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Off Script
04:25
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And this, I just cannot ignore
And this, I just cannot ignore
Your persona dress rehearsals, you’re an actor I do these things because of you
I do these things because of you
Trauma stained and devoid of pity Set the stage for a suicide in the city
Cinematic, cold revenge
And a twist for the dramatic
With the thorn still in my side
I’m hunting ghouls inside of headlights
Tonight, I’m going off script Can you fill the emptiness?
Do you see me? I am with you
I have seen what you could have given Can you fill this cavernous, empty heart With your Steve McQueen impersonations?
Farewell for now I have seen
Too much of your quest for stardom
In a movie scene that can be viewed by anyone but me And this, I just cannot ignore
And this I can’t endure
You exit at stage right and enter left
Smile for the cameras
I only see you in picture frames
Farewell for now I have seen
Too much of your quest for stardom
In a movie scene that can be viewed by anyone but me And this, I just cannot ignore
And this I can’t endure
You exit at stage right, it ends tonight
I’m going off script
I do these things because of you Under each streetlight I’ve been searching But tonight I’m...
Hunting you across every city So where are you hiding?
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Baby, you’re a shooting star
You shot right past my eyes and right into my spine But I made a wish on the floorboards of this house That I’d never gaze on your star fall again
Open your eyes and see the world around you It’s falling down
Can’t see the world around you
Open your eyes and see the world around you And draw a blank
Can’t see the world around you
It feels like standing in awe of a monument
Baby, you’re a shooting star
You shot right past my eyes and right into my spine But I made a wish on the floorboards of this house That I’d never gaze on your star fall again
I’ve watched you kill yourself
It feels like standing in awe of a monument I can see you but never understand
I can feel you but never understand
Four blank walls, a record player in the corner LaBelle fills the room, “if only she knew too” You keep coming home, I wish you wouldn’t You keep coming home, I wish you wouldn’t
Open your eyes and see the world around you, It’s falling down,
Can’t see the world around you
I’ve watched you kill yourself
It feels like standing in awe of a monument I can see you but never understand
I can feel you but never understand
Good hell, I’ve seen those eyes before Each lesson of fear I’ve learned in them
you.keep.coming.home
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Futile
04:38
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Obsession in the sky, compulsion in the soil All means are exhausted, all methods are drained All attempts made are made in vain
It’s futile once again, and futile ever more Amidst high-rises and monorails Chemicals come; chemicals fail
Despite my will the morning sun will rise
And ignite all my failures in a crimson blaze of fluorescence The morning birds still sing their songs Unalarmed by the discord of the shotgun barrel in my mouth
Futile in the way I fail you
I’m too weak to hold you down Everything is sad and quiet now
Futile in the way I marched you an empire of sorrows Everyone knows trying to hold you down is futile
Despite my will the morning sun will rise Despite my want the evening moon will fall
And fall, it will fall alone
In the search for God, I found faith in a dying star Cast to sink in cold horizons that soon will drag me in
Futile in the way I fail you
I’m too weak to hold you down Everything is sad and quiet now
Futile in the way I marched you an empire of sorrows Everyone knows trying to hold you down is futile
All means are exhausted, all methods are drained All attempts made are made in vain
It’s futile...
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Rejection Pact
03:19
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Put the keys into the ignition
We’re folding our cards, leaving this prison Under the desert sky
We’ve got cheap booze and one long night I’m with you - as you raise your weapon (to him) I’m with you - as we fulfil our rejection pact
Cigarette in the corner of your mouth We’re track five off Bloody Sabbath Driving fast through the night we’ve lost the road I can start to hear the sirens fade
I’m with you - as you drink the poison (slowly) I’m with you - as we fulfil our rejection pact
With you, I’m with you, under a desert sky I’m with you Cast down from a higher plane, I’m with you
From a higher plane, rejection Cast down from a higher plane
I’m with you - under the desert sky I’m with you - in the liquor store I’m with you - on the car chase high I’m with you forever
From a higher plane, rejection (The phone cut out)
Cast down from a higher plane (And we crashed down) From a higher plane, rejection (The phone cut out)
Cast down from a higher plane (And we’re cast down)
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Are We?
02:11
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Girl in the desert
I’ll be your friend even if it’s hard to find you blood I will hunt
Show me what type suits you best
Cut from the throat, AB
Baby I’m trying not to let you die
But I’m only a man, I have only two hands
And this trunk of this car has only room for two men I will take all of them, I will kill them if you tell me Are we falling in love?
Are we falling in love? Are we?
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I like to think from time to time that you tried Seattle feels so far away
From someone who’s meant to care That sends letters signed just with their name I hope this makes you come down sick
I hope this makes you feel unnerved Each graffiti, each cubicle
I swear to God leaves such a bitter taste When you said that I’d love this place
This isn’t what I wanted
And truth be told you have let me down North Bend calls but I can’t answer I’m moving out of town
I’d love to see you justify this
Every night I look up at the North West sky And can’t find my place beneath
And can’t find my place beneath
This isn’t what I wanted
And truth be told you have let me down (Say that you mean it or leave) North Bend calls but I can’t answer I’m moving out of town
I move away and away and away and away and away I move away from Three Forks Park
Ships sail in the night’s sky
Go fix your heart
How’d you look up at the North West sky And think that it was made for you?
This isn’t what I wanted,
And truth be told you have let me down (Say that you mean it or leave) North Bend calls but I can’t answer I’m moving out of town
I forgot you existed until now (go fix your heart)
I’m sorry
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Lonely Useless Orbit
03:48
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“The songbirds are singing like they know the score”
How long can I make this last?
How do I get you to stay?
When all that you want is just to write me away I’ve noticed flowers always bloom in decay
Dance to the drum of bullets flying through the air A threnody to the victims of this world
Play your laugh tracks
Set the cameras slowly fade to black
‘Me and You’ is always back in town
Like stars in a lonely useless orbit
Each time hurts harder than the last
I can’t stop the sun from setting on you
If I can’t be your Monroe, let me be your Black Dahlia You’re worth dying for
Predisposed to saying I’m sorry Predisposed to never really meaning it If the machine has locked this arc in play It’s time for me to let it be Predisposed to saying i’m sorry Predisposed to never really meaning it Like stars in a lonely useless orbit You will always be around
Useless
Predisposed to saying I’m sorry Predisposed to never really meaning it
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8. |
The Meeting Place
03:14
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Drive to the meeting place Sign your name (sign your name) It was good what we had
It was good, but it was not enough
If this ain’t a funeral
Then why are we dressed in black? A eulogy for good times
that we are never getting back
I’ve been collecting all these broken things With hopes to find something that works
Nothing works 7:45 - Drive
Drive to the meeting place Sign your name (sign your name) It was good what we had
It was good, but it was not enough
Cross paths with me again
You’ll become a distant memory Tortured & Twisted
A worthless man who’s now been forgotten Things we were forced to do
Living this life with no escape
As I die from this rotten disease
Don’t close your eyes now See the sky, see the stars It’s yours
Take them, take them back now It was good what we had But it was not enough
Collecting all these broken things Just to find something that works
Fight my way out just to feel something That place where we met
It now means nothing
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Falling Snow (Seattle 2)
04:30
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Take a walk past the plaza
To check for the vital signs
Snow falls on the bench outside
The story of your life always ends the same It always ends in tears
But don’t show him hope But don’t show him mercy Because what’s done
Is forever done
You can’t turn your back from this You can’t run
So don’t show him hope (Valet) So don’t show him mercy (Please drive) Because what’s done (This man home) is forever done
So don’t show him hope, So don’t show him mercy Because what’s done Is forever done
You can’t turn your back from this You can’t run
Now, who’ll waltz the floor?
Oh, Brave New World on a bed of dust Spread across the shelves of his halls Where nothing was before
Outside the drugstore where you read The story of your life always ends the same
Mesmerised by the snowfall Like the snow, we fall Like the snow, we fade away Tonight, we fall like snow Fade away
Now, who’ll waltz the floor
When all that we hear are mothers crying? Now, who’ll waltz the floor
When all that we hear are mothers calling us home?
Like falling snow, we fall then fade The story of your life always ends the same
Like falling snow
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This comes from the heart
The author wrote that “living is merely the chaos of existence” To which the character, confused, responded
“And so is dying, simply, the rejection of chaos?”
But nothing is simple
From birth to work to tragedy
The man who fell from grace into the sea
I thought I’d find it all at the bottom
But it's all so dark, merciless, murderous
I thought I shovelled to survive but apparently I was wrong I survive to shovel against the dunes
It should be easier than this,
But it’s harder than it seems Now it’s calling me further away
From the morgue to the street
From the street to the balcony
Open up the door and set it in reverse Balance on the rail
Take in the view from the balcony
Each time you look, it seems it’s less far down
It should be easier than this But it’s harder than it seems Now it’s calling me further away
Like a deer in the headlights
I wander into the danger blinded
No regard for consequences
I take a step off the ledge
And come to grips with the sadness
I’ve finally realised that hope’s another feeling I’ll soon grow tired I’ll soon grow tired of
It should be easier than this But it’s harder than it seems Now it’s calling me further away
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11. |
Kingdom
04:46
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Parked out on the street
On a small screen we watched the scene
As it played out before us
I’m sitting with my face glued to my hands As I feel everything suddenly get to real for me
They can take this from my cold dead hands I’ll leave them waiting in the rain outside
I know I’m hard to be around sometimes
I owe you everything
Now you’ve got me
You inherit my kingdom of shit You can cut me
Now I’m your fool, now I’m your fool
Touring in a small car would be a chore
If spent with any four other people
Silence in my head for the first time
In six or seven months
I wanted to hurt myself for the longest time
I cannot remember the last time I wanted to hurt myself
Now you’ve got me
You inherit my kingdom of shit You can cut me
Now I’m your fool, now I’m your fool Now you’ve got me
You can bury my crown of thorns
I will break down
Now I’m your fool, now I’m your fool
I only see you in picture frames, All I wanted was to wish away the days
Now you’ve got me
You inherit my kingdom of shit You can cut me
Now I’m your fool, now I’m your fool Now you’ve got me
You can bury my crown of thorns
I will break down
Now I’m your fool, now I’m your fool
I only see you in picture frames, All I wanted was to wish away the days
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