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We brought you pleasure
We brought you peace
We brought you everything that you desired
A worthless treasure
Your pain increased
Participation is no longer required
We simply walked away
A tired vision
Forgotten
Subtraction by addition
Tried to believe that we will return
But we have been deceived
Passion
Just fleeting moments
Standing close we all felt the fire
Distractions
Control the hours
Becoming impossible to decipher
Tried to believe that we will return
But we have been deceived
The rot is spreading
A slow decline
A hopeless fear that we may never survive this
The skin we’re shedding
Broken design
Holding onto relics shattered by conflict
A tired vision
Subtraction by addition
Tried to believe that we will return
But we have been deceived
Cry through our grief
Remain unconcerned as we fall asleep
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Second Choice
04:36
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The wreck is coming and I’m frozen
So, weigh your options
Please won’t you look my way
One by one they all were chosen
With blind caution
I don’t think this can be saved
I can’t look now
This can’t be happening
It’s not supposed to be this way
It’s not supposed to be this way
It’s not supposed to
You turn to me and say it’s time to go
Alone
Please listen now and hear my voice
What happens here is only mine to know
Always
As I became your second choice
You turn to me and say it’s time to go
Alone
Please listen now and hear my voice
These visions in my mind that I have known
Always
‘Cause I became your second choice
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Better Luck Next Time
05:20
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Everybody smiles at you
When yo think you’re the only one
Getting old in the blink of an eye
‘Cause time flies when you’re having fun
It all seemed simple
Not a care in the world
A little motion sickness
As you got caught up in the swirl
No thanks
It’s not for me today
Counting all the ways to make them pay
It’s just not good enough
You’re gonna have to give me more
So, empty your heart and soul
Before you walk out of that door
By day you suffer
A million mouths that never cease
At night you wonder
If it’s time to give up your beliefs
To feel the safety
Only rich men can afford
What have you done for me lately
To justify your reward?
No thanks
It’s not for me today
Counting all the ways to make them pay
It’s just not good enough
You’re gonna have to give me more
So, empty your heart and soul
Before you walk out of that door
Who knows what happened?
I woke up thinking it was yesterday
And was it all imagined
Or am I living one big cliché?
There was never a promise
There are no guarantees
Envy’s never a good look
It doesn’t matter if you disagree
Just stop your bitchin’
Everyone’s just sick of it all
It’s about time you give in
The writing’s been upon the wall
No thanks
It’s not for me today
Counting all the ways to make them pay
It’s just not good enough
You’re gonna have to give me more
So, empty your heart and soul
Before you walk out of that door
Good luck
You’re gonna need it
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Metal Head
05:06
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Raised in a world you despise
Carved out your tomb with dulled emotions
Carefully make your disguise
Living your life the way you’ve chosen
Mad
Flat on your back
Safe in your bed as the world goes on
Lost the will to be
Anything that’s not our kind
Burned-out humanity
They’ve all lost their minds
A little maladjustment
Please don’t change a thing
I know they’ll never trust us
‘Cause we’re angels with broken wings
Mad
Flat on your back
This discontentment is getting us nowhere
Lost the will to be
Anything that’s not our kind
Burn-out humanity
They’ve all lost their minds
Metal head
An image becoming lifestyle
Only thick as our skin
Is there anything worthwhile?
We’ll need to be convinced
Mad
Flat on our backs
Always searching for something pure
Mad
We will attack
When we find something to believe in
Lost the will to be
Anything that’s not our kind
Burn-out humanity
They’ve all lost their fucking minds
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The Renaissance Is Over
10:37
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Conclusion of a dream
Awakened
Becoming the machine
Destruction of desires
Persuaded
A failure to inspire
Listen to the space
Nothing
Will ever take its place
The sound of yesterday
Forgotten
Just looking for a way
Back
The student stares out the window
The day’s lessons
Already forgotten
Equations and conclusions
Have left him empty
A situation not that uncommon
Can he be revived?
Surviving unconsciously
Can we feel alive?
Living dishonestly
I feel
That we have all been shunned
What’s real?
This has become undone
So, he sings another song
To remind him
Of the time so long ago
But, no one’s listening
And no one seems to care
And so he screams out every word
As if his life depended on it
And in a way
It does
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When The Iron Is Hot
04:47
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It Will Happen To You
06:48
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Loss of vitality
As my life slowly wastes away
I find it hard to keep traveling on
Memories of past lives that I
Tried to save
But I found those images have gone
Walk on
With one foot in the grave
Hollow
Attempts to fill the space
There’s no escaping
It’s gonna happen to you
Watch your life as it crumbles down
There’s no replacing
The things that you’ve gone through
They always end up rotting in the ground
I wish I could travel
Through a time machine
Maybe then I could fix those past mistakes
Childhood dreams of fiction
No one intervened
Too many things that can’t be erased
There’s no escaping
It’s gonna happen to you
Watch your life as it crumbles down
There’s no replacing
The things that you’ve gone through
They always end up rotting in the ground
All that you’ve loved
All that you hate
All you remember
You’ll never recreate
Gone, everything is gone
No use in trying to be the way it used to be
Long, it has been so long
Looking through the fog of our yesterdays
Gone
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Past Lives
10:05
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The setting sun paints the sky golden
A silhouette
Of our loved ones
One stray cloud is a poor omen
One more regret
One more interruption
It feels as if I’ve been here before
Let me wipe away those tears
There’s so much more to explore
Don’t look into the sun now
Keep your eyes on me
I just want to make you feel proud
The past still holds the key
Listen my child
There’s a new day dawning
All this pain we’re causing
As we fade away
Crossing these bridges
Make a good decision
Throw down those inhibitions
Don’t count on yesterday
I want to live forever with you
There’s still time for us
So don’t look back now
We’ll head into the future
When we wipe away the dust
I had a dream that we started over
But the sun woke me with its closure
My life, like your life
Moves onward
And our time, it’s our time together
Looking back I can still remember
All our hopes for the future
And how they faded away
But now I’m struck with a new sense of purpose
Hidden beneath the surface
Because I can still hear your voice
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Neil Howell Missouri
My influences are too vast to name; I love rock, metal, alternative, classical, folk, and everything in between. And I want to make it all. I follow my instincts and hope to produce something new and yet totally familiar. I hope you can find something here that you like. ... more
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