1. THE JOKER

The heart wants what the heart wants...
When I’m standing on the edge, it’s time to make a choice.
The most repulsive one of all is if I fall, it’s all my fault
The heart wants what the heart wants,
I know it isn’t you.

Will you take this as a hint
I won’t take shit from anyone
You pushed too hard, took this too far
Nothing’s ever fair in love and war...
Wipe that grin off your face

You’ll always be a joker to me
Same old story, same routine
Now that I’ve seen the tricks up your sleeve, I’m not one for make believe
You use your illusions and hide what’s inside
Save it for someone who buys your love
You’ll always be a joker to me, but I’m not laughing anymore

Well, I can’t say it’s been a pleasure just a pain and quite a mess
I’m no damsel in distress, a weight off my chest
I can breathe without your hands around my neck.
You’re mistaken if you ever think you’ll make another fool out of me! How pathetic can you be?
Smile at the crowd, take one last bow...
The show’s over! No one’s laughing now...

You’ll always be a joker to me
Same old story, same routine
Now that I’ve seen the tricks up your sleeve, I’m not one for make believe
You use your illusions and hide what’s inside
Save it for someone who buys your love
You’ll always be a joker to me, but I’m not laughing anymore

I’ve got a couple tricks of my own, a few I still haven’t shown
When I get you alone, now you see it now you don’t!

You’ve backed me in the corner for the last time I’m taking control (control)
Standing at the edge with your life in my hands and I let you fall!

You’ll always be a joker to me
Same old story, same routine
Now that I've seen the tricks up your sleeve, I’m not one for make believe
You use your illusions and hide what’s inside
Save it for someone who buys your love
You’ll always be a joker to me, but I’m not laughing anymore

It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt...


2. THE OTHER SIDE

It look so easy being trapped inside this head of mine
Disturbing dreams, and haunted beings they control my mind

Dark desires fuel the fire suffocating I can't breath.
Bet you'd love to see me burn so move aside or come with me,

I will always be a tortured soul, don't fix me up just let me go.
Come join me if you like
I'll be on the other side

I will always be a tortured soul, don't fix me up just let me go.
Come join me if you like
I'll be on the other side (Other side!)

How did I end up this way?
How did I end up addicted to pain and suffering?
I have sealed my fate

Dark desires fuel the fire suffocating I can't breath.
Bet you'd love to see me burn so move aside or come with me,

I will always be a tortured soul, don't fix me up just let me go.
Come join me if you like
I'll be on the other side

I will always be a tortured soul, don't fix me up just let me go.
Come join me if you like
I'll be on the other side

I have a slight confession, I brought this on myself
Will never learn my lesson
I know what I've become

Come with me...

I will always be a tortured soul, don't fix me up just let me go.
Come join me if you like
I'll be on the other side

I will always be a tortured soul, don't fix me up just let me go.
Come join me if you like
I'll be on the other side (Other side!)


3. DEFAME ME

Whoa
I'm not afraid to cry through thick and thin
If only you noticed
If only you could see
The struggle, the silence
I'm not afraid to bleed
Just let the past go, it's ancient history

If you keep shutting me out, it's gonna haunt you
When you choke on your words

Don't you go and make a scene
I am the one you need
I am the blood that boils when you feel me through your veins
Don't you go and make a scene
Nothing is what it seems
Are we gonna let this go to waste and let it all decay
Don't you go and make a scene
Whoa

With you or without you misfortune finds it's way
You're with me or against me I refuse to wait
I wound up giving everything and now I want nothing to do with you
Now your choking on your words

Don't you go and make a scene
I am the one the one you need
I am the blood that boils when you feel me through your veins
Don't you go and make a scene
Nothing is what it seems
Are we gonna let this go to waste and let it all decay
Don't you go and make a scene

Go ahead blame me you can't defame me
Get it all out of your system
Go ahead hate me I don't care

If you keep shutting me out it's gonna haunt you
When you choke on your words

Don't you go and make a scene
I am the one you need
I am the blood that boils when you feel me through your veins
Don't you go and make a scene
Nothing is what it seems
Are we gonna let this go to waste and let it all decay
Don't you go and make a scene
Whoa


4. EPIDEMIC

We are the new disease,
eating hearts like cancer
the sickness in our minds
believes everything

plagued by fiction
like a sick addiction
there's a virus deep inside us
and it kills

Can you taste it in the blood?
when you breathe it in you lungs?
if you feel it coming on
It's too late

We are infected and no one is protected
we're so, we're so contagious
we're apathetic and no one's sympathetic
we're so contagious
you can't contain it,
you know, you can't escape it
we're so, we're so contagious
our hearts betrayed us,
and no one's gonna save us
we're so contagious

when will someone admit it
we're a generation of cynics
when everyone's a critic
and no one really gives a shit
(When our hate goes viral)
If ignorance is bliss,
How do we live like this?
there's nothing we can do
to try and take control
when it spreads to your soul

Can you taste it in the blood?
when you breathe it in you lungs?
if you feel it coming on
It's too late

We are infected and no one is protected
we're so, we're so contagious
we're apathetic and no one sympathetic
we're so contagious
you can't contain it,
you know, you can't escape it
we're so, we're so contagious
our hearts betrayed us
and no one's gonna save us
we're so contagious

There's no cure for what's in us
so pessimistic, quick to judge
Now there's poison on our tongues
this epidemic's gonna kill us all

(We're all infected)

We are infected and no one is protected
we're so, we're so contagious
we're apathetic and no one sympathetic
we're so contagious
you can't contain it,
you know, you can't escape it
we're so, we're so contagious
our hearts betrayed us
and no one's gonna save us
we're so contagious

It's gonna kill us all
It's so contagious


5. LET ME DOWN

I'm sick of the way that you pushed me away
When the times got tough you jumped ship
A disease you couldn't come to grips with
A daughter with dreams bigger than this

You tried to bury me just like the past
But it won't stay dead for long
I wanna hear you finally admit you're wrong
But if I give you the chance
You'll let me down
You'll let me down
Your guilt won't save you now
From six feet underground
You'll let me down
You'll let me down
Maybe it's for the best you don't come around

I'm sick of the way
That I begged you to stay
All I wanted was a little closure
All I got was the coldest shoulder
Tell me
How do you sleep at night?
It must have been so hard
to turn your back when you've got no spine
For years I blamed myself
When all along you could have made this right

You had your chance to be man
Don't close your eyes and pretend I don't exist
Now it's my turn to walk out on you
It's your fucking loss

Now it's my turn to walk out on you
Finally now it's my turn
Maybe it's for the best you don't come around