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They'll spy you from the corner
Now you've been pegged
So hover where it's safe with miles of cover
They love to shake their bones
Dance and squawk and hiss
There's no other way?
No, no other way
Well my tongue was halved down
Oh it's just a mess
Shake those bones
Dance and talk shit
I wouldn't have it any other way
Because I know what makes a hot commodity
That timeless, saccharine game of "how insincere can we be?"
Now grip someone off
How easy that can be while the salesman slings his empty tunes
Oh my God!
Grab the closest lover that you can
Because we're alone!
There has to be another way
All you ever ask is..
Can I nod my head?
Well sure you can
But can I nod my head?
Oh yeah, oh yeah!
Then it swallows to a frown and spits you back out
We live in a city of stolen dreams
Uh huh, we're bitter!
I've seen them all ignore their needs
Who wants to settle?
I'm lost in a city of shapeshifting
Watch all the ignorant breeding
Lust all you want on swollen knees
Just settle
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Car crash breath
05:05
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Here in the ballrooms we dance like apes
Who dripped their glossy gaze across the floor
Those nine you can't spare you'll have in store for us tonight
Those nine don't have their tongues anymore
What we won't yell
Can't ever tell
Stalled cranks of the wrists
Stick out those palms
Always keep glad-hand trains derailed
If it's genuine
The soft eye divide
Why laugh?
You'll drive
The five can sense your stench from a mile away
The next thing you knew
You'd entered a room
All filled with white and partially in bloom
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Fine eyes lined the pockets with gold
Let it remind you that the scavengers are here to cannibalize your soul
Your fine lines have laced the locket with mold
And it will find you
Now the skeletons are here to collect on their toll
If we're allowed to be naive
Ever haunting ignorance rolled into a shallow grave
I-box screens streaming obscenities
They hid the front line
We formed our own kind
Took your own to rot and grow
T.V. screens telling you what to think
They'll make it prime-time
Create your own mind
Took your piece, it longs to load
Lost and proud to be naive?
Stubborn, hard, and infantile
Crawl into a shallow grave
Blissful ignorance I see
Comfort in hindrance, cloned into those past escapes
Maybe I'll wait for the new
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Sheriff on diamonds
03:29
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Lust then drown under what it takes to be a war machine
Choke and lie under all those facts you were told to believe
All our arms waste their rounds on a silent enemy
Note: interlock both hands, make the leap
We've decided to lead
Hopeless and charming
Where's the rope?
Got stumbled up by sly beasts
They'll make your mouth explode
No neck there's only charred meat
Nowhere for rope
Got flustered up in dry dreams
Leaving laps left cold
Bold and buried under leaks
Deep down where you fiend for high-end models to top off the dome you missed
Boys: flex then stutter, shake and suffer
Make them split at the hips
All those shots are taken in vein
Because they all aim for the sameness
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Metro Jungle
03:29
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They're left to fry in their homes
Broken bones and rays
I see the future is bright
Trained in taking lives
That youth is soaked in the drain
Hand-held soldiers abound
Abbreviate to defame
It's so tasteless, it pulls at the veins
When it comes to an end
Holed up in an armchair throne
Precise, pinpoint, cross-hair, calculated
Too far removed to recognize one of your own
Remote controlled cars to remote controlled drones
They can't survive in the road
Strewn out on display
Stricken, lifeless prize
Learn to shut those eyes
They're using false energy
Serious to the core
Laugh with half open mouths until you see it breathless and covered in gore
On thy word
Blown
U.A.V.
Unload on thy word
Blown
On my word you will end below
It's so low
What you do
From above
Use the zoom
Your scope
You'll abuse
Float above
You still lose
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Lavasion
04:07
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That wristwatch keeps turning you off
When it's attached to some dead time
It's almost there
Plan today: make it home in one piece
You can't smile while you shout and stumble
Heart racing as you slide through the gates
That lonely feeling terror adores
It's pacing faster now
If only it was meant to implode
Have you ever seen a dark plot arisen?
No, it's not what you bargained for
Let the shatter begin!
Sew those seams back together
Stitch the tendons in needless ways
That conniving breath of the wreckage has cloaked the body in stones
Best let the shatter commence!
Let the shatter commence!
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The Freeze
06:08
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Some of us won't see the falling
So they've got no need to worry
A calm slows the needs
Then succumb to the knees
Old bones know their way
Surface deep
Lost themselves to belief
They're knee deep in the rain
They're knee deep in the rain
When the night's rhyme, who will bring our luck?
Huh, huh, huh?
Oh what a great plan
To steal our own sky
Let's move in with our future's lie
Don't let them snake your heart right from under your nose
Don't let them steal your breath right out of your lungs
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Empty that river
02:45
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Fell under the stars
Fell in love with them all
It still drops to coma tone
It will drop before you know
It all comes crashing
Down, down, down
Every drip of grace
How many names will we pull?
No coming back now
The body is still a bore
Down, down, down
Every slip from grace
They want to see it when you release
They're dying to watch you claw at your clothes
Relief in the form of a rusty cloak
Release, the frothing of the mouth to see you claw at your face
Will you please nest up and close the game
Too far gone to sit back and relax
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Caught in descent
05:10
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The worms are moving through the mud
While it's softening
Peering from beyond
The eyes are watching
Listen to the blood
Ascetic until it's reborn
All the hidden schemes are dead
While we're boxing
We'll botch them all
Defile it
Gnaw it to the bone
In closing
This scam is starting to linger for too long
Behind the tired farewell
A slumping host conceives a goodbye to all
All the hidden schemes are dead
There is nowhere to go
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