The Used - Imaginary Enemy Album Lyrics

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Revolution

"All revolutions are impossible until they happen, then they become inevitable."

[Verse 1:]
It's not enough to kill the past, be blind to history.
And all at once there's a black cloud coming made of gasoline.
I'm feeling too upset the price, make sure that nothing's free.
One way to move forward is to learn who's stopping me.

[Chorus:]
Yeah! this is the end, this is the end, calling for revolution.
Yeah! this is the end, this is the end, calling for revolution.
Burn! like the fire in the ring, like the fire in the ring.
This is the end, this is the end, calling for revolution. Yeah!

[Verse 2:]
We looked at the price tag, and it's one we can't afford.
We were taught that progression means accumulating more.
Yeah, if it's up to protect ourselves well why are we at war?
And isn't it obvious we're adding up the score?

[Chorus:]
Yeah! this is the end, this is the end, calling for revolution.
Yeah! this is the end, this is the end, calling for revolution.
Burn! like the fire in the ring, like the fire in the ring.
This is the end, this is the end, calling for revolution. Yeah!

[Bridge:]
I'll never turn my back on where i'm from.
I'll never stop believing. I'll always love my home.
But if all I love and know has just been burned,
I know it's just still bleeding since the fire has grown.

So wrong I wanna pledge allegiance,
to a world that's so much different.
No one suffers, everyone is free.
Revolution starts with me.

Revolution! Revolution! Calling for a revolution!
Revolution! Revolution! Calling for!

Yeah! this is the end, this is the end, calling for revolution.
Yeah! this is the end, this is the end, (this is the end..)

[Chorus:]
Yeah! this is the end, this is the end, calling for revolution.
Yeah! this is the end, this is the end, calling for revolution.
Burn! like the fire in the ring, like the fire in the ring.
This is the end, this is the end, calling for revolution. Yeah!

[Outro:]
Calling for revolution! Yeah! Calling for revolution!
(Time For Revolution!) (Time For Revolution!)

"One of the things that's happened, is that this movement has acquired an air of inevitability" [-L. Day]

 

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Cry

You'll never know what it feels like til you're there.
When love changes, faces appear from nowhere.
Where beautiful, lovely is ugly or alone.
You need me back bad, just can't be on your own.

Love is not a battle, it's a ticking time bomb.
Love is not a battle, it's a ticking time bomb.

I'm gonna let you bleed for a little bit.
I'm gonna make you beg just for making me cry.
I'm gonna make you wish you never said goodbye.

Now your life is broken, revolves around love.
No love of yourself but the love you have lost.
We said desperation is lonely despair.
You don't love yourself, you've got no love to share.

Love is not a battle, it's a ticking time bomb.
Love is not a battle, it's a ticking time bomb.

I'm gonna let you bleed for a little bit.
I'm gonna make you beg just for making me cry.
I'm gonna make you wish you never said goodbye.
I'm gonna let you bleed for a little bit.
I'm gonna make you beg just for making me cry.
I'm gonna make you wish you never said goodbye.

If you're gonna get me back you're gonna have to ask nicer than that.
If you're gonna get me back you're gonna have to ask nicer than that.
Nicer than that!
Nicer than that!
Nicer than that!
Nicer than that!

I'm gonna let you bleed for a little bit.
I'm gonna make you beg just for making me cry.
I'm gonna make you wish you never said goodbye.

If you're gonna get me back you're gonna have to ask nicer than that.
If you're gonna get me back you're gonna have to ask nicer than that.

Never say goodbye!

If you're gonna get me back you're gonna have to ask nicer than that!

 

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El-Oh-Vee-Ee

Stuff your pockets stuff your mouth
Much more than feeding
your bloated god your bank account
Your empathy's fleeting
Now that you bought the cure, you own the truth, still you want more
Down on you're knees you bleed it out
This type of believing

Hold on wait. We have had all we can take
You can keep the money
Cause all we need is El-Oh-Vee-Ee, love
El-Oh-Vee-Ee, love
El-Oh-Vee-Ee, El-Oh-Vee-Ee, love

You pushed the point to no return
Take more and repeat it
Stockpiled possessions watch them burn
We've got all we needed
Before you got to far
We realized
Just who you are
Down on your knees you bleed it out
This type of believing

Hold on wait. We have had all we can take
You can keep the money
Cause all we need is El-Oh-Vee-Ee, love
El-Oh-Vee-Ee, love
El-Oh-Vee-Ee, El-Oh-Vee-Ee, love

You've got your mansion.
You've got your minions.
Protected privilege.
But we've got love.
You've got your black gold.
You've got you pipeline.
Capitalism.
But we've got love.

You've got reserve banks with no reserves.
You've got religion.
Control the herds.
You've got your slave trade of prostitution.
You've got your green god.
But we got love.

Yes we got love [x4]

Hold on wait. We have had all we can take
You can keep the money
Cause all we need is El-Oh-Vee-Ee, love
El-Oh-Vee-Ee, love
El-Oh-Vee-Ee, El-Oh-Vee-Ee, love

Yes we got love...

 

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A Song To Stifle Imperial Progression (A Work In Progress)

God bless the USA
God bless the USA
God bless the USA

We're saying no way, no way USA
By declaring war on terror you declare war on yourself
We're saying no way, no way USA
The war on drugs and poverty are only tools for gaining wealth
We're saying no way, no way USA

Try mixing blood and oil in the Middle East
Every president will "spread democracy"
They say democracy, they really mean disease
Not satisfied till everyone is on their knees

God bless the USA
God bless the USA
God bless the USA

We're saying no way, no way USA
By declaring war on terror you declare war on yourself
We're saying no way, no way USA
The war on drugs and poverty are only tools for gaining wealth
We're saying no way, no way USA
You occupy the peoples land and think we don't know what it's for?
We're saying no way, no way USA
Drill a hole and f*ck the ground and spend the cash and print some more
We're saying no way, no way USA

So God bless the USA for what it's worth and let it be
Because there is no god
There is no USA, from what I see
So God bless the USA for what it's worth and let it be
Because there is no god
There is no USA, from what I see
So God bless the USA for what it's worth and let it go
It's just another lie we cannot buy
Ran out of money long ago

By declaring war on terror you declare war on yourself
We're saying no way, no way USA
The war on drugs and poverty are only tools for gaining wealth
We're saying no way, no way USA
You occupy the peoples land and think we don't know what it's for?
We're saying no way, no way USA
Drill a hole and f*ck the ground and spend the cash and print some more
We're saying no way, no way USA

 

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Generation Throwaway

Whoah
Generation throwaway
Whoah
Generation throwaway

[Verse 1]
Get caught as we dig in the dirt
While the pretty ones climb the trees with the keys to the gate
Get caught as we're making it worse
As we break our backs, we barely notice the pain

Yeah, we're taking it back [x3]

[Chorus]
We're only moments away
Brave enough to break these barricades
It starts today
We're not generation throwaway
Everything is fine
We're not, not afraid of glory
Moments away
We're not generation throwaway

[Verse 2]
Throw back what we're trying to change
While the pretty ones climb the trees, we're not willing to beg
Play dead as we're digging a hole
Then they're never gonna realize until the day we've escaped

Yeah, we're taking it back [x3]

[Chorus]
We're only moments away
Brave enough to break these barricades
It starts today
We're not generation throwaway
Everything is fine
We're not, not afraid of glory
Moments away
We're not generation throwaway

Whoah
Whoah

You can tell that we're taking it back
You can tell that we're taking it back
You can tell that we're taking it back
That we're taking it back, taking it back

You can tell that we're taking it back
You can tell that we're taking it back
You can tell that we're taking it back
That we're taking it back, taking it back

[Chorus]
We're only moments away
Brave enough to break these barricades
It starts today
We're not generation throwaway
Everything is fine
We're not, not afraid of glory
Moments away
We're not generation throwaway

Whoah
Generation throwaway
Whoah
Generation throwaway

 

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Make Believe

I can't see what it is that you want me to see
Let alone could I ever believe
That there is only one way to be
And somehow you were given the key

I was just a kid, I trusted you
You never meant to lie, you didn't know the truth
Don't get to tell me what to do anymore
Don't get to tell me how to live anymore

I don't need it keep my head out of the clouds
Don't need it keep my feet back on the ground
I'm never buying what you're selling
To me it's only make believe

I won't do what it is that you tell me to do
I have seen what you had to go through
Not what I had expected from you
I guess I had expected the truth

I was just a little kid, thought you'd teach me how to live
Put my trust in you, but all I got was rules
Don't get to tell me what to do anymore
Don't get to tell me how to live anymore

I don't need it keep my head out of the clouds
Don't need it keep my feet back on the ground
I'm never buying what you're selling
To me it's only make believe

I don't need a map to find my way back home
Don't need a book to teach me how to love
Don't tell me that you know the ending
To me it's only make believe

You don't get to tell me what to do anymore
You don't get to tell me how to live anymore

Anymore, Anymore, Anymore

I don't need it keep my head out of the clouds
Don't need it keep my feet back on the ground
I'm never buying what you're selling
To me it's only make believe

I don't need a map to find my way back home
Don't need a book to teach me how to love
Don't tell me that you know the ending
To me it's only make believe

 

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Evolution

Call me a trader,
For changing my mind.
Call me a criminal,
If thinking's a crime.
Call me an animal,
It's hard to define.
I don't care what you say I came to defy.

I've come so far.

Everything changes.
With the way that I feel,
Seems impossible I'll stay the same.
Time rearranges.
The more we refuse,
Is the more time we stand in the way.

And how am I to be myself?
Everyone's trying to be everyone else.
Everything changes.
With the way that I feel,
Seems impossible I'll stay the same

Go back to the middle,
Try filling the void.
Watch thoughts into action
Its hard to destroy.
Call me an animal,
And I wont deny.
I don't care what you say I came to defy.

I've come so far.

Everything changes.
With the way that I feel,
Seems impossible I'll stay the same.
Time rearranges.
The more we refuse,
Is the more time we stand in the way.

And how am I to be myself?
Everyone's trying to be everyone else.
Everything changes.
With the way that I feel,
Seems impossible I'll stay the same.

What will you do to me,
When I refuse to go?
Who's gonna fight all your wars,
When the people won't show?
What will you do to us,
When we won't do what you say?
What will you do to us,
When we won't do what you say?

Everything changes.
With the way that I feel,
Seems impossible I'll stay the same.
Time rearranges.
The more we refuse,
Is the more time we stand in the way.

And how am I to be myself?
Everyone's trying to be everyone else.
Everything changes.
With the way that I feel,
Seems impossible I'll stay the same.

Call me a trader,
For changing my mind.
Call me a criminal,
If thinking's a crime.
Call me an animal,
It's hard to define.
I don't care what you say I came to defy.

 

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Imaginary Enemy

I wasn't made to understand.
I've given up my name, forgotten where I stand.
Sometimes I don't know who I am. I used to feel so scared,
I used to hold your hand.
I'm so sick of playing favorites, sick of being scared.

They would rather see you all alone.
Imaginary Enemy!
We are much less different than we know.
Imaginary Enemy...Imaginary Enemy!
I would never leave you all alone.
Imaginary Enemy! (HA!)

I will not ever understand.
Just how it got this way, and how it got so bad.
You're not a part of what we need. There is no common ground.
We hate what you believe.
I'm so sick of playing favorites, sick of being scared.

They would rather see you all alone.
Imaginary Enemy!
We are much less different than we know.
Imaginary Enemy...Imaginary Enemy!
I would never leave you all alone.
Imaginary Enemy!

Who taught me to hate you, when I don't even know you?
Who Created the enemy?
Who taught me to hate you, when I don't even know you?
Who taught me to hate you, hate you, hate you!

Who created the enemy!?

Who created!?...

They would rather see you all alone.
Imaginary Enemy!
We are much less different than we know.
Imaginary Enemy...Imaginary Enemy!
I would never leave you all alone.
Imaginary Enemy!

Who created the enemy!?

Who created!?...

 

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Kenna Song

Shine a light on what we think.
Kenna Song.
Move the people to their feet.
Kenna Song.
Leave us brave enough to fight.
Kenna Song.
Give us strength to do what's right.

We have the right to let our voices be heard.

Hear us now, hear us screaming out.
Feel it breaking down, bet you can hear us now.
No more secrets, no more fear.
Can you hear us now? Bet you can hear us now.

Sing a song.
Change a world that doesn't care.
Sing a song.
Stop the only ones who dare.
Sing a song.
See the ones who need it more.
Sing a song.
Bring the soldiers back from war.

We have the right to let our voices be heard.

Hear us now, hear us screaming out.
Feel it breaking down, bet you can hear us now.
No more secrets, no more fear.
Can you hear us now? Bet you can hear us now.

We stand together set in stone, hearts open wide.
And leave them no place left to hide.
It's not a bridge, it's their ideas we must burn.
You had your chance now it's our turn.

Hear us now, hear us screaming out.
Feel it breaking down, bet you can hear us now.
No more secrets, no more fear.
Can you hear us now? Bet you can hear us now.

Hear us now, hear us screaming out.
Feel it breaking down, bet you can hear us now.
No more secrets, no more fear.
Can you hear us now? Bet you can hear us now.

 

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Force Without Violence

Our voices still silence
the plans that we've made
the dead cannot hear
all the prayers that we beg

Is there a force without violence
is there a catch with no hook
believing the lies while they fix all the books

Things will never change
if we remain the same
our hearts call us by name

These walls won't keep us safe
when they hold us back like barricades
It's time now to replace these walls
the walls around our heart

Theres no price we wont pay
and we steal it back just to give it away
its time now to replace these walls
the walls around our hearts

When fear breaks the silence
the choice has been made
we're listening now to sounds from the grave

This brave opposition
comes naturally
being exactly who we're supposed to be

Things will never change
if we remain the same
our hearts call us by name

These walls won't keep us safe
when they hold us back like barricades
It's time now to replace these walls
the walls around our heart

Theres no price we wont pay
and we steal it back just to give it away
its time now to replace these walls
the walls around our hearts

We'll take what we're given
we'll pay for our freedom
We'll take what we're given
we'll pray for our freedom

We'll take what we're given
we'll pray for our freedom
We'll take what we're given
we'll pay for our freedom

These walls won't keep us safe
when they hold us back like barricades
It's time now to replace these walls
the walls around our heart

Theres no price we wont pay
and we steal it back just to give it away
its time now to replace these walls
the walls around our hearts

 

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Overdose

Does it start all at once?
Or come as slow as can be.
It's not about you and me
And never mind what it costs
At least it's not make believe
We can get it for free

But to get love
You have got to give love
Somehow I got your love
Was it meant to be

Your love
Is my drug
I've overdosed
I'm right where I'm supposed to be
Yeah your love
Is fatal
Planning an overdose
An overdose

Then just like in the books
'The Voices' spoke unto me
Their words as clear as can be
They Say: no one can take it away
Nothing can come in-between
You can't steal something that's free, yeah

But to get love
You have got to give love
Somehow I got your love
Was it meant to be

Your love
Is my drug
I've overdosed
I'm right where I'm supposed to be
Yeah your love
Is fatal
Planning an overdose
An overdose

And in the end I found peace
Don't know why you would choose me
And in the end I found peace
My darling drug you kill me

Don't think we're meant to go it alone
I could be wrong but I'll wait and see
I get caught up when you're singing along
An overdose would come naturally
It might sound mean but don't get me wrong
If I'm a slave, I don't wanna be free
I get f*cked up when you sing along
An overdose would come naturally

Your love
Is my drug
I've overdosed
I'm right where I'm supposed to be
Yeah your love
Is fatal
Planning an overdose
An overdose