i'd like to smash the hands that held you down and gave you pain and erase the images that have no place in your head. fly that kite so high. let go of the string. cast the blame where it belongs. they let you fight this battle with arms tied. they left you to find the answers with blind eyes. i'll watch you sleep tonight. as you tremble and dreams are cascading. it's not statistics they group us in. don't redeem your faith so quickly in what they told you was right. i'd die to protect you. take back your night. now she reaches for something as the pain of violation sets in. what they gave you was nothing and what you kept was silence. please don't be silent anymore. you'll be stronger someday. you'll be taller someday.



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Track duration: 03:21


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    General Comment:Just wanted to add that the samples between each song are from Billie Holiday's songs. I'm sure one of them is "Billie's Blues".
    Flag zigkampouon December 03, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:on cue in my life like always
    Flag fotiaon September 04, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:These are some of the best lyrics i've ever read
    Flag javnesson January 26, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:oh, and the rest of the band's lyrics in the song are:

    i just thought that i'd say all that i want. i'd never tell of the calm just to say something. listen hard. listen well. you will never take me alive. you try to enunciate yourself. but it's all words. try to get away. it's all this. took you from me just in spite. still i'm listening. can you tell. all these questions. these fucking questions took the breath straight from me. all in me. this simpleton. try not to concentrate. to recapture a home. and come to me. and still i'm suffering. just waiting for something. we sleep alone at night. you've never been for you. the voice of senseless suffering. come on, exist. to wish on mediation. formed tightly. this is the method.
    Flag Bryan Boruon January 11, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Tom's Wife actually.. but yes, one of the great ones led by Tom
    Flag Bryan Boruon January 11, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Best fucking song ever, period.
    Flag RecoveringPainon June 30, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:this song is about a girlfriend of tom's that was sexually abused throughout her childhood by family members. no one in her immediate family cared about it or did anything. tom was the only one who cared.
    Flag weallbleedon April 29, 2003   Link
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    General Comment:this: inspiration.
    Flag femmeon April 24, 2003   Link
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    General Comment:this song is amazing.
    Flag tsucolon April 16, 2003   Link
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    General Comment:The art in the knife as it lathers red milk. You are my canvas...

    indeed one of the most incredible peices I have yet to read by an artist.
    Flag truth_serumon March 18, 2003   Link

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