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Who Wants to Play Bass?

Thanks to Eric "Educated Idiot" Hinkle,
Sifarone, Rob I., Chris Sabo, ry,
bryan, randy, sunny, Jadiou, and Adam
for helping me with these lyrics.

I am going to leave this page as is, without the individual blanks.  The individual blanks take a long time to put in, and I think it's just as easy to have the lines numbered and the blanks in red.

 

---mexican song

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well alright, you win
i ain't feeling that sad anymore
so lend me your tears for a while
cause my eyes seem fine
so i thought i'd heard enough
but inside my heart i'm alone, again
lend me your fear for a while
cause i ain't that scared
i ain't that cold
best i remember, is how i've always been alone
you've known that for a while
you'll reach the horror
you'll find someone who really cares
there there, there there

it erases hanging on
and it erases all your foolish pride
no i ain't hung up on heartache now
cause i ain't that scared
i ain't that cold
the best i remember, is how i've always been alone
but you've known that for a while
you'll reach the horror
you'll find someone who really cares
there there, there there, there there

 

---soccer song

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you arrived in the rain
then you left exactly like you came
although, I stay
even i don't feel like i belong
all the names
all the pain
?you've got? never seem the same
all the names
all the pain
we're the same, i never came

i'll stay
cause i'll pray
felt like i was leavin' when you came
change of faith and ??????
i won't lie for anything
all the names
all the fame
we're the same, i never came
don't belong, not to anyone yet
just sing along
but it ain't your song
you ?the hooks are in you? don't make a sound now

i'll stay in the car
all alone where the other humans are
feel safe beneath the bar
to when it comes, 'til it's all done
all the names
all the pain
we're the same, i never came
don't belong, not to anyone yet
just sing along
but it ain't your song
?the hooks are in you? don't make a sound now

 

---saving anger

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what do you know about saving anger
where do you place it, to keep the hatred in
slow release, slow return then you begin
well i've moved ?here to healin'?
and you know you were innocent
innocent of sin
?and/did? you know you were fine
can you see your hands are bloodless
bloodless killing me
'til the end you were fine
so what do you know about the ageless of it all
do you relate to what you saw
you'll agree when i fake it for a friend
well i've moved ?here to healin'?
and you know you were innocent
innocent of sin
?and/did? you know you were fine
can you see your hands are bloodless
bloodless killing you
can't you see that you are fine
fine broke the noose
fine you're too easily amused
fine enough that i hate myself
speaking the truth

fine broke the noose
fine you're too easily amused
fine i hate myself
speaking the truth

 

---break your frame

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safe to be lonesome in your time
(what's) safe to lose you'll find
you're too sick to call or cry
'cause you're hating traces
it's the kind of hate that evil just embraces
and i'm giving up on people right now
giving up on anger, cause you're giving up on you
it's true
you know you'll lose
really doesn't matter who you choose
break your frame, break your frame
there's no one else to blame
break your frame, break your frame
there's no one left to blame
you're hating traces
it's the kind of hate that evil just embraces

i might break your heart
time you fall apart
i'll be sad when i heard the news
heard you fell apart
break your frame, break your frame
there's no one else to blame
break your frame, break your frame
there's no one left to blame
cause you're hating all the traces
it's the kind of hate that evil just embraces
you know it's true
you know you'll lose
and it really doesn't matter who you choose

 

---meldrum attic

Written by Paul.

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what do you think i should do with this corpse
at night it sits and stares at me, and neither show remorse
make a secret silent enough, they can hardly wait to find you
all the ones you left behind, they never go away
well i can't sleep
too much aggression, adrenaline runs through my veins
we won't stop smashing lawn furniture bikes
now a tv, nowhere it comes from is coming ?from? me
the sum of our parts take control of what we can't be
on fire we are mad with desire to smash and destroy
endless, endless it seems
it seems we'll always be friends, be friends
it all depends, on who you turn to when it ends

what would you do, if i told you i am not myself
empty space inside that street, created something else
the corpse i keep him handcuffed till the shadow stares at me alone
every time i let him out, i don't know if i can bring him home
now i sleep
it's all repression, the THC flows through my veins
self-control, at what price can you sacrifice
part of your soul
i know where i come from, i know where i've been
it's time for me to own up to all of my sins
making monsters to fight your demons
what if you create won't leave us
carry that weight around till you bury that corpse, of course
blame it on the course
don't ever ever let them set the course
don't ever ever let them set the course again

 

---losin' letters

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falling off of restless mountains
seems so easy at least so hard to hold
losin' letters, more reminders
more reminders that you're getting too old

i've been writing, words so frightening
i've been laying on my back so i can read
hating, faking
i've been laying on my back so i can read
this hell i am, this pain i need
all in this hell i am, this pain i need

so if you'd seen it now and
know you'd never know me well
how i'd never understand it
this hell i am, this pain i need, this simple joy
all in this hell i am, this pain i need

 

---confession/jeffson

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won't have to drink to confess
just makes it easier i guess
i've been so lonely
since you got to know me
never get over it now
lying to you all the while
lying to you when i smile
?enduring? kept waitng
so me, i've been hating
losing you all of the while
all of my friends have gone south
i'm getting over it now
talking with them doesn't count
well there's better ways to fall down

won't have to drink to get by
well maybe i'll make good in time
?enduring? kept waiting
so me i've been hating
losing you all of the while

deciding how to act
hey i'm burning all these things in my past
deciding how to act
hey i'm burning all these things in my past

--

never was a savior
know there's hard ones to take
hope that i'm forgiven
still living for what's in store
on the cross, or at the door
i just don't know what i'm hanging for
when i was young, my eyes went south
failing now, blind to it all

all that i know is you're winding out
treading on the coattails you're needing
no i ain't falling for your scene
it's too easy until you want to leave it
on the cross, or at the door
i just don't know what i'm hanging for
when i was young, my eyes went south
failing now, so blind to it all
it really doesn't matter
i know what i believe
when i'm upon hard times, but i'm always in the need
close interpretation, a brilliant way to bleed
right now what am i saying, hope you don't know what i mean

 

---re-routed

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never ?lost/loved? someone i've trusted
people are lying every day
people lying or just leaving
safer distance away
on and on and on i've been re-routed
angry for so long i'm losing faith again
giving in to friends they make me crowded
angry when they always go away
so you won't have to tell me now i guess
not with everybody here
i feel safer when i'm lonelier than this
safer still and i pray
so you won't have to tell me now i guess
not with everybody here
i feel safer when i'm lonelier than this
safer still and i pray

people lying or just leaving
leaving, it's the only time to pray
leaving crying or just leaving you and me
safer distance away
on and on and on i've been re-routed
angry for so long i'm losing faith again
giving into friends they make me crowded
angry when they always go away again
so you won't have to tell me now i guess
not with everybody here
i been safer when i'm lonelier than this
safer still and i pray
cause anyone you've ever cared for
stay for hours while you lose
cause anyone you've barely known a while
stay for hours while you lose

 

---sustated

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are you hated, are you just thinkin'
do you even talk at all
i've been wastin', maybe ?hatin'?
maybe forcing the fall
you've been waiting
were you even shocked to find
just what the hell i am
you don't even recognize me
i'm elated
I'll lay ears upon you all and again
lying there on my own
too fast to leave too young to die
I'll lay ears upon you all
i reckon that's all*

so are you caving in
or are you rushing in
i ain't standing still
i ain't been rushing it still
i'll listen to the eyes
sing about the end
just one backtide away from it
just one backslide i know
sing about the end
'cause hell, that's all there is
just one backslide away from it
hell, that's all there is, that's all i'll find

are you placing them
where they once begin
i ain't standing still
i ain't rushing in my friends
are you satisfied
with the evil of the kind
i ain't standing still
i ain't been rushing it still
listen to the eyes
sing about the end
it's just one backtide away from it
one backslide i know
sing about the end
'cause hell, that's all there is
just one backslide away from it
hell, that's all there is, that's all i'll find

*This is definitely an issue of discrepancy between the two versions of this song that appear on the album.  To me, it really sounds like "rockin' that song" on the acoustic version, and it doesn't sound like that on the "real" version.  Whatever.

 

---heart, i never

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alright i ain't stung
but i'm impressed on (the) progress that we had
still i seize the truth
on what's been said
in the end
that's alright
we'll be fine
there ain't no loss in losin' what you got
won't be left
believing
never lose the things you'd never want
the only part i've felt or ever thought
is the end

dangling is your curse
the only time we met i found you gone
it's the pride of the losin'
the blind cries are frightening
all you need ever know you left it first
in the beginning
as evil as you are, you've been alive one
cause even as you are, you're left undone
faithless until the end, see you around some
greatest faith you have is in someone
it's the only sign I fear I've never hung

faded love steps in
pretending like it's all it's ever been
sometimes it hurts you
often times it frightened you
all you need ever know you left it first
in the beginning as you are, you've been alive one
cause even as you are you're left undone
faithless 'til the end, see you around some
the greatest faith you have is in someone
the only part I felt, or ever thought dear
the only thing that i admit to fear
greatest faith you have is everlasting
greatest faith you have is in someone
'cause even as you are, you're left undone
but the greatest faith you'll have is in someone

 

---never coming home

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lost the rage, lost the heartachin'
hope i lost the selfish need
release my pain, and i rely on ones who care
afraid you're out, can't leave you in
cause you're acting just like them
you ain't seeing how you are
never cared before 'til now
i gotta carry you around
it ain't bad here as it sounds
and you ain't evil you're rehearsed
i never cared before 'til now
i gotta carry you around

i don't care if i won't sleep tonight
i've had faith, told you all
skeptical, it's true
they're exceptions to the rule
i've been told, rock the boat
here it is my friends

it ain't my place to say i know
but they ain't ever coming home
they're acting like the ones they scorned
and they ain't seeing how they are
you ain't as bad here as you sound
and you ain't evil you're rehearsed
i never cared before 'til now
i gotta carry you around
i'll ??arrange 'em by the/their sin??
but i got time...
i don't care if i won't sleep tonight
i've had faith, told you all
skeptical, it's true
they're exceptions to the rules
i've been told, rock the boat
so here it is my friends
never coming home
it ain't my place to say i know
but they ain't ever coming home

 

---monsters


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"shit"
whose arms are these
and who am i belonging to
should I (have) told you all these feelings that i've said
couldn't help but break the news

everyone falls, everyone falls apart
faithless seeing monsters, you and i
everyone falls apart
skeletons have filled your closet
in this invaded host
i might live through the windshield for a while
everyone falls
so why shouldn't i
everyone falls for monsters in time
in time, in time

i don't have the strength to talk to you
i don't have the strength to speak at all
and i'm dying here, hanging on this one last line

i should have told you all these feelings that i had
couldn't bear but break the news

 

---who want to play bass?

30:02 worth of acoustic demos of Mexican Song, Soccer Song, Break Your Frame, Meldrum Attic, Re-Routed, Sustated, Heart I Never, and Never Coming Home.  Hey Jon-- New rule:  You must include a track like this at the end of every Armchair Martian album from now on.  This track was a great idea.

 


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