Raphael Lyrics
My thoughts are getting too loud
Voices shuttering
Everybody's well-being is suffering
Speeding up, not slowing down
Just waiting for the crash
When bad is good
Just get higher
Observe and lose through the wire
I'm sick of being boring
After this I'll leave
I will lose another for these balances
That I need to achieve to control
I'm figuring it out
Negative energy
A vampire entity sucking with force
Intent to implode
Your glow is lesser
My dragging, it shows
I will drain myself for surfacing
And promising every little problem on you
I'm sick of being boring
After this I'll leave
I will lose another for these balances
That I need to achieve to control
I'm figuring it out
The moral debts I know will never clear
Though it's not pretty, you won't be okay
Without the experience to know that I am no good
I fought myself before, then I fought you too
Use the sharp end cause I took the scissors
Whatever you have, just make sure that it's bigger
I run with weapons and fall down the stairs
I aggravate midnight vets on their bikes getting weird
If I had enough sticks I'd aim for every spoke
Without first giving a thought to whether they're friend or foe
It's all obstructive self-destruction
I've run out of all other fun
Something's wrong
I get scared it keeps taking
My eyelids are shaking
I'm still afraid it's taking me
It's anti-matter
it ruins and it shatters
Where I go is void of direction
There are no other questions
There are facts and there's pressure
Separation and fractures
From the left to the right
From the whites of my eyes
That pry at the lights
That come when we die consciously
Bring rest to me
Bring rest to me
Bring rest to me
Bring rest to me
Jordan: "I made a lot of mistakes and bad decisions and it had a severe effect on my surroundings, including the people around me. The song is pretty schizophrenic, from the verses to the choruses to the bridge, and then to the outro of the song. Like the music for 'Certain' had been written, the lyrics for this track were written the same; as just one long train of inner thought. First from confusion and fear, to want / need, to carelessness, and finally to remorse and forgiveness. 'Raphael' was the working title and I felt it was a good album title for the song, too. We were giving all the songs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle references in the studio and in the first TMNT film, Raphael's character is pretty identical to the personality of these words. It's a pretty serious and real film if you go back and take a look. No kids' play."