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Erase
04:39
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Erase your crime for all that you steal (it's worth)
You'd better find out what's wrong there in your sick little world
You've got to make some concessions
Now the tables are turned
For Heaven's sake, you're possessed boy, will you never learn?
Well, I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
Erased my mind just to let go of your hurt
You're going to spend all your life (clown) crawling, dreading the dirt
I should dissolve my investments in these grudges harbored
We made a settlement high so now, I'm resting assured
Well, I'm strumming on home. I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
It's funny now, like a past life left you, waiting to yearn
It's funny how freaks will change after the meetings adjourned
So if you call, don't expect to hear a ring in return
And don't assume anyone will have any ounce of concern
Well, I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
I've seen the opening
I'm strumming on home
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2. |
Sucker
03:59
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So many friends were fair-weather, and they were so insincere
We were stuck in this together
I watched you all disappear
Your broken, meaningless power just took a look in the mirror
Your token leaning old tower is just an old souvenir
It's a distressing existence but we act so cavalier
Like there's no point in resistance, so useless to interfere
You bent my ear for an hour, and you were so indiscreet
Your darkest fear in your tower is that you're so incomplete
Sucker...on the gravy train...
Sucker...with your ball and chain...
Sucker...choking on champagne...
Sucker...going down the drain...
Sucker...chasing the cocaine...
Sucker...stick it in your vein...
Sucker
Sucker
Sucker
Sucker
Sucker
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3. |
Cheer Capsules
03:26
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Oh please don’t take my cheer capsules away…oh no
Or I’m gonna turn battleship gray again
You’re like a virus spreading, leading astray…oh no
A hit-and-run window display
Just keep your post-traumatic clamor at bay…oh no
You paper thin promise parade has-been
Just like antiques playing a young man’s game…oh no
I see you push your poisonous marmalade
Why are you feeling so-so and like you’re caught in a net?
Is this a picture show for all your regret?
Can you go with the flow like it was no sweat?
And can you let it all go?
Oh please don’t take my cheer capsules away…oh no
Or I’m gonna turn battleship gray again
You’re like a virus spreading, leading astray…oh no
A hit-and-run window display
Just keep your post-traumatic clamor at bay…oh no
You paper thin promise parade has-been
Just like antiques playing a young man’s game…oh no
I see you push your poisonous marmalade
You were the talk of town and such a squeaky wheel
But sleeping around was your Achilles’ heel
Like merry go round on a Ferris wheel
And you're a hole in the ground
How does it feel?
How does it feel?
How does it feel?
How does it feel?
How does it feel?
How does it feel?
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4. |
Fly Away
03:20
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Obtain...yeah...propane...yeah...
Retrain (flee from vacant souls forsaken) the brain
Spread your wings and fly away
Fly away
It's just a little bit of residue
Fly away
Complain...yeah...in vain...yeah
Insane (deals are made and dreams all fade away)
Abstain
Spread your wings and fly away
Fly away
I've seen you begging on the avenue
Fly away
I've seen you leaping like a kangaroo
Fly away
I see you skipping all the interviews
Fly away
Fly away
I see you stealing all the revenue
Fly away
You're like a book that's decades overdue
Fly away
I know about your secret rendezvous
Fly away
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Slow Down
04:19
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I took a trip, threw my soul away and slowly realized a ton of lies
Life is a gift, but you row away, competing, terrified, until you die
Slow Down
Slow Down
Slow Down
Slow Down
Bright as a whip, though you've gone astray, conceit is never mine, so color blind
Time slowly drifts but you keep the pace controlled
It blows my mind
It blows my mind
Slow Down
Slow Down
Slow Down
Slow Down
Time is a gift, and we float in space, revealing what we find
It's in our minds
Try every riff; what you've thrown away is the meaning of our time, our precious time
Slow Down
Slow Down
Slow Down
Slow Down
I took a trip; threw my bowl away and slowly realized I was paralyzed
Life is a gift, but you tow the weight, defeated, and petrified...until you die
Slow Down
Slow Down
Slow Down
Slow Down
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6. |
Peasant Wannabes
04:11
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I see you tearing yourself apart
It seems to bring you relief
I see comparing yourself to martyrs could never teach you a thing
You can't fool me anyway
Vacant tools, you're all the same
Just some clueless peasant wannabes
I feel you hating
Man, you think you're so smart
That's what keeps you serene
Still, you're waiting for a reason to starve yourself of any signs of release
You can't fool me anyway
Vacant tools, you're all the same
Just some clueless peasant wannabes
Just some clueless peasant wannabes
Just some clueless peasant wannabes
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7. |
Grey Sky Blue
03:46
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We can imitate the atmosphere of radio
We can terminate the insincere in stereo
We can aggravate the auctioneer of the puppet show
Once we nominate a puppeteer, it's time to go
We can imitate the atmosphere of radio
We can terminate the insincere in stereo
We can aggravate the auctioneer of the puppet show
Once we nominate a puppeteer, it's time to go
I was feeling so tight, couldn't sleep through the night until I ran into you, oh...
Someone so out of sight with a similar plight made my grey sky so blue now
You came and turned on the lights
Now they're burning so bright
I was stuck in a queue, oh
You could read me my rights
I wouldn't put up a fight and I might like the view now
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8. |
Running in Place
04:17
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Running in place
Fear in your face
If it's just a phase, then why don't you change?
Why is it so strange?
What can you sell me when I'm freaking?
I'm dying inside and I feel like I'm sinking from flying too high
Would you swim a mile to put a grin on my face?
My spirit seeks survival but I'm running in place
I'm growing with shame and flipping out again, yeah...
Would you take me away and make me OK?
Why is it so strange?
What can you sell me when I'm freaking?
I'm dying inside and I feel like I'm sinking from flying too high
Would you swim a mile to put a grin on my face?
My spirit seeks survival but I'm running in place
Digging for a file but I'm in disarray
Sick is so in style, and I know I'm running in place
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Mallory
03:44
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Mallory...you used to wine and dine
To a VIP, you were a valentine
Mallory...you need the anodyne like a chimpanzee in a picket line
Mallory...you were custom made to be an MP3 that was so overplayed
Mallory...you were so well to do...a busy bee, sniffing crazy glue
Body and soul, fading away, out of control, out of the way
It's the deterioration of the center of attention
It's the rehabilitation of an honorable mention
It's the deterioration of the center of attention
It's the rehabilitation of an honorable mention
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10. |
The Saddest Trade
04:59
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Age is just a state of mind
Caged and your soul's confined
And you're a slave in how you live your life
Walk with a cane 'cause you ain’t got no spine
So open wide up and see like me and punch the clock of insanity
Open wide up and be like me, no demon's walk robot routine
Open wide up and breathe like me and have a moment of clarity
You trade your bread for serenity
The saddest trade their fates for job security, like me, oh...
Saints pay for all your crimes
Flakes with artificial pride
But you're a snake, selfish slither slide
And like a flame, you're burning out with time
So open wide up and see like me and punch the clock of insanity
Open wide up and be like me, no demon's walk robot routine
Open wide up and breathe like me and have a moment of clarity
You trade your bread for serenity
The saddest trade their fates for job security, like me, oh...
Hate to read between the lines?
Were you so tame before you lost your mind?
Because you're insane and you wonder why the saddest trade is such a compromise of what you've got inside
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11. |
All Fall Away
04:54
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Laid down today
My mate next to me
I gave all away
I gave it all away
All away
Fall away
Saved little wage
Paid, no so great
Make all OK
Take all away
All away
Fall away
All away
Games we create make us relate
Fame
What a waste
Decaying all away
All away
Fall away
All away
All away
Fall away
All away
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12. |
Sand
04:20
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I'm in my own little world
Yeah, but it's running through my hands
I'll build a castle of love
Yeah, but you turn it into sand
I built me to knock me down, but we'll meet on common ground
I want to turn to the sand
Yeah, sometimes it's hard to find
A place to bury my head
Yeah, a place for me to hide
I built me to knock me down, but we'll meet on common ground
I built me to knock me down, but we'll meet on common ground
I built me to knock me down, but we'll meet on common ground
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Waiflike Chicago, Illinois
Rich began singing in the Chicago rock band God's Green Earth in 1992 when he was 18 years old. After 5 years of focusing his energy on writing, recording and performing original songs with God's Green Earth, Rich left the band in 1997. Rich released "Elysium" under the alias Spill in 1999 and "Waiting for the Tide" in 2002 under his full name, Richard Neal Miller. In 2004, Rich formed Waiflike. ... more
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