Veruca Salt
Eight Arms To Hold You


  1. Straight
  2. Volcano Girls
  3. Don't Make Me Prove It
  4. Awesome
  5. One Last Time
  6. With David Bowie
  7. Benjamin
  8. Shutterbug
  9. The Morning Sad
  10. Sound Of The Bell
  11. Loneliness Is Worse
  12. Stoneface
  13. Venus Man Trap
  14. Earthcrosser

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Straight

You sleep better when you're
You eat better when you're
You sing better when you're
You need me more when you're straight

Is this the weekend
Is that your girlfriend
She's green and innocent
You smoke her like she's incense
You smile

Stay straight for me
Stay straight for me

I'll wait til summer's over
I'll love you through October
I'll give you everything
I'll trade you anything for her

Stay straight for me
Stay straight for me
Stay straight for me
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Volcano Girls

Leave me
Lying here
Cause I don't wanna go
Leave me
Lying here
Cause I don't wanna go
Leave me
Lying here
Cause I don't wanna go

Tell me tell me what you really want from me
You gotta let me know
I'm falling off and I need you terribly
One down and one to go

Volcano girls we really can't be beat
Warm us up and watch us blow
Now and then we fail and we admit defeat
We're falling off
We are watered down and fully grown

Leave me
Lying here
Cause I don't wanna go
Leave me
Lying here
Cause I don't wanna go

A million miles of running and I hit the wall
I bounce back and I run some more
But this is it, I'm giving up
I'm calling quits
So get down and meet me on the floor
Way to go way to flip off everyone
I steal your thunder then I try to bolt
But I could stand a little pity now and then
I'm falling off I am watered down and fully grown

Go, I don't wanna go
I don't wanna go
I don't wanna go
I don't wanna go

I told you about the seether before
You know, the one that's neither or nor
Well here's another clue if you please
The seether's Louise

Leave me
Lying here
Cause I don't wanna go
Leave me
Lying here
Cause I don't wanna go
Leave me
Lying here
Cause I don't wanna go

Leave me, leave me, leave me
Go, I don't wanna go
I don't wanna go
I don't wanna go
I don't wanna go
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Don't Make Me Prove It

Zero 
One
Two
Three
Four days without you
Eight
Nine
Now we're five times two
Now we're five times two
Now we're five times two

Words won't do
Words won't do it
They can't stay true
Words won't get me through it
Get me through it

Honey please
Seize
Me
I know what I need
Plan
B
Some security
Some security
Some security

Words won't do
Words won't do it
They can't stay true
Words won't get me through it
Don't make me prove it

In the heat of the waiting
When I'm starting to stall
I can see what you're saying
But I don't hear you at all
I don't hear you at all
I don't hear you at all
I don't hear you at all
I don't hear you at all
I don't hear you at all

Words won't do
Words won't do it
They can't stay true
Words won't get me through it
Don't make me prove it
Words won't do
Words won't do it
They can't stay true
Words won't get me through it
Don't make me prove it
Don't make me prove it
Don't make me prove it
Don't make me prove it
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Awesome

Goodbye twenty-five
You were a good year for the girls
Goodbye twenty-five
You will be the goldfinch
I'm the harpies
There's something in the unity
Forget humility
What's coming over me

Is awesome
Awesome
God forgive me
I know it's so
Awesome
Awesome
Heaven help me
I know it's a fine place to be

Goodbye indolence
Your filthy left hand kept me down
Goodbye cowardice
You'll be the tigris
I'm euphrates
There's something in the unity
Forget humility
What's coming over me

Is awesome
Awesome
God forgive me
I know it's so
Awesome
Awesome
Heaven help me
I know, I know it's a fine place to be
And it's a fine place to be
And it's a fine place to be
And it's a fine place to be

There's something in the unity
What's coming over me
Go fuck humility
We're awesome
Awesome
All the salts go I know it's so awesome
Awesome
Awesome
Everybody I know, I know
It's a fine place to be
And it's a fine place to be
Yeah it's a fine place to be
Yeah it's a fine place to be
Oh it's a fine place to be
Yeah it's a fine place to be
Oh it's a fine place to be
Yeah it's a fine place to be
Heaven help me
Heaven help me
Heaven help me
Heaven help me
Heaven help me
Heaven help me
Heaven help me
Heaven help me
Heaven help me
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One Last Time

I wind you up
Then I wait for the melancholy
I give you up
While you sit here in all your glory
I never thought you would
I never knew you could
But now you're gone
And I don't think I care

I sold your love
Down the river for a bow and arrow
Euphoria has just been here
And she's looking terrible

I never sunk this low
It's better if you go
When you're nearby
I see you and want you to try

To love me like a monster
One last time
Control me like a father
One last time
Stay with me till I'm stronger
One last
Round to kick me when I'm down
Don't kick me when I'm down

I never thought you would
I never understood
And that's why I'm weak and I want you to try
To make me an example
One last time
To drag me through the cycle
One last time
To make me a disciple
One last
Round, will get me to the ground
You'll get me on the ground

I'll see you around
Yeah, I'll see you around
One last town
And I'll see you around
Yeah, I'll see you around
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With David Bowie

Will it ever come
Like it did for you
Like it did for you
I kind of heard you singing
And I never knew
No I never knew
My heart skips around
When I hear the sound
I'm never alone
Cause you're following me home
I'm falling in love
My walkman and me
With David Bowie

With teenage medication
Flowing through my veins
I can face the strain and
It's causing a sensation
That I can't explain
Yeah I can't explain

My heart skips around
When I hear the sound
I'm never alone
Cause you're following me home
I'm falling in love
My walkman and me
With David Bowie

You want me to sing
I can I can
You want me to play
I can I can
You wanna be in a band
I can
I'll never be anything more than I was today
Than I was today

Will it ever come
Like it did for you
Like it did for you
I kind of heard you singing
And I never knew
No I never knew
My heart skips around
When I hear the sound
I'm never alone
Cause you're following me home
I'm falling in love
My best friend and me
With David Bowie
Him and me
In a tree
I-N-G
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Benjamin

Take me away
I know I could use the rest
I want to clear up this mess
I need a few days with my good sense
I need a few good days

Benjamin no
Benjamin no
Benjamin no
Where did you go

When you were falling from my tree
I was not scared
I thought you'd meet me back up there
It never dawned on me you were home free
It never dawned on me

Benjamin no
Benjamin no
Benjamin no
Where did you go

Benjamin no
Benjamin no
Benjamin no
Where did you go

You said that I could tie you down
You said that I could tie you down
You said that I could tie you down
You said that I could tie you down
Take me away
I know I could use the rest
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Shutterbug

It's freezing in Bristol
There's love on the telly
A girl grinning at me
She's doing the shimmy

And she's cool
And she's skinny
And she's a fool
For the last living rock king

It's her thrill
It's her wonder
It's her will
It's her way home
She's right where she always wanted to be
She can't change

It's lightening in London
There's shit on the telly
You're pushing my buttons
You know how to touch me

And I knew
That you'd choose me
By the times
That you tried to refuse me

It's your thrill
It's your wonder
It's your will
It's your way home
You're right where you always wanted to be
You can't change

It's morning in Philly
My head's feeling heavy
The sun makes me dizzy
You monkey you left me

And I know
That you miss me
By the way
That you kiss and resist me

It's my thrill
It's my wonder
It's my will
It's my way home
I'm right where I always dreamed I would be
I can't change
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The Morning Sad

Wake up and talk to me
It's a long time since last night
I know we said things the saddest things
And I'm not sure it was wise

When the morning's sad
You don't look back
You sure don't look ahead
The morning sad
You know the morning sad
The morning sad
Never had it so bad
Never had it so bad

I'm writing desperate songs
While you're fast asleep inside
I could try to sing
Until it rings
But my voice comes out uptight

Cause when the morning's sad
You don't relax
You cannot clear your mind
The morning sad
You know the morning sad
The morning sad
Never had it so bad
Never had it so bad

I tried a little
I tried a lot
I'm not a window
And you've seen through everything I've got
I don't think that I'll be safe
Until everyone's awake

So wake up and talk to me
Such a long time since last night
I know we said things the maddest things
And I'm not sure who was right

When the morning's sad
You don't attack
Cause you're much to weak to fight
The morning sad
You know the morning sad
The morning sad
Never had it so bad
Never had it so bad
Never had it so bad
Never had it so bad
Never had it so bad
Never had it so bad
Never had it so bad
Never had it so bad
Never had it so bad
Never had it so bad
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Sound Of The Bell

I found a place where we can talk
I found a way to reach a middle ground
Keep your castle in my sandbox
Build it up so we can burn it down
Anyway I love my man
Love to keep him spinning round and round
Keep him feeling love for my hand
Anyway to turn him inside out
I don't wanna go down like the sunlight
I don't wanna go out like the moonlight
I don't wanna be found at the sound of the bell

Meet me up and down again
Everytime is sweeter than the last
Once you get a taste of impact
You're always hungry for the crash
I don't wanna go down like the sunlight
I don't wanna go out like the moonlight
I don't wanna be found at the sound of the bell

And this is everything
I have loved
Yeah I have loved

Down I don't wanna go down like the sunlight
I don't wanna go out like the moonlight
I don't wanna be found at the sound of the bell

I don't wanna go down like the sunlight
I don't wanna go out like the moonlight
I don't wanna be found at the sound of the bell

I don't wanna be found in the searchlight
I don't wanna be dim like a nightlight
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Loneliness Is Worse

When you've had enough
When you've got it bad enough
And you can't let go
When it comes to blows
And you start to overflow
And you can't get home

It's a subtle kind of cruel
It taps my spine
Here I'm drawing a line
I'm asking please

Don't you want to be
Happy with me
Don't you want to be
Happy with me
I'm afraid if you don't come around soon
I'll turn sadder than you ever were
And you'll learn loneliness is worse
You've got to try

December's all alone
And he's calling me on the phone
But he sounds so cold
He says he loves me so
But how would I ever know
Certain words grow old

It's a vicious kind of catch
It sides me blind
Now I'm out of my mind
I wanna scream

Don't you want to be
Happy with me
Don't you want to be
Happy with me
I'm afraid if you don't come around soon
I'll turn sadder than you ever were
And you'll learn loneliness is worse
You've got to try

Love liked me long ago
It had a way of making everyone the same
But now the angels
Must laugh and sigh
To hear me pleading with you
Needing you this way

Oh why don't you want to be
Happy with me
Don't you want to be
Happy with me
I'm afraid if you don't come around soon
I'll turn sadder than you ever were
And you'll learn the loneliness is worse
You've got to try
To stay mine
All the way

Don't you want to be
Happy with me
Don't you want to be
Happy with me
I'm afraid if you don't come around soon
I'll turn sadder than you ever were
It's got a way of making everyone the same
It's got a way of making everyone the same
It's got a way of making everyone the same
It's got a way of making everyone the same
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Stoneface

You didn't notice I was gone
Guess you were tying up your arm
And when I stand on my head
You never react
I can't get you to crack
I can't get you to crack
Not one fucking smile
But when it comes right down to it
I'm gonna run right back to him
I wanna be smack dab with him
I've grown to love his stoneface
I've grown to love his stoneface
So I've grown to love it 

A snakey goddess got my man 
That kind of love don't understand him
And when I swallow my gum
You never react
I can't get you to crack
I can't get you to crack
Not one fucking smile
But when it comes right down to it
I'm gonna run right back to him
I wanna be smack dab with him
I've grown to love his stoneface
I've grown to love his stoneface
So I've grown to love it 

Swallow hard until you
I'll be the one to thrill you
I'll be the first to kill you
And if you won't die I will

When I short sheet the bed
You never react
I can't get you to crack
I can't get you to crack
I can't get you to crack
I can't get you to crack
I can't get you to crack
Not one fucking smile
But when it comes right down to it
I'm gonna run right back to him
I wanna be smack dab with him
I've grown to love his stoneface
I've grown to love his stoneface
So I've grown to love it 
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Venus Man Trap

Waiting for opportunity to strike
I have been your biggest fan
What a tour a little blow to cure your fright
It's what it takes to trap a man
Water me I am not a desert plant
And there was life before you
When I close will I wear my blue eyes
When I open this time
When I close or should I wear my green eyes
When I open that shine and shine
When I close will I wear my green eyes
When I open
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you

In my room
Underneath the microscope
I remember how it felt
I thought you knew
I was always full of hope
But you could only help yourself
When I close will I wear my blue eyes
When I open this time
When I close or should I wear my green eyes
When I open that shine and shine
When I close will I wear my green eyes
When I open
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you

When I close will I wear my blue eyes
When I open this time
When I close or should I wear my green eyes
When I open that shine and shine
When I close will I wear my green eyes
When I open
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
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Earthcrosser

Sleep little flea
Little boy me a freak
Am I clean
I feel like men
I feel like boys
I think I'm peeling

The ringing in my ears
From playing too loud
I hear the ocean
I hear the crowd

I'm disconnected
I am unattatched
Unmade bed makes me feel like a failure
Bedroom eyes lead to blurry vision

And the ringing in my ears
From playing too loud
I hear the ocean
I hear the crowd

Too pale too sick
Too scrawny
But I'll sleep here anyway
And the sheets smell like bodies
Not mine
Not yours

It's two am
And it's quiet again
Where's my lip gloss

And the ringing in my ears
From playing too loud
I hear the ocean
I hear the crowd

And the ringing in my ears
From playing too loud
I hear the ocean
I hear the crowd

And the ringing in my ears
From playing too loud
I hear the ocean
I hear the crowd
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