STATE OF THE NATION - LYRICS
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Goodbye
Starcross Roadkill
Circus Geek
Alone and Abrasive
Cutting Pictures
Ruin
Little Abuse Me
Desiderium
Amenities
Rubber Dice
Wishes
Soaking Dry
October
Goodbye [Top]
(Lyrics - Ash, Music - Ed)
In my head,
Inside my head,
I see images,
Of you and me (and I guess)
That you're in love with me.
Just let me swear to you,
I'll get at you,
I'll live for you,
Make me feel as bad as you,
I'll get at you.......
Just gotta,
Just gotta sing this god damn song. x2
Goodbye,
I guess this is good-bye,
I guess this is goodbye,
Why do I feel so great about it?
As I fell,
As I fell inside,
I see images, (and I guess)
That that's okay to be,
What I am.
Starcross Roadkill [Top]
(Lyrics - Ash, Music - Ed)
Routine day breaks and the clock rolls on,
The driver road breaks, he's not the only one.
Routine lulled him into false security,
It could have been fatal for them.
Humiliated again, you're screaming to the rain,
Singing severed songs of lost love as if music dulls the pain.
...and it's the star cross road kill that teaches them how to live.
Did you wake up in the face of the morning hearing every day?
Did make sure that your mother heard you, cos you're gonna die today?
On the side of a bus, the battle you feel you faught.
A sign in four colours only reading "die cos life's too short".
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Circus Geek? [Top]
(Lyrics - Ash, Music - Ash, Ed)
Oh my god, who am I?
I'll be myself on the outside,
I'm super man when I feel fine,
Don't feel that way much of the time.
Cos I am......
I'm superman when I feel good,
Don't feel that way as much as I should,
Cos people break my face,
And treat me like they do,
But I can't touch disgrace, when I'm with you!
Cos I am.....
Sing along with life,
Like it never hurts me,
It never makes me bad.
Sing along, but I lie, cos I am.....
Alone and Abrasive [Top]
(Lyrics - Ash, Music - Ash, Ed)
Sit and watch me from a distance,
Sit and watch me by the pool,
Hide in blades of grass I've grown for you.
Act like an ornament, sick, sentimental,
Tacky piece I bought in Spain.
Better step away...
Sit and predict my steps watch all my steps,
You spit and call me cruel,
Hide from me in the shame that you blame.
Act like a psycho, nuero, schizo,
Parallel to what you've lost,
But it's all there; it's all there.
I'm alone and I'm abrasive,
I'm alone and I'm uncool, x2
Cutting Pictures [Top]
(Lyrics - Ash, Music - Ed)
Cutting pictures cos your not loved,
Dropping tears upon your hands,
Your knuckles swollen from the metal that cuts,
You can't stop cutting up these faces you love.
Your super ego's broken down with the pain,
Your mind is frozen from the cold
The metal hates you for the things you make it do,
The faces hate you
They hate you,
Oh no, don't do that,
Don't even think about yourself,
Put the blade down and live for once,
Live for the faces you cut.
They think you've left them,
They think you're dead,
They knew a woman once,
But now they know a girl,
They know a girl,
So wipe those tears away!
The faces love you still,
The child loves you cos you're mom,
"They found her bleeding on the carpet," he said,
Is that what you want, is that what you want?
Loves bitch to you,
A gifted bitch to love you now,
There's nothing left to love you any more,
Nothing but the pictures you cut......
Ruin [Top]
(Lyrics - Ash, Music - Ed)
I am Thanatos, Only those who've dwelt in the dark, I'm scared that dark will take me, I am eros,
I am my own Ruin,
I am a chamber; I've locked myself inside,
My struggle grows with pride,
My pride with what goes by,
An innocence I keep,
She lets me go to sleep.
Could think of scenes like this,
Only those who've seen it
Will accept and then believe it.
Cause its there before my eyes.
I'm thinking of her lately
And still the id inside me tries,
Why are things so confused?
I feel like i'm being used,
It drives me to write this song,
Of when good men get things wrong.
I am my own Ruin,
I am a prison to my self and I can't hide,
Its too cold for hell in here,
It's frozen all my tears,
Confusion's made his masters piece,
Yet still she lets me go to sleep.
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Little Abuse Me
Little abuse me, Your keeping it in, when you've gotta let it out, Fitted and accused maybe...
Broken out, broken out, get confused (get free),
Every one's got a part-been bruised,
Little abuse me then I'll be your old news.
I see no reason why you should deserve this.
Be sick in the sink, now your colour's all run out,
I'll never let you down. Little abuse me.
Stay abused, but stay with me.
Everything's falling round our feet tonight,
Little abuse me, then set me alight.
(Lyrics - Ash, Music - Ed)
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Desiderium [Top]
(Lyrics - Ash, Music - Ed)
I just want you to know me but you pick me off the walls, I only have to be with you to feel away from it all, If your not next to me, then you're too far away...
My explosion to you was still discrete.
Without even knowing it, you've proved me wrong to myself,
Now I can't even go a single day without you, an hour without you.
open out your arms and watch me fall;
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Amenities [Top]
(Lyrics - Ash, Music - Ed/Matt)
Deeper than the deepest sea,
Wider than a pair of eyes in a car's headlights, 14 lines of verse for virtue, ...and I will not look down, Closer than the skin I wear, ...and i will not look down ...and I will not look down Rubber Dice
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When you bounce back up again, Lean on me but carefull when you cry, When you bounce back up again.... Wishes
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If wishes were horses then beggars would ride, A word, A word could bring me to tears, A wish, A wish, my kingdom for a wish, Soaking Dry
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Writer's block, ironic titles wont get me through this, Alone and lonely; I'm melancholy only, I want it back, give me something thats tangeable, Soak me up, I'm warm inside you, October
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Softly silent on an october night, I can't wait for tomorrow, Outside the rain tears through the sky,
(Every day im here, to me),
cast memories from under me,
I breathe you in and exhale with a smile.
Life writes sonnets of the soul to search you.
Indifferent to your ideals,
My aminities do seem to me to be the warthm i feel.
Softer than the heart that hangs on a lover's whim,
(Those close to me, it seems)
Those close to me, love it seems with more than i could ever dream,
You all mean so much to me.
...and i will not look down
Cos i know i have so much more infront of me.
Exchange the perfect sound
for a constant tune of love and decency.
I will not.
We've all lost our minds,
When you bounce back up again,
You'll see what you can find.
Lovers in the den and we've all lost our minds.
Display my emotions and from the inside,
All that I've wishes for, all that I wanted to hear,
If wishes were horses, they'd be so near.
A word, A word from your mouth could beckon it all out of me.
Disguise the lies with awkward pride and broken mind,
A cut, I bleed. you cut me and I bleed.
I wish I might, I wish I may, I'm throwing my whole life away...
Recipient of love, ironic titles wont save me.
Just anti-depresant so high upon my self,
Soak me up, Soak me up.
Recipient of love, can't touch heaven with my fingers.
soak me up....
Eyes are closed to the glowing candlelight,
Time stands still, I'm forever awake,
Time stands still and I can't concentrate.
It'll never come too soon,
I can't wait for tomorrow,
I'll be close to you.
Bleeding down scaring every sight,
But I'm secure in my solitude,
As nothing matters unless im with you.
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