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Less Than Scum
03:43
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nestled in my heart are the twin beasts of:
the primal panic that comes from prey
and the scent of the heart
of a throat crushing terror within me
the molten and primeval urge of
a dying, writhing beast
nestled in my heart and
deep in my veins
the cortisol comes bearing tidings:
"you are just livestock"
and so it will arrest and it will consume
the ever omnipotent being
is within myself now
even if i try i could be cut down
by a fate who had no plans for me
cut down by less than scum
it will destroy and it will consume
just even waking up to livin', is a pain in the ass
i didn't spend my life getting here, just to end up getting slaughtered,
by a pathetic clown
by a shitstain, barely human life
by some mother's forever regret
by someone less than scum
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when green, green pastures reveal their eyes, and open their arms to us
when every single person can rejoice in the splendor we have found
when every ill-actor's found their grave
and when every piece of shit
has found a rope on from which to hang
may we all dance and send them off
yes we will rejoice in all the same
in a splendid chorus of heart
that bursts forth from the crucible of touch that burst forth from your love
oh yes there will always come a day
when death will come for those
who have no knees on which to pray
forgotten by time
and spit from the earth
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Nineteen Ninety-Two
02:50
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a fitted picture
a verbose "take me by the hand"
a flight of fancy
the things that turned boy into man
oh even if i cry, don't take it as a sign of pain, I'm
just madly in love with the way the days get away from me
a lazy daytime
a daydream fed from Eden's breast
a kiss placed upon
the place where nothing ever rests
oh even if i cry, don't see it as a sign of pain, I'm
just madly in love with the way the days get away from me
a proof of life
a proof of ever having had a heart
contagious laughter
the proof that life never really starts
oh even if i cry, don't see it as a sign of pain, I'm
just madly in love with the way the days get away from me
oh even if i cry, don't see it as a sign of grief, I'm
just madly in love with the way the days slipped out of reach
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Hopeless
02:52
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haunted by those days that were drenched in sun
the ones that you had to tell so long
never again in your life will you feel
like you could own the entire world, ha
oh i try and i try
but there's no end in sight
i like to think i'm strong
but i barely manage
there was once a time that i didn't need
drugs to help me out with being me
often wonder if this is how it should be
well whatever, it makes me happy, so
oh i try and i try
but there's no end in sight
i like to think i'm strong
but i barely manage
yeah i try and try
i can only do so much
i like to think i'm strong
really, i'm just hopeless
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Poppies
02:46
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oh, if I die will you bury me
in a place where the sun cries?
where poppies grow and the poppies know
that more friends are always coming
cuz if I die it will be despite making Babylon look poor
we can't find food and we can't find rooms
and we're just supposed to believe that?
a complete and total embarrassment
of an almost unreal degree
oh, if I die will you please not cry
cuz we have enough of that
we need less gloom and we need more tunes
that can destroy all the fascists
cuz if I die it's under the stain of
the red, the white, and blue
where all the serfs gladly broke the plains
with the plow that broke them too
a complete and total embarrassment
of an almost unreal degree
oh, if I die will you bury me
in a place where the sun cries?
where poppies grow and the poppies know
that more friends are always coming
cuz if I die it will be despite making Babylon look poor
we can't have food and we can't have rooms
and we're just supposed to take that?
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No Love?
04:13
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it's honestly something that's hard to understand
how having another could make things not so bad
I think it's just something that dwells inside of me
a piece of my puzzle that's never been complete
I can't stand no love
there's something inside, that's tried and tried
and it just wants to be known
who can bear no love?
there's something inside, very alive
that just wants to be born
I know it's something that's always been with me
it stood when I stood and, it cried alone with me
I think it's innocent, and sometimes corrupting
it sits in the room waiting for someone to sing
I can't stand no love
there's something inside, that's tried and tried
and it just wants to be known
who can bear no love?
there's something inside, very alive
that just wants to be born
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Puritan Streak
03:07
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I carried it, I carried it far
the heavy stone that threatens to slip away
and I know that this will not stay
but I know the dam just has to break
but I stare at the black cloud above me
the acrid rain that always stained my tongue
I try to say it's there but I say
a lot of things that I never meant
stare it down, it'll tell you to stay
get to your feet, and then it'll run you down
mother's hand it came down with weight
the weight of which broke my heart and scarred my soul
no oblations can ever sate
that which has no guts, never had no entrails
true evil exists I should know
I should know, cuz I felt her heart beat
all is well when the world goes to sleep
and we are all clean in our hearts and souls
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All Loves Must Die!
02:46
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what heaven is to me
is a brutal love and a cross to prove it on
so goddamn saccharine
that i, i can barely stomach it
a rose will make you bleed
and there's no greater high than prey getting itself caught
so goddamn saccharine
so precious, how truly sick it makes me
lowered into the Earth
kissed into oblivion
oh, all loves must die
and sex is but a shade of death, so
what heaven is to me
is a brutal love and a cross to prove it on
so goddamn saccharine
that i, i can barely stomach it
a rose will make you bleed
and there's no greater high than prey getting itself caught
so goddamn saccharine
so precious, how truly sick it makes me
lowered into the Earth
kissed into oblivion
oh, all loves must die
and sex is but a shade of death, so
what heaven is to me
is a brutal love and a cross to prove it on
so goddamn saccharine
that i, i can barely stomach it
a rose will make you bleed
and there's no greater high than prey getting itself caught
so goddamn saccharine
so precious, how truly sick it makes me
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Dormouse
03:56
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mama said i was (oh yeah she really did)
an angel on Earth so they weighed me down
but it really hurts (oh yeah my ribs are crackin')
too much weight on my ribs will break them so
oh, break them so
in the trees beyond (oh waiting in the treeline)
lies a darkness humankind pretends it doesn't know
if you kill it there (oh yeah you caved it's head in)
yes, you may slit the throat but it still screams
see what you can do (oh please look inside yourself)
lest you find out, what they will do to you
never turn your back (they're always waiting, planning)
for we all are all always under attack
that's how their games are played
mama said i was (oh yeah she really did!)
an angel on Earth so they weighed me down
but it really hurts (oh yea my ribs are crackin')
too much weight on my ribs will break them so
no one ever spoke (no one ever expects it)
not for me, at least that i didn't know
so no one ever knows (oh blessed lips keep their secrets)
how much pain I, I died in alone
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Where It Bleeds
02:24
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health in life or love in death
makes no difference to me
atlas shrugged or sisyphus
makes no difference to me
as long as I know someone wept
for what it meant to me
as long as someone felt alive
because I happened to be
oh pure and noble thoughts that come out of just meat
oh aged and sweet bleeds the wine deep inside of me
tagged out early
or while gripping hard at deathbedsheets
warm with smiles or a nihilist
no difference to me
oh, if I ever pierce the heavens
that's a smile in me
oh, if I ever spear the moon
that's a smile in me
oh pure and noble thoughts that come out of just meat
oh aged and sweet bleeds the wine deep inside of me
oh forever and a day etched deep where it bleeds
cut me open for yourself if you wish to see
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Alice Autumn Hymnal
03:59
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close your eyes and drift to sleep
above the clouds, atop the trees
there's a world where dreams do keep
a little bo-peep said to thee:
"no, I do not lie
I will bend the world to my will
while I'm on this Earth
believe me I will, get my money's worth"
close your eyes and drift to sleep
a humpty dumpty said to me:
"you will break, most completely
but who isn't missing a piece?"
the purpose of life
standing with the world in her eyes
love begging to be
I yearn for it, with all that's in me
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Printemps in Vogue
04:00
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I've always held it closely
my ticket down the avenue
I've always held it highly
it is my soul and it is my will
with all the life pumping deep inside my veins
I will construct a picture and my blood will be the paint
oh, deep inside the heart that's always trembling with fear
I will use every heartbeat to go bring my future here, cuz
some heartbreaks last forever
and sometimes heroes give up
and the only thing I've ever wanted
was just to mean something
I never lost its pulse
it's always crept back into my soul
I've always held it highly
it's in my blood and it is my soul
with all the life pumping deep inside my veins
I will construct a picture and my blood will be the paint
oh, deep inside the heart that's always trembling with fear
I will use every heartbeat to go bring my future near, cuz
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