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Alcohol, drugs and guns
Always the same stories
All of them are true
All we need is somewhere to go
Gimme something to hold onto
Something else to hold onto
Something different
Something new
All the kids in the neighbourhood
Though some are bad
They all are good
They all are good at something
Everybody is
They have Mothers and Fathers
Brothers and Sisters
Just like me and you
We all do
Everyone has someone
Needs someone
To say I love you to
Alcohol, drugs and guns
Always the same stories
All of them are true
All we need is somewhere to go
Gimme something to hold onto
Something else to hold onto
Something different
Something new
When I was a kid
I had fun growing up
I played
Just like all the other kids did
I played just like everyone
has played
I used guns
and bayonets with long blades
and knives and hand grenades
and tents and nets like G.I.Joe
I played games of war
But they ended in peace
I played an explorer
Like Johnny Quest on TV
I explored the world
through my imagination
I discovered things
you wouldn't believe
Unless of course
there's always the chance
Alcohol, drugs and guns
Got in the way
Always the same stories
It wasn't me
All of them are true
I didn't do it
All we need is somewhere to go
I wasn't there
Gimme something to hold onto
it doesn't belong to me
Something else to hold onto
I didn't mean it
Something different
I'm sorry
Something new
I love you

Torn

Why do you forsake me
In my mind you rape me
I try hard to bend
Don’t try to break me

Tear me open
Take me I’m yours
Tear me open
Tear me open
Tear me open

Father of mine
I hear you
As I lay me down
As I lay me down
I fear you

Why do you forsake me
In my mind you rape me
I’ll harder to bend
Please don’t break me

Tear me open
Take me I’m yours
Tear me open
Tear me open
Tear me open
I’m torn

Father of mine
I despise you
Deep inside me
I am you
I cannot hide
Deep inside me
From you

Why do you forsake me
Bless me now don’t rape me
I’m trying hard now not to bend
But I’m learning
How to pretend
Not to fear you
Sitting on the fence
Near you

Tear me open
Take me
Take me I’m yours
Tear me
Tear me
Tear me open
Open
Torn

Lead the way

Lead the way
Don’t look back
Lock the door
Seal the crack

Hide your face
Win the race
Take control
There’s no disgrace

Lead the way
Don’t look back
Lock the door
Seal the crack

Smell the smell
Inhale the stench
Place your hand
Upon the bench

Lead the way
Lead the pack
Lock the door
Seal the crack

Feel the nail
Driven deep
Crucified
You’re mine to keep

Lead the way
Don’t look back
Lock the door
Seal the crack

Lead the way
Don’t look back
Shrunken heads
Stitches black

Lead the way
Don’t look back
Lead the way
And don’t look back.

Cleanse

As many as I can man
As many as I can
I told the drunk
I bumped into
At the local bar
Where you from he asked
After what I'd just told him
I simply told him
I come from afar
Well all I can tell you
is this he said
We don't do that sort of thing
round here
I started to smile and said
Well I've only just arrived
give a guy a break I laughed
As a nervous tremor
ever so slight crossed his lips
He reached into his jacket
for what I thought was a gun
I drew first and shot faster
and now the stranger
lay dead in the alley
The stranger lay dead on the ground
another stranger lay dead on the ground
Don't try to understand me
or the reason why
So many have tried
So many have died
The story I tell them
I warn them about
I tell them
I will share the story
And what it's about
But if they want to hear it
They're in it
And there's no way out
The smart ones think they're smart
and ask me what it's all about
I don't gives clues, hints or such
You're either in or out
The self proclaimed smartest ones of all
They ask me nothing, they know it all
But their ignorance
makes them the easiest target of all
And at the end of every story
when I'm just about done
They ask me my intentions
And what it is that brought me here
Why have I come
I'd love to tell you I say
with a great big smile
but that would spoil all the fun
In natural progression
They ask if what I say is true
and if I have done this before
Do I plan to do it again
I reply
As many as I can man
As many as I can
I told the man I met at the corner store
That's messed up he told me
and by the sounds of it so are you
I told him a few things I'd done
to his mother
So he'd co-operate
By the time his first punch landed
for him it was too late
I grabbed his other arm
spin him around into a head lock
My blade met both his ears and now
grinning a bloody grin
the stranger lay dead in aisle six
The stranger lay dead on the floor
Cleanup in aisle six
another stranger lay dead on the floor
There's not much to me
or to understand
I don't give or ask the time
or for directions
pay close attention to your reflection
Don't but into line
Respect other peoples space
Avoid confrontation
Don't look me in the face
Never make eye contact
Always know your place
Never stand too close to the edge
Don't give reason
Don't give rhyme
Don't get caught
Or you too
will run out of time.

Tired

Tired of conformity
Tired of everyone telling me
I'm fuckin tired of everything
Can’t you see

Don’t do this
You can’t do that
I don’t believe this is where its at
Mom, Dad, teachers and coaches
Bleeding, breeding, feeding cockroaches

I don’t know why I feel like I do
But I know at times
It’s all because of you
And you and you and you

I’m your parents worst nightmare
Living, breathing in real life
Nobody tells me what to do
I'll show them by what I do to you

Don’t do this
You can’t do that
I don’t believe this is where its at
Mom, Dad, teachers and coaches
Bleeding, breeding, feeding cockroaches

I don’t know why I feel the way I do
But I know at times
It’s all because of you
And you and you and you

Tired of everyone telling me
I'm fuckin tired of everything
Can’t you see
I'm even fuckin tired of me!