In Times New Roman... Album Lyrics by Queens Of The Stone Age

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Obscenery

Mannequins have flawless skin
You can dress 'em up like me if you like
But don't lobotomy, I'm happy and free
Listening to crickets in the pale moonlight
I don't give up, I give in
There ain't nothing to win
I'm making music for all stereotypes
Modern love, unsentimental, consequences, schmonsequences
I can hum it if you like

Hurrah, the obscenery's f*cking useless
Jihad me in obscenery, born ruthless
Until the rivers run dry
And you're caught in the middle of what you made
In the division of thighs
From the hole where the empathy used to be
Until your rivers run dry
F*ck me stupid
And you're caught in the middle of what you made
Kiss it goodbye, f*ck me stupid
Empty hole where the empathy used to be
In the obscenery is where you're happy to be

Ain't it a little strange?
Pretend to be awake
Do you think we'll break?
Like a slap in the face
Enjoy the obscenery, goodnight

Self-help, it won't help yourself
You must be pleased with miseries you designed
Voyeurism-jism may cause blurry visions
Spoiled brat or an inner child
Emotional amputees with phantom pains from missing limbos of life
Oh, the guillotine, I'm drowning in the wet dreams
I'll bet you'd lose your mind

Hurrah, let's do this
Enjoy obscenery, born ruthless
Kiss it goodbye, stupid
We're all caught in the middle and useless
In the obscenery, forget what used to be
'Cause there's no love for anyone who isn't me

Ain't it a little strange?
Pretend to be awake
Do you think we'll break?
Like a slap in the face
More than a little strange
We really need to wake
Everything gon' break
We're too f*cking late
Enjoy the obscenery, goodnight

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Paper Machete

They're out to get you aren't they?
The kids, the man, the chicks, the breaks
They don't care what you think anymore
It doesn't matter anyway
Joan of Arc, victim, perpetrator
Just a paper machete

The truth is just a piece of clay
You sculpt, you change, you hide then you erase
You think you're brave? All the plans you made
Behind my back and from far away?
Truth is, face to face, you're a coward
Sharp as a paper machete

Now I know you'd use anything, anyone
To make yourself look clean
In sickness, no vows mean anything
So long cruelty
So long, too late
So long, my love is dead

Is there nothing you cannot replace?
You speak lioness and damsel in distress so fluently
Does your every single relation end in pain and misery?

You're a paper machete
You're a paper machete

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Negative Space

In an atmosphere I don't recognize
I don't know what's true
Particularly if it's from you
Oh, betrayal it tears me up inside
I'm just a fool who is terrified

There's gotta be someway back to earth
I'm drifting away as the world turns
We'll never get back to where we were
Facing oblivion, there's no words

I am weightless, yet heaviness defines
Between what home was and the yellow moon
My love will not survive
Emotion sickness, I wanna die

There's gotta be someway back to earth
I'm drifting away as the world turns
We'll never get back to where we were
Stare into oblivion, oh, it hurts

Don't say you love me no more
Thought we was equals
Broken peoples keep score, yeah
Don't say that you really care
'Cause if you really do
Who would believe in you now? Now

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Time & Place

Go
You've got a lot of nerve coming 'round this place
If you're a pretty boy, you've got to save face
And it's all wrong

Turn around
Let's get it on

You've got a lot of curves past your gait
Life in the future tense is so much weight
Space is the emptiness, nothingness between two things
But the space in your heart, baby
Generates your pain
And it's all wrong

Turn around
Let's get it on

I realized you're like a bummed cigarette
Suicide in slow motion
You're such a drag, all that's left is a decent butt
Your promises are smoke I see you inhale
And it's all wrong

Turn around
Let's get it on
Turn around
Let's f*cking get it on

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Made To Parade

Climb that ladder
You've gotta hold your tongue
You better turn a blind eye 'fore they take your other one
Kneel and bow
Take your licks
You've gotta swallow your pride, hope success comes quick
Back that up

Run like a rabbit, as fast as you can
'Cause we all trade for what we want
Is what you get worth what you gave up?
If you feel alright
Then you're made to parade

After years at the company winning
From the high horse you will ride
You will look down at the peasantry
Kill themselves to make you smile
Slake your thirst, bitches
Come get what you deserve
Kill the very last whale aboard a yacht of fur
Binge and purge

I did not notice the weight of the chains till they're cut from me
How'd I drag them for so long?
Drain the ocean
All I am is what you mean to me
And how I love you above all
What you worship is your god

You're sure to be a winner, babe
Give your best years away
To a bloated corporation
Who'll work you like a slave
Best think twice

Oh I, I don't know what time it was
I just felt so young with a brand new page in the morning sun
So you're made to parade with the mess you made?
Well, by all means

If I followed you, I'd be lost too, that can never be
So you're made to parade with the mess you made?
Well, float away
If I followed you, I'd be lost too, that can never be, woo

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Carnavoyeur

Nothing, nothing
Nothing inside
And there's no reason to cry
Just fade away like love

Clutching, hanging
By a nail in this life
Desperate always, always looks that way

Free fall from the nest
Then glide to the left
A shine catch the eye
So flow on to the right
Flying high, realize
There are no more mountains to climb

And there's nothing l can do
Accept, enjoy the view
When there's nothing l can do
I smile

Minutes, seconds
So little time
Give your secrets away?
Well, whisper in my ear

Every living thing will die
From the King of the Jungle to butterfly
Only sin is waiting too long

When there's nothing I can do
I smile

I smile

Free fall from the nest
Then glide to the left
A shine catch the eye
So float to the right
Flying high, realize
There are no more mountains to climb

We live, we die
We fail, we rise
I'm a vulture so I hear goodbyes
There's no end to life
On and on, always life
On and on, always life

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What The Peephole Say

Well, I don't care what the people say
If you gotta knock, then go away
Oh fears, ideas, they grow like a weed
Used to wash my brain but dirty thoughts just came and came

No time in life for shit
Spoonful by the pound, ain't having it
Do you practice to preach or pretend to be?
Are you a tiger, a trash can, royalty?
Don't care what the people say
Going deaf deliberately

And the wolf's on the creep with the sheep on the merry-go-round
And the wolf's on the creep with the sheep on the merry-go-round
And the shepherd sleeps while the blood seeps into the ground
On the outskirts of town where the headlights bleed
Oh, teen angels in tangled lace

Well, I don't care if the people grow
They all say done and did it, doesn't make it so
Is that school or a prison? Looks same to me
I got one eye open and one hand free

I don't care what the people know
The world's gonna end in a month or so
You may run the institutional learning facility
But you don't run her and you don't run me
I don't care what the people say
Got a tip for your trip, cop stopying me

And the wolf's on the creep with the sheep on the merry-go-round
And the wolf's on the creep with the sheep on the merry-go-round
And the shepherd sleeps while the blood seeps into the ground
On the outskirts of town where the headlights bleed
Oh, teen angels

Tonight is the night
That the kids are taking you to school
Tonight is the night
Setting fires, breaking the rules
Tonight is the night
You ain't who we answer to
Tonight is the night
You ain't so f*cking cool
We've got our eye on you

And the wolf's on the creep with the sheep on the merry-go-round
And the wolf's on the creep with the sheep on the merry-go-round

Tonight is the night
The kids are taking you to school
Well, tonight is the night
So whatchu gonna do?

Tonight is the night
Setting fires, breaking the rules
Well, tonight is the night
Future tripping, skipping school
Tonight is the night
You ain't who we answer to
Well, tonight is the night
The tables gonna turn on you
We've got our eye on you

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Sicily

I'm all used up again
I beat myself like a broken record
Objectified, misuse me as directed
My sweet nothing
The pound of flesh again
Silhouettes witness sheer devotion
I trace your hips, oh, slow motion
I live between your legs

You're all peaches and cream
Pink nightmares, lust a wild ocean
Don't rescue me, I'm drowning in wet dreams it seems, shh

Look in my eyes, I come to revel
Tangled and tied, now and forever
Look in my eyes, I come to revel
Tangled and tied, now and forever

Better warn ya
Love's assassins, kisses on the lips
Better warn ya
Love will make ya sick
Kisses on the lips
Poison on the lips
Better warn ya
Love's assassins
Arm's bent
Out of pain

Look in my eyes, I come to revel
Tangled and tied, now and forever
Look in my eyes, I come to revel
Tangled and tied, now and forever

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Emotion Sickness

Use once and destroy
Single servings of pain
A dose of emotion sickness
I just can't shake
Then my fever broke

You got no possessions, just depression, girl
See the sights
Hold your breath, feel as you might
Whoa, let some pieces free
You're atrocious, f-ferocious, yeah
Change the price, out of my mind like a slice
Yeah, absolutely

Don't care for me
Baby, don't care for me
Had to let her go, oh
Baby, don't care for me
Baby, don't care for me
Had to let her go, oh

Gotta vacuum all the perfume, yeah
Hit the lights
Keep your chin out of sight
Whoa, it's givin' me the creeps
Why don't you come? Go and get some, girl
Put up a fight
Well, let's have it right now

Baby, don't care for me
Baby, don't care for me
Had to let her go, oh
People come and go on the breeze
For a whole life, possibly
I don't really know, oh

The flick of the switch
So smooth and clean
The regrow is so painful, believe you me
Then my fever broke
Then my fever broke
Then my fever broke

Baby, don't care for me
Baby, don't care for me
Had to let her go, oh
People come and go on the breeze
For a whole life, possibly
I don't really know, oh

Baby, don't care for me
Baby, don't care for me
Had to let her go, oh
People come and go on the breeze
For a whole life, possibly
I don't really know, oh

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Straight Jacket Fitting

Come for a fitting way of life
It's all the rage, enslaved in style
Come for a fitting way of life
Straight jacket fitting a little too tight

Hold me close, I'm confused
I don't wanna go out
I told myself, "You can do this"
I'm having my doubts, oh
The old world melts like a candle a'flickering out, oh, oh

What can you do?
We're all alone in Times New Roman, no allegiance
Chasing your wish over the cliff
If you insist on daydreaming
Wake up, we need you
No more daydreaming
Don't fall asleep now

How is the fitting way of life?
Boa constricting a little too tight

Friends close, enemies closer
Lend me your ear
I say safety's an illusion, that's why it disappear
Oh, infiltrators, saboteurs
Affix your blades and steel your nerves
Maraud the facade 'cause the children want answers
Corrode from the inside like a good type of cancer

We'll piss on the clergy, the new age heathens
The old guard, avant-garde, technolojesus
The hand-made jury, cage-free corporate raiders
Patriotic, probiotic, delete us, erase us
The world, yeah, she don't need saving
'Cept from you and me and our misbehaving

To face down your demons, you've got to free them
To seize all your demons, carpe demon
To face down your demons, you've got to free them
To seize all your demons, carpe demon

The look in your eyes says, "I love you"
And, oh, I love you too (carpe demon)
(To seize all your demons, carpe demon) oh, I love

Hold me close, I'm confused
I don't wanna go out
I told myself, "You can do this"
I'm having my doubts
The old world melts like a candle a'flickering out, out
Still so much to lose and I've already lost so much, oh

What can you do?
We're all alone in Times New Roman, no allegiance
Chasing your wish over the cliff
Oh, I insist on daydreaming
What can you say?
Enjoy the buffet in Times New Roman or it's treason
And what'd you expect?
I'm so goddamn sick of this place
Bring on the healing
Go on and heal me
Bring on the healing
Good dogs lay down

Come for a fitting way of life
It's all the rage, enslaved in style
Come for a fitting way of life
Straight jacket fitting a little too tight