CELEBRITY SKIN


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* Celebrity Skin
* Awful
* Hit So Hard
* Malibu
* Reasons To Be Beautiful
* Dying
* Use Once & Destroy
* Northern Star
* Boys On The Radio
* Heaven Tonight
* Playing Your Song
* Petals


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- Celebrity Skin -

Oh, make me over
I’m all I wanna be
A walking study
In demonology

Hey, so glad you could make it
Yeah, now you really made it
Hey, so glad you could make it now

Oh, look at my face
My name is might’ve been
My name is never was
My name’s forgotten

Hey, so glad you could make it
Yeah, now you really made it
Hey, there’s only us left now

When I wake up in my makeup
It’s too early for that dress
Wilted and faded
Somewhere in Hollywood
I’m glad I came here
With your pound of flesh

No second billing
Cause you’re a star now
Oh, Cinderella
They aren’t sluts like you
Beautiful garbage
Beautiful dresses
Can you stand up
Or will you just fall down?

You better watch out
Of what you wish for
It better be worth it
So much to die for

Hey, so glad you could make it
Yeah, now you really made it
Hey, there’s only us left now

When I wake up in my makeup
Have you ever felt so used up as this?
It’s all so sugarless
Hooker/waitress/model/actress
Oh, just go nameless

Honeysuckle
She’s full of poison
She obliterated
Everything she kissed
Now she’s fading
Somewhere in Hollywood
I’m glad I came here
With your pound of flesh

You want a part of me
Well, I’m not selling cheap
No, I’m not selling cheap


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- Awful -

Swing low, sweet cherry
Make it awful
It’s your life
It’s your party
It’s so awful

Let’s start a fire
Let’s have a riot!
Yeah, it’s awful
It was punk
Yeah, it was perfect
Now it’s awful

They know how to break all the girls like you
And they rob the souls of the girls like you
And they break the hearts of the girls

Swing low, cherry, cherry
Yeah, it’s awful
He’s drunk
He tastes like candy
He’s so beautiful

He’s so deep
Like dirty water
God, he’s awful
You’re lost
Oh, where’s your daddy
It’s so awful

And they royalty rate all the girls like you
And they sell it out to the girls like you
To incorporate little girls

Hey, run away with the light
Run away, it’s divine
Let’s run away, yeah, tonight
And we’ll steal the light of the world

Swing low, sweet cherry
Yeah, it’s awful
You’re ripe
For the picking
It’s so awful

You’ve got your youth
Don’t waste your money
Yeah, it’s awful
I was punk!
Now I’m just stupid!
I’m so awful

Oh, shut up you’re only sixteen
Oh, shut up you’re only sixteen

If the world is so wrong
Yeah, you can break them all
With one song
If the world is so wrong
Yeah, you can take it all
With one song

Swing low, sweet cherry
Make it awful
They bought it all
Just build a new one
Make it beautiful
Yeah


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- Hit So Hard -

Put me up above the boy
The one I love I should destroy
My sweet tooth has burned a hole
Forget about it all

He hit so hard
I saw stars
He hit so hard
I saw God

He’s cold, give him a candycoat
He can’t swim but he can float
One by one they all fall down
I look at him and drown

He hit so hard
I saw stars
He hit so hard
I saw God

I saw God
Just one big shiny flash
God
Your secret's safe tonight
God
So much, so much to lose
God
So glad that we're alive

He’s so candy, my downfall
Melts in my mouth ‘til he’s nothing at all
This keeps me, I can’t sleep
He rages to be true

He hit so hard
I saw stars
He hit so hard
I saw God

I saw God
Just one big shiny flash
God
Oh, set me straight tonight
God
Look at the pretty lights
God

Oh, man, he hit so hard
I saw stars
He hit so hard
I saw God

I saw God


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- Malibu -

Crash and burn
All the stars explode tonight
How’d you get so desperate?
How’d you stay alive?

Help me, please
Burn the sorrow from your eyes
Oh, come on, be alive again
Don’t lay down and die

Hey, hey
You know what to do
Oh, baby, drive away
To Malibu

Get well soon
Please don’t go any higher
How are you so burned
When you’re barely on fire?

Cry to the angels
I’m gonna rescue you
I’m gonna set you free tonight, baby
Pour over me

Hey, hey
We’re all watching you
Oh, baby, fly away
To Malibu

Cry to the angels
Let them swallow you
Go and part the sea, yeah
In Malibu

And the sun goes down
I watch you slip away
And the sun goes down
I walk into the waves
And the sun goes down
I would

And I knew
Love would tear you apart
Oh, and I knew
The darkest secret of your heart

Hey, hey
I’m gonna follow you
Oh, baby, fly away, yeah
To Malibu

Oceans of angels
Oceans of stars
Down by the sea
Is where you drown your scars

I can’t be near you
The light just radiates
I can’t be near you
The light just radiates


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- Reasons To Be Beautiful -

Love hangs herself
With the bedsheets in her cell
Threw myself on fires for you
Ten good reasons to stay alive
Ten good reasons that I can’t find

Oh, give me a reason to be beautiful
So sick in his body, so sick in his soul
Oh, give me one reason to be beautiful
Oh, and everything I am

Love hates you
I live my life in ruins for you
And for all your secrets kept
I squashed the blossom
And the blossom’s dead

Oh, give me a reason to be beautiful
So sick in his body, so sick in his soul
Oh, and I will make myself so beautiful
Oh, and everything I am

Miles and miles of perfect skin
I swear I do, I fit right in
My love burns through everything
I cannot breathe

Miles and miles of perfect sin
I swear, I said, I fit right in
I fit right in your perfect skin
I cannot breathe

Hey, baby, take it all the way down
Hey, baby, taste me anyway
Oh, you were born
So pretty
Oh, summerbabe
We’ll never know
And fading like a rose

Give me a reason to be beautiful
So sick in his body, so sick in his soul
I’ll give you my body, just sell me your soul
Oh, and everything I am will be bought and sold
Oh, and everything I am will turn hard and cold

And they say in the end
You’ll get bitter just like them
And they steal your heart away
When the fire goes out you better learn to fake
It’s better to rise Than fade away

Hey, you were right
Named a star for your eyes
Did you freeze?
Did you weep?
Turn to gold, baby, sleep

Hey, honey mine
I was there all the time
And I weep
At your feet
And it rains and rains

Is..
No...
More...


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- Dying -

You've seen a cripple dance?
Pay me your money, baby, now's your chance
Your lies like cyanide

I am so dumb
Just beam me up
I've had it all forever
I've had enough

Remember, you promised me
I'm dying, I'm dying, please
I want to, I need to be
Under your skin

Our love is quicksand
So easy to drown
They steal the gravity, yeah
From moving ground

Remember, you promised me
I'm dying, I'm dying, please
I want to, I need to be
Under your skin

And now I understand
You leave with everything
You leave with everything I am
Memories

And I know that love is dead
You come to bury me
There's nothing left here to pretend
Then it fades

Remember, you promised me
I'm dying, I'm dying, please
I want to, I need to be, oh
Under your skin

I'm dying, I'm dying, please
I'm dying, I'm dying, please
I'm dying, I'm dying, please, oh
Under your skin

Under your skin


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- Use Once & Destroy -

It’s the emptiness that follows you down
It’s the ache inside when it all burns out
It’s poisonous, it muscles, it aches
It’s everything you had when it breaks

It’s the emptiness, that’s all you have left
Too terrified of your frozen breath
It’s a bitter mouth, it’s buttered and knived
It’s the awful truth, you fight for your life

It might as well, it might as well hurt
It might as well, it might as well

I went down to rescue you
I went all the way down
Fill your hungry wretched life
Here they come, it’s closing time

It’s the bitter root, it’s twisted inside
It’s the heart you used to have when it died
It’s the emptiness, it poisons, it lies
It’s everything that you’ll never find

It might as well, it might as well hurt
It might as well, it might as well

I went down for the remains
Sort through all your blurs and stains
Take your rapture blister burns
Stand in line, it’s not your turn

All dressed in red
Always the bride
Off with her head
All dressed in white
Off with her head

I went down to rescue you
I went all the way down
I went down for the remains
Sort through all your blurs and stains

Ooh, I will follow you
Anytime, anywhere
Ooh, I will come for you
Just say you don't care


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- Northern Star -

And I cry
And no one can hear
Inhale
The blinded eyes that see
The chaos
Bring the pitiful to me
Even though I’m wide-awake
I will
And blackest night
And I wait for you
It’s cold in here
There’s no one left
And I wait for you
And nothing stops it happening
And I knew
I’d cherish all my misery alone

And I wait
Staring at the Northern Star
I’m afraid
It won’t lead me anywhere
He’s so cold
He will ruin the world tonight
All the angels
Kneel into the Northern Lights
Kneel into the frozen lights

And they paid
I cry and cry for you
Ghosts that haunt you with their sorrow
I cried ‘cause you were doomed
Praying to the wound that swallows
All that’s cold and cruel
Can you see the trees
Charity
And gratitude
They run to the pines
It’s black in here
Blot out the sun
And run to the pines
Our misery
Runs wild and free
And I knew
The fire and the ashes of his grace

And I wait
Staring at the Northern Star
I’m afraid
It won’t lead you very far
He’s so cold
He will win the world tonight
All the angels
Kneel into the frozen lights
Feel their hearts they’re cold and white

And I want you
And blessed are the broken
And I beg you
No loneliness
No misery is worth you
Oh, tear his heart out
Cold as ice, it’s mine

And I wait
Praying to the Northern Star
I’m afraid
It won’t lead you anywhere
He’s so cold
Raining on the world tonight
All the angels
Kneel into to the Northern Lights

And I pray
Begging to the Northern Star
I’m afraid
It won’t lead you anywhere
He’s so cold
He will rule the world tonight
All the angels
Kneel into to the Northern Lights
Kneel into to the frozen lights

Feel their hearts they’re cold as ice


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- Boys On The Radio -

Do what you want
Cause I'll do anything and
I'll take the blame

What's mine is yours
You can have all all of it and
I learn to pay

Oh, the boys on the radio
They crash and burn
They fold and fade so slow

In your endless summer night
I’ll be on the other side
When you’re beautiful and dying
All the world that you’ve denied
When the water is too deep
You can close your eyes and really sleep
Tonight

Tonight

I want what's yours
Oh, I'll give anything and
I'll take the pain

I wait alone
For what will never come and
I throw it all away

Oh, the boys on the radio
They crash and burn
They fold and fade so slow

In your endless summer night
I’ll be on the other side
When you’re beautiful and dying
All the world that you’ve denied
When the water is too deep
You can close your eyes and really sleep
Tonight

Your beauty blinds

If I let you in
Under my skin
And risen every angel slain

He said he'd never ever, ever go and
Heavens heavens, heavens know/no and
Never ever, ever go away
Baby, I've gone away

In your endless summer night
I’ll be on the other side
When you’re beautiful and dying
All the world that you’ve denied
When the water is too deep
You can close your eyes and really sleep
Tonight

Your beauty blinds

I know what you are running to
Please come back
Oh, come back again
I hear the truth
It’s coming from you
Oh, come back
Won’t come back again

In your endless summer night
I’ll be on the other side
When the water is too deep
I will ease your suffering

When the glitter fades in the morning
Turn away and you will find my empty eyes
Your beauty blinds

I know that you are rotten to the core
I know that you don’t love me anymore
I know that you are rotten to the core


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- Heaven Tonight -

Here comes the sun
In the form of a girl
She's the finest sweetest thing
In the world, ah
Take you to heaven tonight

I feel the horses
Coming galloping
In the summer rain
Take you to heaven tonight, ah
Cause I love you
For what you are
I'll gallop to you
Tonight, tonight
We'll ride
I'll give it to you
We're going to heaven tonight
Tonight

Out on the winding road
I couldn't wait
Oh, baby I was afraid
Headed for heaven tonight, ah
I'll go to heaven tonight

I feel the horses
Coming galloping
I will never grow old
I’ll go to heaven tonight, ah
Because I love you
For what you are
I'll gallop to you
Tonight, tonight
We'll ride
I'll bow down to you
We're going to heaven tonight
Tonight

I can't believe that I could be happy
Summer/Someone will come again, I could be happy
Oh, stop your crying, you could be happy
Go to heaven when you made me happy

Here comes the kiss that I never had
Nothing feels like this
Headed for heaven tonight, aha-aha
I love you

Here comes the storm in the form of a girl
She's the finest, sweetest thing
In the world, ah
I'll go to heaven tonight
For what you are
I'll gallop to you
Tonight, tonight
We'll ride
I'll bow down to you
We're going to heaven tonight
Ah, tonight
Oh, tonight
Take it tonight
Take it tonight
Take me tonight
Tonight
Tonight


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- Playing Your Song -

Hey you, you’re way ahead of me
You’re drunk on apathy
You burned right out
Hey you, you’re just a cripple now
We sell for millions now
They sold you out

And, oh, I had to tell them you were gone
I had to tell them they were wrong
And now they’re playing your song

Hey you, don’t take it out on me
You’re bored of everything
You burned right out
Hey you, so bored and cynical
It’s fucking wonderful
They sold you out

And, oh, they’ve bought and sold it all, it's gone
They’ve taken it and built a mall
And now they’re playing your song

Yeah, their innocence tastes like candy, yeah
Get so fat on it, it’s a tragedy, yeah
Oh, I can help you come to me, yeah
Just bring your innocence to me, yeah

Hey you, oh, don’t you dare blame me
You trusted everything
They sold you out
Hey, you, now when they call it cool
It’s just so mean and cruel
They sold you out

And, oh, they bought and sold it all, it’s gone
And every note of it is wrong
And now they’re playing your song
Yeah, yeah, yeah
And, oh, they’ve bought and sold it all, it's gone
They’ve taken it and built a mall
And now they’re playing your song
They're playing, playing your song
They're playing, playing your song
They're playing, playing your song


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- Petals -

She's the angel on
Top of the tree
Sugar-heart, here she comes
She's going to fall on me

Innocence was our fire
We told the truth
I miss the sweet boys
In the summer of their youth

Tear the petals off of you
And make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you

Tear the petals off of you
And make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you

They will make you so
So cynical
The fire burns the flesh
Destroy the best in me that's old/and made us old

She's the grace of this world
She's too pure
For the likes of this world
This world is a whore

Tear the petals off of you
And make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you

Tear the petals off of you
And make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you

Ah, it's all mine and
Hey, it's all mine and
Help, it's all mine

I never knew what I could be
All the darling buds of May
They fall with no sound
They carry you down
They carry you down

Ohhhh
Ohhhh

All the lilies bloomed and blossomed
Wilted and they’re shivering
I can’t stop their withering
Oh, this world is a war

Tear the petals off of you
And make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you

Tear the petals off of you
Make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you

Tear the petals off of you
And make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you



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