Question 1

Chris Donley-PLEASE AGREE (2021)

Accepted Answer

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1.  I promise
​
Singing for my supper
the canary got the diamond instead
bringing me down now with the upper
you always knew how to get in my head
 
*smiles are just the muscle not the bone
 
are you the mid-wife?
or rent-to-own wet nurse
are you swift with your heads or tailor
making everyone a sow-ear purse
​
I would kill myself if I had to die here
 
are you a make-believer?
have you heard yourself talk way too much?
now you’re a paid deceiver
who couldn’t be more so out of touch
 
*smiles are just the muscle not the bone
the cavity is better left alone
 
$
I would kill myself if I had to die here
 
I promise this isn’t a cry for help
I promise I couldn’t even help myself
 
2.  All night forever
 
There are two types of people left here in this world
you and everybody else confirmed
 
but you can brave the weather
and you can make it better
 
it can’t just be your circumstance
 
it’s all night forever
all night forever
 
*Bad dreams again
when will this nightmare ever end?
 
There are two choices out there  doesn’t that seem absurd?
Right and left belong to the exact same bird
 
but they’re birds of a feather
and they just work together
 
and we will kill ourselves, ourself
 
it’s all night forever
all night forever
 
*Bad dreams again
when will this nightmare ever end?
 
it’s all night forever
all night forever
all night forever
all night forever
 
3.  Hero in you
 
If I said that I missed you
would I be able to misuse
all the intended miscues
that I planned that along?
 
If I said that I missed you
and that I missed out on bliss too
could I then dismiss you
so we could reminisce soon?
 
*Feel me in your arms
I’m the hero in you
Feel me in your heart
are you ready for something new?
 
And if I never see you again
then I won’t have to flee you again
I could just be carefree from sin
or free of caring from within
 
*Feel me in your arms
I’m the hero in you
Feel me in your heart
are you ready for something new?
 
*Feel me in your arms
I’m the hero in you
Feel me in your heart
are you ready for something new?
 
are you ready for something new?
are you ready for something new?
are you ready for something new?
  
4.  Wake up
 
Wake up
Wake up
 
I know too much now
I forgot it all
don’t know no one’s number
so I don’t call
 
Wake up
Wake up
 
Now I don’t nothing
maybe I never did
30 seconds ago
I tried to sell my wit
 
Wake up
Wake up
 
there’s a big difference in our pipe dreams
mine are empty, yours are always full
 
there’s a big difference in our pipe dreams
mine are empty, yours are always full
 
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
 
5.  Let Down
 
What if I was to tell you that I’m
that I’m somebody else
would you still be you?
What if I was to tell you I want to be
somebody else
would I still not even be your number two?
would I still be the last on the list for you?
 
*But I’m 1/2 a “handle” down
and I’m never coming down
so tired of being let down
*But I’m 1/2 a “handle” down
and I’m never coming down
so tired of being let down
 
what if I was to tell you that I…
that I’m no longer here
would you even know at all?
what if I was to tell you what you
don’t want to hear
would you just blame the alcohol?
or would you understand at all?
or finally see the writing on the wall?
 
*But I’m 1/2 a “handle” down
and I’m never coming down
so tired of being let down
*But I’m 1/2 a “handle” down
and I’m never coming down
so tired of being let down
 
I’m taking my ball and going home
I’m taking my ball and going home
 
because I don’t belong
I don’t belong
anywhere
 
*But I’m 1/2 a “handle” down
and I’m never coming down
so tired of being let down
so tired of being let down
 
6.  Hear for you
 
I’ll request the number and identity please
and hope you don’t outnumber all our common enemies
 
*because we bleed at the same speed
with a real need to get out of here
but we’ll be taking one knee
and only we see what we need to hear
 
I’m here for you
I’m here for you
 
I’ll request nothing at all
from anyone anymore
and I’ll put all my weapons down
you can have your war
 
*because we bleed at the same speed
with a real need to get out of here
but we’ll be taking one knee
and only we see what we need to hear
 
We just to listen for once
and throw away our arrogance
We just to listen for once
and throw away our arrogance
 
*because we bleed at the same speed
with a real need to get out of here
but we’ll be taking one knee
and only we see what we need to hear
*because we bleed at the same speed
with a real need to get out of here
but we’ll be taking one knee
and only we see what we need to hear
 
I’m here for you
I’m here for you
 
7.  My only brother
 
Alone on a tandem
I’ll be riding alone
pick the cologne at random
just to mess with Mary Kay
but when I finally get there
to the place that’s not known
will there still be any air
or will it all be overblown?
 
*death makes brothers of us all
my only brother is alcohol
 
keep your knives on the table 
so I can see where they’re at
but until I am able
to forgive this still in my back
 
*death makes brothers of us all
my only brother is alcohol
 
I don’t have to hear your story
you told it yourself
but go on and take all your glory
to the personnel
 
*death makes brothers of us all
my only brother is alcohol
*death makes brothers of us all
my only brother is alcohol
 
my only brother
 
8.  Meaningless
 
I don’t want to be here
It’s just too cruel
I don’t want to be seen here
it’s just too cruel
arguing with a fool 
only proves that there’s two
 
*so I’ll just keep staring at the ceiling
and try to find some kind of meaning
 
I don’t want to be here
it’s just too cold
there’s just no room to breathe here
and too many molds
 
*so I’ll just keep staring at the ceiling
and try to find some kind of meaning
 
if there is any at all
if there is any at all
 
*so I’ll just keep staring at the ceiling
and try to find some kind of meaning
*so I’ll just keep staring at the ceiling
and try to find some kind of meaning
 
if there is any at all
if there is any at all
 
9.  Pretty Death
 
Here I am as lonely as God
drawing trees on paper again
but the fact checker has taken the whole year off
and has eloped with a favorite part-time vegan
 
*pouring salt in the wound by saying
“pouring salt in the wound”
pretty death come hold breath
petty debt is all you will get
pretty death come hold breath
pretty death
 
Here I am again as lonely as God
tearing down the walls of wolves
but the logical thinker has taken the whole year off
and paid all tolls with their souls
 
*pouring salt in the wound by saying
“pouring salt in the wound”
pretty death come hold breath
petty debt is all you will get
pretty death come hold breath
pretty death
 
*pouring salt in the wound by saying
“pouring salt in the wound”
*pouring salt in the wound by saying
“pouring salt in the wound”
pretty death come hold breath
pretty death come 
  
10.  Ears of the wise
 
It’s hard to tell on one hand
the number of you that have made a plan
it feels as though we’ll have to escape at night
because in my life, I know I won’t see this place unite
 
*the sooner religion dies
the sooner humanity thrives
gossip and folklore and lies will die
when it reaches the ears of the wise
*the sooner religion dies
the sooner humanity thrives
gossip and folklore and lies will die
when it reaches the ears of the wise
 
The past has reared it’s ugly head again
tainting the hearts and minds of simple men
who think they should be ruled with an iron fist
but it’s their own book’s message they have missed
 
*the sooner religion dies
the sooner humanity thrives
gossip and folklore and lies will die
when it reaches the ears of the wise
*the sooner religion dies
the sooner humanity thrives
gossip and folklore and lies will die
when it reaches the ears of the wise
 
you’d burn me for heresy
when peace is all I want to see
 
if you think that I’m wrong
then think that I’m wrong
but if I’m right
everything will be alright
 
*the sooner religion dies
the sooner humanity thrives
gossip and folklore and lies will die
when it reaches the ears of the wise
*the sooner religion dies
the sooner humanity thrives
gossip and folklore and lies will die
when it reaches the ears of the wise
*the sooner religion dies
the sooner humanity thrives
gossip and folklore and lies will die
when it reaches the ears of the wise
  
11. Please agree
 
Spread a little common sense on the bread for me
try to live your life in the present tense is what she plead to me
hope to find the lining in the silver screen through the red in my eyes
and make believe your life can be your favorite scene is what she said before I died
 
*but we’ve all seen this told before
and we’ve all seen them close the door
 
a woman’s hardest job is probably juggling wolves in sheep’s clothes at home
leave a finger on the barely beating pulse before it goes alone
 
*but we’ve all seen this told before
and we’ve all seen them close the door
 
!
Because nothing’s left of me
who would have guessed I need
I need some rest from me
please agree
please agree
 
*but we’ve all seen this told before
and we’ve all seen them close the door
*but we’ve all seen this told before
and we’ve all seen them close the door
 
!
Because nothing’s left of me
who would have guessed I need
I need some rest from me
please agree
please agree

Question 2

Chris Donley-Her Eyes On (2017)

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HER EYES ON

(2017)
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1.  Cozy
Come on inside
Make yourself at home
And give me your coat
Come on inside
And hide from the cold
Our oldest foe
​
cuz now I’m home
 
Go on and lay down
Cuz this one’s for you
If wishes came true
Go on and lay down
This time it’s for real
Someone’s here for you
 
cuz now I’m home
 
but this house is not a home
I’m always here alone
Wherever I may roam
When you’re not around this house is not a home
 
You’re huffin’ and puffin’, blowin’ my house down
But now we’ll build it all again
 
cuz now I’m home
​
2.  Seven Years
I’m moving on
But it’s hard when everyone around me
Won’t let you be gone
 
I wish you well
I’ve been over all of this for years
I hope that you can tell
 
But if it wasn’t for the time to say 
Thank you
 
For seven years to blame
We could stand here looking backwards
But that would be a shame
seven years to blame
We could stand here looking backwards
But we’d still be the same
 
I hope you forgive
Me for all the times that you had tried
To help me to live
I know I’ve been wrong
But it’s taken me forever to accept
That I’m not strong
 
But if it wasn’t for the time to say 
Thank you
 
For seven years to blame
We could stand here looking backwards
But that would be a shame
seven years to blame
We could stand here looking backwards
But we’d still be the same
​
“So long”…I wait for you to say
“So long”…been waiting every day
“So long”…you can walk away
Cuz you know that you want to say
“Thank you”…
 
For seven years to blame
We could stand here looking backwards
But that would be a shame
seven years to blame
We could stand here looking backwards
But we’d still be the same
​
3.  Never the bride
Where should you run now?
Where should you hide?
At the shotgun wedding
The only one armed is the bride
 
she knows what she’s up against
It’s you
She knows we all want the best 
So on cue
​
Always the bride’s maid
Never the bride
You had it all once when
Before you lost sight
 
Where should you run now?
Where should you hide?
The tears are all dried from 
Before when you cried
 
You know what you’re up against
It’s you
You say you still want the best
So on cue
​
Always the bride’s maid
Never the bride
You say you’re happy for both of them
But deep down inside
It should be you up there
All dressed in white
You had it all once when
Before you lost sight
 
Always thinking ‘bout yourself
Always thinking ‘bout yourself
​
Always the bride’s maid
Never the bride
You say you’re happy for both of them
But deep down inside
It should be you up there
All dressed in white
You had it all once when
Before you lost sight
 
4.  Raised Questions
Nodding your head while looking down
Everyone else is important now
What’s the world to do when no one’s looking out?
I miss the days when there was no doubt
 
and we could just talk for days
And we could both count the ways
That we would be amazed
With questions that we raised
 
Looking back up but I don’t know why
Always the one with an alibi
If I bring it up, then I’m the bad guy
But I think this is worth saving if we try
 
and we could just talk for days
And we could both count the ways
That we would be amazed
With questions that we raised
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5.  Takeaway 
Featuring Dallas Riffle and Scott Paris
Who we’ve met
Where we’ve been
What we’ve done
No one could ever understand
But it’s just for us
 
What we’ve seen
Why we dream
Trash the scene
Just because we can
But it’s still just for us
 
no one could ever take that away
No one could ever take that away
 
(DALLAS)
Just for fun
Let’s play dumb
Play possum
And see how everyone else reacts
We can fool them all
 
Let’s just say
If we play
The same old game
Where only we have the facts
We can still fool them all
 
no one could ever take that away
No one could ever take that away
 
Take away
What we’d say
To make everyone happy
What’s at stake
Could just break
And end up badly
 
(SCOTT)
up till now
Not allowed
To take a bow 
For everything that we’ve done
That’s ok with me
 
Cuz until that time
We’ll try to find
A lifetime
To not be the forgotten sons
That’s ok with me
 
no one could ever take that away
No one could ever take that away
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6.  No one is to blame 
(Howard Jones Cover)
You can look at the menu, but you just can't eat
You can feel the cushion, but you can't have a seat
You can dip your foot in the pool, but you can't have a swim
You can feel the punishment, but you can't commit the sin
 
And you want her, and she wants you
We want everyone
And you want her and she wants you
No one, no one, no one ever is to blame
 
You can build a mansion, but you just can't live in 
You're the fastest runner but you're not allowed to win
Some break the rules, and live you cut the cost
The insecurity is the thing that won't get lost
 
And you want her, and she wants you
We want everyone
And you want her and she wants you
No one, no one, no one ever is to blame
 
You can see the summit but you just can't reach it
It's the last piece of the puzzle but you can't make it fit
Doctor says you're cured but you still feel the pain
Aspirations in the clouds but your hopes go down the drain
 
And you want her, and she wants you
We want everyone
And you want her and she wants you
No one, no one, no one ever is to blame
No one ever is to blame
No one ever is to blame
​
7.  Webs…
How many times before you tried?
Before you realized it was a waste of time
The many crimes…you swore…you lied
The whore advised the aftertaste of mine
 
but you looked into her eyes
And she caught you like a fly
And she trapped you in her web
Never to be heard from again
 
Under the thumb of something more
Not needing to escape to foreign lands
Wonder the sum, the final score
Misleading with the shape of where we stand
 
but you looked into her eyes
And she caught you like a fly
And she trapped you in her web
Never to be heard from again
 
But the widow, she’s not black
And there’s no looking back
And now you’re too far gone
Caught up in the web she spun
 
but you looked into her eyes
And she caught you like a fly
And she trapped you in her web
Never to be heard from again
​
7.  …destiny
If you find that you’re trapped
Open the door
If you cannot adapt
Try once more
Your life has been mapped
All out before
Before
Before
Before
 
I have to tell you honestly
If you believe in destiny
You might not like just what you see
But you see
 
If you find out that you
Can’t take any more
You still have time
You know that’s for sure
And it’s not a crime
If you ask for more
For more
For more
For more
 
I have to tell you honestly
If you believe in destiny
You might not like just what you see
But you see
 
I have to tell you honestly
If you believe in destiny
You might not like just what you see
But you see
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9.  All Aboard
If you say I’m a trainwreck
Then you have to be the engineer for me
If you say I’m a trainwreck
Then you have to be the engineer for me
 
Help me stay on the track
 
all aboard, all aboard
Help me, lord
Still ignored
All aboard, all aboard
Won’t be off the track 
No more
Won’t be off the track
No more
 
If I’m still a trainwreck on the wrong track
Hauling baggage at the highest speed
Won’t you
Help me stay on the tracks
 
all aboard, all aboard
Help me, lord
Still ignored
All aboard, all aboard
Won’t be off the track 
No more
Won’t be off the track
No more
 
The quality of quantity
From the machinery of you and me
 
all aboard, all aboard
Help me, lord
Still ignored
all aboard, all aboard
Help me, lord
Still ignored
all aboard, all aboard
Help me, lord
Still ignored
All aboard, all aboard
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10.  King
The pope is a lion
Even though he may be lying
The queen is in mourning
Since yesterday morning
 
we see the trouble we’ve all been through
I have seen it, so have you
 
Sometimes I want to be king
Just for something to do
If I was king, then I could take control of you
Sometimes I want to be king
Just for something to do
If I was king, then I could take control of you
 
Black and blue
Bruises on you
You shouldn’t tell
I confess
You’re a princess
 
we see the trouble we’ve all been through
I have seen it, so have you
 
Sometimes I want to be king
Just for something to do
If I was king, then I would take control of you
Sometimes I want to be king
Just for something to do
If I was king, then I would take control of you
 
You and I
Cannot fight
You’re the queen and I’m the king
In you I must confide
 
Sometimes I want to be king
Just for something to do
If I was king, then I would take control of you
Sometimes I want to be king
Just for something to do
If I was king, then I would take…I could take control of you
Sometimes I want to be king
King
I could take…I would take control of you
Sometimes I want to be king
King
I could take control of you
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11.  Look with your eyes
You’re saving all your pennies 
But you can’t take them with you
You try your damndest anyhow
But you can’t take them with you
Earned from the sweat you wiped off of your brow
But you can’t take them with you
Pride’s the sin that still will make you proud
But you can’t take them with you
 
it would be so easy
​
Look with your eyes
Not with your hands
It would be wise
For you to understand
Look with your eyes
Not with your hands
It won’t hurt to try
To lend a helping hand
 
You’ve been watching what they’re telling you
But they’re just entertainment
With the advertisement follow-through
But they’re just entertainment
When your dividends start to accrue
You’ll forget just what they meant
Cuz it’s for you and you know ONLY YOU
Know just how to spend it
 
But it would be so easy
Look with your eyes
Not with your hands
It would be wise
For you to understand
Look with your eyes
Not with your hands
It can’t hurt to try
To lend a helping hand
To lend a helping hand
To lend a helping hand
To lend a helping hand
To lend a helping hand

Question 3

Chris Donley-1889 (2015)

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1889
(2014)
​
1.  Listen
You’re so good
You’re so good to me
But I’m misunderstood, you see?
But I’m misunderstood, you see?
 
All I want…
 
Is for someone to listen to me
Someone to listen to me
Someone to listen
Someone to listen to me
To me
 
It’s so good
It’s so damn good for now
But time will not allow me
No, time will not allow me
 
To just get…
 
Someone to listen to me
Someone to listen to me
Someone to listen
Someone to listen to me
To me
 
It’s been a long road
It’s been a long road
It’s been a long road
It’s been a long road
 
Just want someone to listen to me
Someone to listen to me
Someone to listen
Someone to listen to me
To me
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2.  Nowhere
And I couldn’t see the start
From the bottom of my heart
I couldn’t see the start
But I have to ask one thing
 
where do we go from nowhere?
Where do we go from nowhere?
When the beginning is the end
Where do we go?
 
And I couldn’t see the end
And I couldn’t quite pretend
I should’ve known that when
I had to ask that question
 
where do we go from nowhere?
Where do we go from nowhere?
When the beginning is the end
Where do we go?
 
From nowhere
From nowhere
From nowhere
From nowhere
 
where do we go from nowhere?
Where do we go from nowhere?
When the beginning is the end
When the beginning is the end
And I couldn’t see the end
Where do we go from nowhere?
 
3.  Up
Waking up always seems to be
A chore when you don’t get much sleep
 
So I’m going back to where I belong
Locked up where I’ve been all along
I’m going back to where  I belong
Giving up
 
Giving up is always easier then
I didn’t have what could have been
 
So I’m going back to where I belong
Locked up where I’ve been all along
I’m going back to where  I belong
Giving up
 
Giving up is easy when you’re down
Saving up to go another round
 
So I’m going back  where I belong
Locked up where I’ve been all along
I’m going back where  I belong
Giving up
​
4.  Knockout
I’ll be the 1, 2
Punch to knock all who
Been knocked down times before
Don’t come back asking for more
 
Steady yourself is what they’ve always said
Ready yourself, you can’t fight back when you’re dead
But I disagree, if you know me, you’ve known a wall
That’s harder to move, to just talk to, but I won’t fall
 
I’ll be the 1, 2
Punch to knock all who
Been knocked down times before
Don’t come back asking for more
 
Now that you’ve learned, it’s your turn to take a swing
At all those that burned their bridges in the ring
It’s the same as your life but with a better outpouring
Of sympathy for you now, but that don’t mean a thing
 
I’ll be the 1, 2
Punch to knock all who
Been knocked down times before
Don’t come back asking for more
​
Get in, get in the ring
Get in the ring
 
After you bleed all that is me, you can return
To your old routine, at least the lessons have been learned
Up until then, where or when, you’ll have to fight
You’ll have the tools for fools for all of the next times
 
I’ll give you the knockout of your life
I’ll give you the knockout for all times
I’ll give you the knockout
 
You’ll be the 1, 2
Punch to knock all who
Been knocked down times before
Don’t come back asking for more
​
5.  On & On
Still looking for something I can’t find
Still hoping for some way to have piece of mind
 
*so on and on I’ll go alone
So on and on to know…alone
 
Still searching for one thing I don’t know
Still hoping for some way just to show
 
so on and on I’ll go alone
So on and on to know…alone
 
It must have been too much ask for
It must have been too much ask for
It must have been too much ask for
It must have been too much ask for
 
Still hoping for something to search for
Still looking but it must have been too much ask for
 
so on and on I’ll go alone
So on and on to know…alone
​
6.  Everybody wants to rule the world 
(Tears for Fears Cover)
Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you
 
Acting on your best behavior
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world
 
It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the most
 
Of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
 
There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do, I'll be right behind you
 
So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world
 
I can't stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the world
Say that you'll never never never never need it
One headline why believe it ?
Everybody wants to rule the world
 
All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
​
7.  My Poor Friend
Don’t even try to wash your sins away
It’s not easy to hide…they’re written on your face
There’s no way to hide away
So don’t play the same old game
 
you’ll never win again…my friend
 
Don’t even try to give yourself a brand new name
They’ll uncover the lies and won’t even let you stay
There’s no way to hide away
So don’t play the same old game
 
you’ll never win again…my friend
you’ll never win again…my friend
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8. Blame
This time we’ll know
This time we’ll know 
We’ll know who to blame
 
It won’t be you
It won’t be me
You’d think you could see
 
This time we’ll know
This time we’ll know 
We’ll know who to blame
 
When it could be you
When it could me
You thought you could see
 
This time we’ll know
This time we’ll know 
We’ll know who to blame
 
Everyone else that’s around
Take what’s left in the lost and found
 
This time we’ll know
This time we’ll know 
We’ll know who to blame
 
*This time we’ll know
This time we’ll know 
We’ll know who to blame
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9.  Once upon a time…
Featuring Dallas Riffle
Once upon a time
You all were mine
But there comes a time
When you have to draw the line
 
This is the story of your life
(And now you’re skipping to the end)
Dying to read between the lines 
(And if there’s more than you An-)
ticipated, dreaming jaded, you wished upon a star that faded
And everything you ever knew is frozen in time
 
In a world far away
Another time, another place
There were those with words to say
But life became a human race
(Ready, set, go)
 
This is the story of your life
(And now you’re skipping to the end)
Dying to read between the lines 
(And if there’s more than you An-)
ticipated, dreaming jaded, you wished upon a star that faded
And everything you ever loved is frozen in time
 
I would kill everything new
 
*This is the story of your life
(And now you’re skipping to the end)
Dying to read between the lines 
(And if there’s more than you An-)
ticipated, flipping pages, clinging to a dream that faded
And everything you ever knew is frozen in time
 
Once upon a time
Once upon a time
​
10.  Regift
What do you think?
What do you know?
I’m on the brink of nobody knows
 
And if they knew, would they care?
I don’t know…I swear
 
If we could be better than…
We are now, then tell me when
We all could be better then…
Why don’t we all begin?
 
Why do you think?
Why do you know?
If you could bring, more to the show
 
You haven’t already brought it
For me it’s always the re-gift
 
If we could be better than…
We are now, then tell me when
We all could be better then…
Why don’t we all begin?
 
It’s too easy to think about yourself
I’m just as guilty as everyone else
But I’d like to try to be a better “me” for you
Questioning why, is the worst thing that I could do
 
If we could be better than…
We are now, then tell me when
We all could be better then…
Why don’t we all begin?
​
11.  Lost
We’re…
Where?
​
12.  Blue Gray
She is blue gray
She is blue gray
Just fighting with herself every day
She is blue gray
She is blue gray
Just fighting with herself every day
 
Picking your battles 
Never seemed to be so hard
Until you gave up life to punch the card
But now she’s wondering
Where she went wrong
Always worried if I’m here writing her songs
 
She is blue gray
She is blue gray
Just fighting with herself every day
She is blue gray
She is blue gray
Just fighting with herself every day
 
Picking your friends
Never seemed to be a chore
They just showed up and told you what’s in store
But one thing they forgot to mention to
You was how they’d someday all be fighting you
 
She is blue gray
She is blue gray
Just fighting with herself every day
She is blue gray
She is blue gray
Just fighting with herself every day
 
She is blue gray
She is blue gray
Just fighting with herself every day
She is blue gray
She is blue gray
Just fighting with herself every day
​
13.  Arms length
Here we are, once again
Trying to save it all
Here we are, once again
It’s what you want, it’s what we are
 
It’s what we do if we see through
Doin’ as much as we can do
 
*Wrapping your arms around the world
Wrapping your arms around the world
 
There we were, years ago
A picture can say what we all know
There we were, years ago
When all our dreams still gave us hope
 
It’s what we do if we through
Doin’ as much as we can do…
 
*Wrapping your arms around the world
Wrapping your arms around the world
 
Here we are, once again
Still trying
 
*Wrapping your arms around the world
Wrapping your arms around the world

Question 4

Chris Donley-Sunshine (2011)

Accepted Answer

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1.  Moonshine
The shadow of the pen
You see it crosses the page
And meets with the edge of the paper
Now ripe with age
 
And what does it say to you?
And what could it mean to you?
 
It tells of a trek
A hearty voyage
That releases the unknown
Locked out courage
 
And what does it say to you?
And what could it mean to you?
​
Does it shine for you?
Is it blinding you?
Is it a one of a kind for you?
Or do you just skip ahead?
 
To what you got
was it all for all, or all for not?
 
And what could I say to you?
To make something mean something to you?
 
And could it shine for you
Could it be mine for you
A one of a kind for you
Or would you just turn the page?
​
2.  Hello to goodbye
You looked so good tonight
No one can take that from me
Except maybe Father Time
What a bastard he can be
Because when you were young
And when you were dumb it all came easily
So now what do you do
When getting what you choose seems to leave?
 
But everyone’s gotta’ have a backup plan
And no love could cuff, no love could cuff
These two hands
 
So goodbye to smiles
Hello to goodbyes and miles
Cuz these eyes don’t lie
Hello to goodbye
 
And you made me laugh tonight
So hard I can’t breathe
and if it’s the lasting times
That you had with me
Could make you say
You appreciate 
Everything that is me
So now what do you do
When I’m still so confused
I’m sorry
 
But what happens when I don’t understand
When you hate yourself so much
That you can’t be a man
​
So goodbye to smiles
Hello to goodbyes and miles
Cuz these eyes don’t lie
Hello to goodbye
​
Cuz no one will know 
Above or below
How hard it is
Just to go
But if I don’t leave 
It’s the end of me
And you know
 
So goodbye to smiles
Hello to goodbyes and miles
Cuz these eyes don’t lie
Hello to goodbye
​
3.  Farewell to old friends
What could I say to make you believe in me?
What could I say to make you NOT leave
 
But it just happened again
And I can’t prevent my own end
 
So long clarity
So long charity
hello…goodbye…sobriety
 
What could I do to just repay you?
What could I do to just have some faith in you?
 
But it just happens again
And I can’t prevent my own end
 
So long clarity
So long charity
hello…goodbye…sobriety
 
4.  Thank you for you
Johnny was a son of a banker
Sometimes I’m a son of a bitch
Who knows what Johnny really wanted
I’d give a lot just to know what makes him tick
 
But all I just want to know 
Is why he did it all for me
And I know it’s hard to show
But all I really want is to see
 
what did you want to be when you grew up just like me?
President, astronaut, fireman…any of these?
Because when I asked it, you had no answer for me
I just hope what you wanted worked out, cuz it did for me
 
So thank you for you
 
So now I’m a son of a banker
I’m still just a son of a bitch..sometimes
Who knows what I want now
That’s what the question really is
 
And all I just want to know 
Is if I do it all for me
And I know it’s hard to show
But all I really want is to say
 
What did you want to be when you grew up just like me?
Ball player, actor, teacher…any of these?
Because when I asked it you had no answer for me
I just hope what you wanted worked out, cuz it did for me
 
So thank you for you
​
5.  Cancervive
Being with me is a privilege, not a right
If you don’t trust anyone, you can’t survive
It’s kind of nice to still need someone 
For that smallest something
 But I don’t need you souvenirs and I don’t care anything
About your deepest fears
 
Cuz love’s the only four letter word that I won’t say
So up until then, I’ll just be forced to say
I’m sorry…But I can’t survive
 
Falling tall just seems to be the hardest thing to do
But you need me more than I need you
But I’m only saving up for my own funeral
But there’s no “fun” in funeral…
Maybe there is
 
Cuz love’s the only four letter word that I won’t say
So up until then, I’ll just be forced to say
I’m sorry…But I can’t survive
 
If you wished you’d never be hurt, you’d never learn anything again
But I warned you from the start to guard your heart
Cuz I can’t survive
 
6.  Thinking Big
Where do you get off?
Feeling the way you do
Where do you get off?
Havin’ that attitude
 
If you want to attract success
You’ll have to get it all off your chest
 
2 steps forward and 3 steps back
Turn around if you prefer
I’ll take 2 steps forward, you take 3 steps back
Take 4 steps back to where you were
 
How do you get turned on?
If you turn on at all?
Maybe if I sang a song
You’d stop shutting up and talk
 
But if you’re scared of showing it all
There’s no sense in getting up at all
 
2 steps forward and 3 steps back
Turn around if you prefer
I’ll take 2 steps forward, you take 3 steps back
Take 4 steps back to where you were
 
2 steps forward and 3 steps back
Turn around if you prefer
I’ll take 2 steps forward, you take 3 steps back
Take 4 steps back to where you were
 
7.  Fiddaliddleloop
This mess is a place
This house is not a home
Never put all your eggs in one basket
Cuz you’re counting your chickens before they’re all hatching
 
and I’ve got mouths to pay 
And I’ve got bills to feed
A razor and some bags
Is all the inspiration I need
​
I’ve been paying off my friends 
To get the fuck away
She gave the sweetest anarchist (kiss)
Vitamin based apology
​
Fiddaliddleloop
Feel a little loopy
 
Trying to get there just as fast
 As you can just to slow down
Walk, don’t run, take some time
To stop and smell the roses
 
and I’ve got mouths to pay 
And I’ve got bills to feed
All I need is a razor and some bags
Is all the inspiration I need
​
I’ve been paying off my friends 
To get the fuck away
She gave the sweetest anarchist (kiss)
Vitamin based apology
​
Fiddaliddleloop
Feel a little loopy
​
8.  No Such Thing
So you think you know the secrets of all the unknown
Well, I think you’re wrong
​
Kill all that you’ve learned
Kill all that you’ve burned
​
There’s no such thing
As loving 
Someone with “all your heart’
 
So you think you know the secrets to the seeds we sow
Well, I think you ‘re wrong again
So you think you know the signs but when you stop, I go
Because you’re wrong again
 
Kill all that you’ve learned
Kill all that you’ve burned
​
There’s no such thing
As loving 
Someone with “all your heart’
 
But still you talk yourself into believing
​
There’s no such thing
As loving 
Someone with “all your heart’
​
9.  You might just think
Just feeling that one thing
Could make you turn right back again
And though you might just think
That you can’t start from the end
I know it’s inside me
Just need some help to pull it out
And though you might just think
That it’s too late for me now
 
read my lips
It’s not a gift from God, a gift from up above
Read my wrists
Don’t need a lift, a nod, or any reassurance
​
Cuz I’ve got what I’ve got
And you are who I am not
And I know what I know
That this is heaven don’t go searching anymore
 
Just seeing that one thing
Could make you change all your beliefs
And though you might just think
That it’s so easy being me
But I’ll tell you just one thing
I’m tryin’ hard to understand
And though you might just think
It’s what it takes to be a man
​
Cuz I’ve got what I’ve got
And you are who I am not
And I know what I know
That this is heaven don’t go searching anymore
 
You might just think
You know it all
you’re sitting still
While I’m standing tall
You can’t see heaven 
Right before your eyes
What you might think 
May be a big surprise
​
Cuz I’ve got what I’ve got
And you are who I am not
And I know what I know
That this is heaven don’t go searching, don’t go searching anymore
​
10.  Bluewater
It seemed just like it was a yesterday
We’d wake up real late and look out at the waves
And we’d dream that we could keep that moment there
With deep breath, a shrug, a nod and only one care
 
before we even knew
The week had gone too soon
So close your eyes again
And let me take you back
 
The sun would always know just when to sneak
A ray or two on through the drapes with a peek
And push the cobwebs from your eyes
Out on the deck with a new day, a new surprise
 
before we even knew
The week had gone too soon
So close your eyes again
And let me take you back
​
I don’t ever want to come home
The sun, the sand and I am having 
A conversation so leave us alone
Leave us alone
​
before we even knew
The week had gone too soon
So close your eyes again
And let me take, let me take you back
​
I don’t ever want to come home
The sun, the sand, and I am having 
A conversation so leave us alone
Leave us alone
​
11.  Real Estate
You bought the bed and she made it
She’s in your head and you hate it
 
and you say “I don’t make a living, I’m just trying to live”
A mistake is simply not forgiven
But what you took is what I’d give
 
All you had to do is not do what you did
Cuz I’d rather be fooled by someone new
Than to be fucked over again by you
Really, how far can the apple fall?
Lookin’ up, look out from the inside…
You know the worm has seen it all 
 
and you say “I don’t make a living, I’m just trying to live”
A mistake is simply not forgiven
But what you took is what I’d give
And he says “I don’t make a living…I’m just saving up”
What you take is still not forgiven and probably never could
 
I’m been curled up down here to get warm up there
And I ask myself who develops the developers’ developments
Is there just an empty place in the heart of those who were kind enough to care
 
Is your heart for sale?
 
I don’t make a living, I’m just trying to live
A mistake is simply not forgiven
But what you took is what I’d give
And he says “I don’t make a living…I’m just saving up”
What you take is still not forgiven and probably never could
​
12.  Sunshine
And I never want to be a kid again
But I don’t want to ever grow up
And if I really said what I really meant
There’d be no one here to pick it all up
 
where did they go?
where did they go?
where did they go?
They all did what they’re told
where did they go?
where did they go?
where did they go?
Who knows?
 
And everywhere is a nice place to visit, yeah
And the feeling of leaving, leaves me reeling, yeah
For the next trip back if there is even one, yeah
But I only want to see the sun, yeah
 
where did it go?
It’s just playing possum
where did it go?
where did it go?
where did it go?
No one knows
No one knows…

Question 5

Chris Donley-First Person Point of View (2007)

Accepted Answer

First Person Point of View
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(2007)
​
1.  The Colonel (For Justina)
 
Have you ever known real value?
Has your face ever hurt from smiling?
You know I have know real value
So ignore me now if I’m crying
 
*And I could of sworn if was you on the phone tonight
Are you calling just to check on us down here?
Was it a call to wake me out of my sleep tonight
Are you helping me to see things way more clear?
 
$Are you telling me I should keep an eye out?
Are you smiling?  Always smiling with your arm out?
Throwing cards, aiming hard, go pick it U P
I’ve been thinking that you’re viewing since the phone rang
 
Is it nice where you are?
Or are you here in our hearts?
Have you seen me try to act hard?
Tell me am I throwing away my card?
 
*repeat
$repeat
 
Since that day I’ve been finding more Lincolns
Is it you that’s been placing them there?
But my head still hurts from thinking
Maybe soon I’ll throw cards with you up there
 
*repeat
 
We miss you
​
2.  Dandelion
One minute everything goes your way
The next you’re forced to say to yourself
Where is it that I went wrong?
Can I retrace my steps or am I too far along?
 
Too far along and I don’t belong
Too far along
 
*I wish there was a way that I could
Change the word so you wouldn’t believe what I’d say
 
From that minute the other day
I somehow planted a weed, not a seed in your brain
Now it’s taking root and it will consume every thought from you
Because that’s just what I’d do
 
It’s what I’d do
But not to you
 
*repeat
I wish there was a way
 
Now I’m taking root
*repeat
 
3.  Hold
One hand washes the other
On the other hand, you know it’s just like any other
A back hand, a hand to hold, to hold the knife in
On the other hand, it ends the life you had to begin with
 
*no longer will I hold, hold you down
No longer will I hold, what I’ve found
No longer will I hold, hold you down
As my fingers cross behind my back now
 
One hand claps but sees the other silent
On the other hand, it just sits there and covers ears for silence
I’ll give you a hand as soon as the sign is lit for applause
On the other hand, both hands come equipped with the sharpest claws
 
*repeat
*repeat
​
4.  Passion vs. Reason
Passion still takes the place of reason
My passion makes decisions, decisions made for all the reasons
If only there was a scandal that would make me hard handle, I would
Because if all of this was easy, you’d applaud just to please me if you could
 
*but your hands are all tied and your tear ducts all dried
You tell me you tried, but deep down you still lied
For once I’m all alone in this place that’s not a home
Where are you now?
 
Do you really know what it means to be truly sad?
I’d ask you about happiness but I know you know nothin’ ‘bout that
Does makeup and blush make the real you hush when I say
That I need to know the truth, the essence that is you kept away
​
*repeat
$I need to concentrate on me
It’s women, I know but it’s something I need
You tell the truth when you’re drunk but not to me
Define for me, your life…Because I need…Because I need…Because I need…
Because I need…
 
*repeat
$repeat
​
5.  Sleepwalkers
Only people who are awake
Will be the ones to communicate
And the people who are asleep
Will be the ones that are envied
 
*are you one of them?
Are you one of them?
Are you one of them?
And if you are, will you be 
 
Able to reel ‘em in?
With the bait that’s attention
And will they relate to you?
Like so many claim to do
 
*repeat
$Able to sleep at night?
*repeat
$Repeat
 
6.  Hide and seek
(Featuring Scott Paris)
 
Where did everyone go?
Where did everyone go?
Why was I the last to know?
Where did everyone go?
 
*And why am I still trying
To make everything work out?
And why am I still trying?
Won’t someone please just shut my mouth?
 
Where did everyone go?
Where did everyone go?
Why was I the last the know?
Where did everyone go?
 
*repeat
$And I’m still wondering why am I still here alone?
And I’m still wondering where did everyone go?
 
Where did everyone go?
Where did everyone go?
Why was I the last to know?
Where did everyone go?
 
$Repeat
​
7.  From me to you
It’s all you took from me
You gave that look to me
But took it back from me
I gave it in to you
 
*what made you think that we could
Last cuz you know we’re no good
 
So here’s a card…from me
Don’t think too hard…to you
Meant what I said…from me
Easily read…to you
 
*repeat
 
$From me to you
We met too soon 
And you know it’s true
From me to you
In my words 
You deserve much better
 
You took it all…from me
I gave it all…to you
So give it back…from me
And here are the words…to you
 
$Repeat
​
8.  I’m sorry…I don’t love you
Do I love you?
Let me count the ways
I’ll tell you the answer
But you’ll be amazed
 
*cuz how could anyone not love you?
I don’t know why
How could anyone not love you?
And why is it this guy?
 
Do I love you?
Let me count the ways
Two letter word answer 
That’s not so easy to say
 
*repeat
 
$I’m sorry that I don’t love you
 
Do I love you?
Let me ignore the ways
When I was above you
I never heard you say
 
How could anyone not love me?
I don’t know why
How could anyone not love me?
I don’t know why
 
$I’m sorry that I don’t love you
​
9.  Sellout
​
There’s too many steps to take
Just push the button to the top
At the top floor there’s hands to shake
And then you’ll have to stop
Creating what you live for 
Because now they know what to expect
Dilating as you’re looking for the whore
As you cash in your paycheck
 
*thank you for everything
 
$Now I know
Yes, now I know why so many throw it away
 
That’s why the smiles were faked
Because they know deep down inside
The years and trials would break
Their backs but at least they tried
Until they reached the point
Of cutting corners for everyone of you
But still each one of them knew
That that day would come too soon
 
Thank you for everything
 
$Repeat
 
You thought that you might miss your chance
You wanted to lead, but if all else fails
You at least wanted to dance
 
$Repeat
 
10.  Veins
 
What conclusion do I compare confusion with
What emotion do I create to cause commotion within?
All the smallest cliques that I don’t fit in at all
That’s okay…Because I have sin
 
*and I think I have you all…again
 
$But still you think you know me
Still you have to show me
With just words and action 
And give me satisfaction
 
What direction should I take to avoid infection
And if infected would you be there to sterilize my wound
Cuz it’s been healed up shut for years to come…it’s stitches worn away
Dissolved to nothing…though it’s nothing that was there anyway
 
*and I think I have you all…again
 
$Repeat
 
So now what road to travel to make my life unravel more?
Pick which exit I should I take to keep infection away
And what to do if it follows through?  Keep on lookin’ ahead
Until I reach no more…end of road is born…dead end
 
And I think I lost you all…again
 
But still you thought you knew me
You could see right through me
All my words and action
Gave no satisfaction
 
​
11.  Lost and Found
Red ink makes you think how love is so cheap
I’ve tried to cry myself to sleep
I dozed right through the years you said were right
She knows just how to live her life
 
*Or so she claims
The smiles faded away
Lost and never found, there’s no one around
Turn it upside down
 
Red ink bleeds like me
My ears…we heard everything
My eyes had to see the truth
Fake tears was the proof she needed…she needed
 
*repeat
 
Just ask me if I dove in too deep
Because there’s no need to worry about me
 
*Or so she claims
The smiles faded away
Lost and never found, there’s no one else around
Turn it upside down
 
12.  Hands
I see you having a hard time
Just keeping your head on straight
I see you’re having a good time
It just happens it’s way too late
I see you’re having a rough time
Seems that it’s hard to fake
I see you’re having a great time
Too bad it’s without me
 
*and though you want to
And though you need to
And though you want to
I still see…
 
I see you’re struggling with time
When it’s apart from me
I see you keep dragging out time
Just when you need to be
I see you ignoring your time
And just wanting time with me
I see you disrupting all time
Just when it’s getting hard to sleep
 
*and though you want to
And though you need to
And though you want to
I still see…
 
$When it’s time to say goodbye
It’s not as easy as the first time
It’s not as easy as the last time
It’s not as easy so goodbye
 
I’ll see you in no time
If that means turning back the hand
We’ll change all the bad times
If only you’d understand
The happy and sad times 
Were few and far between
I’ll just let it be my time
If only it were that easy
 
*and though you want to
And though you need to
And though you want to
I still see…
 
$When it’s time to say goodbye
It’s not as easy as the first time
It’s not as easy as the last time
It’s not as easy so goodbye
 
​
13.  I told you so…

Question 6

Critic City-Inhale The Future (2023)

Accepted Answer

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Critic City
Inhale the future
All music and lyrics by Critic City 
(except for Heathens by Tyler Joseph

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Steve Simbeck at InDigital Studios
Drums recorded by Cole Martinez
criticcity.com

The bigger the lie
you only notice me when I’m not around
been training all my life sleeping on the couch
most of my friends don’t even know where I live
ignored in prison with prison ignorance
life isn’t the right environment for me
the dark horse hanging with all the black sheep

*I’ve never played in the graveyard
never climbed to the sky, no
the more people will believe it
the bigger the lie
I’m telling you the truth

I’d rather be alone than to be ignored
your cocksmanship helps put the “man” in manure
you know you cannot kill that which doesn’t care
when you’re elected as the king of nowhere
repeat defenders have nightmares never told
a crisis actor traveling a dark road

*I’ve never played in the graveyard
never climbed to the sky, no
the more people will believe it
the bigger the lie
*I’ve never played in the graveyard
never climbed to the sky, no
the more people will believe it
the bigger the lie

Inward Kill
I tried to keep busy, busy wouldn’t let me keep her around
I tried to keep busy, so I wouldn’t go crazy this time around
but it’s gonna’ happen
you know it will
but it’s gonna’ happen…
this inward kill

*what was it you said to me that I believed in you?
if history will repeat, I’ll take a seat by you
and no one else

I tried to keep upbeat but beats were all you ever heard
I tried to move my feet and try to keep up with all of the absurd
but it’s gonna’ happen
you know it will
but it’s gonna’ happen…
this inward kill

*what was it you said to me that I believed in you?
if history will repeat, I’ll take a seat by you

and no one else
and no one else

no one’s left here anymore
*what was it you said to me that I believed in you?
if history will repeat, I’ll take a seat by you

Sodium Pentathlon
*Where were you going?
Where will you hide?
It’s not easy knowing
when there is no guide
*Where were you going?
Where will you hide?
from all the demons you’ve been dreaming to life

no peace from anything
no sleep could ever bring
the “real me”
or so you say
that’s breaking
on the 10th day
there’s still time for you to run

*Where were you going?
Where will you hide?
It’s not easy knowing
when there is no guide
*Where were you going?
Where will you hide?
from all the demons you’ve been dreaming to life

you know me
you think you do
below me
my future tomb
so sorry
for everything
dont’t worry
about anything
let’s not pretend
this is the end
*Where were you going?
Where will you hide?
It’s not easy knowing
when there is no guide
*Where were you going?
Where will you hide?
from all the demons you’ve been dreaming to life

the “dyer’s” situation is dire
get on your lies
break all the ties

sodium pentathlon
go on and run
run from love

*Where were you going?
Where will you hide?
It’s not easy knowing
when there is no guide
*Where were you going?
Where will you hide?
from all the demons you’ve been dreaming to life

Warning labels (are just suggestions)
I’ll be pushing the boulder up the same exact hill
pass the plate for collection…same church, different pew
no longer buying the farm-renting or leasing will do less harm
everyone’s an athiest up until the shooting starts
a little guilt goes a long way
make a quilt if you have something say
you forgot one thing, to pay your dues
to get into the human race
to only belong to the ages
would be a greater fate than death
as we used to turn the pages
now we only try to impress

*How many “Likes” can I get?
How do I kill my regret?
I think warning labels are just suggestions
*How many “Likes” can I get?
How do I kill my regret?
I think warning labels are just suggestions
I’m not chosen, I’m forgotten
you can only be so impressed with your own achievements
before they kill you

*How many “Likes” can I get?
How do I kill my regret?
I think warning labels are just suggestions
*How many “Likes” can I get?
How do I kill my regret?
I think warning labels are just suggestions

warning labels are untold fables
How many likes can I get?
I’m not chosen, I’m forgotten
Heathens
All my friends are heathens, take it slow
Wait for them to ask you who you know
Please don't make any sudden moves
You don't know the half of the abuse
All my friends are heathens, take it slow
Wait for them to ask you who you know
Please don't make any sudden moves
You don't know the half of the abuse
Welcome to the room of people
Who have rooms of people that they loved one day
Docked away
Just because we check the guns at the door
Doesn't mean our brains will change from hand grenades
You'll never know the psychopath sitting next to you
You'll never know the murderer sitting next to you
You'll think, "How'd I get here, sitting next to you?"

But after all I've said, please don't forget
All my friends are heathens, take it slow
Wait for them to ask you who you know
Please don't make any sudden moves
You don't know the half of the abuse
We don't deal with outsiders very well
They say newcomers have a certain smell
You have trust issues, not to mention
They say they can smell your intentions
You'll never know the freak show sitting next to you
You'll have some weird people sitting next to you
You'll think "How did I get here, sitting next to you?"
But after all I've said, please don't forget
All my friends are heathens, take it slow
Wait for them to ask you who you know

Please don't make any sudden moves
You don't know the half of the abuse
All my friends are heathens, take it slow (watch it)
Wait for them to ask you who you know (watch it)
Please all my friends are heathens, take it slow (watch it)
Wait for them to ask you who you know
Why'd you come? You knew you should have stayed
I tried to warn you just to stay away
And now they're outside ready to bust
It looks like you might be one of us
Songwriters: Tyler Joseph
Heathens lyrics © Fueled By Music Inc., Tempo Tyler Joseph Pub

Constant-Deceased
you know everything
everything changes
nothing remains without change
you know everything
everything changes

nothing remains without change

you know it’s so
I know it’s so
if you know what leads you and what holds you back
you can choose the needs-you
wisdom chose the path

you know everything
everything changes

nothing remains without change
you know everything
everything changes
nothing remains without change

embrace the change

if you know what feeds you, you won’t bite the hand
to be true with virtue, you can take a stand

you know everything
everything changes
nothing remains without change
you know everything
everything changes
nothing remains without change

X3
what you are today are the thoughts of yesterday
can you accept that we all have to change?
what you are today are the thoughts of yesterday
can you accept that we all have to change?

you know everything
everything changes
nothing remains without change
you know everything
everything changes
nothing remains without change

everything we believe will have to change
everything we believe will have to change
everything we believe
Bed Rest is boring
Healthy as a horse but sick as a dog
cut the tree down at the source now you only have a log

*You only cut me down
inside all day, I want out

Lay down with dogs, wake up with fleas
cut off the paws, and leaves from the trees

*You only cut me down
inside all day, I want out

And now, you know how it feels
Bed rest is boring
Deprecipes
a groom that sleeps means a bride that weeps
sitting at home making “De-precipes”
a cup full of sorrow will help you believe
that you can cook up something to bereave

*Let’s pretend we’re grieving, everyone look at me!”
Thoughts and prayers are with you
Let’s pretend we’re grieving, everyone feel for me!”

I know that it’s hard to get through

after you found that you wanted the ring
you would become the flea market queen
a pinch of salt will just add to the dead
eating the body, yet he loathes the bread

*Let’s pretend we’re grieving, everyone look at me!”
Thoughts and prayers are with you
Let’s pretend we’re grieving, everyone feel for me!”
I know that it’s hard get through

*Let’s pretend we’re grieving!”
*Let’s pretend we’re grieving!”

*Let’s pretend we’re grieving, everyone look at me!”
Thoughts and prayers are with you
Let’s pretend we’re grieving, everyone feel for me!”
I know that it’s hard get through

*Let’s pretend we’re grieving!”
*Let’s pretend we’re grieving!”

Exhale the past
*If you have a problem for every solution
I’ll just have to solve ‘em before the revolution
*If you have a problem for every solution
I’ll just have to solve ‘em before the revolution

when you got 1 eye, you gotta’ lead with confidence
born with the “devil’s gene”, no one is innocent
fake princes life a whisper from empty closed eyed kiss
my hell is someone’s heaven-lipstick Jesus/Devil bliss

he’d bitch if you hung him with a new rope
he’d bitch

*If you have a problem for every solution
I’ll just have to solve ‘em before the revolution
*If you have a problem for every solution
I’ll just have to solve ‘em before the revolution
The only thing we have in common is me

go on and watch the lions eating just to entertain
times don’t change at all, the masses love to see the pain
now the one’s before who felt it wear the lion’s mane
proving if there was a God he never would create

liberty dies with their applause
and sharpening of claws

*If you have a problem for every solution
I’ll just have to solve ‘em before the revolution

*If you have a problem for every solution
I’ll just have to solve ‘em before the revolution
The only thing we have in common is me

they’re mistaking kindness for weakness again
inhale the future, exhale the past
the only thing we have in common is me
liberty dies with their applause

*If you have a problem for every solution

I’ll just have to solve ‘em before the revolution
*If you have a problem for every solution
I’ll just have to solve ‘em before the revolution

Weeping Willow
The earth has given way
I think that she’s got something to say
I wish I might, I wish I may
wake up to see another day

The weeping willow ain’t crying no more
she’s hardly breathing for us anymore
are we preparing ourselves for a war?
I don’t think this is what she’s asking for

When one door closes
a coffin opens

The earth has given way
The earth has given way
I think that she’s got something to say

The weeping willow ain’t crying no more
she’s hardly breathing for us anymore
are we preparing ourselves for a war?
I don’t think this is what she’s asking for

I can’t breathe at all
quarantine for all 
I can’t breathe at all 
quarantine for all (can’t breathe)

The weeping willow ain’t crying no more
she’s hardly breathing for us anymore
are we preparing ourselves for a war?
I don’t think this is what she’s asking for

I can’t breathe at all
quarantine for all

Question 7

Critic City-Going Dizzy (Single-2021)

Accepted Answer

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Track List:
1.  Going Dizzy (Brand New War version)
2.  Sink or run (Brand New War version)
3.  Going Dizzy (Acoustic version)
4.  Sink or Run (Acoustic version)
5.  Physical (Dua Lipa cover)

Question 8

Critic City-My Charity (Single-2021)

Accepted Answer

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/undefined
 Track List:
1.  My Charity (Brand New War Version)
2.  Letters (Brand New War version)
3.  My Charity (Acoustic version)
4.  Letters Acoustic version)
5.  Caribbean Queen (Billy Ocean cover)

Question 9

Critic City-Brand New War (EP 3-2020)

Accepted Answer

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1. Latency
it’s been slowing us all down
but I’m too nervous for breakdowns
been waiting for the new put down
but I’ll be plugging my ears now
 
why should I
please stand by?
 
*we’ve been waiting for the brand new day that we can
just do all the things that we had dreamed that we planned
 
not yet
 
it’s been stalling us all now
but yet we still don’t quite know how
how we ever did allow
but we’ll make it out somehow
 
why should I 
please stand by?
 
*we’ve been waiting for the brand new day that we can
just do all the things that we had dreamed that we planned
 
born too late X2
we were born too late
born too late
it’s not my fault…no it’s not my fault
 
why should I 
please stand by?
 
*we’ve been waiting for the brand new day that we can
just do all the things that we had dreamed that we planned
 
born too late
​
2. Letters
I’m writing these letters again
I’m writing these letters I’ll never send
 
for you my
for you my friend
 
(there’s nothing else to say
you wouldn’t listen anyway)
 
there’s nothing that I’ve said
that should be said again
so much I haven’t said
that I now regret
 
if only I have the time to X3
say just what I meant
 
I’m writing these letters again
I’m writing these letters I’ll never send
 
for you my
for you my friend
 
there’s nothing that I’ve said
that should be said again
so much I haven’t said
that I now regret
 
if only I have the time to X3
say just what I meant
 
Steal it again to say it again
 
I’m writing these letters again
I’m writing these letters I’ll never send
 
3. My Charity
what would you like to do on this beggar’s evening now?
what would you like to do?  Could you steal the heart from someone else?
 
from somebody else but me…please, please, please
from somebody else but me…could you steal?
 
could you steal?
 
I’ve given all I can 
it never will be enough
I’ve given all I can…now, now, now
I’ve given all I can 
it never will be enough
I’ve given all I can…now
 
blood from a turnip
turn tips to blood
where do we go now? X2
 
locked up tight
mock the buy
credit’s high
rate is nigh
 
I’ve given all I can 
it never will be enough
I’ve given all I can…now, now, now
I’ve given all I can 
it never will be enough
I’ve given all I can…now
 
my charity
 
skimmin’ the till
with overfill X2
 
I’ve given all I can 
it never will be enough
I’ve given all I can…now, now, now
I’ve given all I can 
it never will be enough
I’ve given all I can…now, now, now
 
my charity
 
I’ve given all I can 
it never will be enough
I’ve given all I can…now, now, now
*I’ve given all I can 
it never will be enough
I’ve given all I can…now
 
my charity
 
4. Going Dizzy
turn around again like you did before
and we’ll begin this brand new war
turn around again like you did back then
and we’ll re-arm like we’ve always been
 
where were we going?
why did we try?
where were we going?
I don’t know why
why were we going dizzy?
 
Going
 
if you’re tired and far from home
look inside, you know you’re not alone
but if you like, you should know
that I’m here for you if you ever feel that you need to go
 
turn around again it’s like you were never gone
and we’ll all begin…you said it’s said to come back home
turn around again you said so many times before
 
Going…
 
if you’re tired and far from home
look inside, you know you’re not alone
but if you like, you should know
that I’m here for you if you ever feel that you need to go
 
Going dizzy again
(you know you’re going dizzy again)
you’re going dizzy again
(you know you’re going dizzy again)
 
I just keep spinnin’ around
you just keep spinnin’ around
 
but if you’re tired and far from home
look inside, you know you’re not alone
but if you like, you should know
that I’m here for you if you ever feel that you need to go
if you’re tired and far from home
look inside, you know you’re not alone
but if you like, you should know
that I’m here for you if you ever feel that you need to go
​
5. Sink or Run
If no one gets out of here alive
why have we all been wasting our time?
 
who would’ve thought those years ago
we’d see the death of all we’d know x2
 
I’m going’ back to the drawing board
to come up with what cannot be ignored
 
repeat
 
it’s time to sink or run…sink or run
 
how did we let it happen…should we have known?
how did we let it happen…those years ago?
 
who would’ve thought those years ago
we’d see the death of all we know
we’d see the death of rock ’n roll
 
repeat
​
6.  Watermelon Sugar
Harry Styles cover

Question 10

Critic City-REcoiled (Single-2020)

Accepted Answer

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 Track List:
1.  Honor Amongst Thieves (In the silence there's a sound version)
2.  REcoiled (In the silence there's a sound version)
3.  Without me (Halsey cover)
4.  Honor Amongst Thieves (Acoustic version)
5.  REcoiled (Acoustic version)

Question 11

Critic City-Quid Pro Quo (Single-2020)

Accepted Answer

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/undefined
 Track Listing:
1.  Quid Pro Quo (In the silence there's a sound version)
2.  Quid Pro Quo (Acoustic version)
3.  Let Go (Acoustic version)
4.  Blinding Lights (The Weeknd cover)
5.  Quid Pro Quo (Video jazz version)

Question 12

Critic City-In the silence there's a sound (EP 2) (2019)

Accepted Answer

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1.  Honor Amongst Thieves
what’s your stereotype?
I wanna’ hear everything I can
what’s your love life like?
and does it come with a pension plan?
 
what are your thoughts like now?
are they still stuck on repeat?
still connecting the dots
to a game that you can’t beat
 
but you’ll keep on trying 
while your honesty’s dying
 
it’s honor amongst thieves
honor amongst thieves
it’s the fool who still believes
in honor amongst thieves, you know it’s me
 
what’s your best way out?
how many doors have been slammed in your face?
without reasonable doubt
i’ll always be your best disgrace
 
what are your thoughts like now?
are they still stuck on repeat?
still connecting the dots
to a game that you can’t beat
 
but you’ll keep on trying 
while your honesty’s dying
 
it’s honor amongst thieves
honor amongst thieves
it’s the fool who still believes
in honor amongst thieves, you know it’s me
 
no honor anymore X2
what could I ask for?
no honor anymore
 
honor amongst thieves
 
it’s honor amongst thieves
honor amongst thieves
it’s the fool who still believes
in honor amongst thieves, you know it’s me
 
you know it’s me
​
Quid Pro Quo
yet still I know your eyes give you away
yet still I know it’s just your way to say
yet still I know you can think for yourself
yet still I know what you want and I can tell
 
c’mon, c’mere, the coast is clear, don’t be so shy
no need to fear, c’mon, c’mere, I’m not like those other guys
c’mon, c’mere, you know you like me, I know it’s true
just like that, now I can teach you
 
yet still I know you’re not that innocent
yet still I know I thought this is what you meant
yet still I know how to pick alibis
yet still I know, let’s just go on with our lives
 
repeat chorus
 
you know…that you brushed me on my way by
you know…that you gave me the eye
 
repeat chorus
 
you love to shake and show
all the girlies hate you so
reverse how the story goes
to turn around the quid pro quo
​
Let Go
it’s hard not to dwell on the past
when you would go change the path
if you could only go back
you’d pick the moment that’s now at hand
 
!it’s better to travel well than to arrive
it can get better still, so let’s take a drive
 
out on the open road
still with no place to go
why was I never told?
this is something I should’ve known
out on the open road
still with no place to go
why was I never told?
I should’ve known it long ago
 
but they kept it a secret from me
you kept it a secret because you were scared I’d leave
 
better one thing that can bring you peace
than a thousand empty things
what if we became just what we think?
then maybe we all will win
 
it’s better to travel well than to arrive
it can get better still, so let’s take a drive
 
out on the open road
still with no place to go
why was I never told?
this is something I should’ve known
out on the open road
still with no place to go
why was I never told?
I should’ve known it long ago
but they kept it a secret from me
you kept it a secret because you were scared I’d leave
 
all that we are is the result of what we have thought X2
 
so let’s go X2
so let go X2
​
REcoiled
last night told everything about my life
I can ask you all your favorite place to go
 
but when the question comes around
my answer won’t be found
 
because no one asked me
no one cared to know just what I think
 
no one ever has
no one ever asked
 
this conversation now is over
I’ll be absent, far removed away from nowhere
this conversation now is over
I’ll be fine, hangin’ out with my new hangover
 
last night told everything about my life
I can ask you all your very favorite things
but when the question comes around
I’m left out of the crowd but that’s alright…that’s alright with me
 
but in the silence there’s a sound
and the walls, it will tear down
 
in the past, we
always acted like we cared
 
still here lyin’ on the ground
naked king still has his crown
 
this conversation now is over
I’ll be absent, far removed away from nowhere
this conversation now is over
I’ll be fine hangin’ out with my new hangover
 
could you act like you cared?
just one moment to spare?
this conversation now is over…
 
this conversation now is over
I’ll be absent, far removed away from nowhere
this conversation now is over
I’ll be fine hangin’ out with my new hangover
​
War Dodger
where you going, Insane?
we’re still playing your old games
moving pieces for your sake
it’s hard to be real when you’re fake
 
me of little faith in my employer
if you put “war” in “warrior”
 
I could’ve found a better way
or maybe found a better war to stay away from x2
now
 
who you talking to these days?
just people that decide who stays
 
repeat
 
repeat
now
 
I could’ve stayed away from you x4
 
repeat
 
I could’ve stayed away from you x4
 
6.  We built this city
(Starship cover)​

Question 13

Critic City-Cliff Diver (Single-2019)

Accepted Answer

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 Track list:
1.  Cliff Diver (Four Chambers or Six verson)
2.  Bad Guy (Billie Eilish cover)
3.  Cliff Diver (Acoustic version)

Question 14

Critic City-Shoulders (Single-2019)

Accepted Answer

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/undefined
 Track list:
1.  Shoulders (Four chambers or six version)
2.  Into You (Ariana Grande' cover)
3.  Shoulders (Acoustic version)
4.  Into you (Ariana Grande acoustic cover)

Question 15

Critic City-Four chambers or six (EP1-2019)

Accepted Answer

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1.  Arson of a bitch
we know who set the fire…
everyone of you
we know who let the liars…
kill the truth
and now it won’t be long
to feel the new decay
and now it won’t be long
this fire burns away
 
everything that we ever loved
everything that we’d ever hate
 
now we blame
 
arson of a bitch…you know it’s me
no more hiding…from…
x2
 
we know who set the fire…
everyone of you
why’d you have to kill?
 
repeat
 
repeat
 
lit up now
 
now we blame
 
repeat
 
2.  Shoulders
how many times could I
try to lie and say I’m alive?
how many times should I
keep up this act and try?
 
with the weight of the world
 
up on my shoulders
I should have told her
x2
 
goodbye
 
how many times should I
keep to myself my war cry?
how many times could I
when I could simplify?
 
goodbye to everyone
goodbye
 
3.  Heart Roulette
what you think and what you know
are not the same but you can’t let go
of what you think that what you know
can’t be the same but it will show
 
X2
four chambers or six
if you take the heart, I’ll take the risk
 
behind these eyes
you’ll realize
that behind these lies
you’ll despise
 
of what you think that what you know
can’t be the same but it will show
 
X2
repeat chorus
 
you’ve got to get it all out
but you’ve been running your mouth
you have to get it all out
but that’s not what you’re about X2
​
repeat chorus
​
4.  Hostage
you drank the potion to feel the motion
if you get in, you’re never getting out
laid to rest or getting laid just to rest
the unabashed name tag whore now
 
Jesus didn’t know the year, it’s not who said it first
but who said it loud enough to pierce your ears
 
if you’ve got something to sell me
why don’t you just tell me so that I can switch?
if you’ve got something to show me
act like you still know me, make me your hostage
 
you put a dollar in the change machine but nothing ever changes
no one’s at the missing person’s office and the dog with no hair tells you what mange is
the dog trained the scientist by having him ring the bell
we’ve allotted one day for training walking tall on your eggshells
 
Jesus didn’t know the year, it’s not who said it first
but who said it loud enough to pierce your ears
 
if you’ve got something to sell me
why don’t you just tell me so that I can switch
if you’ve got something to show me
act like you still know me, make me your hostage
 
Come on and release me
 
5.Cliff Diver
buckle up, get yourselves strapped in
knuckle grip all the way to the end
hold on for the ride
turn it up till you can’t even hear
don’t look back we’re the only ones here
let’s fly…let’s dive
 
can you see me go?
where I’ll end up who knows
I just know I’m never coming back to you
can you see us go?
where we’ll end up, who knows
we just know we’re never coming back to you
 
pedal down till you push through the floor
metal drowns when the road is no more
we’re goin’ on for the ride
flying’ high, no need for no wings
gorgeous night, let it out go and sing
until they have to hear us
 
*repeat chorus
 
and we’re taking off
we’re leaving now
we’re making off
with a dollar amount
of nothing
cuz we don’t need
anything from anyone
anywhere…anymore
 
6.  Livin’ on the edge (Aerosmith Cover)
​

Question 16

LoveLag-1 (2020)

Accepted Answer

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LoveLag 
1
 
Show Business
music and lyrics:  Chris Donley
 
without the business, there’s no show
I guess I have no business so maybe I should go
without the business, there’s no show
I’m still confused why I took this role
 
some people get a little lost along the way
everything I’ve created somehow gets taken away
now diagnosed with syndrome K
gives me just enough to keep them away
the stakes go up when the mistakes get rough
you’re now importing China in a bull shop
longing for the short work week
dirty elbows ruin clean sheets
 
without the business, there’s no show
I guess I have no business so maybe I should go
without the business, there’s no show
I’m still confused why I took this role
 
no life guard now at the gene pool
it seems that even now, summer’s cruel
scoff-lawyers make decisions
for everyone else with precision
if you decide to take a wife
keep the receipt for a better buy
the coupon’s only good when she decides
through your nose or on your finger tight
 
without the business, there’s no show
I guess I have no business so maybe I should go
without the business, there’s no show
I’m still confused why I took this role
 
I’ll be taking the social path
I’ll be faking the social path
 
this momentary bliss is a stalemate
silent protest nemesis…a dui the next day
 
without the business, there’s no show
I guess I have no business so maybe I should go
without the business, there’s no show
I’m still confused why I took this role
​
Swine
music and lyrics:  Chris Donley
 
the funeral home has a measuring tape
the statute allows statutory rape
having the cash is so hard on the kids
the invalids now are just invalid
 
measure twice, but the bad people once
pay with the hell card and have yourself a morose overdose
 
if I had your money, I’d burn mine
rolling in mud, show the pearls to the swine
 
failing to prepare is preparing to fail
now I’ll pack my bags for the guilt trip and bail
I hate losing more than I love winning
if everyone knew the pentagram is slimming
 
everyone I know just wastes another Sunday
I’m calling God on all his past loans
the interest adds up now so pay
 
if I had your money, I’d burn mine
rolling in mud, show the pearls to the swine
​
I’m Yesterday
music and lyrics:  Chris Donley
 
I’m just a lifeguard going off the deep end
I’m just a mailman with no letters to send
I’m just a bone ready to break because I will not bend
no reason to start because I’m already at the end
 
remember when death was entertainment for us yesterday?
 
I’m just a cowboy riding into someone’s no-horse town
I’m just the fingers left to crack from all your hand-me-downs
I’m just the prince in all your fine prints glossy magazines
I’m just the farmer who got swindled for some magic beans
 
remember when death was entertainment for us yesterday?
 
I’m yesterday
 
and though it’s noble for you to say
it’s past the point of global…and things will never change
 
remember when death was entertainment for us yesterday?
 
I’m yesterday
​
Every Generation Got It’s Own Disease
(originally by Fury in the Slaughterhouse…additional lyrics by Chris Donley
lyrics reprinted with permission)
 
the more we take, the less we give
that’s the modern way to live
someone says “live fast, die young
but the time runs always faster, son
diseases come, diseases go
welcome to the final show
 
let’s shake hands with plastic gloves
and watch out for the last white doves
 
and believe me baby
every generation got it’s own disease
I’ve got mine so help me please
 
think that’ I’m too young to die
loved that world, so we say goodbye
change the staff, pollute the air
dismiss the doctors, just use prayer
use the best words, keep talkin’ tough
when will we say enough’s enough?
 
and believe me baby
every generation got it’s own disease
I’ve got mine so help me please
​
Missing
Music by Cole Martinez
Lyrics by Chris Donley
 
I looked up a the sky today
could’ve sworn I heard you say
“Come on up, it’s time to play…
what do you have better to do?”
 
I think I’ll maybe
I think I’ll maybe stay
 
give me just one more lifetime to try
finally on the right line this time, but thanks for the sign
 
I’m feeling good
I’m feeling fine
 
thanks for the invitation
it really meant a lot to me
save me the reservation
at least I rsvp’d
 
I think I’ll maybe
I think I’ll maybe stay
 
give me just one more lifetime to try
finally on the right line this time, but thanks for the sign
 
you know I’ve been missing you
for some time
 
give me just one more lifetime to try
finally on the right line this time, but thanks for the sign

Question 17

LoveLag-Tribute to Smashing Pumpkins "Siamese Dream" (2024)

Accepted Answer

1. Cherub Rock

Freak out and give in
Doesn't matter what you believe in
Stay cool and be somebody's fool this year
Cause they know who is righteous, what is bold
So I'm told

Who wants honey
As long as there is some money
Who wants that honey

Hipsters unite
Come align for the big fight to rock for you
But beware all those angels with there wings glued on
Cause deep down
We are frightened and we are scared
If you don't stare

Who wants honey
As long as there is some money
Who wants that honey

Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out

Tell me all of your secrets
Can I help but believe this is true
Tell me all of your secrets
I know I know I know should have listened when I was told

Who wants honey
As long as there is some money
Who wants that honey

Let me out
Let me out
Let, let me out
Let, let me out

2. Quiet

Quiet
I am sleeping in here
I need a little hope
For years I've been sleeping
Helpless, couldn't tell a soul

Be ashamed of the mess you've made
My eyes never forget
You see behind me

Silent
Metal mercies
Castrate
Boys to the bone

Jesus, are you listening up there
To anyone at all

We are the fossils, relics of our time
Mutilate the meanings, so they're easy to deny

Be ashamed of the mess you've made
My eyes never forget
You see behind me

Quiet quiet
I am sleeping
Quiet quiet
I am sleeping
Quiet
I don't trust you
I can't hear you

Be ashamed of the mess you've made
My eyes never forget
You see behind me

You see behind me the grace of falling snow
Cover up everything you know
Come save me from the awful sound..of nothing

3. Today

Today is the greatest day I 've ever kown
Can't live for tomorrow, tomorrow's much too long
I burn my eyes out
Before I get out

I wanted more than life could ever grant
Bored by the chore of saving face

Today is the greatest day I have ever known
Can't wait for tomorrow, I might not have that long
I'll tear my heart out
Before I get out

Pink ribbon scars that never forget
I've tried so hard to cleanse these regrets
My angel wings were bruised and restrained
My belly stings

Today is, today is
Today is the greatest day that I have ever known

I want to turn you on
I want to turn you round
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you

Today is the greatest
Today is the greatest day
Today is the greatest day that I have ever known

4. Hummer

Faith lies in the ways of sin
I chased the charms but I don't want them anymore
And in their eyes I was alive, a fool's disguise

Shame my tongue, fat with promise all along
But when I woke up from that sleep
I was happier than I'd ever been

When you decide that your life is a prize
Renew and revive
It's alright honey
It's alright, yeah

Happiness will make you wonder
Will I feel ok
It scares the disenchanted
Far away

Yeah, I want something new
But what am I supposed to do about you
Yeah, I love you, it's true

Life's a bummer
When you're a hummer
Life's a drag

Ask yourself a question
Anyone but me
I ain't free

Do you feel
Love is real

5. Rocket

Bleed in your own light
Dream of your own life
I miss me
I miss everything I'll never be

I torch my soul to show the world that I am pure
Deep inside my heart
No more lies

A crown of thorns, an image formed deformed
The mark I've borne, a mark of scorn to you

Consume my love devour my hate
Only powers my escape
The moon is out the stars invite
I think I'll leave tonight

So that soon I'll find myself alone
To relax and fade away
Do you know what's coming down
Do you know I couldn't stay free?

I shall be free
I shall be free
I shall be free
I shall be free free
Free as the voices
It's all I need

I shall be free
I shall be free

6. Disarm

Disarm you with a smile
And cut you like you want me to
Cut that little child
Inside of me and such a part of you

I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my choice
What's a boy supposed to do
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love, I send this smile over to you

Disarm you with a smile
And leave you like they left me here
To wither in denial
The bitterness of one who's left alone

I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my voice
What's a boy supposed to do
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love, I send this smile over to you

The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you

7. Soma

Nothing left to say
And all I've left to do
Is run away from you

And she led me up, down
With secrets I can't keep
Close your eyes and sleep
Don't wait up for me
Hush now don't you speak
To me

Wrap my hurt in you
And took my shelter in that pain
The opiate of blame is you broken heart, your heart

So I'm all by myself
As I've always felt
I'll betray my tears
To anyone caught in our ruse of fools

One last kiss for me...yeah
One last kiss good night

Didn't want to lose you once again
Didn't want to be your friend
Fulfill a promise made of tears
And crawled back to you

Now I'm all by myself
As I've always felt
And I'll betray myself
To anyone, anyone but you

So let the sadness come again
On that you can depend on me
Until the bitter, bitter end
When good sleeps in bliss

And I'm all by myself
As I've always felt
And I'll betray myself
To anyone

8. Geek USA

Lover lover let's pretend were born as innocents
Cast into the world with apple eyes

To wish wish dangerous
My dear delirious
To try and leave the rest of us behind

Shot full of diamonds
And a million years
The disappointed disappear
As if they were never here

Kiss kiss all of this
The hiss that we had missed
And understand what can't be understood

Sear those thoughts of me
Alone and unhappy
I never liked me anyway

If by chance or circumstance
We should fall, don't be too sad

Shot full of diamonds and a million years
The disappointed disappear like they were never here

In a dream
We are connected
Siamese twins
At the wrist

That's when I knew we had been forsaken
Expelled from paradise
I can't believe them when they say it's alright

Words can't define what I feel inside
Who needs them?
Caught with this virus on my mind
I give into my disease, the disease of my needs
To my disease, of my needs

She really loves to break
Her dad says its ok
She really loves to break
And give it all away

Her mom says she's a fake
What more can she be
She really needs to break
And give us all away

She gave it all away
She gave it all away
She gave it all away
To be in love in usa

9. Mayonnaise

Fool enough to almost be it
Cool enough to not quite see it
Doomed
Pick you pockets full of sorrow
And run away with me tomorrow
June

We'll try and ease the pain
But somehow we'll feel the same
Well no one knows
Where our secrets go

I send a heart to all my dearies
When your life is so so dreary
Dream
I'm rummored to the straight and narrow
While the harlots of my perils
Scream

And I fail
But when I can, I will
Try to understand
That when I can, I will

Mother weep the years I'm missing
All our time can't be given
Back
Shut my mouth and strike the demons
That cursed you and your reasons
Out of hand and out of season
Out of love and out of feeling so
Bad

When I can, I will
Words defy the plans
When I can, I will

Fool enough to almost be it
And fool enough to not quite see it
And old enough to always feel this
Always old, I'll always feel this

No more promise no more sorrow
No longer will I follow
Can anybody hear me
I just want to be me
When I can, I will
Try to understand
That when I can, I will

10. Spaceboy

Feel it
Break your bones
Mr. Jones

Taste me
As I bleed
Taste my need

And spaceboy I've missed you
Spinnin round my head
Any way you choose me
You'll break instead

Watch me
Death defy
Defile my life

I don't need
I don't care
Please

I want to go home
I want to go home
I want to go home
I want to go home

Cause when a lover aches
That's when a lover breaks

I want to go home
I want to go home

And spaceboy they'll kill me
Before I'm dead and gone
And anyway they choose me
We won't belong
And anyway you choose me
We won't belong
We won't belong
We won't belong
We won't belong
We won't belong

11. Silverfuck

I hear your winter
I hear you rain
I've failed your summer ways
And I feel no pain

I hear what you are and I feel no pain
I hear what you are and I feel no pain

I hear you fade away and I hear you crawl
I gave my life away
And I feel no pain
And I feel no pain
And I feel no pain
And I feel your pain

And she was my lover so sweet
And she was my angel
And what I've recovered of me
I put into a box underneath my bed

When you lie in your bed
And you lie to yourself
When you lie in your bed
And you lie to yourself

Bang bang you're dead hole in your head
Bang bang you're dead hole in your head
Bang bang you're dead hole in your head
Bang bang you're dead hole in your head

I hear what you are and I feel no pain
I hear what you are and I feel no pain

12. Sweet sweet

Sweet sweet sweet sweet little agony
I don't know just where you've been
But I'll take take take all that you have for me in sin
Where are we going?

And they all want you to change
And they all want you to change

And the sad sad sad faces drown in this town
Where are we going?

And they all want you to change
Where are we going?
And they all want you to change
Where are we going?

13. Luna

What moon songs do you sing your babies
What sunshine do you bring

Who belongs
Who decides who's crazy
Who rights wrongs where others cling

I'll sing for you if you want me to
I'll give to you
And it's a chance I'll have to take
And it's a chance I'll have to break

I go along just because I'm lazy
I go along to be with you

And those moon songs that you sing your babies
Will be the songs to see you thru

I'll hear your song if you want me to
I'll sing along
And it's a chance I'll have to take
And it's a chance I'll have to break

I'm in love with you
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with you

I'm in love with you
So in love
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with you

I'm in love with you
So in love
I'm in love with you
I'm so in love
I'm in love with you

Question 18

LoveLag-Time to heal life (2024)

Accepted Answer

1. Time to heal life
Unless we learn things, there’s no point in moving on
Listen to the dull drums in the doldrums from now on
Nothing’s gonna’ keep you safe from hate that’s uninformed
Mobilize and plant the mines in minds that don’t conform

An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind
“Take no prisoners alive”
An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind
Tell the time to heal life

Fear is the enemy of progress never seen
When warlords will write the script 
And hide behind the screen
To pacify the “patriots”, they’ll plan in secrecy
Learning from the history to not learn history

An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind
“Take no prisoners alive”
An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind
Tell the time to heal life

If hate is like fire, you’ll burn with your own
But I’m fighting with love, even if I’m alone
So pack up your guns...fun for everyone
Conquer the compassion...with guided bombs
Now you’ll see the misery
Your invasion...“liberation” can’t be undone
When no one has won
Can’t you see your own strings
Held by kings that don’t want peace?
An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind
“Take no prisoners alive”
An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind
Tell the time to heal life
Time is on my side

2. Fried rats
he woke the rats up out of their holes
he led the rats all to their nearest polls
maybe jesus was mean
you say, “what do you mean?”
maybe you misheard him scream-
“don’t you dare “cross” me!”
you can’t commit career suicide
if your life never made you feel alive
Fried rats
you got all the chickens involved in the “fowl” play
no rooster in the hen house should be sitting on the eggs
the babysitting vulture will help domesticate
the yellow-bellied yardbird from every “bleeding” state
You can’t commit career suicide
if your life never made you feel alive

I’m no spring chicken no more
that don’t bother me
a job ain’t nothing but work, comparing meats
you can’t commit career suicide
if your life never made you feel alive
fried rats

3. happy and i know it
raise your hands up to the sky
if you want to say goodbye, just say goodbye
but if you want to stay, put down your cash to play
the odds to speak and say what i’ve always wanted to be
there are so many things i still need to do
i’m “happy” and i know it’s “true”
put your hand unto your heart
there’s no way they’ll ever tear us apart
there are so many things i still need to do
i’m “happy” and i know it’s “true”
but if you want to stay put down your cash to play
the odds to speak and say what i’ve always wanted to be
there are so many things i still need to do
i’m “happy” and i know it’s “true”

4.  the best of me (featuring dallas riffle)
music:  chris donley
lyrics-dallas riffle
i mourn the dying butterflies 
when I’m looking through your eyes
there’s nothing left to compromise
when i’m looking through your eyes
eat me, drink me, gather ‘round and take your fill
’til there is nothing left of what i used to think was everything
that made me what i thought was alive
’til i realized I was dead wrong
and it gets the best of me
when I get the worst of you
and it kills the ones I love
to watch me drowning in your blood
my second life, it rots away
the longer that you stay
i long to stand and face the day
but there’s something in the way
something in the way
eat me, drink me gather ‘round and take your fill
’til there is nothing left of what i used to think was everything
that made me what i thought was alive
’til i realized i was dead wrong

and it gets the best of me...when i get the worst of you
and it kills the ones i love
to watch me drowning in your blood
bind my hands behind...peel this skin of mine
open my heart’s cage...fuck my dizzy mind
drain my curdled blood...leave this pile of bones
for the crows to scrape...let me die alone
i mourn the dying butterflies
when i’m looking through your eyes
when i’m looking through your eyes
and it gets the best of me
when I get the worst of you
and it kills the ones I love
to watch me drowning in your blood
and it gets the best of me
when I get the worst of you
and it kills the ones I love
yo watch me drowning in your blood
eat me, drink me
gather ‘round and take your fill
’til there is nothing left of what i used to think was everything
that made me what i thought was alive
to watch me drowning in your
to watch me drowning in your
to watch me drowning in your blood

5. Husk
repent with the serpent now as we bomb with aplomb
doting on the antidote and peeping with the toms
mark my words
husk of a man, husk of a nation
it’s just the plan in the presentation
watch out for “reds” under beds 
locked in where there’s comfort
stay tuned for commercial breaks
and count days that are numbered
mark my words
husk of a man, husk of a nation
it’s just the plan in the presentation
there’s no nobility in poverty anymore
there’s no ability to have soveriegnty anymore
the houses are creaking as if they were speaking i never know what to believe
cut off at the knees 
but still armed to the teeth
 put your filter on now to deceive
husk of a man, husk of a nation

kings are killed for the encore...war is politics and politics are war
there’s no nobility in poverty anymore
there’s no ability to have soveriegnty anymore
the houses are creaking as if they were speaking 
i never know what to believe
cut off at the knees but still armed to the teeth
 put your filter on now to deceive
husk of a man, husk of a nation
it’s just the plan in the presentation
killing kings doesn’t start wars…
it ends them…to open new doors
kill the king

6. this feeling
your wish for turning up...my wish-refill my cup
if only wishes would just come true
your choice for hope will now...my choice will not allow
our choices will somehow pull through
this feeling is real and so healing
this craving is saving me
what is your heart’s desire?...to just sing with the choir?
determination will be higher… for me
and what is your deepest fear?...to not belong in here?
conviction will be clear to see
this feeling is real and so healing
this craving is saving me, you see?
discipline is an option to use at your discretion
but it will be your decision to understand the vision now...now
this feeling is real and so healing
this craving you see?
to understand the vision now
this feeling is real and so healing now

7. leaving with a california tilt
written by tomas costanza (diffuser)
i never thought the day would come 
when she would say goodbye
she’s leaving with a california tilt to live her life instead
i’m getting tired of holding back the words i want to say
i ran myself into the ground just hoping you would stay
she left on her own through stepping stones
she left on her own again
she left on her own
everything has got to end but good things never leave
a southern man once told me that love isn’t what it means
she left on her own through twisted roads
she left on her own again
she left on her own again

8. still holding on (to something i shouldn’t)
i’m still holding on to something that i shouldn’t
still holding on
what makes you certain that there is something to save?
what makes you positive to just call it a day?
what makes you think there’s a reason to stay?
what makes you positive this tongue-the death of me…
but you always seem to know
i’m still holding on to something that i shouldn’t
still holding on
what makes you want to have me waste all of my time?
what makes you need to try and keep me here in line?
but you always seem to know
i’m still holding on to something that i shouldn’t
still holding on
are you afraid of not having a happy ending?
are you afraid of not having a happy end?
i’m still holding on to something that i shouldn’t
still holding on

9. miss lead
act like you got somewhere to be
and walk with a purpose with me
and see magicians are just professional liars
and poets are just professional thieves
the pregnant pause will make you wait
as you cross through the field of snakes
looking in every mirror that’s sold used
peruse the news, give abuse more views
at least you’re remembered when you’re dead
I’d rather be heard than misread
at least you’re remembered when you’re dead
maybe i was misled by Miss Lead
misled by miss lead ...misled
been breathing in dead air for years
braille screaming falling on deaf ears
a drinker knows a “drinker’s nose”
have wine and step on jesus’ toes
at least you’re remembered when you’re dead
i’d rather be heard than misread
at least you’re remembered when you’re dead
maybe I was misled by miss lead
misled by miss lead ...misled
at least you’re remembered when you’re dead
i’d rather be heard than misread
at least you’re remembered when you’re dead
maybe i was misled by miss lead
at least you’re remembered when you’re dead
i’d rather be heard than misread
10. jabroka
the snow is too quiet...
i can’t hear it when it comes down
the snow is too quiet...
it can’t hear me when I come down
there’s no such thing as a bitter pill 
with the right drug
where there’s a way, you know there’s a will 
that i’m erased from
we’re all just aliens
pack my bags for the guilt trip...
I’m off to the country-cide
there are no more goodfella’ ships
the bosses just let it slide
dear nurse:  you’re my nightingale...
yield of the riding crop
dear hearse:  you’re my ride today 
all the way, there’s no stops
there’s no such thing as a bitter pill 
with the right drug
where there’s a way, you know there’s a will 
that i’m erased from
there has to be a better way to kill 
this broken kingdom 
we’re all just aliens
i’d go to the ends of the earth for you
‘cuz now we have don’t have anything 
left to lose
they’ve taken it all and made us beg for more
there’s no such thing as a bitter pill 
with the right drug
where there’s a way, you know there’s a will 
that i’m erased from)
there has to be a better way to kill
 this broken kingdom
hey you!  you’re one of us!

Question 19

French Donkey-Make Gold (2017)

Accepted Answer

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1.  All the way
This gasoline trail
this waiting disaster tired to railroad rail
only a matchstrike fail 
could keep us from blowing apart
so follow it back to the start
 
all the way 
take it all the way
take it all the way back to you
 
There’s a hole in the plot
a missing piece of the story that the author forgot
and like it or not
you will never make it whole
you never had that kind of control
 
all the way 
take it all the way
take it all the way back to you
 
all the way 
take it all the way
take it all the way back to you
 
all the way 
take it all the way
take it all the way back to you
​
2.  dead end scene
one line in and the crowd’s half gone
you can already tell this ain’t a radio song
I don’t wanna hear lines that might force me to think
think I’ll take this time to step in line for a drink
 
give it ten years and you’ll see what I mean
livin’ a lie instead of livin’ the dream
 
No I don’t know the score to the game
I don’t recognize your favorite player’s name
in fact I think that it’s a shame to see
that this is a grown man’s fantasy
 
give it ten years and you’ll see what I mean
livin’ a lie instead of livin’ the dream
paid in cheap drinks to be a jukebox machine
in a desolate dead end sports bar scene
 
give it ten years and you’ll see what I mean
livin’ a lie instead of livin’ the dream
 
paid in cheap drinks to be a jukebox machine
in a desolate dead end sports bar scene
 
3.  back
when you give it all up you got nothing to lose
so give up with me cuz I got nothing to use
I’ll be too high to die or maybe too low to go
when I’m lyin’ face down, you’ll finally see hope float
 
I went out for a pack of smokes and never came back…whoah
I met a hooker with a heart of gold but she had a heart attack…whoah…whoah
 
When you’re livin’ it up the thoughts are farther from you
just keep on filling’ my cup and let me booze with the blues
I’ll just be sober enough or maybe too drunk to care
but when you’ve had enough, you’ll see me still go nowhere
I went out for a pack of smokes and never came back…whoah
I met a hooker with a heart of gold but she had a heart attack…whoah…whoah
 
Everyone says play it by ear but they never have the right notes
Everyone says “This is your year”, but what do they really know?
What do they know?
 
I went out for a pack of smokes and never came back…whoah
I met a hooker with a heart of gold but she had a heart attack…whoah…whoah
Whoah…whoah
 
4.  enough money
with enough money, you could look just like a supermodel
you could have them reduce you by half
 
put the excess you in tiny jars
process you to make soap bars, 
yes you could…oh
 
with enough money, you could pay a seventh alimony
cuz you might get it right next time around
 
and you could afford the child support
so why not have a dozen more 
if you could…oh
 
with enough money, you could be a covert superhero
have a butler and all of those fancy toys
 
until the weight of what you’ve done
makes the whole thing not much fun
yes it would…oh
 
and you don’t have to be ashamed
anyone would do the same 
if they could…oh
 
with enough money you could be the next pop singer idol
you could make them take away every wrong note
 
and give you lines for up your nose
and a wardrobe of designer clothes
 
yes, they would…oh
until all the tabloids give you hell
and make you want to kill yourself 
and you would…oh
I’m not tryin’ to pass the blame
but you can keep it just the same
yes, you could…oh
​
5.  borderline
Got no reason or rhyme but I like life on the borderline
I’ve got time but I like life on the borderline
 
I’ll be just fine but I like life on the borderline
I’ll be fine, but I like life on the borderline
 
You’re neurotic, borderline psychotic
but that must be the reason we get on so well
 
lately, I’ve been listless…borderline lethargic
but even tired eyes have a story to tell
 
Got no reason or rhyme but I like life on the borderline
I’ve got time but I like life on the borderline
 
I’ll be just fine but I like life on the borderline
I’ll be fine, but I like life on the borderline
 
you paint a picture using other people’s language
cave drawing like a savage using all of the space in an empty room
 
I saw you drop the A-bomb, then survey the damage 
first responder to the wreckage, how you planned it
 
Got no reason or rhyme but I like life on the borderline
I’ve got time but I like life on the borderline
 
I’ll be just fine but I like life on the borderline
I’ll be fine, but I like life on the borderline
 
and if I should just up and run, 
who would be enemy no. 1?
 
least wanted isn’t as much fun
but is this fun?
 
call the army, priests, police and lawyers
visionaries and and voyeurs
take me with you, get me out of here
 
Got no reason or rhyme but I like life on the borderline
I’ve got time but I like life on the borderline
 
I’ll be just fine but I like life on the borderline
I’ll be fine, but I like life on the borderline
​
6.  do gooder
with regret and still in debt I am no good to you
with a heart that falls apart like it’s held by stale glue
It’s not fair, when I dare
to ask of you
But I swear, I can
do gooder soon...ohhh
 
The Second verse is worser than the first
and I’m afraid
My diction’s been afflicted by the monster
I portray...oooh
But I swear, that I care
when I say to you
 
that I’m here but not all there
but I’ll do gooder soon
oooh
It’s not fair, when I dare
to ask of you
But I swear, that I can
do gooder soon
 
But I can’t compare
to others who
Bravely stare down danger
and sooner good do
 
7.  ride along  
Where you goin’, hop on in X2
no need to tell me where you’ve been
Where you goin’, hop on in 
no need to tell me where you’ve been
 
it’s a ride along
a ride along
it’s a ride along
a ride along
it’s a ride along
a ride along
it’s a ride along
Think I’ll just ride alone
 
where we goin’ now that you’re in? X2
it could be no “why, what, where, when”.
where we goin’ now that you’re in?
it could be no “why, what, where, when”.
 
it’s a ride along
a ride along
it’s a ride along
a ride along
it’s a ride along
a ride along
it’s a ride along
Think I’ll just ride alone
 
I don’t care where we’re going
as long as you’re there with me
(Oh, whoah, whoah, ho)
I don’t care where we’re going
as long as you’re there with me
I think I’ll just ride alone
​
8.  anti-bionic
There were days when we didn’t feel so small
and your friends were always at the mall
and you didn’t even need to call
cuz it was safe to assume they would be there
and we didn’t seem to care
what we should or should not wear
 
you were always pretty
such a pity
I have become
 
Anti-bionic
can’t tell you apart from you phone
I have become
anti-robotic
so many likes but you’re so alone
 
the apocalypse has begun 
it’s social media
 
there were nights when we’d meet at the truck stop
just to sit and just to talk
a cup of coffee was enough
 
it did not rob you
of your virtue
I have become
anti-bionic
and you’ll never leave your home
I have become
anti-robotic
and you’ve been leading the attack of the clones
 
Jesus will come back if you forward his image enough
Anti-bionic
Anti-robotic
Anti-Bionic
Anti-Robotic
the apocalypse has begun 
it’s social media
​
9.  errlooms
cellar beware in the autumn years
you sell all your fears and fight off the tears
 
*I give you all my doubts, 
my faults,  my debts, 
my flaws, I give you all
 
weakness is strong when you get it wrong
when you don’t belong, a swan with no song
 
*I give you all my doubts, 
my faults,  my debts, 
my flaws…voices 
in my skull
my ghost in your 
halls…I give you all
 
*I give you all my doubts, 
my faults,  my debts, 
my flaws…voices 
in my skull
my ghost in your 
halls…I give you all
​
10.  ashes
so many people have walked on the graves
and not even known it
look through the peephole, you shocked all the slaves
to try and postpone it
 
but the curtain’s coming down and you can’t control it...it’s certain up till now, why try to console it?
 
ashes to ashes and my dust to dust till we all fall down
pass on the passion, but my trust’s a must till we all fall down
 
if the next life’s comin’ round
you know I won’t be found
 
interest in conflicts ain’t a conflict of interest
until you win the war
if you hit the bricks and take your bag of tricks
will you take much more?
 
but the curtain’s coming down and you can’t control it...it’s certain up till now, why try to console it?
 
ashes to ashes and my dust to dust till we all fall down
pass on the passion, but my trust’s a must till we all fall down
ashes to ashes and my dust to dust till we all fall down
pass on the passion, but my trust’s a must till we all fall down
 
but the curtain’s coming down and you can’t control it...it’s certain up till now, why try to console it?
 
ashes to ashes and my dust to dust till we all fall down
pass on the passion, but my trust’s a must till we all fall down
ashes to ashes and my dust to dust till we all fall down
pass on the passion, but my trust’s a must till we all fall down
​
if the next life’s comin’ round
you know I won’t be found
if the next life’s comin’ round
you know I won’t be found
​
11.  ever after, after all
I hope that it gets started
I hope that it don’t take too long
 
before we’re dear departed
and discovered no ever after, after all
 
even with all these chains on
I’ve climbed up ever single wall
 
I sit so broken hearted
an eternity waiting for the fall
 
you silver tongued devil, you
if you move, I’ll execute every single last one of you
it’s true
 
I hope that it gets stopped now
I think that it all took too long
 
now we’re the dear departed
and discovered no ever after, after all
 
even with all these chains off
I’ve found more barriers than we thought
 
still sit so broken hearted
still awaiting a piss break
hold that thought
 
you silver tongued devil, you
if you move, I’ll execute every single last one of you
it’s true
you silver tongued devil, you
if you move, I’ll execute every single last one of you
it’s true
 
the path of the righteous man keeps us from evil when
truth is friends with fiction 
and we die trying
 
you silver tongued devil, you
if you move, I’ll execute every single last one of you
it’s true
you silver tongued devil, you
if you move, I’ll execute every single last one of you
it’s true
 
12.  feign
we simulate this masquerade
we’ll put it on so we get paid
we do not own the parts we play
but most don’t notice, so we smile and wave
you request the next victim we imitate
 
I’m tired of pretending that I care
that you waste your time on me with prayer
I’ve called out so many times but no one’s
no one’s ever there
 
you’ve had enough to call the bluff
you’ve been force fed and now you’re fed up
your dreams have bursting seams and are looking rough
you got your way so you should tip the cup
or just leave if you need to interrupt
 
I’m tired of pretending that I care
that you take way more than your fair share
I’ve been told so many times by brilliant minds
make sure you beware
 
I’m tired of pretending that I care
if the room is full of just empty chairs
no matter if you are or are not there
I’d be playing for echoes off of silverware
and every line would be a waste of air
I’ve called out so many times but no one’s there
​
13.  (I’m)patiently waiting
You and I could have the best of times
but one day we’ll admit defeat
I’m not saying it’s a waste of time
but I’m a dead end street
 
and I…know that I will play with hell
and you…should run and save yourself
 
I’m patiently waiting for the wrong one
and I’m incapable of changing the event to come
when it does
I will be a wreck
 
I put it on the line everytime
until there’s nothin’ left to prove
but you don’t know that you need it
until you lose 
 
and I…am just the opposite of fine
and you…are still on my mind
 
I’m patiently waiting for the wrong one
and I’m sedated and waiting for the dream to come
when it does
I 
 
I…I…I…
(oooh)
 
I’m patiently waiting for the wrong one
I am tainted and ending to be the last one
I’m patiently waiting for the wrong one
I’m a hell of a lot older than when I begun
but I’m not done
I…not yet…
​
14.  something heaven
where do you think that we all go?
no matter your guess, we’ll only know
 
when the times comes, if time is at all
but where do you think that we all go?
no matter your guess, we’ll only know
when the time comes, if time is at all
​
it’s all something (or nothing at all) X2
it’s all something (or nothing at all) X2
it’s all something (or nothing at all) X2
it’s all something (or nothing at all) X2
 
what did you do with all of your time? 
did you waste all of it, like I’ve wasted mine?
and how should I feel, when it’s near the end?
or should I ask I could just try again?
 
it’s all something (or nothing at all) X2
it’s all something (or nothing at all) X2
it’s all something (or nothing at all) X2
it’s all something (or nothing at all) X2
or nothing at all
 
it’s all something (or nothing at all) X2
it’s all something (or nothing at all) X2
it’s all something (or nothing at all) X2
​
15.  not paradise
I know a place
it’s not paradise
but it’s nice
time time of year
 
I wish you were here
I wish we didn’t live in fear
of what’s been done or what’s to come
or how you’re never near
and I need you
 
and I need you
 
I know a place
it’s not paradise
but it will suffice
when it’s not clear
when it’s safe
when it’s totally not safe
to stick your neck out
to catch a breath of fresh air
 
when it’s very hard to breathe
very hard to breathe
when it’s very, very hard to breathe down here
ohh
 
and I need you
and I need you
​
16.  (s)Hit Parade
if we’ve been here before
then we don’t have to ask
the legend of war
and the maps wear a mask
if we’ve been here before
we should know the terrain
from the hills to the shore
to the curses of fame
 
that we never knew
why should care
but if it was up to you…everyone would
stop just to stare
 
but no thanks
to no one…
but us
 
if we’ve been here before
then we don’t have to ask
if we should just close the door
and look up the facts
if we’ve been here before
we should stop and refrain
from the voices of vices
of angels of those who’ve been slain
​
that we never knew
why should care
but if it was up to you…everyone would
stop just to stare
but no thanks
to no one…
but no thanks
to no one…
 
maybe it meant a lot X2
to you
maybe it meant a lot X2
to you
 
if we never knew
why should we care
if we never knew
why should we care
 
why should
we care
why should
we care
at all?
​
17.  leap year
the days go slower
the tide rolls lower on the shore the day before
a leap year, you’re such a bore
my patience lowers
as I get older add that to your score
a leap year you’re such a bore
 
time won’t change me
I’ll stay behind to prove…it
 
the lights grow dimmer
but there’s a glimmer of hope I’m sure you’ll say
with your cliche’
my wonder wanders
to first responders that always tend to break
their word with their handshake
 
time won’t change me
I’ll stay behind to prove…it
 
time won’t fly
when it’s around me
who…
who, who knows?
maybe I will
change time and
rule it and save…you
oh…
​
18.  still locked out
no matter where I go
no matter what I say
ignore all the blood flow
because my heart gets in the way
and if I told you so
would it matter anyway?
cuz none of you should know
so i’ll just stay away
 
!and if there is a place called heaven
remember to leave the door unlocked
because I’ve been locked out so many times before
and I’ll keep knockin’ till you can’t ignore
because I’ve been locked out so many times before
and I’ll keep knockin’ till you can’t ignore
 
no matter what I do
no matter who’s to blame
do I still get through 
without changing my name?
and if I told you now
just why I deserve
for you to just allow
me in, you must have heard
 
!and if there is a place called heaven
remember to leave the door unlocked
 
because I’ve been locked out so many times before
and I’ll keep knockin’ till you can’t ignore
because I’ve been locked out so many times before
and I’ll keep knockin’ till you can’t ignore
 
and if there is a code word
I’m sure, I’m sure you must have heard
me say something close enough
or maybe not…or maybe not
 
because I’ve been locked out so many times before
and I’ll keep knockin’ till you can’t ignore
because I’ve been locked out so many times before
and I’ll keep knockin’ till you can’t ignore
​
19.  something better
I’m driving like I have a million times before
and I’m flying till I am standing at your door
 
but you met me with a script in your hand and a tear in your eye
if I may interject, I can save you from having to cry
 
because we don’t have to talk about the weather
we can totally avoid who got it wrong
and you don’t have to stay forever
but honey stay till something better
something better comes along…hey, hey, yeah
 
I’m staring at marilyn posters on your wall
and I’m daring to show care and you’re baring it all
but I’lll stop you right there, the part where you’re about to say goodbye
because I don’t see the point if no one else is in line
 
because we don’t have to talk about the weather
we can totally avoid who got it wrong
and you don’t have to stay forever
(you don’t have to stay forever)
but honey stay till something better
something better comes along…
 
because we don’t have to talk about the weather
we can totally avoid who got it wrong
and you don’t have to stay forever
(you don’t have to stay forever)
but honey stay till something better
something better comes along…
 
20.  symbiote
if you think what we’re doing’s wrong
even though we’re not breaking laws
just playin’ games with the shock and awe
it’s you that’s wrong
it’s not the cat that got us involved
but playing God, curiosity kills us all
our own pride will be our downfall
progress will stall
 
we knew everything from the start
that’s why we pulled ourselves apart
we can’t glow until it gets dark
that’s why we pulled ourselves apart
 
we fell together now for so long
that even rights start to look all wrong
is it odd if we don’t belong
in the same song
and just one slip of your sharpened tongue
can do more damage than loaded guns
no one can manage to duck and run
we can’t be one
​
21.  out of time
I’m a snail on a path of nails
leave my scent and prints behind
isn’t the first time I’ve been trailed
it seems I’m runnin’ out of time
runnin’ out, runnin’ out of time
to look for my paradise
 
hiding in my shell of fear
of screwing up my lines
clock’s tickin’ I know they’ll soon be here
because now I’m runnin’ out of time
 
runnin’ out, runnin’ out of time
to look for my paradise
runnin’ out, runnin’ out of time
 
runnin’ in circles round and round
I’ll have to hustle if I’m not to be found
I need shelter I can call my home
I’m runnin’ out of time, I know
 
runnin’ out, runnin’ out of time
to look for my paradise
runnin’ out, runnin’ out of time
to look for my paradise
 
stuck in a maze of my own selfishness
but I’ve had enough of your lies
I’ll be gone, I’ll surely bet
because I know I’m runnin’ out of time
 
runnin’ out, runnin’ out of time
to look for my paradise
runnin’ out, runnin’ out of time
to look for my paradise
​
Cerrado
 
verse 4X
 
Breathing in a wealth of pestilence
as we dance with roman candles in the fire
and taking in the fact you’re taken in
really doesn’t leave a lot of space for time
 
and you belong here and I appear as silent as a mime
and you 
 
and I complain so much I can’t explain
you’d think that I have never felt alive
But I remain the one and only frame
not to yellow in this film on how to try
 
but all the same
 
_______________________________

Question 20

French Donkey-Bonus Gold (2017)

Accepted Answer

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FRENCH DONKEY
BONUS GOLD 
(Limited release only to Kickstarter backers)
​
1.  something better
I’m driving like I have a million times before
and I’m flying till I am standing at your door
but you met me with a script in your hand and a tear in your eye
if I may interject, I can save you from having to cry
 
because we don’t have to talk about the weather
we can totally avoid who got it wrong
and you don’t have to stay forever
but honey stay till something better
something better comes along…hey, hey, yeah
 
I’m staring at marilyn posters on your wall
and I’m daring to show care and you’re baring it all
but I’lll stop you right there, the part where you’re about to say goodbye
because I don’t see the point if no one else is in line
 
because we don’t have to talk about the weather
we can totally avoid who got it wrong
and you don’t have to stay forever
(you don’t have to stay forever)
but honey stay till something better
something better comes along…
 
because we don’t have to talk about the weather
we can totally avoid who got it wrong
and you don’t have to stay forever
(you don’t have to stay forever)
but honey stay till something better
something better comes along…
 
2.  (I’m)patiently waiting
You and I could have the best of times
but one day we’ll admit defeat
I’m not saying it’s a waste of time
but I’m a dead end street
 
and I…know that I will play with hell
and you…should run and save yourself
 
I’m patiently waiting for the wrong one
and I’m incapable of changing the event to come
when it does
I will be a wreck
 
I put it on the line everytime
until there’s nothin’ left to prove
but you don’t know that you need it
until you lose 
 
and I…am just the opposite of fine
and you…are still on my mind
 
I’m patiently waiting for the wrong one
and I’m sedated and waiting for the dream to come
when it does
I 
I…I…I…
(oooh)
 
I’m patiently waiting for the wrong one
I am tainted and ending to be the last one
I’m patiently waiting for the wrong one
I’m a hell of a lot older than when I begun
but I’m not done
I…not yet…
​
3.  This Time, That Time
I’ve tried to convince myself that no one ever feels like me
it’s just what I believe
I’ve tried to convince myself no one ever felt like me
the way I’ll always be
 
but now I know I’m wrong again this time
and I’ll try harder than I’ve ever tried
 
I know I’m wrong this time
and I know I’m wrong that time
 
but if I know I’m wrong again this time
can I try harder than I’ve ever tried
 
I’ve tried to distance myself from anyone like you
but it’s hardder to do 
I’ve tried to convince myself that you’ll do just what you’ll do
but I’ll pull through
 
but now I know I’m wrong again this time
and I’ll try harder than I’ve ever tried
 
I know I’m wrong this time
and I know I’m wrong that time
 
but if I know I’m wrong again this time
can I try harder than I’ve ever tried
 
if I can…
try to convince myself
I can fix anything
 
but now I know I’m wrong again this time
and I’ll try harder than I’ve ever tried
but now I know I’m wrong again this time
and I’ll try harder than I’ve ever tried
 
I know I’m wrong this time
and I know I’m wrong that time
I know I’m wrong this time
and I know I’m wrong that time
 
4.  Wonder
Cast aspersions, then cast me away
create a diversion, make everyone say
 
what could make us better than
if we could remember when
what could help us get there again?
 
past perversions are too much to take
the last conversions are the last ones to make
 
what could make us better than
if we could remember when
what could help us get there again?
is it better that a friend 
is becoming a means to your end
did we really have to pretend?
why you do it…
 
why you try to take me down, down, down
you know you act so sweet
when no one else is around, round, round
 
and I wonder
still I wonder
and I wonder
why you do it…
 
why you try to take me down, down, down
you know you act so sweet
when no one else is around, round, round
 
5.  Waiting for your summer
Winter is coming again
it seems like it will never end
where will we be when it begin 
and so we begin
 
how long must we wait
for the day when we can say
how long must we be
stuck in the cold that is me
 
Spring is coming again
it seems like it will never end
one season will end then we wait for 
another summer to begin
 
how long must we wait
for the day when we can say
how long must we be
stuck in the cold that is me
​
how long must we wait
for the day when we can say
how long must we be
stuck in the cold that is me
​

Question 21

French Donkey-(Self titled 2006)

Accepted Answer

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1.  Cerrado
Breathin’ in a wealth of pestilence
as we dance with roman candels in the fire
takin in the fact that you’re taking really doesn’t 
leave a lot of space for time
 
But you belong here and I appear as silent 
as a mine
but you’d have been as soft as porceline
cracking all the time
 
I complain so much I can’t explain
you’d think that I had never really felt alive
but I remain the one and only frame not
to yellow in this film on how to try
 
but all the same, I’ll pay the check and
I’ll be well upon my way
and you’ll remain the fringe, that’s always
frayed and were better off that way
 
Heaven isn’t any way
connected to this feeling
Behind every closed door
Is another open room
 
2.  Waiting for your summer
Winter is coming again
it seems like it will never end
where will we be when it begin 
and so we begin
 
how long must we wait
for the day when we can say
how long must we be
stuck in the cold that is me
 
Spring is coming again
it seems like it will never end
one season will end then we wait for 
another summer to begin
 
how long must we wait
for the day when we can say
how long must we be
stuck in the cold that is me
 
how long must we wait
for the day when we can say
how long must we be
stuck in the cold that is me
 
3.  Attempting Fate
Time fleets again and I don’t mind
I don’t mind if you’re 
Gone with the wind and I’m just fine and I don’t mind cuz I’m 
 
too old to be standing around 
staring at the walls, watching the paint dry
just for you to say goodbye
 
So time wastes away, that’s just fine, I’m on mine
and it’s burned and blown away
and in time, you will find that you
 
wasted your whole life
waiting for someone to change your mind
just to run out of time so
 
Now I’m days away and I don’t mind if you don’t reply cuz
all I had to say is I’m just fine and I don’t mind
anymore
I don’t mind anymore
 
4.  Repeat Words of Chorus
Where, where have you been
how long till you fit in?
Where, where have you been
Seen the world and now you’re back again
 
first you’re coming, then you’re gone
who misses who now?
and now becoming what you all along
seemed to be back, seemed to be back then
 
Where will you go from here
cuz you’re never anchored down
and the crystal ball is crystal clear
but you’re stuck in this town
 
first you’re coming, then you’re gone
who misses who now?
and now becoming what you all along
seemed to be back, seemed to be back then
 
So when your picket fence
crumbles to the ground 
and no one is around
 
first you’re coming, then you’re gone
who misses who now?
and now becoming what you all along
seemed to be back, seemed to be back then
 
5.  Nocturina
you shook the center
all lines were erased
you fold her like paper 
airplanes
 
Caffeine on the brain
a vampire’s champagne
Oh…Sure beats sleepin’ the night…away
 
Did she have “it”?
no re morse code
ex communicated
or so you were told
 
Caffeine on the brain
a vampire’s champagne
Oh…Sure beats sleepin’ the night…away
 
6.  A night on fire
Spend all your time
while wasting all of mine
 
It’s just another night on fire
it’s just another night on fire
 
Look around…everyone’s gathered around
to see what we both found
 
It’s just another night on fire
it’s just another night on fire
 
And you can be
And you can be anyone
But me
But me
Anyone but me
 
It’s just another night on fire
it’s just another night on fire
​
7.  Watch your Watch
Come inside if you are cold
take your time if only you are
here for awhile so now I know
how slow time moves
 
and the clock hasn’t budged
I kept a close eye
so you could be the judge 
of whether or not it flies
 
state your case if you are bold
or keep it inside if only you are
here for awhile then you can go
there’s no time to spare
 
and the clock hasn’t budged
I kept a close eye
so you could be the judge 
of whether or not it flies
 
So you chose instead to hide
and you told loose ends goodbye
no one will be waving as you go
 
and the clock hasn’t budged
I kept a close eye
so you could be the judge 
of whether or not it flies
 
8.  The Bends
If only once
you could see
if only me
if only we
 
every moment is clear
while down here
slow moving life
passes by
 
you can only go so far down
until you reach the top with me
you can only go so far down
just make sure you forget to breathe
 
pay no mind
to gravity
and tragedy
completely
submerging
and carefree
 
every moment is clear
while down here
slow moving life
passes
 
you can only go so far down
until you reach the top with me
you can only go so far down
just make sure you forget to breathe
 
and  if you bend
remember when 
you used to break instead
​
9.  Sad Mexican Love Letter (From Hell)
I got your letter
that you never even meant to send
hope you get better
and if you don’t, please don’t pretend
 
what made you think that things would change?
as you write the things you could never say
 
I got your postcard
sent to me with postage due
a wish on dirty ground and falling stars
with no hope of coming true
 
what made you think that things would change?
as you write the things you could never say
 
10.  Mahalo
Short lived, like everything you’ve ever thrown away
then missed just as soon as it was gone…you know the way
far fetched, stories you made on your own, they say
drag you like a prisoner set to be stoned
 
we’ve all set our sails for new ground to tread
lost with ourselves and the ghosts you keep in your head
 
Thank you for everything you’ve ever thrown away
now treasured by everyone else that you know
and yet those who you thought would never go away
have mapped out everything except for what to say
 
we’ve all set our sails for new ground to tread
lost with ourselves and the ghosts you keep in your head
 
we’ve all set our sails for new ground to tread
lost with ourselves and the ghosts you keep in your head
the bounties been paid and you’re as good as dead
anchors away and all your prayers have been said
 
11.  You Are
There’s a light on distant shores
 a beacon for the lost
a place for the abandoned
who can afford the cost
 
I nearly drowned
when I was found
I tried to bite the hand that keeps me tied 
in spite of man who knows no why
the trite, the bland is something we know more
 
so we’re looking out so far
wearing blinders that you are
trying hard to steal the light
from the left that isn’t right
 
I nearly drowned
when I was found
I tried to bite the hand that keeps me tied 
in spite of man who knows no why
the trite, the bland is something we know more
 
and you are 
so far
​
so far away it’s hard to say
you’re so far away from yesterday
So far away…so far
and you are…
​

Question 22

Adam and Steve-"Love of a nighttime" (2023)

Accepted Answer

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Question 23

Via the sun-Closure (2014)

Accepted Answer

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All the way home
I’m building up my walls so no one can blow them down
I’ve been walking off my crawls so everyone in this town can say
 
“Will you cry, cry, cry all the way home
Or will you try to deny the world will keep movin’ after you’re gone”.
 
You know it’s alway better to be feared than loved
So how come neither one of them was ever enough?
 
X2
“Will you cry, cry, cry all the way home
Or will you try to deny the world will keep movin’ after you’re gone”.
 
Movin’ after you’re gone X2
It’ll keep moving on until after you’re gone
This little piggy, this little pig
This little piggy, this little pig
 
This little piggy cried all the way home
This little piggy was all alone
 
X2
“Will you cry, cry, cry all the way home
Or will you try to deny the world will keep movin’ after you’re gone”.
​
2. Kill Hollywood
how did I go wrong when I went the right way?
I followed the signs along the path I was s'posed to take
but following all directions may be a tad passe'
but no style is my style and I'm not about to fake
 
*runnin' away from the runway
runnin' away there's just one way
to kill the fashion trend for the good
runnin' away from the runway
runnin' away there's just one way
to make it all end...kill hollywood
 
they're killin' everything by usin' new designs
and fillin' all the seats rehashing all used lines
but when it comes to me, I'd rather tear my eyes
right from the rest of me, then I could be just fine
takin' a red carpet ride i just might
I just might have to decide if I'm right
 
*repeat
 
turn your backs...don't look back...you might see
if you react...slap down your cash...to fuel the machine of hypocrisy
 
it only makes it better for them
 
*repeat
​
3.  Free Advice
we can reconcile as soon as you defile yourself enough to admit
that this piece won't fit and you can't force it
 
*when you finally reach the point of no return 
just cut your losses cuz its time to live and learn
but there's no such thing as the point of no return
that's free advice
 
we can reconcile but I'm still curious of what you did while
I sat alone with no map, no chance to ever get back 
and I was my own lost guide
no one can take away
all those nights and all those days
but its ok to say
 
*repeat
to you
that's my gift to you
 
do you know what I'd give to be able to live
without this drama that I'm surrounded with
 
*repeat
​
4.  Cover
Stayed home today cuz I don’t wanna’ work for anyone else
Instead I played and finally did a little thing for myself
 
*They’ve given up
I’m not hangin’ up
It’s still early for the end
The window just got cracked again
I’m not givin’ up
 
Stayed home forever
And I don’t ever want to do it again
Please kill the weather
Cuz I’m season affected
But if I really could find an escape
It’d be for everyone else’s good
Just go back and rewind the tape
Then I’d be understood
 
*repeat
 
It’s been killing me
This love of easy money
It’s been killing me
But to everyone else this just seems so funny
 
Can’t you see that this is killing me
 
*repeat
​
5.  Save Change
I’ve been using my inside voice for too long
Being stuck here on the outside
All this typing on tip toes takes away
Your voice from me
 
You’re paying them all off in a way
No more prank calls, they took them all away
 
*Do you really want to save me?
Or do you really want to change me?
 
Someone is getting long in the tooth
If it’s not me, then it has to be you
Wheel ‘em out into the center of this town
Bringin’ back the executions for the crowd
 
You’re paying them all off in a way
No more prank calls, the took them all away
 
*Do you really want to save me?
Or do you really want to change me?
It’s too late
 
Still sellin’ the snake oil out the back
Firewater on the rack
Been a shepherd my whole life
Might be nice to be a sheep for awhile
 
You’re paying them all off in a way
No more prank calls, they took them all away
 
*Do you really want to save me?
Or do you really want to change me?
It’s too late
​
6.  Convenience Kills
I know what you did to me
It’s your fault that I believe
*no one loves no one
 
What you had for me you gave away
What you took from me were days to pay
Understanding what goes wrong can be
The truest form of flattery, now see
*No one loves no one
They’re just forced to care
 
Convenience kills
Yet I’m here still
Convenience kills
When lies are fulfilled
Convenience kills
Especially when…
*No one loves no one

Question 24

Via the sun-Perceptions (2013)

Accepted Answer

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1.  Leperace' (lep-er-rot-chee)
(Via The Sun and Dean Johnson)
*run, run, run away
run, run, run away from me again
 
I'm pretty sure everyone thinks I'm paranoid
at least that's what the voices said
the cancer keeps knocking on an open door
be sure to be sweet, wipe your feet, and come on in
 
!giving your reasons, giving you reasons
this is just one way to say, I think that you should...
 
*repeat chorus
 
I'm pretty sure I'm still the king of rejection
still sitting around catching knives
just depends on your perceptions
one man's trash just happens to be my life
 
!repeat
a warning sign, if you will...I think that you should...
 
*repeat chorus
 
anytime you say "like i said"
means you don't have to say it again
 
that's just how it goes
no one knows what I know
 
*repeat chorus
​
2.  hooks (hoo ks)
cast on out, you're lookin' for a trophy
to hang on the wall so they all can talk
about what could be
and oh what stories we could share
 
*no one likes me, everyone hates me
I'm gonna' take my worms
and catch the biggest prize of all
and then it'll be my turn
 
reeled 'em in, look at all the suckers
skin to win, i'll say it again, so you all can hear
how dare you get sleep, when I get none
you get all the shade, I get all the sun
and I've been out here way too long
 
*repeat chorus
 
they got their hooks in you now
hooked again
 
*repeat chorus
and I'm goin' home
​
3.  c'est la vie (se la vee)
say bitch, you better put your money where your mouth is now
my heart's been overdrawn I don't have time for no joint account
i'm about to blow the lock so put some distance inside all the cells
oh well
 
*say love...say love...say love...c'est la vie
say love...say love...say love can't afford me
 
say bitch, you better not write checks that you know your ass can't cash
can't give no credit due when the credit's doing all she can
what d'ya say we do a little role play?
I'll be the bomb, you be the bank
 
*repeat chorus
its too expensive to be loved
*repeat chorus 
​
4.  magic 8 (maj ik eyt)
all signs point to yes
that's just my best guess
ask and try again
who knows...go for it
 
!give me a shake, try to turn me around
those are the breaks, be sure not to count
yes in due time, you'll have to wait
 
*if timing is everything, why is the clock sitting still?
if I could kill what I said last night with a morning after pill
I would
 
i have my doubts, now you see
but it all looks good to me
noas I see it...YES!
reply hazy...i can't see it
 
!repeat
*repeat chorus
​
5.  idol lies (idolize)
in terms of time, I feel I've lived for way too long
concerns sometimes, I'm writing the same 'ol song
but if the message never managed to break the skin
it seems like its my duty to dust off and try again
!not for me, but you
if not for me, then for who?
 
*where have all the heroes gone
did they run out of things to say?
why have all the heroes gone away?
 
in terms of all the highs and all the lows
I've flown and sank but still no one knows
until I'm back here underneath of the microscope
pretending you're pretentious
!repeat
 
*repeat chorus
where have all the heroes gone?
why have all the heroes gone away? (Who's to say?)
*repeat chorus
​
6.  won love (wuhn luv)
I'm goin' in crazy
its the only way to go
I'm comin' guns blazing
to go toe to toe
 
and take the power back from them
take the power back with
 
*one love with our brothers
we'll rise above...rise above
 
won't you post partum me now?
you think you know how I feel
 
you think you'll take the power back from us
take the power back but you won't (no you won't)
 
with...
*repeat chorus
 
you're counting from 1 to tenament
the countdown has begun
 
*repeat chorus
 
7. every now and then (ev ree nou and then)
there's no bones about it...no other way to feel
no choice to live without it...no other way to steal
cuz when I close my eyes, I see inside and nothing hides from me
but if you chose to lie to pass the time, you'd have to wait and see
if what you really wanted was really what you need
if what you really wanted was nothing more than me
 
*everyone's guilty every now and then
no matter what's been said
 
I'll sit and wait alone without it cuz that's the way that it should be
I'll take the stone right now and drown it cuz its feelings are like me
and when I'm looking deep inside
you know there's just too much to hide
if what you really wanted was really what you need
if what you really wanted was nothing more than me
 
*repeat chorus
when you start turning your back in your sleep
its over
*repeat chorus
​
8.  grave robin hood (greyv rob in hoo d)
(Via the sun and Joe Cimino)
there's a lot of work to be done
but its never work if its always fun
kill them all cuz I'm not gonna' keep up
never one to be outdone
it never hurts when you're #1
help from the neighbors never comes
 
still we'll carry on to be
 
*keepin' up with the new Jim Jones'
if I take a drink will you suck out the poison?
your metaphors are forced
grave robin hood
 
keep stealin' from the rich
to keep your pockets nice and thick
it never crossed your mind to nevermind
steep feelin' from the riffs
too steep so you put on the "fix"
no grass can ever be greener than mine
 
still we'll carry on to be
 
*repeat chorus
mine's better...nyah, nyah, nyah
no matter what you think
i'd rather be poor than have to be
*repeat chorus
​
9.  dissuade (dih sweyd)
loose upper lip...pull it back or you just may trip
chew the line and cut the fat
or do anything at least close to that
 
dissuade
!no one leaves out the front door anymore
 
*raise your fists now
we cannot allow
we must dissuade before its too late
 
don't go where you eat...mixing the business with pleasure
pistolwhip the sky...taking every measure
tomorrow always comes too soon or too late
we must dissuade
 
!repeat
*repeat
once its broken, it'll never be the same again
once its broken, it will never be
dissuade
​
10.  wrist...on your list (rist on your list)
!just close your eyes and count to death
lungs hold lies so scold your breath
I may forgive, I don't forget
full of grace, full of yourself, maybe that's it
 
i quit writing everything down
cuz there's way too much evidence now
my mind is seriously playing seriously 
tricks on my mind
 
*there may be a rogue here in your midst
but in the midst of the mist
will be my wrist on your list
 
!repeat
​
12.  balance (bal un s)
the scars here on my hands
only seem to make demands
the scars here on my heart
been bleeding from the start
 
*so when you try to bring me back to life, ask yourself why
is it even worth the breath of me keeping you in debt
with the checks I regret
 
!now I know the balance so...
 
the x's in my eyes
help me to fantasize
to turn truths now into lies
while I sit here sketching flies
 
*repeat chorus
!repeat
*repeat chorus
​
13.  anchors away (ang kers uh wey)
this one is for the beautiful
the ones who make up all the rules
this one is for the beautiful
bon voyage to that sailing ship of fools
 
hold your breath for me
 
*anchors away from me
set sail for calmer seas
 
this one is for the captains
of every ship that sank
this one is for the captains
to which I will now give thanks
without you all to show me what not to do
i would've never learned a fucking thing from you
so this one is for the captains
who should've just gone down with their ships
 
wave goodbye to me
*repeat chorus
anchors away from me
drown in this town
 
anchors away
hold your breath for you
*repeat chorus 
​
​

Question 25

Via the sun-Parallels (2013)

Accepted Answer

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(Acoustic versions of "Theatrics" and "All the way home" from "Closure))
Track listing:
1.  Grateful
2.  Bad Roots
3.  Cliff diver
4.  Alone
5.  Atrophy
6.  Recycle day
7.  Livin' fast
8.  All the way home

Question 26

Via the sun-Theatrics (2012)

Accepted Answer

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1.  Cliff Diver
buckle up, get yourself strapped in
knuckle grip all the way to the end
hold on for the ride
turn it up till you can't even hear
don't look back we're the only ones here
let's fly...let's dive
 
*can you see me go?
where I'll end up who knows
I just know I'm never comin' back to you
can you see us go?
where we'll end up who knows
we just know we're never comin' back to you
 
pedal down till you push through the floor
metal drowns when the road is no more
we're goin' on for a ride
flyin' high no need for no wings
gorgeous night, let it out go and sing
until they have to hear us
 
*repeat chorus
*repeat chorus
we're taking off, we're leaving now
we're making off with a dollar amount
of nothing, cuz we don't need
anything...from anyone, anymore...
 
2.  Bad Roots
we got the bruises on the tooth
we got the bruises from the fruit
from the apple...but how far can it fall?
 
*make sure your roots are strong
cuz not all roots belong
 
a house divided cannot stand
structure built on shoulders of manh
but if the foundations' cracked
you better draw up new plans
you don't have to trust anyone, understand?
remember the foreman is only a man
who learned from the ones that were taught wrong before
 
*repeat
 
get on your helmet we've got diggin' to do
you better be prepared to get some dirt on your shoes
get out your shovel, brace your back
we're fillin holes with everything that everyone else lacked
 
diggin' up new
*repeat
​
3.  Recycle Day
I don't have to rhyme to be beautiful this time
I don't need the wealth to be plentiful for awhile
 
*and I refuse the refuse from you
and i choose to win not lose
 
I don't have to buy all the things on sale from you
I'll only wonder why i'd get one instead of two
I thought I needed just one thing
but I'm not so sure anymore...that's for sure
 
*repeat
I'm recyclin' all of my friends
*repeat
​
4.  atrophy
muscles relax when they're too scared to ask for a relief
tighten the racks when they're about to collapse and then you can sleep
 
*lookin' on up but you're just on the way down
let me tell ya'
 
!everything will turn into a big pile of 
shutup I'm still telling you why
shutup I'm still telling you why
you're still a trophy to me
 
shinin' you up to let the whole world see
all that remains if you'd just listen to me
but you'll still be stuck in your adhesive ways
run out of luck before i get to say
 
*repeat
!repeat
 
and once that I've won you, the lustre seems to fade
just once could I run you into the direction that's safe
 
!repeat
 
5.  Alone
I'm not worried about me cuz you're the ones that have to sleep at night
but it occurred without me
its gone on way too long and its not worth the time
​
*lonely at the top and lonely at the bottom
lonely at in the middle just wish I would've taught 'em right
lonely at the top and lonely at the bottom
lonely at in the middle just wish 
​
I'm not worried about you cuz when I tried to care it seemed insincere
just know it occurred without you 
its gone on way too long and I'm too tired here
 
*repeat
 
and if I would've known
I wouldn't be here all alone
and If I would've known
i would've made myself out of stone
 
but no...I'm just too stubborn for my own good
*repeat
​
6.  Livin' Fast
finally walkin' out the door tonight
it finally feels alright... to be you
you're drivin' at the speed of light
cutting right on through the night...and its so overdue
 
*livin' fast and dyin' slow
it seems to be the only way I know
 
throw it in the highest gear
even though I got nowhere...it feels so good to just get out
i'm not sayin' its a chore
I've never wanted any more...just feel like I needed a break
 
*repeat
 
cuz no one can show one which way to really to turn
cuz we got the wind on our side and we will always win this fight
as long as we still feel alive, we will never die
​
7.  Stacks
just sign on up and pick a side
no matter what you know they're always right
and sign it on the dotted line
its happened so since the dawn of time
when the rich get richer, the poor get armed
then the wits get dimmer, ignore the alarm
 
stacks...are...smoking everyone is
choking, joking get out your politics
cuz when you state your case you just erase
truth from youth so you can benefit
just like the way that it has always been
 
linin' pockets to fight for what's right
and fire the rockets, send the paupers off to fight
 
stacks can reach up to the sky
facts are disarmed to hold the flag up high
but when you state your case you just erase
we are the ones who put you there
no you don't have a clue or seem to care
 
*and now you'll vote while I choke on my own tongue
but soon they'll know why I chose to not belong
 
!cuz the jackals attack all with the packs of pawns they're movin' one by one
when the stacks all, collapse and fall...the weight of it will surely weigh a ton
 
bring 'em downx2
bring 'em to our level
 
!repeat
 
and i won't vote, and i won't choke on my own tongue
so now you'll know why i chose to not belong
 
8.  Grateful
takin' a rest but you'll put your head on down 
bury it deep on into the ground
but what you won't see is seen by all around
ignoring the truth won't let your heart feel sound
 
but I still know
*that I could be thankful for all that I've got...yeah
but its hard to be grateful when all of you all are not
 
once you've pulled your head out then you will see
how you slowly pushed yourself away from me
but its all my fault, it always is
but now that I'm gone I'm at the top of your list
 
but I still know
*repeat
 
I'd see you all at the bottom with me
but you see this is not the place I'm supposed to be
enjoy your time, enjoy your time...without me
 
*repeat
Because I am thankful for all that I've got
and now its not hard to be grateful when all of you all are not
​
9.  Sorry instead
feeding an animal can give you a friend
eating the cannibal is not too hard to comprehend
 
*I've been paying attention
FOR every word you said
its so hard to say you're sorry
I'll be sorry for youX2 instead
 
needing a goat that's "scaped" will give you a "mark"
salting the wound that's scraped is just how you start
on your marks, get set and go
 
*repeat
my poor battery was drained by flattery that I saw all along
when all that I needed was the truth completed how you love my favorite songs
 
*repeat
 
10.  Fools
when the clock strikes one, you're almost done...yeah
wrappin' up you'll see you've just begun...yeah
 
cuz when you'll see that you need a little more from me
then I could be for a small fee...everything
 
*have you ever wished you were someone else?
if you could, would you really change yourself?
 
when the clock strikes two, you're almost through...yeah
you put in enough time at least to you...yeah
 
cuz when you'll see that you need somethin' else from me
then i could be the lottery...for you to take it and run
 
*have you ever wished you were someone else?
if you could, would you really change yourself?
cuz to me, fooled once is the biggest price
but to you its right to fool me twice
 
but i know...I'm right
so no...no way you will ever fool me twice
 
*have you ever wished you were someone else?
if you could, would you really change yourself?
cuz to me, fooled once is the biggest price
but to you its right to fool me twice
​
11.  present prize
it's not that I'm mad, I'm just not that impressed
I never am until I see who wins best dressed
blue ribbons for everyone
passed on out till you pass out or pass it to the judge
 
*can I have your attention?
can I have your objection?
can I have your attention?
 
!because your past is still your present
in your presence, I feel I'm passed
 
couples retreat the front lines are too dangerous
so nice to meet the blunt lies facing one of us
gold stars for everyone
bold marks book mark the page I'm always on
 
can I have your attention?
 
!repeat
!repeat

Question 27

Sindust-1 TAKES (2017)

Accepted Answer

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1.  Acceptance Speech
 
Music and Lyrics:  Donley
there’s been many times, in my head I rehearsed the lines
it’s just that they never heard the words:  “Come on out”
there’s been many times, theatrics show signs of the times 
but what decides performance prize is you…only you
 
so now I see you work so hard
turn around for me so I can watch you take your seat
so now I see you play so hard
it’s all fun and games for me, I’ll watch you play your part
 
there’s been many times, don’t know if I could count the lines
just know the script was full of lies writtten by you…only you
there’s been many times, trip over lines, lines of all kinds
directions given just you want…your own way
 
so now I see you work so hard
turn around for me so I can watch you take your seat
so now I see you play so hard
it’s all fun and games for me, I’ll watch you play your part
 
you know you wanted it so bad
you do whatever you can
like me, I’ll pick apart your head
too bad it’s something that you’ll never let happen
 
so now I see you work so hard
turn around for me so I can watch you take your seat
so now I see you play so hard
it’s all fun and games for me, I’ll watch you play your part
 
you know you wanted it so bad
you do whatever you can
like me, I’ll pick apart your head
too bad it’s something that you’ll never let happen
 
there’s been many times, in my head I rehearsed the lines
it’s just that they never heard the words:  “Come on out”
 
2.  Tongue Tied
Music and Lyrics:  Donley
I don’t want to waste all my 
good words on this
and all of my “thought-provoking” 
lines of shit
 
I can only say the word “I”
so many repeated and pointless times
I’ve been trippin’ for too long because my shoes aren’t tied
it’s such a shame to all of you that I am not tongue tied
 
The only reason that I’m not saying more
is the simple fact that any cleanliness will distort
and burn the ears of all of those who can’t hold their tongue
and spark more interest in the fitness of exercise to some…shut your mouth
 
if you all think that
talking smack will lead the attack
and maneuver all your pawns for the final strike
against just us and this overbite of words
 
I can only say the word “I”
so many repeated and pointless times
I’ve been trippin’ for too long because my shoes aren’t tied
it’s such a shame to all of you that I am not tongue tied
 
I can only say the word “I”
so many repeated and pointless times
I’ve been trippin’ for too long because my shoes aren’t tied
it’s such a shame to all of you that I am not tongue tied
 
3.  Team to the top
Music and lyrics:  Donley
So sick and tired of being sick and tired
I should be grateful if I’m actually admired
Show me the irony when I reach the farthest feat
Glad to see you go, put out your hand to meet
 
You know it’s all I want
The want, the need, the need to want
And when I reach it, I’ll still be unsatisfied
To finally reach that point
Who’s feet to wash, who to anoint?
Will we have to sign our dotted lives away?
 
So sick and tired of being sick and tired
Show me the hidden ones, the teams that co-inspire
They say it’s apathy, but what they say is what they don’t see
Come join the flock of all the wolves dressed up in clothes of sheep
 
You know it’s all I want
The want, the need, the need to want
And when I reach it, I’ll still be unsatisfied
To finally reach that point
Who’s feet to wash, who to anoint?
Will we have to sign our dotted lives away?
 
So now I see who wants on the winning team
You wouldn’t believe how relieved I am
Because they all said it can’t be done
It’s one for all and all for one
I’m so glad to see
 
Snuff out the stars
Collect the dust
Crush all the minds
That matter to us
Keep up your guards
That keep back the stars
Because they speak the truth
Mind your own affairs that have nothing to do with me
 
Nothing to do with me…
 
You know it’s all I want
The want, the need, the need to want
And when I reach it, I’ll still be unsatisfied
To finally reach that point
Who’s feet to wash, who to anoint?
Will we have to sign our dotted lives away?
 
So now I see who wants on the winning team
You wouldn’t believe how relieved I am
Because they all said it can’t be done
It’s one for all and all for one
I’m so glad to see
 
I’m so glad to see
 
Snuff out the stars
Collect the dust
Crush all the minds
That matter to us
Keep up your guards
That keep back the stars
Because they speak the truth
Mind your own affairs that have nothing to do with me
​
4.  Sucking the inspiration
Music and lyrics:  Donley
If I attempt to write something from my heart will believe?
If I still find that I cannot give but just receive
will you walk me through steps, steps that will show me the way
and hope this world that you’ve shown will help me see another day
 
but what do I do if it’s wrong?
Do I cover up with another song?
Cuz my heart has no cornerstone
I guess I’ll build the foundation alone
 
the bloodsucker sticks it’s big nose in
and tries to steal the inspiration
the bloodsucker sticks it’s big nose in
in my vein, in my brain
 
no more sucking my inspiration
 
Let me see the flatline…go on run across the screen
the beauty of the color…of the line that’s colored green
please go on and go through all the plans I’ve laid for you
just follow what I say, I doing this for all of you
 
but what do I do if it’s wrong?
Do I cover up with another song?
Cuz my heart has no cornerstone
I guess I’ll build the foundation alone
 
the bloodsucker sticks it’s big nose in
and tries to steal the inspiration
the bloodsucker sticks it’s big nose in
in my vein, in my brain
 
no more sucking my inspiration
 
Obey and dissolve any thoughts of your own
kill your company so that you’re all alone
because solitude puts you in the mood
and that’s all you need…but all mosquitos have pain libidos and have x-ray vision to make them bleed
bloodsucker, no more
sucking my inspiration
no more sucking my inspiration
 
5.  Solilquey
Music and lyrics:  Donley
Can I have all your attention please?
As the playwright writes in acts with subplots we call “scenes”
and conflict for good play is something we need
so bear with me on my soliloquey
the playwright works alone
 
point of attack is where plot 
begins to unfold, if not
performed play closet drama
objection…no dialogue
 
Hi pro and an tag onist now you’re it
good guy, bad guy;  who knows the crisis?
the idea is germinal to make life unfold right
the right is terminal and confined by time
the playwright works alone
 
point of attack is where plot 
begins to unfold, if not
performed play, closet drama
objection…no dialogue
 
the play can seem to start anywhere
turning point depends on your character
exposition can be andled in
monologue and phone calls that are written
but the playwright works alone
 
performed play, closet drama
objection…no dialogue
​
6.  So is love
Music and lyrics:  Donley
Have you ever wondered why?
I feel the need to be
the one without a heart
the one without a sleeve
do you even think like me?
and what puts you in that mode?
if you could cease to be the one to crack the code
or would you be gone?
for so long…
gone for so long
 
so is love
so is love
still can’t crack the code
so is love
so is love
why was cupid alone
so is love
so is love
under the microscope
so is love 
so is love 
gone for so long
 
I’ve heard stories, I’ve heard fables
all one thing
and in those stories, after glory
crown the king
but rights are lefts 
just flush the past on down the drain
cuz all new stories have no glory
just the same
 
for so long…
gone for so long
 
so is love
so is love
who will kiss the toad
so is love
so is love
I only had 1 bow
so is love
so is love
poison tipped arrow
so is love 
so is love 
why was cupid alone?
 
Because he was misunderstood
Because he was misunderstood
​
7.  Patch Blinder
Music:  Donley/Leavitt
Lyrics:  Donley
What results in being blessed?
Turns out, you’re just like the rest
change your thoughts and your behavior
and let me now become your savior
 
cuff the wrists
cover eyes
shush the lips
wear your blinds
 
because whatever feels good
must really be bad
remember there’s always “rage” 
in encou”Rage” ment
 
everything is meaningless
nothing is the key
to my door of desperation
trying to open up to me
 
shush the lips
cover eyes
cuff the wrists
to desensitize
 
because whatever feels good
must really be bad
remember there’s always “rage” 
in encou”Rage” ment
 
broaden the mind
change all your views
keep trying 
to seduce
me in any way
me in every way
I’ve read all the bold print
read between the lines
leafed through unneeded rules
it turns out I’m still wearing blinds
​
8.  P’s and Q’s from me to you
Music and lyrics:  Donley
Some say that you should always love yourself
some say that you should always watch your health
I say to those some that say, worry about yourself
I say to those some that say, that I know how you felt
 
can you say “me”?
it’s so easy
and you are not me
so can you say “me”?
 
Some say that you always watch your back
some say that you always stay on track
I say to those some that say, what happens if I break?
I say to those some that say that rules aren’t for me
 
can you say “me”?
it’s so easy
and you are not me
so can you say “me”?
 
I love me
I don’t love you
I know that’ s such a bad attitude
 
can you say “me”?
it’s so easy
and you are not me
so can you say “me”?
 
I love me
I don’t love you
I know that’ s such a bad attitude
 
Novacaine
Music and lyrics:  Donley
 
bribery is so sly to me
it gets worse before it gets better
show your teeth…they are
so trustworthy
that smiles’ for me
with built in cavity
 
I got that aching feeling
X3
that you know you give to me
 
can you even feel it
if you even feel at all
that lovely nagging feeling
of me right here inside your jaw
 
my words, my drill
jack it out, you gotta’ fill
all the people pulled
from your life, you fill
with whatever you have
just to kill the pain
after you know me
you need novacaine
 
I got that aching feeling
X3
that you know you give to me
 
can you even feel it
if you even feel at all
that lovely nagging feeling
of me right here inside your jaw
 
I’m so numb
 
can you even feel it
if you even feel at all
that lovely nagging feeling
of me right here inside your jaw
​
10.  Limprist
Music and lyrics:  Donley
I need a break from all of this
my candle’s burning in the middle and at both ends
come see the chores that mounted right here on my list
with all the chores I count, I feel the weight on my chest
 
I ran out of air
I ran out of drive for all of you
So I close my eyes 
and roll up my tongue and think of you
and I cannot breathe, the air that I breathed is what I missed
so open my eyes X2
and wipe the drop
off of my head 
off of my head with limprist
 
I just got a break from all of this
everyone’s helping me burn off loose ends
unless those ends were already wrapped up
after success we all raise our cup
 
I ran out of air
I ran out of drive for all of you
So I close my eyes 
and roll up my tongue and think of you
and I cannot breathe, the air that I breathed is what I missed
so open my eyes X2
and wipe the drop
off of my head 
off of my head with limprist
 
But I’m so tired
And I’m so tired
 
there’s just some things you wouldn’t understand
you couldn’t comprehend unless you were a man
it’s just there’s so much stress
it’s boredom, more or less
 
and for now
I’m so close
edge of seat
on my toes
 
on my toes
 
there’s just some things you wouldn’t understand
you couldn’t comprehend unless you were a man
it’s just there’s so much stress
it’s boredom, more or less
​
11.  Kill your friends
Music and lyrics:  Donley
I'm on a mission
w/full ambition
and no one can stop me but me
I'm on a mission
what definition
could I give you to see
*Kill all your friends so that you don't
have that many enemies left
kill all your thoughts that you had
while you were holding your breath
birth the new friends that you'll find
hiding under similar rocks
birth the new thoughts that you now have
new friends, new love, new thoughts
$Cuz now you and I have different lives
I'm all grown up with grown up knives
but I'm not the one stuck with wives
cuz I am living, I am alive
dangerous mission
no ears to listen
and no backup for me
I'm on a mission
w/1 condition
that I will be fighting me
*(repeat)
$(repeat)
I don't want to start on 4
years that I cannot ignore
​
12.  Gifted Class
Music and lyrics:  Donley
you + me=we
- the + and you get us
/ so many x's
+ w/the dream of the piece of the pi
*there are so many lessons 
that I know I have to learn
on top of all the sessions I lost, 
so I'll just wait my turn
sit back and wait patiently 
to be called upon
cuz in the back of my mind I have the right answer 
but I'm still in detention
there is no "I" in "team"
but there's a "me", how about irony?
there is a "u" in "you"
but the "why"(y) is asking what happened to "me"?
*repeat
mr. know it all can you see the handwriting on the wall?
*repeat
 
13.  Ghosts
Music and lyrics:  Donley
The ghosts of the day wear me out
So the demons at night
Can control my moves and drop me down
From the shortest heights
 
What right do we have to sit on his scented gift?
I’m lying, it’s not what’s really there…it’s love
But no one seems to care, either that or they care
Too much to understand what they are saying…
 
Overuse of any tool makes it so passe’
You’ve been foolin’, playin’ it cool and
The tattoo says it all
The tattoo says it all
 
*I’ll just hide behind distortion
Why the fuck not?
The truth is distorted
*I’ll just hide behind distortion
Why the fuck not?
The truth is distorted anyway
 
You’ve keep haunting me
 
The ghosts of the day lead the way
So the demons at night can go out and play
And not have to bother with
Or go and recruit more ghosts and demons for me
 
*I’ll just hide behind distortion
Why the fuck not?
The truth is distorted
*I’ll just hide behind distortion
Why the fuck not?
The truth is distorted anyway
 
14.  Fasting on Happiness
Music and lyrics: Donley
I seem to have some sort of charm
that seems to do you all real harm
your feelings for it are so warm
until your pests begin to swarm
all you fuckers just need to relax
you don’t let your thoughts fuel your acts
 
*human reasons
reasons for humans
the human being
will never get better
human reasons
reasons for being human
the human being 
will never get over the wall
 
“I’m so sorry”, this phrase is going out of style
“Don’t take offense” before the statement
there’s no way, so don’t try
don’t even apologize to me
I’ve heard it too many times
brighten up the skies, the lies
but just butter up the lines
 
*human reasons
reasons for humans
the human being
will never get better
human reasons
reasons for being human
the human being 
will never get over the wall
 
I’ve been fasting on happiness
it’s always that time of year
the minor war is against the enemy
the major war is against ourselves
justice is the poor man’s salvation
the only reason that you are just
is because you’re too weak
to be unjust
 
what a wonderful fantasy
 
what a wonderful fantasy
it’s total bliss and ecstacy
pinned to a wall
you’d have it all
a nice scar through the back and through the knees
but the back is broke and the knees are weak
if you looked on back you’d see what I see
 
*human reasons
reasons for humans
the human being
will never get better
human reasons
reasons for being human
the human being 
will never get over the wall
​
15.  Creativity
Music and lyrics:  Donley
some believe that creativity is a
recognizable trait
that is learned and not simply given
out at the time of birth
 
to develop sophisticated
abilities to produce
describe, interpret, and assess art
children must create
 
lack of guidance or support can be
argued to enhance creativity
due to eager drive to somehow prove
their parents wrong and use it as a tool
 
but the difference of creativity
from one person to another
can be explained by many possible reasons
but just blame it on father and mother
 
for example:  Someone can be
totally originally 
to blame for the things that he creates
and providing a better workplace
 
or give exciting and brand new ways
to help a business grow
preachers can be creative and try
to see everything and claim to know
 
lack of guidance or support can be
argued to enhance creativity
due to eager drive to somehow prove
their parents wrong and use it as a tool
 
but the difference of creativity
from one person to another
can be explained by many possible reasons
but just blame it on father and mother
 
 lack of guidance or support can be
argued to enhance creativity
due to eager drive to somehow prove
their parents wrong and use it as a tool
 
but the difference of creativity
from one person to another
can be explained by many possible reasons
but just blame it on father and mother
​
16.  Celibacy T.V.
Music and lyrics:  Donley
he said
she said
we said
need respect because I know I’m
so deep 
what you need
is in me
you should just say that you’re right
 
your celibacy
gets the best of me
let’s discuss the simony
that is evident right here
it’s so hard
to be caught off card
I’m so hard
 
you already knew me
you bought all your freedom
with my apology
scrape ‘em off, you’ll never need ‘em
 
let me
channel
all feelings
to let you change the channel when
you’re sick
of me
which means
when turned on, I’ll turn you off
 
your celibacy
gets the best of me
let’s discuss the simony
that is evident right here
it’s so hard
to be caught off card
I’m so hard
 
you already knew me
you bought all your freedom
with my apology
scrape ‘em off, you’ll never need ‘em
 
you already knew me
you bought all your freedom
with my apology
scrape ‘em off, you’ll never need ‘em
​
17.  All the red
Music and lyrics:  Donley
you know I started this with someone else
someone else who cannot speak for himself
all I know…know all I cannot know it all
told you so, up to you if you choose to walk or crawl
 
I still have so much hope for you
I’m just confused why you do what you do
I know I should take a look at me
but it’s you, not me that I see
 
so I try to be honest with myself
wonder why the days explain themselves
and tell me that I’m not quite yet done
but I feel, I can’t walk, I’m always forced to run
 
I still have so much hope for you
I’m just confused why you do what you do
I know I should take a look at me
but it’s you, not me that I see
 
I can’t run, I might fall
can I know?  Know it all?
if I could, I would help
but I can’t help me help myself
 
just tell me what I can do
outstretched arm was here for you
what I think is you are afraid
if only I could have made you…
 
I still have so much hope for you
I’m just confused why you do what you do
I know I should take a look at me
but it’s you, not me that I see
 
I can’t run, I might fall
can I know?  Know it all?
if I could, I would help
but I can’t help me help myself

Question 28

Sindust-Use your Chinese Illusion Vol. 2 (2017)

Accepted Answer

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1.  Be Mine
music and lyrics:  Donley
I’m lyin’ on the floor
asking for much more
do you think you can give me
the attention that I need?
 
give it up
give it up
give it up
give it up
 
be my whore
 
I’m doing all I can
with my extra hand
do you like to feel good?
well maybe then you should
 
give it up
give it up
give it up
give it up
 
be my whore
won’t you be my whore?
come on now, won’t you be mine?
 
2.  outsomniac
music and lyrics:  Donley
wake up
wake down
wake everyone who happens to be around
I woke up lost
went to sleep found
hide your tired eyes when we’re around
 
and if you really need some z’s
make sure you don’t get them around me
and if you please
get out-somniac away from me
 
sit up
sit down
but don’t get too comfortable around
I’m such a clown
still no sleep found
where have I been looking around?
 
and if you really need some z’s
make sure you don’t get them around me
and if you please
get out-somniac away from me
 
wake up with me
wake up with me
 
wake up
wake down
wake up
wake down
wake up
wake down
​
3.  January Hustle
music and lyrics:  Donley
will she know just what you need?
or will she keep living dead like me?
 
*this is the hustle that I see
will she keep living dead like me?
this is the hustle that I see
and it’s the only thing
 
the only thing we want to see
is you to keep seeing everything differently
 
*this is the hustle that I see
will she keep living dead like me?
this is the hustle that I see
and it’s the only thing
 
I gotta’ stay home
people are lying as they speak
and Shy hasn’t seen
use of spray meant for beneath
 
this is the hustle that I see x4
 
*this is the hustle that I see
will she keep living dead like me?
this is the hustle that I see
and it’s the only thing
​
4.  Cardio Map
music and lyrics:  Donley
you know that I could easily
you know that I could easily go
if I could give you one belief
it would be for you to know
 
*that if I found a way to your heart
then I could find a way to your soul
and if I knew just where to start
I’d find a hole
 
are you alive?
are you awake?
see what else that you can take
are you alive?
are you awake?
how many times can your heart break
 
But if I found a way to your heart
then I could find a way to your soul
and if I knew just where to start
I’d lose control
 
are you alive?
are you awake?
see what else that you can take
are you alive?
are you awake?
how many times can your heart break
 
But if I found a way to your heart
then I could find a way to your soul
and if I knew just where to start
I’d lose control
 
But if I found a way to your heart
then I could find a way to your soul
and if I knew just where to start
I’d lose control
 
5.  A song for you…me
Music and lyrics:  Donley
if you really knew which lines, which words, which songs were about you
you’d probably take the “you” from my disturbed thoughts all along for you
but if you really knew which times, which hopes, belonged from you
you’d probably take the “you” with the ropes of song you thought were about you
 
weird phone calls at 3am
you wanting to see me ignore all of them
weird phone calls at 3am
you wanting to see me ignore all of them
 
don’t ruin everything, don’t let me get too deep
just go on and talk to me so I can get some sleep
don’t trust me, don’t trust you, don’t trust any dream
if you’re here with me now, then who could this be?
 
weird phone calls at 3am
you wanting to see me ignore all of them
weird phone calls at 3am
you wanting to see me ignore all of them
 
until you fall, fall, fall into your deep sleep
reclaim my arm and off I sneak
fall, fall, fall and dream of me
I wrote the songs, I wrote the words for ME
 
until you fall, fall, fall into your deep sleep
reclaim my arm and off I sneak
fall, fall, fall and dream of me
I wrote the songs, I wrote the words for ME
this is a song for you…me
 
6.  Noose Hangover
Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
(Still drunk)
Hungover from the hangover
your face has sex all over
written on it with a shiny white pen
have a drink and then we’ll do it again
 
that’s how it goes
only you know who knows
it’s always a show
when all the girls are in tow
 
it’s always so over
when you wake up sober
not quite but still you’re alone
but all you gotta’ do is pick up the phone
 
that’s how it goes
only you know who knows
it’s always a show
when all the girls are in tow
 
it’s just the new taste sensation
ordered up without communication
just pass some down to her
and soon she’ll be dessert
 
watch out
you’ll want some more
watch out
you’ll want some more
with a noose hangover
 
7.  Lying Stars
Music: Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
If the way we never were
could be the way we never was
then that way could be a true and useful must
if the way we never were
could be something we could see
then that way could be what we’ve always wanted to be
 
but what you want is something you can never have
forget the whole, you’ll only get half
 
if the way that we could be
could go and glow eternally
then you could shed a little light for me
if the way you want to be
could add a little just for me
then that way could be what we’ve always wanted to be
 
but what you want is something you can never have
forget the whole, you’ll only get half
 
you wish you were
you wish you are
you gave up wishing on lying stars
you wish you were
you wish you are
you gave up wishing 
 
but what you want is something you can never have
forget the whole, you’ll only get half
 
you wish you were
you wish you are
you gave up wishing on lying stars
you wish you were
you wish you are
you gave up wishing on lying stars
 
you wish you were 
you wish you are
you wish you are
 
8.. So…
Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
So I feel everyone is having way too much fun
But I can’t look anyone in the eye
So now what do you want
So how will you get what you want
So now what do you want from me?
 
*is there a sense of urgency?
of who, why, when, will you get your currency?
 
$so…what do we do now?
so…no one’s leaving now
 
So we wait
Hesitate
Salivate
For the fate we wanted
The life we needed
The old still want it
The goal succeeded
 
*repeat
 
so…what do we do now?
so…no one’s leaving now
so…no one’s getting out of here alive
so…someone’s betting…I could die
 
9.  Decisions, Decisions
Music and lyrics: Donley
with all these decisions and all these incisions you know that someone will get cut
with all these decisions without recognition, you know we still love you but what
with all these decisions you light the ignition of fire inside you that will burn
with all these decisions you will place the distance between us if only you learned
 
decisions, decisions
decisions we now have to make
 
with all these decisions without a petition, does that mean that you’ve lost your vote?
with all these decisions you know the tradition, it may be time to jump the boat
with all these decisions the lack of ambition will cause you to cut your own throat
with all these decisions and all these conditions, there is no such to sugarcoat
 
decisions, decisions
decisions we now have to make
X2
 
don’t let us make that mistake
don’t let us make that mistake
don’t let us make that mistake
 
why do you force us to
why do you force us to
why do you force us to
do this to you?
 
decisions, decisions
decisions, decisions that kill
 
10.  elegance
music and lyrics:  Donley
please kill me; elegance
made up sophistocant's
you give yourself some sense
in a fashion circus
 
the first thing that comes to mind is always the best
like made up words so you’ll all feel better dressed
the first thing that comes to mind is always the best
to make myself feel more, I will kill elegance
 
please kill me;  “sets the trends”
tell me when mine will end
you give yourself the best
put down us, like the rest
 
the first thing that comes to mind is always the best
like made up words so you’ll all feel better dressed
the first thing that comes to mind is always the best
to make myself feel more, I will kill elegance
 
I will be proud and wear the cloud above my head
besides, inside the bubble you’ll know what I’ve said
I will be proud and wear the cloud above my head
but only after I kill all the elegance
 
we must kill the elegance
 
11.  The Extra Mile
Music and lyrics:  Donley
I’m putting extra time in you
I’m putting in my last dime for you
and all that I ask for is just a hand
and all that I wish for is you to understand
and if you do will you?
 
Go the extra mile
Go the extra mile
 
I’m putting extra life aside for you
I’m putting your life on my side for you
and all that I ask for is just a hand
and all that I wish for is you to understand
and if you do will you?
 
Go the extra mile
Go the extra mile
 
and if you do will you?
 
Go the extra mile
Go the extra mile
 
12.  The One
Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
so long “So wrong”
you would be the one to right the wrongs that were left
so long “So wrong”
you would be the one to yell in the ears of the deaf
so long “So wrong”
could you be the one to leave the tree at the roots
so long “So wrong”
if you were the one to lie just to get to the truth
 
would you ask yourself exactly who you are?
and if you weren’t would you change into that which you aren’t?
would you ask yourself exactly who you are?
 
so long “So wrong”
you can’t be the one to tell us to change all the rules
so long “So wrong”
you can’t be the one to hold onto all of the tools
so long “So wrong”
could you be the one to fight for the rights of the damned
so long “So wrong”
if you were the one to be held in the highest demand
 
would you ask yourself exactly who you are?
and if you weren’t would you change into that which you aren’t?
would you ask yourself exactly who you are?
 
could you be the one for me?
but words don’t mean a single thing
what I feel is all too real
 
would you ask yourself who you are?
And would you change yourrself into what you aren’t
cuz words don’t mean a thing unless you could be
could you be the one for me?
 
could you be the one?
 
so long “So wrong”
could you be the one
(unless you could be)
the one
 
could you be the one?
it’s for me and you
it’s for you and me
could you be the one?
 
13.  Candy from strangers
Music and lyrics:  Donley
Hey you…where are you from?
Hey you…are you any fun?
Hey you…not you…yeah, you
Hey you…Come here I’ve got something for your
 
You know you should never take any candy from strangers
 
Hey you…say what’s your name?
Hey you…say what’s your game?
Hey you…won’t you hop in?
Hey you…I’ll take you home when (you never listened to them)
 
You know you should never take any candy from strangers
 
You know you should never take any candy from strangers
 
14.  Sponge
music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
Everyone is so absorbed
still can’t soak up even a little
everyone is so ignored
not me…I’m always stuck here in the middle
 
everyone is draining me
to the point where I can’t leave
everyone is draining me
so dry you wouldn’t believe
 
twist me all inside out
above to fill your mouth
twist me all inside out
go on and twist me
 
I used to be so absorbed
where I could soak everything in
but always still ignored
with skin that wearing thin
 
everyone is draining me
to the point where I can’t leave
everyone is draining me
so dry you wouldn’t believe
 
twist me all inside out
above to fill your mouth
twist me all inside out
go on and twist me
 
why are you draining me?
 
twist me all inside out
above to fill your mouth
twist me all inside out
go on and twist me
 
15.  Bottom of my lungs
music and lyrics:  Donley
so what to write about now?
and will it matter anyhow?
Just let it open up
so it won’t close down
and give it enough room to breathe
so it won’t go out
 
*and if what you say turns out to be wrong
I’ll scream from the bottom of my lungs
 
but to reach the top you know you got to fall
at least a few times so that you will know
what it feels like
on the way back on down
and if you scream with me, you’ll fee like me
like I feel right now
 
*and if what you say turns out to be wrong
I’ll scream from the bottom of my lungs
because you’re just wasting time if you scream from the top
so let it out, make it bleed til you have to stop
 
the bottom of my lungs
 
*and if what you say turns out to be wrong
I’ll scream from the bottom of my lungs
because you’re just wasting time if you scream from the top
so let it out, make it bleed til you have to stop
 
the bottom of my lungs
 
16.  Run
Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
she’s the kind of girl that wonders where the bruises come from
she’s the kind of girl that wonders out loud to everyone
 
but no one listens
and no one cares
at least that’s what she swears
look straight ahead
to see behind
you’ll be surprised what you find
 
*it’s a runaround
(you can’t catch me, I’m too fast)
 
he’s the kind of guy that wonders where he left his bruises
he’s the kind of guy that says being busy’s a nuisance
 
*it’s a runaround
(you can’t catch me, I’m too fast)
 
just keep on running
 
*it’s a runaround
(you can’t catch me, I’m too fast)
 
17.  Same old song
Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
Walk away, walk away, walk away you know
what to say, what to say, what to say you don’t
look away, look away, look away for now
no you can’t, no you won’t, no you don’t allow
but there’s a way, there’s a way, there’s a way to try
selfishness is at an all time high
that’s ok, that’s ok, that’s ok with me
take a step, take a step, back and you will see
 
*It’s the same old song
sing it on and on and on
with the same old words
we’ve been hearing all along
 
drank the same, drank the same, drank the same amount
what to say, what to say, when you lose your count
just tell the same, tell the same, tell the same old lies
play the game, never was, never a surprise
wait until, wait until, wait until your time
just for you, just for you, just for you to shine
but your shine, but your shine, but your shine will fade
still you sing, still you sing until you’re overplayed
 
*It’s the same old song
sing it on and on and on
with the same old words
we’ve been hearing all along
 
repeat what you would say
to cheat another day
 
wanna’ make it
just watch the score
can we fake it?
Watch the Billboard
wanna’ make it 
can’t take much more
you should fake it
but we’ll still be borec
 
*It’s the same old song
sing it on and on and on
with the same old words
we’ve been hearing all along

Question 29

Sindust-Use your Chinese Illusion Vol. 1 (2017)

Accepted Answer

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1.  Metal
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
Keep on training the kids
So when they open their ears they won’t see what they have missed
Come on!  All in the village!
Follow…it’s what the pipe just said
 
*Too many chiefs…not enough Indians
It’s everywhere and everyone will know
How to do it as long as there are no objections
Just do as I say, not as I say to do
 
Now
Go
Do
Kill
For 
Me
Whatever the parents say
 
Keep on blaming the “priests”
Look back right at the truth or look at the parenting at least
That way all the blame isn’t on the innocent
​
*Too many chiefs…not enough Indians
It’s everywhere and everyone will know
How to do it as long as there are no objections
Just do as I say, not as I say to do
 
Now
Go
Do
Kill
For 
Me
Whatever the parents say
 
*Too many chiefs…not enough Indians
It’s everywhere and everyone will know
How to do it as long as there are no objections
Just do as I say, not as I say to do
 
Now
Go
Do
Kill
For 
Me
Whatever the parents say
​
2.  Double Down
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
And I can see all your tell-tale signs
Your faces lie
Bet your life on 1 number you have drawn
You know it’s worth a try
 
Double down
 
And I could will take you down
I will take you out
If only you were worth the breath
I will can you down
I will can you out
Would you like to place a bet
 
And I can read the way you move your eyes
They hide the big surprise on me
Odds aren’t on your side
So hide yourself beside “Back luck ME”
 
Double down
 
And I could will take you down
I will take you out
If only you were worth the breath
I will can you down
I will can you out
Would you like to place a bet
 
You put your chips on one life
 
And I could will take you down
I will take you out
If only you were worth the breath
I will can you down
I will can you out
Would you like to place a bet
 
3.  Abrasive Embrace
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
Everyone aboard
Now you won’t be bored
You know you can’t ignore
what I’ve said before
 
*Unless you’re deaf
Unless you’re dead
 
Then you won’t have to worry about anything anymore
Just enjoy this abrasive embrace
Troubles go right on out through the door
Just enjoy this abrasive embrace
 
Just follow my lead
Take one breath, it’s all you’ll need
Sign the pact with me
Raise your hand if you hear me
 
*Unless you’re deaf
Unless you’re dead
 
Then you won’t have to worry about anything anymore
Just enjoy this abrasive embrace
Troubles go right on out through the door
Just enjoy this abrasive embrace
 
Then you won’t have to feel your pain
 
Then you won’t have to worry about anything anymore
Just enjoy this abrasive embrace
Troubles go right on out through the door
Just enjoy this abrasive embrace
 
4.  I just want to lie to you
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
Being a good salesman means leaving just a few facts out
Maybe like the truth
 
*I only want to lie to you
I only want to tell the truth
I only want to lie to you
 
Being a good liar means grasping onto what is real
And color outside the line
Being a liar-salesman…all that you’ll ever need is you
And a product you’ll call “mine’
 
*I only want to lie to you
I only want to tell the truth
I only want to lie to you
 
that’s the only way 
That I can convey
If you go or stay
That’s up to you
 
*I only want to lie to you
I only want to tell the truth
I only want to lie to you
 
I want to lie…I want to lie…I want to lie to you
​
5.  Better off dead
Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
Scabs can catch a thread and pull it string by string
When you bleed, you know everything
But when your scabs need fed, just pull ‘em off again
Cuz you know you’d be better off…
 
Dead…
You know you’re better off dead
 
The scabs you get to know, know you by your name
And they’ll tell you all the same
But when your scabs need fed, just pull ‘em off again
Cuz you know you’d be better off…
 
Dead…
You know you’re better off dead
 
But when you need some time to bleed
Feel free to call on me
 
You know…
You know…
You know…
You know…
 
Dead…
You know you’re better off dead
 
6.  No Home
Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
Now you’re gone
Now you’re gone
And I was wrong
Now I’m gone
Now I’m gone
And you were wrong
 
There are so many ways
To say you’re sorry without your word
But “far aways”
The distance hurries
The dying thoughts 
Of the past
 
*So now you want to go home
But home is somewhere you don’t know
 
Just for us
Not for me
Not for you
Cuz we can’t be
For us
Not together
The miles ran dry
But now I’m better
 
There could be
More for me
Less for you
If you would see
The less for you
Is less for me
The distance killed
What we could be
 
*So now you want to go home
But home is somewhere you don’t know
 
Just run away again
Or just until the road will end
 
*So now you want to go home
But home is somewhere you don’t know
 
7.  Ghosts
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
The ghosts of the day wear me out
So the demons at night
Can control my moves and drop me down
From the shortest heights
 
What right do we have to sit on his scented gift?
I’m lying, it’s not what’s really there…it’s love
But no one seems to care, either that or they care
Too much to understand what they are saying…
 
Overuse of any tool makes it so passe’
You’ve been foolin’, playin’ it cool and
The tattoo says it all
The tattoo says it all
 
*I’ll just hide behind distortion
Why the fuck not?
The truth is distorted
*I’ll just hide behind distortion
Why the fuck not?
The truth is distorted anyway
 
You’ve keep haunting me
 
The ghosts of the day lead the way
So the demons at night can go out and play
And not have to bother with
Or go and recruit more ghosts and demons for me
 
*I’ll just hide behind distortion
Why the fuck not?
The truth is distorted
*I’ll just hide behind distortion
Why the fuck not?
The truth is distorted anyway
 
8.  Good Greed
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
And all I want is 1 thing
All I want is you
 
Still looking for something
Don’t know where to begin
Yet it’s conclusions I’m jumping
Just tired of jumping the same old shit
 
And all I want is 1 thing
All I want is you
 
Selfishness is just 1 thing
That I’ve had to kick back down
Just the same it don’t matter
Cuz I don’t want to cause a rift in the crowd
 
And all I want is 1 thing
All I want is you
and you
And you
And you and you
 
But I’ve got to think with something else
And I’ve got to think about everyone else
 
And all I want is 1 thing
And all I want is 1 thing
 
And all I want is 1 thing
All I want is you
and you
And you
And you and you
 
9.  Skull Rolling
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
Lightning strikes once
Twice is the device
Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk
Shame on you
Fist fist fist fist fist
Shame on me
Each new device takes something
And not allow you to be free
 
*Fool me once, fool me twice
Fool me;  numbers on the dice
Fool me once, fool me twice
 
Go on and roll the skulls
Go on and roll them all
Go on and roll the skulls
Go on and roll
 
Hearing from far
You’ll know who you are
 
Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk
Shame on you
Fist fist fist fist fist
Shame on me
Each new device takes something
Now I’m know I’m never free
 
*Fool me once, fool me twice
Fool me;  numbers on the dice
Fool me once, fool me twice
Fool me;  numbers on the dice
 
Go on and roll the skulls
Go on and roll them all
Go on and roll the skulls
Go on and roll
 
10.  I know
Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
I’ll meet you…maybe next time
Put your hope on the line
So when I break, you’ll be there too
To help me shovel it all in
 
*or maybe you’ll know
What’s best for us
Everyone will show
What they kept for us
 
I’ll meet you 
You better make it count
More than you know 
Keep your foot in your mouth
Be sure to bite off more than you can chew
All this green is for every one of you
 
*or maybe you’ll know
What’s best for us
Everyone will show
What they kept for us
 
I know you love me
Go away
 
*or maybe you’ll know
What’s best for us
Everyone will show
What they kept for us
 
I know you love me
Go away
 
11.  So Perfect Pride
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
It’s so perfect
To brace yourself in here
It’s so perfect
Hold on to your pride
Near and dear
 
*desire is all I want
Desire
 
But it’s sometimes hard to find
When you have to swallow your pride
 
It’s so perfect
What’s that you have for me?
It’s so perfect
A perfect insult spree
 
*desire is all I want
Desire
 
But it’s sometimes hard to find
When you have to swallow your pride
 
Why do you have to be so perfect?
 
*desire is all I want
And the perfect pride
 
But it’s sometimes hard to find
When you have to swallow your pride
 
Desire and pride is 
All I want from you
And this fire inside
Extinguished by you
 
12.No Such Thing
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
So you think you know the secrets of all the unknown
I think you’re wrong again
 
Kill all that you’ve learned
Kill that you’ve burned
 
*There’s no such thing
As loving
Someone with all your heart
 
So you think you know the secrets to the seeds we sow
I think you’re wrong again
So you think you know the signs but when you stop, I go
Because you’re wrong again
 
Kill all that you’ve learned
Kill that you’ve burned
 
*There’s no such thing
As loving
Someone with all your heart
 
But still you talk yourself into believing
But still there’s no such thing as loving with all your heart
 
*There’s no such thing
As loving
Someone with all your heart
 
13.  Team to the top
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
So sick and tired of being sick and tired
I should be grateful if I’m actually admired
Show me the irony when I reach the farthest feat
Glad to see you go, put out your hand to meet
 
You know it’s all I want
The want, the need, the need to want
And when I reach it, I’ll still be unsatisfied
To finally reach that point
Who’s feet to wash, who to anoint?
Will we have to sign our dotted lives away?
 
So sick and tired of being sick and tired
Show me the hidden ones, the teams that co-inspire
They say it’s apathy, but what they say is what they don’t see
Come join the flock of all the wolves dressed up in clothes of sheep
 
You know it’s all I want
The want, the need, the need to want
And when I reach it, I’ll still be unsatisfied
To finally reach that point
Who’s feet to wash, who to anoint?
Will we have to sign our dotted lives away?
 
So now I see who wants on the winning team
You wouldn’t believe how relieved I am
Because they all said it can’t be done
It’s one for all and all for one
I’m so glad to see
 
Snuff out the stars
Collect the dust
Crush all the minds
That matter to us
Keep up your guards
That keep back the stars
Because they speak the truth
Mind your own affairs that have nothing to do with me
 
Nothing to do with me…
 
You know it’s all I want
The want, the need, the need to want
And when I reach it, I’ll still be unsatisfied
To finally reach that point
Who’s feet to wash, who to anoint?
Will we have to sign our dotted lives away?
 
So now I see who wants on the winning team
You wouldn’t believe how relieved I am
Because they all said it can’t be done
It’s one for all and all for one
I’m so glad to see
 
I’m so glad to see
 
Snuff out the stars
Collect the dust
Crush all the minds
That matter to us
Keep up your guards
That keep back the stars
Because they speak the truth
Mind your own affairs that have nothing to do with me
​
14.  The Ins and Outs
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
So many roads
Which way to go?
So many roads
Which way to go?
 
Tell me how they knew
 
*I want to know the ins and outs too
I’ll do whatever I need to do
 
I’ve got so many goals
Should I take one at a time?
Or break all the molds
That they’ve made our lives
 
Tell me how they knew
 
*I want to know the ins and outs too
I’ll do whatever I need to do
 
Tell me how they knew
 
*I want to know the ins and outs too
I’ll do whatever I need to do
 
I want to know 
All there is to know
 
15.  Sindust
(Music:  Sindust)
 
16.  Daddy Long Legs
Music and lyrics:  Donley)
If I tasted heaven, tell me now
Because I’m on a diet and I’m not allowed
To taste the cloud each day
I’ll sing for you if you hold sway
 
*What the hell is in heaven?
I’ll climb a ladder that has no pegs
I’ll be kicked down to size again
By daddy long legs
 
I wish my heart was just “Big-boned”
I wish my heart could just get stoned
For my heart to be alone
All I have to do is just go home
 
*What the hell is in heaven?
I’ll climb a ladder that has no pegs
I’ll be kicked down to size again
By daddy long legs
 
*What the hell is in heaven?
I’ll climb a ladder that has no pegs
I’ll be kicked down to size again
By daddy long legs
 
17. Live within the means
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
Leave a penny, take a penny
Put it all back in
Treat the many, if there’s any
Take ‘em out again
 
*You’ve got to live within the means
You’ve got to understand exactly what it means
Sell your soul for magic beans
Because no one’s value is exactly what it seems
 
Spare some change to rearrange
The simple way you like to think
I know it’s strange to hear the same
Greed passed off with a wink
 
*You’ve got to live within the means
You’ve got to understand exactly what it means
Sell your soul for magic beans
Because no one’s value is exactly what it seems
 
I know you claim to be down
We all know all around town
We know that you’re so down
Open your eyes
 
Give it to me
Give it to me 
Give it now
 
*You’ve got to live within the means
You’ve got to understand exactly what it means
Sell your soul for magic beans
Because no one’s value is exactly what it seems

Question 30

Sindust-Fuck Jersey (2017)

Accepted Answer

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/undefined
Be Mine
music and lyrics:  Donley
I’m lyin’ on the floor
asking for much more
do you think you can give me
the attention that I need?
 
give it up
give it up
give it up
give it up
be my whore
 
I’m doing all I can
with my extra hand
do you like to feel good?
well maybe then you should
 
give it up
give it up
give it up
give it up
be my whore
won’t you be my whore?
come on now, won’t you be mine?
​
2.  Bottom of my lungs
music and lyrics:  Donley
so what to write about now?
and will it matter anyhow?
Just let it open up
so it won’t close down
and give it enough room to breathe
so it won’t go out
 
*and if what you say turns out to be wrong
I’ll scream from the bottom of my lungs
 
but to reach the top you know you got to fall
at least a few times so that you will know
what it feels like
on the way back on down
and if you scream with me, you’ll fee like me
like I feel right now
 
*and if what you say turns out to be wrong
I’ll scream from the bottom of my lungs
because you’re just wasting time if you scream from the top
so let it out, make it bleed til you have to stop
 
the bottom of my lungs
 
*and if what you say turns out to be wrong
I’ll scream from the bottom of my lungs
because you’re just wasting time if you scream from the top
so let it out, make it bleed til you have to stop
 
the bottom of my lungs
​
3.  Candy from strangers
Music and lyrics:  Donley
Hey you…where are you from?
Hey you…are you any fun?
Hey you…not you…yeah, you
Hey you…Come here I’ve got something for your
 
You know you should never take any candy from strangers
 
Hey you…say what’s your name?
Hey you…say what’s your game?
Hey you…won’t you hop in?
Hey you…I’ll take you home when (you never listened to them)
 
You know you should never take any candy from strangers
 
You know you should never take any candy from strangers
 
4.  Double Down
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
And I can see all your tell-tale signs
Your faces lie
Bet your life on 1 number you have drawn
You know it’s worth a try
 
Double down
 
And I could will take you down
I will take you out
If only you were worth the breath
I will can you down
I will can you out
Would you like to place a bet
 
And I can read the way you move your eyes
They hide the big surprise on me
Odds aren’t on your side
So hide yourself beside “Back luck ME”
 
Double down
 
And I could will take you down
I will take you out
If only you were worth the breath
I will can you down
I will can you out
Would you like to place a bet
 
You put your chips on one life
 
And I could will take you down
I will take you out
If only you were worth the breath
I will can you down
I will can you out
Would you like to place a bet
 
5.  Everyone looks good from far away
Music and lyrics:  Donley
my vision is blurred
and my vision has heard
and my ears haven’t seen
the dirty words you say seem clean
 
why couldn’t I?
why couldn’t I have seen?
 
That everyone looks good from far away
it’s just another way
to convince yourself that
everyone looks good from far away
it’s just another way
to tell yourself that there is good in everyone
 
my touch is never felt
please rain so I can melt
and I’ve sniffed you out
but I was never close enough 
to ease my doubt
 
why couldn’t I?
why couldn’t I have seen?
 
That everyone looks good from far away
it’s just another way
to convince yourself that
everyone looks good from far away
it’s just another way
to tell yourself that there is good in everyone
 
and I don’t to be the one
to tell you just how I see things
because it might ruin everything
 
I don’t want to ruin everything
 
everyone looks good from far away
it’s just another way
to convince yourself that
everyone looks good from far away
it’s just another way
to tell yourself that there is good in everyone
 
6.  Ghosts
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
The ghosts of the day wear me out
So the demons at night
Can control my moves and drop me down
From the shortest heights
 
What right do we have to sit on his scented gift?
I’m lying, it’s not what’s really there…it’s love
But no one seems to care, either that or they care
Too much to understand what they are saying…
 
Overuse of any tool makes it so passe’
You’ve been foolin’, playin’ it cool and
The tattoo says it all
The tattoo says it all
 
*I’ll just hide behind distortion
Why the fuck not?
The truth is distorted
*I’ll just hide behind distortion
Why the fuck not?
The truth is distorted anyway
 
You’ve keep haunting me
 
The ghosts of the day lead the way
So the demons at night can go out and play
And not have to bother with
Or go and recruit more ghosts and demons for me
 
*I’ll just hide behind distortion
Why the fuck not?
The truth is distorted
*I’ll just hide behind distortion
Why the fuck not?
The truth is distorted anyway
 
7.  Heartache Lottery
Music and lyrics:  Donley
Do you think money grows on trees?
If you thought that, you’d be wrong
Because your money comes from me
or is it just a fantasy
some sort of lottery for you and me
 
*so where did all your luck go?
You bet it all and let it all run out
and now you’re waiting for it
so where did all your love go?
You spent it all and when it all ran out
you came back wanting more
 
Do you think love knows release?
If you think that that then you’ve never said “Please”
or does it come to you with so much ease?
Is there a hearthache lottery for you and me?
 
*so where did all your luck go?
You bet it all and let it all run out
and now you’re waiting for it
so where did all your love go?
You spent it all and when it all ran out
you came back wanting more
 
Go on hear the cliche’
rewind one more time
love has no common sense
so turn back on a dime
go on hear the cliche
we’re all rich with love
although we can’t find
X2
 
*so who’s gonna’ win
the heartache lottery?
 
8.  Hypnotize
Music and lyrics:  Donley
I once hypnotized the stars
into forming one
picture shining brighter than the sun
that was all put together with the power of my mind
only to have you have me find
a one-of-a kind that I could call mine
 
Look in my eyes so I can hypnotize
Look in my eyes
X2
 
I’m looking up
you’re looking down
I can’t even see what’s right in front of me
you can see all around
I’m looking up
you’re looking down
 
I once hypnotized the stars
into forming one
thing of beauty for all kinds
for everyone
but it all, it seemed to fall, it fell apart in my mind
only to save one of a kind
a one of a kind looked into mine
 
Look in my eyes so I can hypnotize
Look in my eyes
X2
 
I’m looking up
you’re looking down
I can’t even see what’s right in front of me
you can see all around
I’m looking up
you’re looking down
 
9.  The ins and outs
Music and lyrics:  Donley
So many roads have come and gone
which way to go depends upon
knowing the cost of right and wrong
something they told you all along
 
tell me how they knew
tell me how they knew
 
*I want to know the ins and outs too
I’ll do whatever I need to do
 
I’ve got so many goals
where to begin
should I take one at a time
or all of them
or break all the molds
they put me in
gather what survived 
and start again
 
tell me how they knew
tell me how they knew
 
*I want to know the ins and outs too
I’ll do whatever I need to do
 
tell me how they knew
tell me how they knew
 
*I want to know the ins and outs too
I’ll do whatever I need to do
 
I want to know
some things will never change
all there is to know
things I can’t explain
 
10.  Noose Hangover
Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
(Still drunk)
Hungover from the hangover
your face has sex all over
written on it from God knows when
have a drink and then we’ll do it again
 
that’s how it goes
only you know who knows
it’s always a show
there’s no such thing as starting slow
 
it’s always so over
when you wake up sober
not quite but still you’re alone
but all you gotta’ do is pick up the phone
 
that’s how it goes
only you know who knows
it’s always a show
there’s no such thing as starting slow
 
it’s just the new taste sensation
ordered up without communication
just pass some down to her
and soon she’ll be dessert
 
watch out
you’ll want some more
watch out
you’ll want some more
 
with a noose hangover
 
11.  Run
Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
she’s the kind of girl that wonders where the bruises come from
she’s the kind of girl that wonders out loud to everyone
 
but no one listens
and no one cares
at least that’s what she swears
look straight ahead
to see behind
you’ll be surprised what you find
 
*it’s a runaround
(you can’t catch me, I’m too fast)
 
he’s the kind of guy that wonders where he left his bruises
he’s the kind of guy that says being busy’s a nuisance
 
*it’s a runaround
(you can’t catch me, I’m too fast)
 
just keep on running
 
*it’s a runaround
(you can’t catch me, I’m too fast)
 
12.  Same old song
Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
Walk away, walk away, walk away you know
what to say, what to say, what to say you don’t
look away, look away, look away for now
no you can’t, no you won’t, no you don’t allow
but there’s a way, there’s a way, there’s a way to try
selfishness is at an all time high
that’s ok, that’s ok, that’s ok with me
take a step, take a step, back and you will see
 
*It’s the same old song
sing it on and on and on
with the same old words
we’ve been hearing all along
 
drank the same, drank the same, drank the same amount
what to say, what to say, when you lose your count
just tell the same, tell the same, tell the same old lies
play the game, never was, never a surprise
wait until, wait until, wait until your time
just for you, just for you, just for you to shine
but your shine, but your shine, but your shine will fade
still you sing, still you sing until you’re overplayed
 
*It’s the same old song
sing it on and on and on
with the same old words
we’ve been hearing all along
 
repeat what you would say
to cheat another day
 
wanna’ make it
just watch the score
can we fake it?
Watch the Billboard
wanna’ make it 
can’t take much more
you should fake it
but we’ll still be borec
 
*It’s the same old song
sing it on and on and on
with the same old words
we’ve been hearing all along
 
13.  Sponge
music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
Everyone is so absorbed
still can’t soak up even a little
everyone is so ignored
not me…I’m always stuck here in the middle
 
everyone is draining me
to the point where I can’t leave
everyone is draining me
so dry you wouldn’t believe
 
twist me all inside out
above to fill your mouth
twist me all inside out
go on and twist me
 
I used to be so absorbed
where I could soak everything in
but always still ignored
with skin that wearing thin
 
everyone is draining me
to the point where I can’t leave
everyone is draining me
so dry you wouldn’t believe
 
twist me all inside out
above to fill your mouth
twist me all inside out
go on and twist me
 
why are you draining me?
 
twist me all inside out
above to fill your mouth
twist me all inside out
go on and twist me

Question 31

Sindust-Live in Erie (2017)

Accepted Answer

Recorded live in Erie, PA at Sherlock's Park Place in 2007
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/undefined

Track list:
1.  Sindust
2.  Kid ego
3.  Candy from strangers
4.  Daddy long legs
5.  The Musketeer
6.  Bottom of my lungs
7.  7ams
8.  Walking backwards
9.  Planned catastrophe
10.  The itch
11.  Sponge
12.  The one
13.  Heartache lottery
14.  Happy little suburb
15.  Nice guys finish last
16.  Smile

Question 32

Sindust-...Not trust mirrors (2008)

Accepted Answer

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/undefined
Bottom of my lungs
music and lyrics:  Donley
so what to write about now?
and will it matter anyhow?
Just let it open up
so it won’t close down
and give it enough room to breathe
so it won’t go out
 
*and if what you say turns out to be wrong
I’ll scream from the bottom of my lungs
 
but to reach the top you know you got to fall
at least a few times so that you will know
what it feels like
on the way back on down
and if you scream with me, you’ll fee like me
like I feel right now
 
*and if what you say turns out to be wrong
I’ll scream from the bottom of my lungs
because you’re just wasting time if you scream from the top
so let it out, make it bleed til you have to stop
 
the bottom of my lungs
 
*and if what you say turns out to be wrong
I’ll scream from the bottom of my lungs
because you’re just wasting time if you scream from the top
so let it out, make it bleed til you have to stop
 
the bottom of my lungs
 
Talking to myself
music and lyrics:  Donley
what really is crazy?
Talking to yourself?
Yes, no, but maybe
I’m talking to someone else
But someone else is you
or someone else is me
the false is still the truth
so tell me now who’s crazy
 
tell me now who’s crazy
 
*when you talk
it feels like fingernails on chalk
when you speak
don’t waste your breath on me
 
who really is crazy?
Talking to myself?
No, yes, but maybe
I’m talking to someone else
But someone else is me
or someone else is you
so tell me now who’s crazy
is it me or is it you?
 
is it me or is it you?
 
*when you talk
it feels like fingernails on chalk
when you speak
don’t waste your breath on me
 
hey, you! 
shut up, me!
Hey, you!
Shut up-Me
 
Talking to myself
 
*when you talk
it feels like fingernails on chalk
when you speak
don’t waste your breath on me
 
Sponge
music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
Everyone is so absorbed
still can’t soak up even a little
everyone is so ignored
not me…I’m always stuck here in the middle
 
everyone is draining me
to the point where I can’t leave
everyone is draining me
so dry you wouldn’t believe
 
twist me all inside out
above to fill your mouth
twist me all inside out
go on and twist me
 
I used to be so absorbed
where I could soak everything in
but always still ignored
with skin that wearing thin
 
everyone is draining me
to the point where I can’t leave
everyone is draining me
so dry you wouldn’t believe
 
twist me all inside out
above to fill your mouth
twist me all inside out
go on and twist me
 
why are you draining me?
 
twist me all inside out
above to fill your mouth
twist me all inside out
go on and twist me
 
Candy from strangers
Music and lyrics:  Donley
Hey you…where are you from?
Hey you…are you any fun?
Hey you…not you…yeah, you
Hey you…Come here I’ve got something for your
 
You know you should never take any candy from strangers
 
Hey you…say what’s your name?
Hey you…say what’s your game?
Hey you…won’t you hop in?
Hey you…I’ll take you home when (you never listened to them)
 
You know you should never take any candy from strangers
 
You know you should never take any candy from strangers
 
Same old song
Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
Walk away, walk away, walk away you know
what to say, what to say, what to say you don’t
look away, look away, look away for now
no you can’t, no you won’t, no you don’t allow
but there’s a way, there’s a way, there’s a way to try
selfishness is at an all time high
that’s ok, that’s ok, that’s ok with me
take a step, take a step, back and you will see
 
*It’s the same old song
sing it on and on and on
with the same old words
we’ve been hearing all along
 
drank the same, drank the same, drank the same amount
what to say, what to say, when you lose your count
just tell the same, tell the same, tell the same old lies
play the game, never was, never a surprise
wait until, wait until, wait until your time
just for you, just for you, just for you to shine
but your shine, but your shine, but your shine will fade
still you sing, still you sing until you’re overplayed
 
*It’s the same old song
sing it on and on and on
with the same old words
we’ve been hearing all along
 
repeat what you would say
to cheat another day
 
wanna’ make it
just watch the score
can we fake it?
Watch the Billboard
wanna’ make it 
can’t take much more
you should fake it
but we’ll still be borec
 
*It’s the same old song
sing it on and on and on
with the same old words
we’ve been hearing all along
 
Planned catastrophe
Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
 
There’s no way back from thisX3
 
Retrace your steps from where you were before
before the war
rename your best
the best still at the core
the core that you ignored
 
so where do you wanna’ go?
who do you wanna’ be?
who do you wanna’ know
to plan your catastrophe?
so when you get back home
who will be waiting?
because
There’s no way back from this
 
single file lines to hide your numbers through
through and through
and once they fall in place
they’ll have you right where they want you
 
so where do you wanna’ go?
who do you wanna’ be?
who do you wanna’ know
to plan your catastrophe?
so when you get back home
who will be waiting?
because
There’s no way back from thisX2
 
so where do you wanna’ go?
who do you wanna’ be?
who do you wanna’ know
to plan your catastrophe?
so when you get back home
who will be waiting?
because
There’s no way back from this
 
There’s no way back from thisX3
 
Skull Rolling
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
Lightning strikes once
Twice is the device
Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk
Shame on you
Fist fist fist fist fist
Shame on me
Each new device takes something
And not allow you to be free
 
*Fool me once, fool me twice
Fool me;  numbers on the dice
Fool me once, fool me twice
 
Go on and roll the skulls
Go on and roll them all
Go on and roll the skulls
Go on and roll
 
Hearing from far
You’ll know who you are
 
Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk
Shame on you
Fist fist fist fist fist
Shame on me
Each new device takes something
Now I’m know I’m never free
 
*Fool me once, fool me twice
Fool me;  numbers on the dice
Fool me once, fool me twice
Fool me;  numbers on the dice
 
Go on and roll the skulls
Go on and roll them all
Go on and roll the skulls
Go on and roll
 
The Musketeer
Music and lyrics:  Donley
 
Put your two cents in
it costs too much now to live
but a penny for your thoughts
is all I’m willing to give
 
if you were worth your weight in gold
would you still do just what you’re told
if you were worth your weight in gold
would you let everything go?
 
All for one
One for all
All for one
or YOU for all
All for one
One for all
All for one
or ME for all
 
Put your two cents in
my ears since no one is listening
but a penny for your thoughts
isn’t close enough to buy me one ounce of fucking patience
 
if you were worth your weight in gold
would you still do just what you’re told
if you were worth your weight in gold
would you let everything go?
 
All for one
One for all
All for one
or YOU for all
All for one
One for all
All for one
or ME for all
 
if you were worth your weight in gold
would you still do just what you’re told
if you were worth your weight in gold
would you let everything go?
 
All for one
One for all
All for one
or YOU for all
All for one
One for all
All for one
or ME for all
 
Hypnotize
Music and lyrics:  Donley
I once hypnotized the stars
into forming one
picture shining brighter than the sun
that was all put together with the power of my mind
only to have you have me find
a one-of-a kind that I could call mine
 
Look in my eyes so I can hypnotize
Look in my eyes
X2
 
I’m looking up
you’re looking down
I can’t even see what’s right in front of me
you can see all around
I’m looking up
you’re looking down
 
I once hypnotized the stars
into forming one
thing of beauty for all kinds
for everyone
but it all, it seemed to fall, it fell apart in my mind
only to save one of a kind
a one of a kind looked into mine
 
Look in my eyes so I can hypnotize
Look in my eyes
X2
 
I’m looking up
you’re looking down
I can’t even see what’s right in front of me
you can see all around
I’m looking up
you’re looking down
 
Heartache Lottery
Music and lyrics:  Donley
Do you think money grows on trees?
If you thought that, you’d be wrong
Because your money comes from me
or is it just a fantasy
some sort of lottery for you and me
 
*so where did all your luck go?
You bet it all and let it all run out
and now you’re waiting for it
so where did all your love go?
You spent it all and when it all ran out
you came back wanting more
 
Do you think love knows release?
If you think that that then you’ve never said “Please”
or does it come to you with so much ease?
Is there a hearthache lottery for you and me?
 
*so where did all your luck go?
You bet it all and let it all run out
and now you’re waiting for it
so where did all your love go?
You spent it all and when it all ran out
you came back wanting more
 
Go on hear the cliche’
rewind one more time
love has no common sense
so turn back on a dime
go on hear the cliche
we’re all rich with love
although we can’t find
X2
 
*so who’s gonna’ win
the heartache lottery?
 
 Run
Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
she’s the kind of girl that wonders where the bruises come from
she’s the kind of girl that wonders out loud to everyone
 
but no one listens
and no one cares
at least that’s what she swears
look straight ahead
to see behind
you’ll be surprised what you find
 
*it’s a runaround
(you can’t catch me, I’m too fast)
 
he’s the kind of guy that wonders where he left his bruises
he’s the kind of guy that says being busy’s a nuisance
 
*it’s a runaround
(you can’t catch me, I’m too fast)
 
just keep on running
 
*it’s a runaround
(you can’t catch me, I’m too fast)
  
The One
Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley
so long “So wrong”
you would be the one to right the wrongs that were left
so long “So wrong”
you would be the one to yell in the ears of the deaf
so long “So wrong”
could you be the one to leave the tree at the roots
so long “So wrong”
if you were the one to lie just to get to the truth
 
would you ask yourself exactly who you are?
and if you weren’t would you change into that which you aren’t?
would you ask yourself exactly who you are?
 
so long “So wrong”
you can’t be the one to tell us to change all the rules
so long “So wrong”
you can’t be the one to hold onto all of the tools
so long “So wrong”
could you be the one to fight for the rights of the damned
so long “So wrong”
if you were the one to be held in the highest demand
 
would you ask yourself exactly who you are?
and if you weren’t would you change into that which you aren’t?
would you ask yourself exactly who you are?
 
could you be the one for me?
but words don’t mean a single thing
what I feel is all too real
 
would you ask yourself who you are?
And would you change yourrself into what you aren’t
cuz words don’t mean a thing unless you could be
could you be the one for me?
 
could you be the one?
 
so long “So wrong”
could you be the one
(unless you could be)
the one
 
could you be the one?
it’s for me and you
it’s for you and me
could you be the one?

Question 33

Sindust-Back from the back (2006)

Accepted Answer

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1.  7AMS
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
how many wells do you think I’ll run dry
all bottles that you do drink are really mine
the wells cast spells on us both… can you break free?
or do you have cotton mouth…are you thirsty?
 
*come on drink with me
 
$we don’t do no harm to anyone else but we live
you gave all your energy but we’ve got much more to give
 
do you think you’re a good tip and what makes it so?
my neck hurts the next morning, it pains me so
so come on down you are the next one to go
if wine could be nectar of the gods, then our nectar flows
 
*repeat
$repeat
smiles will always be ok with me
$repeat
​
2.  KID EGO
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
eenie, meanie, miney, mo…who do you think you are?
I’ll catch you right after the show…you want to meet the star
but until I am done
you’ll see what I’ve become
*and you’ll know me
cuz you love me
 
in the company of wolves, the smoke and mirrors show
what you didn’t want to know
then I’ll be what you would
want to be if you could
 
*repeatx2
 
3.  GIFTED CLASS
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
you + me=we
- the + and you get us
/ so many x's
+ w/the dream of the piece of the pi
*there are so many lessons 
that I know I have to learn
on top of all the sessions I lost, 
so I'll just wait my turn
sit back and wait patiently 
to be called upon
cuz in the back of my mind I have the right answer 
but I'm still in detention
there is no "I" in "team"
but there's a "me", how about irony?
there is a "u" in "you"
but the "why"(y) is asking what happened to "me"?
*repeat
mr. know it all can you see the handwriting on the wall?
*repeat
 
4.  HEARTACHE LOTTERY
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
do you think money grows on trees?
if you thought that you’d be wrong
Cuz money comes from me
or is it just a fantasy
some sort of lottery for you and me
 
*so where did all our riches go?
they never appeared
so who got all our riches?
I bet it was someone that didn’t even care
 
Do you think love knows release?
if you think that then you’ve never said please
Does it come to you with so much ease
is there a heartache lottery for you and me?
 
*repeat
$go on hear the cliché’ rewind one more time
love has no common “cents” so turn back on a dime
go on hear the cliché’
We’re all rich with love although we can’t find
 
$repeat
so who’s gonna’ win the heartache lottery?
​
5.  ONE TAKE
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
Putting so much faith
But can’t escape the nothing touch
Wanting so much just to make
A must, not to break the loving name
 
*No one can take that away
But what if I didn’t want it anyway
 
So nice of you to give me the name
Low price for two to live on the same
Time will only just pass now
Mine still lonely, trust cash cow
 
*repeat
 
You’re putting so much faith
And wanting just to make
So nice of you to give me the name
No one can take that away
 
No one can take that away
​
6.  LOSERO
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
you’re a hero
in the bedroom
being the hero
can make you
more than you arex4
you’re a hero
and that makes you
a bigger hero
w/mistakes you
*should’ve known that you’d only be digging your “hero grave” again
You should’ve known the way your life is that you should already know the end
could I be your hero?
and that’s all
being the hero
I’ll know it all
*repeat
We will never win
 
7.  RED ROVER
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
this song may not be one of a kind
But it will always be yours and mine
This love may not be one of a kind
But its just for you
And its just for me
And its just for us
And its just for this
Cuz this is justice
 
*we should all just go out in style
and we should all just do this while
we still can and you understand that there’s a demand
and on one hand you can count the ones who are trying to stand
 
but there are many who are ruining
the fun for ones who have meaning
and if you just look it up
under fake, we’ve had enough
and so should you
and so should we
just see the truth
death to industry
 
*repeat
and if you could see, you’d be on the same side as me
 
*repeat with interchanged bridge lyric
Come over, red rover
 
8.  LISTLESS
(Music:  Sindust
Lyrics:  Donley)
and you could be
If you want to be
On my list
And you could see
If you want to see
That we’re all listless
 
*what happened to all the fun?
what happened to everyone?
what happened to all the fun?
it went away, it went away
 
and I’m so mad
Because of all you had
And I want that and that and that
And this and that
Wish it was what I had
Wish is on my list
 
*repeat
 
everything looks good on paper
So just do me this one favor
(and tell me what…)
 
*repeat
 
9.  WALKING BACKWARDS
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
We’re so far away from heaven
that I’m not sure if I should even try
We’re so close to hell that I’m
starting to look the end in the eye
*take 1 step up
take 2 steps back
it’ll never be enough
we’re just walking backwards
we’re so far away from grace
that I don’t know if we can ever get back
And with ourselves, we’re so amazed
a new crusade won’t even challenge what we lack
*repeat
we did it to ourselves
​
10.  WOOL OVER RANT
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
Go ahead and lure me in
let me waste the time that I’ve spent
and all this time I’ve been picking up your scent
everything will be explained in a past rant
*if you’d read between the lines
$you know I’ll never trust again
wool over rant
you know I’ll never trust again
wool over rant
Go ahead and try to lure again
w/those eyes, that stance, and that skin
give me a nice choice of which pose works the best
everything will be explained in a rant from the past
*repeat
$repeat
*repeat
$repeat
 
11.  THE ITCH
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
you try to bleed that way everyone sees
what is real and then you won’t need
to speak in different tongues and you can be
able to fool everyone
and you won’t need me anymore
and you don’t need me anymore
Until you get the itch
you shed more tears than I’ve seen in all of my years
its cuz you care or that’s just what your friends swear
but so do you if I’m “on” or if I’m “off”
it takes some time to realize when you’ve had enough
and I won’t need you anymore
and I don’t need you anymore
Until I get the itch
and I won’t need you anymore
and I don’t need you anymore
Until I get the itch
​
12.  KILL YOUR FRIENDS
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
I'm on a mission
w/full ambition
and no one can stop me but me
I'm on a mission
what definition
could I give you to see
*Kill all your friends so that you don't
have that many enemies left
kill all your thoughts that you had
while you were holding your breath
birth the new friends that you'll find
hiding under similar rocks
birth the new thoughts that you now have
new friends, new love, new thoughts
$Cuz now you and I have different lives
I'm all grown up with grown up knives
but I'm not the one stuck with wives
cuz I am living, I am alive
dangerous mission
no ears to listen
and no backup for me
I'm on a mission
w/1 condition
that I will be fighting me
*(repeat)
$(repeat)
I don't want to start on 4
years that I cannot ignore
 
13. NICE GUYS FINISH LAST
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
if it’s red then why are they blue?
if I’m dead, are you dead too?
*or am I just guilty of! wishful thinking?
or am I just guilty of being me?
$Cuz I don’t want to be me anymore
Cuz nice guys finish last
and I don’t want to be me anymore
if only I could be one from the past
In my head, there are some clues
what do you hope to find out about you?
In my head, there are more than clues
but its only me, at least I have you
*repeat
$repeat
now its my turn
$repeat
 
14.  SMILE
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
you keep coming back...
i keep giving in
but still you act like that...
who, what, where, and when?
you keep coming back...
starting to close in
but still you act like that...
who, what, where, and when?
*no matter how i tried
who could tell what you thought inside?
and yet you keep coming back...
to tear me up inside
but still you act like that...
even though the blames' all mine
*repeat
why can't you just be like mex2
and smile
you keep coming back...
when will you be stray?
but still you act like that...
why don't you just smile for me?
*no matter how i tried...just smile for me
who could tell what you thought inside?...just smile for me
now matter how hard i tried...just smile for me
where were you when i asked you why?...just smile for me...

Question 34

Sindust-Sucking the inspiration (2001)

Accepted Answer

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1.  Daddy Long Legs
Music and lyrics:  Donley)
If I tasted heaven, tell me now
Because I’m on a diet and I’m not allowed
To taste the cloud each day
I’ll sing for you if you hold sway
 
*What the hell is in heaven?
I’ll climb a ladder that has no pegs
I’ll be kicked down to size again
By daddy long legs
 
I wish my heart was just “Big-boned”
I wish my heart could just get stoned
For my heart to be alone
All I have to do is just go home
 
*What the hell is in heaven?
I’ll climb a ladder that has no pegs
I’ll be kicked down to size again
By daddy long legs
 
*What the hell is in heaven?
I’ll climb a ladder that has no pegs
I’ll be kicked down to size again
By daddy long legs
​
2. Kissing
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
Is the unhappy man not named?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to save the world
But you helped me forget
you know the blood’s never failed me yet…so
Who are you to kill my heart?
Look up to see who pulls my strings
I’ll plug my ears but they still ring
Remember and reminisce
About how you knew me and leave me a kiss
Who are you to kill my heart?
We’ll still be kissing
When I’m gone
We’ll still be kissing
I’m gone
I’m gone
I’m gone
I’m gone
Who are you to kill my heart?
We’ll still be kissing
When I’m gone
We’ll still be kissing
​
3.  Fangs
Music and lyrics:  Donley
I can leave now
I want to leave now
I realize I’ll be letting history repeat
I dug my own trench now it’s way too deep
 
If I leave now
Will I find out how
What’s to find
Or what’s been found
Don’t want to think about it
I just want to drink about it
And wash it all away
 
Can I steal what all the rest have to say
Maybe then I’ll sell out
But I just want to pay to play
It’s all those little things that count
 
If I leave now
Will I find out how
What’s to find
Or what’s been found
Don’t want to think about it
I just want to drink about it
And wash it all away
 
It’s just you, you, you
See things in a different way
Silk little dragon
With lips and fangs
I can rot now…
 
4.  Magic
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
Why am I here with burned out wick?
Saw my heart in half unless you know a better trick
Maybe a trick where the secret’s not revealed
You know how it’s done but still you keep in concealed
 
*So what exactly is the secret to love?
I thought I’d grasped it but now I’m not sure enough
Will it cause more pain and loss than needed pleasure?
So now weigh my heart, is it too far gone to measure?
 
So keep me in a mood where frowns don’t dare collide
With the smiles they’re covered with loose dirt inside
And pull the sheet back to see where all the secrets hide
I’ll know if you know my trick by degree of your sigh
 
*So what exactly is the secret to love?
I thought I’d grasped it but now I’m not sure enough
Will it cause more pain and loss than needed pleasure?
So now weigh my heart, is it too far gone to measure?
 
Just hide
Just hide the sighs inside
 
So why are you here?  Pity makes me sick
Entertain, I will…Tell me if you know my trick…
Because it’s sure to enthrall…edges of seats; now be warmed
Because the secret’s still deep even when you perform
 
*So what exactly is the secret to love?
I thought I’d grasped it but now I’m not sure enough
Will it cause more pain and loss than needed pleasure?
So now weigh my heart, is it too far gone to measure?
 
Just hide
Just hide the sighs inside
​
5.  Me Time
Music and lyrics:  Donley
So if I care about you then tell me why
There’s still a fear about you… and I know why
To tell the truth for now will make me lie
But it’s easy for someone else to say goodbye
 
*Everything I did, I did for me and only me
 
I know I can’t rely on anyone of you
Talk myself back in the frame of mind that I’m conditioned to
Maybe if you saw my side you would feel it too
But I did my part, yeah I tried…But always fail for you
 
*Everything I did, I did for me and only me
 
What’s mine is yours
What’s yours is yours
 
*Everything I did, I did for me and only me
 
6.  Nameless
Music and lyrics:  Donley
Can we wash away all of our father’s mistakes
Though they didn’t make any of them in vain
Can we erase the fact that they gave up their dreams
For you and me and give anything…I please
 
I owe you, how to show you I care
You did the same…but I don’t wanna’ wait til it’s too late
I don’t wanna’ wait til it’s too late
I don’t wanna’ wait
 
Let me wash away
Don’t you give up all your dreams
Just sit in my place
There’s got to be part of you
That wants to be me
You don’t have to say
That you’re proud of me
Cuz there’s no need
Cuz I can already see
 
I owe you, how to show you I care
You did the same…but I don’t wanna’ wait til it’s too late
I don’t wanna’ wait til it’s too late
I don’t wanna’ wait
 
No, you can’t go on
Doing what you’re told
No, you can’t go on
Doing what you’re told
 
Still I wait for you to come on out
Of your shell
Take your time, but not too much time
And I’ll wait for you
 
Let me take the place of you when you were face to face
With the situation that I’m now in
Let me do the work to prove it
I’ll give anything I please…
 
No, you can’t go on
Doing what you’re told
No, you can’t go on
Doing what you’re told
 
7.  Sunset Fell
Music and lyrics:  Donley
What would you do if I told you the sunset fell?
Anything to keep eyes closed, though the canvas is painted well
 
Cuz first there was me;  you told me how I should’ve felt
Express and feel the things that are real, I think I’ll keep to myself
It’s not fate;  what it has in store for us, but what we do with it when it comes
So leave no cloud overturned…and no untouched stone
 
Were my tongue locked in fear, I would not even be caught dead here
 
Cuz then there was you and everything was grand
Too bad your love is in the grasp of someone else’s hand
Right from the gates, I could tell
That no matter how high the skies will rise…my sunset fell
 
Because there’s no turning back
Despite all the lack of us that never was
I’ll just take whatever comes my way
 
But still I wonder what would you say
What circumstance would bring another chance
To splash back on the one that knelt
And tell me why my sunset fell
 
Because now there is no “us” 
I wonder if it was worth it at all
Just wash the colors out of the brush
And let the sunset fall
Cuz there’s no sense of putting things back up
Where you know they don’t belong
And you are the “disaster piece” I left to fall
 
Because there’s no turning back
Despite all the lack of us that never was
I’ll just take whatever comes my way
 
My sunset fell
​
8.  Lazy
Music and lyrics:  Donley
I think I’ll just pop some pills
I wish I would feel more ills
 
Just fuel the fool
Cuz I fuckin’ made you
Let’s about love, let’s talk about murder…of me
I itch too much, you bitch too much…I’ll be appeased for awhile
Cuz rejection’s just another bullet in my chamber of life
 
Which one of you wants a free ride?
It sure looks nice but what’s on the inside
If and when I come on back, I hope I fly and never come back
It’s just like he said “I’m not afraid to die, I’m just scared…of going to hell”
 
Put your quarter in the slot 
Because morality is shot
The higher you get, the lower you got
enough of the play by play, the blow by blow
It pays me to be lazy, don’t you know
 
It’s not deemed surreal in your eyes
With biases aside
Because I wanted you more when I needed you less
I want the back so x3 I can keep an eye on you
Rely on a witness, because slug lines are the truth
 
And I should be heard and not seen
I just hope I don’t get caught
This pillar of salt was never my fault
So put your quarter in the slot 
Because morality is shot
The higher you get, the lower you got
 
Tell me the difference between passion and compassion 
If you gather what’s the matter, you’ll understand
Because religion is sex and sex is merely religion to you…
 
Lazy
Put your quarter in the slot 
Put your quarter in the slot 
​
9.  I shadow
Music and lyrics:  Donley
I shadow you wherever you may go
Though I can’t watch grow
I shadow you
You shadow me
I shadow you
Because I have seen
All the pain in the world
Won’t stay for long
Will it all remain when we’re dead and gone?
I shadow you
You shadow me
I shadow you
Because I have seen
I shadow you
I shadow you
You shadow me
I shadow you
Because I have seen
​
10.  Anyway you choose
Music:  Donley/Leavitt
Lyrics:  Donley
I know that you can be anything
Just as long as it doesn’t involve me
Incessant, anti depressant, I need some sleep
But you…you will always be
 
*Anything you want
But you can’t fool
Anyone, not anyone
Except for you
You’ll will win in your own eyes
Even when you lose 
Just as long as you will have it
Anyway you choose
 
Do you dreams?
Do they still tell the truth?
Or are they just a simple dissolver of youth
Hold me, your mercy is more than I deserve
So don’t try to sell me all your fake concern
And you will be
 
*Anything you want
But you can’t fool
Anyone, not anyone
Except for you
You’ll will win in your own eyes
Even when you lose 
Just as long as you will have it
Anyway you choose
 
And so what, if you have “Friends”
I’ve got something better waiting
Just waiting when…
The time is right, the moon is full and you will see
That I don’t want you, I don’t need you…
And you will be
 
*Anything you want
But you can’t fool
Anyone, not anyone
Except for you
You’ll will win in your own eyes
Even when you lose 
Just as long as you will have it
Anyway you choose
 
Selfish, selfish, selfish me
Where are the manners that you taught me?
Face it cuz I’m gonna’ lose
Just as long as you will have it anyway you choose
 
But would you, would you spit on my grave?
And if I’m gone, will you now behave
There are many forms of “love”
It’s just that none of them are ever gonna’ be enough for me
And you will be
 
*Anything you want
But you can’t fool
Anyone, not anyone
Except for you
You’ll will win in your own eyes
Even when you lose 
Just as long as you will have it
Anyway you choose
 
Selfish, selfish, selfish me
Where are the manners that you taught me?
Face it cuz I’m gonna’ lose
Just as long as you will have it anyway you choose
 
 I know that you can be anything
Just as long as it doesn’t involve me
Incessant, anti depressant, I need some sleep
But you…you will always be
​
11.  Like a pig
Music and lyrics:  Donley
Everyone acts here and there
if you didn’t, face it;  you’d be nowhere
Sweetest Eve cover up with a leaf from a fig
Sweetest Eve you have always been my 
 
Pig
You are my pig
You are my pig
 
Now and only now
Then and only then
Will we truly be free of our dusty sins
Some say though
The guilty always win
Now and then…
And you’re guilty
 
Just whisper to me
And tell me that we
Should always be 
Like pigs
 
Pig
You are my pig
You are my pig
 
Now and only now
Then and only then
Will we truly be free of our dusty sins
Some say though
The guilty always win
Now and then…
And you’re guilty
 
Now and only now
Then and only then
Will we truly be free of our dusty sins
Some say though
The guilty always win
Now and then…
And you’re guilty
 
12. Flying Colors
Music and lyrics:  Donley
I’ll want you fearless of what’s to come
No sense of worth is needed
Because he had no room in his own tomb
Look in the window of all mistreated
 
She has taken up her position 
To take what it is that can’t be taken…not today
 
I don’t need to be political, satirical, theatrical or responsible
I just have to bleed 
My thoughts of the world that I have seen
 
She has taken up her defensive position 
When it comes, you’ll be in awe
You’ll feel it too, it’s like no other
For once your pride will all shine through 
With flying colors
 
I’ll lay it on the line
I laid it on the line
Just tell me I passed
And let me colors fly
​
13.  The Voice
Music and Lyrics:  Donley
Can’t we think about this?
I know you always jump through the right hoops
But I’m trained by you
Can’t we talk about this?
Is this what you really want from me?
I feel buried…I’m not happy
 
Sing with me
To show that you love me
 
I need my notes
To determine how to bleed my throat
I do it for you…all of you
Be my love
Be my strength 
Cuz I want you to sink in me
That’s how it’s supposed to be
 
Sing with me
To show that you love me
 
Sing with me
To show that you love me
 
14.
Chris, Tom, and Rylan
 
15. 
Kiss of the napalm
Music and lyrics:  Donley
Look at the clouds, they’re rolling in so fast
Look at the crowds, they’re knowing who will last
Look if you can see the evidence in me
If I love you all, will no one break my heart
 
Have none of you seen the change in me
Have I not been gone long enough to be missed?
Is it cold in your heart too?
Could I be the heat
If I come back with my napalm
Could I warm you with a kiss
 
If this is all a joke would you still tell me the punchline
So I still don’t feel out of place in this town of cliques
And let me join your club only to find out I cannot love
Because you have to love yourself until you can love others
 
Have none of you seen the change in me
Have I not been gone long enough to be missed?
Is it cold in your heart too?
Could I be the heat
If I come back with my napalm
Could I warm you with a kiss
 
Until you find your own warmth inside
I won’t mind, if I see you trying
Just so I, I’m not the one that’s leading
You know I’ll always be the one that’s bleeding
 
If I’ve shown all sides of every story ever told
Would you mark the page or phrase that touched you the most?
And I’m still not through playing the role of you
So when I’m through, I’ll let you know so together our cloud will grow
 
Have none of you seen the change in me
Have I not been gone long enough to be missed?
Is it cold in your heart too?
Could I be the heat
If I come back with my napalm
Could I warm you with a kiss
 
Until you find your own warmth inside
I won’t mind, if I see you trying
Just so I, I’m not the one that’s leading
You know I’ll always be the one that’s bleeding
 
Have none of you seen the change in me
Have I not been gone long enough to be missed?
Is it cold in your heart too?
Could I be the heat
If I come back with my napalm
Could I warm you with a kiss
 
Until you find your own warmth inside
I won’t mind, if I see you trying
Just so I, I’m not the one that’s leading
You know I’ll always be the one that’s bleeding
 
You…you find your own warmth inside
I won’t mind, if I see you trying
Just so I, I’m not the one that’s leading
You know I’ll always be the one that’s bleeding

Question 35

Sindust-Live Hot Sex (2000)

Accepted Answer

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/undefined
 (Songs from Kiss of the napalm and Sucking the inspiration recorded live at Peabody's in the flats 1998))
 
Track list:
1.  Kissing
2.  Mother of pearl
3.  Soar
4.  Me time
5.  Fangs
6.  The Voice
7.  Happy little suburb
8.  Like a pig
9.  I shadow
10.  Question me
11.  If it weighs on your mind

Question 36

Sindust-Kiss of the napalm (1999)

Accepted Answer

1.  Soar
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/undefined

(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
If you let the dust finally settle around my feet
I’ll be tied down just long enough for you to break me
 
Siphon the wounds til dry
Glue my wrists back together
Broken now, pushed to the right
When it comes to you I’m even better
 
It’s howling again tonight
I’ve talked to too many
They told me exactly
What I didn’t want to hear
That’s why I brought you here
 
*Can’t you see one of us is supposed to be fucked up?
Can’t you see one of us is supposed to be fucked 
 
Just let me be free
I can’t take anymore
Just let me be free
I’m feeling sore, let me soar
 
Such is the challenge, such is the goal
Let the undertow pull me below
Since I gave in long ago
Just let me soar
 
*Can’t you see one of us is supposed to be fucked up?
Can’t you see one of us is supposed to be fucked 
 
2.  Progress of the lowly worm
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
Say it again
Just repeat what you know
The only problem is
That’s all the cells could hold
 
*The progress we need
Has taken a back seat
Has taken a knee
And raised the flag so easily
 
And forget what you learned
In days, you lost what you learned
To pass on the ‘ledge
How proud to sharpen the edge
 
*The progress we need
Has taken a back seat
Has taken a knee
And raised the flag so easily
 It wasn’t just me
 
And to those who have tried
You really wasted your time
You could’ve been
The start of the slide
 
*The progress we need
Has taken a back seat
Has taken a knee
And raised the flag so easily
 It wasn’t just me
​
3.  Mother of Pearl
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
Sweet is the sound
Echoing all around
Underground
Is where I found
 
Mother of pearl
Mother of the world
Mother of pearl
 
The best place to begin
Is right where I ended
Though I am torn inside
My heart you have mended
 
Mother of pearl
Mother of the world
Mother of pearl
 
You’re the world to me
There’s nothing else, you see
You’re the world to me
 
Don’t ever change, I love you
Though I don’t know what that word really means
 
Mother of pearl
Mother of the world
Mother of pearl
​
4.  Sinimin
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
Don’t you know that you lie
Just string it out to last
Your fuck machine is running out of gas
 
You really rape me
You really take me
You really break me
I won’t let you in
No more lies to fuck with
 
 Running into a wall
Just find a way around
Until you crawl back on down
 
You really rape me
You really take me
You really break me
 
I won’t let you in
To much Sin Im In
For me take
What’s on my plate
What do you want from me?
My own misery?
 
You really knew me
I lie constantly
You really thrill me
You really kill me
 
I won’t let you in
To much Sin Im In
For me take
What’s on my plate
​
5.  Question me
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
Set me a trap
Let me hatch all of the eggs
Of your diffusion and clap
Clap off on me
 
Do you question me?
Do you question J.C.?
 
Beg me, selfish
On my shelf if you could piss
Me away
Just to pass the day
 
Do you question me?
Do you question J.C.?
 
So easy to ignore the faith
That’s a bore
And such a chore
Use any and every chance to squeak by
For lead
 
For lead
Nothing compares to questioning me
 
6.   Drift
(Music:  Donley, Leavitt
Lyrics:  Donley)
I miss you
Less than I miss me
There’s a crowd, then there’s you, then me, then you
Kissing me
 
Certain patterns don’t disguise
The given-ups from the real tries
I want to be born again
 
Certain patterns don’t disguise
They only make me aware of the severed ties
I wanna’ talk about love and butteflies
But those days will not be re-lived
 
So now I drift away
Not able to truly say
What should’ve been said
So long ago
Just take the word of those who know
 
Chase the faithful charm
It sure won’t do you harm
Spring is finally here and gone
Just like all of my favorite songs
 
Certain patterns don’t disguise
My mind is frail and ready
Ready to unwind
 
Certain patterns don’t disguise
They only make me aware of the severed ties
I wanna’ talk about love and butteflies
But those days will not be lived
 
So now I drift away
Not able to truly say
What should’ve been said
So long ago
Just take the word of those who know
 
You don’t need
 To keep tabs on me
I’m out of your hair
I’ll soon be gone from here
 
You don’t need 
To keep tabs on me
 
I miss you
Less than I miss “we”
The crowd is gone and the vision faded
I don’t want to be complicated
 
Certain patterns don’t disguise
The mark of my failures to the ones I’ve denied
And I have denied
 
Certain patterns don’t disguise
They only make me aware of the severed ties
Now there’s no more love or butteflies
But as of now I’m still alive 
 
So now I drift away
Not able to truly say
What should’ve been said
So long ago
Just take the word of those who know
 
Certain patterns don’t disguise
They only make me aware of the severed ties
Now there’s no more love or butteflies
But as of now I’m still alive 
 
You don’t need 
To keep tabs on me
 
7.  Your rose
(Music and lyrics:  Donley)
I wish you away
Every hour of every day
Though be gone you will
Your memory’s instilled
Inside my head in every crack
If you break my spirit, I’ll break you back
Does anyone even care
Of those of us young Eros spared?
To pull the tipped arrow out
Will surely was away
The hopes presented now
To those of us who never wake
 
To see the real
Inspire and fell
To see the real
Inspire
 
There’s no such thing as love
I’ve said it all before 
To those who have it that don’t care
Can pass some on to those who need a share
But no, the selfish reign
On ours, the real “love parade”
And those who treat the needed bad
The needed ones still had
Because they opened up too fast
They should’ve known it wouldn’t last
I know it’s easy for me to see
Because I’ve always been on the outside
Peeking in to see
 
What’s going on in you
Is going on in me
And what you couldn’t see
Has finally come around to you
 
I always make the same mistake 
Of getting in too deep 
No matter what occasion springs up
The noose is stretched for me
And the trophy handed to you
With the winner’s name engraved
Too bad the judges never knew
Your plan to enslave
Anyone that gets in your way 
But it’s only you that knows
My gift to you becomes me
Your rose
 
Now see the real
Inspire and feel
Now see the real
Inspire
 
Addiction Fundamentals
Music:  Donley, Leavitt
Lyrics:  Donley
do you know what it takes to feel good
If I knew I wouldn’t fuckin’ tell you if I could
Because there you go spreadin’ all the news
Fundamentals set the stage of all the abuse
 
*Because the drug only adds to the false
Display of shit, poor me!  Now I’m at a loss
Put up with all you fuckin’ fakes for now
I’m addicted anyhow
 
So go ahead and peel me off the floor
All the shit inject don’t know how much more
Do you think the fuckin’ level is surpassed?
You always want it like that
 
Addiction fun for me
How easy
Addiction fun for me
Do you fuckin’ know what the fuck it takes
 
*Because the drug only adds to the false
Display of shit, poor me!  Now I’m at a loss
Put up with all you fuckin’ fakes for now
Nothing matters anyhow
 
Addiction fun for me
How easy
Addiction fun for me
Do you fuckin’ know what the fuck it takes
 
*Because the drug only adds to the false
Display of shit, poor me!  Now I’m at a loss
Put up with all you fuckin’ fakes for now
Nothing matters anyhow
 
9.  If it weighs on your mind
Music and lyrics:  Donley
A picture tells a thousand
And steals your soul with every frame
Just like the words that we were told
It gets so old, myself, I’m cold
 
If the bush is burning will we feel the flame?
If the water’s drowning, will we feel the same?
If it’s a beautiful night, could we take a walk?
If not, I won’t call…I won’t fall
 
But if it weighs on your mind
Would you stop and take the time
To figure what I’m trying to say
Just save it for dissection another day
 
I’ve sold myself before
For all acceptance that I want more
I’ve been trusting my mirrors too much
So much so that I’m now out of touch
 
If the heart’s in season will you go to the hunt?
For no real reason, you just missed the “fun”?
If you think real, will you find a cause?
and pick apart all my necessary flaws
 
But if it weighs on your mind
Would you stop and take the time
To figure what I’m trying to say
Just save it for dissection another day
 
It’s no good
 
But does it weigh on your mind?
Is it the kind of thought that’s one of a kind?
Is it the kind of thought that burns you inside?
At least you’ll feel the same thoughts as mine
 
But does it weigh on your mind?
Is it the kind of thought that’s one of a kind?
Is it the kind of thought that burns you inside?
At least you’ll feel the same thoughts as mine
 
And since the words lost their meaning Long ago
Just jump the ship to see if you float
Because I know you gave in when you said
“I understand”
I understand
I understand
I understand
I under stand
 
But how could you?
 
It’s not that easy to get by me
So just try…
Go down, go down
​
​

Question 37

Sindust-(Original demo-1997)

Accepted Answer

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/undefined
1.  Leech
Music and lyrics:  Donley
Some say it’s wrong for life to be taken
preach to me, I think that you’re mistaken
“don’t ponder suicide…
Tragedy’s the best way to die”
if you’re into it
 
*for when it bleeds the blood of life and love
it cannot be opinion, it’s not enough
*for when it bleeds the blood of life and love
I don’t think we agree to hurt enough
 
I don’t believe in much or much
my dreams of what I want-my crutch
hampered by my own distrust
you are keeping down my must…I must, I must
 
*for when it bleeds the blood of life and love
it cannot be opinion, it’s not enough
*for when it bleeds the blood of life and love
I don’t think we agree to hurt enough
 
*for when it bleeds the blood of life and love
it cannot be opinion, it’s not enough
*for when it bleeds the blood of life and love
I don’t think we agree to hurt enough
 
You don’t blame me enough
​
2.  My rules
Music and lyrics:  Donley
Words don’t mean
really what they mean
so why believe
when there’s nothing to believe
 
*we play by my own rules
or we don’t play at all
*we play by my own rules
or we don’t play at all
 
Why convey
what’s impossible to say
just show what you feel
unless it isn’t even real
 
*we play by my own rules
or we don’t play at all
*we play by my own rules
or we don’t play at all
 
Try to regret
something else you haven’t done yet
I don’t think so
I think you should go
 
*we play by my own rules
or we don’t play at all
*we play by my own rules
or we don’t play at all
 
3.  Too many, too few
Music and lyrics:  Donley
if too many were still too few
could any of you
look at me without taking aim?
And let the ones who need to be
left to blame
 
and if I showed you how
is there any chance that you would allow?
 
and though it’s too early to say
if it’s worth it for me to stay
long enough to receive
all the dear necessities
that you seem to think I need
ever dose and every sting
 
could you look at me?
just calm the tough and lovely
and love enough, the ugly;
me, to stay
 
and if I showed you how
is there any chance that you would allow?
 
me to congregate beyond you
at least so I could say I found you
even though it’s all behind
too many, too few of us were blind
 
and if I showed you how
is there any chance that I could be found
 
without the preconceptions
of the unprotection
just enough to mention
that I hate all the attention
 
and all along I knew
there’s been too many…and still too few
 
if too many were still too few
all along I…I knew
​
4.  O.D. Caffeine
Music and lyrics:  Donley
Am I out of ideas?
or am I just bored
if I use the creative ease…
will I allow myself to be cured?
 
*Seduced by “popular”
and caffeine
pessimist and negative
are my number 1 team
 
and if it’s gonna’ take me
I wish it’d hurry up
not unreal, pardon me
allow me to o.d.
 
I want to be unattractive
I want to be radioactive
just pull the wool over my eyes
how many forms of suicide?
 
*Seduced by “popular”
and caffeine
pessimist and negative
are my number 1 team
 
and if it’s gonna’ take me
I wish it’d hurry up
not unreal, pardon me
allow me to o.d.
 
I’m wired
Wired to go
 
my love is poverty
my love is poetry
my love has no entry
my love was meant to be
 
*Seduced by “popular”
and caffeine
 
and if it’s gonna’ take me
I wish it’d hurry up
and if it’s gonna’ take me
I wish it’d hurry up
and if it’s gonna’ take me
I wish it’d hurry up
not unreal, pardon me
allow me to o.d.
​
5.  Happy Little Suburb
Music and lyrics:  Donley
I’m happy here
or so it appears
all these kind and caring fucks
support me in all that I do
but I never did a thing to you
 
*just tell me what the hell I did wrong
my problems always take too long
to unfold in just the fashion I want
this is me
this is me
this is me and this is what I want to be
this is me
this is me
this is me and this is what I want to be
 
welcome to my hell
welcome to my hell
do it to myself
do it to myself
 
there’s always other things to blame
it’s you, it’s me, it’s drugs
it all sounds the same
we’ve seen it, heard it
lived it before
but we’re all dead more than ever before
 
*just tell me what the hell I did wrong
my problems always take too long
to unfold in just the fashion I want
this is me
this is happy?
 
welcome to my hell
welcome to my hell
do it to myself
do it to myself
 
bred to be
 
what?
what?
what?
what?
what?
what?
what the hell did I do to you?
 
what did I do?
we were all bred to be
 
welcome to my hell
welcome to my hell
do it to myself
do it to myself

Question 38

LoveLag-Tribute to Sponge "Rotting Pinata" (2024)

Accepted Answer

Sponge 
“Rotting Pinata” - 1994
All music and lyrics:  SPONGE

1. Pennywheels
you know
what it feels like
to be naked
to be ground by
giant pennywheels
giant pennywheels
giant pennywheels
giant pennywheels
i dream
i dream
i dream
i dream
i dream

no one, yeah there's no one 
that can't hear
all the sounds like
giant pennywheels
giant pennywheels
giant pennywheels
giant pennywheels

i dream
i dream
i dream
i dream
i dream

shiny copper crushing me

i watch the wheels

roll in your eyes

pick one up i think it’s junk

i'm ready and l'm willing

i'll subscribe

i'm naked and i'm wasted

you know

what it feels like

to be naked

to be ground

2. Rotting Pinata
get on the rodeo that is your life
beat on me
spill my insides out on the ground
cut on me
i will go when i say die
i will rot away
i will rot away
i will rot away
like a rotting piñata
rotting piñata
rotting piñata
rotting piñata

see my soul
it cuts a hole into the sky
standing near
watch the birds eat out my eyes
i will rot away
i will rot away
i will rot away
like a rotting piñata
rotting piñata
rotting piñata
rotting piñata

here lies this junk of me

here lies this wreck that was me

oh god help me rot

i don't look quite the same

grab my beating heart

tear it from this broken cage

today,  today

i'm rotting

i’m coloring
i'm red and black i'm twice my size
don't cry for me 
just pull the plug and let me fly

i will rot away
i will rot away
i will rot away
like a rotting piñata
rotting piñata
rotting piñata
rotting piñata
rotting piñata
rotting piñata
rotting piñata
rotting piñata

3. Giants

do you think she'll notice
that i'm a wreck again
do you think she noticed
that i've lost a new pair of boots
do you think she'll notice
how i felt in bed again
she said it's nothing new
'cause nobody's losing, yeah, yeah, yeah
nobody's losing, yeah, yeah, yeah
nobody's losing, yeah, yeah, yeah
it's like giants falling down

falling down

do you think i noticed

that she came in late again

do you think i noticed

she's wearing a new perfume

do you think i noticed

how she wore her hair today

she said it's nothing new

'cause nobody's losing, yeah, yeah, yeah
nobody's losing, yeah, yeah, yeah
nobody's losing, yeah, yeah, yeah
it's like giants falling down
falling down
yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah
falling down, down
yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah

4. Neenah Menasha

to begin but not complete
to sleep but not to wake
to always be lost 
to never find the way
no thought, no memory
no hope or tragedy
a mirror waits for a
reflection of a face

to hit the ground and know
the sound
trial by mistake
death’s a crown we wear around
like a smile on a face

they will never hate or lie
they will never break or try
they will never break or cry
they will never wave goodbye

a silence that would not break
the loss of a face
the face of a woman that
arrived much to late

i break down and she sees
the clowns i used to hide away

death to clowns all their crowns

and the smiles on their face

they wlll never break or cry

they will never hate or lie

they will never say or smile

they will never break or cry

neenah menasha will wait

neenah menasha

neenah menasha will wait

i break down

and she sees the clowns

i used to hide away

death to clowns and all their crowns

and the smiles on their face

they will never hate or lie

they will never break or try

they will never break or cry

they will never wave goodbye

neenah menasha will wait

neenah menasha

neenah menasha will wait

neenah menasha

neenah menasha will wait

5. Miles

two brothers
the walking dead
pray for silence the other said
one shot to the sky
the other held down by disguise
sex for an angry man
to whores they can count on him
0ne made of paper
the other glass
one will tear
the other crashed

oh god, was i that man up
on a cross

made of steel

stuck on my wall

cold and thin

who watched me die

and did not care

miles to go before i sleep

miles to go to fall in deep

is this the way it has to be?

miles to go before i sleep

miles to go to fall in deep

is this the way it has to be?

the inside marched on parade

to the outside where no one came

what was there, it scorched the ground

the other made no sound

oh god, was i that man up
on a cross

made of steel

stuck on my wall

cold and thin

who watched me die

and did not care

miles to go before i sleep

miles to go to fall in deep

is this the way it has to be?

miles to go before i sleep

miles to go to fall in deep

is this the way it has to be?

6. Plowed

will i wake up
some dream i made up?
no i guess this is reality
what will change us
or will we mess up
our only chance to connect
with a dream?

say a prayer for me
say a prayer for me
say a prayer for me, for me
say a prayer for me
say a prayer for me
i'm buried by the sound

of a world of human wreckage
in a world of human wreckage
in a world of human wreckage

where i'm lost and i'm found

and i can't touch the ground

i'm plowed into the sound

to see wide open

with a head that's broken

hang a life on a tragedy

but you plow me under

the ground that covers

the message that

is the seed

say a prayer for me
say a prayer for me
say a prayer for me, for me
say a prayer for me
say a prayer for me
i'm buried by the sound

of a world of human wreckage
in a world of human wreckage
in a world of human wreckage

where i'm lost and i'm found

and i can't touch the ground

i'm plowed into the sound

will i wake up
some dream i made up?
no i guess this is reality

7. Drownin'

will i hate tomorrow
will i hate what i can't see
i'm doubting 
should i walk around it
try to be what i can't be
i'm dying

i'm not happy any
i'm just not happy anymore
i'm drownin'
i'm not happy any
i'm just not happy anymore
i'm drownin'

suppose you painted the castle of auvers
but everything you did came alive
would you paint all these things just to please me?

and if you could read my mind

i would never be happy

what will change tomorrow

in this sea within a sea

i'm blinded

how long will i be down here

i'm out of air i can not breathe

i'm drownin'

i'm not happy any
i'm just not happy anymore
i'm drownin'
i'm not happy any
i'm just not happy anymore
i'm drownin'
i'm drownin'
i'm drownin'
i'm drownin'
i'm drownin'

8. Molly (16 Candles)

Seen you naked in the bath
Cigarette stains on your hands
Wilted flowers in a vase
I ask "how are you?"
Yeah, "how are you?"

I see the lipstick on your glass
I think you're drunk, I start to laugh
I find your note, the letters ran
It said "I love you"
Yeah, "I love you"

Don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why

Sixteen candles down the drain

I watch you passed out for a while
I touch your face, you start to smile
And on your note is my reply
"I wish I loved you"
"I wish I loved you"

Don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why

Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why

Sixteen candles down the drain (The drain)

(The drain)

Don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why

Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why

Sixteen candles down the drain (The drain)

(The drain)

9. Fields

oh god, here it comes again
here's that memory that'll just break my back and when 
i figured it out
i thought i'd get by
here it comes, it'll blacken the sun
it'll bury me alive,
save me from myself
save me from myself
save me from myself

save me from myself
save me from myself
save me from myself

turn around, throw it all away
turn around until it all breaks down
to the fields of falling angels
fields of falling angels

best friends what we used to say 
all this time it feels like yesterday 
remembering when 
we said goodbye 
still i doubt i'll ever figure out why

save me from myself
save me from myself
save me from myself

turn around, throw it all away
turn around until it all breaks down
to the fields of falling angels
fields of falling angels
fields of falling angels
fields of falling angels

if i die
before i wake
it'll never end the sorrow 
if i die
before i wake
it'll never end the sorrow 
if i die
before i wake
it'll never end the sorrow 
if i die
before i wake
it'll never end the sorrow

save me from myself
save me from myself
save me from myself

10. Rainin'

now and forever
the moment is gone and time runs out
then it hits you with the pain
things are great on the way up
but nobody is with you when you ‘re on the way down
you got what you wished for
is that what you really wanted
it's how i think of you
it's how i think of you
all the way, yeah
well it’s raining
it’s raining in my house

indecision
problems that took years to build and build
and admission

is too far away

life in a blackout is like life in a storm

when you finally come out

you see that you're all alone

you got what you wished for

is that what you really wanted

it's how i think of you
it's how i think of you
all the way, yeah
well it’s raining
it’s raining in my house
it’s raining
it’s raining in my house
it’s raining
it’s raining in my house
it’s raining
it’s raining in my house

this is the day

you will break-you are born

then you deal with the blame 
the blame
the blame

well it’s raining
it’s raining in my house
it’s raining
it’s raining in my house
it’s raining
it’s raining in my house
it’s raining
it’s raining in my house

Question 39

LoveLag-Tribute to Weezer "Blue Album" (2024)

Accepted Answer

My Name Is Jonas
()
My name is Jonas
I'm carrying the wheel
Thanks for all you shown us
This is how we feel
Come sit next to me
Pour yourself some tea
Just like Grandma made
When we couldn't find sleep
Things were better then
Once but never again
We've all left the den
Let me tell you about it

Choo choo train left right on time
A ticket costs only your mind
Driver said, 'Hey man we go all the way'
Of course we were willing to pay

My name is Weepel
Got a box full of your toys
They're fresh out of batteries
But they're still makin noise
Makin noise

Tell me what to do
Now the tank is dry
Now this wheel is flat
And you know what else?
Guess what I received in the mail today--
Words of deep concern from my little brother

Building's not going as he planned
The foreman has injured his hand
The dozer will not clear a path
The driver swears he learned his math

The workers are going home (4x)
Yeah!
The workers are going home (3x)
Yeah yeah yeah

My name is Jonas
N()o One Else
()
My girl's got a big mouth with which she blabbers alot
She laughs at most everything, whether it's funny or not
And if you see her, tell her it's over now

Chorus:
I want a girl who will laugh for no one else
When I'm away she puts her makeup on the shelf
When I'm away she never leaves the house
I want a girl who laughs for no one else

My girl's got eyeballs in the back of her head
She looks around and around
You know it makes me sad to see her like that
Please don't believe her
She says that for anyone
And if you see her, tell her it's a hey hey hey hey
(chorus)

And if you see her tell her it's over now
And if you see her tell her it's over now
(chorus)
T()he World Has Turned And Left Me Here
()
Chorus:
The world has turned and left me here
Just where I was before you appeared
And in your place an empty space
Has filled the void behind my face

I made love with your sweet memory
1000 times in my head
You said you loved it more than ever
You said you remained turned away
Turning further everyday
(chorus)

I talked for hours to your wanted photograph
And you just listened
You left enchanted by my intellect
Or maybe you didn't
You said you remained turned away
Turning further everyday
(chorus)

(instrumental interlude)
You said you remained turned away
Turning further everyday
(chorus)

(Do you believe what I sing now?)(2x)
(Do you believe?)(2x)
Do you believe what I sing now?(2x)
Do you believe?(2x)
B()uddy Holly
()
What's with these homies dissin' my girl?
Why do they gotta front?
What did we ever do to these guys
That made them so violent?

Woo hoo, but you know I'm yours
Woo hoo, and I know you're mine
Woo hoo, that's for all time
I look just like Buddy Holly
Oh oh and you're Mary Tyler Moore
I don't care what they say about us anyway
I don't care 'bout that

Don't you ever fear
I'm always near
I know that you need help
Your tongue is twisted
Your eyes are slit
You need a guardian
Woo hoo, and you know I'm yours
Woo hoo, and I know you're mine
Woo hoo, that's for all time
Ooh we ooh I look just like Buddy Holly
Oh oh and you're Mary Tyler Moore
I don't care what they say about us anyway
I don't care 'bout that

Bang bang a knock on the door
Another big bang your down on the floor
Oh no, what do I do?
Don't look now but I lost my shoe
I can't run and I can't kick
What's a matter babe?
Are you feeling sick?
What's a matter, What's a matter, What's a matter you?
What's matter babe, are you feeling blue?

Ooh we ooh I look just like Buddy Holly
Oh oh and you're Mary Tyler Moore
I don't care what they say about us anyway
I don't care 'bout that
I don't care 'bout that
I don't care 'bout that
I don't care 'bout that
()Surf Wax America
()
The sea is foaming like a bottle of beer
The wave is coming but I ain't got no fear
I'm waxing down so that I'll go real fast
I'm waxing down because it's really a blast
I'm going surfing cause I don't like your face
I'm bailing out because I hate the race
Of rats that run round and round in the maze
I'm going surfing I'm going surfing

Chorus:
You take your car to work
I'll take my board
And when you're out of fuel
I'm still afloat

My buddies and the honeys all come along
They seem invincible as they surf along
The sea is rolling like a thousand pound keg
I'm going surfing I'm going surfing
(chorus 2x)

All along the undertow is strengthening its hold
I never thought it would come to this
Now I can never go home
All along the undertow is strenghtening its hold
I never thought it would come to this
Now I can never go home
(chorus quietly 2x)

(chorus)
You take your car
I'll take my board
You take your car
I'll take my board
Let's go!
S()ay It Ain't So
()
Oh yeah
All right
Somebody's Heine is crowding my ice box
Somebody's cold one is giving me chills
Guess I'll just close my eyes
Oh yeah
All right
Feels good inside

Flip on the tele
Wrestle with Jimmy
Something is a bubbling behind my back
Bottle is ready to blow

Chorus:
Say it ain't so
Your drug is a heart breaker
Say it ain't so
My love is a life-taker

I can't confront you
I never could do
That which might hurt you
So try and be cool
When I say, this way
Is a waterslide away from me that takes you further everyday
So be cool

(chorus)

Dear Daddy, I write you
In spite of years of silence
You cleaned up
Found Jesus
Things are good or so I hear
This bottle of Steven's
Awakens ancient feelings
Like father, stepfather
The son is drowning in the flood

(chorus)
()In The Garage
()
I've got the Dungeon Master's Guide
I've got a 12-sided die
I've got Kitty Pryde
And Nightcrawler too
Waiting there for me yes I do, I do
I've got posters on the wall
My favorite rock group Kiss
I've got Ace Frehley
I've got Peter Criss
Waiting there for me yes I do, I do

Chorus:
In the garage, I feel safe
No one cares about my ways
In the garage where I belong
No one hears me sing this song
In the garage

I've got an electric guitar
I play my stupid songs
I write these stupid words
And I love every one
Waiting there for me yes I do, I do
(chorus)

(instrumental interlude)

(chorus)

In the garage, I feel safe
No one laughs about my ways
In the garage where I belong
No one hears me
No one hears me
No one hears me
No one hears me
No one hears me sing this song
H()oliday
()
Let's go away for a while-- You and I
To a strange and distant land
Where they speak no word of truth
But we don't understand anyway

Holiday-- far away
To stay-- On a holiday
Far away
Let's go today in a heart beat
Heartbeat heartbeat

Don't bother to pack your bags or you map
We won't need them where we're going
We're going where the wind is blowin
Not knowing where we're gonna stay

We will write a postcard 
To our friends and family 
In free verse

On the road with Kerouac 
Sheltered in his Bivouac 
On this road we'll never die... 
Let's go away!
O()nly In Dreams
()
You can't resist her
She's in your bones
She is your marrow and your ride home
You can't avoid her
She's in the air
In between molecules of oxygen and carbon dioxide

Chorus:
Only in dreams
We see what it means
We reach out our hands
Hold onto hers
But when we wake
It's all been erased
And so it seems
Only in dreams

You walk up to her, ask her to dance
She says, "Hey baby I just might take the chance."
You say, "It's a good thing
that you float in the air
that way there's no way I will crush your pretty toenails into a thousand pieces."
(chorus)
Only in dreams (repeat)()

Question 40

LoveLag-Tribute to Comsat Angels "7 Day Weekend" (2025)

Accepted Answer

Believe It

Tonight the sky looks close enough to almost reach out and touch, but
The light is playing tricks on me again
Whatever fate puts in between us, whatever happens next
I know the same sky is above your head

I hope you still remember
What you promised me
I know you'll find the way again
Until then you must
Believe, believe it
Believe, believe it
Outside the wind is calling in that old high and rolling sound
Doing it’s best to spread the blues around
It says "If you listen to me, all I predict comes true"So 
I put my faith in anything but you

I hope you still remember
What you promised me
I know you'll find the way again
Until then you must

Believe, believe it
Believe, believe it

Tonight the sky looks close enough to almost reach out and touch, but
The light is playing tricks on me again
I hope you still remember
What you promised me
I know you'll find the way again
Until then you must

Believe, believe it
Believe, believe it
Tonight the sky looks close enough to almost reach out and touch...

Forever Young

You know it's been so long that I couldn't stay away
I heard you were down here selling antiques on market day
You're like your mother now, the years have changed your face
And I found myself thinking, could you see me in the same way?
Nothing's everlasting
Everyone gets older
I can still remember
Always in my mind
We will be forever young

Seems like another life so far from here to there
All the time I knew somehow I'd see you again
I've waited for a sign but you're wiser now, I know
'Cause if you recognised me then you never let it show

Nothing's everlasting
Everyone gets  older
I can still remember
Always in my mind
We will be forever young

And we turned into strangers
Oh, oh
But the past doesn't change us

Nothing's everlasting
Everyone gets older
I can still remember
Always in my mind
We will be forever young
Ever young
Forever, forever, forever young
Forever, forever, forever young
Forever, forever, forever young
Forever young

You move me
It's over my head, I don't understand it
Out of my hands, there's no way around it
Like a jigsaw had to begin it
If this was a war, I'd never win it
I'm saying things that I used to laugh at
Hold up to the light and just stand and stare at
I'm feeling the pull of a soul attraction
Pushed out of line, you drive to distraction

You move me like a missing piece
You move me like a leap of faith
You move me, it comes down to this
You move me and give me one good reason

Out of the blue like a revelation
Into the light like an inspiration
Under the skin I feel my nerves humming
Give me the sign 
Keep the signals coming!
You move me like a missing piece
You move me like a leap of faith
You move me, it comes down to this
You move me and give me one good reason

Like a blind man in a diamond mine
Like more to tell  when there's no time
Like East and West and who knows best
Like serving life for someone else's crime
What you want to say but never dare
Like the best two lines you'll ever hear
The train has two lights on behind
Blue was my blues
Red was my mind
You move me like a missing piece
You move me like a leap of faith
You move me, better than the best 
You move me it comes down to this
You move me like a missing piece
You move me like a leap of faith
You move me, it comes down to this
You move me and give me one good reason
Like a blind man in a diamond mine
Like more to say when there's no time
Like East and West and who knows best
Like serving life for someone else's crime

I’m Falling

I never thought this could happen
I never thought I could feel this way
Til' this strange reaction, today
Gimme a new sensation
In a place that has no name
Something tells me I'll never be the same
Now it's all changed
I'm Falling, Falling
Falling Falling
I'm Falling, Falling
Falling, Falling

What have you done to me
I'm falling endlessly

I began to say
I didn't know what was coming next
Even so, I was not prepared for this
Not prepared for this
I used to think nothing mattered
Now I see possibilities
You showed a new direction to me
And it's all changed

I'm Falling, Falling
Falling Falling
I'm Falling, Falling
Falling, Falling

I began to say
I didn't know what was coming next
Even so, I was not prepared for this
Not prepared for this

I'm Falling, Falling
I'm Falling, Falling
I'm Falling, Falling
Falling, Falling

Falling

Close your eyes

You caught me out when you caught me wondering
Just what it is I see in your face
Are you like me, are you feeling out of place?

You say the world is a shapeless mystery
Some kind of maze that you cannot break
So many roads but you don't know which to take
Just close your eyes and put it from your mind
Forget the time and the life we leave
\We can escape, we can break out tonight
Just close your eyes and slip away with me

From overhead they're trying to get to us
Cutting their slice, bigger every day
What we can make is the best of what remains
Give me the chance and I'll try to prove to you
Though all this strangeness is running wild
We can break out, we can lose this for a while

Just close your eyes and put it from your mind
Forget the time and the life we leave
We can escape, we can break out tonight
Just close your eyes and slip away with me

The hard part of this life takes up far too much time
Why waste the rest wondering why?
Tonight we can change it, tonight we can kiss it goodbye
Leave it all far behind, behind

Just close your eyes and put it from your mind
Forget the time and the life we leave

We can escape, we can break out tonight
Just close your eyes and slip away with me

Just close your eyes
Close your eyes
Just close your eyes
Close your eyes...
Day one

Staggering out as the day is just breaking
Head spinning 'round from a night to forget
I think we said everything that we should regret
What started so well ended up in confusion
Maybe we'd rather be right than correct
This one could be the last, deadliest outcome yet

Hold back the clock, don't turn the page
Cross out the day and the dates
Whatever it is now, let's give it a different nam
Day one, let's start again
Day one, no lose or win
Day one, it doesn't have to be the end

I'm wondering how we got so complicated
From crystal clear to the mess that we made
I want to go back and I'm hoping it's not too late

So hold back the clock, don't turn the page
Cross out the day and the dates
Whatever it is now, let's give it a different name
Day one, let's start again
Day one, no lose or win

Day one, it doesn't have to be the end

Doesn't have to be (let's start again)
Doesn't have to be (it would be such a shame)
Doesn't have to be (we can't just give in)
Doesn't have to be
Day one
Day one
Day one, it doesn't have to be the end

Day one, let's start again
Day one, no lose or win
Day one, it doesn't have to be the end

It doesn't have to be the end
It doesn't have to be the end
No lose or win
Day one, it doesn't have to be the end
It doesn't have to be the end
It doesn't have to be the end...

You’re the heroine

The sun beats down on another endless traffic jam
And I think again, "What is the point of this?"
My eyes are sore and my hands are fists

But then we start to move and I ease my grip
And those dark thoughts  they begin to slip
And as the traffic picks up speed
There's just one thing I need

Dearest, you're the heroine
That's when you're the heroine

So I'm standing here on a busy street
I've got things to do, people to meet
And-the rushing crowd is pressing on all sides
…But suddenly they disappear
And I think again, "What am I doing here?"
I've got one real destination
One place I want to be
Dearest, you're the  heroine
That's when you're the  heroine

And I'm going up in a skyscraper of glass and steel
Down there people come and go, almost too small to see

And in an hour or two I'll be one of them, nowhere to go, no-one to see
And though the clock ticks on… relentlessly it' still too slow for me

Dearest, you're the heroine
That's when you're the heroine

When the time comes 'round, it's getting dark
And the push and shove has made its mark
And I'm worn out, 
 feeling black and blue

But the stars still shine on the darkest nights
To me they seem so very bright
Until the rescue comes I'm holding on and I'm holding tight

Dearest, you're the heroine
That's when you're the heroine
Dearest, you're the  heroine
That's when you're the  heroine...
High Tide
It takes more than you've got to push me under
More than all the wherefores and the whys
I'll take the worst that you can do
Whatever you can put me through
And I will still come out the other side

So as you walk away from here
I'll fill my glass up to the top
I'll lift it and I'll drink it down to size

The sea so blue and sand so white
Your name will be lost in the high,
  high tide

Don't think that I didn't see it coming
You don't have the advantage of surprise
I've heard all that you have to say
But none of it makes sense to me
But I was never one for long goodbyes

So as you walk away from here
I'll fill my glass up to the top
I'll lift it and I'll drink it down to size

The sea so blue and sand so white
Your name will be lost in the high, 
high tide
So as you walk away from here
I'll fill my glass up to the top
I'll lift it and I'll drink it down to size
The sea so blue and sand so white
Your name will be lost in the high, 
high tide

high tide
high tide
high tide
high tide
high tide
high tide
high tide
high tide
high tide
high tide
high tide
high tide
The sea so blue and sand so white
Your name will be lost in the high, 
high tide

The sea so blue and sand so white
Your name will be lost in the high, 
high tide
high tide
high tide
high tide

New heart and hand

It’s warm outside but I feel coldness 
Creeping over me
Still I’m not too far gone to know just 
What it is I need
Someone to reach for in the night
Someone to turn the heat up high
To make the spark into a flame
Someone to turn night into day

Though my eyes are fine I’m seeing 
Only shades of grey
I know there is a cure but so far 
I don’t know her name
Someone to turn night into day
Filling the colours when they fade
Someone to turn the heat up high
To make the spark into a flame

New heart and hand
I’m lost in this land
New heart and han
Someone to start me up again
New heart and hand
A cause to defend
New heart and hand
I need a track to drive my train

It’s getting late
I’m getting colder
If you’re out there
Come on over
Tell me there won’t be
Too long to wait
Oh, oh, oh, oh

In the street I search the face of 
Everyone I see
But they all seem to be in search of
The same thing as me
Someone to reach for in the night
Someone to turn the heat up high
To make the spark into a flame
Someone to turn night into day
New heart and hand
I’m lost in this land
New heart and hand
Someone to start me up again
New heart and hand
A cause to defend
New heart and hand
I need a track to drive my train
A new heart
New heart and hand
A new heart
New heart and hand

A new heart
New heart and hand
A new heart
New heart and hand

Still it’s not enough

Your eyes are like no other eyes
but you’re missing something you should have seen
my impersonation has begun to slip
one to remember is what it should have been

so many days, so many nights
all that you give I’m not worthy of
so many ways, so many times
still it’s not enough
still it’s not enough
still it’s not enough

for quite some time now it has been clear to me
that what we have here  is not the real thing
and though the habit has got so hard to break
I think it’s time for a change of scenery
so many days, so many nights
all that you give I’m not worthy of
so many ways, so many times
still it’s not enough
still it’s not enough
still it’s not enough
it’s not enough

so many days, so many nights
all that you give I’m not worthy of
so many ways, so many times
still it’s not enough
still it’s not enough
still it’s not enough
still it’s not enough
still it’s not enough
still it’s not en
Citadel
(Originally by The Rolling Stones)
Men are armed shout who goes there
We have journeyed far from here
Armed with bibles…make us swear

Candy and taffy,
 hope we both are well
Please come see me
 in the citadel

Flags are flying, dollar bills
Round the heights of concrete hills
You can see the pinnacles

Candy and taffy,
 hope we both are well
Please come see me
 in the citadel

Screaming people fly so fast
In their shiny metal cars
 Through the woods of steel and glass

Candy and taffy,
 hope we both are well

Please come see me
 in the citadel

Question 41

LoveLag-Tribute to Mother Love Bone "Apple" (2025)

Accepted Answer

This is Shangri-la

Said, I've been around the world
Wrote a million songs, it's all a bore to me
I've slept in the gutter, and I've lied with the dogs
It never bothered me
Said, the sheriff he come too, with his little boys in blue
They're lookin' for me, child
But with my crystal sheen guitar, I'm another ego star
So give it to me, give it to me, give it to me, yeah, yeah

Get me to the stage, it brings me home again
This is Shangrila
I'm trippin' on it now, it brings me home again
This is Shangrila

Said, I look bad in shorts, but most of us do
Don't let that bother me
I’m a follow who knows who and I don't believe in smack attack
So don't you die on me, babe, don't you die on me

'Cause love is all good people need
And music sets the sick ones free
Without love, no one ever grows
Nothing will ever sing

Because this is Shangrila, honey
And you have gathered for the feast
My bread is your body, the wine is blood, child (yeah, yeah)
The wine is blood, babe
The wine is, give it to me

Get me to the stage, it brings me home again
Singing, this for Shangrila, ah, oh
I’m trippin' on it now, it brings me home again
And this is Shangrila
Get me to the stage, it brings me home again
I'm trippin' on it now, it brings me home again

Stardog Champion

San Francisco, where the flowers bloom in spring
I said, fade to winter and see what disease brings

Augustino with his eyes once a shining sea
I said, he's half a shadow, God don't let that be me
I'm a Stardog Champion
West Virginia, that's where my father lies
He was a wartime hero, the kind that money buys
It's a diamond bracelet for my mommy's memory
That's all she wrote boy, that's all she wrote for me

I'm just a Stardog Champion
I'm a Stardog Champion
I’m a stardog , that's right

And the children they used to sing of love
With Grace from the Lord above
I said, the children they used to sing out loud
Sing it loud
Na na na na na na
I'm a Stardog Champion
I'm a Stardog Champion
I'm a Stardog Baby

I’m gon’ let ya’ down…

I’m gon’ let ya’ down…
I’m gon’ let ya’ down uh

The Children sing

Nanananananananananannaananna

Holy Roller

Oh baby gotta put me back together
I need your smooth dog lovin oh yea
And so I'm sending in the little monster
Gonna turn it up inside your head

Like a holy roller
Holy roller
Holy roller
Like a holy roller
Holy roller
(To my head)

I said little loin queen parader
Wanna get you down on all  fours
Then ya gotta show me what your made of little darlin’ 
I'll meet ya child by the back door baby
 Like a holy roller
Holy roller
Holy roller
Like a holy roller
Holy roller
(To my head)

Like a holy roller
Holy roller
Holy roller
Like a holy roller
Holy roller
(To my head)
Bone China

In the morning
She gone crazy
With a painted picture, yeah
Her father's story, uh-huh

A Bone China, my friends
A Bone China my friends, 
A bone china,      
let the summer come again, come again

I said oh, oh
She be dancing by the moonlit sky, I talkin' to you
Oh oh
She be drinking all my early times, yes indeed, yeah
Oh oh
She be moving like a butterfly, yeah

I'm just a-waitin' on that dream
Because the fast ones always ride for free

Ugly morning
She Jezebel's daughter, aw yeah
She like a Brunhilda
A child of the water

A Bone China, my friends
Ow, a Bone China, let the summer come again

I said, oh oh
She be dancing by the moonlit sky, I'm talking to her
Oh oh
She be moving like a butterfly, sting like a bee
Oh oh
She be shakin' like the girl from Shine, yes indeed, yeah
Oh oh
She be moving like a
She be moving like a
High falootin' like a
I'm just a-waiting on that dream, yeah yeah
Cause the fast ones always ride for free
I, I, I, yeah
I'm just a-waitin' on that dream
Cause the fast ones, the fast ones
Always ride for free, yeah

Come bite the apple
I said, how did I get here?
What song did I sing, yeah?
And just what have I done
To deserve such a thing?

You said, I heard all that before
So won't you give it up, baby
And stop using me, boy
I've heard all that before

So bring me an apple, I'm crying
I've been persecuted like a dying man

The spirit provides me
In a show, no mean martyr days, yeah
The spirit it gives
But it also can take away
You say, I heard all that before
So won't you give it up, baby
And stop using me, boy
I've heard all that before
Take a trip on the other side of hell

So come bite the apple, I'm run down
Like Sodom to Gomorrah, all dead now

All dead now
All dead now
So please stop to laugh and pity me
My soul means well, but I'm sorry

My skin, it is weathered
And I'm nervous, yes, I am
My future was in my hands
'Till I washed it all away
I washed it all away, washed it all away

I said get along, little sister
I heard you're doing well
I heard you're doing well
I said get along, little sister
Heard you're doing well
Said get along, little sister
Heard you're doing well
I heard you're doing well
I said get along, little sister
Heard you're doing well
I heard you're doing well
I said show me to you
Said between
Send me song
Sing me a real real song
Sing me real song
Sing me real song
Come on, yeah
Come on, come
Sing that song
Sing that song
Sing song

Stargazer

Crazy crazy, I'm the boy
who defies all
Lift me higher than anyone
and hold my arms
 
Woman woman, she outta mind
and simply out of soul
She gets me higher 
 than anyone
and I miss her so
 
 I miss her so...
Why she done it to me
Why she done it to me...       
so I'm singin'
 
Stargazer, you call the shots
and I take 'um
Stargazer, won't ya kick with me
please
 
Stargazer you call the shots
and I take 'um
Stargazer, won't ya kick with me
Oh baby, please

Stargazer you call the shots
and I take 'um
Stargazer, won't ya kick with me
Oh baby, please

Said a do do do do do 
a do ah do ah

Dancer dancer, I'm all wrong
she thinks she's young and wise
She dance around my  
 my pretty little cable car
And fix me up with a guy--why?  C'mon
 
Tell you what..

Stargazer you cry in blue
Anything I've ever seen
It ain't as good as you, child
I'm not trying to push your feelings
But I know you hold me
Like putty in your hands
Cry for me and rub it in
Cry for the savior and the prophet's son
Dream of me and Julie Ann
Oh Xana come back again
Heartshine

Waste away my tears - babe I can't cry
No more, no less - My love
I said, my brother's drowning
Like a star babe, like a slower suicide
Me I gave mine away
I give to you my heartshine
Yes I do
I give to you my heartshine
Only for you
A sad hello to death, I'm a stubborn goat on trial
No more, no less
I said time will tell, if love is gonna have the strength to push it
The strength to push it, my pain away

I give to you, I give to you my heartshine
I give to you my heartshine
I give you my heartshine
I give to you my..

I give to you, I give to you my heartshine
I give to you my heartshine
I give you my heartshine
I give to you my...

Ah ah ah ah
Love flourishes
Love flourishes
You've gotta value love supreme
Love flourishes
Love flourishes

Captain Hi-Top

I am magnificent!
I'm the instigator of the me generation
The official seminator of the female population baby, yeah
Scoff at my rivals, cause they ain't cool
And I re-wrote the Bible, and I made my own rules

Captain Hi-Top the love commander yeah yeah yeah
I’m the ego star forever after
Captain Hi-Top the love commander
Hide your mom, control your sister

I'm the hip-hop surgeon of the mindless eye
I said - Take me babe, in between your pretty pretty thighs
And these stories of my image ain't up to par
I'll tell you what I'll do
I slid the beast to Farah, saying babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe
Baby, I'm a star

Captain Hi-Top the love commander baby
I’m the ego star forever after
I’m talkin' 'bout Captain Hi-Top the love commander
Hide your mom, control your sister

Captain Hi-Top the love commander yeah yeah
I’m the ego star forever after
Oh Captain Hi-Top the love commander
Hide your mom, control your sister
Yeah yeah yeah

Captain Hi-Top the love commander
Hide your mom, control your sister
Can I get a halleluiah people?

Man of Golden Words

I wanna show you something like the joy inside my heart.
Seems I been livin' in the Temple of the Dog.
Where would I live if I were a man of golden words?
Or would I live at all?
Words and music (my only tools)...
Communication...
And on her arrival I will set free the birds
It's a pretty time of year when the mountains sing out loud.
Tell me Mr. Golden Words, how's about the world?
Tell me, can you tell me at all?
Words and music (my only tools)
Communication...
Let's fall in love with music,
The driving force of our living...
The only international language,
Divine glory... the expression.
The knees bow, the tongue confesses.
The lord of lords, the king of kings...
The king of kings, oh yeah, mmmmmmmm
Words and music (my only tools)
Communication.
Words and music.
Communication.

Capricorn Sister

my loving father, show me no pain
and taste of eucalyptus, it dances and shakes
mother love bone...mama papa talkin to me
love breeds like rabbits, i'm gonna set you free now
chartreuse regalia and the purple pie petes (purple pie petes)
you dance electra and night become day

got my mama in the kitchen
she always bitchy, bitchy, bitchin
so i made proclamation
to control my masturbation

motherlovebone...mama papa talkin to me
love breeds like rabbits
i'm gonna set you free

got my mama in the kitchen
she always bitchy, bitchy, bitchin

burgundy baby
with your blue eyed soul
you play the hits
and i'm on that roll

capricorn sister
freddie mercury
jezebel child cry...etc...

motherlovebone...mama papa talkin to me
love breeds like rabbits, i'm gonna set you free now

yeah yeah yeah
capricorn sister

Gentle Groove
Like my world I'm on fire
I am full of desire, yeah
No more preachin' on your part
No more love on my pillow, yeah
 
Come dance with me in my room
You can hold me hand, yeah yeah
I gonna be your boyfriend
And you can call me names, oh oh yeah
 
And nothings gonna change the way I feel for my love
And no one's gonna slow my gentle groove
'till kingdom come
The work is done
On Earth as it is in Dallas
Come play with me in my room
You can hold me hand, yeah
I gonna be your boyfriend, boyfriend
You can call me names, names

And no one's gonna take the power away, from my love
And no one's gonna change the way I feel, no way yeah yeah        
And no one's gonna slow my gentle groove
'till kingdom come
The work is done
On Earth as it is in Dallas, come on, do it!

Mr. Danny Boy
what can i take from you
what can i take from you
whats worth a plug nickel from a silly fool
what can i take from you
why did i leave you there
why did i leave you there
with your long black kitty and your funky hair
why did i leave you there
give it to me!

Talkin’ bout a friend of mine
see mr danny boy
did ya see mr danny boy
he's a rock top boxer just a bundle of joy
see mr danny boy
why did i leave you there
why did i leave you there
with your long black kitty and your funky hair
why did i leave you there

said baby
stop lovin by the rules

i heard the rumors danny
stop your talkin danny -
 i heard the rumors danny, danny

lost down in santa fe
i had love with a runaway
and to think my daddy thought i was gay
lost back in santa fe
the riff miester is my friend
the riff miester is my friend
i love that mother fucker till the very end
bolan was my man

said baby
stop lovin by the rules

i heard the rumors - danny
stop your talkin -
 danny i've heard the rumors danny danny

its a long, long road......
for this here desperado
and its cold cold cold, 
visions of tomorrow
when was the last time you wrote for me a song

said baby
stop lovin by the rules

And don’t wait for sorrow
Don’t play the fool
don’t play the fool yeah!
 
ba ba danny baby
ba ba danny baby

ba ba danny baby
yeah X3

i heard the rumors - danny
stop your talkin -
 danny i've heard the rumors danny danny

i heard the rumors - danny
stop your talkin -
 danny i've heard the rumors danny danny
i heard the rumors - danny
she said do me do me danny baby!
i heard the rumors - danny
stop your talkin -
 danny i've heard the rumors danny danny

Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns

Chloe don't know better
Chloe is just like me, only beautiful
A couple of years difference
But those lessons never learned
Did you know?
Chloe does the tables in the French Quarter
She's always been given
So I can't always make her laugh
But I'm proud to say, and I won't forget
The time spent layin' by her side
The time spent layin' by her side
Dreams like this must die
And a dream like this must die
Dream like this must
You ever heard the story of Mr. Faded Glory?
Say he who rides a pony must someday fall
Talkin' to my altar, say life is what you make it
And if you make it death, well, rest your soul away
Away, away, yeah, child
It's a broken kind of feelin', she'd have to tie me to the ceilin'
A bad moon's a comin', better say your prayers, child
I wanna tell you that I love you, but does it really matter ?
I just can't stand to see you draggin' on  again
Again, my baby, again
Oh, yeah

So I'm singin'
And this is my kinda love, it's the kind that moves on
It's the kind that leaves me alone
Yes, it does
And this is my kinda love
It's the kind that moves on
It's the kind that leaves me alone

I used to treat you like a lady, now you're a substitute teacher
This bottle's not a pretty, not a pretty sight
I owe the man some money, so I'm turnin' over, honey
See, Mr. Faded Glory is once again doin' time, oh yeah

And this is my kinda love
It's the kind that moves on
It's the kind the leaves me alone
Yes, it does
And this is my kinda love
It's the kind that moves on
It's the kind that, it's the kind that
It leaves me alone, yeah

Like a crown of thorns
It's all who you know, yeah
So don't burn your 
bridges, woman
'Cause
 someday, yeah

Kick it, oh yeah
And this is my kinda love
It's the kind that moves on
It's the kind that leaves me alone, yeah
This is my kinda love
It's the kind that moves on
It's the kind that, it's the kind that, yeah, yeah
Baby
I said come on, come on, come on
Come on, chill it

I said, baby
Don't burn your bridges, woman
Don't come back here
I said good times, tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu
I said tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu

Question 42

LoveLag-Tribute to Jane's Addiction "Ritual de lo habitual" (2025)

Accepted Answer

Stop

Here we go, no
No one!
No one!
Gonna    stop, now go!

Save the   complaints for a party    conversation.
The world is loaded, it's lit to pop and nobody ain't gonna stop...
 
No one
No one!
No way!
Gonna         stop,now go!

Farm people book wavers, soul savers,
Love teachers! lit to pop and nobody ain't gonna stop.
 
Move on
One come a day, the water will run,
No man will stand for things that he had done...Hurrah!
And the water will run...
One come a day, the water will run,
No man will stand for things that he had done...Hurrah!
And the water will run...
It will run!Will run!  Gimmie that! Go!
 
Gimme back   that - your automobile, Turn off that smokestack and that goddamn radio
Hum... along with me...   Hum along with the t.v.
oh oh
No one's
Gonna          Stop!

No one’s leaving

Oooh…
     
I’m a white dread-I'm a white dread, so?
I'm a got a ring and I hang it from my nose.
Got a little game and I take it to the park.
I don't care who plays
As long as the game is on.

My sister and her boyfriend slept in the park.
She had to leave home 'cause he was dark.
Now they parade around in New York with a baby boy...
He's gorgeous!

Ain't nobody leaving!
No one's leaving...

Blacks call each other brother and sis'
Count me in 'cause I been missed.
I've seen color changed by a kiss.
Ask my brother
And my sister
My sister and her boyfriend slept in the park.
She had to leave home 'cause he was dark.
Now they parade around in New York with a baby boy...
He's gorgeous!

Ain't nobody leaving!
No one's leaving!
Yeah, that's right...
Yeah, that's so...
I w ish I knew everyone's nickname,
all their slang and all their sayings.
Every way to show affection,
How to dress to fit the occasion...
Wish we all waved...
All waved...
All waved...
I wish we all!
Wish we all!
Wish we all waved...

Ain’t no right

I am skin and bones, i am pointy nose;
But it motherfuckin' makes me try.

Makes me try, and that ain't no wrong.
I'll tell you why
There ain't no right!

Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right.
Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right.
Only pleasure and pain.

Motherfuckin' bad wind came, blew down my home.
Now the green grass grows.
Bad wind came, blew down my home.
Goddamn goodness knows!

Where green grass grows there can't be wrong.
And goodness knows, there ain't no right!

Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right.
Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right.
Only pleasure and pain.

Bumped my head, I'm a battering ram.
Goddamn took the pain.
Cut myself, said so what?
Motherfuckin' took the pain.

Said so what? i can't be wrong.
I thought so but there ain't no right!
Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right.
Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right.
Only pleasure and pain.

Obvious

Hey
And you don't know me, you don't know me
But you just keep on looking at me down low
Oh, no

You're digging something up
You're digging something up
Always digging something up

Oh, no

Hey
And I don't know you, I don't even want to
But you just keep on looking at me down low
Oh, no

You're digging something up
Digging something up
Always digging something up

Oh, no

And you make it so
Then you're digging
And you make it so
Obvious

Hey
Now, fools, don't fit in the boots that I tread in
But you just keep on looking at me down low
Oh, no
Digging something up
You're digging something up
Always digging something up
Oh, no

And you make it so
Oh, can you get it?
And you make it so
And you're right
And you know that you got to owe me something
Before you know what is joke and what is up
And you know that you got to show me something
Before you know what is joke and what is up
'Cause I worked my little fingers down the bone baby
And I won't let you stop me going up
Why do you have to make it so, so, so, so, so, so obvious?
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, hey

Been caught stealing

I've been caught stealing;
Once when I was 5...
I enjoy stealing
It's just as simple as that
Well, it's just a simple fact
When I want something
I don't want to pay for it
 
I walk right through the door
Walk right through the door
Hey all right! If I get by, it's mine
Mine all mine!
 
My girl, she's one too
She'll go and get her a skirt
Stick it under her shirt
She grabbed a razor for me
And she did it just like that
When she wants something
She don't want to pay for it
 
She walk right through the door
Walk right through the door
Hey all right! If I get by, it's mine
Mine all mine!
 
We sat around the pile
We sat and laughed
We sat and laughed and
Waved it into the air!
And we did it just like that
When we want something
We don't want to pay for it
 
We walk right through the door
Walk right through the door
Hey, all right! If I get by, it's mine
Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine...

Three Days

At this moment, you should be with us
Feeling like we do
Like you love to
But never will again
I miss you my dear, Ziola
(bass Starts Here)
 
 "I prepared the room tonight with Christmas lights. 
A city of candles. 
Fresh sheets. We are all filled with dense clouds. 
That have us sunk into the mattress".

Three days was the morning
.......My focus three days old
.......My head, it landed
To the sounds of cricket bows
 
I am proud man anyway (pause)
Covered now by three days
 
Three ways was the morning
....Three lovers, in three ways
....We knew when she landed
....Three days she'd stay
 
I am a proud man anyway
....Covered now by three days
We saw
 
shadows of the morning light
The shadows of the evening sun
Till the shadows and the light were one 
Shadows of the morning light
Shadows of the evening sun
Till the shadows and the light were one

True hunting is over
No herd to follow
Without game,
men prey on each other
The family weakens
by the bite we swallow, oh
 
True leaders gone
Of land and people
We choose no 
kin but adopted strangers
The family weakens 
by the length we
travel, oh
All of us with wings,
oh
All of us with wings, 
oh
All of us with wings
All of us with wings
All of us with wings
All of us with wings...... Go!
 
Erotic Jesus
lays with his Mary's
Loves his Mary's
Bits of puzzle
Fitting each other
 
All now with wings 
Oh my Mary's
Never wonder
Night is shelter
For nudity's shiver
All now with wings

Then She Did
Now her paints are dry
And I looked outside
At the corner boys   -   ye-eah, hey, oh, where did you go?

I don't know
Aaah

(Ohoh ohoh ohoh)
(Ohoh ohoh ohoh)
(Ohoh ohoh ohoh)
(Ohoh)
I went to see your pictures
I spread them across the floor
So, this is where they are shown
Now,  they're probably saying to you
If you keep it up you'll be...
 
...born
But you won't ever listen
I'll bet

Burnt out, grass  
scorched by the sun
The buildings remain

We will beat them all to dust
I'll bet
Pulled from a headless shell
That blinked on and off, Hotel
Now the nameless...
...dwell
They hold your key and turn your knob
 I'll bet

Will you say hello to my ma?
Will you pay a visit to her?
She was an artist, just as you were
I'd have introduced you to her
She would take me out on Sundays
We'd go laughing through the garbage
She repaired legs like a doctor
On the kitchen chairs we sat on
She was unhappy, just as you were
Unhappy, just as you were
Unhappy, just as you were
Unhappy, just as you were

Of course

Of course this land is dangerous!
All of the animals are capably murderous

When I was a boy, my big brother held onto my hands
Then he made me slap my own face
I looked up to him and still do
He was trying to teach me something
 
And now I know what it was!
Now I know what he meant!
Now I know what it is oh oh
Oh oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

oh ah
One must eat the other
Who runs free
Before him, Put them right into his
Mouth
While fantasizing the beauty of his movements
A sensation not unlike
Slaping yourself in the face
Slapping yourself in the face
Slapping yourself in the face
Of course this land is dangerous!
All of the animals are capably murderous
When I was a boy, my big brother held onto my hands
Then he made me slap my own face
I looked up to him and still do
He was trying to teach me something

Now I know what he meant!
Now I know what he meant!
Now I know what he meant! oh oh
 
Oh oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
One must eat the other
Who runs free
Before him, Put them right in his
Mouth
While fantasizing the beauty of his movements
A sensation not unlike
Slaping yourself in the face
Slapping yourself in the face
Slapping yourself in the
Slapping yourself in the
Slapping yourself in the
face

Classic Girl

4:05; in my neighborhood
When shots go off, no one bothers
A "POP," and a reply
"POP," and no reply...

Dinosaurs
On the quilt I wore
With a girl
Such a classic girl...
Such a classic girl...
 
Such a classic girl
Gives her man great ideas
Hears you tell your friends
"Hey man, listen to my great idea!"
 
It's true I am a villain
When you fall ill
That's probably
Because men never can be
Not like a girl
Such a classic girl...
Such a classic girl...

They may say
"Those were the days...,"
But in a way
You know for us these are the days
Yes, for us these are the days
And you know you're my girl!
 
Such a classic girl...
Such a classic girl...
Yeah for us these are the days...
Goodnight... Good night...

upcoming shows

Tues. May 5-Solo at Cole's Public House (Amherst)-6-9pm

Wed. May 6-Solo at Jo Jo Carloni's (Berea)-5:30pm

Fri. May 8-Solo at Rocky River Wine Bar-6-9pm

Sat. May 9-Solo at Private Event

Wed. May 13-Solo at Wine Dive (Lakewood)-6-9pm

Thur. May 14-Solo at Red Fox Tavern (Mansfield)-7-10pm

Wed. May 20-Solo at Jo Jo Carloni's (Berea)-5:30pm

Thur. May 21-Solo at The Oaks (Chippewa Lake)-6-9pm

Fri. May 22-Solo at Cask 307 (Madison)-4:30-7:30pm

Wed. May 27-Solo at Wine Dive (Lakewood)-6-9pm

Fri. May 29-Solo at Ohio Pizza and Prime (Marengo)-8pm

Sat. May 30-Solo at Private Event

I am currently booking dates for 2026 so please get them in ASAP! chrisdonleymusic@gmail.com
If there is a venue/party/area you'd like me to get to, please let me know!
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upcoming shows

Tues. May 5-Solo at Cole's Public House (Amherst)-6-9pm

Wed. May 6-Solo at Jo Jo Carloni's (Berea)-5:30pm

Fri. May 8-Solo at Rocky River Wine Bar-6-9pm

Sat. May 9-Solo at Private Event

Wed. May 13-Solo at Wine Dive (Lakewood)-6-9pm

Thur. May 14-Solo at Red Fox Tavern (Mansfield)-7-10pm

Wed. May 20-Solo at Jo Jo Carloni's (Berea)-5:30pm

Thur. May 21-Solo at The Oaks (Chippewa Lake)-6-9pm

Fri. May 22-Solo at Cask 307 (Madison)-4:30-7:30pm

Wed. May 27-Solo at Wine Dive (Lakewood)-6-9pm

Fri. May 29-Solo at Ohio Pizza and Prime (Marengo)-8pm

Sat. May 30-Solo at Private Event

I am currently booking dates for 2026 so please get them in ASAP! chrisdonleymusic@gmail.com If there is a venue/party/area you'd like me to get to, please let me know! Chris

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I am currently booking dates for 2026 so please get them in ASAP! chrisdonleymusic@gmail.com
If there is a venue/party/area you'd like me to get to, please let me know!
Chris