Wither…
Wither on the vine
Wither…
Now I'm next in line
Wither…
Wither on the vine
Wither…
Now I'm out of time…

ALL I'VE KNOWN

DEDICATED TO LAYNE STALEY

YAhhh…Yahhh (3)
Yahhh…yaoohh

Now my child remember
Where my will my heart may go
As this wonder fills me
What may be I'll never know...

Yahhh…Yahhh (3)
Yahhh…yaooh

Yeah… Yeah…
When I see my way back home
Once again I find that wall
Will I find my way now?
Will I find my way out?

When I see my way I seal my fate I know…
And when I seal my fate I feel that sting I've known... Yea-yeah
Why do I do this to myself?

Yeah… When I see my way back
(When I see…)
All I've known I know is there
(All I've known…)
When I see my way I fall inside this pain I found… Yeah …

When I see my way yeah
(When I see…)
All I've known I know is there
(All I've known…)
When I see my way I fall inside this pain unbound… yeah

Yahhh…Yahhh (3)
Yahhh…yaoohhh


RUST & JADE

Sometimes you just wanna give up …(GIVE UP!)
Sometimes you just wanna give in ...(GIVE IN!)
Sometimes you just wanna let go ... (LET GO!)
Thats when you make your stand...(MAKE YOUR STAND!)
Thats when you pick yourself up...(NEVER GIVE UP!)
Thats when you dust yourself off...(NEVER GIVE IN!)
Thats when you find who you are ...(NEVER LET GO!)

It seems the times have changed...
The days have rearranged...
When one good thing goes wrong...
It seems the rest may follow.

It's weighing on my mind...
How could I loose this time...
I guess in time things fade...
They tend to rust and jade.

(Chorus)

How could it be like this...
In my life I'll surely miss...
I knew that I'd feel this way...
Why dont you go away.

Go away!

Turned us to rust and jade

Go away!

Watch as we rust and jade

These days they don't seem real...
Can't hide this pain I feel...
It seems I've lost my way...
Can't let them see me wallow.

Can't fight the memories...
In life we pay our deeds...
And now you've come and gone...
I'm left to write this song.

(Chorus)

How could it be like this...
In my life I'll surely miss...
I knew that I'd feel this way...
Why dont you go away.

Go away!

Turned us to rust and jade

Go away!

Watch as we rust and jade

SOLO

They say what doesn't kill you...
They say it makes you stronger...
I say what doesn't kill you...
I say may beat you longer.

It seems I found an ending...
An upside down beginning...
And with the new day pending...
A story never ending.

(Chorus)

How could it be like this...
In my life I'll surely miss...
I knew that I'd feel this way...
Why dont you go away.

How could it be like this...
In my life I'll surely miss...
I knew that I'd feel this way...
Turning to RUST & JADE!

NEVERMORE

Look around
And tell me what you see
Settle down
AND TELL ME WHAT YOU SEEK

I never felt like this before
I never should have shut that door
Why must I feel this way?
Bleed my soul nevermore…
Nevermore (3)

Look inside
And tell me what you feel
Chances shine
PLEASE TELL ME IS THIS TRULY REAL?
(MAKE IT REAL !)

I never lost like this before
I never meant to lock that door
Why must it be this way?
Bleed my soul nevermore…
Nevermore (3)

I can't deny
The reasons why I feel this way
It's in your eyes
SO SAD TO SEE MY WEAK THIS WAY
(I'M NOT WEAK !)

I never died like this before
I never shoulda locked that door
Why must it end this way?
Bleed my soul nevermore …

Nevermore…
(LET IT GO!)
Nevermore.. .
(WATCH IT DIE !)
Nevermore ..
(LEAVE IT LAY!)
Nevermore…
(FUCK'N BITCH!)
You lied, you lied, you lied...

MISERY'S CHILD

Never …
No never
It's always forever
The fire
The liar
I'm misery's child

The taker
The breaker
The misery maker
The darker
The crueler
I'm misery's child

Lo … how I wait how bleed for you
Lo … in this phase on my knees what to do
Lo … how I hate how I seethe over you
Lost in this place forever … times two

The needer
The bleeder
The agoney breeder
The blinder
Reminder …
I'm misery's child

The master
The caster
The heartache I'm after
The joker
The choker
I'm misery's child

Lo … how I wait how bleed for you
Lo … in this phase on my knees what to do
Lo … how I hate how I seethe over you
Lost in this place forever … times two

Never …
No never
It's always forever
The fire
The liar
I'm misery's child

The taker
The breaker
The misery maker
The darker
The crueler
I'm misery's child

I'm misery's child!
I'm misery's child!
I'm misery's child!

SHINE?

Why won't it shine?
Obsessing about you is all that I know
Locked in your cage and you wont let me go
Losing myself now I'm fading away
You'll know my name when I'm gone…

And still it won't shine
Buried by heartache, I'm living in shame
Living without you, it drives me insane
Can't be myself, without you by my side
YOU'LL KNOW MY NAME WHEN I'M GONE…

Heartache divine
I can't understand why you treat me this way
Secrets surround you I live in dismay
In orbit around you, is all I can be
You'll know my name when I'm gone…

Play with my mind
There's something about you that I just can't find
Deep down inside, I know I'm to blame
Each time I've fallen, I've fallen the same
YOU'LL KNOW MY NAME WHEN I'M GONE…

Shine… No never… shine …
you never…shine…no never…
shine… you'll never…shine!

(I hate you, I love you, I loath you, Why won't it shine?)

Why won't it shine?
Still I keep hoping that you might hold me
Just like the others you might help me be
Sucker for heartbreak, that's swallowing me
YOU'LL KNOW MY NAME WHEN I'M GONE…

WHEN I'M GONE… WHEN I'M GONE…
WHEN I'M GONE…

THE DAYS WENT SOUTH

DEDICATED TO THOSE LOST ON SEPTEMBER 11TH

The days went south, oh cant you see…
How loss brings on reality
A broken wish, still broken bare
Suffer through, oh sweet despair
Live thy own, and face thy pain
Cast the stone and face the shame
A kneeling man, his soul worn ill
He stands his ground at bottom hill

The days went south, oh cant you see…
How this world has corrupted me
It left me cold and bled me dry
It left me here to lie and die
As all burns all and all burns me
An act of hateful misery
The walls cry out and scream his name
Help me lord…I'm not to blame!

Tell me what do we do?
Hear the hero's screaming
Tell me where do we go?
When the days go south now
Tell me how can this be?
See the pillars burning down…
Tell me what do we do? …

Tell me what do we do?
Hear the hero's screaming
Tell me where do we go?
When the days go south now
Tell me why must this be?
See the pillars falling down…
Tell me what do we do?
When days go south…

Below ground zero…
The days went south…
Below ground zero!

WHAT DO WE DO UPON THIS HILL OF PAIN?
WHAT DO WE DO UPON THIS HILL OF SHAME?

WITH PASSING TIME

These wars I fear I've fought before
It seems that times will change no more for me…not for me…

I see the storm has come once more
Aint nothing I aint never seen before … well before…

Yet still I find with passing time
The cuts skin deep have pushed beyond the bone … beyond the bone …

What once was strong it still may last … as time does turn a shadow is cast on me … LET ME BE!

Fading, I'm fading away
Fading, I'm fading away
Fading, I'm fading away
Fading, Lord I'm fading away
(With passing time…)

The hours pass and ravage all … Yet I refuse to bend n' fall, I won't fall,
I just cant fall…

Yes once I stood above it all, today it seems I just can't stand as tall… no not as tall…

My body wanes, this soldier sighs, I feel I'm holding up the sky again…OVER ME !

Fading, I'm fading away
(With passing time…)
Fading, I'm fading away
Fading, I'm fading away
(I've passed my time)
Fading, Lord I'm fading away
(With passing time…)

I know that life won't last with all
Yet I can't seem to let it go today… no not today…

Cuz in my head a memory, a vision of what used to be for me … that I can't see…

There's so much left unsaid, undone …
Don't let there be a setting sun today … NO NOT TODAY !

Fading, I'm fading away
Fading, I'm fading away
Fading, I'm fading away
Fading, Lord I'm fading away
(With passing time…)

ALONE

Alone here waiting
With these suffering beaten brains
With no escape
You left me worse than you found me

How could this be…?
You went, you left, you've gone away
But now that it's over…
You said you hate but never told me why

Look at me a shell of a man
Look at you how tall you stand
Watch my pain with laughing eyes
All alone, alone I stand…

These bitter pills
That I've swallowed again and again and again
I'm reaching out…
I'm reaching out to denying hands
This lifeless prison
I've died twice, so why am I breathing?
Just make it over
I lost the plan and forgot the reason why…

Look at me a shell of a man
Look at you how tall you stand
Watch my pain with laughing eyes
All alone, alone I stand…

ALL ALONE, ALL ALONE, ALL ALONE
I'M ALONE…

Look at me a shell of a man
Look at you how tall you stand
Watch my pain with laughing eyes
All alone, alone I stand…

GATHER THE ASH

You say that I'm done...

You said that I'm done
That I've nothing left
My best days are gone
I'm living what's left

The burning that you smell
Comes from deep inside
I'm reeking of hope
I'm stinking of pride

Boo...Boo!
Do I scare you?
Boo...Boo!
I'm not like you!

Don't say that I'm done
I know my own heart
I'm living the role
Watch me play the part

Boo...Boo!
Do I scare you?
Boo...Boo!
I'm not like you!

If in the end they go down in flames...
Gather the ash and spread it like rain…

If in the end I go down in flames...
Gather the ash and spread it like rain…

ANAKA, "DOWN DEVIL'S ROAD" (2001)
COPYRIGHT 2001. All Rights Reserved.

RIDING ROAD NOWHERE

Lost in space, nowhere bound,
Dust in face, bloody frowned.
It's a long road my friend, and it's full of heartaches,
I'm riding road nowhere...hell yeah...
You choose you loose you never win,
You'll never see the sun again.

I lost my soul, my smile within,
I let it go when I let you in.
When they lay it on, they lay it on,
I'm riding road nowhere...
What's done is done, and your day is done,
You'll never feel again.

I lost my pride, I lost my steel,
I'm running now, behind the wheel.
I never though I'd see the day, I'd let it go,
I'm riding road nowhere...
I feel it blowing in the wind,
I see it coming round the bend again...I'm Nowhere... Shut that door, all be still,
A coffin ride, a broken will.
When you give it all, you give it all,
Your riding road nowhere...
What's done is done when there's no sun,
Down that dead end road again.
When you hear the call, you hear the call,
Your riding road nowhere...
I may rise and fall, but I'll still stand tall,
Down Devil's Road again.

Ride, ride, ride, ride, ride, ride on,
I'm riding road nowhere...
Ride, ride, ride, ride, ride on,
Ride on road nowhere.

I FEEL IT AGAIN

You write what you know, you bleed what you feel,
The deeper you go, the more it seems real.
Return to that place, the show must go on,
I'll make it a hit, cuz I lived this song.

Oh-oh-uh-oh, I feel it again,
Oh-oh-uh-oh, I live it again,
This heartache I feel, is my only home,
Return to that place, to sing you this song.

Revisit those pains, these words do express,
I feel it again, like a knife through my chest.
There's blood on these blessings, and torment within,
Reliving those heartbreaks, again and again.

Oh-oh-uh-oh, I feel it again,
Oh-oh-uh-oh, I live it again,
I am what I am, and I face it alone,
Return to that place, to sing you this song. This music I write, is all that I know,
Lord this pain, I just can't let go.
I know that I'm stuck here, my futures the past,
Rewriting my sorrow for a song that might last.

Oh-oh-uh-oh, I feel it again,
Oh-oh-uh-oh, I live it again,
This heartache I feel, is my only home,
Return to that place, to sing you this song.
I am what I am and I face it alone,
Return to that place, to sing you this song.

Oh-oh-uh-oh, I feel it again,
Oh-oh-uh-oh, I live it again,
This heartache I feel, is my only home,
Return to that place, to sing you this song.

I feel it again, still feel it again.

MOTHER MAY I

Mother may I sing this song
And speak of times, and what went wrong
And speak of times I did condemn
Your broken child will never mend

Mother may I don't you cry
Hold your tears and dry your eyes
I lost myself I must confess
I lost myself I must confess...

Mother may I onto ... the
Place this silent ago ... ny
Break those chains surrounding ... me
To live without your misery

Mother may I know you tried
To shield your boy from this world so wide
You gave me gifts of life and hope
I found my ways to trip and choke

Mother may I blame on me
The selflessness and what must be
In a world fits sky and sea
Still it seems it wont fit me

Mother may I onto ... the
Place this silent ago ... ny
Break those chains surrounding ... me
To live without your misery

Mother may I fathers frown
Erase those ways I've let you down
And if I could I'd try again
Would father smile or at least pretend

Mother may I wind blows on
Into the sky that blocks the sun
Father there's no hope when life's like this
And your the one I'll truly miss

Mother may I onto ... the
Place this silent ago ... ny
Break those chains surrounding ... me
To live without your misery.

CARRY ON

Patience is gone... (Patience)
Livings like always dying ... tired of this song
Got to find ways to carry...
Loss deep inside ... hearts been forever broken
Nowhere to hide ... Got to find ways to carry on,
And I know ... gray skies are calling my name
Thunder does churn ... I've got to find ways to carry on

Got to find ways to carry on ... Got to find ways to carry on

Ride that dust road ... seems the horizons fading
Where do I go? ... I got to find ways to carry...
Roam dusk till down ... not a clean face insight...
Why? I don't know ... I'm losing my path towards on and on, on I go
The twisting of thorns inside is tearing my soul
I've got to find ways to carry on

Got to find ways to carry on ... Got to find ways to carry on

Stains on my skin ... scar this man if you can
I'm losing again ... losing my faith in carry
Worn to the bone ... won't bend these knees to show them what they have done
I see no need to carry on, on and on, and on I'll forever go
When will it stop? ... I've got to find faith in carry on

Carry on ...
Got to find ways to carry on
Got to find ways to carry on
I've got to find ways to carry on

Patience is gone... (Patience)
Livings like always dying ... tired of this song
Got to find ways to carry...

BROKEN DOWN

Hey I'm broken, broken down
Minds been twisting, spinning around
Hearts been torn out, every which way
My body's been bleeding in its own special way

Hey I'm broken ... down
I'm still choking ... now
Said hey I'm broken ... down
And I'm still choking ... now

Hey there Satan I'm shot full of holes
Times been cheating, those years take their toll
My prides been beaten, tattered and torn
Yeah I've been broken since the day I was born
Hey I'm broken ... down
I'm still choking ... now
Said hey I'm broken ... down
And I'm still choking ... now

Hey I'm broken, broken down
Minds been twisting, just spinning around
Hearts been torn out, every which way
My body's been bleeding in its own special way

Hey I'm broken ... down
I'm still choking ... now
Said hey I'm broken ... down
And I'm still choking ... now

AGAINST THE GRAIN

Time takes time ... wont you been mind one more time
Pain it fades away ... it's gone to stay ... returns today
And Lord I've lost my way ... what can I say ... I'm lost today

Yeah ... one more, one more time to ease the pain
Yeah ... one more, one more time against the grain

Cost I paid the cost ... so lay your anger down on me
I'm tired, dog tired ... yeah I've lived it all way before
And lose, I've lost it all ... got nothing left my Lord but skin and bones

Yeah ... one more, one more time to ease the pain
Yeah ... one more, one more time against the grain

Time takes time ... as they leave you your left behind
And pain ... it's here to stay, it's the price you pay to taste the day
And heart ... it's all I've got now, it's all I need now to find my way

Yeah ... one more, one more time to ease the pain
Yeah ... one more, one more time against the grain

Yeah ... one more, one more time to ease the pain
Yeah ... one more, one more time against the grain

THE SORROW THAT LEFT ME HUMAN

Ain't it all so ironic
The way that shit turns out
Ain't it fucken pathetic
You left me reaching out

It's all right my boy he said
It happens to us all
It's all right my boy mislead
I've seen some wise men seen those wise men fall

That sorrow left me human
With nothing left to say
That sorrow left me human

She wasn't so sympathetic
But I can still hear her call
I told you she'd regret it ...
That no man stood so tall

It's all right my boy he said
There will come a day
It's aright my boy mislead
Cuz now your only, now you only human
That sorrow left me human
With nothing left to say
That sorrow left me human

And now that this is all over
And reminence still remain
I'll forget about my love child ...
If only to stay sane

It's all right my boy he said
It happens to us all
It's all right my boy mislead
Cuz its the sorrow that left me ... the sorrow that left me human

That sorrow left me human
With nothing left to say
That sorrow left me human