never ever has nobody like me caused empires to fall i never hit, i never kicked, i never injured anybody in anyway at all the only battles i fought were the ones inside my own four walls i fired bullets of words, names that i called that only made you feel small and every time the sh** hits the fan, i'll be gone away with the band a life with love and a love for the van don't always go hand in hand but the beat won't go away, in my heart, my enemy all the same if i go or if i stay new countries, new cities, new streets but never did i see them alone me and the boys go 24-7 through 24 different time zones in times like these nothing scares me more than the sound of a ringing telephone bad news i can tell on the voice that it's a message from an unhappy home sometimes i'll be happy, happy and ecstatic but more likely i'll be drunk and dramatic truces were few and far between it's been that way since we were seventeen (unpaid bills, times that we spill, don't you know those pills can get you k**ed) but the beat won't go away, in my heart my enemy all the same if i go or if i stay