Never heard my name called never anyone at all
Never in the right at the heart of every fault
Time to write me off
Demand the antidote to rescue this stranded soul
Castaway the last to know that the dream is gone

Everyday life takes it's toll
When are we going home
Becoming cold

How did we get here and what are we alive for
Give me a reason to murder my idols

Save your faith for the faithless we need it most
Need something to believe in but nothing comes close
Hindsight won't let me sleep at night amputate this foolish pride
Minds eye pickled in cyanide and I can laugh at myself

Everyday life takes it's toll
When are we going home
Everyday life takes it's toll
When are we going home

The deviants will deviate rewrite the rules alleviate
A martyrs meant to mediate messiahs mend the word

Never heard my name called never anyone at all
Never in the right at the heart of every fault
I feel no pulse
Time to write me off
No vital signs
A forced impulse
Among idol minds

Everyday life takes it's toll
When are we going home
Becoming cold

How did we get here and what are we alive for
Give me a reason to murder my idols

Save your faith for the faithless we need it most
Need something to believe in but nothing comes close
Hindsight won't let me sleep at night amputate this foolish pride
Minds eye pickled in cyanide and I can laugh at myself

How did we get here and what are we alive for
Give me a reason to murder my idols
Some heads have got to roll

Everyday life takes it's toll
When are we going home
Everyday life takes it's toll
When are we going home

You made me what I am today
The toll that my life's taken everyday
Don't think I'll ever make it home
Not going home
I won't forget where I came from
Or what you made me
Some heads have got to roll


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    To me this song is talking about:

    "Everyday life takes it's toll When are we going home?"

    how we live our livesand day after day we're getting closer to death, and he's just wondering when we're going back to eternal blackness.

    "I feel no pulse, no vital signs. A forced impulse among idle minds"

    In reality there's no life. We're all just forcing ourselfs to believe everything we see abd hear because we want SOMETHING to believe

    "The toll that my life's taken everyday. Don't think I'll ever make it home."

    He doesn't believe there's something there for him when he's gone.

    Now so everyone knows tihs is IMO and I'm fairly new to listening to Mushroomhead but I love everything I've heard, and if I'm way off to you then so be it I look at music one way, you look at it your way thats the point of most music so you look at it and get exactly what you want out of it weather it's right or wrong

    BurningScaron June 07, 2004   Link

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