Beastly ways

by Oh, dearest!

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Music and lyrics by Mikael Mellberg. Produced by Mikael Mellberg and Victor Lundqvist. Thanks to Adam Lundqvist for guitar solo on 'The things that tie you down'.

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released 01 September 2011

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Track Name: The things that tie you down
The dirty boots
you keep in your closet
the sole reminder
of your rambling days
The baited hook
you feed to the hungry
is help enough for their
beastly ways

Who will write the books
you read to your children
who'll be the wicked and
who'll be the ones they took
Who will bring the light
Who will bring the weapons
while you keep busy with
the things that tie you down

I keep in line
I do what is expected
I would deny
ever having second thoughts
I keep a journal
to remind me of my let-downs
I keep a list of things
that worry me the most
Track Name: New ground
Cried on my shoulder
Sang to the others
Please say we'll make it
one way or another
I keep for the churches
Save for the ministers
Talk bout forgiveness
like some sort of miracle

While the wicked sing of changes
you're breaking new ground
I'm just here making room
for another round

Down by the freeway
taste of the engines
Your brother's in the front seat
and I'm right beside him
You hung up the phone
when I asked how you we're doing
We grew up too fast
now we're acting like children

In the journal you kept
I read bout our nights
There's great poetry in
wasting ones life
And for a moment there
I was someone else
I was faithful and true
Track Name: Dirty sheets
I'm tired of the truth
The paper's only bad news
What good has ever come from having to choose
Is it safe to sit down
I'd like to rest my eyes for a while
before I tell you what I've come to find
It's not for everyone
this place I'm in
and I'm a fool to
let you in

My dirty sheets
tell the truth when they burn
Bout every page we've come to turn
I'm out by the front line
and though there ain't no war this time
One single shot will make it burn

I spoke to the warden
She said to take her words as a warning
She told me bout the place that we're caught in
She said the ones in your street
They know your every move
every word that you speak
They're watching you think
watching you sleep
They're out for everyone
who's going in
You ain't got a single friend
in the place you're in
Track Name: To die alone
My radiator's ticking
Time, I just piss it away
We're both alone in our separate homes
I wouldn't want to call her now
She's just started building a life of her own
I'm still as bleak
I live alone

If you want true love, fake it
no one has to know the truth
Blue blooded girls are those
who let you sleep alone
I spend my nights out here
afraid of going home
At least it's cheap to die alone

I wait til the evening
My mind starts slipping away
I'm driving down to my favorite store
New eyes got me now
but I've had this feeling before
There ain't no kicks here anymore

My radiator's ticking
Time, I just piss it away
These different times are just the same
Track Name: Tonight
Your eyes are always in my sight
quite a scene I made
You leave your stains on what is mine
it's marking us
I can't get them off
What winter's hiding is coming back
and under feet of snow
Is what I left there month ago
I though I kicked it
but I didn't kick it
Just gave it time to grow

Tonight tonight tonight again
it seems we're back where it began
what we couldn't handle then
I guess we're biting off our hands
tonight tonight tonight again

Keeping track of what is right
is such a cliché line
when every instinct's on the side
where they shouldn't be
Lord, it's killing me

Some friend I am huh
there's no going back now
Some friend I am
Track Name: '95
I got a letter of your crime
you said they're on to you
We all got things to hide
I replied
Sinners watch your trial
You won't get out alive
There's something in your smile
that you can't hide

And even if you had a name
you would still go down
If you had a reason once they took it
Remember when we ran away from home
And all the stories that we had
was in that smile
If I find a way you know we'll take it
Remember when we ran away from home 95

I've known you from the start
I never lied to you
There's something in your heart
that you can't hide
Sinners call your name
Spotlights on your grave
If not, they would be shining straight through them