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track listing:

 

universe - play - play

nothing - play - play

blatant superior play -

things you hate - play -

 

oblivion - play - play

everything - play -

in charge - play -

the emptiness of cool - play -

 

 

 

 


8 tracks, started in 2004, back to guitars (mainly) and vocals

completed 2007 - no third party loops or samples

all songs are 3 min excerpts only
 

 

 

universe - play - play

conceit has made me dangerous
the violence in me waits for contradiction
say anything that hurts and i won't take it from you
i'll fight you to avoid facing myself

don't care if i'm locked up in a one man universe
in this one i am number one
so much better than the real one
don't care if i'm locked up in a one man universe
it's comfortable in here
i'm not coming out to face myself

i won't accept any refusal
crush and destroy all opposition
become homicidal at criticism
dismember you if you talk down to me

don't care if i'm locked up in a one man universe
in this one i am number one
so much better than the real one
don't care if i'm locked up in a one man universe
it's comfortable in here
i'm not coming out to face myself 
 

oblivion - play - play

oblivion

the only thing that comforts me
so i can bear your company
i feel it creeping up on me
i leave my doubts behind me

oblivion

the only thing i truly crave
makes me feel so very brave
society stops hurting me
everything escapes my memory

i feel no shame in anything
now i can deal with everything
i'm free to act so foolishly
with no-one near me noticing

oblivion

nothing - play - play

i want you to feel that you can tell me
what's troubling you
as long as you don't say 'i'm depressed'
and don't tell me that you're ill

don't tell me anything if it's painful
i'll have to make it sound mundane
there's nothing that you can feel
that i can't minimise the impact of

i like to feel that you can talk to me
about anything you need
i hope you feel you can confide in me
but not about your abnormality

you were always so happy and normal
well adjusted, popular
and if your words don't fit this picture of you
i'll just tell you how they do

don't tell me anything if it's painful
i'll have to make it sound mundane
there's nothing that you can feel
that i can't minimise the impact of

no you can't think like that
you have to get on with your life
everybody has those feelings
and they put them to one side
no i never think like that
i try to get on with my life
yes it hurts to hear your feelings
so i'll put them to one side 
 

the emptiness of cool - play -

i'll be taken in forever
and make myself your slave
if i never get to realise
the emptiness of cool

i don't know what it is about you
it's not that you have more brains
i don't think that you're funnier than me
it's just your magnificent disdain

i'll be taken in forever
and make myself your slave
if i never get to realise
the emptiness of cool

it's so strange to me how your coldness
makes me want to be like you
makes me want to obey you
be pushed and pulled around by you

i'll be taken in forever
and make myself your slave
if i never get to realise
the emptiness of cool

everything - play -

i'm going to make my mark within this industry
i won't be happy till they're all headhunting me
I'll trample who i have to oh so carelessly
cause i want everything the world still owes to me

i'll make all those around me subject to me
i'll make them all obey, if unwillingly
i'm on an upward path and no-one's stopping me
cause i want everything the world still owes to me

the world owes everything to me
everything - give everything to me
just give it all to me
everything - just give it to me

don't care about my time, just my salary
i'll work till midnight if i get enough money
there's nothing else that really means that much to me
but i want everything the world still owes to me 

the world owes everything to me
everything - give everything to me
just give it all to me
everything - just give it to me
 

in charge - play -

my life is empty and the future's really scaring me
i'm not important, i know that too well
i can't ignore this, or the emptiness just gnaws at me
my self-importance, going to have to make it felt

give me position, i'll show you how i make it count
give me authority, i'll bludgeon you without a doubt
make me a boss, I'll grind my staff into the ground
hide my mistakes, but make sure theirs get talked about

and now my workplace has become my raison d'etre 
my life devoted to the profits of this firm
i'll be assertive on the purity of trade
there's no corruption - let propaganda be my life

give me position, i'll show you how i make it count
give me authority, i'll bludgeon you without a doubt
make me a boss, I'll grind my staff into the ground
hide my mistakes, but make sure theirs get talked about

productivity - motivate staff
increase morale - lower overheads

i'm in charge here
 

blatant superior - play -

her - build me up until my ego's planet sized
him - ignore me half the time then harshly criticise
her - tell me i'm talented, so handsome and so wise
him - embarassed of me, publicly dissatisfied

blatant superior latent inferior
what more fatal combination could there be
blatant superior latent inferior
i behaved so very desperately

her - encourage me to be violently assertive
him - erode my confidence from deep within
her - convince me everything i said was always right
him - make me fear the very thought i could be wrong

blatant superior latent inferior
what more fatal combination could there be
blatant superior latent inferior
i behaved so very desperately

things you hate - play -

the soaps are the foundation of your family life
and you've made your home look so beautiful
retail therapy keeps you sane
and makeup stops you feeling worthless

but it may have escaped your notice
you spend most of your time doing things you hate
and with your family you just get on, but no more
and then you get old and you die
and no-one remembers you

life's so beautiful and it's getting better
wherever we look we find amusement
we never have the time to be bored now
it's such a great time to be alive

but it may have escaped your notice
you spend most of your time doing things you hate
and with your family you just get on, but no more
and then you get old and you die
and no-one remembers you