American Church

I have no goal
I have no purpose
I’m hanging on
With all my might
But I’m slipping
And I can’t seem to stop
My fingernails ache
I cry out
And now who do I cry out to?
I fear complacency like the plague
But when there’s no other option
What does one choose?
I am scared
Yet I’m indifferent
I know love
Yet I wallow in hate
I’m lonely
Is there no one to comfort me?
We’re slipping, sliding, crawling up that narrow way
And we still hope that someone, somewhere has a plan

For My Generation

No regulations stop us
No legislation blocks us
We try to find a higher way
Or a bigger play
Anything to get us through the day
Or we burn in our hatred and rage
And we know something’s wrong with the world
And we long to try to fix it
But this ain’t our father’s battle
It’s the one that burns inside of us everyday
It’s the reason for knife fights, and girls lies, about feeling fine
It’s fueled by the flip-offs and road rage
The cuss-outs and wasted days
And silence in between
Sometimes it ends with a bullet in the brain
Obama and Bush
Clinton and McCain
Say they got the answer to the problem
But they don’t know what they face
It’s in who we are, not in what we do
In the rage that rages on between me and you
So don’t find yourself a new political campaign
Cause it just fuels our hate, if we let it get away
So find something real
Some higher ideal
Trust in a God
Follow more than what you feel
Open your eyes, you know I say what’s true
Do something to change or it’ll be the end of you

Powerless

I watch her life go down
As I see from a distance
She’s falling fast
I’m scared to death
She’ll never right

And I watch
And I can’t move
Another day
Burned away
She’s going down
She’s going down
And I’m… powerless

I just thought I'd mention that this song is specifically about two people I knew. They both had a lot of "stuff" happen in their lives, but, due to things working out how they did, my relationship with them had turned fairly distant. So I was left with just occational updates on how they were, and no real way to help.