1. |
Limbo
04:32
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In a city, in my twenties, I was certain, I was strong,
when I ran into a friend that I had not seen all year
and as we walked remembered a song.
She had always been a traveled peer
and we had some stories to tell,
which helped my resolve disappear.
The song was a story and as we sang we fell,
Headfirst into the mouth of hell.
(Abandon all hope)
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2. |
Lust
03:55
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Pick your poison
Mine's the way you taste
You won't let me lie here
The young don't go to waste
Soak your dreams in my perfume
Like swimming in the dirt
Tear into my fantasies and then we'll all get hurt.
I like that we're in love
It wasn't up to chance
Your sweat is like the music
and our bodies are the dance.
If all you wanted was the world
All you had to do was ask
Maybe Cupid brought an arrow
Just to fuck me in the ass.
Rain comes down from heaven
You can touch but never feel
So grab the moon and some cigarettes
And let's have ourselves a meal.
I like that we're in love
It wasn't up to chance
Your sweat is like the music
And our bodies are the dance
I like that we're in love
Won't mean a thing at all
Faceless into your desire
We crumble and we fall.
I like that we're in love
It wasn't up to chance
Our sweat is like the music
And our bodies are the dance
I like that we're in love
Won't mean a thing at all
Faceless into your desire
We crumble and we fall.
Pick your poison
'cause mine's the way you taste
You won't let me lie here
The young don't go to waste
Soak your dreams in my perfume
Like swimming through the dirt
Tear into my fantasies
And then we'll both get hurt.
I like that we're in love
It wasn't up to chance
Your sweat is like the music
Our bodies are the dance
I like that we're in love
Won't mean a thing at all
Faceless into your desire
We crumble and we fall.
I like that we're in love.
I like that we're in love.
I like that we're in love.
I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it.
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3. |
Gluttony
04:52
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I want to drown in a sea of whiskey
and revive in a sea of blood
Hold my breath above the water
See the sky turn red above.
You will burn stars through the aspera
Hear his voice through SMS
Fingertips on scars that fading
Shine a light on a stranger's death.
Mourning's a joke on the living
A tear of your conscience
A tear on the memory you've loved
For so fucking long
So long that it burns.
When the night is once again broken
And the road opens through the pass
We will ride 'till we hit the ocean
And we'll sleep in the shards of grass.
Mourning's a joke on the living
A tear of your conscience
A tear on the memory you've loved
For so fucking long
So long that it burns.
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4. |
Greed
04:22
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I woke him up with the sun
Little demons with nowhere to run
So we'll ride,
Away for a while
Drove to the garden place
That's where I'll make my case
And he'll listen to me
Some kinds of love are free
I tied him up like he's mine
Split a bottle of wine
It's so easy with men
When they're just so drunk again.
Hey baby, hey baby
You're never gonna run away again
From me.
Hot as hell in the garden of Eve
Guess it's a good thing that I don't believe
Anymore
Can't say the same about my paramour
And the last thing you'll see
Is a sick little smile from me
And the flowers are red
Funny that we're bleeding
When we're already dead.
Hey baby, hey baby
You're never gonna run away again
From me.
You're never gonna need to run
You're never gonna run again
Woke him up with the sun
Don't nobody let me carry a gun
So my darling
Let's settle down.
Here we are in the trees
The closest thing we have to heaven
And prison, It's over,
Without a name.
Hey baby, hey baby
You're never gonna run away again
From me.
Hey baby, hey baby
Hey baby, hey.
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5. |
Anger
04:59
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Bleeding and burning and running
from everybody that knows your name
And wants to see you cry in vain
Hoping and praying and thinking
That all those people that you had paid
Will let him know you're not afraid
Bleeding and burning and running
From everybody that knows your name
and wants to see you cry in vain
seeking and prying and hoping
that all the faith you used to keep
well it won't let you go to sleep.
Everybody wants
everybody needs
everybody wants
everybody wants to see you
everybody here would love to see you
everybody wants to see you fuck.
Bleeding and burning and running
From everybody that knows your name
And wants to see you cry in vain
Splintering and cracking and painting
What everybody could not expect
That you would stand up and take your place
Bleeding and burning and running
from everybody that knows your name
and wants to see you cry in vain
Begging and stealing and pleading
from all the strangers you used to know
to have some pity and let you go.
everybody wants
everybody needs
everybody wants
everybody wants to see you
Everybody here would love to see you
Everybody wants to see you hang.
Singing and growing and so strong
Nobody thought it could go so wrong
That you would find out how you belong
breathing and knowing and being
much stronger than you were before
strong enough to walk out the door
fighting and fighting and fighting
don't ever let them forget your name
or think that you could live in shame
bleeding and burning and running
from everybody that knows your name
who wants to see you cry in vain
Everybody wants
Everybody needs
Everybody wants
Everybody wants to see you
Everybody here would love to see you
Everybody wants to see you burn.
As she told me the story, we paved through the day
Until trapped by clouds, woven in starlight
in an ice cold breeze, neon signs lit our way.
There were rats from the sewers, and birds from the night
Stirring up from their shadows, rising from the ground
To beckon the innocent, or wallow in spite.
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6. |
Heresy
03:44
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7. |
Violence
04:46
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It don't matter if you're wealthy
It just matters that you're poor
Doesn't take too long to figure
That we would need something more.
'Cause your kid, he needs a mother
One not rotting in a cell
When there's no one left to bother
And there's nothing left to sell.
When your fire turns to whispers
And your kid is gone as well
I'll be watching from the shadows
I'll be seeing you in hell.
We'll be alone, while you are safe
Lost in the storm, pillars of sand and salt.
We'll be alone, while you are safe
Lost in the storm, pillars of sand and salt.
And the clouds unleashed in sound
A torrent that could almost clear
the complacency we'd found.
But the strong did persevere
as the fury moved the mountain
and caused the weak to disappear.
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8. |
Fraud
04:44
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She's got prayers down the sides
Of her fingertips
To her nails, her painted guides
To soft and radiant lips.
And men gawk at her hips
Though she's never shown them tears
Her smile is an eclipse
that cuts right through their fears.
Night grows dark along the way
And the fellas burning bright
well they won't survive the day.
There's a broad, a dark rider,
Riding in from the east
And her cloak, made of spring time,
Hides bare bones underneath.
A house just ain't a home,
until it hides your dead
under this celestial dome,
well her patrimony bled.
Over the ridge she fled,
Behind her wayward son,
At least she thought, she said,
That's what I could have done.
Night grows dark along the way
And the fellas burning bright,
Well they won't survive the day.
She will claim, this dark rider,
Penance for the beast,
'cause her cloak, made of spring time,
Hides bare bones underneath.
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9. |
Treachery
05:25
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Fallen is an ugly word,
We are wretched, this is true,
That is me, myself, without you,
Knowing all you have to do.
Your goodness serves to shame me,
Dry the vomit mixed in tears,
Still your warmth will keep us happy
In the comfort of our fears.
You've got an ally in me,
An ally in the midst of hell,
There's no need for you to worry,
An ally in the midst of hell.
You knew before you formed your stare
Where this was gonna go
Still you breathe the mountain air,
While I toil through the show.
From these depths I dare to doubt you:
Do you know what part I played?
Is there meaning in what I do?
Vindication that I stayed?
You've got an ally in me,
An ally in the midst of hell,
You know better than to worry
An ally in the midst of hell.
I don't know much but that I love you
You are everything I crave
Sun-colored irises that trapped me
Waist deep in this icy cave.
From the center I still feel you
Shining high above the earth
All my powers are to serve you
And the glory of your birth.
You've got an ally in me
An ally in the midst of hell
You know better than to worry
An Ally in the midst of hell.
Thus we came upon that mountain
Rising from these depths to the stars
Pouring upwards like a fountain.
I remember pavement behind bars,
and spitting boldly at the stars.
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10. |
There is a Mountain
05:54
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The Red Fetish Washington, D.C.
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