Lyrics

Tri-Polar Lyrics
Dressed Up As Life Lyrics


1. War

Verse 1


Fake and fall
Stop and stall
Take it all back
Cause I'm taking mine
I'm taking mine

Time is up
Outta luck
Shoulda stood up when you had the time
But you’re out of time

Let's do this!
Fight! (4x)

Lock and load
Rock and Roll
Bitch it’s all over you’re going down
You’re going down!
Let’s do this!

Pre-Chorus

Get ready to settle the score
And get ready to face the floor
Cause it's time to remember it all

Chorus

This is war!
And it's on tonight
So get up and fight
Get up and fight

You've had all your life
To run and hide
Now step up
Now step up

Let’s Do This!

Verse 2

Second round
Going down
How about a little reaction man
You can barely stand
Bitch slap
Slow attack
Man that was practically suicide
Next in line
Here we go!

Fight! (8x)

Bridge

Cause we're all about ready to break
Yea we're all about ready to break
Cause we're all about ready to break
Yea we're all about ready to break



2. I Hate You

Verse 1


Every time I end up breaking you
You change into
Something worth keeping
Every time I'm close to saving you
You grow into
A sin worth believing
You're everything I ever wanted but
It's never enough
You're never enough

Pre-Chorusfont>

I'll take whatever I can take
Whenever I can take it
If it ever comes

Chorus

I hate you when you're gone
I hate you turn me on
I hate the way I need you when
I don't know where you are
I love it even more
When I find you on the floor
I know you think you hate me
But I will always hate you more

Verse 2

I never knew until I got a taste
What a waste
For what I had been thru
Cause nothing ever really makes that change
I'm so ashamed
Of what I did to you
I had to let you in to feel that rush
You were too much
Way too much

Bridge

Round and round and.....

Verse 3

I never knew until I got a taste
I'm so ashamed
Of what I did to you
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3. Rip Tide

Verse 1

You all hate your children
They're too fat to feed
You're on medication
Taking pills to sleep
I think I'm doing just fine
Compared to what you've been doing

I won't get vaccinated
Insurance costs too much
You think you're so persuasive
But it’s a cluster-fuck
Saving my life
It's not what you're doing

Chorus

I, I won't justify
The way I live my life
'Cause I'm the one livin' it
Feelin' it, tastin' it
And you're just wasting your time
Trying to throw me a line
When you're the one drowning
I like where I'm, at on my back
Floating down in my own rip tide
The water is fine

Verse 2

I like to step on cracks
I go against the odds
You think my world is flat
Do I turn you on?
Maybe, yea I'm wrong
But I like where I'm going

I leave when others stay
I never re-decide
I don't mind if you wait
But I don't waste my time
Crazy is just fine
'Cause I like where I'm going

Bridge

I remember when it used to be easy
I remember when it wasn't so hard
I remember when it used to be easy
I remember when, I remember when

Chorus 3

I, I didn't have to justify
The way I lived my life
'Cause I'm the one livin' it
Feelin' it, tastin' it
And you're just wasting your time
Trying to throw me a line
When you're the one drowning
I like where I'm, at on my back
Floating down in my own rip tide
The water is fine

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4. You're Going Down


Verse 1


Define your meaning of war
To me it’s what we do when we’re bored
I feel the heat comin’ off of the blacktop
And it makes me want it more
Because I’m hyped up out of control
If it’s a fight, I’m ready to go
I wouldn’t put my money on the other guy
If you know what I know that I know

Chorus

It’s been a long time coming
And the table’s turned around
'Cause one of us is going
One of us is going down
I’m not running, it’s a little different now
'Cause one of us is going
One of us is going down

Verse 2

Define your meaning of fun
Is it fucking, drugging or guns
I feel the heat comin’ off of the blacktop
So get ready for another one
Let’s take a trip down memory lane
(Do you remember me?)
The words circling in my brain
(And what you did to me)
You can treat this like another all the same
But don’t cry like a bitch when you feel the pain

Bridge

This is hardly worth fighting for
But it’s the little petty shit that I can’t ignore
When my fist hits your face, and your face hits the floor
It’ll be a long time coming
Bet you got the message now
'Cause I was never going
Yeah, you’re the one that’s going down

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5. Odd One


Verse 1

Odd one, you're never alone
I'm here and I will reflect you
Both of us basically
Unattached to anything or anyone unless we're pretending
You live your life in your head
Some call it imagination
I'd rather focus instead on anything except
What I'm feeling
What I'm feeling
Odd one....

Chorus

Hey, it's gonna be okay
Hey, we're gonna laugh at this one day

Verse 2

Odd one, I wish I was you
You're never concerned with acceptance
We are all desperately seeking out, and fitting with anyone
Who will accept us
But not you, odd one

Chorus - Breakdown

Hey, It's gonna be okay
Hey, gonna laugh at this one day

Outro
Don't let someone tell you you're no-one
Don't let someone tell you you're no-one
Odd one...

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6. So What I Lied

Verse 1


The window's cracked, I'm looking out
I see her and I'm filled with doubt
I don't know if this parking place
Is just another empty space
Words I've said aren't coming true
I don't know if it's me or you
This promise is too hard to keep
I have to speak

Chorus

So what, I lied
But the truth would've been suicide
Monogamy is all she wants from me
But I see my life
And it's way too short
Don't blame me for not being subservient to others' needs
I'm at the point where honesty just doesn't fucking work for me

Verse 2

I did my best to try and be
A mirror of society
But we both know the mirror's cracked
And everybody's in the act
Faking what they cannot feel
Hoping they can make it real
Reality is killing me

Verse 3

Erect a life I'll never see
I'll stand back from the scenery
And laugh at all the other guys
Who never could escape in time
Stuck like flies on sticky tongues
Chewed up 'fore their life is done
I'm not here to compromise or apologize

Outro

Life – is too fucking short
It’s too fucking short
It’s too fucking short

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7. Survive


Verse 1

I've had too many days
Where I'm ready to break
There's gotta be more
There's gotta be more
So I ingest everything
'Cause I'm in it to win
Nothing but time on my side
Anywhere I choose
'Cause I wasn't built to lose
And you think I'm gonna fall
Face down on the floor
Just because I'm
Hi hi

Pre-Chorus

As for me
I have to disagree

Chorus

Cause I'm one who will survive
The ones you eat alive
And nobody puts up a fight
They die!
They die!
Rolling dollar bills
And popping all these pills
But I'll do what I wanna do
'Cause I wasn't built to lose

Verse 2

You keep making the rounds
You push me to the ground
Making you feel bigger than real
But I'm so fucking sick of your face
I'm not running a race
I'm running away
I'm running away
While everybody else
Is happy on the shelf
And I want it messily wrestling everything down
Everything down
Down, Down

Pre-Chorus

As for I, I'm way too fucking high

Bridge

There has gotta be more.......

Outro

Now break this fucking place, go!
I'm so sick of your face
I'm not running a race
I'm running away
I'm running away, away
I'm so sick of your face
I'm not running a race
I'm running away
I'm running away, away

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8.Should've Known Better


Verse 1

You take me for a ride and I don't even know the setup
Get into a fight just to make the sex better
You got a hold of me but there ain't nothing here that's holding you down
I believed in this except it wasn't getting better
You got me in the middle but I never found the center
Even when you know what I know it's not stopping you now

Pre-Chorus

I can't always see what's in front of me
No I can hardly breathe suffocating me bleeding it out
All over the ground

Chorus

Tell me when it's over
Wake me when I'm sober
The scars too hard to hide
I should've known better
If only I could be strong enough to see that it's over
I wish I'd never met you
Cause you were supposed to be coming back to me
Where are you now?
I should've known better

Verse 2

I got a new plan but it ain't nothing but a mirror
Of everything we had just before you became a winner
The love the lie is nothing but a memory now

Chorus Outro

So wake me when I'm sober
The scars too hard to hide
I should've known better
If only I could be strong enough to see that it's over
I wish I'd never loved you
Cause you were supposed to be coming back to me
Where are you now?

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9. Maybe


Verse 1

Maybe I'm a dreamer
Maybe I'm misunderstood
Maybe you're not seeing the side of me you should

Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe I'm the only one
Maybe I'm just out of touch
Maybe I've just had enough

Chorus

Maybe it's time to change
And leave it all behind
I've never been one to walk alone
I've always been scared to try
So why does it feel so wrong
To reach for something more
To wanna live a better life
What am I waiting for?
'Cause nothing stays the same
Maybe it's time to change

Verse 2

Maybe it's hopeless
Maybe I should just give up
What if I can't trust myself
What I just need some help

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10. Don't Walk Away


Verse 1

I'm feeling so afraid
'Cause everything that I do lately
Makes you angry
I've never been so ashamed
It really felt like you and me were
Getting better

Pre-Chorus

I hope that you still want me
I hope it's not too late

Chorus

Don't walk away
And leave without a reason
When there's too much to say
That hasn't been said
I know I was wrong and I'm sorry for making the same mistake
Don't walk away

Verse 2

Can you really throw away
All the times that we've recovered
One another
I know I make it hard
How long should I pay for being
Unappealing

Pre-Chorus

I know you want to want me
I see it in your eyes

Bridge

Wish I could take it back
But you know I can't
I hope one day you understand
No this can't be the end
This is the end

I know I make it hard

It felt like you and me were getting better

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11. Master of the Universe


Verse 1

If you want to know how far to go to hell
Just ask me
If you want to see the view from your knees
Come down and join me
I'm the final straw
The nail in the coffin
Just by being who I am
Is so Goddamned

Chorus

I'm not the master of the Universe
I walk the Earth the wrong way
Met my potential and fulfilled the worst
My best is cursed the wrong way

Verse 2

Your glass is half, his glass is full
My glass is empty
You're running short of not enough
Well I got plenty
I’ve come a long way
I went the wrong way
And who I am
Is so goddamned

Bridge

And when I die I'm gonna fly and come and get you
And when you try and run I'll be the curse above you
It's gonna end
It's gonna end

Breakdown Outro
In the race for disaster I will come in first
That's what I've learned
The hard way

Outro
I've come a long way
I went the wrong way
I've come a long way
I went the wrong way
I've come a long way
I went the wrong way

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12. In it for Life


Verse 1

There's a time when we try
To begin what is ending
If at first you don't succeed
Then we just end up pretending
If the dream isn't real
Is the lie worth defending?
Close your eyes, cover your ears
Shut your mouth

Pre-Chorus

You can act naive
But I know you're not stupid

Chorus

You'll wake up when I walk out
Isn't that the way it plays?
The leaver leaves, the stayer stays
You wouldn't make a move, so I made mine
Isn't it a pity?
I wish you were really in it for life
I wish that you were in it for life

Verse 2

What you give is what you get
And what you got's now next to nothing
'Cause the life that you've accepted
Is the one that's least disruptive
Are you aware of the fact
That when I pull, there's no pulling back
You have half the mind, half the heart
Half the will

Bridge

Some people talk like they can't hear
Some people walk but get nowhere
And when I'm done with the run I'm going on
I'm sure I'll be
Your biggest regret
You'll never forget

Outro

Yea you can run, but you can't hide
Cause everything you're running from
Is locked inside
So let it the fuck out!

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13. White Balloons


Verse 1

I'm holding onto white balloons
Up against a sky of doom
Tell me you see them
'Cause what's inside of me is invisible to most
Even in clear view

I'm sending out a signal to the possibility of you
'Cause right at this moment
I know you're connected to a part of me that I don’t even know myself

Chorus

The changes in me
Are likely to be like the weather
Stormy and clear strength into fear bound together

Verse 2

But I'll break my silence
If I believed that you and me could ever be
More than just what's been behind us
I tried and left, they came and went
I got rejected out again
But no one believes me
I've worn a hundred faces
Of the character replacements and now
And now nobody sees me

Chorus 2

The changes in me
Are likely to be like the weather
Cloudy at best...

Bridge

Angels lift me
Are you with me?
I’m holding onto you like I'm holding onto white balloons

Carry me away
I hope that you don’t break
Don't break

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1. All the same

Verse 1


I don’t care where you come from
As long as you come to me
But I don’t like illusions I can’t see
Them clearly
I don’t care no I wouldn’t dare
to fix the twist in you
you’ve shown me eventually what you’ll do.
I don’t mind
I don’t care
As long as you’re here

Chorus

Go ahead tell me you’ll leave again
You’ll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
And I’ll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
And do it all over again
It’s all the same

Verse 2

Hours slide and days go by
Till you decide to come
And in between it always seems too long
For certain
But I have the skill yea I have the will
To breathe you in while I can
How ever long you stay is all that I am
I don’t mind I don’t care,
As long as you’re here.

Chorus

Bridge

Wrong or right
Black or white
If I close my eyes it’s all the same
In my life the compromise
I’ll close my eyes
It’s all the same.




2. Anywhere But Here

Verse 1


I held onto you for as long as I could but today
You fell away
Now all I hold are the memories we barely made
I stood on the edge of your Bridge until I felt the rain
Push me away
My confusion left me as fast as the vertigo came

Verse 2

What I believed to be true it was only a dream
That lived in me
I just projected it over your beautiful screen
I self-medicated my way through this mess that we made
So I could stay,
There was nothing but
I waited, I waited

Chorus

This was my mistake
Broken are plans we made
So I will be traveling anyplace
Cause anywhere’s better than here
Here we rest in piece
Rubble beneath my feet
I shouldn’t have followed you anywhere
Now anywhere’s better than here

Verse 3

Where is this space I can move,
Where can I rest my head
There’s nothing left for me here
Its hard to leave behind
The one thing that made me feel alive
So I slide from paranoid to paralyzed

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3. Asshole Father

I waited for you yesterday
I waited and missed the last train
I waited to say
That I’d fallen in love with your way
I waited for you yesterday
Eventually walked home in the rain
I waited to see if you felt the same for me
But you don’t and you won’t
Go against your asshole father
Going broke quitting dope for your folks
Why did I even bother?
Why did I?
I waited for minds to change
Pointed their fingers of blame
It’s not my fault you’re ashamed
Of how you feel
But you don’t and you won’t
Go against your asshole father
Going broke quitting dope for your folks
Why did I even bother?
Why did I?
Cause you don’t just admit it
Cause you wont just admit it
Just admit it
Just admit it
I called you a whore
And Broke down your door
But you don’t even hate me
And how can I heal
When you wont even feel
Why won’t you hate me?
But you don’t and you won’t
Go against your asshole father
Going broke, quitting dope for your folks
Why did I even bother?
Why did I?
But you don’t Cause you’re nothing but broke
And you’re daddies little daughter
Aren’t ya?
Going broke, quitting dope for your folks
Why did I even bother?
Why did I?

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4. Cancer


Verse 1

Tell me all your plans and I’ll laugh back in your face
Preach me your religion if you’re dumb enough to pray
I tried to make a change, to get a better way, to make a little more money
I tried to get away to see if I could stay and look what I became honey

Chorus

What is it I’m after
Searching for disaster
watching my whole life flash in front of my eyes
we’ve been given answers
still we’re walking cancers
dressed up as a life

Verse 2

Get all your news from a corporate company
trade in your opinion for a gallon of gasoline GO!
I tried to get away to see if could stay
and look what I became honey

Bridge

This life
Is a waste of life
this life is a fucking lie!

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5. Deliverance


Waiting for another line
Cause you throw them at me all the time
Gotta get away from all her lies
And I gotta get away from mine

Chorus

Tell me where to go
When fate wont deliver
Cause I can’t forgive her
When I let her know
This pain I’ve been living
Will her next collision
Be Me
Bringing situations down
her temper’s always on the rise
I’m living what I’ve seen before
Well, I wont take this anymore
It’s time to hold this to the line

Chorus

Bridge:

Cause her mental prison
Is not my decision
So I’m cutting my losses this time
I ‘m no longer living through her tunnel vision
Tell me where to go
When fate wont deliver
Cause I can’t forgive her
When I let her know
This pain I’ve been living
Will her next collision
Be Me
Gotta get away from,
Gotta get away
Gotta get away this time

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6. Howard’s Tale

Verse 1


Age 5, Just a little boy shy
Is he ready for the big surprise?
He’ll be playing lego in a dream
when the shadows come to life.
Age 9, And he should’ve been fine
with a secret he’s sure to keep
Two times had to tell a little lie
for the sake of him and me
Now its over
I need closure

Chorus

Hey! Look what you did to me
When you were taking me home, getting me stoned, leave me alone.
I waited for mum to comfort me
But when I opened my mouth
"Don’t say nothing, SHH"

Verse 2

Age 12 and it isn’t going well, now it’s 3 years to the day
Confused, but unlike you this feeling won’t go away
16 and the woman down the street has invited him to come inside.
The first time it didn’t feel right, it’ll be the last time he tries.

Chorus

Hey! Look what you did to me
When you were taking me home, getting me stoned, leave me alone.
I waited for mum to comfort me
But when I opened my mouth
Don’t say, "Nothing’s wrong"
I won’t say nothing’s wrong
I won’t say, I won’t say, I won’t say, I won’t say,
I won’t say, I won’t say

Verse 3

17, all he’s ever seen is living in between the lies.
Its kind of funny how a mind can keep living in denial
18 is a very strange scene, he’s still playing with the past
Expelled, maybe someone could’ve helped if someone had known to ask.

Chorus

Hey! Look what you did to me
When you were taking me home, getting me stoned, leave me alone.
I waited for mum to comfort me
But when I opened my mouth
"don’t say nothing, SHH"

Verse 4

19 and he’s innocently parked right beside a school
He stares at a boy sitting there and the boy stares at him too
He walks over
He needs closure

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7. Issues


I wanna wake up
I ‘ve been walking in my sleep to long wake up
I’m so sick of dreaming
I wanna slow down
I wanna be part of what is happening around me
Without breathing
Without feeling
Without screaming
So I’m leaving

Chorus

I’m consciously unconscious
Why am I filled with hate
I like to blame my parents
I’m sure you’d do the same
Swallow the hurt
Spit out the jerk that’s not afraid

Verse 2

I turn the page
To a chapter that they thought was just a phase
But it consumed me
Your’e right I am a failure and when my life turns to shit it won’t have anything to do with the fact that’s all you ever taught me how to do so you can relax!
Without feeling
Without breathing
Now I’m Leaving

Chorus

I’m consciously unconscious
Why am I filled with hate
I like to blame my parents
I’m sure you’d do the same
Swallow the hurt
Spit out the jerk that’s not afraid
Turn the page

Bridge

I’ve been hiding, drowning,
I’ve been yawning, starving
I’ve been feeling nothing

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8. Pitiful


Made the toast
Burned the eggs
Never got the hang of them
Just another other day
Caught the bus
forgot the change
looks like i’ll be late again
hopefully they won’t complain
My life’s so pitiful
Gimme one good reason why I shouldn’t end it all
If there’s a reason then I haven’t found it yet
And I tried every drug I find
Except maybe heroin and cyanide
But there’s a reason
I just can’t afford them yet
Oh, it’s another overdose.
Went to work
Saw you there
But you never seem to care
For a single thing I say
I set my clock and went to sleep
This anxiety I keep
Through another fucking day
Looks like that’s all today,
I’m Dying
My life’s so pitiful,
Pitiful, pitiful, pitiful, pitiful

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9. The Bottom


Verse 1

If you wanna sink to the bottom with me
Come get gotten, reeling and rotten beneath.
One two three and down you go
You’ll be smiling before you know
If you wanna sink to the bottom, with me.

Chorus

We’re all rotten
Buried and forgotten living it up under ground
So take a ride
HEY HEY HEY HEY
You really can’t be looking so surprised
If you can’t beat them, Might as well eat ‘em
No-ones getting out alive
Give it a try
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
It really is a wicked way to die

Verse 2

Listen my friend to sound of a sweet melody
Doesn’t it seem to resound like an old memory.
Screaming and crying we’ll have none of that
You had your chance now just sit and relax
Don’t you wanna sink to the bottom with me?

Chorus

Bridge

You’ll get used to it in a while
Look at the way each of us smile
You were living a fantasy
This is exactly what you need

Verse 3

If you wanna sink to the bottom with me
You’re getting real gotten, writhing and rotting beneath
1,2,3 and there you go
Feel that smile just start to grow
If you wanna sink to the bottom
It really is a wicked way, It really is a wicked way,
It really is a wicked way to die
Coda
They’re all just so pathetic
Its all psychosomatic
The more they think the more we know
So welcome home

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10. Too Many Words


I’ve tried to balance these
Lives that we are living
You always feel justified
But you never feel forgiving
I woke up one morning to find myself wrapped in the things I swore I’d never touch
And here I am again
Tryin’ to save what’s left of you and I
So why aren’t you satisfied?

Chorus

I reached out
Fell short
Now You’re hurt
Too many words
Breaking the silence
I felt it, bled it, screamed it
It only gets worse
And it kills me what’s in me’s too angry for us to survive
I used too many words tonight

Verse 2

I tried to get it right,
But I was just wasting my time
Cause you never compromised,
When it came to our lives
We struggle and fall apart
We build it back to stutter start
The endless accusations
I can’t believe we made it this far

Chorus

Bridge

Waking alone tomorrow has got to be better than this.

Chorus

Too many words (repeat)

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11. My World


Verse 1

I’m not coming back
I’m not gonna react
I’m not doing shit for you
I’m not sitting around
While you’re tearing it down around us
I’m not living a lie
While you swim in denial
Cause your already dead and gone
You’ll leave me out on the curb
Just like everyone
else before you

Chorus

Welcome to my world
Where everyone I ever need
Always ends up leaving me alone
Another lesson burned
And I’m drowning in the ashes
Kicking
Screaming
Welcome to my world

Verse 2

I don’t care what you think
I’m not seeing a shrink
I’m not doing this again
I’m not another
Student or a mother
to take your shit out on
So lets see what you got
lets see what you’re not
and whatever else you pretend
you’ve defended my intentions
long enough

Bridge

So here I am again
In the middle of the end
The choice I wish I’d made
I always make too late.

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12. What Are You Looking For


Verse 1

I walk the line of the disappointed
I celebrate when I’m in pain
My heart and mind can be disjointed
I built a bed in this hole I’ve made
I recognize that I am damaged
I sympathize that you are too
I wanna breathe without feeling so self-conscious
But it’s hard when the world is staring at you

Chorus

Another piece of the puzzle that doesn’t fit
You throw you arms up you’re so damn sick of it
What are you working for?
What are you searching for?
Love
You won’t be thinking of cars when
You’re on your death bed and dying
You’ll only be thinking of
What are you paying for?
What are you praying for?
Love

Verse 2

You join the line of the getting richer
You keep your pace but it’s moving slow
You are defined by all that You have hoarded
But you’re surprised it doesn’t fill up the hole

Chorus 2

Another piece of the puzzle that doesn’t fit
You throw you arms up you’re so damn sick of it
What are you coping for?
What are you hoping for?
Love
You won’t be thinking of cars when
You’re on your death bed and dying
You’ll only be thinking of
What are you paying for?
What are you praying for?
Love

Bridge

I’ll never be what I see in the TV screen
I’ll just keep on dreaming of what I’m never gonna be
I can’t think of a better way to waste my time than try.

Chorus 3

Another piece of the puzzle that doesn’t fit
You throw you arms up you’re so damn sick of it
What are you hurting for?
What are you searching for?
Love
You won’t be thinking of cars when
You’re on your death bed and dying
You’ll only be thinking of
What are you paying for?
What are you praying for?
Love, love, love, love
You won’t be thinking of cars when
You’re on your death bed and dying
You’ll only be thinking of
What are you working for?
What are you looking for?

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