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Matthew Sweet Album


Altered Beast (1993)
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Borne on a cloud
Stupid and proud
I'm gonna take you back now
Cursed by the past
Held under glass
I was too hard to shake down

And I'm coming back
With my dinosaur act
Did you forget me baby
After the fact (I'm telling you)
I'm coming back
With my dinosaur act
I still remember baby
What we both lack
We both lack

Lost in the head
Lost in your bed
I wouldn't call you lucky
You're getting old
Ready to fold
You do not feel like fighting
Don't worry

Cause I'm coming back
With my dinosaur act
Did you forget me baby
After the fact (I'm telling you)
I'm coming back
With my dinosaur act
I still remember baby
What we both lack
We both lack
We both lack

(Solo)

And I'm coming back
With my dinosaur act
Did you forget me baby
After the fact (I'm telling you)
I'm coming back
With my dinosaur act
I still remember baby
What we both lack
We both lack
We now lack
We now lack
We now lack.

. . .


I can understand you're living in a prison
I know you can only see me as a vision
I might fade away
With the coming of a new dawn

And your heart is breaking
What are you gonna do now
That you're tired of faking it?
What are you gonna do now?
Well, it's hard to take it
When you know what happens each time

The devil with the green eyes
Said you were never meant to be mine
'Cause I came up from a dark world
And every love I've ever known is dead

If you come close enough to see I am inhuman
I will tell you why you're feeling so uncertain
Every word I say
Has a way of turning evil in you

And your heart is breaking
What are you gonna do now
That you're tired of faking it?
What are you gonna do now?
Well, it's hard to take it
When you know what happens each time

The devil with the green eyes
Said you was never meant to be mine
'Cause I came up from a dark world
And every love I've ever known is dead

And your heart is breaking
What are you gonna do now
That you're tired of faking it?
What are you gonna do now?
Well, it's hard to take it
You know what happens each time

The devil with the green eyes
Said you were never meant to be mine
'Cause I came up from a dark world
And every love I've ever known
Every love I've ever known
Every love I've ever known
Is dead

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You don't want to die
But the living gets you down
We want you to act like nothing's wrong
Even though you heard a sound
And then you're ripped right out of the ground
Like a fucking root
Ah, you simply cannot hide
From the ugly truth
You feel you must be wise
Cause you could find yourself
Among a sea of smiling faces
It's a way I've never felt
Yeah, it kinda flies right into my face
And out the other side
The ugly truth leaves nothing to decide
The ugly truth makes every one of us a liar
Ugly

If you can dig a big enough hole
To bury all your loot
No you still won't be prepared for the ugly truth
No you'll never be prepared for the ugly truth
You simply cannot hide from the ugly truth
Ugly

. . .


Stop what you're doing to me
My love don't want to see
Then we were young and strong
Now everything is wrong
Did you want me
Did you need me
Could you not say
You believed me
And our love is in a time capsule
Dream what you want me to be
Come and dig for me
Then we were young and strong
Now Everything is wrong, so wrong
Did you want me
Did you need me
Could you not say
You believed me
And our love is in a time capsule

(Solo)

Then we were young and strong
Now everything is wrong, so wrong
Didn't you want me
Didn't you need me
Could you not say You believed me
Didn't you want me
Didn't you need me
Could you not say
You believed me
And our love is in a time capsule
Let's dig it up

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Well, I'm loaded, ready
Calmly holding steady
Looking for a sign to show me when

Well, I'm waiting, willing
The clarity is chilling
And I'm not turning back, and neither can you

I need someone to pull the trigger
'Cause there's a hole in my heart getting bigger
And everything I'll ever be I've been
And I need someone to pull the trigger
So if you're what I think you'll be
If you're who I think I see, shoot

So hold me, love me
Tie me up and drug me
'Cause I'm not gonna beg you for my life

I need someone to pull the trigger
'Cause there's a hole in my heart getting bigger
And everything I'll ever be I've been
And I need someone to pull the trigger
So if you're what I think you'll be
If you're who I think I see, shoot
Shoot
Shoot
Shoot

. . .


Are you made like God
When you start to bleed
Do you really know
What it is to breathe
Without a mind to think
Or a hand in fate
You're an animal
Filled with love and hate
You
And the way you move
And the things you say
Your desperate dreams are pathetic
I don't like knowing people
And I don't like people knowing about me
I don't like knowing people
And I don't like people knowing about me
Why should we care
What we do or say
Why should we long
For yesterday
What is here
And who wants to stay
No lasting life
And no judgment day
And the fact of you
And the way you move
And the things you say
Your desperate dreams are pathetic
I don't like knowing people
And I don't like people knowing about me
I don't like knowing people
And I don't like people knowing about me
What are you looking at?
I don't like knowing people
And I don't like people knowing about me
I don't like knowing people
And I don't like people knowing about me
I don't like knowing people
And I don't like people knowing about me
I don't like knowing people
And I don't like people knowing about me
Get out of here

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Every time you go away
I know there's nothing I can say
But I don't know how to stay alive
No matter what I keep inside
Or what I let escape from the place where you walked through
But I wouldn't a life without you
No I wouldn't want a life without you
Every time you go away
There are some rules I do obey
If you had to watch me scream and cry
You'd feel the need I'm living by
A fragment of the pain that the world has put you through
But I wouldn't a life without you.
No I wouldn't want a life without you.

Solo

If you had to watch me scream and cry
You'd feel the need I'm living by
A fragment of the pain that the world has put you through
But I wouldn't want a life without you
No I wouldn't want a life without you

. . .

Intro

[No lyrics]

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You don't want to die
But the living gets you down
We want you to act like nothing's wrong
Even though you heard a sound
And then you're ripped right out of the ground
Like a fucking root
Ah, you simply cannot hide
From the ugly truth
You feel you must be wise
Cause you could find yourself
Among a sea of smiling faces
It's a way I've never felt
Yeah, it kinda flies right into my face
And out the other side
The ugly truth leaves nothing to decide
The ugly truth makes every one of us a liar
Ugly

If you can dig a big enough hole
To bury all your youth
No you still won't be prepared for the ugly truth
No you'll never be prepared for the ugly truth
You simply cannot hide from the ugly truth
Ugly

. . .


I'll do it again
If I have to love you from afar
You'll do it again
Before we get too far
And I'll hurt you again
Baby if you'll hurt me one more time
Cause love that's bad
Is better than none
You know breaking up is half of the fun
And who would want a dream
That can't be real
I'll do it again
I will let you take me for a ride
You'll do it again
Start opening the hide
And I'll hurt you again
Baby if you'll hurt me one more time
Cause love that's bad
Is better than none
You know that breaking up is half of the fun
Who would want a dream
That can't be real
And I'll do it again

(Solo)

A love that's bad
Is better than none
You know breaking up is half of the fun
Who would want a dream
That can't be real
I'll hurt you again
Baby if you'll hurt me one more time
Cause love that's bad
Is better than none
You know breaking up is half of the fun
And who would want a dream
That can't be real
I'll do it again
I'll do it again

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I'm in too deep
Drowning in the fire
Burning in the lake
Dying from desire
Dying for desire
I'm in too deep
Grasping like a liar
Yeah, and do you want me
Cause I am gonna fly yeah, I am gonna fly
I'm in too deep
And even when you think you already know what to do baby
There comes a hard road rushing at you
And honey ain't life sweet
Mmm'too deep
I'm in too deep
I've opened up my eyes now
Cause now I understand how
Cause there's nobody else
I'm in too deep
And even when you think you already
Know what to do baby
There come a hard road rushing at you
And honey ain't life
Honey ain't life sweet
Ah, it's too deep

(Solo)

I'm in too deep
Drowning in the fire
Burning in the lake
Dying from desire
Dying for desire
Dying from desire
Dying for desire
Dying from desire
Dying for desire

(Solo)

. . .


You've counted every star
That you could imagine
Broken when everyone took you for a fool
It gave you a reason
To find something strong enough to feel

You're reaching out, reaching out
You're reaching out, reaching out
You're reaching out

Beaten by a child
You don't even know when
But now you can never be free from what was done
You can't even hate them
You'll find something big enough to see

You're reaching out, reaching out
You're reaching out, reaching out
You're reaching out

And if I can't know you
All my dreams are through
Every waking hour filled with lead
I'm dead

I've counted every star
That you could imagine
Broken when everyone took me for a fool
It gave me a reason
To find something strong enough to feel

You're reaching out, reaching out
You're reaching out, reaching out
You're reaching out

And if I can't know you
All my dreams are through
Every waking hour's filled with lead
I'm dead
I'm dead

. . .


The further you go
The farther you've gone
It doesn't mean you were made to hang on
And you're falling falling falling
But you can't let go

Whether you're cold, hot, bottled or not
This is the day for which you have fought
And you're calling calling calling
But you can't get home

And every day takes something away
Until there's nothing left to say
No single world can deliver you love
No understanding no sound from above
And nothing to do
It's nothing to you

You picture a time that's other than yours
As soon as you have said it's hers
And you act like you believe it
But you're not so sure

And every day takes something away
Until there's nothing left to say
No single world can deliver you love
No understanding

And every day takes something away
Until there's nothing left to say
No single world can deliver you love
No understanding no sound from above
And nothing to do - it's nothing to you


The further you go
The farther you've gone
It doesn't mean you were made to hang on
And you're falling falling falling
But you can't let go

And every day takes something away
Until there's nothing left to say
No single world can deliver you love
No understanding no sound from above
No one to watch you rising up from below
Telling you secrets you don't want to know
And nothing to do - it's nothing to you

Nothing to you
It's nothing to you - nothing to you
Nothing to do - nothing to do
(fade out)

. . .


Do you want to tell me something
Open up my world for me baby
With another stupid lie that gets you by
One of those stupid lies that gets you by
Do you wnat to show me something
Or are you just describing it to me
Just look me in the eye / when you say why
Oh, look me in the eye / when you say why
'cause what do you know
That I would want to
Where do you go
That I could belong
Do you feel one little bit
What you've become

So go on shoot your mouth off
Like it might kill the silence
Say you would rather die
Than see me cry
You would rather die
Than see me cry
But what do you know
That I would want to
Where do you go
That I could belong
Do you feel one little bit
What you've become

Do you want to tell me something
Open up my world for me baby
With another stupid lie that gets you by
One of those stupid lies that gets you by

Then what do you know
That I would want to
Where do you go
That I could belong
Do you feel one little bit
What you've become
Do you feel one little bit
What you've become
Do you feel one little bit
What you've become

. . .


As soon as I found you baby you know
They took you away
You put your little hands together and
You started to pray
But all your prayers they brought no answer
Your faith was a lie

And there's no difference
Between the earth and the sky
There's no reason
We have to die

Whenever you talk that way you know
You're breaking my heart
How can we ever come together when
We're playing these parts
In every love there is a promise
So baby don't you cry

'Cause there's no difference
Between the earth and the sky
There's no reason
We have to die

In every love there is a promise
So baby don't you cry
There's no difference
Between the earth and the sky
There's no reason
We have to die

. . .


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