Staind frontman Aaron Lewis might be the last true revolutionary in Massachusetts.
The state's genesis was characterized by revolution, but it's been awhile since anybody truly shook things up there in the name of genuine independence. However, Lewis is going to make some crucial changes with his It Takes A Community foundation.
After his daughter's elementary school was closed due to budget cuts, Lewis decided that the community could help. He started ITAC with an initial goal of keeping the school open through community donations to the organization.
He hit the road this summer for a handful of shows and one big benefit on August 14th in Northampton, MA that will contribute to the re-opening of the school as a Community Education Center this September. George Washington and Abe Lincoln would be proud.
Lewis is no stranger to revolution or charity though. Appearing on Drury Outdoors' "Dream Season" hunting show, he raised a heap of money for the Catch a Dream Foundation.
Aaron Lewis sat down with ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author Rick Florino for an exclusive interview about It Takes a Community...link
The state's genesis was characterized by revolution, but it's been awhile since anybody truly shook things up there in the name of genuine independence. However, Lewis is going to make some crucial changes with his It Takes A Community foundation.
After his daughter's elementary school was closed due to budget cuts, Lewis decided that the community could help. He started ITAC with an initial goal of keeping the school open through community donations to the organization.
He hit the road this summer for a handful of shows and one big benefit on August 14th in Northampton, MA that will contribute to the re-opening of the school as a Community Education Center this September. George Washington and Abe Lincoln would be proud.
Lewis is no stranger to revolution or charity though. Appearing on Drury Outdoors' "Dream Season" hunting show, he raised a heap of money for the Catch a Dream Foundation.
Aaron Lewis sat down with ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author Rick Florino for an exclusive interview about It Takes a Community...link
I feel nothing
Longing for something
Lie in bed to take your clothes off
Show me what you're made of
Drugs to soothe me
(All alone)
Leave me here I'm dying
(All alone)
Just kicked me in my face
(All alone)
All alone and crying
(All alone)
I suffocate
I'm not gifted
Slightly twisted
Try hard try hard
To see if I can push you any further
Drugs to soothe me
(All alone)
Leave me here I'm dying
(All alone)
Just kicked me in my face
(All alone)
All alone and crying
(All alone)
I suffocate
Please believe you'll save me, rearrange me
I can feel your feelings running through me
Take away my sorrow my tomorrow
Heal me
(All alone)
Leave me here I'm dying
(All alone)
Just kicked me in my face
(All alone)
All alone and crying
(All alone)
I suffocate
I'm suffocating
SUFFOCATE (come suffocate)
Longing for something
Lie in bed to take your clothes off
Show me what you're made of
Drugs to soothe me
(All alone)
Leave me here I'm dying
(All alone)
Just kicked me in my face
(All alone)
All alone and crying
(All alone)
I suffocate
I'm not gifted
Slightly twisted
Try hard try hard
To see if I can push you any further
Drugs to soothe me
(All alone)
Leave me here I'm dying
(All alone)
Just kicked me in my face
(All alone)
All alone and crying
(All alone)
I suffocate
Please believe you'll save me, rearrange me
I can feel your feelings running through me
Take away my sorrow my tomorrow
Heal me
(All alone)
Leave me here I'm dying
(All alone)
Just kicked me in my face
(All alone)
All alone and crying
(All alone)
I suffocate
I'm suffocating
SUFFOCATE (come suffocate)
Misery
the company it keeps
History
of all these things we keep repeating
Like a wheel
oh, that keeps turning
If I could break away
from this moment
break away
what is real
break away
never show it
break away
how I feel
If I could break away
Apathy
the ignorance it breeds
The tragedy
of all these things we keep repeating
Like a wheel
that keeps turning
If I could break away
from this moment
break away
what is real
break away
never show it
break away
how I feel
If I could break away
If I could break away
If I could break away
If I could break away
If I could break away
from this moment
break away
what is real
break away never show it
break away how I feel
If I could break away
If I could break away
If I could break away
the company it keeps
History
of all these things we keep repeating
Like a wheel
oh, that keeps turning
If I could break away
from this moment
break away
what is real
break away
never show it
break away
how I feel
If I could break away
Apathy
the ignorance it breeds
The tragedy
of all these things we keep repeating
Like a wheel
that keeps turning
If I could break away
from this moment
break away
what is real
break away
never show it
break away
how I feel
If I could break away
If I could break away
If I could break away
If I could break away
If I could break away
from this moment
break away
what is real
break away never show it
break away how I feel
If I could break away
If I could break away
If I could break away
Another day
Inside my world
I'm married to
you and this road.
A road that never lets
me sleep .
So theres no way to escape the
demons I am forced to keep.
And then I find you here
Through your eyes
Everything's clear
And I'm home
Inside your arms,
But I'm alone for now.
I mean the best
with what I say.
It doesn't always
sound that way
I never learned to
Work things out cause
In my family all we
Ever seem to do is shout
But then I find you here
Through your eyes,
everythings clear
And I'm home
inside your arms,
but I'm alone for now.
And when I try to sleep-
the drugs I take
are killing me - I think of you
to ease my pain -
but you're so far-
Now it's time to say goodbye.
I love you baby
please don't cry -
'cause then I'll find you here -
Through your eyes everythings clear -
and I'm home inside your arms - but I'm alone for now.
But then I find you here
Through your eyes,
everythings clear
And I'm home
inside your arms,
but I'm alone for now.
Inside my world
I'm married to
you and this road.
A road that never lets
me sleep .
So theres no way to escape the
demons I am forced to keep.
And then I find you here
Through your eyes
Everything's clear
And I'm home
Inside your arms,
But I'm alone for now.
I mean the best
with what I say.
It doesn't always
sound that way
I never learned to
Work things out cause
In my family all we
Ever seem to do is shout
But then I find you here
Through your eyes,
everythings clear
And I'm home
inside your arms,
but I'm alone for now.
And when I try to sleep-
the drugs I take
are killing me - I think of you
to ease my pain -
but you're so far-
Now it's time to say goodbye.
I love you baby
please don't cry -
'cause then I'll find you here -
Through your eyes everythings clear -
and I'm home inside your arms - but I'm alone for now.
But then I find you here
Through your eyes,
everythings clear
And I'm home
inside your arms,
but I'm alone for now.
RAW
The pictures left with me won't fade
These images affect me every day
Cause of you I feel I don't deserve
The life I see in her
Just don't leave me
RAW
Inside I'm so cold
Inside I'm so cold
RAW
I've never been someone who knows
My choices haunt me everywhere I go
Finally did something right for myself
My life to you no one else
Just don't leave me
RAW
Inside I'm so cold
Inside I'm so cold
I'm so cold
I feel so cold
I CAN'T TAKE THIS
RAW
I feel so...
Inside I'm so cold
Inside I'm so cold
RAW
I feel so:
RAW
The pictures left with me won't fade
These images affect me every day
Cause of you I feel I don't deserve
The life I see in her
Just don't leave me
RAW
Inside I'm so cold
Inside I'm so cold
RAW
I've never been someone who knows
My choices haunt me everywhere I go
Finally did something right for myself
My life to you no one else
Just don't leave me
RAW
Inside I'm so cold
Inside I'm so cold
I'm so cold
I feel so cold
I CAN'T TAKE THIS
RAW
I feel so...
Inside I'm so cold
Inside I'm so cold
RAW
I feel so:
RAW
To my mother, to my father,
It's your son or it's your daughter,
Are my screams loud enough for you to hear me?
Should I turn this up for you?
I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you've said
This silence gets us nowhwere!
Gets us nowhere way too fast!
The silence is what kills me
I need someone here to help me
But you don't know how to listen
And let me make my decisions
I sit here locked
inside my head remembering everything you've said
The silence gets us nowhere!
Gets us nowhere way too fast!
All your insults and your curses make
me feel like I'm not a person
And I feel like I am nothing but
you made me so do something
'Cause I'm fucked up because you are
Need attention, attention you couldn't give
'Cause I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you've said
This silence get us nowhere!
Gets us nowhere way to fast
It's your son or it's your daughter,
Are my screams loud enough for you to hear me?
Should I turn this up for you?
I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you've said
This silence gets us nowhwere!
Gets us nowhere way too fast!
The silence is what kills me
I need someone here to help me
But you don't know how to listen
And let me make my decisions
I sit here locked
inside my head remembering everything you've said
The silence gets us nowhere!
Gets us nowhere way too fast!
All your insults and your curses make
me feel like I'm not a person
And I feel like I am nothing but
you made me so do something
'Cause I'm fucked up because you are
Need attention, attention you couldn't give
'Cause I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you've said
This silence get us nowhere!
Gets us nowhere way to fast
I feel like this won't go away
No matter how hard I try
To squeeze my eyes shut
So I can't see the pain
In you this pain in me - in me
But everything that I can say to you
Won't help you - everything you need is right in front of you
Just take it
I know that I am really not here
to represent what I am not clear
About in my head sometimes
I feel fucked up just like you do - like you do
But everything that I can say to you
Won't help you - everything you need is right in front of you
Just take it
Try to make it through the daily pain
That you feel - maybe tomorrow won't be so bad.
It know it
'cause I once felt that way
Nothing I could say
Made it go away
I lived through this
I still feel this
I just live for my tomorrow
Make it go away
Just make it go away
She'll make it go away
No matter how hard I try
To squeeze my eyes shut
So I can't see the pain
In you this pain in me - in me
But everything that I can say to you
Won't help you - everything you need is right in front of you
Just take it
I know that I am really not here
to represent what I am not clear
About in my head sometimes
I feel fucked up just like you do - like you do
But everything that I can say to you
Won't help you - everything you need is right in front of you
Just take it
Try to make it through the daily pain
That you feel - maybe tomorrow won't be so bad.
It know it
'cause I once felt that way
Nothing I could say
Made it go away
I lived through this
I still feel this
I just live for my tomorrow
Make it go away
Just make it go away
She'll make it go away
I Don't give a fuck
About all of your problems
I could give a rats ass
how your feeling today
take your wordly advice
and shove it straight up your ass
Thanks for coming around
to fuck up my day
I try
TOLERATE
Good-bye
Take me... [4x]
Look at you I can't
You don't see the whole picture
take my bed of dirt
cold and empty I'll stay
what's the point of trying
To stay above the surface
Take my life from me
Help me to ease my pain
I try
TOLERATE
Good-bye
Take me...
Try to see the way around you
I can't find it
Try to take the path behind me
Can't rewind it
Stick your finger in my face and
I will break it
Leave me with an after taste
I try
TOLERATE
Good-bye
Take me... [4x]
About all of your problems
I could give a rats ass
how your feeling today
take your wordly advice
and shove it straight up your ass
Thanks for coming around
to fuck up my day
I try
TOLERATE
Good-bye
Take me... [4x]
Look at you I can't
You don't see the whole picture
take my bed of dirt
cold and empty I'll stay
what's the point of trying
To stay above the surface
Take my life from me
Help me to ease my pain
I try
TOLERATE
Good-bye
Take me...
Try to see the way around you
I can't find it
Try to take the path behind me
Can't rewind it
Stick your finger in my face and
I will break it
Leave me with an after taste
I try
TOLERATE
Good-bye
Take me... [4x]
Twisting
Turning
Crashing
Burning
All this just to break me down
You don't know me
You don't see me
You don't own me cause I don't care
That I'm still here
Impatiently waiting for you to disappear
Is this my cross to bear?
Faceless
Faking
Pushing
Taking
All this just to bring me down
You don't know me
You don't see me
You don't own me cause I don't care
That I'm still here
Impatiently waiting for you to disappear
Is this my cross to bear?
You don't know me
You don't own me cause I'm aware
That I'm still here
Impatiently waiting for you to disappear
Is this my cross to bear
I'm still here
Reluctantly waiting for you to interfere
This is my cross to bear
Turning
Crashing
Burning
All this just to break me down
You don't know me
You don't see me
You don't own me cause I don't care
That I'm still here
Impatiently waiting for you to disappear
Is this my cross to bear?
Faceless
Faking
Pushing
Taking
All this just to bring me down
You don't know me
You don't see me
You don't own me cause I don't care
That I'm still here
Impatiently waiting for you to disappear
Is this my cross to bear?
You don't know me
You don't own me cause I'm aware
That I'm still here
Impatiently waiting for you to disappear
Is this my cross to bear
I'm still here
Reluctantly waiting for you to interfere
This is my cross to bear