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Babylon
03:04
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Shake it out, shake it loose
Soul suicide in a three piece suit
You only do what they expect you to
Is that a necktie or a noose?
I call it Babylon, you call it downtown
Worship the beat from your place on the ground
You'd like to think that it's the only way out
Who's the poor bastard now?
//All I want is the one thing you can't give//
So give it to me
Sky scraper's got it out for you
Neon eyes under a plastic moon
You can't escape with rocket shoes
Is that a necktie or a noose?
I can't remember what my heart was for
Don't need a face of my own anymore
Kiss a mouth you've never kissed before
Born a nun, just to die as a whore
// - //
Boom sha
I hunt like the wolf
Confusion entered the flock
I'm singing boom sha
I howl like the wolf
I'm illusion and I'm in the flock
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2. |
The Villain
03:40
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I'm so tired of being a good boy
And trying to make it right
I just wanna sit back and enjoy
Some skin deep in the late night
Cuz I'm a badass
Sexier than thou
I'll make a pass
Don't ya wanna be mine now?
//Cuz I'm the villain
In the 21st Century
I've been killin'
I'm a hero who's broken free
I don't care what you want, don't care what you need
I'll be leading the parade right down your street
Cuz I'm The Villain, cheer for me
In the 21st Century//
I'll gladly wear a mask
If it improves upon my face
I'm sitting up at the top of the class
All the well-intentioned in disgrace
// - //
The Villain's the hero now
I'm on the front page of the news
Nobody wants to hear about
Some stuck up little goodie two-shoes
Because all of you are villains
Born with a gleam in your eye
I've got an ego the size of America, yeah
Everything I've got is mine
I thought everything I bought was mine
//Cuz I'm the villain
In the 21st Century
I've been killin'
I'm a hero who's broken free
We're celebrating psychosis
There's a special on TV
All about villains, yeah, in the 21st Century//
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3. |
(Un)Comfortable
03:24
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It's getting loud in here, baby, ain't it? Just a bit
I've had my eye on you for a while now, I've got to admit
I've watched you dance off your pain, and drink in excess
Baby you look like disaster but you smell like sex
I've been around the bar for an hour or more
Sucking back vodka shots and eyeballing the dance floor
Smothered in a haze of smoke and regret
Accidentally recalling moments that I'd rather forget
You got these robots making dead music for all these drunken half dead souls
I'm watching shiny plastic pop try and kill Daddy Rock n' Roll
The music punches you in the jaw, with a syncopated beat
Which pumps you up as it announces your defeat
But hush now baby, it's just you and me
So wrap me in chains and tell me I'm free
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4. |
Scattersoul
03:46
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This is a song without a spiritual message
For your entertainment, you've become infected
I'm a jackle in a black leather jacket
That's it, a master of sexed-up deception
Reflections, in a mirrorball, scattershot
Scatterbrain, scattersoul, shake what you got
I'm a king, I'm a horny robot
No soul, no reason, no purpose, no God
I'm a magnet for the opposite gender
I probably won't remember you, but bask in my splendour
I'm cool, I'm a card-carrying member
A defender of every big spender
And I'm addicted to nothing but addiction
Restrictions are an unwelcome friction
I'm a mercenary without a mission
No black, no white, no moral confliction
//Face like a plastic bruise, it's overused
No matter how you play, you're gonna lose
No wars were won with a truce
And no murder mystery gives you the clues//
Conquest can't stop for a rest
The next best dressed man wins the contest
Only the weak believe in the blessed
And only a freak could justify poetry
Forgery is more of an art to me
Pretenders, presenters and originality
Performance is a break from the ordinary
Every day the world sees the same lie of me
It's kinda free, but it ain't genuine
Pig gotta belly ache cuz "pearls before swine"
If it's our time then we're too late
Cuz only a hero tries to outlive a grave
// - //
Bless progress. That's us, I guess
Do no work, get famous and rich
Collateral damage is someone else's mess
We are the future, and the present's our bitch
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5. |
Think Bigger
00:33
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6. |
Just Another Love Song
03:35
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Tell me you ain't lying, and I'll tell you what I'm for
My heart has started beating, a little faster than before
This is just another love song, as if love was all we need
Tonight I think the stars just might be playing games with me
So take me where you're going, and I'll tell you where I've been
I won't take up all your time, if you just let me in
So I don't feel like
//Just another lover in a glorified machine
And I can't help thinking they must be making money off of me//
Tell me what you came for, did you come to watch me crack?
You promised me that you'd be mine once you stabbed me in the back
Now we're advertising our arguments and marketing our grief
And the fairy tales have lied to us in return for our belief
//And we are just a couple lovers, in a corporate machine
And I can't help thinking that they must be making money off you and me//
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7. |
Slap in the Face
04:26
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Some walked out
Sun went down
I found myself
In a heap on the ground
I smell gasoline
See a busy street
Lose myself
Try to find me
//You came to me like a slap in the face
Now I'm alive
In an instant it all snapped into place
You opened up my eyes//
Some talk about
Some go without
I've switched sides
But I always come back around
Sweet fire burns
My head turns
Dance lover, dance
Dance for my return
// - //
Blue eyes, won't you come back?
Won't you stay where you belong?
My heart unfolds
I realize that you were right, and I was wrong, I was wrong
// - //
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8. |
The Stir
02:57
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I went to a place where nobody knew my name
Hitch hiked to a city where nothing was the same
I wanna clean break from my pride and my shame
So I went to a place where nobody knew my name
//Here's the stir//
I killed off the hip hop and cranked the rock and roll
Traded pedicures and a mask for hang nails and a soul
So, are you still drag racing white limousines?
Or do you realize that life in the city of lights was never exactly quite what it seemed?
// - //
So I lost my weak knees once they buckled and hit the floor
And I finally tasted peace once I had started a war
I could finally see once I'd gotten three black eyes in the ring
And all the vultures overhead sound like children when they sing
// - //
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9. |
Low Class Citizen
03:16
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Throw my boots on the dirty floor
Too tired to open the closet door
Been a long shift
Been a rough week
Living life in a rat race behind the scenes
Sleep, don't dream, we're born to bleed
Expendable apes, we are what we eat
Magazine, TV, Internet, Celebrity
You know what I mean?
I'm the low class citizen, can't you tell?
Building heaven while I'm livin' in hell
You've disenchanted me with your red carpet fantasies
If we're all equal then how come you're more equal than me?
Why do we worship these counterfeit kings and queens?
They're just the airbrushed, overpaid minorities
They get to live big, we get to watch 'em fall
Shocked to find out that they're no better then us at all
We do the work
We write the bills
For you and your mansion
And your gutful of pills
We are the engine
That gives you your steam
And keeps you young
Like we wish we could be
We watch the shows
We see the ads
We buy the clothes
Don't question the fads
We've let you tell us how it should be
But now I've got a baseball bat and you're on TV
Every concert hall's a cathedral
Every theatre's a church
Where you practice your religion
And sacrifice your self worth
Can I get an amen?
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You drifted off on the job again
Even though they're open, your eyes are dead
You're watching TV on the Internet
Letting the WiFi run through your head
/You don't know you're asleep 'till you're awake
And you break out of the dreams that you create
You don't know you're asleep 'till you're awake these days/
//You know it's a monumental lie, but you can't remember when
You started to pretend that your life was just a game
Where everyone's the same, and everyone's to blame
For all your public flaws, and all your private shame//
You're locking horns with your demons now
You're picking locks on open doors
You're chasing after a feeling now
Something you ain't never felt before
/ - /
// - //
You don't know that you're dead 'till you're alive
And your eyes open up to the bright sunlight
You don't know that you're dead 'till you're alive, these days
// - //
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11. |
Cyanide and Bubblegum
02:36
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Doncha think it's getting darker around here?
Seems like the sun keeps setting sooner every day
Doncha think it's getting harder to fight the fear
That your past is getting harder to replace?
Well I think you know it's difficult to live without you
My gentle little ball and chain
Nobody else has ever felt insidious like you
Nobody else could have made me so insane
//I can't decide
Where all these memories are coming from
I remember I was chewing on cyanide
In a ball of bubble gum//
I guess they all might start to get suspicious
If I never make my way back to the scene
But these days I feel much less superstitious
Then I did when you had got your teeth in me
// - //
Now I think that we can all just stop pretending
You didn't come here cause you missed my face
If it's a battle you want, then it's your lucky day
Because I'm just about to jump from grace
City streets bathed in sunrise red
All the bad guys have dragged themselves away
Every honest worker is asleep in bed
And I've survived to live another day
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I can't erase the feeling
We're being watched tonight
You won't catch me believing that you came alone to fight
I have caressed the darkness
My forked tongue has tasted light
Your suitcase heart and charmed existence
Give it up, fight resistance
//You gotta wake up in your soul, baby
Untie your heart and let it go//
Dig down to your switchblade soul
Tragedy's a miracle
A tear will always chase a fold
Get yourself a microscope
Because every man's a rebel now
Raised hands raise my eyebrows
Honest lies, sincere disguise, open eyes acclimatize
// - //
I want the truth
Nothing less
What buried you
And stole consciousness?
// - //
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13. |
Velvet Sky
06:30
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Sweat falls from your face, you try to concentrate
Think fast, your fingers are numb
Defuse the bomb, and unwind the spell
You've got no time left to spend on memories
Please, please
You were born of night and storm, with a dagger in your cloak
You went for my heart, not my throat
Hold your tongue and light the fuse
Innocence is something we can't use
And ignorance is no excuse
//There are eyes in the shadows, and bullet holes in my heart
We move like whispers, we run like mad, beneath a velvet sky//
They've got eyes everywhere, and ears to the ground
Don't let yourself make a sound
Climb the stairs to the top floor
You know they wait behind the door
The cold steel weighs you down, but it strengthens your soul
The sleepless nights have taken their toll
Reach through the wires, and choose black or red
Disarm the lies you've been fed
// - //
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