Sparkle And Fade

4. Santa Monica

1. Electra Made Me Blind

I am still living with your ghost Lonely and dreaming of the west coast I don't want to be your downtime I don't want to be your stupid game With my big black boots and an old suitcase I do believe I'll find myself a new place I don't want to be the bad guy I don't want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore I just want to see some palm trees Go and try to shake away this disease We can live beside the ocean Leave the fire behind Swim out past the breakers Watch the world die I am still dreaming of your face Hungry and hollow for all the things you took away I don't want to be your good time I don't want to be your fall-back crutch anymore I'll walk right out into a brand new day Insane and rising in my own weird way I don't want to be the bad guy I don't want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore I just want to feel some sunshine I just want to find some place to be alone We can live beside the ocean Leave the fire behind Swim out past the breakers And watch the world die

I shake the dust from this small town I turn and follow the western wind down I go and pack up my shiny things And go, yeah just go I'll find a new life in old L.A. Yeah, stupid happy with everything I pulled myself down so easily I know, I know, I know I met Electra when living down Saw her spinning around and around I never knew much about her past I knew enough that I didn't ask living isn't a simple thing I know No one ever said it's supposed to be I know July she lied... Living isn't a simple thing for me I know ways to make it easier

5. Summerland

2. Heroin Girl

Let's just drive your car We could drive all day Let's just get the hell away from here For I am sick again- Just plain sick to death Of the sound of my own voice We could leave behind Another wasted year Just get some cheap red wine And just go flying We could do the things, All the things you wanted to No one cares about us anyway I think I lost my smile I think you lost yours too We have lost the power to make each other laugh Let's just leave this place And go to Summerland Just a name on the map Sounds like heaven to me We could find a town- Be just how we want to be No one here really cares about us anyway We could find a place- Make it what we want it to be No one really gives a fuck about us anyway We could live- Live just like we want to live No one here really cares about us anyway We could be- Everything we want to be We could get lost in the Fall Glimmer Sparkle and Fade The Sparkle and Fade Fall Glimmer Sparkle and Fade Forget about our jobs at the record store Forget about all the losers that we know Forget about all the memories that keep you down Forget about them We could lose them in the Sparkle and Fade We could leave them behind In the Sparkle and Fade Yeah Sparkle and Fade Fall Glimmer Sparkle and Fade

I used to know a girl... She had two pierced nipples And a black tattoo We'd drink that Mexican beer We'd live on Mexican food Yes, I wish I could go back Yes, back in time Esther used to be The kind of girl that you would never leave She'd do anything To give me what I need for my disease She'd do anything I can hear them talking in the real world But they don't understand that I'm happy in hell With my Heroin Girl I am losing myself in a white-trash hell Lost inside a Heroin girl They found her out in the fields About a mile from home Her face was warm from the sun But her body was cold I heard the policeman say Just another overdose ...Just another overdose! Esther used to be The kind of lover you would never leave She'd do anything to give me what I need For my disease She would do anything

3. You Make Me Feel Like A     Whore

6. Strawberry

Never been here, never coming back Never want to think about the things That happened today Want to lay down on the warm ground I think I'm going to need A little time to myself Don't fall down now You will never get up Don't fall down now I ask you for a slow ride Going nowhere You look like Satan You ask me if I want to get high Couple of bags down in old town You tie your arm and Ask me if I wanted to drive Don't fall down now You will never get up Don't fall down now Last thing I recall I was in the air I woke up on the street Crawling with my strawberry burns Ten long years in a straight line They fall like water Yes, I guess I fucked up again Don't fall down now You will never get up Don't fall down now

I take your word like it was gospel I'm so eager to please Yeah I like it when You talk to me It feels so good inside your shadow (It's the place I need to be) Yeah I know I need to climb you Like a tree There is this place inside Where all the good things die Sometimes I feel like a whore (Sometimes I feel like a whore) I hate the way I am around you (I'm so nervous and weird) Sometimes I feel like I'm Breathing underwater You treat me like I am on fire Like I'm something to eat You make me hate what I see When I see me Yeah I dream of the day When I learn how to make you pay Someday I'll teach you to beg Someday, someday Yes I live for the day When I can hear you say You make me feel like a whore Yes I dream of the time When I can make you mine (Maybe then I'll feel half alive, more alive, so alive) There is this place inside Where all the good things die You make me feel like a whore

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