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Artist vs. Poet – Adorable Lyrics 14 years ago
Her tongue cuts like a knife, but he loves it that way. Not exactly Hollywood romance, but it's certainly more relate-able. Just like U2's "Sweetest Thing" I suspect many people just listen to the chorus and completely miss the full meaning about the bitter-sweet nature of the relationship in question.

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William Control – Dorian Gray Lyrics 15 years ago
Proper formatting to save the day! This song is about Dorian Gray, the man who sold his soul so that his painting of himself would age instead of him.


Live through the ages
Witness my friends rust and turn to ash
Break down in phases
And yet my skin is perfect glass

I have kept this portrait in pristine care
I have kept my secret well
Until the day comes when the loneliness
Is, oh, too much to bear

Would you embrace me with open arms?
Would you encase me in a picture of my heart?

Dorian Gray, already headed to hell
Take me away, pick a side and place a bet
Dorian Gray, have you something to sell?
I've got your bodice and your dress

Turn back the time
To the fearless boy I was so long ago
She is love, she is filth
She can destroy my soul

Would you embrace me with open arms?
Would you encase me in a picture of my heart?

Dorian Gray, already headed to hell
Take me away, pick a side and place a bet
Dorian Gray, have you something to sell?
I've got your bodice and your dress

Dorian Gray, already headed to hell
Take me away, pick a side and place a bet
Dorian Gray, have you something to sell?
I've got your bodice and your dress

Intellect in itself is a mode of exaggeration
An artist should create beautiful things
But should put nothing of his own life into them

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it
If the cave man had known how to laugh
History would have been different

I have kept my portrait clean
I have kept my secret well
Now the day has come
The sun has burned away
Follow me, follow me, follow me, follow me

Dorian Gray, already headed to hell
Take me away, pick a side and place a bet
Dorian Gray, have you something to sell?
I've got your bodice and your dress

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William Control – All Due Restraint Lyrics 15 years ago
Fixed.


Lost a pound of flesh in suicidal dreams
Drugged up on a London city street
I awoke without a name in Hell
Found Scylla and Charybdis

An empty train awaits
Now I'm headed northwest
To the beautiful Manchester Sunset
And now I'm going home
But where is home?

Synthesized again
Yeah, I'm flying high
Ropes are bound and my chest is tied
In the underground world of Chelsea

This is where we feel love, find life, kill time
This is where our pessimism comes to die
Here you can trade your flesh for currency

All due restraint
Take a picture
With all my restraint
It's my picture

Come with me to the other side
Come dance with me in the dead of night
(You say you want to live in the darkness?)
(I'll set you free)
It's a long road to hell and back

Come with me to the other side
Come dance with me in the dead of night
(You say you want to live in the darkness?)
(I'll set you free)
It's a long road to hell and back

Come with me to the other side
Come dance with me in the dead of night
(You say you want to live in the darkness?)
(I'll set you free)
It's a long road to hell and back

Come with me to the other side
Come dance with me tonight
You say you want to live in the darkness?
(I'll set you free)
It's a long road to hell

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William Control – My Lady Dominate Lyrics 15 years ago
This song is obviously about a dominatrix. Anyway, here's a good layout of the lyrics.



She woke the dead, her passion painted in red
Yeah, she taught us how to scream
With eyes sewn shut, and salt in our cuts
Our bodies made to bleed

Her wrists are tied, a blade of fortune insane
And she's so very grateful

(She's a dirty little whore isn't she?)

Bring out the pain, will she oblige?
That willing hand, lay your body down
Bring out the pain, will you survive?
That willing hand, lay your body down

You gotta live in a world so strange
I wanna live in a world so very fucking strange

My lady dominate
Show the world how to love that shame
And teach us all to feel
With a whip so sharp, tear us apart
And a subject of sorrow and fear

Her wrists are tied, a blade of fortune insane
And she's so very grateful

Bring out the pain, will she oblige?
That willing hand, lay your body down
Bring out the pain, will you survive?
That willing hand, lay your body down

Bring out the pain, will she oblige?
That willing hand, lay your body down
Bring out the pain, will you survive?
That willing hand, lay your body down

You gotta live in a world so strange
I wanna live in a world so very fucking strange

I wanna live in a world so strange
I wanna live in a world so strange
I wanna live in a world so strange

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William Control – Soliloquy Lyrics 15 years ago
Minor grammar correction and major formatting fix.

Oh Lord, I've tried to cut away
All the cancer that lives within my skin and bones
Oh my, how hard it's been to live
Without you by my side
In this bed across the world, across the world

Loss, I've lived in tragedy
I've given everything, my soliloquy
Loss, my savage will to live
My one last chance to give this soliloquy

This time, how calm before the storm
The sun sets and our hearts grow very, very cold
This life, how much longer can I wait?
If money was my object
I'd bore you with a subject involving love
Involving love
Involving love

Loss, I've lived in tragedy
I've given everything, my soliloquy
Loss, my savage will to live
Just one last chance to give this soliloquy

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William Control – Why Dance With The Devil When You Have Me? Lyrics 15 years ago
This song is very good, but it was crazy difficult to get these lyrics down. I did my best, but I need some help with the parts that have an ellipsis...


(Find me some) Drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs
(Find me some) Drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs

Prescription pills, darvocet, Oxycontin, mesca-line
And a whole array of synthetic medicine
Crystal glass, Ketamine, heroin, cyanide dream
And a whole generation laughs
(Hahahahaha)

It's not the drugs that killed your mom
It's not the blade that raped your brother
A whole world is suffering (suffering)
Can't be the love we lost as children (we lost as children)
Can't be the price of a thousand prostitute graves (we lost our lives)
Nobody loves here everybody hates

I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
When the sun sets down on my heart (Dance with the devil)
When the sun sets down I'm a star
Why dance with the devil, when you have me?

I feel so alone, in a state of depression, at an all-time low
Could I stay in deception where nobody would know

Lysergic acid, psycho active, morphine, coke, sodomy
At war with society (Charge!)
Self-medication, codeine supply, self-mutilation
Sex taught suicide
It's not the drug that killed my soul
Not the pain of losing blood
In a ghost town paid symphony
Can't be the love we lost as children (we lost as children)
Can't be the price of fucking saving your skin (we lost our lives)
Nobody loves here, everybody hates

I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
When the sun sets down on my heart (dance with the devil)
When the sun sets down I'm a star (Why don't you take it out?)
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
When the sun sets down on my heart (Dance with the devil)
When the sun sets down I'm a star
Why dance with the devil when you have me? (When you have me corrupt!)

Mushrooms, crack, my mind is cracked my mind is trapped, my spine is tapped
A little bit of...
It feels like I'm on cyanide, methanphedamines
Yurn churn...
Heaven, hell, help me please
Screams, yell...
Anything can happen, I feel so trappend in
Nobody loves me, everybody hates
Suicidal minds...
Poison in my veins, nobody cares
If I live, If I die no reason to be here
...
Vicodin...
I'm going crazy I've got to settle in
I feel a little hazy, a little haroin
I close my eyes... begin

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Fan Death – Veronica's Veil Lyrics 15 years ago
Fixed lyrics.


I joined all the others who lined the path
Some clutched stones, others held their breath
I was the wife of a Roman who had sentenced you
I just came to observe I was not planning to

Enter the procession as it passed me by,
But I felt bound to raise my veil to wipe the sweat from your eyes
And when I pulled it back I knew the rumors were true
Cause burned into that sheet was the image of you

I think I can believe now
In the sin I've done
and that you can absolve me
And everyone
Will be rewarded for
their faith and belief
In the sharing of your word
From the cloth you lay beneath

I think I can believe now
In the sin I've done
and that you can absolve me
And everyone
Will be rewarded for
their faith and belief
In the sharing of your word
From the cloth you lay beneath

I think I can believe now
I think I can believe now
I think I can believe now
I think I can believe -lieve -lieve -lieve -lieve now

I came to the emperor to show the sacred cloak
To heal and convince him you weren't a joke
Your face will never leave him now that he has seen the mark
That lifted shroud has cured him; shedding light where there was dark

But I only wish you'd shown me with no sacrifice
If only I could have believed you without the need of sight
But my dedication to you now will never be swayed
since I saw the thorn crown and the blood you have paid

I think I can believe now
In the sin I've done
and that you can absolve me
And everyone
Will be rewarded for
their faith and belief
In the sharing of your word
From the cloth you lay beneath

I think I can believe now
In the sin I've done
and that you can absolve me
And everyone
Will be rewarded for
their faith and belief
In the sharing of your word
From the cloth you lay beneath

I think I can believe now
I think I can believe now
I think I can believe now
I think I can believe now
I think I can believe now
I think I can believe now
In you



The meaning of this song couldn't be more obvious. No interpretation required.

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Placebo – English Summer Rain Lyrics 15 years ago
I'd say all the previous elaborations about a former lover, or a potential lover are valid. But there is always the option that it's about drugs. He's bored by the rut in the basement, so he's going to get a little help from the sky to relieve that mediocrity. The last lines about breath holding and counting are particularly dual. Either A, he's asking the lover for an answer and getting an answer he doesn't like and trying again. Or B, hes smoking pot and holding it in his lungs, then coughing it out (falling apart) and doing it again. Or maybe he's alternating, fails in asking the lover, relieves the pain with drugs and then goes back to try again on the lover. The possibilities are infinite.

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