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'Genius'
Wrapped inside a near-motionless heart
Stored inside a cold harmony
Something we like to call maturity
Stains of hope that used to live in the past
Distant cries of a now forgotten promise
The reflection that is smeared
Eternal youth isn't a reality
There is no such thing as destiny
Where did I put my happy face?
Where did I put my happy face again?
'If I Could'
If I could tell you a little about myself
I'd be someone better, I'd be someone else
Vices of old, virtues of new
Someone borrowed, I'd be someone blue
When you're feeling like there's more
When the buildings are falling around my head tonight
I can cope
When the angels are dancing around my bed tonight
I won't go
And if you knew me the way I know myself
You'd just keep on moving and leave me on the shelf
Vices of old, virtues of new
Someone borrowed, someone blue
When you're feeling like there's more
When the buildings are falling around my head tonight
I can cope
When the angels are dancing around my bed tonight
I won't go
'Katja'
Running out of motions
And I'm running out of options
And I'm running out of clever things to say
Looking to the future, but I've got to aim higher
Absolute beginner
Loves the sin, but not the sinner
Though she only does it every other day
Dim the light and soften, it isn't very often
Nothing I say will do, I'll be the end of you
Close your eyes, count to one, hear the voice, start to run
Nothing I say will do, I'll be the end of you
Close your eyes, count to one, hear the voice, and run and run
If you stop and listen to the things that she keeps missing,
Then you'll probably become her only friend
Throw yourself in headlong,
Unchain her from the madman
Slightly too much lipstick, wrap of speed and broken glowstick
What you get is what you see is what you get
Looking to the future,
But she's got to aim higher
Nothing I say will do, I'll be the end of you
Close your eyes, count to one, hear the voice, start to run
Nothing I say will do, I'll be the end of you
Close your eyes, count to one, hear the voice, and run and run
And she has to come down
She has to come down
And she has to come down for me in the end
So, Katja, what's the score? Overdose, prisoner of war
'Fighting (on a Friday night)'
where were you when it all kicked off?
said you were fine, but you'd had enough
and as the glasses hit the floor, take it back
you heard, you saw
let's get married, my love, let's get married
we can move to the country because i'm so sorry and try
try not to worry about everyday things
we can raise a family
fighting on a friday night
fighting on a friday
all you love is
it's all over nothing, but you insist
on solving your problems with your fists
cigarettes and alcopops, happy hour never stops
let's get married, my love, let's get married.
we can move to the country because i'm so sorry and try
try not to worry about everyday things
we can raise a family
fighting on a friday night
fighting on a friday
all you love is
'What You Become'
Scratch and bleed
Turn me off
It’s all fine
But I’ve had enough
Feels like hell
Tastes like this
You want all of me
Well, I’ve given in
Living in confusion, believable delusion
When you cannot fight the reason,
You fight what you become, and
It’s as much as you can handle
As fast as you can run
When you cannot fight the reason
You fight what you become
Eternal need
Short-lived bliss
Look behind
I’m losing sense
Frozen kiss
Sunken cheeks
Naked mirror
Narcissus bleak
Living in confusion, believable delusion
When you cannot fight the reason,
You fight what you become, and
It’s as much as you can handle
As fast as you can run
When you cannot fight the reason
You fight what you become
'Jagged Line (Denial)'
beware of the dispossessed
the underbelly of this world's success
built to survive the best
you throw at them from your jagged line
forget the needs of others
protect me and mine
the ones paying taxes on the taxes
of the money you stole
with the one hand that you take
occasionally bestow
processed sympathy
automatic and recyclable
a penny for the poor
makes your bullshit more likeable
moderate violence screened on CNN
all part of the plan all a means to an end
the truth behind the lies gets wrapped in cotton wool
delivered through a drip hardly leaking through
like a game of chinese whispers twisted and contorted
depending on your baggage from source to source distorted
no grey areas no struggle no fight
casual persuasion makes a whore of our rights
the loss of opinion
we're turning
they're spinning
you sense the jagged line
no more,
denial.
the answers are hidden
their record
unbeaten
you sense the jagged line
no more,
reprisal.
denial.
'Target :: London'
in the city that's afraid to sleep,
we used to run, but now we creep.
when darkness falls, we're scared to breathe.
the number on my record sleeve
behind the scenes, though well-behaved
my world short-wave.
left, left, right, brick wall and rest, depressed.
I'm charismatic, self-confessed.
you're nice in a kind of tacky depressing way.
for emotional-fatigue, you're good for short stay.
like yesterday's dailies, tired and obsolete.
relief of the comic kind, generic 4/4 beat.
lip-service to the ranks of talent-less fame.
like white paint on the wall, you reflect but never gain.
whilst starving on the words you wish you never said:
lock, engage, london targeted.
a fool in the box, over the river
kidneys, heart, intestines, liver.
eat me whole or not at all
in the shadow of St Paul.
carbon copy uniform
no-one fits, but all conform
in the city that's afraid to sleep, we used to run, but now we creep.
'You Can't : You Can'
Alone at last,
Beside myself,
On Monday mornings,
I'm somebody else.
Caught between,
Heaven and hell.
Where you can't cry
and they won't tell.
I've done it again,
A waste of a weekend.
Pour myself into a bottle of this that then.
After the fall-in and the wake,
I try to understand,
But you can't, you can
And that's all that hope demands.
With fingers numbed by this tingling pain,
Feel I'm dying every moment of this silicone day.
Inside the heavy and the hollow,
between the truth and the lies
I wrap myself in sorrow,
watch five more days go by.
One day at rest,
Is never too much,
Hands move slowly,
I think I'm in love.
Space to breathe,
Things to come,
But only hearts move,
on a platform like this one.
It's like you're never there.
No you can't, no you can't even care
Because there never was a sign.
No you can't, no you can't leave me.
You can't, you can't, you don't even try.
You can't, you can't, you don't even try.
'In my waters'
Just breathe for me for a while
Just take some space to exhilarate
You are in my waters
You are in my air
You are all my wonders
Wasted empty years
You mean nothing to me
It's not easy; I don't want to
Just leave me alone
Go back to where you came from
Leave all this behind
Just leave me
Leave me
Leave me
I'm holding in my feeling
But secretly I'm reeling
You are in my waters
You are in my air
You are all my wonders
Wasted empty years
You mean nothing to me
It's not easy; I don't want to
Just leave me alone
Go back to where you came from
Leave all this behind
Just leave me
Leave me
Leave me
'Everything is too much'
don't cry or ask me why
don't shed no tears
when all is known
we must move on
so don't cry my dear
we've both played our parts
sewn up hearts
only to be torn again
one thing is clear
this has to end
so don't cry my dear
to me, you were everything
but maybe everything was too much
to me, you were all I had
it's funny all the pain that comes out love
don't cry
time will provide
the blame can be shared
it won't be long
we must be strong
it only hurts cos we cared
the feeling has died
we rode the tide
that much is sure
love is grace
we cannot waste
so don't cry my dear
to me, you were everything
but maybe everything was too much
to me, you were all I had
it's funny all the pain that comes out love
'Turn Away'
no love lost, you and I
separate, till we die
there's no place for this insanity
on that cold afternoon
how the air in your room
became so impossible to breathe
in a bed made of two
all my hopes become few
in a way, it doesn't trouble me
though i tried yesterday
empty words, chose to stay
I'm still here, tomorrow never comes
how I long to ignore
throw my phone to the floor
pick it up, you try me once again.
change is long overdue
must escape to the new
and reclaim the life that once my mine
chorus:
just turn away
just turn away
just turn away
won't take you back
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'6:01 (Fake : It)'
and we will never make it, unless you fake it
and we must do our duty, to hide your beauty
the strangers in your mind, will surely find
the point of no return, where bridges burn
they say that i've been sinning, from the beginning
in secret, they all love it, but they can't have it
and from their distant clouds, they laugh aloud
as I come crashing down, through the forsaken ground
Russian:
Mne kazhetsa ya ne sovsem ponimau otkuda vzialas' eta strashnaya skazka
(English translation:
"It seems to me that I don't quite understand where this scary fairytale came from".)
you try to fight these urges, you want to purge them
you wash his feet with tears, and count the years
it's getting so much harder, to play the martyr
so you crush your desire, he is Messiah
they say that i've been sinning, from the beginning
in secret, they all love it, but they can't have it
and from their distant clouds, they laugh aloud
as I come crashing down, through the forsaken ground
the nights are getting longer, as he grows stronger
these stupid words you utter are your stigmata
the crown of thorns becomes you, as they all shun you
you take the final bow - where's your god now?
Mne kazhetsa ya ne sovsem ponimau otkuda vzialas' eta strashnaya skazka
strashnaya skazka
'Sentence':
i read your eyes, the other day
your trust in me, had slipped away
the nothingness that dampens me
has flooded you, and all is lost
the jury's out, out of control
no juristidiction for your parole
the sad thing is, where once we stood
you'll see me here, still waiting
'Opium':
seize me
free me
please me again
I'm the mother
father
brother
of man
love me
loathe me
it's all the same
I'm the question,
answer,
calls off the pain.
'My Mistake':
don't wish upon any stars on my behalf
desperately trying to please
double the problem
there's two of us involved now
and there's more than two sides to a coin
don't try and find me at the end of the rainbow
it looks much the same as the rest
the pot of gold is anywhere you want it to be
and i guess it's up to me to toss a coin
and you win both ways
because you always do
you always win
and i just can't lose
and you win both ways
because you always do
you always win
and i just can't lose
my mistake
and you win both ways
because you always do
you always win
and i just can't lose
and you win both ways
because you always do
you always win
and i just can't lose
my mistake
'Paralytic':
paralytic
once again
another bar
another friend
and as for me
i'm just the same
the christmas cheer
falls with the rain
feel so alone
with friends nearby
true to form?
you can't rely
there's nothing here that
meets the eye
don't ask questions
don't reply
twenty four
by three six five
success or failure
can't decide
within these walls
i'd rather hide
i tried before
can't change the tide
there's nothing left
there's nothing here
feeling drowsy
vodka beer
and now i sleep
forget myself
now i sleep
forget myself
'Bittersweet':
you're too ludicrously calm
for a morning like this
when the ceiling hangs
from both my eyelids
and you smile
as if there's heaven
in the coffee that you sip
and hum a little tune
as you gently sway your hips
and i'm filled with bittersweet
had a vision of you
the way you seem to swim
as i barely just scrape through
my body burns
but only in your bliss
the efforts to breathe you in
have all but come to this
frustration and awe
in equal amounts
the need to suck then spit
your tongue out
your hand moulds around my face
and i lean into your palm
and i know for all the world
i could never do you harm
but bittersweet
is bittersweet
and that
is how i feel
the virtues of a sinner
are all
i offer you
but bittersweet
is bittersweet
and that
is how i feel
the virtues of a sinner
are all
i offer you
'Start the Machine Up':
Start the machine up.
We work for them.
into the picture comes a man with no name
and the concept of light means nothing to him
but he cries in the hope that someone will hear his visions, his nightmares.
and he sees in a way that only he can
the scars of the past will take him again
no perception or deletion
vanishing point
'Nothing Left to Feel':
You caught the train
do you remember?
been so cold
Since last november
Nothing left to feel
Nothing left to feel
Left my side
to view another
said you'd call
but didn't bother
Somewhere else to be
Someone else to see
I guess you're fine
That's all that matters
Great for you
Until it shatters
Nothing left to feel
Nothing left to feel
if my tears could make you listen
you'd be here
and we'd be kissin'
Won't you make it clear
Can't you see that I'm your biggest fear
the sorrow
the pity
the lights
the city
embrace
the chase
there's no place like home
One more night
Until tomorrow
Darkness falls
No light to follow
Nothing left to feel
Nothing left to feel
wish someone
would end this story
gone too far
to say i'm sorry
Nothing left to feel
Surely can't be Surely can't be real
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