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  1. Ain't My Bitch -- 5:04
  2. 2 x 4 -- 5:28
  3. The House Jack Built -- 6:38
  4. Until It Sleeps -- 4:29
  5. King Nothing -- 5:28
  6. Hero Of The Day -- 4:21
  7. Bleeding Me -- 8:18
  8. Cure -- 4:54
  9. Poor Twisted Me -- 3:59
  10. Wasting My Hate -- 3:57
  11. Mama Said -- 5:19
  12. Thorn Within -- 5:51
  13. Ronnie -- 5:17
  14. The Outlaw Torn -- 9:48

AIN'T MY BITCH

Outta my way
Outta my day
Outta your mind and into mine
Into no one
Into not born
Into your step, but out of time

Headstrong
What's wrong?
I've already heard this song before
You're right, but now it's time to kiss your ass goodbye

Dragging me down
While you were around
So useless
It ain't my fault
It ain't my call
It ain't my bitch

Down on the sun
Down and no fun
Down and out, where the hell you been?
Damn it all down
Damn it unbound
Damn it all down to hell again

Stand tall
Can't fall
Never even meant it all before
You're right, but now it's time to kiss your ass goodbye

Dragging me down
While you were around
So useless
It ain't my fault
It ain't my call

Oh, out of my way

Outta my way
Outta my day
Outta your mind and into mine
Into no one
Into not born
Into your step, but out of time

Headstrong
What's wrong?
I've already heard this song before
You're right, but now it's time to kiss your ass goodbye
And now it's time to kiss your ass goodbye

Dragging me down
Why are you around
So useless, yeah
It ain't my fault
It ain't my call
It ain't my bitch

No way but down
While you were around
No foolin'
It ain't my smile
It ain't my style
It ain't my bitch

No it ain't mine
ain't mine
your kind
you're stepping out of town
ain't mine
your kind
you're stepping out of time

Dragging me down
While you were around
No foolin'
It ain't my fault
It ain't my call
It ain't my ooh, bitch
You ain't mine

TWO BY FOUR

I'm gonna make you, shake you, take you
I'm gonna be the one who breaks you
Put the screws into ya, yeah my way

Yeah c'mon, c'mon, come and make my day
make my day

Got some hell to pay ya, I steal your thunder
The joy of violent movement pulls you under
Ooh, bite the bullet, real hard
Yeah but I bite harder
So go too far

too far
friction, fusion
retribution
I can't hear ya, talk to me
friction, fusion
I can't hear ya, so talk to me
retribution
I can't hear ya, are ya talking to me? 
friction, fusion
I can't hear ya, are ya talking to me?
retribution
I can't hear ya time to meet my lord
I can't hear ya talk the 2 by 4

I'm gonna make you, shake you, take you
I'm gonna be the one who breaks you
Put the screws into ya, my way

Hey, c'mon, c'mon, come and make my day
make my day
friction, fusion
retribution
Yeah, I can't hear ya, talk to me 
friction, fusion
I can't hear ya, come talk to me 
retribution
I can't hear ya, you talking to me? 
Ooh, why can't I hear ya are you talking to me?
retribution
I can't hear ya time to meet my lord
I can't hear ya talk the 2 by 4, yeah

Yeah, I talk the 2 by 4
It don't take no more
C'mon, yeah
C'mon, whoa
C'mon, c'mon, whoa
Talk the 2 by 4
Talk the 2 by 4

friction, fusion
retribution
I'm gonna make you talk to me
friction, fusion
I wanna take you, ooh so talk to me 
retribution
Hey, I can't hear ya are you talking to me? 
friction, fusion
I can't hear ya, you talking to me?  
retribution
I can't hear ya time to meet my log
I can't hear ya talk the, talk the 2 by 4

It's no dream no more, yeah

THE HOUSE JACK BUILT

Open door, so I walk inside
Closed my eyes, find my place to hide
And I shake as I take it in
Let the show begin

Open my eyes
Just to have them close again
Well on my way
But on my way to where I brim
It swallows me
As it takes me in his hold
Hmm, I twist away
As I give this world an order

Open door, So I walk inside
Close my eyes, find my place to hide
And I shake as I take it in
Let the show begin

Open my eyes
Just to have them close once again
Don't want control
Hey, as it takes me down and down and down again
Is that the moon
Or just a light that lights this dead-end street?
Is that you there
Or just another demon that I meet?

The higher you are
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
My body, my temple
This temple, it tilts
Step into the house that Jack built

The higher you are
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
My body, my temple
This temple, it tilts
Yes, this is the house that Jack built, yeah

Open door, as I walk inside
Swallow me, so the pain subsides
And I shake as I take this in
Let the show begin

The higher you are
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
My body, my temple
This temple, it tells
Yes, this is that house that Jack built

The higher you are
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
My body, my temple
This temple, it tells
Yes, I am, I am, I am

Open my eyes
It swallows me
Is that you there?

Hmm, I twist away
away
away, yeah
away

UNTIL IT SLEEPS

Where do I take this pain of mine?
I run but it stays right by my side
So tear me open, pour me out
There's things inside that scream and shout
And the pain still hates me
So hold me
Until it sleeps

Just like the curse, just like the stray

You feed it once and now it stays
now it stays

So tear me open but beware
There's things inside without a care
And the dirt still stains me
So wash me
Until I'm clean

It grips you so hold me
It stains you so hold me
It hates you so hold me
It holds you so hold me
Until it sleeps

So tell me why you've chosen me
Don't want your grip, don't want your greed
Don't want it
I'll tear me open, make you gone
No more will you hurt anyone
And the fear still shames me
So hold me
Until it sleeps

It grips you so hold me
It stains you so hold me
It hates you so hold me
It holds you, holds you, holds you
Until it sleeps

I don't want it, I don't want it
Want it, want it, want it, want it
Noooo!

So tear me open but beware
There's things inside without a care
And the dirt still stains me
So wash me
'til clean

I'll tear thee open, make you gone
No longer would you hurt anyone
And the hate still shames me
So hold me
Until it sleeps

KING NOTHING

Wish I may
Wish I might
Have this I wish tonight
Are you satisfied?
Dig for gold
Dig for fame
You dig to make your name
Are you pacified?

All the wants you waste
All the things you've chased
And it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger, but there's no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the King
But the castle's crumbled and you're left with just a name
Where's your crown, King Nothing?

Hot and cold
Bought and sold
A heart as hard as gold
Yeah! Are you satisfied?
Wish I might, wish I may
You wish your life away
Are you pacified?

All the wants you waste
All the things you've chased
Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger, but there's no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the King
But the castle's crumbled and you're left with just a name
Where's your crown, King Nothing?

I wish I may, I wish I might
Have this wish I wish tonight
I want that star, I want it now
I want it all and I don't care how

Careful what you wish
Careful what you say
Careful what you wish you may regret it
Careful what you wish you just might get it

Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger, but there's no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the king
But the castle's crumbled and you're left with just a name
Where's your crown, King Nothing?

Nothing
No, you're just nothing
Where's your crown King Nothing?
No, you're just nothing
Absolutely nothing
Off to never-never land

HERO OF THE DAY

Oh, they try and break me

The window burns to light the way back home
A light that warms no matter where they've gone
They're off to find the hero of the day
But what if they should fall by someone's wicked way

Still the window burns
Time so slowly turns
Someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flames
Do you feel your name?
Did you hear your babies crying?

All they try is break me
Still they try and break me

'Scuse me while I tender how I feel
These things return to me that still seem real
Now deservingly, this easy chair
But the rocking stopped by wheels of despair

Don't want your aid
But the fist I've made
For years can't hold or feel
No I'm not all me
So please excuse me
While I tender how I feel

But now the dreams, that waking scream that ever lights the night
So build a wall, behind it crawl and hide until it's light
So can you hear your babies crying now?

Still the window burns
Time so slowly turns
And someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flames
Did you hear your names?
Did you hear your babies crying?

But now the dreams, that waking scream that ever lights the night
So build a wall, behind it crawl and hide until it's light
So can't you hear your babies crying now?

Mama, they try and break me
Mama, they try and break me
Mama, they try and break me
Mama, they try, Mama, they try
Mama, they try and break me
Mama, they try and break me
Mama, they try and break me
Mama, they try, Mama, they try

BLEEDING ME

I'm digging my way
I'm digging my way to something
I'm digging my way to something better
I'm pushing to stay
I'm pushing to stay with something
I'm pushing to stay with something better

I'm sowing the seeds
I'm sowing the seeds I've taken
I'm sowing the seeds I take for granted
This thorn in my side
This thorn in my side is from the tree
This thorn in my side is from the tree I've planted

Ooh, it tears me and I bleed, yeah
and I bleed, yeah, yeah

Caught under wheels roll
I take the leech
I'm bleeding me
Can't stop to save my soul
I take the leash that's leading me
I'm bleeding me, whoa
Ooh, I can't take it
Caught under wheels roll
Oh the bleeding of me yeah
of me yeah
the bleeding of me

I am the beast that pays the beast
I am the blood, I am released
Come make me pure, bleed me a cure
I'm caught, I crawl, I crawl under

Caught under wheels roll
I take that leech
I'm bleeding me
Can't stop to save my soul
I take the leash that's leading me
I'm bleeding me
Oh, I can't take it
I can't take it
I can't take it
Oh, the a bleeding of me

I'm digging my way
I'm digging my way to something
I'm digging my way to something better
I'm pushing to stay
I'm pushing to stay with something
I'm pushing to stay with something better
with something better

CURE

The man takes another bullet
He keeps them all within
He must seek, no matter how it hurts
So don't fool again

Yeah, he thinks the answer is cold and in his hand
He takes his medicine
The man takes another bullet
Yeah, he's been fooled again

Uncross your arms
Take and throw them to the cure, say:
I do believe
Uncross your arms now
Take 'em to and say:
I do believe
Yeah, I do believe, yeah

Yeah, the lies tempt her and she follows
Again she lets him in
She must believe to fill the hollow
She's been fooled again

Uncross your arms
Take and throw them to the cure, say:
I do believe
Uncross your arms now
Take them to and say:
I do believe
Oh yeah, I do believe, yeah

Betting on the cure
It must get better than this
Betting on the cure
Yeah, everyone's got to have the sickness
Cause everyone seems to need the cure
precious cure

I do believe

Betting on the cure
Yeah, it must get better than this
Need to feel secure
Yeah, it's gotta get better than this
this
yeah

It must get better than this
Betting on the cure
Yeah, everyone's got to have the sickness
Cause everyone seems to need the cure

I do believe, I do believe, I do believe!

POOR TWISTED ME

Oh, poor twisted me
Oh, poor twisted me
I feast on sympathy
I chew on suffer, yeah I chew on agony
Swallow whole the pain
Oh, it's too good to be
That all this misery
Is just for oh poor twisted me

Poor mistreated me
Poor mistreated me
I drown without a sea
Lungs fill with sorrow
Almost fill with misery
Inhaling the deep dark blue
Woe, woe is me
Such a burden to be
The poor mistreated me, yeah, yeah

Yeah, you finally reach the shore
Survived the storm
Now you're bare and cold
The sea was warm
So warm, you bathe your soul again
Bathe me, again and again and again, yeah

Yeah, you finally reach the shore
Survived the storm
Now you're bare and cold, yeah
The sea was warm
So warm, you bathe your soul again

Good to see my friend
Oh, woe is me
Such a burden to be
Oh, poor twisted me
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Your poor twisted me, yeah
Oh, your, your poor twisted me

WASTING MY HATE

Good day, how do?
And I send a smile to you
Don't waste, waste your breath
And I won't waste my hate on you

Ain't gonna waste my hate
Ain't gonna waste my hate on you
I think I'll keep it for myself
Ain't gonna give no more
Ain't got the time to help you score
I think it's time you pleased yourself
yourself

Good day, how do?
And I send a smile to you
Don't waste, waste your breath
And I won't waste my hate on you
waste my hate on you

You think you're worthy now
You're thinking not to even raise the brow
And to laugh and tip that two-pronged crown
Well, I see my hands, I see my feet
I feel that blood that pumps in beat
But where the hell's my mind going now?
get going now

Good day, how do?
And I send a smile to you
Don't waste, waste your breath
And I won't waste my hate on you
waste my hate on you

I think I'll keep it for myself

Ain't gonna waste my hate
But I'm so greedy when they say
Better to give than to recieve
Ain't gonna waste my hate, no, no
Ain't got time to waste my hate on you
I think I'll keep it all for myself
for myself

Good day, how do?
And I send a smile to you
Don't waste, waste your breath
And I won't waste my hate on you
waste my hate on you

I think I'll keep it for myself

MAMA SAID

Mama, she has taught me well
Told me when I was young
Son, your life's an open book
Don't close it before its done
The brightest flame burns quickest
Is what I heard her say
A son's heart sowed to mother
But I must find my way

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Let this heart be still
Yeah, still



Rebel, my new last name
Wild blood in my veins
Apron strings around my neck
The mark that still remains
Left home at an early age
Of what I heard was wrong
I never asked forgiveness
But what is said is done

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Let this heart be still

Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness that I'll take to my grave
Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness that I'll take to my grave
So let this heart be still

Mama, now I'm coming home
I'm not all you wished of me
A mother's love for her son
Unspoken, help me be
I took your love for granted
And all the things you said to me
I need your arms to welcome me
But a cold stone's all I see

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Let this heart be still

Let my heart go
Mama, let my heart go
You never let my heart go
So let this heart be still

Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness that I'll take to my grave
Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness that I'll take to my grave
Let this heart be still

THORN WITHIN

Forgive me father, for I have sinned
Find me guilty of the life I feel within
When I'm branded, this mark of shame
Should I look down disgraced
Or straight ahead and know that you must blame

I am, I am the secret
I am, I am the sin
I am, I am the guilty
And I, I am the thorn within

Forgive me father, for I have sinned
Find me guilty when true guilt is from within
So point your fingers, point right at me
For I am shadows and will follow you whatever I see in my way

I am, I am the secret
I am, I am the sin
I am, I am the guilty
And I, I am the thorn within

I do your time
I take your fall
I'm branded guilty for us all

So point your fingers
Point right at me
For I am shadows and will follow you whatever I see in my way

I am, I am the secret
I am, I am the sin
I am, I am the guilty
And I, I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within

RONNIE

Story starts, quiet town
Small time boy, big time frown
Never talks, never plays
Different path, lost his way

Then streets of red, red I'm afraid
There's no confetti, no parade
Nothing happens in this boring place
But oh my god how it all did change

Now they all pray
Blood stain wash away
He said "lost my way"
This bloody day, lost my way
I heard him
He said "lost my way"
This bloody day, lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today

I always said, something wrong
With little strange Ronnie Long
Never laughed, never smiled
Talked alone for miles and miles and miles
Gallow calls, son I say
Keep your smile but laugh all day
Think once again in this boring place
For little boys how they soon change

Now they all pray
Blood stain wash away
He said "lost my way"
This bloody day, lost my way
I heard him
He said "lost my way"
This bloody day, lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today

Yeah, well all the green things died
When Ronnie moved to this place
He said don't you dare ask why I'm cursed to wear this face
Now we all know why the children called him Ronnie Frown
When he pulled that gun from his pocket
They all fall down, down and down

He said "lost my way"
This bloody day, lost my way 
I heard him
He screamed "lost my way"
This bloody day, lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today

All things wash away
They all fall down
But blood stained the sun today
All things wash away
They all fall down
But blood stained the sun today

THE OUTLAW TORN

And now I wait my whole lifetime for you
And now I wait my whole lifetime for you
I ride the dirt I ride the tide for you
I search the outside search inside for you
To take back what you left me
I know I'll always burn to be
The one seeks so I may find
And now I wait my whole lifetime
My whole lifetime
The Outlaw Torn

So on I wait my whole lifetime for you
So on I wait my whole lifetime for you
The more I search the more my need for you
The more I blast the more I bleed for you
You make me smash the clock and feel
I'd rather die behind the wheel
Time was never on my side
So on I wait my whole lifetime
My whole lifetime
The Outlaw Torn
And I'm torn

Hear me, and if I close my mind in fear
Please pry it open
See me, and if my face becomes sincere
Beware
Hold me, and when I start to come undone
Stitch me together
Save me, and when you see me strut
Remind me of what left this outlaw torn

Hear me, me if I close my mind in fear
Please pry it open
See me, and if my face becomes sincere
Beware
Hold me, and when I start to come undone
Stitch me together
Save me, and when you see me strut
Remind me of what left this outlaw torn

 

 

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