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Tabula Rasa
01:35
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So you made the grade, made it this far,
The Sun & Moon bow down to who you are.
You can't disappear, can't fade away,
A light like yours will always find a way.
So it's time to spread your wings and fly.
How will you know if you don't even try.
You've taken the reigns, you're not the same.
Seen over the ramparts, across the plains.
A chance for you to show the world you're here.
Beyond obscurity your fortune lies.
A brave new world of clear and open skies.
Your father's eyes, your mother's pride.
Farewell to the friends that you left by the wayside.
A time for you to show the world you're here.
Now it's time to spread your wings and fly.
Now it's time to spread your wings and fly.
Now it's time to spread your wings and fly.
Beyond obscurity your fortune lies.
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These my life priorities:
Buying things and chasing dreams.
No philosophies or new thought.
All discoveries are store bought.
Big deals, big time, big aspirations.
Big car, big house, big temptations.
Someone come discover me.
Product place me in the scene.
Click my heels and snap my fingers.
Save me from this town of losers.
Big life, big country, big rewards.
Big ambitions, big potential.
Big Potential.
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Roads
04:52
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The roads that you follow, the paths that you take,
The souls you connect with, decisions you make.
The signs that you look for, the bones on the floor.
The truths that you cling to and those you ignore.
So you think you choose?
Well, if that's the answer you have everything to lose.
Do you control what you do?
Or is it ordained, taken away from you.
The roads that you follow, the paths that you seek,
The gods you prey to, the counsel you keep.
The values you place to define, to explore.
The maxims approved of and those you ignore.
So you think you choose?
Well, if that's the answer you have everything to lose.
Do the spheres turn for you?
Or are they set no matter what you do?
I'll bring the scales, weigh up the numbers,
and let the wheel spin free.
But your odds are stacked, for there's no straight outcome.
Your molds been set.
Are your choices your own?
Are your choices your own?
The roads that you follow, the paths that you take.
The truths that you borrow, the decisions you make.
The roads that you follow, the paths that you take.
The truths that you borrow, the decisions you make.
So you think you choose?
Well if that's the solution then it's all down to you.
Let me give you a clue:
The Road is what you do.
I'll bring the scales, weigh up the numbers,
and let the wheel spin free.
But your odds are stacked, for there's no straight outcome.
Your molds been set.
Are your choices your own?
Are your choices your own?
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Packing Her Bags
02:08
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Goodbye,
Farewell,
As you leave us all behind.
No one
Nowhere,
Will ever take your place.
Oh how I wish my arms could protect you,
And how I hope my thoughts are enough.
I never meant to hurt you or upset you.
It's just the way people like me show their love.
Goodbye,
Farewell,
As you leave us all behind.
No one
Nowhere,
Will ever take your place.
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Journey of a Lifetime
04:10
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Free me,
or kill me,
Destiny. My fate.
Take me on a journey of a lifetime.
Take me on a journey of a lifetime.
Obsessed.
My success.
I confess to it all.
Take me on a journey of a lifetime.
Take me on a journey of a lifetime.
Fill my emptiness inside,
Soothe my burning heart's desire,
I'll believe in anything.
Give me a path and I'll follow,
Where that cursed river flows,
That water leaves me thirsty.
Always thirsty.
Always thirsty.
Take me on a journey of a lifetime.
Take me on a journey of a lifetime.
Take me on a journey...
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Smalltown Waltz
04:08
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Oh Angeles,
Don't you take these children away from me.
Your spirit is mean.
You're not the promise that you used to be.
Just let their young hearts go where they should go.
Follow their own roads, discover their future.
Not this impostor, this celebrity,
This emptiest dream burned onto their screens.
Oh please,
Tell me, do you believe in any of this?
With all that they'll miss.
They'll sell their youth for a prize that doesn't exist.
Leave them with me and they'll grow and be strong.
Know right from wrong, stay on a good path
With your inhibitions you'll have them with ease.
Don't do it to me Angeles.
Oh Angeles
Don't you take these children away from me.
Oh Angeles,
Oh Angeles,
Please.
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All of This is Yours
05:03
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Come here you empty hearts.
I'll fill you up. In my embrace, a brand new start.
We never were apart.
You always knew, you always knew that I was here for you.
All of this can be yours.
All of it and more.
Your fame & fortune:
Visualize and you could receive.
Visualize and you can believe.
You little works of art
Let me mold you, chip away, reveal who you are
A pure new shooting star.
This galaxy, this firmament is here awaiting you.
All of this can be yours.
All of it and more.
All of it and more.
Are you sure?
You can become adored,
You can have it all.
But you will pay for it.
(Goodbye)
Can you give away
Can you give away everything?
(Goodbye)
Can you give away
Give me everything
And in return I'll burn desire through your skin
Oh where to begin.
I'll take a hold, I'll take your soul and feed upon it.
(Celebration, status, fame,
All of it a parlor game,
Smoke & mirrors- nothing more,
Who cares for those who will adore?)
All of this can be yours.
All of it and more.
All of it and more.
All of this can be yours.
All of this,
All of this.
Visualize and you could receive.
Visualize and you can believe.
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You know everything has a price, don't you?
You know every choice has a cost, right?
Well, nothings for free,
Nothings for free when you deal with me.
What can you give me?
What can you exchange?
What can you give away?
What can you give me?
What can you exchange?
What can you give away?
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Oh, break my nose, peel my skin.
Let it out & hold it in.
And I don't know where to begin...
Don't look at me that way.
It's all I've got to use.
It's all I have to lose.
Born unnoticed...
Well, what's a girl to do?
It's true.
A gift or curse, well what's worse,
To have nothing or be nothing?
Your disdain will sustain me if I use it the right way,
And you'll pay.
You'll pay.
I'll use my legs
Use my chest,
Use my hands,
Use my hips,
Use my lips,
Use my nakedness, bare myself to the world.
To the world
To the world
Till the world knows my name.
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Did we make this too easy for you to believe
This fantasy, non-reality that we conceived?
You see, we make the whole thing up
it's just a way for us to earn a buck -
an elaborate construct.
Oh I know it seems like we're being cruel,
But we deal in numbers, statistics, revenue.
And what you see on movie screens,
On your televisions and in magazines,
Fuels the scheme.
We make you feel special somehow.
Getting your face to stand out from the crowd
Makes everybody proud.
I know it seems that we don't care for you.
But we deal in numbers, statistics and revenue.
And yours is not the first mind to be taken in by our persistence.
And you won't be the last to follow the path of least resistance.
Did we make this too easy for you to believe?
Did we... make this too easy... to believe?
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