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ladies and gents
may i present
this evening's entertainment
give them a chance
they'll sing and dance
they'll fill you with amazement
before the start
they'll fall apart
and twice again before the end
but if you'll please
just take your seats
i think we're ready to begin
imagine, if you please
this sick disease
that teases you to fail
with every curtain drawn
and certain song
it drives another nail
and when your shooting star
just falls apart
it's hemorrhaging your heart
the world is not enough
and you'd just love
to stop before you start
why do i even try
if i gave up now
would it be a sin
no one would blame me
that's enough
just shut up
get up and try again
ladies and gents
you might resent
my prior implications
you're entertained
you won't complain
despite insinuations
and if you all
just watch us fall
will that be good enough for you
or will you need
to see us bleed
just to forget you're bleeding too
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i feel the antipathy rushing over me
and these shades of red are the only thing i see
and i just wanna turn it off
the man on the radio tells me who to hate
but i don't know who tells him wat to say
and the noise won't stop and it won't let up and i'm not enough
and you know i get so angry
and i don't know what to do
and you can't tell me that
you're not angry too
and you kick and you scream and you fight til you bleed
with an eye for an eye until nobody sees
and now nothing's left in front of you
and you dug a hole cause they told you to
but you don't know why and you don't know who
but you made damn sure you'll never see the sun
your telltale heart doesn't want the light
cause you're jaded by your god damned pride
(it's just really inconvenient, you know?)
and you know it makes me angry
and i don't know what to do
and you can't tell me that
you're not angry too
and you kick and you scream and you fight til you bleed
with an eye for an eye until nobody sees
and now nothing's left in front of you
you're tearing up the photograph
of the best friend that you ever had
saying all the things you can't take back
buried alive under the rage and
it spreads like a contagion
i think we're all infected now
and i get so fucking angry
and i don't know what to do
and i know, i know that
you're not angry too
and you kick and you scream and you fight til you bleed
with an eye for an eye until nobody sees
and now nothing's left in front of you
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you say
that another day
won't change the way
you feel about me
and you say
that it's just the way
it has to be
i think
i should buy you a drink
and maybe we'll sing
some karaoke
i think
maybe that could be
just what we need
give me one more try
take my hand
and cancel your plans
cause tonight is all about you baby
the moonlight's calling
so come on come on come on come on
snap your friends
and tell all of them
that tonight will be the best night of your life
the night is so young
so come on come on come on come on come on
i'm sorry for the things i said
cause i know i made you feel so very small
treated you the way i did
and then never even treated you at all
i count the moments that i wasted
my head is circumnavigating
every word of every song
that should have been for you
take my hand
and cancel your plans
cause tonight is all about you baby
the moonlight's calling
so come on come on come on come on
snap your friends
and tell all of them
that tonight will be the best night of your life
the night is so young
so come on come on come on come on come on
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Should've Been Me
04:26
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do you remember, we were sitting on the porch back at your place
you said your boyfriend would be getting home pretty soon
you said i better get going if i know what's best for me
but what's best for you
maybe this is something we shouldn't have done in the first place
she looked at me and said, "well boy i could've told you that"
tell me why is it so damn hard just to leave some days
well tell me why won't you stay
she's gonna raise her kids on the same street i grew up on
dressed in white, they'll dance all night to our song
how am i gonna say
this ain't just a mistake
when every sign leads me back towards your door tonight
well, in time you'll see
man, that should've been me
man, that should've been me
i remember when we hung out on my bed for our first date
couldn't be seen out in public so we made it work
probably should've known better not to think she'd leave him one day
we said we'd make it work, let's make it work
she's gonna raise her kids on the same street i grew up on
dressed in white and dance all night to our song
how am i gonna say
this ain't just a mistake
when every memory leads me back towards your door tonight
well, in time you'll see
man, that should've been me
i could've loved you better
i never had the chance
to make up from
the fights we never had
i guess i'm gonna miss every movie night we slept through
and how you'd bite your lip through every kiss i gave you
how am i gonna say
this ain't just a mistake
when every memory floods back into my head tonight
well, in time you'll see
so go and raise your kids on the same street i grew up on
dressed in white and dance all night to our song
and i'm just gonna say
this is just a dumb mistake
cause every memory leads me back towards your door tonight
well, in time you'll see
man, that should've been me
man, that should've been me
man, that should've been me
man, that should've been me
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you destroy me
like a rose colored wrecking ball
there's malice behind hazel eyes
and you could take me
like a beautiful death in fall
and i'd die just to see what's inside
this could be the end
i would do it again
can you murder my complacency
i can barely breathe
and that's what i need
and i love the way you smother me
baby take me, shake me, break me, bury me
you seduce me
with alluring antipathy
the loveliness drips from your teeth
and if one day i say it's okay
to tear me apart an then take me away
then maybe i need you to save me
can you murder my complacency
i can barely breathe
and that's what i need
and i love the way you smother me
baby take me, shake me, break me, bury me
this could be the end
i would do it again
can you murder my complacency
i can barely breathe
and that's what i need
and i love the way you smother me
baby take me, shake me, break me, bury me
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Play It Sloppy
04:45
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last call is called and you're still calling
can i call you a ride
we sway away to the silent song on the broken jukebox
while we wait inside
and i'd like to get lost in the melody of you
i think i'd like to think that you would like that too
so just play it sloppy
like you got nothing to prove
but just sing it slowly
so that i can learn the tune
because i wanna fall in love
with everything that you love too
so just play it sloppy
like the song is playing you
stains of time romanticizing
coffee, cigarettes, and fire escapes
and i am broken in this one story town
and i just want you to say anything
anything you wanna share with me
when you whisper what you want i feel a chill in here
and i'd like to get lost in the melody of you
i think i'd like to think that you would like that too
so just play it sloppy
like you got nothing to prove
but just sing it slowly
so that i can learn the tune
because i wanna fall in love
with everything that you love too
so just play it sloppy
like the song is playing you
play it sloppy
and just sing it slowly
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Adam
03:30
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you ran away
with abject terror on your face
and that's the only memory i have of you
you brought me to life
left me to die in the same place
and all i wanted was clarity
a moment you could spare
to help me breathe
i just wanted to breathe
but you're gone
this pale skinned abomination felt so wrong
and you fled into the night
the gravity of leaving me
never even crossed your mind
and i'm alone
but i'll repay you in kind
i ran away
and learned to hide my face from everybody's gaze
and you engineered this disarray
you gave me life and loneliness and misery
and now you hold the only antidote
the only thing i need
to help me breathe
i just wanted to breathe
but you're gone
this pale skinned abomination felt so wrong
and you destroyed my hope tonight
the fallout of misleading me
never even crossed your mind
and i'm alone
but i'll repay you in kind
i forgot how to breathe
and the solitude suffocates me
you had one last chance to redeem
this adam born with no eve
i never asked for this persistent loneliness
insisted on by my prometheus
whose sins against me can never be atoned
but i'll make sure that he dies alone
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The Father
02:48
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on the corner of a bad idea and too much time
i made designs
to occupy my existence with narcissistic
plans to conquer life
if you knew what i've done and saw me playing
savior to none you would run away
as i bide my time to hide my crime
i'm aware of the terror i know to be mine
i know i left you hanging
i know my silence sealed your fate
i know i should have said the things i hid
but i was too afraid
i'm claiming solace out of turn
i'm shedding tears i don't deserve
i entertain the pain ingrained
in sorrow that i'll never earn
i am the victim of the villainy i made
and now i won't participate
in what may be the only way to make it right
i am the target of my own incarnate hate
if i can kill the thing that's killing me
one of us is gonna have to die
i am the victim of the villainy i made
and now i won't participate
in what may be the only way to make it right
i am the target of my own incarnate hate
if i can kill the thing that's killing me
one of us is gonna have to die
i hunt the demon while
the demon's hunting me
and stake my one last shot at happiness
on murdering the fiend
and i believe if i survive the night
then i might be at peace
but when i hear the screams, it always seems
the murderer is me
and i refuse to play with the demons i made
and i ran away from the plans i laid
and i won't admit that i know i quit
when i know i should have stayed
and i refuse to admit to the part i played
to the innocent lives the i could have saved
and the realization i can't escape
that i am the monster that i made
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9. |
Nothing Will Save You
03:33
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i sold my soul
it delivered me this stress
and i feel so cold
my body is a mess
i showed myself
that my head is screaming out
and it sounds like this
i shed my skin
and bled myself dry
and wiped my eyes
when i wanted to die
and it's filling me with hate the self destruction i partake
cause i locked myself inside and now i'm trying to escape
and it's driving me insane and i just wanted to erase myself
find yourself
in abysmal eyes
your mind's intent
your heart's desires
are marching towards
an idle death
you'll understand
there's nothing left
i wonder if i can survive
if i make it out alive
the emptiness, it's sickening
and i look for ways
that i can be saved
but it's clearer every day
that i know that nobody is coming for me
(save yourself cause nothing will save you)
find yourself
in abysmal eyes
your mind's intent
your heart's desires
are marching towards
an idle death
you'll understand
there's nothing left
you beg for mercy
give it to me
open up and see right through
listen to your dying breath
you're bleeding and
there's nothing left
i won't make it out alive
but why should i survive
i wonder if i can survive
if i make it out alive
i won't make it out alive
but why should i survive
the emptiness
it's sickening
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10. |
Flagstaff
03:35
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flagstaff never felt so far away
as it does right now
you're the only thing that makes me feel okay
and i don't know how
you take my breath away
(you take my breath away)
you take me down
you take my breath away
(you take my breath away)
you take me down
i've never felt so much
like i have so much to escape
and now my doubts are all i dream about
and i just wanna leave this place
because it covers me
and it smothers me
and i cannot breathe
and i just can't see a way out
(you're the only thing that makes me feel alright
you're the only thing that makes me feel okay)
you take my breath away
(you take my breath away)
you take me down
you take my breath away
(you take my breath away)
you take me down
and the one thing i need
is a place i can breathe
and a space i can be in
without all the things that i hate
(i need to run away and i can't spend another day right here)
and the only way out
of this doubt that is drowning me
might be to leave
and get out of this town right now
(i need out i need out i need out i need out i need out i need out)
you take my breath away
you take me
and the one thing i need
is a place i can breathe
and a space i can be in
without all the things that i hate
and the only way out
of this doubt that is drowning me
might be to leave
and get out of this town right now
you take my breath away
(you take my breath away)
you take me down
you take my breath away
(you take my breath away)
you take me down
you take my breath away
(you take my breath away)
you take me down
you take my breath away
(you take my breath away)
you take me down
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11. |
Homemade Gravestones
05:22
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blue eyes
are beautiful distractions from
blue skies
falling all around
and if we say goodbye
this may be the last time
that you and i
ever get to see each other's face
it's fine
yeah, everything is a-oh-fucking-kay
it's alright
as long as you believe it is
close your eyes
and maybe all of this will go away
it's a lie
but who's playing the fool
strike the match and light the gas
that you spilled all over everything you love
you're apathetic while your bridges start to burn
and you autograph your epitaph
and bleed it onto homemade gravestones
but every word is just repeating repeating repeating
what you've heard
that you already decided you believe
angry words
and excuses to be angrier
and you know
that cold and dark and grey is not your scene
but you've shown
that these shades of red mean everything
you lied
when you told me everything would be okay
you tried
to tell me you're not scared
close my eyes
and hope that all of this will go away
i'm not fine
why the hell are you
strike the match and light the gas
that you spilled all over everything you love
you're apathetic while your bridges start to burn
and you sign your name in crimson ink
and bleed it onto homemade gravestones
but every word is just repeating repeating repeating
and you seal it in while it's still drying
i'm left here alone and trying
not to care that you don't care
about how scared i am of losing you
and you're not losing sleep
so you kick it up one more degree
and even if we make it through
you're still holding the can of kerosene
and you let it burn
strike the match and light the gas
that you spilled all over everything you love
you're apathetic while your bridges start to burn
and you autograph your epitaph
and bleed it onto homemade gravestones
but every word is just repeating repeating repeating
strike the match and light the gas
that you spilled all over everything you love
you're apathetic while your bridges start to burn
and you sign your name in crimson ink
and bleed it onto homemade gravestones
but every word is just repeating repeating repeating
strike the match and light the gas
that you spilled all over everything you love
you're apathetic while your bridges start to burn
and you sign your name in crimson ink
and bleed it onto homemade gravestones
but every word is just repeating repeating repeating
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Switchblade Squirrel is:
Patrick Quin Kermott
Ezekiel
Kermott
Sometimes one of them sings and/or plays the things, and sometimes the other one does those things instead. In general, things tend to get sung and/or played by one guy and/or the other guy.
It's really quite a complex dynamic.
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