Unreleased Songs

The Black Maria Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.Betrayal

Lyricist:Alan Nacinovic

I love how they used to say
It's all in your head
You're a paranoid picture, you're a photograph

Exposed by the light
When you step outside
Burnt by the sun that's in your eyes

But when I saw it in my face
In this mirror that needs to break
Somethin' bothered me and left me to feel

Betrayal, betrayal
It rips right through me
How you lie right to me

Betrayal, betrayal
Will this world make better sense
Once you mean nothin' to me?

It's on the cutting room floor
Footage of this mess
Filmed then packaged and ready to sell

Betrayal, betrayal
It rips right through me
How you lie right to me

Betrayal, betrayal
You used to live in a memory
Now those pictures are burning, now, now

You're a memory, a fingerprint on the film
You're a shadow in the sun
Now it's your time to burn

Betrayal, betrayal
It rips right through me
How you lie right to me

Betrayal, betrayal
Will this world make better sense
Once you mean nothin' to me?

One day, you will come crawlin' back
To the same place that I've been


2.The Memento

Lyricist:Alan Nacinovic

I'll never forget you
But your time to leave is way past due
I have this overwhelming urge
To suck in one good breath and scream

There is no love left inside of me
This isn't the first time
That I've fallen apart in front of an audience

Though words have changed
The message stays the same
I tried reason, it was all in vain
I wish it didn't have to be
But this song is for you

Now that's entertainment
To watch me fall apart at the knees
And grovel like a slave
Who is begging for a little sympathy

And you danced around on my broken dreams
Celebrated when I made mistakes
This song was written about
How much I hate you

And through all the worst of time
I sat and took it almost every time
I tried to scream but it didn't work
I tried to leave but it didn't work
I wish it didn't have to be
But this song is for you

Now that's entertainment
To watch me fall apart at the knees
And grovel like a slave
Who is begging for a little sympathy

And you danced around on my broken dreams
Celebrated when I made mistakes
This song was written about
How much I hate you

I tried to scream but it didn't work
I tried to leave but it didn't work
I tried, I tried to

Now that's entertainment
To watch me fall apart at the knees
And grovel like a slave
Who is begging for a little sympathy

And you danced around on my broken dreams
Celebrated when I made mistakes

I hate you, I hate you
I hate you, I hate you
This must be love


3.Ash

Lyricist:Alan Nacinovic

Choking on nails as the spike is hammered in
Pine boxes pile up we're sick from the stench
Exploding on contact is our fat skin
Choking on nails

We're faceless in a generation
Those sins of a generation of swine
A generation of swine

Our willingness to suffer is what keeps us alive
Trading in our shackles for a box of bloody knives
Exploding on contact is our fat skin
Choking on nails

We're faceless in a generation
Those sins of a generation of swine

It's getting tough to bare, I'm breaking up from it
We've got to change up the framework

Those sins of a generation of swine

We are the blood and the light
We carry all of the life
We are a lie, we are a lie
We are the blood of the swine, the swine

Faceless in a generation
Those sins of a generation of swine

It's getting tough to bare, I'm breaking up from it
We've got to change up the framework

Those sins of a generation of swine


4.Our Commitment's A Sickness

Lyricist:Alan Nacinovic

The sad news came today
That you gave up, you quit, you're walking away
And you can't find the right words to say
That you are a part of a ship that's sinking

We'll hang ourselves up with our broken dreams
Convince ourselves that we are better then this
Our commitment's a sickness
We'll hang ourselves up with our broken dreams
And tell ourselves that we almost made it
Our commitment's a sickness

And they say this too, shall pass
But we're getting older with no closure or direction

We'll hang ourselves up with our broken dreams
Convince ourselves that we are better then this
Our commitment's a sickness
We'll hang ourselves up with our broken dreams
And tell ourselves that we almost made it
Our commitment's a sickness

We'll hang ourselves with our dreams
We'll hang ourselves with doubt
We'll hang ourselves with our dreams
We're always hanging on

We'll hang ourselves with our dreams
We'll hang ourselves with doubt

We'll hang ourselves up with our broken dreams
Convince ourselves that we are better then this
Our commitment's a sickness
We'll hang ourselves up with our broken dreams
And tell ourselves that we almost made it
Our commitment's a sickness


5.The Distance From The Bottom

Lyricist:Alan Nacinovic

What's the distance from the bottom?
When you have nothing to lose
Do you see the world move forward?
As you break into pieces

Remember how you used to walk proud
How you'd soar above the crowd?
What's the distance from the bottom?

When you wear the failure like scars
And your dreams landed way off mark
And you know you want to make things right
For the first time in your life

And your trophies from when you were young
Are just symbols of where you went wrong
Well, you know how it goes

What's the distance from the bottom?
What has happened to you?
Do you stay awake at night and wonder
Why you're falling to pieces?

Do you feel the stinging in your gut?
Does it hurt you to think about
What's the distance from the bottom?

When you wear the failure like scars
And your dreams landed way off mark
And you know you want to make things right
For the first time in your life

And your trophies from when you were young
Are just symbols of where you went wrong
Well, you know how it goes

And it seems like a mystery now
How you could fall so far down
Well, you know how it goes

When you can't change the world
You can't change the world
When you can't change the world
You can't change the world

When you wear failure like scars
And your dreams landed way off mark
And you know you want to make things right
For the first time in your life

And your trophies from when you were young
Are just symbols of where you went wrong
Well, you know how it goes

When you can't change the world
You can't change the world
When you can't change the world


6.The Lines We Cross

Lyricist:Alan Nacinovic

Something comes over me
There's poison coming from the TV
The buzzing attracts the fleas
I've seen the sun rise for weeks

We're lost in each other
What's one without the other?
Fused together, fused together

Paranoid by the sound of the streets
Wood creaks like the march of machines
My blood lust consuming me
My hunger is matched by my greed

We're lost in each other
What's one without the other?
Fused together, fused together

We're lost in each other
What's one without the other?
Fused together, fused together

Now save us from the killer's eye
Save us from the lines we cross


7.To Have Loved

Lyricist:Alan Nacinovic

Close your eyes and just let go
And find the beauty outside of your front door
You've been lost in the dark
Inside your apartment with a broken heart
Because it hurt too much to let go

And you have lost all your self-control
You wake up miserable
A broken heart in a box you buried away
Six feet under to get rid of all the pain

Because it hurts too much to let go
Of the life you always have known
You've been lost in yourself
Your imagination is a crippling hell
To have loved is to let go

And you have lost all your self-control
You wake up miserable
A broken heart in a box you buried away
Six feet under to get rid of all the pain

You have lost all control
You wake up miserable
A broken heart in a box you buried away
Six feet under to get rid of all the pain

You said you'd never change
And you can't seem to bring us back to the place of
Where we first started from
And you swore that you'd never leave and forever be
Mine and that you'd die beside me
So where are those forgotten promises now?

You have lost all control
You wake up miserable
A broken heart in a box you buried away
Six feet under to get rid of all the pain

You have lost all control
You wake up miserable
A broken heart in a box you buried away
Six feet under to get rid of all the pain

My light is my hope that won't stop burning
For a love that is more than just a passing thing
How long? How much more?
How long? How long will this take?


8.Sirens

Lyricist:Alan Nacinovic

Smothered

Smothered, you suffocate
Choke on me
Confused you isolate
All your intentions
No vaccination

Gardens that burn from fires
Evacuate the Angels
Who stand on funeral pyres
To escape temptation

Nothing has been consistent
Not your life or your vision
When two hearts burn as one
Who is the victim?

You're my siren
Entice my heart 'til it's yours
You're my siren
Entice my heart 'til it's yours

These bars are getting to me
This gray box so isolating
I've paced in it everyday
For too long it's been my sentence

You're my siren
Entice my heart 'til it's yours
You're my siren
Entice my heart 'til it's yours

Enjoy your time inside
My mind and heart, they're yours
Enjoy your time inside
My mind and heart, they're yours
Enjoy your time inside
My mind and heart, they're yours

You're my siren,
Entice my heart 'til it's yours
You're my siren,
Entice my heart 'til it's yours

This is yours
This is yours
This is yours
This is my heart


9.Rats In The Prison

Lyricist:Alan Nacinovic

Rats

Rats in the prison
Sentenced to obey
Broken by the slaves
Masquerading beyond the lights

I am constantly in wonder
What kind of an animal can live in this filth
And you, you're the kind of cheap whore
Who's forever been living for
Sucking the life out of me

We're rats in the prison
For one last hopeless day
The glass tomb's not escapable
Forever buried in it's grave

I am constantly in wonder
What kind of an animal can live in this filth
And you, you're the kind of cheap whore
Who's forever been living for
Sucking the life out of me

Rats, rats, rats, rats
Rats, rats, rats, rats
Rats, rats, rats

I am constantly in wonder
What kind of an animal can live in this filth
And you, you're the kind of cheap whore
Who's forever been living for
Sucking the life out of me

I am constantly in wonder
What kind of an animal can live in this filth
And you, you're the kind of fucking whore
Who'll sell your heart and soul for a dollar bill

Rats


10.Organs

Lyricist:Alan Nacinovic

You're staring out to space
Alone in your favorite restaurant
But the stool next to you is vacant

You're standing on the edge
You looking down on everyone
And wondering who loves you

And there's no one ever there
You cherished all the birthday cards
You saved since you were a kid

But some things can never change, so just get used to it
Some people never change, they're incapable of it
They're all full of it

You're standing on the edge
You looking down on everyone
And wondering who loves you?

When you scream
(You're standing on the edge
Looking down on everyone)

That you're scared
(You're standing on the edge
Looking down on everyone)

We are the ones that
Break down from the hopelessness

You're standing on the edge
You looking down on everyone
And wondering who loves you?

When I do
When I do
When I do

Some things never change
(Some things can never change)
(Some things can never change)
When I do


11.Mirrors And Cameras

Lyricist:Alan Nacinovic

Burn away the best part of everything
And strip away all that I am, I dispose of the man
We won't make it so why should we stop it?

I wake up again in someone else's skin
This body acts like a chain and I can't get out of it
We won't make it so why should we stop it?

Burn away the best part of everything
And strip away all that I am, I dispose of the man
We won't make it so why should we stop it?

I wake up again though I was never really here
I'm a shell for a ghost and a grave for a man
We won't make it so why should we stop it?

Burn away the best part of everything
And strip away all that I am, I dispose of the man
We won't make it so why should we stop it?

Mirrors and cameras
I reach for razor blades
I want to cut myself
I don't like what I see

Mirrors and cameras
I reach for razor blades
I want to cut myself

We won't make it so why should we stop it?

Burn away the best part of everything
And strip away all that I am, I dispose of the man
We won't make it so why should we stop it?

Mirrors and cameras
Mirrors and cameras
Mirrors and cameras