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Venus of the Hard Sell
04:36
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Love, adventure death and glory
The short goodbye
The whispered story
One last glance at the chameleon dance
And into the dark across the park
I ain't no mark for the Venus of the Hardsell
(Say it)
I ain't no mark for the Venus of the Hardsell
Saints and sinners, new beginners
Lipstick traces and TV dinners
Cigarsmoke bars and expensive new cars
The acapulco dive and the media jive
They all survive for the Venus of the Hardsell
(Know it)
They all survive for the Venus of the Hardsell
Empty graves and shallow heads
Shallow smiles and empty beds
Betta get a room without a view
Sail out of sight of land
Momma won't like it but you should
Travel with a roughneck crew
Listen out for all that's said
Just worry when the hounds aren't fed
(Gotta)
Worry when the hounds aren't fed
'Cos one mutt yaps and the pack starts baying
Blood for the gods it's cheaper than praying
Soldier-boys die but Superman still flies
Violent days - it's a permanent craze
It never pays to love the Venus of the Hardsell
(Leave it)
Don't screw around with the Venus of the Hardsell
There're new uniforms at the church bazaar
Fanatics got the rising star
Thin dark streets ring with marching men's feet
Past the billboard bride troops the national pride
It's all supplied by the Venus of the Hardsell
(Fuck it!)
It's all supplied by the Venus of the Hardsell
Nixon's names left on the moon
Where Apollo's masons called the tune
To cast their influence from above
And damn all lunacy and love
You know they made her the Venus of the Hardsell
(Raped her)
You know they made her the Venus of the Hardsell
They're winning momma and it's getting dark
D'you think there's time to build an ark?
Tomorrow's a fiction, yesterday's a lie
I had a friend stuck his works in his eye
Perhaps he'll die?
I wonder why we don't cry for the Venus of the Hardsell
Don't sigh for the Venus of the Hardsell
Don't lie for the Venus of the Hardsell
Don't die for the Venus of the Hardsell
Free her and live
https://youtu.be/lV6Sl_u1s3M
lyrics by
Jamie Delano
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Monsters
05:44
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MONSTERS
Hey lady
What are you afraid of?
Is something/chasing after you?
Your nightmares feed on you like vampires
Did you invite them inside?
Did you think that you were safe here?
The monsters can’t stop laughing
Did you bring me here to slay your memories?
Am i monster enough to take that chance?
I haven’t seen any ghosts here
Other than the ones that always try to escape you
Taking drugs to ease the pain of which we’re unaware
Your nightmares could lead us to ruin
Hey. baby
What are you ashamed of?
Are the rumors/finally catching up with you?
Did you bring me here to protect you
From all the monsters gathering outside your window?
Did you think that we’d escape here
That i would be the one you followed home?
Disorientation was mistaken for bravery
Do we now exist only in your nightmares?
I haven’t seen that many ghosts here
That weren’t just our very own reflections
Taking drugs to ease the pain
Just something to keep me aware
That you brought me here to feed me to your nightmares
(Instrumental Break)
Did you think that we were safe here?
The monsters can’t stop laughing
Did you perceive me medicated as some kind of savior?
How long until i become just another one of your monsters?
All i see round here are zombies
They’re all that’s left of all your former lovers
Taking drugs to ease the pain—
If you’re not well then you should be—
Since you’re driven to see all your nightmares come true!
I was dead or I was dying
You were there and you were trying
To finish the job that someone else started
I know, you think drugs are bad
I don’t care it was all I had
To make your night mares stay away
For a little longer
Now do you finally understand?
I was a monster...
But you were a monster too
https://youtu.be/A6tiJqGgxEQ
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3. |
Like It Even Matters
03:58
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i sense something wrong here
i can't tell you what it is
but i know there's something wrong here
i don't think i belong here
people look at me straange
i'm sure i don't belong here
nothing stays the same
and i gave them everything i have
they even want the stuff i don't have
everybody needs to feel powerful
standing over me and gloating
like it even matters
everything is strange here
even she seems strange to me
she doesn't seem like she belongs here
everything's so strange
i just want to grab her and take her
someplace that's safe
someplace that's not here
if she believed in me
then i'd want to be
everything she needs
and she needs me to be stronger
if she'd concede to be all i need to be
the shaper of, shaper of, shaper of my destiny
but destiny doesn't want to change for little ol' me...
i sense something wrong here
i can't tell you what it is
but i know there's something wrong here
i'm not sure i belong here
even she seems strange to me
it doesn't seem like we belong here
nothing stays the same
and i gave them everything i have
they only want the stuff i don't have
if she'd concede to be all i need to be
the shaper of, shaper of, shaper of my destiny
lots of people need to feel powerful
standing over me and gloating
like it even matters
people think i'm strange
because i don't like anything
that has to do with anyone or anything...
that doesn't have to do with me
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4. |
A Piss Before Dying
02:27
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she asks you if you'd like a drink
you nod and politely say, "thanks"
you check to see what the time is
and that's when you hear the explosion
and the flight attendant leaves her feet
the drink cart follows her out of view
and the plane feels like a die
in the hand of a titan
and you're glad you left your seat belt fastened
because people are tossed like leaves in a whirlwind
and the woman sitting next to you--unknown until now--
reaches out and clutches your arm
and the warning lights have come on
the oxygen masks fall from the ceiling
you think to look out the window
and see the ground is looming much too fast
and you hear another really loud noise
the cabin fills up with fumes from the burning
you could pass out from all this excitement
but you want to meet death with both eyes
you watch the other passengers panic
their screaming and crying fade from awareness
now you really wish you had gotten that drink
when you realize you need to hit the toilet
and you laugh because it seems too funny in this situation--
a piss before dying...
and you wonder if anyone will live
and if you'll be among the survivors
your life is left to nothing but chance
and you hope the titan rolls a seven
that's when you hear an even louder explos--
https://youtu.be/99Ix2swR0IQ
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5. |
Nihilist
06:06
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you seem nervous
you'll feel better once you take your clothes off
the apprehension of a strange new scene
and from being there with...me
i don't care how long you stay
it won't be anything to lose you
everything should end this way
i'm just here to use you
you'll only get hurt
when you don't know what you're after
such a pretty flower with such low self-esteem
filling the room with...worried laughte
i don't care how long you stay
it wasn't anything to choose you
everything should end this way
i'm just here to use you
since you're already here
how do you feel about inappropriate surpises?
there's not that much to fear
but it might just blow your mind
no one is really who they seem to be
your innocence might just wind up killing me
no special reason why i chose you
(such a pretty flower with such low self-esteem)
i just decided that you'd do...me...in...
now you're trembling
you'll feel better once you've pulled the trigger
just leave me here on the floor
there are people paid to clean the mess up for you
i don't care how long you stay
it won't be anything to lose you
everything should end this way
i'm just here to use you
i don't care how long you stay
it wasn't anything to choose you
everything should end this way
i'm just here to use you
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6. |
Eschewing Mettle
05:06
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7. |
Ode To Despair
03:04
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Ode to Despair
I’ve seen you smile
When you think you’ve found
Another haunting ground
I’ve felt that steely stare
I followed it everywhere
Here where it’s all that exists
And nothing can compare with it
Here where tears are dry
In you I could almost die
I’ve seen you smile
When you think you know
There’s going to be another freak show
I’ve matched that feral grin
So nice to have it back again
Here where we’re all that exists
And nothing interferes with this
I can let them down
In you I can finally drown
I’ve seen you fall before
Once more I could not take it
In this weakened state
How am I supposed to wait
So let me fall before you
Defeat
It had no glory until now
Until now
So let me fall before you
Let me fall
Get a load of me
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9. |
Just Let Me Know..(A)
03:04
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Just let me know...
Just let me know
When you’re through with me
Let me know and I’ll be on my way
When I no longer have any value
To you
That’s when I cut short my stay
There’s a sparkle in your eyes
When you’ve been unfaithful to me
I’ve seen it each time you’ve been away
Faithful I see is something you are
Unable to be
Watch what you do
Watch what you say
Love given life can be killed so easily
From something precious
To something so despised
And if you want to know how awful
Hatred can feel
Then hold, take a long hard look into my eyes
Your eyes hide dark secrets
Of which you’re ashamed
You hide them deeply
But I know where you keep them
Just so you know
I’ve got secrets of my own
There will be ruin
If I ever reveal them.
Just let me go
When you’re through with what we’ve known
And the pain diminishes all of what remains
Just so you know
I’m not afraid of letting go
And finally living free from your disdain
https://youtu.be/w3e7EGZ9Y-I
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Bleeding
04:05
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and so you try not to notice her (you can't help but notice)
she's got a home but it's not yours (no longer yours)
and all the things that spin her around (spin around)
none belong to you
this quiet evasion--
you in your pinhole frame
counting your punctures
and trying not to notice you're bleeding
the one who holds her now is
thin and made of plastic (she's thin and full of nails)
pieces of you die every time that you see them (and you see them all the time)
and you wonder what you're made of
and how much of it remains
eyeing her scratches
and trying not to notice she's bleeding
angels fill every chair in your orchestra
playing your grande finale
each movement, another part of your torment
and you know that it all must end
and it softens for your demise
you see the angels——
but you try not to notice they're bleeding
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12. |
Understated
03:54
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13. |
Xmas Eve of Destruction
05:12
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her hands so cold
and made of clay and crumbling
breaking off her fingers
to mould me, scold me--
trying to hold me
or trying to hold me down?
my reactions come too soon
distracted by things that move me
eschewed by things to which I'm most attracted
impacting me unevenly
a sigh sends a kiss across the room
as if bourne upon a feather
a kiss that might bring about
a needed change to the weather
something beautiful...hangs in the air forever
are we ruined artifacts, just ancient fossils?
there's little value
if the total measure of our interaction
amounts to a crucial lack of pleasure or satisfaction
we will be forgettable
if the only impact we both make on anyone
is only the impact that we made
upon each other
a sigh that sends a kiss across the room
floating on a feather
a kiss with might enough to change the weather
so something beautiful may linger here
infractions come past due again
distracted by the things that doom me
soon to be entombed by those to whom I'm most detracted
impacting me directly...
a chain will keep us slaves enslaved together
no matter whether we can stand the pain of being tethered
each of us has tried to be the master
of the other's fate forever
we seem to value control more than our own freedom
and knowing this doesn't help us see it
we just keep piling up our things around us
so we don't see
a sigh once sent a hopeful kiss across a room
like it was guided by a weather vane
we thought that kiss could change everything
something that was supposed to last
the chain that keeps the slaves as slaves together
still hoping for that drastic change of weather
each of us will always be the master
of the other's fate forever--
while outside
cultures rise
prosper
and decline
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17. |
Tonight
02:50
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tonight
when the alcohol and pain
become entangled once again
and they conjure up your face
and you're smiling just to spite me
when your enjoyment all alone
takes you to heights you've never known
and all the things you've never done
seem more exciting without me
i reach out to touch you
even knowing you're not there--
embrace nothing but the air--
but still feel something
my desperation, my disease
that lets your memory torture me
whether i'm awake or i'm asleep
i'm always drowning and bleeding
knowing you're not there
though i see you everywhere
my senses rest, my heart won't dare
for i'm drawn to you like death
because you move me
now i seem not to exist
close your eyes and i'm not missed
an unimportant object from the past--
a disposable item--
one not meant to last
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18. |
A Peaceful End
02:54
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She dropped the bomb
and remained to clear out
Any survivors
As if anything were left alive
She sculpted and then shattered me
Scattered my remains
All among the ruins
She blessed then damned me
Hunted and freed me
Discarded me when she most needed me
She meant more to me
Than anything else
that ever murdered me
I was the martyr
She was the cause worth dying for
She is what is, I am what was
It’s me from us she will rend
All I yearn for now
is a quick and peaceful end
An end an end a peaceful end
A sweet, dreamy peaceful end
An end an end a peaceful end
A peaceful end,
a peaceful peaceful end
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