Mayday!!!

born in the flood
bloody fingerpaint sets
blackmarketed 

fresh water canons 

forget me not
epitaph 

airbrush with death
white tee'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 we're caught
they say I'm a snitch
shot at the check point
found with his throat slit

there's spray paint on the teleprompter
anchorman screams that he's seen a monster
[mayday]
there's bloodstains on his shirt
[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 is impossible
fuck that
we don't give in anyway
true liberty and freedoms at stake
peace will never become pass
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 rockbar
everyone climb to the frontline
lunchtimes cancelled
all hands on deck to pull survivors from the landfill
onlookers passers-by brush of 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
safety from the crowds
in the shadows on the run
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 and plastered
we got it all backwards
do you know the faction your 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 blackend 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