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01. The Price Is Wrong

Music & lyrics by Periphery
Knock me out and put a stone on my head
Or throw me on the tracks where the steel can kill me quick
The sound of emergency is stapling a fright upon their ears
I'm feeling surrounded
I'm feeling the slap of one thousand shit-brains
Behold, my dark intentions rising from below

Beauty
Disgusting blood
Fatal wounds of the last emotion
All will pay the price

Now is the time that we separate our realities
Stopping a heart that beats inside the meddling
Correcting moments lost by living in the here and now
You're on the fucking block

Tell me any way I can relate now before the generation dies
Time keeps moving faster and faster,
And I can take the full step in killing the generation

Beauty
Disgusting blood
Fatal wounds of the last emotion
All will pay the price

Get off the fucking building
I'll send 'em sinking into the fires of fate
Every word is like a shotgun shell so burn inside my hell
I'll drown before the fucking ship hits the ocean floor and thank God
I'm not alive to see the slack-jawed generation spread its fucking seed

Tell me any way I can relate now before the generation dies
Time keeps moving faster and faster, and
I can take the full step in killing the generation

Beauty
Disgusting blood
Fatal wounds of the last emotion
All will pay the price

Pouring sludge into the mouth
They feed and I can't stand the stench of it
I didn't see the first and I sure won't see the last
But something has gotta give
Pouring sludge into the mouth
They feed and I can't stand the stench of it
I didn't see the first and I sure won't see the last
It would put a smile on my face just to take that breath away

Beauty
Disgusting blood
Fatal wounds of the last emotion
All will pay the price

02. Motormouth

Music & lyrics by Periphery
Tell me, mannequin what brings you to move?
Is it all of the colors in the magazine?
Following sucks
Paint your face now pose and filter the mood
Give it all you've got
You're just a click away from the fame now

Eat shit, motormouth
Swallow all of it down
You're pretty when you put the face on
And when you shut that mouth
Those chattering teeth lose my sympathy
Got a lot to say?
You've gotta leave it out of the game you play

Nothing you say holds any value
It weaves through the ears like a worm
Searching for light of the masses
Motormouth, swallow down shit like you know how
Swallow and shut up
Motormouth, swallow down shit like you know how
Swallow and shut up
Give it all you've got
You're just a click away from the fame

Eat shit, motormouth
Swallow all of it down
You're pretty when you put the face on
And when you shut that mouth
Those chattering teeth lose my sympathy
Got a lot to say?
You've gotta leave it out of the game you play

Only a conscience can stop me from beating you in
Not on the side of the fuck-stain you leave on the earth
I may not be the force constricting sin
But you defile this planet
There's shit in your grin
No way I can end this screaming alone
No way we can stop this unless we choose to grow
What will they find, digging around in that oh so empty mind?

03. Marigold

Music & lyrics by Periphery
Latched to this life like a death-grip
We're satisfied with the mundane and keeping out of sight
But still we are young
I'll stare the angels down,
Keep them in the back room,
Shut the door and let go
Now we stare at the grave cold and paralyzed
Pushing daisies while we still feel the sunshine
We are young
Slip through the marigolds and please our damaged souls

This place is holding me
Jump through the rope, let's make it credible
When blood is all we see, life is impossible

Death is coming 'round like a hurricane swirling
We're on the clock and the needle is turning
The misery is killing me slowly
Give me a spine to work it out

You're just another one wandering aimlessly until the grave
The signs of the times are upon us all
We're bleeding for tomorrow
Sucking on the mother's dead tit of sorrow
It's allright, we'll learn it all before we go
Snapped by the neck as we follow
Chin up, now tighten the rope
Leave it all hollow

This place is holding me
Jump through the rope, let's make it credible
When blood is all we see, life is impossible

Death is coming 'round like a hurricane swirling
We're on the clock and the needle is turning fast
The misery is killing me slowly
Give me a spine to work it out
No funeral
No pyre left burning
This body is dust in the wind that's hurling past
The misery is killing me slowly
Give me a spine to work it out

This place is holding me
Jump through the rope, let's make it credible
When blood is all we see, life is impossible

Death is coming 'round like a hurricane swirling
We're on the clock and the needle is turning fast
The misery is killing me slowly
Give me a spine to work it out
No funeral
No pyre left burning
This body is dust in the wind that's hurling past
The misery is killing me slowly
Give me a spine to work it out

04. The Way The News Goes...

Music & lyrics by Periphery
Wake up
As I stumble into a blinding light
Deeper breaths enough to kill the highest highs
Take one good look and I'm at the lowest low again
Down at the bottom, but I'm fine
Tears march to lullabies and beat me like a drum
It's not your average fucking misery
This heart has chords, but not a single one sounds new or fun
Hit strings in dissonance
Pick on and on

Show them how to fly away when this world is torn
If you feel like dying, lose that forever
You're shining and it shows

Living through the highest highs
You're shining and it shows
Down at the bottom, but I'm fine
I try to feed it, but it still wants more
Give me that feeling that I'm looking for

Show them how to fly away when this world is torn
If you feel like dying, lose that forever
You're shining and it shows

Wake up
As I stumble into a blinding light
Deeper breaths enough to kill the highest highs
Take one look and I'm at the lowest low again
At the bottom, but I'm fine
At the bottom, but it's all so wrong

Tears march to lullabies and beat me like a drum
It's not your average fucking misery
This heart has chords, but not a single one sounds new or fun
So long to sanity
For now that's how it goes

05. Remain Indoors

Music & lyrics by Periphery
Beauty is but a visual in fantasy
Mistakes are only real when you slip out of it
Beauty is but a visual in fantasy
Mistakes are only real when you become the mess
Fall back on the cloud, man when there's nothing new left to do
And there's not a single thought in the cross-hairs of your mind
Stop shouting from a mountain
Maybe sing a tune from within you
We've gotta move to the meadows from the mire

This is a view from outer tunnel-vision
I'm holding position
This is a view from outer tunnel-vision

Now let go of your senses and let go of your time
We already know the message is gold
Can't we lighten the stride?
No reflection shows the dark on our side
We already know the message is gold
Can't we lighten the stride?

Beauty is but a visual in fantasy
Mistakes are only real when you slip out of it
Beauty is but a visual in fantasy
Mistakes are only real when you become the mess

Now let go of your senses and let go of your time
We already know that the message is gold
Can't we lighten the stride?
No reflection shows the dark on our side
We already know the fucking message is gold
So let's lighten the stride

You can follow with me
Or keep walking against me
It doesn't fucking matter, because I tried
You can follow with me
Or keep walking against me
It doesn't make a goddamn difference

Now let go of your senses and let go of your time
We already know the message is gold
Can't we lighten the stride?
No reflection shows the dark on our side
We already know the message is gold
Can't we lighten the stride?

This is a view from outer tunnel-vision
I'm holding position
This is a view from outer tunnel-vision

06. Habitual Line-Stepper

Music & lyrics by Periphery
We walked the line
Living in a state of mind controlled by a tyrant
Mistakes burn
Never did he learn to back off and spit that shit
I'm that motherfucker picking in your old brain and stealing sleep
Take the dive or keep it alive?
Now it's on you

Your tower is falling down into a black hole
Take it away
Take it away now
The agony is crumbling over your soul
Take it away
Take it away now

I'd like to take the prize of your high and jam it deep down your throat
They're calling for the stage to take their breath away
You were the barricading man
They're calling for the stage to give everything away
You were the barricading man

Your tower is falling down into a black hole
Take it away
Take it away now
The agony is crumbling over your soul
Take it away
Take it away now

Lost in the violent throes of this separation
Done waiting on pleasant times
They never arrived
Lost in the violent throes of this separation
Know what you're waiting for?
Watch as they burn your home
I felt insane, but It's finally come home to me...
My dear brain, hate
Feel hate
Let go of all your fear

They're calling for the stage to take their breath away
You were the barricading man
They're calling for the stage to give everything away
You were the barricading man

Show us the way
Your tower is falling down into the hole
The agony is pouring over your damn soul
Was there a way to be a better man and stay?
Was there a way?
We'll never know
Show us the way
Was there a way to be a better man and stay?
Was there a way?
We'll never know

07. Flatline

Music & lyrics by Periphery
Your eyes judge like a jury locked in a trial
No respect for the odd and innocent
Guilty
Now shut the doors and then open fire
Some fail to make the connection and lose beauty in a mound of rejection
Can't we understand that no life is out of our hands?
Suffocation and the fear of living is setting in, so let go before he lets go
Patience is wearing thin and leaving him so let go, before he lets go of this life
I wonder what goes on before he lets go

He says:
Send an angel to pull me from the hell below
This weight is far too much to own and this body doesn't feel like home
Send an angel
I feel I'm dying all alone
So lift me up or let me go
Because this body doesn't feel like home
This body doesn't feel like home

Love feels far away
The lack of motivation keeps his soul from bettering his own life
Now he's next level with a bottle and a blade
Retreating it his own way
Suffocation and the fear of living is setting in
So let go before he lets go
Patience is wearing thin and leaving him so let go
Before he lets go of this life
I wonder what goes on behind those bloodshot eyes
I wonder what goes on before he lets go

He says:
Send an angel to pull me from the hell below
This weight is far too much to own and this body doesn't feel like home
Send an angel
I feel I'm dying all alone
So lift me up or let me go, because this body doesn't feel like home

Sleep now and carry on into the black of the night
Sleep now and you'll be on your way
There's another one moving on from the flatline
Sleep now and carry on into the black of the night
Sleep now and you'll be on your way
There's another one moving on from the flatline

Slip into the fray
Slip between the night and day

Sleep now and carry on into the black of the night
At peace with everything, but it doesn't make it right
There's another one moving on from the flatline
Sleep now and carry on into the black of the night
At peace with everything, but it doesn't make it right
There's another one moving on from the flatline

08. Absolomb

Music & lyrics by Periphery
Reputations made
I failed to save
The cold I seek is all I'll feel
Today I'm selling mine after all
Watch it all fade away to gray
I sold it to rule the world
If only I could rescue you
Cleaning up the mess we've made
It's not the same without your love

Do you care at all?
I don't see a difference
Is this love at all?

We stayed so close in this life at one time
Now I watch as you fade away
Behind the wall of hate inside your mind
Will we meet again?
I'll be waiting beyond the edge
Forever frozen
Now time stops again
Revelation

I've found that it's all gone
The absence within us grows
Illuminate the way we choose to flow

Do you care at all?
I don't see a difference
Is this a love at all?

I hold one last feeling of hope
Our paths will meet again
Beyond the edge
Forever frozen
Time stops now

09. Catch Fire

Music & lyrics by Periphery
Lock eyes like we're staring down the barrel of a shotgun
Appear so quickly
Leave as swiftly as you came
Sometimes I wish I had the measure of a wise man
But I set the mood, plant the tomb and bury all the bones within
It sure is something when we all catch fire
Bodies burning like the sunrise

Stay with me, I'll show you paradise
It feels so right
Give me that peace of mind and I'll give you everything
Just know it feels so good that I could die and be alright

Alive
We breathe when everthing is as it seems
But is there something much more?
Underneath the sheets, beneath the skin
There's a beauty waiting to be adored
We're cradled in the thick of it, but too ignorant to give a shit
We set the mood, we plant the tomb and bury all the bones within
Don't keep me hanging from the mouth
It sure is something when we all catch fire
Bodies burning like the sunrise

Stay with me, I'll show you paradise
It feels so right
Give me that peace of mind and I'll give you everything
Just know it feels so good that I could die and join the stars
Give me that peace of mind and I'll give you everything
Stay with me, I'll show you paradise
It feels so right

We exist in this moment only to fly
Just stay with me
Twisting love as we hold it on the inside
Just stay with me

It sure is something when we all catch fire
Bodies burning like the sunrise

Stay with me, I'll show you paradise
It feels so right
Give me that peace of mind and I'll give you everything
Just know it feels so good that I could die and join the stars
Give me that peace of mind and I'll give you everything
Stay with me, I'll show you paradise
It feels so right

10. Prayer Position

Music & lyrics by Periphery
Another day pulls me down to my knees and
Holds the gun to my fucking head
Can't feel a thing
Prayer position holding my life above the muck
Oh god, I'm speaking in swirling bowls
Now the walls are laughing in silence
I'm spiraling down to the floor
Can't feel a thing
When will it end?
When is it over?
When can I live?
The bar is held down on my throat
Kicking and screaming, I live this life down in a hole

Take away misery tomorrow
Shine a light to end this dimming glow
Take away misery tomorrow
Shine a light to end this dimming glow

The day is gone
Now turns the night
Our bodies glow ever so bright
The crash is done
We reach new highs
Our bodies glow ever so bright
Venture through these eyes and lose all time

Scratch the itch and murder the body for pleasure
Sparking it up
Breathing the fire we crave
Guzzle it down
Feeling the sparkle together
Ante it up and blow me away for the high
Let's go
What are we doing and where have the morals all gone?
Now is the time
This is the feeling we treasure
You won't remember, but godamnit it's fine
The bar is held down on my throat
Kicking and screaming, I live this life down in a hole

Take away misery tomorrow
Shine a light and end this dimming glow
Take away misery tomorrow
Shine a light to end this dimming glow

Stomp my head, throw it down in a hole
Stomp on my heart
Let's go

11. Lune

Music & lyrics by Periphery
Snow coming down now like December
Burning up in the summer rays
But I'm not stumbling like a pretender
Medicine is flowing through my veins
Heavy eyes, but the tongue won't stutter
Mouths are moving and this heart is still fluttering
I'm on my own

You found me in the cold
Now I am wrapped within the warmth of your touch
There's never a moment that I let slip by in your eyes
Are we growing old and am I melting in the rays of this love?
Never ever gonna let you go
Don't let go

Slow it down now
I cannot remember why I let them chew on my brain
They've come and left this town in smoldering embers
But, my dear I'll die in your rain
Heavy eyes, but the tongue won't stutter
Mouths are moving and this heart is still fluttering
I'm on my own

You found me in the cold
Now I am wrapped within the warmth of your touch
There's never a moment that I let slip by in your eyes
Are we growing old and am I melting in the rays of this love?
Never ever gonna let you go
Don't let go

Do you feel the love?
Yes I feel the love
Taste it, hold it, feel it, never let it go
Do you feel the love?
Yes I feel the love
Do you feel the love?
Yes I feel the love
Taste it, hold it, feel it, never let it go
Do you feel the love?
Yes I feel the love
Don't let it go