[Verse 1]

Let's meet at both ends beyond the facade

Past the promoting of passionless tension

Where both ends won't meet beyond competing

Let's meet where statements are solid

Past the pressure and stop dragging drab ideas

And stop promoting mediums without messages

[Refrain]

This over exposure bleaches color

I am not there, will you ever be?

This over exposure bleaches color

I am not there, will you ever be?

[Verse 2]

Let's meet where tension and tradition don't eclipse struggle

Past the critical without constructing

Unity means nothing if it's only self-serving

Am I to blame, we're going nowhere

We're doing nothing past repeating echoes and living in other's shadows

A gesture of revolt, defeating our own intent

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]

We could get beyond competing at both ends

We are all we have in this

This is all there is

We could rise above the statements and reinvent a new defiance

Discouragement hasn't taken over yet

[Verse 4]

I want a future past the mold of culture and the dictating of others

Past fixation on gestures of defiance, designing new ways

And meet where both ends won't

Past the mold of future and the dictating of others

Past fixation on gestures of defiance, designing new ways

No more facades and gestures of revolt

Defeating our own intent

[Bridge]

I want to see you face to face

We are all we have

This is all there is

We could rise above the statements and reinvent a new defiance

[Verse 5]

I want to see you face to face

Strip this to its essence, and find hope in resistance

I still have hope in you

Do you still have hope in me?

I need you to get through these days

And rise above the statements

And help reinvent a new defiance

Let's meet at both ends

Past the gesturing, past the facade

I'm asking for a future past the critical without constructing

[Outro]

Let's meet where both ends won't

And stop dragging drab ideas

And stop promoting mediums without messages