Burn it down and bleed it out

because nobody's listening.

I run away, by myself

waiting for the end.

I've given up and I am numb

looking for somewhere I belong,

a place for my head on roads untraveled

that make me hit the floor.

I'm lost in the echoes within a

castle of glass and shadows of the day

leave me crawling on hands and knees

from skin to bone until I faint

and there's nothing left me ....

It's 1979 sometime around midnight

and the mortician's daughter is

craving coffee and cigarettes

she's looking down at a photograph

finding it hard to concentrate

her mind is somewhere in neverland

missing her guardian angel

Laying face down on the bed

She falls asleep to the cricket

under her bed playing its lullaby

Does Your Mother Know,

In The Attic,

Time Moves Slow.

Hold Your Head Up,

Imaginary Lover.

Casper's Coming Home.

Pardon me,

A simple kind of man

With broken bones,

but I won't back down,

rape me with poison oak,

two angels and a dream

destroy the dance floor

as I watch the sun

fuck the ocean.

All words are song titles except for italics that I used to string together.

Just stop the voices in my asylum

My perfect insanity is pain redifined

I'm trapped inside the fire with my demons

Caught down with the sickness

I give one last prayer to show me the light

Yet all I hear is the sound of silence

Two minutes to midnight, To here knows when 

Dirty deeds done dirt cheap--

Playing for keeps.

American life; Apocalypse please

Our perfect disease.

Tooth and nail & Heart of stone

Disposable heroes 

Clenching fists of dissent;

World peace is none of your business.

The ghost of you,

is My tourniquet.

when Disenchanted,

you Bring me to life.

I will always remember you,

Even in death.

I never told you what I do for a living,

but You know what they do to guys like me in prison.

*Hey soul sister*, *take me to church*, *don’t speak*

*She talks to angels*, *all the things she said*, *bitter sweet symphony*

*Headstrong*, *I won’t back down*, *it’s my life**I will not bow*

*Losing my religion**I don’t believe you*

*Better than me*, *in the arms of the angel*

*Someone like you*, *somebody that I used to know*

*Jesus of suburbia*, *loser*, *the pretender*, *creep*

*I hate everything about you*, *only god knows why*

*Wrong side of heaven*, *wish you were here*, *broken*, *on the floor*

*Gone away*, *far behind*, *there’s no going back*

*I stand alone*, *numb*, *coming undone*, *inside out*

*If you could only see**the reason**I see fire**burn*

*Demons*, *with arms wide open*, *dare you to move*

*Hate me**no surprise*, *time after time* *this is war*

*What do you want from me*, *savior*, *playing god*

*Saving me**gives you hell*, *who will save your soul*

*I’ll be**knocking on heaven’s door**when I’m gone*

*Thanks for the memories*

Note: Apologies for the length, I got carried away

Songs:

Hey soul sister, Train / Take me to church, Hozier / Don’t speak, No doubt / She talks to angels, The Black Crowes / All the things she said, Tatu / Bitter sweet symphony, The Verve / Headstrong, Trapt / I won’t back down, Tom Petty / It’s my life, Bon Jovi / I will not bow, Breaking Benjamin / Losing my religion, REM / I don’t believe you, Pink / Better than me, Hinder / In the arms of the angel, Sarah McLachlan / Someone like you, Adele / Somebody that I used to know, Goyte / Jesus of suburbia, Green Day / Loser, Beck / The Pretender, Foo Fighters / Creep, Radiohead / I hate everything about you, Three Days Grace / Only god knows why, Kid Rock / Wrong side of heaven, Five Finger Death Punch / Wish you were here, Pink Floyd / Broken, Seether / On the floor, Jennifer Lopez / Gone away, Offspring / Far behind, Candlebox / There’s no going back, Sickpuppies / I stand alone, Godsmack / Numb, Linkin Park / Coming undone, Korn / Inside out, Eve 6 / If you could only see, Tonic / The reason, Hoobastank / I see fire, Ed Sheeran / Burn, Papa Roach / Demons, Imagine Dragons / With arms wide open, Creed / Dare you to move, Switchfoot / Hate me, Blue October / No surprise, Daughtry / Time after time, Cyndi Lauper / This is war, Thirty Seconds to Mars / What do you want from me, Adam Lambert / Savior, Rise Against / Playing God, Paramore / Saving me, Nickleback / Gives you hell, All American Rejects / Who will save your soul, Jewel / I’llbe, Edwin McCain / Knocking on heaven’s door, Bob Dylan / When I’m gone, 3 Doors Down / Thanks for the memories, Fall Out Boy

Oh, I'm singing country western

promising to Walk the Line.

I Wish I Were in Dixie Tonight

But She’s Out of Town.

All my friends I telephone

say Here’s a Quarter, Call

Someone Who Cares.

I tried to tell my girlfriend, Dixie,

Get Your Tongue Outa My Mouth

Cause I’m Kissing You Goodbye.

I Fell in a Pile of You

And Got Love All Over Me.

She Made Toothpicks

Out of the Timber of My Heart.

She Had Velcro Arms

And Teflon Heart.

But I Don’t Believe My Heart

Can Stand Another You

Even though I Can’t Stop

Loving You

I tell my buddies

Thank God and Greyhound

She’s Gone.

But I’m sitting here alone

My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend

And I Sure Do Miss Him.

So I wish Dixie was still In Town.

Comfortably numb

Sometimes I feel

Like a motherless child

I’m not feeling it anymore

Real real gone

Into the mystic

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(Comfortably numb – Pink Floyd 1979/Covered by Van Morrison 2007;

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child – Van Morrison 1987 Poetic Champions Compose;

I’m not feeling it Anymore – Van Morrison 1991 Hymns to the Silence;

Real Real Gone – Van Morrison 1990 Astral Weeks;

Into the mystic – Van Morrison 2002 Moondance;

Dweller on the threshold – Van Morrison 1982 Beautiful Vision.)