Stranded (On My Own)

Song Stranded (On My Own)
Artist Titus Andronicus
Album The Most Lamentable Tragedy

Lyrics

[00:01.730] Crazy heart, where have you gone?
[00:06.850] I thought that you and me were really getting along!
[00:11.730] Left alone to dread the dawn
[00:16.870] Like some kind of science experiment gone wrong
[00:21.790] I could've made history, now I've been made history
[00:26.760] And who knew that victory could be so slippery?
[00:31.810] Cover the thick bloodstains
[00:34.610] On your sick young brain
[00:36.360] Just take your Ritalins
[00:38.820] Then you can play the old hits again
[00:42.040] You explained the Abyss away
[00:47.550] And I can't listen when you say you're not missing me
[00:52.380] You kissed me in the blistering heat, oh yeah, yeah!
[00:57.970] Right there on the street with tears on my glistening cheek
[01:02.550] Now no one listens to me, they tell me that I'm twisted and weak
[01:07.350] I see that I was picked to be the picture in the dictionary
[01:12.180] Look up "Addicted," that's me
[01:14.610] Then look up "Wicked disease"
[01:17.440] Then look up "Sick of police"
[01:19.980] Then look up "Victim" closely, ooh yeah
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[01:43.680] I meet the mystery beast, the same one my sister receives
[01:48.880] He comes to bludgeon and beat, demands me on both knees
[01:54.140] He will not admit defeat and when he pricks, I'm going to bleed
[01:59.750] And I can raise fists or flee, soon shouting, "No, mister, please!"
[02:04.270] He destroys the diseases
[02:06.680] As though Jesus could see us
[02:09.300] High up in a cathedral
[02:12.550] Where an evil heart freezes
[02:14.060] And even the devil would start to believe it
[02:16.910] When the man without equal, from the pulpit, preaches
[02:19.720] You gotta believe he can show you the secrets
[02:22.460] "That's what a priest is, Mama"
[02:24.760] He comes to obliterate all of my mischievous ways
[02:29.560] And leaves me a useless disgrace, silent through limitless rage
[02:33.450] Violently neutered and caged, stuffed with subliminal hate
[02:40.010] I'm nothing but a puppet at play, crying in a beautiful place
[02:44.610] Another brutal display
[02:47.010] On an invisible face
[02:50.120] In a legal-ish space
[02:52.180] It's the usual way within a week of Wednesday
[02:55.660] Crazy heart, where have you gone?
[03:10.400] I thought that you and me...
[03:17.580] I thought that you and me...
[03:24.900] I thought that you and me were really getting along
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