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AIN'T MY BITCH

Outta my way
Outta my day
Outta your mind and into mine
Into no one
Into not one
Into your step but outta time

Head strong
What's wrong?
I've already heard this song
Before... you arrived
But now it's time to kiss your ass goodbye

Draggin' me down
Why you around?
So useless
It ain't my fall
It ain't my call
It ain't my bitch-a
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 ta hell again

Stand tall
Can't fall
Never even bend at all
Before... you arrived
But now it's time to kiss your ass goodbye

Draggin' me down
Why you around?
So useless
It ain't my fall
It ain't my call
It ain't my bitch-a

Outta my way!

Outta my way
Outta my day
Outta your mind and into mine
Into no one
Into not one
Into your step but outta time

Head strong
What's wrong?
I've already heard this song
Before... you arrived
And now it's time to kiss your ass goodbye
And now it's time to kiss your ass goodbye
And now it's time to kiss you...

Draggin' me down
Why you around?
So useless
It ain't my fall
It ain't my call
It ain't my bitch-a

No way but down
Why you 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 steppin' outta time
Ain't mine
Your kind
You're steppin' outta time

Draggin' me down
Why you around?
No foolin'
It ain't my fall
It ain't my call
It ain't my...
Bitch... you ain't mine

2 X 4

Yeah!
I'm a gonna make you, shake you, I take you
I'm a gonna be the a one who breaks you
Put the screws a to you, yeah my way
Yeah, c'mon, a c'mon, come and make my day!
Oh, make my day
Yeah!
Got some hell to pay you, I steal your thunder
The joy of vi'lent movement, pulls you under
Ooh, bite the bullet, well hard
Yeah but I die harder so go too far
Too far

Friction, fusion, retribution

I can't hear ya talk to me
I can't hear ya so talk to me
I can't hear ya are ya talking to me
I can't hear ya you talking to me
I can't hear ya time ta meet my lord
I can't hear ya talk to 2 by 4

Yeah!
I'm a gonna make you, shake you, take you
I'm a gonna be that one who breaks you
And put the screws a to ya, my way
Hey, c'mon, c'mon, come and make my day!
Make my day

Friction, fusion, retribution

I can't hear ya talk to me
I can't hear ya come talk to me
I can't hear ya you talking to me
Ooh, I can't a hear ya are ya talking to me
I can't hear ya time ta meet my lord
I can't hear ya talk to 2 by 4
Yeah, talk to 2 by 4
It don't take no more
C'mon yeah, c'mon woh
C'mon talk to 2 by 4
Talk inch to 2 by 4

Friction, fusion, retribution

I'm gonna make you talk to me
I wanna take you, ooh so talk to me
Hey, I can't hear ya are ya talking to me
I can't hear ya you talking to me
I can't hear ya time ta meet my lord
I can't hear ya talk to, talk to 2 by 4
She don't take no more, yeah

THE HOUSE JACK BUILT

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 again
Well on my way
But on my way to where I've been
It swallows me
As it takes me in its fog
Mm, I twist away
As I give this world the nod

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
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 the sin
Let the show begin
Let the show begin
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 tilts
Yes I am, I am, I am

Open my eyes
It swallows me
Is that you there
I twist away, away, away, 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
Until it sleeps
Until it sleeps

So tell me why you've choosen 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 can you hurt anyone
And the fear still shakes 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, no!

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

I'll tear me open, make you gone
No longer will you hurt anyone
And the hate still shapes me
So hold me until it sleeps
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 changed
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 crumbled and you're left with just a name
Where's your crown King Nothing?
Where's your crown?

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 changed
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 crumbled and you're left with just a name
Where's your crown King Nothing?
Where's your crown?

Huh!

(Spoken)
Wish I may, 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 crumbled and you're left with just a name
Where's your crown King Nothing?

Oh, you're just nothing
Where's your crown King Nothing?
Oh, you're just nothing
Absolutely nothing
Off to never, never land

HERO OF THE DAY

Mama 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?
Can't you hear your babies crying?
Mama they try and break me
Still they try and break me

'Scuze me while I tend to 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 made
For years can't hold off fear
No, I'm not all me
So please excuse me while I tend to how I feel

But now the dreams and waking screams that everlast the night
But now the dreams that everlast the night
So build the wall, behind it crawl
So build the wall
And hide until it's light
So can you hear your babies crying now?

Still the window burns
Time so slowly turns
Someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flames
Did you hear your name?
Can't you hear your babies crying?

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

BLEEDING ME

I'm diggin' my way
I'm diggin' my way to somethin'
I'm diggin' my way to somethin' better

I'm pushin' to stay
I'm pushin' to stay with somethin'
I'm pushin' to stay with somethin' 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
It tears me and I bleed, yeah
And I bleed, 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
Woh, ooh I can't take it
Caught under wheels roll
Oh, the bleeding of me
Ooh of me
The bleeding of me

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
Woh, woh, ooh I can't take it
Caught under wheels roll
Oh, the bleeding of me
Oh, the bleeding of me

I am the beast that feeds the beast
I am the blood
I am release

Come make me pure
Bleed me a cure
I'm caught, I'm caught, I'm caught 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, oh, the bleeding of me

I'm diggin' my way
I'm diggin' my way to somethin'
I'm diggin' my way to somethin' better

I'm pushin' to stay
I'm pushin' to stay with somethin'
I'm pushin' to stay with somethin' better
With somethin' better

CURE

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

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 them to I say
"I do believe"
Yeah, I do believe

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 I say
I do believe
Oh yeah, I do believe

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

Betting on the cure
Cause it must get better than this
Betting on the cure
Yeah ev'ryone's got to have the sickness
Cause ev'ryone seems to need the cure
Precious cure

I do believe
I do believe

Betting on the cure
It must get better than this
Need to feel secure
Yeah it's got to get better than this, this, this
It must get better than this
Betting on the cure
Ev'ryone's got to have the sickness
Cause ev'ryone seems to need the cure
I do believe
I do beleive
I do beleive

POOR TWISTED ME

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

Poor mistreated me
Poor mistreated me
I drown without a sea
Lungs filled with sorrow
Lungs filled with misery
Inhaling the deep dark blue
Woh, woh is me
Such a burden to be
Poor mistreated me, yeah yeah

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

To finally reach the shore
Survive the storm
Now you're bare and cold, yeah the sea was warm
So warm, you bathe your soul again
Good to feel my friend
Oh woh is me
I'm such a burden to see
Woh poor twisted me
Yeah, yeah yeah
Yo poor twisted me, yeah
Oh, yo, yo, poor twisted me

WASTING MY HATE

Good day
How do, and I'm sending a smile to you
Don't waste, waste your breath
And I won't waste my hate on you
Hate
Yeah!

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'm sending a smile to you
Don't waste, waste your breath
And I won't waste my hate on you
Waste my hate on you
Hate

Think you're worthy now
You think enough to even raise a brow
And to laugh and tip that two pronged crown

When I see my hands I see my feet
I feel that blood that pumps in beat
But where the hell's my mind goin' now
Get goin' now

Good day
How do, and I'm sending a smile to you
Don't waste, waste your breath
And I won't waste my hate on you
Waste my hate on you
Think I'll keep it for myself
Hate

Ain't gonna waste my hate
But I'm so greedy when they say
Better to give than to receive

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'm sending the smile to you
Don't waste, waste your breath
And I won't waste my hate on you
Waste my hate on you
Think I'll keep it for myself
Yeah!
Hate

MAMA SAID

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

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Or 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
Or 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
Spoken, help me be
I took your love for granted
Not a thing you said to me
I need your arms to welcome me
But cold stone's all I see

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Or 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

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 am, and I am, 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
One and the same are we

I am, I am the secret
I am, I am the sin
I am, I am the guilty
And I am, and I am, 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
One and the same are we

I am, I am your secret
I am, I am your sin
I am, I am your guilty
And I am, and I am, I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
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
Diff'rent path, lost his way

Dead 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, somethin' 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"
Yeah 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

(Spoken)
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
And they all fall down, down, down

He said "lost my way, this bloody day"
"Lost my way"
Yeah yeah 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
That's right
All things wash away
And they all fall down
But blood stained the sun today
All things wash away
And 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 who seeks so I may find
And now I wait my whole lifetime
An outlaw of torn
An outlaw of torn
And I'm 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 bless, 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
An outlaw of torn
An outlaw of torn
Yeah an outlaw of 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