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TENNESSEE ELEGY
Under a black
And starry sky
Make my peace
And say goodbye
Dig the grave and watch it die
Bury this in my mind
Within a stream of
Consciousness
Cold is so intense
My fingers freeze
But my language vents
The unintended
Consequences
Of complicated friendships
Once sacred
Now irreverent
The unintended
Consequences
Of complicated friendships
I’m unable to
Mend my fences
On top of white
And snowy ground
Lose myself in the sound
My sorrows I drown
Listen to the wind howl
The darkness I feel
Winters chill in my bones
My heart will ache
But my words hit home
The unintended
Consequences
Of complicated friendships
Once sacred
Now irreverent
The unintended
Consequences
Of complicated friendships
I’m unable to
Mend my fences
This is an elegy
A funeral for your sins
This is a eulogy
This is your requiem
I turn and walk away
I’m growing colder
By the day
I turn and walk away
The unintended
Consequences
Of complicated friendships
Once sacred
Now irreverent
The unintended
Consequences
Of complicated friendships
I’m unable to
Mend my fences
This is an elegy
A funeral for your sins
This is a eulogy
This is your requiem
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Highly Explosive
03:56
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HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE
I’ve got a knife
Inside my back
And it’s diggin’
Deeper everyday
I’ve got a letter
In my hand
With words I know
I need to say
It makes me sick to think
We ever trusted
Or believed you
So stay the fuck away from us
Cause we no longer need you
I’m so ready
Yes I’m ready
To unload again
Highly explosive
You were warned
I might explode again
Yeah we’re ready
We’re so ready
Here we go again
You tried to stop us once
But this is now
And that was then
I’m burning up again
I’m on fire
Motherfucker
Might explode again
You’re a lying motherfucker
I’ve read those
Ugly things you said
And I just can’t
Get em out my head
I’ve heard about
Your nasty mouth
The trash I know you talked
All over town
It makes me sick to think
We ever trusted
Or believed you
So stay the fuck
Away from us
Cause we no longer need you
I’m so ready
Yes I’m ready
To unload again
Highly explosive
You were warned
I might explode again
Yeah we’re ready
We’re so ready
Here we go again
You tried to stop us once
But this is now
And that was then
I’m burning up again
I’m on fire motherfucker
Might explode again
Cause you’re a lyin’
Motherfucker
And you know I’m crazy
A ticking time bomb baby
That’s right I’m fuckin’ crazy
Highly explosive baby
I suggest you stay the fuck
Away from me
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3. |
Walk of Shame
04:20
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WALK OF SHAME
Now I can tell
By the way
You came in
You’re just dying
To be famous
Strung out
On your own reflection
In desperate
Need of attention
So high on hope
You’re wasted
So close
You can almost taste it
So yesterday
You’re faded
Welcome to LA
You’ve made it
You’re the walk of shame
You’re the Sunset Strip
You’re the same cliché’ honey
So keep on selling it
You pretend
That you’re so alive
But you’re dead
Behind those eyes
Spun out
From your last depression
A true Hollywood confession
So high on hope
You’re wasted
So close
You can almost taste it
So yesterday you’re faded
Welcome to LA
You’ve made it
You’re the walk of shame
You’re the Sunset strip
You’re the same cliché’ honey
And you look like shit
You’re the walk of shame
You’re an ego trip
You’ve got a lot to say
By the sound of it
But ya ain’t saying shit
Walk...of shame
Drop another name
Walk…of shame
Welcome to LA
Well you’ve got
All the answers don’t you
And there ain’t nothing
Tthat you won’t do
True master of self promotion
But you can’t buy
And sell devotion
So high on hope
You’re wasted
So close
You can almost taste it
So yesterday
You’re faded
Welcome to LA
You’ve made it
You’re the walk of shame
You’re the Sunset strip
You’re the same cliché’
And you look like shit
You’re the walk of shame
You’re an ego trip
You’ve got a lot to say
By the sound of it
But ya ain’t saying shit
Walk…of shame
Walk…of shame
Walk...of shame
Walk…of shame
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DECONSECRATED
Built my church
With words of violence
Spoke my sermons
To the pious
I seek myself for guidance
My religion
Is defiance
Holy Mother
You keep quiet
Truth hurts
So you deny it
I can’t take another liar
Burn that witch
Till she’s on fire
Every friend
Is a future enemy
In this temple
Of doom and family
Sacrificed
My life for this to be
All I know
Is all I ever will be
Praise my God
In words of violence
Suffer for my art
In silence
I speak in tongues to riot
My religion
Is defiance
Holy Father
Full of fear
Truth is
You disappeared
I can never
Be your daughter
Just another
Lamb to slaughter
Every friend
Is a future enemy
In this temple
Of doom and family
Sacrificed
My life for this to be
All I know
Is all I ever will be
This is
A Southern Revelation
In with the new
Out with the old
This is
A Southern Revelation
A restoration of a soul
I am light
In my world
I am darkness
A blasphemous girl
Every friend
Is a future enemy
In this temple
Of doom and family
Sacrificed
My life for this to be
All I know
Is all I ever will be
I am light
In my world
I am darkness
A blasphemous girl
Every friend
Is a future enemy
In this temple
Of doom and family
Sacrificed my life
For this to be
All I know
Is all I ever will be
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5. |
Middle Finger
04:20
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MIDDLE FINGER
"I've fought worse monsters than you
For years in Hollywood
Don't fuck with me fellas
This ain't my first time
At the rodeo" - Joan Crawford
You’d like to think
That you know me well
You never thought
I would ever tell
Signed a deal
With the Devil
Then I told him
To go straight to hell
I’d like to take you
By your hand
And bash your skull
In with a bat
I’d like to cut you
Down to size
While I pray
For your demise
And this time
I won’t be nice
I’d like to end
Your fucking life
You’re all talk
But your words are empty
The big shot
You pretend to be
You’re all talk
But your words are empty
My middle finger
Is all you get from me
You’d like to think
That you know me well
You never thought
I would ever tell
Signed a deal
With the Devil
Then I told him
To go straight to hell
I’d like to pull
Your insides out
And push your heart
Into your mouth
I’d like to
Crucify your wrists
And drive the nails
With my fists
And this time
I won’t be nice
I’d like to end
Your fucking life
You’re all talk
But your words are empty
The big shot
You pretend to be
You’re all talk
But your words are empty
My middle finger
Is all you get from me
And you can blame me
So you feel better
I know the truth
And I’ve read your letters
D is for Devil
The great misleader
D is for Devil
The great deceiver
D is for Devil
The great offender
D is for Daniel
The great pretender
You’re all talk
But your words are empty
The big shot
You pretend to be
You’re all talk
But your words are empty
My middle finger
Is all you get from me
I’d like to watch
Your face turn blue
As I hold this
Grudge against you
Take my vengeance
Out on you
Make my violent
Fantasy come true
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6. |
Vultures
04:09
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VULTURES
It’s all about the basking
In the perfect calm
The storm is finally passing
You can’t admit you’re wrong
We all have our silent
Unspeakable memories
That we do not choose to share
But with a few
Today’s inspiration
Comes from you
I feel the discontent
But it’s about to end
Open up a vein and bleed
This mourning of a friend
It’s all about the basking
In the perfect calm
The storm is finally passing
You can’t admit you’re wrong
Digital girl
With an analogue heart
Vultures are waiting
To tear us apart
Times like this
I remember when
It’s easier to forgive
An enemy than a friend
I feel the disconnect
They’ll be no going back
The art is obvious
The silence is a stab
It’s all about the basking
In the perfect calm
The storm is finally passing
You can’t admit you’re wrong
Digital girl
With an analogue heart
Vultures are waiting
To tear us apart
Times like this
I remember when
It’s easier to forgive
An enemy than a friend
The line is thin and red
Between the love and hate
The Sky is far and wide
To London from LA
Where there’s a carcass
There’s a vulture
Picking bones
Of flesh and minds
The devils drawing
In the details
Where friendships go to die
It’s all about the basking
In the perfect calm
The storm is finally passing
You can’t admit you’re wrong
Digital girl
With an analogue heart
Vultures are waiting
To tear us apart
Times like this
I remember when
It’s easier to forgive
An enemy than a friend
Where there’s an artist
There’s a vulture
In the picture
Is the proof
Art of illusion is ironic
The art of friendship
Is the truth
Your pretty picture’s lie
Your pretty pictures hide
Nobody knows
The real vulture
Who lives deep
Inside of you
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7. |
Seventh Sacrament
03:11
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SEVENTH SACRAMENT
I’m sick to death of people
Trying to fit in
Commercialized
Into meaningless trends
The politics
And the making amends
That’s why I’ve got more
Enemies than friends
January screams
Bring back old memories
Ghosts from the past
And other good stories
Immortalized
In a Southern lament
The hills of Tennessee
Won’t let me forget
I can’t stand another
Counterfeit band
Homogenized
And painfully bland
The kissing ass
And the shaking of hands
That’s why I’ve got more
Enemies than friends
January screams
Bring back old memories
Ghosts from the past
And other good stories
Immortalized
In a Southern lament
The hills of Tennessee
Won’t let me forget
The seventh sacrament
Body and blood
The seventh sacrament
Art that I bleed
The seventh sacrament
Flesh and the word
The seventh sacrament
Is setting us free
January screams
Bring back old memories
Ghosts from the past
And other good stories
Immortalized
In a Southern lament
The hills of Tennessee
Won’t let me forget
The seventh sacrament
The body and blood
The seventh sacrament
The art that I bleed
The seventh sacrament
The flesh and the word
The seventh sacrament
Will set us free
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Reckoning
04:19
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RECKONING
Woke up today and saw our life
Flash right before our eyes
Were left for dead but once again
From ashes we will rise
The truth will set us free
And when it does make no mistake
We’ve died a million times
And we’re too strong for you to break
So arrogant your power trip
Let’s you believe you’re right
So sick inside your egotistic
Twisted little mind
You’re just another motherfucker
And a lesson learned
This is our reckoning
You’ve said enough now it’s our turn
Woke up today and saw the light
Flash right before our eyes
We’re done with all your poor excuses
And your dirty lies
The world will know the man is nothing
But a little bitch
We’ve burned another bridge
And this time we don’t give a shit
So arrogant your power trip
Let’s you believe you’re right
So sick inside your egotistic
Twisted little mind
You’re just another motherfucker
And a lesson learned
This is our reckoning
You’ve said enough now it’s our turn
We gave you everything
But nothing we gave was enough
Now we no longer trust you
And you no longer know us
We gave you everything
But nothing we gave was enough
Pretend we don’t exist
But you know what you did to us
So arrogant your power trip
Let’s you believe you’re right
So sick inside your egotistic
Twisted little mind
You’re just another motherfucker
And a lesson learned
This is our reckoning
You’ve said enough now it’s our turn
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The Soulless Beast
04:07
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THE SOULLESS BEAST
The soulless beast
He came to feast
Upon our hearts with sin
He took the form of many men
And called himself a friend
His charming words
They lead us to believe
And follow him
We couldn’t see his teeth
But we could feel his grin
The abomination
That causes desolations
The abomination
That causes desolations
The soulless beast
Appeared so confident
To gain our trust
Born of a jackal
But disguised himself as one of us
He changed his face and shape
When we would start to realize
He was as evil
As the book of Daniel prophesied
The abomination
That causes desolations
The abomination
That causes desolations
This is our seven daggers of Megiddo
This is our Holy Sacrament
This is our sacrificial lamb
Our moment to repent
No more trials and tribulation
Revenge is fueled by Nazarene
Tonight’s the night
We pay our penance
This is our slaying of the beast
Faith
Means not wanting to know what’s true
Faith
Is a knowledge in the heart beyond the reach of proof
The abomination
That causes desolations
The abomination
That causes desolations
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10. |
Mean Street
04:53
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MEAN STREET
At night I walk this stinkin' street
Past the crazies on my block
And I see the same old faces
And I hear that same old talk
And I'm searching for the latest thing
A break in this routine
I'm talkin' some new kicks
Ones like you ain't never seen
This is home….This is Mean Street
It’s our home…..The only one I know
An' we don't worry 'bout tomorrow
Cause we're sick of these four walls
Now what you think is nothin'
Might be somethin' after all
Now you know this ain't no through street
The end is dead ahead
The poor folks play for keeps down here
They're the living dead
Come on down…..Down to Mean Street
They're dancin' now…..Look! Out on Mean Street
Dance baby!
It's always here and now my friend
It ain't once upon a time
It’s all over but the screamin’
I come to take what's mine
We're searchin' for the latest thing
A break in this routine
I’m talkin' some new kicks
Ones like you ain't never seen
This is home....This is Mean Street
It’s our home….The only one I know
(This is home)
See a gun is real easy
(This is Mean Street)
In this desperate part of town
(This is home)
Turns you from hunted into hunter, yeah
(This is Mean Street)
You go an' hunt somebody down
Wait a minute now
(This is home)
Somebody said "Fair Warning"
(This is Mean Street)
Lord, strike that poor boy down!
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