Born in the flood, bloody finger-paint sets   Black marketed fresh water canons, forget me not   Epitaph, airbrush with death   White T's, wife beaters, button up, reattach flesh      In between the lines, outside of the law   Underneath the veil we dig our foundations   We navigate the globe trying to find a pattern to break the mold   With a family to feed there?s nowhere we won?t go      But what if were caught?   They said I?m a snitch   Shot at the check point   Found with his throat slit      There?s spray paint on the teleprompter   (But what if were caught?)   Anchorman screams that he?s seen a monster   (They said I?m a snitch)   Mayday, there?s bloodstains on his shirt   (Shot at the check point)   Mayday, they say that he?s gone berserk      Sometimes, when I wanna shut out this world   Wanna rip up this page   Wanna pour out this heart   Wanna get up on this stage      And my lips become percussion   And my fists become the rage   And I pound on this table   Till it gives me something to say      Then I think about things   That I?ve seen right in front of me   That I don?t wanna believe   Gimme one of these mikes      Let me let ?em know the way that it is   Is not how it?s gonna be   Not if we don?t let ?em get ahead of us   The present tensions, no threat      It?s just a fence across the path   That we're already ready to walk   Rock solid footsteps, let ?em put up obstacles   And prove that it isn?t possible, fuck that      We don?t give ?em any weight   True liberty and freedoms at stake   Peace will never become passé   Live my life until my last day      It was half-past eight in the bat cave   When the cracks in the plaster collapsed   And gave way to gaps in the pavement   Mayday, mayday      Put it on blast   For the passengers and messengers   ?Cause this is a disaster   Where the fuck are the rescue workers?      Not far off, pissing on a cop car   In the hall with a Pop-Tart   Sipping liquor in the rock bar   Everyone climb to the frontline, lunchtime?s canceled      All hands on deck to pull, survivors from the landfill   Onlookers, passers-by brush off your shoulders   Shake off that rubble   Break free from your standstill      Signs of a better world, causes we understand   Failures we expected to occur   And bring redemption for our sins   (In between the lines, outside of the law)   Safety from the crowds in the shadows on the run   (Underneath the veil)      We write our own Cider House Rules   To keep alive rituals that prove their worth   Search for systems we can trust   Rhythms we can lock into      This is madness, salvage teams can't bandage   Hope, when it?s damaged or broken compassion   Not enough rope in the van   When world is collapsing, our mode of action      Broadcast through the glass, all we can manage   Donate with the plastic scraps from the salad   Hoping to balance, emotions invalidated   And staged on 4:3 aspects      Just ballast for sadness, lives shattered   Are standard fare for cameras and channels stare   No abracadabras, no faster answers or mantras for disasters   Remastered or plastered, we got it all backwards   Do you know the faction you're backing?      It?s another man down, another mother gone   Child drowned, another silenced song   Solitude, another kind of strong   I miss you, another strung along      Missing in action   Another page is blackened burned   Turned, ashes to ashes   Dust off the flags and the caskets      We'll never find another you   Despite the life of love we knew   These lightning times are trouble   Who can?t count the strikes that punished through?      The bonds we thought would never break   And never will and never change and never fade   But there?s the rage   Of losing you to their mistakes      In between the lines   (Signs of a the next movement)   Refuge from the crowd   (Outside of the law)   Causes we understand      Hands that trace instructions   For descendants in the shadows on the run   (Underneath the veil)   Failures we expected to occur   And bring redemption for our sins   (In between the lines)   In between the lines      In between the lines, outside of the law   Underneath the veil   In between the lines, outside of the law   Underneath the veil      In between the lines, outside of the law   Underneath the veil   (We carve our foundations)   In between the lines, outside of the law   In between the lines