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They pull our strings
The animals
The blind that breed the hate
Under their wing
We’re scientists
We swallow what they fake
For all you lonely boys
I will be president
In all you sons of men
I can be accident
Most fall in line
They do the dance
And salute the safest name
Bored with their lives
Grind, socialise
And throw all the beauty away
For all you lonely boys
I will be president
In all you sons of men
I can be accident
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The Alternative
04:16
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Lay back for me
You are just exactly what I need
In this cold town
Lay back for me
The three of us in circus and in liberty
It’s been too long
So throw your guilt religion
To the liars and the weak
This is the politics and war of ecstasy
And all the nonsense of that vision
That is failing every test
Is the comedy and death of your senses
The alternative to real world
Is just time for me and a fantasy
Be blind to myself to idolise
The alternative to real world
Is just time for me and a fantasy
I’m blind to myself to idolise
You work so deep
Astonished and in rapture
I can barely speak
These are hard times
Hormones in key
A slow whispered wet confession
From our body heat
There’s no return
The alternative to real world
Is just time for me and a fantasy
Be blind to myself to idolise
The alternative to real world
Is just time for me and a fantasy
I’m blind to myself to idolise
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Nightlife
05:02
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I want to know how to survive in the nightlife
The truth and dare of the drug for the first time
Click my heels and dance with the heat-rise
I want to know how to survive in the nightlife
I want to know how to survive in the nightlife
The truth and dare of the drug from the bass line
The desire that the voodoo gives to a weak mind
I want to know how to survive in the nightlife
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Lulled By Numbers
04:05
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Who put the mess in your head
Filtering the sense of all you could have said?
Who stole the words from your mouth
So twisted in contagion, and reaching out?
If this is the lullaby then
Why am I not sleeping easy?
If you leave me alone, I will come home
Dragging my tales behind me
Sweetheart, they’ll hang me out to dry
When nothing is left
There is always us
If I could sing you to sleep
Lay you down and pray that you’re a soul to keep
I would be all that you need
Wider eyes oblivious to everything
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Her mother said if she couldn’t love
The physical way a woman should
Then where else could she go
Where the sisters and the fathers can’t save her soul?
Send them in, see them on
If she can’t find a lover she’ll fashion one
Imaginary man
Like the burnt out poets in the Hinterland
The hourglass sees what shelf-life does
She asked exactly: Tell me what is love
But breathing life alone?
And just the words from prophets and religious shows
Imagine hurt, imagine tears
She opened up until she disappeared
And vanished hand in hand
With all the long lost children locked in Neverland
The phoenix says – Burn for me
The double says – Lie for me
The serpent says – Beg for me
The siren says – Die for me
Why use the word, when the word needs the belief?
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The Negative Sex
03:08
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Pay no attention to obedience
Burnt kids and wishes fixed and forgotten for my self-defence
We all want to fuck ourselves and rape the world
So the art of a cult will prevail
In vanity, not god, not love
Oh no, we can’t leave it alone
Oh no, we can’t leave it alone
Because the negative sex was born into a bloodline
The negative sex is power for a lifetime
Show man the mix and the alternative
It’s all ammunition for the gender bend and the bedroom twist
They say that the fashion’s just not feminist
But the sweet and the turn-on sits
In the laps of the girls with the balls and the hits
Oh no, we can’t leave it alone
Oh no, we can’t leave it alone
Because the negative sex was born into a bloodline
The negative sex is power for a lifetime
Sex for a lifetime
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Bring Me Back A Dog
03:24
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From a fall I whored the word conviction
And the thrill to the swell is in your golden touch
But the flesh is weak and without reason
So I slave to your beat and sword for all time
God give a little love, bring me back a dog in the next life
God give a little love, wanna be a dog in the next life
When you strike with soul and quick precision
I am smacked by a nervous twitch and cold desire
They say the wretched get their kingdom
Bring it on, it’s my time, let’s go, we all die
God give a little love, bring me back a dog in the next life
God give a little love, wanna be a dog in the next life
The trouble is me, you
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S.H.E
03:59
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You have been left alone
A creature of innocence
You lie for what you’re worth
And struggle with your confidence
And when your devil complains
And tears you up to start again
And when you’re lying on the stage
And nothing works, just living hurts
Forget, forget
With the secret harmonic emotion
Forget, forget
With the secret harmonic emotion
And so we meet again
Two players in a puppet show
Don’t cry for audience
There’s noone that can take you home
And when your devil complains
And tears you up to start again
And when you’re lying on the stage
And nothing works, just living hurts
Forget, forget
With the secret harmonic emotion
Forget, forget
With the secret harmonic emotion
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And if you’re hurting,
I will replace the noise with silence instead
Flushing out your head
If you like it violent
We can play rough and tumble, fall into bed
And I won’t breathe so you can recover
When you’re in pieces
Just follow the echo of my voice, it’s okay
Tune into that frequency
Don’t fight your reflex
Embrace the instict you can feel your way
Through the burden we face in the end
’cause it breaks my heart
That we live this way
I know people need love
But people never play the game
And we talk the talk
We communicate
But then people need love
And those people never play the game
Pleasure for pleasure
A tease is consequence enough for a fall
But I know you love to take the risk
The past is weakness
Don’t beg the question when the answer is war
There are moments when I’m overcome
’cause it breaks my heart
That we live this way
I know people need love
But people never play the game
And we talk the talk
We communicate
But then people need love
And those people never play the game
And it breaks my heart
People need love
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After Every Party I Die
03:50
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You’re living but you’ve got no soul
You captivate, but you hold no weight at all
So watch as I start to smile
You’re duller than you think you’re deep
You aggrovate, but you always stop to speak
So watch as I start to smile
After every party I die
I die after every party
The morning breaks us up inside
Payback, execution, killing time
So watch as I start to smile
There’s something that you think you need
Trying your best to sleep at cocaine speed
So watch as I start to smile
After every party I die
I die after every party
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When the joys of living just leave you cold
Frozen from the failing mess you’ve made your own
And if you want an ending to your screenplay life
Here’s the consolation that will change your heart and mind
All the glitz messiahs just pass the time
A cure for no real sickness, cross your hopes and die
Your supermarket Jesus comes with smiles and lies
Where justice he delays, is always justice he denies
This will make you love again
And now you’re safe – love again
To feel the reigns – love again
The sweet delays – love again
To shoot the breeze – love again
Early Thursday mornings wipe away the flies
The crossfire fights for action in-between your thighs
Every touch is sacred when they leave the room
If I have to switch the lights off, I wanna switch them off with you
This will make you love again
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Chris Corner's prolific solo project. Originally founded in 2002 as a departure from Sneaker Pimps, IAMX is known for electronic experimentation, punk energy, and confessional lyricism. Learn more at the links below.
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