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CROWBAR LYRICS
"Past And Present" (1997 Best of/Compilation)
1. All I Had (I Gave)
2. Existence Is Punishment
3. The Only Factor
4. Still I Reach
5. Vacuum
6. Subversion
7. Waiting in Silence
8. High Rate Extinction (live)
9. I Have Failed (live)
10. Fixation (live)
11. 4 Walls (live)
12. Self-Inflicted
1. All I Had (I Gave)
How long have I given all I've got?
Here I stand
My days and nights now are solitude
I struggle on
I've paid my price
All I had I gave
So much still lingers inside my head
I've lost it all
No trace of tolerance I can find
An empty heart
I've paid my price
All I had I gave
Save all that you feel for me
2. Existence Is Punishment
I gave my heart and soul to you my friend
You let me fall
If you could only see what's in my heart
You'd take my hand
I've lived this life as a man would do
Why's it so hard to find the truth?
My faith is strong within myself
I bleed of pride
Inside
I won't forgive
You can't take it back now
It's to hard to swallow
No words
No conviction
I've found the truth inside myself
But I am still doing time
Opened my eyes to what is real
This world is hard
It's cold
It's agony
3. The Only Factor
I want my share
of all that I've given to you
Take it, take it
Walk all over me
I'm putting that to an end
Right now
Think how you want
but I know I'm living the truth
Break it, break it
Get myself clean
and lose all this negative shit
I said
Never again, never again
Too hard
Giving myself the power
to make it all end
Take it, take it
Be my own man
stand up and never look back
Never
Through my suffering
indulging in all that I could
No lie
Keep myself clean
a fight that I know I can't quit
I said
I know that time will be
The only factor
4. Still I Reach
Lie here in a tortured world
So much I see
All the pain of a broken man
Still I believe
The truth never gets away
And so I reach
Want the answer to make it right
And so I seek
Isolated inside these walls
I do my time
Solitude is my enemy
I stay confined
Had to learn how to live again
Now it's complete
Found the answer to make it right
All I need
5. Vacuum
Restrained by fear cannot face the world
No fall from grace
No smiling face only swollen fists
Focused on rage
These walls of pain closing in on me
Crushed by the weight
Love left behind I feel nothingness
Anger inflates
Indignation fills my every thought
Feel I can't cope
This house of glass I am trapped inside
Begging for stones
No black or whites I see only grey
This cycle turns
I see the end but cannot reach
My world it burns
Take me
Feel my pain
Feel me
Take my pain
6. Subversion
I feel it
It's nothing new
Depression
My life is through
To end it
I feel the need
Suspend it
My will I feed
I realize that you're now gone
I lie here awake 'til dawn
Don't stop me
Just let it end
Goodbye now
No love I'll send
7. Waiting in Silence
I'm trapped in darkness
Life is no more
Unending pain and agony
Waiting in Silence cold and alone
Must I live out death endlessly?
Take my sanity
Take it from me
Let me live to die again
I see myself through eyes of the past
They give me life eternally
Dreams of the living keep me alive
They are my blood
They set me free
8. High Rate Extinction (live)
Reign over you another day
Take all I can
Slave to me there's no other way
Break all I can
Come and taste me
Stay and praise me
Take all I can while I burn you down
Weak man
Weak man
You know you never will be free
Come for you time after time and again
Crawl with me
Give me what I need from you
Don't question why
On your knees in front of me
Weak man
Weak man
9. I Have Failed (live)
Rule me no more
I control my mind
I will not give myself to you again
Weakness is pain
Your strength is twisting me
I've never felt so helpless and alone
I have failed
Nowhere to turn
There's growth in pain I feel it
I pray to God it's not too late for me
Hard to believe on man could lose to such
All that I've lost can never be conceived
I have failed
10. Fixation (live)
Burning hunger to rid you from
my mind
You control me, the blind leading
the blind
You are poison but you numb all
my pain
Dying slowly, dying life that you
drain
My blood is toxic and my veins
burn for you
You are nothing but you´re all
that I do
You won´t break me
11. 4 Walls (live)
I pull the punch when I hit the walls
No one pulls shit when I fall
I'm isolated in a century of despair
Man's love's reflecting my walls are bare
My 4 walls
What a man needs when a man bleeds
Isolated
I am condemned
My life is drugged with sadness
I praise my sleep
It free's me from madness
In solitude my walls are bleeding sorrow
I have no future
No tomorrow
My hate explodes
Only my 4 walls know
There's no pity
Only peeling white snow
Headaches
Heartaches
It only gets worse
Inside my 4 walls
I am cursed
12. Self-Inflicted
I'll never lose the scars you gave
No longer can I live in peace
I'll carry anguish to the grave
Frustration that I can't release
Self-Inflicted
Self-Inflicted
To see you smile it cuts me deep
Knowing that you're no longer here
I see you dying as I sleep
Wish I could leave it all:
Self-Inflicted
Self-Inflicted
All my pain is
All this pain is
Self-Inflicted
Self-Inflicted
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