1.Now The Change
Been coming for a long time
Been heading for a rewrite
Revolving in the limelight
Its alright...
Living in the meantime
Avoid the social landmine
Everything is key lime
In my mind...
Loosen up
Come along
Is it enough when i say
Now the change is over
Right now, the change is over
Intimate and so blue
I like the way that you do
Lying like we all do
It's so true...
Dangerous and cheap friends
Their cottonmouth and split ends
I like it when the line bends
It all ends...
Everyone loves a liar
This time i mean it when i say
Now the change is over
Right now, the change is over
Going down the wrong street
I like it when you come around
Living in a fantasy
Never what you want to be
I love you anyway
Though i like it when you fall back down
Going down the wrong street
I like it when you come around
Playing with my fantasy
Get me where you want to be
I love you anyway
Though i like it when you fall back down
Right now, the change is over...
2.I Hope My Kids Like Marilyn Manson
I'm not the only one to live in chains
It looked so easy when you sold us all the way
I hope my kids like marilyn manson
I'm not the only one to live in pain
It's not the devil come to drive us all insane
I hope my kids like marilyn manson
You're living proof that all the meek will rule
I dream your video's in every public school
Was fun and easy when you sold your soul
No one's accusing you of falling short of your goal
I hope my kids like marilyn manson
In mississippi where your plan unfurled
Within a decade you'll be ruling all the world
I hope my kids like marilyn manson
Was fun and easy when you sold your soul
No one's accusing you of falling short of your goal
I hope my kids like marilyn manson
I'm not complaining having been your tool
But now i've gotten all i want and need from you
All the children like their good clean fun
They know your record's gonna show them how its done
I hope my kids like marilyn manson...
3.In Between Two Worlds
You want more than you take away
No one can make you stay
And if it's true there's no night no day
No sense of any other way
You've crossed that line alone
No one can take you home
If your fate to die on the throne
Sit and think what you've become
In between two worlds
Its so easy since you bought it
In between two worlds
How you'd love to join the haunted
In between two worlds
This can't be all that you've wanted
In between two worlds now
You're really alone at last
You're bored and fading fast
And if it's true you'll fall from the past
All you'll have to do is ask
You'll feel but never be
You want and always need
Price you pay for wanting to see
Will you have all you've ever dreamed
In between two worlds
Its so easy since you bought it
In between two worlds
How you'd love to join the haunted
In between two worlds
This can't be all that you've wanted
In between two worlds now
4.Stinking Up The Charts
I can't tell you there's a reason we're all gathered here
tonight
And i've been waiting for this moment to arrive for all my life
But then it comes so overhyped...
Rock and roll and soul
Stinking up the charts
Running over all these songs have got too many parts
Nothing's sacred, nothing's safe
Watching over bach and mozart
Rolling over in their graves
I'm not saying we can't waste another minute on this ride
We're only staying cause it's easy never more then this outside
Here we stand unsatisfied...
Rock and roll and soul
Stinking up the charts
Running over all these songs have got too many parts
When no one listens, no one cares
Pissing from the giants shoulders
Love the view though unaware
I can't tell you there's a reason we're all gathered here
tonight
And i've been waiting for this moment to arrive for all my life
But then it comes so overhyped...
5.Whose Side Are You On
I can't help but wonder
And wandering in total dark
And just about the time my eyes adjust they open up
And find i'm blind
You don't want more
But you can't help but take and throw it out
Whoever loves the least has all the power bottled up
And won't let it out
When every ounce is drained its just about the worst that i have
ever felt
Whose side are you on.....
I'm not out much
But i've got everything i need for now
And i don't have to know what's going on along the windows other
side
Cause every day's enough to make it to the witching hour still
alive
Whose side are you on...
All around on the floor
The living things are keeping me in my place
I'm alive i want more
I'm innocent i'm finally on my way
Now i'm all for
Finally getting up and getting out
Cause now i'm fast becoming
Finding out a little more about myself
I've turned and what's more
No more wandering in total dark
When all the rank and file are waking up from scary dreams
And screaming out
Were all the missing puzzle pieces
Scattered on the table like so many crumbs
I've long ago forgotten them among a host of many other things
That i can't decide
Whose side are you on...
6.Circus Of Stars
I'm falling under i've been sinking in the yard
Here in the circus of stars
We jump through hoops and fire
It's not that hard
We've been rehearsing for years
I've beat down all of my fears
It's harder than it appears
When from the audience applause and cheers
Pain and souvenirs
Listen to the sound effects from all my peers
I'm sinking faster
There's a long sad way to go
These clowns are stealing the show
They'll rob you blind and you will never know
We'll always orbit that sphere
Once every ten thousand years
Three rings and planets from here
When all the voyagers and pioneers have all disappeared
Lost between the empty space they're nowhere near
Endangered and the strange
Are being fed and caged
With bits and pieces of the same old show
The tamer's getting old
She plays a lot of roles
By now her feet are getting so cold
Having a meltdown out in the ring
Having a meltdown out in the ring
Having a meltdown out in the ring
Having a meltdown out in the ring
I'm falling under
I've been sinking in the yard
Here in the circus of stars.....
7.Quitter
Looking over all the angles obvious that some ain't right
Litter the recycle bin with all the things i'll change tonight
Well that's not wrong, its merely lame
There's no need to hide my shame
Well i'm tired of slowly sinking
Still there's no one else to blame
I can't help it i'm a quitter
From inside i'm cold and bitter
Always out an unbeliever
We're not floating in the ether
Sick of the illusion that it's sad to ever want to know
Taking off and sputtering whenever it was time to go
Well it's not my fault, i'll never try
I can't even tell you why
Well i thought i heard you calling
From the corner of my eye
I can't help it i'm a quitter
From inside i'm cold and bitter
Always out and in denial
Laying wreaths and spanish tile
I'm not scared i'm only nervous
When chocolate shakes and power surges
Stephen hawking can't know either
We're not floating in the ether
It's not my fault, i'll never try
Well i can't even tell you why
Well i thought i heard you calling
From the corner of my eye
I can't help it i'm a quitter
From inside i'm cold and bitter
Always out and in denial
Laying wreaths and spanish tile
I'm not scared i'm only nervous
When chocolate shakes and power surges
Stephen hawking can't know either
We're not floating in the ether
Always out and in denial
Laying wreaths and spanish tile
Stephen hawking can't know either
We're not floating in the ether.....
8.Useless
So i told you when i thought you were alone
How i loved you in this impossible beat poem
Of course i wrote it (most of it) especially for you
Of course i'll read it but there've been others in my shoes
So i walked egyptian canyons on my own
Strings of consciousness forget this sombre tone
And i'm in trouble having missed another find
And every ruin has a different song inside
Making wishes on a vessel lost in time
Or maybe anchored in my catalina sky
Casting overboard a useless poet's whine
I'm just a denizen of rhythm, word and rhyme
So i wandered in the canyon all alone
Why i loved you in this impossible beat poem
Of course i wrote most of it especially for you
Of course i ruined it cause there've been others in my shoes
9.Letter
Time the walk around the table and chairs
I'm seeing nothing whatever was there
Obsession is hard enough
I know the reasons that she doesn't see
Well its true that i'd fall at her feet
But she don't wanna know
She don't wanna know
I had to write to ask for some way i could tell
So pointless in living an anonymous spell
If you saw her you'd know how i felt
I'm owning up i can't give enough
To be free i'd have to swear my love
But she don't wanna know
She don't wanna know
She don't wanna know
She don't want to know
I'm not the one to make these
Words seem like they're enough
If you did then she'd not mistake me
For nothing, i'm nobody, not no one
I know the reasons that she doesn't see
Well she don't wanna know
She don't wanna know
I'm not the one to take these
Words to the one that i love
If you did then she'd not mistake me
For nothing, i'm nobody, not no one
She don't wanna know...
10.Going Down
I've been hiding in my bedroom
And my head's twisting 'round
Under starry skies i'm sleeping
I'm going up, i'm going down
I've been manic on the phone again
Understand it's not my mouth
A neverending guessing game again
This cursed thought is going south
I'm going up, i'm going down
Crying lonely, laugh out loud
Trying mostly
Won't you show me, show me how
If you could only
You can say i'm only dreaming
But it's all that i can see
You can pray to hollow idols
But i carry them with me
Crying lonely, laugh out loud
Trying mostly
Won't you show me, show me now
If you could only
11.Like It Or Not
I think i've made a big mistake
I didn't want to go that way
Bury another dog, shut another gate
I fooled around and got away
We're in it any other day
Could you believe one hundred twenty in the shade
Thanks a lot
It gets so hot
And we're living in it like it or not
You never fail to interrupt
You turn away and then erupt
I think the temperature is always going up
You come undone and never dream
You show your teeth and fall asleep
And every day we're up and down from the heat
Thanks a lot
It gets so hot
And we're living in it like it or not
Thanks a lot
It gets so hot
And we're living in it like it or not
And we're given to the beat of the clock
And i'm just going through the motions
In a way i don't believe and can't stop
I didn't want to run away
In it any other day
I'm sick of living in this state
I got to get up just to realize its so so cold
And we're living in it like it or not
Thanks a lot
It gets so hot
And we're living in it like it or not
Yeah we're given to the beat of the clock
And i'm just going through the motions
In a way i don't believe and can't stop
12.Tonight Won't Let Me Wander
I thought the river was safe for now
I could never think like you
Seem like derailing a train of thought
Is impossible to do
Each little image a runaway car
I've got one more frame, one more frame to choose
Tonight won't let me wander far from you
If i do
Tonight won't let me wander far from you
I've been sinking in knee deep tar
Now its sticking in my shoes
Dreaming it's over and all right now
Feels beautifully untrue
If the kids going over the bridge look down
They could see me here, see me here, see me here confused
Tonight won't let me wander far from you
If i do...
Tonight won't let me wander far from you
If i do...
Tonight won't let me wander far from you
If i do...
Tonight won't let me wander far from you
Filling it over with stinking ground
I can see it in my head
Leaches and lovers all six feet down
And they're always playing dead
We can't see to the surface so help me out
I've got one more try, one more try, one more try, one more try
or two
Tonight won't let me wander far from you
If i do...
Tonight won't let me wander far from you
If i do...
Tonight won't let me wander far from you
If i do...
Tonight won't let me wander far, wander far, wander far from you
13.You're Absolutely
Perhaps you've noticed something strange i've found
You're absolutely i can't help but fall around
If you look around the park do you hear those little sounds
The quiet screaming and the lonely laughter falling down
Kneeling in the sidewalk there's a pain behind the curse
Reeling in the aftershock, i can't help it
Its only getting worse
I need to tell you what i heard the other day
They're painting over us and digging up our graves
If i try to shut the screaming out the laughter starts again
I hate to put the fires down while i'm drowning in the flame
I'll be leaving in the morning got to try to shed this curse
I can't leave behind the ringing in my ears
It's only getting worse.....
They've got me speaking all their words
Singing all their songs
I guess they'll have me writing all their wrongs
They've got me speaking all their songs
Singing all their words
I can't help it if its only getting worse
Its only getting worse...
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