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Lions
03:24
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If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, you must baffle them with bullshit.
If you can't sink into the silence, you must babble on and on.
I used to be one of those lions who wouldn't stop biting their own kind,
but every time I'm bitten (I can't lie) I feel that way again.
Why you wanna kill all the innocence when the only hope for love left is ignorance?
Why you wanna kill all the children when their hope's the only form not based on precedence? X2
When you shot up your arrows you thought that you could pierce the whole sky. It just made it rain above you and your home was washed away
I stay out of the darkness, but I don't quite feast on the light..
I let the sun burn my skin, but I throw up what it puts in...
Why you wanna kill all the innocence when the only hope for love left is ignorance?
Why you wanna kill all the children when their hope's the only form not based on precedence? X2
Everytime I look inside I find I'm half of what I thought.. Is that really in my mind or is it someone else's thought?
All this thinking grinds me down, sometimes I wish my brain would rot.
Sweating bullets all around, am I okay? Cuz it's not hot.
(Oh) nowhere to run to and (oh) nowhere to hide..
(Oh) If this is what it comes to..
I guess a slave is just a slave in his own mind..
But how I laugh at all the others
for still having the strength to go to work.
A slave mentality is what I call it, but maybe that's what makes me hurt.
But how when I try to love them
It only makes everything worse.
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2. |
Somewhere Better
03:44
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It's been quite a lovely show, but it'll soon be over.
You'll be watching it alone away from me.
Listen to your applause, it's been roaring ever louder,
but they'll pull the curtains closed & we'll all go home.
The visions that I had in my dreams that keep on lying
almost tricked me; the scene's too good to be ours.
The aesthetic was lovely; I'll be sure to watch it over,
but only when I need to feel like death.
Sometimes we forget just where we came from
we all wanna believe that it was somewhere better.
Sometimes we forget just who brought us there..
I don't need recognition,
I'm prepared to scream out loud a cacophony of sounds.
Pull these anchors down so we can rest in the sweet now.
The company you've made; it's a going under business
if we're discussing sheets (what did you think I'd mean?)
These idiots in masks; they can't help but to stalk me.
I don't feel alone; I wish everyone was dead.
I'm always fucking up; I take my chances when they're over.
I'll surely finish last if even at all..
So I'll fill my cup with sun, it's not like I've been thirsty..
I'll be speaking in tongues in an hour or two.
Sometimes we forget just where we came from
we all wanna believe that it was somewhere better.
Sometimes we forget just who brought us there..
I don't need recognition,
I'm prepared to scream out loud a cacophony of sounds.
Pull these anchors down so we can rest in the sweet now.
Sometimes we forget just where we came from
we all wanna believe that it was somewhere better.
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3. |
Tall Trees
03:25
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I spent a week not thinking.
How I pay for it so dearly now
& when it comes to bridges..
I lit them up and burnt them down.
But I wish you could be looking outside of this window with me.
I wish you could be looking outside of this window at all the animals.
But you & me,
we'll always be
fighting for some reason
unbeknownst to me.
The artist sighs at the air all filled with smoke,
but the branches here clearly resemble brushstrokes
so he fills his canvas up with his own blood
in hopes to cover up jade green shades that ruined us.
I wish you could be looking outside of this window with me.
I wish you could be looking outside of this window at all the animals.
It made me choke
after each meal
when you had spoke
of the poisons in the yard
I had awoke
in a red field
I wouldn't go near the flowers, herbs, or gourds.
Take a look at these tall trees and how they've grown like me,
water up all your daisies; now watch them grow like me. X2
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4. |
Fossil Beds
02:25
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You come out of darkness.
You steal all my good energy.
You live like a vampire,
feed on all my good energy.
You still won't come anywhere around me.
You live like a bum waiting on someone else to save you..
If I had it my way, you would be protected
& I'd be free of this mental misdirection.
I walked to the fossil beds this morning;
forgot knee pads, why does praying hurt so bad?
The type of guy that kids walk by
they wonder what his life is like
no one wants to be their boring old mom & dad.
Get back here, bug, I'm not done lovin' you by a longshot.
You blur the lines between romance & intimacy.
You're tryin' and tryin' to stop my true colors from shinin'.
You're tryin' and tryin' to forget me.
You still won't come anywhere around me.
You live like a bum waiting on someone else to save you..
If I had it my way, you would be protected
& I'd be free of this mental misdirection.
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Before we learn our lesson
first let's see how bad it can get.
Now that I'm not smoking
tell me why I still smell like shit.
When I come over to your house,
you will grab your knife and cut me out
(everybody you know's gonna cover it up)X2
Seems like nothing these days numbs me,
when I find it I will burn it out..
(& when I get to heaven I'll be burning it down)X2
If I get too nauseous,
that's when you know just to knock me out.
Morphine doesn't give me
the feeling it used to now.
When you come over to my house,
I will grab my knife and cut you out
(no one that I know is gonna cover it up)X2
Seems like nothing these days numbs you,
when you find it you will burn it out..
(& when we get to heaven we'll be burnin' it down)X2
Still you say there is a problem
in my vices and the things I do..
The only drug I ever got addicted to was you.
Before I get the power to pull myself out of your onyx eyes
Stare into my soul & sing me one last lullaby.
Sing that song about the DJ (X3)
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6. |
Wolf Song
02:29
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I shot a wolf in the woods
I think I know what's coming to me
I think he might be coming for me
I'm in the dark with scars, bite marks, and glass chards
Oh well, I guess my window's broken
I've always been an easy target
I have faith, I want life
I have faith, I want life
In the ravine
Trees were staring at me
They suck me in right through the xylem
Soaked in sweat; my pupils widen
Now my skin is peeling
Like dry ridges of the tree bark
Blood-drenched revenge; soaking seeds in my yard
I have faith, I want life
I have faith, I want life
I try to be hard to find
But leaves shuffle when I walk by
I have faith, I want life
I have faith, I want life
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7. |
Margaret Taylor
03:28
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Margaret Taylor
My next-door neighbor
Packed her bags & moved to France
To marry a painter
I never told her
How I adored her
Now I spend every day
Writing her letters
Sometimes she replies
Others she's too high
All the cages in the world
Couldn't contain her
It was a quarter to three
Afternoon not morning
You were passed out on your floor
You couldn't open up your door
I cracked a window screen
Your mom was pissed at me
I cleaned your vomit with my coat
So that she wouldn't know
She was the brightest damn nova that I'd ever seen
Maybe the darkest damn nova that I'd ever seen
If you were a soundwave
An electric patterned phase
Then I'd be your harmony
We'd sail together
Through measures on staff lines
And make music violently
If only I could paint
The picture in my mind
My abysmal diary
Then I'd fill my canvas and
Undulate brushstrokes
Just memories of you & me
When it was New Year's Eve
You wouldn't answer me
You were with that fuck
I smashed the windows out of his truck
I never paid him back
But just cut me some slack
The police under his wing
They couldn't prove a thing
It was the brightest damn candle that I'd ever blown
Maybe the darkest damn candle that I'd ever blown
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8. |
Woodspring
01:19
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I want to say I'm not thinking of you anymore;
I'd be lying, I'd be lying like a whore in church
My friend, I think the only road out there for us is a dead-end
Just say goodbye; I only want to cry when I think about you.
It's my birthday, I hope I can enjoy it this year
You really hurt me with the stunts you pulled the last few
Dear you called me back at 4 I'll never forget
I punched your door so hard my blood-covered your doorstep.
Then your dyke friend called the cops on me
They chased me back to the Woodspring Suites
The motel I had moved into
To be with you again.
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9. |
Traveling
01:51
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I was always mad down in Atlanta,
Snowed in cold in Colorado,
Hot in Arizona,
Then drunk daily in Nevada.
I love the places I go,
but I miss everywhere I've been.
The only time I feel at home
is when I'm on the road
Let me be honest I don't even know who I am anymore.
Let me be true I'm not your slave..
I've been robbed at gunpoint
in my own little hometown
& in Savannah with some mushrooms
was sure I had enough to go 'round.
I love the places I go,
but I miss everywhere I've been.
The only time I feel at home
is when I'm on the road
Let me be honest I don't even know who I am anymore.
Let me be true I'm not your slave.
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10. |
Love Me like a Dog
03:03
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You used to make me feel
like I was a handsome boy,
I know that I am not,
but it didn't matter then.
I gave you heart attacks,
I wish that I could take them back.
We both played these games,
but I hold the losing hand.
So when Sadie calls me back
I will tell her I was wrong
& then I'll just get mad,
because she doesn't care at all.
I miss when I could break her down
& she'd let me back in,
but it isn't working now;
those words still ringing in her head.
I don't think there will be a day
I don't think of you all the way through it
(Way through it, no)
I don't think there will come a day
When I can find my way through it
(Way through it, no)
So put me back in my cage
for being rabbid and enraged.
Someone should put me down
for acting like a clown.
I bit you twice before
& then bit you some more
Where's my sense of time?
It's been forever since goodbye
I don't think there will be a day
I don't think of you all the way through it
(Way through it, no)
I don't think there will come a day
When I can find my way through it
(Way through it, no)
I wanna tell you the truth
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