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Well, there's a house in an alley
In the squats and low-rise Of a town with no future But that's where my future lies It's a secret, but no secret It's a rule, but no rule Where you find the darkest avenue There you'll find the brightest jewel Now my name, it is Mulvaney And I'm known quite famously People speak my name in whispers What higher praise can there be But I'd trade my fine mohair For tied-dyes and faded jeans If she wanted me some other way She's my Cooksferry Queen She gave me one pill to get bigger She gave me one pill to get small I saw snakes dancing all around her feet And dead men coming through the wall Well, I'm the prince of this parish I've been ruthless and I've been mean But she blew my mind as she opened my eyes She's my Cooksferry Queen, yeah Well, she's got every rare perfection All her looks beyond compare She's got dresses that seem to float in the wind Pre-raphaelite curls in her hair She could get the lame to walking She could get the blind to see She could make wine out of Thames river water She could make a believer out of me Yes, I'd trade it all tomorrow All the wicked things I've been She's my bright jewel of the alley She's my Cooksferry Queen Yes, I'd trade it all tomorrow All the wicked things I've been She's my bright jewel of the alley She's my Cooksferry Queen |
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Oh some girls hold the ace, the deuce, the trey
X-ray the deck to see what's coming Mary Antoinette she smiled that way Easy to smile when the luck is running Like a myth you rode in from the west From the go you had my button pressed Did the tea-time of your soul make you long for wilder days? Did you never let Jack Kerouac wash over you in waves? Sibella, we don't make sense together But my heart's with you Sibella, I found myself Strange but true, strange but true Some say you can learn a lot from books Thrill right to second-hand living Life is just as deadly as it looks But fiction is more forgiving You took chances well within your means Salon hair and creases in your jeans All those lonely winters long, did you really think it through? Did you really ache for me like I really ached for you? Sibella, we don't make sense together But my heart's with you Sibella, I found myself Strange but true, strange but true Sibella, we don't make sense together But my heart's with you Sibella, I found myself Strange but true, strange but true Strange but true, strange but true Strange but true |
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Condemned to violence, arrested by pain
Inside the soul lies a man insane Conceived in anger, addicted to hate The mutant child of a twisted state Beware the contradiction Beneath the crimson void 'Cos in this world of fiction My jekyll doesn't hide A killer's smile with a psycho star dream Behind the mask things aren't what they seem Unholy soldier, disciple of sin What kind of mind are you living in? You're preaching revolution Don't you mean genocide? Behind this resolution My jekyll doesn't hide Waiting to die for the very first time All right, that's right Waiting to die for the very first time All right, that's right Waiting to die for the very first time I don't give a damn, 'cos I think it's my time Time, my time The symbiosis of murder and lies What do I see looking through your disguise? Fourth Reich dementia subversion ideals God only knows what your secret conceals Who'll be the first offender? Who will be victimized? In your perverse agenda My jekyll doesn't hide |
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Hard on me, hard on me
Why do you grind me small? Hard on me, hard on me At every fence I fall I bite my rage I stop my breath I shake my cage I swim with emptiness Hard on me, hard on me Like they were hard on you Hard on me, hard on me So I can stumble too My circuits seize My senses jam I don't know who to please Trapped inside the Wicker Man You're so hard on me You're so hard on me You're so hard on me Hard on me, hard on me Why do you grind me small? Hard on me, hard on me At every fence I fall Unzip my heart Unbraid my veins Unstitch my wantonness And loosen up my reins Before I dare Go on that hill In dumb despair Unfreeze my will You're so hard on me You're so hard on me You're so hard on me You're so hard on me |
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I stole your style, hope you don't mind
I must try to be all I can be It suits me more than it ever suited you Hope you like the new me And I stole your laugh so bright and breezy It stops parties in mid-air It makes me feel more devil may care Hope you like the new me Hope you like the new me We all need friends to lean on Any time, any place, anywhere Feel free to lean on me But please, don't do it right now Yes, I'm much too busy right now And I stole your walk, the one with purpose It says there is no mountain I can't climb It fools people all of the time Hope you like the new me And I stole your jokes, just the good ones How the gang all laughed with glee I also stole the way that you tell them Hope you like the new me Hope you like the new me To steal is to flatter, what a compliment to pay All those things that I stole from you Well, I might give them back someday Yes, I really might someday And I stole your wife, hope you don't mind She was looking bored, don't you think? Soon have her back in the pink Stop by and see us for tea And I stole your soul when you weren't looking I reached inside and cut it free It suits me more than it's ever suited you Hope you like the new me Hope you like the new me |
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