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Crimson Tide

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Crimson Tide

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I was like the laziest river

A vulture predisposed to eating off floors

No wait, I take that back

I was more like an ocean

Stuck inside hospital corridors

My condition in general

Despite what they say, improves

So I could care less on a night like this

I'm on the lookout for anything that moves

Crimson tide

I know when to hold 'em

And I know when to leave

I know where to go

And I know how to breathe

I know how you blow bubbles

You can look at the world

till you don't know what you done

You can follow a salary to the bottom of the ocean

Is that yours? Throw it in the pot

I thought I was smart, I'm not

I thought I was sick and dying

Chicken-shit singers paying their dues

A circus mongrel sniffing for clues

You watch the blonde make mincemeat of the brunette

An actress pays her debt

To Satan again and again

I say it, I don't know, just 'cause

A child coos sweet nothings to a box of fuzz

He's not a child, he's twenty-five

He's never felt so alive, crimson tide

One more dead rich runaway, who gives a shit?

Must be nice, must be the rain

When lightning strikes twice

The funeral goes completely insane

The funeral's insane

The funeral's insane

The funeral's insane

Vicious stampede, a vile promenade

But in china teacups, two fools find love

Back at Hotel Paral·lel, hysteria, I can feel it

She says get into the zone, the zone is brimstone and wire

You open your mouth to watch your teeth shudder

At the mirror, at the clutter

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