The Last Rites This whole "album" is a spoken word/rock requiem. Just thoughts on death and many different versions of it.
1. THIS IS HOW I DIE
2. SILENT SCREAMS
3. HERE LIES BROKEN
4. ANOTHER STATISTIC FOR THE CHALK TO LINE
5. BEST SERVED COLD
6. DANSE DE MORTEM
7. OIL
8. A THOUSAND PROFF
9. FROM THE WOMB TO THE TOMB
10. MONSTER'S BALL
11. BROTHERS
12. BROKEN HABIT
13. PARTY FOR THE DEPARTED
1. THIS IS HOW I DIE
A concept on how my demons will eventually catch up and carry me off this mortal coil. The first track, serving as an introductory piece to the entire album. It's a fast, grandiose, celebratory song, like an Irish drinking song. I don't expect tears at my funeral, people!
1: THIS IS HOW I DIE
Verse 1:
Why should I fight to stay alive?
Why fight to play a role?
Why should I try to say the lines
That reinforce control?
And when the smoke and mirrors clear
The bleeding ink runs dry--
This is how I die,
Oh, this is how I die!
Verse 2:
Why should I struggle to survive
Barely tripping on my toes?
To the tune of society's calliope
I don't get this fucking joke...
When existence's shit hits the fan
And all defocation flies,
This is how I die,
Oh, This is how I die!
Chorus 1:
Oh, this is how I die
Oh, this is how I die!
This is how I die,
Oh, this is how I die!
Unceremoniously
Let this be my alibi
So this is how I die,
Oh, this is how I die!
Bridge:
Morbid--As it may seem
I now throw in the towel...
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Sordid--As a wasted scream
Beckoning the midnight hours...
(Oh-oh-oh)
Pointless! As a prayer's dream!
Screaming for a buck
Come and, go away with me,
This boy who's shit outta luck...
Verse 3:
I've never claimed a halo or heroics
I've no cape
I'm not that Superman, a stoic
Symbol of new strength
My drying well,
I'm shot to hell!
Wave as he passes by,
This is how I die,
Oh, this is how I die!
Verse 4:
And if you see me in the clouds
Don't bother thinking of
The good times we had spent together
Ingested drinking drugs
Just let me be
An effigy
Don't attempt to revive
'Cause this is how I die,
Oh, this is how I die!
Chorus 2:
Oh, this is how I die
Oh, this is how I die!
This is how I die,
Oh, this is how I die!
The suffering doesn't last that long
Salvation's come on high
So this is how I die
Oh, this is how I die!
Iniquity
Has dripped from me
Oh, this is how I die!
There's sin in me
Gone incomplete
Oh, this is how I die!
Wish me
An indecent sleep
Oh, this is how I die!
Whoa, this is how I die!
Yeah, this is how I die!
Oh, this is how I die!
2. SILENT SCREAMS
This is a track I know everyone must've felt at least at one point in high school. When the wall s are closing in on you and you think there's no escape from the torment of bullies. Except there is one option. Kill the sons-of-bitches who wronged you. However, the pressure of taking someone's life becomes too much for our anti-hero, and he turns the gun on himself. Features a poetic monologue and more involved vocals, such as screams from classmates, gun popping, etc. The tone of this track is mid-tempo, moreso of an anthem for dejected kids everyhwere. The guitar is important in this track.
2: SILENT SCREAMS
Verse 1:
They say
That kids can be so cruel
Especially at school
Where the social hierarchy
Is pre-established---
Verse 2:
At this age
Where everything's so innocent
But none possess that inner sense
That warns you motherfuckers to stay
Away--
Verse 3:
From that one constantly bullied kid
That geek, that nerd, that pussy kid
The one without a will to live
And so he
Prays
Verse 4:
For brighter days and lesser pain
His wrists he cuts and lacerates
To quiet his soul's hunger painsToday...
(Guitar Solo Into Chorus)< P>
Chorus:
Searching for a better world than this one
Opening the closet,
Finding this gun
Gonna make a change
I'll bet they'll hear me
Drowning in silent screams
They're oh-so-dearly
Departed!
(Guitar solo into Bridge)
Verse 5:
He can cease--
The teasings and the beatings
The constant ego-feeding
In front of friends that
Truly aren't the closest
Of---
Verse 6:
He fills the chamber up with dreams
He cocks the hammer
And he breathes
He aims in effigy
To see
If he--
Verse 7:
Can land that arrow perfectly
Into their black hearts
So they'll see
That all along he screamed
SO LOUDLY!!!!!!
Chorus x2
Bridge:
You are all going to pay
With this clip
I am not alone with shame
In this grip
All I have to do is squeeze
And kiss them
All goodbye and down to hell!!!
(Laughter)
Yeah!
Verse 8:
Remorse
Starts to settle quietly
The strain of taking lives from these
Incested biopedes
seems...so--
Verse 9:
Wait
The tall one takes a look at me
The fat one throws a book at me
And I lose my sanity
And squeeze...
(Gunshots fired, bodies drop, classmates scream)
Chorus x2
Hook:
What have I done?
As I question myself
My temple is felt by the
Fiery chill of the steel
Still
Hot
The barrell sizzles
As my finger brings the trigger away from me
Away from
My sanity
Away from
Existence...
I release...
(One more gunshot is heard, body falls to the ground, as does gun)
3. HERE LIES BROKEN
Ok, time to depress people. This is one of the slower tracks, accompanied by single acoustic guitar and cello. Think "Time Of Your Life" by Green Day, except on a weed trip. The basis of this tack is that I can die from an extreme heartbreak, as in seeing my girlfriend cheat. But justice is served in the end, as the she cheats on me with is abusive tot he point where I warn that he'll soon kill her and we'll be together in death forever. P.S. No chorus.
3: HERE LIES BROKEN
Verse 1:
It just doesn't make sense
How I die from this pain
How I leave her a cheater
With mild disdain
When I caught them cum-handed
I loved her in vain
Now here in this coffin I'm laid.
Verse 2:
Invested my years
Digested in time
Congested by fears
But the sex was sublime
And though I kid myself
The whole time you played
Now here in this coffin I'm laid.
Verse 3:
I hate to relinquish
The power of knowing
That once we extinguished
My blood ceased from flowing
My heart felt no need to continue this game
So here in this coffin I'm laid.
Verse 4:
Don't come to my funeral
Don't come to my wake
If you arrive at my burial
Please spit on my grave
I wish there was some physical ailment to blame
For here in this coffin I'm laid.
Verse 5:
As I ascend to heaven
Or descend to hell
There is no white wedding
All they do is yell
He beats her, then eats her
He bruises her shame
While here in this coffin I'm laid
Verse 6:
So thanks for all the pain you've caused
It must've took some time
Consider yourself exonerated
From all impassioned crimes
Because your life will soon be over
So start numbering your days
And here in this coffin you'll lay
And here in this coffin I'm laid
And here in this coffin you're laid
And here in this coffin we'll lay...
4. ANOTHER STATISTIC FOR THE CHALK TO LINE
This track is an upbeat, rock out track, though the subject is incredibly fucked up. This death involves me being cutdown by a stray bullet in a gang war. It's satirical commentary against black stereotypes and being a statistic.
4: ANOTHER STATISTIC FOR THE CHALK TO LINE
A one, a two,
a one, two, three
GO!
Verse 1:
Another body cut down
Another mother breaks down
Another welfare baby left without a father again
Another senseless victim
Another criticism
Another motherfucker preaching politics to convince
Bridge:
A new excuse--
For the same old
Plain old common truth
Chorus:
We're all statistics of a popular census
We're all just digits being added
To the count
We all are destined to end up in the trenches
We are enslaved to our devices
There's no way out
Verse 2:
So now that things are hopeless
Our hands are where the dope is
We hand them rope to choke the project buildings with
The pigs, they oink in splendor
At how we all will end up
There's never gonna be a chance to ascertain
Bridge:
We call it truth--
It's Aunt Jemima's
Cotton noose
Chorus x1
Breakdown:
And though the flags themselves are colored
We drape them on as masks
To mask ourselves from one another
Another use is flags
To mark the territory
Never had a Forty Acres claimed---
I GUESS ME AND THE MULE'S THE SAME!!
YOU TELL ME!!
(Guitar Solo)
Spoken Word Solo:
To those who made it out
They don't ever return
And if they do
They'll soon learn
No matter how many doctorates you're out to get
They're out to get you
Your dreams are their schemes
And they won't let you follow it
We're all rappers
Basketball players
Inmates
Or prostitutes
At one point or another
Either dealing or the dealt
Becoming used to falling...
DOWN!!!!
Verse 3:
Another tree adorned with
Another picture for this
Young brother who was caught in the wrong place, but right time
Another memorial
Another news story but
The same results, 'cause there will never be a mind
Bridge:
Who's brave--
Enough
To change this
Chrous x4
(To be sung with the Chorus in the background, after the Chorus has been sung twice):
Another statistic
A brother who gives in
A mother with reddened eyes....
Another statistic
A brother who gives in
A mother afraid to cry...
5. BEST SERVED COLD
This track deals with three forms of vengeance: Assassination by the society that I was trying to save, Standing up for a friend against bullies, then being betrayed because I used to bully him, and Meeting my "true love", cheating on her, and getting shot in my sleep. It's a mid-tempo, more soft punk, if you can visualize that.
5: BEST SERVED COLD
Verse 1:
I was once your worst oppressor
Pushing you to get a laugh
It was me trying to impress the friends
I thought I had to have
But when those same friends kicked my ass
You was there to have my back
And we got the shit kicked out of us
And I vowed to pay you back
I was just playing to the part
Of friends being there for each other
When they were attacking what you stood for
I regarded you as a brother
So when they named the time and place
I told you then I'd have your front
But then you turned an about-face
And allowed me to get jumped
They had sticks and they had pipes
You know my fists can't penetrate
They broke bones, they punctured organs
I feel cold and unashamed
Until you saw me in the hospital bed
And stood over my corpse
And whispered in my deafened ear
"That's for being such a jerk"
Bridge:
No matter
How you repent
You'll pay what you owe...
Chorus:
'Cause vengeance is a dish
Best served cold...
Verse 2:
I rose above all of my haters
and became a huge success
I had people that I kept too close
To garner their respect
Riding clouds through oxygenless-skies
Breathing just because
I was rich beyond compare
And yet I wanted to be loved
Wetting hotel sheets
I found the girl I thought I wanted
To share a family
We were cute, holding each other's hands
and frequent lewd displays
Making out in public parks and shit
She went down on me each day
I finally popped her cherry
And I popped the question after
I didn't sign a pre-nup
'Cause she was mine and cash, it didn't matter
And besides the fact I thought
We'd always be with each other
Until one day I slipped on tour
Took a drunk groupie and fucked her
I went home with my conscience full
And explained myself to wifey
She took it quite well, in fact
We went to bed politely
I woke up on an autopsy table
Chest perpendicularly cut
My girl had shot me in my sleep
That's why my head was aching
Bridge:
There's nothing
Worse than
A woman whose heart's been stole...
Chorus x2
Bridge:
You try your best to pave a way
But there's always a roadblock
Whether bullshit from back in the day
Or someone on your cock
There's no escaping fate, my friend
It's coming for your ass
They always get you in the end
And they're approaching fast...
Verse 3:
When they exhumed me from the womb
I was bugged with a device
I always labeled it my conscience
When I thought, it made me think twice
Then I got too old to play their games
And it's then I realized
That I was monitored by the government
Ever since I first learned to cry
I broke away from their makeshift matrix
Became my own best friend
I spread the word to others
Now on the outside looking in
I was considered deadly
So my name they sent for me
For spewing propaganda
To a public scrutiny
They threw bullets, they sent poisoned drinks
But I built immunity
I had almost felt immortal
Because there is no fooling me
Unafraid to give a public sppech
To tear down this capitalist state
I spoke with such indifference
That it made the leaders shake
The devised a whole new set of schemes
But each one I'd defy
It got so much that to the point
I thought I couldn't die
I had armies ready to kill for me
And comrades willing, too
I had public aspirations in my hands
Concealing tools
I was building up a following
Becoming a sovereign man
I had dreams of leading state to peace
And the people were the plan
But some false insecurity
Had led me to the stage
The piercing screams of change had led me
To turn history's page
But a single bullet from the crowd
Penetrated my heart
And I fell slowly to the floor
And saw the people part
Before my eyes had closed that final time
I saw the gunman rise
His name was "Democracy"
And he had kissed my head goodbye
Bridge:
You cannot
Fight a country
With total control...
Chorus into fadeout
6. DANSE DE MORTEM
When I first thought of this track, I thought about all the females that I did wrong back in the day and embodied her into one vengeful she-devil, bent on my destruction. The original title was going to be "Love And A Bullet", but I think the current title is self-explanatory. It's French and Latin (Dance Of Death). The tempo is like a waltz/rock hybrid, with a viola added to the band. Anyone have Miri Ben-Ari's number? Plus, a scornful woman's voice does the poetic in-betweens. Never pick up a woman from the club and expect to use her for the night.
6: DANSE DE MORTEM
(Lead-In (Woman's Voice))
Ah, yes! Welcome to the waltz!
You couldn't escape her for too long, could you?
Close your eyes,
You son of a bitch...
(Laughs)
Verse 1:
You're gonna drink this poison
You're gonna dance this dance
You're gonna tell your boys about
The overnight romance
You tell them how you used her
You tell them you indulged
You tell them how you never
Ever
Wanted her at all
Bridge:
(Just her body)
The sweet intoxication
(And now your body)
Subject to implications!
Chorus:
Welcome to the waltz,
Yeah!
Welcome to the dance!
Welcome to the punishment
For opening your pants
You're one selfish fuck
Whose ran clear up out of luck
So welcome to the
Waltz...
Lead-In:
Wait, wait, wait!
Don't tell me you're tired yet!
We've just begun.
You've got plenty of hours left
Before you're out of your
Misery...
Verse 2:
She's gonna cut your balls off
And shove them down your throat
She's gonna slice you up and down
Until your sins have choked
Her tears are bittersweet,
Indeed
She rubs them on your skin
She's gonna lick your darkened heart
And tease it with a kiss
Bridge:
(Sweet punani)
A night of fornication
(But you'll be sorry)
When they read your invocation!
Chorus x2
Lead-In:
Oh, but your sorrows are oh, so sweet in my ear
Swore how I was such an easy
Sleazy bitch
But my, my, my, how the tables have turned,
Motherfucker!
Licking your tongue all over me
Claiming I was yours
All yours
And when the sun came
How parting was such sweet sorrow
But we can keep dancing, my sweet!
I have made it so that we can always dance
Forever!
Even when our feet are tired
And our lungs give out
We'll dance!
Dance!
Dance!
(Laughs)
Verse 3:
You're gonna drink this poison
You're gonna drink it slow
You're gonna think she's easy
And you're gonna take her home
You're gonna wake up on the floor
Back in that disco room
You're gonna look her in her eyes
And kiss the lips of doom!
Bridge:
(Disembodied)
Another liquid patient
(This is how we)
Pay for past relations!
Chorus x2
Lead-In:
Notice how the clock has broken
And your feet are worn to nubs
You mistook me for a easy whore
To rescue from the club
Resuscitate me with your dick
And freak me with your lies
But payment for your iniquity
The emptiness in your eyes...
The emptiness in your eyes...
The emptiness...
In your...
Eyes...
(Laughs till fade-out)
7. OIL
The concept of this track is basically a mockery of the U.S.' inatiable appetite for oil , and its willingness to sacrifice its own people for it. They mask it under the "Patriotism" and say that it's your civil duty to die overseas for the crap. The beat is simplistic, almost Vaudevillian, leading into a large rock breakdown, keeping the nursery rhyme-esque tempo.
7: OIL
(Lead-in begins with clips from Bush's State of The Union Address, leading in to piano chords)
Verse 1
Oh, they welcome you with open lacerations
Recruit you when they need a deed complete
Yet, regrettably, the enemy ain't human
But still they feel the need to pack some heat
Chorus 1:
For the oil,
Oil,
Bubble, black and boils,
The task will never end
No matter how hard you may toil
For the oil,
Oil,
OIL...
Oh, you're just another pawn in search of oil
Verse 2:
They'll be feeding off your dreams and aspirations
Sell you wolf tickets so you will join the herd
They'll tie you to commercials by your
ve-ry soul
(Slow tempo) Then you'll die another martyr
When you had signed up for "Reserve"...
Chorus 2:
Oh, for the oil (Oil)
Oil (Oil)
All the boys and goils
Dropping like the flies they are
In defocated soil
For the oil (Oil)
Oil (Oil)
OIL...
Oh, you're just another pawn in search of oil
Bridge:
Well, they have got the answer
For the cancer that is us
Arm me with an army
Full of men whose future's dust
But we have got a question
That'll never be regarded
Why teens with dreams and M-16s
(Slow tempo) Are always easy targets?
Verse 3:
Well, they say that we must be a peaceful nation
Overly concerned with security
But the strongest WMAs are in our hands
We hang ourselves, tethered by her disease
Chorus:
For...
The...
Oil (Oil)
Oil (Oil)
My head is blown for oil (O-il)
My chest is full of lead
Instead of blood,
I'm fueled by oil (O-il)
Oil (Oil)
Oil (Oil)
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OIL (O-il)...
Well...
You're...
Just another pawn in search of oil
8. A THOUSAND PROOF
"A Thousand Proof" addresses my love affair for alcohol and the fatal effects it may have on me one day. The music is sort of fast, and the lyrics match that adrenaline rush.
8: A THOUSAND PROOF
Verse 1:
Well, my brain's comatose
Yeah, I may overdose
Can I stay overnight
I'm afraid of my pose
Can I crash at your house
Pass out on your couch
Please don't call my folks
I'ma wait this one out
They don't need to worry
I'm in no hurry
Things are all blurry
The world is a flurry again
It's not that I'm gone
I'm just wasting my thoughts
I'm replacing my mind
Say goodbye to my faults
My walls have all crumbled
My words are all jumbled
I speak in a mumble
I hungered and lusted for them
Seeking the light
These chills have set in
If I'm leaving tonight
Tell my brother that I couldn't win...
Bridge:
This game...
This game...
Chorus:
Drown-ing
In a thousand proof
Is
How I leave from here
And it sounds good--
To be inebriated...
Frown-ing
On my thousand sins
It's
Now so crystal clear
Anytime would--
Be appreciated...
Verse 2:
Now my clothes are all wasted
And my mind has freebased in
its own little basement
I think I OD'd once again
There is little patience
For those who play favorites
With liquid detainment
I may need a deacon for this
Hold on,
I may reach my next summit
I die in this vomit
To go like a rock star,
So long...
How I held on too tightly
Now I ask politelty
Remove these wires
From me...
Bridge:
Because
I can't-------
bleed....
Chorus x2
(Instrumental Solo)
Chorus Until Fade-Out
9. FROM THE WOMB TO THE TOMB
Statistically, a lot more kids are having unprotected sex, which means a lot more are getting abortions. This song deals with that "What if?", like how the mind wanders to ask, "What if I was aborted?"
The beat to this track is a particularly somber rock ballad, almost like a break-up song.
9: FROM THE WOMB TO THE TOMB
Verse 1:
My first sip---
Of oxygen
Was cut short today----
This noose consticts my neck now
I wanna get out
But I can't---
Verse 2:
All that I
Remember is dripping
Soakened wet
From being shipped in
When they tear the flesh out
You'd better get out
Before you can't---
Chorus:
I didn't know
That I was a huge mistake
If she loved me
Why'd she make me
Go away?
Verse 3:
The doctor's fees
Were too expensive
The thought of need
For contraceptives
Was underminded by the life of sex she lived---
Verse 4:
I wouldn't grow to be her seed,
Just another semen incomplete
So baby, when you gonna
Are you gonna
Get rid of it?
Chorus:
Let me go
As I part from your disdain
If you love me
You won't let me
Go away
Oh, oh
Oh, oh!!!
(Guitar solo)
Chorus: (Whispers)
Out I go
In this dumpster shall I lay
If you loved me
You would make me
Go
A-
(sings) WA-A-A-Y
We-e-e-ll,
You must,
Flush this child
And make your great escape...
10. MONSTER'S BALL
This is a fucked-up situation here. Even one night of sex can change your life forever, whether negatively or positively. In this track, the "dancers" at this "Ball" are in for a rude awakening after they "dance all night". They are greeted unexpectedly by demons dragging their now-defunct bodies to Hell. Another victim of the "Monster's Ball'. (HIV). The beat is like a carousel, increasing in guitar tension. Think of a punk circus adveritsement.
10: MONSTER'S BALL
Verse 1:
Step right up
To this macabre occasion
Where bodies will move
In a half-note rotation
And virgins will no longer
Claim their innocence
While the Monster's Ball
Is a-turning
Verse 2:
Come one, come all
There's more space on this dance floor
The one stipulation
You must take your pants off
And watch as your anatomies coincide
As the Monster's Ball
Never adjourning
Verse 3:
By now,
You must be intrigued with delight
As you move toward the heavens
Careening in lights
Tumultuous passion
Shall come at a price
For the Monster's Ball
Isn't worthless
Verse 4:
The nympho erotica
Becomes too dense
You seem to enjoy it
But feel rather drenched
Examine your clothes
And find blood has invaded
The Monster's Ball
Still keeps on turning
Verse 5:
Your partner is calling for you to return
But your blood-soaked t-shirt
Has you starting to learn
You've expunged your soul
For a night of temptation
The Monster's Ball
Now disconcerting
Verse 6:
Your skin becomes pale
As your body is melting
The dancers, once graceful,
Have demons enveloping
And even your partner
Is human no more
For the Monster's Ball's
Starting its burning
Verse 7:
You cry out for help
And receive no reply
Just screams of the dancers
Who want to know why
How this penetrating of each other's selves
Can keep the Monster's Ball
Encouraging
Verse 8:
Skeletons accost you
And usher you down
The long stairs of brimstone
Right into the ground
How one night of passion
Can eternally damn you
Is what keeps the Monster's Ball
Turning...
(Instrumental Breakdown)
Chorus:
Now come one, come all!
And enter these hallowed walls
So come while you can
For the last, final dance
Will toss you out into the dogs---
Come one, come all!!
With salacious greed, we fall
Death must be traveled
We'll not let you last
As you join in on the Monster's Ball
(Laughs)
11. BROTHERS
This track is basically for my best friend, visualizing how I'd want it to be if I made the ultimate sacrifice for him and gave up my life in a car accident so that he could survive. The beat is somber and slow, but there's raw emotion in it.
11: BROTHERS
Verse 1:
Let me go--
They're delivering my eulogy
And the lies they say are amusing me...
Don't regret--
You didn't hear that Honda blaring loud
Barrelling down the road that night
Death's a battle
That one can't fight...
Is to let me, let me go
I don't regret my actions
'Cause if I did
I'd be standing here...
Instead of you
So let this be my final gift I give
Me and my empty pockets
Your eyes running like a faucet
I'd rather have lost it this way...
Remember when--
We were youngsters
Running up the block
We skinned our knees
And picked the locks
Ripped them off the parked bikes
Who knew that the adult life sucked?
And now I'm letting go--
Hanging by the thinnest thread
Discharged from the clinic's bed
This is how I exit left...
Don't resuscitate--
Don't attempt to bring me back to life
Or fuck up this last sacrifice
What happened that night's
Meant to be...
And I don't blame you--
But I hope you know...
Bridge:
The biggest kick--
What I will miss
This chance to say goodbye to you...
Chorus:
'Cause no one ever knew me
Like you do...
So let go...
Let go...
Let go...
Let go...
12. BROKEN HABIT
You gotta love this one. If you don't, something's wrong with you, man! Celebrate my life, don't mourn my death, because I honestly don't regret anything that I've done in it. Notice a little name-dropping in the first few lines...(A collabo, maybe?) Anyway, this track is an intro for the final song and has an merry flow with a guitar breakdown.
12: BROKEN HABIT
Verse 1:
My suicide note
Should induce a few laughs
I'm chemically romanced
To leave in a bag
So abandon all thoughts
Of my strength being true
I'm parodied by life
And the curves that it threw
If you look at my life
And tear up from the scenes
Then you've missed all the points
That I've tried to teach
My broken track record
Requires a flip
My heart was the B-Side
To the words from my lips
Process my procession
Let it rest in your mind
I haunt your regrets
But I'll leave them in time
How they eulogized me
When I finally kicked
All the while scrutinized me
When I was in skin
Your attendance is mockery
Your tears undesired
(Screams) But nobody misses you
Till you've expired!
(Guitar solo)
Verse 2:
Can you vision me frozen
My bones in a mash
The autopsy knife
Yeah, I took it with swag
So they cut my heart open
And kiss me goodnight
But don't call me "Sweet prince",
I'm a peasant tonight
A glimpse of reality
This tragedy permits
I tore up the contract
And spit out "I quit"
I'm nt all the hardship
You'd like me to be
We all cover our sins
And rock them to sleep
I welcome contrition
My decision was mine
My will and my testament--
"No one shall cry"
My trek was my own
And my path was my choice
(Screams) I lived by my pen
And died by my voice!
Chorus:
They say
"No!
T.J., don't go!"
They say
"Oh!
We didn't know!"
She says
"No!
Baby, don't go!"
I say
"Woe
Ain't part of this show..."
(Spoken) So join the front row...
13. PARTY FOR THE DEPARTED
Alas, the final track! The piece de resistance of this entire concept album. The setting: a rave. The occurrence: my death, among the partygoers, who don't realize me till I'm dead and gone, which is the ironic thing about death. As I die, the party ushers me into death, and I accept it for what it is. A huge rock ballad. That's all I can describe it as. Definitely "Black Parade" influenced. Completion! Just like death.
13: PARTY FOR THE DEPARTED
Verse 1:
They dance in my contusions
Confusing sex for love
I'm used to being used by everyone
But now it is my turn to turn
The deeds these dicks have done
And when I go,
I know they'll have fun
Chorus 1:
Repent for all
The high will fall
The doctors
Couldn't hope to save me
They take me off of
Life support
I've lost my thoughts
And God was
Right in having made me
The negative escape dream
Verse 2:
And Hades' flames will lick me
As Heaven tries to pull
The wool over my eyes we'll knit for luck
So drink it down
And bring the crown
The thorns will pierce my skin
And when I leave this bar
I'll tip a buck
Chorus 2:
So carry on
With care, we fall
Prepared to
Brawl with all the saviors
Don't try to wake him
Oxygen
Is lost again
A waste of skin and bones
Alone again
My position
Repose in
Bridge 1:
Corroding here
Was a nuisance to me
(You know that)
Eroding here
Feels too good to bereave
(So poke at)
My eternal greed
Because I feel the need to...
Bridge 2:
Bleed on
So blow the weed on
Tip your drinks
Find shit to pee on
Just press your way
And change your critic's minds
"Cause yesterday
Another victim tries
Sitting here
Waiting to live, but
It's killing me
So please forgive us
For exchanging gifts
The Magi gipped us
(Screams) I...
GIVE...
UP!!
Chorus 3:
So now I'm gone
My final song
My mouth's on--
Repeat for the beat freaks
MY CD's gonna
Turn them on
While burning on
So learn from
All my past transgressions
The lesson is--
Don't give
a
fuck...
(Repeat Bridge 2 with "Don't give a fuck!" 4x)
FIN
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