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house of cards
03:56
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do you hear the melodies of springtime / and do you feel the clarity of sunlight / do you embrace the ecstasy of living / do you take note of every new beginning
chorus: cos it's hard sometimes to keep the hope alive / when every single day's a struggle to get by / and happiness is like a house of cards / all comes tumbling down if you so much as breathe too hard
do you ever think about tomorrow / with anything other than dread and sorrow / and do you ever dream of revolution / and do you deal in problems or solutions
do you ever feel like nothing's worth it / wonder why nobody torched this wretched earth yet / me too
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2. |
queer girls stay alive
02:29
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all the white men on the news trying to endanger us / forget that we've been through some shit we're fucking dangerous / you can try to touch our freedom you can try to take our rights / but soon you'll know exactly just how hard us girls can fight
chorus: cos all those fucking tories keep trying to bleed us dry / so raise up your fists and let them hear our battle cry / to stay alive, stay alive, stay alive
don't ever let them make you doubt the love you've got is real / don't ever let them make you doubt it matters what you feel / we'll fight for our autonomy no matter what the cost / and if some cunt puts his hands on you then cut them off
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3. |
pissed
02:48
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fuck everything and let's go to the pub / all i really care about are my friends... and drugs / if this place went up in flames i'd still finish my beer /
cos there's no compelling reason to live out the year
chorus: i'm waiting for the day race, class and gender don't exist / in this hopeless world i'm still hoping for it / yeah against all the odds i'm still betting on it / in the meantime all i want to do is get pissed
fuck everything and let's tear up the streets / cause ourselves a noise complaint just to piss off the police / we've been beat so many times but we won't accept defeat / know better than to make peace with the decisions of elites
none of this will matter one day / glass is gonna shatter one day / blood is gonna splatter one day / you won't even matter one day
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4. |
at the end of history
02:31
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fell asleep at the bar / woke in the morning seeing stars / the feeling of regret / a rush of blood to the head / and i know i've got work / but i can't find a clean shirt / or a single reason not to stay in bed
chorus: it's the end of the world we've come to know / and it's so hard to care about tomorrow / when it hurts less just to let go
stopped checking my phone / whatever's going on i don't want to know / world war iii's just another excuse to drink myself to sleep / and i'm desperate to feel numb / or just to lose sight of what i'm running from / i work and cry and watch tv and repeat and repeat and repeat
but i know i can't go on this way / i know there are people here who need me to stay / the dickheads at the top would prefer it if i died / so just to piss them off i stay alive
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5. |
must be nice
02:53
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must be easier to live if you're a piece of shit / cos everything around you is confirmation you're god's gift / don't need to open your eyes cos you're already justified / never had to sit with your feelings of guilt
chorus: well i never quite believed in hell / but if ever there was someone who deserved it / society just rewards your frozen soul / if you've even got such a thing left
did you miss the day in preschool when we all learned to listen / did you forget life's not meant to be a cutthroat competition / i've known actual fucking toddlers with a better grasp on sharing / is it memory or morality that's failing
must be nice to care about nothing at all / must be nice to wave some cash around and see your problems solved / must be nice to never figure out what happens when you fall / must be nice, must be nice, must be nice
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6. |
gone and lost it
01:47
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last monday night when i was out ended up at some white ex-con's house / tuesday night when i was merry i threw up in a church cemetery / wednesday night i cracked my head off the post of another stranger's bed / thursday i was keeping it low-key til the bouncer kicked me out of karaoke / and friday night i last remember smoking up outside the scientology centre
chorus: forgot my age / forgot my name / i think i've gone and lost it again
decided to become a ghost / only drank and ate vodka and toast / cry myself to sleep each night / and never leave the house when it's daylight / my hair's all tangles and split ends / and i'm too fucked up to have real friends / i buy new clothes instead of doing laundry / and there's razor marks all over my body
even the president of the mental health society doesn't ever want to be caught dead next to me
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7. |
take a breath
02:45
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it's time to figure out how to do without your faith / for the first time in a lifetime we can't tell ourselves we're ok /
chorus: cos it's not going to be all right this time / take a breath, hold on tight
are you ready for the onslaught / sound of gunshots in the street / are you ready to scream your lungs out / ready to march til your feet bleed
all you can do is try to survive / all you can do is try to be kind / all you can do is try
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8. |
a quiet hymn
03:52
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i think of you on the full moon / when the night sky turns to indigo / with darkness wrapped around me i feel warm / and i think of you when it's midnight / sipping hot tea by the windowsill / i whisper prayers to the stars that you're ok
maybe it's stupid but when you're this powerless / just saying words can make it sting a little less / so once again i pray that you're ok
i think of you when the dawn comes / i'm ginsoaked and sentimental / i listen to the songs you used to love / and i look at our old photos / like they're snippets from another world / our smiles just looked so different back then
maybe we should just put it down to fate / that we had the kind of love this world tries to suffocate / so once again i'll say / hope you're ok
you said it wouldn't matter if you left / and maybe you were right / there was no tectonic shift / but that doesn't mean i don't still think of you / cos i think of you every day
when this big bad world tries to devour us / thinking of what we had makes it sting a little less / so once again i pray that you're ok
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drowning song (stay)
04:15
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resist the urge to tear yourself to shreds / because the hardest part of this still lies ahead / feels like wolves are after you / they've got a taste for blood / they want to destroy everything you love / but i'm asking you
chorus: stay / fight and be brave / don't run away / just because you're afraid / stay and stand your ground / stare those monsters down / stay
you and i can survive loneliness / we've known it so many times we've got a tolerance / feels like you are drowning but until the last moment comes / don't let the water into your lungs / i'm telling you
i don't want to lose you to a bottle or a noose when there are so few good souls left
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10. |
welcome home
00:41
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no hate no fear / refugees are welcome here / not just desperate kids on life rafts but everyone should be welcome here / and television's toxic / contaminates the blood in your veins / and the thoughts in your brain / but if you look around you'll see it doesn't represent real life / differing viewpoints abound / and for every bastard that says you don't belong / there's a bitch like me that knows they're wrong / and i'll tell them you're a gift / you're a prize / you're stronger than they realise / you're a joy / you're a light / and bigotry is finite / so welcome home
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EMERY AK Scotland, UK
I'M GAY AND I LIKE POP PUNK
CAPRICORN SUN, GEMINI MOON, AQUARIUS RISING IE. ENCHANTING YET IMPENETRABLE
LOVE ME, I'M BULLETPROOF
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