Gold man bites down on a silver tongue
Takes a deep breath and blows the candle out
He knows the truth but he keeps it to himself
Here it is
You can only save yourself
Only yourself

When we bite the dust
We will hide our cuts from the world
When you're in the dirt
You don't show your hurt to the world

Cold man, white knuckles on the wheel
Well it's all just there to steal
You just gotta take it
Take it like the harridan you are

It's the time of the almost rain without you
I am in debt to night
And gone to earth for love
And I a shadow
And what of us? And what of me?
And what is left without you?

Hold your fear in check, my dear
It's got no place here
There's no need to fight
Just drift away on the new day

Find yourself a better way
To meet the future
It's all that you crave
A silhouette of the new day

Walk away from what you love
And all your people
Move into fog
And live again on the new day

Raise your head and fill your lungs
Breathe the autumn
Shame to be down in the thrall
Of the new day

The hour of almost rain
The night becomes the day
Daily finds you tearing out
All thе pages
That held all your thoughts
When you drеamed of the new day

It's not the world that shrinks from you
It's the old days
That line up behind
The monolith of the new day

Leave your principles at the door
Spare me
Purge your guilt for the nameless hoards
Thrill me you clown

You always beat the system somehow
Now the rats return to take their bow

A dog wakes inside the carnivore
A heart bleeds
A conscience won't help you to win the war
So fool me you fraud

Genghis K
Pinochet
Mao Tse Tung
Kim Il-Sung

Lost boy, with the shreds of your shoes on your feet
And the schoolgirls called you a freak
Long gone, with all that you are in a bag
And a paper cup held in your hand
(Watching you fumble, a paper cup held in your hand)

You have your pride, you're standing your own ground
Your dignity will never go
And your mind is pretty sound
You stare at the sun
You screw up your face and then you're done

Lost soul, camped at the side of the road
And the rain rises up through your toes
Brave man, with the egg running down past your nose
All the troubles you've had no one knows
(The future was yours, how it came to this no one knows)
Outside where the traffic cowers
And the past begins to fade away
Tell yourself it's just what the thunder said
So pack up your belongings and stop talking to yourself

All the friends I have, I made you a list
Even if it's true they don't all exist

Slack jaw, will you tell me of all that you were?
And the promises you made to her
Drink up, you can tell me of all that you've seen
While we wait for the light to turn green

Son go fetch the rifle now
I think there's something in the yard
I can see the herd is getting rattled
And the dogs are on their guard

LIAR

Well we came to make a home here
But there's something in the trees
We bolt the door, chain the gate, secure the homestead
But it's never gonna leave

LIAR

The wolf is at the door somehow
The culling of thе herd is now

Hey did you curse this place?
Did you fall to earth to cull the herd?
Strange gods above the earth
These things you just won't believe

In the shackles of the night
There are lights up in the sky
Scratching at the doors
They are coming through the walls
Twenty feet above the ground
They move without a sound
Among the garbage cans
A curse upon the land

LIAR

This ship is now under water
And the rats will never find their way back again
And my span, it gets shorter
And I don't appear to fit in my skin anymore

Somewhere else descends the rain in western ways
Upon the echo of the day
Just the ebbing of the day

See how they hang 'em high
And slap each other's backs
While the waters rise

Somewhere else descends the rain in western ways
Upon the echo of the day
Just the ebbing of the day

Walk the plank
Abandon ship
Take it slow don't lose your grip
Walk the plank and jump out of the fray

I've got intellectual tinnitus
And the ship already sank
Learn to rage correctly
Push me further down the plank

Up on deck the pack descends upon the scraps
Walk the plank and jump out of the fray
But I'd rather walk the plank
Yes I'd rather walk the plank

A coat of arms is all we are
The slow decay, a dying star
A sinkhole for the crawling of the hours

Afraid to be what I should be
The sum of all, of new and old
Experience has made me none the wiser

I'm afraid to be happy and I couldn't care less if I was to die

Chimera's wreck around my neck
To start again, to dream again
To fix the things that cursed me from the start

My father smiles at me the child
Now getting tired and losing drive
The clarity that age has brought to me

A new town in the 60's
Out of concrete a design made for tomorrow
And even when the rain comes
We can still find there's a future in tomorrow

I'm afraid to be happy and I couldn't care less if I was to die

These the things I did with my gifts
This the way I loved and I lived

Washed up on the shore
Don't need you no more
Chimera wreck will slip into the bottleneck

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You need but you'll never have
You dreamed but you never had the chance to be
What you wanna be
You grasp but you never hold
You ask but you're never told
Cos the truth hurts
This is the modern world

So you bide your time
With your fate resigned
To be paid in kind

You reach but you you never get
You breathe but you never let the past go
Do you ever learn?
You search but you never find
You hurt but you nevеr try to face facts
This is the modern world

So you bidе your time
With your fate resigned
To be paid in kind

When the flashbulb dies
And the humdrum thrives
Do you lose your pride?

One hundred rooftops stretch
Across a crowded skyline in relentless melt
The smog and cigarettes
Poisoning the well for those below alone

You beautiful young soul
I bend to you forever and I trust in you
I lose all self-control
Lay the nest with feathers, wave goodbye to youth

Falling back to earth
We get what we deserve
Strength to split the sky
What is born will die in timе
Love in the past tensе

We always end up here
Where nothing feels the same and all our dreams capsize
We ran out of ideas
And hold each other's promise for one final time

Falling back to earth
We get what we deserve
Strength to split the sky
What is born will die in time
Love in the past tense