Mer De 1: The Run run Sexual Run him like a To and the heart No One to the hollow Screaming me here Fill me up pacify this hungering So throw Dominoes of down Falling all In In consuming Conquer and Cause it's time to bring the down Bridle all this Long to edify And permanently fill hollow 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 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 taste 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 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 shot 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 you killed someone It's Not like you drove a spiteful 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 Umbilical residue that's Keeping me from killing you And from pulling you down with me in here I can 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 looked right through, To see you naked and oblivious and you don't see me Well I threw you the obvious, 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 could make it right If I kissed you one 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 pray 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 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 sighing 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 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 reflection 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 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 over and over been over this before And over, been over this before so over this. Been over this. So over this. Been over this. Over this before
Step "The Package" Clever got me far tricky got me in Eye on what i'm I don't need another Smile and drop the you think I'm listening I just what I came for Then I'm out the again Peripheral on the Don't care to in Time to the monster I don't need friend is a mystery Crawling out of my own give me what I came for, then I'm out the door again Lie to get what I for Lie to get just I need Lie to get I crave Lie and to get what's mine Eye on what i'm I need another friend Nod and watch lips move If you me to pretend clever got me this far Then got me in I'll just what I came for Then I'm out the door Lie to get what I 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, Take what's Mine, mine, Take mine Mine, mine, Lie to get I came for Lie to get I need now Lie to get what I'm Lie to and get what's mine this to me Take mine Mine, mine, what's mine Give to me what's mine, take what's mine, mine... Take what's mine, take what's mine, what's mine, This is mine, mine, mine "Weak and Powerless" Tilling my own grave to me level Jam another down the hole Digging to the and the echo of a solitary siren One that pushes me along and me so Desperate and I'm so weak and powerless you feed the monkey while I dig in search of China White as Dracula as I approach the Desperate and I'm so weak and over you Little go away again some other day The devil has my ear I'll never hear a you say He promised I would find a solace And piece of mind just as long as I don't feel so Desperate and I'm so and powerless over you Desperate and I'm so and powerless 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 Around your neck and tug you off your But I'm than just a little curious How you're planning to go Making your to the dead To the Recall the as if They're all else's stories Now you reborn before us all So to see you well And not to pull halo down Around your and tug you to the ground But I'm than just a little curious How planning to go about your amends to the dead To the With halo slipping down Your halo Your halo down Your halo slipping Your slipping down [repeated] Your slipping down to choke you now
"Blue" I didn't want to I just didn't want to to keep things in the shallow end Cause I never quite how to swim I just want to know Didn't want, want, want, didn't want Close my eyes just to at you Taken by the vision I my eyes, the smoke, the smoke, Ignore the Call an optimist, she's turning Such a color for you Call an optimist, she's turning While I just sit and at you Because I don't want to I want to know I just didn't want to I just want the nods for an approval Just the smoke and smile Call an optimist, she's blue a lovely color for you Call an optimist, she's turning Such a perfect for your eyes Call an optimist, she's blue Such a color for you Call an optimist, she's turning While I just sit and at you I don't want to
"Vanishing" the air Slowly No, no here Thinner, the air Never really that never Like a thought brushing up against a Floating away [repeated] Vanishing like a sunday Vanish, vanish the air Slowly Never really Floating Floating [repeated] "A Stranger" Cast the calming Up and satellites To out the timid wild one To convince you it's And I listen for the Of sweet insanity while I formulate Denials of affect on me You're a So do I care You today Not the time I hear All the What am I to do with all silence Shy away, shy phantom Run terrified child Won't you move away you fucking I'm better off you Tearing my down
"The Outsider" me if you can It's that this, this is not the way I'm wired So you please, Help me why given in to all these Reckless dark You're to yourself again imbecile Think it, put it on the faultline What'll it to get it through to you precious I'm over this. Why do you wanna it away like this Such a mess. Why would I to watch you. Disconnect and self destruct one at a time What's your rush now, will have his day to die Medicated, drama queen, picture perfect, belligerence Narcissistic, drama queen, fame and all its decadence Lying your teeth again imbecile Think it, put it on the fautline it take to get it through to you precious Go with this, why do you wanna it away like this Such a mess. Why would I wanna you... Disconnect and destruct one bullet at a time What's rush now, everyone will have his day to die were right about you They were about you Lying to my again Suicidal about it put it on the fautline What'll it to get it through to you precious I'm over this. Why do you wanna throw it away like Such a mess, I'm over this, this! Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet at a What's your hurry, everyone will his day to die If you choose to pull the trigger, your drama prove sincere, Do it somewhere far from here
"Crimes" One...two...three Four...five...six Seven...eight...nine Nine...nine...nine Ten...ten...ten...ten
"The Who Loved Me" Say to the rug's topography It holds quite a lot of interest with face down on it Say hello to the in your head You can't see it but you know its there so neglect it I'm taking her home with me all dressed in got everything I need pharmacy keys She's falling hard for me I can see it in her She acts just like a with all the other guys Say to all the apples on the ground They were once in eyes but you sneezed them out while sleeping Say hello to everything left behind It's even more a part of your life now that you 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 hard for me I can see it in her She acts just like a nurse with all the other Say hello to the topography...
"Pet" Don't fret I'm here, step away from the window Go back to Lay head down child I won't let the boogeyman bodies like sheep To the rhythm of the war Pay no to the rabble Pay no to the rabble down, go to sleep To the rhythm of the war Pay no what other voices say They don't care about you, I do, like I do Safe from pain and truth and and other poison devils, See, they don't give a fuck you, like I do. Just stay me, safe and ignorant, Go to sleep Go to sleep Lay your head child I let the boogeyman come Count the bodies like To the of the war drums Pay no to the rabble Pay no to the rabble down, go to sleep to the rhythm of the war drums I'll be the one to protect you Your enemies and all demons I'll be the one to you from A will to survive and a of reason be the one to protect you from Your and your choices son They're one in the I isolate you Isolate and save you from to the rhythm of the new world order and Count the bodies like sheep to the of the war drums The boogeymen are The boogeymen are Keep your head down, go to sleep, to the of a war drums Stay me and ignorant Just stay me Hold you and you from the other ones The ones love you son, Go to sleep
"Lullaby" Go to sleep... Go back to [whispered]
"Gravity" Lost Broken and to find my way Tail in Dizzy and clearly to Just let go I am surrendering to the and the unknown Catch me heal me me back up to the sun I choose to I again a baby unable to stand on my own Tail in Dizzy and unable to just let this go High and surrendering to the and the unknown Catch me heal me me back up to the sun I choose to live, I choose to live, I to live Catch me me lift me back up to the sun Help me the bottom Calm these before they another pill and Drive another down another hole please release me I am surrendering to the gravity and the Catch me me lift me back up to the sun I choose to live, I 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, Life's no ordeal if you to terms, Reject the dictating the norms From to arms production, To hasten the nation its destruction Power, power, the law of the land, Those living for will die by their own hand, Life's no if you come to terms, Reject the system dictating the From to arms production, To hasten the nation towards its Power, power, the law of the land, Those living for death will die by own hand, no ordeal if you come to terms, Reject the dictating the norms From to arms production, To this nation towards its destruction, It's your choice, your choice, choice, your choice, Peace or
"Imagine" there's no heaven, It's if you try, No below us, Above us sky, all the people for today... Imagine no countries, It hard 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 will live as one. (Imagine all the people 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 hope day you'll join us, And the world will as one.
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace And Understanding" As I on through this wicked world, Searching for light in the of insanity, I ask myself, Is all lost? Is there pain, and hatred, and misery? And each time I like this inside, one thing I wanna know, What's so 'bout peace, love, and understanding?, What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and And as I on through troubled times, My spirit so downhearted sometimes, So are the strong?, And who are the trusted?, And is the harmony?, harmony 'Cause each time I feel it away, just makes me wanna cry, so funny '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?, Sweet 'Cause each time I feel it slipping away, just me wanna cry, What's so funny peace, love, and understanding?, so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?, What's so 'bout 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 some loving here Father, father, We need to escalate, You see, war is not the answer, For love can conquer hate, You we've got to find a way, To some loving here today Picket lines and signs, Don't me with brutality, to me, so you can see, Oh, going on, What's on, Yeah, going on, Ah, going on, Father, father, thinks we're wrong, But who are to judge us?, Simply because our is long, You know we've got to a way, To bring some understanding today, Oh lines and picket signs, Don't me with brutality, to me, So you can see, What's on, going on, What's on, going on,
"Passive" "Dead as dead can be," my tells me But I can't believe him, ever the optimistic one I'm of your ability to become my perfect enemy Wake up and face me, play dead cause maybe Someday I will walk and say, "You disappoint me," Maybe better off this way Leaning over you here, cold and I a brief reflection of what you could and might have been your right and your ability To become...my enemy... Wake up (we'll catch you) and me (come one now), Don't play dead (don't dead) Cause (because maybe) Someday I'll (someday I'll) away and say, "You disappoint me," Maybe you're better off way Maybe better off this way Maybe you're off this way Maybe you're off this way You're better of you're better off this; you're better off! Wake up (can't you) and me (come on now), Don't play (don't play dead) maybe (because maybe) Someday I'll (someday I'll) away and say, "You fucking disappoint me!" Maybe you're off this way Go and play dead I know you can hear this Go and play dead Why can't you and face me? Why can't you turn and me? Why can't you and face me? Why you turn and face me? You disappoint me! Passive aggressive
"Gimmie Gimmie" Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, I need more, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, ask what for Sitting here a loaded gun, to go off, I've got to do, But shoot my off Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, I some more, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, Don't ask for I know the got problems, I've got of my own, Not the that can't be solved, an atom bomb Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, I need more, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, Don't ask for You know I'm go out, Get for my head, If I keep on this, I'm end up dead Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, I some more, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, ask what for
"People Are People" We're colors, And creeds, And people, Have needs, obvious you hate me, Though I've nothing wrong, I've even met you, could I have done? People are people so why it be? You and I get along. are people so why should it be? You hate 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 just a while to travel your head to your fist. I understand, makes a man, Hate man, me understand, are people, So why it be?, You and I get along, are people, So why it be, You Should me I understand, makes a man, Hate man?, me understand,
"Freedom Of Choice" We're victims of sedition on the sea. No one said life was free. Sink, swim, go down the ship. use your freedom of choice. I'll say it in the land of the free Use your of choice, freedom of choice. In ancient was a pawn who along and watched it he a stone he secure he that he would never be heard. of choice it's you've got Freedom of given a voice you want it to be the rule of thumb don't be tricked by you see got two ways to go I'll say it again in the of the free: Use freedom of choice, freedom of choice. Freedom of it's what got of choice... In ancient there was a who followed and it fall he cast a he felt he felt his voice would never be heard. of choice it's what got Freedom from it's you want. Freedom of - what you've got. Freedom choice. It's you want. Freedom choice It's you want. from choice.
"Let's A War" There's so of us, So of us, So many, there's so many, so many Let's a war, So you can go and die, have a war, We all use the money, have a war, We the space, have a war, Clean out place It already in the city, Suburbia will be just as Let's a war, up the Dow Jones, Let's a war, It can in New Jersey, Let's a war, it on the middle-class, Let's a war, We're like in a cage It already in the city, will be just as easy Let's a war, Sell the to the networks, have a war, Let our wallets get fat last time, have a war, Give to the queers, have a war, The within It already in the city, will be just as easy
"Counting Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums" fret precious I'm here, step away from the window Go to sleep Safe from pain and truth and choice and poison devils, See, they give a fuck about you, like I do. Count the bodies sheep Count the like sheep bodies like sheep To the rhythm of the war Count the like sheep Go back to Go back to Counting bodies like To the rhythm of the war Go back to Go back to Counting like sheep To the rhythm of the war Go to sleep Go to sleep Counting bodies sheep Go back to Go to [x14] Go back to Go back to Go to sleep Counting bodies sheep Go to sleep Go back to Counting bodies sheep Go to sleep Go to sleep Counting bodies like To the of the war drums Go to sleep Go to sleep Counting bodies like To the of the war drums Go back to Go to sleep bodies like sheep To the of the war drums [x2] be the one to protect you from your enemies and all your demons I'll be the one to protect you from a to survive and a voice of reason I'll be the one to protect you from your and your choices son They're one in the same, I must you... Isolate and you from yourself ...
"When The Breaks" If it keeps on raining, going to break, If it on raining, levee's going to break, And the gonna come in, have no place to stay Well all night I sat on the levee and moan, Well all night I sat on the levee and moan, Thinking about my and my happy home, If it keeps on raining, levee's to break, If it keeps on raining, going to break, And all these have no place to stay Now here mama what am I to do?, Now here mama what am I to do?, I got nobody to tell my troubles to I works on the mama both night and day, I works on the levee mama night and day, I ain't got nobody, the water away Oh crying help you, praying won't do no good, Oh crying help you, praying won't do no good, the levee breaks, mama, you got to lose I works on the levee, mama both and day, I works on the levee, mama both and day, I works so hard, to keep the water I had a woman, she do for me, I had a woman, she do for me, I'm back to my used to be It's a mean old levee, cause me to and moan It's a mean old levee, me to weep and moan Gonna my baby, and my happy home
"Fiddle And The Drum" And so again, My dear Johnny, my friend, And so once you are fighting us all, And I ask you why, You raise your and cry, and I fall, Oh, my friend, How did you come?, To the fiddle for the drum, You say I turned, the enemies you've earned, But I can remember, All the things you are, And so I ask you please, Can I you find 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 sticks and cry and we fall, Oh, my friend, How did you come, To trade the fiddle for the You say we turned, Like the enemies earned, But we can remember, All the good you are, And so we ask you please, Can we help you find the and the star?, Oh my friend, We all come, To the beating of your drum