He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
Pleasing mind, gratifying kinds
Lend me your ears this instant and hear me out
Come on, come on light your way
Choke on your own vice, your own demise
Flying Virgin drop down, drop dead.
Whoa-oh-oh
Words can hurt like hell
Watch out for those damned requisites
Kick off your shoes and mentality
Mirror book illustrate defined reality
Jump to conclusions or consequences
Plunge to your downfall, comprehending our failure
Missing the unison of existence
Come on, come on despite your pains
Icy depths, sub-zero hearts
Whoa-oh-oh
Words can hurt like hell
Watch out for those damned requisites
Kick off your shoes and mentality
Mirror book illustrate defined reality
Tick tock tick tock
Just a matter of time till it comes
Till it engulfs our divinity
Overwhelming our wisdom, our sympathy
Lend me your ears this instant and hear me out
Come on, come on light your way
Choke on your own vice, your own demise
Flying Virgin drop down, drop dead.
Whoa-oh-oh
Words can hurt like hell
Watch out for those damned requisites
Kick off your shoes and mentality
Mirror book illustrate defined reality
Jump to conclusions or consequences
Plunge to your downfall, comprehending our failure
Missing the unison of existence
Come on, come on despite your pains
Icy depths, sub-zero hearts
Whoa-oh-oh
Words can hurt like hell
Watch out for those damned requisites
Kick off your shoes and mentality
Mirror book illustrate defined reality
Tick tock tick tock
Just a matter of time till it comes
Till it engulfs our divinity
Overwhelming our wisdom, our sympathy
Lyrics submitted by DarkMusician
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OMG!! I was about to post that -_- but i didn't know how to post lyrics since i'm new to this site.. were you at that concert where they gave out the flyers with the lyrics? well i think this song will be great. it sounds like the witty Ryan is back
Yeah i was at that concert where Ryan was talking about their new album after the show. Lucky i didn't leave like most people >.> and It wasn't a flyer, it was just a booklet.
I'm liking the lyrics the lyrics to this song than the other songs that are posted on this website and our supposedly for the new CD.
I think if the song's title was "Don't Just Us By How We Look, But by How We Act" instead of what it is, it might sum up the meaning of the song better.
Lullaby.
i haven't actually heard this song played but, i think this song has to do with another chuck insperation from lullaby.
Flying Virgin drop down, drop dead.
this has to do with like the first couple pages into the book where it goes on about the flying virgin.
Words can hurt like hell
just a wilddddd guess but, the whole culling songs and how if you repeat them you kill people?
yeah idk but the song reminded me of it.
I ((HEART)) RYAN... this song sounds like it'd be good. I wish they did concerts in Australia. not just the one ages ago. U guys in Ameerica nd Europe dont realise how lucky you are.
i think i got the chorus down kinda:
Whoa-oh-oh Words can hurt like hell (like someone said, the culling song) Watch out for those damned requisites (in the book, he says "words can hurt like hell, watch out for those damn words". .... Kick off your shoes and mentality (there's a part in the book where people arrive at a house and take their clothes off, hmm iduno just a guess.) Mirror book illustrate defined reality (no idea about this line, but this song should be great! haha)
Where is this song from? i go on the boards on the offical website and we haev NEVER heard of thsi song or ne other panic sites anyone have a link to where i could hear it?
Where is this song from? i go on the boards on the offical website and we haev NEVER heard of thsi song or ne other panic sites anyone have a link to where i could hear it?