Finger Eleven

talk to me
can you listen to me now
do you understand
can you identify? but it's as if you seem to make a small effort
but you bend, you're bending my mind, and you try to suffocate, and
smother me
covered so i can't breathe
we collapse our weakened hands fall together at once abandoned
they'll fore you down and strap you in, now we agree and understand

speak slowly
you gotta get it all out now
what are you saying?
just remember we will always be here...just in case you have been
waiting, waiting to show us something or give us some sign.
as if you're gonna suffocate, smothering
covered so you can't breathe

gently lure your submission
all the while suspicion grows
so be sick of listening
to senile old and staggering naive youth
pick us up when we fall down

Written by james black, scott anderson,
sean anderson, arnold lanni

Quietly thinking to myself
Sharing half our mind instead of none
The shaking's just begun
The pleasantries are gone,
This sad exchange pleased neither one of us

So we finally gave up
The meanings tend to give out
The Time was gone to act out
this living torture, living torture

No talking When I want you to Listen
No talking cuz' it's Living torture, Living torture

Don't know why, don't know why, we can't stand aside
There are all too many faces, we dont see right
If I had known back then
Whatever I know now
I'd think I'd have answers but I don't know why

So we finally gave up
The Meanings tend to give out
The Time was gone to act out
But Here I am and I'm still living

No talking when I want you to listen
No Talking cuz' it's Living Torture, Living Torture
No talking when I want you to listen
Don't tell me what I'm trying to say to you

Both of us know
What it sounds like in my mind
Now both of us know
What it sounds It Sounds like
Both of us know
What it sounds like in my mind
Now both of us know
Now both of us know

No talking when I want you to listen
No Talking cuz' it's Living Torture, Living Torture
No talking when I want you to listen
Don't tell me what I'm trying to say to you

Quietly thinking to myself
This sad exchange pleased neither one of us

Forgive me if now I wear the face of worry
This time alone could never cause any doubt
But I’ve been cold too long
Such a strange time to find myself coming down as the rain
With all these holes my love,
To fill up from the middle
This storm could stay all night
So can you stay until we close our eyes
Til your dreams hold mine
Just stay until we know we tried one more time
Cause laughing lovers can overcome their closest demons
And they’ll go on and they won’t let go
They saw something that they know
Has never come so close
Can it stay here for us, for now?
Can it stay until we know ourselves?
I’m torn as I tell
You’re the story that I know and fell from
I’m so far into your story I don’t know why
We think we’re in control
When we lie between the lines
We’ll find a line to follow
It’s got to show real soon
Or we’ll never reach this high
We climb a little further
Cause there’s nothing we can’t get around together
Further gets colder until nothing was all that I saw around
So we stay until the ground
That we can’t come down from splits us away
Maybe stars know why we fall
I just wish they were thinking out loud
Oh, I could wish all night

I hold on so nervously, to me and my drink
I wish it was cooling me
But so far has not been good
It's been shitty, and I feel awkward as I should
This club has got to be the most pretentious thing
Since I thought you and me
Well, I am imagining a dark lit place
Or your place, or my place

Well I'm not paralyzed, but I seem to be struck by you
I want to make you move because you're standing still
If your body matches what your eyes can do
You'll probably move right through me on my way to you

I hold out for one more drink, before I think
I'm looking too desperately
But so far has not been fun
I should just stay home, if one thing really means one
This club will hopefully be closed in three weeks
That would be cool with me
Well, I'm still imagining a dark lit place
Or your place, or my place

Well I'm not paralyzed, but I seem to be struck by you
I want to make you move because you're standing still
If your body matches what your eyes can do
You'll probably move right through me on my way to you

Well I'm not paralyzed, but I seem to be struck by you
I want to make you move because you're standing still
If your body matches what your eyes can do
You'll probably move right through me on my way to you

Not paralyzed, but I seem to be struck by you
I want to make you move because you're standing still
If your body matches what your eyes can do
You'll probably move right through me on my way to you

You'll probably move right through me on my way to you
You'll probably move right through me on my way to you

When you feel so close to some resolve
And you write the words you were writing for
But your courage gets dissolved
Into what, I don't know...

When you feel that way again
You have to stop your thinking
And think of what you're here for
And let the rest of your feelings go

You've got to find your balance
You've got to realize
You've got to try to find what's right before your eyes
And if you find you've fallen
And all your grace is gone
Just scream for me and I'll be what you're falling on

When you feel so close to some resolve
And you say the things that you're standing for
Don't let your courage get dissolved
Cause it's then that the fear grows

You've got to find your balance
You've got to realize
You've got to try to find what's right before your eyes
And if you find you've fallen
And all your grace is gone
Just scream for me and I'll be what you're falling on

Just give me the word and I'll be there
Just tell me the words that I've been living for
Just tell me the things that I've been fighting for
It's do or die, this is either or
Just give me the word and I will be there
Just give me the word and I will be there

You've got to find your balance
You have to realize
You've got to try to find what's right before your eyes
And if you find you're fallin'
And all your grace is gone
Just scream for me and I'll be what you're falling on

You've got to find your balance
You've got to realize
You've got to try to find what's right before your eyes
And if you find you're fallin'
And all your grace is gone
Just scream for me and I'll be what you're falling on

This won't break your heart
But I just think it could
Cause I haven't tried as hard as I should
To separate you from everything I do
But I would never want to come between us two

I'll keep your memory vague
So you won't feel bad about me
I'll say the things that you said
Sometimes so it reminds me

Now I'm thinking back
To what I said before
I hope your heart won't have to hurt anymore
Cause it's really not that sad from here
Because the moments I can feel you near
They keep you close to me my dear
And if they ever become too clear...

Now you've gone away
Don't worry it's ok
That you're gone away
Further than yesterday
But you'll never leave these scenes
My mind replays

Where in the world have you gone now?

I'm bound to wander where
All of your glitter's going
But I'm so far from knowing
And none of my instincts showing
Kicking, kicking
I'm screaming from outside in
Tell me where I've been
There's nowhere to return to out there

I think I've lost my way
But that's just not news today
Because the story's old
The black and white
Have gone to grey
The story's old
The black and white
Have gone to grey
And you were right
Cause I finally lost my way

All the windows are playing their game
Where I won't see outside again
Til I write all the fog away
I'm putting words in their place
Between me and the window's pane
From my inarticulate brain
But all of the fog is erased
When I write all the words that I never said
To you

Now the impulse won't go away
"Distracted by something?" you'd say
Cause you don't see anything
It's just between windows and me
Wait til it rains again
And I write all the words that I never said
To you

Will you try to read these lines?
Focus hard and give it time
Who you are in my life
Reads as the water washes

Now the dirt on the window is showing
I should have drawn something instead
The dirt on the window is showing
I should never have written my head
I should never have written what I never said
To you

Let other words fail
I don't find it fair.
But anyway
This little string keeps on pulling
So I gotta pull myself down some different path
Inside my mind
Needs out
I wanna trip myself away
But I better wait I better wait I better wait

I get the sense of a spark so I follow
"I don't believe that she knows something I know"
I tell myself as I stay in the shadow
I tell myself not to go, but I go
Needing to see
Whichever way she's going



If there's any way
So far from here
There's little fear
Her words could ever hurt me
I Don't want to wait.
Don't want to wait.
Don't want to wait I...

Don't look don't talk don't yell
Just close your eyes
This may or may not come
As some surprise
I've found obsessions
Which to live and die by
Don't look don't talk don't yell
Just close your eyes

No hostage has been held like I've
been holding mine but I'm just fine
Since I've been without you
No prisoner could climb the walls
That I've built up in my mind
Since I've been without you

But I'm holding down and out
I'm desperate without you

Look at the shape I'm in
Talking to the walls again
Just look at the state I'm in
Bent and broken is all I've been

No universal truth this time

No other universe but mine
Could ever feel as unaligned
Since I've been without you
No instances from time to time
Feel like things will turn out right
Since I've been without you

But I'm holding down and out
I'm desperate without you

Look at the shape I'm in
Talking to the walls again
Just look at the state I'm in
Bent and broken is all I've been

No universal truth this time
There's no universe for you and I
There's no one to make me realize

Look at the shape I'm in
Talking to the walls again
Just look at the state I'm in
Bent and broken is all I've been

Look at the shape I'm in
Talking to the walls again
Just look at the state I'm in
Bent and broken is all I've been

No universal truth this time

Look at the shape I'm in
Talking to the walls again
Look at the state I'm in
Bent and broken is all I've been

No universal truth this time

I just want the best for you girl
But I don't think I really know
what that means
I know you bring the best out of me
and I know you're sick
of abstract things
But time has been kind
in a weird kind of way
Cause I've been waiting for this feeling to leave
If I can hold onto this feeling this long
Maybe I can get you to hold me

Don't you believe, girl
You'll change the world
At least you changed the world for me

I won't be sorry if you leave me girl
Cause I'm the world's biggest fan of clichⓒs
I'll set you free then I'll love like I'm not
Hurting in the world's worst ways

But I don't know if I can make it alone
And I don't have much more left to lose
I can't say for sure just where I'll end up
I just want to end up there with you

When the darkness never ends
And my world's crashing in
And it starts to turn again
Will you believe?

When I won't get over you
And my world splits in two
When I just can't make it through
Will you believe?

We left and as soon as we did I knew
There was a bad taste in our mouths
Awareness didn't come too soon
But you finally tasted it too
It's just another case of fucking up
A perfectly good afternoon
Every manner that I forgot
Could have helped me out of acting cruel

But I wasn't in the least distraught
Though my jokes were bombing
I got to feeling like my timing was off
But baby that's just not me

So as far as anyone can see
They'd be helpless not to agree
They're driving miles between us three
It was them versus you versus me

And as soon as we drove right through
Thirty seconds without a word
It was then that I knew for sure
I wasn't gonna hear a word from you

And the road became the radio
And we scowled at the beautiful trees
I was thinking of what went wrong
I thought baby it's not just me

So as far as anyone can see
They'd be helpless not to agree
They're driving miles between us three
It was them versus you versus me

So as far as anyone can see
They'd be helpless not to agree
They're driving miles between us three
It was them versus you versus me (x 9)

These things are eventual
And I can't be too careful
There's nothing more gradual
Than what I choose to show
And you've been patient with me, alright
But does that end tonight?

I will brave any trial by fire
But I'm just not ready
To fall through your thin ice
I'll explain myself in time
But I'm just not ready
To make that sacrifice

But I'm trying like I said I might

These things are unusual for me
I should explain
No mind should have ever dreamt
Of such fictitious pain

There's a story in there somewhere
But I'm not sure you care

I will brave any trial by fire
But I'm just not ready
To fall through your thin ice
I'll explain myself in time
But I'm just not ready
To make that sacrifice

But I'm trying like I said I might
But I don't trust this exercise
But I'm trying like I said I might

I might, I might trust it this one time (x4)

But I don't trust this exercise.

There's a story in there somewhere
But I'm not sure you care

I will brave any trial by fire
But I'm just not ready
To fall through your thin ice
I'll explain myself in time
But I'm just not ready
To make that sacrifice

But I'm trying (Trying like I said I might)
Just like I said I might (Trying like I said I might)
Yeah, I'm trying (But I don't trust this exercise)
Just like I said I might (Just like I said I might)

Never tell your friends
They'll never understand
Confessions only for themselves in the fire
Chok on every word
That no ones ever heard
Your Sentamental thoughts are strangled and tired

See it in another light
You'll see it working out alright
I know I won't change any mind
As long as there still changing mine

The simpleness of it
Telling you again
What they're thinking could be so unbecomeing
But you don't have to take
Remember your mistakes
You'll always see it as a fall as your running

See it in another light
You see it working out alright
I know I won't change any mind
As long as you're changing mine

See it in another light
You see it working out alright
You know I won't change any mind
As long as you're still changing mine

So cold that you cannot cope
With a frozen heart
I guess we blow apart
I guessed it from the start

Stay in shadow
I'll run this world out
Stay in shadow
It's running out of time
Stay in shadow
I want to watch it drown
Stay in this now

Don't say because you can't
Say what we should have been
Don't show what I resent
Don't know cause I forget

So cruel to be so blind
Darkness was on my side
Now that you've come and gone
I know where I belong

Stay in shadow
I'll run this world out
Stay in shadow
It's running out of time
Stay in shadow
I want to watch it drown
Stay in this now

Light is leaving as I watch you go
Light is leaving inside of my soul
Light is leaving as I watch you go
Light is leaving inside of my soul

Stay in shadow
I'll run this world out
Stay in shadow
It's running out of time
Stay in shadow
I want to watch it drown
Stay in this now
I want to watch it drown
I want to watch it drown

Something has stuck in
Underneath my skin
Eyes all looking in
For something within
Somewhere in here

Now everything I say
Gives this all away
Senses deadened again
Nothing lives today
Not in here

Here in your head

Careful what you're feeling
On the inside
You should try to remember
The good times and the high life
Are you feeling alright?

Felt that I belonged
And now I feel that gone
Where it all went wrong
I traced it all along
Back here again

There was something calling me
To negativity
Dark covering me
Shrouding every scene
I'm cast in

Careful what you're feeling
On the inside
You should try to remember
The good times and the high life
Are you feeling alright?

Careful when you're feeling
Out of your mind
You should try to remember
The strong lines in the spotlight
Till you're feeling alright

Please answer
I'm calling just to find out
If you could be here
For me when I crack
The answer came
I found it buried in
The trash there
I saw it stare

Careful what you're feeling
On the inside
You should try to remember
The good times and the high life
Are you feeling alright?

Careful when you're feeling
Out of your mind
You should try to remember
The strong lines in the spotlight
Till you're feeling alright

Everyone plays along
Get them giving or steal the life they're breathing
They'll grow sickened
Take their secret codes and signals
Discover all they know
Keep up the pace now until it all dries up

You'll never find out now
That all these absent elements
Build your comfortable defense stronger still
Like an emptiness

Way too early to consider losing
Vacant staring may discover some reflection
Or may discover none
Just think what you've done
And watch it all add up

Like an emptiness you'll never fill

Forgive me if now I wear the face of worry
This time alone could never cause any doubt
But I’ve been cold too long
Such a strange time to find myself coming down as the rain
With all these holes my love,
To fill up from the middle
This storm could stay all night
So can you stay until we close our eyes
Til your dreams hold mine
Just stay until we know we tried one more time
Cause laughing lovers can overcome their closest demons
And they’ll go on and they won’t let go
They saw something that they know
Has never come so close
Can it stay here for us, for now?
Can it stay until we know ourselves?
I’m torn as I tell
You’re the story that I know and fell from
I’m so far into your story I don’t know why
We think we’re in control
When we lie between the lines
We’ll find a line to follow
It’s got to show real soon
Or we’ll never reach this high
We climb a little further
Cause there’s nothing we can’t get around together
Further gets colder until nothing was all that I saw around
So we stay until the ground
That we can’t come down from splits us away
Maybe stars know why we fall
I just wish they were thinking out loud
Oh, I could wish all night

Something
Changing
The secret is building
Almost
Over
And somehow seems a beginning
Losing focus
It must be boring
Looking forward never turns out the wrong way
(Speaking with no one)

Conversations alone
Complicate us together on our own
Conversations alone
So alone

No one
Calling
But someone
is bound to reply
No one
Out there
But someone hears every wordI
know we're
playing the same game
Easing the conscience by
(Speaking with no one)

Conversations alone
Complicate us together on our own
Conversations alone
Keep us from being alone
Alone

The road was taken
The path leads on
Til a new one's left to clear
The signal's given
The show turned on til emotion cut too near

The road was taken
The path led on
The signals given
The show turned on
Still receiving
And still believing
The time that you take isn't gone

Keep us from being together on our own
Together on our own

Thought I could fake this thing alright
Thought it could somehow get me by
Watching the doctors as they slide
Needles into my eye

Thought I could finally get around
Laughable symptoms keep me down
Faces I see all keep me blind
And now they're redemption's mine

Now that I can't exchange actions for words
Now that I found these inside fears the worst
Now that I know there's no place left to hide
Can I become all I thought I might

As the leaders who follow the path of whoever was standing round them
Call to say what I'm missing and into a detail they always go
Don't believe them but offer condolences under the circumstances
All too often I'm missing the spirit to fit in so call me out

Thought I could soundly sleep tonight
Positive clear and breathing right
Panic attacks, panic attacks me now
Seems like a fair redemption

Wide awakened out of spinning
Round the safest orbit
You controlled the ordinary
I was grateful for it
Wide awake in the beginning
Trembling after the fall
Only half my world remembers
While the other half revolves

Cut off cause I can't remember
A face that could cut me deeper
But hearts could never leave me bleeding
Becoming the cause and burden
The lesson begins unlearning
And it has never been forgiving my dear

It's all too familiar
I've been here before
I'll carry this weight for your smallest reward
Because I'll continue to break down the door
Just let me in I swear
It will not be like before

Can't think of what to say
I can't think of what to do
I just think I might be losing my mind
Can't stop this agony
Cancel my therapy cause
I just thought of you
And now I feel fine

Collecting the strangest conscience
Apathy returns it's offense
But only after I get moving
Relax and begin the change
In time for the newest age
To help me find out what I'm missing in here

I covered all the grounds and I uncovered our design
And every second I have spent has come to remind me in time

Restless tonight
Cause I wasted the light
Between both these times
I drew a really thin line

It's nothing I planned
And not that I can
But you should be mine
Across that line

If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn't that be something?

I promise I might
Not walk on by
Maybe next time
But not this time

Even though I know
I don't want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds

If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn't that be something?

Even though I know
I don't want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds

Even though I know
I don't want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds

If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn't that be something?

The obvious heart has come to collect
Cause it tore apart like a tortured insect
The obvious heart waits here to heal
And balances out a subtle reveal

Cause there's a remedy close
In a familiar dose
This bitter pill to swallow
Is lost in the bottle tonight
You're empty it's alright

And full of yourself
No need to explain
To anyone else
Broken in time
Taken what's left
No need to deny
The cause or effect

This heart is not a broken one
But where have all the colors gone
It's still among the lucky ones

This heart is not a broken one
But where have all the colors gone
You're still among the lucky ones
And burning longer than the sun

Cause there's a remedy close
In a familiar dose
Now you can find out who knows
Soaking in truth that she says
And taking chances

The wonder of the world is gone I know for sure.
All the wonder that I want I`ve found in her.
As the hole becomes apart I strike to burn
And the flame returns.
Every intuituion fails to find its way
One more table turned around and back again.
Finding a moral lost and found
When she`s not around
When she`s not around
I feel it coming down.
Give me what I could never ask for.
Connect me and you could be my chemical now.
Give me the drug you know I`m after.
Connect me and you could be my chemical.
When everybody wants you
(my chemical your slow).
When everybody wants you
(my chemical your slowslow and).
When everybody wnats you
(slow slow and).
Everybody wants you slow
Give me what I could never ask for.
Connect me and you could be my chemical now.
Give me the drug you know I`m after.
Connect me and you could be the chemical.
You could be the chemical.
You could be the chemical.
You could be the chemical.
You could be the chemical.

I had never thought
We were hanging on
But the fall looks very far
Staring at the ground
What flesh will do to you
Will do to me too
Be free and on your own
It's not that simple
It's not that simple
It's never that simple
It feels like the first time
That we've fallen behind
And we faltered too far down
No one could save us
It feels like the first time
And we're standing above them
And no one can touch us
The worst is over
The worst is over
I could say to you
A bitter word or two
There's no stopping now
Just get it out in the air
Heard it through the fog
And hurt by it all
I'd take it back today
But it's out of my hands
it's out of my hands
but it's out of my hands
Lost in the film again
All the signs were showing
Watching a single frame
When the wind begins
You're never anywhere
'Cause you're caught in my weather
Caught in my weather every time
Feels like the first time
We've fallen behind
No use is the other one to wait
But I can hold on
As sure as I'm strong
Get over the faithful yesterday

It's biting, it's teething, it's biting, I'm bleeding,
It's calling, it's crawling, it's calling and I'm falling,
The perfect sound of middle ground,
Pull me under before I try to drag you down,
Someone has to pull me under before I try and drag you,
Drag you, drag you down
They're fighting, they're growing,
They're fighting and they're growing,
I'm biting, I'm teething, I'm biting, they're bleeding
The perfect sound of middle ground,
Pull me under before I try to drag you down,
Someone has to pull me under before I try to drag you,
Drag you, drag you down
...Biting and teething and bleeding...
Pull me under before I try to drag you down,
Someone has to pull me under before I try to drag you down,
Someone has to pull me under before I try to drag you down,
Someone has to pull me under before I try to drag you,
Drag you, drag you down!

Spotlights are roaming
The show will begin
But don't give my circus away
I hope it ends before
you know me
I've lost it completely
My faith is lost again I'd say
I'm tired of this place and I want to go
Riding my carousel
They can never tell
Riding my carousel
They can never tell
I'm spinning and turning
Always revolving
You should have seen it
Where were you?
I needed a stage
To walk all over you
That's better
I'm throwing my three ring away
And I can hear you say
I'm tired of this place
I'm tired of this place and then I think of
Riding my carousel
They can never tell
Riding my carousel
They can never tell
I'm spinning and turning
Always revolving
Close all of the doors
Lock me away
I'm happy I'm here
So let me stay
I'm so tired of this place
I'm tired of this place and then I think of
Riding my carousel
They can never tell
Riding my carousel
They can never tell
I'm spinning and turning
Always revolving
I'm spinning and turning
Always revolving

Are the sins getting staler
Does every moment move past you
Or does it feel like forever
And shouldn't you be laughing too?
Take a look how they found you
Take a look what they've done to you now
What was it they wanted
Sullen and haunted?
If only you saw it coming
[chorus]
How far down would you fall
If you never came up again
'Cause you're so sick of it all
And you want to change everything
Just how deep will you go
To see through it all?
If you could consume her
Would you say you were finding your way out?
Is anything coming clearer
Smashing your mirror?
Still you can see you're guilty
[chorus]
How far down would you fall
If you never came up again
'Cause you're so sick of it all
And you want to change everything
Just how deep will you go
To see through it all?
Coming closer my composure turning
inside out in her
Calling home all alone
You can call I won't answer
Any question in my head
Remains until you feel the same
Never telling how I felt is all I ever cared about
[chorus]
How far down would you fall
If you never came up again
'Cause you're so sick of it all
And you want to change everything
Just how deep will you go
To see through it all?
Coming closer my composure turning
inside out in her
Calling home all alone
You can call I won't answer
Any question in my head
Remains until you feel the same
Remains until you feel the same

Without it I'm failing
My heart waits in the wings alone
The stages I go through
Keep coming time and time and time again
Do you wonder how I stay?
So complacent
It's like waiting for the ocean
To save you from the waves
When you're so far under
Silent
Never moving
You've taken your timing
So flawless executing me
So fearless and hopeful
Can you imagine such a scene?
Do you wonder how I stay?
So complacent
It's like waiting for the ocean
To save you from the waves
When you're so far under
Silent
Never moving
Waiting for the needle to take away the pain
Until finally we numb our every bone
Do you wonder?
Did you ever wonder how I stay?
So complacent
It's like waiting for the ocean
To save you from the waves
When you're so far under
Silent
Never moving
Waiting for the needle to take away the pain
Until finally we numb our every bone

Your sweet little hands
Brush right past me
Sometimes you don't understand
Why you can't reach
I bite when I don't want to bend
How silent I can be
So she is silent too
She's the one who saw my words
Broken, Torn at the seams
And broken words were all she heard
Now she's walking away from me
Some never meant
And some meant well
The difference between us is so
Hard to tell
I was so shaken but now
All I see
Is everything she meant to me
She's the one who saw my words
Broken, Torn at the seams
And broken words were all she heard
Now she's walking away
She's the one who saw my words
Broken, Torn at the seams
And broken words were all she heard
Now she's walking away
She's the one who saw my words
Broken, Torn at the seams
And broken words were all she heard
Now she's walking away
And broken words were all she heard
Now she's walking away

V1: Talk to me
Can you listen to me now
Do you understand
Can you identify
Make a small effort
But you bend
You're bending my mind
And you try
And you try
I can see you're trying to
Pre1: Suffocate
And smother me
Covered so I can't breathe
Chorus: (We) When we collapse
(Fall) Our weakened hands
(Down) Fall together at once abandoned
(We) They'll force you down
(Fall) And strap you in
(Down) Now we agree and understand
V2: Speak slowly
You gotta get it all out now
What are you saying
Just remember we will always be here
Just in case you have been waiting waiting
To show us something give us some sign
As if you're gonna
Pre2: Suffocate
Smothering
Covered so you can't breathe
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Bridge: Gently lure your submission
All the while suspicion
Grows Grows
So be sick of listening
To senile old and staggering
Naive youth
Pick us up when
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Coda: Now we agree and understand

Cloud my eyes and tell me what to see
I'm falling
Every way I turn the same disease
But I like it
Brace myself and hit the wall with ease
Colliding
I'm not minding the pain
I've been down here before
All my bones and joints are sore
Find my way out of the wreck again
I've been down here before
Lost myself and so much more
Find my way out of the game again
Open up my head and take it in
Just like always
Think about the BALL AND CHAIN YOU SWING
Loaded trapeze
What you need the most from me is yours
I'll continue to deceive you my friend
You lost what made you you
Or maybe I never knew
I can't stay here anymore
Give it all or you're on your own
I will leave you
I will leave you
I will leave you
I will leave you

Wait if everything's going great
Can you remember a day to tell?
If someone should wish you well
Then there's a narrow chance
All I want from you my dear friend,
I've already got
I could show you, I could show you how
And you say you've got that feeling again
It won't be long enough but it may never end
I know you say you've got that feeling again
It won't be long enough but it may never end
Wait I thought I had something to say
I will remember someday
Fate found you buckling under the weight
And you thought you would last
And all I got from you my dear friend
I don't even want
I could show you how
And you say you've got that feeling again
It won't be long enough but it may never end
I know you say you've got that feeling again
It won't be long enough but it may never end
I know I know it may never end
Follow your answers
But you look so bitter
Who are you?
Are you famous?
Important?
Don't you stop that glitter, no no
Oh no no
All I wanted from you
Is all forgotten for you
And you say you've got that feeling again
It won't be long enough but it may never end
I know you say you've got that feeling again
It won't be long enough but it may never end
I know I know it may never end
I know I know, but it may never end
I know I know, but it may never end

I'll tell you about the things you put me through
The pain I've been subjected to
The Lord himself would blush
Countless feasts laid at my feet
Forbidden fruits for me to eat
But I think your pulse would start to rush
Now I'm not looking for the absolution
Or forgiveness for the things I do
But before you come to any conclusions
Try walking in my shoes
You'll stumble in my footsteps
Keep the same appointments I've kept
If you try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes
Morality would frown upon
Indecency looked down upon
The scapegoat fate's made of me
But I tell you now, my judge and jurors
Intentions couldn't have been purer
My case is easy is to see
I'm not looking for a clearer conscience
Peace of mind after what I've been through
And before we talk of any repentance
Try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes
You'll stumble in my footsteps
Keep the same appointments I've kept
If you try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my Now I'm not looking for the absolution
Or forgiveness for the things I do
But before we come to any conclusions
Try walking in my shoes
You'll stumble in my footsteps
Keep the same appointments I've kept
If you try walking in my shoes
You'll stumble in my footsteps
Keep the same appointments I've kept
If you try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes

Good God have I been dreaming
This paralyzing feeling?
Was I left alone? Where have you gone?
Were you somewhere else just sleeping?
If I wait to wake you
I'll never ask you
Would you take my hand?
In the deepest end
Would you stay and drown in me?
Take my hand. In the deepest end
My open eyes see everything
But I'm passing all the days
through a window pane
And as the scene would change
I'd stay the same
This paradise was nothing new
But the paradise gets tired of you
A single conversation
Stole my attention
Would you take my hand?
In the deepest end
Would you stay and drown in me?
Take my hand. In the deepest end.
Would you stay and drown in me?
My open eyes see everything
And you see nothing
And don't forget it
Take my hand. In the deepest end.
Would you stay and drown in me?
Take my hand. In the deepest end.
Would you stay and drown in me?
Take my hand. In the deepest end.
Would you stay and drown in me?
Would you stay and drown in me?
Would you stay and drown in me?
And don't forget it