you will come back within yourself
you can be art when we melt
and i will know what you were for
i say we're leaving
there ain't nothin here at all
another day, a week the mall
baby if i was in demand
you would be mine

someday
this place is gonna burn
is your whole life in there waiting
someday your head is going to turn and you'll realize
i'm missing
do you realize

you will come back
convince yourself you can stay alive
and wait for me
and i will know what this was for
and i'll say we're leaving
there ain't nothing here at all
another month, a year that's all
so you can tell them i'm comin
and hell's comin with me

someday
this place is gonna burn
is your whole life in there waiting
someday their heads are going to turn and they'll realize
your missing


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    I adore this song... it could be the theme song for the little suburban hell I'm stuck in right now. I think this song is amazing at capturing the feeling of dismality that tends to accompany places like that. It seems like everyone is just going through the motions but it's all very empty and vacant somehow. For me, this song is about just looking around where you are and being totally disgusted and wanting to break away.

    ShimmerChickon July 20, 2002   Link

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