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Embers
03:25
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EMBERS
There's a picture on my dashboard that's fading in the sun
There's a picture in my mind as I'm fumbling with my gun
There's a song on the radio I ain't heard in 20 years
There's only one way I'll ever stop these tears
The mind's eye can picture you clear as day
The eye's mind remembers...
But I want those memories far away!
Like dying embers
There's a twitch in my hand as I tighten my fingers
There's a smile on my face as I pull the trigger
There's a song on the radio I ain't heard in 20 years
There's a hole in my head to let out the fears
The mind's eye can picture you clear as day
The eye's mind remembers...
And I put those memories far away
Like dying embers
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Sap
01:28
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SAP
I feel her breathing
On my neck again
So familiar the nightmares
Bursting through the songs
I keep in my head
To keep out the nightmares
Breathing on my neck again
The blackness
Reaching for me
Cold
Wet
Shivering
My screams absorbed by her hand over my mouth
And her tongue in my ear
And her words echoing in my hollow, hollow mind
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Ghoul's Gonna Get Ya
01:59
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GHOUL’S GONNA GET YA
Ghoul’s gonna hunt ya
Ghoul’s gonna find ya
Ghoul’s gonna get ya
Ghoul’s gonna take ya
Ghoul’s gonna get ya
Whatcha gonna do when the ghouls come for you?
You’ll probably die
I mean, that’s what I’d do
Ghoul’s gonna hunt ya
Ghoul’s gonna find ya
Ghoul’s gonna get ya
Ghoul’s gonna take you away
So far away
Whatcha gonna do when the ghouls come for you?
Whatcha gonna do when you’re underground with the ghouls?
I mean besides die
Cuz I feel like that’s a given
You’re gonna die
Horribly
You know that, right?
I mean… they’re ghouls
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SHE’S FILLED WITH SPIDERS
I wish I’d known when I first spied her
That she’s more deadly than any viper
I used to love her; Now I can’t abide her
Cuz she’s completely filled with spiders
Listen to the demonic choir
Announce the presence of the beautiful liar
Who’s eaten more men than any tiger
She’s completely filled with spiders
They’re literally all up inside her
She’s completely filled with spiders
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Haunted By Valor
03:48
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HAUNTED BY VALOR
They say I was brave in the face of danger
But if that’s true, why am I so scared?
They say I fought with honor when I shot those strangers
But if that’s true, then why can’t I bear
The weight of this valor
The ghosts of my yesterday
This feeling that I’m not a good man at all
The weight of my valor
The price of my honor
This notion that I have no right to stand tall
For the good of my country, I did things and saw things
That no decent person should ever so or see
For the sake of my children, I battled the demons
I was told were a threat to them and to me
But those demons have followed me home from the war
And they mock and they laugh at all I have lost
My mind is unraveling, my marriage is ended
My children are safe now but what was the cost?
I spend so much time alone with my thoughts
Struggling to find a way out
I try to remember the good times I had
And not dwell on the ghosts that haunt
But my thoughts went wild, ran dark, turned into…
But no, I can never tell
A thought so wicked, so heinous, that surely
It cemented my place in Hell
And my demons, they follow and taunt and ensure
That I can think of nothing else
And no tears of remorse or acts of repentance
Can ever be enough to remove this curse
The stain of this valor
The echoes of yesterday
The certainty that I have sealed my fate
The weight of my valor
The loss of my mind
The knowledge that prayer is too little, too late
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Creep Phone
00:33
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For a good time, call 203-87-CREEP!
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Mayhem Lettuce Port Byron, Illinois
Mayhem Lettuce was formed in Port Byron, IL in 1993 when two sad teenage boys decided to channel their angst into music.
That music sits at the crossroads of King Missile and Portishead with a dash of The Cure and a pinch of They Might Be Giants.
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