Intro
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Verse 1:
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And I, I've been lonely
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And I, I've been blind
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And I, I've learned nothing
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So my hands are firmly tied
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To the sinking lead weight of failure
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I've worked hard all my life
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Money slips through my hands
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My face in the mirror tells me
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It's no surprise that I am
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Pushing the stone up the hill of failure
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And they tempt me with violence
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And they punish me with ideals
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And they crush me with an image of my life
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That's nothing but unreal
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Except on the goddamned slaveship of failure
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And I'll drown here trying
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To get up for some air
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But each time I think I breathe
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I'm laid on with a double share
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Of the punishing burden of failure
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I don't deserve to be down here
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But I'll never leave
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And I, I've learned one thing
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You can't escape the beast
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In the null and void pit of failure
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When I get my hands on some money
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I'll kiss its green skin
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And I'll ask its dirty face
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'Where the hell have ya been?'
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'I'm the fuel that fires the engines of failure'
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And I'll be old and broken down
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And I'll forget who and where I am
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I'll be senile or forgotten
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But I'll remember and understand
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You can bank your hard-earned money on failure
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I saw my father crying
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I saw my mother break her hand
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On a wall that wouldn't weep
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But that certainly held in
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The mechanical moans of a dying man who was a failure
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My back hurts me when I bend
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'Cause I carry a load
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And my brain hurts like a knife-hole
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'Cause I've yet to be shown
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How to pull myself out from the sucking quicksand of failure
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Some people lie in Hell
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Many bastards succeed
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But I, I've learned nothing
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I can't even elegantly bleed
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Out the poison blood of failure