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didn’t wanna move too fast
so much pain in my past
unsure if it would last
acting tough but feeling insecure
juggling so many balls
bouncing off the walls
hanging til last calls
holding out but what for
i'm sorry that I made you wait
i’m not one to believe in fate
now we’re in a better state
there’s no need to hesitate
cause you can change my heartbeat
now i know what i want, i know i know what i want
now i know what i want
i want a life with you
now i know what i want, i know i know what i want
i’ve never been so sure
this time i know it’s true
say goodbye to all my fear
when I look in the mirror
it all becomes so clear
you learn to swim so you won’t drown
looking back on yesterday
hear the music play
we’ll always be this way
All I searched for now I found
i'm sorry that I made you wait
i’m not one to believe in fate
now we’re in a better state
there’s no need to hesitate
cause you can change my heartbeat
now i know what i want, i know i know what i want
now i know what i want
i want a life with you
now i know what i want, i know i know what i want
i’ve never been so sure
this time i know it’s true
now i know what i want, i know i know what i want
now i know what i want
now i know what i want, i know i know what i want
now i know what i want
Get up on your feet, your journey’s not complete
Just move to the beat and don’t give up
Get up on your feet, your journey’s not complete
Just move to the beat and don’t give up on love
now i know what i want, i know i know what i want
now i know what i want
i want a life with you
now i know what i want, i know i know what i want
i’ve never been so sure
this time i know it’s true
now i know what i want, i know i know what i want
now i know what i want
i want a life with you
now i know what i want, i know i know what i want
i’ve never been so sure
i know this much is true
now i know what i want, i know i know what i want
now i know what i want
now i know what i want, i know i know what i want
now i know what i want
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To Be Young & On Downers
03:16
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what a waste, what a waste
what a beautiful waste
it’s such a shame, such a shame
such a dirty shame
if you can’t feel this
then you’re doing in it wrong
and if you can’t feel this
why are you tagging along?
pop those pills, light another joint
have a laugh at someone else’s expense
but when I roll my eyes at your Phi-Phi read
i can see you getting on the defense
when we all go out and you can’t keep up
shades down and slumped in a stall
to hear you tell the tales next day
you’d think you were the belle of the ball
beauty is as beauty does
moss grows on a rolling stone
even sugar daddies sour
after all the green that they’ve loaned
this town’s not big enough for all your mistakes
it’s a smaller world than you think
and if you don’t stop stealing sips of my Stoli
I’ma have to raise a stink
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Where is everybody?
She’s always asking me
I tell her they’re in bed just like she should be
Why is it so quiet?
And what would happen if I scream?
Would someone come to rescue or would they even hear me?
And I said not to worry, nothing’s gonna happen here
There isn’t much to favor but there’s even less to fear
here in Sleepytown
No open eyes to meet tonight
here in Sleepytown
But if you listen you can hear the city far away
Doesn’t anybody feel the same as I?
There’s nowhere else I’d rather be than way up in the sky
I’d fly around the world and find the most beautiful place
Then I’d come back you and all our friends
and we’d live forever in a state of grace
And I said you’re a dreamer and I hope you’ll always be
The hardest part is believing when you’re out there running free
from Sleepytown
No open eyes to meet tonight
here in Sleepytown
But if you listen close you’ll hear the city far away
We walk these silent streets
you search for signs of life impatiently
I know one day you’ll want to leave
Your widened eyes
Your wandering feet
Your sense of curiosity
I hope you’ll never forget me
Sleepytown…
no open eyes to meet tonight
here in Sleepytown
but if you listen you can hear the city far away
No open eyes to meet tonight
if you listen close you can hear the city
No open eyes to meet tonight
But if you listen close you’ll hear….
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I hunted high and low for you
No one else could ever do
Sometimes you make me want to scream
Sometimes we live inside a dream
You stayed through my darkest days
When I fell apart you remained
I’ll be there when your world shakes
I’ll be there through the mistakes and heartaches
When the world gets cold I want you by my side
When I get old I want you by my side
When the world gets cold I want you by my side
When I get old I want you by my side
A minor earth | a major sky
A million reasons not to cry
I’d lose my way if not for you
You leave the breadcrumbs so I knew
You stayed through my darkest days
When I fell apart you remained
I’ll be there when your world shakes
I’ll be there through the mistakes and heartaches
When the world gets cold I want you by my side
When I get old I want you by my side
When the world gets cold I want you by my side
When I get old I want you by my side
I’ll be there when your whole world shake, shakes
Even when your heart heart aches aches
You will never, you will never slide, slide
Always got to have you by my side, side
By… My… Side…
When the world gets cold I want you by my side
When I get old I want you by my side
When the world gets cold I want you by my side
When I get old I want you by my side
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She’s an anomaly
One in a million, she makes you feel so free
Yeah she’s your number one
But she’ll become the one who got away
People have spoken, now she’s gonna sashay
(did she really ever love you at all?)
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
With whom do you think you’re messing?
Has she got you second guessing?
Set it up and smash it all apart
Are you just projecting passion?
Getting caught up in her fashion?
You can build your wall, make it higher, higher, higher
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
He’s a dichotomy
The things he tells you, they don’t always agree
He’s not your number one
But he was one tenacious son of a gun
(his love for you was only a lie)
Completely unfaithful, now the good times are gone
(you’ll get better all it takes is some time)
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
Girl your man is misbehaving
Situation’s not worth saving
Set it up and smash it all apart
He will never treat you right
Staying out late every night
You can build a wall, make it higher, higher, higher
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
Emperor exposed as naked
Too late now he’ll have to fake it
Set it up and smash it all apart
He has made you look the fool
Falling under fascist rule
You can build a wall, make it higher, higher, higher
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
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Meat… hooks…
Meathooks
I knew that you wanted to scare me
I knew cause that’s what they told me
I had a laugh instead
Can’t believe the things I said
I thought you were so below me
I liked how you thought you could dare me
Thought you could play on my pride
Then you got inside me head
Left me shaking in my bed
You broke me down from the inside
I feel the meat hooks ripping through my skin
now I’m hanging on a wire and we’re moving in
I feel the temperature fallin down
and now I’m just another carcass with no face for a frown
I feel the meat hooks tearing me apart
I’ve got mindless self destruction down to an art
I feel the temperature going down
and now I’m just another carcass with no face for a frown
It’s like how he said don’t mess around with Jim
They told me don’t mess with Texas
You snared me in your trap
Crackle pop until I snap
You eat guys like me for breakfast
I feel the meat hooks ripping through my skin
now I’m hanging on a wire and we’re moving in
I feel the temperature going down
and now I’m just another carcass with no face for a frown
I feel the meat hooks and they’re taking hold
Always there reminding me I’m not in control
I feel the temperature falling down
and now I’m just another carcass with no face for a frown
I feel the meathooks tearing me apart
I’m feeling masochistic so let the evisceration start
I feel the temperature falling down
and now I’m just another carcass with no face for a frown
Meathooks, meathooks, ma ma ma ma ma meat hooks
Ma ma ma ma ma ma meathooks
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We are the revenants
We’ve been around For hundreds of years
Scared of the light
And clinging to fears
Holding so tight
Wishing for closure
Stalking by night
And avoiding exposure
We can no longer
Dream like you
You can live in the sun
And feel pleasure anew
We are invisible
‘Til Samhain arrives
The moon comes up and
We come alive
And we will
Dance like people do
Laugh like people do
Rave like people do
Until the break of dawn
Sing like people do
Wish like people do
Crave like people do
Until the break of dawn
We’re hanging around
And we’re haunting your space
Creating distractions
And fears you can face
Bumping and clanging
To get your attention
And yet you insist that
We’re your invention
We are the revenants
Tonight is our night
We’ve only got until the morning light
So let’s all dance
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You Leave Me (2020)
04:31
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Whenever you leave I feel it’s generally expected that I’ll fall apart
I follow the path marked ‘do not enter’
Visions recast with the people who last I’d wanna see at the end of the world
no voices, only echoes
the damage is done, it went down with the sun
You leave me high and dry
you leave me wondering why
you leave me high
you leave me questioning why
whenever you leave I forget what I believe
the problems multiply
you leave me high
you leave me
whenever you leave it comes so easily
invasion of my fortress
storming in just like winter
I’m incomplete so I’m resigned to compete
with myself and the demons within
the voices and the echoes
the damage is done, it went down with the sun
You leave me high and dry
you leave me wondering why
you leave me high
you leave me questioning why
whenever you leave I forget what I believe
the problems multiply
you leave me high
you leave me
go on, go ahead
go on and cut my safety net
it’s warm when you’re here and cold when you go
sun when we’re together then you leave me alone
I gave you everything didn’t I?
now the damage is done, it went down with the sun
and I’m alone
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Tape (Single Edit)
04:11
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Sticky on a one side, slick on another
Ripped to f###ing shreds then spliced back together
With tape, ooh with tape
Rolling out from inside, hiding cracks and dividing lines
Adhering to the surface, pasting over imperfections
Like tape, ooh like tape
And there’s a big, big hole like a hole in the ground
And where there’s supposed to be a man, there’s no man to be found
There’s a big, big hole like a hole in his head
And if that’s how it’s gonna be, we’d be better of dead
Sticky on a one side but completely invisible
Forging into union that which was divisible
Tape, ooh yeah tape
Placed by many hands in the name of magic
Covering up layer upon layer of the tragic
Like tape, ooh like tape
Cause there’s a big, big hole like a hole in the ground
And where there’s supposed to be a man, there’s no man to be found
There’s a big, big hole like a hole in his head
And if that’s how it’s gonna be, we’d be better of dead
There’s a big, big hole where the sky’s falling down
But if no one’s there to hear it, then it doesn’t make a sound
There’s a big, big wreck but they make a decree
And then they cover it up cause they don’t want us to see
Stretch it, cut it, stick it, cover it up (x6)
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Stomping Ground
03:28
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I thought that you were out of reach
but then you said something about Winnipeg Beach
and I thought to myself
There is something in the air
You turned on the charms
with wide open arms
we went for a spin
and took it all in
and when the sun came up
that smile was still there
the smell of your skin
still lingers in my mind
I want it to stay until the time
we can meet again
and if you forget
how we felt that night
like the world would be alright
just because we met
I thought my luck had run out dry
But then you appeared like a blaze in the night sky
I never felt anything so intense
I looked at you and he looked at me
Sometimes one and one makes three
So I went with the plot
And I tore down my defense
I won’t be the one to change you
And I wouldn’t want to
I think you’re perfect as you are
But I am here and I’m sincere
Here today, tomorrow gone
Somehow it doesn’t feel that far
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She’s an anomaly
One in a million, she makes you feel so free
Yeah she’s your number one
But she’ll become the one who got away
People have spoken, now she’s gonna sashay
(did she really ever love you at all?)
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
With whom do you think you’re messing?
Has she got you second guessing?
Set it up and smash it all apart
Are you just projecting passion?
Getting caught up in her fashion?
You can build your wall, make it higher, higher, higher
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
He’s a dichotomy
The things he tells you, they don’t always agree
He’s not your number one
But he was one tenacious son of a gun
(his love for you was only a lie)
Completely unfaithful, now the good times are gone
(you’ll get better all it takes is some time)
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
Girl your man is misbehaving
Situation’s not worth saving
Set it up and smash it all apart
He will never treat you right
Staying out late every night
You can build a wall, make it higher, higher, higher
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
Emperor exposed as naked
Too late now he’ll have to fake it
Set it up and smash it all apart
He has made you look the fool
Falling under fascist rule
You can build a wall, make it higher, higher, higher
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
Anyone can break somebody’s heart
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Devin Tait Sacramento, California
Having transplanted himself from Kansas to California around the turn of the millennium, Devin Tait quickly found himself derailed from his original plan to join a boyband. Meeting a couple of guitar playing lesbians at karaoke led Tait to form the band Shitting Glitter with Amy Crosby and Von Edwards. After nearly a decade with the band, Tait decided it was time to branch out on his own. ... more
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