Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia, Mesopotamia
You fucking give me the creeps
You fucking give me the creeps
I've never known another city to burn

Face down in the bottom of a river
Swimming with the dead makes me want to shiver
If you really wanna know, I'd rather just drown alone

Clay fingers reaching for the ceiling
Once numb, now tingling with feeling
You'll see in the end that nothing really gets away

And I'd give it all just to be with you

Mesopotamia, Mesopotamia
You fucking give me the creeps
You fucking give me the creeps
I've never known another city to burn

You took back the mud from which you're made
And threw it at me like a fucking grenade
You keep cutting my throat, then you ask me if I'm feelin ok

This city is just like any other
They keep blowing it up, then building up another
If you look in the hole, you'll see it ain't going away

And I'd give it all away just to be with you

Mesopotamia, Mesopotamia
You fucking give me the creeps
You fucking give me the creeps
I've never known another city to burn
City to burn

Animal

If you could burn it out
Like a tick buried in your hide
If you could tear it out
Like a thorn stuck in your side
Then you can bet that I
Don't want to look at what you find
Because I'm afraid that I
Might want to keep it for myself

I thought I was above you
I hate that I love you

If you could tell a lie
Sharp enough to get through my skin
If you could sell a lie
To make me want to come back again
Then you can bet that I
Want to feel it dribble down my chin
Sometimes I think I'd give everything away
To let that animal in

I thought I was above you
I hate that I love you

Lie

I'm living a lie
And it's not the best thing for me
But anyone and everyone is gonna hear another story
I'm building a house
Of murderous intention
To keep it all from coming down
I've gotta focus my attention
'cause confidence is key
When violating trust
I'm making sure that I believe
I'm doing what I must
Which is trying to kill
The little boy inside
But as hard as I try...
The child will not die

Now I'm burning alive, just like you

I'm irrelevant
And I'm living down in the shit
I follow these pigs around
But I never get used to it
'cause they keep building and building
Their feculant franchise
I wish I could see this filth
From someone else's eyes
'cause ignorance was bliss
But now I must adjust
These animals, they operate
On jealousy and lust
I'm taking back what was lost
And I will not be denied
I'm crawling my way to the surface outside

Now I'm burning alive, just like you

Coward

You may find
That my appetite gets it's way
It keeps growing and growing
Before you know it
I'm a beast swallowing prey
And it is clear
It is clear
It's as clear as a fucking bell
The more I wear off on you,
The more I seem to wear your smell

C'mon

Get away and save yourself
Turn away and don't look back
Get away and save yourself
Grey skies are turning black

'cause I will always
Hurt everyone I love
If I were you,
I'd run away 'cause it's true
That I will always
Hurt everyone I love
I'm aching for you
But you're bound to bleed if I adore you

You will see
That there's a blood clot in my heart
I'm trying to make time to push it out
But I can't quite seem to start
And it is sore
It is sore
It's so sore that it hurts to feed
You keep taking little pieces of me,
I'm going to show you how to bleed

C'mon

Get away and save yourself
Turn away and don't look back
Get away and save yourself
Grey skies are turning black

'cause I will always
Hurt everyone I love
If I were you,
I'd run away 'cause it's true
That I will always
Hurt everyone I love
I'm aching for you
But you're bound to bleed if I adore you

I think I'll keep you
In a place where I can see you
But I know I'll break you like before
And I just can't do this anymore

'cause I will always
Hurt everyone I love
If I were you,
I'd run away 'cause it's true
That I will always
Hurt everyone I love
I'm aching for you
But you're bound to bleed if I adore you

I'm aching for you

Cruel Melody

If I could paint your picture
I'd paint you as the sea
I'd let you become the tide

If I could fall into you
I'd let you swallow me
So I could see you from the inside

And it's a cruel melody
That you sing when I'm away
Trying to find where the sun shines
In a land that's turning gray
And it's a cruel memory
To look back on who we were
'cause my past is a poison
And I'll never find a cure

If I could break a promise
I'd tell 1000 lies
To have you look at me agains

But your heart is empty of me
I see it in your eyes
It wasn't meant for me to win

And it's a cruel melody
That you sing when I'm away
Trying to find where the sun shines
In a land that's turning gray
And it's a cruel memory
To look back on who we were
'cause my past is a poison
And I'll never find a cure

Take me away, I might as well be yours

The Mark

I have a mark on me
Like a brand on my skin that only I can see
I don't know what it means, I get caught up in dreams
I feel like running away,
So yeah, let's run away
Sometimes you kinda have to get lost
If you're ever gonna find your way back to where you came from
And if we go there, they'll just want us to bleed
Because it's never enough
It's never enough
It's never enough

So cut out the heart
And watch the world burn down
Let's tear it apart
Let's leave a mark
Let's leave a mark

I followed the footprints
Around in the snow
I ended up doing circles and came back home
Where I started to find that everyone was a sign
And all that mattered was that this fucking fire's mine
Sometimes you kinda have to die
If you're ever gonna find your way back to where your life is
If hate is a fist and love is a flame
I'm gonna smash it and burn it 'cause it's all the same

So cut out the heart
And watch the world burn down
Let's tear it apart
Let's leave a mark
Let's leave a mark

It keeps bleeding and bleeding
It's never enough,
It's a lush, it combusts and it continues to swell
And I've tried, yes I've tried to ignore this scar
But it keeps burning in me and it won't let me breathe

So cut out the heart
And watch the world burn down
Let's tear it apart
Let's leave a mark
Let's leave a mark

I Have A Need

We wake, wake on the inside
I must have a need to be terrorized
So let's walk down the same path
To the hole deep in the hollow

We stand, stand on the edge again
Too afraid to turn back or jump in
There's a storm brewing like a ceiling
But I'll never spit out the feeling

This dark fever is unstoppable
This burning chill is unstoppable
This blackest wish has taken hold
I'm sorry it cannot be controlled

You're too far, far gone to be mine
Wherever I go, you're never on time
It's too dark, too black to be a star
I'll hurt wherever you are

We slept, slpet for too long
We see, see what we did wrong
I'll never let it paralyze me again
I wanna bleed like it's over

This dark fever is unstoppable
This burning chill is unstoppable
This blackest wish has taken hold
I'm sorry it cannot be controlled

4 Walls

Go for the jugular, cut the vein
And kiss it away, kiss it away, kiss it away
Everything that brings me pain

It's not as hard to bend in the end
So let's do it again, do it again, do it again
And this feels so new...

These 4 walls are blistering
I watch the paint peel
But I cannot wake from this dream
'cause this is not love
This is not clean
I'll keep digging down deeper in you
Until I find what makes you scream

I get a little aroused as it dies:
That look in your eyes, look in your eyes,
Look in your eyes
As I begin to get under your skin

And now I know why I do
Take it out on you, take it on you
'cause you always take it on the chin
That's what you get for letting me in

These 4 walls are blistering
I watch the paint peel
But I cannot wake from this dream
'cause this is not love
This is not clean
I'll keep digging down deeper in you
Until I find what makes you scream

Stop A Bullet

I've got something to say
I've acquired a taste for watching you in pain
It's pretty hard to admit
It makes me feel like shit
But I mean it

And I know that I'm wrong
The weaker you get, the more I feel strong
So I want you to leave
Wipe you face on your sleave
And beat it

This doesn't end with you
I walk around and I think if people only knew
That I wish they were cursed
That I wish them the worst
I really wish 'em the worst

But I'm doing my best
And I hope you forgive me now that I've confessed
Because I'm trying to resist
My heart becoming a fist
Forever

Because you can't, you can't
You can't stop a bullet
I'm giving you my trigger
But you never pull it

You've got something to say
You've acquired a taste for watching me in pain
It's pretty hard to admit
It makes you feel like shit
But you mean it

What the hell can we do?
I'm a different face of the man you knew
I'm a hole you'll fill
For the rest of your life

Because you can't, you can't
You can't stop a bullet
I'm giving you my trigger
But you never pull it

One Of Yours

Sucker myself into believing that I'm doing the right thing
I think of your face and I pretend that I'm not alone
I'm lining up all the love and the trust and the good things,
But there's a hole in my heart where I once kept a piece of home

What if one of yours turned a color
You didn't mean for it to be
And what if one of yours became another
Would you hear it say:
Let me go
This isn't what I wanted. I can't be here anymore
Let me go
This isn't what I needed. I can't exist here anymore

I've been thinking about my money and how I gave it all away
I've been thinking about the people and how I should have never let them stay
I've been thinking about how I always have to write just one more song
Well you know me, and that I'll never change
But I meant it well all along, and I was wrong

What if one of yours turned a color
You didn't mean for it to be
And what if one of yours became another
Would you hear it say:
Let me go
This isn't what I wanted. I can't be here anymore
Let me go
This isn't what I needed. I can't exist here anymore

Replace the silence with deafening sound
Send away the people, I want no one around
This is my greatest mistake
And I will not be denied
I'm crawling my way to the surface outside

What if one of yours turned a color
You didn't mean for it to be
And what if one of yours became another
Would you hear it say:
Let me go
This isn't what I wanted. I can't be here anymore
Let me go
This isn't what I needed. I can't exist here anymore

I Am Where It Takes Me

It's all I see, It's all I see.

Please take it away.
It's holding me, it's holding me.
Please take it away.
It's more than me, it's more than me.
Please take it away.
It's killing me, it's killing me.
Please take it away.

I run, it follows
I speak, it swallows
I am where it takes me.
I love, it breaks me.

It's under me, it's under me.
Please take it away.
It's watching me, it's watching me.
Please take it away.
It's touching me, it's touching me.
Please take it away.
It's just like me, it's just like me.
Please take it away.

I run, it follows
I speak, it swallows
I am where it takes me.
I love, it breaks me.