Revolution Roulette lyrics by Poets of the Fall

1. More

Yeah decency, she done left our home On her rollerskates, so I guess she´s pretty far gone Left me with my greed, to answer for my own For how could a deadened sense tell right from wrong So thanks for nothing I ain´t feeling the magic Kinda comic how I got tragic Mirror mirror on the wall What do you give someone who has it all More, just to be sure I got what I wanted, so naturally I want more What I paid for, entertain me now All I want is more, cos I like it Too good to let it go, keep it coming Cos I want more, cos I´m not sure What I really wanted, so all I want is more Yeah modesty, her rule now overthrown Packed her teddybear, so as not to go alone Left me with my pride to live beneath a stone For how could an amputee ever pick a bone So tell me something, isn´t this a bit drastic My smiles are turning to plastic Mirror mirror on the wall What´s the secret for staying droll You know it isn´t particularly funny Killjoy walks in just when it´s turning sunny Killjoy lives like it´s all about the money All about the money, all about the money All about the money, all about the money

2. The Ultimate Fling

Today, it´s in the air again today, another incident that just went off No way, this time I will not take blame, its pretty obvious who needs to shut up Ashtrays filled with the fruits of our transgressions, here and there sarcasm overflows Do stay, I´ll need this sitcom to be re-run till I get the gist of just how it goes What would you have me do Gimme a reason, c´mon now make my day Cos I´m out of cheeks to turn the other way Ask yourself just how lucky do you feel Somehow I´ve been blindsided by my own kindhearted notion of just who we are No doubt we´d have collided anyway with me indicted and you raising alarm First round I´ll take my bows into my corner take my vows, regroup and run back again Bloodhound and of no better pedigree than what you see so you could not offend Did I act like a fool cos I didn´t know what to do, when you gave me just a little bit more than I bargained for, a little too much in my hands when my hands are tied It´s the ultimate fling to go frolicking, licking the muck from the soles of the boots of your pride, everytime you lied Gimme a reason, c´mon now make my day Spoken my pleas now someone´s gotta pay Ask yourself just how lucky do you feel Can you gimme a reason, movin´ into grey Something I can hold on to at the end of the day Cos I can´t move on till I know what´s the deal

3. Revolution Roulette

If this machine doesn´t stop, what will you do if it never goes out Never goes out of season It never stops as it turns, there ain´t no passion, yet it burns Introducing my prison Losing myself in this place, soon I´m gone without a trace Freed with that final incision Look my heart it´s a bird, it needs to sing and to be heard Not this clockwork precision And the machine grows idiotic Who´s gonna be its ingenious critic Everybody loves the perfect solution To beat the odds against the poorest possible substitution What you see is never what you´re gonna get Everybody´s playing revolution roulette Leaves you no arguments to trade, you can try the key or you can wait But the lock will not open So you´re left with sanity to lose, cos the machine is a ruse Another invention to rule them It´s like a fistful of snake eyes, a hand grenade with bye byes Like a million spent on nothing It´s kinda like a pick in their lock, when you never went ´knock knock, hello, anybody home? I´m coming in´. With a touch of foreboding And the machine grows parasitic Who´s gonna critisize the good critic Everybody loves... Everybody has the perfect solution It´s just hard to resist the sweet seduction There ain´t no trick to winning double what you bet Welcome to revolution roulette Everybody loves...

4. Psychosis

Well it´s a different man in your face And so out of place That you can see anything there that you wish Kiss my bliss It´s like I´m a welcoming freakshow doormat Held in awe while growing fat in the head This is where we all should see red A big fat wet slab of red And I see that it makes me anti everything And I see that it makes me want to shed my skin, shed my skin Revelation leading to my psychosis and inspiration Digest another hallucination, psychosis by recreation Happy till the next deterioration, psychosis For you it´s a different notion of music and motion A dance of lights, a prosaic ocean A delicate, nearly transparent creation of somebody´s soul on the screen Has caught you in between Of somebody´s life on the stage and somebody´s life on the frontpage And this is where we all should see red A big fat laughing mouth of red And I see that it makes me anti everything And I see that it makes me want to shed my skin, shed my skin I think I´m gonna start my own religion Seems to be the recipe for a new sensation Think it´s gonna make a trendy revolution Quite the contribution to the unnatural selection

5. Fragile

You´ve been biting bullets all these years, I know There beside yourself, choking back tears And you aced avoiding possibility When you made your bed upon the bittersweet Oh now don´t you worry There´s no need to be sorry There´s still time to step lightly Cos the love you used to feel is still in there, inside It may be the faded photograph, the lock of hair, don´t hide If you´re scared, I´m here to hold you, If you get lost I´m here to guide you Love is peace when peace is fragile Love is all the good in you that still remains Love is peace when peace is fragile You´ve been going out of way to agree Like you´ve been rubbing yourself all wrong just to be somebody else´s genie Catering to your disasters every need Waiting to finally be set free I said baby don´t worry Life will carry Just take it slowly Cos the love...

6. Clevermind

Looking at the road that rises up ahead I thought I´d learned a thing or two But this is where it´s all made new N´ I gotta throw my hands up I can´t go on if I can´t stop Look the leaves are dead The moments gone, there´s no surrender Forever now unsaid The words that might´ve warmed December Cos it´s all inside your head Like fragments of a dream you remember So never mind, your clever mind, never mind me Staring at the ceiling from my bed I thought I´d earned a chance or few Thought I´d be paid in due Time isn´t made for waiting Past isn´t worth debating Look the leaves are dead... Feeling like a fool again Just need a new direction a new beginning , a new beginning I can´t hold back and I can´t hold on It´s all about gratification See me running, see me running Look the leaves are dead...

7. Miss Impossible

She can see about four satellites every minute of the hour And find a four leaf clover where you never saw a flower She´s habitually paradoxical, a parallel perpendicular Barefoot in nightgowns, that´s how she dances in the rain Sundown to sundown, like she was washing ´way her pain As she is beautiful, she´s unpredictable Damned irresistible, is it plausible to hate her She is my common sense, revels on decadence But what´s the difference, it´s impossible to bait her She can really be a handful like the brownies that she bakes you It can be a tad hysterical, but never quite the breakthrough She´s some kind of an epitome, the sea of intranquility In flimsy nightgowns, barefoot she dances in the rain Sundown to sundown, like she was washing ´way her pain As she is beautiful, she´s unpredictable Damned irresistible, is it plausible to hate her She is my common sense, revels on decadence But what´s the difference, it´s an impossible debate

8. Diamonds for Tears

Why in these days of manmade wonders we still bicker over flies When you come seeking for forgiveness, I´ll be forced to choose my side If I deny you what you´re searching, do I do it out of fear Am I ruling out my reason, killing that which I hold dear Out of my way I´m coming, with an excuse just underway Reality´s so daunting, and I´ve got no way to explain Cos when you´re sound asleep next to me, I know you´re the one So when I hear you calling my name, why do I turn away to run I guess that´s why it´s raining diamonds, sweet happiness in tears Crying heaven shed your diamonds, diamonds for tears In the light of recent findings, there´s no greater taint than grace But to relinquish all our bindings, always finds us out of place If I rested here a while more, would you hold me to your heart Will I know what it´s meant for, will I know to play my part Out of my way I´m coming, another excuse before I´ll stay Reality´s applauding, I know I don´t know the right way Cos when you´re sound asleep next to me, I know you´re the one So when I hear you calling my name, Yeah, I know you´re the one I guess that´s why it´s raining diamonds, sweet happiness in tears Crying heaven shed your diamonds, diamonds for tears Is it a lost cause, Can we overlook this taint Are these the dead laws Like a doubt eating the saint And though I fear these shackles, like my darkness closing in I will hold out my hands, I will hold out my hands Cos when you´re sound asleep next to me, I know you´re the one So when I hear you calling my name, I´ll know the good I´ve done I guess that´s why it´s raining diamonds, sweet happiness in tears Crying heaven shed your diamonds, diamonds for tears

9. Passion Colors Everything

This is my toothpaste moment, oh, I´ll need to flash a smile I´ll be the super-absorbent-man, watch them flock to me in single file And I´ll need to do it with style, I need to keep me up to date Swallowing the sun run another mile, it´s overrated how we underrate I dance in tune with what I fear To do adrenaline Completely rapt with what I hear When passion colors everything The songs I sing, from way out there to deep within The face I wear behind my grin The mess I made to the original sin Everything, everything, everything I have a mind for simple things, but things are not of mind to simplify There´s always some loophole technicality you buy into and pay until you die Money doesn´t bring me joy, it´s more like a darling dead weight And I seem to have lost my appetite, it´s underrated how we overrate I dance entangled with my dear She pulls my every string Completely trapped yet never here When passion colors everything... And when I´m finally brought to my senses Parade the rain on my parade Before I´m back to my defenses To watch the whole thing escalate

10. Save Me

Gotta get a hold of myself I see them gathering around And they need me to do their will It´s like I´m standing again On the same window sill Am I happy on the pill If I wanna be the man Should I open my wrist again Would that make it excellent, yeah If I wanna be the one Should I book me an interview To get an audition Save me I´m my own worst enemy Running headlong to the wall cos I want my freebie Save me You´re the only out I see N´ I need your love the most when I least deserve it Gotta get a shot of something Before I´ll enter the ring Gimme just a minute, just a minute Did I really ask for all this Did I really cut open the goose Just to lose what´s in it If I wanna be the man Should I open my wrist again To find the way in Yeah, if I wanna be the one I´ll need to get me that interview To get that audition Looking at myself in the mirror Funny I should see only headlines and ads with my name I was told I´d see my ally So who are these skeletons with guns taking aim Save me, save me...

11. Where Do We Draw the Line

On your palm an endless wonder Lines that speak the truth without a sound In your eyes awaits the tireless hunger Already looks for prey to run down So why do we keep up this charade How do we tell apart the time to leave from the time to wait What does tomorrow want with me What does it matter what I see If it can´t be my design Tell me where do we draw the line The dance of flames and shadows in the street Make poetry nobody´s ever heard The weight of loneliness stands on your feet The cage already there around the bird So why don´t we join the masquerade Before it all falls apart before our love becomes insatiate What does tomorrow want with me What does it matter what I see If I can´t choose my own design Tell me where do we draw the line Where´s the cooling wind Where´s the evergreen field Where´s my mother´s open arms Where´s my father lionheart S´like the sun´s gone down Sleeps in the hallowed ground now With the autumn´s browns leaves With the one who never grieves What does tomorrow want with me What does it matter what I see If we all walk behind the blind Tell me where do we draw the line Whatever tomorrow wants from me At least I´m here, at least I´m free Free to choose to see the signs This is my line