My Lyrics (a lot)

[Cody Lee]

So I haven't written anything in awhile, but these are some of the things I've written over the last few years (there's a lot more but the majority of it's sh*t). Looking back I don't even like a lot of this but I do like some of it, anyways if ya have time and wanna give some of it a read let me know what you think. There's a lot of them. Many of them are unfinished and there are plenty of typos I'm aware lol

I haven't been able to write in a few months but once I do start writing again I'll start a new thread so I can separate my current stuff from this stuff.


Take Flight

I am unarmed but ready to fight
Seeing clearly but losing sight
Living by day dead by night
Must learn to walk before you can take flight

Spread your wings but to but no avail
Have them clipped falling towards hell
All the colors of this world turning pale
What will happen to me only time can tell

I am unarmed but so eager to fight
Seeing so clearly but still going blind
Living by day and dying by night
If you cannot walk you will never take flight

Where I am going there is no return
I've accepted my fate it's my time to burn

Trying so hard but losing the fight
Light to darkness now totaly blind
Days now dead and lifeless as night
With broken wings you will never take flight

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No Regrets

Breathe in, Breathe Out, The clock ticks life away
The same old pattern we follow every day
Time will run out one day, there's no second chance
When you look back, will you have regrets?

If you let fear hold you back, then you accept defeat
Proving everyone right who told you what you couldn't be
Your life will end and then there's no second chance
When you look back, will you have regrets?

All this now I'm finally beginning to see
Finally deciding now not to turn and flee
No regrets for me, only memories

Time will stop and life will end
and you will never have a chance again
Decide now because when it comes to be
Will you have regrets or memories?

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Wishful Thinking

Make time stop
Just make it all stand still
Everything is all wrong
I'm forgetting how to feel

Do you ever wish it would all end
and you could just cease to be
slip away into nothingness
and have no memory

Wish to lose the hate
Wish to lose the pain
Wish that all this wishing
Wasn't all in vain

What hurts the most is what's true
All this wishing will do nothing for me or you
Reality finally comes into play
and we will have to deal with that one day
but together we will find a way


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The End

Is this who you are
Is this who I am
Is this where it will
All finally end

The end begins to draw near
The silence confirms our fears
The time is finally here
We stand strong we shed no tears

Keep your face stoic and your mind set
Let them know that we'll never forget
Never forget the hate never forget the pain
That they showed towards us on that fateful day

There's no hero this time we're all alone
No one will save us no help will come
They have to pay They have to atone

There will be no surrender, no retreat tonight
This will be a massacre not a fight
We stand in formation and wait to die
Die so that others may keep their lives

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Explode

There's something inside
I can't seem to calm
The fuse is getting shorter
I'm a walking time bomb

Soon I'm gonna explode
I want to you to know
If I don't return
That I loved you so

It ate away
at my insides
It grew and fed
on all of my lies
All my hatred
harbored inside
has created something
I cannot deny

I'm about to explode
I wanted you to know
If I don't return
How I loved you so

It's time for me to go
If I don't leave fast
Then the ones I love
Will be caught in the blast

I won't let them burn
For what I have done
There's no one to blame
except for just one

I blame myself, for not being strong
I blame myself, for waiting so long
I blame myself, because I never tried
to fix it all, I just held it inside

-

Time to go

I appear so full of life
But I'm so dead inside
If you could see past the shell
You'd see I'm empty without you

Soon I won't be here
I will disappear
I'll leave along with time
And erase you from my mind

It's so easy to say I will leave
But the thought of you stays my feet
All I want to do is leave you behind
Accept it all and move on with my life

Here I lay
in constant agony
All the thoughts of you
Continue to burn me
They won't go away
and let me be

And If I have to stay
I stay in disarray
And If I have to go
I will go alone
And If I have to live
I will live my way
And If I have to die
I will die today

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Addiction and Abandonment

You promise me it's the last time
As you leave me at home to go find your next high
You promise me that you really do try
As you leave me at home to wonder why

Why can't you just quit
I'm always home alone
Teaching myself how to live
How to survive on my own

Daddy spends all his time in jail
Mommy's the bedtime story they tell
Friends are the only family I knew
The only family that was ever true

Learning to live on our own but at what cost
We are the generation of the loveless lost
Bastards, orphans, and the neglected
We are the children of addiction and abandonment

-

Why

I know sometimes life seems like to much to take
To many people ruin it looking for an escape
People turn to anything looking for a way out
They get so depressed they eventually start to doubt

Doubting if this life is even worth living
Wondering if they were gone would anyone miss them
The pills in the cabinet start looking real good
They're considering pulling the trigger, wondering if they could

When you give up on life it gives up on you
Until you finally feel like this is all you can do

Some choose a path others consider worse
Constantly injecting themselves hoping to stop the hurt
But you run out of places to put the needle in
So you start injecting in the same spots again
Next thing you know you're in the hospital
Arm's rotting off and you're sitting in the middle
Of others who threw their life away to
Wondering how this could have happened to you

But this is what happens when you give up on life
Life gives up on you, you eventually die
If you don't die you just waste away
Little by little, day by day
Until there's nothing left but you're next high
And the never-ending question of why you deserve this, why?

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Plaster Saint

Will you answer
if I call your name
Will you reach out
and take my hand
Will you lead me
where I've never been
Will you show me
the beautiful sin

Forget my fears
Live without restraint
Ignore my conscience
Never be a plaster saint

One look in your eyes
makes me forget what's right
Cast aside my morals tonight

Walk me down the road I've never seen before
Show how if I give it up I can have so much more

Forget my fears
Live without restraint
Ignore my conscience
Never be a plaster saint

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Easy Way Out

She thought her life was just to much take
Took the pills thinking there was no other way
With only seconds left she regrets the choice she made
But it's to late now her room is her grave

He'd ignore the insults
and pretend he didn't care
Bottled it all up
and hid it away somewhere
After awhile the bottle flowed over the top
that's when he decided to put his life to a stop
With a rope around his neck and goal in his mind
He took one small step and left the world behind

If you're the one lying awake every night
Wondering why everyday has to be another fight
Begging and praying things will change
Starting to think that there's no other way
Getting the feeling you don't belong
As if you being alive is what's so wrong
Then know this, you are not alone
Soon you'll look back and now will be long ago
Just persevere and believe, you'll be okay
You're beautiful in every way
and nothing anyone can say, can take that away

He was battered and beaten until he bled
The only food he had was the hate he was fed
He thought he could rest in peace if he was dead
So he put the barrel to his head
and from his body his soul fled

In the end it's not your choice to make
Your life belongs to you
but it's not yours to take

You're so beautiful, in every single way

-

Genres

Categorization is a little outdated and just a bit overrated,
and all the artists hate it, but we keep on making it,
keep trying to label it, but all we're doing is breaking it.
We just keep dissecting and analyzing every little thing,
How they play, how they sing, what words they use and what they mean.

In case you didn't know, genres went extinct along time ago.
Defining characteristics don't exist, the only thing left are artists,
who wish, people would just take it for what it is.
No lines left between what's this and what's that,
Just turn it on, turn it up, and take a step back,
Listen for a sec and just forget where you're at.

Music is music and that's all there is to it,
There's no step by step instructions on how you do it.
Just make sure when and if you do, that it's true,
and that comes from inside you.

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Perseverance

I swear I will be
what you think I can not
I will look down
at you from the top

Do not tell me, to limit my dreams
I will make them, into a reality
You're lack of faith, makes no difference
It won't withhold me, from reaching greatness

I won't settle
for contentment
I will battle through
doubt and resentment

Do not tell me, to limit my dreams
I will make them, into a reality
You're lack of faith, makes no difference
It won't withhold me, from reaching greatness

Perseverance is the key to unlock
The path that I wish to walk

-

Prey

Behind the smile I force every day
there's something inside eating away
little by little I'm becoming prey

Every day I make myself try
to smile and pretend everything's alright

I've been oblivious for so long
to all that I know is wrong
But I'm tired of holding back
it's so much easier to just let go

If happiness cost innocence
It's a price I'll gladly pay
If immorality is the hunter
I have become prey

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If Only

I'm choking on your second hatred
Suffocating on fumes of anger you've emitted
You're the only one who can give me breath
But instead you take it until I have none left

Grant me this little bit of serenity
While you drown in you're self pity
Always together but forever lonely
One day you'll say if only

You're a poison, toxic and deadly
With a single touch you infect me
but still the worst part is
I don't want a cure for this sickness

Grant me this little bit of serenity
While you drown in you're self pity
Always together but forever lonely
One day you'll say if only

You'll say if only
and I'll say could have been

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The Dream (My favorite)

I want to fall
fall through time and slip through reality
To a place that doesn't exist
Where all that is isn't and all that isn't comes to be
Where dreams do not require sleep
Where bliss does not walk hand in hand with prerequisitory tribulations
Where sound takes physical form
and the slightest whisper can carry you away
Where every voice is a symphony
and every eye a window to another world
Where ideas take shape
and walk a path of their own
Where feelings of sorrow are unfathomable
I want to fall into this dream
and I never want to wake

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World Without Pain

If we could see we're all the same,
We'd all see a bright new day,
It'd be the dawn of a brand new age.
One where we could live without fear.

You continue to kill your kind,
Continue to cast aside,
Compassion, love, mercy, what's left?
Nothing more than hatred.

Without suffering, there can be no compassion.
How do you know? When's the last time that you saw,
a world, without pain?
Without ruthless hate, there can be no endless love.
How do you know? When's the last time that you saw,
a world without pain?

There's a beautiful land, lying beneath
the rubble of countless wars.
If we would just search, we'd finally see,
this world could be so much more.

We must become one or there will be none.
We must accept, or we will accept death.
We must let go, or it will all be gone.
We must give all, or there will be none left.

Without suffering, there can be no compassion.
How do you know? When's the last time that you saw,
a world, without pain?
Without ruthless hate, there can be no endless love.
How do you know? When's the last time that you saw,
a world without pain?

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Million miles away

It's never gonna change so what's the point you say?
Try saying that when you've not eaten in days.
There's no benefit for us, so why would we try?
Have you ever had to sit, and watch your family die?

You've never been hunted, you've never felt the fear,
that you feel when you're fighting to live one more year.
Praying and hoping for help from someone.
But there's no oil in your land, so why would they come?

Leave it alone, it'll fix itself in the end.
Maybe they'll survive, maybe they'll be extinct.
We watch it on TV from miles away,
While more are dying every single day.

At the end of the day you have a bed where you can lay,
So who cares what's going on, a million miles away?

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Piece of Paper World

I don't know what lies ahead
and I don't want to prepare for it
It's not that I don't care
I'm just more scared than I'd like to admit

I'm can't stand to face, learning what I can't do
I'm not ready to see, that dreams don't always come true
I just can't accept, that I've become the fool
Who was beaten by this piece of paper world so cruel

It's this piece of paper world so cruel
that always has me drowning in doubt
This piece of paper world so cruel
that has me running scared looking for a way out
This piece of paper world so cruel
that renders useless; blood, sweat, and tears
This piece of paper world so cruel
that enforces itself through the power of fear

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Maldition

Damn all of you hypocrites
To hell with you and your politics
Damn your artificial enhancements
and your superficial relationships
Damn your million dollar cars
fueling our religious wars
Damn your wasted time degrees
filled with sh*t you'll never need
Damn you with all your judgement
that you would at first glance pass on me
Damn your threats of damnation
and all your fables of salvation
Damn you and your perfect design
created to keep fear in our minds
Damn your perception of life
This world's more than black and white

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Sitcom Sorrow

I wish that life could be more, like the TV I watch
With the constant laughter and the background applause
I wish that I always had, just the right thing to say
I wish things were always right, at the end of the day

There's trouble at first, but it always ends well
The script never puts, the characters through this hell
Good always prevails, no matter how bad it gets
Two parents always stand, by their smiling kids
Even when things get down, there's that comic relief
That little bit of hope, that makes you believe

That's all I want, is something to believe in
Something to give me some hope, for happiness in the end
I know my happy ending, will never come
I just hope it gets better, before it gets done

[RowdyJayJay]

I like your style of writing man and I'll tell you why. It would be incredibly easy to throw in a hook, bridge, or chorus to any of these lyrics...they are very solid verses and there are a few that have choruses that could work well. To me, you write a little like Dave Grohl from Foo and that's a good thing. I particularly liked "Take Flight", "Explode" and "If Only" for different reasons. I honestly know about 3 different bands that would be smart if they hired you to write songs for them..lol

Jay

[Cody Lee]

[RowdyJayJay]

I wouldn't dare compare you to the lesser Taylor Hawkins..lol although they are both pretty excellent drummers in their right mind..but we are bassists, dammit!

Jay