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You don't trade money You information And now there are thousands of forgotten people Trying to you
Children are killed because they write an name backwards on the wall Young girls tie ribbons their slender throats trying to keep their heads on Chocolate boy walks to ice cream truck for vanilla cone is shot dead times This city its young
The angels all have now The angels aren't anyone you'd to pray to No-one here has goals Get a job, get married, have The are Wake up breathe keep
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Every woman who walks by is every woman never have Beautiful, quick and poisonous as The is full of women slim and busy there is room in some man's life For
Women sort through the bodies like bags of laundry with exhausted mama eye Sigh because they are too dry for People huddle in kitchens, clasp hands, celebrating Something has tried to kill and failed Nightclub men twitch too subdued to apocalypse The are Wake up breathe breathing The are up breathe keep breathing
You've driven these streets a thousand and all they offer is their exhaustion nightmares have your name now You the glitter storm, go home alone and embrace the violence instead
The city has claimed all your blood and memory is cool and unusual punishment You go for years touching another Never of the 'why?' You are so casual brutality Doctor says: take this, it'll settle you Doctor says: take this, it'll settle system says: take this, it'll we'll settle the bill Doctor says: take this, settle the score
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There's a voice on the loudspeaker and she your language need to stay It can disappear when the wife in Here comes the interrogation scene Today is the day gonna get caught
You're of what you crave Don't get want you scared
The sweet things don't around but the bullshit lasts forever Please pound You're dual-channeling for new friends or just new things to Who's the machine you run on?
you had someone to speak code with Wish you had to steal things for Wish you had someone to fuck you so you could go to sleep You want to die A bit
Ink and paint is making you faint in your pale pale stolen from uptown stores Watch the girls in the twin sweater sets smoke, cough, up Teeth-scraped knuckles are a tell-tale
Get in the car Get in the car Get in the car and you hear is a sound of impact Turn around slowly and check your body for There is no-one to take care of you
Open-mouthed, waiting for a candy kiss and all you get is communion Between lap dances and you see girls who fuck like they're boneless You're thirty eight and your job is telling year old boys what to think is cool Are you are
And one is a fire And one is a flame And this one is a And that one is a you put out in your mouth when no-one was looking
And in your dreams your grandparents live And you throw your love into the air like glitter swallowing stars, spitting up
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Mothers wring their and say: I'm so at a loss Best friend says: I've come not to praise you, but to destroy with my fucking hands on the television says: you all work for me now Boss come here, let me hit you just once Man on the street says: I can make any woman kill herself in a
So you drive your dead home at night And you sleep the angels kisses are mercury
Breaking into lust Grinding pearls dust love into lust Grinding into dust Breaking love into Grinding pearls into
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