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Apathy
06:38
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VERSE
I’m feeling so depressed, yes
Can’t be bothered to get dressed, stressed
And I’m feeling so ashamed
But I’ve got no one to blame
Except me. Except you
CHORUS
Maybe I’ve found a way, to make it through each day, I don’t know
Friends say I’m looking well, found my way from hell, but I’ve got nowhere to go now
I don’t care about anyone, I don’t care about anything, I don’t care about myself.
It’s apathy, not empathy, or fantasy, that’s set me free
VERSE
All my skills have faded.
I feel deluded and degraded
And I think I’ve had it wrong
So maybe I’ll move along
But I don’t know
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2. |
Jeremy Vile
05:18
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VERSE
Sanctimonious, laying down the law.
On your high horse, looking at all the scum on the floor.
Acting like you care
Jeremy Vile, Jeremy Vile, who’s on your show today?
Shouting at them, venting your rage, we know
it’s just your way
But you’re a great, great man, you put the world to rights.
One day society will look back and thank you,
it helps you sleep at night
CHORUS
Acting like you’re something big, gotta put you on mute.
Leeching off the down and outs, you’re just arrogance in a suit
VERSE
Who’s the big liar? Bring out the machine!
Kick the ratings higher, with a little trash on your screen
Tell me who’s your daddy?
Jeremy Vile, Jeremy Vile, is this your place in life?
Look at that man, you’re better than him,
you know he cheats on his wife.
But it’s a bad bad world, and it’s all black and white
Too bad you weren’t around in Nazi Germany, you’d put the Third Reich right
CHORUS
MIDDLE EIGHT
Oh who’s been naughty? Oh, who’s been naughty?
VERSE
It’s all vanity and exploitation, that’s all it really is
Or do you think you’re really helping, providing a
service?
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3. |
Living On The Gear
04:49
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VERSE
Thought you were a drinker, but it seems you’ve gone too far now
And when I think about, the others I knew, hooked just like you
Wearing long sleeves to hide the truth.
As young as me but you’ve lost your youth.
And I can see the signs cos I’ve been living here too long
CHORUS
And everyone round here’s been living on the gear
Am I the only one? Who’s never having fun
Oh it seems like fun, to have sold your soul.
To be a slave, and not in control.
But everyone round here’s been living on the gear
VERSE
A dark obsession, and new friends bought and old ones sold,
Just like your possessions. Feel nothing, just let your blood run cold.
Another victim to the curse.
As bad as your life is it could be worse.
And I can see the signs cos I’ve been living here too
long...
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4. |
Long Black Road
05:46
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VERSE
Look at the signs and tell me if there’s hope.
Or will my life forever be a joke.
I wouldn’t mind, if I had more time.
But now I hang at the end of my own rope.
Been much too scared to live it on the edge.
I’ve not made good on anything I’ve pledged.
I’ve let us down, and I could drown.
But I hang around just looking from my ledge.
CHORUS
Looking for something inside, that’ll save me from myself.
Something that hides, where no-one can penetrate
Something I’ve lost, down that long black road.
That long black road, I’ve been drifting down.
VERSE
Give you my list of all my greatest fears.
While at the same time I try and dry your tears.
Life aint long, and I’m not that strong.
In the blink of an eye, I’ve aged a thousand years.
MIDDLE EIGHT
I hope you’ll never see, I hope you’ll never know.
What resides inside of me, I’m hoping it never shows, never shows.
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5. |
If My Soul Is Clean
05:04
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VERSE
Do you want to hear about, all the places I have been,
all the people I have known, all the sorrows I have seen?
You think that I’m not wise, I haven’t lived a lot.
But I’ve not lived with closed eyes, I can’t pretend what I am not.
CHORUS
I’ve been everywhere searching for you, and I don’t like where I’ve been.
Try and breathe some life into me. Cos I don’t know if my soul is clean.
VERSE
Always thought that I was good, a man of moral ways
Never questioned my intentions, let others have their say.
Who am I inside? Can I ever really know? Can I find the hidden place, where the darkest thoughts go?
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6. |
Lifeblood
05:57
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VERSE
Wake me up, throw me outta bed and then show me what’s living above me.
I’ve got intruders inside of my head, so what kind of girl could ever really love me?
I’ve got the hair, I’ve got the clothes, I’ve got no money honey, but does it really show?
I’ve got a guitar in a beaten up case, got a tenuous link with the human race. Standing here on my feet of clay.
You tell me about some place I’ve never been, but you won’t make with the directions.
I fill my soul right up to the top, with righteous blood to fight the infection.
I’ve got the clothes, I’ve got the hair, I’ve got no money honey but do I even care?
I got a guitar in a beaten up case, got a tenuous link with the human race. Standing here on my feet of clay.
CHORUS
My lifeblood, runs cold inside...
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7. |
All The World's A Stage
05:03
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VERSE
Looking back through photographs, the only times that I could laugh.
I never thought about myself, the flaws were there but I couldn’t tell, or at least I didn’t care.
CHORUS
If all the world’s a stage, I have been miscast.
I’ve lost my script, I’ve missed my cue, the first act went so fast.
If all the world’s a stage, I never had good lines, I barely had a speaking part and now it’s late and after dark, I wonder what role I can play?
VERSE
All my frustrations released, your beauty so far out of reach, to me.
One day I’ll hold you close to me, and love will be all it should be. But I know it’s just a fantasy.
CHORUS
A thought pervades my head, there’s nothing I want more. Than to take you back to bed, and make love like before.
But if the feeling’s gone from you, what else can I do? Except close my eyes and pray, and maybe one blessed day, you’ll come running back to me.
CODA
And all I see, are half drawn dreams, the lines just won’t meet for me.
And if I choose, to play to lose. Well it’s my choice who I’ll be.
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8. |
My Demons And Me
06:27
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VERSE
There’s gotta be some gold underneath here, so wash off your dirt.
I’ve been scrubbing my soul for so long now, it’s starting to hurt.
In the night time, in the moonlight, when I look in the mirror, I don’t see me staring back, cue another nerve attack.
Need to lose my inhibitions, can’t rely on intuition, I don’t know what’s going on, but I sure been going wrong.
Don’t lose you wheels in the mud, keep dripping sweat tears and blood.
Don’t let them steal your drive. It’s the only way to survive.
And I consider myself a success when I get out alive.
CHORUS
Maybe I should forget, this quest I’ve been on.
Who cares what I am? I’m just somebody’s son.
No better or worse than the next guy I see.
Who cares who I am? I’m just riding the sea, just my demons and me.
VERSE
There’s gotta be some love somewhere out there, so open your hearts.
But there’s so many roads that are dead ends, don’t know where to start.
In the shadows, in the distance, there’s a feeling of
resistance, there is nothing coming in, and can’t draw it from within.
There’s a reason for existence, everything will run it’s distance, we are all just passing through, cos there’s nothing else to do.
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9. |
Million Miles Away
04:51
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VERSE
I’ll say goodbye, imprint you looking back at me.
A comedown from the high, another fading memory
Wish I could read your thoughts, to know what I should say.
To scared to open up, one word could push you away
Oh I’m looking out for signs, and reading between lines, but I think that I’ve gone blind.
Oh, I’m firing in the dark, just trying to start a spark of something
CHORUS
You gotta bear with me, don’t mind the things that I say.
When I can’t control my thoughts, when you’re a
million miles away.
Maybe I should slow it down, and leave it for another day.
But it’s so hard to do, when you’re a million miles away.
VERSE
This place feels so alone, like its never seen a soul.
The hours stretch on by, the outside world takes it’s toll
I walk round my room, I’ve got your shirt on my floor.
I plan to see you soon, but I’m always wanting more.
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10. |
Impossible
06:05
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VERSE
Two souls that were the same, I knew we’d be together.
Now we’ve been torn apart, but I know it’s not forever
I know some times were bad, but most of them were
beautiful.
Our pockets were empty, but our hearts and souls were always full.
And you know it isn’t right, you were meant for me.
Now you’ve got somebody else, but he aint meant to be.
CHORUS
It’s impossible, impossible, impossible to break.
Impossible, impossible, impossible to fake.
And I know you’ll come back someday when you’ve got no place to go.
VERSE
Don’t forget the times when there was no one else alive.
And I’d bleed a thoasand times, die a million deaths to make you smile.
And I’d hold your soul to mine, make a shield of me against the universe.
What threw you towards me, was it destiny or just a curse?
I never got a second chance, to show you I could change, but I’ll make you see one day, cos you’re not out of range
You’ll never meet another soul, who understands you like I do.
No need for masks or shields, for we see right through
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11. |
Emma Dilemma
05:19
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VERSE
Oh that girl called Emma, she’s in a dilemma.
Gonna skip town at midnight, on another long haul flight.
Oh where will she go? The world’s a great big show.
Oh wonderful Emma, it’s the coldest November.
But you gotta remember, the sun is warmer some place else
Oh where will she go? The world’s a great big show
CHORUS
Come on Emma, and get your bags together
You got to get going on time.
Come on Emma, and get your bags together,
you could be some place else by nine.
VERSE
Oh beautiful Emma , I never could tell her.
Now i’m in a dilemma, waiting for December.
Oh where will she go? The world’s a great big show.
CHORUS
Come on Emma, and get your bags together
You got to get going on time.
Come on Emma, and get your bags together,
you could be in Shanghai by nine.
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12. |
Valeswood Falls
06:03
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VERSE
There in the darkness I left my life,
said goodbye to a sleeping wife.
Packed up my things in the small dark space,
of the room as the moonlight caught her face.
I have been haunted by dreams of the past,
this counterfeit life could never last.
A brilliant lie, so expertly told, by a travelling salesman of dreams on the road.
Out on the highway, on my way back.
Back through the past now, to where I lost track.
Family back there, all thinking I’m dead.
Maybe I was all along, but back to the town I was born.
CHORUS
Valeswood Falls, recall your fallen son.
Valeswood falls, see what I have done.
I’ve been alive, I’ve been alone, but nothing breaks
like a heart of stone.
Valeswood Falls, see what I have done
VERSE
I’ve had ten lives I’ve been ten men,
I’ve killed I’ve robbed and then again.
A shell of a man, intriguingly cold
A low down conman of hearts on the road
Out on the highway, on my way back,
back through the past now, to where I lost track
Family back there, all thinking I’m dead.
I can’t erase my sins, but back to my beginnings..
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13. |
No Good So Far
04:47
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VERSE
Spent my whole life looking through windows.
And never found what I’m looking for.
Find it hard to stand when the wind blows.
All I see are frowns and locked doors.
CHORUS
I’d love to care.
I’m very sorry, but I left my feelings in my other jeans.
I’d really love to care for you.
But my whole life’s been no good so far.
VERSE
Spent my whole life making excuses.
For other people and a few for me.
Traded in my ace, for plain deuces.
My eyes are damaged by the blank I see.
CHORUS
I’d love to care.
I’m very sorry, but I left my feelings in my other jeans.
I’d really love to care for you.
I’d really love to care it’s true.
But my whole life’s been no good so far.
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14. |
Morning Star
06:55
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VERSE
It’s all been seen before, corruption, thieves and whores.
It’s just been recycled for new eyes, but this shouldn’t come as no surprise.
Walking down the street, half the people that you meet.,
would gladly slit your throat for the shoes you wear, the other half they might stop and stare.
But you don’t realise, you don’t have to be wise.
To see, with crystal eyes.
But when you see, past where you wanted to be,
can you be who you are and still shine, like a morning star?
VERSE
You were a good time, I was attracted by your depraved mind.
You were juat a lying down in the dirt, felt like scrubbing my skin til it hurt.
Walking through the crime scene, it’s hard to keep you feet clean.
If I don’t get out soon, I’ll be the same way,
the floor’s too dirty to kneel and pray.
CHORUS
But you don’t realise, you don’t have to be wise.
To see, with crystal eyes.
But when you see, more than you wanted to see,
can you be who you are and still shine, like a morning star?
VERSE
Sitting alone at night, wish something would shine a light,
On my small life, make me feel real tall, don’t find no solace in these fall walls.
CHORUS
But you don’t realise, you don’t have to be wise.
To see, with crystal eyes.
But when you see, past where you wanted to be,
can you be who you are and still shine, like a morning star?
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