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FAIRGROUND
03:52
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isn’t everyone waiting to wake,
just a dream, a mistake
in the dead of night
I could live whole lives
if I could freeze the flow
for even just a moment
I’d lift up off the ground and
float by the crowds and
sleep on a still bed of cloud
but I choke on the fumes
til I’m on a merry-go-round
theres nothin I can do but go
down, down
the lights are so bright
and the music’s so loud
half dying of the fright of this fairground
I don’t know my enemy
all that I know is a fantasy
in the pouring rain
I can almost feel again
movie scenes
everything real may as well be a dream
living frame by frame
cus you can’t replay
I would like to let you in
but it defies explaining
try to get off the ride so
we can go hide but
no-one will help me slow down
chasing
joy through technicolour wreckage
wasteland
come find me when it’s turned to ash
when the lights have all blown
one last cold flame remains, I’ll
deal with it soon
when I’m out of this state
the air was so sweet
its still making me spin
they said try your luck
but I just don’t win
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2. |
PLAY THE GAME
03:37
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I saw you throwing roses
and for my final act, panic attack
think I can own it?
you won’t end me
I won’t fade
I won’t play your game
you think you can make me
you thought wrong
I’ll be long, long gone
alone
did you think I would become your ingenue?
I’ve got some bad news for you
your power will crumble before I do
cus I'm the man, I’m the band
I’m a hell of a show
so sad that you’ll never know
grew up big and strong and nothing like you
you step on all my roses
and sweetly drown me out
cover my mouth
all sugar coated
so forget me
go get paid
I dare you say my name
won’t let you erase me
baby
you faked it
chaos in your wake
reaping empty praise yeah
~
cover my mouth all sugar-coated, yeah
i'll be long long gone
(your image won't remain)
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ugly songs on the radio
all along, all along
you’re selling such a story
to the ones who can’t see through you
you know I’ll be there watching
when your spotlight blows a fuse
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3. |
SIGNS OF LIFE
02:49
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stargazing out a car window
well its better than nothing at all
thats what I tell myself
a sleeping spell
don’t know whats lonelier than this
cold glass tower
as living as frozen flowers
we listen to songs that we could be dancing to
just laying in the dark instead
I’m searching for a beacon in this long locked tomb
follow fractures til I see the moon
bloodshot under a neon sky
weary eyes
no sunrise
wish I wasn’t so afraid to die
or I’d go outside
live real life
don’t know whats scarier than this
don’t laugh, you’ll see
we’re lost to the never ending dream
romance, holograms
does it really end this way?
I hope we’re leaving more than these shards
no signs of life are coming
so I guess we’re done
sing it softly until I’m numb
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4. |
GHOST TOWN
03:27
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phantoms
these ghosts are holding me for ransom
oh tell me what did I do?
why are you pulling me backwards?
overgrown
you cut me right back down to size
god is this where we all die?
right back here watching
boys on their bikes with their sunburnt arms and chains
I wanted to start over, tell me why it feels the same?
the postcard towns are the heaviest, you know
and I won’t go down that never-ending road
like I never left
at square one again
sweet home, blue sky
no money, so much for paradise
so we join the living dead
heartaches
the same old misery as always
god damn you never complained,
why did you smile for the pictures?
holidays
right where we had our darkest hours
we get concrete and they get flowers
just keep on walking
dual carriageways past the roadkill and the rot
I only wanted magic and this shit is all I got
the postcard towns really beat us down, you know
didn’t wanna go down that never-ending road
like I never left
at square one again
sweet home blue sky, no money
fuck your paradise
and so we join the living dead
join the living dead
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