You in the back Hiding in the shadows still Alone in your head With nothing to touch or feel A wick or a fire Orange, silent, flickering black Nothing is real But tugging on this electric wire...
Open your glass-green eyes for the first and only time Sleep through your whole painless life and ruin hers and mine Still child Goodbye Sold dreams Don’t cry Dressed up in plastic and glue with...
We try to put the fire out; it keeps on burning. We try to win the streets back; we keep on losing. Your mouth was free; your words belong to me. Your pain is my reward; I am truth. We try to keep the...
The tiny pinch, bugs are circling They carry picket signs and lethal sting Hold up a puppet hand to take the blame Chase off the sick dogs no one will claim This time the blood spill comes from you...
You fix all the hands - fix all the heads Proud where you stand - mourn all the dead You get what you earn - give what you can Know all you learn - stick to the plan You call it a home - breeding your...
Like another you or another me Somebody else's mother living on somebody else's street In a different skin you might say the same things All the same words with all the same meanings We can dress up...
Hundreds of stairs laid out before me Hundreds of stairs lay just behind My will to rise feeds on you now In the dirt below is the peace you find Give more soul - love parts - hate whole Hold me down,...
Go Crush it with knuckles, power, and pride Shepherd the violent in dutiful stride Force it to follow and lend you a hand Silencing voices, taking your stand This is pure, this is true This is hate,...
You're free to go You'll never get away Speak up with this hand over your mouth Feel it rising About to break Release it

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