In the middle
On the outside
There's a station
With a free ride

And in the middle
On the outside
There's an old drum
Banging a bold face lie

Fire from the devil
And you can't stand the level
Of the speakers in your head
When you're caught up in the middle

Stranger than a riddle
Of a cat without his fiddle
As he dies when he tries
To be loved or to belittle

Tick, tick, time
With a closed snake eye
To the stone carved men
Still living in the lie
Living in the lie...

Hard times,
The body of a bullet
War cries,
The cinematic bloodshed
Land-mines,
You're stepping on the truth
And all you found was you
Hard times,
The trigger pulling choices
War cries,
The vigilante voices
Land-mines,
You're stepping on the truth
And all you found was you

In the rat cage
On the outside
There's a single
With a B-Side

And in the rat cage
On the outside
There's a old stage
Bearing a bold face lie

Hard times,
The body of a bullet
War cries,
The cinematic bloodshed
Land-mines,
You're stepping on the truth
And all you found was you

Hard times,
The trigger pulling choices
War cries,
The vigilante voices
Land-mines,
You're stepping on the truth
And all you found was you
Locked down,
And singing in the suburbs
God found,
A cold blooded hunter
Unsound,
And looking for the truth
When all you found was you
Locked down,
The song is almost over
God found,
Their chipping off your shoulder
Unsound,
And looking for the truth
When all you found was you...

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Homeless and native
These words are talking
So intoxicated
And barely walking
I'm taking a picture
Of your sister
I'm taking a picture
Of your sister's lungs

The circles spinning, the circles spinning
A new beginning, a new beginning
The dead are dancing, The dead are dancing
Their bodies laughing, a world worth standing on...

Snapping the tendons in your thighs
Wrapping them tightly 'round my mind
Pride hasn't that great of allure
Dancing like a dead, drunk sailor

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O how I've been such a bad, bad girl,
So come open these gates and shake my world...

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And when the needle punctures skin
You will wreap a toothless grin
Of understanding, landing, and crashing
Into oblivion

Then the marching band will play
That silly song of victory
Today a successor was made
Today the president got paid

Anything's impossible,
So can you say you love me?
You're thinking of me?
You'll be my country?

Anything's impossible,
So can you feed the hungry?
And call me lovely?
Be thinking of me?

I guess it isn't possible...

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Whatever day it is
My poor esophagus
Its always screaming out
Nuclear nonsense
My buddy Otto Hahn
And Fritz Strausmann
We're going to build a bomb
And change common sense

Twenty one
Kiloton
Parade of plutonium
Like white doves
As they fly
The parade falls from the sky

And like the clap of a thousand wings
You can hear the screams
Of the voices running
"Look out for the bomb!"

BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB

Death above my head...

Congratulations,
1st place in the race!

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Call it essential
Call it chemical design
You're so temperamental
When you can't have what is mine

I snapped the chord that tethered you
Too me, it's true
I shouldn't have let you go...

So damn lazy
I can't do anything at all
The cat has gone crazy
And she's scratching up the wall

This argument is all I have
Too late, too bad
I shouldn't have let you go...

Our funeral pier fire grows
Oh no, oh no
I shouldn't have let you go...

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O Holy Messiah
On a rocket to the moon
We're stuck here in China
Wondering what happened to you

Lay down these bones so they may rest
Give mother's milk back to her breast
Make love to the souls that repent
Give me a government...

Fame
Shame
Blame
The progress

Take
Rape
Shake
The process

Bleed
Greed
Feed
The nonsense

Why
I die
Subconscious

Now the war is over
And we barely made it through
I plucked a four leaf clover
And it made me think of you.

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I saw the sun break down today
The Earth; it caked itself in cold while you were away
Oh please don't leave me here in vain
Please fix the sun to shine on me again

Because in the light I'll be okay
And on the wall I wrote my name
So now I can die a man
Less Forgotten

I look at you, you look away
You look at me and feel the same
So now I can die a man
Less Forgotten...

I saw the sun break down today
The Earth; it caked itself in cold while you were away...

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Maybe in a better way
You'll be finding a better way
But when the morning is over
And you're barely sober
And you can't even notice
Because you're too hung-over,

And out of luck
Where's that song you were dreaming of?
I tried to write it for you
But you wouldn't hear it
So here is a new song
For your simple spirit...

And I'll sing baby,
Good luck in the movies
Well, you're moving on
So, I'm singing a song
About your pandemonium

And now does it fell strange?
Diving into the ashtray?
And when you read your novel
About Andy Warhol
Tell me does it remind you
Of where you are at now,

With all your fame?
Oh darlin'. don't you be ashamed
I will send you a letter
And I will write you a lyric
And address the postcard
To your simple spirit...

Goddamn this Hollywood story
Because its getting awfully boring...

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It feels good
In that way
When you betray

If I could
I would stay
and watch you decay

How do you feel this way?

But its, too bad that you had it coming
The kings dead, mascara running
Fall out, and deploy the gunmen
Shout loud for the better nothing

How do you feel this way?
And do you feel the pain?
And should I feel the same?

When I died
On that day
You couldn't speak my name

I'm alive
In the flame
That burned you insane
What a beautiful day

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