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“ In 1985, I placed a bet and lied, / losing all that I had, / at least with all my heart... ”
“ I eat too much to die / And not enough to stay alive / I'm sitting in the middle... ”
“ Libraries gave us power / Then work came and made us... ”
“ And all the masks I carry on my face / For you, for another / Some calm and then some... ”
“ Always, never on my mind / Always, always out of time / Always, always letting someone... ”
“ Drugs come out of boredom babe / U.N. exports it everyday / Their armies feed the ghetto... ”
“ I wonder who you think you are / You damn well think you're God or... ”
“ I don't know if I'm tired and I don't know if I'm ill / My cheeks are turning... ”
“ Wear your eyes as dark as night / Paint your face with what you... ”
“ Blockades won't win you more votes / A Cuban adjustment act / Offer the world a... ”
“ Been natural / For once in my life / Now I'll have to swallow some... ”
“ Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah / Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah... ”
“ There's a black dog on my shoulder again / Licking my neck and saying she's my... ”
“ Do I look good for you tonight / Will you accuse me as I hide / Behind these layers of... ”
“ Get some pain and I feel alive - born to end / Close my eyes overdose on hell - born to... ”
“ If the love between us has faded away / Left in the rain, Scratching at the... ”
“ Always feeling torn and slow / Love song cull destroy poem / Misery and trauma making... ”
“ so mighty so hegemonic so hating so desecrating so there so nowhere so... ”
“ This is Damn Dog by the Manic street preachers / Take one / Two, three, four / I can lick your... ”
“ Dead martyrs / All stigmartys / Dead heroes / For fear of zeroes / Dead martyrs / Always take it... ”
“ Sovereign fingers scrape our lives until we are bought / Screaming comatose with blackboard... ”
“ Scratch my leg with a rusty nail, sadly it heals / Colour my hair but the dye grows... ”
“ So much fun to be had in my head / No more sunshine / So much fun just lying in my... ”
“ 20ft. high on Blackpool promenade / Fake royalty second hand sequin... ”
“ Emily, Emily your gift to me / Emily, a modern sense of beauty / Emily, as precious as your... ”
“ Empty souls will leave their homes / To find a place where they're... ”
“ The Statue of Liberty looks so solemn on the tv / 100% risk of stepping... ”
“ We use ourselves like politicians / For all the money and indecision - indecision /... ”
“ Shed some skin for the fear within / Is starting to hurt me with everything / Freed from the... ”
“ We blur into images of state coercion / Classified machines die... ”
“ I hate purity / Hate goodness / I don't want virtue to exist anywhere / I want everyone... ”
“ Show me a wonder / You can't be sure of / I exist in a place / A self-made... ”
“ Strung out eyes as cold as worship / Two minutes silence in a century of... ”
“ Liberty, sweet liberty / Charitable respectability / Then pacifism killed us... ”
“ I write this alone on my bed / I've poisoned every room in the house / The place is quiet and so... ”
“ The further away I get from you / The harder it gets for everyone else, for everyone... ”
“ Find your faith in your cocaine / The only god I need is a brain / Jam your brain with broken... ”
“ When did life get so, get so complicated / When did time start, start accelerating / Make life... ”
“ Somebody told me to vote conservative / Tragedy is not known under this dimmest of... ”
“ The nothing in me / The apostle in me / No interpretation / For the heart of... ”
“ I live to fall asleep / It's when I stop the hate / I never want to dream / It infiltrates... ”
“ I am just a patsy / The Oswald in Lee Harvey / Made of my own misery / The footprints of... ”
“ Petryfied for the millionth time / Slowly my soul evaporates / No parachutes no dismal... ”
“ The future teaches you to be alone / The present to be afraid and cold / So if I can shoot... ”
“ Next Thursday you're invited to watch Rising Tide's live... ”
“ Imperial bodybags, coming home in dribs and drabs / Life is numbers, with doggy... ”
“ If God persists, persists in saying yes / I guess we'll have, we'll have to test... ”
“ Who sees the interiors like young Willem once did / Your beautiful triangle of... ”
“ Into a vein exhibit the derelict / A secular mosaic distracted at... ”
“ Standing in your _ of a dress, / With your shoulders bare to the... ”
“ Hi Time magazine hi Pulitzer Prize / Tribal scars in Technicolor / Bang bang club AK 47... ”
“ Life has been unfaithful / And it all promised so so much / I am a relic / I am just a petrified... ”
“ Where are you now? / Broken up or still around? / The CIA says you're a guilty... ”
“ Childbirth tears upon her muscle / Very first second a screaming... ”
“ No one likes looking at you / Your lack of ego offends male mentality / They need your... ”
“ between the billboard masturbation across highways of metallic... ”
“ Wherever you go I will be carcass / Whatever you see will be rotting... ”
“ I am nothing and should be everything / You're methadone pretty, surrender in... ”
“ Miss Europa disco dancer / Feel the drug of your persona / Miss Europa disco... ”
“ Culture sucks down words / Itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles / Organise your safe tribal... ”
“ I'm small and I'm tired / I'm blurred to bits and wired / I'm nothing in this... ”
“ My little empire / Has risen and it's set / My little empire / Is as good as it can get / My little... ”
“ Economic forecast soothe our dereliction / Words of euthanasia, apathy of sick... ”
“ Embarrassed possessed and so uncivilised / Just take a look at the whites of my... ”
“ What's your story baby / No control of what I am saying / Winter leaves still make me... ”
“ One two three four five six seven eight / I am the raping sunglass... ”
“ Me-totemo-utsukushi-i-desu-ne, / Totemo-utsukushi-i-me-wo-shitemasu-ne... ”
“ I knew that someday I was gonna die / And I knew before I died / Two things would happen to... ”
“ Teacher starve your child, P.C. approved / As long as the right words are... ”
“ Sweet razorblade start your beat / Cut through the mire and skid through the grass and make it... ”
“ Here's a true story / Said someone to me yesterday / Said he'd heard it in a... ”
“ Conscience binds you in chains / Trail by stone hammer and nails / No-one made the holes but... ”
“ London, England, consider yourselves warned / Repeat after me / Death sentence... ”
“ I've seen this happen before / This is a message from occupied... ”
“ London, England, consider yourselves warned / Repeat after me / Fuck queen and... ”
“ Mr. Lenin - awaken the boy / Mr. Stalin - bi-sexual epoch / Kruschev - self love in his... ”
“ Roses in the hospital / Try to pull my fingernails out / Roses in the... ”
“ You've been this way since school / Dysfunctional, translucent / Royalty on your... ”
“ The subtext of this song / I've thought about it for so long / But it's really not the sort of... ”
“ There's no hope in the colonies / So catch yourself a lifeline / Things have gone wrong too many... ”
“ Beauty finds refuge in herself / Lovers wrapped inside each others... ”
“ You need your stars, even killers have prestige / Access to a living you will not... ”
“ Morning always seems too stale to justify / Lament blossoms, hours minutes of our... ”
“ You have your very own number / They dress your cage in its... ”
“ Learn to sleep through misery / Never gonna wake feeling free / No one fucks as good as... ”
“ Things get clear when I feel free / When whatever next comes... ”
“ Solitude sometimes is / The place that I would like to live / Solitude sometimes... ”
“ Everyone is staring with the glaze of obsession / Interlocking cartels bypassing the... ”
“ Obedience to the law is free desire / Under curfew from neon barbed... ”
“ Find your faith in your security / All broken up at seventeen / Jam your brain with broken... ”
“ I'm going down to suicide alley / 'Cos the air that I breathe tastes better down... ”
“ Stutter stutter says the little boy / I wanna blow a hole in my... ”
“ Your dream can never earn enough / Ultimate nihilistic love / Tennessee nights just zip-code... ”
“ My bedroom wall recalls what's in my head / A collage constructed and constantly... ”
“ The gap that grows between our lives / The gap our parents never... ”
“ There are no sunsets just silence / You could see that she was true and... ”
“ The court has come. / The court of the Nations and into the courtroom will... ”
“ The world on your shoulders / The love of your mother / The fear of the... ”
“ The second great depression / Lasted longer than I figured / It stuck around and... ”
“ Detoxification / Purification / The ravaged corner / Cold and... ”
“ This girl's got nothing and she wears her heart on her... ”
“ Do not listen to a word I say / Just listen to what I can keep silent / The only way to gain... ”
“ When the disappearing begins / The ghosts we kept within / Can break free from... ”
“ For you my dear sister / Holding onto me forever / Disco dancing with the... ”
“ This one's for the freaks / For you're so beautiful / For all the devotion / Written in your... ”
“ I got the Wattsville blues / I got nothing to lose now baby / I got the Wattsville... ”
“ There's something wrong somewhere here / So through unclean streets I made my... ”
“ Na na na na na na na na na / Winter lovers, Winter trees / The beauty of, dead... ”
“ [John Lennon cover] / As soon as your born they make you feel... ”
“ Love love love love love love love love / We are not your sinners / Our voices are for... ”
“ Drinking - water to stay thin / Or is it to purify / I love you all the... ”
“ You're so fragile tonight / Been up hurting all night / It's not trivial like they... ”
“ Your love alone - is not enough not enough not... ”
“ Your ritual everyday / A mild shower soak in aftershave / Best clothes do your... ”