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Act of Contrition
03:55
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Pieces of broken bone
Leave a bloody trail back home
Shadows line the street
Bodies hanging in the trees
Here I stand
Unforgiven
Bleeding
Act of Contrition
Footsteps on the poison path
I know there's no going back
Knuckles raw and broken teeth
Dreams of what could have been
Caught a jar of fireflies
Patiently I watched them die
Sins catching up with me
A story incomplete
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2. |
11.4.91
03:42
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I don't remember how it feels
I didn't hold on to the memory
There is still an open wound
But I'm numb to everything
Cover it up in band-aids
Prescribe self-medication
I know that you hurt me
I refuse the sensation
Loveless...I'm losing you
I have my share of bruises,
Dark secrets and cold comfort
Weighs heavy on my heart
But I'm numb to the hurt
I lie to myself all the time
Until I believe the sublime
I won't accept I'm broken
Won't lose myself this time
Loveless... I'm losing you
Loose tooth in my mouth
Feel it against my tongue
Truth rises to the surface
Like acid in my throat
Pretend that it means nothing
I can just let you go
I know I'm dying inside
Swallow hard until I choke
I can't let myself hurt
Cause It means you're really gone
Loveless... I'm losing you
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3. |
El Salvador
03:07
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Black mass in the corner of my eye
Just another ghost in the wreckage of my mind
Shiny new needle, sour new pill
If this doesn't save me, nothing ever will
It's the devil you know
Keeps you safe, keeps you whole
I don't know who I am anymore
Dark thoughts cradle me in the night
Drag me inches closer and closer to the knife
Depression's teeth try to take a hold
Take another pill so I don't let go
It's the devil you know
Keeps you safe, keeps you whole
I don't know who I am anymore
Another treatment, aggressive new cure
Say they make me better but I'm just not sure
Take another pill, stuck in my throat
Say it's gonna save me but I've lost hope
It's the devil you know
Keeps you safe, keeps you whole
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4. |
Another Neighborhood
05:35
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Murder in the suburbs
Found them underneath the porch
A pile of love letters
All the names crossed out
And the birds kept singing
All the way to your house
Car idled in the garage
Til you fell asleep
I went through the windshield
Of the station wagon
Glass all over Main Street
There was so much blood
And the day just went on...
The clothes all strung on the lawn
Falling from the windows
Screaming bloody murder
Not a drop of innuendo
And the kids come home from school
Where they learn to duck and cover
Got a note from the teacher
Someone has a problem
There's a faint feel of terror
In the way the neighbors speak
And the mail stopped coming
And the paperboy died last week
Sun set on the cul de sac
You can hear somebody cry
No one does anything
They never had a reason why
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5. |
Afterparties
05:03
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When the smoke clears
Will you still be here?
When the music dies down
Will you still be around?
Morning comes creeping
And it stops being cool
The fantasies all fade
And it's just me and you
Gone are all the city lights
Tender embrace of night
Tell me what remains
Now that's the party's done?
Will you give your heart to anyone?
Can I be that someone?
No one is still dancing
All our friends have gone home
Here comes the sun
Will it find us alone?
The streets are empty
All the cars are motionless
Last night was a blur
A moment of a bliss
Gone are all the disco lights
Euphoria of the night
Tell me what remains
Now's the only thing we have
Here in this moment
Who are we now
That morning has broken?
Do we take a chance?
Is there something here?
When the party's over
Does this spark disappear?
Gone are the city lights
Heavy magic of the night
Tell me what remains
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6. |
Yr Wlcm
03:04
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There's a cold wind blowing outside
An icy stare; a low voice
Cut myself off at the knees
So there's less left for you to hurt
I'm not crying, you're crying
Born to be disappointed
The cruelty comes from inside the house
Assume the worst of everyone
Because experience has taught me well
Learn to make do on the crumbs you've been given
How dare I expect something more
I don't deserve thanks, but you're welcome
I don't deserve thanks, but you're welcome
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7. |
23K Gold
03:29
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Head full of voices
And none of them mine
I think about you
Too much of the time
Shattered and threadbare
Got no identity
Seeking your spotlight
What should I be?
Dying to be precious
Let me be the favorite
Desperately seeking
A moment of care
i give of myself
Until I'm in despair
Running on empty
And gasping for air
I look in your direction
Hoping that you care
I give up my dreams
I adopt yours
You give me a little
I'm begging for more
Tapping the vein
Stripped to the core
Above everything
I wanna be adored
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8. |
Yalla
04:20
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Do not curse the visitors
You were not born in this town
Don't fear the unknown
You didn't always know, what you know now
And the dogs they back
Until everyone is scared
Pictures of monsters
That were never ever there
It's always easier to hate
the stranger, the stranger
It's always easy to find
the danger, the danger
Won't you take me home
Where the streets aren't burning
I'm sorry that I ever came
Won't you take me home
Where the streets aren't burning
Cause I'll never dream again
Another door kicked down
In the dead of night
Another foot upon a throat
Creates a lesser kind
And the kids will march
And do what they are told
Believe all the old lies
And the greatest story ever told
Turn, turn, blind eyes
There's a fresh new hell
Justify the sins
Promise you'll never tell
And the scars you keep
Will haunt you to your grave
And the world you leave
Will suffer from your shame
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I never learned to drive
And I'm no good at dating
All this big city living
Drives me to tears
I can't control my mood
Been staying up all night
I think I might go crazy
Just thinking of you
Hooked on you
Like a melody in my mind
D-D-Du-Du-Du
D-D-D-Da-Du-Du-Du
I try to switch it up
Love is just confusing
It's not like the movies
I'm always doing some wrong
Even on my good days
it would take a miracle
To make me anything
But lonely for you
I feel it in my blood
We belong together
I see it when you look at me
I hope you see it too.
I don't have the best body
And I'm no good on the streets
But being lonely
Leaves me incomplete
Never thought I'd fall in love
You got my heart racing
Like I took something
And I'm addicted to you
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10. |
Box in the Ground
05:33
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I wonder if I'm a failure
I spend so much time feeling lonely
Struggling with oppressive thoughts
And my drowning ambitions
Where are all of my friends
I think that I made them all up
I need to take so many drugs
Just so I can function
Still I'm scared
I'm wasting this precious life
And time is slipping away
I don't want a box in the ground
Great grandfathers get forgotten
Who will remember my name?
I've accomplished nothing
And I'll die just the same
I've got a thousand yard stare
Staring at a blank page
Lived through all this darkness
But I've got nothing to say
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Everyone is lying
About the lights in the sky
Playing their parts
As the camera rolls
I am the focus
In the hidden camera's eye
Prime time broadcast
I'm not supposed to know
Television, television
I am your friend
Made by design
A superstar
Television, television
I am your friend
It's ten o'clock
Do you know where your children are?
Plasticine flowers
The moon is painted on
Someone presses play
On the daily birdsong
I have known nothing
But the life I'm told
Manufactured reality
All part of the show
Is this real life?
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12. |
Killing a Pegasus
04:32
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The moon has started to die
And I feel the same way inside
Bleak stars in the vast black
Pulsing in my shallow eyes
Crimson waves upon the shore
Crashing like a monster's roar
It feels like the end of days
Down to my hollow core
I am no longer someone's son
I've been cursed for what I've done
In my hand the loaded gun
But I'm too weak
The dank smell of decay
Flows in the air in waves
Rats pick each other's bones
Bodies lie in unmarked graves
Celestial corpses
The thump of pale horses
I made too many mistakes
I afford the penance
Death grinds its teeth
Ghosts line these streets
A plague on my house
I write these tragedies
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Money has gone missing
There's something in the air
Nights, you're disappearing
There's a coldness in your care
Did I catch you in a lie
Taste someone in your kiss
You think you can hurt me
And get away with it
Not gonna play your wicked game
Don't you know there's hell to pay
Not gonna cry another day
Over you
Not gonna let you get away
With treating my heart this way
Not gonna cry another day
Over you
Do you believe in ghosts?
Mother always told me
You're a snake in the grass
Don't fall for fantasies
They aren't built to last
You made so many promises
You didn't intend to keep
Don't you feel guilty?
How do you ever sleep?
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14. |
Pyrite City
05:31
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