98 Mute - Watch Over Me

I dedicate my life as I dedicate this song
So your loving memory will never be gone
Your message and your song will continue on
The positive that you created shall never be undone
You taught me everything I know and everything I do
Taught me how to live my life and to always be true
True to your friends and your family
True to your heart be who you want to be
You�ll forever be my mentor forever be my friend
�cause brotherhood�s the rule which can not bend
You�ll be truly missed as you were truly loved
I hope you�re watching me from up above
We will live our lives in your memory
We will try to be the best that we can be in your memory
Your short time on earth was very well spent Some people they live 80 years and never make a dent
But you changed the world with the words that you would write
And taught us all to always fight the good fight
And I know you�re watching over me from above In the center of my heart is where you will forever be
From the center of my heart is where you�ll never leave
There�s no way your memory will ever fade away
Because of all the happiness and the goodness that you gave
In my heart is where you�ll always be you�ll always be with me
Nobody can take away the memories we�ll always have the memories
I remember you always looking out for me
Putting me on your shoulders so I could see
Being the best brother you knew how to be
I can still feel you looking over me
And it makes me smile to know you�re still watching over me.

98 Mute - They say

They say the future's looking bright
I guess i just can't see it
Everything's gonna be alright
I just can't believe it
They say the beat continues on
I guess i just can't hear it
It's been this way far too long
I try to grin and bear it

Hold your head up high
Stand your ground
You think you've won the prize
Take a look around

They say it's in God's hands
I guess i just don't trus him
Part of some master plan
I don't understand it
They say that heaven awaits
I guess i'm just impatient
How will i get through the gates
I guess i'll have to pray

Is there anyone listening
Won't somebody save us
Is there anyone out there
Someone we can trust
Don't walk away
Stay here with us
We're so afrad
Don't know who we can trust
Hold your head up high
Staand your ground
Take a look around, open your eyes

98 Mute - Them

Walking down the streets, Idiots are all I fucking see.
Morons right in front of me.
I've got a group of them to my right.
And it's just the start of my night.
Sitting on the corner of Manhattan Beach Blvd.
And Ocean.
See some sluts out for fun.
Showing off their silicone tits.
Pounds of makeup hide their zits.
I can't believe what my eyes see.
Bars packed with U.S.C. fraternities.
Plastic people with their plastic money.
MTV fed mentalities.
I thank god I'm not like them.
Pennyloafers on their feet.
Collared shirts with rolled up sleeves.
Tight blue jeans you wouldn't believe.
I've got a dozen chumps to my right.
And it's beginning to ruin my night.
The to my left a bunch of chicks who think they're hot shit.
So I slap them with my goddamn dick.
People acting so sophisticated.
By twenty-one they're all outdated.
I don't ever want to be like them.
I won't ever fuckin' be like them.
I have fun laughing at them.
I think god I'm not of one of them.
Now I'm all surrounded.
All these idiots suffocating me.
So now it's time for me to leave.
But as I leave this fucked up scene I thank god that I'm me.

98 Mute - Survive

I'm gonna put it to you like this
I don't want this to come to fists
But the bottom line is that you've reached the top of my shit list
Two trains on the same track and you can bet you and I we are going to bang heads
Friendship unraveling like yarn through we share a common thread
I know your not blind so why cant you see
The curtain that has been drawn between you and me
A friendship that has eroded with time like a mountain into the sea

You wanted to make your dreams a reality
But your reality is now a dream
Are you the person that you really want to be
Or a fraction of the friend who once knew me

Done more harm than you could ever afford
Open your heart and you're sure to find more
In life than you can find at a local liquor store
Your personality has been seduced
By chemicals you over abuse
You're in a tailspin and there is nothing you can do
Your shenanigans used to amuse me
But ive grown tired of your tomfoolery
This running joke is way past its prime and way past decency

A vodka tonic a day will keep the memory away
Yore not conscious when you are awake
Drink and drive don't care who dies
Motherfucker you've been risking lives
You could be the one who won't Survive

98 Mute - Small Minds

Our last laugh
Your short fuse
Your better days ahead are behind you
Behind you

Narrow eyes
You can't lose
The fight of your life is in front of you
In front of you

Sometimes some things aren't exactly
what they seem
Some things sometimes have very
different meanings

Ask yourself if you'll survive
Will you breakdown or will you shine

98 Mute - Slow Motion Riot

What have we here storm before calm.
Strung out on fear so pass me the napalm
Break Bread with me before it is stolen
Sleep with one eye open silence is golden
Life a magazine Death a Reality
Drug dealer heroes thug celebrities
Rush hour gridlock may seem drastic
An open road compared to drug traffic

Starving to death on a Quaalude diet
Living in a Slow Motion Riot
Concisness it has been gagged and bound
Better make your last confession
The worlds doing its best impression
Of a ship with nowhere to go but down

Skyscraper fantasies Ghetto realities
Dreams watered down like softcore pornography
Watch your step gang related death
Funeral day wonder whos next
Crime is the standard built up Immunity
Only care if it's our community
Smokescreen safety can't trust the Government
In this world hell seems heaven sent

Were in a Slow Motion Riot

Life a Fantasy Death Reality
Life a Quarantine Death a courtesy
Life a Brevity Death Finality
Life a foul disease Death a Remedy

98 Mute - Slander

Maybe I shouldn�t have said it Of course
I was too quick to judge
Words swiftly spoken may be unrefined
I didn�t know optimism was a crime
Hey I have got enough problems
Don�t need extra baggage from you Pointless games and taxing headtrips Unfortunate side effects of your friendship
I may have slipped won�t happen again my legs are beneath me now
For the last time cut down from behind
I will be ready next time
It�s no big deal
I�ve gotten used to being let down
I just didn�t think that
I would ever be let down by you
Your antics are always expected
Passed off as being your nature
Get away with murder �cause you�re just being you
A modern day version of Shakespeare�s licensed fool
Not to say that I�m not guilty
Emotions get the best of me
Quick to fight a nasty habit
Can�t keep my cool if I never had it
I had so much faith in you �til I saw your true colors bleeding through
You�re a joke that I don�t get with a punchline
I�m trying hard to forget
I don�t want to carry the burden
Of holding this grudge any longer
What to do, do I made amends?
Or discard this joker from my deck of friends?
Slander you said it I heard it
But you know I never deserved it
So locked to you the world in my head I know I should have never let you in

98 Mute - Short Fuse

Sometimes this world it really gets to me
All of the big heads my nerves get tested
Just when I think it�s gotten the best of me
I save my worst for last
My fuse it ends I reach the final draw A sudden impulse
It�s time to break skulls And you don�t really want to be the straw that breaks the camel�s back
I see the edge and I just got to push it
I don�t know what comes over me
I feel the trigger and I just got to push it
It�s temporary insanity
Now I got the feeling now I�ve got the itch
Like an obsession I need aggression
You turn it on and I can�t turn off the switch To stop the current�s flow
Step in my mind if you want to come with me
Were going for a ride a mental landslide
No destination I just want to see how far we can go
You can run you can hide
You can stay right by my side
You can run you can hide
I�m gonna swallow someone else�s pride
No regrets no remorse for me no way I�ve felt compassion it�s a distraction And tell me just who the hell are you to say who is wrong or right
Make a choice pay attention or pay the price
Can�t live forever it�s now or never
Listen up and pay heed to this advice
I�m going to lose my fucking head tonight
So watch your back tonight

98 Mute - Simpler Days

Growing up at a hundred miles per hour
Relentless pursuit of absolute power
Engines of progress full steam ahead
Ranting and raving while being force fed

Deafening sounds of machines humming
Fury and pace of people running
Endless noise of the blood pumping clock
Flash of the lights pulsating nonstop

Tear down these walls Its progress we can have it all
Infrastructure falls Its progress that's what we call it
Traditions are erased Gone without a trace
Take me back to simpler times and simpler ways
Simpler Days

Round and round spinning our wheels
Into the ground the grinding of the drills
No time for family No time for rest
Got to work quick make the world a mess

Relief is nowhere to be seen
Foreclosure of the American dream
Domino theory takes hold
Our future has been bought and sold

Biding our time
Our chances slip away
Being done in
By devices we create

Twisting-Turning resources burning for our conveniency
Pulling-Ripping out stitching that fuses our families
Fighting-lying we are dying harm that cannot be undone
Breaking-Bending here's the ending were writing our own requiem

98 Mute - Shine

Can you feel it Do you hear that sound
Thunder of the whole world crumbling down around you
Deep in skeptic faces think that you might drown
Gotten high on anxiety and now you want to come down
Someplace to hide someplace to go
Will you ever find it how will you ever know
Don�t want to give up hope but it�s getting hard to cope
Holding on by a threat to keep from hanging by a rope
It�s not like you�ve got time working on your side
Simple fact is that we are all eventually going to die
One day you�re feeling fine the next day you might lose your fucking mind
So while you�ve got the time, take a moment out of everyday to shine
Reality�s a blur you�re in a dismal state
And you�re pretty sure your brain is on the take
Your desires can�t be satiated even the simplest task seems compliated A thin line lies between camp beautiful and the circus freaks
How can it possibly be some slip so easy
From the ranks of the sane to the files of insanity
There will be those who will do what they can to smash your dreams
The miracles in your life are closer than they seem
Overcoming fears in life a clichéd but reoccurring theme
You�ve got to hold together at the seems
Searching for the answers forever it seems
You�ll find the answer it�s in your dreams

98 Mute - Send in the Clowns

White power synonym for coward
Hope you enjoyed your stay
This is your final hour
Terminated lease
Cut off like deadweight
Good bye and good riddance to you
And to all of your hate

Hate crime the product of weak minds
Undernourished thought its ignorance defined
Sheep in wolves clothing
Bred from self loathing
You only hate them because you hate yourself

Your crippled followings a tattered hand me down
I'll try not to crack a smile as you send in the clowns
You can reminisce about the days when you felt proud
But don't look now cause your white worlds turning brown (Burning Down)

See through never will I be you
Barking at a world that doesn't even see you
Fading from our sights
Like a failing religion
Preaching to empty peuhs
We'll never listen

You hate Yourself and blame everyone else

That void you're hearing now is the sound of silence
As the muzzle mutes you and your shameless nonsense
It was not nice meeting you and the pleasure wasn't mine
Hope I never see you sometime

Goodnight white pride of lions
Your kind is quickly dying
On the verge of your extinction
Funeral with no distinction
Goodnight white pride of lions
Your kind is quickly dying
We hope you enjoyed your stay
We can not tolerate your hate

98 Mute - Picture This

Everyday a battle is fought
Today I was reminded somehow I had forgot
Everyday a lesson is taught
Real estate�s important and human life is not
Is all of this bloodshed worth an outdated plan laid by ancient hands
Such a crucial piece of earth
Take a look again it�s a fucking piece of dirt
Can anyone show me what�s wrong with this picture?
Something definitely looks out of place to me
It�s clearly out of focus somebody broke us
But here�s where the joke is nobody provoked us
We�re broken and no one�s to blame but us ourselves and we
We can�t agree so we war egos declare young soldier be scared
But what are we fighting for
Something that�s nothing that we can afford
We glory ourselves in our past �the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air�
We fly our flags at half mast
It�s hard to take pride in young wasted lives
Picture this a world where governments are more concerned with feeding the people than their egos
Picture this a world where borders are mere lines on a map not symbols of economic gaps
Picture this respect on a grander scale respect for human rights
Picture this a world where there�s no need to write songs like this
Can anyone out there help fix this picture
Who can make the world a better place to be
We�ve got one chance let�s take it the world�s what we make it
If we�re going to change it we can�t be complacent
The future of the world is up to us ourselves and we

98 Mute - Perfect Sense

It�s been so long since the first day
I met you girl and since then
We�ve been to heaven and been through hell
We�ve seen life in each others skin and through each others eyes You know me better than I know myself
I thought of you today and wondered why
I�d torn down what we�d built
I checked my memories felt guilty for the way
I felt I know you think
I think I know everything but that�s so far from the truth
Only thing I really know is there�s so much for me to learn from you
Don�t know the reason why it took me so long to see that
In a less than perfect world you make perfect sense to me
Don�t know the reason why it took me so long to see that in a picture perfect world you�d always be standing next to me
I�ve seen that picture too, the one you said you painted in your head A mural of a perfect home you and I a family and friends
Can�t change the past can�t change what�s passed so I guess there�s just one thing to do
Let you know just how I feel and ask to build a new future with you
No need to look down you know if you fall that I will catch you
I�ll be your safety net and always remember I�d die for you and no one else but you
I will be here for you I will always be here for you

98 Mute - Painkiller

Insecurity- this time it's got the best of me.
Apathy- this time I think it's killing me.
Try to scream- but I can't make any noise.
Try to breathe- but the breath has lost my voice.
There has got to be a better way.
Some way to get rid of this fucking pain.
Is my future in a razor blade?
Sometimes suicide isn't so insane.
Bad memories- so I drink to forget.
But you see- all I lose is self respect.
No control- no more goals and no more aim.
Blackened soul- everyday it feels the same.
Can't face the boredom that everyday brings.
I'm feeling guilty for an uncommitted crime.
Left dangling from a puppeteer's strings.
My body's free but my mind is doing time.
Suicide- everyday a soul is lost.
Justified- I think I'll carry my own cross.
Bedside note- sory mother if you cry.
But life's a joke- so I think today, I'll just lay down and die.

98 Mute - Open Your Eyes

When I was younger I used to wait anticipate
Mark my calendar on the release date
So I�d be the first to hear the brilliant things you�d say
I�d skip luch for a week
Save up all my money To be the first kid on the block to own your brand new CD
Open your eyes open your eyes open your eyes
Who�s gonna show me how to laugh
Open your mouth open your mouth open your mouth
Who�s gonna show me how to
Who�s going to show me how to laugh?
Who�s going to jerk tears from my eyes
I�ve memorized every last word and every note
So now who�s going to write the songs
I wish the songs I always wish I wrote that song
So did you think you didn�t matter anymore
That you weren�t changing people�s lives
Well you�re wrong Such poignant words from you
I heard Thoughts and emotions that were worth so much more than a cheap slogan on a t-shirt

98 Mute - Never Forget

I'm thinking back to all the good times we shared
Through and through no closer two
I always looked up to you
I don't know how or when everything could have gone so wrong
That you could feel so sad You couldn't carry on

I can't believe this is true
I always loved and adored you
What happened where was I
How could I let you die
I know I could have saved you

I can't believe it actually could come to this
For once in your life couldn't you have missed
And though I know there was nothing I could have done
Deep inside I still feel I let you down

Best friend I ever had
This ending isn't right
When I spoke to your dad
He told me that those were the best days of your life

I would give anything for a chance to rewind
Roll back the hands of time to save a friend of mine
Deep inside I regret I never will forget

98 Mute - Marriage

[Originally by Descendents]

Do you know what i think of you?
Do you know what i feel is true?
Do you know what i think of her?
I know what she thinks of me,
I'm sure don't know why it's so,
But it's true!
So you know what i think about you
But do you know what you want me to do?
When you see me staring at you
Do you know what i want you to do?
I don't know why it's so, but it's true!
I don't want to have sex with you
I want to be your friend
I want to be with you
I want you to marry me
Now you know what i think about you
You know that my speed is you
I know i want you to be my wife
And be with me the rest of your life
Do you know what i think about you?

98 Mute - M.A.D.

whoah-oh-whoah-oh whoah-oh-whoah-oh all but no resolution all scored self-mutilation black hole no salvation knock on mass anilihation i pray you say it had to come one day i died you cried you sit here and wonder why whoah-oh-whoah-oh whoah-oh-whoah-oh we fail the next generation we rate to our satisfaction down we pay true to our taxation cell phone quiet desperation i plead you feed we must plant the new seed i tried you lied test scream out world wide! i prayed you say it had to come one day i died you cried you sit here and wonder why i plead you feed we must plant the new seed i tried you lied you sit here and wonder why we hate exterminate iniate the new state we scream falsely must be the new dream we feel (that we) must start a new deal one for (one for) let's create a new god i say no more (no more) you can't keep score (keep the score) talk 'bout what you knew (what you knew) fall out nothing to (nothing to) break out (break out) fast cars (fast cars) lights out (lights out) now you cry (now you cry) break out (break out) fast cars (fast cars) lights out (lights out) as we say our last good byes

98 Mute - Last Laugh

I've seen your type before.
And I'll see it a thousand times more.
It's people like you I'm glad to see go.
So let me walk you through the goddamn door.
You think you're the it but you ain't shit.
You're nothing but a two bit hypocrite.
You think your hot stuff.
And you think you're tough.
But wearing Doc Marten's just ain't enough.
Just shut your trap I'm sick of your crap.
Another word from you and I might just snap.
You think you're hardcore but where were you before?
Were you busy breakdancing on the foor?
You laughed at me way back when.
And now you want to be my friend.
You laughed at me way back when.
So I don't want to be your friend.

98 Mute - Judge And Jury

Why must you insist on constant analysis
Why can you just get over it
Got a mind of my own
I can not be your clone
Ive got my own road to follow

Don't try to change my ways
Don't try to twist my fate
Don't try to program me or censor the words I say
Don't humor me and then secretly disapprove
Cause it will only turn me off and against you

Don't try to be my judge and jury
Don't try to pass sentence on me
Don't try to be my judge and jury
Don't try to pass sentence on me

Your endless scrutiny will cause my mutiny
Your rule Your reign is past my warranty
Here's where I make my stand you never stood a chance
I will not do that song and dance

Try and make me over now
You'll drag us both down
Somewhere neither of us wants to be
Respect how I live my life
And ill consider your advice
Cause it will mean so much more to me