Oh pain, am doing bad
I'm getting answers to some questions that I never should have asked
And it's getting old, it's decomposing fact
Just when I thought it couldn't get much worse
I stab me in the back

[Chorus]
I'd rather face the gallows
Cause nothing matters
And I'll just change my name

There is no love just appetite
And its consequences keep you up at night
Well appetite is lust at best
And it's up to us to figure out the rest

I thought that I was working towards the truth
Thought if I wait long enough I'd put the passion to goo use
And in a flash cut to me with hated hands
In a fight without a cause I am a wounded veteran

[Chorus]

There is no love just appetite
And its consequences keep you up at night
Well appetite is lust at best
And it's up to us to figure out the rest

It's not right now to lose control the way I do
I am a slave to this
I am a masochist
This ones got whiskers it's as old as ice it's nothing new
I am a slave to this
I am a masochist

[Chorus]

There is no love just appetite
And its consequences keep you up at night
Well appetite is lust at best
And it's up to us to figure out the rest
And it's up to us to figure out the rest
And it's up to us to figure out the rest


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    The narrator is seeing how love has disappeared in lieu of one night stands and sexual appetite. He doesn't want to exist in a world where love isn't the most important thing anymore.

    Really sad song, in part because it's so true. One of my favorites off the new album.

    pretorbenon October 18, 2008   Link

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