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Bite My Tongue
06:24
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Time wakes me and pulls so slowly
When I can’t speak of things beneath
There is no end to my beginning
Standards seem often weak
Nothing clings to me like I do
And my cries are forever weak
So one time when I lied
Nothing hurt inside
And it won’t break like I do
But that don’t matter to them
I’m cut in two
These things cut through me too
I’m lost in this
One last sacrifice for my slit wrists
I’m aware that I’m not living
When I can’t speak I bite my tongue
Within these walls I hurt so slowly
And everyone keeps wandering
Inside me there lies no feeling
It grows within and tears me out
There’s nothing new
The same mundanity
Mundane in time
My debt in life
The last time I was here I hurt so much inside
They should know that I lied, but that don’t matter to me
I’m cut in two
I’ve smacked down on the open floor
I’m dead to the world, so I won’t hurt anymore
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2. |
Start Again
08:52
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Free me from this society
Life ain’t what it’s supposed to be
I’m looking at my surroundings
And I’m finding I’m just not happy
Pain brings uncertainty of the
time it takes to heal me
You beckon me to stay a while
I must leave but I stay anyway
Strange that music is the language of this drug
When you’re up too high nothing else speaks to you quite like it does
And I know what to say to make you feel my love
All you have to do is want it all
Outside the mind
The clue we find
It leads us to the end
And in due time
The child will die and have to start again
Strange that all you give is not what I feel
Why won’t you understand and become part of me?
I thought that you knew how to feel my love
Why must you suck my life away?
Outside the wall
Behind locked doors
You use the key to open your mind
And in little time you will understand and have to start again
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Can you make this feel better?
Can you let this bring me in?
Can you make this feel better?
Every time that we begin
And, every time the weather ever seemed to fade on us
Just promise me you’ll never grow too cold and far, or lost
So we made it feel cold
And then we left it behind
There’s a space we lost
Fallen into time
There’s a road we have to cross just to reach the final line
Hopes and dreams are tossed just to be left behind
Can you make this feel better?
Can you let this bring me in?
Can you make this feel better?
Every time we begin
You can’t make this feel better
You believe your fade of trust
You haven’t made this feel better
So in the atmosphere we must find a way to hold on
Our lives are turning into dust
You can’t make this feel better
You promised I’d have no fear
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4. |
Lost In Rome
04:14
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Senses of love and devotion awake
Hatred, angry faces I cannot take
No more time to waste
I have to see her pretty face
This light, these people, such a pity I’m gone
Lost in this city that they call Rome
No safety or happiness lie in a gun
Defenses are weak, only choice is to run
Poor excuse of a life, I am wrong
But I’ve been lying to you all along
Oh my dear I have felt soul slipping away, descending straight to Hell
I wanna’ die in the embrace of your arms
Cuddled next to your heart where they do me no harm
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5. |
The Power Received
07:07
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You’re gonna’ burn out there
Don’t let yourself float out too far
Careful with the power received
You’ll talk with gods on the edge of time
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Coming up and down the side
Inside is something I hide
Craving for greed and to bleed
It’s the last time I do this
Sticking around for the ride
It’s fastened onto your pride
It’s tearing the whole thing down
You’ve gotta’ learn to let go
I like to tear down your pride
I like it when you’re confused, you need some help so you don’t get crushed
I like it when you can’t make no sense of it
And the problem seems to grow large with it all
Bring it down from my side
Scratches and burns, thorns stuck inside
Now life always brings you down
It’s time for me to kick you around
I like it when you get crushed
I like it when you’re confused and can’t make sense of it
And the problem seems to grow larger with it all, and the excess pride that’s left turned to vanity
I like to tear
I like to rip
The excess pride turned to vanity
And now it’s ruling your destiny
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7. |
The Power Of a War
07:52
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Come walk with me
I’ll show you the galaxy
We can walk on stars
Planets just within reach
So, talk with me
Perfection in words I speak
It’s ready for you if you are ready for it
You don’t think it’s time
Your embrace becomes cold
Yet, here we are
Mortality for our own
And will you stay with me forever?
We’ll make this place ours and rule for all time
Why did you turn away from me?
Did you not want this gift that I am giving?
And if there are tears shed
Just tell me and I will wipe them away
The truth is heard
You do not want me
Still, in your pain all you see is me
And I’m striking you
This is what it instills
It will swallow and change you
And the blood won’t stop flowing
Here we are
Afraid of ourselves
And lying there we feel affection rise
Here we are
Empty and sad remaining
This is the love you said would never die
We’re closing our eyes
Embracing our thoughts
Pretending we’re sick
Enclosed on me
Still, I’m with you
But you never believed
You think that I care, and I should never let you go
But I’m not waiting for my angel to come
This is the power of a war
Oh, stay here
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8. |
You Let Me Drown
04:44
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You’ve got painful observations in your troubled life
You can feel frustration just a step behind you
But, continue in your passion to strike me down
Because father never bothered to let you out
You know too well how it feels
To feel the pain of losing a man
Who gave you life and your name
When now all he gives is pain
Father please, cover me
Save me from disease
I was free, now in ground
Because you let me drown
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Sweet Kelly Detroit, Michigan
Real Detroit said they didn’t have to dress for Halloween they were already rock stars. Jam Rag said their first vinyl
release sounded like a transmission from outer space; a cross between Pink Floyd and The Stooges.
“In the Eyes Of” was called psych rock done like no other, a band with their own sound. In today’s day and age that’s quite a statement, but not an exaggeration.
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