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Masquerade
05:30
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You've won their hearts and their minds, but something isn't right still
You find these words in which to hide, all the greats
'Cause they don't love you, like those characters do
A taste of glamour in suburban prison, you're living in your own hell
Privilege wasn't all you were hoping for, I see it in the white lines
What are you hiding from? 'Cause I want you
In your room in the cover of moonlight, you can share your words with me
All night
But with your boys in the glare of sunlight, you can't even give me the time of day no
It's a devilish game you play, Masquerade
I love you more than you'll ever know, but I guess it's not the real you
I live inside my ideals so i guess I'm hiding too
But why can't you show me your hand and let me in? 'Cause I want you
But I can't keep trying forever, you're fading away
No I can't keep trying forever, you're fading to grey
Your masquerade is taking it's toll on me
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Numbers
03:44
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Numbers are the problem, you keep racking up the years
Numbers are the problem, I keep feeding off the fear
I'm sweet like sugar i'll draw you in
But i bite like cyanide
'Come and have a drink with me baby'
Only if you call me gorgeous
What do you imagine we would be?
Think I'd roll over for you?
I'm sweet like sugar i'll draw you in
But i bite like cyanide
Numbers are the problem, you tell me that you like my music
Numbers are the problem, I don't think that I can do this
Don't need your experience or your influence I don't need it
Don't need your money or your fame
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Eyes
04:20
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Golden globes and golden orbs, your desire and your vice
They keep you up at night
In the silence of your room, I feel you inside
There's no world outside
Oh I'm drowning in your eyes
So I'll keep telling lies
To shield you from their gaze
Battlements poised and castle doors stay shut
And I get why, you're just getting by
But even when you choose to close your eyes
You can hear me and I'm near you
Oh I'm drowning in your eyes
So I'll keep telling lies
To shield you from their gaze
If a lover's not someone who understands then what is he?
Then who is he?
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Penitentiary
05:12
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Prison bars, control me but they hold me
And when it got dark, I had you blue, yeah I had you in some sense
Your way your art, is in the silence between us
Because really i don't know a thing about you, no I don't know you
regrets blossom with the roses, i wish that i had talked to you
but time is my enemy and i am too
just an orange flash you're gone, a half formed memory
red boots leave footprints on the floor
averted glances and that sense of sanctuary
but you don't walk these halls no more, you escaped the penitentiary
All my scars, confine me but don't define me
and i know that i'm an idealist but it's different with you
i think i really need you
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Strange Game
05:20
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light a fire, watch it burn but don't get too close to the flame
lord i wonder when will it be my turn to finally win at this game?
let's talk of souls, let's talk of night, let's talk of love, let's talk of life
let's talk of truth, let's talk of lies, let's talk of you, of you and i
we don't know what we're here for, but i don't care if i've got you
we don't know what we're doing and i don't care if i can do it with you
light a match, watch it burn, life is but a strange game
the weight of this world is love and i feel it all when i hear your name
i saw the best minds of my generation, destroyed by madness
and you were among them
i don't know what this game is we're playing
but i'll play it till the very end
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6. |
Speak In Tongues
04:48
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baby's got a way with words
each syllable drips from your mouth it's absurd
i know that time is fixed not fluid
but when i read you it brings me back sometimes
when you speak in tongues it's hard to resist you
when you speak in tongues i can't get away
your words like psalms you're holy scripture
but this love just can't be prayed away
do you love him just for the pain of it?
though you know full well that he won't reciprocate
the bay at night cold murder, honour slain
there can be no justice for people like us
and i will write my thoughts in poetry, that you will never see
i just hope you're happy now
and i know that you have no love for me
but i'm not sorry and i am proud
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Nomad (Feat. Laurel)
03:59
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what if the circle can't be broken
what if your heart is intertwined with mine
what if i can't forget what's spoken
what if these words still keep me up at night
but i am torn but not broken
i've heard the wolves i've heard them cry but i won't let them in this time
cos i am hurt but not helpless, i've faced the eye, the storm goes on but
i'm alive, yeah i'm alright
what if you can't find your way now
what if you are lost and i've been found
what if your weary head needs rest now
dear traveller the inns have all closed down
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8. |
Fear of Death
04:48
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i'm looking for worlds that i'll never find
i'm searching through people that i'll never know
i'm hoping that one day i'll feel fine
i'll be golden, not crazy and i'll find home
Tell me what is heaven for non believers
where will i rest my bones?
though i know no-one is coming down to save us
i don't want to be alone
I'm looking for love i don't know why
'cause i know i'll never find it here
i want to believe in the divine
but i know it's just based on fear
i don't want to be alone
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Fatalist
05:02
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baby you're red and i am blue
and i don't know why i'm in love with you
you push all that shit to the back of your mind
but i can't help feeling it in my, my heart
I love you with all my heart, destroy myself for the sake of art
i won't listen to them, i never listened to them
you drove me mad but i think i like it, i never really needed the stars
aligned, all the time.
you're a crook, you're a villain but you look like heaven to me
you're bad, you're crazy but you taste like candy
fools like me fall for pretty lies and dark eyes
how could i not see you were a devil in disguise?
and i still wanna help you, but i know you're past saving babe
taking all your secrets to the grave
as i stood there, smoking in the dark
watched you hold her in your arms
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Dead Poets
04:36
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Do you watch over from the stars at night?
Record the senses in the air
Can you still hear us from the land of light?
Do the pages take you anywhere?
I saw you crossing the water, my baby's gone away
Oars down in the water, my dove fly fly away
'Cause life is transient, we'll be together again some day
Love is transient, that's how i bear the pain
I don't wish for death, I wish for freedom
I don't want love i just want you
I lie here awake, for what reason?
I read your words i feel their truth
I want you
My raven calls for me 'Lenore, I hear you tapping on the glass
Can you discern what we're here for?
'Why must we wait so long?' you ask
Whitman told me to take each moment of light and dark as a miracle
But the dark calls more strongly to me
Oh and i don't know why, 'cause you're gone but i feel you here
I don't know why, I'm so wrong, why i have this fear
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11. |
Stockholm
04:05
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bitten by fire i have shared in pain
i have seen you laugh and i have called your name
lured by sorrow to create these games
where i pine for your voice and ambiguity reigns
oh take me, up in your arms in the shadow of your holy psalms
or leave me, to the judge and the jury oh how i resent thee
tainted by what they've said
i've hidden i've run i've bled
buried deep within, i am not one of your kin
now you're the jailor and you're the saint
oh i wish i could repent, for my sins and win your heart
but i can't
bitten by the ice and the subtlety in your lack of response
and your fallacies
the pause in your smile makes it clear to me
that the void that exists, is plain to see
lay me down, i cry but make no sound
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Lazarus
06:16
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You got me howling like Ginsberg
Feel like i'm a revolutionary, like i could do anything
Yeah we could be anything
We are damned and we're beautiful
But with the eyes of the angels we see
We're up on a pedestal, for all the world to see
And I don't care, let them watch us, feed their perversions
We are alive and we're fucking free
No I don't care, let them watch us, feed their perversions
But don't tell me that he died for me
I've died a million times, resuscitation oh that's my vice
'Cause when I'm gone that's when i'm with you
But in life there's nothing true
If you could kill me one more time, then i think i could make you mine
I'm cursed cause i'm Lazarus, I'm cursed yeah I'm Lazarus
And I'll live again
I see you when I read Cheever, your confusion and your brilliance
You're Plath and Bukowski, every word you speak is poetry
But I don't know if I love you, or i love what you represent to me
So i'll look through the pages, to realise the person that i need you to be
And I don't care, what they think of me
I have my own world and its better than my reality
No I don't care, what they think of me
I have my own world and they were never gonna die for me
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Instil
04:18
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you turn around like you're doing it
doing it again
you scratch your neck like you're feeling it
feeing it my friend
clenched fists go unseen when your hands are small
bruised wrists never cared when they hear the fall
this is the life
this is the dream
the kiss of the knife
you despise it but you want it, you know you want it
your hollow heart it yearns it's a void to fill
but my humanity was never yours to instil
you're killing time like you're missing him
missing him again
indulge the seconds as you drown in him
why'd you let him in again?
it's easy to idealise but not to realise my friend
you love the pain but you're feeding it
this catalyst for the end
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