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1. |
The Great Hype
03:56
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Now what is happening to us in here?
It seems that we couldn't win again!
Maybe this music-competition night
Is just a part of 'The Great Hype'
No, I'm not bitter - I'm just twisted
We feel you robbed another innocent
Of the prize to get through undenied
Or - maybe we did just suck on the night?
Image - yes image! It's a good point indeed
'Cos if we ain't got what you want, then it's exactly what we need!
How much more do you think we could bleed?
You know, I've heard you can cure everything with a leech
"Uninspired and no interest"
Does that encapsulate our style the best?
"A little bland and maybe poor at best"
Don't criticise too hard - you may need a rest!
What of the clothes that we wore on the night?
I'm glad a label would make us 'sound' right
Hear me out - try for once - close your eyes
And see how the music don't need no sight?!
I could put curses in my verses, but it might come out much worse as
Just some silence - we should try this - but, our clothing's not a s nice as
All the winners (and the spinners) - Korn, Linkin Park, and Limp Biskit
So, Adidas Stripes on us would make us a musical genius?
If the purpose of this year's event
Was to find another copy at best
Then you all get a pat on the back
'The Great Hype' found another one like that!
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2. |
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I'm insanely falling out of line
I'd better rate each step I take along
'Cos I might end up walking out of light
How terrible for the dark to be my home
You're all I need
Confession time: I don't get it right
All alone I am a degrader of my mind
I struggle much, my wrong replaces right
To say I do burns bits of me inside
Your all I need
I've told lies, not once, but more than twice
Ingested filth will not stop at your eyes
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3. |
Superpatriot
04:19
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I can't expect the men to win
You know before they do begin
What I will laugh about
When it does come around
Your inability to dream...
You won't allow yourself the faith
Why do you follow anyway?
You don't deserve to see
Them all in revelry
How have you justified this rage?
I'm just watching my men demolish you
(Take) apart the opposition and mercilessly too
I'm acknowledging the Superpatriot
And when we're finished there, they're gonna bury you
The vision recycled once again
Tall poppies being cut about the stem
If you could voice some power
A million men would die this hour
But, who of us would be your victim then?
Moan all game unto a friend
Moan until the season's end
Cheer when the boundary's past
And cheer when we win at last
Then moan like we'll never win again!
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4. |
Hold On To My Hope
04:50
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I don't understand how Your love still seeks me
Why should You care for a 'Dark One' like me?
What's that You said?
You want me dead?
Tell me do...
"Hold on to My hope
Lest you say goodbye
To My hope and you leave
The light that I provide"
What could I say of Your love that freed me?
How right You are when you say, "you need Me"
I haven't cared
Except in my head
Help me through
What is this fire within me?
It burns away inside
I feel my soul completely
It always used to hide
It finds a goal within me
Though it pushes me to fight
It might just save my life
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5. |
Regression
05:16
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I don't know (how) it slowly takes control
It bubbles up inside and hollows out my mind
All I see is what we used to be
Every moment clear - I'm all alone I fear
Come and see my mental home movies
I never am the star - the villain though by far
A good day can slowly waste away
And all that it takes (is) regression into...
Regression asks so much of me
But, through it I'm finding out who I'm s'posed to be
Look hard - the pain disguises the way home
I'm growing, can't you see?
I'm breathing off misery...
My enemy my memory has turned out to be
For me to learn and grow - this black pain I must know
I will go on - I cannot stay down that long!
But, why must it arrive? Regression into...
Regression takes a shot at me
But would it rip me apart - I won't wait 'round to see
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6. |
Skydive
06:21
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What's the one thing you need to be pushed out on an airplane?
From nowhere, it seems, a weirdness from out of the blue
And I want to be this Johnny that covers you
I know I drew him - to use you for art seems so natural...
...this is weird - yup, yup, yup, yup...
This difference it brings impossibility to everything
But, knowing these things, I choose ignorance over truth
Can I afford to fit my hand into the hand it's in?
I cannot see you as umpteen times around the star we see...
...this is weird - lightbulb, lightbulb...
"This is weird", she sings - It isn't normal to want this to be
But, this gravity - a type where Isaac has no clue
And I want it to be right so that it is weird no more
But, it is weird and I cower under the cloud I bring!...
...this is weird - goodness gracious me...
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7. |
Arise! Shine!
04:39
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Arise! Shine!
Words full of warning!
I feel so wasted inside
My eyes are closed
Though I wake in the morning
My heavy disease pulls my soul from the sky
This is my life
To do as I like
The sun frowns on this one truth
The body is fine
But the mind, it is yawning
Oh, to feel healthy inside
To earn this life
Is our basic calling
I’m failing at that and losing its prize
This is my life
To do as I like
The sun is eating this one whole
How I have lost
The idea is dawning
In the business of wasting the mind
No longer am I
Living and walking
I Play the Station and watch the Sky
This is my life
To do as I like
The sun screams at this one ‘Grow’!
How long has there been something wrong?
I’ve been ‘just to busy’ for too long
I’m feeling so tired living in this messiness
My choice is to fail or be strong…
Arise! Shine!
Like the sun in Jerusalem
The glory above is shining on you!
Other places
Will be in the darkness
But in the light you will be and He will be with you too
This is my life
To do as I like
The Son shines on this one soul
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8. |
God-Shaped Hole
05:07
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Got no time for silly words
I need that sweet venom right through myself
Need it so much that it hurts
I know without it I'm losing my mind
My dependence surreal
This addiction is sweet to the taste
Without it how could I feel?
No - my body can't function alone
Plug it into my arm!
I don't need food or air to breathe
The void into my veins
I am in love...
The hole I was given inside
The uncontrollable passion I squeeze in its place
I defend no longer - I'm making you stronger
You're fixing my woe as I'm fixing on you
The ecstasy that burns me inside
I'm seeing such colours I've never seen before
I want this addiction for life
This is such perfection - its such flawed perfection
"You shouldn't have touched me
For now I'll never want to let you go..."
Now that my senses are spoilt
Every taste from now on is wretched and plain
The residue of that sweet, sweet absentee
You'll never reclaim that old innocence
The hit is wearing away
I tried to fill the hole with an absence of shape
If I'm to recover there must be no other
In love...
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Burnt into me those coloured scenes
I remember these things
They stay in my mind like glue
Those eyes of yours glistening
I could not doubt a thing
I was stuck on the idea of you
It doesn't take long
For a spark to flame into...
Could I really be
A crucial part of you and me?
The more I'm drawn into
This whole big mess with you
You more become a part of me
I more become a part of something you
I remember it all so clear
The customary fear
Gave way long enough
I believe the time was right
Once we shed our sight
No other light could get through
It never takes long
For a spark to flame into...
Could I truely be...?
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10. |
There and Back Again
06:10
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Once comfortable in my Bag-End Hobbit hole
Never a feather in the wind
Up to my door, a Wizard and a swag of dwarves
Singing these songs that drew me in
To the ‘Green Dragon’ of all places
I run to meet these strangers’ faces
Wondering who they think I’m s’posed to be
We went on in spite of the rain
And may your beard grow long and true
Somehow we found our way there and back again
Oh, but no prize was worth it without you
Leaving my home for a mountain far away
We were nearly run in by some trolls
To Rivendell, the last homely home here in the west
How could we bring ourselves to go?
To the Misty Mountains – to the Goblin King
At Gollum’s hand, I found the ring
In the tunnels I thought I’d die for sure
But I ran out into the sunshine again
And may your beard grow long and true
Somehow we found our way there and back again
Oh, but no prize was worth it without you
Being rescued from the perils in pursuit
The Eagles brought us to their homes
In the Mirkwood dark, we lost our way
And the evils there would have us stay
But we refused to have it so
We left the forest into the world of men
And may your beard grow long and true
Somehow we found our way there and back again
Oh, but no prize was worth it without you
At the Longest Lake, with the Men of Dale
This Dwarven King, these men do hail
Our goal is near, we feel it so
To the Lonely Mountain we look to go
Through the Land of Smaug, we make our trails
For the good of all, this Dragon must be slain
And may your beard grow long and true
Somehow we found our way there and back again
Oh, but no prize was worth it without you
Proud stands the mountain; we brave the Dwarven Door
Inform the Dragon he must go
Mighty Smaug is slain by the Men of Dale – a fiery death
Though their greed sends them to war the throne
But the goblins come, evil is sworn
The Five Armies, they wage a war
Heroes come and heroes fall
The good triumph – the quest is done!
And we look to journey home
It’s good to be in Bag-End again
And may your beard grow long and true
Somehow we found our way there and back again
Oh, but no prize was worth it without you
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11. |
Regression II
04:42
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Gone. Confined to the past
I had placed it here
There was no more to fear
Try to breath again...
I could smell victory!
I must leave the memory!
I hadn't counted on you coming back to insert yourself into my mind
The day of days was hollowed out
I can feel the sensation coming back...
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Regression it asked so much of me
Waiting for it just to fall in front of me
Regression it asked...
Would you be the last?
I must learn this past
Another hear broke too fast
I must make this learning last...
I look up and look in
There's no way out of this mess, unless I cease to regress
"Hi" rubs salt in the wound
But, the wound is closing to - there's not much the salt can do!
I recommend to anyone a feeling just like this
But, I've grown up and out
No longer will I live this creed
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12. |
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The world becomes anew
More now to grow into
As the old me begins to die
It will not go without a fight
It claws at my insecurity
“It seems that they wanna take my blood from my veins
Test me in every way so I can prove that I can try
In all my years I have never had this cover on my aims
Must I stain you again? Please tell me why?”
It’s all growing up
No matter how hard it gets
A part of you will live and a part will die…
Don’t forget there’s much to learn after a fall
Don’t forget to be bigger than your glow
I was once safe at home but now not so
Don’t forget to remember what you know
Step into the unknown
Make a little more my home
Now the old me is losing life
To save itself from ever night
It preys on my insecurity
“Everyday I live the routine again
Stand against this would and with my fist defy
What attitude? It’s just I can’t stand this place
I turn my back on it as I head inside”
It’s not a hate
It’s just hard work instead
This ‘attitude’ that lives – it now must die
Don’t forget there’s much to learn after a fall
Don’t forget to be bigger than your glow
I was once safe at home but now not so
Don’t forget to remember what you know
How would I have been here if I were alone?
How would I be without you?
I'm not alone... never alone...
Never once left...
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13. |
Heaven Sent
04:08
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Heaven sent, it's been a blessed meaningful
Heaven scent is being a blessed meaning, full
Evanescent, it's been a blessing - mean in full
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17. |
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Once comfortable in my Bag-End Hobbit hole
Never a feather in the wind
Up to my door, a Wizard and a swag of dwarves
Singing these songs that drew me in
To the ‘Green Dragon’ of all places
I run to meet these strangers’ faces
Wondering who they think I’m s’posed to be
We went on in spite of the rain
And may your beard grow long and true
Somehow we found our way there and back again
Oh, but no prize was worth it without you
Leaving my home for a mountain far away
We were nearly run in by some trolls
To Rivendell, the last homely home here in the west
How could we bring ourselves to go?
To the Misty Mountains – to the Goblin King
At Gollum’s hand, I found the ring
In the tunnels I thought I’d die for sure
But I ran out into the sunshine again
And may your beard grow long and true
Somehow we found our way there and back again
Oh, but no prize was worth it without you
Being rescued from the perils in pursuit
The Eagles brought us to their homes
In the Mirkwood dark, we lost our way
And the evils there would have us stay
But we refused to have it so
We left the forest into the world of men
And may your beard grow long and true
Somehow we found our way there and back again
Oh, but no prize was worth it without you
At the Longest Lake, with the Men of Dale
This Dwarven King, these men do hail
Our goal is near, we feel it so
To the Lonely Mountain we look to go
Through the Land of Smaug, we make our trails
For the good of all, this Dragon must be slain
And may your beard grow long and true
Somehow we found our way there and back again
Oh, but no prize was worth it without you
Proud stands the mountain; we brave the Dwarven Door
Inform the Dragon he must go
Mighty Smaug is slain by the Men of Dale – a fiery death
Though their greed sends them to war the throne
But the goblins come, evil is sworn
The Five Armies, they wage a war
Heroes come and heroes fall
The good triumph – the quest is done!
And we look to journey home
It’s good to be in Bag-End again
And may your beard grow long and true
Somehow we found our way there and back again
Oh, but no prize was worth it without you
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18. |
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I'm insanely falling out of line
I'd better rate each step I take along
'Cos I might end up walking out of light
How terrible for the dark to be my home
You're all I need
Confession time: I don't get it right
All alone I am a degrader of my mind
I struggle much, my wrong replaces right
To say I do burns bits of me inside
Your all I need
I've told lies, not once, but more than twice
Ingested filth will not stop at your eyes
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19. |
Superpatriot [2002 Demo]
03:41
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I can't expect the men to win
You know before they do begin
What I will laugh about
When it does come around
Your inability to dream...
You won't allow yourself the faith
Why do you follow anyway?
You don't deserve to see
Them all in revelry
How have you justified this rage?
I'm just watching my men demolish you
(Take) apart the opposition and mercilessly too
I'm acknowledging the Superpatriot
And when we're finished there, they're gonna bury you
The vision recycled once again
Tall poppies being cut about the stem
If you could voice some power
A million men would die this hour
But, who of us would be your victim then?
Moan all game unto a friend
Moan until the season's end
Cheer when the boundary's past
And cheer when we win at last
Then moan like we'll never win again!
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20. |
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I don't understand how Your love still seeks me
Why should You care for a 'Dark One' like me?
What's that You said?
You want me dead?
Tell me do...
"Hold on to My hope
Lest you say goodbye
To My hope and you leave
The light that I provide"
What could I say of Your love that freed me?
How right You are when you say, "you need Me"
I haven't cared
Except in my head
Help me through
What is this fire within me?
It burns away inside
I feel my soul completely
It always used to hide
It finds a goal within me
Though it pushes me to fight
It might just save my life
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21. |
Regression [2002 Demo]
05:22
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I don't know (how) it slowly takes control
It bubbles up inside and hollows out my mind
All I see is what we used to be
Every moment clear - I'm all alone I fear
Come and see my mental home movies
I never am the star - the villain though by far
A good day can slowly waste away
And all that it takes (is) regression into...
Regression asks so much of me
But, through it I'm finding out who I'm s'posed to be
Look hard - the pain disguises the way home
I'm growing, can't you see?
I'm breathing off misery...
My enemy my memory has turned out to be
For me to learn and grow - this black pain I must know
I will go on - I cannot stay down that long!
But, why must it arrive? Regression into...
Regression takes a shot at me
But would it rip me apart - I won't wait 'round to see
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22. |
Skydive [2002 Demo]
06:16
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What's the one thing you need to be pushed out on an airplane?
From nowhere, it seems, a weirdness from out of the blue
And I want to be this Johnny that covers you
I know I drew him - to use you for art seems so natural...
...this is weird - yup, yup, yup, yup...
This difference it brings impossibility to everything
But, knowing these things, I choose ignorance over truth
Can I afford to fit my hand into the hand it's in?
I cannot see you as umpteen times around the star we see...
...this is weird - lightbulb, lightbulb...
"This is weird", she sings - It isn't normal to want this to be
But, this gravity - a type where Isaac has no clue
And I want it to be right so that it is weird no more
But, it is weird and I cower under the cloud I bring!...
...this is weird - goodness gracious me...
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23. |
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Got no time for silly words
I need that sweet venom right through myself
Need it so much that it hurts
I know without it I'm losing my mind
My dependence is real
This addiction is sweet to the taste
Without it how can feel?
Now my body can't function alone
Plug you into my arm!
I don't need food or air to breathe
The you into my veins
I am in love...
The rush that inhabits my mind
The uncontrollable passion that beams from my face
The world is no longer - I'm making you stronger
You're fixing my woe as I'm fixing on you
The ecstasy that burns me inside
I'm seeing such colours I've never seen before
I want this addiction for life
This is such perfection - you are such perfection
"You shouldn't have touched me
For now I'll never want to let you go..."
Now that my senses are spoilt
Every vice from now on is wretched and plain
The residue of that sweet, sweet absentee
Can I ever fix on anything else?
The hit is wearing away
My memory attacks me with views of my pain
I fail to recover, she is like no other
In love...
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24. |
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Burnt into me those coloured scenes
I remember these things
They stay in my mind like glue
Those eyes of yours glistening
I could not doubt a thing
I was stuck on the idea of you
It doesn't take long
For a spark to flame into...
Could I really be
A crucial part of you and me?
The more I'm drawn into
This whole big mess with you
You more become a part of me
I more become a part of something you
I remember it all so clear
The customary fear
Gave way long enough
I believe the time was right
Once we shed our sight
No other light could get through
It never takes long
For a spark to flame into...
Could I truely be...?
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25. |
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Once comfortable in my Bag-End Hobbit hole
Never a feather in the wind
Up to my door, a Wizard and a swag of dwarves
Singing these songs that drew me in
To the ‘Green Dragon’ of all places
I run to meet these strangers’ faces
Wondering who they think I’m s’posed to be
We went on in spite of the rain
And may your beard grow long and true
Somehow we found our way there and back again
Oh, but no prize was worth it without you
Leaving my home for a mountain far away
We were nearly run in by some trolls
To Rivendell, the last homely home here in the west
How could we bring ourselves to go?
To the Misty Mountains – to the Goblin King
At Gollum’s hand, I found the ring
In the tunnels I thought I’d die for sure
But I ran out into the sunshine again
And may your beard grow long and true
Somehow we found our way there and back again
Oh, but no prize was worth it without you
Being rescued from the perils in pursuit
The Eagles brought us to their homes
In the Mirkwood dark, we lost our way
And the evils there would have us stay
But we refused to have it so
We left the forest into the world of men
And may your beard grow long and true
Somehow we found our way there and back again
Oh, but no prize was worth it without you
At the Longest Lake, with the Men of Dale
This Dwarven King, these men do hail
Our goal is near, we feel it so
To the Lonely Mountain we look to go
Through the Land of Smaug, we make our trails
For the good of all, this Dragon must be slain
And may your beard grow long and true
Somehow we found our way there and back again
Oh, but no prize was worth it without you
Proud stands the mountain; we brave the Dwarven Door
Inform the Dragon he must go
Mighty Smaug is slain by the Men of Dale – a fiery death
Though their greed sends them to war the throne
But the goblins come, evil is sworn
The Five Armies, they wage a war
Heroes come and heroes fall
The good triumph – the quest is done!
And we look to journey home
It’s good to be in Bag-End again
And may your beard grow long and true
Somehow we found our way there and back again
Oh, but no prize was worth it without you
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26. |
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The world becomes anew
More now to grow into
As the old me begins to die
It will not go without a fight
It claws at my insecurity
“It seems that they wanna take my blood from my veins
Test me in every way so I can prove that I can try
In all my years I have never had this cover on my aims
Must I stain you again? Please tell me why?”
It’s all growing up
No matter how hard it gets
A part of you will live and a part will die…
Don’t forget there’s much to learn after a fall
Don’t forget to be bigger than your glow
I was once safe at home but now not so
Don’t forget to remember what you know
Step into the unknown
Make a little more my home
Now the old me is losing life
To save itself from ever night
It preys on my insecurity
“Everyday I live the routine again
Stand against this would and with my fist defy
What attitude? It’s just I can’t stand this place
I turn my back on it as I head inside”
It’s not a hate
It’s just hard work instead
This ‘attitude’ that lives – it now must die
Don’t forget there’s much to learn after a fall
Don’t forget to be bigger than your glow
I was once safe at home but now not so
Don’t forget to remember what you know
How would I have been here if I were alone?
How would I be without you?
I'm not alone... never alone...
Never once left...
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27. |
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28. |
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29. |
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I can't expect the men to win
You know before they do begin
What I will laugh about
When it does come around
Your inability to dream...
You won't allow yourself the faith
Why do you follow anyway?
You don't deserve to see
Them all in revelry
How have you justified this rage?
I'm just watching my men demolish you
(Take) apart the opposition and mercilessly too
I'm acknowledging the Superpatriot
And when we're finished there, they're gonna bury you
The vision recycled once again
Tall poppies being cut about the stem
If you could voice some power
A million men would die this hour
But, who of us would be your victim then?
Moan all game unto a friend
Moan until the season's end
Cheer when the boundary's past
And cheer when we win at last
Then moan like we'll never win again!
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30. |
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I don't understand how Your love still seeks me
Why should You care for a 'Dark One' like me?
What's that You said?
You want me dead?
Tell me do...
"Hold on to My hope
Lest you say goodbye
To My hope and you leave
The light that I provide"
What could I say of Your love that freed me?
How right You are when you say, "you need Me"
I haven't cared
Except in my head
Help me through
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31. |
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Burnt into me those coloured scenes
I remember these things
They stay in my mind like glue
Those eyes of yours glistening
I could not doubt a thing
I was stuck on the idea of you
It doesn't take long
For a spark to flame into...
Could I really be
A crucial part of you and me?
The more I'm drawn into
This whole big mess with you
You more become a part of me
I more become a part of something you
I remember it all so clear
The customary fear
Gave way long enough
I believe the time was right
Once we shed our sight
No other light could get through
It never takes long
For a spark to flame into...
Could I truely be...?
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32. |
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The world becomes anew
More now to grow into
As the old me begins to die
It will not go without a fight
It claws at my insecurity
“It seems that they wanna take my blood from my veins
Test me in every way so I can prove that I can try
In all my years I have never had this cover on my aims
Must I stain you again? Please tell me why?”
It’s all growing up
No matter how hard it gets
A part of you will live and a part will die…
Don’t forget there’s much to learn after a fall
Don’t forget to be bigger than your glow
I was once safe at home but now not so
Don’t forget to remember what you know
Step into the unknown
Make a little more my home
Now the old me is losing life
To save itself from ever night
It preys on my insecurity
“Everyday I live the routine again
Stand against this would and with my fist defy
What attitude? It’s just I can’t stand this place
I turn my back on it as I head inside”
It’s not a hate
It’s just hard work instead
This ‘attitude’ that lives – it now must die
Don’t forget there’s much to learn after a fall
Don’t forget to be bigger than your glow
I was once safe at home but now not so
Don’t forget to remember what you know
How would I have been here if I were alone?
How would I be without you?
I'm not alone... never alone...
Never once left...
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The RockLords New Zealand
A collective of 13 bands and artists that all form one musical family, ranging from jam sessions in lounges and garages in 1993 to full scale studio recordings and all that's in-between. Always interesting, and often amazing, please enjoy the RockLords! ... more
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