SILVERCHAIR
Frogstomp (1995)
Hate is what I feel for you And I want you to know that I want you dead You're late for the execution If you're not here soon I'll kill your friend instead All the pain I feel couldn't start to heal Although I would like it to I hate you and your apathy You can leave, you can leave, I don't want you here I'm playing this pantomime But I don't see you showing any signs of fear All the pain I feel couldn't start to heal Although I would like it to This time I'm for real, my pain cannot heal You will be dead when I'm through Hate and execution Put your hands in the air Put your hands in the air The air I am, I am Israel's son Israel's son I am Put your hands in the air Put your hands in the air
It's twelve o'clock and it's a wonderful day I know you hate me but I'll ask anyway Won't you come with me? To a place in a little town The only way to get there's to go straight down There's no bathroom, and there is no sink The water out of the tap is very hard to drink Very hard to drink You, wait til tomorrow You, wait til tomorrow You say that money isn't everything But I'd like to see you live without it You think you can keep on going living like a king Ooh babe, but I strongly doubt it Very hard to drink, very hard to drink You gonna wait til, fat boy Fat boy, wait til tomorrow
Unsuspecting brother doesn't know what to do When everything just falls to the ground He runs to find some cover, he doesn't have a clue That his friend will never be found when he's informed that he Will never see the boy, will never see the boy Never see him open his eyes Will never see the boy, never see the boy You'll only hear his heavenly cries, ooh yeah Thinking of the past, it's all over now Mother nature strikes once again It happened all so fast, my only question's how How could they let that building descend? Ooh, yeah You will never see the boy... Off to the new life, I live on death Leaving me all through the night If he's born again, I need you to find Need you to find where he is
People dying For no reason at all Age is no difference Or if you're large or small Families being torn apart Doesn't have to be this way Some people just have no heart It's happening every day Pure massacre, pure massacre (x2) Machine guns pumping, hearts thumping Death is all around People crying for freedom No one hears the sound Pure massacre... There's people crying, there's people dying But someone's taken it all It's gonna be a pure massacre
If you're hurt, why don't you tell someone? Don't feel bad, you're not the only one, yeah Don't go hiding, hiding in the shade Don't go hiding, hiding in the shade If you were abused, I'll find someone to help you I know you were used, what are you gonna do? Don't go hiding...
Ohh, you can lead a throne But I'm something you don't own Greed is a sin So don't lead me in Oh, you can leave me out Leave me out, leave me out
I dream about how it's gonna end Approaching me quickly Leaving a life of fear I only want my mind to be clear People making fun of me For no reason but jealousy I fantasise about my death I'll kill myself from holding my breath My suicidal dream Voices telling me what to do My suicidal dream I'm sure you will get yours too Help me, comfort me Stop me from feeling what I'm feeling now The rope is here, now I'll find a use I'll kill myself, I'll put my head in a noose My suicidal dream... Dreaming about my death, dream Suicidal, suicidal, suicidal dream (etc.)
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Oh, there's no time to choose for yourself It's like the candle's lit at both ends now, deteriorating health Parents breaking up, wish they would decide Whether to stay together, can't make up their minds They wonder why you need someone You get no freedom at all They want you to drop down and conform They make your self-esteem fall Undecided, can't make up their mind Your parents collided and left you behind If there's a lock to their minds can you tell me please? I'll be straight, straight to get the keys Undecided... Her mother doesn't even know her name, undecided If there is trouble, well she just gets the blame but denies it Undecided...
When he was just a little boy He only had one favourite toy And he had thing on his mind And never left anything behind, no As he got older, things got worse Like he'd been born under a curse Things started to fall apart They weren't like they were at the start, no It's like a civil war Growing up, it's like a civil war Don't turn away, it's something you can't ignore Growing up, it's like a civil war And now that he was in his teens He'd started to learn what life means Problems were still appearing They didn't look like disappearing, no It's like a civil war...
You've been locked up, and you need to escape You broke the law, it was your first offence Drug addiction, subtracting all your privileges But giving up just makes no sense We'll find a way, we'll find a way Don't give in, don't give in Don't give in, don't give in All you can think about is breaking free You can't make it on your own You're thinking negative, nothing can go right It's eating you down to the bone We'll find a way...
Freak Show (1996)
Lived too long, now you've come to take me to a place where I can die Lost my soul, lost my confidence in me Can't be something but I'll try Lived too long and waited to just drown In my self pity I keep falling down Want to be your soldier, want to be your slave I have no pride in myself Only book that I own is called 'How to lose' Pick a chapter, I know them all, just choose Lived too long and waited to find A place where I can die Lost my soul, lost my confidence in me Give me something but I'll try Want to be your soldier, want to be your slave I have no pride in myself, that's how I behave
No more maybes, your baby's got rabies Sitting on a ball in the middle of the Andes Yeah, I'm a freak of nature Yeah, I'm a freak If only I could be as cool as you, as cool as you Body and soul, I'm a freak, I’m a freak (x2) Try to be different, well get a different disease Seems it's in fashion to need the coldsore cream Yeah, I'm a freak of nature Yeah, I'm a freak I don't really know how to put on a cool show As boring as they come, just tell me where to go If only I could be as cool as you... Freak (x4)
Need to ask a question Calling out my name Nothing seems to bother Wish I had a clue Come on, abuse me more, I like it Well, I don't think you like me Well, I hate you as well No one seems to like you Wish I couldn't tell Come on, abuse me more, I like it Come on, keep talking 'cause it's true Throw the sailors overboard (x4) Overboard
Gonna be a liar? Lie to me (x4) Yeah! Gonna be a while? Lie to me (x4) Lie to me! (etc.)
You've never wanted to know me before Little or no association Leave me alone, I want to live Stop sucking the blood right out of me Couldn't care less if I died right now, who am I? I don't know, you tell me You seem to know everything else Need a pathway, need a guide Contemplating suicide Wish I could be like you You say you care, but do you? Do you?
Need a change, not to imitate but to irritate All the ones who hate, I may be late Always seem to get the wrong date Well, I guess it's fate I live in a cemetery, full of good will and integrity You see, I have no specialty Here's your warning, I'll give you click-click-boom I live in a cemetery, I need a change Not to imitate but to irritate (x2)
Could've been like before Could've had to lock the door Make your mind, let the door, let the door swing Only one, only one to let the door Wanted to pretend he's dead Didn't have to pretend Make your mind... All this and more Makes no sense to me All this and more Makes me drown Let me know if it's alright Let me know if you just might Make your mind, let the door, let the door swing Only one, only one to let the door
Addiction's held you back but you don't care 'Cause you're on a high again and it's not fair Consuming alcohol while I gotta drive Take a hit from the drugs you stole and try to survive Since your life was over you haven't yet been sober, you You have held me back so long Everything you do is wrong Now I gotta dump you continue my life too I tried to help you, don't care what you do You're state of mind's improved, but we're still apart I visited you'd moved, don't know where to start Your life's an open cold sore, got to get out the cream Now I'm thinking positive, but I know it's a dream Since your life was over you... Now I gotta dump you continue my life too I tried to help you, don't care what you do You died yesterday, you died yesterday (x2)
I wanted to be friends with her too So my relationship could be the same as yours I hated everyone, just like you Hating you should be introduced as a new law Take the time to learn to hate Come and join the mass debate Take the time, take the time It's all uphill you've gotta climb You betrayed all the trust I gave you Now I need therapy to hate a little more You cannot help me to forgive you The drugs have given you all kinds of different sores I hated everyone, just like you Hating you should be introduced as a new law Take the time to learn to hate... As you pump drugs into your bloodstream I sit observing in disgust Hoping that you will finally come clean So I don't have to use this gun Take the time to learn to hate...
Sinking through dark black holes it's never gonna end Open gash in my ribcage it's never gonna mend Take another picture off the wall Sinking deeper every time I fall Each day ends quicker and my mind gets slower too As my life just fades away I wouldn't have a clue Take another drawer out from the shelf I'm too weak to do it by myself Though you had the world at your feet You could see it, I was blind Had the perfect job called life You didn't like it, you resigned Brain's a square of grass growing on petrol and chlorine With the petrol and chlorine You could see it, I was blind Had the perfect job called life You didn't like it, you resigned With the petrol and chlorine You know just what I mean
Drained as drained can be Life is gone from me Drained if drained is free If only I could breathe Smelling dead roses Take your mind with you There's no room for two I can't handle both Handle both of you Smelling dead roses But I won't fall down, no I won't fall down But I won't fall down, 'cause I won't fall down Smelling dead roses...
Laying lost and wounded, just myself to blame Have no life and being hand-fed pain Head's a crying wasteland, filled with shame Cried for help before and nobody came His father beats him, no hesitation His face left dripping in humiliation Head's a crying wasteland... As he lies wounded, his father turns to clay A frozen statue can't walk away Head's a crying wasteland... To see what I can lose again for being the victim
Welcome to the closing, not for love what for? It's easy to be taken but to say Come again, leave again Waste of time, come again I'm all alone while you're having fun You have faith while I feel none Sleep till late to waste half the day But I'm happy to live this way And you know that you can't see my pain But you know that I can see your pain Come again, leave again Waste of time, come again I'm all alone... Me and shame are the same Me and shame take the blame Me and pain are the same Me and shame take the blame Come again, leave again Waste of time, come again I'm all alone... Welcome to the closing
Neon Ballroom (1999)
Erupt again, ignore the pill And I won't let it show Sacrifice the tortures Orchestral tear cash-flow Increase, delete, escape, defeat It's all that matters to you Cotton case for an iron pill Distorted eyes, when everything is clearly dying Burn my knees and (x3) Emotion sickness Addict with no heroine Emotion sickness Distorted eyes, when everything is clearly dying Burn my knees and Burn my knees and pray Burn my knees and Burn my knees and pray Get up, get up, get up, get up Get up, get up, get up, won't you stop my pain? Emotion sickness Addict with no heroine Good things will pass (It helps with excess access) Lessons learnt Emotion sickness Lessons learnt
We are the youth, we'll take your fascism away We are the youth, apologize for another day We are the youth and politicians are so sure We are the youth and we are knocking on death's door Never knew we were living in a world with a mind that could be so sure Never knew we were living in a world with a mind that could be so small Never knew we were living in a world and the world is an open court Maybe we don't want to live in a world where innocence is so short We'll make it up to you in the year 2000 with Never knew we were living... We'll make it up to you in the year 2000 Build it up for you in the year 2000 Make it up to you in the year 2000 Build it up for you in the year 2000 with you Never knew we were living in a world with a world that could be so sure Never knew we were living in a world with a mind that could be so small Never knew we were living in a world and the world is an open court Maybe we don't want to live in a world, world who cares at all We'll make it up to you in the year 2000 Build it up for you in the year 2000 Make it hard for you in the year 2000 Build it up for you in the year 2000 Make it hard for you in the year 2000 Build it up for you in the year 2000 with you
Please die Ana For as long as you're here we're not You make the sound of laughter And sharpened nails seem softer And I need you now somehow And I need you now somehow Open fire on the needs designed On my knees for you Open fire on my knees desires What I need from you Imagine a pageant In my head the flesh seems thicker Sandpaper tears corrode the filth And I need you now somehow And I need you now somehow Open fire... And you're my obsession I love you to the bones And Ana wrecks your life Like an Anorexia life Open fire...
Death becomes clearer through bloodshot eyes As a death from old age becomes nearer Why can't the livestock be free? When trading soldiers for steak Learn to evolve with the new transition To act upon a hypocritical vision Discard the old and in with the new Discard the old and in with the fashion! Learn to evolve with the new transition To act upon a hypocritical vision Learn to evolve, learn to, learn to evolve Who is the bad guy for iron require? Mince these are the facts, so eat what you murder This is animal liberation Eight billion killed for human pleasure Bring on the ape farm, demolish the monkeys Drink up, drink up, look down on junkies A new hypocritical look and ambition The time has come to make the decision you Drink up, drink up, look down I'll hold it back, I'll hold it back! Discard the old, in with the fashion! Death becomes clearer through bloodshot eyes! (x2)
Millionaire say got a big shot deal And thrown it all away but But I'm not too sure how I'm supposed to feel Or what I'm supposed to say But I'm not, not sure, Not too sure how it feels To handle everyday And I miss you love Make room for the prey 'cause I'm coming in With what I wanna say but It's gonna hurt, and I love the pain A breeding ground for hate but I'm not, not sure Not too sure how it feels To handle everyday Like the one that just past In the crowds of all the people Remember today I've no respect for you And I miss you love And I miss you love I love the you love but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back It's just a fad, part of the teen Teenage angst brigade and I'm not, not sure...
Dearest helpless, intent's not as bad as the action Take a breath to distort the fear in your eyes I don't mean it to hurt But every time I hate you I think of you first He's made you blind, you're better on your own I'm just the kind to bring you down Equalize the pressure, it's all too much Sex, drugs and image is just enough To get you by in the real world He's made you blind...
Moon covered determined to find To find my place of hiding Try to detach, try to decrease To make it easier on me Despise myself for what you've done Sent me back into my world Hold yourself 'cause no one will I'll make it easier Now I have managed to be the one To be the victim without the gun Do you feel the same anyway? Now you've come Do you feel the same anyway? Now you've come Stay alert 'cause I'm obsessed Surely I can't be depressed Could I be read if I was see-through? Or would you just read my spine? Could I be read if I was see-through? Could I be read if I was see-through? Could I be read if I was see-through? Or would you just read my spine? Now I have managed to be the one To be the victim without the gun Do you feel the same..? Hold yourself 'cause no-one will I'll be there to take the spill Cleanse your soul, change the tide And ride the wave back here to me Be the one without the gun Do you feel the same..?
Maybe your luck has changed, settle down Maybe I'm just deranged and on the rebound Maybe love was the thing holding me back from all Maybe I'm just the thing to break my own fall Take the rope to my heart and fall You may just be the last before you See the black tangled heart fall Maybe departure's good, makes room for more Start to mass produce for a chance to ignore Maybe you'll kill yourself before I get a turn Maybe I'll fall in love and never learn Take the rope to my heart and fall...
Liberate the people that you hate Then cut yourself again Elevate then drop back down And see which ones remain Remember all that she can say Is that she knows she wants it You'll make it through with another point of view again You'll make it through with another point Accusation, does yes mean no? Or have you changed your mind? Kill the nation before it grows And be one of a kind Remember all that she can say... Pretend the world's an ocean Oh, I'm drowning Pretend that I'm pollution Oh, I'm dying Pretend the steak's a cowboy And the kiss will kill you You'll make it through with another point of view again You'll make it through with another point
Just wait for us to say it And we'll make you lie And anyone who cares Lies on satin sheets And I waste my time on no-one And you think I really care Wears a Saturn bracelet Lined with cocaine coins "No chance" slipped away Toddler training toys And I waste my time...
It's only self rejection With a mean left Cold carbon copied coping And it's mean theft, that's been left behind Paint pastel princess Bo and arapax The shelves when they're broken I'll beg you, beg you Waste life when youth is sweeter, neater Content with contents Cultures cringing at accents And it's too tense, camp out She tastes the candy Sugarless, cancerous Crave cocaine cop shows I'll beg you, beg you But it's all the same to me (x4)
Contain yourself, I will compress What I am to Replace yourself with what you have Your substitute Only wanted a piece of myself Steam will rise, esteem will rise (x2) Refrain, confess, contain, repress Pretend I'm dead Abuse myself, confuse myself I won't be led Only wanted a piece of myself (x3) Steam will rise, esteem will rise (x2)
Diorama (2002)
Across the night it was the moon that stole my slumber Across the night I fell in love with people sleeping I fell tired, asleep in a golden ocean Your eyes perspired, a spike in my fascination I don't mean to make you cry But these feelings will run right through the night And I'll only make you cry with these feelings Across the night it was the moon that stole my slumber Across the night I fell in love with people sleeping Across the night, across the night Across the night hugged a man's arthritic shoulder Sleepless, untamed without a leash on the light around me I don't mean to make you cry But these feelings will run right through the night And I'll only make you cry with these feelings Across the night... So let us be married and have another baby 'Cause I don't wanna be lonely, I just wanna be alone Yes let's just get married shouting baby-baby-babies You'll never sleep at all, but I don't wanna be lonely You'll never sleep at all I don't wanna be lonely, I just wanna be alone Never seen the sunshine from higher points than sunrise
You're the analyst, the fungus in my milk When you want no one and you got someone Through the wind you crawl and laugh at burning dunes When no one else will ever see Now that you know why you feel like you do They're turning their head whilst they wait for no one And finally I know why you feel like letting go I'm watching you watch over me And I've got the greatest view from here I'm watching you watch over me And I've got the greatest view from here Mistakes don't mean a thing if you don't regret them So pack your tactic toes for the winter Chain a waterfall to burned and withered skin No-one else will ever see I'm watching you watch over me... Now that you know why you feel like you do They're turning their head whilst they wait for no one And finally I know why I feel like you're letting go I'm watching you watch over me...
Miles away, there's hopeless smiles brighter than mine And I need for you to come and go Without the truth falling out Old incisions refusing to stay Like the sun through the trees on a cloudy day And you brighten my life like a polystyrene hat But it melts in the sun like a life without love And I've waited for you so I'll keep holding on Without you, without you Telephone, socially scared and impaired If the trees will bloom the wind can blow Without the fruit falling out Old incisions refusing to stay Like the sun through the trees on a cloudy day And you brighten my life... Feels like the wind blows, holding you with us She takes no other, falls light and ashes Blooming like winter And you brighten my life...
All the bridges in the world won't save you If there is no other side to cross to When you're not feeling ugly And the world's not too much Take the world upon your shoulders Take the world upon your shoulders And burn, burn, burn, burn, burn Take the world upon your shoulders Half full glasses, lost in empty houses When you're not feeling ugly... Violent, big and violent Like a thing that's big, big and violent A world that's big and violent When you're not feeling ugly...
Let my spirit ride on a one way mule Blistered skin in a cold hearted pool Distant emotion hides a concrete wall Naked and anchored, I'll climb right back to you Love me for my mind 'cause I'm a dangerous heart When I've got time to kill I'm coming back to you Dieferent memories in a cage by my bed Viscid dreams stick to holes in my head But a patient career of sleep in a Sunday dress Rides my wake Love me for my mind 'cause I'm a dangerous heart When I've got time to kill I'm coming back to you I'll stake out just to find the knife in a dangerous heart When I've got time to kill I'm coming back for you
I fondle keys to my heart When everyone's heart seems so calm And you found the lock to my dorm And opened the doors to my trust, fund my vestry The light in my darkest hour is fear Denies me of anything good so Don't lose your heart, you'll need it And don't lose your heart You'll have to take another pill and tell another lie And lie amongst your lies, like tuna in the brine Take everything that you're not And don't be so scared to tamper with Tampered with evidence 'Cause you'll come along for the sun if you come at all The light in my darkest hour is fear... And don't lose your heart, and don't lose your heart To lose your heart you'll have to take and take And take and take Painting a lie, seeing the colours but you Seem closer to everything (x3) Closer now than we ever have been We're closer now that we ever should we be Closer now than we've ever been before Closer to everything Busking for change and changing everything Feeble fables aren't changing many things It's my time to shine like a tuna in the brine For my pregnant paws aren't changing anything To all of the animals who keep sipping the sweat from my back You're making me ill and I can't get enough So take another pill and tell another lie And lie amongst your lies like tuna in the brine
She tripped on a hole that I'd dug in the soil To be part of a human garden And I couldn't stand in the straight postured sun But you stood in the mud Which came unsoiled when I came along When I came along, when I came along (x3) You never stop needing You never stop needing A close look at something so close (It's too much of not enough) A close look at something so close (It's too much of not enough) All we need is just a taste I strapped myself in for a safe saccharide Before it started I tried To be anything I saw fit and it all seemed to fit But you came undone when I came along When I came along, when I came along You never stop needing... Blind white lies and shallow truth Broken strings and stolen youth I've seen too much of not enough But you came much closer than they had before (x3) You never stop needing (x3) And it's good for nothing
You don't know the truth and I love your life (x2) Thrust the candle to the dark of your disease Burn the fishplate, execute ill memories Labyrinth of sympathy in which I'm lost and can't leave And too much truth overshadows the lime lies 'Cause what lies beneath the clouds is an altered perception And I'll pay for sanity, but sanity don't come cheap You don't know the truth and I love your life (x3) Flinch against the fire but this ain’t winter And I'm all by myself the way I wanna be Where I'm content to be to be all by myself But frozen eyes are bound to melt You don't know the truth and I love your life...
Living your life like you're bull in the trade He doesn't know how it feels Under my thumb like a bone under nail She's in the know, how's it feel? Live your life under machine guns Canary down the mine Maybe I'm on the lever (x3) Spoiling my broth like a radio kid Programmed computerised mind Waving my luck under your nose Like I found a four leaf clover Live your life under machine guns... Turn the mirrors face the wall Don't you feel a little weak? And I'd catch you when you fall But you're falling all the time Do you need it anymore? Or do you need a little more? Maybe I'm on the lever (x6)
Got my fever down, then weighed it up And know I the sounds remaining won't strain all the silt from my eyes Bleach the green from the pastures, feast on the grey of the night Straight from the vines refusal to shine You're my favourite thing, you're my favourite The one that I love, the one so I'd die for your love Blind the deafened moon, stimulate the tombs of angels I'll open my heart, won't fall apart So don't fall apart You're my favourite thing... And I feel like letting go (x2)
Breathe in the night that crushed a tired sunrise Born again the day, brings you naivety A laptop souvenir is worth its weight In silver a golden son You'll be home again And I'll be home again Mend in my sleep, I'm boxing under water Waddle on the wake, waking on a summer day A summer day And after all these years Forget about all the troubled times After all these years Forget about all the troubled times And every father's pain Casts a shadow over a broken son You'll be whole again And I'll be whole again Munificent, artless and ascetic Playing like a scared, enthusiastic pawn After all these years... All those years I was hurting to feel Something more than life