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The Sleeping Album


What It Takes (2009)
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ice cold on the filthy ground
barely breathing in a fucked up town
all my life i was afraid
now i'm welcoming the feeling
black eyes under dirt and sun
written above "had the nerve to hurt everyone"
all my life,
carried a heart until my actions stripped it bare

waking up feels so wrong
hope you got what you wanted
waking up feels so wrong
hope you got what you wanted

arms stretched when the sun goes down
pulled away from a fucked up town
all my life i was afraid
now i'm welcoming the feeling
fought long in a violent world
stayed strong for the people i needed
all my life
carried a heart until my actions stripped it bare

waking up feels so wrong
hope you got what you wanted
waking up feels so wrong
hope you got what you wanted

arms stretched when the sun sets over me
arms stretched when the night carries me home

. . .


all of our heads in the clouds
and i remember staying up all night
in a haze to the sweetest sounds
when i said,
delicate to the sights
and i can never feel the calm
i felt witnessing headlights drive into our eyes
when i said,
"we're not ready to go back home"

breathe in baby
i can't touch the ground
keep it crazy
let the open road bring us back down

all of the smoke in our lungs
and i remember burning up daylight
passing the head of the summer's final sun
when i said,
"we're not ready to go back home.
we're not ready to go back"

breathe in baby
i can't touch the ground
keep it crazy
let the open road bring us back down

keep on passing the trucks
keep on passing the drugs

. . .


when your body's lost it all
but you don't feel like letting go
bomb the world
when your heart hates everything
but you don't want to let it win
bomb the world

keep struggling, living and trying again
shit hurts but you've got to get used to it
keep struggling, living and trying again
show them all you'll explode
bomb the world

when every place feels like a hole
but you keep crawling to save your soul
bomb the world
when your life's lowest of low and you're ready
to recover control
bomb the world

. . .


cold
out of touch
i just let my lungs fill up with the worst of the worst
bloodshot eyes wide shut
buried awake all night
paranoid from the weight of the world

bad vibes corrupt my head
half dead, half dead
bad vibes corrupt my head
half dead, half dead, half dead

smoke
comatose
poisonous to the lips from a kiss i just couldn't ignore
passed the green, passed the trees, passed the catatonic breeze
i don't want
i don't want
i don't want

bad vibes corrupt my head
half dead, half dead
bad vibes corrupt my head
half dead, half dead, half dead

save me
won't somebody save me

head trips wrapped around my neck
that's when i swear i lost my head again
i swear, i swear i lost my head again
i swear, i swear i lost my head again
cold
smoke
i swear, i swear i lost my head again
i swear, i swear i lost my head again
i swear, i swear i lost my head again
i swear, i swear i lost my head again

bad vibes corrupt my head
half dead, half dead
bad vibes corrupt my head
half dead, half dead, half dead

save me
won't somebody save me
head trips wrapped around my neck

. . .


we've been begging for a better place
frantically shaking in disgrace
we're all viciously fighting in every state
but now i'm leaving

we're all begging for a different way
violently shaking from our mistakes
still nobody's fighting to make a change
so now i'm leaving

time's almost up
i know
we're all running faster
running faster

we've been begging for a better place
frantically shaking in disgrace
we're all viciously fighting in every state
but now i'm leaving

we're all begging for a different way
violently shaking from our mistakes
still nobody's fighting to make a change
so now i'm leaving
falling back
falling back without a hold
ashamed to say we're falling back
falling back without a hold

time's almost up
i know
begging
shaking
fighting
leaving

. . .


this is a world with a ripped dress on
a broken place that loves no one
oh i swear it's the best statement i can give

i've been pulling back so much hurt
holding my breath without saying a word
now i'm done and i don't care who i offend anymore

i'm not trusting anyone again
i hate this world we're living in

take a second looking way back when
when we were young
unaware of evidence
present day we're all afraid to walk away from our front doors

we've been beaten, gagged and bound
fed fear into our hopeless mouths
now we're fucked and we don't even have our best dress on

i'm not trusting anyone again
i hate this world we're living in

i'm not trusting anyone again
i hate this world we're living in

i'm not trusting anyone again
i hate this world we're living in

. . .


i've got a body that i don't want to be living in
i've got devils flooding up to the neck
and i have forgotten how to swim
all of these people keep calling me up who i don't even know
i don't even know myself

it all started when i was a kid
i kept putting trust in my father and receiving nothing
relationships lasted no longer than limbs
still the same, nothing changed
this just keeps on happening

should have let me leave
should have let me leave this mess
(i can't stop. i can't stop lying)
can i ever come clean?
should have let me leave this mess

none of this was my fault
none of this was my fault
still i'm losing sleep

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girl cries out into her achy hands
boy cares less, keeps feeding off her soul
he won't let her get herself some hope
she's afraid to let him let her go

boy explains that he's done nothing wrong
girl can't swim through all the shit he's talked
she's afraid to pack her bags and run
he holes lies under his tongue

yeah, leave that girl alone
she's better off with you gone

she's been neglected by a love that's been broken
all the letters that he wrote
have all been burned

. . .


yah, i'm like an angel headless
reckless with good intentions
i knew you couldn't take it anymore

yah, but what's the point when it's worthless?
finding yourself is perfect
i knew you couldn't take it anymore

who's got some explaining to do?

wait. don't think you're getting off easy
you spit separation baby
i knew you didn't want it anymore

so what's the fucking difference
if i leave you or you leave me?
no one is keeping score

who's got some explaining to do?
i've got some explaining to do
you've got some explaining to do
we've got some explaining to do

back and forth and back and forth again
reckless with good intention
back and forth and back and forth again
reckless but smart enough to know
when two lovers holding on need letting go

don't lie to me again because i won't be listening
lips pressed tight to a lit cigarette

lips pressed tight to a lit cigarette
blowing awkward smoke into the night

lips pressed tight to a lit cigarette
exhaled these words into the air
"we lost it"

. . .


meaningless
emptiness
religious discontent

strike up those preachy hands
while your bodies bathe in sin
if i had any kind of faith i wouldn't follow a trend

i don't care
no one wants your love

cleanliness
forgiveness
religious discontent

. . .


last call, but i just kept on drinking
i saw a face in the crowd, one soon i would regret
so i stumbled my way towards this innocent face
introducing myself as "the life this bars been needing"
i saw a smile open up and i knew i had walked right in
we started talking about the world and all the troubles on the way

as sad as it sounds, i was barely paying attention
i only wanted one thing
oh i only wanted one thing

i'm sorry baby but i had to dig up them bones
the night was hazy
and i didn't want to spend it alone
now that it's over
put your clothes back on and go home
go on home

now at the hotel
with the view as vast as the sea
we started to undress one thousand floors above the city
then the calm before the storm where i had started to feel a bit guilty
i just let myself know this will all be over soon

now i'm not going to lie
or keep from you any secrets
with this sort of thing i've got issues through the roof
still it takes two to dance
and we both got what we wanted
oh i never caught a name

i can barely remember a face

. . .


old man where have you been?
can't you see that i've grown a bit cold?
pulling tricks like illusionists
tucked my existence in the black of your soul
this is gonna catch up to you in the end

i'm not waiting
so it's time i finally cut the cord

if this breaks your heart then i'll feel better
if these words could stop your breath forever
soon you'll have no one
that's why this will break your heart and i'll feel better
this is gonna catch up to you in the end

when it falls apart...

old man are you listening?
do you think i'll be taking you in?
when you're fragile and brittle bone
do you think i'll be taking you in?
this is gonna catch up to you in the end

i'm not waiting
so it's time i finally cut the cord

if this breaks your heart then i'll feel better
if these words could stop your breath forever
soon you'll have no one
that's why this will break your heart and i'll feel better
this is gonna catch up to you in the end

when it falls apart...
who will be there?
who will be there?
when it falls apart...
who will be there?
who will be there?

if this breaks your heart then i'll feel better
if these words could stop your breath forever
soon you'll have no one
that's why this will break your heart and i'll feel better
this is gonna catch up to you in the end

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