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Happiness... CD Cover
  1. One Man Army
  2. Happiness and the Fish
  3. Potato Girl
  4. Blister
  5. Is Anybody Home?
  6. Waited
  7. Thief 
  8. Lying Awake
  9. Annie 
  10. Consequence Of Laughing
  11. Stealing Babies - (featuring Elvin Jones)


One Man Army

Take these plastic people
 Read their lips, now let it linger
 Is there anything that makes them sound
 sincere?
 Tightly hold your hand
 Take a deep breath, give them the finger
 Are you worried
 That your thoughts are not quite clear?
 (Twitch)
 Overlooked, unfit appearance

 I remember falling
 I remember marching
 Like a one man army
 Through the blaze
 I remember coughing
 I believe in something
 I don’t want to remember falling
 For their lies

 Unbutton your clothes
 Undress your soul, show them your
 vigor
 Are those inhibitions easiest to fear?
 Take this gasoline tin
 Head up high , walk like a winner
 Let the bare feet be the last sound that
 they hear
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Happiness and the Fish

I confess
 Everyone is overweight
 And I'm obsessed
 Talking is just masturbating
 Without the mess
 Addiction leaves you sad today
 & unimpressed
 I can't remember all the names because
 Everyone you meet today
 Is just so fucking vain

 Bored again by happiness
 All those friends I've (die) lost in there

 I'm upset
 Happiness is not a fish
 That you can catch
 Imagination can't resist
 This laziness
 That pins you down, get on your knees
 Everyone you meet today
 Is feeling useless & ashamed
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Potato Girl

We live, we die
 I don't know the reasons we ask why
 We hate, we push
 Recent tests show we are all
 misunderstood

 Something's seizing
 You know you lost your mind
 You know we all need saving
 She found you late last night
 You feel the madness gaining
 You know you just can't win
 You know this
 But I'm just so tired of waking up on the
 ground
 I never knew the girl
 And I never knew the world hurt

 We beg, we pray
 But everything still happens anyway
 Something's teasing
 Your conscience can't decide
 She stopped your will from caving
 But left you paranoid

 You feel the constant straining
 She reappears divine
 You noticed
 But I'm just so tired of waking up all
 alone
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Blister

We live, we die
 I don't know the reasons we ask why
 We hate, we push
 Recent tests show we are all
 misunderstood

 Something's seizing
 You know you lost your mind
 You know we all need saving
 She found you late last night
 You feel the madness gaining
 You know you just can't win
 You know this
 But I'm just so tired of waking up on the
 ground
 I never knew the girl
 And I never knew the world hurt

 We beg, we pray
 But everything still happens anyway
 Something's teasing
 Your conscience can't decide
 She stopped your will from caving
 But left you paranoid
 You feel the constant straining
 She reappears divine
 You noticed
 But I'm just so tired of waking up all
 alone
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Is Anybody Home?

Goodbye, the future's sold out
 There's no use screaming
 Who thought we'd ever get this far

 Tonight, your faith has come down
 To money & a TV
 Psychics who've never been to mars
 And nazis breast feeding
 I know you must be upset
 I can't find meaning
 I'm sorry, we're sorry
 We're all scared, all scared

 Hey is anybody home
 Has anybody wasted tears on the
 loneliness
 That everyone becomes

 Goodnight, the truth has come out
 Everyone's needy
 White teeth, a ticket to meet god
 Be all that you envy
 The shotgun under your bed has
 Started breathing
 You shot it, you shot it
 I'm bare, I'm bare

 Hey, is anybody home
 Has anybody painted fear
 On the bedroom walls that save us
 from...
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Waited

Hit the ground
 Weighed down again
 You walked out
 But I'm sure you're my friend

 It must have been good
 This can't be for good
 Everyone's....
 Is everyone OK

 I waited
 But I must be too dumb to be proud
 Because I waited, I waited

 Woke to sounds
 I prayed you were there
 I fell back down
 But I'm sure you still care
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Thief

I don't want to understand this horror
 There's a weight in your eyes that I can't
 admit
 Everybody ends up here in bottles
 But the name tags the last thing that you
 wanted
 As the world explodes we fall out of it
 But we can't let go because this
 Will not go away
 There's a house built out in space...

 I can't see that thief that lives inside of
 your head
 But I can be some courage at the side of
 your bed
 I don't know what's happening and I
 won't pretend
 But I can be your....

 Someone help us understand who
 ordered
 This disgusting arrangement with time
 and the end
 I don't want to hear who walked on
 water
 Because the hallways are empty and the
 clock ticks
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Lying Awake

I'm here to wear you out
 I'm here to watch you hide
 Nothing to figure out
 I'm here to watch you die
 Running away from the breast of
 Your busy giant healing machine

 Nobody left in line
 No-one to make you shine
 Hanging on to the backs of opinions
 You've borrowed & betrayed

 Lying awake
 Don't ask why you should pay for this
 A mother
 Another
 A shameless abusing
 But this time we're saving you

 I'm here to break you down
 I'm here to bury time
 Nothing to talk about
 Nothing to change my mind
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Annie

You're a little bit shy
 A little too quiet
 You're the mixed up girl
 That everybody leaves behind
 A little bit weird
 A little too bright
 But you just might be
 That little bomb at their side
 They'll pull your hair
 They'll leave you wide-eyed
 But did anybody wonder
 What Annie might have in mind
 Oh, no

 There's something in the way she
 explains to me
 "Please be careful, i exist in someone
 else's head"
 Oh, no
 There's something in the way that she
 makes believe
 Please be careful,
 Annie dreams that everyone is dead

 You're a little bit dry
 A little uptight
 You're the messed up girl
 That every body tries to hide
 You've had enough
 They're too unkind
 But did anyone consider
 What Annie might have in mind
 Oh, no...
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Consequence Of Laughing

Take all your pills and divide them
 By color & size
 Take all your problems and advise them
 That everything's fine
 Since you ran away you've been beating
 Your habits to death
 But if you were to stay would you feed
 them
 This white happiness

 Nobody wants to harm you
 When you're outside
 But it's hard to believe
 When everyone's killing time
 Somebody knows
 That you're not laughing

 Take all your pills and divide them
 By number and might
 Take all your problems chastise them
 Because everything's fine
 Since you've ran away you've been
 beating
 Those ladders instead
 But if you were to stay would you feed
 them
 With violence
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Stealing Babies - (featuring Elvin Jones)

I'm teething on the answers you're saving
 How are you going to make me
 understand
 I'm dreaming while your stealing babies
 How are you going to help me sleep
 again
 How should I say "I'm so sorry"
 How should I pray to know that we're
 alive

 Eve stands alone
 By the knock on the door
 By the thin in her bones
 She's courageous & loving
 Exhausted & cold
 She's not ready to go
 But the ghost on the phone
 Helps her safely into her dream

 You're leaving pieces of family
 How are you going to help them
 understand
 I'm screaming while you're stealing
 babies
 Why do you want to knock us down
 again
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