1. |
Upside Down
01:53
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everything’s rotten
no ones around
but I swear I can hear them
upside down
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2. |
Gender Mechanics
04:01
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in the corner of your eye
you feel the presence of another life
through the crack of your door
the air so new but you have been here before
is it selfish, were we clueless
could you ask anyone else to do this?
and everything i see
what i believe
seems to have been a lie
the powers that be
put a spell on me
screaming through the night
but it’s just the mechanics
what keeps us together
i swear you can see
after you’ve closed your eyes
as the moonlight’s madness
dances on your dresser
it's fantasy
this could be our last night
you stopped in the street
and stared straight through the door
wide eyed and connected
to what used to be
the hardest rain had begun to pour
you don’t remember this now do you
just a child amazed by the rain
imagination is going insane
it's crucifixion
on television
it's my innervision
it's my new religion
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3. |
.exe
03:38
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a father on fire
the ashes to savor for his
family so tired
the incineration as if he needed it, you see
there was a disease left inside of his soul
a phrase i can’t dispel
a day that i don’t know
a child in a hospital
and another one who should be there but no one can help
and if you like this song
please don’t sing along
don’t add insult to injury
don’t test my indecency
and if my lights gone dead
take my body to bed
don’t believe what i claim to be
don’t doubt my naivety
january’s end
i feel it coming closer again and again
only better when it rains
seems like nothing i do will ever loosen these chains, come on
if i set myself on fire
will you play my songs when i’m dead?
there’s a bad bad witch on the doorstep and a lunatic under the bed
and so it goes
never any closer
i thought this could be it
tried to believe in it
and so it goes
i’m getting older
i’ve got no time for it
i wish that i could quit
i see the beauty in everything
i see the tragedy in it too
it’s a bell you don’t wanna ring
but when you wake up you might have to
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4. |
Home
03:37
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soft staring out the window leaving the shore
it’s a nice thing to hope for, never been there before
breaking into the hallway stuck to the wall
there’s a fire in the dining room
but not a number left to call
you got your bags all packed
and you’re ready to go
they’re saying “give it up boy
and come on home”
with your heavy head
and your hands of stone
you’re all alone
raining through the screen on the windowsill
sit inside and weight your options always wanna climb the safest hill
a guardian a place far from your fear
there is a layer under your armor screaming i don’t belong here
but if the world breaks in two
you’ll have someone there for you
hold hands and circle down the drain
and if you reach another part
and you’re given a new start
your memories leave and there’s no pain
it’s never the same you leave your pain
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5. |
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to understand
you would not dare to bother
i can figure it out on my own time
i got a plan
something of a final offer
dirty little mouth like a beehive
she builds living weapons
inside my mind
it’s mass destruction
complex design
sitting alone in the passenger side
a place without exit
a grave dug before time
it’s mass destruction
complex design
sitting alone on the passenger side
stay here with me
i’m not brave enough to wander
i can figure it out on my own time
you keep looking for shade in the sunshine
don’t agree
each day i’m getting smaller
i wanna mutter the truth but my throat's dry
i could completely dissolve it’s not a far cry
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6. |
Groundhog Day
02:54
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i’m afraid something's watching
i’m afraid it’s inside
i’m afraid i’m just crazy
i’m worried it might be him
she’s dreaming of demons
she’s wearing her cross
hear them laugh in the attic
as she's praying to god
there’s a tightness in my chest
and a flash of light in my eyes
i sit down slow and breath in slowly
keep these eyes open wide
i see a a few clouds floating
inside a dark grey sky
rain is pouring on this morning
got me feeling alive
i feel every last one of my organs
all my insides
how quickly all of them could go
and i how i could die
vulnerable and yet so vital
how does anyone survive?
no i don’t understand
and i don’t know why
visions of my father
with worms in his mouth
he says, "you think you’re better
but you shouldn’t be proud.
just swollen yet fading
unable to cry,
alone like you should be
that’s how you die.
because we all get the same thing
no home in the clouds
no loved ones to help you
are you getting it now?
just swollen and fading
unable to cry
alone like you should be
that’s how you die"
that's how you die?
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7. |
Dissident
04:09
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maybe i'm not an honest man
maybe i'm evil
maybe that was always the plan?
i'd like to see things work out fine
maybe get married
try to live an easy life?
but things aren't as simple as they seem
life fucks you up and down
shit gets mean
there’s no explanation for what i’ve seen
manic depression
is not to blame my troubled heart
place your attention
to the tv screen at 5 o'clock
just 15 minutes
58 spirits fill the air
blink and you’ll miss it
just a few more weeks til no one cares
they’ll never say it to ya straight
so what the fuck could you know about
all the shit you claim to hate?
life’s filled with dirty things
the sadness being awake brings and
someone’s always got to bring the worst out
now ain’t that just great?
i was an honest man
bending over backwards
now i'm a dissident
taking back what i deserve
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8. |
b4
02:42
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i was alone before you left
i was alone after you left
it makes no difference to me
i can’t talk to anybody
my loved ones don’t have the time
they don’t deserve to hear me wine
i’m just standing in the dark
burning out so very dimly
i have strived for my best
turns out this is what i get
there are some things i cannot change
i accept my fate
my fucking pain
i was alone before you left
i was alone after you left
i am alone
i was alone before you left
sunk like a stone into the end
so i always take rejection lightly
but i still don’t get why they don’t like me
you have to manage your decay
i could not manage my decay
we men just aren’t created equal
this world does not deserve a sequel
i have tried to be great
become the thing i fucking hate
if i one question for the heavens
what is 56247?
i was alone before you left
until the bitter fucking end
i am alone
i am alone
i would part the sea
if you would want me
if walls of water could speak
you wouldn’t be so kind
i would part the sea
if you would haunt me
if walls of water could speak
i’d leave this all behind
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the day the sun refused to shine
a door had opened in the dark spot of my mind
promise keepers and sorted saints
a harmless household
the blood that you’ve come to taint
when the sun don’t shine
when the trumpet calls
when the whole new worlds revealed
each day i wake
just want to see you shake
and watch you break
here’s two middle fingers
wish i had a third
your voice it lingers
your choice of words, so absurd
here's 2 middle fingers
wish i had a third
one fucking finger
and i will make you burn
i saw the panic on your face
i saw the paleness the blood that fled, disgraced
they tote your likeness with stained glass
they really kiss your fucking ass
you are the one i truly hate
when the sun don’t shine
when the trumpet calls
when the whole new worlds revealed
each day i wake
just want to see you shake
watch you break
and what we think
what we see
what we know is just a terrible problem
a terrible problem
and what we think what we see
what we choose to believe
it’s just an awful thing
an awful thing
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10. |
Forerunner
04:20
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it was something that you said
couldn't get it out of my head
but now it's gone
like family and god
two things
loved lost and forgotten
to me
let's try to figure you out
i need to write this down
and sketch your face
but my memory has misplaced
most of the features
look in the mirror and
it comes clear
i chisel away at you
until my knuckles are white as bone
yeah, i am the architect
build the monument
but this center statue has left me
sleepless for days
i'm not sure what to think
but i've had years to sort out
my bloodied mess of a mangled chest
as my insides just bore out
my bones are left aching
with questions and
it's not like i needed you to need me
i just wanted you to care
now that you have to leave me
i'm left with just the blood we share
it's so fucking confusing
but i'll have to hide
this sadness that consumes me
with no one by my side
you couldn't be part of my framework
not here to kick me in shape
but you've taught me an important lesson
one i'll keep learning day to day
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