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Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris lyrics



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01. Turning On The Screw

You got a question?
Please don't ask it
It puts the lotion in the basket
You say bigger is better but bigger is bigger
White boy dressed up like a figure drawn
Inside a toilet on the wall
The world is round, my square don't fit at all

They say those who can't just instruct others
And act like victims or jilted lovers
You can't lose it if you never had it
Disappear man, do some magic
You want a reason?
Hows about because
You ain't a has been if you never was
I sound like this

Scared to say what is your passion
So slag it all, bitter is in fashion
Fear of failure's all you've started
The jury is in
Verdict: retarded
I'm so tired and I'm wired too
I'm a mess I guess I'm turning on the screw

02. Sick, Sick, Sick

Young, dumb, don't see a problem
Bloodshot, stare like a hoodlum
Simple as this; I'm in love with the risk
I know what I've done
But tell me what did I miss?
So please don't save something
Waste not, save nothing
Lose the halo, don't need to resist
A lick of the lips and a grip on your hips

Sick, sick, sick
Don't resist
Sick, sick, sick
Don't resist

First thing we succumb to
Shout, erase, and undo
Days are unreleased, if there's no release
Please just let me do whatever fits you
Make something, make someone
Beg on a knee, baby baby please
Pout your bottom lip
While cracking the whip
You know what we want,
It's candy to cum to

Sick, sick, sick
Don't resist
Sick, sick, sick
Don't resist

A total eclipse in the teeth of the risk
The tongue is a twist, perpetual bliss
Forever midnight
Forever midnight
Forever midnight
Forever...

Sick, sick, sick
Don't resist
Sick, sick, sick
Don't resist

Sick sick, sick (I'm gonna take)
Don't resist (I don't wanna choose)
Sick, sick, sick (I'm gonna take)
Don't resist (I don't wanna change)

03. I'm Designer

My generation's for sale
Beats a steady job
How much have you got?
My generation don't trust no one
It's hard to blame
Not even ourselves

The thing that's real for us is: fortune and fame
All the rest seems like work
Its just like diamonds
In shit

I'm high class I'm a whore
Actually both
Basically I'm a pro
We've all got our own style
Of baggage
Why hump it yourself?

You've made me an offer that I can refuse
'Cos either way I get screwed
Counter proposal:
I go home and jerk Off

It's truly a lie. I counterfeit myself
It's truly a lie. I counterfeit myself
You don't own, you don't own, you don't own
You don't own what none can buy
You don't own, you don't own
Neither do I

High and mighty you say selling out is a shame
Is that the name of your book?
Push a silver spoon in your ass
No more holding us down dog
Down mutt, nice mutt

You're insulted you can't be bought or sold
Translation: offer too low
You don't know what you're worth
It isn't much
My piano is for sale
How many times must I sell myself
Before my pieces are gone?
I'm one of a kind
I'm designer!

Never again will I repeat myself
Enough is never enough
Never again will I repeat myself

It used to be the plan was: screwing the man
Now it's have sex with a man
After he buys you dot-com for sale at a low, low price

It's truly a lie. I counterfeit myself
It''s truly a lie. I counterfeit myself
You don't own, you don''t own, you don''t own
You don''t own what none can buy
You don''t own, you don''t own what none can buy
Neither do I

04. Into The Hollow

Avior, adieu, goodnight
I'm too wrong to get right
But I can't wait forever
I've always been alone
A fool believes he's clever

Don't you wanna go into the hollow?
I won't go alone
Aren't you gonna follow?

I live behind my eyes
Be sure to keep the surprise
I break what I have borrowed
That's why I always go alone into tomorrow

Don't you wanna go into the hollow?
I won't go alone
Aren't you gonna follow?

Into the hollow
Into the hollow

05. Misfit Love

Don't wanna see my past in flames
Don't waste a drop baby, I ain't first
Where I was born, no escape
There, there ain't even no good/bad drugs
In the city is it true?
If you don't, you act like you do?
Feast of fools, I can't wait
Give 'em a taste of my misfit love
Complicate, incarcerate
Feel my heart wake up

Ain't born to lose
Baby, I'm born to win
I'm so god damn sick baby, it's a sin

Transforming is becoming
Transforming is becoming on me

Do me first, do your worst
Gimme what I want some of
One track mind, no time to waste
Sidewalks, feel me strut so good
Gutter, don''t forget this face
Let 'em taste my misfit love
I''ll show you all my dirty tricks
Then show 'em again
I'm so proud of this
Cruel to be constantly
Feel my heart play dumb

Ain''t born to lose
Baby, I''m born to win
I'm so sick baby, it's a sin
It's a sin

Just a dead man walking through the dead of night
And if you are driving anywhere tonight
Just a dead end walking through the dead of night
And if you are going there, can I get a ride?
Just a dead man walking through the dead of night
It's impossible to wait until the light

'Cause I'm already gone
If you bet on me, you've won
'Cause I'm already gone
If you bet on me, you've won

'Cause I'm already gone
If you bet on me, you've won
'Cause I'm already gone
If you bet on me, you've won

06. Battery Acid

Make you into dark
Straight into your heart
Sorry all you are
I don't really care

I know you are
Robots, robots
Brainwashed babies, blood from a leech
Spoken rabies
Spastic, plastic, battery acid
Yank on the leash
Dragging you backwards
Oh my
Closed eyes never see it coming

There's no thing you can say
You can't wish me away
Every masochist, gets a turn
Sadistic twist, you'll never learn

Battery acid, battery acid

Battery acid in my veins
Unidentified remains
Yes button broke to automatic

Irrational dosage of furious static
Erasing what you are, you were

(Jealous)
To feel the way you do
(Dementia)
The lie you call the truth
(Beautiful)
Nothing except yourself, and nobody else
I got nobody else

There's no thing you can say
You can't wish me away
Every masochist, gets a turn
Sadistic twist, you'll never learn

Battery acid, battery acid

07. Make It Wit Chu

You wanna know if I know why?
I can't say that I do
Don't understand the evil eye
Or how one becomes two
I just can't recall what started it all
Or how to begin the end
I ain't here to break it
Just see how far it will bend
Again and again, again and again

I wanna make it
I wanna make it wit chu
Anytime, anywhere

I wanna make it
(Again and again)
I wanna make it wit chu

Sometimes the same is different
But mostly it's the same
These mysteries of life,
That just ain't my thing
If I told you that I knew
About the sun and the moon I'd be untrue
The only thing I know for sure
Is what I won't do
Anytime, anywhere

I wanna make it
(Again and again)
I wanna make it wit chu
Anytime, anywhere

I wanna make it
(Again and again)
I wanna make it wit chu

I wanna make it
(Anytime, anywhere)
I wanna make it wit chu

I wanna make it
I wanna make it wit chu

I wanna make it
(Again and again)
I wanna make it wit chu

I wanna make it
(Anytime, anywhere)
I wanna make it wit chu

I wanna make it
(Again and again)
I wanna make it wit chu

I wanna make it
(Again and again, and again, and again, and again)

08. 3's & 7's

Lie, lie to my face
Tell me it ain't nothing
That's what I wanna hear
Take the lie to the grave
That's what an old friend told me
Look what it did for him

The truth hurts so bad
Wouldn't you say?
So why tell it?
If ignorance is bliss
Then I'm in heaven now

Run, you'll never escape
You see you'll go nowhere
Soon you will appear
Broke, laid to waste
Turn into sweet nothings
Kiss you goodbye

The truth hurts so bad
Wouldn't you say?
So why tell it?
If ignorance is bliss
Then I'm in heaven now

I keep going over and over again
To never ending places I've never been
No one's catching on, calling my bluff
The devil made me holier than every man
What you do, say it with a smile boy
Making us all forget
What you do, say it with a smile boy
Making us all forget
Making us all forget
Making us all forget

09. Suture Up Your Future

I'm gonna suture up my future
I ain't jaded, I just hate it
See, I been down too long
It's kinda hard to explain
Done and buried, all I carried
All my evil through a needle
As if pulled through the eye
What was and what will
They're all gone

Don't sweat it
Thread it to forget it
To feel like you're already gone
To the rest of
The rest of the life that you've got
Take a picture
Bury it all away
Bury it all away

Try to fake it
I just can't take it
I don't care if it hurts
Just so long as it's real
I won't waste it
I turn to face it
I'd sharpen the knife
Then used it to bone, made it dull
Tried explaining unexplained
Got caught in the plan
All this talking at once
I've been giving my love away
To the things that tear it apart
I'm gonna suture up my future

Thread it to forget it
To feel like you're already gone
To the rest of
The rest of the life that you've got
Tie the loose ends
Bury it all away
It's like there's
It's like there's

10. River In The Road

Fast approaching monsters, marching in a row
Grab what slips your mind
And what your memory won't hold
Run, darling run
I'll stall them if I can
You'll escape and I'll be left rotting on the vine

Run

Run darling, run
I'll stall them if I can
You'll escape and I'll be left rotting on the vine
Avert the children's eyes, forget left untold
Don't look back to see the blood
River in the road

Run

Let's seek revenge with my blood
River in the road

11. Run Pig Run

When I was young
We used to play the game of hide and seek
Someone go hide, I count to ten
You probably never played
Instead you talk a game of sheep
A skill you almost do perfect

Run pig, run
Here I come

I am no saint and make no claims
To being in the right
It's just for now, I am wrong-less
You probably wondering
With what to do, this has with you
I wanna play the game you missed

Run pig, run
Here I come

There is no safe place
There is no safe place
There is no safe place to hide