Failure

Intro 
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And I, I've been lonely 
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And I, I've been blind 
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And I, I've learned nothing 
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So my hands are firmly tied 
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To the sinking lead weight of failure 

 
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I've worked hard all my life 
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Money slips through my hands 
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My face in the mirror tells me 
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It's no surprise that I am 
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Pushing the stone up the hill of failure 

 
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And they tempt me with violence 
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And they punish me with ideals 
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And they crush me with an image of my life 
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That's nothing but unreal 
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Except on the goddamned slaveship of failure 


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And I'll drown here trying 
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To get up for some air 
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But each time I think I breathe 
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I'm laid on with a double share 
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Of the punishing burden of failure 


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I don't deserve to be down here 
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But I'll never leave 
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And I, I've learned one thing 
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You can't escape the beast 
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In the null and void pit of failure 


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When I get my hands on some money 
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I'll kiss its green skin 
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And I'll ask its dirty face 
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"Where the hell have ya been?" 
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"I'm the fuel that fires the engines of failure" 


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And I'll be old and broken down 
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And I'll forget who and where I am 
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I'll be senile or forgotten 
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But I'll remember and understand 
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You can bank your hard-earned money on failure 

 
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I saw my father crying 
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I saw my mother break her hand 
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On a wall that wouldn't weep 
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But that certainly held in 
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The mechanical moans of a dying man who was a failure 


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My back hurts me when I bend 
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'Cause I carry a load 
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And my brain hurts like a knife-hole 
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'Cause I've yet to be shown 
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How to pull myself out from the sucking quicksand of failure 


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Some people lie in Hell 
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Many bastards succeed 
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But I, I've learned nothing 
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I can't even elegantly bleed 
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Out the poison blood of failure 


Instrumental 
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