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Conquest
03:47
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I want you to feel me the hardest, the deepest
I want every little shot to feel like the cheapest
Down where your hope lies cold and rusted
I want the very word 'love' to leave you disgusted
But I want you to feel it
I want to hold your world in my hands
Just to know that I can throw it away
That's all power is now, baby
All you are to me is a
Conquest Another pin in the map, another city surrendered
Conquest Another place to attack, another treasury plundered
Conquest All the glorious things that can only be taken
Conquest Every gesture of trust to be used and forsaken
I want the flowers this world has no use for
I want to walk the line between sensitive and sore
I want your acquiescence to my every proposal
I want every orifice at my disposal
I want you to feel me
I'll love you so hard you can't stand up
And then leave and never see you again
That's all power is now, baby
That's all power is now, baby
And all you can be is a
Conquest Another pin in the map, another city surrendered
Conquest Another place to attack, another victim outnumbered
Conquest Like an army of dogs that I have to keep feeding
Conquest And a trail in the dust of the ones left bleeding
Another city surrended
Another city surrended
Another city surrended
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When The Snake Had Legs
04:11
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When the snake had legs
We walked around so tall and proud
I don't remember a time when the lights weren't shining
When the snake had legs
There was always someone to take for a ride
And you could get what you wanted just by smiling
When the snake had legs
We said yes to everything
It was all just more fruit for consumption
When the snake had legs
Let me tell you in those days I believed
And we thought we would feel that way forever
When the snake had legs
It was everyone else who would fall apart
We knew how all of the pieces fit together
When the snake had legs
We never worried about the cost
But there's a tag and it's hanging off of everything
There's no turning back
There's no turning back
Well too much went wrong
So let me spare you the detail
But I could get around, around, around, around, and around
When the snake had legs
When the snake had legs
When the snake had legs
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Prick
04:04
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I'm sorry if I'm staring
But you look like someone I once fucked
You can turn away if you want to
But it's everywhere I look
Sex is a monster, clawing at you until all of your skin falls off
On the carpet of some poor stranger's bedroom
It's like I'm driving around with a raygun on
That turns everything to poison
Like I'm a walking bomb set to explode
Sex is a monster driving you on until all of the wheels fall off
It takes you half way around the world until you're in control again
Sex is a monster and you're doing things not even all this rain can wash off
And it's never enough, never enough, never enough
At 22 you're a young buck
At 23 you're an old fuck
I'm just trying to let the goods times roll
Before all of the girls run screaming
That's a nice prick you've got there, son - I hope you know how to use it
That's a nice prick you've got there, son - but be careful just how you use it
I'll build new pyramids one brick at a time
I'll build a tower right up to the skyline
They don't get that everything we do is for them
Some nights I turn all of the house lights on
But the shadows won't leave me alone
I'm plucking grey hairs out - 2, 3, maybe 4 at a time
At 22 you're a young buck
At 29 you're an old fuck
And it's money and empire that turn me on
More than all of the fair young maidens
At 22 you're a young buck
at 33 you're an old fuck
And you'll have to find some other weapon
to make somebody love you
Nice prick you got there, son - I hope you know how to use it
That's a nice prick you got there, son - I'd be careful not to abuse it.
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There can be no regard for the weak or the young - the lion is a lazy hunter
There is room in the jungle for only the one - the lion is a lazy hunter
He only knows what he wants one day at a time
The only rule he has is 'what's yours is mine'
The lion is a lazy hunter
All he ever says is 'come on over to my place'
He's got the territory and a pride to defend - the lion is a lazy hunter
He takes what he wants then goes to sleep again - the lion is a lazy hunter
When the others go hungry he don't give a shit
He only knows what he wants when someone's after it
The lion is a lazy hunter
All he ever says is 'come on over to my place'
The fields are bleeding again
The herd is out but he just sits still
He'll send everyone else in
Then take the biggest share of the kill
There can be no regard for the weak or the young - the lion is a lazy hunter
There is room in the jungle for only the one - the lion is a lazy hunter
It's an empty crown that he has to defend
The ladies do all of the work for him
The lion is a lazy hunter
All he ever says is 'come on over to my place'
All he ever says is 'come on over to my place'
All he ever says is 'come on over'
All he ever says is 'come on over'
All he ever says is 'come on over to my place'
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My Dark Flower
06:39
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It's been dark without you
I still dream about you
And all the games only you and me understood
Skies full of rolling thunder
Sat here, I have to wonder
Maybe a little rain will do us some good
Is it something I see in your eyes?
Or something I like to fantasise?
Oh me, I can never get enough of a good thing
If the thing is no good for me
Mmmm, I thought I could walk away whenever I pleased
But it's inside me, breathing
In the shadows of your room
Dark flowers started to bloom
We shut the door so the world couldn't see
It was never ours to keep
Still we took both hands and dug in deep
I'm always taking what the serpent hands to me
And I like it
Is it something I see in your eyes?
Or something I like to fantasise?
Oh me, I can never get enough of a good thing
If the thing is no good for me
And When I saw you broken
I knew I had to leave
But only because it killed the buzz for me
This part will make you smile
Turns out I was in denial
I feel the world turn to bring you closer to me
I Hear it creaking slowly
Is it something I see in your eyes?
Or something I like to fantasise?
Oh me, I can never get enough of a good thing
If the thing is no good for me
I could run away and hide
But you planted something deep inside of me
Now everything I tried to hide from
Is all that I can see
My dark flower
My dark flower
My dark flower
My dark flower
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6. |
Always Be Mine
04:04
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There are things in this world, nobody else can see
I feel your skin responding when you’re dreaming of me
There’s a crack that won’t heal with all the passage of time
Part of you will always be mine
You can put the miles between us see how far you can fly
Start all over again beneath a purple sky
But dig inside your beating chest and see what you find
Part of you will always be mine
There were mountains, long since turned to sand
Days spent seeing things maybe we still don’t understand
Our trail of magic dust has long been swept away
But I can’t help feeling something remains
There’s that line you draw beneath the past when you let it go
Questions we might have asked that we’ll simply never know
But when my words come tumbling from your mouth, take it as a sign
Part of you will always be mine
Always be mine
Always be mine
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Say It Again
07:03
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It starts with a smile
They do every time
You think maybe something good
will happen this time
But you've been used before
When you want something more
Desire sucks the demons up through the floor
It leaves you bleeding, blind, and sore
You can’t meet their eyes
They laugh and they lie
They see through every inch of your disguise
Oh, say It again
They forced you into being all these things
Now you want something back
But there’s no one here who can give you that
No one here who can you take you back again
There he stands with a smile
And the eyes of a child
It causes the goose-bumps to stretch out for miles
And you feel them attack
Like knives inside your back
It's hard to find the funny side of that
Oh, say It again
You were never going to be like one of them
Now you want something back
but there’s no one here who can give you that
No one to give meaning to it all
Oh, say It again
They forced you into being just like them
Now you want something back
but no one remembers you holding back
You want something back
But every step you made was on your own
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Cold, Long Night
06:17
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I don't miss you, that's all in the past
Heaven is somewhere nothing every happens
Here and now we drive on, like the future is bright
Like it's more than just repeating patterns
I don't miss you, as sheets of rain fall down
And the wipers flap like batwings with their crazy sound
And there's nothing I can see beyond my pale headlights
Down here in the belly of this cold, long night
Preacher on the radio trying to save my soul
It's just spiritual spare change, nothing more
I've heard those empty words so many times before
And where I'm going it won't even pay the charge on the door
But I'd do it all again, like I had no choice
Just to hear the sweet sadness in your scalding voice
All your special ways you put me and all the world to right
Gone, swallowed up in this cold, long night
Were you looking for a saviour? Or just someone who'd stay?
In this world drowned by a past that never goes away
And your love for mankind - so purely masochistic
When they'll take what's right and good from you and tangle and twist it
Oh how could I miss you? I carry you round with me
And all the cops would have to do is pop the trunk to see
I take the wheel from my hands with no end in sight
No way out to run from this cold, long night
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After The Explosion
03:22
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Now the best is over
And we've turned out the light
All that's left to say dear is goodnight
All the walls we've crumbled
In the name of liberty
Just to find there's nothing there to see
Gave my gift to the Trojans
Still you let me right in
Now the air feels cold upon your skin
After the explosion
Tired of the lie
Tired of the word 'goodbye'
I'm not faking it
I'm not staying to pay for it
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Some Girls Know
07:17
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For the longest time I felt like all my debts went uncollected
But when the check came it was bigger than even I expected
Well the heart is a cup that is left to rust,
Until you can't taste what it is you're drinking
But before you've said a word, some girls know exactly what you're thinking
Once the world was open, like the guards had all been retired
Like every war was won or lost without a shot being fired
Well I'm out of bullets now, every run of luck has to limp away someday
I wish the past looked better than years piled up like cars burning out on some dead highway
But it's only a dream, only a dream
It's only a dream
And it's one we waste so much time believing
I'm out here stranded, running out of people I can call
Once you walked the walk, but it's a trick for which not everybody falls
It's far too fine a line between what's sensitive and what's sore
It's never how much you have to give, it's only a question of who needs it more
It's only a dream, love is only a dream
It's only a dream, but it's one we waste so much time believing
And I'm sick of believing
Watching those dreams getting up and leaving
But some girls know, they understand, they don't blame you for how you ran
At the first light of the morning, but they won't be there when you come crawling
Some girls they see past the charm they've been there and it did them harm
And though some still find it blinding, some girls don't need reminding
Some girls know they understand, when to steer clear of an outstretched hand
When there's trouble they don't need it - your heart is a dog and they refuse to feed it
Some girls look at you like dirt, they've been there and they've been hurt
You know, some girls need you less than all of the the things you never needed
Some girls know, they understand
Some girls know
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Black Hay London, UK
Black Hay is the project of London-born Gideon K and a motley crew of
collaborators.
Previously described as "Worse than Leonard Cohen", Black Hay's music has gone from noirish garage rock, to grungey alt-country low-rock, via DIY house-bound balladry, to a current incarnation of cold-hearted post-punk indie synth-tronica.
The new single 'Always Be Mine' is out now.
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