I've been dreaming of a red bird
And the peace of it's gentle wings
It's an omen of better things
I've been waking with the same pain
That makes me wanna sleep
And dream of a red bird
So build us a nest, for I've chosen to leave
For I'm so heavy here
Come to me tonight and I'll be waiting
With my wings
I will have left the weight behind me that
The blood of man brings
Where there once was despair
Tonight I'll be free
And the slings and the stone that uncovered my bones
will have flown my memory
I've been dreaming of a red bird
It's sings of a way out, it sings of release
It's been tapping on my window
To remind me it's waiting
And that I have a choice
So build us a nest, for I have chosen to leave
For I am so heavy here
Come to me tonight and I'll be waiting
With my wings
I will have left the weight behind that
The blood of man brings
Where there once despair
Tonight I'll be free
And the slings and the stones that uncovered
my bones will have flown my memory
Take me away from here
I am not equipped for such strain
Take away the fear
How do you prepare for the pain
Now I'm leaving with a red bird
As my arms leak again
I am so happy here
Come to me tonight and I'll be waiting
With my wings
I will have left the weight behind that
The blood of man brings
Where there once was despair
Tonight I will be free
And the slings and the stones that uncovered
My bones will have flown my memory

I've been dreaming of a red bird
And the peace of it's gentle wings
It's an omen of better things
I've been waking with the same pain
That makes me want to sleep
And dream of a red bird
Been dreaming of a red bird...

Etched Memories - Kill Me

Waiting, waiting
Feel it all decaying
I'm hiding, I'm hiding
It's all collapsing
Drag me down
Like you do so perfectly
Close my eyes
So I don't have to see

The mutilation of my skin
Cutting deeper within
With it all upon my hands

I can't stand it sometimes
You wanna fuck with my life
You can not leave me alone
For fear that I might smile
Does it all seem worthwhile
I can't speak the pain
You encase in my head
I'm not afraid
It's bottled in hate
Surrounded by fists
Coming right for you

I can not believe the way
I never end up walking away
Sometimes I feel you in me
Other times i'm just too late
You've already taken control
You've already taken my soul
Just an empty hole
Made fresh by your hands
You wanna take it again
And leave me here
Take my sin
Digging deeper within
You're cutting too thin
Not bleeding me nearly enough
If you wanna kill me

The mutilation of my skin
Cutting deeper within
With it all upon my hands
Hold myself so tight
I can not believe I'm here
Clenching all my pain
I shudder to think
What makes you tick
It's fucking making me sick
The life you force me to live

Fuck you
Coming right for you
Fuck you
Coming right for you
Fuck you
Coming right for you
Fuck you
Coming right for you

Come on, Come on
Gonna bring you down
Come on, Come on
Gonna bring you down
Come on, Come on
Gonna bring you down
Come on, Come on
Gonna bring you down

I see you in me

The Juliana Theory - Breathing By Wires

addicted to razors
lashes to saviors
glued to the monitor
trained behavior
reduced to a number
mechanic enslavement
a virtual prison
selected detainment
a gradual nightmare
suicidal impulse
a cycle of habit
undeniable loss
breathing by wire
a network of heroes
processing data as ones and zeros

(Refrain)
Carry me through the wires
Bury me in the screen
Shift me into this fixation
Cling to the machine (x2)

This is now your world, and you barely made it
Did you think that it would cradle you until you were asleep forever?

Did you? (x4)

Lillian Axe - Needle and Your Pain

Feel like I'm loosin' again
Slipping away is the faith I used to cling to
Life seems too strange to be real
Watching you take it all in stride
Just for you
I'd take the needle and your pain
Away from you
One for you
Time has no mind for regret
Watching you bite on the bullet you were born with
How do you sit there at ease
While something inside steals your peace
Just for you
I'd take the needle and your pain
Away from you
I'd give you shelter from the rain
Just for you
One for you
No one can convince me that there's method to this madness
As I watch you fade
The hours tick away
With the courage of a lion
And the stead-fast heart of gold
You gave me strength while the flames of my hope
Burn so cold
Feeling the heat once again
Handed us hope as you rose up from the ashes
Gone is the pain so be free
Now in your name we can see
Just for you
I'd take the needle and your pain
Away from you
I'd give you shelter from the rain
Just for you
I'd take the needle and your pain
Away from you
I'd give you shelter from the rain
Just for you
One for you

Modern Girlfriends - I fell in love with a cutter

i fell in love with a cutter
she would e-mail me letters
her font was perfect
and the background was pink
when we met it was halloween
she was always a mystery.

and brought paranoia
you see she was younger
and didn't express much anything
she sent pictures while i was away
more eye make-up by the day.

when i close my eyes I feel the pain inside
fell in love and she can not make me right
and the background was pink
but when we met it was halloween
it was hollow.

and her skin tastes like the thin and salty rain
and her skin tastes like the thin and salty rain
she was born
she was born in 1988.

Monday In London - Lie to Me Baby

All around I can see you under my sheets,
in old photographs of them pulled up to your cheeks.
Trying hard to cope with the telephone not ringing
but you will never know the touch when your heart is feeling lonely.

If you're in the mood and you want to remember something
you can just lay in your bed and tap into my dreaming.
Breathing never seemed so difficult.

Here I am helpless, my fingers dig into your door.
Man I'm tired of helpless, so I cut myself with an old mirror.
Lie to me baby and I'll let you get away with it.

We spent the days and I guess I thought I could
disguise the way our love was fading fast.
Breathing never seemed so difficult.

So here I am helpless, my fingers dig into your door.
Man I'm tired of helpless but you, you only wanted more.
Lie to me baby and I'll let you get away with it.

So here I am helpless, she's a picture of don't mention it at all.
Man I'm tired of helpless so I cut myself with an old mirror.

My Ruin - Cosmetic

Elegantly wasted and I can taste it
here I sit, trying not to fake
this gift of beauty myth
I can't help but feel like this
bored... of the beauty whore
coz my body just wants more scars...
and I can feel them wounds...
I can't heal them
red bring my mouth to life
black revive my hair thats dyed
make-up always helps me hide
what I don't like on the outside

Starlight, starbright first star I see tonight
I wish I may, I wish I might have the wish
I wish tonight the birthday girl
a broken heart you name the drama
she played the part long lost
demons leave her godless
like her powder leaves her flawless
sugar coated heart shaped pout lipstick
just distorts her mouth
mascara puts her eyes asleep
cause beauty is only skin deep

Starlight, starbright first star I see tonight
I wish I may, I wish I might have the wish
I wish tonight

Bitch du jour served on a platter
she's so pretty but does it matter
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
but nobody told her
mirror mirror on the wall
watch her break and watch her fall
stitch her smile bruise her knees
walk among the enemies

Starlight, starbright first star I see tonight
I wish I may, I wish I might have the wish
I wish tonight

blest am I among women
to live and love in such a beautiful temple
blest am I among women.

My Ruin - Fever

I think I'll cut myself
Cut myself free
Now I'm somewhere else
Need to be
Wasted with no sleep
Forgot to pray
Jesus can you hear me?
Nails keep pounding
You push your fingers into holes
Of what my questions left
And as I drown your mouth in red
You fear what I will ask next
I violate your faith
I wonder what you really taste like
Feel the sensation of depth
I lied...
Can't help me now
It's under my skin
Nowhere to go
I'll never let you in (in fear of dying)
I could worship you
Make you behave
I'd tell you anything
Just to be saved
Baby... how's your faith these days?
Do you feel safe?
Kiss me
Sunlight makes us sick
As nails keep pounding
You warp your legs around my mind
Ten times and hide in me
The darker it gets outside
Your hearts a 1000 degrees
I make you swallow spit
You're sick with it
You're sick from me
Don't say I didn't warn you, I tried...
Can't help me now
It's under my skin
Nowhere to run
But I won't give in
Can't help me now
I'm bleeding within
Nowhere to go
I'll never give in
What god created me?... (your god)
What god created us?... (your god)
What god created this... thing called lust?
Your god created me?... (what god)
Your god created
FUCK... YOUR GOD CAN'T HELP ME NOW
IT'S UNDER MY SKIN
NOWHERE TO GO
BUT I WON'T GIVE IN
CAN'T HELP ME NOW
I'M BLEEDING WITHIN
NOWHERE TO GO
I'LL NEVER GIVE IN
I won't let you in
Won't let you in (let me in)
Won't let you (let me in)
GOD WON'T LET YOU...............

No Hollywood Ending - Blood Isn't Enough

Too much thinking
can ruin you.

That's the style.
Chaos is in.
Imagining your death is almost a sentimental feeling.

Giving a massage with a knife blade.
Writing a love song with a loaded gun.
Breaking concrete with your face
is what dreaming disaster is like.

That's the style.
Chaos is in.
1,2,3,die

This is what dreaming diaster is like.

I will watch the sky until your ghost flies high,
and crashes into a shooting star.

Blood is not enough for you to redeem yourself.
Blood is not enough...

Paperwork - Our Scars

Relative Ash - Sperm

take me for example
more than you can handle
mix me with placenta strong against my grandma
wasted masturbation bedrooms decorated
with my sperms depression great imagination
I'm sane my imagination mix me with her
is this all your weak ass has for me
stop your crying, stop your whining
you little bitch
stop your crying, stop your whining
you little
my disease apologies I need more
than just drink some warm milk honey
slit my wrists
close to hating razors
shell out pain to strangers
a place to lay my head
kitchen floor he said
I'm sane my imagination mix me with her
is this all your weak ass has for me
stop your crying, stop your whining
you little bitch
stop your crying, stop your whining
you little
two times I hurt myself
you don? know what pain is till you sit on your pretty little cloud
your porcelain god
I look through the mirror, my wrists bleed
stop your crying
stop your whining
stop your crying
just stop you little

Start Trouble - Please Leave

What would I need drugs for?
To keep my mind off you
Why do I lock myself, in my room? Alone.
And I was scared
That the world would make me numb
And I would become like it
Someday they will pay for all of this

Chorus:
Break, break, shatter the mirror
Glass, glass, glass in my hand
Blood, blood, blood on the counter
And I don’t think you’d ever understand
Hurt, hurt, hurting my feelings
Fuck, fuck, my self-esteem
Shut, shut, the door and let me be
Some things are just wrong with me

Why do I cut myself?
To keep my mind off you
Why do I hate myself the way I do?I do.
And I was scared
That the world would make me numb
And I would become like it
Someday they will pay for all of this

Chorus:

Look at me now
Look at me hurt myself tonight
Look at me now
Look at me, look at me
Hurt myself tonight

Break, break, shatter the mirror
Glass, glass, glass in my hand
Blood, blood, blood on the counter
And I don’t think you’d ever understand
Hurt, hurt, hurting my feelings
Fuck, fuck, my self-esteem
Shut, shut, the door and let me be
Some things are just wrong
Please leave
Please leave…

Trask Stephen - Exquisite Corpse

Oh God
I'm all sewn up
A hardened razor-cut
Scar map across my body
And you can trace the lines
Through Misery's design
That map across my body

A collage
All sewn up
A montage
All sewn up

A random pattern with a needle and thread
The overlapping way diseases are spread
Through a tornado body
With a hand grenade head
And the legs are two lovers entwined

Inside I'm hollowed out
Outside's a paper shroud
And all the rest's illusion
That there's a will and soul
That we can wrest control
From chaos and confusion

A collage
All sewn up
A montage
All sewn up

The automatist's undoing
The whole world starts unscrewing
As time collapses and space warps
You see decay and ruin
I tell you No, no no no
You make such an exquisite corpse

I've got it all sewn up
A hardened razor-cut
Scar map across my body
And you can trace the lines
Through Misery's design
That map across my body

A collage
All sewn up
A montage
All sewn up