Minutes to Midnight Lyrics!
I. Wake

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II. Given Up

Wake in a sweat again
Another day's been laid to waste
In my disgrace
Stuck in my head again
Feels like I'll never leave this place
There's no escape

I'm my own worst enemy...

I've given up; I'm sick of feeling
Is there nothing you can say
Take this all away; I'm suffocating
Tell me what the f*** is wrong with me

I don't know what to take
Thought I was focused but I'm scared
I'm not prepared
I hyperventilate
Looking for help somehow somewhere
And no one cares

I'm my own worst enemy...

I've given up; I'm sick of feeling
Is there nothing you can say?
Take this all away; I'm suffocating
Tell me what the f*** is wrong with me

Put me out of my misery
Put me out of my misery
Put me out of my...
Put me out of my f***ing misery...

I've given up; I'm sick of feeling
Is there nothing you can say
Take this all away; I'm suffocating
Tell me what the f*** is wrong with me
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III. Leave out all the Rest

I dreamed I was missing, you were so scared
But no one would listen, 'cause no one else cared
After my dreaming, I woke with this fear:
What am I leaving when I am done here?

So if you're asking me,
I want you to know....

When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed
And don't resent me, when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory, and leave out all the rest

Leave out all the rest; don't be afraid
I've taken my beating, I've shared what I've made
I'm strong on the surface, not all the way through
I've never been perfect, but neither have you

So if you're asking me,
I want you to know....

When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed
Don't resent me, and when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory, and leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest...

Forgetting all the hurt inside that you've learned to hide so well
Pretending someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are

When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed
Don't resent me, and when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory, leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest...

Forgetting all the hurt inside you've learned to hide so well
Pretending someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are

I can't be who you are...

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IV. Bleed It Out

Here we go for the hundredth time
Hand grenade pins in every line
Throw them up and let something shine
Going out of my f***in mind
Filthy mouth, no excuse
Find a new place to hang this noose
String me up from atop these roofs
Knot it tight so I won't get loose
The truth is you can stop and stare
Run myself out and no one cares
Dug the trench out, dug down there
Put the shovel up out of reach somewhere
Someone pour it in, make it a dirt dance floor again
Say your prayers and stomp it out
When they bring that chorus in

I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away
Just to throw it away, just to throw it away
I bleed it out

I bleed it out, go, stop the show
Drop your boards and let sloppy show
Shotgun opera lock and load
Cock it back and then watch it go
Momma help me, I've been cursed
Death is rolling in every verse
Candy paint on his brand new hearse
Can't contain and he knows he works
f*** this hurts, I won't lie
Doesn't matter how hard I try
Half the words don't mean a thing
And I know that I won't be satisfied
So why, try ignore him?
Make it a dirt-dance floor again
Say your prayers and stomp it out
When they bring that chorus in

I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away
Just to throw it away, just to throw it away
I bleed it out

I've opened up these scars
I'll make you face us
I've pulled myself so far
I'll make... you... face... us... now...

I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away
Just to throw it away, just to throw it away
I bleed it out
Digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away
Just to throw it away, just to throw it away
I bleed it out, I bleed it out
I bleed it out

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V. Shadow of the Day

I close both locks below the window
I close both blinds and turn away
Sometimes delusions aren't so simple
Sometimes goodbye is the only way

And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in gray
And the sun will set for you

And cards and flowers on your window
Your friends all plead for you to stay
Sometimes beginnings aren't so simple
Sometimes goodbye is the only way

And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in gray
And the sun will set for you

And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in gray
And the sun will set for you

And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in gray
And the sun will set for you

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VI. What I've Done

Duh, you don't know?
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VII. Hands Held High

Turn my mic up louder, I've got to say something
Lightweights stepping aside when we come in
Feel it in your chest, the syllables get pumpin
People on the street, they panic and start running
Words on loose leaf sheet complete coming
Jump in my mind, I summon the rhyme I'm dumpin
I'm healing the blind, I promise to let the sun in
Sick of the dark ways we march to the drumming
Jump when they tell us that they want to see jump
f*** that, I want to see some fists pumpin
I missed something, take back what's yours
Say something that you know they might attack you for
'Cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before
Like I'm stupid standing for what I'm standing for
Like this war's really just a different brand of war
Like it doesn't cater to rich and abandon poor
Like they understand you in the back of the jet
When you can't put gas in your tank
These f***ers are laughing their way to the bank
And cashing their check, asking you
To have compassion and have some respect
For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
The rest of the world watching at the end of the day
In the living room, laughing, like, what did he say?

Amen... Amen... Amen... Amen...
Amen...

In my living room, watching, but I am not laughing
'Cause when it gets tense, I know what might happen
The world is cold, and bold men take action
Have to react or get blown into fractions
Ten years old, and something to see
Is another kid my age drugged under a jeep
Taken abound and found later under a tree
I wonder if he thought the next one could be me
Do you see? The soldiers that are out today
That brush the dust with bullet proof vests away
It's ironic, at times like this you pray
But a bomb blew tha mosque up yesterday
There's bombs on the buses, bikes, roads
Inside your market, your shops, your clothes
My dad, he's got a lot of fear I know
But enough pride inside not to let that show
My brother had a book he would hold with pride
A little red cover with a broken spine
In the back, he hand wrote a quote inside
'When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die'
Meanwhile, their leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for Nightly News to replay
The rest of the world watching at the end of the day
Both scared and angry, like, "what did he say?"

Amen... Amen... Amen... Amen...
Amen...

With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you

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VIII. No More Sorrow

Are you lost in your lies
Do you tell yourself I don't realize
Your crusade's a disguise
Replace freedom with fear; You trade money for lies

I'm aware of what you've done

No! No more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be replaced!

I see pain, I see need
I see liars and thieves, replace power with greed
I had hope, I believed
But I'm beginning to think that I've been decieved

You will pay for what you've done!

No! No more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be replaced!

Lies and hypocrites
Thieves and hypocrites
Thieves and hypocrites!

No! No more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be replaced!
No more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be replaced!

Your time has come to be replaced!
Your time has come to be erased!

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IX. Valentine's Day

My insides all turn to ash, so slow
And the waves inside collide, so cold
A black winter blew away, from sight
And how the darkness over days, that night

And the clouds above moved closer
Looking so dissatisfied
But the heartless wind kept blowing, blowing

I used to be my own protection, but not now
'Cause my path has lost direction, somehow
A black winter blew away, from sight
And how the darkness over day, that night

And the clouds above moved closer
Looking so dissatisfied
And the ground below grew colder
As they put you down inside
But the heartless wind kept blowing, blowing

So now you're gone
And I was wrong
I never knew what it was like
To be alone....

On a Valentine's Day...On a Valentine's Day
On a Valentine's Day...On a Valentine's Day

On a Valentine's Day...On a Valentine's Day
[I used to be my own protection, but not now]
On a Valentine's Day...On a Valentine's Day
['Cause my mind has lost direction, somehow]
On a Valentine's Day...On a Valentine's Day
[I used to be my own protection, but not now]
On a Valentine's Day...On a Valentine's Day
['Cause my mind has lost direction, somehow]
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X. In Between

Let me apologize to begin with
Let me apologize for what I'm about to say
But trying to be genuine was harder than it seemed
And somehow I got caught up in between

Let me apologize to begin with
Let me apologize for what I'm about to say
But trying to be someone else was harder than it seemed
And somehow I got caught up in between
Between my pride, and my promise
Between my lies, and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is none

Let me apologize to begin with
Let me apologize for what I'm about to say
But trying to regain your trust was harder than it seemed
And somehow I got caught up in between
Between my pride, and my promise
Between my lies, and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is none
The only thing that's worse than one is none...

And I can not explain to you in anything I say or do or plan
Fear is not afraid of you, guilt's a language you can understand
I can not explain to you in anything I say or do
But I hope that actions speak the words they can

For my pride and my promise
For my lies, and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is
Pride, and my promise
Between my lies and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is none
The only thing that's worse than one is none
The only thing that's worse than one is none

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XI. In Pieces

Telling me to go, but hands beg me to stay
Your lips say that you love, your eyes say that you hate

There's truth in your lies, doubt in your faith
What you build, you lay to waste
There's truth in your lies, doubt in your faith
All I've gots what you didn't take

So I...
I won't be the one
Be the one to leave this, in pieces
And you...
You will be alone...
Alone with all your secrets, and regrets
Don't lie

You promised me the sky, then tossed me like a stone
You wrapped me in your arms, And chill me to the bone

There's truth in your lies, doubt in your faith
All I've gots what you didn't take

So I...
I won't be the one
Be the one to leave this, in pieces
And you...
You will be alone...
Alone with all your secrets, and regrets
Don't lie

So I...
I won't be the one
Be the one to leave this, in pieces
And you...
You will be alone...
Alone with all your secrets, and regrets
Don't lie
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XII. The Little Things Give You Away

Water came through the windows, up the stairs
Chilling there, like an ocean everywhere

Don't want to reach for me, do you?
I mean nothing to you, the little things give you away
And now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking

All you've ever wanted...
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water, I do...

Hope decays, generations disappear
Washed away, as a nation simply stares

Don't want to reach for me, do you?
I mean nothing to you, the little things give you away
But now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking

All you've ever wanted...
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water, I do...
All you've ever wanted...
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet underground, now I...
Now I do...

[Build to guitar solo]

Oh... Oh...
The little things give you away... the little things give you away
All you've ever wanted was someone to truly look up to you
All you've ever wanted was someone to truly look up to you