1. |
Tall Tales
05:14
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I never want to forget
The first time we met, girl, you were caught in my eye
Tall tales told by a mutual friend
A giggle here and a chuckle everywhere
We laughed away till the end
Oh, the music started to play
They cleared the floor, I shuffled over to your crowd
Had nothing clever to say
But we danced the night away
When she’s falling
In her mind, she’s laughing
Thinking of ways to come back
To a place where she’s in constant relief
All the questions in her life, she answers
Is there more to this life?
Says, you have to make good use of your suffering
I lost my self in this corridor
Each door I closed I’ll never find anymore
A new world I’ll never learn to explore
A world in which I’ll die and never be reborn
I become the tallest tale
(A tale no one else will tell)
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2. |
Hallways
05:11
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Time, it slips away
right out of my hands
I can feel it
I can see it lose itself
Throughout the hallways inside my head
In the light of day
In the lonely nights
I could never
I will never find my way around the hallways inside my mind
I could never relate
to the blood in my veins
The sirens, they never meant much to me
How I want to be
lost inside your head
I want to know the words you never said
I found your old notebooks
Your troubled words I read
Inside these corridors
You once had hope
You once had tears to shed
You wrote:
“You see,
This ain't all I have to offer, boys
This ain't the way I pictured it all in my head”
No one knows what's in store for me
No one knows how it's all gonna end
Will I be the one to find the truth?
Or will I end up just like you?
Blind to the wonders
Blind to the moon
How quiet and calm it sits idle in the night sky
Without any worries in the world
Alone
Beautiful
Licking its wounds
The flashing lights
I can’t think with all this noise around me
The siren’s singing
echoes inside my head
Take him away
I don’t want to see my family crying
The blood we shared was
nothing but my father’s tall tall tales
I hope to never tell
I could never relate
To the blood in my veins
The sirens they never had much to say
Hallways
Hallways
Inside my mind
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3. |
This Point of View
06:25
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How am I supposed to really love this girl
When she doesn't really know my mindset
My thoughts of life
How am I supposed to be the one to say
Your father isn't up there watching over you
To take away the comfort of a life well spent
The comfort of a father's guidance
Through the unknown
Some people say that we won’t last for eternity
Well…
I don't want it
This point of view
All I want
Is to grow old with you
I need to understand that her reality
Is as much true to her
As mine is to me
And love her even more because of all of this
That her heart could be at war with mine
In happiness
“In love, one and one are one”**
These words echo inside my head
Never to unearth, more words unsaid
This is a heavy burden to carry
This is a heavy weight on my shoulders
But I have found it
This point of view
All I want
Is to grow old with you
I have found it
This point of view
All my life
I will take care of you
(**= A quote by Jean-Paul Sartre.)
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4. |
Buckeye
04:23
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…And I know you all too well
The city lights
They drown out the night and I
Remember the time
When the stars
They shined so bright in the
The country sky
I think I don’t know who I am anymore
I wish I could turn off the lights and explore
We sang the stars, shooting arrows
We sang the moon, shouting, howling!
We lost ourselves in the shadows
We drowned our tongues in the heat
I wish I could promise, I wish I could lie
I wish I was someone unstuck in time
No one will find me, no one will cry
Because of me anymore
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5. |
Marry You Bury You
04:37
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When I go driving in the city
The moonlight shines bright, inside my mind
The memories of the times I fought for your love
The memories of the times I fought for you
The memories of the times I fought for you
You know I love you so
When I go driving in the city
You hold my hand and all is well
You hold my hand and all is well
I know I shouldn't fall in love with you
You don't wanna fall in love with me, girl
Cuz I don't know what I wanna do
With this lonely little life I live
Life I live
I will marry you
I will bury you
In the little grave
Where I lay my head
Every single day
Since you passed away, my love
When I go driving in the country
The night sky illuminates my mind
The night sky illuminates my mind
I know I shouldn't fall in love with you
You don't wanna fall in love with me, girl
Cuz I don't know what I wanna do
With this lonely little life I live
Life I live
I will marry you
I will bury you
In the little grave
Where I lay my head
Every single day
Since you passed away, my love
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6. |
I Am Your Monster
03:50
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Throw away
Another page
Lost words I will never say
It’s times like these I...
I am your monster
I am your pressure
Oh, so faceless
I am, I am...
Take this time
Away from me
It's making me think too much
It's making me see
That all I have done
In this life of mine, well
I don't have a problem
It's safe inside of me
As long as you all just leave me the fuck alone
Will you all forgive me when I finally
Become who I'm supposed to be
Someone no one knows
It's times like these, baby
I want to be alone
I am your monster
I am your pressure
Oh, so faceless
I am, I am…
I don’t know if I could feel it
I don’t know if I could be it
The man I know you can believe in
I am your monster
I am your pressure
Oh, so faceless
I am, I am…
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7. |
Your Heart Isn't Enough
02:53
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This is my life
This ain't yours
But the only thing I really want to do
Is be with you
I just want to see this through
I understand
I don't have time
Things I carry will be carried through the rest of my life
Stand by me, girl
I need your help
I need your soul
I need your eyes
To guide my way
To guide my way
Cuz your heart isn't enough
Your heart isn't enough
I'd be foolish not to know that could fail
Girl, you know I'll always wanna take it on myself
All the worries in my head, dead
Can you help me fight it all away
Help me carry all this weight
Stand by me, girl
I need your help
I need your soul
I need your eyes
To guide my way
To guide my way
Cuz your heart isn't enough
Your heart isn't enough
I taught myself to never walk away
I taught myself to never ever complain
But girl you know I'll follow you wherever you stray
I just want to hear you say the same
Cuz your heart isn’t enough
Your heart isn’t enough
Stand by me, girl
I need your help
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8. |
(Birth of Rose)
01:00
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9. |
Come Back
03:13
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There was a time when I wanted to forget
Forget it all and let it go
Until you woke up beside me
And said, “Come back to me
You're slipping a—
Away from my life
Away from my soul
Away from being there for your little girl
Hey, you wanna make this right?
Come back to this world
Don’t you make us worry
Worry!”
All my friends say that I have a problem
That I could never quit on my own
They say it brings out the worst in me
But all my friends say
They don't wanna go
They don't wanna go home
All my friends say
They don’t wanna go
They don’t wanna go home
They're running away
Away from their lives
Away from their homes
Away from all the bullshit that won’t let go
“Hey, you wanna make this right?
Come back to this world
Don’t you make us worry
Worry!”
Or was I the one to say it
That I don't want to go home
Why did you ask me to come back?
Wasn't I always here?
Huh?
Where did I go?
Where did I go?
Where did I go?
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10. |
In My Shoes
04:50
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Tell me
Tell me, when I leave
Will I be home
With the one I love
Home
Without your love
Tell me
Tell me, when I leave
Will I be remembered
For what I’ve done
Remembered
For what I’ve become
You don't know
Well, you don't know, baby
You don't want to be in my shoes, darlin’
You don’t know
Well, you don’t know, baby
You don’t want to be in my shoes
I've been down to this Hopeful Island
I've been found in the pride of Coward Bay
I found the teachings of a willful senior
I found the lessons of a coward and a life well saved
You don't know
Well you don't know, baby
You don't want to be in my shoes, darlin’
You don’t know
Well, you don’t know, baby
You don’t want to be in my shoes
Can’t you try to forget
We’ve created life so beautiful
She’s beautiful
Please ignore these empty bottles
No one will ever love you more
Yes, no one will ever love you more
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11. |
A Better Man
03:31
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I felt the weight of the world on my shoulders
I saw the light in his eyes go out like a flame
On a candle
That was burning bright on a shelf
On a mantel
In a house where nobody lives
What will happen to me if I follow through?
I promised dad I would never get older
I'll never touch another drink in my life
I saw what it did to this family over and over
No, never again
Never again
I’ll show…
Show my family I could be a better man
A better man
A better man
A better man
But no one believed me
No one believed a word I said
I can't stare up at this ceiling forever
This room is spinning around and around
They come knocking on my door
Like many times before
They want to watch me slip until oblivion
They want to watch me fall until oblivion
Once again
I fall asleep once again
Once again
And everyone's watching me
Watching me sleep
(Pour me another drink, man)
I want to lose control
Just one more drink and I'll be fine
I want to lose control
Of what I've held inside
I want to lose control
I want to lose control
I want to lose control
Of what I've held
Show me something I've never believed in
I want to know that there are things in this life that are fucking real
I can't hold on to anything anymore
It's over, I’m done
Never again
Never again
I know
All I want is to sink and feel nothing at all
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12. |
Creatures
03:07
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There's creatures in my head
They yell at me,
"Sisyphus is dead!"
You wanna be in my head?
You wanna be——
There's pictures in my head
I wanna show him
I can't imagine him dead
He's a better man than I am
All the lovely creatures in my head
Stay with me until my dying day
“Don't walk behind me
I may not lead
Don't walk ahead
I may not follow
Just walk beside me
And be my friend”**
All life's a mystery
It will not end
It’ll one day end, my friend
Should I picture myself happy
Like Sisyphus once did
Should I picture myself happy
Or place a gun to my head
All the lovely creatures in my head
Stay with me until my dying day
(** = A quote by Albert Camus, maybe.)
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When I was a little younger
My dad taught me to hold my head up
He taught me to walk these streets with gusto, with gumption
Now I'm a little older
Buzz drunk, got no one to shoulder
Talking to myself every night
Every morn'
The silence of the night
How it beckons me
I want to crawl away
Into the safety of my mind and my insanity
Where nobody can confide in me
No one will notice
Notice when I
Keel over and die
Keel over and die
I know I'm wrong
But it feels so right
There's someone in my head telling me I might
Lose it all over a fire when it's burning bright
Oh, I'm never—I’m always—
I’m never gonna win the fight
No one will notice
Notice when I
Keel over and die
Keel over and die
When I finally go
Will you tell of all my glories
Cuz I tried my best to become
The man in all my stories
When I was a little younger
You taught me to hold my head up
You taught me to walk these streets with gusto, with gumption
Now you’re gone and I’m all alone here
My family done run out on me cuz
Everyone will either die on me or lose faith in me
No one will notice
Notice when I
Keel over and die
Keel over and die
Keel over and die
Keel over and die
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They say you loved her the first time you met
They say a lot about you
Sometimes they talk about you, filled with regret
Sometimes they say you don't deserve it at all
You left me alone in this world
To go drink with devils and burn it
All away, all of it, all away
And now you're gone
What did I do to you?
What am I worth?
Where did you live for so long?
I heard you sang songs to mom that you wrote
Has anyone heard your last song?
You left me alone in this world
To go drink with devils and burn it
All away, all of it, all away
And now you're gone
You called me Rose!
You called me Rose!
You called me Rose!
You called me Rose!
You called me Rose
You left me here all alone with this name
That means nothing more to me now than anything you ever taught me
I heard you used to dance with my mother
I heard you two had different beliefs
But loved each other so much that none of it mattered
I heard you wanted to marry her
And thought that you were gonna outlive her
But look at you now
We had to burry you!
I heard you stopped writing just before you had me
And that you started drinking because you thought it would help
Or at least that’s what my mom says
But then you lost control
You talked a lot about Camus and Sartre
And all that existential bullshit
Mom said you talked a lot about how your own dad died
And that you didn’t really miss him
But we know you did
Did you think we wouldn’t miss you?
Huh?
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Mother Rose South Gate, California
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