1. |
My World
04:43
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I am a clueless fool
Never once went to school
So I only believe in what I am told
Don't ask no questions
Don't look too deep
My kinda truth is bought and sold
This is my world now
This is my stronghold
Give me what I think I want
Give me what I think I need
And if you don't me what I want and need
I will make you bleed
You ain't gonna change my mind
Not even for the sake of mankind
Go on and laugh at me
Go on and tell me that I'm dumb
But in the end I'll kick your ass
I'll kick your ass back to kingdom come
This is my world
This is my world
This is my world
This is my world now
And if you don't like it
You can go and have a cow
Go on and mock me
Go on and tell me I'm a dope
But in the end I'll string you up
I'll string you up by a rope
This is my world
This is my world
This is my world
This is my world now
And if you don't like it
You can go and have a cow
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2. |
Nobody There
04:20
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I went looking through my back pages
To see if there was something I might’ve missed
Was there something bad I did I can’t recall
Some girl I once knew that I never kissed
Was there a picture I took at the bottom of a drawer
That would bring back a memory I long forgot
Was there someone I hurt unintentionally
Was there a tangle I made I could unknot
And when I went back to that place and time
Nobody was home, no hide nor hair
Yeah I went back to that place and time
But there was nobody there
I went looking through my back pages
To see if I could read between the lines
Some stuff made me laugh and some stuff made me cry
All those arrows shot through those valentines
I looked askance with an eagle eye
At every clue that I could possibly decode
What I was thinking
It all seems nuts to me now
Now that I’m beaten down and bowed
Why don't you open up
I know you're in there
I can hear you rumbling
Why don't you open up
Before I break it down
And your whole wide world comes a-tumbling
I went looking through my back pages
To tie things up in tidy little bow
I put all my ducks together in a line
But they got sucked down by the undertow
When I look around at the mess of my life
I got no one but myself to fault
I can flail my arms around in the pissing rain
Rip open the wound and pour in the salt
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3. |
Tell the Truth
05:13
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No sense in lying
I see right through you
Your eyes are a window
Into the true you
You think you're pretty clever
Johnny on the spot
But you are pretty damn dumb
Believe it or not
C'mon and tell the truth
You big old liar
Tell me the truth
Your pants are on fire
You got your life sorted
You've checked every box
You know what you're doing
You've set all the clocks
Your story sounds good
If you don't listen too hard
You got it going on
Keeping what's real under guard
I used to believe you
But then I got screwed
You treated me just like
You treated every other dude
You made me your lackey
You got me where I live
I put all this faith in you
But you had nothing to give
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4. |
Swallowed Up
04:35
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5. |
Only the Lie Survives
06:11
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The first thought comes followed by another
And then another thought fills my head
So dense I might smother
It's like drowning in an inky pool of my own musing
And it never makes much frickin' sense
‘Cause it’s all so confusing
I try to piece it together
As if that were something I could do
Then I give it up to you
But you don’t have a clue
I am swallowed up
Swallowed up in you
No matter what I do
I am swallowed up in you
What is it I’m trying to say I don’t really know
But I keep on trying trying to say it
Just to see where it might go
I can tell you’re losing patience
Your eyes betray you
Or maybe you kinda of fear me
Like I might somehow sway you
It don’t matter to me now
There’s a darkness coming on
There’s bats in the belfry
And the guitar I’m strumming on
What do I taste like
Am I a full meal
When I'm filling up your belly
How does it really feel
Maybe you don’t believe me
How can I convince you
Down to the meat of the matter
I stew and mince you
I draw on your essence
With my every breath
It is my buffer, my cushion
My shield from death
And if you said, Come here now
You know that I will follow
Just open up your mouth
Open up your mouth and swallow
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6. |
Can't Fix Crazy
05:37
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The problem with people
Is that people are fucking nuts
And there ain’t nothing, no nothing you can do about 'em
You can try to be understanding
You can try to be compassionate
But you just, you just can't reroute 'em
You can't fix crazy
Can't unscrew the screwball
The whole wide world it don't wanna change
You can't fix crazy
Can't heal the sick of mind
We are all twisted, mad and strange
There once was a sacred truth
Upon which we could all agree
But now we believe just what we want to believe
That may sound like freedom
But in the end it leads only to chaos
Because the bad guys' plan is to deceive
There ain't no getting around it
Ain't final solution
Ain't no silver bullet that we can take
There ain't no God to save us
No devil that we can blame
We can only blame ourselves for God's sake
Ever wonder what it'd be like
To live inside someone else's head
Methinks it would really and truly blow your mind
Not one clear thought
Just a mass of contradictions
That's just the way it is, the way it is for all mankind
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7. |
Old Man Blues
04:06
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When I ride on the subway
Well I feel so alone
No one looks me in the eye
No one tosses me a bone
All the pretty girls are texting
And twirling their hair
And I feel just like a no one
Who is not really there
Well I just wanna scream
And I just wanna shout
One day you'll be old too
Of that there is no doubt
I got the old man blues
When I go out a-walkin'
I move kind of slow
People pass me right on by
I can't keep up with the flow
Even the boys with the sagging jeans
Can move quicker than me
I just sway in the wind
Like an old willow tree
Well I just wanna scream
And I just wanna yell
One day you'll be old too
And you too will feel like hell
Well I go to the doctor
And she asks me what's wrong
I say it's not a wonderful world
Sorry Louis Armstrong
People have changed
And not for the best
If you just look around
You'll see why I'm so depressed
Well I just wanna scream
And I just wanna cry
You can keep what's left of this planet
You can pass me right on by
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8. |
Big Hurt
05:50
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Ooh, ooh, oooh I got a wound so deep
Cuts through me like a scythe
Rips me up from the inside out
Till I curl up and I writhe
There ain’t no drug to ease my pain
No salve to sooth my soul
Every little thing is some kind of thing
I am just one big ol’ black hole
Ooh, ooh, oooh I been laid so low
Knee deep in the dirt
No one’s around to pull me up
Even though I been sending out a red alert
I done all I could to communicate
But ain’t no one hearing
Tryin’ to make myself look not so bad
Maybe even a little endearing
There ain’t no balm to heal my sores
No band-aid to cover my scars
I got bonked on my big stupid head
And now all I see is stars
Ow, ow, ow big hurt
Ow, ow, ow big hurt
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow
Big hurt, big hurt
Ooh, ooh, oooh I am broke down and busted
Every bone is in pain
So I take me a mess of analgesics
Even smoke me up some maryjane
But nothing ever seems to work
And I ain’t getting any fitter
I chug right along like an angry old man
Just as mad and just as bitter
There ain’t no unguent to treat my welts
No medicine to cure my ails
I got so many things wrong with me
I am plumb run off the rails
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9. |
Use Your Imagination
04:05
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Let’s talk about what is real
Before we go any further
Before we gallop off into the distance
I love you I love you
Yeah that will never change
But loving you is my nonexistence
Use your imagination
Open your mind to things you can’t conceive
Use your imagination
Open your soul and let yourself believe
Can I tell you a story
Something that is true
Something that I lived through to tell the tale
I had reached rock bottom
The lowest of the low
When an angel swept in and put in a guardrail
I know that you’re out there
I can hear you snoring
But if I can I tell you just one thing
One thing you been ignoring
Use your imagination
Whenever you are lost
And no one's there to help you
And you feel as if you are on your last leg
Dream yourself out of it
Dream the shaggiest of dreams
Don’t you set off a powder keg
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10. |
Dark Wood
05:06
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From out of nowhere
There came a storm
A torrent of darkness that blacked my soul
It felt like nothing I'd ever known
Or could describe
Let alone control
In the middle of the journey of my life
I found myself in a dark wood
For I had lost the right path
Rough, stubborn, and wild
From out of nowhere
A drizzle of horror
Manifested itself as a physical pain
Thought that it might pass
But it went on and on
Until it consumed my brain
From out of nowhere
There came a panic
My thoughts a tornado in my head
I could not understand it
Couldn't stop it
So ugly and so widespread
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11. |
Angel of Death
05:40
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Looks like I’m in the very final length
Of the latter part of my of life
And when I look back my feelings are mixed
There’s things I’ve done
And things I wished done did
Most of my shit is broke and can’t be fixed
As I limp to the end of the road in this finale episode
The angel of death is covering me
As the sky above turns black I feel its breath on my back
The angel of death is covering me
Got more memories than I can use
Wish I could unload 'em
But there seems to be no way I can let them go
There’s the shit with all the women I married
And the shit with my family
And all the other shit I did for no reason I know
There’s nothing that I can do about it
There’s nothing that I can change
And the world I find myself living in
Has gone from weird to downright strange
Well I know you’ve heard this story before
From every complaining old codger
But just wait your turn and see how you fare
This thing about time is that there’s never enough
But most of us just don’t know it
Until you open the cupboard to find it threadbare
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12. |
Darkness Visible
04:46
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Then came upon me a feeling
That was beyond description
That some people might call the blues
But it’s so much worse than that
And you can’t shake it off
It’s not something you'd want to choose
For the thing which
I greatly feared had come upon me
And that which I was afraid of
Is come unto me
I was not in safety, neither
Had I rest, neither was I quiet
Yet trouble came
Every day is a weirdly nightmare
An ugly adventure in hell
That seems to get much worse in the afternoon
I feel a sense of dread
Deep-seated anxiety
Enough to make even the most stoic swoon
Wish I could describe this feeling
The actual dimensions of this torment
That’s buried deep in me like a jagged knife
This positive and active anguish
This psychical neuralgia
This brackish pain wholly unknown to normal life
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