A couple of original lyrics based on Trek characters. "Torpedo" focuses on Kirk and Bones' differing views on risk taking: ("Let's do it."/"NO, Jim."), while "No Rules To Live By" contrasts Spock's emotion-suppressing with Kirk's reckless, live-for-today behavior.
Torpedo
Why are we so different
Yet still together
How did we end up like this?
I'm up for anything
Come whatever
But all my great plans get dismissed
And I don't know what you're thinking
To give a blanket "no" to everything
Chorus:
I come with a smile and you show me a frown
The minute I get started, you just shut me down
Tell me why you say why when I ask when
Every time I have ideas you torpedo them
I get so excited
Thinking of solutions
Don't know why you're not on board
Always got your list of
Silly little reasons
I don't want to hear it anymore
You ask me what am I thinking
Have I got a death wish or something
Chorus
It's not too much to ask, is it
For you to lighten up a little
'Cause all I want is for you to take a chance or two
You won't regret it
But still all I get is
Chorus x 2
No matter what I say you torpedo them
No Rules To Live By
Don't try to fix if it's working
And don't ever show that you're hurting
Stuff it down deep, like the poison you keep
For the moments the cracks start to show
Put on a brave face for the weak ones
Like you know a secret that they don't
You're not like them, oh, no, never again
Will you dare once to let yourself hope
Chorus:
These are no rules to live by
Playing roles, but in real life
You're afraid, insecure, vulnerable
All the things you could never admit to anyone
Digging a hole, deep in the ground
Filling it with lies
These are no rules to live by
To live by
Laugh when you're ready to give up
Take on more though you've had enough
When the warning bells ring, act like you hear nothing
There's no reason to turn and run home
Look for a fight, and when you find one
Don't be a sucker and back down
More useless the better, burn ahead to whatever
Don't care or tomorrow may come
Chorus
You have a heart, you have a heart
But it doesn't have to beat alone
You can be free, you can be free
Even if you're far from whole
I know, I know
Chorus x 2
Torpedo
Why are we so different
Yet still together
How did we end up like this?
I'm up for anything
Come whatever
But all my great plans get dismissed
And I don't know what you're thinking
To give a blanket "no" to everything
Chorus:
I come with a smile and you show me a frown
The minute I get started, you just shut me down
Tell me why you say why when I ask when
Every time I have ideas you torpedo them
I get so excited
Thinking of solutions
Don't know why you're not on board
Always got your list of
Silly little reasons
I don't want to hear it anymore
You ask me what am I thinking
Have I got a death wish or something
Chorus
It's not too much to ask, is it
For you to lighten up a little
'Cause all I want is for you to take a chance or two
You won't regret it
But still all I get is
Chorus x 2
No matter what I say you torpedo them
No Rules To Live By
Don't try to fix if it's working
And don't ever show that you're hurting
Stuff it down deep, like the poison you keep
For the moments the cracks start to show
Put on a brave face for the weak ones
Like you know a secret that they don't
You're not like them, oh, no, never again
Will you dare once to let yourself hope
Chorus:
These are no rules to live by
Playing roles, but in real life
You're afraid, insecure, vulnerable
All the things you could never admit to anyone
Digging a hole, deep in the ground
Filling it with lies
These are no rules to live by
To live by
Laugh when you're ready to give up
Take on more though you've had enough
When the warning bells ring, act like you hear nothing
There's no reason to turn and run home
Look for a fight, and when you find one
Don't be a sucker and back down
More useless the better, burn ahead to whatever
Don't care or tomorrow may come
Chorus
You have a heart, you have a heart
But it doesn't have to beat alone
You can be free, you can be free
Even if you're far from whole
I know, I know
Chorus x 2
