ONCE

I admit it...what's to say...yeah...

I'll relive it...without pain...mmm...

Backstreet lover on the side of the road

I got a bomb in my temple that is gonna explode

I got a sixteen gauge buried under my clothes, I play...

Once upon a time I could control myself

Ooh, once upon a time I could lose myself, yeah...

Oh, try and mimic what's insane...ooh, yeah...

I am in it...where do I stand?

Oh, Indian summer and I hate the heat

I got a backstreet lover on the passenger seat

I got my hand in my pocket, so determined, discreet...I pray...

Once upon a time I could control myself

Ooh, once upon a time I could lose myself, yeah, yeah...

You think I got my eyes closed

But I'm lookin' at you the whole fuckin' time...

Ooh, once upon a time I could control myself, yeah...

Once upon a time I could lose myself, yeah, yeah, yeah...

Once, upon a time I could love myself, yeah...

Once upon a time I could love you, yeah, yeah, yeah...

Once (4x)

Yeah...once, once...yeah, yeah...

Yeah...yeah, yeah...yeah, yeah...oww...

EVEN FLOW

Freezin', rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again

Oh, Feelin' maybe he'll see a little better set a days, ooh yeah

Oh, hand out, faces that he sees time again ain't that familiar, ooh yeah

Oh, dark grin, he can't help, when he's happy looks insane, oh yeah

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies

Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away, yeah...ooh...

Oh, someday yet, he'll begin his life again...life again...life again...

Kneelin', looking through the paper though he doesn't know to read, ooh yeah

Oh, prayin', now to something that has never showed him anything

Oh, feelin', understands the weather of the winters on its way

Oh, ceilings, few and far between all the legal halls of shame, yeah...

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies

Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away, yeah...

Someday yet, he'll begin his life again

Oh, whispering hands, gently lead, lead him away...him away, him away...

Yeah! Woo...ah yeah...fuck it up...

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies

Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away...

Ooh, someday yet, he'll begin his life again, yeah

Oh, whispering hands, gently lead, lead him away...him away...him away...

Yeah! Woo...uh huh...yeah, yeah, mommy, mommy...

ALIVE

Son, she said, have I got a little story for you

What you thought was your daddy was nothin' but a...

While you were sittin' home alone at age thirteen

Your real daddy was dyin', sorry you didn't see him, but I'm glad we talked...

Oh I, oh, I'm still alive

Hey, I, I, oh, I'm still alive

Hey I, oh, I'm still alive

Hey...oh...

Oh, she walks slowly, across a young man's room

She said I'm ready...for you

I can't remember anything to this very day

'Cept the look, the look...

Oh, you know where, now I can't see, I just stare...

I, I'm still alive

Hey I, but, I'm still alive

Hey I, boy, I'm still alive

Hey I, I, I, I'm still alive, yeah

Ooh yeah...yeah yeah yeah...oh...oh...

Is something wrong, she said

Well of course there is

You're still alive, she said

Oh, and do I deserve to be

Is that the question

And if so...if so...who answers...who answers...

I, oh, I'm still alive

Hey I, oh, I'm still alive

Hey I, but, I'm still alive

Yeah I, ooh, I'm still alive

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

WHY GO

She scratches a letter into a wall made of stone

Maybe someday another child won't feel as alone as she does

It's been two years, and counting, since they put her in this place

She's been diagnosed by some stupid fuck, and mommy agrees, yeah...

Whoa...yeah...hey yeah yeah...

Why go home... (3x)

She seems to be stronger, but what they want her to be is weak

She could play pretend, she could join the game, boy

She could be another clone...ooh...whoa...ah yeah...

Ooh...

Why go home? (4x)

What you taught me...put me here...don't come visit...mother...

Sting me...

Whoa...ooh...

Why go home? (4x)

What you taught me...put me here...don't come visit...mother, mother, yeah...

Why go home? (7x)

Whoa...

BLACK

Hey...oooh...

Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay

Were laid spread out before me as her body once did

All five horizons revolved around her soul

As the earth to the sun

Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn

Ooh, and all I taught her was everything

Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore

And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds

Of what was everything?

Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

I take a walk outside

I'm surrounded by some kids at play

I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear

Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head

I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning

How quick the sun can, drop away

And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass

Of what was everything?

All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

All the love gone bad turned my world to black

Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll ever be...yeah...

Uh huh...uh huh...ooh...

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star

In somebody else's sky, but why

Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine

JEREMY

At home, drawing pictures of mountain tops with him on top

Lemin yellow sun, arms raised in a V

And the dead lay in pools of maroon below

Daddy didn't give attention

Oh, to the fact that mommy didn't care

King Jeremy the wicked...oh, ruled his world...

Jeremy spoke in class today... (2x)

Clearly I remember pickin' on the boy

Seemed a harmless little fuck

Ooh, but we unleashed a lion...

Gnashed his teeth and bit the recess lady's breast...

How can I forget?

And he hit me with a surprise left

My jaw left hurtin'...ooh, dropped wide open

Just like the day...oh, like the day I heard

Daddy didn't give affection, no...

And the boy was something that mommy wouldn't wear

King Jeremy the wicked...oh, ruled his world

Jeremy spoke in class today... (3x)

Woo... (14x)

Try to forget this...try to forget this...

Try to erase this...try to erase this...

From the blackboard...

Jeremy spoke in class today... (2x)

Jeremy spoke in, spoke in... (2x)

Jeremy spoke in class today...

Woo... (29x)

Woooooohhh...spoke in, spoke in...

Woooooohhh...uh huh, uh huh...

OCEANS

Hold on to the thread

The currents will shift

Glide me towards...

You know something's left

And we're all allowed

To dream of the next

Oh, ohh the next, time we touch...

Oooh... (4x)

You don't have to stray

Tho oceans away

Waves roll in my thoughts

Hold tight the ring...

The sea will rise...

Please stand by the shore...

Oh, oh, oh, I will be...

I will be there once more...

Oooh... (4x)

Uh huh, oh yeah... (2x)

PORCH

What the fuck is this world

Running to, you didn't

Leave a message, at least I

Coulda' learned your voice one last time

Daily minefield, this could

Be my time, 'bout you?

Would you hit me? (2x)

Oh oh oh...oh whoa whoa...ow...

All the bills go by, and

Initiatives are taken up

By the middle, there ain't gonna be any middle any more

And the cross I'm bearing home

Ain't indicative of my place

Left the porch (2x)

Oh oh oh...

Hear my name, take a good look

This could be the day

Hold my hand, walk beside me

I just need to say...

Hear my name, take a good look

This could be the day

Hold my hand, lie beside me

I just need to say

I could not take a-just one day

I know when I would not ever touch you

Hold you...feel you...in my arms...never again...

Yeah... (12x)

GARDEN

She don't wander in...don't wander in here, she...

She don't wander in here...don't wander in here...

The direction of the eye, so misleading

The defection of the soul, nauseously quick

I don't question, our existence

I just question, our modern needs

She don't wander in...don't wander in here, she...

She don't wander in here...

I will walk...with my hands bound

I will walk...with my face blood

I will walk...with my shadow flag

Into your garden, garden of stone...yeah...

After all is done, and we're still alone

I won't be taken, yet I'll go...with my hands bound

I will walk...with my face blood

I will walk...with my shadow flag

Into your garden, garden of stone

I don't show...I don't share...

I don't need, yeah...What you have to give...

Oooh, I will walk...with my hands bound

I will walk...with my face blood

I will walk...with my shadow flag

Into your garden, garden...oh...

I will walk with my hands bound

I will walk into your garden, garden of stone...

I don't know...I don't care...

I don't need you for me to live...yeah, yeah, yeah, oh...

Uh huh huh... (8x)

DEEP

On the edge, windowsill

Ponders his maker, ponders his will

To the street below, he just ain't nothin'

But he's got a great view, and he sinks the needle deep, yeah...

Whoa, can't touch the bottom

In too deep, yeah...oh, can't touch the bottom

Oh, on the edge of a know-nothin' town

Feelin' quite superior, the aged come

To the sky above he just ain't nothin'

But he's got a great view, and he sinks a burning knife deep, yeah...

Ooh, can't touch the bottom

In too deep, yeah...uh huh, can't touch the bottom

In too deep...

Ohhh...Ohhh...

Ow...

On the edge of a Christmas clean love

Young virgin from heaven...visiting Hell

To the man above her, she just ain't nothin'

And she doesn't like the view

She doesn't like the view (2x)

But he sinks himself deep

Oh, can't touch the bottom

In too deep, yeah...oh, can't touch the bottom

Can't touch the bottom

Deep, yeah...

Oh, yeah, the bottom, yeah... (6x)

Ohh...

RELEASE

Father...ooh...oh...oh...

I see the world, feel the chill

Which way to go, windowsill

I see the world's on a rocking horse of time

I see the verse in the rain

Ohh...ohh...ohh...ohh...

Oh, dear dad, can you see me now

I am myself, like you somehow

I'll ride the wave where it takes me

I'll hold the pain...Release me...

Ohh...ohh...ohh...ohh...

Oh, dear dad, can you see me now

I am myself, like you somehow

I'll wait up in the dark for you to speak to me

I'll open up...Release me...

Release me (3x)

Ohh...ohh...ohh...ohh...

GO

Oh, please don't go out on me, don't go out on me now

Never acted up before, don't go on me now

I swear I never took it for granted, just thought of it now

Suppose I abused you, just passing it on

Go...fuck...

Once fastened, servile, now your getting sharp

Moving oh so swiftly, with such disarm

I pulled the covers over him, shoulda' pulled the alarm

Turned to my nemesis, a full on fucking god

No...time...suck...my...Please...

Don't go on me (4x)

Please...oh...

Suck...blood...touch...please, tunnel vision...tuck...time...see...

Please, please, please...

Don't go on me (4x)

Please...Don't you want me...don't go on me...

Please...don't go on me..

ANIMAL

One, two, three, four, five against one

Five, five, against one

Said one, two, three, four, five against one

Five, five...five, five...five against one

Torture from you to me

Abducted from the street

I'd rather be...

I'd rather be with...

I'd rather be with an animal

Why would you wanna hurt me, oh

Oh, so frightened of your pain...yeah...ooh...

I'd rather be...

I'd rather be with...

I'd rather be with an animal

I'd rather be... (2x)

I'd rather be with an animal

I'd rather be...

I'd rather be with...

I'd rather be with an animal

I'd rather be...

I'd rather be with...

I'd rather be with an animal

Said one, two, three, four, five against one

Five, five...five, five...five against one

One, two, three, four, five against one

Five, five...five, five...five against one

DAUGHTER

You guys ready...

Alone...listless...breakfast table in an otherwise empty room

Young girl...violins...center of her own attention

The, mother reads aloud, child, tries to understand it

Tries to make her proud

The shades go down, it's in her head

Painted room...can't deny there's something wrong...

Don't call me daughter, not fit to

The picture kept will remind me

Don't call me daughter, not fit to

The picture kept will remind me

Don't call me...

She holds the hand that holds her down

She will...rise above...ooh...oh...

Don't call me daughter, not fit to }

The picture kept will remind me } (2x)

Don't call me daughter, not fit to be }

The picture kept will remind me }

Don't call me...

The shades go down (2x)

The shades go, go, go...

GLORIFIED G

Got a gun, fact I got two

That's O.K. man, cuz I love god

Glorified version of a pellet gun

Feels so manly, when armed

Glorified version of a pellet gun (4x)

Double think, dumb is strength

Never shot at a living thing

Glorified version of a pellet gun

Feels so manly, when armed

Glorified version of a pellet gun (3x)

Glorified version of a...

Always keep it loaded (3x)

Kindred to be an American...

Life comes...I can feel your heart...

Ooh...life comes...I can feel your heart through your neck...

Life comes...I can feel your heart through your neck...

Like some...I can steal your heart form your neck...

Glorified...glorified...

DISSIDENT

She nursed him there, ooh, over a night

I wasn't so sure she wanted him to stay

What to say...what to say

But soon she was down, soon he was low

At a quarter past...a holy no...

She had to turn around

When she couldn't hold, oh...she folded...

A dissident is here

Escape is never, the safest path

Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here

And to this day, she's glided on

Always home but so far away

Like a word misplaced

Nothing said, what a waste

When she had contact...with the conflict...

There was meaning, but she sold him to the state

She had to turn around

When she couldn't hold...she folded...

A dissident is here

Escape is never, the safest path

Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here, oh...oh...oh...

She gave him away when she couldn't hold...no...she folded...

A dissident is here

Escape is never, the safest path

Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here, oh...

Couldn't hold on...she couldn't hold...no...she folded...

A dissident is here

Escape is never the safest place, oh...

A dissident is here

W.M.A.

He won the lottery when he was born

Took his mothers white breast to his tongue

Trained like dogs, color and smell

Walks by me to get to him

Police man (2x)

He won the lottery by being born

Big hand slapped a white male 'merican

Do no wrong, so clean cut...

Dirty his hands, it comes right off

Police man (2x)

Police stopped my brother again (3x)

Police man (2x)

Jesus greets me...looks just like me...

Do no wrong, so clean cut

Dirty his hands, it comes right off

Police man (3x)

Police stopped my brother again (3x)

Police man (2x)

Police stopped my brother again (3x)

Police man (3X)

All my pieces set me free...human devices set me free...

All my pieces set me free... (2x) } (2x)

Human devices set me free... (2x) }

BLOOD

Spin me round, roll me over, fuckin' circus

Stab it down, one way needle, pulled so slowly

Drains and spills, soaks the pages, fills their sponges

It's my blood (2x)

Paint Ed big...Turn Ed into...One of his enemies...

It's my blood (3x)

Stab it down, fill the pages, suck my life out

Maker of my enemies...

Take...my...

Fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck...

REARVIEWMIRROR

I took a drive today

Time to emancipate

I guess it was the beatings made me wise

But I'm not about to give thanks, or apologize

I couldn't breathe, holdin' me down

Hand on my face, pushed to the ground

Enmity gaged, united by fear

Forced to endure what I could not forgive...

I seem to look away

Wounds in the mirror waved

It wasn't my surface most defiled

Head at your feet, fool to your crown

Fist on my plate, swallowed it down

Enmity gaged, united by fear

Tried to endure what I could not forgive

Saw things (4x)

Clearer (2x)

Once you, were in my...Rearview mirror...

I gather speed from you fucking with me

Once and for all I'm far away

I hardly believe, finally the shades...are raised...hey...

Saw things so much clearer }

Once you, once you... } (3x)

Rearview mirror }

Saw things so much clearer

Once you...oh yeah...

RATS

They don't eat, don't sleep

They don't feed, they don't seethe

Bare their gums when they moan and squeak

Lick the dirt off a larger one's feet

They don't push, don't crowd

Congregate until they're much too loud

Fuck to procreate till they are dead

Drink the blood of their so called best friend

They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way

Don't pack themselves together and run as one

Don't shit where they're not supposed to

Don't take what's not theirs, they don't compare

They don't scam, don't fight

Don't oppress an equals given rights

Starve the poor so they can be well fed

Line their holes with the dead ones bread

They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way }

Don't pack themselves together and run as one } (2x)

Don't shit where they're not supposed to }

Don't take what's not theirs, they don't compare... }

Rats...They don't compare (2x)

Ben, the two of us need look no more (5X)

ELDERLY WOMAN BEHIND THE COUNTER IN A SMALL TOWN

I seem to recognize your face

Haunting, familiar, yet I can't seem to place it

Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name

Lifetimes are catching up with me

All these changes taking place, I wish I'd seen the place

But no one's ever taken me

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (2x)

I swear I recognize your breath

Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising

Me you wouldn't recall, for I'm not my former

It's hard when you're stuck upon the shelf

I changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my fate

Perhaps that's what no one wants to see

I just want to scream...hello...

My god its been so long, never dreamed you'd return

But now here you are, and here I am

Hearts and thoughts they fade...away...

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (2x)

Hearts and thoughts they fade...away...

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (3x)

Hearts and thoughts they fade...

LEASH

Troubled souls unite, we got ourselves tonight, oh...

I am fuel, you are friends, we got the means to make amends

I am lost, I'm no guide, but I'm by your side

I am right by your side, yeah...

Young lover I stand

It was their idea, I proved to be a man

Take my fucking hand

It was their idea, I proved to be a man

Will myself to find a home, a home within myself

We will find a way, we will find our place

Drop the leash, drop the leash... } (3x)

Get outta' my fuckin' face }

Drop the leash, we are young (2x)

Oh, get outta' my fuckin' face...

Drop the leash, drop the leash...

Get outta' my, my...

Delight, delight, delight in our youth...oww...

Get outta' my fuckin' face...

INDIFFERENCE

I will light the match this mornin', so I won't be alone

Watch as she lies silent, for soon night will be gone

Oh, I will stand arms outstretched, pretend I'm free to roam

Oh, I will make my way, through, one more day in Hell...

How much difference does it make

How much difference does it make, yeah...

I will hold the candle till it burns up my arm

Oh, I'll keep takin' punches until their will grows tired

Oh, I will stare the sun down until my eyes go blind

Hey, I won't change direction, and I won't change my mind

How much difference does it make

Mmm, how much difference does it make...how much difference...

I'll swallow poison, until I grow immune

I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room

How much difference (2x)