1. |
Action (rock version)
01:33
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2. |
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(verse 1)
Let me make it worth your time
for good but not for long
Could you internalize
paradise in the gaslight (gaslight)
I don't mind if you lose yours
Disappear when I get bored
Living rooms and one last night
paradise in the gaslight
(verse 2)
I'd like to apologise
For things I don't recall
Every room holds dizzying heights
paradise in the gaslight
Hold me, I'm falling over
But I'm not myself when sober
Much rather we not fight
Paradise in the gaslight
(chorus)
Let it all go to my head
Blew it out on one night stand
Exempt from consequence
Bodies in and they were packed tight last night
And I'm still not satisfied
Want it all but no expense
But with all that aside
I'll bathe it all in a blacklight gas light
(break)
I don't apologise
It was you all along
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3. |
Descent (rock version)
03:30
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(verse 1)
I descend rapidly to purgatory
Refused to resign to my fate
Plainly I'm held up, if you see my love then
Tell her I'm going to be late
You can tell hell I'm halfway there
(verse 2)
Descending further the heat's overbearing
I'm burning up as I'm displaced
Perhaps my ally or maybe my nightmares will
Follow me out of this place
You can tell hell I'm already here
(chorus)
It's getting cold out here
I'm frozen to the bone
When I escape you can
Tell my love I'm coming home
I'm going down in flames
Sustain through the unknown
To tide me over 'til I'm back
and clawing for the throne
(verse 3)
Out of my depth fighting the undercurrent
Determined that we'll reunite
Not even the devil herself could delay me when
I leave this plane and take flight
You can tell hell I'm out of here
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4. |
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(verse 1)
It's getting hot in here
All steamy in the prose
Salaciousness for sale
Indecently proposed
Too quiet for serenity
So cry for sweet obscenity
(verse 2)
Incentive for allurement
Worth every single cent
And as excitement grows
The tone takes a descent
Too quiet for serenity
So cry for sweet obscenity
(chorus)
Placing head on knees she let the tears come forth unrestrained
Crying for the loss of something she had never even attained
How ridiculous, hopes and dreams are dashed
Expectations crushed, terminate contract
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5. |
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(verse 1)
I found the world's end close blue out by the mile
If this city sang its secrets would it do so with a tear or a smile
Threw my last coin into a wishing well
Drink to the last drop try to be good to myself
How many lost souls here found heaven in hell
A glass to all those who fell
(verse 2)
A toast to the devil's advocate hoping to whisk me away
It's not the first or forth time I've felt a pull compel me to stay
Drowned a memory inside the witching well
Down to the last drop try recall parts of myself
In rememberance of finding heaven in hell
I really don't mean to dwell
It's just a story I tell myself when
(chorus)
I'm north of eden, back at the start
Fell off the wagon, piled on the cart
This feels like grieving as I depart
People hurt feelings but this place breaks my god-damn heart
(break)
All I wanted was a piece of Eden
Thought I had it but the sense was fleeting
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6. |
Monster (rock version)
03:53
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(verse 1)
Birthed of fire and electricity
Mangled and disfigured
Trussed in cuts of man's duplicity
carelessly configured
Father, am I a monster
so many pieces, have I a soul?
Am I malicious, because you made me
That way or have I, assumed that role
(verse 2)
If love shall evade me
Then I will inspire fear
If animosity persues me
I'll conform to the smears
Father, I am a monster
Pick up the pieces, my heart's a hole
I am malicious, because they made me
You never taught me, to keep control
(chorus)
Run and grab your torch I know it's hard to see
The other type of monster hidden within me
Born into a curse you'd never understand
That everything I love lays dead by my own hand
(verse 3)
dissect, a new plague
infect, but can't cage
neglect, a turned page
the defect walks away
Father, you were the monster
Stitched up the pieces, ran to the pole
It's so malicious, nobody made you
Cast your creation into the cold
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7. |
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(verse 1)
Avert course, crisis looms ahead
That sinking feeling
Somewhere between serenity and dread
Which leaves you reeling
Just know you're not alone, I'm right here by your side
Come hell, high water rain or ice
We'll make it out alive
(chorus)
Though I can't save myself
I'll be damned if I let you drown
I will hold your head above the rising tide
And keep you safe for now
So as I sink into your darkness
I implore you not to look down
Just scream for help until your lungs give out
And we will make it somehow
(verse 2)
Loose lips and fingertips both
Hold on with tighter grip
Don't ever give up or ever let go
Now matter how old or cold we may grow
We were both lost in the dark alone
A hundred miles from shore, a thousand miles from home
And as the story's told we'll keep the memory afloat
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8. |
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(verse 1)
Illogical and fully fearful
It's easier to sleep when wrong
Try and debate and catch an earful
Of violent prose and pretty songs
(bridge)
What's it like to know you're deserving
What's it like to feel in your soul
What's it like to serve the self-serving
What's it like to be so controlled
How'd you get to feel the devotion
Why'd you get to blame it on fate
Broken minds that claim to be open
I refrain from sayin' (for) forsake
(verse 2)
Revere the pages like the gospel
Too ignorant to even doubt
The sheep calls himself an apostle
And bargains like Johann Georg Faust
(chorus)
Well I'd much rather burn in hell than do what
That damn book suggests in its verses
(tell your) higher power we're diabolical
And he did right to desert us
Yes I'd much rather burn in hell than to
Seek out misplaced guidence
In the words of men who would stand as gods
There is triumph in defiance
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9. |
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10. |
Misery (rock version)
05:00
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(verse 1)
Can you help me, I am drifting numbly
Through a haze of pain but through it all
An angel guides me, tells me that she loves me
But if I fail then she'll ensure I fall
If she's gone then I'm free and it's (annie's) killing me
Wish she'd just let me be, just let me rest in peace
Holding tightly she begins to scream
Please rip me from my nightmare, into my misery again
(verse 2)
Thumbing through a multitude of pages
I'm not leaving 'til she's satisfied
Within a book it would have gone so smoothly
The mist it fades there's still no end (N) in sight
(And when she's) here I'm caged and days muddy into weeks
She'll never let me be, this ends we're both deceased
I'll treading lightly, straying to deciept
Engage my number one fan, within my misery again
(chorus)
So resurrect her from the dead,
Inspiration strikes in tormented flashes
The only escape is within my head
bathed in lighter fuel, cinders and ashes
(verse 3)
Dirty birdie, write now by the window
Prying eyes are closed eternally
Taking steps while cut off from the morphine
Perhaps it's not all I'm hacked up to be
(She said) when it rained it sometimes made her blue
I've got one for me, and I've got one for you
I'm stumbling blindly trying to find my feet
I resurrect my nightmare, please put me out my misery
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11. |
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(verse 1)
Look at it, ugly and crippled
Oblivious to the extent
Tiny world, it knows so little
Reprogram, watch its ascent
Look at the smile on its face
(gifted from the divines)
A sad and pitiful case
(document the decline)
Tear it apart and displace
(it surpassed the design)
Shred him apart and replace
(even god gets bored sometimes)
There is reason to fix you if inside you feel like you're broken
With a word or incision you wont even notice was there
You may lose yourself whilst undergoing the transformation
And find an ugliness inside, no doctor could hope to repair
It's okay to be anxious when everything is readjusting
It's a gradual process relying on not being aware
And I thank your compliance in being so dumb and entrusting
And you should thank me despite your despair
(verse 2)
My masterful composition
A canvas of human flesh
Sliced away, reconditioned
I present you my success
Laugh at the confusion on its face
(gifted from the divines)
A sad and pitiful case
(document the decline)
Tear it apart and displace
(it surpassed the design)
Shred him apart and replace
(even god gets bored sometimes)
No other reason to fix you than I had some time for indulgence
You were nothing without me, so know that I created you
Now you shine so much brighter and everyone sees your allurement
But you're the same worthless moron to those of us who knew the real you
And if you're anxious now then that's what you pay for the self improvement
You could have stopped any moment but still chose to see this thing through
You're a living example of people's obsession with beauty
But to me you're a project I'm done with. It's over I'm through
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12. |
Action (electro version)
01:35
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13. |
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(verse 1)
Let me make it worth your time
for good but not for long
Could you internalize
paradise in the gaslight (gaslight)
I don't mind if you lose yours
Disappear when I get bored
Living rooms and one last night
paradise in the gaslight
(verse 2)
I'd like to apologise
For things I don't recall
Every room holds dizzying heights
paradise in the gaslight
Hold me, I'm falling over
But I'm not myself when sober
Much rather we not fight
Paradise in the gaslight
(chorus)
Let it all go to my head
Blew it out on one night stand
Exempt from consequence
Bodies in and they were packed tight last night
And I'm still not satisfied
Want it all but no expense
But with all that aside
I'll bathe it all in a blacklight gas light
(break)
I don't apologise
It was you all along
|
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14. |
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|
(verse 1)
I descend rapidly to purgatory
Refused to resign to my fate
Plainly I'm held up, if you see my love then
Tell her I'm going to be late
You can tell hell I'm halfway there
(verse 2)
Descending further the heat's overbearing
I'm burning up as I'm displaced
Perhaps my ally or maybe my nightmares will
Follow me out of this place
You can tell hell I'm already here
(chorus)
It's getting cold out here
I'm frozen to the bone
When I escape you can
Tell my love I'm coming home
I'm going down in flames
Sustain through the unknown
To tide me over 'til I'm back
and clawing for the throne
(verse 3)
Out of my depth fighting the undercurrent
Determined that we'll reunite
Not even the devil herself could delay me when
I leave this plane and take flight
You can tell hell I'm out of here
|
||||
15. |
||||
|
(verse 1)
It's getting hot in here
All steamy in the prose
Salaciousness for sale
Indecently proposed
Too quiet for serenity
So cry for sweet obscenity
(verse 2)
Incentive for allurement
Worth every single cent
And as excitement grows
The tone takes a descent
Too quiet for serenity
So cry for sweet obscenity
(chorus)
Placing head on knees she let the tears come forth unrestrained
Crying for the loss of something she had never even attained
How ridiculous, hopes and dreams are dashed
Expectations crushed, terminate contract
|
||||
16. |
||||
|
(verse 1)
I found the world's end close blue out by the mile
If this city sang its secrets would it do so with a tear or a smile
Threw my last coin into a wishing well
Drink to the last drop try to be good to myself
How many lost souls here found heaven in hell
A glass to all those who fell
(verse 2)
A toast to the devil's advocate hoping to whisk me away
It's not the first or forth time I've felt a pull compel me to stay
Drowned a memory inside the witching well
Down to the last drop try recall parts of myself
In rememberance of finding heaven in hell
I really don't mean to dwell
It's just a story I tell myself when
(chorus)
I'm north of eden, back at the start
Fell off the wagon, piled on the cart
This feels like grieving as I depart
People hurt feelings but this place breaks my god-damn heart
(break)
All I wanted was a piece of Eden
Thought I had it but the sense was fleeting
|
||||
17. |
||||
|
(verse 1)
Birthed of fire and electricity
Mangled and disfigured
Trussed in cuts of man's duplicity
carelessly configured
Father, am I a monster
so many pieces, have I a soul?
Am I malicious, because you made me
That way or have I, assumed that role
(verse 2)
If love shall evade me
Then I will inspire fear
If animosity persues me
I'll conform to the smears
Father, I am a monster
Pick up the pieces, my heart's a hole
I am malicious, because they made me
You never taught me, to keep control
(chorus)
Run and grab your torch I know it's hard to see
The other type of monster hidden within me
Born into a curse you'd never understand
That everything I love lays dead by my own hand
(verse 3)
dissect, a new plague
infect, but can't cage
neglect, a turned page
the defect walks away
Father, you were the monster
Stitched up the pieces, ran to the pole
It's so malicious, nobody made you
Cast your creation into the cold
|
||||
18. |
||||
|
(verse 1)
Avert course, crisis looms ahead
That sinking feeling
Somewhere between serenity and dread
Which leaves you reeling
Just know you're not alone, I'm right here by your side
Come hell, high water rain or ice
We'll make it out alive
(chorus)
Though I can't save myself
I'll be damned if I let you drown
I will hold your head above the rising tide
And keep you safe for now
So as I sink into your darkness
I implore you not to look down
Just scream for help until your lungs give out
And we will make it somehow
(verse 2)
Loose lips and fingertips both
Hold on with tighter grip
Don't ever give up or ever let go
Now matter how old or cold we may grow
We were both lost in the dark alone
A hundred miles from shore, a thousand miles from home
And as the story's told we'll keep the memory afloat
|
||||
19. |
||||
|
(verse 1)
Illogical and fully fearful
It's easier to sleep when wrong
Try and debate and catch an earful
Of violent prose and pretty songs
(bridge)
What's it like to know you're deserving
What's it like to feel in your soul
What's it like to serve the self-serving
What's it like to be so controlled
How'd you get to feel the devotion
Why'd you get to blame it on fate
Broken minds that claim to be open
I refrain from sayin' (for) forsake
(verse 2)
Revere the pages like the gospel
Too ignorant to even doubt
The sheep calls himself an apostle
And bargains like Johann Georg Faust
(chorus)
Well I'd much rather burn in hell than do what
That damn book suggests in its verses
(tell your) higher power we're diabolical
And he did right to desert us
Yes I'd much rather burn in hell than to
Seek out misplaced guidence
In the words of men who would stand as gods
There is triumph in defiance
|
||||
20. |
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21. |
Misery (electro version)
04:53
|
|||
|
(verse 1)
Can you help me, I am drifting numbly
Through a haze of pain but through it all
An angel guides me, tells me that she loves me
But if I fail then she'll ensure I fall
If she's gone then I'm free and it's (annie's) killing me
Wish she'd just let me be, just let me rest in peace
Holding tightly she begins to scream
Please rip me from my nightmare, into my misery again
(verse 2)
Thumbing through a multitude of pages
I'm not leaving 'til she's satisfied
Within a book it would have gone so smoothly
The mist it fades there's still no end (N) in sight
(And when she's) here I'm caged and days muddy into weeks
She'll never let me be, this ends we're both deceased
I'll treading lightly, straying to deciept
Engage my number one fan, within my misery again
(chorus)
So resurrect her from the dead,
Inspiration strikes in tormented flashes
The only escape is within my head
bathed in lighter fuel, cinders and ashes
(verse 3)
Dirty birdie, write now by the window
Prying eyes are closed eternally
Taking steps while cut off from the morphine
Perhaps it's not all I'm hacked up to be
(She said) when it rained it sometimes made her blue
I've got one for me, and I've got one for you
I'm stumbling blindly trying to find my feet
I resurrect my nightmare, please put me out my misery
|
||||
22. |
||||
|
(verse 1)
Look at it, ugly and crippled
Oblivious to the extent
Tiny world, it knows so little
Reprogram, watch its ascent
Look at the smile on its face
(gifted from the divines)
A sad and pitiful case
(document the decline)
Tear it apart and displace
(it surpassed the design)
Shred him apart and replace
(even god gets bored sometimes)
There is reason to fix you if inside you feel like you're broken
With a word or incision you wont even notice was there
You may lose yourself whilst undergoing the transformation
And find an ugliness inside, no doctor could hope to repair
It's okay to be anxious when everything is readjusting
It's a gradual process relying on not being aware
And I thank your compliance in being so dumb and entrusting
And you should thank me despite your despair
(verse 2)
My masterful composition
A canvas of human flesh
Sliced away, reconditioned
I present you my success
Laugh at the confusion on its face
(gifted from the divines)
A sad and pitiful case
(document the decline)
Tear it apart and displace
(it surpassed the design)
Shred him apart and replace
(even god gets bored sometimes)
No other reason to fix you than I had some time for indulgence
You were nothing without me, so know that I created you
Now you shine so much brighter and everyone sees your allurement
But you're the same worthless moron to those of us who knew the real you
And if you're anxious now then that's what you pay for the self improvement
You could have stopped any moment but still chose to see this thing through
You're a living example of people's obsession with beauty
But to me you're a project I'm done with. It's over I'm through
|
||||
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