Sister Machine Gun

Cut down to the bone
All I get is a name on a headstone
Never wander around in the daylight
I take it all the other suckers try to tell me it's alright
Whatever I do
It doesn't matter 'cause I can't please you
I don't need another trip to the ghetto
Everything I think about has gotta be let go
Down to the same old scene
I think of every little thing I've been
And I don't know what's going on
But the things that I do know are all wrong
And you're better than me, it's easy to see
You're twice whatever I could be
I never thought that I would need someone to set me free

Cut down
In the middle of a big old lie
Cut down
Everything is gonna be all right
Cut down
What am I supposed to do
When everything depends on you?

Cut down
In the middle of a big old lie
Cut down
Everything is gonna be all right
Cut down
What am I supposed to be
When everything comes down on me?

Same thing anyway
I just wanna try to make a getaway
Never wanted to be the one
With my back to the wall while I stare at the sun
My eyes wide open, you never can tell
The problem is I know damn well
That the things that I do don't matter that much
I ? a massive crutch
While the world goes by, leaves me behind
I probably need to be redesigned
So I stop living as if I'm dead
Like a man with a gun at the back of his head
And you're better than me, it's easy to see
You're twice whatever I could be
I never thought that I would need someone to set me free

(German verse)

You sit collapsed as an empty mind
Last sparks dissolved until your last breath
And the droning sound of tallow
Replaces pulse with ink

It is lonely here
Living in the hazy moment
Between the alarm and the awakening
Where the dream precipitates
Madness as its encore

You are only half there
The other half erased
And brushed from the paper
By the same hand that
Fingers your id like a fresh scab
Until you bleed a river of ridiculous

I see now it's not division, but subtraction
You peddle your pieces
To a man called compromise
For a place in the greater scheme
Until the only thing left standing
Is the place where you once stood

You have just reduced yourself from static
To dead - air - tonight

Or it could be the other way
Take the wire to the other side
Of this metal sky
And you will see
These stars are just projections
This is not real
Which means their thunder is merely a threat

Do you want to know the truth?
They need you
They are mechanical, maniacal, derived
You couldn't drown in their gene pool if you tried
But they're all made up in brilliant disguise
Selling the very thing they most want
But cannot possess - You

And magic is the key to their success
A simple sleight-of-hand steals your autonomy
Leaving you believing you are in control

Tell me, do you trust your judgement? (laughs)
My friend, your id's been tripped
Welcome to Metropolis

In my desperation, I'll take anything from you
'Cause what I am is what I need and there is nothing I can do
I'm a slave to your frustration and I'm working for this pain
But in the end I'm nothing and it doesn't mean a goddamn thing

I don't want to live like this
I don't want to be like you
I don't need what I don't miss
This is what I've got to do

Well, I don't want to be here, but I just don't have a choice
and I'd like to say a prayer, but I cannot find my voice
Well, I feel I've lived a lifetime and I guess it's just as well
'Cause the life that I've been given is like living in an empty shell

Well, I'm just in denial of the things I cannot do
But everything that I can't have is all because of you
I don't need a guilty conscience, I don't need to be a star
All I need is some redemption, but that just won't get me very far

Whatever happened to the life I had in your eyes?
I guess I died and I started to believe your lies
Like the voice that I heard in the night
If you think I'm crazy then you're goddamned right
I need to get out of this mess you put me in
And think ? is where I'd like to begin
Well, I really doubt that you think that I would be fine
Well, c'mon baby, now it's temptation time

You fucked up, it's easy to see
But I don't know what that has to do with me
'Cause I'm knocked down and ready to fight
If you think I'm crazy, then you're goddamned right

You didn't happen to save my soul
As it went out the door with the rest of my goals
Well, I just decided that I might like it back
And I'm as serious as a goddamned heart attack
Well, now baby, I tried to make it plain
When I said I was getting tired of these stupid little games
Well, it's pretty simple, if you try to keep in mind
Well now baby, it's temptation time

I didn't mean to cause you any grief
But the things that you do to me go way beyond belief
Well, I never thought that I'd feel like I was dead
But your voice is like a bullet in my goddamn head
And I need to feel wanted, I guess anybody would
But you treat me like a child and that just ain't any good
Well, I just want to have the things that I think are mine
C'mon baby, it's temptation time

In my mind you're here now, even though you're far away
And I don't know if I'll even try to make it through today
Regenerate, recirculate, now, 'til my blood runs dry
And I'll never know the things I'm missing 'til the day I die

Well I lied when I said nothing but I don't know what to do

I just think about you
I think about you...
I think about everything you did to me
But, most of all, I need to think about you

In my mind you're everything and I will never know
Why you needed me when I had nowhere else that I could go
Running around in circles now until my legs give out
But I look at the temptation and there's never any doubt

I'm afraid I'm missing little pieces of my soul
But I never had a need for all the things I didn't know
Start from the beginning, now, and tell me everything
'Cause I'm lost without you, I don't think I'd do all this again

When I'm lost and I'm lonely and I've got it bad
There's nothing that amounts to the things I've never had
Now you know just what I've been through
(Everything's black and white, nothing's wrong and nothing's right)
Living without you is something I could learn to do

Well I'm drunk and I'm tired of the life I lead
'Cause you never give me anything that I need
Now you know how much I hate you
(Everything's black and white, nothing's wrong and nothing's right)
Living without you is something I could learn to do

You see everything in black and white
Nothing's wrong when you're not right
Trusting you was a mistake
I don't know how much more I can take

When I'm finally broken, when I'm dead and gone
Then you might remember that you did me wrong
Everything I ever had was stolen by you
(Everything's black and white, nothing's wrong and nothing's right)
Living without you is something I could learn to do

Riding with the top down, everything's fine
There ain't nothing going on inside my mind
'Cause I'm trying not to think enough about me
But I'm caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
And my brain's in overdrive, I never can tell
But the fact of the matter is I know quite well
Livin' ain't livin' in a small amount
So take it from me, every little bit counts

Every little bit counts...

Run away, every little thing I fear
I know I have to get the hell out of here
But there's something getting away from the things I don't like
If there ain't something better coming down the pike
Never had a heart attack happen this bad
And I never met nothing that could make me mad
But, then, livin' ain't livin' in a small amount
So take it from me, every little bit counts

Every little bit counts...
(I need to ? down like this...)

Never saw anything happen that fast
Though I ain't really planning on making this last
But I know that everything I do is wrong
And I'm trying to fit where I don't belong
My brain's in overdrive, never can tell
But the fact of the matter is I know quite well
Livin' ain't livin' in a small amount
So take it from me, every little bit counts

Every little bit counts...
(I need tProxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=0

? down like this...)

Well I wake up in a cold cold sweat
Burn a hole in my skin with my cigarette
But it doesn't hurt coz I'm used to pain
And I aint felt nothing yet
I don't know what to do when any thing goes wrong
Except wander around like I don't belong
Cant take anymore, got no reason to fight
White lightening gonna come down and put out the lights

-sometimes I can't take all the things that you do to me
I just can't take it, your such a god damn motherfucker
Motherfucker I don't need this shit-

Well I know that hard times have just begun
And I don't think that I have what it takes
To be one of the lies I've heard like a matter of fact
Each turn around something get stabbed in the back
Well the thing that think I don't think
Well I guess that's no reason to get distressed
When I don't think I can take anything else
White lightning comes down and I'm down like the rest

Oh white lightning
White lightning
White lightning
White lightning

-Sometimes I just can't take it anymore I just cant take it
Demons crawling on my back saying shit I don't wanna hear
I just don't wanna hear it
I turn down the lights and I stay quiet
My head in my hands-

Oh white lightning
White lightning
White lightning
White lightning gonna make everything alright

Everything is just fine
If you feel that way it's just not mine
To want to be the one thing on everybody's mind
I never asked so much from you
But there's nothing I can do
To ease the pain of knowing that I am nothing way deep down inside

I don't know what else you could want from me, 'cause I did all I should
I gave you more than any self-respecting person ever would
I'll never be the one you want, I'll never be the one you need
Why can't you see the truth, 'cause I just don't know what to believe now

Everything is just great
If you feel that way I just can't hate enough
But now I know it's just a little bit too late
I have to live inside the pain
But it's driving me insane
And I've got everything to lose and nothing left to gain

Everything is all good
If you feel that way, I wish that you would
Leave me be, 'cause I've already done all that I should
I didn't choose to live this way
But it's just the price I pay
And I think about the things I'm missing every single day

> If I could make through tonight
That would be alright with me
'Cause I'll deny anything I said
That lets you know that I'm not dead
Why can't you see
Why can't you see that the truth lies inside of me?
And all the things that I can't be
And everything I never knew revolves around the fact that
You don't need me anymore I know
I guess I'll have to let you go
I'll let you go now
I'll admit I lie awake at night
And I'l ladmit that I haven't got that right
And I'll admit that I got nothing left to do
But I won't admit to needing you
I'll never say that's true, not to you
I can see that you don't care
'Cause I can see your staring on
That is killing me
And if I had a choice I wouldn't listen to your voice
And everything is is it wouldn't have to be
I wish that I could change the past so it doesn't leave so fast
And I would be a different man and do the things I think I can
To wash away the traces of your face that whisper through my mind
And leave me hanging on inside the broken world of mine

> I'm in the middle of a big frustration
I'll do anything to just bring me down
You know I never needed any conversation
I mean I'll take anything to bring me around
I'm beside myself like I'm someone else
That is living in the back of my mind
Every day I see what I cannot be
Loneliness has got to leave me be
Don't do anything for me
That I ain't what I got to be
And I'm here again
Down in the bitter end
That's a place I can not hide
And it's eating me inside
And I'm here again
Down in the bitter end
I'm in the middle of a big time nightmare
The voice of reason is lying to me
It seems I never need to be the big time winner
And the way I got here is so easy to see
It's a big mistake
But I've got to take everything that is coming my way
It's so easy now
But I dont know how I can make it through the end of the day

Feels like heaven...

The devil's eating me inside
I feel like I've died
Nothing is as nothing seems
Makes me want to scream
I don't know how I'll make it through this night
I'll never be alright
I don't know what you want me to do
It ain't nothing new

I don't want to cause you pain
But I'm feeling quite insane
And I got nowhere to go
Baby, don't you know now
Way down deep inside of me
Is the way things got to be
I just got to let you know
I got to let you know

I don't think I can stand no more
Of what I left you for
I let my instincts lead the way
There ain't no better way
I know that nothing stays the same
But who else can I blame?
But who else can I blame?
I don't know what you want me to be
It's nothing I can see

Nine ball in a broken glass
Put the pedal to the metal on a piece of ass
I know it doesn't mean that much to me
But think about all the possibilities
Making it
Faking it
Turn around taking it
My condition is mistaken
It always seems to sneak up from behind
I must be fucking blind

Overload, you're my overload

Come and look inside my head
In my position I'm better off dead
Get nowhere fast by lying on my back
It's like a fucking heart attack
I know it's much too good to last
That's why I'm living in the past
Where everything is black and white and I'm always right

Overload, you're my overload

Coming down on a lithium overload
Try to make it now
I take it way too slow
Wrapped up in a celluloid daydream
But I don't know what it means
I know it's way too good to last
That's why I'm living way too fast
Don't care about anything but myself
Fuck it

Overload, you're my overload

You taught me how to never look back
Taking care of buisness is where it's at jack now
Every day wants a little bit...a little bit more
You bring me down like a fucking disease
And I never can see what you want from me
You got me feeling like a whore

There's a hole in the ground
There's a hole in the sky
There's no deeper place where all the pigs can die
When the weight of the words
Sends you down to your knees
Won't you lie to me lie to me
Lie to me please

Cut down by the look in your eyes
Never satisfied with your goddamn lies
There's nowhere left for me to go
Living in a river of sin
Never thinking about the shit I'm swimming in
I don't think I'm ever coming home, but it's alright

There's a hole in the ground
There's a hole in the sky
There's no deeper place where all the pigs can die
When the weight of the words
Sends you down to your knees
Won't you lie to me lie to me
Lie to me please

You think it's all a goddamn shame
As you sit around bitching never knowing it's the same old shit
My brother now never gonna reach you
Some day gonna rise up and teach you
Fat words in a fat fat head
See the little motherfuckers as they're running all red
All night all right how it looks so pretty
Red lights in the middle of the city

There's a hole in the ground
There's a hole in the sky
There's no deeper place where all the pigs can die
When the weight of the words
Sends you down to your knees
Won't you lie to me lie to me
Lie to me please

There's a hole in the ground
There's a hole in the sky
There's no deeper place where all the pigs can die
When the weight of the words
Sends you down to your knees
Why don't you die for me die for me
Die for me please

You're coming down through my broken mind
Seeing everything I did to leave the past behind
I never think about the goddamn reasons that I kinda want you to find

You got me down on my knees
You're my disease

You take me down to the disease inside
Seeing all the things that I just can't seem to hide
I didn't want another fucked up broken down reason for me to die

You got me down on my knees
You're my disease

I look at you and then I see your fire
And I'm thinking about desire
Yes, I'm thinking about desire
Telling me the things you try to hide
And I'm burning up inside
Oh how I'm burning up inside
When I think about the first time that I saw your face
I never felt this way
Oh lord no I never felt this way
And now I'm wishing that you feel the same
And if there's anyway
I'll get down on my knees and pray

You're like a burning flame
And I'll never be the same
No, I'll never be the same

What kind of fool am I
To want your body next to mine
I want your body next to mine
I need you any time
And I'm breaking down inside
Oh Lord I'm breaking down inside
You cover me with all your hopeless little fantasies
I never had before
No, I never had before
And now I'm living in my own reality
Cause of the things you did to me
Oh, the things you did to me

I'm all done up in my condition
But my eyes can see the light
I never had much to do but sit and think about you
And it gets me through the night
I don't know what to do with emotion
I don't know anything about that
But you give me everything that I could want
And I really don't see why I bother to be content

Nothing matters to me when I'm dispossessed
Wish that I could be just a little bit less
Nothing in your eyes when you look at me
I'm dispossessed

Well I'm all tied up in your existence
And I don't care if I die
'Cause I never did want to be anything
But what I saw inside your eyes
I don't know what to do with frustration
I don't know anything about that
But you give me everything that I could need
And I really don't have the time to be content

Nothing matters to me when I'm dispossessed
Wish that I could be just a little bit less
Nothing in your eyes when you look at me
I'm dispossessed

Nothing matters to me when I'm dispossessed
Wish that I could be just a little bit less
Nothing in your eyes when you look at me
I'm dispossessed

[CHORUS]
Burnin' is my condition, baby now,
Burnin' with everything that I see.
Burnin' is my solution, baby now,
I know you think that you're better than me.

[musical interlude]

(I know you think that you're better than me)

I can barely feel like anything.
I can barely see.
I can walk over broken glass,
That cuts like a razor through my fantasies.

I can be whatever I want to.
It doesn't matter to me.
I sit and stare at this gun,
Pointed at my head and think about all the possibilities.



[CHORUS]

I never needed to feel any self control.
I never had to believe,
In anything, but my desire to never be,
What you tell me to be.

I can die whenever I want to.
It doesn't matter to me.
Take the easy way out,
To end all of my responsibilities.

[CHORUS (x2)]

[music to end]