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01. Let Me Drown

Stretch the bones over my skin
Stretch the skin over my head, I'm going to the holy land
Stretch the marks over my eyes
Burn the candles deep inside
Yeah, you know where I'm coming from

So give up to greed, you don't have to feed me
Yeah, give up to fate, you don't have to need me
So let it go, won't you let it go, won't you let it go, won't you let it?
And drown me in you

So slip down the darkness to the mouth
Damn the water burn the wine
I'm going home for the very last time

So throw it away, you don't have to take me
Make no mistakes I am what you make me
So let it go, won't you let it go, won't you let it go, won't you let it?
And drown me in you, drown me in you, drown me in you
Drown me in you, drown me in
Drown me in, oh drown me in, yeah drown me in, yeah

I see you turn around and burning down
The feeling starts to sink
I feel the hurt surround me
Please dissolve me
She's resolved to be

So heal my wounds without a trace
And seal my tomb without my face
I'm going to the lonely place

Give up to greed, you don't have to feed me, yeah
Give up to fate, you don't have to need me
So let it go, won't you let it go, won't you let it go, won't you let it?
And drown me in you, drown me in you
Drown me in you, drown me in you
Drown me in you, drown me in you
Drown me in you, drown me in you
Drown me in

02. My Wave

Take, if you want a slice
If you want a piece
If it feels alright

Break, if you like the sound
If it gets you up
If it turns you down

Share, if it makes you sleep
If it sets you free
If it helps you breathe

Don't come over here
And piss on my gate
Save it, just keep it
Off my wave

Cry, if you want to cry
If it helps you see
If it clears your eyes

Hate, if you want to hate
If it keeps you safe
If it makes you brave

Pray, if you want to pray
If you like to kneel
If you like to lay

Don't come over here
And piss on my gate
Save it, just keep it
Off my wave

Keep it off my wave
Keep it off my wave
My wave

Keep it off my wave
Keep it off my wave
Keep it off my wave
My wave

My wave
My wave
My wave
My wave
My wave

Cry, if you want to cry
If it helps you see
If it clears your eyes

Hate, if you want to hate
If it keeps you safe
If it makes you brave

And take, if you want a slice
If you want a piece
If it feels alright

Don't come over here
And piss on my gate
Save it, just keep it
Off my wave

Keep it off my wave
Keep it off my wave
My wave

Keep it off my wave
Keep it off my wave
Keep it off my wave
My wave

My wave
My wave
My wave
My wave

My wave
My wave
My wave
My wave

Keep it off my wave
Keep it off my wave
My wave

Keep it off my wave
Keep it off my wave
Keep it off my wave

03. Fell On Black Days

Whatsoever I've feared has come to life
Whatsoever I've fought off became my life
Just when everyday seemed to greet me with a smile
Sunspots have faded and now I'm doing time, now I'm doing time

'Cause I fell on black days
I fell on black days

Whomsoever I've cured, I've sickened now
Well, whomsoever I've cradled, I've put you down
Search light soul they say but I can't see it in the night
I'm only faking when I get it right, when I get it right

'Cause I fell on black days
I fell on black days

How would I know
That this could be my fate
How would I know
That this could be my fate

So what you wanted to see good has made you blind
And what you wanted to be yours has made it mine
So don't you lock up something that you wanted to see fly
Hands are for shaking, no, not tying, no, not tying

I sure don't mind a change, I sure don't mind a change
Yeah, I sure don't mind, sure don't mind a change
I sure don't mind a change

'Cause I fell on black days
I fell on black days

How would I know
That this could be my fate
How would I know
That this could be my fate

How would I know
That this could be my fate
How would I know
That this could be my fate

I sure don't mind a change

04. Mailman

Hello don't you know me? I'm the dirt beneath your feet
The most important fool you forgot to see
I've seen how you give it and now I want you to receive
I'm sure that you would do the same for me

'Cause I know I'm headed for the bottom
I know I'm headed for the bottom
I know I'm headed for the bottom
But I'm riding you all the way
Yeah I'm riding you all the way
I'm riding, yeah

For all of your kisses turned to spit in my face
For all that reminds me which is my place
For all of the times when you made me disappear
This time I'm sure you will know that I'm here

'Cause I know I'm headed for the bottom
I know I'm headed for the bottom
I know I'm headed for the bottom
But I'm riding you all the way
Yeah I'm riding you all the way
I'm riding you all the way
I'm riding you all the way
Riding, riding all the way

My place was beneath you but now I am above
And now I send you a message of love
Through a simple reminder of what you won't see
A future so holy without me

I know I'm headed for the bottom
I know I'm headed for the bottom
I know I'm headed for the
But I'm riding you all the way
Yeah I'm riding you all the way
I'm riding you all the way
Oh I'm riding you, yes I'm riding you
Oh I'm riding you, yes I'm riding you
Oh I'm riding you all the way

05. Superunknown

If this isn't what you see
It doesn't make you blind
If this doesn't make you feel
It doesn't mean you've died where the river's high, where the river's high

If you don't want to be seen
Well you don't have to hide
And if you don't want to believe
You don't have to try to feel alive

Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
First it steals your mind and then it steals your

If this doesn't make you free
It doesn't mean you're tied
If this doesn't take you down
It doesn't mean you're high

If this doesn't make you smile
Yeah you don't have to cry
If this isn't making sense
Then it doesn't make it lies

Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
First it steals your mind and then it steals your soul

Get yourself afraid
Get yourself alone
Get yourself contained
Get yourself controlled, controlled

Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown

Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
First it steals your mind and then it steals your
First it steals your mind and then it steals your
First it steals your mind and then it steals your soul

06. Head Down

We see you laugh
We see you dance
We take that away
Every day

We see you cry
We turn your hear
Then we slap your face

We see you try
We see you fail
Some things never change

We hear you cry
We hear you wail
We steal that smile from your face

Bow down to live
Your Life

Head down, hide that smile
Head high got to smile

Head high like a song you like

07. Black Hole Sun

In my eyes, indisposed
In disguise as no one knows
Hides the face, lies the snake
The sun in my disgrace

Boiling heat, summer stench
'Neath the black, the sky looks dead
Call my name through the cream
And I'll hear you scream again

Black hole sun, won't you come?
And wash away the rain
Black hole sun, won't you come?
Won't you come?

Stuttering, cold and damp
Steal the warm wind, tired friend
Times are gone for honest men
And sometimes far too long for snakes

In my shoes, a walking sleep
And my youth, I pray to keep
Heaven send Hell away
No one sings like you anymore

Hang my head, drown my fear
Till you all just disappear

Black hole sun, won't you come?
And wash away the rain
Black hole sun, won't you come?
Won't you come?

Black hole sun, won't you come?
And wash away the rain
Black hole sun, won't you come?
Won't you come?

Black hole sun, won't you come?
And wash away the rain
Black hole sun, won't you come?
Won't you come?

08. Spoonman

I feel the rhythm with your hands
Steal the rhythm while you can, Spoonman
Speak the rhythm on your own
Speak the rhythm all alone, Spoonman

Spoonman, come together with your hands
Save me, I'm together with your plan
Save me, save

All my friends are Indians
All my friends are brown and red, Spoonman
All my friends are skeletons
They beat the rhythm with their bones, Spoonman

Spoonman, come together with your hands
Save me, I'm together with your plan
Save me, save, save me, save me, save with your

Come on
Come on
Come on

Come on, will I get on?
Come on, will I get on?
Come on, will I get on?

Spoonman, come together with your hands
Save me, I'm together with your plan
Save me, save, save me with your, with your hand

Feel the rhythm with your hands
Steal the rhythm while you can, Spoonman

09. Limo Wreck

Tears of the feeble
Hands of the slaves
Skin of the mothers
Mouths of the babes

Building the towers
Belongs to the sky
When the whole thing comes crashing down
Don't ask me why

Don't ask me why

Under the shelf
The shelf of the sky
Two eyes, two suns
Too heavenly blinds

Swallowing rivers
Belongs to the sea
When the whole thing washes away
Don't run to me, yeah

I'll be going down for the rest of the slide
While the rest of you harvest the gold

And the wreck of you
Is the death of you all
And the wreck of you
Is the break and the fall

I'm the wreck of you
I'm the death of you all
I'm the wreck of you
I'm the break and the fall

Under the red
Break of the lights
Heroes in stretches
Inch to the site

Blowing the pieces
Belongs to the wind
When the whole thing blows away
I won't pretend, no

I'll be going down for the rest of the ride
While the rest of you harvest the gold

And the wreck of you
Is the death of you all
And the wreck of you
Is the break and the fall

I'm the wreck of you
I'm the death of you all
I'm the wreck of you
I'm the break and the fall

Under the red
Under the lights
Lies the wreck of you
For the rest of your life

And the wreck of you
Is the death of you all
And the wreck of you
Is the break and the fall

I'm the wreck of you
I'm the death of you all
I'm the wreck of you
I'm the break and the fall

While the rest of you harvest the gold
While the rest of you harvest the souls

10. The Day I Tried To Live

I woke the same as any other day
Except a voice was in my head
It said seize the day, pull the trigger
Drop the blade and watch the rolling heads

The day I tried to live
I stole a thousand beggar's change
And gave it to the rich

The day I tried to win
I dangled from the power lines
And let the martyrs stretch

Singing one more time around
Might do it
One more time around
Might make it
One more time around
Might do it
One more time around
The day I tried to live, to live

Words you say never seem
To live up to the ones inside your head
The lives we make never seem
To ever get us anywhere but dead

The day I tried to live
I wallowed in the blood and mud
With all the other pigs

Singing one more time around
Might do it
One more time around
Might make it
One more time around
Might do it
One more time around
The day I tried to live, the day I tried

I woke the same as any other day you know
I should have stayed in bed

The day I tried to win
I wallowed in the blood and mud
With all the other pigs

And I learned that I was a liar
I learned that I was a liar
I learned that I was a liar
I learned that I was a liar

Singing one more time around
Might do it
One more time around
Might make it
One more time around
Might do it
One more time around
The day I tried to live, live just like you

Just like you
One more time around
One more time around

11. Kickstand

Kickstand, you got loose and I threw up
Yeah kickstand, you got the juice to fill my cup
My mother says that it's alright
My mother says that's the only life

So do it right
Do it right
Come stand me up
Come stand me up
Come stand me up

Oh kickstand, I got saddle made of leather
Oh kickstand, I got the words to come together
I got the urge to ride your trike, yeah
My mother says that's the only life

So do it right
Do it right
Come stand me up
Come stand me up
Come stand me up

Oh kickstand, you got loose and I threw up
Yeah kickstand, you got the juice to fill my cup
My mother said that it's alright

Do it right
Do it right
Stand me up
Stand me up
Stand me up

12. Fresh Tendrils

Long time coming seemed to get me through
Long time coming many served the few
Long to taste the shame that bows down before you

Long time coming seemed to get me by
Long time coming seemed to satisfy
You longed to taste the shame that everybody tries

Shame, shame throw yourself away
Give me little bits of more than I can take
If it sits upon your tongue or naked in your eyes
Give me little bits of more than I can try
Sow yourself away, throw yourself away

Long time coming seemed to take me through
Long time coming many served the few
And long to taste the shame that bows down before you

Shame, shame throw yourself away
Give me little bits of more than I can take
If it sits upon your tongue or naked in your eyes
Give me little bits of more than I can try
Throw yourself away, sow yourself away

Sow yourself away, sow yourself away
Sow yourself away, sow yourself away
Just throw yourself away, just throw yourself away
Just throw yourself away

Long time coming
Long time coming

13. 4th Of July

Shower in the dark day clean sparks diving down
Cool in the waterway where the baptized drown
Naked in the cold sun breathing life like fire
I thought I was the only one but that was just a lie

'Cause I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
I thought it was the 4th of July

Pale in the flare light the scared light cracks and disappears
And leads the scorched ones here
And everywhere no one cares the fire is spreading
And no one wants to speak about it
Down in the hole Jesus tries to crack a smile
Beneath another shovel load

And I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
I thought it was the 4th of July

And I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
I thought it was the 4th of July

July, July

Now I'm in control now I'm in the fall out
Once asleep but now I stand
And I still remember your sweet everything
Light a Roman candle and hold it in your hand

'Cause I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
I thought it was the 4th of July

'Cause I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
I thought it was the 4th of July, yeah

14. Half

When I hand my love in
I'll be done
A handed glove
Hides the door

Half a chance
Half a chance
We still
Have a chance

Mr. Full, Mr. Have
Kills Mr. Empty Hand

Half a chance
Half a chance
We still
Have a chance

15. Like Suicide

Heard it from another room
Eyes were waking up
Just to fall asleep
Love's like suicide

Dazed out in a garden bed
With a broken neck
Lays my broken gift
Just like suicide

And my last ditch
Was my last brick
Lent to finish her
Finish her

She lived like a murder
How she'd fly so sweetly
She lived like a murder
But she died just like suicide

Bit down on the bullet now
I had a taste so sour
I had to think of something sweet
Love's like suicide

Safe outside my gilded cage
With an ounce of pain
I wield a ton of rage
Just like suicide

With eyes of blood
And bitter blue
How I feel for you
I feel for you

She lived like a murder
How she'd fly so sweetly
She lived like a murder
But she died just like suicide

Yeah

And my last ditch
Was my last brick
Lent to finish her
Finish her

With eyes of blood
And bitter blue
How I feel for you
I feel for you, I feel for you

I feel for you
I feel
Oh, I feel for you

She lived like a murder
How she'd fly so sweetly
She lived like a murder
But she died just like suicide

16. She Likes Surprises

Girlie dress and making her best
She makes up her hair for the 90s
Dirty shoes and hiding her blues
She's dying to lose what she's finding

So easy to leave it or take it in stride
So easy to read when she's faking her smile
She likes surprises, she likes surprises
Anything in colorful disguises

Lips and thighs abused by our eyes
Acting surprised that she likes it
Chocolate cream, an amphetamine
Torn at the seams, she's crying

So easy to leave it or take it in stride
So easy to read when she's faking her smile
She likes surprises, she likes surprises
Anything in colorful disguises

She gets a little I guess
She gets it more or less
She likes surprises
Anything in colorful disguises

So easy to leave it or take it in stride
So easy to read when she's faking her smile
She like surprises, she likes surprises
Anything in colorful disguises