Playlist Whatever It Takes

whatever it takes - both can 039 t survive

What it took for us to survive---what it took: both can't survive
To sing our songs in 3/4 time---what it took: both can't survive
Like a rusted through '76 Oldsmobile
And 4 kids drunk off of screaming
Asleep behind the wheel

And you'll feel wasted
Feel seamless
You'll feel like dying

What it took to get to who we are---what it took: both can't survive
Like a paddle boat in the the deep blue sea---what it took: both can't survive
Buckets empty out the water seeping in the cracks
But a crew in love with this vessel enough to make it last...

And you'll feel wasted
Feel seamless
You'll feel like dying

Plane crash in the highest mountian range
In the coldest air, deepest snow
Seems we're the only survivors on this plane
But for how long, who knows?

I'll keep fighting till the cold steals my last breath
But when it does it had better run like hell
'Cause the remaining passengers won't be taken as well

What it took: both can't survive
Just remember whatever it takes to live
Just remember what it took

whatever it takes - chris drives me home

Wake up every morning everyday
To the same sad face
No sleep for me
No sleep for me

Mourning everyday

And I find it
Yeah I find it
So hard
To move on to better things
You find it
So fitting

And just maybe
One morning won't be so mournful
That morning I'll call a start
A start of better days

Day one of my new house,
New job,
New car dream

I woke up dreading morning
To realize that it's no dream

Wake up every morning
Every day

Thanks to a scar in the sky (rhyno786@hotmail.com) for these lyrics

whatever it takes - city streets summer heat

It's the final act
Director's curtain call
And this all star cast
Of beautiful
Men and womyn alike
Is only complimented
By the wonderful sets
And the scripts of gold...

Sets of city streets
Summer heat,
And they way things were

Growing up and growing old
1997, 4 years ago
All 3 of summers months
I still won't let go

(So) hey...
We've been down this road
Hey...hey...
4 years ago--days, weeks, months

(So) hey...
Can you tell me why?
Hey...hey...
Tempeture can remind--you of your life

A lot of people don't like the city
It's too fast for some
96 degree evenings
Make it uncomfortable for most

But I remember the times
On the back porch
The outside world honking
The city moved so slow

Was it the heat or the humidity
Or was it something more?
Could the world have stopped spining
And I witnessed it all?

On my
City street
In my
Summer heat

Thanks to a scar in the sky (rhyno786@hotmail.com) for these lyrics

whatever it takes - cold of winter

I've seen these pages turn
And said I knew it from the start
That your face changes with the seasons leaves

With the cold of winter dripping from your nose
You threw it away as cold as the air when you said

"I don't think I should stay
It's far too warm
The leaves are still bearing green
And I can't keep
My ice heart"

So seasons pass and change
But I still lie awake on cold fall days
When the months become years
And the years still bring tears that freeze up
On your face

I split your ribs and with the warmth of mine
Melt your ice heart...

Thanks to a scar in the sky (rhyno786@hotmail.com) for these lyrics

whatever it takes - erase the days

We came a long way
From the first day
We set foot...

Underground - indoors
In the damp - in the cold
To find our new home...

So I finally found myself
Finally found a place to call home
Underground - indoors
Very damp - very cold
Warm in heart...

(And) we find a way to break these chains
Find a way to erase the day
Find some way
Fill our void...

So I will scream this out
To all who listen
As people - as human
Underground - with open doors
Feel our warmth

Thanks to a scar in the sky (rhyno786@hotmail.com) for these lyrics

whatever it takes - flesh eating 9 to 5 virus

1,000 hungry dog eat dogers
Plus one middle aged worker
And a million more out for your neck

Make way wild fire
Spills like blood
On the door step of establishment
Make way
Wild fire

Your lack of skills
Result in a lack of possibility
And lead to the number stamped on you head

And still my feet walk through your door
Do I want to?
Can I say?
Will you listen?
It's falling down

Thanks to a scar in the sky (rhyno786@hotmail.com) for these lyrics

whatever it takes - green light yellow light stop

I've walked these streets every night
So much
I can even tell the traffic lights
Will change on my count of 3
1-2-1-2-3, yeah

Green to red
And back again
So timed
Watching like pulling teeth

So I will fight the bad fight
On what I'll call the good team
But in a bad fight are there good teams?

So I'll fight your bad fight
On two of your bad teams
I'll lose
I'd put my money on you...

I guess I don't know your lights so well
Maybe one day I will

Thanks to a scar in the sky (rhyno786@hotmail.com) for these lyrics

whatever it takes - i swear this is the last time

I could watch you fall again-just like last time
worlds spinning on their end-like last time
I could watch you lose again-" "
I wont waste my time again-" "

and so ill bet it all,
everything I have
all on black
spin and wash away
all I had left

I could watch you drink it all-like the last time
I even take a few down with you-just like the last time
and laugh about it all-" "
I'm gonna watch you lose it all-" "

and so ill bet it all,
everything I have
all on black
spin and wash away
all I had left

its the last time
just like the last time

whatever it takes - life voice action change

it seems today
and it is so sad to say
people and their differences
build up like brick walls...

wether color of skin
or sexual preference of a human
one can only take so much...

[Chorus:]
it takes LIFE
for this to begin
we raise out VOICE raise up and sing in,
ACTION to bring
CHANGE

[Bridge:]
I'm not wasting my time
with bullshit and lies
you're talking too much
I wont waste my time
so I raise my voice
and I raise my fist
ill see you in the end

whatever it takes - lips surrendered

Your heart pumps its last pint of blood
Your eyes roll to the back of your head
And with your last breath
I woke up dripping in sweat

Recapture the dead smile
On lips surrendered forever
Rode on the wings of Death
In the direction of escaping

Beneath a blue suburban sky
Draped in a black city scape
One ray of the sun shines in on closed eyes
Someone just woke up dripping in your sweat....

Recapture the dead smile
On lips surrendered forever
Rode on the wings of Death
In the direction of escaping

I think that sunbeam
Left the door ajar

whatever it takes - not so metal

Friends drop like fly's
To know the ones to stand by
Is possibility, enough to go on...

So sit and ponder
Why giving up or admitting wrong
Are sometimes the same...

One hour
Doesn't seem too long
When countless hours landed you here
For some it's too long

I have watched
That measly hour
Tear apart and even,
Even get to me...

So if you really want real
And you want some belief
Make yourself think that you're coming over
Then try your lies on me...

You're such a silly girl
Well I can see it right now
You're sitting back on the couch
And the worst part is
You probably think this song
Is about you and all the evil things you do

Well I have news for you
This song's a big fuck you
To the lines that kept me up
And dragged me down your street

And dragged me down your street

Thanks to a scar in the sky (rhyno786@hotmail.com) for these lyrics

whatever it takes - post marked yesterday

Pictures turn yellow and fade
From the walls
Where they've been posted for years

Pictures of past and forgotten
Noel balls
Which have been visited with tears

The tape once strong and able to hold
Dried up and gone
Though the memories last
The days now twice as long

On a day where even the smell is nostalgic
On a day where even one breath is a memory

Where have you been and where have you gone
And what do you have to show for yourself?
A picture? A postcard? Nothing without some to share
These memories with

A time travel so swift
As you can't remember
As you can't even tell if it was real

Where have you been?
Where have you gone?

Thanks to a scar in the sky (rhyno786@hotmail.com) for these lyrics

whatever it takes - pulse rate

[Verse]
I should write a report
on why we change day to day
with hours and hours of research
and humans locked up in a cage

then tally the data
with the results inconclusive
damnit I ve been at this one for years
and still no answer

[Chorus]
put under a microscope
by my own free will

take my own blood samples
look for imbalanced chemicals

cat scan for holes in my brain
and pulse rate my heart

[Verse 2]
but there is one last concern
it seems I may drive them away
friends and family always running from me these days

I ask myself, like any analysist would
"Chris how do you always manage to fuck up
every last thing you have that is good"

[Chorus]

whatever it takes - sea of promise

[Chorus]
hey-steadfast-sails up
hey-like a ship rolling out
hey-to see the world
and change it

[Verse]
armed, all systems go
picking up passengers, as we roll
who are stranded at sea
and looking for a new home

the finest crew
will lend their hands
no captains, no swelled heads
a ship still rollin full steam ahead

[Pre Chorus]
as we steam forward
stop only to lend our hands

we are not looking back

[Bridge]
our sea of hopes and dreams
of 1 world culture and unified scenes

raging waters
of life long struggle
unforgiving waters,
taking lives of our sisters and brothers
to swim is all we have

!!!keep your head above the water!!!

whatever it takes - space invaders

Clear day burning his eyes:
Struck down and wheezing for breath
Seamstress hemming my legs:
Struck down and wheezing for breath
Victims of this modern age:
Struck down and wheezing for breath
Reluctant salesman buying used goods:
Struck down and wheezing for breath

Who has come to grips with change?
Who has come forth with courage?

Struck down and wheezing for breath
Force fed words, words, words
Work force marching out of debt
Force fed words, words, words

Eyes: eyes
Legs: legs
Age: age
Goods: goods

Thanks to a scar in the sky (rhyno786@hotmail.com) for these lyrics

whatever it takes