Good sleep is over-rated
and I know there are those who do not sleep for days and days
Maybe they’re on some drugs
At least that's what the man on my television keeps tellin’ me
You have your conviction
You have your conviction
You have your conviction
You have your conviction
I got your letter today
I guess it was the kindest way you could tell me you want me dead
As you can see I'm okay
I grow tired of dealing with all of your issues anyway
You have your conviction
You have your conviction
You have your conviction
In spite of your condition
You have your conviction
In spite of your condition
You have your conviction
Good sleep is over-rated
Good sleep is over-rated
You have your conviction
You have your conviction
You have your conviction
In spite of your condition
You have your conviction
In spite of your condition
You have your conviction
Little boy, little girl, with her curls inviting
him to play, then she walks and it looks exciting
but she needs him to want something un-enticing
Little boy, little girl, little boy
There’s a page of her mind where she’s prone to placing
fragile thoughts from the time she was so discarded
when her mum wasn’t there this may need erasing
Will you help little girl, little boy?
Oh, oh oh oh, Oh, oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh, Oh, oh oh oh
He didn’t know, but he didn’t take the time to wonder
No wonder she won’t fall in love
Every look, every air, every imperception
of her heart, of her mood, he’s desensitized
Will she help him undress, will it numb her feelings?
She’s a lone little girl, little boy
He’s so clever he’s so kind, he’s a big sensation
He’s a smooth little jack when he’s on overdrive
But she wasn’t hypnotized, and she kept her flower
Such a good little girl, little boy
Oh, oh oh oh, Oh, oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh, Oh, oh oh oh
He didn’t know, but he didn’t take the time to wonder
No wonder she won’t fall in love
She wouldn’t out, no she wasn’t gonna make the blunder
No matter how much she wanted love
Oh, oh oh oh, Oh, oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh, Oh, oh oh oh
He didn’t know, no he never took the time to wonder
No wonder she won’t fall in love
Steam is rising into the air
Cocktail dresses in headlight glare
Neon pulsing across limousines
The commotion--let’s make a scene
Heartbeat, we’re pulsing down, down
It makes a loud sweet sound
Heartbeat, when our eyes meet
It makes a loud sweet sound
Shoot past the bouncer's black velvet ropes
Notes sweep my body, like undertow
Your lips say something, I lean in to hear
“The night is thrilling, and so are we!”
So are we!
Heartbeat, we’re pulsing down, down
It makes a loud sweet sound
Heartbeat, when our eyes meet
It makes a loud sweet sound
Heartbeat, we’re pulsing down, down
It makes a loud sweet sound
Heartbeat, when our eyes meet
It makes a loud sweet sound
Heartbeat, we’re pulsing down, down
It makes a loud sweet sound
Heartbeat, when our eyes meet
It makes a loud sweet sound
He never understood what happened here
or what they prayed
Was it symbol was it dogma was it fear
or just well played?
Every weekend, so recited, so unrequited
If he seems happy, then he seems happy
and he’s so well behaved?
Hey now, people
look past your steeples
If one soul feels controlled
let that soul alone
They never wondered why he never lied
why he won’t sleep
They left him unprotected from their certainties
until he believed
and promises no longer spoken
were not unbroken
a little boy so regulated
decimated, amputated
Hey now, people
look past your steeples
If one soul feels controlled
let that soul alone
but when the children were ourselves
crushing vanities and hells
did we understand, a little hope, was not so bad?
Take it from the innocent
you gotta take your medicine
but everything is gonna turn
so never kill the mockingbird
just let it fly from the child’s eye
when it’s time
or you’ll be cryin'
Hey now people
let there be steeples
If one soul feels consoled
let that soul alone
(repeat)
but when the children were ourselves
crushing vanities and hells
did we understand, a little hope, was not so bad?
Take it from the innocent
you gotta take your medicine
but everything is gonna turn
so never kill the mockingbird
just let it fly from the child’s eye
when it’s time
or you’ll be cryin'
I remember so distinctly you avoiding me instinctively
your eyes however saying something more
So I started conversation but I found it no vacation
every glance I saw you studying the floor
You seemed like an apology, no virtue just pathology
immobilized and paralyzed and scarred
Together we’re apart,
we were doomed right from the start
your clumsy silent griefs were so bizarre
You killed yourself with reservation
killed yourself by never saying more
You killed yourself with trepidation
killed me when I knew I wanted more
Why don’t you try? Why don’t you
try to crush to kill this sick goodbye?
Why don’t you cry?
Why don’t you cry while I sing this twisted lullaby.
And I feel your pain...
of never tryin’ while you’re dyin’ from the fears
that killed the one who I adore
And I feel your shame...
of always sighin’ while you’re lyin’
to yourself about the phobia you abhor
You killed yourself with education
killed yourself by making life a bore
You killed yourself with expectation
killed me when I knew I wasn’t yours
Why don’t you try? Why don’t you
try to crush to this sick goodbye?
Why don’t you cry?
Why don’t you cry while I sing this twisted lullaby.
You killed yourself with reservation
killed yourself by never saying more
You killed yourself with trepidation
killed me when I knew I wanted more
You killed yourself with education
killed yourself by making life a bore
You killed yourself with expectation
killed me when I knew I wasn’t yours
Why don’t you try, try to kill the torment?
Why don’t you cry?
From this twisted lullaby, lullaby, lullaby, lullaby
This twisted lullaby, lullaby, lullaby, lullaby
Why don’t you try?
Why don’t you cry?
10-53, got one man down
it was the first time
and it’s his last time
take him home
take him slowly
Go call his wife
go tell his son
tell them it’s time
for ministration
he’s going home
he’s going slowly
Everybody tried
before they cried
after divine
anticipation was
bringing him home
bringing him slowly, after he said
“Everybody I need, came
after she married me
I’d take a bullet or three
I’d go down for my babies, ‘cause
They were my home
they were my only”
When will the innocent complain
When will the devil be restrained
Where will these villains strike again
When were our fantasies replaced
we rule the day, they rule the night
we were betrayed
got one man down
And while I’m sleeping,
on the road, on my own
Every morning, every evening,
I will see you, I’ll be listening to you
When will the innocent complain
When will the devil be restrained
Where will these villains strike again
When were our fantasies replaced
we rule the day, they rule the night
we were betrayed
got one man down
10-53, got one man down
it was the first time
and it’s his last time
he’s going home
he’s going slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly
10-53, got one man down
it was the first time
and it’s his last time
he’s going home
he’s going slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly
When will the innocent complain
When will the devil be restrained
Where will these villains strike again
When were our fantasies replaced
we rule the day, they rule the night
we were betrayed
got one man down
oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
Did you put it away, this time
What it inspired,
would have started a double life, oh oh oh
Ah ah, ah ah oh
Were you playing it safe, this time but
feeling estranged
from the very thing you desire, oh oh oh
Ah ah, ah ah oh
And he’s coming
And I’m coming too
And he’s running
And I’m running too
You are stunning
This thunder’s rolling through
(It’s a strange love)
(It’s a strange love)
And you’re running
Where are you running to?
You had me coming
You had me coming too
You’ve got me bleeding
Now I’m becoming you
(It’s a strange love)
(It’s a strange love)
(Repeat)
oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh
oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
Ah ah, ah ah oh
Ah ah, ah ah oh
And he’s coming
And I’m coming too
And he’s running
And I’m running too
You are stunning
This thunder’s rolling through
(It’s a strange love)
(It’s a strange love)
And you’re running
Where are you running to?
You had me coming
You had me coming too
You’ve got me bleeding
Now I’m becoming you
(It’s a strange love)
(It’s a strange love)
You know, they know, I know, you know this craziness inside my head,
(and) I know, they know, I know, you know there’s something I have not confessed
It’s not bipolar or the things you do inside my pretty head
It’s really not appropriate, I wanna know the color of your
love is strange, love is strange, love is strange
love is strange, love is strange, love is strange
love is strange, love is strange, love is strange
The highway litter and the tear from deep inside the Indian
The Daddy and his little boy who wears a smile that never dims
And then a little girl who could not recollect her Mommy’s face
An icy footprint and Trans-Am button’s gonna make him know he’ll see his Dad again
love is strange, love is strange, love is strange
love is strange, love is strange, love is strange
love is strange, love is strange, love is strange
Sometimes I go back to the place I went to kindergarten school
At show and tell I told them all “There is no Santa Claus, you’re screwed”
I never really acclimated to society that’s true
But I’ll be your scapular, I’ll be devoted to protecting you
love is strange, love is strange, love is strange
love is strange, love is strange, love is strange
love is strange, love is strange, love is strange
love is strange, love is strange, love is strange
love is strange, love is strange, love is strange
Tryna’ understand the crazy ways you quit making it real
If retrospect were spendin’ money baby that could get me killed
Heavy metal FDR innovation Geneva Steel
Now you’re spending next-gen money kicking cans and copping a feel
You’re the generations
of a lonely nation
You’re the causation
of the new inflation
and here comes the mail
Silents, Baby Boomers, Generation X I’m talking to you
You gave us Trump and Biden, now you’re hiden’ split our money in two
You start the wars we can’t afford then got the votes and sold us out
We trusted you, you screwed us now a nation’s debt won’t make you proud
You’re the generations
of a lonely nation
You’re the causation
of the new inflation
You’re the generations
of a lonely nation
You’re the causation
of the new inflation
and here comes the mail
Here comes the mail!
And here comes the mail!
You’re the generations
of a lonely nation
You’re the causation
of the new inflation
You’re the generations
of a lonely nation
You’re the causation
of the new inflation!
And here comes the mail!
I blur the details of my history
‘Cause women love a little mystery
I blur the details of my history
‘Cause women love a little mystery
I'm just pathologically shy
But I can tell a chronological lie
I can tell a chronological lie
I got a message from your number last night
I blur the details of my history
‘Cause women love a little mystery-ee
I blur the details of my history
My lovers want a bit of mystery-ee
I went to your function last night
And I woke up this morning – alright
I clearly couldn't function last night
but I woke up this mornin’
I blur the details of my history
‘Cause women love a little mystery-ee
I blur the details of my history
Your brother loves a man of mystery-ee
(So you love me)
Your mother called me last night
(So you love me)
n’ she was asking where you were
(So you love me)
Your father called me last night
(So you love me)
Asking about your mother...
Sharp looks, a stab in the eye
Strange love, an unusual crime
Sharp words on a well dressed guy
Your love, a strange way to die
I blur the details of my history
‘Cause women love a little mystery-ee
I blur the details of my history
Your mother called me last night
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