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The Devil himself,
A gentleman,
Rolls on up
In a Rolls Royce
Put your dukes up,
Big Bad Wolf
Pretty girls
Preying boys
Even if it hit you,
You wouldn’t know the truth
Sweetest tongue
Sharpest tooth
The wolves that prowl the forest
Are more decent than you
Sweetest tongue
Sharpest tooth
Fill me up with a
Feast of lies
What I wanna hear
Make me feel pretty
But now I got the gun
So you better run
Watch yourself get 86’d
Cos now I’m wise to all your tricks
Even if it hit you,
You wouldn’t know the truth
Sweetest tongue
Sharpest tooth
The wolves that prowl the forest
Are more decent than you
Sweetest tongue
Sharpest tooth
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Rumour
04:20
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I heard a rumour
Just like a tumour
You’d rotted from
The inside out,
Darling.
It’s a shame, true,
That I can’t save you
And your fake friends
Will all let you drown
Why do they tell me
What I don’t need
to know?
My not knowing
Is part of letting go
All it does is renew
My need to take care of you
A you that no longer exists
There’s more to my life than this
I hear a rumour
That you don’t love her
You’re rotten from
The inside out,
Darling.
That’s not fair to her
Not to me, either
I love a ghost
You love a fantasy
It was me
Every single time
For you
It was me
I was there
I heard the rumour
And I came running
You left me
Crying
on the hotel
shower floor
I loved you more
Than anyone who’s
Ever loved you
It was me
Every single time
I came to save the day
It was me
I loved you
You threw me away
There’s a reason all your real friends left
And there’s no one to blame but you
I’m not your keeper
That ship has sailed
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Late Nite Drive
04:29
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The city that never sleeps
Well, neither do we
It’s time for Heidi’s Pies
And for a late night drive
Expansive Kingdom of Hillsborough
Drive around, look at houses we’ll never own
Disco across from Toad Hall
It’s 2am, maybe we’re human after all
South City, top of the hill
Lights mirror the stars
Though they’re trying to push us out
This is forever ours
Despereux’s Kingdom can’t shut us out
Drive around, look at houses we’re gonna own
Disco across from Toad Hall
It’s 2am, maybe we’re human after all
Come along for a
Late night drive
Feel young
And alive
And in the morning
We can go back to real life
But for now
Let’s just f--kin ride
(I feel an ache in my heart
I’d never admit
I wish you were him)
Come along for a
Late night drive
Feel young
And alive
And in the morning
We can go back to real life
But for now
Let’s just f--kin ride
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Carrion
04:54
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when will I be whole?
when will I be whole?
heart and soul
flesh and bone
when will I be whole?
when will I be whole?
my fragile vessel's
not me home
when will I be whole?
when will I be whole?
when will I be whole?
when will I be whole?
every touch
cuts me up
when will I be whole?
when will I be whole?
is this what
is this what
is this what
I deserve?
when will I be whole?
when will I be whole?
a husk
a shell
you can never tell
but never whole
never whole
never whole
never ever
never ever
never ever
whole
never ever
whole
left for dead
you wish
was dead girl
still
never ever whole
stranger in a raincoat
I don't think so
It's always someone
you know
heart and soul
flesh and bone
I'll never be whole
dead girls carry on
dead girl carries on
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Home By Now
03:23
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If You were here, you'd home by now
If You were here, you'd home by now
And my little fantasy
where you play house with me
in my Grandma's kitchen
where I make you tea
but why do I break my own heart
with what I know can't be
now we're on our own
to a God unknown
and a Briar Patch
we can never go back to
The horses in the pasture
still remain the same
by my fog soaked Grandma's house
no longer bears my name
how many more times
must I say good bye?
now we're on our own
to a God unknown
and a Briar Patch
we can never go back to
If You were here, you'd home by now
If You were here, you'd home by now
if you were here, you'd be sober
party is over
If You were here, you'd home by now
If You were here, you'd home by now
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Howl
01:48
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Rosaleen
03:26
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You like the taste of danger
Adonis in the form of
A dark and handsome stranger
Live a life I can only dream of
For you are beautiful
as you are wise
And you can see through
bad men’s lies
You were meant
For greater things
Rosaleen
Queen of your realm
Rosaleen
At the helm
Of your own destiny
And no one can tell you
Any different
You were meant
For greater things
I’ve been done
terrible wrong
now to put wrong to right
Gun for the Devil
A bloody chamber
know better than to trust
A dark and handsome stranger
For you are as beautiful
as you are wise
And you can see through
bad men’s lies
Rosaleen
Queen of your realm
Rosaleen
At the helm
Of your own destiny
For you are as beautiful
as you are wise
And you can see through
bad men’s lies
You were meant
For greater things
No one can tell you different
For you are as beautiful
as you are wise
And you can see through
bad men’s lies
You were meant
For greater things
No one can tell you different
and
Maybe someday
I will be, too
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Halcyon Phantasm
03:31
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Unlock the deepest darkest
Secret in my heart
Like the rat
infestation you are
feeling pure and safe and whole
For the first time of my life
And now I’m too bruised
To be someone else’s wife
(to be someone else’s bride)
I never thought I was pretty
Until you lusted after me
Like the rat
infestation you are
I became Eurydice
Because you could not believe
Took one for the team
Became Eurydice
there was no one after you
what about me?
Under my armor plate
Is my beating heart
heart hunted by
A haunted man
Brigadoon birthdays
Two feathers
A hackneyed carousel
And a purple watercolour_stain
I crave a spotless mind
The land of lethe and bees
Where I can erase you
Like the rat
infestation you are
Halcyon phantasm,
Don’t lie to me
Under my armor plate
Is a beating heart
I took one for the team
Became Eurydice
Because you could not
Believe in me
It’s hard to shallow
That the once fertile
is now fallow
Nostalgia is a liar
And so are you
The greatest thing
you’ll never learn
I'm not a possession
or an accessory
and you don't know how
to love unselfishly
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Le Bas-fond San Francisco, California
Soprano, composer, cute animal enthusiast, synesthete. Aspiring werewolf. Graveyard girl. Like Snow White, only more maudlin. Reina Indígena. "tougher than the toughies and smarter than the smarties!"CREAG AN TUIRC.
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