| By the time they seen the light
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| All you heard was sirens blaring bright
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| Neighbors staring right at the mess
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| Feel the fahrenheit
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| Rising like the tide when the moon’s pulling puppet strings
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| Cut the links that bind us to all our earthly suffering
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| Shadows paint a grimace on the witness
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| Now if he talks he might not walk
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| But if he don’t then that’s his business
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| All the facts have been distorted
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| All that’s certain is the smoking gun
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| The ceiling swings in the circles
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| And the windows here won’t open none
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| The smoke around my head looks like treble clefs
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| I lost the level step
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| Now go to Hell until the Devil’s left
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| The kettle kept me up
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| Always screaming from the blue flame
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| Digging in ditches, dumpsters
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| Dying for a new name
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| Who changed the locks
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| Don’t even recognize the building
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| The figures on the walls are hallways of hungry children
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| Got nothing for ‘em
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| Don’t got a penny for a peddler
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| They only smoke screens
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| I’m looking for a dust settler
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| Picking apart the pieces of the puzzle
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| To relieve the inner struggle
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| Even leeches in the puddle know to leave the trouble alone
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| Who’s knocking on my telephone?
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| How many dial tones will convince you that I ain’t home?
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| Let the bad blood simmer
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| Let the bad blood simmer
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| Let the bad blood simmer
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| Now you lost in the center of the temper and temperature
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| Let the bad blood simmer
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| Let the bad blood simmer
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| Let the bad blood simmer
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| Now you caught between the temper and temperature
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| Tell me who to pray to
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| Who’s supposed to save you?
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| There’s nothing to escape from
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| Nowhere to escape to
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| The moment that i came to they asked me where i came from
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| Pointed to the blank sky
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| Couldn’t speak the same tongue
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| Name one night that didn’t end in mourning
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| The storm brings hope but never gives warning
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| Ain’t enough police tape to cover up this mess
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| No matter how you frame it we’re just decorating shipwrecks
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| Ingest a hard pill to swallow
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| Filled with shards of the bottle
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| Tip the jar
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| Let the scars fill your hollow
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| The soldiers walked in
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| Should’ve seen the clock spin
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| We covered up our ears 'cause poisoned mouths
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| Talk sin-sation temptress
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| Offensive to the senses
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| Now who would ever guess you’d be imprisoned by a sentence?
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| Before i spoke i filled the room with smoke to cleanse it
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| Conjured the wrong ghosts
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| Had 'em begging me to end it
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| Begging me for friendship
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| Begging me for rations
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| I told them i’m a fraud, a freeloader and a has-been
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| Alone
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| Who’s knocking on my telephone?
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| How many dial tones will convince you that i ain’t home?
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| Let the bad blood simmer
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| Let the bad blood simmer
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| Let the bad blood simmer
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| Now you lost in the center of the temper and the temperature
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| Let the bad blood simmer
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| Let the bad blood simmer
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| Let the bad blood simmer
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| You lost in the center of the temper and the temperature |