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1. |
Without a Name
02:18
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this song isn't for you
it's for all the times we put ourselves through
don'tcha know?
people look at you
just to get by
something about you caught their eye
with our makeshift friends
and our bootleg enemies
and one of you someday you will be the dead end of me
and i'll see with eyes that no one sees
and beg on broken knees
i want to fan the flames
i'd like to pass the blame
i want to die without a name
i hardly got to know you
i hardly said hello
before they buried you in places
where they knew i couldn't go
but i just kept on digging
digging through the snow
the blade so keen struck something
i had finally hit a ghost
and it told me
leave it alone
leave it cold
i wanna fan the flames
i'd like to shift the blame
i wanna die without a name
i'd like to fan the flames
yeah i'd like to pass the blame
i wanna die without a name
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2. |
sucker for a martyr
01:35
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its been a real long time
but ive been here before
cackling in the dark
they say youve made it once the sun goes down
but thats really when it starts
cuz all the shapes go change inside my head
when i find myself alone
and so i scream your name like an epithet
cuz i know youre always home
so go ahead
eviscerate me
go ahead
eviscerate me
watch me bleed out on the floor
you drive me crazy
but it’s nowhere that i haven’t been before
you’re a sucker for a martyr
and it’s the closest thing i am
to really seeing what i’m made of
when you’re cutting me in half
so go ahead!
eviscerate me
eviscerate me
eviscerate me.........baby
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3. |
Actor Out of Work (Fast)
03:23
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i used to play dancers
i used to play princes
they measured me in starring roles
rather than inches
i used to sell tickets
i did box office business
now there's pictures of me hidden in the thickets
they said you should be in pictures
can i get your digits
hey man i'm writing a play
i want you to be in it
but now i'm just a jerk
actor out of work
move along, nothing to see here
just an actor that you once loved in yesteryear
i used to play kings
i used to play nobility
rubbed shoulders with shakespeare and his whole company
i used to drink champagne
now i only drink beer
i was the good kind of insane
the good kind of weird
i used to play prophets
i used to play templars
i taught at acting seminars and centres
used to be the main attraction
now i'm on the edges
used to look good now i been looking at them ledges
just a jerk...
i used to be eccentric
i used to be a genius
now i can't get a mugshot
let alone a screen test
i used to do tours
i used to do vegas
now i drive a beat up car i'm rabid and i'm reckless
they said you should be in the pictures
can i get a headshot
if i'd have known it would turn out like this i never would have set a foot on that lot
just a jerk...
an old woman took me aside when i was walking outside
i thought maybe she needed a light
she said hey didn't i see you in that thing
boy back then you could really dance
boy you could really sing
i said you might have dear but that was so long ago
back when i knew the score
and the screens were still silver
back when stars like us were still gold
now i'm just a jerk...
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4. |
Artschool Cowboys
02:55
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she called him over
to her apartment
'do you want anything
some water?'
'i see you've got an interesting
assortment of nazi paraphernalia'
and we booked a one way flight
all the way back to australia
she called him over
to her chateau
'do you wanna bump and grind
or just some blow?'
'i guess you left your rat skeletons back in toronto'
'i couldn't take them with me on the plane even though i desperately wanted to'
im sorry for the king rat whose tail is twisted
i'm sorry for the times i aimed and i missed it
i read your letters but i just couldn't subsist on them
tampering with the mail is a federal offence but i just can't resist
your bully bones are fully grown and i want them in me
your eyesight is so sharp you can even see me
20/20 vision and god gave it to you all for free
the illuminati couldn't ask for a better pyramid scheme
i forgot myself
i know that you're pissed
honest mistake
i didn't know i'd be missed
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5. |
Who's Your Pain Today?
01:49
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i won't ask you for your sign
i will ask who's your pain today?
if you don't answer i don't mind
who's your pain today?
this will make more sense when i'm away
this will make more sense after a few days
my friends won't recognize me
i don't have a say
they'll have to get creative
who's your pain today?
mirror baby on the wall
what is waiting for us all
i got no more reasons
than i expected to have
who's your pain today?
and whose is the best you've ever had?
i get no more response than i expect
ask who's your pain today? and you forget
who's your pain today?
who's your pain today?
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when he lived in the city
he was always just a little bit scared
after these years living there
he never really had any friends there
he thought his life was just too small for anyone to care
and he never bought extra beer so he wouldn't have to share
and he moved up north to the middle of nowhere
off the grid
off the grid
it was like he always wanted since he was a kid
when he sat alone in a meadow and skim-read walden
but it wasn't as great as he'd thought it might be
the power poles up there were rickety just like the trees
and the trees were much worse
off the grid
off the grid
now he's alone
he's fifty years old
he doesn't let anybody into his home
not that anyone would come
he says to himself that talking and carrying on
all that stuff's for the young
and then he grabs his gun
off the grid
off the grid
off the grid
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7. |
On & Off (Hard Hatted)
02:12
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everything hurts but that ain't enough
i beat myself to see if i can toughen up
in my mind i find i can never really hide
from the things left behind when you go
and it's on and off
and it really never stops
keep your eyes too wide
look for any sudden drops
and you know
it's almost enough to pray for the ice and the snow
everything's the worst but it's never bad enough
the sky could really fall you could really fall in love
and in my mind i find i can never really hide
from the things you left when you go
on and off
and it really never stops
keep your eyes too wide
avoid any sudden stops
and you know
it's almost enough to pray for the ice and the snow
and in my mind i find i can never really hide
from the things left behind when you go
and on and off
and it really never stops
keep your eyes too wide
look for any sudden drops
and you know
it's almost enough to pray for the ice and the snow
it's almost enough to pray for the ice and the snow
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8. |
Pretty Tox
02:00
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we're too close, don't you think
we like too many of the same things
too similar in taste and dress
chasing the nearby exits
hold them dear
hail mary a brand new play
at the nearest taste of fear
gaining a double
trouble calls
grin like an aperture
and take the fall
pretty tox but you're no good for me
pretty tox but you're no good for me
pretty toxin but you're no good for me
i'll see you with this pretty toxic melody
double exposure
we all want closure
hang a left here
left me for dead and i'm in the clear
pretty tox you're no good for me
pretty tox you're no good for me
pretty toxin but you're no good for me
so i will see you with this pretty toxic melody
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i've got love
i got it in my chest cavity down deep
i got love somebody just take a scalpel at me
i got love
if we don't amputate i can't sleep
i got too used to saving people now i'm hooked on this stuff
your tears are like the sweetest drug
and on your blood i get so drunk
next time i won't wake up
but i got love you can keep
i got love and i can't sleep
and i got love
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10. |
Love the Chaos
03:51
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somebody’s stomping around upstairs
but i’m not scared
anymore
cuz we already opened that door
and me i swallowed the key
you’re gonna have to hit me in the past
if you wanna get it back
and i'd love to love the chaos
and i'd love to take the day off
but you know i can't
whatever you do to me now
somebody gets you back
honey show me your moon shine
and i’ll show you mine
before the sun cuts out
in no time you’ll be not mine
don’t double up on me
what hit you was only the breeze
& i'd...
im cold and im cold and im cold and im cold
and im wondering
is this how you get old
and i'd love to change the events of the past
but i simply don't have the time
whatever you do to me now
i don't mind
i don't mind
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11. |
Drinker's Peace?????
01:38
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at times i wish i were dead
busy people spinning all round my head
this i value with every move they make
and i'm rewarded with real bad headaches
i get a contact buzz
can't remember what the problem was
sometimes i feel it's hard to even care
life was too real before you got there
my life is dirt but you seem to make it cleaner
reduced my felony to a misdemeanour
when i'm sick you're my antibiotic
organized my life that was pointless and chaotic
i get a contact buzz
can't remember what the problem was
find it hard to even care
life was too real until you got there
i get a contact buzz
can't remember what the problem was
i find it hard to even care
life was too real until you got there
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12. |
Wake Me Up (Sleepthru)
02:19
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he got kicked to the curb
he was slurring his words
the barkeep said you better keep out
he had borderline enough to drink
and too much to think about
wake me up
i don't wanna slumber anymore
i wanna call you up
i don't have your number anymore
every borrowed thing i own is on your floor
score one/teen/team for the home team
the queen's never coming home
but i must ask you one thing
don't this rain ache in your bones
doesn't it leave you cold?
he was trying to learn
he knew all the words
but his fingers grew numb on the keys
he'd wanted to burn
but it seemed more convenient to freeze
we're gonna backslide all the way to heaven
with our chargers and super 8s
don't be out late she said
our resurrection will be captured on tape
keen eyes wind up the clock
a marionette that never talks
waiting for the day we try the door
and find out it was never locked
wake me up
i don't wanna sleep through this one
wish you luck
every good gun you know is headed for the door
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The Acid Rains Edmonton, Alberta
i write songs, play guitar and sing
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