DEAR LEADER SONG INFORMATION

Our neighborhoods they are in decline
The nightmare alleys and the creepy dives
They’re full of anarchists
And plotting terrorists with killing minds

We should have stopped them in the 80’s
Waterfall hair us cold war babies
Where the line for right and wrong
Was a desperate sing-a-long about Reagan

And we sing for our lives
These are dangerous times
Your voice is like a knife
You’re dangerous

I watch for psychos on the subways
Thinking each ride could be the last day
The only way to drown the fear
The tiny voices in your ear…”revolution”

And we sing for our lives
These are dangerous times
Your voice is a knife
You’re dangerous

We sing for our lives
These are dangerous times
Your voice is like a knife
You’re dangerous

Radar

In my comeback, I’m gonna play it safe
Feels like forever and a day

I got radar (3x)
And I never believed you

In my fallback, I’m gonna make the trade
Forever faithful to betrayed

I got radar (3x)
And I never believed you

I won’t blame you
Cause in a way, I had it coming
As faults fly, and we choose
To run away, never loving
Time it changes you
You never were the same
Oh, and if I knew the real truth
Then we’d both get carried away

In my comeback, I’m gonna play it safe
Feels like forever and a day

I got radar (3x)
And I never believed you

I won’t blame you
Cause in a way, I had it coming
As faults fly, and we choose
To run away, never loving
Time it changes you
You never were the same
Oh, and if I knew the real truth
Then we’d both get carried away

Let’s get carried away
Do you wanna get carried away

Father Baker

You stole the car with your parents asleep
Stupid kids do stupid things
Joy riding and aching to be
On our way to heartbreak street

Don’t you know the lake is frozen
There you are you forgot your coat again
We’re spinning in your car on an icy road in Buffalo
And Father Baker screaming in heaven somewhere

And the weekends die on Sunday
With the lead-up to the weekly grind
And we’re living on beer and gas-station food
On our way to nowhere good

Don’t you know the lake is frozen
There you are you forgot your coat again
Spinning in your car on an icy road in Buffalo
And Father Baker screaming in heaven somewhere

Singing Catholic Rules you Irish fools
Mixing politics and women
Suburban boys
They search and destroy
Undermining my authority

Don’t you know the lake is frozen
There you are you forgot your coat again
Spinning in your car on an icy road in Buffalo
And Father Baker screaming in heaven somewhere (3x)

Monuments and Shrines

Lift up your voice and sing
Monuments and shrines to liberty
Let me know
Let me know how it feels to fail
Raise every voice and scream
Keep on living in your fucking dream
Let me know
Let me know how it feels to fail

Silence captures night
And the hope that guides us
Are the words that divide us
Revolutions die
But the truth can guide us
If love can find us

Are we men or are we thieves
Here to kill all our enemies
Let me know
Let me know if you thirst for blood
Are we men or are we wolves
Here to kill just like animals
Let me know
Let me know if you thirst for blood

Silence captures night
And the hope that guides us
Are the words that divide us
Revolutions die
But the truth can guide us
If love can find us

This grief united but still alone
This rage inside of everyone
In the cities, in the heartland
The isolation grows
As the forests turn to wasteland
And our true feelings show

Lift up your voice and sing
Monuments and shrines to liberty
Let me know
Let me know how it feels to fail
Raise every voice and scream
Keep on living in your fucking dream
Let me know
Let me know how it feels to fail

Silence captures night
And the hope that guides us
Are the words that divide us
Revolutions die
But the truth can guide us
If love can find us

Tonight
Do you think love will find us tonight (2x)
Do you think love can find us tonight (5x)

Labor On

With grateful hearts and humble heads
We push forward until the end
And with worn hands and broken dreams
We labor on
Spend and be spent

Well there is work for us all
Things to achieve and things to become
And as time moves on the answer becomes clearer
Life’s too short to worry about the details

Oh and the less I have the more I smile
These complications that surround you and I

Well labor on you plan ahead
Labor on
Spend and be spent

Oh I could have been something beautiful
Hold on to those dreams and hope that your God’s merciful
Cause the less I have the more I smile
These complications that surround you and i
It’s the little things we share in life
Well I treasure our past every day and every night

Labor on (4x)
Keep dreaming
Keep dreaming
Bethlehem the eye sore all covered in snow
Bethlehem of the Great Lakes where there is no hope
Well I treasure the friendships, I treasure the darkness
I even treasure the cold

Labor on (2x)
Bethlehem’s my home
Bethlehem the shame
Without it’s thick gray smoke in my veins
There’d be no great highs
There’d be no sad lows
It’d feel all the same

Labor on…(keep dreaming, there’s no tomorrow, there’s no beginning, keep dreaming)

Bleed

Repair the temple, repair the good word in the name of all that’s sacred
Well unloose my lips, untie my tongue as this world spills out it’s hatred
And op-operate, op-operate - with surgical hands we try
And op-operate, op-operate - well it’s hard when we say goodbye

(chorus)
If I bleed is that enough
If I bleed why can’t you love
It’s not enough
It’s not enough for us

All good men to the third war, the mercy beat is calling
With hope in the balance, faith in our heart, I think the sky is falling
And op-operate, op-operate - we pray for our redemption
And op-operate, op-operate - it’s a monument stone convention

chorus (2x)

And all is quiet in pigeon park
No use for fighting, we need a spark
To let the light in through this dark
These new Dark Ages

Well if I bleed is that enough
If I bleed why can’t you love
It’s not enough
It’s not enough for us

Well if I bleed is that enough
If I bleed why can’t you love
It’s not enough
It’s not enough for us

It’s not enough
It’s not enough for us
It’s never enough
It’s never enough for us

This Is Our War

Rent-a-cops with armored vests
Infantry with bayonets
Lock up those vagrants
Those old filthy drunks
Round up your children
The heads and the punks

This is our war
Gather ‘round the truth is burning
Our war
With ourselves
This is tough love
Culture shock
Division
The answer is death

Level those houses, don’t spare a soul
Evil is lurking In every dark hole
Pray for the Suburbs
Boredom can breed
A thousand more killers to spread this disease

This is our war
Gather ‘round the truth is burning
Our war
With ourselves
This is tough love
Culture shock
Division
The answer is death

This is our war
Gather ‘round the truth is burning
It’s our war
With ourselves
This is tough love
Culture shock
Division
The answer is death

Empty Chair

Underneath the gathering sky
About to open up and change our lives
Well gone are the days, gone the ever after
That empty chair where there once was laughter
Reborn without a name

Gentle, meek, and mild
I see new beginnings in the face of a child
But that doesn’t change, the grief, guilt or suffering
That doesn’t stop you from ever loving
When all you have is memories

And heaven declares, it calls out to our fathers
Peace be with you lost sons and daughters
All held in his mighty arms
And heaven declares, it calls out to our mothers
Peace be with you sisters and brothers
All held in her loving arms

There are things that went unsaid
I play them over a million times in my head
Well gone are the days, gone the ever after
That empty chair where there once was laughter
Reborn without a name

And heaven declares, it calls out to our fathers
Peace be with you lost sons and daughters
All held in his mighty arms
Heaven declares, it calls out to our mothers
Peace be with you sisters and brothers
All held in her loving arms

They know (3x)
They’re still in your life
They know (3x)
They’re still in your life
They know (3x)

Get Civil

Holy Holy wars prophets romanticize
Your brand of justice, it’s ignorance
It’s a story left for the lost to find
You played our sorrow, you play our fears
We put our faith in a book left by our ancestors
It’s a map but it doesn’t hold the answer

It’s a line between happiness and suffering
This blood is real
Let’s get civil
It’s a line between happiness and suffering
This blood is real
Let’s get civil

Corporations, sons of industry
They only care about their bottom line
It’s in the water, it’s at Love Canal
It’s in a factory in Bangladesh
We were made from the sweat of possibility
But now we’re left with the taste of hostility

It’s a line between happiness and suffering
This blood is real
Let’s get civil
It’s the line between happiness and suffering
This blood is real
Let’s get civil

It’s a line between happiness and suffering
This blood is real
Let’s get civil
It’s the line between happiness and suffering
This blood is real
Let’s get civil

Let’s get civil (2x)

Every Man Will Be Clearly Seen

The day is drawing near
The trumpets play, our eyes well up with tears
And every man will be clearly seen
For the love they have and all that they have been

So when your world rolls into the light
You can’t look back, change the past, make it right
And we all live in secret without shame
And hope that those before us prayed in vain

And as these lives waters are drying in the creek
The winds of judgment, they’re blowing though the trees
And in this dark and somber tragedy
I’m glad my dear, you had some faith in me

So how wide did his glory shine
Enough to make these lonely rivers rise
Enough to put the green back in the trees
And enough to put a little faith in me

I know there’s more
The spirit it lives in me
Oh I know there’s more
The spirit it lives in me
I got the spirit
I got the spirit
Fuck yeah

So how wide did his glory shine
Enough to make these lonely rivers rise
Enough to put the green back in the trees
And enough to put a little faith in me

Lead The Way

Through the evil, through the good
It’s the morals on which you stood
Still faithful to a love
Lead the way

Through the poverty and through the want
And all those things you’ll never have
Still faithful to a love
Lead the way

Lead the way and show me your heart
Lead the way, today we will start
Lead the way to the promise land
It’s in your arms

Through the sunshine, through the rain
And through the peril and the end of days
Still faithful to our love
Lead the way

Through the sickness, through the tears
And when we part ways and face our fears
Still faithful to a love
Lead the way

Lead the way, show me your heart
Lead the way, today we will start
Lead the way to the promise land
It’s in your arms
It’s in your