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The Cold from Jacksonville face the fateful second album with the release of this enigmatic, cavernous, and irritated 13 Ways To Bleed On Stage.
The radical changes made to the lineup prove successful with the addition of guitarist Terry Balsamo (a well-known performer already alongside Limp Bizkit on stage and later with Evanescence) and with the leader Scooter Ward's decision to dedicate his energies solely to writing the lyrics and the microphone, thus abandoning the rhythm guitar role he previously adopted.
The adjective chosen to describe the album is, in my opinion, fitting, as the crypticity of the lyrics shows various interpretations and, above all, different moods within the tracks, which considerably fascinate the listener.
The beginning of the new millennium sees the birth and spread of many bands like Cold and Staind, which combine new approaches with the already familiar method heard in the episodes of the past decade, pushing the boundaries a little. In my opinion, the choice to tackle composition in this way does not always succeed.
Thirteen are the emotions and (re)sentiments hidden in the tormented soul that lies behind the pen: anxiety, submission, alienation. The anger towards the drug that captures but also the feeling of inadequacy in the many episodes that bring to mind that shadow, which sooner or later, rests on the notes of the songs despite the search for light.
And then you turn the pages and come across this drum intro accompanied by the feigned goodness that will soon dissolve, throwing away the mask:
I can taste your innocence, young and sweet like mother made ya.
No One, with Sierra Swan in the chorus, in search of authentic faces, and the finale Bleed with Aaron Lewis which is a true dedication/prayer to music (a track that in fact proves to be the simplest and most composed of the entire work, valid).
And the style of the new entry, with those intermittently sick notes, opens the dance in the scenario of a post-apocalyptic desolation with End Of The World and all its reminiscences of drunkenness, fury, and passion in search of new life.
The substantial difference between this album and the debut branded Cold is the composure with which the journey is completed. Simply a bad dream that ends with a bitter awakening, real and palpable.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Just Got Wicked (04:00)
I can taste your innocence
Young and sweet like mother made you
Everything froze into ice
These motherfuckers just got wicked
I can't explain this little man
Taken over
Can't explain the way that I feel
I can't explain this little man
Taken over
Can't explain the way that I feel
Everyone got twisted up
Everyone got behind my back and broke it
Cause it's my world
Everyone got twisted up
All your friends got behind my back
And broke it
Cause it's my world
Everyone got twisted up
Everyone got behind my back and broke it
Cause it's my world
Everyone got twisted up
Everyone got behind my back
And broke it
Cause it's my world
1, 2, 3 here I come with the wicked
I can't explain this little man
Taken over
Can't explain the way that I feel
I can't explain this little man
Taken over
Can't explain the way that I feel
You are the love I never found
You are the love I never found
I can't explain this little man
Taken over
Can't explain the way that I feel
I can't explain this little man
Taken over
Can't explain the way that I feel
I can't explain the way that I...
I can't explain the way that I...
I can't explain the way that I...
...feel
02 She Said (04:07)
I'll be here all alone
Bury everything around me
Her destination's unknown
I can't believe how she drowns me
I won't deny it's all the
Little things she said
All alone
Searched the world until she found me
Her destination's unknown
I can't believe how she drowns me
Well I won't deny, it's all the
Little things she said
All this talkin'
Where's it goin'
Take the needle
Rewind the show
Well it's all the little things she said,
I'll never listen to you
Little things she said (Where's it going?)
It's all the little things she said (Rewind the show down)
It's all the little things she said (Where's it going?)
It's all the little things she said (Rewind the show...)
03 No One (03:03)
Well I can't ever really believe
No one was sent to get me
I feel like I'm being erased
No one got left here
Well I'm all alone
No one was sent to get me
Well I'm all alone
No one got left here
But I'm fine
No one got left here
And I'm fine
No one got left here
I can't even breathe when I see
The pictures sent without you
Well I feel like I'm being erased
No one got left here
Well I'm all alone
No one was sent to get me
Well I'm all alone
No one got left here
But I'm fine
No one got left here
And I'm fine
No one got left here
I'm so sick of this terrible instinct
It's so hard now
Just to find you
I'm so sick of this terrible instinct
It's so hard now
Just to find you
I'm so sick of this terrible instinct
I can only hold you
I'm so sick of this terrible instinct
I can only find you
Well it's fine
No one got left here
Well it's fine
No one got left here
If it's fine
Then stay
If it's fine
Then stay
I'll be fine
No one got left here
Well it's fine
No one got left
05 Confession (03:48)
Everybody loves stars
Everyone fell
Into her world
She made here
Where everybody rates love
But I don't care
'Cause it's her world
She made me
You think you're half as good as me
The only thing you'll ever be
Is just a way for me to bleed
On this stage
Everybody loves stars
Everyone fell
Into her world
She made here
Where innocence is taken
But I don't care
'Cause it's her world
She made me
You think you're half as good as me
The only thing you'll ever be
Is just a way for me to bleed
On this stage
Now she's old
She's been blessed
Take a bow
And confess
She threw it all away
My angel died that day
No one came
No one cared
You think you're half as good as me
The only thing you'll ever be
Is just a way for me to bleed
On this stage
06 It's All Good (03:42)
Take another motherfucking hit of LSD
Let all the love inside the world belong to you
Well, I can't understand just why you went away
Too young to feel the pain & bitterness of love
Well, I can never understand a motherfucking
Word you'd ever say
And all the people that you hurt
Came down on you
Well I can't understand just why you went away
I sat and waited for the day you'd come back
home
But it was all good
Take a loaded gun and blow my fantasy away
Turn off the light and shine the spotlight
Down on you
Well, I could never understand a motherfucking
word
You'd ever say
And all the people that you hurt came down on you
Well I can't understand just why you went away
I sat and waited for the day you came back home
But now it's all good x4
You were, my hope,
My God, my love,
My fear, my god it's over,
But it was all good...til the world came crumblin' down.
Well now it's all good.
07 Send In The Clowns (04:13)
They kept on coming down to this place
Cause I could see it in their eyes
They made the world a fucking disgrace
and everything burned cold
They kept on coming down to this place
Cause I could see it in their eyes
We took a world and healed the disgrace
Now everything burns fine
I'm talking about the ever changing
Whims of fame
I guess it just got cold in here
It comes full circle
No one ever changed our ways our
Little pill killed summer days
I guess it just got cold in here
It comes full circle
They kept on coming down to this place
Like they were running out of time
To make the world a fucking disgrace
And everything burned cold
They kept on coming down to this place
Cause I could see it in their eyes
We took a world and healed the disgrace
Now everything burns fine
I'm talking about the ever changing
Whims of fame
I guess it just got cold in here
It comes full circle
No one ever changed our ways our
Little pill killed summer days
I guess it just got cold in here
It comes full circle
Send in the clowns
Send in the clowns
Send in the clowns
Send in the clowns
Send in the clowns
Send in the clowns
Send in the clowns
So here come the clowns
Send In the clowns
Send in the clowns
Send in the clowns
Send in the clowns
Fuck
I'm talking about the ever changing
Whims of fame
I guess it just got cold in here
It comes full circle
No one ever changed our ways our
Little pill killed summer days
I guess it just got cold in here
It comes full circle
here come the clowns
here come the clowns
send them in
send them in
send them in
here come the clowns
08 Same Drug (03:42)
I bet you'd never come down
From your tower for me
I'll let you take it real slow
While I try to decide
Never would've loved you
Should've left this town
Never would've loved you
But everything got turned around
It's nothin much but the same drug
It's nothin much but the same drug
Everyday
It's nothin much but the same drug
You threw it away
But I gave love anyway
She didn't come from the same world,
See the same things
I can't deny
I bled on stages to get here, sent screams
Up to the sky
Never would've loved you
Should've left this town
Never would've loved you
But everything got turned around
It's nothin much but the same drug
It's nothin much but the same drug
Everyday
It's nothin much but the same drug
You threw it away
But I gave love anyway
She did it all the way
Now she's gone today
And I can't sleep without her
She did it all the way
Now she's gone today
And I can't sleep without her
10 Witch (03:47)
I never knew
She's gone
She's flown away
Everyone said
She's not
Your kinda girl
I'm so alone
This girl is
Flown fear
Everyone said
She fucked up this time
It's my brand new world today
And it's my brand new world this way
I'll never change
It's wrong
So go away
Everyone said
She's not
Your kinda girl
I've tasted love
It burns
I'm so afraid
Everyone said
She fucked up this time
It's my brand new world today
And it's my brand new world this way
It's my brand new world today
And it's my brand new world this way
I think this fuckin witch knows
The way
And everything I feel
I think this fuckin witch knows
The way
And everything I feel
I think this fuckin witch knows
The way
And everything I feel
I think this fuckin witch knows
The way
And everything I feel
She knows
She knows
She knows
She fucked up this time
It's my brand new world today
And it's my brand new world this way
It's all mine
It's all mine
It's all mine
This new world today
11 Sick Of Man (04:03)
Gave all the vampires back to God that day
No one got raped here but the pain's still inside
Well I'll never love you but I've got words to say
No one betrayed here but the memories lie
I said don't go away
Turned off the lights and then you
Said please don't follow me
And you cared
You stole my passion, burned my everything
They're all the same here
Locked up change deep inside
Well I'll never love you but I've got words to say
You killed the feeling but the pain's still alive
I said dont go away
Turned off the lights and then you
Said please don't follow me
And you cared
You kept your feelings hidden like a psycho
Burned it all down, take me with you
Won't you let me go
I said dont go away
Turned off the lights and then you
Said please don't follow me
And you cared
Well I'm so sick
We're just so sick
12 Outerspace (03:34)
This is the time
To let them know whose side your on
Everything's fine
No one got raped here
We had the time
Set up to leave to go back home
Back to our lives
I'll never let go
I wanna go up to outerspace
No one, but me and you
So far away
We may become forgotten
Take off today
And leave this world
We can't complain
Suspended high above you
Nothings the same
Nothing grows old
I wanna go up to outerspace
No one, but me and you
Just trying to get back home
13 Bleed (04:18)
I'm feeling crossed, I take it inside
Burn up the pain, my thoughts are strange
Just like the things I used to know
Just like the tree that fell, I heard it
If art is still inside I feel it
I wanna bleed, show the world all that I have inside
(I wanna show you all the pain...)
I wanna scream, let the blood flow that keeps me alive
(I wanna make you feel the same...)
Take all these strings, they call my veins
Wrap them around, every fucking thing
Presence of people not for me
Well I must remain in tune forever
My love is music, I will marry melody
I wanna bleed show the world all that I have inside
(I wanna show you all the pain...)
I wanna scream let the blood flow that keeps me alive
(I wanna make you feel the same...)
I said
I wanna bleed
I wanna feel
(Show you all the pain...)
I wanna scream
I wanna feel
(Make you feel the same...)
Won't you let me take you for a ride
You can stop the world, try to change my mind
Won't you let me show you how it feels
You can stop the world, but you won't change me
I need music
I need music
I need music
To set me free
To let me bleed
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