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Greatest Hits Lyrics
to bitter from sweet
like liquid to concrete
it's tough to digest
life rips through your chest
and just takes a heartbeat
you can't check your pain
aboard the shame train
and maybe i'm out of line
but if you show me yours
i'll sing you mine
a punch in the gut
some black 'round the eye
there's red from my lips
and i'm asking god why
there's a bump on my head
and a hole in my heart
if there's one thing i've learned, it's
that these are my greatest hits
i don't sing for the rainbow
cuz i taste the rain
they spit "cheer up" and they scoff
i laugh "cheer down or fuck off"
then get roughed up against the grain
you may never be happy
and i still see your worth
someday we'll be less miserable
we'll dye our heads invisible
wrapped up in robes not of this earth
not of this earth
not of this earth
not of this earth
a punch in the gut
some black 'round the eye
there's red from my lips
and i'm asking god why
there's a bump on my head
and a hole in my heart
if there's one thing i've learned, it's
that these are my greatest hits
would you read a book if somebody took out all the good pages?
so we did some drugs, gave out some hugs, rattled a few cages
have you made mistakes, let off the brakes? confess uncleanliness
not to feel bad about but to embrace your humanness
a punch in the gut
some black 'round the eye
there's red from my lips
and i'm asking god why
there's a bump on my head
and a hole in my heart
if there's one thing i've learned, it's
that these are my greatest hits
like liquid to concrete
it's tough to digest
life rips through your chest
and just takes a heartbeat
aboard the shame train
and maybe i'm out of line
but if you show me yours
i'll sing you mine
some black 'round the eye
there's red from my lips
and i'm asking god why
there's a bump on my head
and a hole in my heart
if there's one thing i've learned, it's
that these are my greatest hits
cuz i taste the rain
they spit "cheer up" and they scoff
i laugh "cheer down or fuck off"
then get roughed up against the grain
and i still see your worth
someday we'll be less miserable
we'll dye our heads invisible
wrapped up in robes not of this earth
not of this earth
not of this earth
not of this earth
some black 'round the eye
there's red from my lips
and i'm asking god why
there's a bump on my head
and a hole in my heart
if there's one thing i've learned, it's
that these are my greatest hits
so we did some drugs, gave out some hugs, rattled a few cages
have you made mistakes, let off the brakes? confess uncleanliness
not to feel bad about but to embrace your humanness
some black 'round the eye
there's red from my lips
and i'm asking god why
there's a bump on my head
and a hole in my heart
if there's one thing i've learned, it's
that these are my greatest hits
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The song is about a depression. His greatest hits are his self inflicted pain. He is too hard on himself, and "a punch in the gut some black 'round the eye there's red from my lips and i'm asking god why there's a bump on my head and a hole in my heart" are not literal pains, but figurative pains that are emotion and because he "beats himself up." He also sings "they spit cheer up and they scoff, I laugh cheer down or fuck off" which to me says he is also saying that he doesn't care that people think he is a downer, he just accepts that is him, and if you don't like it you can "fuck off"