Late News Breaking

Lyrics by Dave Petersen

Last night I woke up from a dream I was running
Down the boardwalk shore and the bomb was coming
Bobby De Niro was talking in my sleep
About a tidal wave coming, wash the shit off the street
Is it true, is it coming
But I ain't running
Some way to go, but I'm bound to be free
There ain't no heroes
Everybody's scared
You hear me talking
Or don't you care

Ba-ba-bomb they're gonna tear it all down
Blow it all up can we stop it now
I don't know and you don't care
What goes on over there

Comes into plain view I'm the same as any other
Being robbed by a television monitor
It was just my imagination running away from me
I see wrong and I see right, but that's not all I want to see
Cut out the shutters and the propaganda mutters
Start into fighting from here to eternity
There ain't no heroes
Everybody's scared
You hear me talking
But you don't care

I see a rainbow coming over the casino
Sunshine reflecting on a soldier's machine gun
A warm summer storm falling on the ghetto
And millions of flowers growing over the graves
Cut out the shutters and the speech writer stutters
Start into fighting down here for eternity
There ain't no heroes
Everybody's scared
You hear me talking
But you don't care

No heroes
No war heroes
Everybody's scared
Do the war

Lyrics by Adam Garbinski

When your heart dies
A little each day
And your mouth's open wide
But you can't find a word to say
When you close your eyes
And see a dream that'll never be satisfied
I'll be waiting around
With a bucketful of tears that you've cried

I don't wanna be left alone
Knocked down, tied up, or on my own
You don't wanna be left alone
Knocked down, tied up, or on your own

When the sun goes down
On your desires each night
And you're so hard up
But you can't find the will to fight
When it's all so cruel
And your life disappears right before your eyes
Baby take my hand
You know it's not a thing that I despise

I tried to make a path, carve my own way
I opened my mouth and you turned away
Once when you placed your hand in mine
I caught a glimpse of all I'd left behind

Lyrics by Dave Petersen

Who pumps your gas, cooks your meals, works your fields
Builds your skyscrapers, prints your newspapers, it's your next door neighbors
In the ghetto city, gated community,
In the hills of Appalachia or Beverly
Metropolitan, charlatan, American
Words don't mean shit and souls wear too thin

My faith is lost from the burning cross
To the "American owned and operated" swastika
There's no pursuit of happiness in a land that's void of love
Why should God bless America?

Who cleans your gutter and your sewer
And is gonna die sooner
Working fingers to the bone
Than in an office on the phone
Underestimated
Overlooked too long
Don't tell me nothing's wrong
It seems like all the good is gone
Who stokes the factory fires
Gets nothing to retire
75 and standing on a greasy fryer
Metropolitan, charlatan, American
Words don't mean shit and souls wear too thin

My faith is lost from the steeple to the cross
To the satellite evangelical thug
There's no concern for selflessness, just smother push and shove
Why should God bless America?

I'm a citizen of the world that was made
The maker's marks of soul on me they get over the shame
Oh mercy all my ways

Lyrics by Adam Garbinski

You gave me something that I didn't expect
You showed your hand and now it's time to get wrecked
The sidewalk cracks your head so gently
Lay it down to rest
You gave me something that I couldn't believe
The words that came so honestly
There's blood on your lips and you still can't see
The ambulance shine so beautifully

Lay it down
I'll say goodbye in the morning
Lay it down
And you'll be sorry that you spoke
It's too hard to be true
Too late for raising hopes

He showed you something that you never needed
He just wanted you to see him bleeding
Turn your eyes from such a sight
Never look again
You're back in town at such an early hour
You see his wife behind the counter
Listen as she lets you know
Swallow as she chokes

And the colors look so beautiful
As you stare up from the ground
You hear the feet of the passerby
And vomit from the sound

I take a look at what you instigated
A couple thousand miles later
My seat back's up I'm coming down
I lay it all to rest

Lyrics by Dave Petersen

The years still grinning back at you
In the neon lights and the spent cash you
Get some and then it's gone
Easy times, hard times all pile on
Good times through it all
A picture of our crew on a wall
I see you slipping and you think it's me
There's something preying on us that we just can't see

We might be all we have someday
So treat everyone you love that way
And if you really care why don't you act that way
Cuz snakes make and venom friends they fall away
And they don't come back one day
When the poison's too strong to let them say
Please forgive me, you're my friend always

Look into my eyes, you know me
Don't believe some lies and disown me
We've been through the sweat and weather
Broken down and broke together
Telling jokes in parking lots
Fighting over who's gonna call the shots
Mixing up our blood and spit
Turned into soul and fire spirit

We're here in color
The world's so blue, the ocean and the sky
And I wanna die when it's darker
Overwhelmed, I close my eyes
But arms reach out
It's my last hope when they do
And I try to grab a hold
Where are you, where are you?

Lyrics by Dave Petersen

I'm a dealer in the middle
No left or right side sitter
I never make it going solo
But when I'm lying on my pillow

I'm a sugar-fisted pistol shoot a worldwide missile
Stop the train of shame a-coming with a huggle and a kissle
I'm tearing up the track and I ain't never going back
Just wanna change and re-arrange, re-build and stack

So step away and let the train leave town
Don't put out your hand it's gonna run you down
You don't put out your hand to stop a moving train
Boy you'll get run down

I'm a healer if you're willing
Something inside me more appealing
I'm all but nothing when without it
A real monster with no feelings

We are all little triggers
In every little thing we figure
Yeah you're a natural born explosive
Like dynamite or slightly bigger
And you could blow, here we go

I said, "What you're thinking now is bigger than you think it is
And every time you're thinking that, well brother, you should think again
You see the trouble is if you and me see eye to eye
And you re-think your life and no more innocents they have to die
Will it stop at you and what you do just become history
I just don't see peace that way it's all too much a mystery
I just want to change and re-arrange, re-build and stack on it
I don't want that train to instant bliss, I know they're full of it
They're calling "all aboard" at full speed, I see you standing there
But I know they don't care
Get off the track"