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Crowned in chrome I took a ride in the wrong direction
Severing the one bind you could tie on me Darkness froze as all the hooks have been connected Butchered underneath a broken light There comes a time a man just cannot trust his freedom Shaking with the hand that wants to cheat him Pissing on the ones who help him float away In his darkest hour So down we go into a twisted dark dissension Scavenging the loose change off your mind And doused in gold behind a thin shroud of deception You're covering the one thing you can't hide from me There comes a time a man has nothing to believe in Betting with a hand that will defeat him Spitting in the eyes that helped you look away From your darkest hour Crowned in chrome I took a ride in the wrong direction Severing the one bind you could tie on me Darkness froze as all the hooks got disconnected Throwing sparks into a starless sky There comes a time a man just cannot trust his freedom Leeching off a host that will disease him Shining up the shoes that send you on your way Into your darkest hour |
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Would you try--
Could you buy a new drink for the old drunk It's no crime to resign misery with a bottle You walked into town without making a sound And you slipped and you slammed your face into the crowd As you tried to forget all the words that were said To deny all the things that you keep in your head When you came you were new but today you're much older You were spent so you went to get used in the corner Where they kicked you around like a rodeo clown And it echoed through town they were beating you down And as they spread the word that you liked how it hurt All at once you were cause for a pitiful cure Hours pass by half forgotten Night turns black cause it's rotten And we slide right to the bottom Our tongues made out of cotton Eyes seal shut in a slumber Til we hear someone mumble Could you spare from the tumbler A new drink for the old drunk Now you waste all your days in the dark in the corner Without light without grace where you wait for the slaughter Where they spit in your face as the hours grow late And they laugh as they lie and then seal up your fate And you cringe as you binge to forget how you hate All the doom in this pitiful room you create Hours pass by half forgotten Night turns black cause it's rotten And we slide right to the bottom Our tongues made out of cotton Eyes seal shut in a slumber Til we hear someone mumble Could you spare from the tumbler A new drink for the old drunk |
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Make way for the pigeon kicker
Splattering the city wall Nothing ever seemed so pretty Nothing ever seemed so dull Past the line of cigarette trees Crooked cons and seminal thieves Fools and traitors and misfit saviors In full stride to rot away Sick with style and doused in bitters We'll be waiting drunk at noon We could never leave this city We can't even leave our rooms The drunken waste of rowdy wankers Slit your throat then spit your face Our fortune teller has gone insane In full stride to rot away |
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You say that you're slipping away
As you turn from the hand that could save you You fell like a drunk down a well Like a dog into Hell you were sinking And you took it all in as a joke As if you didn't know you were broken Hiding out in the rain you stood soaking Breathing in the glass to your last lung All blackened and cracking and blue Creeping through the slums of your old world Where nothing about you is new They laughed and as they turned their backs You slid into a crack no one saw And stayed there for a very long time Dying of nothing at all Though you went to the doctor to cope And he sold you the new antidote And he told you that you had been broken They say you gave yourself away for a moment But no one would take you You said, I'm alive, but you're dead Cause nothing about you is new Even though you had been diagnosed And were given the new antidote And were numb to the rain and the soaking You have been and always will be broken |
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I got a phone call from a friend the other day
Says he got into some trouble says he's got to go away Says he's been wasting time making up his mind Says it's so hard to take a stand when you're a broken man Dig yourself into a deeper hole Deeper than the the deepest hole you know You put your money on the line just to blow it every time You're always dealt a dirty hand when you're a broken man Wipe the sleep out of your eyes No trick, half joke, or lie No truth true and tried Hours creeping thick and sure How can you be so pure So shiny and new So never lend a broken man a broken hand Or talk the kind of lip nobody understands The truth is true and tried but so are all your lies A lie can be the truth--the truth just in disguise I got a phone call from a friend the other day Says he got into some trouble says he's got to go away He says he needed money but for him I got no money Cause it's so hard to give a damn when you're a broken man Wipe the sleep out of your eyes No trick, half joke, or lie No truth true and tried Hours creeping thick and sure How can you be so pure So shiny and new |
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Standing in a sea of sleaze
Devils come to bury me Half way dead and half alive Sickness never felt so right And every year a few feet more Creeping up the ocean floor Crawling up the ocean floor Crawling slowly to the shore Evil lurks an evil pure Rising up with an evel cure To swallow every living thing Evil evil entropy Drifting drowning death came pounding Over under rape and plunder And I can't swim and I can't breathe Drowning on this drunken sea Black black ocean creeping tide Rise over me and then leave me to die Hanging off the levee brink I fell in with a crowd of freaks Half were dead and half alive Half would kill you the other half would try Hooked and baited lined and weighted Thrown in with the shit and brine So when the Devil's time is due And this Devil swallows you When half a truth is half a lie And sickness never felt so right Shame throws down a deathly notion Creeping up over black black ocean Drifting drowning death came pounding Over under rape and plunder And I can't swim and I can't breathe Drowning on this drunken sea Black black ocean creeping tide Wash over me and then leave me to die |
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Juliette your cigarette has burned right through your face
Through your skin and through your skull and up into your brain It doesn't seem that you will reach the fountain from where you are And possibly this might just leave a really bad, bad scar And you're lying on the living room floor Lying like you've done at least on hundrend times before Burning with a radiant glow Juliette the fire has crept down and your chest's aflame Smoldering an even ring around your torso frame And moving slow the amber glow does flicker clear and clean It's as if someone has doused you in white gasoline With your ashes on the living room floor Scattered like they've been at least one hundred times before Burning off a skin that you have come to abhor And spreading now the crackling sound Down to your hips and waist Traveling past your legs at last a slow but steady pace The smell of dead skin burning lingers sickly in the air Oh Juliette oh Juliette you don't look like you care Though the smoldering has reached down to your knees Moving down your shins over your ankles and your feet Burning with a radiant glow Swallowing devouring the tips of your toes |
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Set me on fire white liquor girl
Come burning down my throat pristine and pure We have been slaving all day long Among these neon lit half slums Toasting our false hurray The late night favors drinking itself numb Come out tonight white liquor girl One million stars can't heat such a cold cold world One million distant vacant lights All glaring down on you tonight Lighting a distant vacant sky One million distant vacant lies Under sad stars in dingy bars We turn away we tear apart One drop of grace distant and safe They cannot touch you where you are Cold shafts of rain falling dark gray Falling so far they can't be saved They cannot hurt you anymore Here underneath these sad sad stars So turn out the light white liquor girl One shot could set you free from your troubled coil You have been burning bright in vain Here underneath the sad sad rain Painting the town as black as sin Begging to get done wrong again Under sad stars in dingy bars We turn away we tear apart One drop of grace distant and safe They cannot touch you where you are Cold shafts of rain falling dark gray Falling so far they can't be saved They cannot hurt you anymore Here underneath these sad sad stars Under sad stars in dingy bars We turn away we tear apart One drop of grace distant and safe They cannot touch you where you are Cold shafts of rain falling dark gray Falling so far they can't be saved They cannot hurt you anymore Here underneath these sad sad stars |
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You say you came to save the day
But now it's evening And all your victims have gone home You claimed to take nothing away But you kept stealing These things you could never own Last night I drove to go nowhere at all And came to the saddest thing I ever saw A pretty girl all strapped up in an ugly car Driving through a shady crowd of criminals Truth comes in waves leaving no trace Or any meaning To all the bad things we've done True hate won't wait and love comes too late Into this evening Into this night so dark and cold Last night I drove to go nowhere at all And came to the saddest thing I ever saw Another pretty girl inside an ugly car Driving through a shady crowd of criminals A little bleeding A sinking feeling The victim I would never know |
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