1. |
The Story So Far
05:09
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You’re burning up my days
You’re burning up my nights
I’m on fire all the time
You’re all I drink
You’re all I eat
You’re shifting my paradigm
I can’t stop it
No I can’t stop
All I ever do is think about you
All I ever I dream is a dream of you
And I can’t let you go
No I can’t let you go
It’s all I ever do
You are on my mind
And you are in my heart
You are in all of me
You’re all I want
All I need
And I won’t ever break free
I can’t stop
No I can’t stop it
Believe me I have fought these feelings
And in the end I always lose
Yes I know it’s a life of choices
And this is the life I choose
Have mercy
Have mercy on me
You must think I’m dumb
You must think I’m stupid
Yeah I’m a dummy and fool
You loom large
You stand tall
And me I’m minuscule
I can’t stop it
No I can’t stop
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2. |
Who's Your Daddy?
04:37
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What you want I can’t give you
You got a role for me to play
You like it mean
You like it rough
You want a bird of prey
What’s your name
Who’s your daddy
Is he rich, is he rich like me
Has he taken any time
To show you what you need to live
What you want I can’t give you
You want me to dominate
You want me bossy
Shove you around
But I can't play it straight
You call me daddy
I call you my baby girl
Yeah that really gets you going
I don’t get it
Why does it turn you on
I have no way of knowing
What you want I can’t give you
It's never been a part of me
Forbidden fruit
Wicked taboo
But still I have curiosity
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3. |
With Love and Squalor
05:23
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I'm glad we had the talk we had
I'm glad we spent the time we did
I wish I could get it back
I know you've gone on to someone else
You don't miss me
Paint it black
I still recall the way you kissed me
The way you shut your eyes
And the way you moved your tongue
It's like a dream I can't forget
It haunts me still
Ever since I was young
Hey Esme, with love and squalor
I'm glad I got to see you smile
I'm glad I saw you cry
It's good to see both sides
You saw me at my best
You saw me at my worst
All across my great divides
We had our time
And now it's gone
And there ain't no going back
Still when I see you in a stranger's eyes
It comes as a surprise
Paint it black
You take a really sleepy man
And he stands at least a chance
Of getting himself together
You might think he'd disappear
Become one with the atmosphere
Blown along by the weather
But I'm still standing here today
A little bit hobbled
But strong enough to shout
Don't forget me, Don't forget me
Peace out
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4. |
Terrible Secret
06:01
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Been thinking about it
And I can’t let it go
Keeps me up at night
A real horror show
Just wanna name it
Wanna shout it out loud
Just wanna face it
Not live unbowed
It’s a terrible secret
And it’s ruining my life
I carry it around with me
Like a bloodied knife
It’s a terrible secret
I keep it bottled inside
No place to go
No place to hide
I done a bad thing
And it weighs heavy on me
No way I can undo it
I just can’t let it be
When I think I’ve let it go
It creeps back in
It sticks in my craw
Like an original sin
I got me some scars
They riddle my face
Like lines on a map
They mark out my place
They will be with me
For the rest of my days
Just how I got them
Never ceases to amaze
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5. |
Raise High the Roof Beam
04:13
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Ran away from his own wedding
Didn't bother to say why
Was it that he was afraid to get married
Or maybe he was just shy
How will we ever know, why did he want to go
Saw him make a dash for the exit
He had fear on his breath
He had a look of panic in his eyes
Like he were being chased unto death
Where was he headed to
He's got himself in quite a stew
Raise high the roof beam, carpenters
Like Ares comes the bridegroom
Raise high the roof beam, carpenters
Taller far than a tall man
They say he lived in a fantasy
But they were only guessing
If he had a story he could tell
Well he ain't confessing
He kept it all close to the vest
It’s the kind of life he knew best
"I have these scars on my hands
From touching certain people
I have so much I to tell you
And nowhere to begin"
Always was a curious sort of guy
Never knew what made him tick
He pulled off a great vanishing act
It was quite a neat trick
His bride is still at the altar
Where is her Rock of Gibraltar
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Don't you think I know
It doesn't do me any good
To hang on to you this way
Don't know why I find it so hard
To let you go
Such an old cliche
But before I say my goodbyes
Pretty mouth and green my eyes
I know seem foolish
And, well, downright dumb
For thinking there might even be a chance
But c'mon I know
That there just ain't know way
Under no such circumstance
We're just too old to fuck around
We just got to make the most of it
Time to move ourselves right along
Time to make toast of it
What do I hope to gain
What am I thinking
The two of us that's not a thing
Still I cling by a thin reed
To that one slim wish
That suddenly we could take wing
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7. |
Hidden Things
04:56
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Can we know the world around us
When so much is kept from view
We all got our special secrets
So much we're never privy to
It's one of life's puzzling mysteries
All these private little histories
Hidden things
All these hidden things
Hidden things
Can you find them
Hidden things
What does blind them
Imagine a life in a world of clarity
One without the subterfuge
You could make a choice with confidence
The difference would be huge
It would be like pulling back the blinds
Letting light into a billion darkened minds
I want to see what no one else has seen
I want to see inside your head
I want to see what no one else has seen
Go where angels fear to tread
Well it's easy to get lost these days
No one says just what they mean
Nothing is black and nothing is white
It's always somewhere in-between
I want for a world where stuff is sorted
But I live in a world that's distorted
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8. |
Everything Hurts
04:42
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Like a spider crawling down my spine
And it settles in to the small of my back
I yank myself up
With all the strength that I can muster
And I feel like I'm under attack
Everything hurts
Everything hurts
From my temple down to my toes
Everything hurts
Everything hurts
Watch my body decompose
This day is like every day
What I endure it ain't no fun
I grit my teeth and I grin and bear it
No one can feel this
Quite the way that I feel this
So there's nothing to which I can compare it
Everything hurts
It hurts like hell
And there's nothing I do can stop the pain
Everything hurts
It hurts like hell
Hurts so bad it makes me insane
I feel it in the evening
As I ready myself for bed
Ain't no respite for the weary
What did I do
To deserve this fate
Must've been wicked is my theory
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9. |
Here She Comes
05:40
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White light, white light
Blasting out across God’s good acre
And it hit me with a laser’s edge
Can’t believe what I’m seeing, I said
And for once I was right fucking on
Like gristle in cartilage
Here she comes
Riding along on a wave of light
And just as quickly she will disappear
Here she comes
Turning the world upside-down
And then gone like she was never here
Good times, good times
Yeah I was living them out
But then my world slipped away like a fickle butterfly
I lost more than my shirt
I lost all I’ve ever been
And not nothing I know could tell me why oh why
Riding along on a wave of light
Turning the world upside-down
Bad touch, bad touch
I slice my finger on a scythe
Subway gas escapes up from the floor
You rooted me out
With your clockwork precision
And now I’m doomed, doomed as a dinosaur
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10. |
Curious Inventions
04:57
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In the back of my closet
There’s another dimension
I’ve kept it hidden all of my life
No one knows what lies beyond that portal
Not my kid, not my wife
These are my curious inventions
I make them up all the time
These are my curious inventions
And I will keep them with mine
There are signposts
Written in a language
That only I can understand
I know I run the risk of disappearing
Into my own invented land
It’s like a safe house
From a world in peril
A world that’s drowning in strife
I go there when I am sad and broke down
It's where I go to save my life
The kid asks me
What you doing in there
Won’t you come out and play with me
I say you’re daddy’s busy in here
Inventing an alternate reality
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11. |
A Special Kind of Fall
05:26
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You could say it was the best of times
But that would be a lie
It was the worst
The absolute worst
You could say it’s all up from here
You could say it's gonna get better
You won’t be the first
Is it best to live in hope
When you might wind up screwed
Living with these disparate thoughts
That are always in a constant feud
Happy birthday to us
All the best and I mean it sincere
All you assholes can go straight to hell
All the rest have happy new year
You could say it's not so bad
But you’re living in a dream
You can try to deny, yeah
What you can’t deny
Don’t mean to be a downer
Don’t mean to be a pessimist
But I’m no good with living a lie
Talk to the hand
Because the face it does not care
You can live out your fantasy
While I’m dying in this nightmare
This fall I think you’re riding for
It is a special kind of fall
You gave up before you even got started
Before you even learned how to crawl
You could say how much you truly care
But that’s a bunch of bull, yeah
You don’t give a damn
You don’t give a damn
Don’t believe a single word you say
Don’t believe you're magnanimous
It’s one great big scam
Get back on that high horse
And go riding off into the sun
I am done with all of you
Each and every fucking one
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Thought that I might make a difference
Thought that I might help you grow
Thought that I might catch you in the rye
But what did I know
Thought that I would do the right thing
Spread some love all around
Thought that I would learn an instrument
So I could make a loving sound
Oh yeah, thought I would do all that
Oh yeah, that's where it's at
'Cause I mean, what's the point in carrying on
If we don't feel connected
What's the point of carrying on
If we can't be protected
Don't tell anybody anything
If you do, you start missing everybody
Thought that I might make a future
Disconnected from the past
Thought that I could find a new path
A path much better than the last
Thought that I could lay a foundation
To support the weakest wall
But I could not get myself started
Somehow I dropped the ball
Oh yeah, I lost my bearings
Oh yeah, a life of red herrings
Still I mean, what's the point carrying on
If we don't feel connected
What's the point of carrying on
If we can't be protected
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