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Actress
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I once knew a girl who had Shakespearian eyes
Hair like the wind with Casablanca tattooed down her thighs
I once knew a girl who could always utilize
Her gorgeous stare to hear mens' cries
I once knew a girl with Rodgers-like dance skills
If she saw a man she liked she'd go in for the kill
I once knew a girl who'd unwillingly thrill
You into a trance then you'd be held against your will
And as the actress takes takes the stage
We're ready now to see the play
As we turn the page of our playbills
And when the actress takes the stage
All eyes on her, all of the day
And we don't worry 'bout the strange of the fill
Until
I once saw a girl whose memorizing mesmerized me
Voice going at a thousand miles per hour, so hypnotizing
I once saw a girl who could have all the men capsizing
Down into their seats because the edge was too inciting
I once saw a girl with vampiric features
She was my one and only, what a lovely creature
I once saw a girl who said "Hey it's nice to meet ya
Excuse me for a moment as I seduce the preacher"
And as the actress takes takes the stage
We're ready now to see the play
As we turn the page of our playbills
And when the actress takes the stage
All eyes on her, all of the day
And we don't worry 'bout the strange of the fill
Until
Dance baby, dance, dance baby
Dance until you can dance no more
Dance baby, dance, dance baby
Dance until you're sore
Dance darling, dance, dance darling
Dance till your feet disintegrate
Dance darling, dance, dance darling
Dance until you know your fate
Run, run through the theater
Run right through the screen, I wanna hear you sing
And as the actress takes takes the stage
We're ready now to see the play
As we turn the page of our playbills
And when the actress takes the stage
All eyes on her, all of the day
And we don't worry 'bout the strange of the fill
Until we all get killed
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Minds Of Mankind
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We're living in a 21st century world
With 17th century thoughts
Soon we will have to face the human race
As it slowly decays and rots
There's maggots clogging our ideals
And our morals have been shot to the ground
The children are running around in haze
Of smoke rings and they'll never be found
Our education (It's dead)
The revolution (it's dead)
The whole nation (it's dead)
And we're breaking out of our homes
The thinker (It's dead)
The artist (It's dead)
The words which we wield and tinker with
are nothing but dead
Because minds of mankind have been fucked to the bone
Now there are billions of people on this Earth
And a lot of 'em starving and poor
You only got a Washington left in your wallet
And you use it on a donut at the store
But there's a man outside the entrance
With a jingly-jangly can
Waiting for pedestrians to drop something in
For Libya or Haiti or Japan
The idea of caring (It's dead)
Responsibility (It's dead)
Weight control (It's dead)
It's the saddest world that I've ever known
Protection (it's dead)
The right to free speech (It's dead)
Sanity in politics is dead and its revival's out of our reach
Because minds of mankind have been fucked to the bone
I read a newspaper in the morning
Seeing people lying dead in the streets
Struggling and holding on to all that they have
Truly trying to make ends meet
But 50,000 miles away from there
There's lucky Lotto winning putz
Who buys a new car and a new house and all the porn that he can afford
And when he dies the stench of greed stays on his gloves
Unity (it's dead)
Trust (It's dead)
Evolution (it's dead)
We're getting dumber just as fast as time goes
The world (it's dead)
Because minds of mankind have been fucked to the bone
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Cannibal
03:05
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I am a Cannibal, and you are my prey
I'll feed on the young ones first, and the elders all day
Because I'm a cannibal, I'm alone most of the time
But if I get hungry, I just commit suicide
Some say I'm an animal, those people don't know that much
Unless I am a wildebeest, then I'm ready to hunt
But I'm not an animal, I'm just misunderstood
In the argument of the acts of man, I do propose he is good
Feed me Seymour, punctuation is key
Someone's at my door, guess I'm good for an afternoon treat
This must be known to you, if we ever meet
I'll have you for dinner every night of the week
This must be known to you, get it through your head
Fill up your brain nicely, before I consume you till you're dead
Feed me Seymour, punctuation is key
Someone's at my door, guess I'm good for an afternoon treat
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Someone burned down the riverside
It burned down in all its pride
Not one man in there deserved to die
And not one woman held on to their life
Someone burned down the riverside
It made me see the fire in your eyes
Your pupils went ablaze and opened wide
Even more so than when you were my bride
Disbelieve your hopes and dreams and just forget
Think of all the people that have left
Someone entered a construction zone
Walking freely around in the snow
Unfortunately they didn't know
What was underneath their fragile toes
Someone entered a construction zone
A "No Trespassing" sign they didn't note
They made snow angles then began to go
But fell through the frozen undertow
Disbelieve your hopes and dreams and just forget
Think of all the people that have left
I seem to find a rising curiosity
Why everyone's not scared of death
Except for me
Someone played a darkened tune of war
Like the one I heard the night before
All my colleagues walked out through the door
And went to lead a life so ripped and torn
Someone played a darkened tune of war
But how I loved the way his piano roared
After the number finished up my ears were sore
5 minutes later I came back for more
I didn't want to return to the forlorn
Disbelieve your hopes and dreams and just forget
Think of all the people that have left
I seem to find a rising curiosity
Why everyone's not scared of death
Except for me
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The Elephant In The Room
03:22
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"Fuck your father, he's a dick"
My mother said this and then quick
-ly she left through the door
Every step she took was a storm
"Fuck your mother, she's a cunt
She doesn't know a damn thing about love"
My father screamed, I intervened
Unaware that I just began a scene
Lights, camera, action, kids
You're in for the main attraction
Skid marks on the driveway from the car
She used to bring back the elephant in the-
Ready, places, everyone
You're in for a whole lot of fun
Sunday, sunday, sunday, pay-per-view
As we address the elephant in the room
"Shut up boy, it's getting late
And I don't wanna stay up with this mistake.
I got work to do, just go to bed
And cover the ears on your little head"
The doorbell rings, and we both freeze
Only sound is the static on the TV
We look through the peepholes on the door
My father says four words "It's just the whore"
Lights, camera, action, kids
You're in for the main attraction
Skid marks on the driveway from the car
She used to bring back the elephant in the-
Ready, places, everyone
You're in for a whole lot of fun
Sunday, sunday, sunday, pay-per-view
As we address the elephant in the room
No apologies we ain't got time
To think of a reason or even a rhyme
To their dysfunctional psychotic tendencies
I've it now, It's time to beg down on my knees
"I love your father, he's the man"
My mother said this and then ran
Into his arms, and she smiled
Happy to stay there for a while
"I love your mother, she's a doll"
"There's no chance of a downfall"
I said to myself, unlucky me
My wants are only in my dreams
Lights, camera, action, kids
You're in for the main attraction
Skid marks on the driveway from the car
She used to bring back the elephant in the-
Ready, places, everyone
You're in for a whole lot of fun
Sunday, sunday, sunday, pay-per-view
As we address the elephant in the room
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Another Way To Live
04:13
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Early morning, we're starving for love
Hoping the day will bring, something good from above
Early morning, searching for things
That we won't find out about, until we're into our late teens
Well it's one small hope for man
And one giant risk for mankind
Please help me find another way to live
Mid-afternoon, we're praying for cold
This heat wave has got us down, things are starting to mold
Into a form - I've never seen before
Some kind of hopelessness slides right under the door
Ask not what a lover can do for you
But what you can do for your lover
Help me find another way to live
As it turns to night, I just can't bear it any longer
I'm drowning in this pool of wanting water
Tossing and turning all night
Feel this sense of ever-present fright
Waiting for somebody to give
Just a little bit or I'd be happy if
I'd found another way to live
Help me find another way to live
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Wanting to see how it's supposed to be
But I just do not have the time
Making a makeshift coalition of tyrants
Who will soon be mine
Lately it seems I've succumbed to the screaming
I've lost all my family and what's left inside me
I'm crawling out of the world step by step
I'm crawling up for the girl that I left
Killing me softly with lips just like candy
Straight out of the devil's hands
Running into a cave filled with the brave-
Hearted people who had no chance
Lately I'm seeing there's way too much screaming
I've lost all my family and sense of recovery
I've found that it's way too hard for me
To get hope as a replacement for my misery
I've given up, there's nowhere to turn
Except for around, that's when I see her
Lately I've been sort of mopey and crazy
I didn't think that she would ever find me
I've been on my hands and knees for a century
And now I have reason to finally be happy
I've crawled out of the world yeah yeah yeah
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Hey Jane, Pt. 1
03:19
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Hey Jane nice to meet you
"Why're you lyin' face down in the street?" You asked
Well it's a funny story, see, it goes back to a girl from my past
Her name was Jackie and she found a little dirt on me
So she threw me in the dirt
Now my skin is curdling with pain
Well I got up, I pushed her down
Turns out I'm not the only one who's been messin' around
Didn't have no comprehension about the consequential
Events that'd arise, well then I opened up my eyes and I was here
Hey Jane nice to meet you
I know this is quite a story for you
To hear upon our first meeting
But that's cause I'm ready to trust you
Jane you must protect me from Jackie's evil ways
'cause she's way too evil for my taste
Help me out
Oh so long ago, when we were one
We would have unlimited amounts of fun
Until she went ballistic, at an art exhibit
I left her alone in cuffs, by the fuzz, and that's what led me to be here
Hey Jane nice to meet you
I know this is quite a story for you
To hear upon our first meeting
But that's cause I'm ready to trust you
Jane you must protect me from Jackie's evil ways
'cause she's way too evil for my taste
Help me out
Hey Jane nice to meet you
She said "Nice to meet you too
But before I go there's just two things I need to ask from you:
One, what is your name?"
Well 'round here they call me James
"Secondly what was the dirt that Jackie obtained?"
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9. |
My Destroyer Song
04:36
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Laughing in the sky I screamed
Good god, well this is not a dream
At least not one like the one I had the night before
I need more
Prescriptions of fexofenadine
Everything should just be OTC
That would be much better than what the doctor says
It clears my head
I'm falling, I'm falling down
Into the ground
I'm rising, I'm rising up
Into the above
The address I saw was different than he read
Cause there was something else going on in my head
A string of words as clear as a ruby
Hooray for me
Studying up on a Greek four-part cure
To not worry about death it ensures
But it's the only thing I can do
Without you
I'm flying, I'm flying around
Above the ground
I'm diving, I'm diving through dust
There's not enough
Running through the fields of love
The flowers are red and the grass is rough
Everything is off beat
Take me out into the street
Listening to the sounds of hate
A beautifully negative state
Of true grit and emotion
I know I'm not the only one
I'm falling, I'm falling down
Into the ground
I'm rising, I'm rising up
Into the above
I'm flying, I'm flying around
Above the ground
I'm diving, I'm diving through dust
There's not enough
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10. |
I Only Want You
05:14
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Send the cops out to find me
Send the firemen, send the whole bunch
Hell, you can send the whole county if you wanna
But I don't care that much
You could round up the whole government
To pull me out of the snow
And while that'd be quite the achievement
There's only one person that I want to take me home
I only want you to save me from my place
I only want you to brush the wreckage off my face
I only want you to take me through the eclipse
And I only want you and the taste of your lips
And at whatever point you find me
Make sure you come alone
Cause I don't wanna see other people
Because I know
That they'd just make me unhappy
Some of them are the reason I'm out here anyway
But the minute I see that it's just us
I know you'll save me any day
I only want you to save me from my place
I only want you to brush the wreckage off my face
I only want you to take me through the eclipse
And I only want you and the taste of your lips
Take my hand
And pull me out, as my heart goes into
A beat you'd only understand
Cause no one feels the way that I do
About you
I only want you to save me from my place
I only want you to brush the wreckage off my face
I only want you to take me through the eclipse
And I only want you and the taste of your lip
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