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Dead to Rites
01:55
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Sticks and tricks
And bricks and bones.
You better make amends
Before you’re alone.
You can’t hurt me
what’s in my head.
It rattles around the
Words you said.
“Dead to rites,
You sacrifice,
Your livelihood,
What do you know?”
Break a leg,
And take the stage.
You say a thing,
And the audience stares.
And you really don’t care
If they really don’t care,
But you really do care
If they really don’t care.
I wanna be liked
And I wanna be loved.
I wanna please you
Every time we make love.
Will I ever be enough?
Will it ever be enough?
Will I ever be anyone other than just a-
(I know that things won't stay the same,
You don't have to be so insecure.
Those words, they rattle around my brain.
They circle back, they circle back.)
(So you feel like a waste sometimes,
Til that feeling comes down your spine.
You're given life, how can you retribute that?
The words circle back, they circle back.)
“Dead to rites,
You sacrifice,
Your livelihood,
What do you know?”
So I’m vain.
I’ll Crucify.
Don’t wanna regret,
I’ve been feeling blessed.
Don’t wanna run,
Don’t wanna hide,
You’ll be hearing me,
Dead or alive.
Dead to Rites.
Dead to Rites.
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2. |
Memory Gap
02:09
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Hold me.
The way you wanna be held. And just
Love me.
The way you wanna be loved.
If you never wanna go back to the start.
If you never wanna go back to the start.
Stop your tryna find a way to break my heart.
Stop your tryna find a way to fall apart.
Always takin’ everything I say out of proportion.
I've been looking for a way to say I'm lookin’ for annulment.
I'd been lookin’ for a bright-eyed girl like you.
I didn't know it ‘til I lost it.
But what can you do?
Look so good when you cut your hair
It never really mattered now what you wear.
Paint your eyes and paint your nails.
It never really mattered now what you wear.
Now I know
The Consequence
Of where we went.
We really complicated things
Oh, the damage you can do.
With a diamond ring.
Time flies by, right through you.
Like a dream that I had that I once knew.
Could never hold it up, the way you do.
But you look so good-
when you cut your hair when your-
Lipstick cuts, bet it all on the blunderbuss
There’s no need to fuss.
There’s no fucking need to cuss.
I’d been lookin’ for a bright-eyed girl like you.
I didn’t know it ‘til I lost it
But what can you do?
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3. |
Try Again Later
01:28
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I’ve been spinning wheels.
I don’t know how to feel.
I want to then I don’t,
And then I will,
and then I won’t,
I know it’s complicated.
I know what you’re lookin for,
You know what I need?
I wanna love, wanna love
Wanna do it again.
I start to spin
When I realize
You walked in.
You know you got me
(split apart) (by my heart).
I’m down on my knees, and…
Wanna tell you bout it
(Every single thing)
Wanna tell you bout it
(Every single thing)
Wanna tell you bout it
I’m down on my knees.
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4. |
Hellride
02:20
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Pounce at shadows,
and dim quick thoughts.
In the darkness,
with the shadowbox.
Shameless in night,
Razor sharp as a knife,
and he cuts the conversation
when he asks for a light.
Obvious, obsolescent, and dangerous.
Dragging the cigarette,
Getting the spins again.
More than anything that
turpentine’s got you grinning.
Grab that wheel like a fool,
but that's just when I'm getting in.
Filling up, feel more air than flesh.
Breathing, smoking, it hurts no less.
Mumbling, echoing, aching softly,
A madman paces
back and forth in the lobby.
What’s the matter?
Don’t you got a brain on you?
What’s the pain
That you’ve been
holdin on to.
What’s the matter?
Don’t you got a brain on you?
What’s the pain
That you’ve been
holdin on to.
Did you mean?
What you said?
Wrestle keys from your hand.
Did you listen to me then?
I can’t lose
any more friends.
I guess you made your mind.
You’re runnin out time.
Eyes roll back like The Exorcist.
How many friends do you miss?
Livin life like death’s kiss.
So you drink til you’re sick.
You feelin lucky movin on?
Live it up but live it long.
Or at least for one more song.
You’re not wrong.
But the hedonism’s killin me
Don’t know what to do if
the Cops persist in calling me.
Callin your life at 4:03,
it can’t be.
But the sheets pull back
And the rain starts comin again.
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5. |
Gaslight
01:37
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You made your mind.
(Now come make mine)
You made your mind.
(Now come make mine)
You’re having fun.
(Losing time)
Find out
I’m old news.
And the day’s
been long gone.
Too late, time’s up.
I can’t think straight.
Wasn’t worth the argument.
Not sure what you expected.
I’m not sure where I went.
Too late, time’s up.
I can’t think straight.
Time slipped out from under me.
I’m not sure where it went.
I’m not sure where I went.
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6. |
Gambling
00:58
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Whatcha sayin'?
Listen.
I wanna tell you something-
Tell you nothing, talkin' to myself.
Out of cash to gamble,
Feelin' lucky as I start a ramble.
All I know is what I've been told.
(Better tell it before I grow old)
Now I know my eyes are turning red.
(Gotta get it, get it, get it out of my head.)
My head...
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7. |
Accelerator
02:02
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Sun’s up
Eye’s open wide
For your
Life, love.
Gone in a moment.
Hold it, Hold and don’t let go.
Know, what you want.
And love, what you got.
Makin waves all over the town,
I want you to be mine.
If I could just get off the ground,
And into the sky.
Better keep the pace if you wanna see yourself in space.
This ain't a fuckin nursery, spittin' in the first degree.
I hope I don’t slip, cause you haven’t seen the worst of me.
If you knew that that’s what you wanted to do,
you better grab hold of the train coming through.
Put in time, spittin' lines surprised and alive,
but why ya gotta be so fuckin damn blind.
Come and see,
You ask me if life is worth living,
given no choice committing,
Life is scarce commodity.
But how can I say it?
It’s simple to be sure.
That Life is the message of the
Light is the message of the time.
Presence of the mind. Imma find it.
I’m reminded, how you knew the right way out.
And I’ll find it, the same way as you see now
But still, I know the time is mine.
But why I gotta be so fuckin damn blind.
Why I gotta be so fuckin damn blind.
Why I gotta be so fuckin damn blind.
Why I gotta be so fuckin damn blind.
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8. |
Only
00:51
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Fools adrift, covering tracks, candlelit, in darkness.
Do you wanna go? Away?
(Shoveling backwards, takes one to know one)
Saying all the right things.
A place called home,
(Fools adrift covering tracks candlelit in darkness)
To call your own.
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9. |
Another One
02:07
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Take me, Take me
All over the town
I’ll show you all the places
I go when I’m feelin’ down.
Take me, Take me
Wherever you want
I don’t wanna be alone right now
And you’re so easy to please.
Promise
Isn’t what belonging is.
I want you open.
No one’s perfect.
Kiss me, Hold me
Make me feel alright
You’re makin' up ways.
I want you in spades.
I want you all mine.
This is your average love.
Do you think it feels enough?
I want you to feel fine
I want you all mine.
I want you all-
Wanted, wanted.
I don’t really know what I want.
I wanted you until my brain turned blue.
But now my brain is broke.
And I’m feelin’ like a joke.
And I’m really startin' to wonder
If I’m better alone
Wanted, wanted.
Love like I never had.
You gave me that,
and so much more,
I’ll give it back.
You wanted everything.
And I gave it to you.
Now all I really know is
want you off my mind.
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10. |
Parallel Blocks
01:42
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You could say
what you-
You could say
what you want to
Cause
Parallel Blocks
talk faster in time.
You’re really enough
You’re really enough to
Make a change
Cause parallel blocks
talk faster in time
It’s all in your head
Make it make sense
Irreverent streams
If you know just what I mean
You can always evolve,
you can always involve
Cause Listen
You can get with the times
You’re already dead
You’re already dead
Make it count
Make it sense
You’re already gone
You’re already gone
A dust speck in breeze’s
Still gotta blow on.
You’re already gone
You’re already gone
Irrelevant streams if you know what I mean
Dust speck in breeze
But still one you can see.
You could say
what you-
You could say
what you want to
Cause
Parallel Blocks
talk faster in time.
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11. |
Where's Lost
02:23
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Will you ever come back?
Will you find your way home?
Two a day, hidden away
Atop a mountain
Counting the stars.
Wan-der your way home,
One day.
Want you to make a promise,
Cause God, it’s just white space, beyond us.
A void I know.
I think I heard a bone crack.
You feelin’ fine?
While you’re makin sense of gibberish.
Take, take your time.
To the well in your new confines.
You know we’re all for you.
I wish I could tell you.
I could take you back.
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12. |
Void
01:43
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Don’t make it wrong.
(It could’ve been anyone)
Don’t make it strange.
(You know you’re not to blame)
We all gotta take that trip.
Take me down into it,
Down into love.
Take a walk
Oh, you know I know you can.
Think it out, control.
After all, you were a friend.
Is it after all?
Think you know,
The time will tell.
I worry.
I’ve been wondering,
And always wanting.
The way they rope us in,
You’ll always want more
Darling.
And Is it worry?
Is it doubt?
There was no worry
Before you were born.
And there won’t be more,
After you’re gone.
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Skylar Force Redondo Beach, California
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