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+ Battle for the Sun 01. Kitty Litter 02. Ashtray Heart 03. Battle for the Sun 04. For What It's Worth 05. Devil in the Details 06. Bright Lights 07. Speak in Tongues 08. The Never-Ending Why 09. Julien 10. Happy You're Gone 11. Breathe Underwater 12. Come Undone 13. Kings of Medicine Bonus Tracks || Unisex | The Movie on Your Eyelids | In a Funk

KITTY LITTER

The way you're dancing
Makes me come alive
Makes me shiver and perspire
Your surreptitious glancing
The way you crack a smile
Nearly start a fire

So move closer
I want to feel your touch
So come over
Come on

Love of mine
This fortress in our heart
Feels much weaker
Now we're apart
Love of mine
This fortress in our heart
Comes crashing down

I need a change of skin
I need a change

The way you're moving
Hips from side to side
Makes you all that I desire
Batsheba of my choosing
I'm so unsatisfied
You got what I require

So move closer
I got to feel your touch
So come over
Come on
x2

Love of mine
This fortress in our heart
Feels much weaker
Now we're apart
Love of mine
This fortress in our heart
Comes crashing down

I need a change of skin
I need a change

I need a change, I need a change of skin
X4

Love of mine
This fortress in our heart
Feels much weaker
Now we're apart
Love of mine
This fortress in our heart
Comes crashing down


ASHTRAY HEART

Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
Mi corazón de cenicero
x2

You are the birth and you are waste
You are the one who took my place
You took a jump into forever
A leap of faith I could not take

And it was
A leap of faith I could not take
A promise that I could not make
A leap of faith I could not take
A promise that I could not make

Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
(My ashtray heart, my ashtray heart)
Mi corazón de cenicero
x2

You were alone before we met
No more forlorn than one could get
How could we know we had found treasure?
How sinister and how correct

And it was
A leap of faith I could not take
A promise that I could not make
A leap of faith I could not take
A promise that I could not make

Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
(My ashtray heart, my ashtray heart)
Mi corazón de cenicero
x2

I tore the muscle from your chest
Used it to stub out cigarettes
I listened to your screams of pleasure
Now watch the bedsheets turn blood red

Mi cenicero, mi cenicero
(My ashtray heart, my ashtray heart)
Mi corazón de cenicero


BATTLE FOR THE SUN

I will battle for the sun
I won’t stop until I’m done
You are getting in the way
I have nothing left to say

I will brush off all the dirt
And I will pretend it didn’t hurt
You are a black and heavy weight
And I will not participate

Dream brother, my killer, my lover
x2

I will battle for the sun
‘Cause I have stared down the barrel of a gun
No falling
You are a cheap and nasty fake
And I am the bones you couldn’t break

Dream brother, my killer, my lover
x6

I will battle for the sun


FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH

The end of the century
I said my goodbyes
For what it's worth

I always aimed to please
But I nearly died
For what it's worth

Come on lay with me
'Cause I'm on fire
For what it's worth
I tear the sun in three
To light up your eyes

For what it's worth
x4

Broke up the family
Everybody cried
For what it's worth

I have a slow disease
That sucked me dry
For what it's worth

Come on walk with me
Into the rising tide
For what it's worth

Filled a cavity
Your God-shaped hole tonight

For what it's worth
x8

No one cares when you're out on the street
Picking up the pieces to make ends meet
No one cares when you're down in the gutter
Got no friends, got no lover
x2

For what it's worth
Got no lover
x7

Got no friends
Got no lover


DEVIL IN THE DETAILS

I've been wasting all my time
With the devil in the details
I got no energy to fight
He's a fucking pal of mine
The devil in the details

And he's fixing up to take a bite
I don't see the point in trying
I got the devil in the details
And he's gonna teach me wrong from right
That fucking pal of mine
The devil in the details
I'm gonna dance with him tonight

All of my wrongs
No more wicked ways
Come back to haunt me, come what may
He wrote the songs
That I hoped to write someday
Looks like the devil's here to stay

Let me take you for a ride
With the devil in the details
We'll kiss and tremble with delight
Everything is fine
With the devil in the details
We're gonna dance with him tonight

All of my wrongs
No more wicked ways
Come back to haunt me, come what may
He wrote the songs
That I hoped to write someday
Looks like the devil's here to stay
x3

All of my wrongs
No more wicked ways
Come back to haunt me, come what may
He wrote the songs
That I hoped to write someday
Looks like the devil's here to stay
x3

I've been wasting all my time
With the devil in the details


BRIGHT LIGHTS

Cast your mind back to the days
When I pretend' I was OK
I had so very much to say
About my crazy living
Now that I've stared into the void
So many people I've annoyed
I have to find a middle way
A better way of giving

So I haven't given up
But all my choices, my good luck
Appear to go and get me stuck
In an open prison
Now I am trying to break free
In a state of empathy
Find the true and inner me
Eradicate this schism

No-one can take it away from me
And no-one can tear it apart
Because a heart that hurts
Is a heart that works
A heart that hurts
Is a heart that works

A heart that hurts
Is a heart that works
No-one can take it away from me
No-one can tear it apart
Maybe's an elaborate fantasy
But it's the perfect place to start

Because a heart that hurts
Is a heart that works
A heart that hurts
Is a heart that... works


SPEAK IN TONGUES

Kitty came back home from on the island
But Kitty came on home without a name
She and me's a history for violence
But I long and burn to touch her just the same

So we both can speak in tongues
So we both can speak in tongues

Every single sense in me is heightened
There's nothing left inside to rearrange
Like a slave to history and science
I long and burn to touch you just the same

So we both can speak in tongues
So we both can speak in tongues

Until the universe is done
And the course of time has run
So we both can speak in tongues

Don't let them have their way
Don't let them have their way
You're beautiful and so blasé
So please don't let them have their way
Don't fall back into the decay
There is no law we must obey
So please don't let them have their way
Don't give in to yesterday

We can build a new tomorrow, today
X4
Today… today


THE NEVER-ENDING WHY

The atom will implode
The fragile kingdom fall
The tremor becomes a quake
And there's a body in the lake

And as the two of us rebel
Damn you all to hell
I wonder is this all there is

Time will help you through
But it doesn't have the time
To give you all the answers to the never-ending why

The sound of silence grows
As a spider kiss is laid
And the tumor becomes malign
But the kids are doing fine

And as the two of us rebel
And damn you all to hell
I wonder is this all there is

Time will help you through
But it doesn't have the time
To give you all the answers to the never-ending why


JULIEN

The payback is here
Take a look, it's all around you
You thought you'd never shed a tear
So this must astound, must confound you

Buy a ticket for the train
Hide in a suitcase if you have to
This ain't no singing in the rain
This is a twister that will destroy you

You can run but you can't hide
Because no one here gets out alive
Find a friend in whom you can confide
Julien, you're a slow motion suicide

Fallen angels in the night
And everyone is barred from heaven
Just one more hit to make it right
But everyone turns into seven

Now that it's snowing in your brain
Even ten will not placate you
This ain't no killing for the pain
This avalanche will suffocate you

You can run but you can't hide
Because no one here gets out alive
Find a friend on whom you can rely
Julien, you're being taken for a ride

You can run but you can't hide
Because no one here gets out alive
Find a friend in whom you can confide
Julien, you're a slow motion suicide

Slow motion suicide
Slow motion suicide


HAPPY YOU'RE GONE

Breathe me every time you close your eyes
Taste me every time you cry
This memory will fade away and die
Just for today, breathe me and say goodbye

How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
How many times? How many times? Now I can't look you in the eye

See me, in the eyes of another's child
Turn away, when you see me walking by
Once in a while
This melody will fade away and die
Just for today, breathe me and say goodbye

How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
And I don't even want to try
My my
'Cause every word from you is a lie
My my

How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye


BREATHE UNDERWATER

Here comes another fall from grace
I'm always falling on my face
This attitude that I embrace
For the love I'm trying to replace

I try to kill the song
'Cause the melody's all wrong
And there's a fever coming on

It's hard to reconcile
What I've become
With the wounded child
Hiding deep inside

Breathe underwater
I'm coming up for air
I wanna see another dawn
I'm coming up for air
Sick of this slaughter
I'm coming up for air
'Cause I've been floating here too long

Take my ego for a ride
'Cause there's nobody by my side
It's getting hard to justify
And it won't be long til I collide

My weaknesses laid bare
As people stop and stare
But it's the last time I swear

It's hard to reconcile
What I've become
With the wounded child
Hiding deep inside

Breathe underwater
I'm coming up for air
I wanna see another dawn
I'm coming up for air
Sick of this slaughter
I'm coming up for air
'Cause I've been floating here too long

Start breathing.....

Breathe underwater
I'm coming up for air
I wanna see another dawn
I'm coming up for air
Sick of this slaughter
I'm coming up for air
'Cause I've been floating here too long

I'm coming
I'm coming, I'm coming, coming up for air
Coming up for air
Coming up for air


COME UNDONE

You don't know how you're coming across
You don't know what you're coming across
You don't know who you're coming across
You don't know how you're coming across
So you come undone

You don't know how you're coming across
Acting like you don't give a toss
Walking around like you're on some kind of cross
And it's a shame on you, the irony's lost
When you come undone
You come undone
You know, you come undone
You know, you know, you know

You don't know how you're coming across
You don't know how you're coming across
And I don't think that you're aware of the cost

So you come undone
You come
You come undone
You know, you know, you know


KINGS OF MEDICINE

They're picking up pieces of me
While they're picking up pieces of you
In a bag you will be before the day is over
While you're looking for somewhere to be
Or looking for someone to do
Stupid me to believe that I could trust in stupid you
And on the back of my hand
Were directions I could understand
Now that old buzzer Johnny Walker
Has gone and ruined all our plans
Our best made plans

Don't leave me here to pass through time
Without a map or road sign
Don't leave me here, my guiding light
'Cause I, I wouldn't know where to begin
I ask the kings of medicine

They're picking up pieces of me
While they're picking up pieces of you
Lying on ice you will be before the day is over
So case in point, baby
That you never thought it through
Stupid me to believe I could depend on stupid you
And on the tip of my tongue
Were words that always came out wrong
'Cause they were drowned in southern comfort
Left to dry out in the sun, the noon day sun

Don't leave me here to pass through time
Without a map or road sign
Don't leave me here, my guiding light
'Cause I, I wouldn't know where to begin
I ask the kings of medicine
But it seems they've lost their power
Now all I'm left with is the hour

Don't leave me here to pass through time
Without a map or road sign
Don't leave me here, my guiding light
'Cause I, I wouldn't know where to begin
I ask the kings of medicine
But it seems they've lost their power
Now all I'm left with is the hour

Don't leave me here
Don't leave me here, oh no
I wouldn't know where to begin


UNISEX

Do me right, by you
And I'll do you right, by heaven
Along the avenues
We run, run, run, run, run for our lives

Promise me that we will make it through x2

Inside we are Picasso blue
Outside it's armageddon
So all that we can do
Is run, run, run, run, run for our lives

Promise me that we will make it through
Promise me that we will make it through
If we don't, I don't know what I'd do
So promise me that we will make it through

Don't worry baby, it's just the end of the world
Don't worry baby, don't worry...

Do me right, by you
No matter what may happen
Forever more and hither hereunto
We run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run...

Don't worry baby, it's just the end of the world
Don't worry baby, this place is broken and absurd

Don't worry baby, it's just the end of the world
Don't worry baby, don't worry...

Do me right, by you
And I'll do you right, by heaven


THE MOVIE ON YOUR EYELIDS

I always watch you when you're dreaming
Because I know it's not of me
I smoke a dozen cancer sticks
Imagine there are two or three ways
To make you love me
And not dream of someone else
Become the movie on your eyelids

The reflection of yourself
The reflection of yourself

I cry when I listen to you breathing
Because I know there's nothing else
The conscious of that crushing feeling
To know there's no connection left
That we both go through the motions
That we're both living somewhere else
That the movie on your eyelids
Is no reflection of myself
Is no reflection of myself
Is no reflection of myself

I wanna be, I wanna be your movie
I wanna be, I wanna be your movie

Why can't you be me?
Why can't you be me?
Why can't you be me?
Why can't you be me?
Be me, be me, be me


IN A FUNK

Call me anticipation, call me out of line
But I've got a hotel reservation in the name of 'Valentine'
In the place where we vacation and we walked across the beach
I felt your breath against my neck, as the waves caressed our feet

Heaven knows if you promise not to go
I will pay you back in kind
I don't want to be alone
I'm alive, so alive

Call me animation, call me assinine
But I'm in a desperate situation
With a mask to hide behind
The affect on our relations and all that we believe
Feels like a slap across the face
Now there's a hand print on your cheek

Heaven knows if you promise not to go
I will pay you back in kind
I don't want to be alone
I'm alive, so alive

If you promise not to go
I will pay you back in kind
I don't want to be alone
I'm alive, so alive

Let me pay you back in kind
Let me pay you back in kind
Let me pay you back in kind
Let me pay you back

Is it my imagination?
Is it the end of the line?
is it a reconcilliation or just a way of killing time?

God only knows, if you promise not to go
I will pay you back in kind
I don't want to be alone
I'm alive, so alive

If you promise not to go
I will pay you back in kind
I don't want to be alone
I'm alive, so alive

Let me pay you back in kind...