1. |
It's All Over
03:05
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Over the moon
And over the top
And over the people, yeah
Who told you to stop
It's all over (it's all over)
It's all over (it's all over)
Just like I told you (just like I told you)
It's all over (it's all over)
Over the sky
And into the future
You do what you can in this world
You do just what suits you
It's all over (it's all over)
It's all over (it's all over)
Just like I told you (just like I told you)
It's all over (it's all over)
Walking hand in hand with my addiction
Dig out twist and turn but I ain't built to burn
You think I'm swinging, then I kick
You're under my skin
You're between the breaths
You're trolling for friends in a ghost town
It's called uselessness, yeah
It's all over (it's all over)
It's all over (it's all over)
Just like I told you (just like I told you)
It's all over (it's all over)
Walking hand in hand with my addiction
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2. |
Heart Of Darkness
02:56
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Heart of darkness
Heart of pain
Heart of darkness
And it´s swimming in my veins
Sometimes I look around and I just can´t believe what a
Stinking horrible motherfucking web I weave
Around myself
I look to my friends
Seduced by the bottle and the warmth of a syringe
I live my life like a terminal patient
I don´ t make plans just funeral arrangements
Like a con who goes down for 20 years
He remembers the faces of the judge and the jurors
God loves me
God loves you
God loved Hitler and 6 million Jews
Must be a con who won´t come down from the mount
We do a death dance he does a body count
Heart of darkness
Heart of pain
Heart of darkness
And it´s swimming in my veins
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When something stands for nothing
A detached memory
This one's about everything
You don't think about until you sleep
And this one's for nothing
This one's for fun
This one's about rock 'n' roll
And comic books and bubble gum
Well, each day offers something, yeah
But none of it'll last, unless you
You take the reigns, take 'em from the knight
Push the pawn right through the pass
And this one's for the silence
And the questions that it brings
And the smell of time and the reverence
From the possibilities
You can double up the foreground
You can put it on a slide
Inspect it with your perfect ways
Until it burns your eyes
But this one's for nothing
Yeah, this one's for fun
And this one's about rock 'n' roll
And comic books and bubble gum
Hey!
(Ooh-ooh, ooh)
(Ooh-ooh, ooh)
(Ooh-ooh, ooh)
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Tweeter and the Monkey Man
Were hot up for cash
They stayed up all night
Selling cocaine and hash
To an undercover cop
Who had a sister named Jan
For reasons unexplained
She loved the Monkey Man
Tweeter was a Boy Scout
'Course he went to Vietnam
Found out the hard way
Nobody gives a damn
You know that they'd find freedom
Just across the Jersey line
Hopped into a stolen car
Took Highway 99
When the walls came down
All the way to hell
Never saw them when they standin'
Never saw them when they fell
The undercover cop
He never liked the Monkey Man
Even back in high school
Wanted to see him in the can
Jan got married at fourteen
To a racketeer named Bill
Made secret plans with the Monkey Man
From a mansion on the hill
Was out on Thunder Road
Tweeter at the wheel
Pulled into paradise
You could hear the tires squeal
It was Jan who'd told me many times
"It was you to me who'd taught
In Kingston everything's legal, man
As long as you don't get caught"
When the walls came down
All the way to hell
Never saw them when they standin'
Never saw them when they fell
A place by Rahway prison
We ran out of gas
The undercover cop cornered us
Said he didn't think that this would last
Jan jumped up outta bed
Said, "There's some place I gotta go"
Took the gun out of the drawer
Said, "It's best that you don't know"
An ambulance rolled up
State Trooper close behind
Tweeter pulled his gun away
And messed up his mind
The undercover cop was found
Face down in a field
The Monkey Man was on a river bridge
Using Tweeter as a shield
When the walls came down
All the way to hell
Never saw them when they standin'
Never saw them when they fell
The town of Jersey City
Is quieting down again
I'm sitting in a gambling club
Called The Lion's Den
The TV set is blown up
Every bit of it is gone
Ever since the night when they showed
That the Monkey Man was on
Maybe I'll go to Florida
Get myself some sun
There ain't no more opportunity here
And everything's been done
Sometimes I think of Tweeter
Sometimes I think of Jan
Sometimes I don't think about nothin'
But the Monkey Man
When the walls came down
All the way to hell
Never saw them when they standin'
Never saw them when they fell
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5. |
Absolutely
03:14
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And now it's coming on down
A hard and fast regime
I see 'em coming man up
But I'm a fish you cannot clean
Could be it's coming apart
So close they cannot miss
I rise above the silence
To a sea of belligerence
I hear it come to this
Choke on that dialogue
Just how could I predict
When we'd get here man we wouldn't get along
And now it's coming on up
A hard and fast regime
I see them smiling
They're smiling on amphetamines
Absolutely Absolutely Absolutely mine
Try to soothe me get my back up and I'll paint the sky
Absolutely Absolutely Absolutely mine
Try to soothe me get my back up and I'll paint the sky
All told it's a personal bias
try to pry them apart
No question it's one sided
Here where the bones are charred
Could be they're coming on easy
They've mastered their technique
No way to rise above it
I'm sure that it is obscene
It's a driving shame
It's a driving shame
I can peel their paint
It's a driving
It's a driving shame
I can hear them sway
I can hear them sway
I can peel the paint
It's a driving
It's a driving shame
Another inane confession
So bad it makes them cry
So hard to come apart
That thing is mummified
Here now it's torn up easy
A hard and fast regime
I see them smiling
Smiling on amphetamines
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6. |
Three Angels
04:04
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Three angels set the table for me tonight
They know my face, they set a place and it's for me tonight
Well, I can't disappoint 'em, I guess I'll join 'em
They've been waitin' on me forever
And I've been down on earth and in this town
And I swear there's got to be somethin' better
New suit and a new tie
A real nice service for me when I die
New suit, cuff links and a new tie
A real nice service for me when I die
Well, that's the thing about leavin'
When you get there, you're seldom forgiven
And all your best friends are people that you've just met
You can take 'em or leave 'em
Well, they're sittin' in this barroom
And I guess it beats the hell out of loneliness
Sweet loneliness, sweet loneliness
You say you gave it, gave it all away
But you've got nothin', nothin' left to trade
I hear you say you gave it all away
You've got nothin', nothin' left to trade
We're the type, we live and learn
Scatter my ashes then you smash the urn
Into a broken room with 25 doors that you can't open
And each time you open one, the other 24 they're explodin', explodin'
That's the thing about leavin'
Well, you get there, you take what you're given
All your best friends are people you've just met
You can take 'em or leave 'em
Well, they're sittin' in this barroom
I guess it beats the hell out of loneliness sweet
Loneliness sweet, loneliness sweet
Alright
New suit, a new tie
Real nice service for me when I die
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7. |
Oh My God!
03:22
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Oh my God, I'm gonna die
And I'm not scared, I'll tell you why
Fixed it so my veins are numb
So I don't feel it when it comes
Oh my God, my mama cried
She loves the heat, but she hates that ride
Fixed it so my brains are gum
Trains never late 'cause it never runs
Oh my God, I'm gonna live
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8. |
Losing Control
02:37
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Where it goes when the last breath leaves me?
Stinking drinking, I'm slowing down
Jesus Christ almighty save me
Where ever you want I'll kneel down
Busted headlights, broken ribs
So hoarse I can't swallow
Changed my name about an hour ago
And I drive into tomorrow
Losing control (I can take it)
Losing control (If I could)
Losing control (Well, I won't fake it)
Losing con-trol
Catch me now, I'm slipping baby
I don't know where to turn
Last time that I saw him man
He did the chicken while he burned
Shoot 'em up by a teardown
No never mind to me
Contain it all the hard way
I do it intravenously
Losing control (I can shake it)
Losing control (Man, if I would)
Losing control (I can fake it)
Losing con-trol
So many ways to define it
And I swear it is a curse
And what it was that drove me here
With a fifth of it was nerve
Busted headlights, broken ribs
So hoarse I can't swallow
Changed my name about an hour ago
And I drive into tomorrow
Losing control (I can fake it)
Losing control (If I could)
Losing control (I can take it)
Losing control
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9. |
Cut
02:59
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You cut my hand on a razor man like in response to a request
We talked about living
Worried about dying
There's only one move we got left
Well it just goes down forever
Hatred it'll never die
And man you're talking crazy
The whole thing just escapes me
Like a suicide let it ride
I built a dam out of hatred man
Blocking out everything that I knew
I couldn't help thinking as my mind ceased blinking
There must I've been some light that got through
Well it just goes down forever
Hatred it'll never die
And man you're looking nervous
And you claim you don't deserve this like suicide
Let it ride
You cut my hand on a razor man
Smoke a long cold cigarette
We talked about living
Worried about dying
There's only one move we got left
Well it just goes down forever
Hatred it'll never die
And man you're looking nervous
And you claim you don't deserve this like suicide
Let it ride
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10. |
Judy
04:06
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J-Jude Judy she hates her parents
J-Jude Judy's all alone in her world
A little destructive
A little abusive
J-Jude Judy turn down your radio
And it goes
J-Jude Judy she's got a problem
Sometimes Judy finds she really can't cope
Her mind is a sinking ship close to the bottom
Her thoughts are bubbles coming off the radio
And it goes
She's going too fast
She's going under
She's going too fast
She's coming undone
And her life has been torn asunder
She spends her days looking in to the sun
J-Jude Judy the signals damaged
An indecipherable message from the coast
It faded too fast for me to find it
That horrible place where that hole in time was torn
And it goes
And now Judy's down
Yeah yeah don't let her up
Keep her down keep her down
Til Judy's had enough
She ain't had enough
J-Jude Judy she's got a problem
Sometimes Judy finds she really can't cope
Her minds a sinking ship close to the bottom
Her thoughts are bubbles coming off that radio
And it goes and it goes
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11. |
Won't Wait Again
02:57
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Three strikes against me, my sister can't sleep
Waiting for me when I'm gone
She wishes I'd distance myself from those streets
Not wake the fool 'til the dawn
And then I see you completely distraught
Claiming to be everything that you're not
Masking the truths until there's no end
I've waited before but I won't
Won't wait again
Distanced by the days and the weeks and the months
My mind it will never shake
I really can't pinpoint just where you left off
What's real and what's masquerade
And then I see you completely distraught
Claiming to be all that is that you're not
Masking the truths until there's no end
We waited before but I won't
Won't wait again
Three strikes against me, my sister can't sleep
Must put some ice on those wrinkles
You claim you're hitting homeruns, well, triples at least
Can't get a minor league single
And then I see you completely distraught
Claiming to be all that is that you're not
Masking the truths until there's no end
I've waited before but I won't wait again
Won't wait again
Won't wait again
Won't wait again
Won't wait again, won't wait again
Won't wait again, won't wait again
Won't wait again, won't wait again
No
I won't wait again
Won't wait again, won't wait again
Won't wait again, won't wait again
Won't wait again, won't wait again
No
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12. |
Where Does It Go?
04:15
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If you let me go tonight, give me something I can use
And if you let me go tonight, tomorrow I'll be back just as good as new
You can never trust the rhythm
You can never hear the time
But what would you say when you were with them
Another conversation that you couldn't climb
Where does it go when it's gone and how does it end
The faces are lost scattered in the wind
Another climb lined with deterrents
Hold ourselves against it while everything around us burns
Is the dye cast in the cradle
It does what it wants
It is what it invents
That's how it operates until it stands again
It does what it wants
It is what it intends
That's how it operates until it stands again
Another line I whispered well
Meant little to me then and less to me now
Ear to the tracks the strain is in the rails
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13. |
Cemetery
03:02
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I got a gal who lives on the wrong side of town
I know what I want and man you know, I sure know how
It's the other side, another place
I like it there no accountin' for taste
I can't think of nothin' when I'm with her
But the rain and the wind and the cemetery dirt
Went down to the cemetery
Lookin' for love
Got there and my baby was buried
I had to dig her up
Went down to the cemetery
Lookin' for love
Got there and my baby was buried
I had to dig her up
18, 000 miles across nowhere land
I'm scratchin' and I'm spittin', ain't nobody listenin'
Things are kind of gettin' out of hand
There's only one point that I'd like to make
These kinds of things deteriorate
Well, it's the gospel truth man
She's embalmed in love juice
Went down to the cemetery
Lookin' for love
Got there and my baby was buried
I had to dig her up
Went down to the cemetery
Lookin' for love
Got there and my baby was buried
I had to dig her up
Went down to the cemetery
Lookin' for love
Got there and my baby was buried
I had to dig her up
Went down to the cemetery
Lookin' for love
Got there and my baby was buried
I had to dig her up
Went down to the cemetery
Went down to the cemetery
Went down to the cemetery
Went down to the cemetery
Yeah
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14. |
Skin Me Alive
03:17
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If only I could I would change this place
If only I could I would murdered God
Could light exist but for primaeval darkness??
Impassioned demons making pagan sacrifices
In the name of love and survival
Making pagan sacrifices to an unholy God
I've tasted the eternal joys of heaven
Now I'm tasting a thousand hells
It just need a flicker of blood to char my flesh
Take me to the place where the waters of blood run
Take mr wo the morning, take me to dead
Give yourself to the flames - give yourself to death
Dress me in flesh - skin me alive
I've got it..., the body and blood
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