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These are sad confessions that I make for the whole world to hear.
Though it's not like you care--not as if anyone bothers to listen.
So why should I cry?
I'm losing fights with invisible bruisers.
It's self-defense--my knife to the wrist of the one with his knife to my wrist.
Labyrinthian excess in a Gordian pattern.
Don't tell my folks this happened.
I've got bizarre adventures happening in my head.
Things I just can't explain: ghostly pleasures, phantom pains.
I've got bizarre adventures happening in my head.
Things I can't understand--I've got to put the weights back into my hands.
Still deciding which of seven faces I am going to wear.
Reinventing Laura Jane Grace as a prudish Victorian schoolmarm.
I am a digital Casanova, aristocratic Hassan ben Sobah
leading infinite pleasurable lives.
Tell me, why then am I hiding my knives?
Enochian nonsense from the lips of false prophets.
Don't tell my folks you saw this.
I've got bizarre adventures happening in my head.
Things I just can't explain: ghostly pleasures, phantom pains.
I've got bizarre adventures happening in my head.
Things I can't understand--I've got to put the weights back into my hands.
I've got bizarre adventures happening in my head.
Corridors inside my brain always being rearranged.
I've got bizarre adventures happening in my head.
Things I can't understand--I've got to put the weights back into my hands.
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For every time I felt left out
Every time I put my foot in my mouth
Every time my boss needed to "talk"
Every time I got sent to the office
Every time I made a fool of myself
Put my life in danger, wrecked my mental health.
Every time I faced defeat:
They're in my head, and they're on repeat
The greatest hits of failure and pain
A permanent place in the hall of shame
The greatest hits of a broken heart
182 weeks at the top of the charts
Greatest hits of the worst of times
It's front-to-back stacked like Nevermind
It's the gold record of what went wrong
When the chorus hits you're gonna sing along:
"Don't wanna relive it, don't wanna relive it again"
(Oh baby, it's just like the old stuff)
The greatest hits of failure and pain
A permanent place in the hall of shame
The greatest hits of a broken heart
182 weeks at the top of the charts
I can't escape it cos it's stuck in my head.
Greatest hits of a broken man
Bonus tracks--only in Japan
Brand new songs with Travis on the drums
My comeback single hits number one
And it's stuck in my head...
The greatest hits of failure and pain
A permanent place in the hall of shame
The greatest hits of a broken heart
182 weeks at the top of the charts
The greatest hits of failure and pain
On repeat and they're rotting my brain
The greatest hits of fear and dread
Can't escape it cos it's stuck in my head
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
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Operation Condor
05:55
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Well I'm back in DC and I got you on my mind
Tell me why you look at me askance and what's the reason this time?
After all that we've been through it comes as a surprise
When you look at me and I notice the fear in your eyes
You overstep yourself when you claim you've broken through my disguise
Stay with me
I am a force for good, my love
Can't you see?
it was justified, my love
And you ask me how do I sleep at night,
putting a bullet through somebody's brain at a CIA black site?
But I do what I have to and this is how we win!
Better dead than Red! better us than them!
Strike hard! Strike first!
Little girl, we are the last best hope in the world.
Stay with me
I am a force for good, my love
Can't you see?
it was justified, my love
We are the first to fight and the last line of defense
There is no moral equivalence
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Bedtime for Bozo
04:25
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Next iteration of an eternal war
We don't even know who our enemies are
Impossible mission, objectives unclear
Same situation year after year
Spilling the blood of American soldiers
Leadership led by emotional motives
But don't you worry, "everything's under control"
Who watches the watchers?
Impossible mission, objectives are still unclear
Corrupted officials--the money just disappears
So keep the car running
Make changes you don't understand
Can't say that the plan failed when you don't have a plan
Who watches the watchers?
Next iteration of an eternal war
We've left the place worse off than it was before
Soft politicians arranging their lies
Warmongering generals with hate in their eyes
They're fighting a battle that they just can't win
Use the same losing strategies over again
But don't you worry, "everything's under control"
Who watches the watchers?
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Kill Killer
02:40
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You got your black boots on
You got your white mask on
In the dead of night, flash of the night
Gonna give the world a new Terror Story tonight
No humanity in your eyes
Gonna paint your victim a blood-splatter crimson tonight
But now something's amiss
You're used to easy prey, you never bargained for this
I got bigger knives, I got a .45
I'm turning the tables gonna kill a killer tonight
You've piled up bodies for too many years
Now you're finally gonna know the taste of fear
The next thing I say is gonna be the last thing you hear
Got my Kalashnikov
With the safety off
I hide under the monster's bed
When you see my face you'll soon be dead tonight
LIGHTS OUT
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The Nick House Party Fayetteville, Arkansas
The Nick House Party is the one-man, genre-free musical project of Nick House, a reclusive computer expert with a master's
degree in philosophy. His explosive live show has been described as "life-changing," and has earned him comparisons to Robert Smith and Peter Murphy.
FFO: The Cure, Depeche Mode, ACTORS, Nine Inch Nails, Wolfsheim, Pet Shop Boys
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