Album: Proof Of Life
Release Date: 5 November 2013
Genre: Alternative Rock/Post-Grunge
Label: Wind-Up Records
Producer: Howard Benson
- Line Up CD: from left -
* Scott Stapp: Lead Vocals
- Additional Musicians -
* Scott Stevens: Guitar, Backing Vocals
* Phil Xenidis: Guitar
* John Paul Nesheiwat: Guitar
* Tim Pierce: Guitar
* Paul Bushnell: Bass Guitar
* Kenny Aronoff: Drums
* Josh Freese: Drums
- Additional Musicians -
* Scott Stevens: Guitar, Backing Vocals
* Phil Xenidis: Guitar
* John Paul Nesheiwat: Guitar
* Tim Pierce: Guitar
* Paul Bushnell: Bass Guitar
* Kenny Aronoff: Drums
* Josh Freese: Drums
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(United States: Orlando, Florida)   |
01. Slow Suicide - Lyrics:
I'm not evil
No matter what you think of me
I'm just human
There's a part of you that's just like me
I have fallen
I have broken every piece
Heard heaven calling
I could only reach this from my knees
And now I believe
[Chorus:]
I can't let this life pass me by
In a blink of an eye it ends
I can't let my tomorrows decide
What I am in this life
It's like committing slow suicide
It's no secret
I can't pretend, I can't forget
What I've done
Every day I live with the consequences
I let it beat me, let it kick me, let it throw me to the floor
Those days are over
I'm moving forward
It can't hurt me
And now I believe
[Chorus:]
I can't let this life pass me by
In a blink of an eye it ends
I can't let my tomorrows decide
What I am in this life
It's like committing slow suicide
So many days I chose to suffer, living a lie
So many ways I chose to die
Oh, had to feel less than nothing
Shame and suffering
To see with my own eyes
I wasn't living
I was committing
Committing slow suicide
Committing slow suicide
And now I believe
[Chorus:]
I can't let this life pass me by
In a blink of an eye it ends
I can't let my tomorrows decide
What I am in this life
It's like committing slow suicide
Committing slow suicide
Committing slow suicide.
02. Who I Am - Lyrics:
Look at me, I am the sun
I'll blind your eyes, the only one
Look at me when night sings blues
I'm the only one, yes I'm your muse
Look at me, make no mistake
Fashioned with earth, molded with clay
I'll tell you how I face the day
Live life, raise hell, left nothing undone
Who I am, who am I to you?
You know dammit, I speak the truth to you
Who I am, who am I to you?
Why can't I be who I am?
Look at me, I'm not like you
I'm number one, not number two
Look at me a pride and joy
I came to win, I came to destroy
Look at me, look in my eyes Heart of a lion
I'll fight till I die!
Life's too short to expect less
Even when I fall, I get up swinging
Who I am, who am I to you?
You know, dammit, I speak the truth to you
Who I am, who am I to you?
Why can't I be who I am?
Who I am, who am I to me?
You know dammit, I speak the truth, you see
Who I am, who am I to me?
I just wanna be who I am
Just wanna be who I am
Just wanna be who I am.
03. Proof Of Life - Lyrics:
Do you suffer in silence?
Do you live your life in your dreams?
Do you walk in defiance?
To escape from reality
Are you caught in the headlights standing still?
Don't you wish you could run away?
Have you lost your desire waiting for
Someone to save you?
But no one came
What's your proof of life?
You can't deny the truth that hits you right between the eyes
So just name your price
I'll give anything to justify the reason I'm alive
What's your proof of life?
What's your proof of life?
Are you playing the victim
When you know that you volunteered?
No excuse for your sickness
It's your choices that got you here
Are you caught in the headlights standing still?
Don't you wish you could run away?
Have you lost your desire waiting for
Someone to save you?
But no one came
What's your proof of life?
You can't deny the truth that hits you right between the eyes
So just name your price
I'll give anything to justify the reason I'm alive
What's your proof of life?
What's your proof of life?
Someone to save you?
But no one came
What's your proof of life?
You can't deny the truth that hits you right between the eyes
So just name your price
I'll give anything to justify the reason I'm alive
What's your proof of life?
What's your proof of life?
You're the proof of life.
04. New Day Coming - Lyrics:
Head in my hands
Time slipping away
Like falling sand
Till it's bleeding daylight
The rope pulled tight
Now I'm standing still
On the edge of a knife
Just ready for a fight...
Just ready for a fight...
I'll get back up for good this time
I ain't coming down!
I'll get back up 'cause my whole life
I was lost, but now I'm found
It's the dawn of a new day, new day
It's the dawn of a new day coming
It's the dawn of a new day, new day
It's the dawn of a new day!
Lay down your pain
Cut it from your heart
Let it fall like rain
Like tears in the dust
There in the dark
There's a raging fire looking for a spark
Let it light you up…
Let it light you up...
I'll get back up for good this time
I ain't coming down!
I'll get back up 'cause my whole life
I was lost, but now I'm found
It's the dawn of a new day, new day
It's the dawn of a new day coming
It's the dawn of a new day, new day
It's the dawn of a new day!
05. Only One - Lyrics:
You can go, you can leave this town
Forget about the people and the places
And the faces that have let you down
You can hide, you can change your name
But the fear will always find you
If it's coming from inside you
So you've gotta change
So if it's the same to you, you could stay with me
I could take you from your nightmares, and put you inside your dreams
And you would see, I'm never gonna leave you
Even when you feel so low like you might let go
I will be the first hand reaching out
I will be the last one giving up on you
Even when you feel your breath fading from your lungs
I will be the first hand reaching out
I will be the first, last, first, last and only one
If you leave, tell me where you'd go?
Would you lock yourself inside a place
So no one had the chance to face you on your own
Cuz when we fall down, we can stay down
But the freedom that we wanna find
Is only found when we're off the ground
So if it's the same to you, you could stay with me
I could take you from your nightmares, and put you inside your dreams
And you would see, I'm never gonna leave you
Even when you feel so low like you might let go
I will be the first hand reaching out
I will be the last one giving up on you
Even when you feel your breath fading from your lungs
I will be the first hand reaching out
I will be the first, last, first, last and only one
So if it's the same to you, you could stay with me
I could take you from your nightmares, and put you inside your dreams
And you would see, I'm never gonna leave you
Even when you feel so low like you might let go
I will be the first hand reaching out
I will be the last one giving up on you
Even when you feel your breath fading from your lungs
I will be the first hand reaching out
I will be the first, last, first, last and only one
Even when you feel your breath fading from your lungs
I will be the first hand reaching out
I will be the first, last, first, last and only one.
06. Break Out - Lyrics:
I wake up to the sound again
Of red lights flashing on my bed
Sirens blazing in my head
And I'm such a wreck
Cause I'm running to the fire now
But there's so fire to put out
My mind is turning upside down
Gotta turn around
All these words are not enough
I'm gonna break out
I'm gonna break free
Not gonna think twice
You'll never stop me
Don't even try
I'll knock you down
I'm saying hello to a new dream
I'm taking it back what's left of me
Don't even try
You can't stop me now!
Is it always gonna be this way?
Now that my scars have gone away
Don't open them back up today
I can't take the pain
And the white noise calms me down at night
If I don't look into your eyes
It's no fun when it's your life
Hanging on the line
All these words are not enough
I'm gonna break out
I'm gonna break free
Not gonna think twice
You'll never stop me
Don't even try
I'll knock you down
I'm saying hello to a new dream
I'm taking it back what's left of me
Don't even try
You can't stop me now!
I gotta feeling where I used to be numb
I can feel it now rushing through my blood
I'm stronger than I ever thought I was
And now I found another way out of here
All these words are not enough
Now these words mean so much
I'm gonna break out
I'm gonna break free
Not gonna think twice
You'll never stop me
Don't even try
I'll knock you down
I'm saying hello to a new dream
I'm taking it back what's left of me
Don't even try
You can't stop me now!
I'm gonna break out!
07. Hit Me More - Lyrics:
40 days of rain
40 nights it poured
I can't take it anymore
It's getting overboard
I lean forward
Wandered through mountains
Ran through valley's so low
Been down the road less traveled
A million times before
Went through hell to find my heaven
Crossing up my lines
Went through hell to find my heaven
Fighting for my life
10 floors down
I dove into the night
The stars were in my eyes, I scream
Come on hit me more
Broken by the sound
Blinded by the light
You say it's do or die, I scream
Come on hit me more
There's a choice to be made
Come on, what you waiting for?
Is that all you got?
Come on hit me more
Hit me with sunshine
Burn my skin
Reign down fire
Come on bring it again
Gotta pay it forward
Float like a butterfly
Sting like a bee
I want you to give me your best mohammad ali
Went through hell to find my heaven
Crossing up my lines
Went through hell to find my heaven
Got nothing left to hide
10 floors down
I dove into the night
The stars were in my eyes. I scream
Come on hit me more
Broken by the sound
Blinded by the light
You say it's do or die, I scream
Come on hit me more
There's a choice to be made
Come on, what you waiting for
Is that all you got?
Come on hit me more
"float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
I want you to give me, your best mohammed ali
I lean forward
10 floors down
I dove into the night
The stars were in my eyes,I scream
Come on hit me more
Broken by the sound
Blinded by the light
You say it's do or die, I scream
Come on hit me more
There's a choice to be made
Come on, what you waiting for?
Is that all you got?
Come on hit me more.
08. Jesus Was A Rockstar - Lyrics:
He walked on water man
He made that water wine
And then he drank with people you and me would just cast aside
He did his people good
Just like he said he would
And in the blink of an eye, he gave a blind man sight
His love was thunder in the sky
His roar was lions in the night
When he spoke he always drew a crowd
His message was his lifestyle
He gave us everything and more
He was the party we've been looking for
Maybe, just maybe… Jesus was rockstar!
Can I get a witness?
He brought the dead to life
He rose when called to rise
There was a passion in his eyes and it spread like wildfire
His love was thunder in the sky
His roar was lions in the night
When he spoke he always drew a crowd
His message was his lifestyle
He gave us everything and more
He was the party we've been looking for
Maybe, just maybe… Jesus was rockstar!
Can I get a witness?
Father I have sinned a million sins
Save me from this world you put me in
So come on, come on
Bring Jesus back again
JOHN 3:16-17
For God so loved the world
That he gave his only begotten Son
That whosoever believeth in him
Should not perish
But have everlasting life
For God sent not his Son into the world
To condemn the world;
But that the world through him
Might be saved
His love was thunder in the sky
His roar was lions in the night
When he spoke he always drew a crowd
His message was his lifestyle
He brought the fire and the light
He wrote the songs you can't deny
He rocked so hard, I can hear him now
He brought the house down!
He gave us everything and more
He was the party we've been looking for
Maybe, just maybe
I said maybe, just maybe
Maybe, maybe, maybe
Jesus was a rockstar
Can I get a witness?
Jesus was a rockstar
Can I get a witness?
09. What Would Love Do - Lyrics:
Go ahead and throw it in my face
Remind me of each of my mistakes
Turn on me tell me I'm wrong that it's all my fault
I feel I'm losing control
Putting my fists through the wall
This is the place that I break I can't take anymore
I see the fear in your eyes
I'm frozen standing still in time
What would love do
What would love do
If it were here in this room standing between me and you
What would love do
What would love do
I broke down and fell to the floor
Said I can't do this anymore
I almost lost the one thing I could never lose
I felt completely disarmed
Naked stripped down to the heart
Humble and shaken its time to start healing these wounds
How do I break from this hell
It's time I start asking myself
What would love do
What would love do
If it were here in this room standing between me and you
What would love do
What would love do
It would look in my face and stop me from hurting you
That's what love would do
Its time to come out of the dark
And step into the light
When fear tries to tear us apart
And we're torn between two sides
What would love do
What would love do
It would look in my face and stop me from hurting you
What would love do
What would love do
If it were here in this room standing between me and you
What would love do
What would love do
It would look in my face and stop me from hurting you
That's what love would do.
10. Crash - Lyrics:
Some things are better left, forgotten in the past
But somehow, those memories never fade
As I look at these photographs
They years don't stop staring back
They're as deep as the lines on my face
So I say it to myself
I've lost my way
I'm someone else
When you get too high you crash!
When you get too high you crash!
Then suddenly I feel my feet again
Standing in the place where
I once fell over the edge
I never thought I'd walk again
I can't pretend
I ran too hard
I ran too fast
Living in a moment never meant to last
I should've known better than that
Cause if you get too high you crash
Got lost in the masquerade
The one people loved to hate
Now I'm crossing bridges that I've burned
I thought I knew a million ways
To walk the line down a crooked lane
Fell off the road to heaven
To a world of hurt
So I say it to myself
I've lost my way
I'm someone else
When you get too high you crash!
When you get too high you crash!
Then suddenly I feel my feet again
Standing in the place where
I once fell over the edge
I never thought I'd walk again
I can't pretend
I ran too hard
I ran too fast
Living in a moment never meant to last
I should've known better than that
Cause if you get too high you crash
I will learn to fly again
I will learn to fly again
When you get too high you crash!
When you get too high you crash!
Then suddenly I feel my feet again
Standing in the place where
I once fell over the edge
I never thought I'd walk again
I can't pretend
I ran too hard
I ran too fast
Living in a moment never meant to last
I should've known better than that
Cause if you get too high you crash.
11. Dying To Live - Lyrics:
Pull back the curtains, come on in
Through the stain glass windows of where I've been
Some parts holy
Some parts dark as sin
The time has come to take off my mask
Watch the scars spill secrets from my past
This freak show won't define who I am
What I thought was all of my life story
Turns out it was only just one page
It's a new beginning, I have got so much left to say
I'm dying to breathe in every moment
I'm dying to make up for lost time
I'm dying to let go and finally feel what real love is
I'm dying to live
To see those things I could never see
When they have always been right in front of me
To write the song the world forever sings
Pictures painted in the sky
The wonder in my child's eyes
I'm learning how to fly with broken wings
I'm dying to breath in every moment
I'm dying to make up for lost time
I'm dying to let go and finally feel what real love is
I'm dying to start this whole thing over
I'm dying to see with brand new eyes
I'm dying to love myself enough to just forgive
I'm dying to live
I had to go to hell to find my heaven
Forty feet I had to fall from grace
Everything's so clear when you've got one foot in the grave
I'm dying to breath in every moment
I'm dying to make up for lost time
I'm dying to let go and finally feel what real love is
I'm dying to start this whole thing over
I'm dying to see with brand new eyes
I'm dying to love myself enough to just forgive
I'm dying to live.
