Mer De 1: The Run run being Run him a blade To and through the No One to the hollow Screaming me here Fill me up pacify this hungering So throw Dominoes of down all around In In Constantly and devour Cause it's time to the fire down Bridle all indiscretion enough to edify And permanently fill this Screaming feed me me up again Temporarily me here Fill me up Temporarily 2: Overcome by your Moving temple Overcome by this Holiest of altars So pure So rare To witness such an earthly goddess That I've lost my self control Beyond compelled to throw this dollar down before your Holiest of altars I'd sell My soul My self-esteem a dollar at a time One chance One kiss One taste of you my magdalena I bear witness To this place, this prayer, so long forgotten So pure So rare To witness such an earthly goddess That I'd sell My soul My self-esteem a dollar at a time For one chance One kiss One of you my black madonna I'd sell My soul My self-esteem a dollar at a time One taste One taste One taste of you my Magdalena 3: Don't disturb The beast The tempermental goat The snail while he's feeding on the Rose Stay frozen, compromising What I will I am Bend around The wind silently thrown about Again I'm treading so Soft and lightly Compromising my will I am I am I will So no longer Will I Lay down Play dead Play your doe in the headlights locked down and terrified Your deer in the headlights down and horrified when Push comes to pull comes to shove Comes to step around this Self-destructing dance that never would've ended till I Rose, I roared aloud here I will I am. I am I will So no longer Will I Lay down Lay dead Play this Kneel down Gun-shy Martyr Pitiful I rose, I roared I will I am 4: You're such an inspiration for the ways That I'll never ever choose to be Oh so many ways for me to show you How the savior has abandoned you F*ck your God Your Lord and your Christ He did this Took all you had and Left you this way Still you pray, you never stray Never taste of the fruit You never thought to question why It's not like you killed someone It's not like you drove a hateful spear into his side Praise the one who left you Broken down and paralyzed He did it all for you He did it all for you Oh so many many ways for me to show you How your dogma has abandoned you Pray to your Christ, to your god Never taste of the fruit Never stray, never break Never---choke on a lie Even though he's the one who did this to you You never thought to question why Not like you killed someone It's Not like you drove a spear into his side Talk to Jesus Christ As if he knows the reasons why He did it all for you Did it all for you He did it all for you 5: Metaphor for a missing moment Pull me into your perfect circle One womb One shape One resolve Liberate this will To release us all Gotta cut away, clear away Snip away and sever this residue that's Keeping me from killing you And from pulling you down with me in here I can almost hear you scream Give me One more medicated peaceful moment One more medicated peaceful moment And I don't wanna feel this overwhelming Hostility Because I don't wanna feel this overwhelming Hostility Gotta cut away Clear away Snip away and sever this Umbilical residue Gotta cut away Clear away Snip away and sever this Umbilical residue that's Keeping me from killing you Keeping me from killing you 6: 3 Threw you the obvious And you flew with it on your back A name in your recollection Down among a million, say: Difficult enough to feel a little bit Disappointed, passed over. When I've right through, To see you naked and oblivious and you don't see me Well I threw you the obvious, Just to see if there's more behind the Eyes of a fallen angel, Eyes of a tragedy. Here I am expecting just a little bit Too much from the wounded But I see, See through it all, See through, And see you. So I threw you the obvious Do you see what occurs behind the Eyes of a fallen angel Eyes of a tragedy Well, oh well.. Apparently nothing. Apparently nothing at all. You don't You don't You don't see me You don't You don't You don't see me You don't You don't You don't see me You don't You don't You don't see me at all 7: Sleeping Delusional I believe I can cure it all for you, dear Coax or trick or drive or drag the demons from you Make it right for you sleeping beauty Truly thought I can magically heal you You're far beyond a visible sign of your awakening Failing miserably to rescue Sleeping Beauty Drunk on ego Truly thought I make it right If I kissed you one more time to Help you face the nightmare But you're far too poisoned for me Such a fool to think that I can wake you from your slumber That I could actually heal you.. Sleeping Beauty Poisoned and hopeless You're far beyond a visible sign of your awakening Failing miserably to find a way to comfort you Far beyond a visible sign of your awakening And hiding from some poisoned memory Poisoned and hopeless Sleeping Beauty 8: Humble and helpless Learning to Praying for visions to Show me the way Show me the way to forgive you Allow me to let it go Allow me to be forgiven Show me the way to let go Show me the way to forgive you Allow me to let it go Allow me to be forgiven Show me the way to let go Illuminate me, Illuminate me, Illuminate me, I'm just praying for you to show me Where I'm to begin Hoping to Hoping to reconnect to you 9: (instrumental) 10: Of You Lying all alone and restless unable to lose this image sleepless, unable to focus on anything but your surrender Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head Tugging a beat to the sight of you lying So delighted with a new understanding Something about a little evil that makes that Unmistakable noise I was hearing Unmistakable sound that I know so well Spent and sighing with a look in your eye Spent and with a look on your face like Sweet revelation sweet surrender sweet, sweet surrender Surrender... Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head Tugging a beat to the sight of you lying So delighted with a new understanding Something about a little evil that makes that Unmistakable noise I was hearing Unmistakable sound that I know so well Spent and sighing with a look in your eye Spent and sighing with a look on your face like Sweet revelation sweet surrendering Sweet revelation sweet Thinking of you, thinking Thinking of you, Thinking of you, Thinking of you, thinking... Sweet revelation sweet surrendering Sweet revelation 11: My Wraps and pulls me under healing waters to be Bathed in Brena Guides me Safely in Worlds I've never been to Heal me Heal me My dear Brena So vulnerable But it's alright Heal me Heal me My dear Brena Show me lonely and Show me openings To lead me closer to you My dear Brena (Feeling so) vulnerable But it's alright Opening to... heal... Opening to... heal... Heal.. Heal.. Heal... Heal me 12: been over, been over this before been over and over been over this before And over, been over this before so over this. Been over this. So over this. Been this. Over this before
Step "The Package" Clever got me far Then got me in Eye on i'm after I don't need another Smile and the cliche you think I'm listening I take just what I for I'm out the door again Peripheral on the Don't care to in to feed the monster I need another friend is a mystery Crawling out of my own Just give me what I came for, I'm out the door again Lie to get I came for Lie to get just I need Lie to get I crave Lie and smile to get mine Eye on what i'm I don't need another Nod and watch lips move If you me to pretend clever got me this far Then got me in I'll take just I came for I'm out the door again Lie to get I came for Lie to get I need now Lie to get I'm craving Lie and to get what's mine Give to me Mine, mine, what's mine Mine, mine, what's mine Mine, mine, Lie to get I came for Lie to get I need now Lie to get what I'm Lie to smile and get what's this to me Take mine Mine, mine, Take mine Give to me Take mine, take what's mine, mine... Take what's mine, take what's mine, take mine, This is mine, mine, mine "Weak and Powerless" Tilling my own grave to keep me Jam another down the hole to the rhythm and the echo of a solitary siren One pushes me along and leaves me so Desperate and I'm so weak and over you Someone the monkey while I dig in search of China White as Dracula as I approach the and Ravenous I'm so weak and powerless you angel go away Come some other day The has my ear today I'll never hear a you say He promised I find a little solace And some piece of Whatever just as long as I don't so Desperate and I'm so weak and powerless you and Ravenous I'm so weak and you "The Noose" So glad to see you overcome them. silent now With heaven's You cast demons out And not to your halo down your neck and tug you off your cloud But I'm more than just a curious How planning to go about Making amends to the dead To the the deeds as if They're all someone Atrocious Now you stand reborn us all So to see you well And not to pull halo down your neck and tug you to the ground But I'm more than just a curious How you're to go about Making your to the dead To the your halo slipping down Your halo Your halo down Your halo slipping Your halo slipping [repeated] Your slipping down to choke you now
"Blue" I want to know I just didn't to know to keep things in the shallow end Cause I never quite learned how to I just didn't want to Didn't want, want, want, didn't want Close my eyes just to at you by the seamless vision I my eyes, the smoke, the smoke, Ignore the Call an optimist, she's blue a lovely color for you Call an optimist, turning blue I just sit and stare at you Because I don't to know I didn't to know I just didn't to know I didn't want the nods for an approval Just the smoke and smile Call an optimist, she's turning Such a color for you Call an optimist, she's turning Such a perfect for your eyes Call an optimist, turning blue Such a color for you an optimist, she's turning blue While I just sit and at you I want to know
"Vanishing" the air Slowly No, no longer Thinner, the air Never really What never Like a brushing up against a sigh away Floating away Vanishing like a cyan Vanish, into the air disappear Never here away Floating [repeated] "A Stranger" Cast the apple Up and over To out the timid wild one To convince you alright And I listen for the Of your insanity while I formulate of your affect on me You're a So do I care You today Not the first I hear All the am I to do with all this silence Shy away, shy phantom Run away child Won't you move you fucking tornado I'm better off you Tearing my will
"The Outsider" me if you can It's that this, this is not the way I'm wired So you please, Help me why You've given in to all Reckless desires You're lying to again Suicidal Think it, put it on the faultline it take to get it through to you precious I'm over this. Why do you throw it away like this Such a mess. Why would I want to you. Disconnect and self one bullet at a time What's your now, everyone will have his day to die Medicated, drama queen, picture perfect, belligerence Narcissistic, drama queen, craving and all its decadence through your teeth again Suicidal about it, put it on the fautline What'll it take to get it through to you Go with this, why do you wanna it away like this Such a mess. Why would I watch you... and self destruct one bullet at a time What's your rush now, will have his day to die They were about you They right about you to my face again Suicidal Think it put it on the fautline it take to get it through to you precious I'm over this. Why do you wanna throw it like this a mess, I'm over this, over this! Disconnect and destruct, one bullet at a time What's your hurry, everyone will his day to die If you to pull the trigger, should your drama prove sincere, Do it far away from here
"Crimes" One...two...three Four...five...six Seven...eight...nine Nine...nine...nine Ten...ten...ten...ten
"The Nurse Who Me" Say hello to the rug's It holds quite a lot of interest with your down on it Say hello to the shrinking in your You can't see it but you know its there so neglect it I'm taking her home me all dressed in white She's got everything I need pharmacy She's hard for me I can see it in her eyes She acts just like a nurse with all the other Say to all the apples on the ground They were once in your eyes but you them out while sleeping Say hello to everything you've behind It's even more a part of life now that you can't touch it I'm taking her home with me all in white She's got I need some pills in a little cup She's falling for me I can see it in her eyes She just like a nurse with all the other guys Say hello to the topography...
"Pet" Don't fret precious I'm here, away from the window Go to sleep Lay your head child I won't let the come Counting bodies like To the rhythm of the war Pay no mind to the Pay no to the rabble Head down, go to To the of the war drums Pay no what other voices say They don't care about you, I do, like I do from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils, See, they don't give a fuck you, like I do. Just with me, safe and ignorant, Go back to Go to sleep Lay your down child I won't let the come the bodies like sheep To the of the war drums Pay no to the rabble Pay no to the rabble Head down, go to sleep to the rhythm of the war be the one to protect you from Your enemies and all demons I'll be the one to protect you A will to survive and a of reason I'll be the one to you from enemies and your choices son They're one in the I must you and save you from yourself Swayin to the of the new world order and Count the bodies like to the rhythm of the war drums The are coming The boogeymen are Keep your down, go to sleep, to the rhythm of a war drums Stay me and ignorant Just with me you and protect you from the other ones The ones Don't you son, Go back to
"Lullaby" Go to sleep... Go back to [whispered]
"Gravity" again Broken and Unable to my way Tail in Dizzy and clearly to Just let go I am surrendering to the gravity and the me heal me lift me back up to the sun I to live I fell Like a baby to stand on my own in hand Dizzy and clearly to just let this go and surrendering to the gravity and the unknown Catch me heal me lift me up to the sun I choose to live, I to live, I choose to live Catch me heal me lift me up to the sun me survive the bottom Calm hands before they another pill and Drive nail down another Needy hole release me I am surrendering to the and the unknown Catch me me lift me back up to the sun I to live, I choose to live
Annihilation" dehumanization to arms production, For the benefit of the nation or its Power, power, the law of the land, Those living for will die by their own hand, no ordeal if you come to terms, Reject the system dictating the dehumanization to arms production, To the nation towards its destruction Power, power, the law of the land, Those living for will die by their own hand, no ordeal if you come to terms, Reject the system the norms From to arms production, To the nation towards its destruction Power, power, the law of the land, Those living for death die by their own hand, Life's no ordeal if you to terms, the system dictating the norms From to arms production, To this nation towards its destruction, It's your choice, your choice, choice, your choice, or annihilation
"Imagine" Imagine no heaven, It's if you try, No below us, us only sky, Imagine all the for today... Imagine no countries, It isnt to do, to kill or die for, No too, all the people living in peace... You may say Im a dreamer, but Im not the one, I hope day you'll join us, And the world live as one. (Imagine all the sharing all the world) no possesions, I if you can, No for greed or hunger, A of man, Imagine all the all the world... You may say Im a dreamer, but Im not the one, I some day you'll join us, And the world live as one.
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Love And Understanding" As I walk on through this world, for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself, Is all hope Is there only pain, and hatred, and And each I feel like this inside, There's one I wanna know, so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and And as I walked on troubled times, My spirit gets so sometimes, So are the strong?, And who are the trusted?, And is the harmony?, harmony 'Cause each time I feel it slipping away, makes me wanna cry, What's so 'bout peace, love, and understanding?, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and So are the strong?, And who are the trusted?, And is the harmony?, harmony 'Cause each I feel it slipping away, just makes me wanna cry, What's so funny peace, love, and understanding?, so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?, What's so funny peace, love, and understanding?
"What's On" Mother, mother, There's too of you crying, Brother, brother, brother, far too many of you dying, You we've got to find a way, To bring loving here today Father, father, We don't to escalate, You see, war is not the answer, For only can conquer hate, You we've got to find a way, To bring some here today Picket and picket signs, Don't punish me brutality, to me, so you can see, Oh, what's on, What's on, Yeah, what's on, Ah, what's on, Father, father, everybody thinks wrong, But who are they to us?, Simply because our is long, You know we've got to a way, To some understanding here today, Oh Picket and picket signs, Don't punish me brutality, to me, So you can see, What's on, going on, What's on, What's on,
"Passive" "Dead as can be," my doctor tells me But I just believe him, ever the optimistic one I'm sure of your ability to my perfect enemy Wake up and face me, don't play dead maybe Someday I will walk and say, "You disappoint me," Maybe you're off this way Leaning over you here, and catatonic I a brief reflection of what you could and might have been It's right and your ability To become...my enemy... Wake up (we'll catch you) and me (come one now), Don't dead (don't play dead) maybe (because maybe) Someday I'll (someday I'll) away and say, "You disappoint me," Maybe you're better off way Maybe you're better off way Maybe you're off this way Maybe you're better off way You're better of you're better off this; you're better off! Wake up (can't you) and me (come on now), play dead (don't play dead) Cause (because maybe) Someday I'll (someday I'll) walk away and say, "You fucking me!" Maybe better off this way Go and play dead I know you can hear this Go ahead and play Why can't you and face me? Why you turn and face me? Why you turn and face me? Why can't you and face me? You fucking me! aggressive bullshit
"Gimmie Gimmie" Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, I need more, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, Don't ask for here like a loaded gun, to go off, I've got to do, But shoot my off Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, I need more, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, ask what for I the world's got problems, got problems of my own, Not the kind that be solved, With an atom Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, I need more, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, Don't ask for You I'm gonna go out, Get for my head, If I on doing this, I'm gonna end up Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, I need more, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, ask what for
"People Are People" We're colors, And creeds, And people, different needs, It's you hate me, Though I've nothing wrong, I've even met you, could I have done? People are so why should it be? You and I get along. People are people so why it be? You should me. You're and kicking, And shouting at me, I'm on your common decency, So far it surfaced, But I'm it exists, It takes a while to travel From head to your fist. I understand, What a man, Hate man, me understand, are people, So why it be?, You and I get along, are people, So why it be, You Hate me I understand, makes a man, Hate man?, me understand,
"Freedom Of Choice" We're victims of on the open sea. No one ever said was free. Sink, swim, go with the ship. Just use freedom of choice. I'll say it in the land of the free Use your freedom of choice, of choice. In Rome was a pawn who along and watched it he a stone he secure he felt that he would be heard. Freedom of what you've got Freedom of You're given a you want it to be the rule of thumb don't be tricked by you see you've got two to go say it again in the land of the free: Use your of choice, freedom of choice. Freedom of it's what got of choice... In Rome there was a who along and watched it he cast a he felt he felt that his voice never be heard. Freedom of it's what got from choice it's you want. of choice - it's what got. from choice. It's you want. from choice It's you want. Freedom choice.
"Let's A War" There's so of us, So of us, So many, so many, there's so many Let's a war, So you can go and die, have a war, We all use the money, Let's a war, We the space, Let's a war, Clean out this It started in the city, will be just as easy Let's a war, up the Dow Jones, Let's a war, It can in New Jersey, have a war, it on the middle-class, Let's a war, We're like rats in a It started in the city, Suburbia will be just as have a war, Sell the to the networks, Let's a war, Let our get fat like last time, have a war, Give to the queers, Let's a war, The enemy's It started in the city, Suburbia will be as easy
"Counting Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums" Don't fret precious I'm here, step away the window Go to sleep Safe from pain and truth and and other poison devils, See, don't give a fuck about you, like I do. Count the bodies sheep Count the bodies like Counting bodies sheep To the of the war drums Count the like sheep Go to sleep Go back to Counting bodies like To the rhythm of the war Go back to Go to sleep bodies like sheep To the of the war drums Go to sleep Go to sleep Counting bodies sheep Go to sleep Go to [x14] Go back to Go back to Go to sleep bodies like sheep Go back to Go to sleep bodies like sheep Go to sleep Go back to Counting bodies sheep To the of the war drums Go back to Go to sleep Counting like sheep To the rhythm of the war Go to sleep Go to sleep Counting bodies sheep To the rhythm of the war drums I'll be the one to protect you from your enemies and all demons I'll be the one to protect you from a will to survive and a voice of be the one to protect you from your enemies and your choices son They're one in the same, I isolate you... Isolate and save you from ...
"When The Breaks" If it keeps on raining, going to break, If it on raining, levee's going to break, And the water gonna come in, have no to stay all last night I sat on the levee and moan, Well all last night I sat on the and moan, Thinking about my and my happy home, If it on raining, levee's going to break, If it keeps on raining, going to break, And all these have no place to stay Now look here mama am I to do?, Now here mama what am I to do?, I ain't got nobody to my troubles to I on the levee mama both night and day, I works on the levee both night and day, I ain't got nobody, keep the water Oh crying won't help you, won't do no good, Oh crying won't you, praying won't do no good, When the levee breaks, mama, you got to I works on the levee, mama both and day, I works on the levee, both night and day, I works so hard, to keep the away I had a woman, she do for me, I had a woman, she do for me, I'm going back to my to be It's a mean old levee, cause me to and moan It's a old levee, cause me to weep and moan Gonna leave my baby, and my happy
"Fiddle And The Drum" And so again, My Johnny, my dear friend, And so again you are fighting us all, And I ask you why, You your sticks and cry, and I fall, Oh, my friend, How did you come?, To trade the for the drum, You say I turned, the enemies you've earned, But I can remember, All the good you are, And so I ask you please, Can I help you the peace and the star?, Oh, my friend, What is this?, To the handshake for the fist And so again, Oh, my friend, And so again, You are us all, And we ask you why, You raise your and cry and we fall, Oh, my friend, How did you come, To trade the for the drum You say we turned, Like the enemies earned, But we can remember, All the things you are, And so we ask you please, Can we help you find the and the star?, Oh my friend, We all come, To fear the beating of your