holds more moral truth to me
I only have myself to blame for losing control
I still need to be saved just not by you
I just need to be safe
But not by you
I only have myself to blame for losing control
I've always needed something maybe I needed to be alone
I only have one day
It's given at dawn and at dusk it gets taken away
I can't control what I think
So how can I control what I say
I don't know who I am at the moment and I can't pray
I can't pray for the answers anymore
I only have myself to blame for losing control
I've always needed something maybe I needed to be alone
And I don't need to be saved
I'm not saying that it's too late
But way too much has changed
You call it savior
And I call it a learned behavior
You call it the light I refuse to see
And I call it the mask I've seen underneath
Just do and say the same thing
No opinion preserved in stained glass holds more moral truth to me
I only have myself to blame for losing control
I still need to be saved just not by you
I just need to be safe
But not by you
I only have myself to blame for losing control
I've always needed something maybe I needed to be alone
Have.Will lyrics - The Color Morale
And I owe it all to you
This change must fall on your
Change for everyone else and you'll do things backwards
Nothing works out itself
Move on
So stop running away
I can feel you cause your feet are keeping time with me
How could anyone choose to live this way
In the past they won't escape
We are the same you and me
No direction and a steady pace
Some of us don't choose to live this way
Maybe the best part of you was waiting for your past to die
This change must fall on your
Change for everyone else and you'll do things backwards
Nothing works out itself
Move along
Today one step can lead to many
And I want you to run in time with me not away
It's so much easier to just breathe in the air than it is to exist in it
Sometimes we carry ourselves only as dead weight
Sometimes it takes your whole world falling apart
To really know what you stand for
What do you stand for
Life falls apart but did you ever see where every piece could land
Maybe pieces of you were preplanned to fall apart
So they could fall together
So they fall in place for someone else
And you said that you needed a voice
And I needed a reason
To believe
Believe in yourself because you are the same as me
No one every changes if they don't change for themselves
You're not alone
How are we supposed to live
How are we supposed to breathe
How are we supposed to carry on with all of this buried
This change must fall on you
Change for everyone else and you'll live your life backwards
I understand you
You're not evil despite what they may say
This change must fall on your
Change for everyone else and you'll do things backwards
Nothing works out itself
Move on
So stop running away
I can feel you cause your feet are keeping time with me
How could anyone choose to live this way
In the past they won't escape
We are the same you and me
No direction and a steady pace
Some of us don't choose to live this way
Maybe the best part of you was waiting for your past to die
This change must fall on your
Change for everyone else and you'll do things backwards
Nothing works out itself
Move along
Today one step can lead to many
And I want you to run in time with me not away
It's so much easier to just breathe in the air than it is to exist in it
Sometimes we carry ourselves only as dead weight
Sometimes it takes your whole world falling apart
To really know what you stand for
What do you stand for
Life falls apart but did you ever see where every piece could land
Maybe pieces of you were preplanned to fall apart
So they could fall together
So they fall in place for someone else
And you said that you needed a voice
And I needed a reason
To believe
Believe in yourself because you are the same as me
No one every changes if they don't change for themselves
You're not alone
How are we supposed to live
How are we supposed to breathe
How are we supposed to carry on with all of this buried
This change must fall on you
Change for everyone else and you'll live your life backwards
I understand you
You're not evil despite what they may say
Never Enders lyrics - The Color Morale
And I'm too abused to walk away from this
Of all I've been through I just wouldn't change it
If I could go back in time and change everything
I wouldn't change a thing because it made me who I am
And I'm so confused
I don't seem to know what's real or what's make believe anymore but I must move forward for you
And do this all for you
Without you there is no me and I'll stay even if you choose to leave
The world will always keep turning it's back on me
And I just wouldn't change it
If I could go back in time and change everything I wouldn't change a thing because it made me
I am not leaving this room tonight until I know that I've changed at least one life
And you are not leaving not knowing, not knowing how you are changing mine
Please don't sing louder than me unless your singing with a heart backing a beat
Then you'll know there's a reason for this song to find you and sing along
This is not another singalong
This is one breath made from different lungs
Of all I've been through I just wouldn't change it
If I could go back in time and change everything
I wouldn't change a thing because it made me who I am
And I'm so confused
I don't seem to know what's real or what's make believe anymore but I must move forward for you
And do this all for you
Without you there is no me and I'll stay even if you choose to leave
The world will always keep turning it's back on me
And I just wouldn't change it
If I could go back in time and change everything I wouldn't change a thing because it made me
I am not leaving this room tonight until I know that I've changed at least one life
And you are not leaving not knowing, not knowing how you are changing mine
Please don't sing louder than me unless your singing with a heart backing a beat
Then you'll know there's a reason for this song to find you and sing along
This is not another singalong
This is one breath made from different lungs
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