This Isn’t Meant to Last, This is for Right Now

Last icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 03 from the Broken EP by Nine Inch Nails icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

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Gave up trying to figure it out, but my head got lost along the way
Worn out from giving it up, but my soul I pissed it all away
Still stings these shattered nerves, pigs we get what pigs deserve
I’m going all the way down, I’m leaving today

Come on, you have got to fill me up
Come on, you have got to let me inside of you
Come on, you have got to fix me up
Come on, you have got to let me inside of you

Still feel it all slipping away, but it doesn’t matter anymore
Everybody is still slipping away, but it doesn’t matter anymore
Look through these blackened eyes, you’ll see ten thousand lies
My lips may promise, but my heart is a whore

Come on, you have got to fix me up
Come on, you have got to let me inside of you
Come on, you have got to fill me up
Come on, nothing gets through to you

This isn’t meant to last
This is for right now

I know it’s all getting away and it comes to me as no surprise
I know what is coming to me is never going to arrive
Fresh blood through tired skin, new sweat to drown me in
Dress up this rotten carcass just to make it look alive

Come on, you have got to fill me up
Come on, you have got to let me inside of you
Come on, you have got to fix me up
Come on, you have got to let me get through to you

This isn’t meant to last
This is for right now

I wish I could put the blame on you

I want you to make me
I want you to take me
I want you to break me
I want you to throw me away

We Won’t Let You Slip Away

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I can see what the world has done to you
I can feel the weight

I can see what this life has handed you
I can feel the weight

This time things will work out just fine
We won’t let you slip away
This time things will work out just fine
We won’t let you leave this way

If you want you can will it, you can have it
I can put it right there in your hands

I can hear what the spirits are telling you
I can clear the weight

I can see all the wolves as they circle you
I can crush the weight

This time things will work out just fine
We won’t let you slip away
This time things will work out just fine
We won’t let you leave this way

If you want you can will it, you can have it
I can put it right there in your hands

Shift Into Overdrive

Stargasm icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 04 from The Hunter LP by Mastodon icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )
“Stargasm” Song Lyrics icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12

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Dry Bone Valley icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 08 from The Hunter LP)
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Bedazzled Fingernails icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 12 from The Hunter LP)
“Bedazzled Fingernails” Song Lyrics icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12

Where is the Wave that Will Carry Me?

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As the waves crash in on the western shore, the wind blows fierce from the east
The wave tops torn into a flying spindrift

As the waves crash in on the western shore, it makes me feel uneasy
The spray that’s torn away is an image of the way I feel

What am I supposed to say?
Where are the words to answer you when you talk that way?

As the sun goes down on the western shore, the wind blows hard from the east
It whips the sand into a flying spindrift

As the sun goes down on the western shore, it makes me feel uneasy
In the hot dry rasp of the devil winds, who cares what a fool believes?

What am I supposed to say?
Where are the words to answer you when you talk that way?
Words that fly against the wind and waves

A little closer to you, where is the wave that will carry me?

What am I supposed to say?
Where are the words to answer you when you talk that way?

What am I suppose to do?
Where are the words that will make you see what I believe is true?

Where is the wave that will carry me a little closer to you?