Solitaire/Unraveling

Album: XX (2001)
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  • Locked away in a cage
    My rage has got the best of me
    Time finds a way each day
    Of leaving less of me behind
    I find this fight must be won
    Inside my mind
    So uptight and confined
    Often blinded by the light

    Taking its toll
    On my system

    Like some played out existence

    Time ticks away
    These last few moments
    Is there anything we've left unsaid?
    I'm on a quest for atonement
    I've got to find peace of mind
    And a place to rest

    Biding my time
    Until I'm strong enough to fight back

    Hope

    I hope against hope for some resistance
    Been taking it out on my system

    Time ticks away
    These last few moments
    Is there anything we've left unsaid?
    I'm on a quest for atonement
    I've got to find peace of mind
    And a place to rest

    Time ticks away
    These last few moments
    Is there anything we've left unsaid?
    I'm on a quest for atonement
    I've got to find peace of mind
    And a place to rest

    Rest, rest

    Rest, rest

    There's a calm before the storm
    And the western front is quiet
    I've got Rembrandt as my right hand
    And Solo as my pilot

    There's a calm before the storm
    And the western front is quiet
    I've got Rembrandt as my right hand
    And Solo as my pilot

    Condemned man (Condemned!)
    Convicted man (Convicted!)
    Could not save my life, cutting strand by strand (Strand by strand)

    Condemned man (Condemned!)
    Convicted man (Convicted!)
    Could not save my life, cutting strand by strand (Strand by strand)

    Passing it off, like some kind of king,
    You don't know peace 'til you've had suffering (What's suffering?)

    All of this so called resolve but you haven't tasted pain,
    Have you ever been inside of the new masterpiece?

    Rest!

    Have you ever been inside?

    Rembrandt as my right hand, and Solo as my pilot

    Have you ever been inside the new masterpiece?

    Rembrandt as my right hand, and Solo as my pilot

    Condemned man (Condemned!)
    Convicted man (Convicted!)
    Could not save my life, cutting strand by strand (Strand by strand)

    Condemned man (Condemned!)
    Convicted man (Convicted!)
    Could not save my life, cutting strand by strand (Strand by strand)

    (By strand, by strand, by strand, by strand)
    Condemned, condemned!

    (By strand, by strand) Writer/s: JASON J. POPSON, JEFF L. HETRICK, JOHN EDWARD SEKULA, JOHN KILCOYNE, STEVE R. FELTON, THOMAS MICHAEL SCHMITZ
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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