Oooooo yeah
Was I more than you bargained for
Was I too much to take
Did I push it all much to far
Did I waste all the rage
Walkin' under ladders
Steppin' on sidewalk cracks
Runnin' down dark alleys
Trippin' over black cats

Was I less than you needed
Was I not to your taste
Could I not stop the bleeding
Do you remember the days

I was all that you wanted
I was everything you craved
And now you complain
That you don't like the taste
Well I can recast the scene
But it still plays the same
Cause I'm too strong to love
And I'm too weak to change

Well I, I gotta get out of this place that I'm in
Cause I'm running this race I can't win
But I'll make you forgive me and then
I can drag you down with me again
I will drag you down with me again
Let me drag you down with me again

I'm so empty and ugly
Dirty and ashamed
But I'll never say I'm sorry
Never take the blame
I will teach you to hate me
And push you away
And in the end you'll be happy
To just let me fade

Well you can't see me - I'm not here
But I know everything you fear
And I can drag you down
And cloud what once seemed clear
But you can't see me - I'm not here

And I can teach you how to cry
And I will fill your mouth with flies
So tell me all your secrets
I'll tell you all my lies
And I will teach you how to cry

I'm tripwires - Landmines
I'm tripwires
For you to find
I'm tripwires
I'm tripwired
I'm landmines for you to find

My mouth is numb
My tongue is still
My voice is cigarettes and milk
I have become a void
Impossible to fill
My mouth is numb my tongue is still

I'm tripwires - Landmines
I'm tripwires
For you to find
I'm tripwires
I'm tripwired
I'm landmines for you to find
I'm landmines for you to find
I'm landmines for you to find...

It's not the way you think that turns me on
Last thing I wanna do is listen to ya talk
Well I don't wanna know what you're about
I just want your dirty little mind and your dirty little mouth
I'm not the kind of boy to kiss and tell
But the things I'd like to do with you
I really do well
So call me just another pretty face
Who's been a bad, bad boy
So put me in my place

Coz I just wanna be
I just wanna be amused
Well I just wanna be
I just wanna be abused

So call me by somebody else's name
Tell me that I oughtta be gotta be ashamed
The humiliation really gets me off
And I don't care if you cum
Just as long as you're on top

Coz I just wanna be
I just wanna be amused
Well I just wanna be
I just wanna be abused
Coz I just wanna be
I just got be used
Well I just wanna be
I just wanna be abused

You can fuck with my head
Leave marks on my neck
Just as long as I'm tied to your bed
Run your nails down my back
Be sure to leave tracks
To match my emotional scabs

Coz I just wanna be
I just wanna be amused
Well I just wanna be
I just wanna be abused
Said I just wana be
I just gotta be amused
Well I just wanna be
I just wanna be abused

(I) Feel like gettin used, ya (x3)

Bow down before her and bleed at her alter
Feel this world's weight
Lift from my shoulders

When the fire comes
I will endure
And when the fire comes
I will be pure

Broken, twisted
She lifts me from ashes
Orpheus risen
And bathed in her kisses

When the fire comes
I will endure
When the fires comes
I will be pure

Sarasvati here for the moment
Teases with blessings blessings
Then leaves me in torment

But 'till she returns
I will endure
And when she returns
I will be pure
When the fire comes
I will endure
When the fire comes
I will be pure
When the fire comes
When the fire comes
When the fire comes
When the fire....

Friday night
Ms. Sissie's in L.A.
And I'm sittin' on mom's back porch
I've been thinkin' again
All I do is drink too much
And dream up different ways
To crawl a little further outta touch
Waste away my days

So you can listen to this song I sing
But this song I sing is still for me
bye-apa-bye-aye
bye-apa-bye-aye-aye-aye
bye-apa-bye-aye
This is my song
bye-apa-bye-aye
bye-apa-bye-aye-aye-aye
bye-apa-bye-aye
This is my song

So this is my life
Wake me when it's over
Coz I just turned 27
But I'm feeling so much older
I'm not supposed to be this bitter
I'm not supposed to be this mad
All my plans were so much bigger
Than everything I am

So you can listen to this song I sing
But this song I sing is still for me
bye-apa-bye-aye
bye-apa-bye-aye-aye-aye
bye-apa-bye-aye
This is my song
bye-apa-bye-aye
bye-apa-bye-aye-aye-aye
bye-apa-bye-aye
This is my song
My, my

Somedays I hate the way it's all come down
I hate the way the scene's played out
I hate the way the movie ends
And I wish I could take back what's been said
Coz I feel like maybe I've been wronged
Coz I used to know where I belonged
But these days I'm just not so strong
Well this is my voice
My, my song
bye-apa-bye-aye-aye-aye
bye-apa-bye-aye-aye-aye

Well don't speak to me love
Coz you don't know the truth
It's too late to say you're sorry
Just put on them walking shoes
Did you think I wouldn't notice?
Did you think I didn't see?
You can fool me once and it's shame on you
Fool me twice and it's shame on me

Coz I know now (x3)
It don't mean a thing
I know now (x3)
It don't mean a thing

Sweet Desdimona
Lock away your faith
Your lord has forsaken you
Iago's at your gates
When the wolves come to take you
I will not be there
Don't look to me to save you
You can drown for all I care

Coz I know now (x3)
It don't mean a thing
I know now (x3)
It don't mean a thing
Well I was standing in your shadow way too long
I was frightened of the light
But when the walls came down on Jericho town
Those trumpets showed me right
So don't try so hard
Coz I know what you are and honey
I know where you've been
So don't dial my number
Don't tell me that you love me
Don't you darken my door again

Coz now I know
Now I know

I said

Coz I know now (x3)
It don't mean a thing
I know now (x3)
It don't mean a thing

You don't mean a thing
So now you know
Now you know

I'll follow to the ending
Of your spiritual emending
Play the martyr - take the hammer to the heart
And when we can't find the answers
We'll just say it never mattered
And keep on smiling when the whole thing falls apart

And I want to be the one
Who is left here staring
Staring at the sun (2x)

So you can go your way dear
If you want just leave me lay here
Cause I'm too tired to argue anymore
And I'm not concerned with winning
Like I was in the begining
All this pettyness has numbed me to the core

And I want to be the one
Who is left here staring
Staring at the sun (2x)

I want to be left behind
I want to burn out these eyes
So let your fires unwind - I won't see
Let the blind lead the blind

And I want to be the one
Who is left here staring
Staring at the... (2x)

I want to go blind (at the sun)
But I can't close my eyes (at the sun)
Well I just want to go blind (at the sun)
But I can't close my eyes (at the sun)

You're the colour in my hair
That just won't wash out
The fragrance that triggers
A memory of doubt
You're the song
That I hear
That just brings me down
You're the flavour that lingers
Like ashes in my mouth

If you
Build me up
Let me hope
Let me dream
I tear you down
Let you hurt
Let you need

Well I'm not really sure
But I think that I missed it
Don't ask me how
Cause I still don't quite get it
You could blame it on fate
Say I'm a victim of cupid
But I took 24 years
To get this stupid

If you
Place your faith
Give youself
Trust in me
And I use you up
Suck you dry
Let you bleed

Well I'll say that it ain't
But I know that it's through
If you try to blame me I can pin it on you
I"ll run from the truth
Or pretend I don't see it
And I'll say "I love you" and not really mean it

Well I'm not really sure
But I think that I missed it
Don't ask me how cause I still don't quite get it
But I'll push you for answers
Just to see if you'll break
So strike up you're band we'll waltz through it again
Ya, I'll fight the battle
If you fly the banner
I'll hold the nails girl if you swing the hammer
You could call me obsessed
But I still wish I could see ya
Sneakin into your backyard
With these flowers for Ophelia

Well I"ll play all that I got to play
Coz it lets me be what I need to be
And I"ll sing all that I got to say
Coz it's the one thing you can't take away from me

I got a pocket full of magic and a bottle full of wine
I'm goin' down to the water where the river runs high
Coz when I get there
Things get so clear
I've been angry like a dog that's been kicked and beat
Tied to a post when I wanna run free
It's been so bad
I've been so mad

So I"ll play all that I got to play
Coz it lets me be what I need to be
And I"ll sing all that I got to say
Coz it's the one thing you can't take away from me
This is the one thing you just can't

Well I'm not sure what I see when I look in the mirror
I'm a picture that I've painted who's edges are unclear
I've been faded
So jaded
I got so afraid of dying I've forgot to live
And I hit the ground running with nothing to give
And I broke down
But I'm back now

So I'll play all that I got to play
Coz it lets me be what I need to be
And I'll sing all that I got to say
Coz it's the one thing you can't take away from me
This is the one thing you just can't

This is the one thing that is mine
This is the thing that gets me by
So don't you ever cross that line
This is the one thing that is mine

All mine
All mine
All mine

So I'll play all that I got to play
Coz it lets me be what I need to be
And I'll sing all that I got to say
Coz it's the one thing you can't take away from me
This is the one thing you can't take away from me
This is the one thing that no one else can have

We're a riddle in 9 syllables
Black and white and gray all over
She smiles and looks at me
Bathed in waves of static cover
I've got a notion to escape this ocean
I'm tired of crawling through the same old emotions
Refrains of empathy
Distorting throug an 8 bit fog

(Where do we go now?)
Take it all to a new location
(Watch it all fall down)
I'd rather not talk about it just now
We'll build a new philosophy
A brand new version of the same old story
While in reality
We're breaking down

Another try and we're still here baby
Negotiating or complications
She crys and slaps my face
Taunting me for new translations
Maybe I got up on the wrong side of town
Maybe I misstook your up for down
Maybe I should polish your crown

(Where do we go now?)
Take it all to a new location
(Watch it all fall down)
I'd rather not talk about it just now
We'll build a new philosophy
A brand new version of the same old story
While in reality we're breaking down (x3)