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| 1. |
| 2:28 | 
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You sit collapsed as an empty mind
Last sparks dissolved until your last breath And the droning sound of tallow Replaces pulse with ink It is lonely here Living in the hazy moment Between the alarm and the awakening Where the dream precipitates Madness as its encore You are only half there The other half erased And brushed from the paper By the same hand that Fingers your id like a fresh scab Until you bleed a river of ridiculous I see now it's not division, but subtraction You peddle your pieces To a man called compromise For a place in the greater scheme Until the only thing left standing Is the place where you once stood You have just reduced yourself from static To dead - air - tonight Or it could be the other way Take the wire to the other side Of this metal sky And you will see These stars are just projections This is not real Which means their thunder is merely a threat Do you want to know the truth? They need you They are mechanical, maniacal, derived You couldn't drown in their gene pool if you tried But they're all made up in brilliant disguise Selling the very thing they most want But cannot possess - You And magic is the key to their success A simple sleight-of-hand steals your autonomy Leaving you believing you are in control Tell me, do you trust your judgement? (laughs) My friend, your id's been tripped Welcome to Metropolis |
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| 2. |
| 3:46 |
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In my desperation, I'll take anything from you
'Cause what I am is what I need and there is nothing I can do I'm a slave to your frustration and I'm working for this pain But in the end I'm nothing and it doesn't mean a goddamn thing I don't want to live like this I don't want to be like you I don't need what I don't miss This is what I've got to do Well, I don't want to be here, but I just don't have a choice and I'd like to say a prayer, but I cannot find my voice Well, I feel I've lived a lifetime and I guess it's just as well 'Cause the life that I've been given is like living in an empty shell Well, I'm just in denial of the things I cannot do But everything that I can't have is all because of you I don't need a guilty conscience, I don't need to be a star All I need is some redemption, but that just won't get me very far |
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| 3. |
| 4:38 |
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Whatever happened to the life I had in your eyes?
I guess I died and I started to believe your lies Like the voice that I heard in the night If you think I'm crazy then you're goddamned right I need to get out of this mess you put me in And think ? is where I'd like to begin Well, I really doubt that you think that I would be fine Well, c'mon baby, now it's temptation time You fucked up, it's easy to see But I don't know what that has to do with me 'Cause I'm knocked down and ready to fight If you think I'm crazy, then you're goddamned right You didn't happen to save my soul As it went out the door with the rest of my goals Well, I just decided that I might like it back And I'm as serious as a goddamned heart attack Well, now baby, I tried to make it plain When I said I was getting tired of these stupid little games Well, it's pretty simple, if you try to keep in mind Well now baby, it's temptation time I didn't mean to cause you any grief But the things that you do to me go way beyond belief Well, I never thought that I'd feel like I was dead But your voice is like a bullet in my goddamn head And I need to feel wanted, I guess anybody would But you treat me like a child and that just ain't any good Well, I just want to have the things that I think are mine C'mon baby, it's temptation time |
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| 4. |
| 3:50 |
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In my mind you're here now, even though you're far away
And I don't know if I'll even try to make it through today Regenerate, recirculate, now, 'til my blood runs dry And I'll never know the things I'm missing 'til the day I die Well I lied when I said nothing but I don't know what to do I just think about you I think about you... I think about everything you did to me But, most of all, I need to think about you In my mind you're everything and I will never know Why you needed me when I had nowhere else that I could go Running around in circles now until my legs give out But I look at the temptation and there's never any doubt I'm afraid I'm missing little pieces of my soul But I never had a need for all the things I didn't know Start from the beginning, now, and tell me everything 'Cause I'm lost without you, I don't think I'd do all this again |
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| 5. |
| 3:52 |
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When I'm lost and I'm lonely and I've got it bad
There's nothing that amounts to the things I've never had Now you know just what I've been through (Everything's black and white, nothing's wrong and nothing's right) Living without you is something I could learn to do Well I'm drunk and I'm tired of the life I lead 'Cause you never give me anything that I need Now you know how much I hate you (Everything's black and white, nothing's wrong and nothing's right) Living without you is something I could learn to do You see everything in black and white Nothing's wrong when you're not right Trusting you was a mistake I don't know how much more I can take When I'm finally broken, when I'm dead and gone Then you might remember that you did me wrong Everything I ever had was stolen by you (Everything's black and white, nothing's wrong and nothing's right) Living without you is something I could learn to do |
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| 4:05 |
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Riding with the top down, everything's fine
There ain't nothing going on inside my mind 'Cause I'm trying not to think enough about me But I'm caught between the devil and the deep blue sea And my brain's in overdrive, I never can tell But the fact of the matter is I know quite well Livin' ain't livin' in a small amount So take it from me, every little bit counts Every little bit counts... Run away, every little thing I fear I know I have to get the hell out of here But there's something getting away from the things I don't like If there ain't something better coming down the pike Never had a heart attack happen this bad And I never met nothing that could make me mad But, then, livin' ain't livin' in a small amount So take it from me, every little bit counts Every little bit counts... (I need to ? down like this...) Never saw anything happen that fast Though I ain't really planning on making this last But I know that everything I do is wrong And I'm trying to fit where I don't belong My brain's in overdrive, never can tell But the fact of the matter is I know quite well Livin' ain't livin' in a small amount So take it from me, every little bit counts Every little bit counts... (I need tProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 ? down like this...) |
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| 7. |
| 4:53 |
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Well I wake up in a cold cold sweat
Burn a hole in my skin with my cigarette But it doesn't hurt coz I'm used to pain And I aint felt nothing yet I don't know what to do when any thing goes wrong Except wander around like I don't belong Cant take anymore, got no reason to fight White lightening gonna come down and put out the lights -sometimes I can't take all the things that you do to me I just can't take it, your such a god damn motherfucker Motherfucker I don't need this shit- Well I know that hard times have just begun And I don't think that I have what it takes To be one of the lies I've heard like a matter of fact Each turn around something get stabbed in the back Well the thing that think I don't think Well I guess that's no reason to get distressed When I don't think I can take anything else White lightning comes down and I'm down like the rest Oh white lightning White lightning White lightning White lightning -Sometimes I just can't take it anymore I just cant take it Demons crawling on my back saying shit I don't wanna hear I just don't wanna hear it I turn down the lights and I stay quiet My head in my hands- Oh white lightning White lightning White lightning White lightning gonna make everything alright |
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| 8. |
| 4:59 |
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Everything is just fine
If you feel that way it's just not mine To want to be the one thing on everybody's mind I never asked so much from you But there's nothing I can do To ease the pain of knowing that I am nothing way deep down inside I don't know what else you could want from me, 'cause I did all I should I gave you more than any self-respecting person ever would I'll never be the one you want, I'll never be the one you need Why can't you see the truth, 'cause I just don't know what to believe now Everything is just great If you feel that way I just can't hate enough But now I know it's just a little bit too late I have to live inside the pain But it's driving me insane And I've got everything to lose and nothing left to gain Everything is all good If you feel that way, I wish that you would Leave me be, 'cause I've already done all that I should I didn't choose to live this way But it's just the price I pay And I think about the things I'm missing every single day |
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| 4:13 | 
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| 10. |
| 5:05 |
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> If I could make through tonight
That would be alright with me 'Cause I'll deny anything I said That lets you know that I'm not dead Why can't you see Why can't you see that the truth lies inside of me? And all the things that I can't be And everything I never knew revolves around the fact that You don't need me anymore I know I guess I'll have to let you go I'll let you go now I'll admit I lie awake at night And I'l ladmit that I haven't got that right And I'll admit that I got nothing left to do But I won't admit to needing you I'll never say that's true, not to you I can see that you don't care 'Cause I can see your staring on That is killing me And if I had a choice I wouldn't listen to your voice And everything is is it wouldn't have to be I wish that I could change the past so it doesn't leave so fast And I would be a different man and do the things I think I can To wash away the traces of your face that whisper through my mind And leave me hanging on inside the broken world of mine |
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| 11. |
| 5:20 |
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> I'm in the middle of a big frustration
I'll do anything to just bring me down You know I never needed any conversation I mean I'll take anything to bring me around I'm beside myself like I'm someone else That is living in the back of my mind Every day I see what I cannot be Loneliness has got to leave me be Don't do anything for me That I ain't what I got to be And I'm here again Down in the bitter end That's a place I can not hide And it's eating me inside And I'm here again Down in the bitter end I'm in the middle of a big time nightmare The voice of reason is lying to me It seems I never need to be the big time winner And the way I got here is so easy to see It's a big mistake But I've got to take everything that is coming my way It's so easy now But I dont know how I can make it through the end of the day |
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| 12. |
| 6:11 |
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Cut down to the bone
All I get is a name on a headstone Never wander around in the daylight I take it all the other suckers try to tell me it's alright Whatever I do It doesn't matter 'cause I can't please you I don't need another trip to the ghetto Everything I think about has gotta be let go Down to the same old scene I think of every little thing I've been And I don't know what's going on But the things that I do know are all wrong And you're better than me, it's easy to see You're twice whatever I could be I never thought that I would need someone to set me free Cut down In the middle of a big old lie Cut down Everything is gonna be all right Cut down What am I supposed to do When everything depends on you? Cut down In the middle of a big old lie Cut down Everything is gonna be all right Cut down What am I supposed to be When everything comes down on me? Same thing anyway I just wanna try to make a getaway Never wanted to be the one With my back to the wall while I stare at the sun My eyes wide open, you never can tell The problem is I know damn well That the things that I do don't matter that much I ? a massive crutch While the world goes by, leaves me behind I probably need to be redesigned So I stop living as if I'm dead Like a man with a gun at the back of his head And you're better than me, it's easy to see You're twice whatever I could be I never thought that I would need someone to set me free (German verse) |
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