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01. In Venere Veritas

Let's fall apart together now

Zipping cupid
In a body bag well-worn
Next to the mausoleum
He was born in

Picking up the pieces
Of this gory glory of it all
From eve to morn
For Eve to mourn

Have no fear
There are wounds
That are not meant to heal
And they sing in venere veritas
Come inside
Let the fire burn you alive
And sing, baby sing
There are wounds
That are not meant to heal at all
In venere veritas

Let's fall apart together now

There is a method to our sadness
As we drag the mirror ball and chain
Throught the twilight
Again dressed up in shame

Have no fear
There are wounds
That are not meant to heal
And they sing in venere veritas
Come inside
Let the fire burn you alive
And sing, baby sing
There are wounds
That are not meant to heal at all
In venere veritas

We are begging for a reflection
From an unshuttered heart
To blind and chase us over the edge

Have no fear
There are wounds
That are not meant to heal
And they sing in venere veritas
Come inside
Let the fire burn you alive
And sing, baby sing
There are wounds
That are not meant to heal at all
In venere veritas

These are the wounds
That are not meant to heal at all

Let's fall apart together now
Let's fall apart together now

02. Scared To Death

In the biblical sense and sensibility
Let me know you
I'll kiss that smile off your face just say when

Just say when

I'm not afraid to say "I love you"
Any more than I used to be babe
I am scared to death
I am scared to death
To fall in love

All these pick-up lines from hell
Icebreakers infernal
From a heart so black and blue
Only for you

Just say when again

I'm not afraid to say "I love you"
Any more than I used to be babe
I am scared to death
I am scared to death
To fall in love with you

With you

I'm not afraid to say "I love you"
Any more than I used to be babe
I am scared to death
I am scared to death
To fall in love

I'm not afraid to admit "I adore you"
Any more than I was before, baby
I am scared to death
I am scared to death
to fall in love with you

With you
With you

I am scared to death
I am scared to death
I am scared to death

And you're sweet like poison

03. Heartkiller

Farewell heartless world
I'll send you a postcard burnt in the flames
You've tried so hard to extinguish
With the fear of failing

I'll write down everything I have learned
An edit it down to a single word "love"
For you I'm waiting, anticipating

Sparks will fly beneath the lunar light
Lazarus at Frankenstein's
Babe, I'll be a flatliner for a heartkiller

A little we die above the lesser light
For you I'm open wide
Babe, I'll be a flatliner for a heartkiller

Top hats off to the return
Of the beat to lick a wound
Too cursed for some
And blessed for a few

It doesn't have to make any sense at all
Come hither and we'll fall for love
For love I'm crawling out of patience, baby

Sparks will fly beneath the lunar light
Lazarus at Frankenstein's
Babe, I'll be a flatliner for a heartkiller

A little we die above the lesser light
For you I'm open wide
Babe, I'll be a flatliner for a heartkiller

Paint all your sorrow for me to sing heartkiller
Draw your pain and hear me hum it out

Sparks will fly beneath the lunar light
Lazarus at Frankenstein's
Babe, I'll be a flatliner for a heartkiller

A little we die above the lesser light
For you I'm open wide
Babe, I'll be a flatliner for a heartkiller
Heartkiller, heartkiller, heartkiller

Babe, I'll be a flatliner for a heartkiller
Babe, I'll be a flatliner for a heartkiller

04. Dying Song

I've seen you breathe life
Into the weakest of hearts
And heard you scream out
Loud the sweetest poem

Echoing across the ocean
Reminding me why I still try
To hold onto whatever
Is left of you and I

Shedding skin to a dying song
We hum along to the evening sun
'Til we are no more
Little deaths to a dying song
Sound a lot like life

I've seen these dreams
Being crushed by a single thought
And felt the envy
Of sadness engulf all warmth

Barely alive under ice
By exchanging sighs
With tomorrow quivering
In the loneliest light

Shedding skin to a dying song
We hum along to the evening sun
'Til we are no more
Little deaths to a dying song
Sound a lot like life and love
Life and love with you

Crawl back into bed tomorrow
Is trembling at the sight of you and I

Shedding skin to a dying song
We hum along to the evening sun
'Til we are no more
Little deaths to a dying song
Sound a lot like life and love

Life and love
Life and love (dying song)
Life and love (a dying song)

With you (a dying song)
With you (a dying song)
With you (a dying song)
With you (a dying song)

05. Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)

The promise of heaven
Pushed us right back to hell
Turn three sevens
Into three sixes again

And you laughed at my face
When I told you how much it hurts
And said...

Disarm me with your loneliness
Just like always before
Deceive me out of my emptiness
Telling me how you love

You keep on tempting me
To go on whatever the cost
To witness the prettiest flower
In the wicked to dust

So I'll break all the rules
In this endless game once called love
For you...

Disarm me with your loneliness
Just like always before
Deceive me out of my emptiness
Telling me how you love
Me with all your heart no more

Disarm me with your loneliness
Just like always before

Disarm me with your loneliness
Just like always before
Deceive me out of my emptiness
Telling me how you love
Me with all your heart no more

06. Love, The Hardest Way

Love's the devil counting
Teardrops in the rain
To the sound of a chalkboard symphony
Played with nails

For what it's worth
I don't want to see you hurt anymore
Than you have to

Dine on glass
Wine on blood
Baby, love the hard way
Baudelaire in braille
Baby, love the harder way
Once you lose yourself entomb
I promise you love the hardest way

Pretty like a flower
On a tomb you are
Kissed blue by the last arrows
Of the sun

Olly olly oxen free
Hide and go weep
No more
Unless you want to

Dine on glass
Wine on blood
Baby, love the hard way
Baudelaire in braille
Baby, love the harder way
Once you lose yourself entomb
I promise you love the hardest way

Dine on glass
Wine on blood
Baby, love the hard way
Baudelaire in braille
Baby, love the harder way
Once you lose yourself entomb
I promise you love the hardest way

(Love the hard way)
Love the hardest way
(Love the harder way)

Once you lose yourself entomb
I promise you love the hardest way
Love the hardest way
Love the hardest way
Love the hardest way

07. Katherine Wheel

Lo and behold baby
These are the things you make me do
Katherine wheel
I'm burning for you
I'm burning for you

Come on and break me a limb at a time
Wrap me around your spokes so tight
There's no letting go
Spin me around to blur the line
Between you and I
What are you waiting for

Lo and behold baby
These are the things you make me do
Katherine wheel
I'm burning for you
Please don't stop
Until my heart no longer screams
Katherine wheel
Katherine wheel

Holding hands won't be enough
In a world giving head to a gun
Love in theory and practice chapter one

Lo and behold baby
These are the things you make me do
Katherine wheel
I'm burning for you
Please don't stop
Until my heart no longer screams
Katherine wheel
Katherine wheel

I twist and turn
In your arms swirl
The dizzier I get the clearer I see
With you I'm at peace with the war within

Lo and behold baby
These are the things you make me do
Katherine wheel
I'm burning for you
Please don't stop
Until my heart no longer screams
Katherine wheel
Katherine wheel

Lo and behold baby
These are the things you make me do
Katherine wheel
I'm burning for you
Katherine wheel
I'm burning for you
Katherine wheel
Katherine wheel
I'm burning for you

08. In The Arms Of Rain

Once again we found ourselves to be lost
Holding hand while straying
From the path in a forest dark
Aren't you happy to see me crawl
Serpentine towards the sun to you

Lift the lid of your heart's casket
In the arms of rain
We'll drift along this river of sadness
'Til we feel no pain

Baby, stop hail marys
For the secret you've kept from me
Hail marys for tomorrow's dream
In the arms of rain we are free

Again, I fought myself and lost
Come bite the apple
And I'll coil around your heart
I'm so happy to see you weep along
In these arms you belong

Lift the lid of your heart's casket
In the arms of rain
We'll drift along this river of sadness
'Til we feel no pain

Baby, stop hail marys
For the secret you've kept from me
Hail marys for tomorrow's dream
In the arms of rain we are free

Ave Maria we've tried
Ave Maria we've cried
Ave Maria we've died

Lift the lid of your heart's casket
In the arms of rain
We'll drift along this river of sadness
'Til we feel no pain

Baby, stop hail marys
For the secret you've kept from me
Hail marys for tomorrow's dream
In the arms of rain we are free

Lift the lid of your heart's casket
In the arms of rain
We'll drift along this river of sadness
'Til we feel no pain

Baby, stop hail marys
For the secret you've kept from me
Hail marys for tomorrow's dream
In the arms of rain we are free

It's the end of the road
Hold me
It's the end of the road and we're free

09. Ode To Solitude

Easy on the eyes, uneasy on the heart
Sew my wrists shut
Sew my wrists shut with hope
Straight into the light shining bright
I dare you to dream this
And I dare you to dream this gone
What I want to know is which
Makes you smile less

Here's to the pain
The light of the oncoming train
Come on, ode to solitude in chains
Here's to the pain
As always heaven in flames now bleeding
Ode to solitude in chains

Map the scars of a heart bruised and torn
Loosen the noose love
Loosen the noose with love
What I want to know is why
You keep hanging

Here's to the pain
The light of the oncoming train
Come on, ode to solitude in chains
Here's to the pain
As always heaven in flames now bleeding
Ode to solitude in chains

If I should fail to stay
Remember not to forget
This feeling you have
I've failed, please pretend
It never happened baby

Here's to the pain
The light of the oncoming train
Come on, ode to solitude in chains
Here's to the pain
As always heaven in flames now bleeding
Ode to solitude in chains

Here's to the pain
The light of the oncoming train
Come on, ode to solitude in chains
Here's to the pain
As always heaven in flames now bleeding
Ode to solitude in chains

Ode to solitude
Ode to solitude
Ode to solitude
Ode to solitude

10. Shatter Me With Hope

The girl who cried at love
Won't you come and play with me?
You can be Cassandra
Underneath the sword of Damocles

We'll tear this baby apart
Wise like Solomon

Run, come shatter me now
Shatter me with hope
Crawl, come breathe me in
Bleed out all sorrows

Scream me a dream
Untouched by shadows
Baby, shatter me now, shatter me now
Shatter me with hope

She'll be the witness
To the repose of Evelyn
Push the needle in
To the of canticles of ecstasy
Turn to page 43
And you'll know how I feel

Run, come shatter me now
Shatter me with hope
Crawl, come breathe me in
Bleed out all sorrows

Scream me a dream
Untouched by shadows
Baby, shatter me now, shatter me now
Shatter me with hope

Swear on your heart's grave, I'm wrong
And love like your life's depending on it
Because it is

We'll tear this baby apart
Wise like Solomon
Turn to page 43
And you'll know how I feel

Run, come shatter me now
Shatter me with hope
Crawl, come breathe me in
Bleed out all sorrows

Scream me a dream
Untouched by shadows
Baby, shatter me now, shatter me now
Shatter me with hope

Shatter me now
Shatter me now
Shatter me now

Shatter me now
Shatter me now
Shatter me now

Scream me a dream.....!
Shatter me now
Shatter me now
Shatter me now

Scream me a dream.....!
Shatter me now
Shatter me now
Shatter me now

11. Acoustic Funeral (For Love In Limbo)

You missed the winter
And it followed you back home
Where sun kissed the crimson
Footsteps in the melting snow

We are doing our best
To disown the golden mean
By disacts of cruelty
In the name of beauty to be free

The acoustic funeral for love in limbo
We're dancing with tags on our toes
I saved my last breath for your window
To write you this song for the acoustic funeral

On the verge of a vow
To kill all reason locking that door
To a nightmare within
A nightmare we are bound to adore

Let the pleasure in the shape
Of a heart lie to me
And finally confirm all fears
To be so real, be so real

The acoustic funeral for love in limbo
We're dancing with tags on our toes
I saved my last breath for your window
To write you this song for the acoustic funeral

Underneath the ice so thin
I am turning blue (I'm turning blue)
The one last thing
I know to be real
Is the shadow of you
Killing love with a kiss

The acoustic funeral for love in limbo
We're dancing with tags on our toes
I saved my last breath for your window
To write you this song

The acoustic funeral for love in limbo
(The acoustic funeral for love in limbo)
We're dancing with tags on our toes
(We're dancing with tags on our toes)
I saved my last breath for your window
To write you this song for the acoustic funeral

Lest we have to fall
For the acoustic funeral

Killing love with a kiss

12. Like St. Valentine

In the name of love lost
I'm frozen to her and I want you to come
Build me a bridge soaked in gasoline
And pass the torch

Hey baby, let me be your valentine
Saint Valentive
Suck the sorrow out of you and try
To keep a lie alive
Like Saint Valentine

Like the couple from Pompeii
Our drama is put on display
Along with a dove stuffed
In a coffin of glass entitled
Love, lust and the holy ghost
Those were the days

Hey baby, let me be your valentine
Saint Valentive
Suck the sorrow out of you and try
To keep a lie alive

Hey baby, let me be your valentine
Saint Valentive
Suck the sorrow out of you and try
To keep a lie alive
Like Saint Valentine

Love is the only war worth dying for
Lift me up to knock me down
I'm all yours for now

Hey baby, let me be your valentine
Saint Valentive
Suck the sorrow out of you and try
To keep a lie alive
Hey baby, let me be your valentine
Saint Valentive
Suck the sorrow out of you and try
To keep a lie alive
Like Saint Valentine

Hey baby, let me be your valentine
Saint Valentive
Suck the sorrow out of you and try
To keep a lie alive
Hey baby, let me be your valentine
Saint Valentive
Suck the sorrow out of you and try
To keep a lie alive
Like Saint Valentine

13. The Foreboding Sense Of Impending Happiness

By your heart strings
I am hanging from a dream
Gently swinging
In the warm autumn breeze

Come look at the scars
Smother a heart
Opening up
Look at the scars
Smother a heart
Opening up
No more

Tiptoeing along a strand
Of your hair suspended between
These thoughts and actions
Miles above reality

Come look at the scars
Smother a heart
Opening up
Look at the scars
Smother a heart
Opening up

Come look at the scars
Smother a heart
Opening up
Look at the scars
Smother a heart
Opening up

Come look at the scars
Smother a heart
Opening up
Look at the scars
Smother a heart
Opening up

Opening up, opening up
Opening up, opening up
Look at the scars
Uou open me up, open me up
Smother a heart
Opening up, opening up
Look at the scars
You open me up, opening up
Open me up