1. |
Dirty Baggage
03:03
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You can shed of all your shackles to the floor
You can check of all your demons at the door
I love your sickness & your health
Though I know you hate yourself
So discard your dirty baggage evermore
I can't help you if you leave me in the dark
I won't leave now that we've come so far
Though the sagacity wanes and
This stank ass city still remains
Leave your dirty baggage between the bars
You've kept it inside
Away from prying eyes
And carried it all this way
Under lock and key
Where no one can see
Till it no longer can remain
So don't bother trying to hide all of that weight
You're goin no where with that anchor on those chains
Just lay it in my arms
I'll make sure you meet no harm
No matter how much all your dirty baggage weighs
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2. |
Burn It Down
03:59
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I've given up my possessions I don't want them anymore
There's alot of assumptions made out here so its time to settle the score
Well you think just how it is, is how it always shall be
There's a blood clot in this melting pot and its causing our disease
So burn it down
Burn it down
Burn it down
Burn it down
Oh won't you please burn it down
You think how you feel is real and that it's important to me
There ain't no light at the end of that grave you live to dig so deep
Well your silver lined coffin is and always was what you call home
Carry it wherever you me roam but it won't save you soul
So burn it down
Burn it down
Burn it down
Burn it down
Oh won't you please burn it down
Think it's complicated but it's simple to me
Don't let this leakin boat keep you down
Set it a blaze and drift it out to sea and let all them so called good men drow
Think it's complicated but it's simple to me
Don't let this leakin boat keep you down
Set it a blaze and drift it out to sea and let all them so called good men drow
We shall be born a new the serpant shall shed its skin
Cities will crash and turn to ash and cleanse us of our sin
And when all is said and done I will fall on my sword my dear.
Once there's nothing left to drink to I'll be bored to tears
So burn it down
Burn it down
Burn it down
Burn it down
Oh won't you please burn it down
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3. |
Cast My Bones
02:52
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One thing I am sure of
is that I am alive
And the only other thing I know is one day I will die
Don't let the daunting uncertainty ever get me down
I just pick my dollar up and mosey on downtown
Do not speak of your wealth lest I pay no mind
Do not tell me your certainties assumption is your crime
To know for sure is to be dead
Too little hands, so many times
Stomach empty, let my mind be fed
And pour another glass of wine
Because I grow oh so hungry
And I grow oh so tired
Ya but I ain't in no hurry
So cast my bones into the fire X2
You cry and you cry that you only just survive
You know not of when your future will arrive
You struggle and strive no head to support the crown
Just stay out of our way, my lady and hound
Because I grow oh so hungry
And I grow oh so tired
Yeah but I ain't in no hurry
So cast my bones into the fire X2
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4. |
Let It Pour
03:17
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So let it pour
Let it rain
Let it come down for forty days
And wash it all away
Cause when it rains it pours
Better bolt down your windows
Better lock all your doors
All our shields and your swords
Won't protect your sons and daughters as their lungs fill with water
So let it pour
Let it rain
Let it come down for forty days
And wash it all away
Because they know
The futility of their own
actions and rolls
Constantly against the ropes
They build their home
Beside the waves as they roll
Flooding homes
Drowning your dreams and your hopes
So let it poor
Let it rain
Let it come down for forty days
And wash it all away
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5. |
6 Feet Underground
03:37
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I bin rotting away in my prison cell
Is it night or is it day man I can't even tell
If anyone should say quit livin' this way
Well they can all go straight to hell
Yeah they can all go straight to hell
Yeah they can all go straight to hell
So meet me at the jail house baby
I'm servin a sentence cause I shot a man down
So take me soon to the cemetery
And I'll help you put me six feet under ground X2
I bin scrapin away at the scraps on my plate
I don't even know if I'm hungry or I ate
We all get a share and it's never bin fair
So just leave me be with all of my hate
Yeah just leave me be with all of my hate
Yeah just leave me be with all of my hate
So meet me at the jail house baby
I'm servin a sentence cause I shot a man down
So take me soon to the cemetery
And I'll help you put me six feet under ground X2
I bin walkin away for forever it seems
leaving behind all that creeps in my dreams
The voice of my past drowns in my flask
So to hell with all your plans and schemes
Yeah to hell with all your plans and schemes
Yeah to hell with all your plans and schemes
So meet me at the jail house baby
I'm servin a sentence cause I shot a man down
So take me soon to the cemetery
And I'll help you put me six feet under ground X3
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6. |
Stray
02:32
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I've got that hand at my back
Showing me where to go
I got them eyes on my path
Fighting off all my foes
All your fears and paranoia
Only helps stoke the fire
Sparks rise and light leaves
To set your funeral pire
But if I should stray
Too far on my own
I will come kicking and screaming
If you try to drag me back home
But if I should stray
Too close to the sun
I know the moon shall come calling
But the dawn shall wait as I run
Now I'm afraid of my own shadow
And all the rest to boot
But your traditions are hollow
And I won't fallow suit
All my anger and my hatred
Sweet friends at my side
One day they will haunt me
But my patients have died
But if I should stray
Too far on my own
I will come kicking and screaming
If you try to drag me back home
And if I should stray
Too close to the sun
I know the moon shall come calling
But the dawn shall wait as I run
You plead and you pray
You take every leap of faith
You throw your hands up to the sky
With no one reaching back today
You toil and you work
Use up all that you're worth
I am the buzzard picking at your bones
Becoming part of the dirt
But if I should stray
Too far on my own
I will come kicking and screaming
If you try to drag me back home
And if I should stray
Too close to the sun
I know moon shall come calling
But the dawn will wait as I run
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7. |
Family Ties
02:42
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A need for more than we were taught
Cut from the same cloth
And we never could know
Anything the lord above didn't show
So we took to the streets
With separate paths at our feet
Tangled in weeds that come
From both above and beneath
Well the devil didn't put us here
But God sure as hell didn't help
We only wanted paradise but
Didn't like the cards we were dealt
I've laid awake many nights
Wondering why
I had to be so blind
Young with spotless minds
Burning in the light
The darkness gives us sight X2
So we swallowed the life
It burned in our bellies deep
I wanted to go back to the dream but
Couldn't put myself back to sleep
Playing killing games with our toys
Sit and watch from the side
Innocents not lost by our own minds
But by the hands of your kind
I wish I knew then what I know now
Catching frogs on the deck
I need not your cowardly tools
Only my bare hands around his goddamn neck
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8. |
Damn Old Town
02:40
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Oh brother help me
Help me find a road
Keep my foes,
From draggin me down
Oh brother help me
Help me find a road
Out this damn old town X2
Done every ragged job in the damn old town
Met every foolish slob in this damn old town
Sorry my family I just can't stay
in this damn old town just one damn more day
Oh brother help me
Help me find road
Keep my foes
From holdin me down
Oh brother help me
Help me find a road
Out this damn old town X2
The cocaine is runs cheap in this damn old town
It'll put you six feet deep in this damn old town
nothin better to do so pass the bottle booze
till the sun goes down in this damn old town
Oh brother help me
Help me find road
Keep my foes
From holdin me down
Oh brother help me
Help me find a road
Out this damn old town X2
Flock to the church like sheep in this damn old town
Everybody stays asleep in this damn old town
Lambs to the slaughter they've doomed their sons and daughters stay
in this damn old town the rest of their damn days
But this damb old town ya see its home to me
It's where I got everything I'll ever need
You can take me out this damn Old town but you can't take this damn Old town outta me
Oh brother help me
Help me find road
Keep my foes
From holdin me down
Oh brother help me
Help me find a road
Out this damn old town X2
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9. |
Mask
03:32
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10. |
Tipping Point
02:42
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Had dinner with the devil
He was a perfect gentleman
For to help him build his home
Well I did all that I can
For he had for me a little treat
And I had for him a soul
He had for me all I could need
A sweet woman to call my own
So push me down
Don't raise me up
I need some friction to get me out the mud X2
So push me down
We told many tales together invited folk to lend their ear
By our words their Souls are taken with their woes and their fear
We sang songs of trepidation, good old days come and gone
and if you don't like what you hear then, you don't gotta sing along
So push me down
Don't raise me up
I need some friction to get me out the mud X2
So push me down
There ain't no use in
all your guilt and shame
Always on the hunt,
for someone new to blame
You can act the hero
all that you want
put the hate on me
Cause I'm the Devils confidant
So push me down
Don't raise me up
I need some friction to get me out the mud X2
So push me down
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11. |
Damned
02:12
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Blame it on the kings
Conquer and kill to fill their fingers with rings
Blame it on the queens
Deceit and disguise to fuel their machines
Blame it on the preacher
The fear and the lies turn a sage to a leacher
Blame it on everyone
If no ones breaking any rules then no one is having fun
So point your finger
It'll make you feel better once your mood matches the weather
Deny the disbeliever
Damned if I will damned if I won't
Damned if you do damned if you don't
Blame it on the wounded
Dragging us down the well to their own personal hell
Blame it on the dumb
The way they worry and fret but we are all numb
Blame it on the change
Wouldn't wanna disturb the comfort of your cage
Blame it on the unplanned
Because you always fear what you don't understand
So point your finger
It'll make you feel better once the mood matches the weather
Deny the disbeliever
Damned if I will damned if I won't
Damned if you do damned if you dont
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12. |
Don't Wait Up
05:42
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They came in the dark
While I was sleeping
Surely they've taken My baby tonight
I heard you in the halls
Down they dragged you screaming
Now I can't find my baby tonight
I did not wake
For I was dreaming
Now I can't find my baby tonight
I feel you are gone
My subconscious seeking
Now I can't find my baby tonight
Don't wait up X2
Don't wait up, for me
Don't wait up X2
Don't wait up, for me
Woke to a draft
And our front door creaking
Now I can't find my baby tonight
I ran out to the lawn
Shouting and weeping
Now I can't find my baby tonight
I wonder downtown
Where demons are creeping
Surely they've taken my baby tonight
Down into the black
I descend slowly
Now I can't find my baby tonight
Don't wait up X2
Don't wait up, for me
Don't wait up X2
Don't wait up, for me
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