The View From Under The Bus
If You Insist
Whenever you are home
I’d rather be alone
I watch you pace the halls
Talking to the walls
Lost in a fiction
Stuck from the friction
To break your addiction
It’s gonna take a lot of balls
If you insist
If you insist
I should let you get your way
I can’t resist
I can’t resist
You are the reason that I stay
Whatever you might say
To make me turn away
However much it takes
Or the way my heart breaks
Though you swing and miss
I believe in this
I feel it when we kiss
The way my body shakes
You have a bright future behind you
If you insist
If you insist
I should let you have your say
I can’t resist
I can’t resist
You are the reason that I stay
Witches of Los Angeles
The old lady at the kiosk
At the street fair
In the last row
Selling boxes filled with dreams
For the nightstand
Next to the bed
Because my world is going crazy
I need a potion
To fix my head
I'm sick and tired of the new day
I need a coven
To summon
Old magic
I found the right way
To make it happen
Old magic
Draw the curtain
And light the candle
Old magic
I hear the whispers
from the cauldron
Old magic
Fan the fire
The night is young
The night is young
The night is young
Old magic
The night is young
Old magic
I hear the whispers
Pick Your Poison
Green leaves are turning red
Quiver in the breeze
These voices in your head
Can bring you to your knees
A slave to your desire
So close but out of touch
You long to feel the fire
You love it way too much
It’s time
Pick your poison
To find it deep inside
Don’t fight
Pick your poison
And cast your fear aside
It’s time
Pick your poison
To find the part that dies
Right now
Pick your poison
To let the truth arise
Sad things are in your mind
Rising from the deep
A memory lost in time
Haunted in your sleep
You tried to push it down
To make it disappear
But it refused to drown
And now it’s always here
It’s time
Pick your poison
To find it deep inside
Don’t fight
Pick your poison
And cast your fear aside
It’s time
Pick your poison
To find the part that dies
Right now
Pick your poison
To let the truth arise
Winter Afternoon
Everything looks rotten
Crawling at rock bottom
Culpable and wanton
Everything forgotten
When I had the first one
It felt like winning
By the seventh round
Faces started spinning
Summer sun
Missing on a winter afternoon
Autumn leaves
Dying on the floor of my living room
I am a strange deceiver
Mix of ice and fever
A glimmer of a glimpse
A shadow in the dark
A fiction that exists
Only in the mind
A storm that persists
And carves a timeless mark
You don’t have to be afraid
Don’t have to be insane
Don’t have to turn away
I am reaching into you
Reach for the hitherto
I am reaching for the truth
Summer sun
Missing on a winter afternoon
Autumn leaves
Dropping under water in my swimming pool
Dying on the floor of my living room
Kill Switch
Go away
Go away and let me know
How we look
How we look in the real world
I don’t want to feel the sun
Burning down on everyone
I don’t want to see the light
Exposing what I have done
Waiting for a new twist
Nothing that you won’t miss
Your finger on the kill switch
Dig another deep ditch
And activate the kill switch
Walk away
Walk away and don’t turn back
Leave me here
Leave me here in the real world
Hiding in the dead of night
Watching from the shadow land
Hiding out in the plain sight
Head buried in the sand
Looking for a new twist
Your finger with a bad itch
Fall into a deep ditch
Leaning on the kill switch
Cooking up a new twist
I wanna feel a real kiss
Throbbing with a thrill twitch
Activate the kill switch
Activate the kill switch
Activate the kill switch
Activate the kill switch
Good at Being Bad
I feel apart once again
Every time
There I go
You put a needle in my heart
Voodoo doll
As if I were a plaything
Step into a new direction
A bientôt my french connection
I crown thy my Queen Rejection
Got it down to perfection
Dance alone in a thunder storm
Sleep in a dream of chloroform
You feel pleasure when I’m sad
You’re so good at being bad
Still have your number in my phone
Will you call?
I should know
Ever since you stole my heart
You rub it in
To make sure I am broken
Step into a new direction
A bientôt my french connection
I crown thy my Queen Rejection
Got it down to perfection
Dance alone in a thunder storm
Sleep in a dream of chloroform
You feel pleasure when I’m sad
You’re so good at being bad
I Created a Monster
I lost myself inside your eyes
A floating cloud in distant skies
I lost my mind inside your dreams
The shape of madness that it brings
I lost my nerve inside your mind
Nothing left for me to find
I lost my way inside your kiss
Nothing else is quite like this
Under your floating body
Covered with foam
Rising above the surface
And out of our home
I created a monster
To learn how to be afraid
To learn how to be insane
To learn how to save
I lost my life inside your head
A soul that could not be caught dead
I lost my breath inside your mouth
And now our love is heading south
Over your sleeping body
Covered with dust
You have to let me leave you
It’s a matter of trust
I created a monster
To learn how to be afraid
To learn how to be insane
To learn how to save … you
I lost my mind
I lost my mind
Wrong Side of a Mountain
I tried too hard not to swerve
From the bottom side
Of the bell shaped curve
Ran so fast in the creeping sun
But I just couldn’t overcome
A smoking gun
I’m on the wrong side of a mountain
I’m in the spotlight of the darkness
I’m being followed by a shadow
Coming from the wrong side
Power in the realm of higher
An acquired taste that I
Did not desire
The planning stages of a ditch
Looking for a way to scratch
A better itch
I’m on the wrong side of a mountain
I’m in the spotlight of the darkness
I’m being followed by a shadow
Coming from the wrong side
I’ve done everything I can
To climb above the towering
Crazy man
Who rises like a tidal wave
Drowning in the tears
I refuse to save
I’m on the wrong side of a mountain
I’m in the spotlight of the darkness
I’m being followed by a shadow
Coming from the wrong side
Coming from the wrong side
Oh
Coming from the wrong side
Consider everything I own
From love to hate and flesh to bone
Consider everything that’s true
From good to bad and old to new
And now I’m left with ... you
Living in a Dream
Her hand was on my shoulder
So this is what I told her
I know I’m getting older
Time will roll you like a boulder
These days are getting long
Your force of will is gone
You always get things wrong
Mixed in your broken song
Oh
You make me want to scream
Oh
Living in a dream
Oh
You’re making such a scene
Oh
Living in a dream
My hand was spreading ashes
On graves of market crashes
From phony winking lashes
To how the wedding china smashes
I know my flame is hot
You know your shame is not
My touch is far and wide
You’ve got no place to hide
Oh
You make me want to scream
Oh
Living in a dream
Oh
You’re making such a scene
Oh
Living in a dream