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I have tried to back down in the eyes of strangers they will know my all that my pride comes after a fall, a fall then you’ll begin to ask the questions to end questioning why, the art is growing silent It’s a long a way to the anchor fathoms under wate...

She came to me with baby steps at first I could not see this blessing, it was a curse Her eyes were hollow like an open grave I cannot help myself, I am to blame I gave the baby too much milk to drink Then it got greedy and learned how to sing I see it c...

He wakes up to shave with a rusty razor Blade that dim reflection says that ‘he’s a man’ to Day and not a boy which until previously had been Employed by those who know It’s a pleasure And Oh you’re a treasure I feel better With just a measure of Poi...

You the centre and the colour of my eyes Double nine You taught me how to see everything between Knife filled eyes My favourite and my best Well there is no contest The worst you ever did I want to bless I’ve been so lost since the skin upon my soul Was fier...

Let me lie upon my bad side Spat up on the floor Finger broken I am backwards Who could ask for more? Crammed like cattle Kick the habit Murder in the ranks Glory be to God above and money in the bank If it was easy Would you leave me If it was easy You’d le...

I’m invited to the feast of hammers Led like cattle to the bride If you’re dumb or lonely, you can come and join me but I warn you, you’ll be crucified I’m invited to the feast of hammers Sacrificed and happy to be paid Like dull creatures, they will beg to b...

It must be time to go Now you can say that you told me so Stay a little more time for a standing ovation Won’t you take pride in this rare sensational victory You’re pretending You’ve always been such a contradiction And I dare not tell you every affliction T...

Now you’re gone it’s not so funny anymore We took your name and dragged it all across the floor To say that you did not deserve it isn’t true But just to clear up this confusion we hate you To say that this was your idea is simply mad You can’t take credit fo...

Here she comes a tumbling Tumbling from the sky I stop to question liberty I ask my mother why Here she comes a tumbling Arms and legs and eyes Oh Ivory there’s three of me and each of us is blind 

I danced at your wedding For the bride and the groom I danced through the shadows And I danced in that room And I gave up salvation Just to dance at your death I waited there and I held my breath I danced on the pavements But I stepped on the cracks...

you once cut a friendly figure haunting and bereft now you cast an ugly shadow guilty and obsessed so why must you always play the victim? it’s time that i wasn’t your hero I’ve got troubles of my own that you used to care for Now all I desire is to run so fa...

Dead round the eyes red rings what a sight there Prone to the thoughts of electric nightmares Soft like a skin yes I grin if I have to You've got to, you've got to go Swim little fish get away from the lobsters Quick here they come they're relentless mon...

Those sleepy eyes You’ve been up all night He won’t call You can’t make him care – at all Jacqueline It’s just the little things He makes you do He’ll tear you in two Remember when we used to sing – our song He will never let you belong You’re going blind W...

So do you still Think of me? While you’re masturbating slowly over Kiera on TV Clinging on There’s hope at hand Is your last romantic question – would you sleep with a dying man? But it’s the end Last curtain call Now the band is breaking up and your big hear...

Tie me down Charlie Brown Wrap me up in a hospital gown I’ll suck your thumb Eat bubblegum and cry alone in the dark The dark worries me does it bother you? But I am the walrus I am the truth Stealing lines, side-step the mines Jump on a crack Break your moth...

8 days ago he was down at my window screaming my name in the air and by the sight I could tell he’d been drinking when drunk you don’t usually care that my situation had altered quite sharply now my kisses don’t come for free so throw down my hair for m...

Goodbye, my love You’re leaving me Like the sound of fallen tears Goodbye, my love’s deceiving me Even after all these years I see an empty room I see a hollow tomb Where death is calling, in comfort, my name And though I used to love The pain is twice as muc...

Well it’s good to be a little open minded To the way that other people see the world But I can’t get by your obsession with leather And the way you think it’s fun to hurt yourself What’s that skeleton inside your cupboard? What’s the use in hiding how you liv...

Pages and pages and pages of poetry I am not doing so well Teach me the Bible, the scriptures, disciples and baby teach me how to spell My mother and father they got for a daughter I wish that I could have been more They were so proud when I learned how to wa...

When I was seventeen I met a man Gave him all my dreams Told him all my plans Plans to rule the earth Plans to tear apart Plans to be the queen Of his broken heart The sorrow is… When I was seventeen I met a boy (and) together we would dream but always dest...

He’s all alone, Stuck to the ceiling chewing my bones, eliminate feeling I wasn’t there, Why should I care? He shivers brightly and ever so nicely It’s not a please, More of a must So if you please, So if you must I wasn’t there, Why should I care? He shive...

I was once a child of God but then the devil kissed me He gave me fear, and he said my dear ‘God will never miss thee’ There’s a price upon my head, and I’ve gone Can the righteous still be lead by the wrong? I’ve been waiting for better days, but a cold win...

Dark comes down On the darkest part of town And a gentleman steps out Into the night I was walking home Such a silly girl, all alone And we met by the river I knew who he was and oh God I shiver I recognized There was sadness in his eyes And a longing I desp...

Losing is something you do well but you always play to chase Staying up ’til the sun comes up and your eyeballs look so strange You will say what they want you to and never disagree The new girl looks just like you but she has bigger teeth Say it! Say it! Say...

The Sailor’s Wife, alone one night In slumber as she bathes She dreams of ships her sailor’s lips Against the ocean waves The sailor’s wife was pale and white Beauty near divine ‘Oh how the sea has stolen thee’ She drinks, she waits, she cries Life is but a...

Honey, Sugar, Lover, Ever Baby this one is for you Alcoholic, (so) catastrophic You gave me something to do You tie me up in a ball in a cup in a black Cadillac in the box of a Jack in a moment of truth in a mistaken youth I am tragically yours in a page in a...

Through Ten Walls you gently breathe A rhythm only known to you and me I would scratch these bricks away So through the hollows you can hear me say: “I have seen your misery You’ve always had a hold over me Eyes so wide to blind the fates But your sleep has k...

Victoria, I hate to be the one to tell you this But it’s gone beyond Everyone’s idea of a joke I know you’re here On every surface I smell you near The scent of cigarettes and Belvadere Victoria Morning came, you changed your name Into a V no one knows What y...

I drank the beast within I drank him down so deep He got so thin And then the beast within He learns to swim And so I cannot win Drink up, drink in These things have come to pass The trees have grown from seeds They’re planted in my feet They crack my bones...