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I'm serenaded by a chorus
of 1,000 burning cigarettes.
You were taking chances, mama
while I've been placing bets.
So tell it to the ashes
they know we've served.
It may be good for the soul
but it's hard on the nerves.
The very thing that drives you
can drive you insane.
I've got a head full of thought crimes
and a number with no name.
Got an eleventh hour Jesus
and a mouth full of blame.
Casket lined with silver dollars
and a number with no name.
Number with no name.
There's no where to run
I've got no one to tell.
My face has become a mask
and I'm not wearing it well.
For 5 days straight I've been breathing fire.
Don't have room on my body for another scar.
The very thing that drives you
can drive you insane.
I've got a head full of thought crimes
and a number with no name.
Got an eleventh hour Jesus
trying to explain.
Casket lined with silver dollars
and a number with no name.
A number with no name.
1,2,3.
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You can run away from home
but you can't run away from your pain.
Now I sit, here alone
as I place someone else to blame.
It's up to you now.
It's up to you now.
Don't want to be your broken dream
We've run out of things somehow.
And it's up to you now.
I have to hide from my own face
now that we have fallen from grace.
Arms that hold you close
are the arms that hold you back.
While your world is under attack.
It's up to you now.
It's up to you now.
Don't want to be your broken dream
We've run out of things somehow.
And it's up to you now.
I stumbled to your archer
with my knees bent my head bound
And it's up to you now.
Alls there with stoned
letters that wore
and we don't have to borrow anymore.
You wrote a list
with all your demands
and you nailed it to both of my hands.
And its up to you now.
Oh its up to you now.
My fist is full of ashes
And my blood is in the ground.
So it's up to you now. Yes it's up, its up to you now.
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It takes a hundred miles of love
To heal a mile of pain
I never say goodbye to the scene
And I never blow out a flame
And I got
White lies for dark times and I don't need your crutch
I'm kicking out stained glass windows and I'm
Tender to the touch
Shimmer and shine
We leave it all behind
Shimmer and shine
When you tell me that you're mine
Shimmer and shine, shimmer and shine
Bring me the music for the revolution
It puts my mind at ease, to know
We're the problem, we're the solution
The cure and the disease
But life is trying to force me
Force me to trust
I've done all I can
I do what I must
Shimmer and shine
We leave it all behind
Shimmer and shine
When you tell me that you're mine
guitar
Shimmer and shine
We leave it all behind
Shimmer and shine
When you tell me that you're mine
Shimmer and shine, shimmer and shine
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Lay there and hate me
lay there and burn.
One side to the other
you toss and turn.
Never trust a woman
Never trust a woman who loves the blues.
Mistake number one
I made it 3 times today.
We best talk over hows theres
nothing left to say.
I feel like an under paid concubine
whose overstayed her welcome.
You gave me an 8 paged letter
front and black.
Written in your favorite colors,
blood and black.
You choose your words as careful
as you choose your own gravestone.
You lay there and hate me
better then being alone.
Had to fight your way in
you've got to fight your way out.
Ain't no fool like the fool you love
so let me hear you shout
Shakedown breakdown
just can't sit still.
you cutoff your hair and sold it
for your pretty little pill.
I've learned some things about myself
I wish I didn't know.
You gave me an 8 paged letter
front and black.
Written in your favorite colors,
blood and black.
You choose your words as careful
as you choose your own gravestone.
You lay there and hate me
better then being alone.
Had to fight your way in
you got to fight your way out.
aint no fool like the one you love
so let me hear you shout.
Lay there and hate me
Cold as a stone
I just hope it's better then sitting alone.
never trust a woman who loves the blues.
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You may be a cheap date
But my therapy's expensive as hell
Then you pay a psychic healer who let's you know
Things aren't working out so well
Tommorow's shining off our face
Yesterday's shadow's at our back
Why must you always dress in black?
People don't take advice
They just give it
And the only way you're ever gonna learn
Is to live it
So what you spent your younger years
Parlaying on the wrong side of the track
If you have to lie
Do it quickly and as thoroughly as you can
This morning i woke up slow
Feeling like a shell of a man
Don't blame me for us you cried
Just cut me some slack
Why must you always dress in black?
Why must you always dress in black?
She wore high heels
The ones that can pierce your heart.
Just 'cause you go down in history
Doesn't mean your really all that smart.
Like Robert E. Lee at your best
when under attack.
Why must you always dress in black?
You call in sick on Monday
Tuesday you show up late
Wednesday you left early
Thursday you fight with a boss you hate
Friday you up and quit
Saturday you want your old job back
Sunday morning you wake up
All dressed in black
Why must you always dress in black?
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Now that you've grown up
you can finally learn to be a child.
We made it to the end of the world
but we'll never make it out alive.
Skin thin
I breathe out you breathe in
but the days seem so long.
Skin thin. Blood again
It's all I can do to hold on.
We're just skin thin.
Always knew that if we didn't have each other
we'd have nothing at all.
But you were always brave enough
to live like you could never fall.
Skin thin
I breathe out you breathe in
but the days seem so long.
Skin thin. Blood again.
It's all I can do to hold on. Hold on.
Now that we have grown up
can finally learn to be a child.
With good friends behind me
with ghosts up ahead for miles and miles.
Skin thin
I breathe out you breathe in
The days they seem so long.
Skin thin. Blood again.
It's all I can do to hold on.
Life's just skin thin.
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It had an ability (?)
It's pounding at my door
screaming for more
In a world that owes you nothing
you give everything, everything
And now I'm caught in between
What I can't leave behind
and what I may never find
So fly one time
Fly one time
Standing at the edge of your life
and the edge of my lies
Don't hold on
There's no fighting back the years
So hard to unlearn to fears
Now you're caught in between
what you can't leave behind
and all that you may never find
So fly
Just fly, just fly, just fly one time
I see you so clearly, so clearly,
I'm so high
I see you up so clearly, so clearly
I'm up so high, so high
Now you're caught
Now you're caught in between
what you can't leave behind
and what you may, what we may never find
So fly, so fly, one time
So clearly, so clearly, so high
Fly one time
Just fly one time
If you fly one, one time
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I'm not sure what worries me more
the fact I keep talking to the wall
or that the wall keeps answering me.
Saying that I heard it all before.
Never under estimate how complicated a simple life can be.
You gotta keep it together. (x4)
So I can fall apart.
I know you've grown tired
of trying to feed me.
And I know by now my reputation proceeds me.
I know you've grown tired
of trying to fix me.
And I know by now
my best years are no longer, no longer, with me.
You've gotta keep it together.
So i can fall apart.
You've gotta keep it together.
So i can fall apart.
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Tonight I'm going to lose my mind
Tonight I hope I lose my mind
Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind
Tonight were going to live forever
Easy come.
Easy go.
Get it where you fit in
You've got to slow your roll.
Tonight I wanna to lose my mind.
Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind
Tonight I hope I lose my mind
Tonight were going to live forever.
Tonight were going to live forever.
Never pretend to be a gambler.
The smoke from your lips.
The fire from your hips.
She's just a slow walking woman.
Chorus
I've gotta get out from inside my head.
I've gotta get out from inside my head.
I've gotta get out from inside my head.
I've gotta get out from inside my head.
I've gotta get out from inside my head.
You double the dose and I ran out of rope
It's me and you against the world.
You double the dose and I ran out of rope
It's me and you against the world.
You gotta live my life to get boots like these.
You gotta live my life to get boots like these.
You gotta live my life to get boots like these.
You gotta live my life to get boots like these.
Chorus
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The word suicide is irresponsible
still you offer to buy me a gun.
What's so hard about sympathy?
Love is a lonely road.
Love is a lonely road.
When out on the edge
there's just two directions
and somebody has to lose.
I should know better
then to use words like never and hate.
Love is a lonely road.
Love is a lonely road.
And this is no way to live.
And this is no way to die.
Who in the hells life is this
I'm living this way?
Love is a lonely road
Love is a lonely road.
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I learned to say goodbye too young
I learn to duck from words
Like bullets from a gun
How long can you pray
And still not see a change
I faithfully remain
Some things
You have to let be lost
Some battles
You have to leave unfought
Then the truth just wastes away
In all we dare not say
And in all we can't explain
But I faithfully remain
Now I'm afraid
Once again
It has come to this
When it all goes dark
Nothing stays the same
Now I'm only what I miss
And my memories
They turn to tears
They turn to fire blood and pain
And I faithfully remain
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