Rise and Fall

The Offspring · Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace [2008]

This time you're really dead

Once followed, but always led

You thought you'd rise above it all



It's all inside your head

All ripping it up in shreds

I know someday you're gonna fall



And I don't wanna say I told you so

But I told you so

Now you've lost control



And I don't wanna be the rise and fall

So gimme more or nothing at all



You're in an awful way

Sucked in by what you crave

They just can't wait to see you crawl



And you can only laugh

Give in to the other half

They're only tearing down your walls



They've come to see you rise and fall

They're only tearing down your walls

They've come to see you rise and fall

And I don't wanna say you've lost control



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Rise and fall is

Good and evil,

Appearance and reality,

Judgment and reflection.

It is to judge and to be judged,

To dream and to accept.

It is Triumph and despair,

Wish and realization,



And we are both.