1. Pause
2. K05-0564
3. Sweat Shop Syndicate
4. Table 19
5. pH Decontrol
6. Showoff
7. Bookworm
8. Scarysmurf
9. The Ronald Miller Story
10. Bench Warmer
11. Zuko's Back In Town
12. Never Met The Gooch
13. News At 11
14. 32 Frames Per Second
15. Pacifier
16. 3 O'Clock
17. Shiner
18. Wrist Rocket
19. Fuck U Turn
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Tell myself it's all right to be part of this life
of aching hearts and good times. I never felt this was a crime.
Down here. You can't tell me what to do. Down here. You
can't tell what to feel. You can't touch me. You can't see
me. If you're lucky you'll hear me scream. Free myself from
what lies in the burden of 9 to 5. I take the time to cherish the
life and the memories that come with it. Down here. You can't
tell me what to do. Down here. You can't tell what to feel.
You can't touch me. You can't see me. If you're lucky you'll
hear me scream. I can't pretend that life's o.k., bleeding the blood
of conformity. I hear my angel sing her song of salvation and this
is how it goes. Woah, woah, woah... woah, woah, woah... woah, woah,
woah, woah, woah... I can't breathe. Woah, woah, woah... woah, woah,
woah... woah, woah, woah, woah... go.
K05-0564
When you say you will it really means you might.
When you don't come through I shut up, it may start a fight. I feel
like such a fool cause I believed in you. I compare the likes of
you to the things I do. Then the bother builds, I go through it at
times. You'd think I'd be used to it, but I don't have the mind to
deal with your deceit or wallow at the feet of empty promises or it's royalty.
I never asked you to change. I only needed you to be there for me.
And now I need you to stop taking advantage of me. Well, I'm not
coming around anymore... "hey." Well, you can call it "fucked up"
if you want. Smile if you will, a mile, if you can. I don't
care, I don't need to be the better man. I'm sorry if it's not the
decent thing to do. Talk about it, maybe one day you'll see the truth.
There's one thing that I know. Friends, they come and go. A
lesson learned in life and I have you to owe. I'm growing everyday
and fools get in the way. If I whistle loud will you come and play?
I never asked you to change. I only needed you to be there for me.
And now I need you to stop taking advantage of me. Well, I'm not
coming around anymore... "hey." Well, you can call it "fucked up"
if you want. Let's go. Well, you can call it "fucked up" if
you want. "Fucked up... fucked up..." Whoa.
Sweet Shop Syndicate
Through your terms of endearment, refer to her
as a "bitch", "slut", "whore" and a "hole." Caress her emotions.
Caress her trust. Squeeze them tighter, then take her soul.
Polluted by the crimes of my gender, she surrenders to the sweetness.
If I have to spill the water, washing your lies away. Then I'll do
it... I'll do it for her.
Table 19
How many times have I shut my eyes and hit myself
in the head? Over something that i could have done....should have done
and what should have been said? Well, oh well. I guess I'll have to think
of something else to do. What the hell. I think I'll sit around and sulk
over you. Complain and cry! I don't know why. What a fucking waste. GO!
How many times have I shut my mouth and wished a hole through the wall?
Now and then. I shake my head. Now it's dead because I made the wrong call.
What's a day without regrets? To me it's nothing new. How many times have
I regressed just when i thought of you?
pH Decontrol
You didn't connect. What the fuck did you expect?
Missed the point. now what's left? Was all that screaming a waste of breath?
Woah oh oh...It's nothing (NOTHING NEW!) Woah oh oh...You didn't follow
through. GO! The powers that be. They feed on your apathy. Last chance.
You missed an opportunity to resist. We'll carry the torch you fucking
dropped. I'm getting old but that's no reason to stop.
Showoff
Stretcher! HEY! I see you stretching to compensate
for the attention you're not getting. Practice routine impressions, you
always tried so hard to be perfect. I've seen it so many times before,
don't blame me because your life's a bore Shift. you fucking faker Give
yourself to reaction formation. Lie. Liar on fire. You always need someone
on your side. So come on... DON'T FORGET! To mention all the great things
you did. IMPLY! You're better than everyone. Put others down to put yourself
on top, despite the people that you hurt The life you glamorize, exploit
and ADVERTISE!, means nothing to you. Hang on the coat tails of the ones
before you. crawl through the dirt, You love it. Don't you?
Bookworm
It plagued me like a cancer. If you asked me what
it meant, I couldn't answer. Because I sit here alone and searching. Man,
I gotta stop complaining. It's been so long, I don't know what to say to
you. The feelings gone. I remember once upon a time, I wouldn't have cared
just what I shared with you, but now I'm hiding. I've been lucky to have
someone who cared for me. I'm sorry. Because when you got so close, I'd
run away. The scars are almost covered up. and I'm rising She said she
wanted to know me like a book I was out of there fast, remembering all
the time that it took to get over the source of all the times that I felt
dead. There's chapters in this book that I haven't even read yet. But there's
just one thing that I gotta say to you. RIGHT! I don't regret the time
we spent, but I do regret the day we met. Because I've learned my lesson
and I've learned it well, now there's no more secrets for you to tell.
For all it's worth. I'm still dreaming and feeling without you.
Scarysmurf
You say the world's unfair and it offers you no
breaks. It's hard to get ahead when all you do is drink. Why don't you
feed your kids and stop beating your wife? Get up on your feet and take
control of your life. Burn... Learn. Why not give your self a fucking break?
The Ronald Miller Story
No one ever told me what to think when I'm alone.
No one ever told me how to feel when emotion is cold. Can she save me from
my disease? A token sunrise sickens the incomplete. It's an off day when
I'm in control. It's awfully hard to run away when my foot's stuck in a
hole. I thought it was remission and it felt so glorious, but it was adequate
compared to what I am. Compared to who I'm trying to be, yeah. And I don't
even know who I think I'm trying to be.
Bench Warmer
Well, 0.K. So you found my loophole, now get off
my back. I'm not running fast enough so now you're on the attack. I won't
play for your team. My rules. I'll be the rust in your machine. My plan.
My scheme. It fucked my self esteem. When you said I don't belong. Your
rules won't work for me. I'm sorry, but your rules don't work. If you don't
like how I'm playing you're gonna find a way, to trip me, knock me on the
ground and put an end to my day.
Zuko's Back In Town
What if one day I turned to you and said, "I'm
not the man that you think I am?" End a corner and you'll find me there,
it's Friday night and there's nowhere to go. Will you abandon me for a
fantasy, so you can gratify your selfish needs? If you come across some
self-esteem. you know I need it please give it to me. Preconceived misery
turns me into a mystery. but I hold tight to what is true. NOT YOU! Now
it's the next day of the rest of my life. Forget about What i told you
last night Still in the corner but I'm standing up, soon enough I'll be
ready to go so go abandon me for a fantasy go gratify your selfish needs
If you come across some self respect you can keep it so you can reflect.
Never Met The Gooch
When the music went away, with all that I've conceived
the sun goes down and smiles start to fade. Another Tuesday and I smell
the leaves, they're dying in my city. Inspirations lost in sirens. It's
not easy to live when motivation keeps on dying. The street lights are
far from glistening and I'm at my window listening through the silence
just to hear your voice, but I'm distracted by the outside noise I can't
think of your eyes without wondering how you live your life. When my song
begins to play I'm thinking everything's gonna be ok until the smiles start
to fade. In the beginning. I never got what I wanted because I never tried.
I guess some things never change. Rejection seems real enough that it scares
me away. The notes are barely audible and the melody seems kinda dull.
I wouldn't know it if it slapped me in the face, I need some help putting
this one in its place. I can't think of your voice without wondering how
you sing your song. The orange night keeps me aware of how I've loved and
how I've hated. But hate's remembered long after love's forgotten. I want
to forget. Yet, I want to remember.
News At 11
This just in. Another victim died tonight. What's
the score? What's the story? Did they go out in a fight? I wonder why you
manufacture a smile? You manufacture some sympathy? 40 minutes devoted
to tragedy. Turn on and tune in to chaos giving birth to fear. Come on,
tell me, how are you feeling? Report the pain. On to the next. Let it rest.
Slander created. Ratings elevated. How do you feel? Well, I'll sell you
an answer that you won't believe.
32 Frames Per Second
I know it's gonna hurt this time, but it's calling
me like someone else's wish. I can't resist to touch it. Yeah, you know
I gotta feel it again. Feel it again! Memories come flooding back. They're
killing me. I see 32 frames. I know that I miss those days because I swallowed
four years in one gulp.
Pacifier
Tell me to go, but I'm still here. I want to know
exactly what you fear. Do you think I'm gonna steal the show? Or that I'm
gonna reap what you've sown? Classify. Segregate. Don't try to be my friend
because it's too late. Don't try to take back those words somehow I wasn't
like you then I'm not like you now. So lighten up. Don't start a fight.
We're on the same side and none of this is right. So, why don't we throw
away the hate and rock tonight! What is it you expect from me? want to
know who you want me to be. Look in my eyes when you lie to my face. I
bite my tongue from this bitter taste. Your whole life consists of throwing
fists. You're in the back with your jokes. Talk shit about the people you
don't know because you heard someone else say so. Take but don't give,
you bring shame to the life I live. Can't come to terms that I'm sincere.
I don't care where you go because I'll still be here.
3 O'Clock
I know you asked for rain, but I brought you fire.
I didn't think you'd mind. I know it's not the same, but I'm getting tired
of listening to you whine. Why should I pretend, you see my friend, I heard
what you said. The implications lie and the consensus says you wish I was
dead. I don't care much to talk your talk or be in the way when you decide
to walk, but something in you just ain't fucking right. Fist in hand, you
got a plan. I see it's your way or no other way at all. Let me tell you,
you just ruined my night. I don't care much to justify the way you deal
with the problems in your life, if it's the only way that you can work
things out. Eye to eye. What would they think? The rats are in laughter
cause they think you're slick. Our consensus is that you're a dick. The
fools you follow are role models to a head that's hollow. The pride you'd
swallow if you'd let it go. Let it go. Let it go.
Shiner
Where do you get off wanting the royal treatment?
Who put you on your pedestal? I'll tell you who, the kids did! They created
you, and how do you repay them? With your snotty looks and your catchy
hooks and your rock star image. They created you, and how do you repay
them? With some words of truth to guide them trough your mind manipulation.
But when the time comes to back up what you say, will you run away? I'd
bet all I had on it. That's what I said, I'd bet it all. We're all singing
along to the same tune just like you. Big deal, you wrote it, but you don't
promote it. YOU DON'T PROMOTE IT! It may sound cliché. I don't care.
I've seen the way you cheat at all the games you play. Misuse trust to
get what you want it's so easy to believe you. Cause you're in a band with
a mic in your hand and everybody wants to be you. Well I won't try to.
because I don't want to. When the time comes to back up what I say. I won't
run away. Run away from you, run away from this, Because it means more
to me. We're all singing along to the same tune, just like you. Big deal,
we wrote it....Now it's time to promote it. Remember, we're all in this
together. I gotta know! What could it be that makes you unhappy? Is it
the world that you see, or the world that can't see you?
Wrist Rocket
2, 3, go! is now a good time to say that
i'm sick of playing all your games with your head in a corner? but
i didn't walk away. and if you're wondering why... i said i'd be
there to wipe the tear from your eye. push me away. tell me
to stay. can you imagine my confusion? well, i don't think
you can. i asked, "what's up with you?" "why can't you just
make up your mind?" cause, it's the same sorry story every time.
remembering just what you said to me. you said if i didn't want to,
that meant that i didn't have to. there was no reason for the both
of us to feel like you do. but i didn't go away, cause if i did you'd
blame it all on me and that's the same old story. remember when it
didn't hurt cause i refused to treat you like dirt? is now a good
time to say that i'm sick of playing all your games with your head in a
corner? but i didn't walk away. and if you're wondering why...
i said i'd be there to wipe the tear from your eye. push me away.
tell me to stay. can you imagine my confusion? well, i don't
think you ever thought you could. don't think you ever thought you
could. don't think i'll ever forget.
Fuck U Turn
I've been screaming for so long. Woah oh,
oh. Has anything ever change for me? My throat is red like
the blood that flows from my heart. I gave it my best shot and I
did it from the very start, and I'm still going. Do I deserve to
be a voice in the aftermath? Criticism takes it's toll in a different
path. I do what I can to set myself apart. I've been trying
to make sense of (Woah oh, oh) the little things you always push my way.
So you can say, say what you want... say what you will. At least
I can say I do what I feel is right for me, with no apologies, for you.
I owe nothing to you. No, I dont think so. No. So you
can say, say what you want... say what you will. At least I can say
I do what I feel is right for me, with no apologies, for you. I owe
nothing to you. So you can put me down for what I do, but your density,
I'll shine through, and it reflects in what I do. This is my... this
is my... this is my fuck you!