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life in metal
life in stone
broken places
broken people
broken homes
hello hungry, i'm alone
oliver twist and turn me out
get thee gone
house of working
out on bond
tenement on tenement
on blonde on blonde
made of metal
turned to stone
broken places
tired people
heading home
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brainy has a right to know
forget me not
you think you don't
as paper, pen and author rot
i write to you but i think not
but why am i wry, no
no i'm not at all
penny's fallen on hard times
liberty leads the march of dimes
brother, can you spare a thought
my likeness is as like as not
but why am i wry, no
no i'm not at all
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3. |
Me of Little Faith
02:11
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i'm full
i'm fine
i'm dying at home on a saturday night
then taking the hearse out for a sunday drive
i'm full
i'm fine
the horse and the kingdom mean nothing to me
a working class hero was something to be
me of little faith
wouldn’t you like to know
the church and the steeple
where do people go
and here is the parson, and here are your friends
living upside down inside the fisheye lens
noble lords and ladies
say how do you do
while i live in fear
of the turn of the screw
the horse and the king lie in a common grave
the queen and the court
watching toys on parade
that's me in the corner
that's me on the bluff
still you feed us lies off of the tablecloth
the king and the queen and the doll in my brain
what survives the teeth
we consign to the drain
sun moon sun
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4. |
Fortune Outrageous
02:48
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back through the turnstile
into my own spinning world
phone underwater
only i won't hear a word
deeper into my own world
into my own little world
fortune outrageous
gives the world another spin
turn turn turn again
turn into the rain and wind
out into the rain and wind
waitin on this world to end
atlas of sorrow
and the almanac of loss
resident evil
resident in each of us
resident in each of us
life in metal starts to rust
privation music
in the boarding house of souls
live from the workhouse
and it's only rock n roll
but i hate it in my soul
a time to weep and gather stones
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it got between me and my pencil
it got between me and my book
it lives between two of the pages
and if you just know where to look
the shadow of my own future
it darkens the very page
it got between me and the next word
now what was i going to say
it got between me and the bedpost
just between you me and the wall
it got between me and the keyhole
and you would not believe what i saw
it lives between two of the pages
the author deep inside of the book
a brand new life and new thoughts too
the very moment i looked
xxx
but in the end that's the way that it goes
wouldn't you know that i didn't know why
do you remember killing a fly
but where did the fly go after it died
not me the bee and not i said the fly
funeral rites for the rats and the mice
frankenstein reading in the next room
he had a brand new life and brand new thoughts too
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6. |
Injuries on Film
03:39
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injuries on film
they take away the pain
and show it to me in
photo negative
the screen inside the eye
inside your talking head
suffering on tape
i hear the supplications
spinning off the reel
legacy of pain
temporary achilles
everlasting heel
watching you get hurt
you're watching me get hurt
that's what we came to see
end of life tv
i'm watching you get cut
while i am cutting me
come on jean valjean
won't you give us the one
about your misery
let the poor man sing
a page inside my book
the lord inside the ring
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7. |
Harvest of Souls
03:44
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circle the drain
let me open a vein
breaking the skin
and the bone
and the brain
brother of blood
lived as he died
in pain
deeper inside
hall of the
mountain king
out of the sickroom
out on the flood
drape me in flesh
do thou strip it off
whence i betook me
to grope over each
brain meets the neck
meets the skull
meets the teeth
die in pain
sowing with salt
this harvest of souls
lost inside hill house
lost in my home
lost in the bathroom
crossing the frame
god is in pain
i know you feel the same
songs from the gift shop
live from the dream
tell me black eyed son
what have you seen
tell me o tell me
muse on the wall
how do these hard times
end for us all
out of the damage
into the bruise
flesh wars with flesh
in the house of the mute
gulliver travels into the pot
hunger will do
what the sorrow cannot
die in pain
traveling light
over the bridge of sighs
mansions of limbo
frankenstein's bride
weighed and found wanting
piled like leaves
prison nursery
pages of history
fear of the old blood
immigrant song
reading the good book
parts of it wrong
tower of hunger
songs from a room
spiraling downward
can you love this wound
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8. |
Lord Byron
03:35
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lord byron
i love you so
my my man
what don't you know
lord byron
please eat my brain
lay me in the family vault
my man insane
because i can’t attack me
you’ll please attack me
eat my heart
dear man alive
eat your shriveled heart out
inside my life
my sweet lord
dress me in black
love me in the potter's field
then take me back
because i can't attack me
you’ll please attack me
xxx
i'm walking in the path of the mirror
in 1879
the house of the seven gables
the great failure of my life
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9. |
For These Times
03:44
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chemical
stupid brain knows
to quaff the brutal potion, so
inspiration
gone on strike
and love goes to buildings on fire
but i like it just fine
these are hard times for these times
and you like me just fine
time capsule and crystal ball
cave paintings in the shopping mall
prehistoric
bird wheel past
the windows of my darkened flat
this brain wants its bath
drawing up a poison bath
and this brain wants its bath
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