Stop Me if im lyin [may 09]

perception, the lies, seeing the disguise

deception, denies, breaking all the ties

for once in your life, believe the words they save

once in a while, you find the ones who want to stay

its in fate and in karma, that things just get better

and its that time in your life, you stop hating the first letter

take a walk in the night, back in time to the fight

when the drugs and the love of the worst kind ruled your life

when everyone looked past a burnout, downtown, down on his luck

he was looking down on the burnouts scattered all over the town

but he was high up busy with killing himself, too busy to come down

though he could look around he never saw the safety net

then he would be used for free, a fool, a pet

she came down to help him out? or just to get a free ticket around

he never knew better, believed it all along,

at one point thought he was happy, but was dead wrong

she got a new bud, he knew him already

she tried to play it off, claimed it was just a mistake

she didnt know how right she was, dropped out where she couldnt follow

mistakently upset he found comfort in that bottle

still up hihg on his tight rope walking, high above the shattered ground

but he still could not see the safety net all around.

and one day he jumped, fell from that rope

holding onto what he had, holding onto the hope

but puppetmaster says you cannot come down

this life is not only yours, you have more comin around

he knew the bullshit, its not a babies day,

so he lept with the rest, in hopes to be saved

too bad he found a hole in that net, wide open, woven friends had made

but what would you expect when those titles are fake

go save a life he heard, its in you to try

because it was a very sad sight, i could see him die

the pulls put him down and the others force him up

killin himself this way just wasnt enough

he wont last long he is near the end of his fall

now he falls through the clouds, and what he can see is the ground

falling faster than the rain around, but he is calm for now

one hundred more feet, he can smell the trees, soon he can possibly feel the grass on his feet

seconds later, face to the ground, living, breathing, feeling

with a broken neck though he cannot look around

eyes set on a river, to wash away his pain

with the rain rushing down, he crawls down for a life to save

i look down on him to see his ways

and before he knows it he is free of pain

shattered from the fall they will need to save his places

a savior arrives to pick of the peices

a savior that fell with a line cut safety net, to join him for this reason

but he learned to save a life, he wont regret a thing

as he lays there in the rain, he realizes, "it"s big.