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DEAD

Jonathan Davis:
'All I want in life is to be happy', it's that simple.
People say that it's become their own anthem.
It's like whenever I start to feel good, something comes and takes it away and I feel like I'm nothing again, like I'm dead.

(whispered)
All I want in life is to be happy (happy)
All I want in life is to be happy (happy)
It seems funny to me
How fucked things can be
Every time I get ahead
I feel more dead

FALLING AWAY FROM ME

Jonathan Davis:
The song is about domestic abuse and that there are ways to get help whether it's telling someone or calling a help line, there are ways to get out of those situations.
Noone has to be treated like that.

Hey, I'm feeling tired, my time is gone today
You flirt with suicide, sometimes, that's okay
Do what others say - I'm here, standing hollow
Falling away from me...falling away from me

Day, is here fading - that's when, I'm insane
I flirt with suicide - sometimes, kill the pain
I can always say, 'It's gonna be better tomorrow'
Falling away from me...falling away from me

CHORUS
Beating me down
Beating me, beating me down...down
Into the ground
Screaming so sound
Beating me, beating me down...down
Into the ground

BRIDGE
(falling away...from me)
It's spinning round and round
(falling away...from me)
It's lost and can't be found
(falling away...from me)
It's spinning round and round
(falling away...from me)
So I down

REPEAT CHORUS


Twisting me, they walk away
So I pray, go away

That's falling away from me
It's falling away from me
FUCK!

REPEAT CHORUS 2x (second time add bridge)

TRASH

Jonathan Davis:
"Trash" is about how I threw my world and everything out.
I threw her away. I threw my old self away. It basically comes back down to the sex thing. The battles I did on the road, this whole album is what I went through because I was on the road and I went crazy.

How did it start?
Well I don't know, I just feel the craving
I see the flesh and it smells fresh and it's just there for the taking
These little girls, they make me feel so goddam exhilarated
I feel them up, I can't give it up
The pain that I'm just erasing

BRIDGE
I tell my lies, and I despise every second I'm with you
So I run away and you still stay
So what the fuck is with you?

CHORUS
Your feelings
I can't help but rape them
I'm sorry, I don't feel the same
My heart inside is constantly hating
I'm sorry, I just throw you away

I don't know why I'm so fucking cold
I don't know why its hurts me
All I wanna do is get with you and make the pain go away
Why do I have a conscience?
All it does is fuck with me
Why do I have this torment?
All I wanna do is fuck it away

REPEAT BRIDGE
REPEAT CHORUS

I tell my lies, and I despise every second I'm with you
And I run away and you still stay
So what the fuck is with you?

REPEAT CHORUS

I just throw you away
I just throw you away


4 U

This shit right here is for you
All your faces I can see
You all think it's about me
I'm about to break, this is my fate
Am I still damned to a life of misery and hate?
You will never know what I've done for you
What you all put me through
I'd do it for you
I could have, never lived if it wasn't, 4 u...

BEG FOR ME

Jonathan Davis:
'Beg For Me' is more of an angry thing because the whole thing for 'Beg For Me' is the crowd. The only time I was good on tour was when I walked up onstage and that's what the song is about. Feeling wanted is something one thing I've always needed. I was shuffled around so much when I was a kid...being up onstage was the only point - was the only time when my anxiety would go away for an hour.

Everyone is looking at me
I can't get out of bed
There is evil in my head
Everyone just let me be
It comes when I hit the stage
It is gone and I am free

CHORUS
Goddam they say you'll get up with me
You're the crowd, come on, give it back to me
You all beg for me, beg for me, beg for me
Goddam you say you'll get up with me
You're the crowd, come on give it back to me
You all beg for me, be down with me, beg for me

Tell me, how could this be?
I am going insane
And I cry out of my pain
Everyone please let me be
It comes when I hit the stage
It is gone and I am free

REPEAT CHORUS

I feel the shame
I've gone insane
The things I feel now aren't the same
Who gives a fuck, if my life sucks?
I just know one thing, I won't give up

Everyone just let me be
Everyone just let me be!

REPEAT CHORUS 2x

Be there...for me
Be there...for me

MAKE ME BAD

Jonathan Davis:
'I need to feel the sickness in you'...it's spawned from fuckin', basically, from having sex. That's where that line comes from, but it means a whole bunch of things to me. 'Make Me Bad' was about the battles I had being on the road, being married and being with other women. I'm not married anymore... beause of my lifestlyle, and I just couldnt do that to my wife anymore. So that ended. But does it make me bad that I have a dick and I have fuckin other feelings to be with other people? Why should I be with just one? It seems like human beings are genetically engineered to procreate. Thats what we do, fuck everything, and that's what our natural insides want to do. It is hard to find someone like that. But she was a good woman and I didnt want to keep on...I did the right thing, I was a man about it. It was better for me to tell her and let her go on with her life and find someone who could help her and be like that. So that song was spawned by that, does it make me bad to want to be with other women? In a sense it was my only drug, why... because I dont drink anymore, I cant drink. I've been sober for a year. I dont have any other vices. So at least doing that could be something.

I am watching the rise and fall of my salvation
There's so much much shit around me
Such a lack of compassion

I thought it would be fun and games
(it would be fun and games)
Instead it's all the same
(it's all the same)
I want something to do
Need to feel the sickness, in you

CHORUS
I feel the reason, as it's leaving me - No, not again
It's quite deceiving, as I'm feeling the flesh make me bad

All I do is look for you
I need my fix, you need it to
Just to get some sort of attention...attention

What does it mean to you?
(what does it mean to you?)
For me, it's something I just do
(I just do...)
I want something...
I need to feel the sickness in you

REPEAT CHORUS

REPEAT CHORUS 2x

Does it make me bad?
Does it make me bad?


note: in the live version of this song from the Apollo Theater as well as in the remix, the first line of the chorus changes to "I feel the semen, as it's leaving me no, not again.." after the guitar break.

IT'S GONNA' GO AWAY

Live it up, live it up, live it up

I don't want this to go away
(It's gonna go away)
I'm so scared
I can see it going on
We all crumble
We crumble under pressure...
Pressure

Everyone is telling us to live it up
Live it up...
Cause it's gonna go away!
It's gonna go away!
It's gonna go away...

WAKE UP

Wake the fuck up!
Wake the fuck up!

Each day more frightening
All of us wanna die
The pressure's tightening
I don't even want to try

Should I take all the stupid bullshit
(Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh....)
What makes them think they can get away with it?
(Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh....)
I'm not happy
I wish they'd just...

Wake the fuck up!
Wake the fuck up!

CHORUS
I can't take no more
What are we fighting for?
You are my brothers
Each one I would die for
Please just let it go
All our heads are flown
Let's take the stage and remember what we prayed for...

No more, fighting!
I swear I'm gonna leave
Talkin' shit to spite me
I wish we'd just...

Wake the fuck up!
Wake the fuck up!
REPEAT CHORUS

AM I GOING CRAZY?

Am I going crazy?
Am I insane and dazed...?
Am I too lost, to face this?
And what will it cost
To escape
Nothing is right
I'm so scared

HEY DADDY

Jonathan Davis:
'Hey Daddy' where I was schizophrenic and there were these voices telling me to do shit... To kill myself, basically.
Daddy is one of my nicknames, so its like I'm talking to myself the whole time. It's hard to explain.

Let me see all my life has been (taken) taken
This demon (haunts me) haunts me
Their waiting (help me)
Help me

CHORUS
You fuck me up
I'm gagged and bound
You pick me up
When I am down
I cannot live without them
I do not live without them

Hey Daddy...(daddy)
They are taking me away
Putting things in me (my soul) my soul
They're eating
Please help me...

REPEAT CHORUS

They carry this thing inside me
Wants to get out
All it does is scream and shout
I'm trying not to let them out
They tell me to hurt myself
They tell me to hurt myself
They tell me to hurt myself
But I'm not gonna listen

REPEAT CHORUS 3x
2nd time add:
Hey Daddy, they are taking me
This demon...

(Daddy) Hey daddy, hey daddy
Hey daddy (waiting)
Daddy (daddy)

SOMEBODY SOMEONE

I can't stand to let you win
I'm just watching you
And I don't know what to do
Feeling like a fool inside
Feeling all the loved you hide
Thought you were my friend
Seems it never ends

I need somebody, someone
Can't somebody help me?
All I need is to be
Loved just for me

Giving you this and that
Giving - getting, nothing back
It's all related to
All the things I do
Feeling like a fool inside
Seeing all the things you tried
I am nothing...

I need somebody, someone
Can't somebody help me?
All I need is to be
Loved just for me

I look, I sign
I need someone
Inside to help me out
With what I'm trying
I'm crying
I'm frying
In a pile of, shit
I'm dying
I'm dying
I'm dying!!!...

I need somebody (someone) somebody (somebody) someone
I need somebody (someone) somebody (somebody) someone
Someone...

NO WAY

Lately things won't go my way
Lately everything is gray
It feels like something, it feels like nothing

CHORUS
So I came too far to end up this way
Feeling like I'm God - Feeling there's no way

So I'm angry for today
Anger's the only thing I've made
It feels like something...no it's...nothing

REPEAT CHORUS

To live this way...

BRIDGE
Hating, fearing, falling to the place where people haunt me
I can't help but keep from falling to the place where people know me
I can't wait to give them these feelings I'm hating
Keeping inside me
For all to take
Picking at me
They're ripping at me...ripping at me...

So I came too far, to end up this way
Feeling like I'm God...feeling there's no way...

REPEAT WITH BRIDGE

To live this way...live this way...

LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED

Man is crying, takes me to a certain place
Which I don't often find
I see a family walking Always thinking of being somewhere else in time
So I fall I fall face down in a rut I can't seem to get out of
Please wake me
Please give me some of it back
The feelings I had

BRIDGE
Sometimes I wish I could be strong like you
It doesn't matter
Each time I wake up somehow feeling the truth
I can't handle

CHORUS
Let's get this party started
I'm sick of playing you
You make me feel insane
Which I give to you
Let's get this party started
You make me feel insane
I'd like to be the one
To make myself sane

Time is ticking, it makes me feel content with what I have inside
Constant paranoia surrounds me
Everyone I see is out to get me
So I fall face down in a rut I can't seem to get out of
Please wake me
Please give me some of it back
The feelings I had

REPEAT BRIDGE AND CHORUS

You make me feel insane
You make me feel insane
(background part I am unable to decipher)

REPEAT BRIDGE AND CHORUS

I WISH YOU COULD BE ME

I am going insane - this shit is out of a pain
I cannot maintain as the shit gnaws at my brain
I wish you could be me, and then yes you would see
How tired I am and how you get the best of me
At least you could look at me while you are raping me
You are taking my life and sold it, tee-hee-hee
Why should I complain?
At least it helps the pain
I am very cool now and this guy sold out my fame

I am going insane - this shit is out of my pain
I cannot maintain as the shit awes at my brain
I wish you could be me, and then yes, you would see
How tired I am and how you get the best of me
At least you could look at me while you're raping me
At least you could look at me while you're raping me
You fuckin, pussy!!!

COUNTING

This song is about the record company and how they don't care about the band, their music or Jonathan's pain that they are making money off of. All they care about is counting their money. But Jonathan doesn't care because he only plays music for the fun of it...not the fame, money and the girls.

I can't bare to face what's growing in my head
Please get away from me
Take advantage of what I feel, yes you do
One day you'll pay for me

CHORUS
So I'm saying nothing
Each day taking that much more
As I'm screaming all my pain
You will be there, counting

You just see me as something you throw around
You aren't there for me
Beaten down to the ground, yes, it always seems
You take more from me

REPEAT CHORUS

It's funny how it gets started
They get the money, throw their fingers on you
They give you money, and the girls and the fame
I only do it for the fun - that's my gain
It's funny how it gets started
They get the money, throw their fingers on you
They give ya money, and the girls and the fame
I only do it for the fun
That's my gain...

REPEAT CHORUS

So I'm saying nothing
Each day taking that much more
As I'm screaming all this pain
You will be there...counting...

DIRTY

Jonathan Davis:
I feel like a fucking whore to record companies.
You know how it is...the way we are used and marketed. How they make all the money off us and we don't make shit! The only way we make money is to go out on tour and sell merchandise...basically we write all the music and turn in and they make all the money. So I feel like that and also I feel like a slut cuz I'd go out at night and fuck girls and so I said fuck it, I'm going to do it. The only way to escape is to have sex.
Its all kinds of different issues.

Keep looking, noone's there
Pouring down, needn't be found

CHORUS
I'm out here, by myself, all alone
Ready to blow my head off!
I hurt so bad inside, I wish you could see the world through my eyes
Each day is the same
I just wanna' live again...

Keep hoping, nothing to spare
So my life, isn't quite fair
I feel like a whore...a dirty whore
Such a whore...
Dirty...

REPEAT CHORUS

Just wanna' live again...

I'll take it, I'll take it
I will take it...give it to me!

You dirty little fuck!
Dirty little fuck!

I will take it! I will take it!

I hurt so bad inside
I wish you could see the world through my eyes
Each day is the same, I just wanna' live again...

I just wanna' live again...
Just wanna' live again...

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