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New Cities
04:07
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I like cities where the rain pours
I like towns where they close doors
I like towns painted red
It all sounds better in my head
I like towns with tumbleweeds
I like to stay where I can breathe
I like a whiskey straight and neat
Take away the pain in me
You may never comprehend
How far my back can bend
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In new cities they don't know my name
In new cities no one throws the blame
Start again, start anew, start something they can't refuse
In new cities I will stay
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Maria
02:24
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The fruit is ripening
I can taste the flavors
a feeling so good
it can be your savior
If you let her seep
into your nightmares
you'll welcome spectres
just so you can lie there
She likes to lie in wait
likes to hesitate
hopes you'll take the bait
then she destroys you
lays the deadliest traps
erases lines on your map
so she can sneak round the back
and attack you
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Hey Maria
I can see ya
wouldn't wanna be ya
ave something
ave this
I know I will never miss you
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the biggest brown eyes
purple underneath
stares into your soul
and grits her teeth
she knows your secret
she writes it on the wall
hangs it in galleries
she likes it when you crawl
she likes to pose then click
with an invisible lick
she can make you sick
in her thigh highs
she has chameleon hair
takes you down to her lair
ties you up to a chair
and tells you lies
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Die In Denial
03:39
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Don't pull the chains around my neck
It hurts like hell and I should know
My bones are aching, breaking down
You drag me to the depths below
I'm tired of your little games
Emotions that are untrue
These emptiest of promises
This blackened heart within you
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I just want you to leave me alone
I would have never loved you if I had known
That you'd tell me lies
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So I march down my path single file
Living while I die in denial
Wishing you'd release your honeycomb hold
From my heart because your hands are so cold
Not even Roland's army comes when I call
and Melody doesn't care at all
Forever on my own
I won't be overthrown
By the likes of you
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The light is shining on the hill
The signal I was waiting for
The stars are watching through the clouds
As I burn the chamber doors
This parasite infecting me
Will not last forevermore
I've taken down your tyrant king
I've silenced his fictitious roars
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Unguided Missiles
03:27
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I miss you like unguided missiles
exploding into the hills
I want the best for you you know I do
that's what I've said before
But you didn't listen
Now all I do is sit and wait
Let the clock decide my fate
Listen for your little voice
So all my demons get destroyed
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Just
Lock on to me
and fire away
Straight in to me
Just
Lock on to me
and fire away
set me free
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It's been a week and I've started to doubt
you're coming back
I'm not ashamed, I'll take the blame
for all my shortcomings
Everything I lacked
All I do is sit and wait
Let the clock decide my fate
Listen for your little voice
So all my demons get destroyed
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Her (You're For Me)
03:11
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Summer Breezes
04:38
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Constantly
Putting up with misery
Shadows walking next to me
Blowing with the summer breeze
I feel so chilled
Viceral and unfulfilled
I do not understand it still
I doubt I ever will
Summer breezes always make me cold
Summer Breezes always freeze my soul
Summer breezes always make me cold
Summer Breezes always freeze my soul
I pick up shells
Mementos of a lonesome spell
Staring at the ocean swells
practicing my fond farewells
If you want me back
You don't have to dress in black
Don't think it will be like that
Gone beyond the zodiac
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Sky On Fire
03:16
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Faceless gazes and antique mazes
chasing things that you shouldn't be chasing
Nymphets and politics
The world is resting on lolipop sticks
Won't be long til the sky is on fire
The wrong sap for the job will be hired
Sit and watch and embers glide
There's no more rocks under which we hide
Won't be long til the ride breaks down
and the sideshow goons beat up the clowns
Listen for my silent screams
in the midnight sun under which I dream
Mistakes and accidents
Lost minds and search warrants
Bloody noses and fractured speech
Brass rings that I can't reach
---------------------------------------------------
silent and stupefied
cutting outside dotted lines
wandering through fields of flowers
suppressing my inner coward
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8. |
Deep End
03:38
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I got sand in a bottle
Reminds me of heaven
While I'm festering silent
Wishing I were eleven
I have started to question
How much more I can handle
Licking novacaine smoking incense
Staring at the flame of a candle
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I got shivers, I got shakes, dizziness, dementia
and countless other things that I forgot to mention
I want automated smiles so I can feel the warmth again
Need a pick to chip the ice away off the block of ice I've been frozen in
Well you can push me aside, you can spit in my eye
You can wish me die while I'm diving off the deep end
I won't hear what you say, my mind is shot anyway
No, no, I'm okay cause I'm diving off the deep end.
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What the hell am I running from?
Surely I can solve my problems
I guess I'd rather be numb
Than to have to solve all my symptoms
I know I need a little push
Maybe a punch in the gut now
Sometimes I like these voices
But their choices never heal the cuts
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Bitter Pills
03:38
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Once I believed I could make a difference
See life a different way
I can't believe I was so misguided
So excited to be beaten away.
Laugh all you want, I'm the village idiot
Grasping invisible straws
I have fell fast, there's no denying
I'm screaming and crying with fists through the wall.
(Bitter pills)
I play charades to build a future
Judged by saints of the books
Running away never solves problems
But when you can't dodge them, you eat what you cook.
Consumed in darkness I paint my picture
The blood of a million dead dreams
I don't want pity or even advice
A prayer would be nice, or an angel who sings.
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10. |
Ochre Hills
03:17
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You remember when the lawman told me
I was never gonna love you again?
So you busted me out in the middle of the night
Life's pretty great... now and then
We ran up into the ochre hills
It was raining and about to flood
When the water hit the monoliths
It beaded up and dripped like blood
Ochre Hills
Ochre Hills
The rain runs red like blood
in Ochre Hills
And I'll kill
Anyone who tries to take you
They will not forsake you
You were worried and out of breath
When you told me you heard their voices
So I picked you up and ran for cover
Contemplating all my choices
I was young and dumb you know
I never cared for consequences
When I stared into your promising eyes
We both knew I'd serve my sentence
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Eric Tyler Louisville, Kentucky
Eric Tyler is a Louisville, Kentucky based singer-songwriter who writes, plays, produces, and records everything entirely alone in the studio himself. Beginning to write when he was just 15, Eric has spanned multitudes of musical genres in the years since, always eager to up the proverbial game musically, stylistically, and artistically. ... more
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