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Machine Gun
TRILLIUM - Alloy
Music - Somerville, Gommans / Lyrics - Somerville
So, what I want to know is ~ How did you get through my security? ~ Don’t turn us into a war zone ~ Here I thought with you I had immunity ~ So, here we go ~ You’re about to blow and I see now ~ It was a set up with your talking ~ And there you go ~ Moving too fast and I’m too slow ~ To duck and run because you wound ~ Chorus: Like a machine gun ~ No break between a hit ~ You’re a machine gun ~ And I'm running on for cover ~ Like a machine gun ~ The hurting never quits ~ I’m under fire ~ Fire! ~ Machine...: ~ Screw you with what you’re about to do ~ Set afire, annihilate our alliance ~ Well, boo hoo ~ So you were hurt before, too ~ That doesn’t mean that you’re justified in your violence ~ Now it’s a civil war ~ ‘Cause you started this within the union ~ Must want it bad, ‘cause you keep talking ~ But I’m no civil whore, civil bore ~ Remember you started this ~ Sight in and take aim ~ Let loose... ~ :Chorus: ~ Too bad for you ~ You’re not the right caliber ~ Smoke-stacked and bested by a girl ~ Our treaty lost, thrown out through the window ~ Watch out ‘cause I learned from the best... ~ Now I’m a machine gun ~ You’re gonna learn how to take a hit ~ I’m an extreme one ~ I’ll have you running on for cover ~ Like a machine gun ~ The hurt will never quit ~ I’m aiming higher ~ ‘Cause I am becoming your machine gun ~ And I’m never, ever gonna quit ~ You’re under fire ~ Fire! ~ Machine...
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Coward
04:20
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Coward
Music - Gommans, Somerville / Lyrics - Somerville
The basic concept of truth seems to evade you ~ But I am here to set it right ~ I will not squander my faith ~ On fading, failing illusions ~ Longing will not rule my fate ~ Derailing, ailing... ~ Conjure storms, I’ll take my chances ~ For I know that justice will come dance upon your grave ~ You coward ~ Parading secrets you steal ~ Instilling, willing confusion ~ Playing the part as you feel ~ Fulfilling, killing... ~ Cast your stones, I’ll take my chances ~ For I know that ~ Justice comes to dance upon the graves of cowards ~ Red skies and diamond blades ~ Dead nights and minds ablaze ~ Tenacious racing toward a checkmate ~ And you know I’m right ~ No gracious winner in that game ~ And the noose is tight ~ Fed lies, a common rage ~ It’s martial law to advocate ~ No partial call could bear the weight ~ Though foresworn, you take your chances ~ You should know that soon there will be no one left to save you ~ Show
your scorn, I’ll take my chances ~ For I know that justice will come spit into your brain ~ You coward...
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Purge
04:37
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Purge
Music - Somerville, Paeth / Lyrics - Somerville
I lie to myself again and take a step away ~ The more that I hold it in, the more the beast escapes ~ The fire burns the skin ~ But it can cauterize the sin ~ I’m hoping this time it will be the end ~
Chorus: With the curtains drawn ~ (I hate to say it, but you know that I like it) ~ And the lights turned down ~ (Once you say it, ain't no way to deny it) ~ My channel is on, but it don't matter once the urge is gone ~ Been out on a binge ~ Now you know that I've got to purge: ~ My will is now paper thin, my mind is bound to crack ~ Some part of me loves the spin and wants you on my back ~ I keep the lighting low ~ If I’m discreet, they’ll never know ~ But now and again, I move too slow ~ :Chorus: ~ Purge me of this, please take it away ~ Cleanse me of this ~ I just need to purge all this away ~ Now the urge is gone, can’t deny it ~ And I know it’s wrong ~ But I like it ~ :Chorus
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Utter Descension
04:18
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Utter Descension
Music & Lyrics - Somerville, Paeth
Elusive in the deepest acts of taking ~ Conducive to the horrid act of breaking ~ Bending the laws to your every whim ~ I cannot win... ~ Productive in the fakest indignation ~ Seductive in the foulest fornication ~ Sending the cause into torrid sin ~ I cannot win... ~ But why would I give in to give up? ~ Chorus: Run to put it out ~ Extinguish this world on fire ~ Once we’re going down ~ We’ll all languish in the mire ~ Can we put it out? ~ We’ve all grown so very tired ~ We’re too late ~ Heart rate is critical: ~ Recessive in a sea of domination ~ Depressive by the means of resignation ~ Lending the awes to the fires within ~ I cannot win... ~ Elective is the course of action’s sermon ~ Selective is the process to determine ~ Tending with gauze all the wounds of the din ~ I cannot win... ~ So why should I give in to give up? ~ :Chorus: ~ We’re falling down into utter descension ~ We spiral round into utter descension ~ Hope goes to ground, into utter descension ~ We’re falling down... ~ :Chorus
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Bow To The Ego
04:54
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Bow To the Ego
Music - Gommans, Somerville / Lyrics - Somerville
If I give in will you leave it alone, tyrannous soul? ~ Seething, you leave me to dance on my own ~ Vexed and offended again ~ I ache, you take ~ It’s such a familiar subject ~ Irate outbreaks ~ We’re down to the final countdown ~ Chorus: On your knees ~ You won’t get a “pretty please” ~ See and you will believe ~ I’d say your righteousness is barely legal ~ On your knees ~ No cure for this disease ~ Already feel the heat ~ I gotta get low ~ Now bow to the ego: ~ Throwing your tantrum, I build up my wall ~ Brick after brick ~ No bed of roses awaiting your fall ~ Patience is slipping again ~ No shame, just blame ~ The air has the taste of sulfur ~ Low aim, untamed ~ This may be the final meltdown ~ :Chorus: ~ Please, Sir, won’t you ever think before you speak? ~ Now nothing can stop up this leak ~ I’m tired, so many egos to please ~ It’s draining me weak ~ My head’s bruised, all used ~ Is this what you really wanted? ~ Blown fuse, you lose ~ The one thing we all can count on... ~ :Chorus
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Mistaken
04:40
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Mistaken
Music - Somerville, Paeth / Lyrics - Somerville
Foolish was I to have believed you ~ Insufferable acts did I endure ~ I never betrayed, never deceived you ~ Was always behaved, ever demure ~ So long to all the poetry of emotion ~ It’s
crumpled up and strewn upon the floor ~ So long to all the sunflowers in my garden ~ For they’ll not taste the raindrops anymore ~ Chorus: Betrayed by your whispered lullabies and empty cries ~ The lake damming up all my solemn pride has left me dry ~ Forsake all of the thousand counterfeit sighs ~ You fake it ~ You make it that I was mistaken: ~ Sanctity fled beyond retrieval ~ The church of my heart was not enough ~ I cannot believe you’d be so evil ~ Devotion besieged and left to rust ~ So long to all the harmony of emotion ~ She left before we could settle up the score ~ So long to all the violets in my garden ~ For they’ll not see the sunlight anymore ~ :Chorus: ~ Too many signs ignored ~ Beneath the rose are always thorns ~ And Sleeping Beauty never will awaken ~ Now wasted time and fairytales are all I see within your name ~ And every way I ever was mistaken ~ :Chorus
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Scream It
05:32
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Scream It
Music - Gommans, Somerville / Lyrics - Somerville
Crucial is the tie that binds ~ But I refuse to be defined by the power you're believing is a rarity ~ A blessing thrown into reverse ~ Never meant to be and turning worse ~ Blocking any chance of finding clarity ~ Hold onto me ~ I'll be your landing strip ~ Let your anger out ~ You'd never hurt me ~ Chorus: If you're curious, I owe you ~ Dig deeper into me ~ Your fate is to be mastered ~ And I'll make you feel it ~ If you want to know, I'll show you ~ Come closer and you'll see ~ That my name is your disaster ~ And I'll make you scream it: ~ Fusion of the heart and mind ~ I tried and failed; I'm not that kind ~ You'd better up and leave 'cause I'm a hurricane ~ A vandal, damage is my game ~ I bend the rules, I'll never change ~ You're better off, believe me ~ I would be your bane ~ Cold as can be ~ The way you crack your whip ~ I can take it all ~ And still your aching ~ :Chorus: ~ Low we might sink ~ So tighten up your grip ~ I see you there ~ You won't desert me ~ And though you might think you'll never find your way ~ I won't give up till you're converted ~ Kneel before me ~ Tempt me, bore me ~ Dare to lose your head ~ You're wrong! ~ Don't believe me ~ Stand naive and bare ~ You won't be there for long! ~ If you're furious, I know you ~ You'll never let it be ~ Your name is my catastrophe ~ And now I see it ~ :Chorus
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Justifiable Casualty
05:35
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Justifiable Casualty
Music - Gommans, Somerville / Lyrics - Somerville
First off, you hear it said somehow that everything’s fair in love and war ~ How is it right to destroy a life to the core? ~ But did you stop and ever wonder what it means to trade your love for a battle scar? ~ No one wins in the outs and ins of the heart ~ Civil war and now to mend a broken hearted land will take a hundred years or more ~ What’s it worth if you’re ending up in the dirt? ~ She said, “You can’t force an army to care for a loss not theirs.” ~ Chorus: Tears of ages dry, for pain is not retainable ~ We pass the time caught up in our power struggles ~ All the wasted lives ~ And every one explainable ~ We justify every casualty: ~ Sarah Dowd felt her heart bleed out when the letter came ~ She was a widow now ~ So much pain, yet we move along every day ~ She said, “The sound still rings in my head ~ A dream shot dead.”
~ :Chorus: ~ Oh, we quickly forget the sound of regret ~ With hate in our heart and blood in the sand ~ So we’re doomed to repeat mistakes that we keep committing ~ Don’t we ever suspect that the way we’re living isn’t how it’s meant to be? ~ March on, hold your flags up high and don’t forget what you’re fighting for ~ Deadly sins for a mortal win in the corps ~ She said, “There’s no one who can declare a war on warfare.” ~ :Chorus
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The Path of Least Resistance
Somerville
Insist on taking the path of least resistance ~ Less hurdles to jump at first with less consistency ~ It’s fine, as long as you go and roll with all the punches ~ With your rubber-ball-thick-skinned- novocain-impervious self ~ You’re telling yourself that it’s not so bad... ~ Chorus: You sweet, sweet fool ~ You know, you could have it all ~ But you keep it inside till you feel the tremors way down inside your blood and bones ~ You sweet, sweet fool ~ You so could have had it all ~ But you’re determined to walk down your path of least resistance ~ Well, the choice is your own: ~ Watch out: this time the bite is worse than the bark is ~ And the sun can be just as blinding as the darkness is ~ So apt to make the mountain now into a molehill ~ While you wish and hope, dream on, thinking that you’re safe on your shelf ~ Keep telling yourself that it’s not that bad... ~ But it’s so damn sad ~ :Chorus: ~ Gloss over the cracks till the next earthquake comes ~ Shaking you down to the San Andreas through your heart ~ Run, you wild mustang, while you’re tethered to your pole ~ And eat the poisoned apples that the wicked witch has fed your soul ~ :Chorus
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Into The Dissonance
04:13
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Slow It Down
04:31
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Slow It Down
Music - Somerville, Rodenberg / Lyrics - Somerville
Everybody wants their little piece of you ~ And it’s being spread so very thin ~ It pains me to see how you’re torn at the corners again, my friend ~ The jagged edge is wicked and it shows ~ Chorus: Better slow it down ~ Remind yourself again ~ Look at where you’re bound ~ Rewind yourself and then ~ In the lost and found ~ Find yourself, remind yourself ~ Better slow it down: ~ While you put your dreams off on your waiting list ~ Someday the tomorrows cease to come ~ These handcuffs are fools’ gold; you’re stuck in a corner ~ So then, my friend,
you’ll have to find the key down in the dirt ~ :Chorus: ~ Take a deep breath and take care ~ For this will get you nowhere ~ Don’t let the madness get you ~ So many people love you ~ And I do ~ I would fight for you ~ I would... ~ I never want to be another one of them ~ It’s not my thing to slave trade you for time ~ I want you to know you’ve got me in your corner till the end, my friend ~ So know that you can always count on me ~ :Chorus
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Amanda Somerville / Trillium Flint, Michigan
Considered a Metal Diva in the European symphonic metal scene (though work with Avantasia, Epica, Kamelot, etc.), Amanda Somerville is a singer-songwriter originally of the pop / rock vein who's been roughed up at the edges with a razor blade, painted over the scars with makeup and is now sweetly taking her revenge on the microphone. ... more
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