SMOTHERED

all lyrics by Scott Anger
let me in | vertebreak | paper towels | life | reginald heber | clench | salvation | soaking wet | 9

let me in
Can I reach
Underneath
Through the skin
Deep within
Past the lies
Through your eyes
I see your soul
I see your whole

You're afraid
You have made
Friends with none
Love with none
But it seems
In your dreams
Someone who
Sees right through

Ohh, rejected by all
All but one, that is me
You are more than what they see
Yeah

............. dark, hidden eyes
............................... dilate ...
......... and release... ... ... ... what you've ...
......................... held within ...

Yeah, yeah... let me in
Yeah, yeah... let me in
Oh, whoa, no, let me in
Let me in
Let me in...

I'm inside!
Open up!
No, never!
Never have I this strongly felt...

I'm inside!
Let me in!
Inside!
I'm in you...



vertebreak
That's what you get for being so cold
Stabbing the backs of your supposed friends
That's what you get for ignoring your conscience
Along your spineless back my scorned shadow descends
YEAH, YEAH!

chorus:
The seed is ready to explode
You packed it deep with no regret
The tree that sprouted you should know
Bears bitter fruit, that's what you get!

That's what you get for being a burden to us all
The one you should hate is opposite of me
That's what you get for burying yourself in bullshit
"Friends don't do that to friends" who won't let them be
YEAH, YEAH!

can't decide
so you lied
no heart inside
it's suicide

disaster-prone
remain alone
can't find your own
you piss and moan



paper towels
When I was just a little bitty punk
I used to get headaches when I thunk
About the fears I hated, the hates I feared
And why this friggin' place is so weird, but hey!

chorus:
I GOT MY NAME ON PAPER TOWELS
GOT MY NAME ON PAPER TOWELS
MY NAME'S PRINTED ON TOILET PAPER
I GOT MY NAME ON PAPER TOWELS, YEAH!

And why'd Miss Williams yell at me
When I sat in my friend Scott Stewart's seat?
She told me to sit there the day before
And now she's mad, that crazy, old, dirty...
(I thought it was a permanent seat change)
But hey!

bridge:
MY NAME IS ON TV
IT'S ON THE BATHROOM WALL
EVERYBODY MUST KNOW ME
I'M NEXT TO EVERY TOILET IN THE MALL

And I remember very well
Typing dirty words on the Speak N' Spell
With Tony Garza, one of my best pals
So why'd he claw my face off with his Freddy Krueger nails? But hey!



a day in the life of a man without hope
Never want a day like this!

No heart to attack!
Ain't got Mother Nature swingin' from my sack!
I don't know jack!
But I feel Mr. Fate stabbin' me in the back!

The sky is fallin'
and blurrin'
my eyesight
I don't need another f*#@
to take away my rights

No heart to attack!
Ain't got Mother Nature swingin' from my sack!
I don't know jack!
But I feel Mr. Fate stabbin' me in the back!

No one to pick me up
When I trip on the sh%*
Pilin' high
Smothered by
The waste I call Life

My skin don't fit right
Slidin' off my body
Like somebody's
Been yankin'
On me for too long

...I say
na, na, na,
NA, NA, NA,
na, na, na,
naaaaa...



reginald heber
The bread I eat: Not from His hand
It burns inside--the bread of Man

Holy, Holy, Holy
Lord God Almighty
Oh, the eye made blind by sin
His mercy may not see

The grapes I drink: Not even wine
Thicken my blood--it's not divine

Holy, Holy, Holy
Lord God Almighty
Oh, the eye made blind by sin
His mercy may not see

The cross you wear is nothing more
Than ornamental wear--not what He bore

Holy, Holy, Holy
Lord God Almighty
Oh, the eye made blind by sin
His mercy may not see

and still they say we are the ones who will survive
and they are wrong; we'll see just who remains alive
and still they say we are the ones who will survive
and they are wrong; we'll see just who remains alive

Amen.

copyright 1996 Sonic Basement Audio


inspired by "Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty" by Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

clench
save me
hold me
crave me
mold me
slave me
scold me

bake me
eat me
take me
treat me
break me
beat me

trap me
fill me
zap me
thrill me
snap me
kill me



salvation comes today
Angry
Best of friends for life
Hungry
For another's eyes
They wanted the same thing that just one could have
Only one...

Lonely
Estranged from what they knew
If only
They knew what to do
They saw what was breaking and wanted it more
And apart they grew...

Mistaken
Needed separate worlds
Taken
Over by the girl
She tricked them until all they wanted was her
Until today...

chorus
They fight!
Not right!
Destroying years of brotherhood
I have seen
That Jealousy
Is threatening
And murdering
That on which we stood...

Oh, ohhh...



soaking wet (sublime saturation)
I have a desire to be that which is trapped within me
It is seldom that anybody is able to see

You see the Sea
That's what I'll be
I am the Sea
You live in me

chorus:
Forever I will live in dreams
That's the way I'm always free
Go out of your way to awaken me
To make it happen in reality

Now I can think openly; I can express my thoughts freely
There is no more trinity!
Saturated she fills me...

(chorus)

bridge:
The same in reality!
The same in reality!
I feel you moving inside me
That's the only way I'll be happy
I feel you moving inside me
That's the only way I'll be

You see the Sea
That's what I'll be
I am the Sea
You live in me

(chorus)
(bridge)

Live in dreams...
me you
live in
me you
live in
me you
live in
me you
live in
me you
live in



9
empty pockets resemble my mind in a way...

overtaken by that something else clears my plate

inundated, second course is on its way

haven't made a choice in several decades, I choose not to

make me ponder the thoughts which invade your head

empty head, full void, attacking makes me run away

...away...away...away...away...

ankles tied forever, cannot flee, I fly along the runway lights

I die before I wake; my prayers are answered every night

I live alone, confused, my life has been taken away

...away...away...away...away...

Reach out, grasp my hand in yours
Take me to your lost horizon, I've
Never felt pain, yet all I do is ache
The way you grasp me, hold me, soothe me
Awaken me...


I GO AWAY!!!
AWAY!!!!
AWAY!!!
AWAY!!!!

i have decided
to open my lungs
to the burning nothing
suffocating
drowning
in the only option
left for my
eternity...
I go away...


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