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One Thousand Wolves
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There's something wrong with me
I am not one of these human beings
I'm all twisted up and gnarled like a tree
I fell in love with one thousand wolves
And they are coming to devour me.
I only feel alive when the world is dying
When the leaves fall on my heart
I only feel alive when I'm crying
I only feel alive tonight.
My head is humming like a radio
There's something in their eyes
Something like I've never seen
Two thousand diamonds on the ocean tides
And when the tide grows high
I'll let them take me.
I only feel alive when the world is dying
When the leaves fall on my heart
I only feel alive when I'm crying
I only feel alive tonight.
My head is humming like a radio
Tonight...
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Dirty Little Secrets
04:11
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Come with me, baby
I'll take you for a suicide ride
We'll lay on the balcony
And watch the whole world die
You don't really love me
You can look me in the eye
But maybe if I run far away
Then you might change your mind
It's so hard to belong to you.
I'm just one of your dirty little secrets
It's so hard to want to be with you
But I want to but I don't want to but I...
So say goodbye
There's not enough time
To do it right
Maybe in another life
My baby writes letters but they aren't for me
She sends her texts right next to me
But they go across the country
My baby is a beautiful dirty little thief
She stole my heart, she stole my soul
And she buried them like dead leaves.
I will never love again, no
I will never love again.
It's so hard to belong to you.
I'm just one of your dirty little secrets
It's so hard to want to be with you
But I want to but I don't want to but I...
So say goodbye
There's not enough time
To do it right
Maybe in another life
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Pawn Shop
05:02
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They say there's someone for everybody
I found the girl of my dreams
I tied her to my wrist like jewelry
But somebody stole her from me
Where'd you go with my princess?
Did you make sure she had her shoes laced
And tied up tight?
Did you wrap your hands around her golden throat
Until her face went white?
Did she tell you what we did
Before you fed her to the crows?
Tie them up tight, tie them up tight, tie them up tight
Because you never know, you never know...
Now I only see her in my dreams.
Every night I pray I will never wake up.
Ghost eyes
Phantom limbs
Spirit heart
Let me in
Let me in!
My sweet, my precious diamond
I will have you again
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If synth pop wandered into a dark alley and found itself viciously beaten by a gang of guitar distortion and layered
rhythms, it might sound an awful lot like The Town Monster.
The music all culminates in The Town Monster's crushing live show, an electro bath of sensory overload. It finds out what happens when noise becomes symphony.
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