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Like a Drug
01:54
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I need another fix soon 'cause it's been days since I had some stimulation. Highlight within a high life. I'm biding my time, just need the motivation. Like a drug, you take my breath away. Like a drug, you numb the pain. Like a drug, you cost me everything. Like a drug, I can't escape. Insects dig under my skin. I've got an itch that only you can scratch. So carve out a little hole and just climb right inside me, and seep into my bloodstream
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Aim for the Weak Spot
01:57
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We make better friends than enemies you said, with your fingers crossed behind your back. So excuse me if I'm reticent to turn round. 'Cause you can't trust a backstabber. You are everything that I'm not. Major loser, aim for the weak spot. I could never see myself in you. Took your best shot, and it's the chance you blew. I'm not playing stupid games anymore. You lie, cheat, everybody knows that you're a fake, a fraud and you're counterfeit. Take your best shot, if you're not a chicken.
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Battlefield
02:06
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Some wars are silent and invisible, fighting constrained to your own internals. Feelings. Emotions are never simple, and they'll kill you if you let them. Your mind is scarred like a battlefield. Your heart's a wound that won't heal. A doctor gave you some medicine, just to make you feel. Stand up, face forward and pay attention. Soldier the fighting is at your door now. Drafted, enlisted, it doesn't matter. You'll see combat any day now. Bloodshed and torment. You'll have your share when crimson and darkness obscure your vision. Head out to battle, or hide away and pray to god they don't come for you next.
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Monterey
02:01
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Do you think that we could pack our things and ran away tonight without a glance backwards? 'Cause I think maybe we should jump into your car and drive to California. Fire it up and get the engine running. We can get away. Run to Monterey. Hit the rugged coast of California. Sipping on monet in your Chevrolet . You could be, and actor or an artist if you like, and I could write a novel by the beach. With sun and sand and not a care at all. Let's go to California.
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Headonbackwards
02:05
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Stage lights, blind me I feel stage fright. I can't breathe. If I die, up here please tell everybody that I planned it all out this way. Oh my god, my head's on backwards, and all I've got's a microphone. And I know that I'm not the next big thing to be blowing up, 'less I explode. Watch me go. Chest tight. Underwater. Sweat wiped from my brow. I close my eyes and let go. Instinct taking over into autopilot. Lights off, everybody's gone. How did it go? let me know. I disassociated. Was it all a dream or did it somehow go well?
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Burn Loser Burn
02:44
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Onwards and often backwards, marching to my own drum beat. My wake is all destruction. Strap in, this ride gets bumpy. Same mistakes, I never learn no no. Quite apparent I'm a loser loser. Self destructive, watch me burn burn burn. Never thought about a future, no not me. Two steps, and they're both backwards. One foot trips up the other. I cruise like the titanic sinking with broken rudder. Create only to destroy. Progress to watch it crumble. I might subvert the pattern, give up. Would that be fun though?
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Goodnight Juliet
02:21
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As I travelled through st Ives, I stopped to rest and to wet my pipes. There's something wrong with the pub lights. A chill crawling down my spine. At the end don't forget
to say goodnight to Juliet. She wont let you leave without saying goodbye. So goodnight Juliet. Strange the ferryman missed her, since she's trapped here in his namesake. The reaper must not have gripped her. She'll keep the lights on until daybreak. Getting late, I see her face as she awakes. Hello Juliet.
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Manic Pixie Rave Girl
02:21
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Halo beneath a blacklight, with bodies packed tight. Her aura radiating. Blinding, and like a magnet you're gravitating towards her neo neon. Bathing in neon, she makes it look easy. The way that she moves is completely appealing. Soul of a saint but she'd give it up freely for a chance to burn in hell with you. Hopeless and a romantic, you try your best line but find the words wont come out. Dumbstruck. She flashes that smile and you fall farther into her neo neon. Under the blacklight, the beat of obscene songs providing the soundtrack to drowning in neon.
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Valentine
02:13
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To my valentine, here's a heart I carved out for you. Say that you'll be mine. You need to know that I adore you. Shotgun romance, handgun by the bedside. When we hold hands I get crazy ideas. You've got no chance. I've got some bad intentions. One last slow dance, and then I'll eat you alive. Die, die, my valentine. Caught you from afar. Like a bear trap I ensnare you. My light in the dark. Come burn me up like solar flares do.
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Water's Edge
03:02
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I'd like to show you something, just follow me boy. You'll make so many friends and I think you'll enjoy sinking in the brackish cold, no last goodbye. Down beneath the surface, soon you're going to find that somewhere out beneath the moonlight, bodies wrapped in plastic sing a song of retribution, by the water's edge. A midnight by the lakeside. It's all so private. The secrets that this lake hides contrast with silence. I've got to show you something, and it's to die for. Best put your warmest coat on, it's hard to ignore.
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Flies
02:58
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Decay. Aura of living death. Stalemate, 'cause you won't ever change. You're corrupting everything. Tainted within your web of flies. Take me away from everything. Break me, 'til I'm a shell of myself. {eel back the flesh until you find, there's nothing left but flies. Rotten apple, you taste amazing. And time makes trash of us all my love. Your toxic chalice I drink from freely, with lips that taste like a pesticide. Tainted. It seeps into everything. Maybe, it's far too late to shrug it off as impurity. Or cleanse when, you're surrounded by flies.
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Nothing Original
02:15
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You've heard this one before. There's nothing original. Sounds so familiar. Just words to fill a silence. No solace in boredom. No rest for innovation. No respite in silence. No joy in inspiration. I've got nothing to prove, and have nothing to keep me grounded. I get stuck in a loop when there's nothing to do. Retread the beaten path and I'll drag you down with me. Into the frozen depths while slowly treading water.
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Short of Perfection
02:36
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Damned by the fates. Perfection within your grasp. You're reaching. Grasping and flailing, it always seems too far away from you. Yeah you could hedge your bets and settle for the second best. Or you could set an ultimatum, see how that works. If you don't get your way you say that you refuse to play, when every day's a case of all or nothing. Aim for the stars then fall short. Moon in your grasp, but so what? Toss it aside like it's only so much dirt on your shoes. When the dust clears, and you find yourself alone. Remember, choices you made were the reason why you ended up here.
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Fallen Angel
03:50
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You sold me out for something you don't deserve. But that's okay I've been the scapegoat since birth. Convenient. Its just a means to an end. The story speads and now I guess we pretend that I'm an animal, that I'm a criminal. I'm the original, the fallen angel. Call me a psychopath. I paint the world in black. You best beware the wrath of fallen angels. Muddied my name so you could boost your ego. You need a villain so you can play the hero. I'd urge use caution if you want to play games. My retribution is becoming what you say. I'll be an animal. I'll be a criminal. I'm the original, the fallen angel. I'll be the psychopath. I'll paint the world in black, and I'll inflict the wrath of fallen angels. Drag me from heaven and expect that I'd wish you well. It's not a threat when I say I will drag you to hell. Words are weapons and revenge is bittersweet. I'm going down I'll make sure you burn with me. I am an animal. I am a criminal. I'm the original, the fallen angel. A total psychopath painting your world in black. And I'll inflict the wrath of fallen angels.
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Burning Bridges
03:26
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I learned to start fires by burning bridges. Inhale the alcohol from my breath. We left the air itself listless. And it started with may I kiss you. And it ends with I'll always miss you. So let the fire consume everything you once held dear. Doesn't matter if this bridge is burning, 'cause it leads to nowhere. Each single word you speak sends toxins slowly coursing through my ventricles. Reminds me why I ache for so long. Goodbye had never seemed so easy. Go on, soon you'll remember that you need me.
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The Liar
05:22
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You speak beautiful lies. You work your way inside. You put a dent into my pride. But I saw you coming, let you go. Like a dozen who came before. I'm not wasting my time with you. It turns out we're both the same, I also play the games you played. I lied my face of when I said that you mean anything. I needed so much more and you helped to pass the boredom. Using my liar's voice and I'm saying that I love you. I'm not saying I don't like you, I'm saying I'm just like you. I just want to touch you, but I could never trust you. And you shouldn't trust me 'cause all I'll do is let you down. But I'll be smiling so convincingly that all else is drowned out. I've found that I can steal a heart through sheer persistence alone. I can make you want to die. I can make you scream and moan. I can promise you the world then I'll just take it all away. I can say I'll never leave then suddenly one day you'll find you're broken, choking. Air gone from your lungs. It's like you're drowning. Pounding broken hearts have sung this song before you, my dear, and every note so insincere. How could you think someone could love a broken mess like you? While I'm here I may as well show you both heaven and hell. I'll be your high, you will adore me. Then I'll numb your soul like morphine. I will be your worst and best. Show you the world, teach you regret. Tear your heart out, hold it closely, my brand new bloody trophy. It's mostly been fun for me giving you what you need. Deceiving you to believe in me. Promise you'll never forget, and tears fill your eyes every time you recall why we fell apart. It all falls on me, and there's nothing left but broken dreams here. So forget me and my hopeless schemes dear. I hope your world burns up. I'm standing in the rain I hope the stars burn out, never to shine again. I wish you all the best. Wish what we shared was real. I hope I've left a hole that you can never fill. I hope this hurts like hell and you resent my name. I hope you can't let go and never smile again. I hope you're happy now. I hope you're satisfied. I'd say I miss you though I do still have my pride. And I am so glad I lied. You did say we're so alike.
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