I'm Afraid

vocals, electric guitar, reason programming - Roland Satterwhite
electric guitar - Jesse Lewis
piano - Matt Kanelos
drums - Chris Michael
bass - Mark Verdino

How many words does it take before this microphone will break
how many does it take to describe just the itch in your eye
how many words to change baby's mind when she disagrees
how many does it take to get back to the path of righteousness from the point of no direction
I'm afraid unless you got music playing and angels swaying people your way
you got words that are practically worthless
words that are practically worthless
you got words that are practically worthless

I'm afraid

But how many times stick in your mind
what are the top-five moments in your life you can say you removed the blind
and let the light shine in to catch you cowering in fear
were they tragedies or comedies
were you alone or were you two or three
were nature drugs or sex involved to make you leave the building
to make you change the way you see
you got words that are practically worthless
words that are practically worthless
you got words that are practically worthless

You don't need them to know right from wrong or to fall in love or to get along
you don't need them to drive a car or to play guitar or to shoot a gun
or to think for yourself or to get this song or pray to god or to eat or drink or to
make a stand or play it cool and take her hand
Helen Keller might disagree and so might the writers of poetry and so might the people who like to read it
and so might I if I'm on the train and I wanna know what happening what's happening,
what's happening, what's happening to me
I used to know who I wanna to be
'till I started reading books and the op-ed page
'till I started using words in a diary
and then I started seeing things a little differently to say the least to say the least