Album: Make Yourself (1999)

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• I'd like to close my eyes, go numb
  But there's a cold wind coming from
  The top of the highest high-rise today
  It's not a breeze 'cause it blows hard
  Yes and it wants me to discard the humanity I know
  Watch the warmth blow away
  
  So don't let the world bring you down
  Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold
  Remember why you came and while you're alive
  Experience the warmth before you grow old
  
  So do you think I should adhere to that pressing new frontier?
  And leave in my wake a trail of fear?
  Or should I hold my head up high and throw a wrench in spokes by
  Leaving the air behind me clear?
  
  So don't let the world bring you down
  Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold
  Remember why you came and while you're alive
  Experience the warmth before you grow (you grow old)
  
  So don't let the world bring you down
  Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold
  Remember why you came and while you're alive
  Experience the warmth before you grow old
  
  Before you grow old
  Where did it go? Where did it go?
  Where did it go? Where did it go? Writer/s: Alex Katunich, Brandon Charles Boyd, Christopher Kilmore, Jose Anthony Pasillas II, Michael Aaron Einziger
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Emily from IllinoisBut are they whale sounds?
• Evan from Reading, Pathis songs about not worrying about dumb things in the world that bring you down, and to focus on the good in life.
  
  VVV and a kid from phoenixville WOULD be blazed haha, im not far from there
• Robert from Houston , Txi have to agree with josh warmth is good song to blaze to but aqueous transmisson it like ten times better
• Jeff from Casa Grande, Azthis song is about strength/courage against the "cold wind" of living in the "hard/tough city. As Roger Waters said years earlier, "don't be afraid to care." Pink Floyd, the Dark Side of the Moon by the way.
• Josh from New York, Nybrian trust me aqueous transmission is much, much better high, not that this isn't good, but aqueous is on an entirely different level
• Brian Keller from Phoenixville, Pai love this song when im blazed
• Poop from Poopville, Mowhy do u have to be so gay... Jo-C didnt say Boyd was the best he said he was good and u have to be all "well ive seen better". If ur gonna talk about whos better than please explain urself. Anyways awesome song... but I bet theres a lot better right Dale Earnheart.
• Dale from Palmerston NorthI dunno hes good but there are a lot better.
• Jo-c from Lima, PeruBrandon Boyd is a lyrical genius. Period.

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