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The hillsides were sprawled with red vibrant flamesA dictator held my headlike a pawn in his war gameI moved two squares forward only to be takenBythe white chess pieces and all the smiles they were fakingLike the foreststhey burned, I was turned into paperCommercials and logos, scribbled on mybody. naked.I could've been a famous poet, prolific and aloofBut Ibastardized the English language and disregarded the truth...So my daysbecame a tape machine, playing the spool on a loopI considered all the reelswith songs that I would rather chooseThat's when you came like a chorus, in anever-ending verseWith a melody so elegant that I fell in head first,So itook to writing sonnets, those love songs that I slaved over!I was a mess ofharmony, all crotchets and quaversI tried to sing to your heart, my voiceSongtextesounded thin and painedAnd my symphony in the key of love was all plaguedwith disdain...So I'll escape inside myself, waiting for you to say thatyou missed meI'll quit music forever, spend all of my time with whiskeyGoback to the tape loop, and put my life on repeat'Cause if my heart, it meansnothing to you, well I'll try to save my soul at leastOr I won't... and I'lljust burst... into glorious flamesWe awoke weary-eyed and you turned toface meAnd realised that I wasn't the man of your dreamsThe man you'd left,he wasn't so tainted By jealousy, insecurity; he certainly wasn'tfaithlessI've a friend who sings of failure, I guess that makes sense nowIlong to hear her voice, I load the tape and it takes tensionI rewind to theleader, and press down on [LOOP] and [PLAY]And commit a song to be thesoundtrack to my recurring daysSo I'll escape inside myself, waiting foryou to say that you missed meI'll quit music forever, spend all of my timewith whiskeyGo back to the tape loop, and put my life on repeat'Cause if myheart, it means nothing to you, well I'll try to save my soul at leastOr Iwon't... and I'll just burst... into glorious flames Aus Songtexte Mania