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All The Way Down
02:50
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Broken eyes and a cocaine smile
Met my lady for a little while
Said my lady "Please take your time,
Don't be so happy about goin' blind."
So to the races, I did go
Bet two bits on a one bit show
Never did I need no heart of gold
For if I did, it would have been sold
Oh Lord!
I don't mind dieing
I ain't done trying that you know
Oh Oh!
I may be fed to the lions
When all the way down I go
Fill the chamber with another led
Point and aim for the soul they said
Pull the trigger my flesh has bled
I'm the one in the stories you've read
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2. |
Dieing With Desire
03:22
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I'm so tired of this place
Tired of the pace
Tired and loose
Tie a noose
Around the tree
Why does the plan fall through
When I'm with you
All by myself
I can't be helped
I'm losin' faith
Why must I dream with eyes
Filled with sand and fire
Seems like I'm truly alive
But I'm dieing with desire
Violent dreams I will not realize
Flooding my vision and turning the tides
Wasting away on a grey afternoon
Dieing with desire, dieing with desire
Why must I dream with eyes
Filled with sand and fire
Why must I dream with eyes
Filled with sand and fire
Why must I dream with eyes
Filled with sand and fire
Seems like I'm truly alive
But I'm dieing with desire
Violent dreams I will not realize
Flooding my vision and turning the tides
Wasting away on a grey afternoon
Dieing with desire, dieing with desire
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Here in the Darkness
05:08
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Different plans, distance lands
We live our lives in the trees
As time may stand, unwind the strand
Of the changes on the breeze
It’s your last chance for the right way
It’s your last glance at the fight babe
Demons perch on the church tonight
We’ve killed all our sin with a stake
Will our greedy eyes still testify
As we lay here in bed wide awake?
It’s our last dance with the knife babe
It’s our last stance, well it might be
Here in the darkness we’re crawling forth
Movin’ towards a corpse
That we’ll leave in the dirt when we’re gone
Candles burn by a porcelain urn
As strangers take to the streets
We will only learn as the tables turn
To the hour of our defeat
It’s our last lance of the lightning
It’s our last chance and it’s frightening
Here in the darkness we’re crawlin’ forth
Beatin’ on an old dead horse
Runnin’ a one way course
Hidin’ our remorse
Drowning in the blood they force
Still movin’ towards a corpse
That we’ll leave in the dirt when we’re gone
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4. |
You Touch The Air
03:16
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Who's gonna be there when the love is gone
Who's gonna be there when the moon is full of fear
Who's gonna be there, blood river on your mind
A stranger site than the rain on the desert sands
And when you smile,
You move me in so many ways
In so many different color you touch the air
Well the seasons they come and they go
When the moon is high, I will take low
Midnight and your dark eyes, reasons they change
Under moonlit skies, meanings rearrange
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5. |
Requiem for the Fuzz
04:09
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Oh, my friend
I can’t pretend
I’ll see you there again
See you there again
We once were three
But now I’m one
I know you noticed
When the one begun
See you there again
I’ll never see you there again
The aging of my eyes
The motion of the skies
Passages passing on
While our ties untwine
The days are gone of youth’s vacation,
Repetition, our relation,
Wallowing in fuzzination
God send me to my own creation
Ascend into my free soul
Melting in rock n’ roll
Like passing through the Pharaoh’s chambers
My past becomes a beautiful stranger
Oh, my friend
I can’t pretend
I’ll see you there again
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Opel Springfield, Massachusetts
Driving bass, complex percussion, dark melodic keyboards, and intense electric guitar leads define the sound that Opel claims as their own. Springfield, Massachusetts based rock band, Opel began writing and performing songs about love, life, loss, and addiction back in 2005 when bassist Bill Szafarowitz and song writer James Fiore (formerly of the band Project Fuzz) joined forces. ... more
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