1. |
Break My Back
02:36
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I'd rather break my back than have you break my heart again
I am nothing without you
I'd rather hang there by the neck than have to hang with someone else
I'll stay nothing without you
and I just want our love to be like it was
I just want to be just how I was
and I just want our love to be like it was
I just want to be
I'd rather be alone than be lonely next to you
I know nothing about you
I'd rather lie here all alone than I would stand with someone else
I am nothing without you
and I just want our love to be like it was
I just wanna be just how I was
and I just want our love to be like it was
I just wanna be
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2. |
The Good Life
02:43
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I live the good life
between these cans and buds and blue pills
never looking up
I keep my head above the mirror
and fucking night chills
thank god the children, they're all sleeping
I hate what I've become and I'm so happy
just push away the breaking comedown
and all these little lies I keep on spreading
that all the little spies will never catch
I live a secret life now
I'm a living fucking shadow
I am a boring man
as plain and simple as they come
I blame it on disease
some pity is better than none
this fucking night kills
darkness in and all around me
I hate what I've become, I know it's sappy
suburban rich boy's such a let-down
and all these little lies I keep on spreading
that all the little spies will never catch
I live a secret life now
I'm a living fucking shadow
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3. |
Like the Fucking Devil
02:05
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you took some more than was good for you
and you drained away
like a fucking devil
we talked so much all through the night
and all you said, yeah, well, you were right
so we made some love
like the fucking devil
what am I gonna do
what am I gonna say
we're going down
like all in this tinseltown
I wrote off work, I was full of it
I'd rather wake and then take a hit
I'm as stoned as a sphynx and as free
as the fucking devil
so sing a song and sign away your soul
to the lord of rock'n'roll
and be one with the great, red
fucking devil
what am I donna do
what am I gonna say
we're going down
like all in this tinseltown
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I'll lay my mother with her kindness
and her eyes wide open
I'll lay my father with his demons and tomes and one eye closed
I'll lay my brother, naked
a seed amongst the seas of all the tries
I'll lay my children in pairs
interwoven hair and hearts of honey
and my wife i'll keep
forever in her bed she'll be loved
I'll lay the teachers on the marble slabs for all to learn just one more lesson
I'll lay preachers in the dirt
with all the other sinners and spinsters I'll lay the kings and queens
with the servants and the pawns that they are bury me upright, I shall never bend
to the shallow whims of time
and my wife i'll keep
forever in her bed she'll be loved
I'll lay the sun and moon and stars under your eyelids where they'll glow like you have glowed
I'll lay the drugs under the tongues of all the hypocrites and parents of the children they neglect
I'll lay the truth upon you all
for it's the only glory we will ever know I'll lay the tears into the oceans
that's where the salt must go
but my wife i'll keep
forever in her bed she'll be loved
I'll lay the birds with all the bees
to show us how it's truly done
I'll lay the war down with the peace
and let them fight it out themselves
I'll lay the sights and sounds
onto the mounds of forgotten heroes
I'll lay the boys with the girls
to be at peace without the hassles of time
but my wife i'll keep
forever in her bed she'll be loved
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5. |
She Didn't Wake Up
05:06
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slowly fading out to black
leaving everything behind
there's a beauty to this scene
all the sadness at my back
she never woke up
she never will wake up
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6. |
Heartache Sunday
02:27
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I've been had
it's been a long time coming
it ain't so bad
beats this fucking running
hanging around
on this heartache Sunday
throwing out all the things remind me
taking down the picture
that you drew of me
my own smiling face
it always threw me
standing my ground
on this heartache Sunday
ripping to pieces everything reminds me
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7. |
San Sebastián, MX
02:48
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Saint Sebastian gave me life
and took away my insides
left my greedy life behind
and made a home in the pines
it's all in the hills, is all
Saint Sebastian left me dry
and placed me neath a breathless sky
touching moons and stars as I lie
with the child he placed at my side
it's all in the hills, is all
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Safe Upstairs Zürich, Switzerland
i love and i hate and i get funny and sad and high and then i write songs about it. also, i'm not too fond of myself. and
i'm a satanist. boh! and a dad. and divorced. who cares, right? i sure as hell don't... so it goes. poo-tee-weet.
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