Sucker Punched (alt LP)
1. Let It All Out (alt)
2. Only One (alt)
3. Blood Like Too
4. Everyone Needs New Orleans
5. The Dirtiest Piano
6. Borrowed Legs (alt)
7. Broken House
8. Fake Angels (alt)
9. Your World
10. Panicked Witness (alt)
12. Dying Days (original demo)
13. The Next Life
1. Let It All Out (alt)
Got sick of the marching band and lost my head
I am the straw that broke the camel’s back, sometimes…
You gotta let it all out
You gotta let it all out
You gotta let it all out
Sometimes you know you gotta let it all out, you know
Sometimes you know you gotta let it all out, yeah
I see you talking but I don’t hear words
I’m just a gerbil in the wheel,
could you plug the hole that’s in your pretty face?
I’m feeling scared that I might blow, sometimes…
You gotta let it all out
You gotta let it all out
You gotta let it all out
Sometimes you know you gotta let it all out, you say
Sometimes you know you gotta let it all out, you say
Sometimes you know you gotta let it all out, you know
Sometimes you know you gotta let it all out
2. Only One (alt)
The sun revolves around you?
I don’t know what you think you’re on
but if it would please you
I could say that you are the cats meow
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a stolen cape around you
I don’t know who you think you’ll save dear
But if it would please you
I could say that I am drowning here
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You’re the only one who cares about you
You’re the only one…
You’re the only one who cares about you
You’re the only one…
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when all of these words are stuck in your head
you won’t be the only…. One
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Dance, dance, dance, dance…
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You’re the only one who cares about you
You’re the only one…
You’re the only one who cares about you
You’re the only one…
3. Blood Like Too
I don’t know what I just said
was it nasty? Why am I like that?
I could show you a-a good time
then you’ll know that we are blood like
I’ve really caught my leg in a trap this time your majesty, can’t you see
I’m a sentimental, partly mental, gone bad friend
oooh I’ve got a little problem with my own head but it feels right, it feels like
I’m a belly full of dirt, I’m a milk that turned to curds and it feels right
Now stare at the ocean while your friends all drown
we all need to learn to swim anyway
oh my darling, hold your head up, don’t you listen
you’re my baby girl
hold on, one eye eying my old life, my old home.
Stare at the ocean while your friends all drown
Now we’re blood like
4. Everyone Needs New Orleans
Got sick and we cut our lips on universal truth
Got tired of asking you to help me tie my noose
I’m a bad dream, I’m a wet dream
She’s a chip off the block, He’s a bucket of bones
We’re the semen that comes out way too fast
Just a hanging around, just a wait’n to die
We’re all suckers in the same damn sucker punch show…
Everyone needs a halo
Got sick of the angel on our shoulder catching fame
Got tired of the conscience on my back who takes the blame
I’m a bad dream, I’m a wet dream
She’s a chip off the block, He’s a bucket of bones
We’re the semen that comes out way too fast
Just a hanging around, just a wait’n to die
We’re all suckers in the same damn sucker punch show…
Everyone needs a halo
5. The Dirtiest Piano
Do what you want, say what you’ll say
God is in a woman’s shape
She will steal your body, electrocute your friends
this is just somebody’s fault, right?!
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OH NOW open your head, let out all the sex, come clean
OH HOW you’re up in my head! She’s the dirtiest queen
———
I went to see a psychic, to specialize the floor
I wish that she had told me more
“if it’s filthier then ride it, purified then bag it
this is what your money’s for, right?!”
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OH NOW open your head, let out all the sex, come clean
OH HOW you’re up in my head, She’s the dirtiest queen
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who’s got the world? Got the fine print blood on their hands?
who’s got their face in the cookie jar begging for change
who’ll hold the rope, lock the door, kick the chair, while I stand
6. Borrowed Legs (alt.)
Oh I’d thought you’d learned your lesson Caroline
now you’re slipping on this black ice
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running round the world you know you’re
running round the world on borrowed legs
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Breathing through your mouth is like a parasite
slip inside like mice in the wall
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running round the world you know you’re
running round the world on borrowed legs
(don’t you love this goddamn slick trip you’re on)
(don’t you love this, you’re having so much fun)
(don’t you know me? I’m just a preacher’s son)
(don’t you love these borrowed legs)
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All the yellow tears are speaking Caroline
they all want your body on ice
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running round the world you know you’re
running round the world on borrowed legs
(don’t you love this goddamn slick trip you’re on)
(don’t you love this, you’re having so much fun)
(don’t you know me? I’m just a preacher’s son)
(don’t you love these borrowed legs)
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stoned, awake, alone, a letter in your lap, you’ve got your Father’s eyes
a wake in black, a tear in your glass, you miss your Mother’s words
take a breath, a borrowed halo will always drag you down
…will drag you down…
don’t you love this trip you’re on
everything will soon be done
7. Broken House
this all started with a low down kick in the head
beg for money while the gang is kickin it with a party
next you’ll tell me I’m the butt of the joke
this all started with a low down kick in the head, I think I
lost my stomach when the ink on the paper said choose your family
next you’ll tell me I’m the butt of the joke
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*while I’m sleeping there’s a snake at the door
his eyes wide open and he’s looking to score
she’s a slut, I noticed
—–
a blade and a bucket of ice, I think I
lost religion when I stopped believing in bedtime stories
next you’ll tell me I’m the butt of the joke
—–
*while I’m sleeping there’s a snake at the door
his eyes wide open and he’s looking to score
she’s a slut, I noticed (we’re a broken home)
—–
get your head out the clouds, I’d rather be a nothing at all
g-g-g get your head out the clouds you’re gonna be a nothing at all
and that’s alright with me
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*while I’m sleeping there’s a snake at the door
his eyes wide open and he’s looking to score
she’s a slut, I noticed (we’re a broken home)
8. Fake Angels (alt.)
I’m locked inside my room
hell, I’d love to go anywhere but here
I traveled round this world, I never met a star,
I never found a soul to know
—-
and Oh all these fake angels scratching walls in the bedroom down the hall
and Oh all these dead spiders in the basement with their legs all coming off I need
—-
Put me in a box, fold me like a shirt
this is who you are, it hurts
but you got inside my head (girl),
this is not my dream (girl),
these are not my meds, I scream..
—-
and Oh all these fake angels scratching walls, oh my God, they’re in the hall
and Oh it is hard to see the exits with your back against the door
—-
Oh, you’re cage called my body
and Oh, what a cruel joke to end
AND OH, THIS IS THE END
—-
and Oh all these fake angels scratching walls in the bedroom down the hall
and Oh all the young sparkle leaves our eyes on a plane to paradise
Such a sucker…
9. Your World
Come on and touch me on my palm reading hand
what is in my future
there’s something in this crystal ball that makes me wonder
what is in your plan
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You got me on the head of a pin, all black and blue
licking up my sutures
there’s something in that finishing blow that made me wonder
what is in your hand
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yeah, something in my world is dying, and I wish that it was you
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I got a cloud to cover my head when there’s no rain
a snake to bite my wounds
there’s something in the venom I feel that makes me wonder
who flood the moon
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yeah, something in my world is dying, and I wish that it was you
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A walk in the park, I’m shot in the head
if you are the devil then where is my bed now
I gotta wake up before it all ends out wrong
I’m afraid of the dark, a punch in the head
if you are a sponge then I am the sea yeah
gotta wake up before it all ends out wrong
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yeah, something in my world is dying, and I wish that it was you
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10. Panicked Witness (alt.)
There’s a place where all the eyes roll back
and the thistle grows
Where the rain stops when you want it to
and the whales don’t die
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It’s a place where all the wolves will sleep
and the crow saves lives
there are no graveyards, all the waters warm
and the cripples fly
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choose your words carefully,
they might be your last
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Then a boy came with the blackest thumb
and he just cried wolf
a panicked witness with his eyes so wide
might just wreck it all
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choose your words carefully,
they might be your last
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Let me out, push me down the blackest river
and I won’t complain at all
11. Dying Days (demo)
Even my mouth says, let the body grow
turn off the light and disappear
my yellow fingers put out a cigarette
turn on the light and reappear
with my head down, keep that head down
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*these are my dying days
no love, no funeral parade
