Selected Lyrics
[they aren't mine]

Marilyn Manson: Rock is Dead
The Foo Fighters: Learn to Fly; Monkey Wrench
The Cure: More Than This; Fear of Ghosts
REM: It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
Soul Coughing: 16 Horses
Blink-182: What's My Age Again?; All the Small Things
Prodigy: Mindfields
Rammstien: Du Hast; Du Hast {English v. 1}; Du Hast {English v. 2}
Sarah MacLachlan: Building a Mystery; Angel; Fear; Hold On; Good Enough
Jewel: Hands
Hootie and the Blowfish: Let Her Cry

ROCK IS DEAD

All simple monkeys with alien babies
Amphetamines for boys
Crucifixes for ladies
Sampled and soulless
Worldwide and real webbed
You sell all the living
For more safer dead

Anything to be loved

Rock is deader than dead
Shock is all in your head
Your sex and your dope is all that were fed
So fuck all your protests and put them to bed

God is on the T.V.

1,000 mothers are praying for it
We're so full of hope
And so full of shit
Build a new god to medicate and to ape
Sell us ersatz dressed up and real fake

Anything to be loved

Rock is deader than dead (chorus repeat)

God is on the T.V.

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LEARN TO FLY

Run and tell all of the angels
This could take all night
Think I need a devil to help me get things right
Hook me up a new revolution
Cause this one is a lie
We sat around laughing and watched the last one die
I'm looking to the sky to save me
Looking for a sign of life
Looking for something to help me burn out bright
I'm looking for complication
Looking cause I'm tired of lying ( trying)
Make my way back home when I learn to fly
I think I'm done nursing the patience
I can wait one night
I'd give it all away if you give me one last try
We'll live happily ever trapped if you just save my life
Run and tell the angels that everything is alright..
Fly along with me, I can't quite make it alone
Try and make this life my own

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MONKEY WRENCH

What have we done with innocence
It disappeared with time
it never made much sense
Adolescent resident
wasting another night on planning my revenge

One in ten
don't want to be your monkey wrench
one more indecent accident
i'd rather leave than suffer this
I'll never be your monkey wrench

All this time to make amends
what do you do when all your enemies are friends
now and then I'll try to bend
under pressure wind up snapping in the end

One last thing before I quit
 I never wanted any more 
than I could fit into my head
I still remember every single word you said
and all the shit
that somehow came along with it
still there's one thing that comforts me 
since I was always caged and now I'm free

fall in fall out

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More than this

For a second of your life
tell me that it's true
waiting for a sign
it's all I want of you
your heart hides a secret
a promise of what is
something more than this

Just a second of your time
any one will do
a taste of any other
is all I want from you
offer me the world
and how can I resist
something more than this

Make believe in magic
make believe in dreams
make believe impossible
nothing as it seems
see, ouch, taste, smell, hear
but never know if it's real
(never know if it's real)

For a second of your life
tell me if it's true
anywhere we are
it's all I want of you
your lips lies a secret
a promise of a kiss
of something more than this

Just a second of your time
anyone will do
to know any other
is all I want from you
giving me the world
now I can't resist
something more than this

make believe in magic
make believe in dreams
make believe impossible
nothing as it seems
never really understand
what anything means
what anything means

another second of my life
not knowing if it's true
make believe in nothing
is all I want of you
whisper me a secret
whisper me there is
always something other
something more than this

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Fear of Ghosts

Like a feeling that I'm down
Down inside my heart
Like I'm looking out through
Splitting bloodred
Windows in my heart
From a higher up than heaven
And a harder down than stone
Shake the fear that always clawing
Pulls me clawing down alone
As I spitting splitting bloodred
Breaking windows in my heart
And the past is taunting
Fear of ghosts
Is forcing me apart
And the further I get
From the things that I care about
The less I care about
How much further away I get

I am lost again
With everything gone
And more alone
Than I have ever been
I expect you to understand
To feel it too
But I know that even if you will
You cannot ever help me
Nor can I
Ever help you

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It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and
snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed
it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, Ladder
start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire
in a fire, representing seven games, a government
for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in
a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team
by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
Look at that low playing! Fine, then. Uh oh,
overflow, population, common food, but it'll do. Save
yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs,
listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and
the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic,
patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty
psyched.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign
towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself
churn. Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood
letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no
fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament,
tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions,
offer me alternatives and I decline.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard
Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel
fine...fine...

(It's time I had some time alone)

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16 HORSES

Fourteen-thousand times a second, the speaker moves.
Magnetism pushes the impulse through.
And I can't keep this speed.
I can't generate that frequency.
What the sound pressure level means, a bunch of randomized electrons I can't read.
And still not dancing...

She came pushing sixteen horses.
Thought I heard, thought I heard, thought I head...thought I heard a doorbell tone.
Thought I saw, thought I saw, thought I saw...you watching from the lawn.

Shimmer over the bridges like the river was a dream, dream.
Two brains, two brains, two brains, clamp, down, put it!

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What’s my age again?

I took her out
It was a friday night
I wore cologne to get the feeling right
We started making out
And she took off my pants
But then I turned on the TV
And that's about the time she walked away from me
Nobody likes you when you're 23
And I'm still more amused by TV shows
What the hell is A.D.D?
My friends say I should act my age.
Whats my age again? whats my age again?
But later on
On the drive home
I called her mom from a pay phone
I said I was the cops
And your husbands in jail
The state looks down on sodomy
And that's about the time that bitch hung up on me
Nobody likes you when you're 23
And I'm still more amused by prank phone calls
What the hell is call I.D.?
My friends say I should act my age
Whats my age again? whats my age again?
And that's about the time she walked away from me
Nobody likes you when you're 23
And you still act like you're in freshman year
What the hell is wrong with me?
My friends say I should act my age
Whats my age again? (whats my age again?)
That's about the time that she broke up with me
No one should take themselves so seriously
With many years ahead to fall in love
Why would you wish down on me
I never want to act my age
Whats my age again? whats my age again?
Whats my age again?

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All the small things

All the small things
True care truth brings
I'll take one lift
You're ride best trip
Always I know
You'll be at my show
Watching, waiting
Commiserating
Say it ain't so
I will not go
Turn the lights off
Carry me home
Na na na....
Late night
Come home
Work sucks
I know
She left me roses by the stairs
Surprises let me know she cares
Say it ain't so
I will not go
Turn the lights off
Carry me home
Na na na....

Say it ain't so
I will not go
Turn the lights off
Carry me home
Keep your head still
I'll be your thrill
The night will go on
The night will go on
A little bit new

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Mindfields

This is dangerous. Open up your head feel the shell shock.
This is dangerous. This is dangerous, I walk through mindfields so watch your head rock
...
So watch your head rock!
...
This is dangerous, I walk to mindfields so watch your head rock.
This shock...
I walk through mind fields, eh... this shock
I walk through mind fields so watch your head rock
I walk through mind fields so watch your head rock

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Du hast

Du

Du hast

Du hast mich

Du hast mich gefragt

Du hast mich gefragt

und ich hab nichts gesagt

Willst du bis der Tod euch scheide

treu ihr sein für alle Tage

nein

Willst du bis zum Tod der Scheide

sie lieben auch in schlechten Tagen

nein

 

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Du hast - You Have  [English v. 1]

you

you have

you have me

you have asked me

you have asked me and I have said nothing

Do you want to, until the death of your sheath,

be faithful for all days?

No... No!

Do you want to, until the death of the sheath,

love also in bad days?

No... No!

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Du Hast (English Version 2)- You hate

 

You

You hate

You hate me

You hate me to say

You hate me to say

And I did not obey

Will you until death does sever

Be upright to her forever

Never

Will you 'til death be her rider

Her lover too, to stay inside her

Never

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Building A Mystery

You come out at night
that's when the energy comes
and the dark side's light
and the vampires roam
you strut your rasta wear
and your suicide poem
and a cross from a faith
that died before Jesus came
you're building a mystery

Repeat chorus

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Angel

Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always one reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty
and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

So tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves at your back
and the storm keeps on twisting
you keep on building the lie
that you make up for all that you lack
it don't make no difference
escaping one last time
it's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh
this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees
in the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here.

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Fear

Morning smiles
like the face of a newborn child
innocent unknowing
Winter's end
promises of a long lost friend
speaks to me of comfort
but I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
here in this lonely place
tangled up in our embrace
there's nothing I'd like
better than to fall
but I fear I have nothing to give
Wind in time
rapes the flower trembling on the vine
nothing yields to shelter it
from above
they say temptation will destroy our love
the never ending hunger
but I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
here in this lonely place
tangled up in our embrace
there's nothing I'd like
better than to fall
but I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
I have nothing to give
We have so much to lose.

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Hold On

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Good Enough

So just let me try
and I will be good to you
just let me try
and I will be there for you
I'll show you why
you're so much more than good enough.

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Hands

We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's mind
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's heart
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's eyes
We are God's hands
We are God's hands

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Let Her Cry

She sits alone by a lamppost
trying to find a thought that’s escaped her mind
She says Dad’s the one I love the most
but Stipe’s not far behind

She lets me in
only tell me where’s she’s been
when she’s had too much to drink
I say that I don’t care I just run my hands
through her dark hair and I pray to God
you gotta help me fly away

And just…
Let her cry…if the tears fall down like rain
Let her sing…if it eases all her pain
Let her go…let her walk right out on me
And if the sun comes up tomorrow
Let her be…let her be.

This morning I woke up alone
found a note by the phone
saying maybe I’ll be back some day
I wanted to look for you
You walked in I didn’t know just what to do
so I sat back down had a beer and felt sorry for myself.

-Chorus-

-Solo-

-Chorus-

Last nite I tried to leave
She cried so much I just
could not believe
she was the same girl I
fell in love with long ago
She went in the back to
get high
I sat down on my couch
and cried
yelling oh mama please
help me
won’t you hold my hand.

-Chorus-

-Chorus-

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