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SECRET NO.7 

We feel just like 

Two criminals 

With unknown crimes 

It's not your fault 

It's always mine. 

THE SPANISH DAGGER 

Well stop cashing me in for a thin line 

You're right on track to know what it feels like to lose more than you've ever gained 

Charges pending further investigation 

You've got to expect that you're falling from graces 

Rehearsing all your persona will need when you're front-page fighting (aim) for your dignity 

I almost taste the the irony 

How fiction replaces history 

Use daunted glow to light your page 

You say those feelings of doubt will never cut across your mouth 

I know that Socrates and impurities are getting you down 

You'll take all they've got to get your fill 

Your time is running out 

You're getting carried away because no one cares about your fame 

I see the dagger in your name 

Deny your roots for future rain, for future reign 

Add one more kill to raise your worth 

It's so sad, cause it's all the truth you have 

Trade breath for gold 

There's no Armageddon when banks are there to relieve you 

Why prevent yourself to take wealth from someone else 

Dare to incite yourself when you're your only foe 

You're carried away 

Nothing's real about your fame 

I can see you drown in your own wake 

So pale, so thin you'd float away 

I see you trying so hard 

So no one will ever take your place when you feel the dagger brush your face 

Well... I deny myself what I can take when I can wait...and expect the same 

Incriminated, your teeth still shine over the suffering 

Deceiving trade, but the blade will shine. 

CINEMA SPINE 

Just a little bit of feeling in your stories and I'm ready rearing to go 

Just a little bit of grieving in the words you relate and I'm alright 

Crash land, insist, can't exist on frailty 

I always crash land, resist, exaggerated authority 

Just a little bit of bleeding in your stories and I'd be really wanting to know- how they treat internal bleeding when they're dying to be the future glow 

All attacks come two by two 

We've been gliding, so far just spinning our wheels 

When all the bodies fall do they face the sky 

To choose which star to make it home 

When all the bodies fall is it finally quiet 

Or does their last heartbeat echo till they're gold 

Crash land, resist, re-define a dire need 

Crash land, in this unassuming reality 

When all the bodies fall will they shun the light 

And dust their feet on brittle stone 

And all this time is wasted on an assembly line 

To keep things plain enough to be sold 

Tell me something to ease my worry, tell me something to calm me down 

Tell me something to prove your story, a shot of sodium pentathol 

Tell me something that's not too late to deny... 

Why would anybody treat your right 

We already know how the actors feel. 

MIRACLE MILE 

I'm ready to blow 

It's not my fault 

Don't waste a four-leaf clover 

Good happens to the owner 

Just wait, when the leaves fall 

They go below your faults 

Now you're just boring me to death 

I've got a catacomb underneath the same place I lay my head 

I've gotta bury them blind and then control what they find 

I'm hanging on a thread 

You know I'm ready to blow like I've told you I would 

Out of nothing you find your own authority 

Cleanse the water to send your holy blessings 

I'm flying solo, I'm falling so low, where do we go 

Out of nothing you find your own authority 

Forbidden honor will go as far as atrophy 

I'm flying solo 

I'll go 

Now you're just boring me to death 

I've got a cataract focused on a shaky conscience at best (shaky guest) 

I've got to make up my mind and try to make up some time 

I'm hanging on a thread 

You know I'm ready to blow, but not quite yet 

You know I'm ready to fold, can't count my cards yet 

You know I'm ready to forget all we've been through 

You know I'm ready for you 

The shaken are desperate for new sounds on old ground 

To bury reflections, infections from strong hands in weak glands 

And when they're awakened their vision will fade 

It aint a bit of my fault 

I'm gonna miss her. 

TWENTY-FOUR MINUS EIGHTEEN 

Confidence, coming clean, ambivalent to everything 

24 minus 18, find a problem for everything 

Don't try to tell me what I mean 

Don't try to build yourself from the outside 

Don't try to make yourself; you'll break every time 

Don't try to take your guilt and leave it behind 

I carry mine 

This lust will defeat us 

I've learned too many times 

You cuss when you see us 

I'm taking all this in stride 

I breathe too hard 

My lungs are scarred 

Have you tried to arrest yourself, arrested in time 

Why change if you can't find the time 

Try to make the most of this or get left behind 

Everything comes at a price 

You trust us when you need us 

Why do I feel there's nothing inside 

This crutch will relieve us 

How can I fix this if I haven't tried 

I want to send you roses before your death is staged 

When understanding violence, suspects know their fate 

I want another reason why I never help myself 

I waste my days regretting why 

Celebrate, Semper fi, Sic Transit Gloria 

If you don't intend to go, never say that you want to 

Stay home until you know, life's short, but quite a ride 

Got 8 months to go, a tightened grip will get you through 

Don't forget your goals, time is on your side...as long as you're alive 

You want some closure 

You almost finished 

But couldn't fool your pride 

Out of nothing, fake forgiveness 

Never satisfied. 

(What if I'd lied) 

JAWS OF LIFE 

I'm caught up in the jaws of life 

What can heal can also tear you up inside 

Writing down your own anthem 

You don't like the older one 

I would stand at attention for less than minimum 

Wage your own forgotten wars 

Trade honor for canker sores 

Ghostly pride with matching tours 

You're childish without the joy 

I know that I said I would change 

I know that I haven't changed 

A shoulder to lean on and then break/embrace 

I'm barely breathing with my status day to day 

Caught off guard by innocence 

I cross my heart you influences pull you down 

I swear it's not the fault of mine or of the fault of anyone 

So tell me what the guilt feels like 

Are you swallowed in the jaws of life 

When you strip people down you'll see how they don't need their cover 

Is it clear and defined when fists from a simple conflict rise 

And we turn into monsters we thought were once extinct. 

(I could tell you things to shock you too) 

GOODNIGHT QUIET NOISE 

You're full of spite and I know the reason why 

Your alibi will never hold up to mine 

Standing up when paralyzed 

Pull the cloak over your eyes 

It aint enough to be a mountain tall 

Adding up, so name the price 

Spent your lot to turn on a dime 

Remove your mask to make a curtain call 

Something's calling me out to the boulevard 

My thoughts need cages until the morning 

When night it rises like the tide I feel I'm underneath I'm drowning in nothing at all 

Make amends before you start the fight 

Finding out why you should sleep at night 

The blood will boil then solidify 

You better see this, you won't believe it 

You can't avoid the way they perceive you to be 

They're still behind you 

They're catching up to hold you to the back of the line. 

SPLIT LIP ENVY 

I'm just a token of your flirtation 

Nothing more than a description 

You're just a guy, just a kid from a place where your philosophy is a catastrophe 

Wake up split lip, you're not that cool 

Put your words in quotes then call yourself Vegan 

Turn up, off, on your stupid song and sing 

Words about the things you know and what you think you have to show her 

As for myself, I think it's obvious that I'm envious of you 

Tell me now what you've got to look forward to 

I hear they're hiring at the dairy queen 

Your whole story has been a disappointment 

Your poetry is just a joke to me 

Anything and everything about the affection 

That you get when what you've got then 

10 times 42, what's that got to do with anything this song's about 

This jealousy I'll do without 

Where am I in this fairytale, this nightingale counters what I had in mind 

and leaves me depressed and despised. 

PARANOIA PAYS OFF 

I'll try to get your attention so I can clear my name 

(I know you don't care) because I've seen my picture on your dartboard 

Bleed without pain 

You're always so violent...blah, blah...to spite your face 

I'll try to understand the words you yell at me 

I've simply become someone you abhor 

Have you discovered that you need to change your ways 

When out in the open and sense of direction just fades away 

You've never been sorry for a thing you've said 

Have I told you that there's nothing I can't take from you 

It's just decent to wait a while before you go and make a fool of me 

Break through with a crescent smile, got to plan ahead for broken teeth 

It's too late to defend yourself, I saw you laying down beside the things we'd never talk about 

But go on believing 

See, my paranoia is paying off. 

I've been to/stayed at all the places I never felt I'd ever be calling home. 

WHEN THE FEELING FADES 

It aint over, but it feels like it is done 

Getting older and dignified 

I thought we could go out for a ride 

Look at gravesites and pretend that we're inside 

Trade headstones for the night 

Relax and just settle down 

This hesitation will not be wasted 

We can't cross hidden lines 

You know it helps like nothing else to taste the wind when you prepare to fly 

"Olli-Olli-Oxen-Free" if you can't find a victim then you're hunting for me 

So when the legs I have won't move I've got a good place to hide 

Under cover, I'm hating all the things you say but don't mean 

You're an imposter and I've seen you changing sides 

You're a dictator and we all drink to your pride 

We'll get this right 

We'll leave all the talking for another night 

It's never kind, but we don't mind 

You can't inspect a soul after it dies 

Relax and just settle down 

This hesitation is not complacent 

(It's clear) We can't defend these lines 

You know it helps like nothing else to lean through the windowsill within your mind 

You give of yourself now 

You think for yourself now 

You cry by yourself now 

Because you want to be let down 

You're a martyr with guest lists 

You'll never make a birthday wish 

Well you can't be without gifts 

Because you need to be glorified 

I can see why you're mortified when the feeling fades 

Time won't ever be on your side 

Are your feelings mine? 

ABRACADAVER 

So you see yourself holding the knife though it seems you're more terrified than the faces you practice at night, so you can watch your tongue sympathize 

We all know it's wrong, but pretend that it's/we're innocent 

Get out of the way 

You say that you can't move 

We'll drag you away to rot in your test tube 

Congratulate me just when you need to 

So captivating that I rot in place 

Innocence fools you 

It cuts you into pieces 

You try to find a way to live or way to die 

The decadence coerces you in zines & books & movies 

I know I'm right this time 

Get out of the way 

You say that you can't move and threaten to stay 

Well, chalk up a new bruise 

Like a thief in the night 

So planned and deliberate 

No use for a knife, if you can't hide it...right? 

You fall out of photographs and skin up your knees 

Pulled under the undertow I'm so sorry you're sorry 

We all know it's wrong 

(Here we go) 

We'll all get along 

Get out of the way 

It's clear I can't trust you 

You gamble with fate 

A downfall for refuge 

You reciprocate while plotting your next move 

It's not fair to complain from miles away... 

LOW END OF LUXURY 

Waiting...stalemate 

Collect all your things for what they're worth 

(You've got me leaving messages all night) 

Wedding presents postmarked eternity 

Will you return to the sender 

You're paced too slow 

The price of life 

Save a collapsed lung 

Take long distance shrugs 

Leave a light on not a siren 

So what's your story 

Have you change that too 

The ring slipped through your fingers, but still you can't let it go 

I'm lost and found in some low end of luxury 

(I'll start my packing when you start to fall asleep) 

It's just the same as it's always been 

I've lost my will for anything 

It's not rational why you'll go 

Hear it in her voice 

She regrets her choice 

Giving up by nomination 

Once more just say it softly 

the ring slipped through your fingers, but still you can't let go 

Its hard to know what makes us fall apart 

Its hard to want to stop it when it starts 

Its hard to know what makes us fall apart 

Scars jump at a chance to make a mark. 

ARRIVE ALIVE 

You try to make this last 

But your candles burn too fast 

Divided before you were born 

Were you divided from your former you 

You'll never make it far 

Well it's time, so let go of my arm 

You're dying north of 40 

You are destined for its solitude 

Just pull the cover over your eyes 

Or do what just feels good 

It's easy to be content about your life 

Until it's over 

Why does this feel so good 

Won't somebody tell me while I'm alive 

Why can't I withstand my lust is so much stronger than my love for life 

(It's just fate to play) 

Will you take over when I'm bleeding 

Watch me squeeze out every pint I've got 

It's over 

I can feel it 

Well-rehearsed accidents prepare to stop 

And I am trying 

Know what you want before you start 

I read your diary (to get to know you) 

I skipped right to the end (I don't feel guilty) 

Empty pages (of untold stories) 

For days you didn't want to live (oh well, you've given up) 

Too late to decide my fate or re-write autobiographies 

And though I just woke up, I feel that I'm washed up 

You're always fake (you fear the worst) 

Because you've been betrayed (so well rehearsed) 

It's your fault I can believe handshakes 

I've gone far enough, that's why I'm washed up 

It's over, I mean it 

It's over, I believe it now 

I'm washed up. 

AFTER ARGUMENTS 

Deathbeds and guarded borders 

Bedpans and doctors orders 

Move on and leave the weak behind 

Back stabs and painted on smiles 

It's easier to die admired 

From here there is no turning back 

Fall out of focus 

Arguments end where you leave them 

(What's it take to be satisfied) 

You battle your progress 

Arguments fend for themselves 

I've been shot down too many times 

I guess I blame myself for targets I can't defend 

A Punishment will never fit a crime 

Well should I go ahead with this, if I could go ahead at all 

I'd be more confident if you'd admit you're wrong 

Do I need to chalk your lines 

Victims precede the crime 

You're blaming yourself next time 

We'll take turns to cover the tracks that we leave behind 

You use me to waste your time 

Your grudges carry themselves just fine 

Regrets, I take yours if you'll take mine 

A fair trade for lightning bolts, landmines or genocide 

Unplug the phone, I need it quiet 

All we have left is all we hold on to 

I don't care anymore, let's put this aside 

I'll scream with my last breath, "I'm alright" 

All we have left is all we lay next to 

White boys, start your own KKK 

You look like you're good for nothing anyway 

Just like your parents before you 

And just like your faceless neighborhood 

I know that I'm the one, I feel just like Shakakahn 

If it's not for me, it can't be right for anyone 

I blame the cynics and the sun 

So goodnight. 

UNFIT 

I'm just not fit to go on and neither is anyone 

I've always needed a crowd just like an orphan 

I don't deserve this at all 

Strike that 

I deserve all I get 

I could be walking on water and complain that my feet get wet 

But I'd be fine if you'd let go 

I've always known the places of those who run for cover 

The camera angle i've taken is wrong 

I'll let it be, I'll let it go...if you say so 

You make me feel like I'm a salesman and somehow I'm caught with red hands 

Tightrope over reason like a skeptic with plans 

You look at me for your desire, but I'm using all I have 

If you get off on your placement then get off my back. 

Just say the words 

Then fall into these arms 

Just say the words 

I know this feeling can't be/isn't right.