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The Skull Behind The Smile
So maybe you figured
She fell from the sky
Into your lap
With no reason why
Too good to be true
She’s not what she seems
She'll give you some love
And take all your dreams
Head starts to spin
Heart starts to pound
Intoxicated
You sink to the ground
She sold you a dummy
to be by your side
She's in for the kill
And she won’t be denied
Nina comes to cast her spell then she slips back into the shadows
You can't help but feel
You've been here before
You come to your senses
And show her the door
Heart-breaking
Mistaken
She’s the gift that keeps on taking
You know that she’ll never go out of style
But maybe you'll see
The skull behind the smile
Happy returns
And last-minute plans
You don't even realise
it's out of your hands
She’s destined to find you
There's nowhere to run
You pull on the ribbon
And then you're undone
Nina comes to cast her spell then she slips back into the shadows
You've broken the seal
There’s no going back
She blows you a kiss
That turns everything black
Heart-breaking
Mistaken
She’s the gift that keeps on taking
You know that she’ll never go out of style
But maybe you'll see
The skull behind the smile
Heart-breaking
Mistaken
She’s the gift that keeps on taking
You know that she’ll never go out of style
She’ll always be
The skull behind the smile
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BitterSour
02:59
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BitterSour
Never found another of its kind
Dreaming of the day when I could leave it all behind
Replace it with some similar ordeal
You can feng-shui all the scenery but not the way you feel
Looking back I wasn’t wrong to think
That ship had sailed, I know for sure I stood and watched it sink
With nothing left on board I'd care to save
I’m scooping up the past to dump it in an unmarked grave
Memories dredged up from that amateur hour
Familiar flavours of bitter and sour
I more like the future and less like before
I’d turn back the clock ’til it tick-tocked no more
I gave it a shot
But ran out of juice
Threw in the towel
I've got no excuse
Memories dredged up from that amateur hour
Familiar flavours of bitter and sour
I more like the future and less like before
I’d turn back the clock ’til it tick-tocked no more
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Eliza Lane
04:27
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Eliza Lane
On this God-forsaken frontier
Winter’s cold and time’s are hard
I ain’t asking for permission
In my own back yard
I was hanging up my six gun
Washing away the Mark of Cain
I was building me a place to hang my hat
With Eliza Lane
If your eyes had ever seen her
You wouldn't need me to explain
How a man could gamble everything he's got
For Eliza Lane
Then they’re flashing me their badges
To see how much a man could take
With their rules and regulations
Gonna make a big mistake
She possessed a grace and beauty
That could take away the pain
I found everything a man could ever want
In Eliza Lane
Now they bring their Iron horse
I watch it glide across the plain
And I saw it turn its unforgiving gaze
To my Eliza Lane
It was always heading for a showdown
To make the tragedy complete
My Eliza is not a stranger
To men falling at her feet
And they brought along a circus
I felt obliged to entertain
But they scattered when they heard the shots ring out
Down Eliza Lane
Even though she drove me crazy
There ain’t no prettier ball and chain
Than the girl I loved and had to leave behind
In Eliza Lane
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4. |
The Enemy Within
02:50
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The Enemy Within
The beast looks straight through you
Only stops to roll it’s eyes
As you’re choking on the kool aid
And puking freedom fries
Black Hats investing
While you lot were all out protesting
We’re not dead yet it’s not over
Can’t just let them win The Enemy Within
Are you with us or against us?
Make your choice and make it quick
There’s a fella in an office
Reaching for his joystick
Black Hats investing
While you lot were all out protesting
We’re not dead yet it’s not over
Can’t just let them win The Enemy Within
Another trophy in the cabinet
Another feather in your cap
From places that you’d struggle
To point to on a map
Black Hats investing
While you lot were all out protesting
We’re not dead yet it’s not over
Can’t just let them win The Enemy Within
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£40
03:05
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£40
Riches beyond comprehension
Treasures you’ll never behold
Requiring a wicked deception
And facts you can never be told
We have no permanent allies
We need no permanent friends
We only have permanent interests
And will die in achieving those ends
Swear all the peasants to silence
Abandon them all to their fate
If you don’t fuck off back to your hole in the ground
A room in the tower awaits
They serve the elites with their brilliant minds
And hearts that are harder than stone
What would they do to those in their way
When this is what we do to our own?
Feeding crustaceans on country estates
With the blood, sweat and tears of our youth
You might well be wondering at what point in time
We became so afraid of the truth
The finance department has looked at your case
As an act of goodwill we propose
A settlement sum…shall we say £40?
Consider the matter now closed
£16 for funeral expenses
£4 for the catering bill
and £20 is plenty to dress you in black
Think of The Crown what you will
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Soundcheck
03:20
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Soundcheck
Nightmare out there
If we make it to the weekend we won't care
We'll have something we can share
No one knows your name
And no ones gonna care from where you came
If you only feel the same
Feels like someone opening up the cage
Every time the Showband takes the stage
Excitement overload
The sound check cracks the code
Made the music scene explode
When the Showband hit the road
Now we know
We found ourselves a place where we can go
The music's loud and lights are low
It gets us off the street
Gives us somewhere safe for us to meet
Clap our hands and stomp our feet
Kids still buzzing make their way outside
Newsflash sears the countryside
The journey home where worlds collide
Where were you the night the music died?
Excitement overload
The sound check cracks the code
Made the music scene explode
When the Showband hit the road
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7. |
Don't Be Long
03:17
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Don’t Be Long
Natural selection
And all those other scams
For the survival of the cruellest
And the silencing of lambs
Ice in their hearts
Fire in their eyes
Iron in their nostrils
Their claws in the prize
Don’t be long
They throw us to the lions
And all roads lead to Rome
When we're done with trying
Then they send us home
The unspoken truth
You're too scared to say
On your streets in your town
Where your monsters play
The sugar rush of poison
Is coursing through their veins
The purest human dna
Is found in our remains
We die for their right
to make everything wrong
But this world is theirs
And we don't belong
We Don’t Belong
In memory of Ana Kriegel x
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8. |
Never Not Together
03:17
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Never Not Together
The cold bites right through us
But you don’t seem to care
As I haul you out of bed
And prop you in the chair
You just sit and listen
But you don’t say a word
So I just keep on talking
Making ourselves heard
W never thought it would last forever
We never stopped to wonder why
We’re never ever not together
Never gonna ever say goodbye
An eyeball at a peep hole
A reckoning takes place
A tray beneath the bars
From a hand without a face
Two cups of water
Two scraps of bread
Nothing comes between us
Just like we always said
They can’t take you away from me
Perhaps they’ll never know
And even though you’re gone
I just can’t let you go
We never thought it would last forever
We never stopped to wonder why
We’re never ever not together
Never gonna ever say goodbye
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Still
03:01
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Still
All those years ago just seems like yesterday
Somehow I can’t get you off my mind
Even though the time goes by
I kick myself and wonder why
Still look for you
Still wonder what you do
Still can’t get far
Without wondering where you are
Even though we’ve both moved on and things have changed
I still miss not having you around
I laugh at what I did instead
And all the things I wish I’d said
Best that we don’t see each other
I’m liable to relapse
We didn’t made it last time
Another time, perhaps
Every time I think of you it all comes back
And every time my heart still skips a beat
Could we put it back together?
And make it last for ever?
Still look for you
Still wonder what you do
Still can’t get far
Without wondering where you are
Still can’t agree
That it wasn’t meant to be
And I still don’t know
Why I ever let you go
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Renegade
03:33
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Renegade
His ghost still somehow haunts the college halls
Though he never cast a shadow on their walls
Cruising through the corridors of power
Fools can swoon and swear devotion
Traitors set the wheels in motion
A power you can’t begin to comprehend
Signals the beginning of the end
A prophet rises up to lead astray
He’ll tell you what you want to hear
His time has come the hour is near
Played
By a Renegade
Too late to change the choices that you made
Betrayed
By a Renegade
He’s gonna piss all over your parade
Take the red pill now before it’s gone
This Renegade is not the only one
Voices of dissent get shouted down
Is this the way it has to be?
No ears to hear no eyes to see?
You've been played
By a Renegade
Too late to change the choices that you made
Betrayed
By a Renegade
He’s gonna piss all over your parade...
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Home (And Don’t Spare The Hearses)
You can use it ’til it’s broken
When it’s broken, you might give it back
You can’t see it when you’re shown it
You can steal it but never own it
An Englishman’s home was any other man’s castle
When the shooting was over or the trap had been sprung
Turning the world into a vassal slitting throats with a slip of your tongue
Stolen away in front of their eyes
So B52’s can soar though tropical skies
No God-given right no divine intervention
A God-given wrong for the whole world to see
England expects but neglected to mention
The slaughter and plunder of all that was free
And don’t get too set where you currently dwell
If their own’s are not enough they’ll take yours as well
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What Would Joe Have Done?
What would Joe have done
Would he just turn and run?
When you needed someone
When the pressure was on
Joe would have done his best
Screwed up like all the rest
What would Joe have said
Would he have left you for dead?
When you've done all you can
And it still hits the fan
Joe would have said “You win
Whenever you don’t give in”
What would Joe have thought
Would he be so easily bought?
When you’d lost it all
And you were hitting a wall
Joe would have helped you see
That it’s all up to you and me
What would Joe have found
If he’d still been around?
Joe would have known
That you're not on your own…
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