ALICE IN CHAINS - lyrics

Facelift lyrics
Dirt lyrics
Jar of Flies lyrics
Alice in Chains lyrics
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Bleed the Freak
My cup runneth over
Like blood from a stone

These stand for me
Name your god and bleed the freak
I like to see 
How you all would bleed for me 

When the pig runs slower (Slower) 
Let the arrow fly (Fly) 
When the sin lies bolder (Bolder) 
I'll pluck out thine eye (Out Thine Eye) 

These stand for me 
Name your god and bleed the freak 
I like to see 
How you all would bleed for me 

If you scorn my lover (Lover) 
Satan got your thigh (Thigh) 
If you steal in hunger (Hunger) 
I will kick you when you try (When You Try) 

These stand for me 
Name your god and bleed the freak 
These stand for me 
I like to see 
How you all would bleed for me 

"All these things that you've done for me, 
I'm not saying that you haven't done a lot of good, 
But if there's one thing you can do, 
Have left me so... fucking tired 
You can bleed for me, bleed for me" 

These stand for me 
Name your god and bleed the freak 
How you all would bleed for me 
I like to see 

Name your god and bleed the freak 
These stand for me 
I like to see 
How you all would bleed for me


Confusion
There's no time to give at all 
I cause you grief and blow my hatred 
Further in your mind 
You reach, I run, you fall 
On skinned knees you crawl 

I want to set you free, recognize my disease 
Love, sex, pain, confusion, suffering 
You're there crying, I feel not a thing 
Drilling my way deeper in your head 
Sinking, draining, drowning, bleeding, dead 

So you sit and think of love 
I wait, hate all the more, I fall 
On skinned knees I crawl 

I want to set you free, recognize my disease 
Love, sex, pain, confusion, suffering 
You're there crying, I feel not a thing 
Drilling my way deeper in your head 
Sinking, draining, drowning, bleeding, dead 

Now there's time to give it all 
I put my fears behind again 
On skinned knees we'll crawl 

I want to set you free, recognize my disease 
Love, sex, pain, confusion, suffering 
You're there crying, I feel not a thing 
Drilling my way deeper in your head 
Sinking, draining, drowning, bleeding, dead 
Love, sex, pain, confusion, suffering


I Can't Remember 
Turn around you say 
'Scuse the 'tude but I haven't eaten today 
And my eyes are turning grey 
What's your name? 

CHORUS 
I can't remember...I can't remember 

Bring me down you try 
Feel the pain and keep it all in till you die 
Without eyes you cannot cry 
Who's to blame? 

CHORUS 

Remember identity, the visions in my mind from 
Screamin' at me 
And mama, mama, ooh...my angry brains of infancy 

Knocked down but I have enough hate 
To breathe, down your throat and steal your energy 
You took everyting but my will to be 
Now the loss of your god won't make me bleed 

I am alive


I Know Somethin'
Why can't i take it all ok?
I like to dig and fuck around with your day
I'm gonna tell your mamma
Yeh i'm gonna blackball your name
Ain't no way you'll go without me
Every chance i'll make you pay

On your space, in my face, i tell you i know
Somethin' 'bout you, i know somethin' 'bout you
In my space, on your face, i tell you i know somethin'
'bout you, i know somethin'

Why can't i put your words away
I'd like to have more of you in my veins
I'm gonna tell your papa
Yeh i'm gonna try and ball your babe
Your gold key don't fit my crapper
Ain't got no shit today

On your space, in my face, i tell you i know
Somethin' 'bout you, i know somethin' 'bout you
In my space, on your face, i tell you i know somethin'
'bout you, i know somethin' }

I'm gonna tell your mama
Yeh i'm gonna blackball your name
Ain't no way you'll go without me
Every chance i'll make you pay

On your space, in my face, i tell you i know
Somethin' 'bout you, i know somethin' 'bout you
In my space, on your face, i tell you i know somethin'
'bout you, i know somethin' }


It Ain't Like That 
There I was, laid out on a table
Screamin' sweat and bare feet to the floor
In my life, I'd not soften
Things that cut, and burn so often
But I sit, think of somethin'
Scared to face, the dyin' nothin'

See the cycle I've waited for
It ain't like that anymore

Where I go is when I feel I'm able
How I fight is why I'm feelin' sore
In my Mind, not forgotten
Feel as though, a tooth were rotten
Behind the smile, a tongue that's slippin'
Buzzards cry, when flesh is rippin'

See the cycle I've waited for
It ain't like that anymore

Here I sit writing on the paper
Trying to think of words you can't ignore
In my eyes, what I'm lacking
Score at face, a ten for slacking
Sign the deal, set in motion
Smaller fish, so huge the ocean

See the cycle I've waited for
It ain't like that anymore


Love, Hate, Love 
I tried to love you; I thought I could 
I tried to own you; I thought I would 
I want to peel the skin from your face 
Before the real you lays to waste 

You told me I'm the only one 
Sweet little angel- you should have run 
Lying, crying, dying to leave 
Innocence creates my hell 

Cheating myself; still you know more 
It would be so easy with a whore 
Try to understand me little girl 
My twisted passion to be your world 

Lost inside my sick head 
I live for you but I'm not alive 
Take my hands before I kill 
I still love you, I still burn 


Love, hate, love


Man in the Box 
I'm the man in the box 
Buried in my shit 
Won't you come and save me, save me 

Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut? 
Jesus Christ, deny your maker 
He who tries, will be wasted 
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut 

I'm the dog who gets beat 
Shove my nose in shit 
Won't you come and save me, save me 

Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut? 
Jesus Christ, deny your maker 
He who tries, will be wasted 
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut 

Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut? 
Jesus Christ, deny your maker 
He who tries, will be wasted 
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut


Put You Down 
Heartbreaker, feelin' alright 
Body over...mind 
It's slower, reduction is addictive too 
Personality overview 

I can see what the cost will be 
You know I don't need you 
I just can't put you down 
I can see what it all means to me 
Honey I don't need you 
I just can't put you down 

I can't put you down 

Hard drinker...feelin' uptight 
Your maker...mine 
It's slower...reduction is addictive too 
Personality overview 

I can see what the cost will be 
You know I don't need you 
I just can't put you down 
I can see what it all means to me 
Honey I don't need you 
I just can't put you down 

Put you down, down, down, gonna put you down, down 

Everything you buy is for the jingle 
Every time you lie it's all the same 
Ooo, if you need a rhyme to kill the singer 
Shoot me dead before I may be through


Real Thing 
I messed around as a little boy 
I grew up, made the blade my new toy 
Friends said boy with what you screwin' around I said 
Don't concern yourselves and just 
Gimme another blast 
Yeah, yeah. yeah, yeah 

Under the hill, with just a few notches on my belt 
Take it away, don't want no more 
Even if you say just one more 
I won't leave you alone, Ooo 

I grew up, went into rehab 
You know the doctors never did me no good 
They said son you're gonna be a new man 
I said thank you very much and 
Can I borrow fifty bucks? 
Yeah, yeah. yeah, yeah 

Under the hill, with just a few notches on my belt 
Taake it away, don't want no more 
Even if you say just one more 
I won't leave you alone 

'Cause I'm goin' down the steps on a white line } 
Goin' down the steps on a white line 
Goin' down the steps on a white line 
Straight to nowhere } 

I messed around as a little boy 
I grew up, made the blade my new toy 
Friends said boy with what you fuckin' around I said 
Oh my God and here we go again, 
Yeah, yeah. yeah, yeah 

Under the hill, with just a few notches on my belt 
Take it away, don't want no more, no more 
Even if you say just one more 
I won't leave you alone 

'Cause I'm goin' down the steps on a white line 
Goin' down the steps on a white line 
Goin' down the steps on a white line 
Straight to nowhere } 

Follow me down... 
Sexual chocolate baby


Sea of Sorrow
Mind, of destructive taste 
I choose...to stroll amongst the waste 
That was your heart 
Lost in the dark 
Call off the chase 

Walls of thought, strong and high 
As my castle crumbles with time... 
I think of you 
Oh, yes I do 
Such a crime 

You opened fire...and your mark was true 
You opened fire...aim my smilin' skull at you 
You opened fire... 
I live tomorrow, you I'll not follow 
As you wallow in a sea of sorrow 

Lines cut across my face 
Why you laugh at my disgrace 
I'll never know 
How far to go 
To reach that place 

You opened fire...and your mark was true 
You opened fire...aim my smilin' skull at you 
You opened fire... 
I live tomorrow, you I'll not follow 
As you wallow in a sea of sorrow


Sunshine
One a-one time, yeah. 

Am I too contagious 
Full of sick desire 
Am I that I promise 
Burning corpsed pyre 

Then some dude came down to touch the Mother. 
Mother touched 
And dude ain't here no more. 
Suck your woman down. 

Am I your reflection 
Melting mirror smile 
Am I worth the value 
Do my love defile 

Then some dude came down to touch the Mother. 
Mother touched and dude ain't here no more. 
Ain't no day the sun don't crack. 
Try brand some name across my back, so you care? 
Find someone to tell you... 

Sunshine, sweet love my labor. 
Don't mind, I don't care no more. 

Memory, set me free, yeah. 
I don't care no more 
Mother please, come for me 

Can you face the question? 
Is my soul entire? 

Sunshine, sweet love my labor 
Don't mind, I don't care no more 
Sunshine, sweet love my labor 
Don't mind, I don't care no more


We Die Young
Scary's on the wall 
Scary's on the wall 

Watch where you spit 
I'd advise you wait until it's over 
Then you got hit 
And you shoulda known better 


And we die young 
Faster we run 

Down, down, down you're rollin' 
Watch the blood float in the muddy sewer 
Take another hit 
And bury your brother 

And we die young 
Faster we run 

Scary's on the wall 
Scary's on his way 

Another alley trip 
Bullet seek the place to bend you over 
Then you got hit 
And you shoulda known better 

Faster we run 
And we die young



"DIRT" 

Angry Chair
Sitting on an angry chair
Angry walls that steal the air

Stomach hurts and I don't care
What do I see across the way, hey
See myself molded in clay, oh
Stares at me, yeah I'm afraid, hey
Changing the shape of his face, ah yeah

Candles red I have a pair
Shadows dancing everywhere
Burning on the angry chair

Little boy made a mistake, hey
Pink cloud has now turned to gray, oh
All that I want is to play, hey
Get on your knees, time to pray, oh

I don't mind, yeah
I don't mind, I-I-I
I don't mind, yeah
I don't mind, I-I-I
Lost my mind, yeah
I don't mind, I-I-I
Can't find it anywhere
I don't mind, I-I-I

Corporate prison, we stay, hey
I'm a dull boy, work all day, oh
So I'm strung out anyway, hey

Loneliness is not a phase
Field of pain is where I graze

Serenity is far away
Saw my reflection and cried, hey
So little hope that I died, oh
Feed me your lies, open wide, hey
Weight of my heart, not the size, oh

I don't mind, yeah
I don't mind, I-I-I
I don't mind, yeah
I don't mind, I-I-I
Lost my mind, yeah
I don't mind, I-I-I
Can't find it anywhere
I don't mind, I-I-I

Pink cloud has now turned to gray
All that I want is to play
Get on your knees time to pray, boy


Dam that River 
I broke you in the canyon
I drowned you in the lake
You, a snake that I would trample
Only thing i'd not embrace

Oh, you couldn't dam that river
And maybe I don't give a damn anyway
So you couldn't dam that river
And it washed me so far away

I pushed and then you stumbled
I kicked you in the face
You stare at me so hollow
Got to keep that killin' pace

Oh, you couldn't dam that river
And maybe I don't give a damn anyway
So you couldn't dam that river
And it washed me so far away


I burned the place around you
I hit you with a rake
You piss upon my candle
So proving you're a fake

Oh, you couldn't dam thar river
And maybe i don't give a damn anyway
So you couldn't dam that river
And it washed me so far away


Dirt
I have never felt such frustration
Or lack of self control
I want you to kill me
And dig me under, I wanna live no more

One who doesn't care is one who shouldn't be
I've tried to hide myself from what is wrong for me
For me

I want to taste dirty, stinging pistol
In my mouth, on my tongue
I want you to scrape me from the walls
And go crazy like you've made me

One who doesn't care is one who shouldn't be
I've tried to hide myself from what is wrong for me
For me

You, you are so special
You have the talent to make me feel like dirt
And you, you use your talent to dig me under
And cover me with dirt

One who doesn't care is one who shouldn't be
I've tried to hide myself from what is wrong for me


Down in a Hole
Bury me softly in this womb
I give this part of me for you
Sand rains down and here I sit
Holding rare flowers
In a tomb...in bloom

Down in a hole and I don't know if I can be saved
See my heart I decorate it like a grave
You don't understand who they
Thought I was supposed to be
Look at me now a man
Who wont let himself be

Down in a hole, feelin so small
Down in a hole, losin my soul
Id like to fly,
But my wings have been so denied

Down in a hole and they've put all
The stones in their place
Ive eaten the sun so my tongue
Has been burned of the taste
I have been guilty
Of kicking myself in the teeth
I will speak no more
Of my feelings beneath

Down in a hole, feelin so small
Down in a hole, losin my soul
Id like to fly but my
Wings have been so denied

Bury me softly in this womb
Oh I want to be inside of you
I give this part of me for you
Oh I want to be inside of you
Sand rains down and here I sit
Holding rare flowers (oh I want to be inside of you)
In a tomb...in bloom
Oh I want to be inside...

Down in a hole, feelin so small
Down in a hole, losin my soul
Down in a hole, feelin so small
Down in a hole, outta control
Id like to fly but my
Wings have been so denied


Godsmack 
Care not for the men who wonder
Straw that broke your back, you're under
Cast all them aside who care
Empty eyes and dead end stare

Don't you know that none are blind
To the lie, and you think I don't find what you hide?

What in God's name have you done?
Stick your arm for some real fun

For the horse you've grown much fonder
Than for me, that I don't ponder
As the hair of one who bit you
Smiling bite your own self, too

And I think that you're not blind
To the ones you left behind
I'll be here

What in God's name have you done?
Stick your arm for some real fun

So be yearning all your life
Twisting, turning like a knife

Now you know the reasons why
Can't get high, or you will die
Or you'll die...

What in God's name have you done?
Stick your arm for some real fun
So your sickness weighs a ton
And God's name is smack for some


Hate to Feel
What's gone wrong, I can't see straight
Been too long, so full of hate

What the fuck will it take
Drown myself in my wake
Another shaggy D.A.
Now a dog, shake my leg
Plastic man, paper face
Candy heart, what a waste
Gotta change, set a date
Eat my cake, lick my plate

Stare at me with empty eyes and
Point your words at me
Mirror on the wall will show you
What you're scared to see

I can see, yeah - (wish I couldn't see at all)
I can feel - (wish I couldn't feel at all)
Hate to see - (wish I couldn't see at all)
Hate to feel - (wish I couldn't feel at all)

So climb walls,
Thin my blood now
And I crawl, back to bed now

What the hell, gotta rest
Aching pain in my chest
Lucky me, now I'm set
Little bug for a pet
New Orleans, gotta get
Pin cushion medicine
Used to be curious
Now the shit's sustenance

All this time I swore I'd never
Be like my old man
What the hey it's time to face
Exactly what I am

I can see, yeah - (wish I couldn't see at all)
I can feel - (wish I couldn't feel at all)
Hate to see - (wish I couldn't see at all)
Hate to feel - (wish I couldn't feel at all)

What the hell, gotta rest
Aching pain in my chest
Lucky me, now I'm set
Little bug for a pet
New Orleans, gotta get
Pin cushion medicine
Used to be curious
Now the shit's sustenance

All this time I swore I'd never
Be like my old man
What the hey it's time to face
Exactly who I am

I can see, yeah - (wish I couldn't see at all)
I can feel - (wish I couldn't feel at all)
Hate to see - (wish I couldn't see at all)
Hate to feel - (wish I couldn't feel at all)


Junkhead
A good night, the best in a long time
A new friend turned me on to an old favourite
Nothing better than a dealer who's high
What's my drug of choice?
Be high, convince them to buy

I don't go broke
Well, what have you got?

And i do it a lot
But we are an elite race of our own
Seems so sick to the hypocrite norm
Running their boring drills

The stoners, junkies, and freaks
Are you happy? i am, man.
Content and fully aware
Money, status, nothing to me.

'cause your life is empty and bare
What's my drug of choice?
Well, what have you got?
I don't go broke
And i do it a lot

You can't understand a user's mind
If you let yourself go and opened your mind
But try with your books and degrees
I'll bet you'd be doing like me

And it ain't so bad
Well, what have you got?
What's my drug of choice?
I don't go broke
And i do it a lot
Say, i do it a lot!

Say, i do it a lot!
Say, i do it a lot say, i do it a lot!


Rain When I Die 
Is she ready to know my frustration?
What she slippin' inside, slow castration
I'm a riddle so strong, you can't break me
Did she come here to try, try to take me

Did she call my name?
I think it's gonna rain
When I die

Was it something I said, held against me?
Ain't no life on the run, slowly climbing
Caught in ice so she stares, stares at nothing
I can help her but won't, now she hates me

She won't let me hide
She don't want me to cry

Will she keep on the ground, trying to ground me
Slowly forgive my lie, lying to save me
Could she love me again, or will she hate me
Prob'ly not, I know why, can't explain me

Did she call my name?
I think it's gonna rain
When I die


Rooster
Ain't found a way to kill me yet
Eyes burn with stinging sweat
Seems every path leads me to nowhere
Wife and kids household pet
Army green was no safe bet
The bullets scream to me from somewhere

Here they come to snuff the rooster, aww yeah, hey yeah
Yeah here come the rooster, yeah
You know he ain't gonna die
No, no, no, ya know he ain't gonna die (x2)

Walkin' tall machine gun man
They spit on me in my home land
Gloria sent me pictures of my boy
Got my pills 'gainst mosquito death
My Buddy's breathin' his dyin' breath
Oh god please won't you help me make it through

Here they come to snuff the rooster, aww yeah
Yeah here come the rooster, yeah
You know he ain't gonna die
No, no, no ya know he ain't gonna die


Sickman
What the hell am I?
Thousand eyes, a fly
Lucky then I'd be
In one day deceased

Sickman, sickman, sickman

I can feel the wheel, but I can't steer
When my thoughts become my biggest fear

Ah, what's the difference, I'll die
In this sick world of mine

What the hell am I?
Leper from inside
Inside wall of peace
Dirty and diseased

Sickman, sickman, sickman, sickman

I can see the end is getting near
I won't rest until my head is clear

Ah, what's the difference, I'll die
In this sick world of mine

Can you see the end?
Choke on me my friend
Must to drown these thoughts
Purity over rot

(spoken in backround)
"Yeah, though I walk through the valley of rape and despair
With head high and eyes alert
I tread on a plane of many
We who are of good nature and intention,
But cannot touch on the dark
Recesses of memory
And pain learned, so come walk
With me, feel the pain,
And release it..."
What the hell am I?
Worn eroded pride
Saddened 10 miles wide
I'm gonna let it slide

Sickman, sickman, sickman, sickman

I can feel the wheel, but I can't steer
When my thoughts become my biggest fear
Ah, what's the difference, I'll die
In this sick world of mine
Ahh, etc., etc.


Them Bones
I believe them bones are me
Some say we're born into the grave
I feel so alone
Gonna end up a big ole pile a them bones

Dust rise right on over my time
Empty fossil of the new scene
I feel so alone
Gonna end up a big ole pile a them bones

Toll due bad dream come true
I lie dead gone under red sky
I feel so alone
Gonna end up a big ole pile a them bones


"JAR OF FLIES" 

Don't Fallow
Hey, I ain't never coming
Home
Hey, I'll just wander my
Own road
Hey, I can't meet you here tomorrow
Say goodbye don't follow
Misery so hollow

Hey you, you're livin'
Life full throttle
Hey you, pass me down that
Bottle, yeah
Hey you, you can't shake
Me round now
I get so lost and don't
Know how
And it hurts to care, so I won't now

Forgot my woman, lost my
Friends
Things I'd done and where
I've been
Sleep in sweat the mirrors
Cold
See my face it's growin'
Old
Scared to death no reason
Why
Do whatever to get me by
Think about the things I
Said
Read the page it's cold
And dead

Take me home
Yeah, take me home
Take me home
Take me home, yeah
Take me home

Say goodbye, don't follow


I Stay Away
Yeah, hey, I want to travel south this year
I won't, won't prevent safe passage here

Why you act crazy?
Not an act maybe
So close a lady
Shifty eyes, shady

Yeah, hey Yeah, tears that soak a callous heart

Why you act frightened?
I am enlightened
Your weakness builds me, so someday you'll see

I stay away

Why you act crazy?
Not an act maybe
So close a lady
Shifty eyes, shady

I stay away, I stay away, I stay away, I stay away


No Excuses 
It's alright
There comes a time
Got no patience
To search for peace of mind

Laying' low
Want to take it slow
No more hiding
Or disguising truths I've sold

Everyday
Something hits me all so cold
Find me sittin' by myself
No excuses that I know

It's okay
Had a bad day
Hands are bruised from
Breaking rocks all day

Drained and blue
I bleed for you
You think it's funny
Well you're drowning in it too

Everyday
Something hits me all so cold
Find me sittin' by myself
No excuses that I know

Yeah, it's fine
We'll walk down the line
Leave our rain
A cold trade for warm sunshine

You're my friend
I will defend
And if we change
Well I love you anyway

Everyday
Something hits me all so cold
Find me sittin' by myself
No excuses that I know


Nutshell 
We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home

Oooh... Oooh...
Oooh... Oooh...

My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead

Oooh... Oooh...
Oooh... Oooh...


Rotten Apple
Hey Ah Na Na
Innocence is over
Hey Ah Na Na
Over

Hey Ah Na Na
Ignorance is spoken
Hey Ah Na Na
Spoken

Hey Ah Na Na
Confidence is broken
Hey Ah Na Na
Broken

Hey Ah Na Na
Sustenance is stolen
Hey Ah Na Na
Stolen

Hey Ah Na Na
Arrogance is potent
Hey Ah Na Na
Potent, yeah

Yeah, What I see is unreal
I've written my own part
Eat of the apple, so young
I'm crawling back to start

Hey Ah Na Na
I repent tomorrow
Hey Ah Na Na
Tomorrow

Hey Ah Na Na
I suspend my sorrow
Hey Ah Na Na
Sorrow, yeah

Yeah, What I see is unreal
I've written my own part
Eat of the apple, so young
I'm crawling back to start

Hey Ah Na Na
A romance is fallen
Hey Ah Na Na
Fallen

Hey Ah Na Na
Recommend you borrow
Hey Ah Na Na
Borrow, yeah

Yeah, What I see is unreal
I've written my own part
Eat of the apple, so young
I'm crawling back to start

Hey Ah Na Na (4x)


Swing on This
Mother said come home
Father said come home
Sisters said come home
So my friends said come home

I said

Let me be, I'm alright
Can't you see, I'm just fine
Little skinny, okay
I'm asleep anyway

Then I heard a voice
Said "Son you have a choice"
I then slapped my face

Let me be, I'm okay
I'm awake anyway
It's too bright over there
I can shift, cannot steer
So I drive them away
For a while, then I stay
Little skinny, okay
I'm awake anyway

Now I have to go home
Do as, when in Rome

Let me be, I'm alright
Can't you see I'm just fine
Little skinny, okay
I'm asleep anyway
Let me be, I'm okay
I'm awake anyway


"Toby's still laughing. It sounds fuckin' pretty good!
I'm laughing. That's tight as shit, what are you talkin' about?"



"ALICE IN CHAINS" 

Again
Hey, let 'em do it again, yeah
Hey, you said you were my friend, yeah
Hey, turn me upside down, Oh
Hey, feelin' so... down
Hey, hey... hey... hey...

Again
You made a fool of me again, and again...

Hey, I know I made the same mistake, yeah
I, I won't do it again, No
Why, Why you slap me in the face, how?
I, I didn't say it was OK, No
No, No...

You violate a part of me again, again and again...
Again

Ah, ooo
Whoo whoo, yeah...

Hey, you had time to think it out, yeah
Hey, Your weak will won't help her heal her heart
Hey, I bet it really eats u up...

Extending part of me again, and again and again... AND AGAIN!

Yeah... yeah... yeah...
Whoo whoo, yeahOoo


Brush Away
I could use some time to curl away
My aggression is where you stake your claim
Why I question this curve on which you grade
My conception, a joke or latest craze?

I try to get away, and yet I stick around
So fall and crawl away, and brush away loose ground

My intention,I arrive at eight?
Lie and dream some, surprise you guys I'm late
All right, correction, forgetting something, wait

I try to get away, and yet I stick around
So fall and crawl away, and brush away loose ground
Yeah.....
I try to get away, and yet I stick around
So fall and crawl away, and brush away loose ground
And Brush away loose ground


Frogs
What does friend mean to you?
A word so wrongfully abused
Are you like me, confused
All included but you
Alone...

The sounds of silence often soothe
Shapes and colors shift with mood
Pupils widen and change their hue
Rapid brown avoid clear blue

Why's it have to be this way
Be this way(5x)

Flowers watched through wide eyes bloom
A child sings an unclaimed tune
Innocence spins cold cocoon
Grow to see the pain too soon

Why's it have to be this way
Be this way (5x)

"7 am on a Tuesday, in August ...
Next week I'll turn 28...
I'm still young, it'll be me...
Off the wall I scrape... you...
I gotta wake... Show me Your Irate
To cause this wake, Its my fate.
They.....They...Never going to fuck
with me again... My own clean slate... Don't fuck with me again...
I just want to go straight
through you....
makes your eyes dilate...
makes you shake...
Irate 


God Am
Dear God, how have you been then?
I'm not fine, fuck pretending
All of this death your sending
Best throw some free heart mending
Invite you in my heart, then
When done, my sins forgiven?
This God of mine relaxes
World dies I still pay taxes

Can you be as God am
Can I be as my God am
Can I be as my God am
God of all my God am

So Lord, I see you grinnin'
Must be grand always winning
How proud are you being able
To gather faith from fable

Can I be as my God am
Can I be as my God am
Can you be as God am
God am
God of all my God am
My God am
God

God am
All the respect I'm giving
Shared strength acquired by living
All blooming life you're feeding
Can't hide sick ones you're weeding

Can you be as God am
Can I be as my God am
Can I be as my God am
God of all my God am
God am
God am
God am God am


Grind
In the darkest hole, you'd be well advised
Not to plan my funeral before the body dies, yeah
Come the morning light, it's a see through show

What you may have heard and what you think you know, yeah
Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth don't grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside
Sure to play a part, so you love the game
And in truth your lies become one and same, yeah
I could set you free, rather hear the sound

Of your body breaking as I take you down, yeah
Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth don't grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside

In the darkest hole, you'd be well advised

Not to plan my funeral before the body dies, yeah
Let me sleep so my teeth don't grind
Let the sun never blind your eyes
Hear a sound from a voice inside


Head Creeps
No more time
Just one more time

So crazy, beat the strain
Too lazy, shake the gray
So, and she willed the rain
So let me be defamed
Your redundancy stains
Tired of infantile claims
Like puppets on a string
Untangle you from me

Time to call the doggies off
Tired of the shadowin'
Slide me to the side again
Slapped in the face again

No more time
Just one more time

Your redundancy stains
Tired of infantile claims
Like puppets on a string
Untangle you from me
So crazy, beat the strain
Too lazy, shake the gray
So, and she willed the rain
So let me be defamed

Time to call the doggies off
Tired of the shadowin'
Slide me to the side again
Slapped in the face again

One day my plane leaves
Some way my head creeps
Some day my head leads
Some way my head creeps

No more time
Just one more time

Empty room sets the scene
Pick at me slow, pain fiend
Suck me through barbed screen
Anger becomes our queen
Tongue whipping forked black
How long until you crack
Surprised and set back
Lackeys' loose talk for fact

Time to call the doggies off
Tired of the shadowin'
Slide me to the side again
Slapped in the face again

One day my plane leaves
Some way my head creeps
Some day my head leads
Some way my head creeps
Creeps

No more time
Just one more time

So crazy feel the hate
Yeah, I've got years to wait
I know it's not too late
Lending clean hands of fate
Rise from the dirt I'm in
Hide in another's skin
Stick black dress doll with pin
Your mouth takes on my grin

So crazy


Heaven Beside You 
Be what you wanna be
See what you can't see
Been what you wanna be
I don't like what I see

Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven Beside you, Hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you, Hell within
Like the coldest winter wind
Heaven beside you, Hell within
And you think you have it still,
Heaven inside you

So there's problems in your life
That's fucked up
And I'm not blind
I'm just see-through, faded
Super jaded
And out of my mind

Do what you wanna do
Go out and seek your truth
When I'm down and blue
Rather be me than you

Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you, Hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you, Hell within
Like the coldest winter wind
Heaven beside you, Hell within
And you wish you had it still,
Heaven inside you

So there's problems in your life
That's fucked up
But you're not blind
I'm just see-through, faded
Over raited
And out of my mind

Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you, Hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you, Hell within
Like the coldest winter wind
Heaven beside you, Hell within
And you know you have it still,
Heaven inside you

So there's problems in your life
That's fucked up
And I'm not blind
You're just see-through, faded
Over-rated
And out of your mind


Nothin' Song
Began this take at 7:38
Head hit the board, enough that it aches
Wonder should I be working so late
Began this take at 7:38
Head hit the board, enough that it aches
Wonder should I be working so late
Wonder should I be working so late
Began this take at 7:38
Head hit the board, enough that it aches
Wonder should I be working so late
Wonder should I be working so late

Well the nothin song sticks to your mouth
Like peanut butter on the brain
Nothin ever stays the same
Nothin, yeah nothin, nothin, nothin

Went outside to give all a break
Wearing cowhide, steak on a skate
Back inside, Sam throw away your cake
Went outside to give all a break
Went outside to give all a break
Wearing cowhide, steak on a skate
Back inside, Sam throw away your cake
Back inside, Sam throw away your cake

Well the nothin song sticks to your mouth
Like peanut butter on the brain
Nothin ever stays the same
Nothin, yeah nothin, nothin, nothin

Gotta finish so I can awake
Feed the cat as she spreads all the waste
Snap her neck or trade in for new make
Gotta finish so I can awake
Feed the cat as she spreads all the waste
Snap her neck or trade in for new make
Snap her neck or trade in for new make

Well the nothin song sticks to your mouth
Like peanut butter on the brain
Nothin ever stays the same
Well the nothin song sticks to your mouth
Nothin


Over Now 
"Good Night..."
Yeah, it's over now, but I can breathe somehow
When it's all worn out, I'd rather go without

You know it's been on my mind
Could you stand right there
Look me straight in the eye and say
That it's over now

We pay our debt sometime

Well it's over now, yet I can see somehow
When it's all gone wrong, it's hard to be so strong

You know it's been on my mind
Could you stand right there
Look me straight in the eye and say
That it's over now

We pay our debt sometime
Yeah, we pay our debt sometime
We pay our debt sometime
Yeah, we pay our debt sometime

Guess it's over now, I seem alive somehow
When it's out of sight, just wait and do your time

You know it's been on my mind
Could I stand right here
Look myself in the eye and say
That it's over now

We pay our debt sometime
Yeah, we pay our debt sometime
We pay our debt sometime
Yeah, we pay our debt sometime


Shame In You 
When I waken, and I'm achin', time for sleepin', yeah
When I'm sayin' time to go and, I've been hurtin', yeah
When I'm layin, I'm still tryin', concentrating on dyin', yeah

You're right as rain, but you're all to blame
Agreed my crime's the same
My sins I'll claim, give you back she'd pain
Go find a place for own shame
So you can deal with this thing unreal
No one made you feel any hurt, yeah

Body's movin, only provin, no one needs to move
Still believin, yet mistaken, all God's children, yeah
And I must say, I was stupid, selfishly she consumed, yeah

And you must change patterns all we trained
Or n'er regain peace you seek
Now you hear me, for the things I see
Yeah, I believe in inner peace, yeah

Throw out, blow up, hold in
Show fine, no signs, grow blind


Sludge Factory
You insult me in my home, you're forgiven this time
Things go well, your eyes dilate, you shake, and I'm high?
Look in my eyes deep and watch the clouds change with time
20 hours won't print my picture milk carton size
Carton size, carton size, carton size

Call me up congratulations ain't the real why
There's no pressure besides brilliance let's say by day 9
Corporate ignorance lets me control time
By the way, by the way

Once again you see an in, discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you kindly gurgle, out a date for me

Now the body of one soul I adore wants to die
You have always told me you'd not live past 25
I say stay long enough to repay all who cause strife

Once again you see an in, discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you kindly gurgle, out a date for me-2x


So Close 
"I'm serious, there's big money going on"
"Big big money!"
Why are here again?
It's the same old sit down roll around chewed up pen

Nothin thrilling me too much, yeah
Nothin thrilling me too much, yeah
Nothin thrilling me too much, yeah
Nothin thrilling me...

Yeah, so close now
Yeah, so close now

Man I nearly snapped my twig
Then again I nearly snapped a few of you

So I hear you think highly now
So I hear you think highly now
So I hear you think highly now
So I hear you think...

Yeah, so close now
Yeah, so close now

Why?



"BLACK GIVES WAY TO BLUE"
All Secrets Known
Hope,
A new beginning
Time,
Time to start living -
like just before we died.

There's no going back to the place -
We've started from.

Hurt,
Falling through fingers.
Trust,
Trust in the feeling -
there's something left inside.

There's no going back to the place -
We've started from.
All secrets known.

Calm,
All wounds are healing.
Strong,

Truth is worth saving -
I want to feel the [night?]

There's no going back to the place -
We've started from.
All secrets known.

Check My Brain
So I found myself in the sun, oh yeah
A hell of a place to end a run, oh yeah

California, I'm fine
Somebody check my brain
California's all right
Somebody check my brain
Check my brain

I walk these streets, I creep and I fall, oh yeah
When she sang I answered the call, oh yeah

California, I'm fine
Somebody check my brain
California's all right
Somebody check my brain

Aaaaah tears have filled my bones
Aaaaah years expended gone

[solo]

I hung my guns and put em away, oh yeah
The trick of the trade, and by the way, oh yeah
California, I'm fine somebody check my brain
California's all right somebody check my brain

Aaaah tears have filled my bones
Aaaah years expended gone
(x2)

Check my brain, check my brain...


Last of My Kind
So young, so braise and so unholy
I come to you in painted skies
You're broken, taint your ancient story
The living challenge you their lies

Trapped in the cold outside
There ain't no shelter
And they want to force my hand
Until I take what I wanted
And break all their lies
And defeat the fucking liars
Smash all the temples
And crawl through the rubble
And cry to the fallen

I'm the last of my kind still standing
I'm the last of my kind still standing on the wall

Oh, from out upon the hillside
I am but what they've thrown away
I go to sleep behind the eight ball
I live to fight for one more day

I'm trapped in the cold outside
There ain't no shelter
And they want to force my hand
Until I take what I wanted
And break all their lies
And defeat the fucking liars
Smash all the temples
And crawl through the rubble
And cry to the fallen

Take what I wanted
And break all the lies
And defeat the fucking liars
Smash all the temples
And crawl through the rubble
And cry to the fallen

I'm the last of my kind still standing
I'm the last of my kind still standing on the wall

I'm the last of my kind still standing
I'm the last of my kind still standing on the wall

The last of my kind still standing
The last of my kind still standing


Your Decision 
Time to change has come and gone
Watched your fears become your god
It's your decision

It's your decision

Overwhelmed, you chose to run
Apathetic to the stunned
It's your decision

It's your decision

You feed the fire that burned us all
When you lied
To feel the pain that spurs you on
Black inside

No one plans to take the path that brings you lower
And here you stand before us all and say it's over

It's over

(Solo)

It might seem an after thought
Yes it hurts to know you're bought
It's your decision

It's your decision

You feed the fire that burned us all
When you lied
To feel the pain that spurs you on
Black inside
It's your decision

It's your decision

No one plans to take the path that brings you lower
And here you stand before us all and say it's over

It's over

It's over...


A Looking in View 
Hear footsteps creak the floor
The shadows give away
Someone outside the door
Won't let 'em in

Life damaged gears to grind
A run down broke machine
That steals your peace of mind
Before you know it's gone

Lay down
Wait...

Silence burning, hold your tongue
Keep us separate, sullen, dumb
Hiding in the darkness under
Boiling to the surface
Stumble, fall

A looking in view too long on the outside
Desperate plans make sense in a low life
Lie
A looking in view too long on the outside
Desperate plans make sense in a low life
Lie
[Savagely wicked restart]

These things I hate in you
Also reflect it seems
Distortion laced with spite
Takes you out of me

Lay now
Lay...

Hiding in the darkness under
Boiling to the surface, somethin'
Crawling on your skin, discomfort
Makes you break and run
Stumble, fall

A looking in view too long on the outside
Desperate plans make sense in a low life
Lie
A looking in view too long on the outside
Desperate plans make sense in a low life
Lie
It's why you never tell me
Whatever's on your mind

It's why you never tell me
Whatever's on your mind

That's why you never tell me
Whatever's on your mind

That's why you never tell me
Whatever's on your mind

A looking in view too long on the outside
Desperate plans make sense in a low life
Lie

A looking in view too long on the outside
Desperate plans make sense in a low life
Lie

It's why you never tell me
Whatever's on your mind

A vengeful mind...
Oh god oooooh
Selfish plans, a vengeful mind
It's all gone
Oooooh
Except for the cross
A vengeful mind just reached inside


When the Sun Rose Again
Run, run 'till you drop
Hide, everyone knows
We all trade in never-befores
Selling out for the score

Prey, squeal when you're caught
Cry, it's not my fault
Time to trade in never-befores
Selling out for the score

It seems you prophesised
All of this would end
Were you burned away
When the sun rose again?

(Solo)

Hate, long wearing thin
Negative, all you've been
Time to trade in never-befores
Selling out for the score

It seems you prophesised
All of this would end
Were you burned away
When the sun rose again?

It seems you prophesised
All of this would end
Were you burned away
When the sun rose again?


Acid Bubble 
You tried to kill me off
Surprised I remain
A scale tips impossible
Afraid of my own name

And I always paid attention to all the lines you crossed
Forgive this imperfection it shows and know
I am the child that lives and cries in a corner
Dies in a corner

Alone inside your mind

Intend obsolescence
Built into the system

I tried to shake it off
You can't remove this stain
A scale breaks impossible
Affraid we are the same

And you never paid attention to all the lines I crossed
Forgive this imperfection it shows and know
I am the child that lives and cries in a corner
Dies in a corner

Alone inside your mind
Hides in a corner
Dies in a corner
Alone inside your mind


Intend obsolescence
Built into the system


Lesson Learned 
Just another lesson learned
Wear a scar, a bore repeating
Take a simple fateful turn
Opened up to stop the bleeding

Feeling like you never could
Been the disconnected frying
Hit the vein & struck a nerve
Seeing through a self that's blinding

Nowhere to buy in
Most of us hiding
Others are shining

Just another brick you toss
Stone the number one deceiver
Multiply the added cost
Easy to become a believer

Feeling like you never could
Been the disconnected frying
Hit the vein & struck a nerve
Seeing through a self that's blinding

Nowhere to buy in
Most of us hiding
Others are shining

You know when you find it
In your darkest hour, you strike gold
A thought clicks, not the be-all end-all (x2)

Just another lesson learned, yea

(Guitar solo)

You know when you find it
In your darkest hour, you strike gold
A thought clicks, not the be-all end-all (x2)

Just another lesson learned, yea

Just another lesson learned




Take Her Out
Here I am again
I feel time is draggin on
Aren't you getting tired of me?
Whinching overdrawn

Faceless, blind
Want to take her out again
She's not just mine
Want to take her out again

In a bodiless embrace
Thriving I have grown
Fickle changing grip replaced
Choking take it all

Faceless, blind
Want to take her out again
She's not just mine
Want to take her out again

Dedicated, true to form
Still the only one

Only guarantee
Continue after I am done

Faceless, blind
Want to take her out again
She's not just mine
Want to take her out again


Private Hell
Give away a love
And then remove another too
Painted words adorn the walls Echoing untrue

I feel cold...uh huh

Promises abound,
You rarely find it to begin
Maybe I'm afraid to let you
All the way in

I guess so...uh huh

I excuse myself,
I'm used to my little cell
I amuse myself,
In my very own private hell

Lately I'm beside myself
Pretending, unconcerned
Standing on a corner
Where I threw you on a turn

I'll move on...uh huh

Flowers on a cross remain Mark an ending scene
Damn it all if blood you spill
Turn the grass more green


Life is short...uh huh

I excuse myself,
I'm used to my little cell
I amuse myself,
In my very own private hell



Black Gives Way to Blue
I don't wanna feel no more
It's easier to keep falling
Imitations are pale
Emptiness all tomorrows
Haunted by your ghost

Lay down, black gives way to blue
Lay down, I'll remember you

Fading out by design
Consciously avoiding changes
Curtains drawn now it's done
Silencing all tomorrows
Forcing a goodbye

Lay down, black gives way to blue
Lay down, I'll remember you...