1. He
Who Laughs Last
No trust can be given freely, its' a valuable commodity,
but obviously this is something you've never learned. Faith is something
that you put in friends, and had I excess morals to lend, I'd let you borrow
them, but my trust you haven't earned.
We've got a problem? First of all there is no
"we", I'm detached from you completely.
I've got a problem. You tell lies to my friends
and think it won't get back to me.
No bond can ever seem to make a stable fit in
our relationship, but one thing that never comes between us is honesty.
When you have something to say, you always seem to find a way to avoid
the truth or instead, avoid me. Straight up is always how you'll see me
stand, but it is never in your plans to be straight forward, so instead,
you use deceit. Now I would like to take apart what you've been breaking
from the start. I'll remain intact, I won't be broken in defeat. No trust!
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2. File
13
I sleep until there is no light. I'm wide awake
all through the night. Dinner may suck but I'll take a bite, I do whatever
I can. My muscles stiffen through the day, discomfort never goes away,
someone should throw me away, I feel like a garbage can.
Throw me away, I've got no use. Throw me away,
I'm nothing to lose. Throw me away, I feel like shit. I am useless.
I know I know nothing at all. I'd take stand,
but I know I'd fall. I'd run head-down into a wall and watch my blood run
faster. Girls laugh and pass me on the street. I spook out everyone I meet,
I've got pink toenails on my feet, I'm such a fucking master.
I never seem to feel well. I always seem to look
like hell. It seems like everyone can tell my mind is going numb. My mom
thinks I wear women's clothes. I get dogged on at all the shows. It seems
that everybody know I look like a fucking bum.
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3. Wake
Up Call
If I had my way I'd wish them all away, but I can't
find the magic inside of me. I'll give my best, 'cause I can give no more,
but your problems aren't solved so easily.
I'm not someone that you should run to. I've been,
often, as broken as you, more often than you'd like me to. If I could heal
all the pain that you feel, I'd gladly cure all that ails you inside. Unfortunately,
I have no degree and I can not anesthetize.
I wish that I could help you. I can't even help
myself. It seems you need a saving grace and a savior's something I'm not.
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4. Cult
Status
I'll turn you on and switch you right off. I'll
make sure you like what you see. Forget all that you once believed. Now
you will believe in me. Do you believe you make the choice, decide what
you hold most dear? In all opinions that you voice, it's my voice that
they all hear.
I'll take you ideas and your values, I'll make
you turn them all around. I'll break your individuality, I'll take you
down.
I'll seal shut your open eyes. I'll give you a
taste of the bland. Intoxicate you, take me in. You'll never feel the touch
of my hand.
I'll turn you on and switch you right off. I'll
soothe your troubled mind. You'll never have to think again, it's just
a matter of lost time.
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5. Perfect
Fit
What was it I was thinking, or was I even thinking
at all? When I think of what I thought back then, then I'm ashamed; and
I'm appalled that I gave up all I was so easily. Living your life is not
for me.
I won't be sedated, I won't be sedated! Give me
a little taste and I know I won't want more. I won't be sedated, stability
is overrated. Give me the disorder I adore. I can't be a part, be a part,
I can't be a part. I can't be a part, be a part of your modern world. I've
gotta be apart, be apart, I've gotta be apart. I've gotta be apart. I can't
grasp the values that you hold.
What was it you were thinking, or were you even
thinking at all? When I think of what you thought of me, I take offense
and I'm appalled that you could discount all I love so easily. Living your
life is not for me.
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6. Advances
in Modern Technology
Every night I walk the streets, awake while everyone
else sleeps. I'm giving unease to anyone I meet. My generosity can never
run out, because I give a gift from what's within myself.
No hope at all. Take nothing from nothing and
you'll have nothing left. I can't recall. I can't recall a moment in my
life when life was at it's best.
Everyone avoids my stare and no one cares to ever
dare to look into the eyes of what they most fear. And they're taught to
fear, to fear no evil. And they know no fear, they've learned to love themselves.
Forever unlucky, 'cause I'll own tomorrow. Forever
unwanted, outcast today. I'm not mislead, I've got no one to follow. Everywhere
to go, no place to stay.
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7. Theory
of Revolution
Don't want to think about it, but I see it every
day. Corrupted innocence just doesn't seem to fade away. Spoiled so young,
you know it's bound to last, but when you're living in the city, you've
gotta grow up fast.
And it makes me sick. God, it makes me sick.
Don't want to think about it, but I see it every
day. If you want to buy affluence, your soul you'll have to pay. Wasting
away the prime of your life, but it's been done that way for years, so
you know it must be all right.
Don't wanna think about it, but I see it every
day. With every sip and every shot, mind and bodies fade away. Friends
are all gone, and memories don't last, but when you've fallen off the wagon,
you seem to fall so damn fast.
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8. This
Secret Ninja
Just like cellophane, you try to cling so tight
to me, but your attempt's in vain. You've less sincerity than the plastic.
Paper in rain. The print appears so bright to me. The words remain. I hold
it to the light, I see right through.
So eager to say, "hello", but you don't know me.
You just know what you see. Pay the price to see the show but you don't
own me. Before you knew would you have felt the same?
Just when I'm inspired, you drain the drive right
outta me, and even when I'm tired, you push me to perform for you amusement.
Just like raging fire, you burn what's left inside of me and to fulfill
your desire, I'd give you light till I burned out.
Just when you start to smile, I look into your
eyes and see your veiled denial to express any real emotion. Just wait
around a while, you'll lose what you once had for me. I'll be out of style,
I'll be discarded with the warmth you once feigned.
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9. Soap
Box Derby
I'm not angry, I'm just amused at your quest for
attention through your self abuse. The only response that you get for your
pleas is sorely less than sympathy. What reason is there to be alive? When
the world is against you how can you survive? All your friends are apathetic
at best, and your entire life is a total mess. Give it a fuckin' rest.
You can't feel me, feel, I'm scarred so deep.
No one needs me. Could you please leave me alone?
I'm sorry to hear that your world's sinking fast
and you've lost your stable ground and I'm sorry to add to your disappointment,
but I won't be brought down.
I'm not angry, I'm just amused at all the dramatics
you love to use, but one thing I have noticed that is strange to me is
that you're not happy unless you're unhappy. You're not content until youre
brought down, and you're always so alone because you can't be found. Your
soul is black and you're filled with hate. How much more can you possibly
take? Give me a fuckin' break.
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10. Aspirin
Free
There's no hope of helping us, we've only just
begun. We're youth eternal, nothing more to become. A thousand lights are
burning bright, give day a darkened light. Always burning from both ends.
We're proud of reputations we all own. Together
forever. Rejected but never alone. Together forever.
I'd purify the world with one primal scream, but
no one would listen. Keep dark secrets to myself, because no one else will
talk to me.
It's hard for me to comprehend, they couldn't
understand all the thoughts going through our heads. With a smile they
tore us up, now look what we've become. Finally we are numb.
No need to. No need to feel. I've got a nothingness
and that's all that's real. No need to cut the numbness inside. No need
to. No need to hear. What you've got to say means nothing at all. I've
got no distance left to fall.
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11. Fishbowl
I'm here today, just like every yesterday. Heavy
heat, and sheets stick to my skin. Can't get away from nothingness. I try
to get up, but I have to give in to the force that is keeping me down.
I overcome gravity, I look outside. A cat cries out, trapped upon a window
sill, but is crying's drowned out by my screaming inside.
What will it take? I wonder what it's like exposed
outside, would I be safe? When will it break? Try to look out, I see reflection
I just want to break.
Sirens moan. They're forever crying...someone's
probably dying. The sound sticks inside my head. Talk to myself, I'm company,
but who is to say if nothing is said? Two windows stare back at me. Three
stories high and nothing is new. I may sit, but someday I'll stand. I'll
muster up the will and fire myself through.
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12. Charles
Atlas
You've seen it all a thousand times, you've heard
it all before. You've danced the steps, you wrote the rhymes. So passé,
too many times, but you're hollow at the core. Two generations passed you
by. You think there's nothing left. But look around and you will see what
our world has grown to be. We are the now, not the past.
Can't you even try to see the strength with which
we've built ourselves to be. I know that you will never be able to destroy
what it's meant to me.
You've never seen the likes of us. We are your
novelty. A brand new trend with mass appeal, don't like the truth, don't
like what's real. You're jumping into something you'll never understand.
You think that it's a passing phase. It's our entire life. You revel in
rebellious ways, rebellion that the media made. When you change your channel,
we'll smash your T.V.
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13. Crop
Tub
You say you want to be friends, start over, try
again? Well, things will never be the way they were back then. Things were
never how you wanted, I couldn't think of you that way. Now, if you take
one step closer I will take two steps away.
Maybe you need affection, I'd like to help you
but I can't stand when you're around: fuck you very much. Maybe you need
to talk, but you betrayed my trust. Friends was not good enough? Fuck You
Very Much.
You can always claim you're straightedge, go ahead
and dye your hair. You won't get more attention from me, 'cause I will
never fucking care. I try to remain secret, shooting away and hiding out,
but you always track me down. Open your eyes and figure it out!
I'm not trying again. I'm sick of seeing you.
Don't wanna be your friend. I wish you'd go away.
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14. Consult
My Lover
You've got something to say, or so you say to me,
then you receive a blank stare. You've got something to say of importance
and gosh, that's really good to hear.
I'm proud of you, so proud of you, I'm proud of
you, I'm very proud of you.
You've got something S.P. - some to show to me.
Well, I have seen it before. I can't compete, I can't impress you. I guess
I'll show you the door.
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15. Take
the Test
When it comes the time that you have recognized
your line and you realize the path that you will travel through your life,
be sure that what you want is exactly what you're trying to get, or you'll
be speeding toward a cliff without realizing that...
Before you know, the haze makes you slow ignore
your future, forget your past - before you know, cars start to crash.
There are so many choices, the opportunities abound.
Just to be sure to keep things straight and be sure to stand your ground.
Let nothing shade your vision, even fight to keep it clear. Let no one
change what's right for you, for when you start to veer. cars start to
crash.
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16. Two
of A Kind
Hanging out and lingering around, 'cause you know
where I'll be found and I don't know how you do it. This obsession I must
admit has shaken me up a bit. My solidarity now only comes pairs.
I'd like to see you before you see me. I'd like
to see you. I'd like to see you leave.
Showered be torrential praise, why it is I can't
explain. Attempts to leave yield no avail. For me I don't know what's in
store. All I want is nothing more. I don't deserve what I get, I've nothing
to return.
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17. Shatty
Fatmas
Don't care to hear what you heard. I won't believe
a single word. Don't care to hear what you say. I won't believe it anyway.
You relay fiction, facts you avoid. You're just like a fucking tabloid,
you can never seem to get your information straight.
Tell me something I don't know. Your information's
fucking faux. Don't you have somewhere to go? Your mouth is quick, your
mind is slow.
Don't want to know what you know. I just want
you to fucking go. Don't want to know what you believe. I just wish that
you would leave. You try to cajz everyday, I wish that you would get away.
You can never seem to get your information straight.
When you try to hang around, I'd really like to
push you down. When you try to understand, I don't really think that you
can.
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18. Yurf
Rendenmein
You keep on sayin' that you want to know me but
you never show me your true self. How can you ever expect someone else
to know you when all you're going to do is just pretend that you're someone
else? You keep on sayin' that you want to show me that you're really different,
but your just the same. If you're really mindless then there is no way
that I can win, maybe you're just one of them, or maybe it's just a game.
You lie to yourself and remain alone.
I'm not exactly sure of your motivation. I'm not
exactly sure what you're tryin' to do. All I'm really sure is that you're
not too impressive and you're wearin' a mask that I can't see through.
Maybe you're not looking for acceptance, maybe you're striving for something
more. If it's status that you lust then why try to be one of us? You're
someone we'll never trust 'cause we know the score.
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19. Cruise
Control
I will never want to date you while I can learn
to hate you. If you somehow learn to love me, well, that's just my luck.
I would never ever care if you only wanted my friendship, but somehow you're
disappointed that I'm not a slut.
I don't want to fuck you, so fuck you.
In my mind there is no doubt that you've been
in and out of many different backseats, many times before. I can always
see your defeat when I won't leave the front seat. And it seems your disappointed
that I'm not a whore.
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20. Modern
Epic
Yeah I can see it coming. I've seen it all before.
I've seen it once or twice and now I hear the call to board. This train
is moving fast but how long is it gonna last? I guess that we'll find out
as well go in through the out door.
Don't ever let go.
Is this the start? Is this the end? New faces
ask, "what's happening?" I bite my tongue and hold my breath and tell them,
"the same old thing." I don't know what's going, on but I don't wanna do
it wrong. Don't wanna contradict myself with all the words I sing.
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21. Who
Said You Could Touch Me?
Who said you could touch me? You don't know I am
so, you can not get close to me and I don't know who you are, so just leave
me alone. I know you can't believe the anxiety you're causing me and I
know you can't believe your fake compassion I don't need. Get away from
me, You're standing too close. Keep your hands off of me. Keep away from
me, Just leave me alone, who said you could touch me anyway? Don't try
to rub my shoulders and don't try to hold my hand. Don't try to give me
a fucking hug. You crawl
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22. Rolling
Balls
Bowling is my life and it has always been my dream
to be a member of the local bowling team, but I'm not very good. The guys
won't accept me, I guess I try the girls team and lose a part of my anatomy
then balls will roll. I think I want to be... Balls will roll, I think
it's time, it's time for me to be a girl. It's a very big decision, it's
going to change my life. I'll have to make all new friends, I 'm gonna
lose my wife. But that's okay with me. There's something in my soul. It
doesn't matter who's the better man, its the man who gets to bowl. I 've
made my decision , I'm gonna make the change. There will be rolling balls,
I'm gonna play my game. It's gonna be so great. It's gonna be the best,
besides, I've always told myself I look good in a dress. I'm gonna cut'em
off, I'm gonna cut 'em off, I'm gonna cut 'em off. I'll never have to cough.
Now I've made my change and I've fulfilled my dream. I'm now a member of
the women's bowling team. I hope I throw a strike, 'cause I'll never score
again. My first game is tomorrow, I will go to play and then...
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23. Love
is a Many Splendored Thing
You think you've got the looks, you think you've
got the fashion. You thought you'd have me wanting more, but don't like
my reaction. You think you're really something. You're nothing to me now.
You thought you'd keep me coming without ever thinking how. I hate you
You think you're really special. You think I think you're best. You think
you're really something? You're no better than the rest. You've got everything
you wanted. Don't let yourself be fooled. You thought that you could play
the game, but I just changed the rules.
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