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GRIND BRUSH AWAY SLUDGE FACTORY HEAVEN BESIDE YOU HEAD CREEPS AGAIN SHAME IN YOU GOD AM SO CLOSE NOTHIN' SONG FROGS OVER NOW

GRIND


In the darkest hole
You'd be well advised
Not to plan my funeral before the
Body dies

Come the morning light
It's a see-through show
What you may have heard and
What you think you know

CHORUS
Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth won't grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside

Sure to play a part
So you love the game
And in truth your lies
Become one and same

I could set you free
Rather hear the sound
Of your body breaking
As I take you down

CHORUS

In the darkest hole
You'd be well advised
Not to plan my funeral before the
Body dies

CHORUS

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BRUSH AWAY


I could use some
Time to curl away
My aggression
Is where you stake
Your claim
Why I question
This curve on which you grade
My conception
A joke? Or latest craze?

I try to get away
And yet I stick around
So fall and crawl away
And brush away loose ground

My intention
Can I arrive at eight
Lie and dream some
Surprise you guys I'm late
All right, correction, forgetting something
Wait

Brush away loose ground (2X)

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SLUDGE FACTORY


You insult me in my home
You're forgiven this time
Things go well, your eyes dilate
You shake, and I'm high?
Look in my eyes deep and watch
The clouds change with time
20 hours wont print
My picture milk carton size
Carton size
Carton size

Call me up congratulations
Ain't the real why
There's no pressure besides brilliance
Let's say by day 9
Endless corporate ignorance lets
Me control time
By the way, by the way, by the way, by the way

Once again you see an in
Discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you kindly gurgle out a date
For me

Now the body of one soul I adore wants to die
You have always told me you'd
Not live past 25
I say stay long enough to repay
All who caused strife

Once again you see an in
Discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you kindly gurgle out a date
For me

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HEAVEN BESIDE YOU


Be what you wanna be
See what you came to see
Been what you wanna be
I don't like what I see

CHORUS
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you . . .Hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you . . .Hell within
Like the coldest winter will
Put heaven beside you
Hell within
And you think you have it still, heaven inside you

So there's problems in your life
That's fucked up
And I m not blind
I'm just see-through
Faded
Super jaded
And out of my mind

Do what you wanna do
Go out and seek your truth
When I'm down and blue
Rather be me than you

CHORUS

So there's problems in your life
That's fucked up
But you're not blind
You're just see-through
Faded
Overrated
And out of your mind

CHORUS

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HEAD CREEPS


No more time
Just one more time

So crazy, beat the strain
Too lazy, shake the gray
So, and she willed the rain
So let me be defamed
Your redundancy stains
Tired of infantile claims
Like puppets on their strings
Untangle you from me

Time to call the doggies off
Tired of the shadowin'
Slide me to the side again
Slapped in the face again

No more time
Just one more time

Your redundancy stains
Tired of infantile claims
Live puppets on a string
Untangle you from me

CHORUS
One day my plane leaves
Some way my head creeps
Some day my head leads
Some way my head creeps

Empty room sets the scene
Pick at me slow, pain fiend
Suck me through barbed screen
Anger becomes our queen

Tongue whipping forked black
How long until you crack
Surprised and set back
Lackey's loose talk for fact

CHORUS

So crazy feel the hate
Yeah, I've got years to wait
I know it's not too late
Lending clean hands to fate
Rise from the dirt I'm in
Hide in another's skin
Stick black dress doll with pin
Your mouth takes on my grin

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AGAIN


Hey
Let them do it again
Yeah
Hey
You said you were my friend

Hey
Turn me upside down
Hey
Feelin' so down
Hey

Hey
I know I made the same mistakes
I won't do it again, no
Why you slap me in the face, ow
I didn't say it was okay, no
No No

Hey
You had time to think it out, yeah
Hey
Your weak will won't help her heal her heart, no
Hey
I'll bet it really eats you up

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GOD AM


Dear God, how have you been, then?
I'm not fine, fuck pretending
All of this death you're sending
Best throw some free heart mending

Invite you in my heart, then
When done, my sins forgiven?
This God of mine relaxes
World dies I still pay taxes

CHORUS
Can I be as my God am
Can you be as God am
Can I be as my God am
God of all my God am

So Lord, I see you grinnin'
Must be grand always winning
How proud are you being able
To gather faith from fable

CHORUS
God am
My God am
God am
God

All this respect I'm giving
Shared strength acquired by livin'
All bloomin' life youre feeding
Cant hide sick ones youre weeding

CHORUS
God am (3X)

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SO CLOSE


Why are we here again
It's the same ol' sit down roll around
Chewed up pen

Nothin' thrilling me too much, yeah
Nothing thrilling me

CHORUS
Yeah, so close now (x2)

Man, I nearly snapped my twig
Then again I nearly snapped
A few of you

So I hear you think highly now
So I hear you think

CHORUS

Why (3X)

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NOTHIN' SONG


Began this take at 7:38
Head hit the board, enough that it aches
Wonder should I be workin' so late
Began this take at 7:38
Head hit the board, enough that it aches
Wonder should I be workin' so late
Wonder should I be workin' so late

The nothin' song sticks to your mouth
Like peanut butter on the brain
Nothin' ever stays the same
Nothin'
Yeah, nothin'
Nothin'
Nothin'

Went outside to give all a break
Wearing cowhide, steak on a skate
Back inside, Sam throw away your cake

Went outside to give a break
Wearing cowhide, steak on a skate
Back inside Sam, throw your away your cake
Back inside Sam, throw your away your cake

CHORUS
Gotta finish so I can awake
Feed the cat or she spreads all the waste
Snap her neck or trade in for new make
Gotta finish so I can awake
Feed the cat or she spreads the waste
Snap her neck or trade in for new make
Snap her neck or trade in for new make

The nothin' song sticks to your mouth
Like peanut butter on the brain
Nothin' ever stays the same
The nothin' song stick to your mouth

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FROGS


What does friend mean to you?
A word so wrongfully abused
Are you like me, confused
All included but you
Alone...

The sounds of silence often soothe
Shapes and colors shift with mood
Pupils widen and change their hue
Rapid brown avoid clear blue

Why's it have to be this way
Be this way

Flowers watched through wide brown eyes
A child sings an unclaimed tune
Innocence spins cold cocoon
Grow to see the pain too soon

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OVER NOW


Yeah, it's over now
But I can breathe somehow
When it's all worn out

I'd rather go without

CHORUS
You know it's been on my mind
Could you stand right here
Look me straight in the eye and say
That it's over now

We pay our debt sometime

Well it's over now
Yet I can see somehow
When it's all gone wrong
It's hard to be so strong

We pay our debt sometime
Guess it's over now
I seem alive somehow
When it's out of sight
Just wait and do your time

CHORUS

We pay our debt sometime

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