And now they're searching for that new messiah it's 
Their greatest passion to set'em up and knock'em 
down put them on a pedestal idolatry wear the ring 
you're married it's all yours to their envy because you 
hold a higher key of senses and they are drawn like 
magnets to a genius it's confirmed (chorus) set'em 
up and knock'em down tour taste is so accountable 
this is no great loss and sharing never was a choice 
it's burning on your cross it gives you credit and a 
voice here to relay tour beautiful ideals vicaruiously 
through Them and when he died too many were 
sympathetic and they are all pathetic so you dethrone 
your ring without listening and jesus christ is realized 
as he burns on your cross but this is no great loss 
another one will come the wait is short your search is 
brief you find another faith another clark kent another 
superman flashing in the pan (repeat chorus) and now 
you are searching for that new messiah it's your 
greatest passion it's the latest fashion 

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Violins 

I am just another fool and I have to keep telling 
myself that I am just a hypocrit and I have to keep 
calling you one'cause I forgot to bite my tongue and 
my assumption is the mother of all mistakes as I 
assume the role open my mouth and clumsy words 
escape (chorus) so why you want to be there when 
you could be here you are slipping away I awake with 
tour replacement a bottle in my grasp in an 
unfamiliar place because you put me out the butt of a 
sick joke into this ashtray life as you come and go 
'cause I forgot to service you and we broke down and 
you can't live with my mistakes so I assume false 
grace open my arms and grasp at something true 
(chorus) 
how are you 
how have you been 
girl I miss you 
wanna see you again 
(repeat chorus) 
I bring out the worst in you 
and you try to let me know 
you bring out the worst in me 
anxiety I'm trying to let you go 
you say I'm giving you the creeps 
so I assume the bole open my claws 
and grasp for your heart 
(repeat chorus) 
into you like a mortal stake so 
vindictive your love's slipping away 
violins violence the butt of your sick joke 
into ashtray life I'm trying hard to let you go 

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Name Dropping 

Crysti can't take all the pressure kevin hates the girls 
he dates mia says she's gonna snap I need a new car 
to drive away derek beats up all his grilfriends Jessie 
like to comb his hair hanacek is on the wagon I tried 
not to'speak today 
(chorus) 
you slip and fall they pick 
you up and throw you down again I left them there 
and found them here I was rarely smart enough to 
dodge the careless words you find them everywhere it 
breaks you into two emily had sex with joey chris is 
weird he must be gay everyone is smoking h and I 
tried hard to laugh today every word you hear you 
repeat every word you repeat you change here's a 
quarter there's a phone why don't you call someone 
who cares 
(repeat chorus) 
I left them there and found 
them here It breaks me into two 

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Bombs Away 

you've got a thing about being lame you think you'll 
show us all your handicap is great you've got a thing 
about being lost you think with our concern you'll 
find yourself and you'll never be forgotten your 
family never wanted this one with all of her flaws 
she's trailing far behind she's feeling incomplete she 
has no will to win listening I live inside your room 
and you punish me as though I punish you dumb 
before it's done I am saint will you tell me now I 
never could relate to how you've been forgotten your 
family never wanted this one with all of her flaws but 
I wanna know was this deprivation of money or of 
love 
(pre-chorus) this is the last time you will be 
denied girl you want that world that they took away 
go pick up the pieces find inner strenght 'cause I 
can't save you find the life you left in a box the world 
you said has cut you off 
(chorus) bombs await you 
bombs away now let them all fall down you carry the
burden it fills you with regret you never finished that 
feeling incomplete you carry their baggage the guilt 
that holds you down 
(repeat pre-chorus) (repeat chorus) 
bombs away now 'cause life's been so hard 
and so long that's why I'm writing you this song 

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Move The Car 

The story it grows older the story is no story here i 
never knew what it is and there's no sign of it ending 
as i am it and ought to be they're telling me i am 
(chorus) 
bowling race car driver superficial hitman 
you're on the list at every door you don't bowl or 
race fast cars composition competition you drive 
just because i don't go to the church where you 
reside i might as well go for it the nineties won't be 
back again until i'm forty-eight years old i can be 
the hungry as i eat my words again appealing yet 
apalling rising to my falling going to extreme ends i 
am gagging on their scene 
(repeat chorus) 
you shift i'm the driver over time in it's defense i move their 
car and for a moment it makes sense i fail them in the 
end i fail it in the end in the arms of old age knowing 
only one to lose feeling nothing more to hide 
consider life a forgery as you’re gagging on your 
scene admit to fraudulence driven to this thought 
death is certain faith is not 
(repeat chorus) 
composition competition you drive competition 
competition i’m losing i fail it in the end 

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Sleep 

Hi it's me i'm bored again all is well i'm not insane 
i've been drunk for seven days everything is fine i 
made some friends broke the ice then i ate bread and 
cheese to gain some weight keep me warm 
everything's o.k. 
(chorus) 
it's me delivering psychosis 
over the phone to you i color your world blue ten 
thousand miles from you i'm sinking all alone 
treading new waters i miss my buoy the van smells 
like a dirty sock everyone has got the flu i'd rather 
be sick of you i'd rather be asleep 
(repeat chorus) 
when i get home the band will have it's first hit song 
you and i will buy some rings and a suburban home 
i'll bring home the bacon bits we'll make our parents 
grandparents i'll take you out the breakfast at 
night and then we’ll go to sleep 

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Sick 

I've been living for years in question some obsession 
was i less to live without answers as a life cried 
wolf i'm ashamed to mention my anguish but silence 
lies empty if i say it again can i kill it will you lend 
me your ears breathe in breathe out exhale acting 
sweating a broken smile provides them a view 
projection is nothing new just once i would like them 
to feel it suffer in my skin for a moment stand in my 
shoes filled with swelling blues 
(chorus) 
i keep this room and this room keeps me chained to my organs i 
am quarantined to a place that's dark staring at 
three walls the door is locked to them 'maybe now 
that they all know it you’ll find solace as you'r 
drowning in narcissism or is it self-loathing 'cause 
you fought it all in your head boy psychosomatic 
they used to humor you now they pity you and 
nothing's changed 
(repeat chorus) 
the door is locked behind me if i say it again 
can i kill it because they're 
sick of my complaining and i am sick of being sick 
maybe these will cure you completely chemicals 
deeply saviors until you're dependent don't let them 
go to your head i'm ashamed to mention my anguish 
but silence lies empty silence lies 

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Rifle 

I'm not the one who is pointing the finger you 
hypocrite we're not true enough to be part but i 
speak of what i have learned i haven't a flag to be 
burned born wrong descend upon us you're only 
honest but are you an artist or just a preacher to 
those who want to hate everything you told them to 
see everything you told them to hear we simply ask 
them to listen and express what we feel born right 
rifle me playing on their sympathy you're the one 
waving the flag you're the one starting the war 
we're not compromising or trying to conquer 

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Weak 

Come to know them and what makes them burn take 
out your aggressions and alleviate the hurt fueled 
by some loss we'll never know i sit down now 'cause 
i'm not playing with you abusing amusing your peers 
and all your demons in passive aggression accusing 
all else but you hurt the ones you've grown to love 
you feed on them embitterment refills your empty 
soul release it into them your sharp words alcohol 
enhanced fueled by guilt your checkered past you 
had the last word and we are having the last laught 
laught at me as i sit this one out and they're dancing 
around me afraid you give me strenght to call it 
weak 

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Black Eyes 

He knows no shame and takes no blame this simpleton 
sees everything he's only satisfied to point out 
other's mistakes never afraid to use his pride his 
tradition is old his faith a hand-me-down the family 
he wears them on his sleeve morale and values left 
under a christmastree he once had the gift this 
image in his grandparents eyes no guns no drugs no 
rape no end this vacant soul is pale and blue in empty 
gaze his crow's feet are a vision of defeat sick and 
tired of the meaninglessness the irrationale he's 
desensitized his every need and emotion a cup half 
empty but full of euphoria he's searching for the 
light switch in the dark to switch his routine to find 
a reason to find faight and piece of mind when one to 
many beliefs die it's tough to see through these 
black eyes everyone forgives everyone forgets 
everyone is true and no one here will lie to you he 
knows the truth he knows the truth here nothing's 
certain disregard what you've learned to find faith 
in piece of mind all of thier gods died with his peace i 
should know him that heathen’s me 

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Bro Dependent 

I try to focus on what i hear listen to what i see i've 
thought of it a lot and it's becoming all to clear 
(chorus) 
i take it in excess as my true feelings are 
suppressed i can not find the words to say it without 
hurting not listening to what you say now watching 
the things you do as you take a dose of grief as you 
insist there's no relief perhaps another drink and 
you take it in excess as your true feeling are 
supressed you can not find the way to cure it 
without hurting you cure it but it seems your 
problem still remains obsession compulsion my 
friend overdoing evertything so focus on what you 
need listen to what you hear this is the last time i 
listen it's becoming oh so clear i'm completely 
confused here 
(repeat chorus) 
i've spoken all too soon 

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Razor Burn 

She broke up with me two days later i think she met 
her don juan in italy she has a new man i have a new 
mustache now all my friends are gonna call me 
mountain man and everyone will think that i'm a 
stupid drifter to walk the earth alone i'll never 
shave again on the night she left me facial hair grew 
miraculously i dressed in black like johnny cash and 
grew this beard of shame i've heard it said she looks 
a lot like sherilyn fenn and sometimes i'm mistaken 
for billy gibbons i may appear wise but i'm an idiot 
it's over she left me and she will soon forget me she 
found out i was lame i grew a beard of shame come 
all be faithful joyful and triumphant i am a new man 
i have a beard of shame 

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Shaving Your Head 

We used to watch them fall and we saw them 
distraught but the attention that they got it 
surrounds them for years we watched them enslaved 
and we could only laugh what a loser what a shame 
said we'd never play the... 
(chorus) 
and now it seems 
you haven't learned the lesson i guess you have to 
share the pain andnow your tainted blood leaves 
stains behind your back and in thier words i hear 
your shame how can you lie to me when in your eyes i 
can see glazed and vacant as you're caught in the 
act you've always wanted this now you feel the stab 
are you happy to be sad is there pleasure in 
the... 
(repeat chorus) 
as it make you sick do i make you 
scared when you see what you once were as you're 
shaving your head the scared boy thinks he's safe if 
you can't read his eyes but you can read you can 
read his eyes his lies 

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Ride The Snake 

Time to ride the snake eyes gone dead and blank i 
don't wanna talk to a stranger i once knew 
single-minded hunt to fill the bottomless well i 
can't afford the labor of the feelings that you ask you tax 
(chorus) 
talk to me i can't hear you did you 
say the pain has gone away just one question will i 
see you at the show tomorrow or the snake they 
could never tell we are losing weight they will all 
still love us if they can not feel our hell i'm not 
losing face and they're not losing faith we won't 
have to feel unless we quit there's nothing more to hide 
(repeat chorus) 
don't you know that he does 
everything he buys the food and cleans he knows 
what i need to go on this is your last chance i can 
feel i'm fading and i want to disappear disappear 
there's nothing left to hide 
(repeat chorus) 
will i see you at the show tomorrow 
tell me then what's wrong 

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