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Congrats megplant for winning this one :) next up is probably their only song I barely know; wondering if it just me who like never hears it or is it a common song to not really know. Anyways, here's be concerned!

Where'd you go, huh?

They all think I know you

It's so hard to motivate

Me to devote a

Single inch of me to

Something I can't see I

Don't mean to pry but why

Would you even make the eyes?

I don't believe my ears

And I'm scared of my own head

I will deny you for years

And I'll make you raise me from the dead

And if I said that I would live for you

For nothing in return

Well, I'm sorry Mr. Gullible

But lying's all I've learned

So be concerned

So be concerned

No music

And I could talk about anything

Whether or not it's worthwhile

It's based on who's listening

Most of us listen

If it's something we can relate to

All of us relate

If it's something we've just been through

Take it for granted

Trust is damaged and now we panic

Living empty-handed

Living lives like we can't manage, I can't feel you

But still know where home is feeling like Jonah did

Almost dropped the bat like every base was fully loaded

So be concerned

So be concerned

You should

OK

Alright

I am disappearing

Inside my bird's eye theories

I try to say goodbye, defy, and deny What it is I'm fearing

Clearly I am dying, dearly I am writing Merely testifying

That a test to fly requires I pass the test with colors flying

I don't believe you most of the time

I'm lying 'cause I say I am fine

You are the pearl, I am the swine

So break my life and take this rhyme

I'm so sorry but I do believe

That all my bridges I have burned

And I've earned a policy of no return

So be concerned

So be concerned

So be concerned

So be concerned

Congrats TurbulentAccident348 for winning this one :) Next up is Trees!

I know where you stand

Silent in the trees

And that's where I am

Silent in the trees.

Why won't you speak

Where I happen to be?

Silent in the trees

Standing cowardly.

I can feel your breath.

I can feel my death.

I want to know you.

I want to see.

I want to say hello.

Hello. Hello-oh-o. Hello.

Na na, na na na nah na na. [4x]

I know where you stand

Silent in the trees

And that's where I am

Silent in the trees.

Why won't you speak

Where I happen to be?

Silent in the trees

Standing cowardly.

I can feel your breath.

I can feel my death.

I want to know you.

I want to see.

I want to say hello.

Na na, na na na nah na na. [2x]

Hello, hello.

Na na, na na na nah na na. [2x]

Hello, hello.

Hello, hello. [2x]

Congrats squidhijak75 for winning this one! Next up is Ruby:

Ruby, I hope I see you, I've waited all this week

For you to walk my way, your soul will capture me

Your mama painted your room, "A shade of pink," she said

But with your great arrival that shade has turned to red.

Ruby, take my hand, please lead me to the Promised Land

Tell me where am I from? Your eyes say, "Shada de da dum."

Ruby, you're royalty in your home land, they all call you "Queen"

Tell me, where are you from? Your eyes say, "Shada de da dum."

[2x] You're an angel fallen down. Won't you tell us of the clouds?

You have fallen from the sky. How high? How high?

You're true and pure

You hold the cure

We're all diseased

You hold the key.

You're an angel fallen down. Won't you tell us of the clouds?

You have fallen from the sky. How high? How high?

How high?

[7x]

Tell our dad I'm sorry.

[5x]

You're an angel

[3x]

Tell our dad I'm sorry.

[2x]

You're an angel

Congrats Comadon-C for winning two times in a row (I think I see a pattern with your choices...) :) Next up is Lovely!

You say things with your mouth

Cobwebs and flies come out

I hear a second voice behind your tongue somehow

Luckily I can read your mind

Flies and cobwebs unwind

They will not take you down

They will not cast you out, out.

Dear friend, here we are again pretending

To understand how you think your world is ending

Sending signals and red flags in waves

It's hard to tell the difference between blood and water these days

I'll pray that one day you see

The only difference between life and dying

Is one is trying, that's all we're gonna do

So try to love me and I'll try to save you.

[2x]

Won't you stay alive

I'll take you on a ride

I will make you believe you are lovely.

Your redemption won't grow stale

We are now just setting sail

On the seas of what we fear

Treason now is growing near to me

I'm coming clean

God, hit me straight on. [2x]

[2x]

Won't you stay alive

I'll take you on a ride

I will make you believe you are lovely.

You say things with your mouth

Cobwebs and flies come out.

I hear a second voice behind your tongue somehow

Luckily, I can read your mind

[5x]

Don't be gone

[6x]

You say things with your mouth,

Cobwebs and flies come out.

Congrats Comadon-C for winning this one :) Next up is Anathema (one of the best ends of a song, next to oldies station)

You will never know what's behind my skull

So won't you say good night, so I can say goodbye

You will never know what's under my hair

So won't you say good night, so I can say goodbye

You will never know what's under my skin

So won't you say good night, so I can say goodbye

You will never know what is in my veins

So won't you say good night, so I can say goodbye

Won't you go to someone else's dreams?

Won't you go to someone else's head?

Haven't you taken enough from me?

Won't you torture someone else's sleep?

And you will never know what I'm thinking of

So won't you say good night, so I can say goodbye

And you will never understand what I believe

So won't you say goodnight, so I can say goodbye

Haven't you taken enough from me?

Won't you torture someone else's sleep?

Won't you go to someone else's dreams?

Won't you go to someone else's head?

Haven't you taken enough from me?

Won't you torture someone else's sleep?

I start to part

Two halves of my heart

In the dark and I

Don't know

Where I should go

And the tears

And the fears

Begin to multiply

Taking time in a simple place

In my bed

Where my head

Rests on a pillowcase

And it's said

That a war's led

But I forget

That I let another day go by

I wanna be afraid but it seems

That these days I'm caught under water

And I'm falling farther

My heart's getting harder,

I'm calling my father

Am I screaming to an empty sky?

Empty sky, no way, that's me

'Cause one half of my heart is free

Empty sky, no way, that's me,

'Cause the other half of my heart's asleep

Congrats RevolutionaryOne3887 and CarlosK24 (I'll kindly enter into rooms of depression) for tying in this one! I just added RevolutionaryOne3887's line because someone else had a similar line. Next up is Kitchen Sink:

Nobody thinks what I think

Nobody dreams when they blink

Think things on the brink of blasphemy

I'm my own shrink

Think things are after

me, my catastrophe

At my kitchen sink

You don't know what that means

Because a kitchen sink to you

Is not a kitchen sink to me, OK friend?

Are you searching for purpose?

Then write something, yeah it might be worthless

Then paint something then, it might be wordless

Pointless curses, nonsense verses

You'll see purpose start to surface

No one else is dealing with your demons

Meaning maybe defeating them

Could be the beginning of your meaning, friend

Go away

Go away

Go away

Go away

Leave me alone

Leave me alone

Leave me alone

Leave me alone

Leave me alone

Leave me alone

Leave me alone

Nobody thinks what you think, no one

Empathy might be on the brink of extinction

They will play a game and say

They know what you're going through

And I tried to come up with an artistic way to say They don't know you, and neither do I

So here's a prime example of a stand-up guy

Who hates what he believes and loves it at the same time

Here's my brother and his head's screwed up But that's alright

Time gains momentum the moment when I'm living in 'em

I'm winning a momentary sinning a moment passing after

A re-beginning moments mending memories

Pretending enemies are frenemies, sending me straight to bending me

My bad behaviour but I bet I could have been a better man

Copy and paste caught me, and copy, better rhymes bother me

The better the rhythm the badder I am but I bet I'll battle with 'em battle

Better I am, gambling man, better bet I am a gambling man, I am?

Go away

Go away

Go away

Go away

Leave me alone

Leave me alone

Leave me alone

Leave me alone

Leave me alone

Don't leave me alone

Oh oh oh oh oh

Congrats Echorey531 for winning this one :) Next up is Glowing Eyes (another absolutely peak song in RAB)

We all are stranger creatures than when we all started out as kids,

Culture forbids,

We have romantic fantasies about what dying truly is,

Fall off the grid.

We live for the night's decor,

It reveals what we dream of.

I know there's someone at the door,

They called for help, of this I'm sure,

But do I want to say goodbye to all the glowing eyes,

I'm holding on to what I know,

And what I know, I must let go,

But I would rather play a song for the eyes to sing along.

The eyes to sing along, long, long.

We all know somebody who knows somebody who's doing great,

I know some people who know people who are flying straight,

But I'll kindly enter into rooms of depression,

While ceiling fans and idle hands will take my life again.

We live for the night's decor,

It reveals what we dream of.

I know there's someone at the door,

They called for help, of this I'm sure,

But do I want to say goodbye to all the glowing eyes,

I'm holding on to what I know,

And what I know, I must let go,

But I would rather play a song for the eyes to sing along.

[2x:]

This room is far too dark for us to stay around,

Redemption's not that far and darkness is going down.

I'm holding on to what I know

And what I know, I must let go,

But I would rather play a song for the eyes to sing along

The eyes to sing along, long, long.

Make them stop [5x]

Congrats Extra_Quality9412 for winning this one :) Next up is Forest!

I don't know why I feed on emotion

There's a stomach inside my brain

I don't wanna be heard

I wanna be listened to

Does it bother anyone else

That someone else has your name?

Does it bother anyone else

That someone else has your name, your name?

I scream, you scream, we all scream

'Cause we're terrified of what's around the corner

We stay in place

'Cause we don't wanna lose our lives

So let's think of something better.

Down in the forest

We'll sing a chorus

One that everybody knows

Hands held higher,

We'll be on fire

Singing songs that nobody wrote.

My brain has given up

White flags are hoisted

I took some food for thought

It might be poisoned

The stomach in my brain

Throws up onto the page

Does it bother anyone else

That someone else has your name?

Does it bother anyone else

That someone else has your name?

I scream, you scream, we all scream

'Cause we're terrified of what's around the corner

We stay in place

'Cause we don't wanna lose our lives

So let's think of something better.

Down in the forest

We'll sing a chorus

One that everybody knows

Hands held higher,

We'll be on fire

Singing songs that nobody wrote.

Quickly moving towards the storm

Moving forward, torn

Into pieces over reasons

Of what these storms are for

I don't understand why everything I adore

Takes a different form when I squint my eyes

Have you ever done that?

When you squint your eyes

And your eyelashes make it look a little not right

And then when just enough light

Comes from just the right side

And you find you're not who you're supposed to be?

This is not what you're supposed to see

Please, remember me. I am supposed to be

King of a kingdom or swinging on a swing

Something happened to my imagination

The situation's becoming dire

My tree house is on fire

And for some reason I smell gas on my hands

This is not what I had planned

This is not what I had planned.

Down in the forest

We'll sing a chorus

Hands held higher,

We'll be on fire

Singing songs that nobody wrote.

Down in the forest

We'll sing a chorus

One that everybody knows

Hands held higher,

We'll be on fire

Singing songs that nobody wrote.

Hands held higher,

We'll be on fire

Hands held higher,

We'll be on fire

Congrats erthboy for winning the last one :) next up is Car Radio:

I ponder of something great

My lungs will fill and then deflate

They fill with fire

Exhale desire

I know it's dire

My time today

I have these thoughts

So often I ought

To replace that slot

With what I once bought

'Cause somebody stole

My car radio

And now I just sit in silence

Sometimes quiet is violent

I find it hard to hide it

My pride is no longer inside

It's on my sleeve

My skin will scream

Reminding me of

Who I killed inside my dream

I hate this car that I'm driving

There's no hiding for me

I'm forced to deal with what I feel

There is no distraction to mask what is real

I could pull the steering wheel

I have these thoughts

So often I ought

To replace that slot

With what I once bought

'Cause somebody stole

My car radio

And now I just sit in silence

I ponder of something terrifying

'Cause this time there's no sound to hide behind

I find over the course of our human existence

One thing consists of consistence

And it's that we're all battling fear

Oh dear, I don't know if we know why we're here

Oh my,

Too deep

Please stop thinking

I liked it better when my car had sound

There are things we can do

But from the things that work there are only two

And from the two that we choose to do

Peace will win

And fear will lose

There's faith and there's sleep

We need to pick one please because

Faith is to be awake

And to be awake is for us to think

And for us to think is to be alive

And I will try with every rhyme

To come across like I am dying

To let you know you need to try to think

I have these thoughts

So often I ought

To replace that slot

With what I once bought

'Cause somebody stole

My car radio

And now I just sit in silence

(Oooh) [x4]

(Oooh) [x6 & repeats in background]

And now I just sit in silence [x2]

And now I just sit

And now I just sit in silence [x3]

And now I just sit

I ponder of something great

My lungs will fill and then deflate

They fill with fire

Exhale desire

I know it's dire

My time today

I have these thoughts

So often I ought

To replace that slot

With what I once bought

'Cause somebody stole

My car radio

And now I just sit in silence

Congrats Lord-UU for choosing this line :) The vast vast majority of y'all chose this line, I don't think any other post was more unanimous. next up is slowtown!

Hey, hey, wouldn't it be great, great,

If we could just lay down and wake up in Slowtown,

Today, day, I want to go away, way,

'Cause things are too fast now,

I want to be in Slowtown.

I put my socks on my feet,

Just so that my soul won't fall through my toes,

And I walk through my door,

Just so I don't fall through the floor.

I remember when my brother and other kids from neighboring houses,

Would get together, I'd ride my bike and my brother would ride his,

Put cards in our spokes and make our engine sound like traffic,

When using Pokémon cards, please do not use the holographics,

So bold and fearless in the risks we take,

Laugh in the face of gravity as its laws we'd break,

On trampolines so high, we reach for the sky, but I,

Do not look up anymore and I don't know why.

I put my socks on my feet,

Just so that my soul won't fall through my toes,

And I walk through my door,

Just so I don't fall through the floor.

[3x:]

We're going too fast, fast, save us.

We're going too fast, fast, save us.

We're going too fast, fast, save us now.

I walk through my door,

Just so I don't fall through the floor.

Hey, hey, wouldn't it be great, great,

If we could just lay down and wake up in Slowtown,

Just singing.

Congrats N238 for winning the last one :) drum roll please....Ode To Sleep is next!!! Objectively their best song, and I won't be hearing any arguments. Not much competition for the most out of context line here, but we'll see!

I wake up fine and dandy but then by the time I find it handy,

To rip my heart apart and start planning my crash landing,

I go up, up, up, up, up to the ceiling,

Then I feel my soul start leaving, like an old man's hair receding,

I'm pleading please, oh please on my knees repeatedly asking,

Why it's got to be like this. Is this living free?

I don't want to be the one, be the one who has the sun's blood on my hands,

I'll tell the moon, take this weapon forged in darkness,

Some see a pen, I see a harpoon.

I'll stay awake,

'Cause the dark's not taking prisoners tonight.

Why am I not scared in the morning

I don't hear those voices calling,

I must have kicked them out, I must have kicked them out,

I swear I heard demons yelling,

Those crazy words they were spelling,

They told me I was gone, they told me I was gone.

But I'll tell them,

Why won't you let me go?

Do I threaten all your plans?

I'm insignificant.

Please tell them you have no plans for me.

I will set my soul on fire, what have I become

I'll tell them.

On the eve of a day that's forgotten and fake,

And the trees they await and clouds anticipate,

The start of a day when we put on our face,

A mask that portrays that we don't need grace,

On the eve of a day that is bigger than us,

But we open our eyes 'cause we're told that we must,

And the trees wave their arms and the clouds try to plead,

Desperately yelling there's something we need,

I'm not free, I asked forgiveness three times,

Same amount that I denied, I three-time MVP'd this crime,

I'm afraid to tell you who I adore, won't tell you who I'm singing towards,

Metaphorically I'm a whore, and that's denial number four.

I'll stay awake,

'Cause the dark's not taking prisoners tonight.

Why am I not scared in the morning?

I don't hear those voices calling,

I must have kicked them out, I must have kicked them out,

I swear I heard demons yelling,

Those crazy words they were spelling,

They told me I was gone, they told me I was gone.

But I'll tell them,

Why won't you let me go?

Do I threaten all your plans?

I'm insignificant,

Please tell them, you have no plans for me,

I will set my soul on fire, what have I become?

I'll tell them, you have no plans for me,

I will set my soul on fire,

What have I become?

I'll tell them,

I'll tell them,

I'll tell them,

I'll tell them,

Please tell them, you have no plans for me,

I will set my soul on fire, what have I become?

I'm sorry.

Congrats Slight_Literature_67 for winning yesterday's again :) Next up is probably one of your guy's favorites: Holding Onto You:

I'm taking over my body,

Back in control, no more shotty,

I bet a lot of me was lost,

Ts uncrossed and Is undotted,

I fought it a lot

And it seems a lot like flesh is all I got,

Not anymore, flesh out the door,

Swat,

I must've forgot, you can't trust me,

I'm open a moment and close when you show it,

Before you know it, I'm lost at sea,

And now that I write and think about it,

And the story unfolds,

You should take my life,

You should take my soul.

You are surrounding all my surroundings,

Sounding down the mountain range of my left-side brain,

You are surrounding all my surroundings,

Twisting the kaleidoscope behind both of my eyes.

And I'll be holding on to you [2x]

Remember the moment

You know exactly where you're going,

'Cause the next moment,

Before you know it, time is slowing

And it's frozen still,

And the window sill looks really nice, right?

You think twice about your life,

It probably happens at night,

Right?

Fight it,

Take the pain, ignite it,

Tie a noose around your mind

Loose enough to breathe fine and tie it

To a tree. Tell it, "You belong to me.

This ain't a noose, this is a leash.

And I have news for you: you must obey me."

You are surrounding all my surroundings,

Sounding down the mountain range of my left-side brain,

You are surrounding all my surroundings,

Twisting the kaleidoscope behind both of my eyes.

Entertain my faith. [10x]

[4x]

Lean with it, rock with it,

When we gonna stop with it,

Lyrics that mean nothing,

We were gifted with thought,

Is it time to move our feet

To an introspective beat,

It ain't the speakers that bump hearts,

It's our hearts that make the beat.

And I'll be holding on to you. [8x]

Congrats Audracious1 for winning the final one of self titled :) next is definitely my favorite album, Regional at Best. I'll add the other songs later (gotta lock in for AP's; good luck to anyone taking them!) anyways here's the lyrics for guns for hands:

I know what you think in the morning,

When the sun shines on the ground,

And shows what you have done,

It shows where your mind has gone,

And you swear to your parents,

That it will never happen again,

I know, I know what that means, I know.

That you all have guns,

And you never put the safety on,

And you all have plans,

To take it, to take it,

Don't take it, take it, take it.

I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep,

I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep,

But I can't, but I can't

When you all have guns for hands, yeah

I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep,

I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep,

But I can't, but I can't

When you all have guns for hands, yeah

Let's take this a second at a time,

Let's take this one song, this one rhyme,

Together, let's breathe,

Together, to the beat,

But there's hope out the window,

So that's where we'll go,

Let's go outside and all join hands,

But until then you'll never understand.

That you all have guns,

And you never put the safety on,

And you all have plans,

To take it, to take it,

Don't take it, take it, take it.

I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep,

I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep,

But I can't, but I can't

When you all have guns for hands, yeah.

(hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey)

(hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey)

(hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey)

(la, da, da, da, da)

We've turned our hands to guns, trade in our thumbs for ammunition,

I must forewarn you of my disorder, or my condition,

'Cause when the sun sets, it upsets what's left of my invested interest,

Interested in putting my fingers to my head,

The solution is, I see a whole room of these mutant kids,

Fused at the wrist, I simply tell them they should shoot at this,

Simply suggest my chest and this confused music,

It's obviously best for them to turn their guns to a fist.

I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep,

I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep,

But I can't, but I can't

When you all have guns for hands, yeah.

I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep (I'm trying to sleep)

I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep (I'm trying to sleep)

But I can't, but I can't

When you all have (when you all have) guns for hands, yeah.

Congrats N238 for winning this one :) we are on the last song of self titled! And arguably one of their best songs as well:

Now is the climax to the story

That gives the demons and angels purpose

They fly around while we are walking

And mold our emotions just to please them

I am cold, can you hear?

I will fly with no hope, no fear

And the ground taunts my wings

Plummet as I sing, plummet as I sing

All we are is an isle of flightless birds

We find our worth in giving birth and stuff

We're lining our homes against winding roads And we think the going is tough

We pick songs to sing, remind us of things that nobody cares about

And honestly we're probably more suicidal than ever now

If you decide to live by, what you think's wrong and what's right

Believe me you'll begin to wish you were sleeping

Your weeping will creep in your head and you'll cry

But if we wake up every morning and decide what we believe

We can take apart our very heart and the light will set us free

I am cold, can you hear?

I will fly with no hope, no fear

And the ground taunts my wings

Plummet as I sing, plummet as I...

I am cold, can you hear?

I will fly with no hope, no fear

And the ground taunts my wings

Plummet as I sing, plummet as I...

How frustrating and so degrading

His time, we're wasting

As time will fly by and the sky will cry as light is fading

And he is waiting, oh, so patiently

While we repeat the same routine as we will please comfortability

Yeah, please don't think about why you can't sleep in the evening

And please don't be afraid of what your soul is really thinking

Your soul knows good and evil, your soul knows both sides

And it's time you pick your battle, and I promise you this is mine

(I promise you)

Congrats FissureEssence for winning the last one :) Next is a pretty meh song imo but there's some good lines. Heres the lyrics for Before You Start Your Day!

Open the slits in your face and start your day

You don't have much time to make your slits look just right

I'm in your mind

I'm singing

I'm in your mind

I'm singing la-da la-da la-da la-da la-da la-da da

Look in the mirror and ask your soul if you're alright

Put on the glitter that your soul hides behind

You're in my mind

I'm singing

You're in my mind

I'm singing la-da la-da la-da la-da la-da la-da da

Know you were made holy

Open up your eyes and see

The clouds above will hold you

The clouds above will sing

Ah

And in your mind

You're singing la-da la-da la-da la-da la-da la-da da