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Otispunk - Carnival Mirror
Submitted by: Madcowzack (#4335)
Current Rating: 5.00 (1 votes)
Victimized by all the charms
Now it's got me by the arms
And left its mark on me
My reflection says it all
Now I have no place to fall
But back into my darkest days

Back into obsessive discontent
And my imperfections rule my head

Beat 'em down, beat 'em down this time
Powerful, but I'll do just fine
Keep in mind you're always on my mind
But never whole again

Comfort and support
You spread yourself around
Lingering, you often leave me
Feeling lost and ordinary

Back into obsessive discontent
And my imperfections rule my head

Beat 'em down, beat 'em down this time
Powerful, but I'll do just fine
Keep in mind you're always on my mind
But never whole again
You'll return to play with my mind
And the carnival mirror of my life
Puttin' up the strongest fight
You'll be running out of sight

I don't wanna find a way
To be back ... to be back ...
Back into my darkest day

Beat 'em down, beat 'em down this time
Powerful, but I'll do just fine
Keep in mind you're always on my mind
But never whole again

Beat 'em down, beat 'em down this time
Powerful, but I'll do just fine
Keep in mind you're always on my mind
But never whole again
You'll return to play with my mind
And the carnival mirror of my life
Puttin' up the strongest fight
You'll be running out of sight

Beat 'em down, beat 'em down this time
Powerful, but I'll do just fine
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Otispunk - I Heard About You
Submitted by: Madcowzack (#4335)
Current Rating: 5.00 (1 votes)
Lost your place, what do you want around here?
Without a trace, you left without goodbye
Nothing’s really changed but everything about you
Why the secrets then, or do you have to lie?

You’re treading on unstable ground
The lies he tells are old

Keep away
I’ve heard about you many times before
And I know
That smile wasn’t easy to ignore
That self-descending, complimenting way
Keep away from me

Turn the pages of a little story
Carried on and never had to try
Now you’re the one who wants to be around me
And I’m the one who has to say good bye

Keep away
I’ve heard about you many times before
And I know
That smile wasn’t easy to ignore
Your self-descending, complimenting way
Keep away from me

You’re treading on unstable ground
The lies you tell are old
You want what you can never have
And what you’ll never hold

Keep away
I’ve heard about you many times before
And I know
That smile wasn’t easy to ignore
Your self-descending, complimenting way
Keep away from me
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Otispunk - Break Another Fall
Submitted by: Madcowzack (#4335)
Current Rating: 5.00 (1 votes)
No matter what I do
While everyone was breaking through
Must have been decided
Breaking all the rules I once abided
Everybody else’s days are lighter
Everybody else’s skies are brighter
And tell me why that every time
Good luck seems to pass me by…
Don’t wanna take it anymore

Dreams are only half alive
And they never feel quite right
They disappear tomorrow
And never work themselves out in spite
I held the world, I had it all
I gave it up to break a fall
But now, for then, I’m back again
And all the same
Don’t wanna take it anymore
Don’t wanna break another fall

No matter what I do
While everyone was breaking through
Must have been decided
Breaking all the rules I once abided
Everybody else’s days are lighter
Everybody else’s skies are brighter
And tell me why that every time
Good luck seems to pass me by…
Don’t wanna take it anymore

Staring out my window
I’m looking out at better things
Still I hope so high for what tomorrow never brings
To hold the world, to have it all
To give it up to break a fall
Fall on my feet for what I see in a crystal ball
Don’t wanna take it anymore
Don’t wanna break another fall

No matter what I do
While everyone was breaking through
Must have been decided
Breaking all the rules I once abided
Everybody else’s days are lighter
Everybody else’s skies are brighter
And tell me why that every time
Good luck seems to pass me by…
Don’t wanna take it anymore

It always seemed my broken dreams
Were always so unkind
And they don’t care about you
But they laugh when you fall behind

Don’t wanna take it anymore
Don’t wanna break another fall

No matter what I do
While everyone was breaking through
Must have been decided
Breaking all the rules I once abided
Everybody else’s days are lighter
Everybody else’s skies are brighter
And tell me why that every time
Good luck seems to pass me by…
Don’t wanna take it anymore
Don't wanna break another fall
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Otispunk - Not So Sorry
Submitted by: Madcowzack (#4335)
Current Rating: 5.00 (1 votes)
Make pretend that I did absolutely nothing for you
All my faults live in your mind
And go on push a load on to my side
I may be nice, but I'm not that blind

And who's to say I'm wrong
Or you to say you're right
And if it was anything of that type
But did I not befriend you?
Go ahead and take offense to
This is life

Don't start it up again -When will it end?
And it's true, it's true - I have nothing to do
But I won't change my life for you

And all the time it was the same
At every end I got the blame
But I'm not that sorry that I knew you
Sorry, but, I'm not that sorry
I'm not that sorry
I'm not that sorry anymore

All those nights you cried to me
Wasted all my time, conveniently
And for all your troubles I have bled
Whatever's in your head don't bother me

And I'm back to the place that I started out
It's barren, it's empty, it's full of doubt
So I'm back to smiles I can fake
I took whose by mistake
Who's missing out?

Don't start it up again -When will it end?
And it's true, it's true - I have nothing to do
But I won't change my life for you

And all the time it was the same
At every end I got the blame
But I'm not that sorry that I knew you
Sorry, but, I'm not that sorry
I'm not that sorry
I'm not that sorry anymore

I see you then you're gone
There's something much too wrong
Move forward and back it up
It's gone on for much too long

And all the time it was the same
At every end I got the blame
But I'm not that sorry that I knew you
Sorry, but, I'm not that sorry
I'm not that sorry
I'm not that sorry anymore
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Otispunk - Say When
Submitted by: Madcowzack (#4335)
Current Rating: 5.00 (1 votes)
I, ever the lonely mind
Every lonely day
Running around
You’re no where to be found
With your feet off the ground
And be whoever you wanna be
It’s only your face they see
You wouldn’t be wrong
But you couldn’t belong
You’ve been up so long

You’re racing apparently from the start
In your eyes, you have died from a broken heart
But you wanna be cool, you try to believe
It’s only you they need

And I, ever the lonely mind
Every lonely day
And a bright mind is the best time
Of my solitary day

Whenever the dreamin’ ends
Whenever you find your friends
Keep ‘em around
And you’re lucky you found
Such a beautiful sound
And then you’re finding your way back home
No matter how far you roam
Thinkin’ about the times you turned away

And I, ever the lonely mind
Every lonely day
And a bright mind is the best time
Of my solitary day
Ever the lonely mind
Every lonely day
Is the best time of my solitary day
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Otispunk - The Better Part Of Me
Submitted by: Madcowzack (#4335)
Current Rating: 5.00 (1 votes)
Darkness everywhere
How did my choices take me there?
How can I afford closing every door
Wishing this was over?

A suffocating life
Every breath, a fading light
Reaching out to see
The better part of me
To make intentions right

And when all my hopes have fallen away
I think of the times I have to say

I live and I laugh and I hurt but I heal
Torn up inside, and I cry but I feel
No matter the tides you bring to me
Somehow they’re all meant to be

Never have to hide
When I see the other side
A feeling of rebirth, a satisfying worth
A gratifying life

And when all my hopes have fallen away
I think of the times I have to say

I live and I laugh and I hurt but I heal
Torn up inside, and I cry but I feel
No matter the tides you bring to me
Somehow they’re all meant to be
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Otispunk - Sweet Revenge
Submitted by: Madcowzack (#4335)
Current Rating: 5.00 (1 votes)
What is he thinking now in his mind?
He thinks that Iím thinking of him
Well, he's right
Hypnotized by the desperate call
Drawing me over and over I fall

Well here it comes, it's a little surprise
All wrapped up in a pretty disguise
You're ready and able, you're restless Iíll bet
Only the few things youíre soon to regret

I feel your fuse ignite the pain
But I'm standing outside
All alone in the rain
My life is so full of pictures of you
An image so clear
So clearly untrue

Always left behind was me
Disregard me, let me be
Always there you thought Iíd be
Well, I don't want your pity

Stand aside my friend
I'll be the one who shines
I could've followed you
More than a thousand times

Although my life may bend and curve
People will get what they usually deserve
Friendships will fade and fates will be crossed
Somewhere in love your emotions get tossed
Though as the table starts to turn
The conversation begins to burn
I think you're jealous, don't call me untrue
Call me deceitful
I learned it from you
I learned it from you
Oh You...
[I could have followed you there]
[I could have followed you there]
All those little things I learned from you
[I could have followed you there]
Don't tell me it isn't true
'Cause I learned it from you
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Otispunk - Good Enough
Submitted by: Madcowzack (#4335)
Current Rating: 5.00 (1 votes)
Don’t you say a word
Don’t be yourself
Just let ‘em stare
Pick your little space and find that lonely little chair
Keepin’ with perfection
Such a lonely little flaw
You take a look around
You’re mocking everyone you saw

But when I am around you
The feeling was so sad
That self-relying ridicule
Is all you have

But don’t be angry when I’m speakin’ true
But no one’s ever good enough for you
And damned to failure, doomed in every way
You’re livin’ in the glow of yesterday

Satisfied with nothing else but beauty in its prime
Wipe away the pain, open your soul and let it shine

And when I am around you
The feeling was so sad
That self-relying ridicule
Is all you have

Don’t be angry when I’m speakin’ true
No one’s ever good enough for you
And damned to failure, doomed in every way
You’re livin’ in the glow of yesterday

And when I am around you
The feeling was so sad
That self-relying ridicule
Is all you have

Don’t be angry when I’m speakin’ true
No one’s ever good enough for you
And damned to failure, doomed in every way
You’re livin’ in the glow of yesterday
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Otispunk - Left Behind
Submitted by: Madcowzack (#4335)
Current Rating: 5.00 (1 votes)
There’s something I forgot to say
But I waited for you first
Now that time is standing still
I do believe I’m cursed
People ‘round are moving on
While my dreams are fallin’ short
But I can’t imagine why
When I never got a chance to say goodbye

So much to say
Please give me just, just one more day
So much to tell…
Are you casting a spell to which I can’t escape?

Places where we used to go
Will never feel the same
Familiarity is lost
With every single time I hear your name

So much to say
Please give me just, just one more day
So much to tell…
Are you casting a spell to which I can’t escape?
Much easier it is to hate
When someone else has gone
And seal your fate -
You’ll never know how much of you is left behind

Motion’s moving very slow
Space is wider, time will grow
Futures I will never know
They tell me so
They tell me so

I thought I saw you
Just the other day
I’m afraid if I stop thinking
Everything I know will fade away

So much to say
Please give me just, just one more day
So much to tell…
Are you casting a spell to which I can’t escape?
Much easier it is to hate
When someone else has gone
And seal your fate -
You’ll never know how much of you is left behind
How much of you is left behind …
How much of you is left behind …
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Otispunk - I'll Be Alright
Submitted by: Madcowzack (#4335)
Current Rating: 5.00 (1 votes)
And when the last great hero disappeared
I fell into despair
But with each passing shadow
I could always find you there

In every misery
There came the time you wasted me

And I'm running from you further every day
But never out of sight
Time's tearing all the memories away
Then I know I'll be alright

But that voice inside my head had reappeared
And took your place instead
Reminded me the trouble you would be
Not like the way you said

In every misery
There came the time you wasted me

And I'm running from you further every day
But never out of sight
Time's tearing all the memories away
Then I know I'll be alright

And you're always a torture
Always a love
Always the way you were
And you're always a torment
And keep me around
Only for your respect

And when you ask me why I feel this very way
Well just open your eyes and see
Think back to every little misery
And the time you wasted me

And I'm running from you further every day
But never out of sight
Time's tearing all the memories away
Then I know I'll be alright
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Otispunk - And The Day Is Mine!
Submitted by: Madcowzack (#4335)
Current Rating: 5.00 (1 votes)
There was a time, not long ago
You were around, my spirits low
I knew I’d never feel the same
You clearly said I was to blame
A little needle here and there
A little more, he didn’t care
Then I woke up, I couldn’t see
The person that I used to be
My arms are twisted
Won’t be missed at all

When I was down you wouldn’t call
You said “hello” and that was all
You made the world bow to your fits
And that’s the part about you
That I’ll never miss
So when my color’s bleeding through
You’re still the guy that never knew
I’m just the bargain that you blew

My suspicions start to grow
You say my feelings never show
Tipping toe around the glow
Is it alright for you to know?
Solitude misunderstood
The things I liked were never good
Contemplating things to say
I knew I had to get away
I’m better off without you anyway

When I was down you wouldn’t call
You said “hello” and that was all
You made the world bow to your fits
And that’s the part about you
That I’ll never miss
So when my color’s bleeding through
You’re still the guy that never knew
I’m just the bargain that you blew
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