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Purge EP

Purge I

Instrumental

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Out Of Reach

Feeling empty
Here in my world
No redemption
No mercy

Oh Ya! Ya!
See me falling
Too far gone to care
I can feel you
Coming closer
Just out of reach

Empty promise
Fills my demons
Gives the courage
Need to stare

Shouldn't dare in darkness
No one fears
No one cares

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T.D.M.

Kicking, scratching, and living for what?
I'm part of the system, and the system is fucked!

I'm a problem
I'm a disease

I'm Generation X
And I'll do what I please

Oh ya, alright
It's your generation
Oh ya, alright
It's your generation
Got a foreign car, cappucino bar
Corporate sponsored seminar
Oh ya, alright
It's your generation

Sell me life in a package
Paint it red, white and blue
I don't care what you say
I won't live like you

We got the family values
A fucken cross
The CIA and your crooked cops

All the answers, all that you need
I got just one question...
What about me...?

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Cruel World

Don't judge me with your prejudice
Your church and God
Tell me what the hell you got
That I want

You can't save us all, the journey of the sick
We're never very long, in your cruel world

Don't trust me, comfort me with sentiment
You don't mean
Don't flood me, in rivers of medicine
I can't swim

Hold me, accountable for all I've done
As I will hold you

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Pssyche

Pssyche! Ha! Pssyche!

You're all alone in the pack
You feel like you want to go home
You feel fist, but you keep on going
The reason is there
You won't find it 'till you been and gone
Because you're living in your hopes
Someone's got you...

Pssyche! Ha! Pssyche!

Tell your brain: "seek inspiration"
You appear illusion
Then you fall into transfer
Transform machine
To play with your hands
So you can stand back and watch
Take past and burn

Pssyche! Ha! Pssyche!

If you don't know the game
Then your still part of it
Because out on the street its strange to show
Knowing full well that you're on the range
Dodge the bullets, or carry the gun...
The choice is yours

Pssyche! Ha! Pssyche!

Look at the controller,
A natzi with a social degree,
A middle class hero with your eyes on me,
You feast on masturbation,
Preach yes to the nuns you fuck,
You would wipe out semantics if you had a chance,
Jesus would like it now!

You lied to me
You lied to me
You lied to me
You lied to me ... You're fucked

Pssyche! Ha! Pssyche!

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Purge II

Instrumental

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Affliction

Nowhere Now

21 miles to go, teeth grinding
Cold coffee and a cigarette
Strung out, hung out and driving
I'm not ready to quit yet

Oh, I'm not ready to lose
Oh, I'm tired of crawling back to you
I can feel it
Slipping away

Boiling hot, burning chrome
Neon shining on the world below
Here in this devils pit
The world I've come to know

Oh, I've seen better days
The pain of these memories
I cannot drive awayv

I can feel it
Slipping away

Nowhere to go from here
Nothing to lose my dear
Nowhere to go from here
We're nowhere now...nowhere now

Broken down and alone
There's nothing I can do
No excuse I can use
Deep inside this hole
Deep inside of you

Oh, I'm not ready to lose
Oh, I'm tired of crawling back to you

I can feel it
Slipping away

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Blunt

You say you're gonna kick it today
Crawl out from all you're dirty wars
And make your escape
Today you're gonna face the rage
The cage...the prison you're in

Hypocricy and lies, I am
Terrified inside, I am
Oh, I can feel nothing
Dependent of my acts of sin
Swimmin in this decadence
Oh, I can feel nothing

Oh you'll never let me escape
I am your prisoner
Something's gotta take me away
I am a prisoner

Can't take it for another day
All the contradictions
The indifference in me
Today I'm gonna face the rage
The cage...the prison I'm in

I can feel nothing

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Wicked

I am here, in silent fear
Waiting for you
No one can see, the hurt I feel
It pulls, it tears, my soul

You don't feel
You don't care
Your so wicked

Take away, take away
This cross I bare
This burden shared, won't pull me down
Won't hold me down

Smile she said, turn your head
Walk away
It's in your hand, your hands
Your hands

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Emotional Stain

Me...I'm misunderstood
I'm not who you thought I was
See...I'm on the outside
Staring at the world, that you live in

You will, you won't, demand, provoke
Just wait and hope I'll save you
I will, I won't, I fall, I'm not, here
I'm not here to entertain you
Nothing is sacred
You're so empty and vain
An emotional stain

Strange how you pollute me
Fill me with your rhetoric and shame
Now, I see it clearly
Everything, everything was a lie

Empty and Vain, and emotional stain
You're everything, you're empathy, you're sympathy
This was not for me, this was for you
You're everything, you're empathy, you're sympathy
An emotional stain

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Close

Shadow dance lazily, across this dim lit room
Are you my ememy, my lover, my ruin?
Warm and shallow are, the waters of your soul
It's my difference, my hurt that makes you whole

You lift me up drag me down
And here I am
Alone

Searchin for serenity in the halls of discontent
Pieces of my sanity, my will, my hope have left
I don't understand, where this all began
Are you my enemy, my lover, my ruin?

You are so far away
You are so far away
You lift me up, you drag me down
You leave me so alone

I watch you turn away...I watch you
I watch you turn away...crying

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Blood In The River

I feel strangely cold and nervous again my friend
And its time, this conversation ends
I weigh, my will agaist the steel
In the palm of my hand

And it loods like (you'll see) my reality
And it looks like (you'll feel) the pain
Oh, save my soul
Save my soul

Did you take me for a foul my friend?
Think that you'd be laughin?
I don't ever forgive
I don't ever forgive

And it looks like (you'll see) my reality
And it looks like (you'll feel) the pain
Blood in, Blood in, Blood in, Blood in the river
Blood in, Blood in, Blood in, Blood in the river
Oh save my soul, save my soul
Oh save my soul, save my soul

I'm not here cause I wanna be
I'm not here to be free
In this broken society
Currupt and empty
You made me
You made me

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Lost

Give me pleasure, give me pain
All things to make it fade
Take me where I wanna go
I am, I am lost

Yeah! I won't crawl Yeah!
You just take and take from me
You just take and take from me

Sell me pictures, black and white
Sell me dreams of paradise
Make it all look so damn good
I am, I am no foul

Give me pleasure, give me pain
All things to make it fade
Take me where I wanna go
I am, I am lost

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Slug

Drag me down, pull me under deep
Smother me with your hate

Tell you what I've heard it all before
Tell you I don't give a damn
I can see, I can say
I can see you

Hold me close, whisper in my ear
Promise me, no more
I won't scream, I won't beg and pleed
I'm here at your mercy again

Kicking and crawling, you're begging to get more
Kicking and crawling, you're dragging me down

I want more
I want more

Tell you what I've heard it all before
Tell you I don't give a damn
Drag me down, pull me under deep
Smother me with you hate

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Sycophant

Someone shoot the messenger
Dig me a grave
I can't take another minute of this poseurs charade
Give me radio revolution
Give me public execution
Burn the flag, join the looters, plug your ears
And stop the endless stream of lies

You're standing on the top, don't know how you got there
You think you're going out, never known, you never will
They're coming up to get you
They're coming up to get you
Knock you down

Momentary fashion, the passing of a phase
Calculated drivel from empty soul parade
Pabulum for the masses, you can't dig the grave
All you ever wanted was a little peace of fame
Oh your lies
Lies

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Affliction

There I'm on the edge
Of something more than what I knew
I've traded my burdens
For habits I can't cure
Gather up my enemies
Bring them to the feast
Dancing in the circle
As they crucify me
Falling down again...don't be late
It's my time of reckoning
Misery my friend
I'm spending all my time with you
Reflection in the mirror
Of someone I once knew
Take me to the gallery
And push me to my knees
Beggin for forgiveness
As the chorus judge me
Falling down again...don't be late
Its my time of reckoning

You've takin everything
Oh, you never get enough
Imtimidate, you violate, humiliate me
You just can't let it be
You're coming back for me
Push me down
Push me down
Hurt me again
You crawl in me, exist to feed
You watch me bleed
You're punishing
Consumed with greed
You empty me
No, No, No, No...

Dive it deeper, go on
Just push it in
Fill me with infection
Your affliction in me
Oh your sadistic need
You're coming back for me
Push me down
Push me down
Hurt me again
You crawl in me
Exist to feed
You watch me bleed
You're punishing
Consumed with greed
You empty me
No, No, No, No...

Smothered in this addiction
Your affliction, is drowning me

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The Devil You Know

Surefire

she goes ballistic on me
says i don't meet her needs
and she's had enough
i guess
me, i wish i could be
satisfied easily
but i'm not
yeah

never enough, now
never enough, now
come on take it all away
never enough, take it all away

she feels the pain that can heal
has her hands on the wheel
takes it in and moves along
me, i elect not to see
swim the deep tragedy
drowning in my own self interest

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Sparkle & Shine

sometimes i feel i'm going under
you don't feel nothing at all
give me hope
give me something to believe in
this jaded heart is never enough

you don't know me
you know you never will
can't see inside me
lost out on the thrill
killed by ambition
sacrificed for fame
one more time, one last time
sparkle and shine

your rejection's intoxicating
my high is incomplete
kill the pain
plug the hole, stop the music
you leave me hollow
wanting more

don't look back

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Deeper

sold out the truth
repackaged the lies
polluted our souls
took the dreams from our lives

don't let them beat you
don't let them win
hold on
hold on
my love is never ending

coming over you
make it all right
carry through
then the pain will subside

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Hollowman

maybe I'm phony, baby
just like you
maybe i'm lonely and you're something to do
something to do
maybe i'm broken and i can't be fixed
misunderstood, misguided, misfit
i'm it

oh, is there no way out
i am, i am, i am
hollowman
down again

it's the end of the world
all that we had
everything good had now turned bad
turned bad
maybe it's tragic
maybe it's shit
bitter and twisted you make me feel sick
you make me feel sick

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Home

you can't always pick the dog you find
maybe i wasn't what you had in mind
but i could love you
i could love you
i could love you a lot
i'm here and i wonder if i'm lost
'cause i can't seem to understand
the way i feel
i'm not here to be a creep
i'm just feeling
incomplete
take me home

if i wasn't here i wouldn't mind
but it's you up there and i'm so far behind
i could love you
i could love you
i could love you alot
she says i'm the one she really wants
but i'll never be the one the she needs
i'm not here to be a creep
i'm just feeling
incomplete
take me home

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The Devil You Know

everything is a mess
i have come to confess
sold out all my beliefs
i'm a liar and a cheat
searched my soul in despair
callused heart is rubbed bare
how i wish to believe
in your innocent dreams

delicate love, precious and pale
tempted and torn
broken and failed
don't leave me here
don't leave me alone
i am the one
the devil you know

i'm your man on a cross
i'm the soul you have lost
i'm the choice you regret
one you wish to forget
lover broken and sad
lost the dreams that you had

how i wish i could be everthing that you need

delicate love
precious and pale
tempted and torn
broken and failed
don't leave me here
don't leave me alone
i am the one
the devil you know

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All That You Are

if i said it, i meant it
i'm not really demented
i'm just saying it's been said again and again
not that i'm all that grounded
i'm already dumbfounded
i'm a liar believe me baby

well that's all that you are
you're just one shining star
maybe everthing's changed
and maybe i stayed the same
what does it matter to me now, anyway
if i ever regret it
if i'm ever repentant
karma sings and we'll dance the dance, baby

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Burnt

slow burn decay
nothing beats a fade
not like i'd know
not like it'd show
not like i'd ever be the same
i don't care

i miss the secrets shared with you
i miss the innocence of youth
i always thought we'd have it all
nobody can change a thing
nobody can mend the pain of you

cold blank stare
empty and bare
someone i knew
someone like you
somsone i'll never see again
i don't care

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Haven't Gone Away

i was born of misintention
and my future isn't fate
i was born to struggle in vain
girl you've seen the palace
put your lips on the gate
wished for more from the heavens above
love me more

sweet taste of cold revenge
sweet taste of desire
take me down to the water where it's
warm and deep
take me down so i can feel peace
i am you, you did invent me
give me your promise and a name
played us all like we were fools
girl you've been indentured
put your lips on his ring
got a lot but never enough
hate me more

i haven't gone away

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Elegant

you took me in, you sold me out
is that what this was all about?
if i'm not right, i guess i'm wrong
i maybe knew it all along

i'm not crazy, i'm not blind
i'm too elegant to lie

wash of horrow, blushing red
the price of scandal, sin and zen
i'm winning now and losing
the cost of you, the bank resents

i'm not faking our last goodbye
i'm too elegant to lie

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Razorblades & Bandaides

you'd think that you'd notice
how i've simply choosen to fade
one fleeting moment
i would have hoped i could stay
if i kissed you would you push my face away?
if i told you how i feel would you have
listened anyway?
i miss you, more then words could ever say
i miss you, ever single empty day

did you think this would be easy my friend?
did you think it'd come to this our bitter end?
killed the magic, sucked the life out
buried me under the blame
follow me down to this our bitter end

i wish i'd noticed
all the postponements
you saved
i never told you
you were the one i believe
if i touched you would you have pushed
my hand away?
if i listened would i've heard the things
that made me run away?
i miss you more then words could ever say
i miss you every single empty day

did you think this would be easy my friend?
did you think it'd come to this our bitter end?
killed the magic, sucked the life out
buried me under the blame
follow me down to this our bitter end

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Track 23

Translation

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.

I Cor 13:4-8

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Big Shiny Tunes 4

You Don't Know What It's Like

Did you give up?
Did get easier?
Did all those things you wanted come together in the end?

(Oh yeah)

Was I the one?
Was I even there?
Did you ever really notice how I never really cared?

(Oh yeah)

She smiled and looked at me and said....

You don't know what it's like
(What it's like)
(What it's like)
You don't know what it's like
(What it's like)
(What it's like)
I feel like nothing at all
You don't know what it's like
(What it's like)
(What it's like)

Did you forget?
Did you believe in it?
Did all those things I promised come out empty in the end?

(Oh yeah)

And the regrets...
And the dreams you missed...
Comfort comes with patience, serenity yeah yeah.

She smiled and looked at me and said.....

You don't know what it's like
(What it's like)
(What it's like)
You don't know what it's like
(What it's like)
(What it's like)
I feel like nothing at all
You don't know what it's like
(What it's like)
(What it's like)


I feel insignificant...
I feel nothing at all
I feel insignificant...

Did you give up
Did it get easier
Every little word that lingers slipped and fell.

You don't know what it's like
(What it's like)
(What it's like)
You don't know what it's like
(What it's like)
(What it's like)
I feel like nothing at all
You don't know what it's like
(What it's like)
(What it's like)

You don't know what it's like... what it's like
You don't know what it's like... what it's like
I feel like nothing at all
I feel like nothing at all
I feel like nothing cause you don't know what it's like...

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Brand New History

Make It Right

someday we're gonna make it right
someday we're gonna win this fight

broken are their little wings
fallen from above
what am i supposed to think
i don't think i know enough
hurry don't be late today
not for what is lost
hurry don't delay a thing
you've almost got a lot
i know you'll be coming around
with fire in your eyes
we're gonna make it right
we're gonna win this fight
and i don't know why
it took me oh so long to get here

broken are the little strings
they can't hold you up
waiting on your patron saint
i don't think he'll be enough
hurry don't be late today
you know what you've done
hurry don't delay a thing
look what you have won

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Flamethrower

kick start the beat box
saints are marching through
demons are the dealers here
house band plays the blues
i won't give you no refund
on all these borrowed goods
i'd throw the kill switch
but the engine's running smooth
something 'bout this place we're in
is killing me and you
someone find the messenger
don't forget to shoot
once i would save them
now i want them dead
i might not ever get
all the things she said

don't know how much you can tell
don't think i hide it that well
i got this feeling
everything is going to hell

don't know about this
i ain't one to be amused
some of us have trouble
forgiving some of you
smooth cadillac ride
take me far away
i'll be back don't worry
everything's ok

street walkers sleep well
on a sunday afternoon
a million times they warned me
about spending time with you
these tiny packages
broke the bank and left
i've walked for miles
and i ain't seen nothing yet

something 'bout this place we're in
is killing me and you
someone find the messenger
don't forget to shoot

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Trash

tired defeated
taken round the block and beaten
dying to be noticed
then the notice came due
try it like treason
a one way ticket back to eden
digging through the evidence
the "roller" missed his cue

i just want to let you know
you can make it fast or slow
you can make it easy
or you can make it hurt

silence, screaming
everything in between
stone cold vision
you don't want to make it worse
like it
leave it
take it down the road deceive it
nothing's gonna save you
nothing's sacred here

holding out for what i'll never get
fill my world with all your sad regrets
blown away
thrown away
you got me down and out again
blown away
thrown away
gone away again

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By the Riverside

walking into a new frontier
taking three four steps and i'm out of here
got to get it right
bring it to me slowly
don't go so fast
i got to make it last

i take a ride on the winds of change
i take my chances and i hope it pays

push it to the limit
the limits they change
sitting by the riverside
watch it all go by

ain't gonna lose if i play the game
make the rules
then they change
i got to make things right
i'll tell it to you slowly
make sure you know
you're going to understand

i take a ride on the winds of change
i take my chances and i hope it pays

push it to the limit
the limits they change
sitting by the riverside
watch it all go by

i'll tell you something
there is something that you're missing
karma comes from within and it isn't
the trash you talk
and the lies you're spinning
i got a life and i'm living it
kicking at the walls
till the light punches through
got to get a religion
give the devil his due
standing at the crossroads
your hat in your hand
jump in the river man

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Digging the Heroine

sinking farther than you've gone
wainting more than all you got
it isn't as simple as it seems
giving them everything they need

i'm playing the part
digging the heroine
she's the one i want

what are you fighting for?
everything and more
i'm holding out my hands
why are you keeping score?
battered and torn
i don't understand?

shouting out loud but no one hears
whispers to screams to tears
easing your way from bad to worse
losing your place. forgot the verse

it doesn't really matter
that i know the reasons why
stumble through deception
fumble with your lines
couldn't get attention
couldn't be ignored
begging for forgiveness

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Go Off

here we go
we like it slamming out the stereo
stereo
we want to make it
want to make it go
we want to make it
make it
make it go off

i like the want in it
the truth in it
the eagerness
it's no lie
i like the hurt of it
the hate of it
the pain
the beauty in the fight

what are you fighting for?
it's all so unbelievable
you think it's all for you

i can feel it
i can feel it in the rhythm go
i can feel it
i can feel it off the stereo
it takes me where
where i want to go
it makes me
makes me go off
it makes me makes me
makes me go off

i want the need of it
the greed of it
the bleed of it
it's no lie
i see the whole of it
the cold of it
the wanting
the burning of desire

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Sinking

slash and burn
insensitive
it comes all the way around and back again
stunning move to make amends
could have been a little more than faking it

you got what you want
you got what you need
you got everything but me

here comes the pay off
what are you made of
you're empty
you're hollow
you're sinking fast

cut and paste
move the men
i don't know who you are now or where you been
thought i knew everything
should have seen that guilty look
deception

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May I Go

i don't want to take her but she makes me
she knows that she's mine
i don't want to fake it
but i know what i know
it makes me blind

may i go
i got to save me sometime

i don't want to wake up in the morning
wondering if i did right
i don't want to wake up and baby you're crying
you're crying

may i go
i got to save me sometime

now i don't want to miss it baby
if your world needs mine
i just want to make it something
that you would like

stay i know
i can make it alright

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My Salvation

come to the light
to the love
to the reason
everything comes from
comes from believing
comes from the faith that i finally found in you
bring what you wanted
forget that you flaunted
the psychosomatic sickness
you bought it
it thrives in you

lift me up when i am down
fill my world as i drown
my salvation?

i'll set you free

come to the fight to the hope to the freedom
everything starts with someone believing
someone with faith and heart
that is bound with truth
say what you wanted. forget that you fought it
the "hype so dramatic" sickness you got it
it thrives in you

left me up when i am down
fill my world as i drown
my salvation?

i'll set you free

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Here and There

it must have been the way you walked
when you walked in
it must have been the way we laughed
at the host's expense
i could see the hurt in you
and i know you see right through me
"ever since i knew you"
to "here we are" and "back again"

but i lost you somewhere in between
here and there

now i can see you don't belong
and i don't fit in
now how could we both be wrong
and be right again
oh the games we play
oh my fear my shame
oh my poisoned past
i'm falling fast

but i lost you somewhere in between
here and there

i wonder was it fake
fate took my head off
why'd you come around
broken
break
makes me forget her
i'm running out of here
i'm running out of here

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Tomorrow Starts Today

i don't know whatever
takes me to the limit
pushes me
makes me want to stay
i won't go forget it
things i said i meant them
funny how
everything has changed

you know exactly what
makes this just what you want

come on live a little dangerous
light it up and let live in us
come together
forever (and again)
tomorrow starts today

no one knows me better
keeps me on the level
comforts me
makes it go away
i could never guess
how did i impress
someone just so beautiful like you

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