SYG "Not As Bad"

I came in third to everything
I need you to get here and pencil in anything
So many switches end the silence
I want to shout it out
And Resonate
A new way

All the long days
We couldn't always
Read the short way
Or read correctly

Please redirect me
If it stays here
Make it not too late
To get lost
Always anticipating blame

And I am aging here for all
All of the thing that will be new again

It's not as bad as bad as everyone says
Drink through what you can see through
If it breaks the rules they gave you
Take it off
Amnesia helps to get you there when
You can't remember how to
Let the cars do what they will do
When the train derails
Take this as your moment to fly.

Never back down
When jekyll'ed hands are
Idling to hyde
Personable personalities
For fear of being found out
Left behind

I'm younger guns
Travelling eastward
And up

Making good on claims to shove west
When gold country washes prospects in again

It's not as bad as bad as everyone says
Drink through what you can see through
If it breaks the rules they gave you
Take it off
Amnesia helps to get you there when
You can't remember how to
Let the cars do what they will do
When the train derails
Ditching the tracks for the town.

Let's rewrite nostalgic laws
Scream our lungs and walk past oz
Walk past foreign dreams to know it all
Because we are young
We are young
We are undone
And we know just what's good for us
True and real things can be touched and felt
And told without tongues

We search for new answers

It's not as bad as bad as everyone says
Drink through what you can see through
If it breaks the rules they gave you
Take it off
Amnesia helps to get you there when
You can't remember how to
Let the cars do what they will do
When the train derails
Take this as your moment to fly.

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SYG "Illuminated Youth" Featuring Andrew Neufield of Comeback Kid

Sound checks leak through venue doors.
Outside, fans are waiting for the show
to start and guards to let them through,
and everything once they're inside seems so exciting too.
It's sparkling and blue.
Now everything under the shining lights looks bright and new.
Illuminated youth.
Maybe you don't belong,
you've gotta let go to pretend.
Maybe you don't belong there's something for you.
Maybe you need escape, there's somewhere to go.
Tomorrow's so far away.
Sold out pre-sale barcode scans,
rush the stage to see the bands…
they're screaming for another song from them.
So step back before you fall harder again.
Don't let them put up a wall inside your head.
Restless legs, restless days.
Bored with the boxes, always.

[Andrew Neufield:]
PA's are speaking loud, young ears frequent the sound.
They're allowed to bruise picking what parts to use,
but where their feet are is a longer floor
that lessens the chore.
It's bigger, a crowded view.

Put tomorrow away.

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SYG "Raphael"

Pray for me now.
My thoughts are getting too loud.
Voices shuttering.
Everybody's well-being is suffering.
Speeding up, not slowing down.
Just waiting for the crash.
When bad is good just get higher.
Observe and lose through the wire.
I wanna know your story.
I'm sick of being boring.
After this I'll leave.
I will lose another for these balances
That I need to achieve to control.
I'm figuring it out.
I think I might be done.
Negative energy.
A vampire entity sucking with force.
Intent to implode.
Your glow is lesser.
My dragging it shows.
I will drain myself for surfacing
And promising every little problem on you.
Everything is a distraction here.
The moral debts I know will never clear.
Though it's not pretty,
You won't be ok without the experience
To know that I am no good.
I fought myself before,
And then I fought you, too.
Use the sharp end cause I took the scissors.
Whatever you have,
Just make sure that it's bigger.
I run with weapons and fall down the stars.
I aggravate midnight-vets,
On their bikes, getting weird.
If I had enough sticks
I'd aim for every spoke
Without first giving thought
To whether they're friend or foe.
It's all obstructive self-destruction.
I've run out of all other fun.
Something's wrong.
My vision is changing.
I get scared.
It keeps taking.
My eyelids are shaking.
I'm still afraid.
It's taking me.
It's anti-matter.
It ruins and it shatters.
Where I go is void of direction.
There are no other questions.
There are facts and there's pressure,
Separation and fractures.
From the left to the right
To the whites of my eyes that pry
At the lights that come when we die consciously.
Bring rest to me.

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SYG "Product Of The 80's"

Put me into syndication,
broadcast to a network station
of people viewing their favorite episodes.
I can't find a new pitch to throw the studios.

I need a re-run to better cast
the next series of events in the air-timeline lapse.

My made-for-TV type was written off
in the last season when I wasn't focused on the cue.

I grew up with David Lee and Tiffany,
in love with Billy Jean
and I was terrified of Freddy.

I grew up, no DVD's, or mp3's, or plasma screen TV's
because I'm a product of the 80's.

When Punky Brewster came around,
the afternoon stopped being down.
For Pacific/Eastern times
and the Bayside "Saved By…" teens
who were opening with lines a
nd the songs that became our themes.
"Like a Prayer" and "Like a Virgin,"
a music to video version.

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syg "Unconditional"

Somebody show me the way to take the phone call that I got today.
I feel sick, I can't believe my ears.
This can't be possible, will somebody disconfirm my fears?

This can't be true. Silence has ruined me with these secrets,
so hard to keep, so forget about them forgetting.

Not gonna be a second chance.
I'll never push you away but I still don't know how to make this okay.

I'll never push you away, blood is thicker than shame.
I see you fall down.
I'll never push you away because you're my family,
it's unconditional.

I'll never push you away but this is killing me.
It's a bitter pill to take.
Where do we go from here,
and will we ever be normal again?
Degraded with this sin you've kept within,
it's like a stain that you will wear inside,
that you can never wash away.
This silence is ruining our lives.
Your secrets I can't keep inside.
You're suffocating all the good we see in you.
This is so hard to swallow, it's a bitter pill to take.
You are ruining what feels smaller than the rest
of your troubles (so) let's move on,
it's been unspoken for so long.

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SYG "Exit Summer"

I know that things have never come too easily for us
And with every door that opened, a dozen seem to shut.
We took a crash course in how to co-exist
But we never once expected this.
We paved the way for others and we did it all ourselves,
Never slowing down or asking anyone for help.
Conviction came when no one else believed in us.

And will you regret all that we've done (we’ve done)
And all the sacrifices for the songs?
Will you even look back when it's gone (it’s gone)
When there's nobody left to sing along?

We had nothing left to lose and we had everything to learn.
We didn't give a damn if home was there when we returned.
We jumped into the seat, drove straight into the dark.
We couldn't wait to disembark.
We learned about each other more with every place we went.
We learned that we had more than just ourselves to represent.
We tried so hard to keep from hitting self-destruct.

And will you regret all that we've done (we’ve done)
And all the sacrifices for the songs?
Will you even look back when it's gone (it’s gone)
When there's nobody left to sing along?

All we are is taking one more song.
Heaven and Hell are both depending on how we bond.
How we all relate to circumstance.
Took the call and took a chance
That leaves us looking up
And helps us to grow up
And helps us to grow up

Don't let it slip away

When every break we got
Would come with such bad luck,
The others gave and took.
We're not oblivious.

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syg "The Last American Virgin"

I've got a date and a ticket receipt,
I've got some spending money saved and a place we can meet.
Can you think of any destination you've been dying to see?

Say the word and we'll leave.
The weather's fine, we've got plenty of time.
There's only one thing keeping me from booking a flight:
I've got to know that you mean it when you say
that this feels right.

I kept expectations low with the promise of what will grow.
What is this doing to me?
Are you feeling the same thing?
Let's just get out of here, let's get this off the ground.
The plane won't stick around.
Like a dot on the map turning
every page to find where you're at.

I wanna help you to get from A, to B, to C,
and then back to me;
so this can be more than one event we share back when,
once upon a time across the sea.
My heart, I'll keep it low if I should lose control.

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SYG "Trenches"

So much will go untold from these travels of the road.
The truth remains at rest in jars within the souls
of all the lost and transient forgotten men.

There is so much that lies behind those smiling faces
and what's within would take a lifetime to tell,
so be careful what you wish for.

Take my hand and see:
you're falling in love with the skyline.
Nothing comes for free:
can you put a price on feeling satisfied?

They kiss them all goodbye,
there's no place they can ever call home again;
reflections in their minds.

When they come back
they won't appreciate the life they've left behind.
People grow apart and move away
and it's a part of growing older,
so they say.
They hit the gas and they swear they live by rock 'n roll.
They say they're unable to let go.
It's the fear or the ego, so take your pick.

Like soldiers marching into the front lines,
is it something that you'll come to regret?
blinded by the shining in their eyes,
is it something that you'll come to regret?
This is your life.
Keep rolling the dice.

Take my hand and see:
you're falling in love with the skyline.
Nothing comes for free:
can you put a price on feeling satisfied?

(Take my hand and see)
You're falling in love with the skyline.
(Nothing comes for free)
Can you put a price on feeling satisfied?

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SYG "London Heathrow"

So let's take this slow,
as if I should even be one to talk.
Constantly moving on all my luck.

So fast, like a rabbit, then getting stuck.
I cannot give up.
In a briar patch I knew I would meet you
but I'm stopped, not sure it's entirely true.

Deja vu of people that I knew already
and what I did to them…this is getting heavy,
and spinning me places that I wish I deserved to be.

I have to block it before my intuition deceives me.
I rocket back to the earth like an alien
looking for blue-planet rays to become human.
I have a gift that tells of every curse,
so make a move for the exit.

But your laugh shakes me up and it makes me clean
between an XM pop-rock takeover queen and
an old friend who left a spell,
lifted every curse,
and made a move from the entrance.

So I'll get nervous one more time,
watching hands (not mine) shaking 'maybe' signs,
tying hair with a flare that's ready
to fly aboard civilian crimes.

They're knife-cutting all the lines.
I don't at all care why.
I'm staring like I've got a better idea.
I saw you scrambling numbers and
highlighting fluorescent wit
with a study pen on airline standby trends.

Believe me, I see things.
Not crazy.
I've come clean, not wasting.
Not lazy, done chasing.

I knew you would be there but I couldn't believe it.
My friends know I'm out there to speak truths and take dares.
A-B (row) 52, and it's 30 degrees.
I'm making sense with this movie
on the back of the seat on the port-side of this ride.

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SYG "Happy New Year"

I never want to look back again on the events of 2010.
I can't escape what's in my head. T
here's no repentance when I've served my sentence.
The candle's burning at both ends.

Winter's cold and I'm dreading coming home,
far from anyone I know at all.
Never felt so alone
because the hope of Spring died with the Fall.

I can finally feel content.
I can't help but smile when I know
things can't get worse than this.

I see things clearly and I loved them dearly.
A timeline stained with tragedy and death.
The clock keeps turning faster when
the candle's burning at both ends.

Rub these dark circles from my eyes,
a brighter future's on the rise.
I'll leave commitments pending.
The worst year of my life is ending.
I watch the dates expire, caught in a flicker of a fire.

The hands are turning 'round,
the hours counting down, and it's all over now.
All that I had burned to the ground.
All that will never be,
I watched it die in front of me.

A living nightmare was born in this year.
There are dark clouds all around me
and I couldn't see the sun even if I tried.

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SYG "Certain"

Hey if you really wanna fight with me
Then drop the act and take accountability.
And own your wrongs and keep them near
Don’t waive your love for foolish fears.

Attention threatened me
Now I give an apology
When stressing is no way to be
With no measure on how hard I could pull

Oh why do we do all the things we do
That serve only to harm? I left her feeling used
The other person we had I lost in the crash.
I take him out to choose.

Hey if you really wanna fight with me
Then drop the act and take accountability.
And own your wrongs and keep them near
Don’t waive your love for foolish fears.

Someone who’s certain and certain you’re falling

It’s in the beating of another breed
It’s in the pulse of the apology
If you cut the tension in the monologue
Embed "no hope, give up" it means "let it be"

If you want to be asleep just hold my hand.
Believe.

But if you really wanna fight with me
Then drop the act and take accountability.
And own your wrongs and keep them near
Don’t waive your love for foolish fears.

You don’t know what you’re really scared of I can tell
The circles that you’re running in your mind
All well remove me from your sights and scare your heart
from feeling mine

For where you’re at!
You need to be yourself

I wore off

A good face
A good place
I was safe

Hey if you really wanna fight with me
Then drop the act and take accountability.
And own your wrongs and keep them near
Don’t waive your love for foolish fears.

You don’t know what you’re really scared of I can tell
The circles that you’re running in your mind
All well remove me from your sights and scare your heart
from feeling mine

Someone who’s certain and certain you’re falling
Someone who’s certain and certain you’re falling

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SYG "Start The Reactor"

If you don't need a thing from me
I'll get out of here, I'll leave
Cause I've never cared what they think
and I've never been afraid but if I want to learn how to be
I won't need to look far to see

It's just the way I feel
I wanna break things, I wanna break rules
I don't do this to fit in or feel cool
I do this because it's what I love
I always want to feel this young!
(Oh oh)

Take back (what's yours!)
Don't let it slip away
Feel the fear and know it's here
and disregard it anyway
Looking back at! Looking back at your life
If you know yourself then you can trust when it's right

It's just the way I feel
I wanna break things, I wanna break rules
I don't do this to fit in or feel cool
I do this because it's what I love
I always want to feel this young!

So we strive to do the best that we can
with the cards that have been placed in our hands
Don't forget about the things that you said
all we wish for is gone in the end
(Don't let) Just remember what matters the most
(Fantasy) Is the why's of the do's and the dont's
(blind you from) There are reasons behind all the rules
(Reality) Don't forget or you'll fall

It's just the way I feel
I wanna break things, I wanna break rules
I don't do this to fit in or feel cool
I do this because it's what I love
I always want to feel this young!
I always want to feel this young!

So when you look back will you let go?
Learn from the past or you will never know!
So when you look back will you let go?
Learn from the past or you will never know!

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SYG "Cure For Apathy"

I had been asleep since 1983
Trying to escape the monsters in my head.
Now as I lay in my bed awake,
I wonder where I'd be without them.

There will be wisdom here in time.
And all the stars will be aligned.
Ebb and flow the changing tide.
Under the stars we see tonight.

I can't stop myself from thinking and it keeps me up at night.
Second guessing choices got me where I am today.
But this is the bed I've made, I've gone after it for so long.
So this is where my head shall lay, I can't turn away.

There will be wisdom here in time.
And all the stars will be aligned.
Ebb and flow the changing tide.
Under the stars we see tonight.

They're watching you, you know they're counting down.
Every step is sinking through the ground.
Don't they know I'm never going back.
To a world I never fit into anyway?

There will be wisdom here in time.
And all the stars will be aligned.
Ebb and flow the changing tide.
Under the stars we see tonight.

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