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“Masterpiece Theatre I” | Marianas Trench 

Careful, follow my instruction
And I will show you self-destruction
This masterpiece is only mine
Entirely guilty by design

If I burn out and slip away…
But this is just a part I portray
And this is just a part I portray
You're beautiful, can I hide in you awhile?
If this is just a part I portray
Can I hide in you awhile?

“Writing on a Wall” | The Dear Hunter

Come away young man
Where the ground is red
And you need a mask to breathe
.
Open eyes young man
Vigilante hands and a heart prepared for pain
You will lose much more in this vicious war
past and present stay the same

But the time to come will be altered some
If you listen to our song
Though we sing in vain
The fact remains: 
There is nothing can be done

“Go Back” | Tom Auton

The bottom of a bottle, the barrel of a gun
I'll stop the pain with either one
And I'm loading up the bullets, confessing all of my sins
As the metal meets against my skin
.
As time ticks by, I wonder if I-
If I take a sip then can I go back
To where I was?
Before the colours faded to black
And stained these walls
I need something to cover the cracks that you left
This hole inside my chest
If I take a sip then can I go back
To where I was?

“Spectator” | Friday Pilots Club

If we take it from the top now
Just how you left me before
Found me breaking out of blackout
With one hand on the door

I feel my body calling
Dying for a way to let go
(Cold stare, are you tasting the glare?)
It's his voice through my lips
Yeah I'm beggin' him to leave me alone
(No shot, boy, I'm all that you got)

“Surgical Rewind” | Will Champlin

I've been bleeding out 
For things I've yet to see
But I'm operating slow and patiently
And if all of the wounds 
Have taken a toll on me
Is this freedom or anarchy?

Gotta walk into the dark to find the knife
Gonna carve incisions into this life
Going back into time 
In the back of my mind
Looking for where I flatlined
Fighting the noise of my poison
Is it me I'm just avoiding?

“The Right Wrong” | The Dear Hunter

My heart has a habit of shedding light 
On my numerous mistakes
And they wear me down 
Allied with the ghosts of pain that keep me awake
Oh, the past can paralyze 
If you ponder the paths you didn't take 

With the chance to go back and amend every grievance
How could I resist preventing my demons
From ever existing and making a mess
Of the life that I could have had?
.
Still it's hard not to imagine 
How different our lives would be if given the chance
To fix every failure, to rewrite the canon
What character would I be if my conscience was clean?

“Dirty Second Hands” | Switchfoot

Here's the face of everything that breaks you down
Now you face the face of everything that breaks you down

With an army of me
We invent our own enemies
Man versus machine
And the dirty second hands
The dirty second hands

“An Antidote for Strychnine” | The Mountain Goats

Only share my research
With sick lab rats like me
Trapped behind the beakers
And the Erlenmeyer flasks
Cut off from the world, I may not ever get free
But I may one day

Tryin' to find
An antidote for strychnine

“DON'T WASTE MY TIME” | Ethan Gander, LeGrand

You can hurt my feelings
You can damage my pride
You can take all my earth things
Yeah and I wouldn't mind
You can steal all my money
Leave me deaf dumb and blind
But would you be so kind
As to not waste my time!

Tick tock, tick tock
Seconds minutes hours
They never stop
And as the clock ticks by
You wonder why
Your life drip drips
Down the drain like a drop

“Jackrabbit” | San Fermin

Everything you see is double
Any way you go you lose!
When you're lost in the woods and 
Alone in the world too
Another day older, and another day we go
“Oh no, alone again with all these people!”
.
Want to live like an animal?
By the skin of your teeth?
Put your good face on, you're not foolin' no one
You're a jackrabbit underneath
One step forward, step right back
Run for the hills, honey, 
Run for the hills, don't look back

“Semi-Automatic” | O Mer

‘Cause on the outside of my room's 
A world of danger
And on the inside of my head 
I am insane
Myself and I are not 
The greatest combination
Cause I've a semi-automatic for a brain

“Anaesthetic” | Thomston

Swum right out your depths
Now you drown and you go down feeling
Second hand regret
Consequence and self defence
Retrace your steps
You'll find where it all went wrong
Have someone to blame
You hope it's a name
You already know
You're at your wits' end

Living on anaesthetic
No one seems to get it
It's too much to take and now
You're numb to the sensation

“If All Goes Well” | The Dear Hunter

Was it logic to lust after fame?
When ambition had never ended well for us?
(Now everything that you lost is surely coming to you!)
Every catastrophe has shaped me into something new
.
If they can't play nice I won't play with em at all
I'll give them a kick when I learn to lead
(You're getting over your head once again…)
And if they don't get out, then I'll just bury them all

Will you carry us to Eden?
Someone to believe in?
Breaking down the walls which kept us locked away?
Lead us into brilliance
Borne by your resilience
Love us all in spite of what we'll do to you…

“Dear Dictator” | Saint Motel

I heard he'll drink your blood just for the taste
Then laugh and spit it out!
.
And at the trial, there'll be no jury
And all the dead are going to play witness
Not too late to say you're sorry
It's too late to truly mean it

“Conquest of Spaces” (2025 Rework) | Woodkid

Beyond the laws of density
Towers of glass and steel
Temples and fragments of Memories
Drifting away from me

I'm ready to start the conquest of spaces
Expanding between you and me
Come with the night 
The science of fighting the forces of gravity

“Alchemy” | Lola Blanc

How many towers can you buy
To live with gods up in the sky?
And if you dare to ask him
Then he'll buy the question: Why?

Bow to the Capital!
Can't be wicked if it makes me whole
What's wrong with complete control?
It's better from the balcony
.
How many banquets can you eat
Before you've had your fill of meat?
When did the X mark the spot
Where everybody rots?

“Power” | Ethan Gander

If you had a royal flush, would you be able to fold?
For a chance to play god, would you forfeit your soul?
.
So who holds the power over you?
Have you fooled yourself into letting someone else think for you?
Do you own your mind or has it been sold?
Who caged your spirit? 
Do what you're told
Repeat after me now, "Who's in control?”