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One Up for the Dying

1. We Won't Stay Dead
2. Solitary Heaven
3. Shiver (Video)
4. The Source
5. One Up for the Dying
6. Burn
7. Heart of Black (Video)
8. See Me in the Mirror
9. Processing A Monster
10. In the Open, In the Crowd
Available on CD at... Amazon.com / CDBaby.com / iTunes.com
Notes
Released in 2005. Recorded, Mixed, Played & Sung by Anders Manga.
Lyrics

WE WON'T STAY DEAD
(Written by Anders Manga)

How bad do you all want love back?
Lost girls there do manifest
By the look of the crowd up ahead
They are beautiful but still a wreck
How long can they keep such a painfully blissfully scene?

Cause they won’t stay dead
They won’t stay dead

How long have you all been on fire?
Does it keep you from the thieves and the liars?
In the audience there is a dream
That is burdened by all that's obscene
How long can the world just ignore
All the hate we’ve suppressed

Cause we won’t stay dead
We won’t stay dead

There’s a riot of passion and crime
And they grave robbed the father of time
In the audience there is a dream
That is burdened by all that's obscene
How long can the world just ignore
All the hate we’ve suppressed

Cause we won’t stay dead
We won’t stay dead


SOLITARY HEAVEN
(Written by Anders Manga)

The kind words that you have always spoken 
Are the last words that you will be choking down
you’ve been away too long
The sweat pores from your swollen flesh 
as you gasp for a deeper breath
You’ve been away for far too long

Chorus: In Solitary Heaven don’t walk on by
The sky is crying sin
In Solitary Heaven the victimized
Are bound by knots from within
In Solitary Heaven the wind won’t cry
The walls are falling in
In Solitary Heaven the victimized 
Are bound by love from within

The last laugh you’re anticipating
And the burned out hate you are escalating
Is all because you’ve been away too long
The empty souls and the maverick fakers 
Have been pulled out by the undertakers
And you know you’ve been away too long

Chorus: In Solitary Heaven don’t walk on by
The sky is crying sin
In Solitary Heaven the victimized
Are bound by knots from within
In Solitary Heaven the wind won’t cry
The walls are falling in
In Solitary Heaven the victimized 
Are bound by love from within

Chorus: In Solitary Heaven don’t walk on by
The skies is crying sin
In Solitary Heaven the victimized
Are bound by knots from within
In Solitary Heaven the wind won’t cry
The walls are falling in
In Solitary Heaven the victimized 
Are bound by love from within


SHIVER
(Written by Anders Manga)

Anywhere you sliver away
Lost without a trace to trade
I would expose you
With all that’s askew

When you bring yourself to the ledge
Look up on the gods you begged
The shiver that runs you through
It’s long overdue
They’ve nothing left to do with you

Watch the halos burn out in disorder
Cry for the murder of the shiver that runs you through

Everywhere you choose your grave
The possessions you crave
A fix can help you through
When it’s all you can do

Watch the halos burn out in disorder
Cry for the murder of the shiver that runs through you
It runs through you
It burns through you
Confesses for you
It cries for…..it cries for you
It runs through you
It burns through you
Confesses you
It cries for… it cries for you


THE SOURCE
(Written by Anders Manga)

Blood on the walls and a chair by the fire
It’s been a competitive love and desire
I’m sitting still and I’m just getting colder
Ice in my veins and a lump in my throat

I’ve been invited by the light of the moon

Time and time I gave in
And all you want is more
That’s not what I came here for
But this time I didn’t give in
and I feel no remorse now that I’ve cut off the source

Ecstasy comes like a worm through the brain
Slightly succumbs to the fist and the pain
Not breaking silence but I’ve destroyed the order
Sweat pores and blood fills the void of the rain

I’ve been invited by the light of the moon
I’ve been invited by the light of the moon

Time and time I gave in
And all you want is more
That’s not what I came here for
But this time I didn’t give in
and I feel no remorse now that I’ve cut off the source

I feel like I’ve left you silenced
I’ve already lived and died once for you

Time and time I gave in
And all you want is more
That’s not what I came here for
But this time I didn’t give in
and I feel no remorse now that I’ve cut off the source


ONE UP FOR THE DYING
(Written by Anders Manga)

Revelation Resurrection
Horrific cries from the shallow drones
Malicious Brain trash free at last 
Throw out the rest on the side of the road

Calling all misfits to throw a bitch fit
Beat the wasteland into submission
Unbelievers, misconceivers
Flames blaze as the freaks explode

One up for the dying
And resurrecting
One up for the murder control
One up for the dying 
And disconnecting
One up for the death to behold

Crucifying, cracked and breaking
Empty promises full of lead
Sadistic call backs, degrading bone cracks
Duel possessions bring discontent

Calling all misfits to throw a bitch fit
Beat the wasteland into submission
Unbelievers, misconceivers
Flames blaze as the freaks explode

One up for the dying
And resurrecting
One up for the murder control
One up for the dying 
And the disconnecting
One up for the death to behold

When the shot rang down from the psychopathic lechers
And second best is up for the ride
If the thirty ought six springs elevator tricks
And the jezebels have no where to hide
We Die

One up for the dying
And resurrecting
One up for the murder control
One up for the dying 
And the disconnecting
One up for the death to behold

When the shot rang down from the psychopathic lechers
And second best is up for the ride
If the thirty ought six springs elevator tricks
And the jezebels have no where to hide
We Die


BURN
(Written by Anders Manga)

Turn with it darling stomp away your nightmares
Fire trails are glowing ashing up your dark hair
Swing out your hatred hell is now well aware

Tied up, lost with your head to the ground 
Anger overturned, you’ll never learn until you burn

Erratic motions, request are made to repeat
Shadowing dancers translate when evil speaks

Tied up, lost with your head to the ground
Anger overturned, you’ll never learn until you burn

Expose all emotions, turning heads looking dead
Kill the satisfaction and just force feeds them red
Death by desire
Death

Tied up lost with your head to the ground 
Anger overturned, you’ll never learn until you burn


HEART OF BLACK
(Written by Anders Manga)

I chose the wrong words
Now I’m left to live
Burdened by the enemy of love
Who's gone and taken all that’s left
Just need a minute of your time
I can’t take back the words
But if you’ll give, I’ll try to change your mind

It’s been wicked dull days
Forbidden lonely nights
The needle pops along the cracks and grooves
Of a broken hearted 45
Critical and left for dead
Another memory that’s lost
Another letter ripped to shreds

Wash me in the water
Cover me in sand
Burn all of the bridges that lead to me
Till the love is washed off in the water
Covered in the sand
Build the highest wall of flames around me
'til a heart of black is what I have

No more emotion
Farewell to pain
So long to innocence
No regret remains
Goodbye to misery
Desensitized
Erase all energy
Paralyzed

Wash me in the water
Cover me in sand
Burn all of the bridges that lead to me
Till the love is washed off in the water
Covered in the sand
Build the highest wall of flames around me
'til a heart of black is what I have


PROCESSING A MONSTER
(Written by Anders Manga)

One commands another’s offer
Somehow makes the bullet softer
Living up to nothing 
I wanna shine now

One commands another’s offer
Somehow makes the bullet softer
Living up to nothing 
I wanna shine now

See the credits up ahead
I’ll swerve 
To make my story incomplete

Think I’ll just stay awhile

One commands another’s offer
Somehow makes the bullet softer
Living up to nothing 
I wanna shine now

One commands another’s offer
Somehow makes the bullet softer
Living up to nothing 
I wanna shine now

See the credits up ahead
I’ll swerve 
To make my story incomplete

Think I’ll just stay awhile
Think I’ll just stay awhile
Think I’ll just stay awhile
Think I’ll just stay awhile


IN THE OPEN, IN THE CROWD
(Written by Anders Manga)

Find another place to watch your final days in peace
The rules have all been changed but now you feel that you are free

Just up above me
If push comes to shove me 
There will be enough time

Hurry up you’re late and maybe if you make it there 
The times you went before will be so dull in your compare

Just up above me 
If push comes to shove me
There will be enough time

Time to linger in the open
Time to linger in the crowd
Watch me for a moment
I’ve been around

So you were young and articulate
Now you know you won’t be regretting it
It’s the fear of the pain they say that you will find
Well you made your bed you lie in it
So money over run again 
It all somehow just don’t work out

Just up above me
If push comes to shove me 
There will be enough time

Time to linger in the open
Time to linger in the crowd
Watch me for a moment
I’ve been around

Time to linger in the open
Time to linger in the crowd
Watch me for a moment
I’ve been around


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