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Crimes of Passion

by Cory Croft & the Band of Phantoms

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1.
Lycanthropy 04:01
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I can't catch up with you I'm slowly turning into you I listen to the same music you used to I'm even driving the same car you used to To all the same places Seeing all the same faces Drinking to the same wasted I just couldn't replace it I'm never gonna catch up to you I'm slowly turning in to you I'm always just a few years behind Sometimes you never even cross my mind I'm feeling all the same bruises Watching all the same movies Meeting all the same people I will never be your equal I guess that's just what happens when you're lost And I guess that's just what happens when You don't know who you are And I guess I didn't calculate the cost I guess that's just what happens when you're lost I still look like me but I feel like you
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February 15th 03:24
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This is not the end Just the beginning of something else And I'm through being your martyr so You can go blame someone else Arisen like a phoenix So you can't drag me down And even though it's never suited me I'll wear this confidence like a crown I hope I haunt your dreams now The way that you've been haunting mine The truth is worse than fiction You have wrote this fate in your own hand This is my metamorphosis This is not the first And now I know it won't be the last I knew the secret serenade was true I've conquered worse than you in the past You knew this when I met you That this was never built to last So even through the hope and other lies I'll force a smile behind the mask I hope I haunt your dreams now The way that you haunted mine Your obsession with death won't Save you from what happens to come next I am your heart's apocalypse The ties have been severed The lines have been drawn You can't put this together Been broken for too long I'm every ounce of regret I'm every lie you've told I'm branding you forever You're never letting go I hope I haunt your dreams now The way that you haunted mine Your obsession with death won't Save you from what happens to come next I am your heart's apocalypse You've dug your hole now sleep in it You've dug your hole now sleep in it This is not the end
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Neck Romancer 03:48
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Hey Been a long time since I set eyes on that face And I haven't had heard the news so tell me Everything you meant to be in your Days of being rid of me Cause I feel you reaching out in need so Stop lying that you're over me and I'll Keep your secret It's worth knowing Can you see me here and would you Keep it secret That I'm not showing Anyone these scars I'll keep your secret It's worth knowing You can't keep me here forever Keep it secret That I'm broken Can you hear me now Can you hear me now Wait Cause I haven't said what I've got left to say And I caught you watching twice now, tell me Did you rush to cut things off cause You had the next one all lined up But your regrets still lead you to me, so Who's words were you feeding me Yeah I'll keep your secret It's worth knowing Can you see me here and would you Keep it secret That I'm not showing Anyone these scars I'll keep your secret Its worth knowing You can't keep me here forever Keep it secret That I'm broken Can you hear me now Can you hear me now Hey We could've saved the night of our last date When I ruined all your makeup, tell me Everything that crossed your mind When you sat across from me so blind to How much I needed you to try Cause I've begged you to a thousand times I'll keep your secret It's worth knowing And I'll love you still forever Keep it secret That I'm not showing Anyone these scars I'll keep your secret Its worth knowing You can't keep me here forever Keep it secret You've broken me Can you hear me now Can you hear me now
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I Hide Away 03:17
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I don't go out at night Hardly anymore There's nothing left for me Not outside my doors Don't want to take the chance To ever see your face Every shot I've never missed Is now a shot I'll never take All my hopes are in my way All my dreams are now disgrace I hide away Away I hide away Don't look for me 'cause I'm simply not there Another lonely night Living here with my ghosts We're walking through the walls I'm more their victim, less their host I need a lobotomy Or an exorcism To wipe them all away To become someone no one knows All my prayers have been ignored Now I leave you all alone I hide away Away I hide away Don't look for me 'cause I'm simply not there Hide away I hide away Don't look for me 'cause I'm simply not there Don't fucking look for me Don't fucking look for me Don't fucking look for me Don't fucking look for me Don't fucking look for me Don't fucking look for me Don't fucking look for me Don't fucking look for me
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Snakecharmer 04:42
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A big mistake was made by you I noticed early on You wore your intentions on your face And took advantage while I was gone Revenge is all the same Nowhere else to cast all the blame Snakecharmer I won't dance for you I am not so easily used They all fell deep into your lies A void you dug deeper with every year And now it's too dark to see the truth Until I return with a torch You cannot take what is mine I will end your reign in time Revenge is all the same Nowhere else to cast all the blame Snakecharmer I won't dance for you I am not so easily used Revenge is all the same Nowhere else to place all the blame Snakecharmer I won't dance for you I am not so easily used By you Revenge is all the same Nowhere else to cast all the blame Snakecharmer I won't dance for you I am not so easily used By you
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Dreams of Losing Teeth 03:49
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This world is gonna spit you out When it gets sick of your taste Been flavorless for so long Their dirt is gonna stick to your heart You can't scrape it off Unless you choose to bathe in their blood Their words will linger when we're gone Who's fucking side are you on Two worlds apart This side I'm on, it's worth the fight I gave up on God when he gave up on me Two worlds entwined This path I'm on, there is no light Your loss was mine It's like we're out on our own It's like we're out on our own It's like we're out on our own It's like we're out on our own It's like we're out on our own This hand's the only help you'll get I can show you the way but You've bore your fangs to the wrong one Harness this rage and concentrate or You'll keep having dreams of All your fucking teeth falling out You only hate because it's right You've never faced this in your lives Two worlds apart This side I'm on, it's worth the fight I gave up on God when he gave up on me Two worlds entwined This path I'm on, there is no light Your loss was mine It's like we're out on our own It's like we're out on our own It's like we're out on our own It's like we're out on our own It's like we're out on our own If time is meant to heal all wounds Then when the fuck is it my turn You have to save your self I am not strong, just unafraid You have to save your self I am not strong, just unafraid There is no one else to help you I am not strong, just unafraid You have to save you I am not strong, just enough
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Shedding the Velvet 01:59
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Still alive Somehow I Find myself Naked on the floor This shattered frame and this broken glass Torn photos of a better past I'm losing touch I can't sleep a wink You're not as innocent as you think Feel my skin Cold and wet with fear I can't breathe When I know you're near Scraping these antlers on the trees Shedding the velvet on my knees Feeling these old bones rearrange I can't handle these growing pains This shattered frame and this broken glass Torn photos of a better past I'm losing touch I can't sleep a wink You're not as innocent as you think
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The Taste of Rain 03:52
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Through the fog A statue stands A mourning angel Dead bird in her hands What once was clean and polished well Is mossy now and cracked like hell I walked by fast Ignored her face I can't stand being near this place Sometimes I feel you follow me What had been once now could not be A rose on fire No fear of pain Cold to the touch Your whispered name You let me down But not in vain I'm savoring the taste of rain (A rose on fire) The taste of rain (Cold to the touch) The taste of rain (You let me down) The taste of rain I'm dreaming of burning it all when I get home All the letters, all the photographs, the leftover clothes Every single little reminder of what there had been Just so I can start over and over again Over and over again I wanna start over, over again Do you wanna start over again I'd like to run it back A rose on fire No fear of pain Cold to the touch Your whispered name You let me down But not in vain I'm savoring the taste of rain (A rose on fire) The taste of rain (Cold to the touch) The taste of rain (You let me down) The taste of rain A rose on fire (A rose on fire) No fear of pain (Cold to the touch) You let me down (You let me down) But not in vain The taste of rain I'm savoring The taste of rain
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New World 04:13
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Lost my place in my monologue of shame Maybe that's a good thing I could use a good thing for a change Allow me to introduce myself I am a lesson in dismay And despite how much I hate this place I would very much like to stay here In this New world I can feel the winds of change New life I can hear them call my name New start In my hollow chest I start a New fight To find my place New world Let the autumn offer me a New life A chance to shake these shackles free New start This is not who I'm supposed to be but I'm well on my way Having tasted the kiss of death I can't always resist her call And I know her cold hands are waiting To catch me when I fall So many things left unfinished I need to be them all Next time I feel her reaching I will scrape and crawl toward a New world I can feel the winds of change New life I can hear them call my name New start In my hollow chest I start a New fight To find my place New world Let the autumn offer me a New life A chance to shake these shackles free New start This is not who I'm supposed to be but I'm well on my way Death comes in many forms, yeah It doesn't have to be the end, no New world I can feel the winds of change New life I can hear them call my name New start In my hollow chest I start a New fight To find my place New world Let the autumn offer me a New life A chance to shake these shackles free New start This is not who I'm supposed to be but I'm well on my way New world I can feel the winds of change New life I can hear them call my name New start In my hollow chest I start a New fight To find my place New world In the autumn offer me a New life A chance to shake these shackles free New start This is not who I'm supposed to be but I'm well on my way
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Respite 01:31
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11.
The Bridges We Have Burned 04:01
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A word of caution you must take I will leave demons in my wake This twisted habit's hard to break Force out these leeches from my brain An infinite cycle of travesty Break down these silent walls What have we lost In the fires of the bridges we have burned We saw in time Sand castles fall apart in the design And in this glow It lights my path Each step I take Stomps through the ash I'll find this place I've dreamt of more I am stronger than I was before What have we lost In the fires of the bridges we have burned We saw in time Sand castles fall apart in the design You felt my scars when you held hands with me What have we lost In the fires of the bridges we have burned We saw in time Sand castles fall apart in the design You felt my scars when you held hands with me It's time to rebuild This is the turn of a new page My life is not yours to erase My life is not yours to erase My life is not yours to erase
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Ghosts in the Hospital 04:32
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She lies on a bed of nails Or so it feels when the sores bother her She's covered in a spiderweb of wires Cocooned just like a caterpillar She was so beautiful once All of her teeth stayed right in her mouth She was so beautiful So beautiful she will stay The ghosts in the hospital sing Come my love Come on home with us Their bedside manners repossess The ghosts of the hospital sing Take our hands Together we will float Sometimes getting better is letting go He stares right at the ceiling Like it hold the secrets of the universe He's catatonic as his father stands And begins to recite bible verses He loved so wholly once Blindly never questioned is own faith He's now so godless For what God would treat him this way The ghosts in the hospital sing Come my love Come on home with us Their bedside manners repossess The ghosts of the hospital sing Take our hands Together we will float Sometimes getting better is letting go What do you mean That we're doing all we can Isn't that what you're fucking for And what do you mean That she's not getting better Stop saying we'll make her comfortable Stop The ghosts of the hospital sing Come my love Come on home with us Their bedside manners repossess The ghosts of the hospital sing Take our hands Together we will float Sometimes getting better is letting go Sometimes getting better is letting go Sometimes getting better is letting go Sometimes getting better is letting go Sometimes getting better is letting go Here we watch the stars crumble Here we can bleed in the moonlight Here we love without wonder Here we are the sleepwalkers Here we are the sleepwalkers Here we are
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Bipolar Express 04:31
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I'm so cold Let me in I wasn't meant for here and now I must go Spent seventeen winters here Waiting for snow Isn't this lovely how all these plans have melted away My past endeavors mean nothing now So what is left to say So what is left to say One million times I've released your hands You've slipped away from my grasp Again and again I've nothing to compare this to This was everything I knew I'm walking on a frozen lake Praying to fall through Whoa Across the ocean Atop the highest hills Your voice echoes hollowly Ominously It haunts me Over miles of desert In the deepest marsh This world is meaningless When my other half evades me So don't erase me One million times I've released your hands You've slipped away from my grasp Again and again I've nothing to compare this to This was everything I knew I'm walking on a frozen lake Praying to It's a feeling of uneasiness That's welling up inside Like being ignored entirely When romance is untied You're like a phantom in my heart That's haunting me at every turn And if you were a photograph I would cast you aside to burn To stay warm One million times I've released your hands You've slipped away from my grasp Again and again I've nothing to compare this to This was everything I knew I'm walking on a frozen lake Praying to fall through Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa
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Lantern 03:14
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I used to love the summer moon Now it turns me into something That I can't stand to see I've run out of things I bear to lose So I'm here alone at the shoreline Waiting impatiently For you This waterfront's so lonely at night We're buried in sand You held my hand like a lantern We burned to the end You can take me with the tide (In the tide) I'm letting this ship capsize (This ship capsize) Here we are to bow down (To bow down) Haunting this light house This waterfront's so lonely at night We're buried in sand You held my hand like a lantern We burned to the end This waterfront's so lonely at night We're buried in sand You held my hand like a lantern We burned to the end You smiled just like a jack-o'-lantern We are rotting with time If you can't find your way back to the shoreline Just follow the light
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Disappear 02:36
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We left the state at sunset Drove through the pieces of my heart We're getting drunk in the backseat Been screaming songs since 3 am last night We don't care where we're going We don't care where we end up We don't care who is watching And we just want to disappear Ran out of gas in Louisiana Spent Mardi Gras underneath the stars We're heading west when we get the money As long as we can trust this car We don't care where we're going We don't care where we end up We don't care who is watching And we just want to disappear We're all running away in different directions But our demons always know where we are All my friends are in love, on drugs or suicidal I don't think they would mind if we crashed this car Singing breakup songs to the rear view mirror I never thought that we would get this far We don't care where we're going We don't care where we end up We don't care who is watching And we just want to disappear We don't care where we're going We don't care where we end up We don't care who is watching And we just want to disappear
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Calla Lily 05:16
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We lie on opposite sides Laying back to back Like the wings of a butterfly When we flew too close to the light We burned like moths Now who's fault is it for why we died Maybe in another life We can get it right I'd give anything for another try When I speak my mind And you turn away I'm too much for you But you're all I need What the axe forgets Remembers the tree And I'm done swinging I'm too much and now You think it's time that we should let this go I don't think it's time that we should let this go Just yet This weight is too much to pull For me on my own But I have to fix this broken home Setting fire to this house of cards Gave us a new start But they're our ashes to wipe away Maybe this is what we need To hold and to bleed For a new sense of security When I speak my mind And you turn away I'm too much for you But you're all I need What the axe forgets Remembers the tree And I'm done swinging I'm too much and now You think it's time that we should let this go Well I don't think it's time that we should let this go Just yet When I speak my mind And you turn away I'm too much for you But you're all I need What the axe forgets Remembers the trees And I'm done swinging I'm too much and now You think it's time that we should let this go I don't think its time that we should let this go Do you think it's time that we should let this go Well I don't think its time that we should let this go Just yet We know the way and we've taken the time We've had our roles clearly defined We have the guts and we've paid the mind We'll be fine so goodbye Madeline
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Alchemy 09:11
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I've dreamt of returning to the womb The spiders that reside made it resemble a tomb The point of no return is a hundred miles back What drags behind me is the trail of a broken heart attack I can't stop moving forward Even at a snail's pace If I ever fall behind I'll be consumed by my own hate So below and as above All the ones we loved And the taste of blood, yeah All our lives Every tear we've cried When the wind has died Every one is a crime I beg myself for a rest I refuse my relief and I carry on again I have no choice or the balance will break Forever, on bloody stumps, I will crawl to satiate I will not be forgiven And so I must atone Every mistake I have made Every crime of passion commit alone So below and as above All the ones we loved And the taste of blood, yeah All our lives Every tear we've cried When the wind has died Everyone is a crime I suffer for what I've done I suffer for what I've yet to do I suffer because I must I suffer to grow I suffer to change I suffer because I need to I suffer for control I suffer to survive I suffer for what I've done I suffer for what I've yet to do I suffer because I must I suffer to grow So below and as above All the ones we loved And the taste of blood All our lives Every tear we've cried When the wind has died Everyone is a crime I still look like me but I feel like you

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Cory Croft & the Band of Phantoms Providence, Rhode Island

I record myself having aggressive outbursts of heartfelt thoughts.

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