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01. The Hollow

Music by A Perfect Circle
Lyrics by Billy Howerdel, Maynard James Keenan
Run desire, run
Sexual being
Run him like a blade
To and through the heart
No conscience
One motive
To cater to the hollow

Screaming feed me, here
Fill me up again
And temporarily pacify this hungering

So grow
Libido throw
Dominoes of indiscretions down
Falling all around
In cycles
In circles
Constantly consuming
Conquer and devour

'Cause it's time to bring the fire down
Bridle all this indiscretion
Long enough to edify
And permanently fill this hollow

Screaming feed me, here
Fill me up again
And temporarily pacifying

Feed me, here
Fill me up again
And
Temporarily pacifying

02. Magdalena

Music by A Perfect Circle
Lyrics by Billy Howerdel, Maynard James Keenan
Overcome by your
Moving temple
Overcome by this
Holiest of altars

So pure
So rare
To witness such an earthly goddess
That I've lost my self control
Beyond compelled to throw this dollar

Down before your
Holiest of altars

I'd sell my soul
And my self-esteem
A dollar at a time
For one chance
One kiss
One taste of you
My Magdalena

I bear witness
To this place
This prayer
So long forgotten
So pure
So rare
To witness such an earthly goddess

That I'd sell my soul
My self-esteem
A dollar at a time
For one chance
One kiss
One taste of you
My black Madonna

I'd sell my soul
And my self-esteem
A dollar at a time
For one taste
One taste
One taste of you
My Magdalena

03. Rose

Music by A Perfect Circle
Lyrics by Billy Howerdel, Maynard James Keenan
Don't disturb
The beast
The temperamental goat
The snail
While he's feeding on
The rose
Stay frozen
Compromise
What I will
I am

Bend around
The wind silently thrown about
Again I'm treading so soft and lightly
Compromising my will
I am

I am
I will
So no longer
Will I lay down
Play dead
Play your doe
In the headlight
Locked down and terrified
Your deer in the headlights
Shot down and horrified
When push comes to
Pull comes to shove
Comes to step around this
Self-destructive dance
That never would've ended
'Til I rose
I roared aloud here
I will
I am

I am
I will
So no longer
Will I lay down
Lay dead
Play this
Kneel down
Gun-shy martyr
Pitiful
I rose
I roared
I will
I am

04. Judith

Music by A Perfect Circle
Lyrics by Billy Howerdel, Maynard James Keenan
You're such an inspiration for the ways
That I will never, ever choose to be
Oh, so many ways for me to show you
How your savior has abandoned you

Fuck your God
Your Lord
Your Christ
He did this
Took all you had
And left you this way
Still you pray
You never stray
Never taste of the fruit
Never thought to question why

It's not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a hateful spear into his side
Praise the one who left you
Broken down and paralyzed
He did it all for you

He did it all for you

Oh, so many ways for me to show you
How your dogma has abandoned you

Pray to your Christ
To your God
Never taste of the fruit
Never stray
Never break
Never choke on a lie!
Even though he's the one who
Did this to you
Never thought to question why

Not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
Talk to Jesus Christ
As if He knows the reasons why
He did it all for you, oh

He did it all for you, whoa

He did it all for you

05. Orestes

Music by A Perfect Circle
Lyrics by Billy Howerdel, Maynard James Keenan
Metaphor for a missing moment
Pull me in to your perfect circle
One womb
One shame
One resolve
Liberate this will
To release us all

Gotta cut away
Clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue
That's keeping me from killing you

And from pulling you
Down with me here
I can almost hear you scream

Give me
One more medicated
Peaceful moment
Give me
One more medicated
Peaceful moment

And I don't wanna feel this
Overwhelming hostility
I don't wanna feel this
Overwhelming hostility

Gotta cut away
Clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue
Gotta cut away
Clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue
Keeping me from killing you

(Snip away and sever this)
Keeping me from killing you

06. 3 Libras

Music by A Perfect Circle
Lyrics by Billy Howerdel, Maynard James Keenan
Threw you the obvious and you flew with it on your back
A name in your recollection, down among a million same
Difficult not to feel a little bit disappointed, and passed over
When I've looked right through, see you naked but oblivious

And you don't see me

But I threw you the obvious, just to see if there's more behind the
Eyes of a fallen angel, eyes of a tragedy
Here I am expecting just a little bit too much from the wounded
But I see, see through it all, see through, see you

'Cause I threw you the obvious, to see what occurs behind the
Eyes of a fallen angel, eyes of a tragedy, oh well

Oh well, apparently nothing
Apparently nothing, at all

You don't, you don't, you don't see me
You don't, you don't, you don't see me
You don't, you don't, you don't see me
You don't, you don't, you don't see me
You don't see me
You don't, you don't, you don't, you don't see me at all

07. Sleeping Beauty

Music by A Perfect Circle
Lyrics by Billy Howerdel, Maynard James Keenan
Delusional
I believe I could cure it all for you, dear
Coax or trick or drive or
Drag the demons from you
Make it right for you
Sleeping beauty
Truly thought I could
Magically heal you

You're far beyond a
Visible sign of your awakening
I'm failing miserably to rescue

Sleeping beauty

Drunk on ego
Truly thought I could make it right
If I kissed you one more time
To help you face the nightmare
But you're far too poisoned for me
Such a fool to think that I could
Wake you from your slumber
That I could actually heal you

Sleeping beauty
Poisoned and hopeless

You're far beyond a
Visible sign of your awakening
Failing miserably
To find a way to comfort you
Far beyond a
Visible sign of your awakening
And hiding from some poisoned memory

Poisoned and hopeless
Sleeping beauty

08. Thomas

Music by A Perfect Circle
Lyrics by Billy Howerdel, Maynard James Keenan
Humble and helpless
And learning to pray
Praying for visions
To show me the way

Show me the way to forgive you
Allow me to let it go
Allow me to be forgiven
Show me the way to let go

Show me the way to forgive you
Allow me to let it go
You'll allow me to be forgiven
And then show me the way to let go

Illuminate me
Illuminate me
Illuminate me
I'm just praying for you
To show me where I'm to begin

Hoping to
Hoping to
Hoping to
Hoping to reconnect to you
Hoping to reconnect to you

09. Renholdër

Music by A Perfect Circle
Lyrics by Billy Howerdel, Maynard James Keenan
I could know who you are
I could knkw your mind
Lies
I will not
I will not fall down

10. Thinking of You

Music by A Perfect Circle
Lyrics by Bolly Howerdel, Maynard James Keenan
Lying all alone and restless
Unable to lose this image
Sleepless, unable to focus on
Anything but your surrender

Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head
Tugging a beat to the sight of you lying
So delighted with a new understanding
Something about a little evil that makes that
Unmistakable noise I was hearing
Unmistakable sound that I know so well
Spent and sighing with a look in your eyes
Spent and sweating with a look on your face like

Sweet revelation
Sweet surrender
Surrender
Surrender
Surrender

Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head
Tugging a beat to the sight of you lying
So delighted with a new understanding
Something about a little evil that makes that
Unmistakable noise I was hearing
Unmistakable sound that I know so well
Spent and sighing with a look in your eyes
Spent and sweating with a look on your face like

Sweet revelation
Sweet surrendering
Sweet revelation
Sweet

Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking
Thinking of you, thinking of you, thinking

Sweet revelation
Sweet surrendering
Sweet revelation

11. Breña

Music by A Perfect Circle
Lyrics by Billy Howerdel, Maynard James Keenan
My reflection
Wraps and pulls me under
Healing waters to be
Bathed in Breña

Guide me safely in
Worlds I've never been to
Heal me, heal me
My dear Breña

Vulnerable
It's alright

Heal me, heal me
My dear Breña
Show me lonely and
Show me openings
To lead me closer to you
My dear Breña

Vulnerable
It's alright

Opening to heal
Opening to heal
Heal, heal, heal
Heal me

12. Over

Music by A Perfect Circle
Lyrics by Billy Howerdel, Maynard James Keenan
Been over, been over this before
Been over and over
Been over this before

And over, been over this before
So over this
Been over this
So over this
Been over this
Over this before