1.Holding On

Acquantances
They don't stick around
I can only count my ture friends on one hand

I'm tired
I'm tired of holding on
I'm tired
I'm tired of holding on... to nothing

My feelings are taken for granted
Hey man, I won't leave you
But I'll still stab you in the back

In times of trouble
I call my friends all over
To lift and help me to my feet
And keep me free from harm

In time of trouble

2.Past Our Means

The branches break from the family tree
From the weight of the heartache...
Of disintegrating families
Look what we've created...
Illegitmate crack babies
Grandma raises... The drunkard's children
Kids at all cost... But an absence of true love
The license to breed...
We have taken advantage of

I've got fifteen kids... can't feed my family
No birth control... condoms are not for me
A future of... convicts/criminals
Our technology hasn't taken us that far

Open your eyes and see that times have changed
We can't keep using at this same rate
But who are the only ones to blame?...
But ourselves

Whats the point today to overpopulate
Birth control or abstinance
Most problems are self-made

Back in the days... we could all fill all of our needs
Back in the days... we suffer from our greed
You and I... violently go extinct
Back in the days... past our means

3.In Defense

Education without action does nothing
Bulldozers broken down
Destruction takes the day off
Tank is filled with dirt
Land locked and monkeywrenched

I've damaged
I've damaged
No compromise in defense
I've damaged

Another money day
Clearcut jobs they pay well
Ecosystems gone
Developers go build in hell

In defense
I've damaged
To preserve

The land is seen as cohmodity
Most revered end is money
Esthetics pass for just scenery
Most damage done in this century

We break the branches of the diversity tree
To get its fruit
But next year your children's yield
won't be half as good

4.Embrace

I look outside I don't like what I see
The scene is split into communities
I try and try to stay positive
But these struggles and fights
They upset me

Struggles
The Fighting
Don't throw away
Don't stop
Keep trying
Don't go away
Don't hate
Each other
We're family

There is a strength... through diversity
There's a love, a bond... through unity
We are all gone... people in this scene
Embrace one and each other... we're family

What will be accomplished by
Dividing and hanging tides
In the days of the violent breed
This hatred, it killed our scene
Today we have another change
We must learn from our past
Don't break this time and purge
These family, these family embrace

5.Self-Made Man

I don't judge you
On what you say
But I judge you
On what you've done

Completely two-faced
Turned on me again
I feel so sorry for you
Because I know you'll have no friends

Screaming at the top of my mind
You don't listen to a word I say
I'm screaming at the top of my mind
You don't listen
I feel so sorry for you

6.Taken Away

A thousand passersby just walk on
His luxuries of life have been taken away
I wish someone would stop me
Every time that I complain

Be grateful in every way
Taken Away
Don't you forget
He would give anything
Taken Away
For a working body

Don't throw your blesses away

I've been given love, given family
A warm clean bed for my head to lay
So many people aren't so lucky
Don't forget to give thanks and praise

Be grateful in every way
Taken Away
He would give anything
For a working body
Taken Away
A split second later

Don't throw your blesses away

Truly grateful for each and every day
I get on my knees to give thanks and praise
Go

Budapest, Hungary 1991
I met a boy names Janos
Confined to a wheelchair with multiple sclerosis
His own mobility based
Solely on the movements of his chin
But he had so much to teach me
When I showed him some friendship
When I stopped to talk

He said it really hurts
When people look right past you
Like I'm not a human being with feelings
Love and compassion sitting here
Don't you dare feel sorry for me
Just give me a chance
His reality's cool
His mind stays strong
Hey I'm alive

A thousand passersby just walk on
His luxuries of life have been taken away
I wish someone would stop me
Every time that I complain

Taken Away
Don't you forget
Taken Away
He would give anything
Taken Away
For a working body
Taken Away
Don't throw your blesses away
Taken Away