Song Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I’ve given up

I’ve had enough

Just breaking today

My mind so rough

Four missed calls

Face down in the sink

I stare at my hands

Try not to think

[Chorus]

I’m breaking today

Yeah

I’m breaking today

Can’t fake one more smile

Can’t drink this away

I’m losing the taste

Of every old crutch

This bottle stays full

But it’s never enough

I’m breaking today

I’m breaking today

[Verse 2]

Ash in the tray

Clothes on the floor

Same old fight

With a brand-new score

Can’t continue

With this constant push

This bottle in my hand

Never brings that rush

[Chorus]

I’m breaking today

Yeah

I’m breaking today

Can’t fake one more smile

Can’t drink this away

I’m losing the taste

Of every old crutch

This bottle stays full

But it’s never enough

I’m breaking today

I’m breaking today

[Bridge]

If this is the bottom

Let it be the ground

If I’ve gotta scream

Then hear me now (hear me now)

I’m tired of the falling

Tired of the crush

I’m done giving pieces

To a poison touch

[Chorus]

I’m breaking today

Yeah

I’m breaking today

Can’t fake one more smile

Can’t drink this away

I’m reaching for something

Past all this dust

Hands shaking

Still shaking

But I’m standing up

I’m breaking today

[Verse 1]

They coming for you and me

Smiles in the daylight

Laws in the backseat

Just another thing school never let me see

Glossed over pages

Whole chapters in concrete

A delusion of being free

Flag on the wall

Bars in the fine print

People fight

Taking rights from me

Saying it’s “order” while they tighten the imprint

[Chorus]

I’ll live this life

Even when they draw the line through my name

I’ll pay that price

If the truth means walking into the flame

I’ll live this life

They can trace my steps and still not own me

So many are just not right

But I refuse to call this prison “free”

[Verse 2]

Talk loud in the classroom but hush in the streets

Scroll past the pain

Call it “noise” on the feed

But that noise got names

Got lungs that can’t breathe

I see the cracks in the “meant to be”

And every crack spells “who decides for me?”

[Chorus]

I’ll live this life

Even when they draw the line through my name

I’ll pay that price

If the truth means walking into the flame

I’ll live this life

They can trace my steps and still not own me

So many are just not right

But I refuse to call this prison “free”

[Bridge]

If freedom’s just a story that they sell at seventeen

Why my friends disappearing in the space between? (hey)

[Chorus]

My world

My world

My mind

My mind

Understanding the divine

While I’m stuck inside the grind

My world

My world

My mind on the line

Walking through the dark

I keep looking for a sign

[Verse 1]

Walking the streets

I’ve seen the sign

Corner store shadows

Past midnight

Eyes on the ground

But I still climb

It’s you or me in this frame of mind

Sidewalk cracked like my patience

Same old faces

Same vibrations

Talking to myself

No replies

Walking by strangers

No real lives

[Chorus]

My world

My world

My mind

My mind

Understanding the divine

While I’m stuck inside the grind

My world

My world

My mind on the line

Walking through the dark

I keep looking for a sign

[Verse 2]

It’s you or me mentality

Hearts on freeze

That reality

Scrolling through feeds

No gravity

Nothing feels real

Just tragedy

I breathe deep

Try to feel the air

[Intro]

White line weekend

Eyes wide

Deep end

Backseat breathing

Who even’s leaving? (nah)

[Verse 1]

Pull up

Door swing

Get in quick

Card on the bar

That limit hit

Wristbands

Wrist numb

I don’t blink

Double of that trouble in my drink

White line

White lie on my teeth

Say I’m done

Then I’m back in a week

Smoke rings

Halo over fiends

Whole crew living every bad dream

[Chorus]

Yeah

Give me that white line

I’ll take a double of that drink

Smoke a pack

Fuck what you think

We just party every day

Smoke

Smoke

Bump

Bump

Drink

Drink

We never gonna stop

Smoke

Smoke

Bump

Bump

Drink

Drink (hey!)

We never gonna stop

[Verse 2]

Red eyes

Blue bills on the floor

Phone dead

Lose count

Want more

Bathroom

Back room

Lost time

Heart race

Can’t chase that high

Tattoo on her thigh that I read twice

Said “run

” but we love bad advice

Sun up

Same clothes

Same sin

Say “last time” with a cracked grin

[Chorus]

Yeah

Give me that white line

I’ll take a double of that drink

Smoke a pack

Fuck what you think

We just party every day

Smoke

Smoke

Bump

Bump

Drink

Drink

We never gonna stop

Smoke

Smoke

Bump

Bump

Drink

Drink (woah)

We never gonna stop

[Verse 1]

White lines on the glass, hands shaking

Told myself “last time,” I’m faking

Bathroom mirror, red eyes, cracked halo

Heart like a war drum, won’t say hello

Phone full of ghosts I don’t call back

Nose numb, tongue dumb, mind off track

Laughing too loud, then I’m dead quiet

Whole damn life just a street riot

[Chorus]

I’m saying I’ll save myself tomorrow

But tomorrow never comes when I’m this hollow

Every promise tastes like poison in my throat

I’m riding on a runaway hope

I’m saying I’ll save myself tomorrow

But tonight I’m wrestling with this shadow

If I wake, I swear I’ll change this road

But I keep loading up this heavy load (yeah)

[Verse 2]

Violin screaming like a cop car near

While I chase one line, disappear

Friends turned faces in a blur of smoke

Inside joke is I might not cope

Mom texts “son, you okay?”

Thumbs hover, then I just look away

Can’t tell truth, can’t stand lies

So I say “I’m fine” while a part of me dies

[Chorus]

I’m saying I’ll save myself tomorrow

But tomorrow never comes when I’m this hollow

Every promise tastes like poison in my throat

I’m riding on a runaway hope

I’m saying I’ll save myself tomorrow

But tonight I’m wrestling with this shadow

If I wake, I swear I’ll change this road

But I keep loading up this heavy load

[Bridge]

Maybe I’m scared of a life that’s clean

Who am I if I’m not this scream?

Staring at the ceiling in the afterglow

Thinking, “one more hit, then

[Verse 1]

We lost our way

Every mouth got a different say

Argue all night for the same small pay

Hearts worn thin

Eyes tired gray

Scroll through lies

Most “facts” just a cheap disguise

Pointing at each other while the whole sky cries

Can’t see truth with this dust in our eyes

[Chorus]

They want us to lose

Tear each other down till there’s nothing left to choose

This world feels heavy with the weight of the hate

Blaming every face that we’re told to hate

But I don’t wanna fight you

I’m standing right beside you

If we’re all confused

Maybe that’s exactly what they want us to lose (yeah)

[Verse 2]

News talk loud

But it never really says what it’s about

Turn hope into clicks

Turn faith into doubt

Turn love into “us versus them” right now

We’re blaming “them”

Then we point at “us” again

Round and round

Same spin

Same pen

Who wins when we all pretend?

[Chorus]

They want us to lose

Tear each other down till there’s nothing left to choose

This world feels heavy with the weight of the hate

Blaming every face that we’re told to hate

But I don’t wanna fight you

I’m standing right beside you

If we’re all confused

Maybe that’s exactly what they want us to lose

[Bridge]

What if we quit playing this game? (hey!)

Look past the label

The flag

The name

Hold up a mirror

See we’re the same

All this hurt

All this shame

Hand in hand

[Verse 1]

Clock continues with the tick tock

You wanna talk about the politics to which you flock

Every day continues with the washing of the brain

Designed in secret meetings from France to Spain

Paper trails vanish in a late-night train

Smiles on screens

But they worship the gain

Tiny little lies in the morning news

Turn into the bars of the cage you choose

[Chorus]

Washing of the brain (day by day)

Same old faces

Same old game (they play)

Spin that story till you can’t see straight

Sign your name on a future you hate

It’s the washing of the brain (so clean)

Rinse your rage till you just daydream

If you don’t speak up

They call that peace

While they cut your voice down piece by piece

[Verse 2]

Classroom chalk

Draw the lines in your head

Teach you what to fear

What to love

Who to dread

Push one version of a long

Long war

Hide the cost in a grocery store

Neighbors argue but they share one thread

Both sides fed from the same cold bread

Scroll that feed till your eyes feel numb

Every bright screen beats like a drum

Scroll that feed till your eyes feel numb

Every bright screen beats like a drum

[Chorus]

Washing of the brain (day by day)

Same old faces

Same old game (they play)

Spin that story till you can’t see straight

Sign your name on a future you hate

It’s the washing of the brain (so clean)

Rinse your rage till you just daydream

If you don’t speak up

They call that peace

While they cut your voice down piece by piece

[Chorus]

Washing

WHY ARE WE TOGETHER 

[Verse 1]

We talk in half truths

Smile for the screens

Share the same rooftop

Dreaming separate dreams

You pour the red wine

I toast to the lie

Two strangers on a deadline

Waiting to say goodbye

[Chorus]

Why are we together

If we hate this life we made

Why keep up this image

When we’re both so frayed

I see you dying inside

You see me doing the same

Why are we together

If all we share is blame

[Verse 2]

Your coat by the doorway

Suitcase never moves

We circle the ending

Always finding an excuse

We laugh at the sitcom

Talk over the plot

I ask how you’re feeling

You say you’d rather not

[Chorus]

Why are we together

If we hate this life we made

Why keep up this image

When we’re both so frayed

I see you dying inside

You see me doing the same

Why are we together

If all we share is blame

[Bridge]

Remember that cheap motel

Ceiling cracked

Hearts brand new

We didn’t own a damn thing

But I swore I owned you

Now it’s flowers on the table

Just to prove that we still try

Two perfect framed examples

Of a love that’s running dry (oh)

[Chorus]

Why are we together

If we hate this life we made

Why keep up this image

When we’re both so frayed

I see you dying inside

You see me doing the same

Why are we together

Why are we still the same

[Verse 1]

We talk in half truths

Smile for the screens

Share the same rooftop

Dreaming separate dreams

You pour the red wine

I toast to the lie

Two strangers on a deadline

Waiting to say goodbye

[Chorus]

Why are we together

If we hate this life we made

Why keep up this image

When we’re both so frayed

I see you dying inside

You see me doing the same

Why are we together

If all we share is blame

[Verse 2]

Your coat by the doorway

Suitcase never moves

We circle the ending

Always finding an excuse

We laugh at the sitcom

Talk over the plot

I ask how you’re feeling

You say you’d rather not

[Chorus]

Why are we together

If we hate this life we made

Why keep up this image

When we’re both so frayed

I see you dying inside

You see me doing the same

Why are we together

If all we share is blame

[Bridge]

Remember that cheap motel

Ceiling cracked

Hearts brand new

We didn’t own a damn thing

But I swore I owned you

Now it’s flowers on the table

Just to prove that we still try

Now it’s flowers on the table

Just to prove that we still try

Two perfect framed examples

Of a love that’s running dry (oh)

[Chorus]

Why are we together

If we hate this life we made

Why keep up this image

When we’re both so frayed

I see you dying inside

You see me doing the same

Why are we together

Why are we still the same

[Verse 1]

We talk in half truths

Smile for the screens

Share the same rooftop

Dreaming separate dreams

You pour the red wine

I toast to the lie

Two strangers on a deadline

Waiting to say goodbye

[Chorus]

Why are we together

If we hate this life we made

Why keep up this image

When we’re both so frayed

I see you dying inside

You see me doing the same

Why are we together

Why are we still the same

[Verse 1]

Tactical vest

Chin on my chest

Camo so stained it remembers the rest

Boot prints swimming in a tear gas haze

Names on my tongue that I still can’t say

Bombs fall slow like a second hand

Cracked watch face cutting in my palm

Every alley looks the same

Every heartbeat screams

“Stay calm”

[Chorus]

It’s falling apart in the smoke and the fire

This might be the last of the daylight we borrow

Got to make it out alive

Through the sirens and the wire

If I don’t break tonight

I’ll break tomorrow

I fight the crowd

Everyone is running blind

The sun is setting from the dust behind

[Verse 2]

Shutters slam down

Metal on stone

Graffiti prayers on the broken road

Someone’s photo on the ground

Smudged by a stranger

Carried along

I taste the metal in the air

Hear a child call out

Then it’s gone

My shadow stretches

Thin and long

Chasing a day that’s already done

[Chorus]

It’s falling apart in the smoke and the fire

This might be the last of the daylight we borrow

Got to make it out alive

Through the sirens and the wire

If I don’t break tonight

I’ll break tomorrow

I fight the crowd

Everyone is running blind

The sun is setting from the dust behind

[Bridge]

If this is the end

Let it find me moving

If this is the end

Let my pulse keep proving

That I was here

That I still trust

One more breath

Through all this dust

[Chorus]

It’s falling apart in the smoke and the fire

This might be the last of the daylight we borrow

Got to make it out alive

Through the sirens and the wire

If I don’t break tonight

I’ll break tomorrow

I fight the crowd

Everyone is running blind

The sun is setting from the dust behind

[Verse 1]

Eyes closed

Hand on the grip

Hear a branch snap

Feels like a script

Eyes open

Glow in the black

Tiny orange teeth

At the edge of the camp

Silence

’Til it breaks with a crack

Pow in the dark

Whole world snaps back

Round after round

Night turns to shreds

Trying to stand

But I’m stuck in my head

[Chorus]

Eyes closed on the grip

I’m already gone

Hear the thunder in my chest

Like a firing line song

Round after round

’Til the echoes are one

Bleeding from the holes you can’t see

Tell me when is it done

Where’s the peace I was promised

When the battle was won

If the war’s in my skull in the silence

Then it’s never done (never done)

[Verse 2]

Boots by the door

Mud on the tread

I still taste smoke

In a clean white bed

Phone lights up

I don’t read the names

Every little ping

Feels like aim

Then flame

Flinch at the pop

Of a car backfiring

Neighbors laugh

I’m already tiring

Blood in my thoughts

Not on my hands

I came back whole

But I don’t understand

[Chorus]

Eyes closed on the grip

I’m already gone

Hear the thunder in my chest

Like a firing line song

Round after round

’Til the echoes are one

Bleeding from the holes you can’t see

Tell me when is it done

Where’s the peace I was promised

When the battle was won

If the war’s in my skull in the silence

Then it’s never done (never done)

[Verse 1]

Cities burning

Screens glow red

Smoke in the kitchen

Empty bread

Kids learn numbers

Counting scars

Sirens singing

Over cars

[Pre-Chorus]

We point our fingers

Across the hall

While towers glitter

Above it all (hey!)

[Chorus]

This is the fire in our hands

We keep on feeding it again

We fight each other

Side by side

While the ones on top just hide

This is the fire in our hands

We light the fuse

They keep the land

If we looked up instead of down

Would we still burn our own ground?

[Verse 2]

Work all morning

For a broke-back wage

Scroll all evening

Just to feel that rage

They sell us fences

We buy the walls

And cheer our colors

While the ladder falls

[Pre-Chorus]

Who pulls the strings here?

Who writes the rules?

We swing at shadows

Like faithful fools (oh yeah)

[Chorus]

This is the fire in our hands

We keep on feeding it again

We fight each other

Side by side

While the ones on top just hide

This is the fire in our hands

We light the fuse

They keep the land

If we looked up instead of down

Would we still burn our own ground?

[Bridge]

What if we turned

And faced the throne

Spoke each name

We’ve never known

Lifted our voices

Past these streets

US vs US

Til it reaches the seats

[Chorus]

This is the fire in our hands

We can still starve it at the end

Turn from each other

Shoulder wide

Aim all that anger to the sky

This is the fire in our hands

We break the pattern

Break command

If we stand up and not alone

Maybe we take back our home

[Verse 1]

As we sit in the woods

Fire lit

Gunpowder faces

Mud on our teeth

Ash on our laces

Hungry from the fight

Chewing dry bread and the silence

Names in my pocket

Stained by the violence

[Chorus]

Killing neighbors on sight

How did we get this far?

This isn’t how it should be

Yet never were we free

Trading daylight for scars

For a flag in a dead pine tree

This isn’t how it should be

Yet never were we free

[Verse 2]

Your hands won’t stop shaking

You say it’s just from the cold

But I saw you aim slow

Like you’d done this before

Their garden still steaming

Where the snow wouldn’t stay

I see my own doorway

Every time I look away

[Chorus]

Killing neighbors on sight

How did we get this far?

This isn’t how it should be

Yet never were we free

Trading daylight for scars

For a flag in a dead pine tree

This isn’t how it should be

Yet never were we free

[Bridge]

If I drop this rifle

If I step out of line (oh)

Will the woods swallow me whole

Or will I step into my own life?

[Chorus]

Killing neighbors on sight

How did we get this far?

This isn’t how it should be

Yet never were we free

Trading daylight for scars

For a flag in a dead pine tree

This isn’t how it should be

Yet never were we free

[Verse 1]

Nightvision all night

Green ghosts in my eyes again

Stumbled into camp at sunlight

Boots full of dust

Hands shaking

Rip off the vest

Feel the sweat freeze on my chest

Tight grip on the gun

Like it's holding me together

Not the rest

They say “stand tall”

But my back’s gone crooked from the weight

I’m staring at the wall

Counting breaths

Counting days

[Chorus]

I’m so tired of this life

I need a break

Not sure how much more my mind can take

Every sunrise feels the same

Different day

But the same old strain

I’m so tired of this life

I need a break

Heart on alert

But my soul’s awake

Just one moment where I don’t have to fake

I’m not fine

I’m not okay

[Verse 2]

Coffee in a cracked tin cup

Smoke curls up like a prayer

Laughs around me sound too loud

I just stare at the empty chair

Photos in my pocket

Edges worn like my faith

Promise I’ll get back home

But my voice trembles when I say it

They say “almost over”

But the echoes never leave

Close my eyes

It’s still not over

Every shadow makes me freeze

[Chorus]

I’m so tired of this life

I need a break

Not sure how much more my hands can take

Shaking when I close my eyes

Shaking when I’m wide awake

I’m so tired of this life

I need a break

Someone hear me

For my own sake

Just one moment where I don’t have to fake

I’m not fine

I’m not okay (no, I’m not okay)

[Verse 1]

Bombs going off

Loud flashes of red

Glass rain

On the hood

On my head

Street signs twisted

Names burned out

Only thing I know

Is I gotta get out

Smoke in my throat

But my hands don’t shake

Rearview full

Of a city in flames

GPS dead

But I know this lane

White lines blur

As I outrun pain

[Chorus]

Red flash

Run

Pedal down

Don’t blink

This is the collapse

Watch the skyline sink

Drive fast

Don’t let off the gas

Heart like a hammer

Never looking back

Red flash

Run

From the cradle of steel

Nothing ever gonna

Go back to what was real

Drive fast

Don’t let off the gas (hey!)

World in the rearview

Shattering like glass

[Verse 2]

Sirens cut out

Then it’s just my breath

Tires talk sharp

On the edge of death

Swerving round metal

And fallen light poles

Every turn feels

Like flipping a coin

Billboards broken

Faces torn away

I’m counting exits

Like I’m counting days

Ash on the dash

Like the first new snow

Everything we built

I’m watching it go

[Chorus]

Red flash

Run

Pedal down

Don’t blink

This is the collapse

Watch the skyline sink

Drive fast

Don’t let off the gas

Heart like a hammer

Never looking back

Red flash

Run

From the cradle of steel

Nothing ever gonna

Go back to what was real

Drive fast

Don’t let off the gas (oh yeah)

World in the rearview

Shattering like glass

[Verse 1]

No lights

Just broken glass and ashes

Storefront ghosts

Names burned off the matches

Sirens died

But the screaming never did

We grew up

Taught to bite before we give

[Pre-Chorus]

Was there a line we crossed

Or did it just fade out

Step by silent step

Till we forgot the sound

[Chorus]

Living in a world so FUBAR

How did we let it go this far

Buried every warning in our backyard

Now the monsters wear our faces

Yeah they sit in our cars

Living in a world so FUBAR

[Verse 2]

Steel teeth

On the gates around the rich

Rust dreams

In the gutters where we sit

Cold eyes

Counting credits

Counting scars

New kings

Building castles out of hearts

[Pre-Chorus]

Was there a switch we flipped

Or did we just give in

Trading every “us”

For a little “me” to win

[Chorus]

Living in a world so FUBAR

How did we let it go this far

Turned our neighbors into distance

Into passports

Into bars

Now we pray to broken screens like they’re our gods and our guards

Living in a world so FUBAR

[Bridge]

If this is all there is

If this is all we are

Tell me who taught us

To aim this low

To fall this hard

If there’s a spark left

Hiding in the tar

Light it

Fight it

Or we stay right where we are

[Chorus]

Living in a world so FUBAR

How did we let it go this far

Every compromise a little black star

Burned into the sky so we forget what hearts are

Living in a world so FUBAR

So FUBAR

So FUBAR