(Parental Advisory: Explicit Language and Sexual Content.)
Polarity
[Verse 1]
Dear diary,
(Or the voice on the line, the friend by your side, the trained professional)
I've been thinking a lot recently,
So open-minded my thoughts find polarity.
Automatic negativity.
Get inside of me,
Stop my breathing... [intake of breath]
[Verse 2]
Today,
I had another vengeful fantasy.
A vision of the future in my mind's eye,
Mass murder ending with my suicide.
It was disturbing, but rather enchanting
Career choice made, I know what I want to be.
(And I'm bringing you with me.)
[Pre-chorus]
You'll find me in the army.
It's the perfect murder -
In uniform, serving my country.
My new best friend, and your worst enemy.
Train me with the poison, rifle and bayonet.
I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm dying for it!
[CHORUS!]
We'll march to the beat of this mass murder
Dance across a stage made out of coffins,
This is polarity - thinking, living.
A few steps further and we might find freedom.
(Follow the sound of our funeral drum.)
[Bridge]
Where've you been?
The party's beginning.
Everyone's having fun,
Bathing in other's blood,
But we need more victims.
Recruit, with these lies,
All the fucked-up minds,
Advertise this as the perfect deathwish.
Lure in all the shy,
Show them a whole new way to die,
Hand them arms and they'll hit their targets.
[CHORUS!]
We'll march to the beat of this mass murder
Dance across a stage made out of coffins,
This is polarity - thinking, living.
A few steps further and we might find freedom.
(Follow the sound of our funeral drum.)
[Pre-Finale]
On this battlefield lies only bodies,
Corpses eaten alive by flies.
Still breathing, still bleeding,
Looking around with misting eyes.
[Final Verse]
Epitaph,
Romance is dead and I went with it.
Swept away in the flood of insanity,
Here lies yours truly; they
Found freedom in euthanasia, free will and death penalties.
Lost behind reality's eclipse.
Dear diary,
I died today.
Brought every one of those fuckers down with me.
Death on New Year's Eve
[The song begins with the lead guitar working solo, before a bell tolls in the vocals...]
It's the end of a year,
But no one's celebrating.
Home alone with a beer,
Bodies decaying, stagnating.
Kids stuck at home with family,
Left to watch everyone around them rotting.
Trapped inside, told they'll never be free to party.
“Happy New Year”? Say it once more, with feeling!
[Chorus]
Death on New Year's Eve,
It'll end on the stroke of midnight
Raise your glass, here's to the past,
And to everyone who died.
It could be worse, we could be alone,
At least this way we won't be so self-concious.
As the minutes tick away, they cut off the phones,
Strike a pose and make one final promise.
Resolve to take your life.
The soundtrack to your final moments
Will be violins and bagpipes.
Regret never learning an instrument?
[Chorus]
Death on New Year's Eve,
It'll end on the stroke of midnight
Raise your glass,
Here's to the past,
And to everyone who died.
[Bridge]
Here's to us,
There's none like us.
Well, there were...
But they're all dead.
We'll dance with our deaths at the ceilidh,
Toasting with poison to liven the wine.
Vertical slashes, then it's all plain sailing.
Tonight we'll get lost in time.
Let's celebrate from now to ne'er,
Screaming and crying to fireworks and sparklers.
Enough of the bullshit bad news and worse weather.
For my last trick, I will die optimistic
(Refuse to read the papers)
[Final Chorus]
Death on New Year's Eve,
(Yeah, here's to us!)
It'll end on the stroke of midnight
(And all other's like us!)
Raise your glass, here's to the past,
(Does it matter?)
And to everyone who died.
(Everyone is dead!)
Death on New Year's Eve,
It'll end on the stroke of midnight
Raise your glass,
Here's to the past,
And to everyone doomed to die.
Euthanasia
[Intro – Spoken word with a distorted, megaphone delivery - protest rally style.]
We have the right to free speech,
The right to suicide.
We're allowed to kill ourselves,
But we can never be alive.
Suffering is everthing,
And I want to die!
I want to die!
I want to -
[Enter instruments!]
Do you remember
Life at the end of our lives?
The beginning of everything?
Technicoloured rainbows,
Confusion whirling in your eyes.
Choose living or dying.
[Pre-chorus]
What won't kill me makes me stronger,
As I break down my life gets longer,
This world's beyond repair.
Afterlife... I'll meet you there!
This love will last into infinity.
[LOL, false start! No chorus for you, it's time for..
MORE PRECHORUS!]
We are defined by our decisions,
Pity I just follow orders.
Perfected by machine-calculated incisions,
We're all attracted to the morbid.
This blood stained skin I'm wearing,
This epitaph I am reciting.
You're fascinated,
Intoxicated,
Drawn right in.
(And I'm not caring!)
[Chorus!]
Get behind me!
I'm the manifestation of your mind!
Every psychotic urge lived,
Everyone who ever hurt you destroyed.
This is what you wanted,
This is what you would have done,
If you were braver, better, further gone.
The only difference between you and this insanity,
Is one of us has empathy.
So stop caring.
And come to me, oh yeah!
[Guitar/synth solo.
Echoing, overlapping, whispered background vocals: “...the right to suicide”, “I want to die”, “This is eternal suffering”,”Everyone's beyond repair”, “This love will last into infinity”, “Living or dying?”, “This blood stained skin... attraction to the morbid”, “Drawn right in..” “And you are mine!”
Lyrics format, that'd be:
(The right to suicide...
I want to die!
This is eternal suffering...
Everyone's beyond repair!
This love will last into infinity...
Living or dying?
This blood stained skin...
Attraction to the morbid
Drawn right in...
And you are mine!)]
Die eye-to-eye,
Skin brushing skin,
The most romantic part is always the ending.
All I need is your reply -
Leave alone, stay suffering,
Or join me.
[Chorus!]
Get behind me!
I'm the manifestation of your mind!
Every psychotic urge lived,
Everyone who ever hurt you destroyed.
This is what you wanted,
This is what you would have done,
If you were braver, better, further gone.
The only difference between you and this insanity,
Is one of us has empathy.
So stop caring.
And come to me, oh yeah!
(Yelled, twisted and sarcastic - “Oh, this is love!”)
[Abrupt ending.]
Inferno
Why pick me up when I fall,
When you can have me up against the wall,
Dash my brains out against the bricks.
(Oh come on)
Show me the darkness behind my eyes, c'mon, knock me for six!
We stand - and we fall, and we fall, and we fall
Just to look 'round the bottom and question it all
And I say, (yeah I say), oh I'm sayin'
That it's meant to be this way.
Now back away from the wall and get ready for a fall, 'cos you're taking on the world and it's not gonna end well.
But don't be discouraged, I mean, if you can't manage it, then what's to say anyone else'll be able?
(Ahaha)
I say, live for the devil,
'Cos we're all destined for Hell,
And no one's getting out of that happy ending.
So get up off of your knees,
stop living to please.
Flick through time and find your place in history.
Grab your spine, mind and body,
Pocket the key, and,
We'll live so fast death won't see us coming!
Now I'll stand on the table,
And throw out some insults,
To be sure that I have your attention.
(Hey, assholes...)
So rise up all ye zombies and attempt to moan my brains out.
I say, live for the devil,
'Cos we're all destined for Hell,
And no one's getting out of that happy ending.
So get up off of your knees,
stop living to please.
Flick through time and find your place in history.
Grab your spine, mind and body,
Pocket the key, and,
We'll live so fast death won't see us coming!
You can loose that empathy
because there's no way they'll all love you.
You can go ahead and destroy me,
But I'll still be coming back to haunt you.
And as the time ticks by to the day that we die,
There's something I want you to know know.
([moaned]Oh, I...)
I say, live for the devil,
'Cos we're all destined for Hell,
And no one's getting out of that happy ending.
So get up off of your knees,
stop living to please,
and go find your place in history.
Grab your spine, mind and body,
Pocket the key, and,
We'll live so fast death won't see us coming!
(Oh yeah, just watch us!
We're turning tables,
Looking down from above,
Rubbing in the fact that you're below me.)
So tell me, oh, oh, tell me...
Tell me I'm gonna die-die-die-die-die-die!(x6)
Tell me, I'm d-d-d-d-d-doomed to be with you!
Pyro
(...First Gear, Third Gear, Top Gear...)
[Recorded, distant voice]
Ladies and gentlemen,
Start your engines,
And ESCAPE!
[Heavy, constant drum and bassline]
Reflections look out through windshields to what lies ahead,
Your lie back against the headrest and,
I kick this car into life.
Riding out into the night...
Close your eyes on the empty roads,
Drink the breeze on the freeway.
Fuck speed limits, fuck directions,
Signs don't lead to where we're going.
Take a shortcut if you have to,
It's not like it matters when we get there.
As long as it's before the new dawn...
[Synth/keyboard riff leads into the chorus...]
[Chorus]
Crashing cars and
Broken hearts.
Watching from a distance,
I can see your skeleton.
We went too far
trying to escape the city.
Searching the backseats of cars,
Finding our sexuality.
We've left behind all that we ran from.
There's no going back now.
The only way left to go is down.
(Down, down, down, d-d-d-down...)
Driving past the lights of homes just like ours,
Through a city on one of those nights you know you'll love,
You can feel it in the air and the stars above,
Increasing excitement with each passing hour.
Feel this night time air on your skin,
This darkness will devour you as you take it in.
In the gaps between the seats we keep finding,
Reminders of every time we've sinned.
[Chorus]
Crashing cars and
Broken hearts.
Watching from a distance,
I can see your skeleton.
We went too far
trying to escape the city.
Searching the backseats of cars,
Finding our sexuality.
We've left behind all that we ran from.
There's no going back now.
The only way left to go is down.
[Drum fill, before some guitaring goodness begins and fades into the bridge...]
[Spoken Word, with some rhythm in the vocals]
You laughed at the smell of burning rubber and said it was the reason you didn't like condoms,
before your head ricochet off the window and returned with glass imbedded at every angle.
Up ahead, the water loomed, dark and deadly, but I was lost in the bright white of an airbag and thought I'd found heaven. Then I lifted my head, saw what lay ahead, and whimpered that I was afraid to drown.
You made no sound, and I hoped one of the shards had slit your throat because I knew I couldn't save you.
Darkness roared around us, and as the air cut out, the world turned as red as our speedometer.
I've been sleeping since then.
(I'm afraid to wake up.)
[Whammy bar'd, ascending volume return to the music.]
Oh...
[Chorus]
Crashing cars and
Broken hearts.
Watching from a distance,
I can see your skeleton.
We went too far
trying to escape the city.
Searching the backseats of cars,
Finding our sexuality.
We've left behind all that we ran from.
There's no going back now.
The only way left to go is down...
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