Boy Sets Fire Quotes ...
"I could lie here for a day--tongue tied and out-classed. Never missing their world that used to be my life." - Boy Sets Fire, "fine art of falling"
"And I can't remember what it was that I always wanted, but it should have always been this rhyme and reason not withstanding folded into beauty." - Boy Sets Fire, "fine art of falling"
"When I lose my ground I can always remember: this is my reason; You are my reason to stay." - Boy Sets Fire, "fine art of falling"
"I have shed this dry hard shell--traded its comfort for your eyes." - Boy Sets Fire, "fine art of falling"
"You will always be the most magnificent creation." - Boy Sets Fire, "fine art of falling"
"They say that what does not kill you only makes you stronger, well maybe some of us are just too sick and tired of being so damn strong." - Boy Sets Fire, "another badge of courage"
"Burning with hate, I want to rip your hands off; I want to rip your tongue out for every time I have cried-- Every time you have lied." - Boy Sets Fire, "another badge of courage"
"The rich stay rich, and the poor die of quietly. The power remains the same." - Boy Sets Fire, "the power remains the same"
"Dear God, why can't I be more like him? More like her? More or less like you." - Boy Sets Fire, "cadence"
"I used to love you; I can't stand the sight of your fucking face." - Boy Sets Fire, "hometown report card"
"And I hope your new friends will treat you just as well for all the hard work you've done to gain their acceptance." - Boy Sets Fire, "hometown report card"
"We are trading our rights for the illusion of safety and in doing so we give the real criminals even more potency." - Boy Sets Fire, "voiceover"
"Around the world, and in America specifically, we are being subjected to a regularly scheduled program of fear and violence brought to us by a twin attack of the media and politicians who feed our fears on each other." - Boy Sets Fire, "voiceover"
"Blacks fear whites, whites fear anyone different, and we all fear that which we do not know, even though, according to many studies, violent crime statistics are down. We keep adding more police and giving those police more and more power." - Boy Sets Fire, "voiceover"
"We are taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America. From the American Revolution to the Civil War, history is written from the biased perspective of the power elite. From our birth we are told lies and myths and expected not to only believe them, but to worship them at America's false altar of progress. We must learn to question history and measure each 'fact' on its own merits." - Boy Sets Fire, "the tyranny of what everyone knows"
"I'd rather stay a loser and laugh at common sense than rely on safety nets and reminisce as they struggle for mediocrity." - Boy Sets Fire, "loser of the year award"
"Change is natural and must happen. How that change comes and whether that change is for good or evil, is up to us." - Boy Sets Fire, "cavity"
"We all come from the same place and we all have something in common; we have seen society and we don't like it." - Boy Sets Fire, "holiday in Cambodia"
"The story of America is a story best seen through the eyes of its people. It is a story built on the idea of freedom, through the common efforts of a nation united. America, now over 200 years old, is a country that is different from all others, in that it offers equal opportunity to anyone, regardless of gender, sexuality or race. It is on this creed that the story of America was founded. Unfortunately, that is all it is. A story." - Boy Sets Fire, "prologue"
"Lies built on deceptions. A nation's history cloaked in murder. The idea of a ruling class is still very much with us. Ninety percent of all wealth is inherited wealth. We may have lost the titles, but an aristocracy still flourishes." - Boy Sets Fire, "prologue"
"On the face of every american worker is the constant fear that their job won't remain." - Boy Sets Fire, "when rhetoric dies"
"I feel dirty and so depraved. My knees have bled to hold you here but now I've lost the taste, for lies force fed as time well spent." - Boy Sets Fire, "still waiting for the punchline"
"And if another angel says just grin and bear it, I might be forced to smash his head against the wall and never sin again against myself or trust in anyone. Write me off for suffering it's a joke. I give up." - Boy Sets Fire, "still waiting for the punchline"
"I haven't grown to hate you I've just grown to forget you." - Boy Sets Fire, "the abomination of those virtuous"
"I'm sick of this grain of salt that I must take you with I wanna lash out but I bite my lip." - Boy Sets Fire, "the abomination of those virtuous"
"Wakeup and shut up. We've become our worst enemy. Turning inward to our own detriment, forgetting the message we were to end." - Boy Sets Fire, "our time honored tradition of cannibalism"
"Fill me in on when you became such a big part of my life that I should bother with all your lies designed to bring me down. Wrong again don't depend on any reaction again. I remember the icy walls that shot up from no where, and I can see every lie that you ever told yourself. You bleed me dry and I don't ask why but I'm left with the dust." - Boy Sets Fire, "my life in the knife trade"
"I've seen quite enough of too many childish games. I'm ashamed of every moment that I ever gave them the time of day. All the worst of enemies are somehow always friends that used to be." - Boy Sets Fire, "my life in the knife trade"
"And you can sit there with that stupid smile on your face and try to convince me that you care." - Boy Sets Fire, "unspoken request"
"If you love this country, take it back, from those who will destroy it. Protest is patriotism." - Boy Sets Fire, "eviction article"
"When will their wants meet our needs, when will their words match their deeds?" - Boy Sets Fire, "Eviction article"
"It's never enough, but I promise you. I'll still be right here if you ask me to." - Boy Sets Fire, "phone call 4am"
"I'm not going to lie you know the truth. So believe me. Please believe I've lost myself inside of you; believe I always do." - Boy Sets Fire, "phone call 4am"
"Where ever you go leaves a memory--struggles to kill this defending plea, but if you see through you will finally see that I've lived long enough, and my heart has been living in dying pain." - Boy Sets Fire, "phone call 4am"
