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Rating: The adolescent concentrate of "innocent criminals"
The third work by Silverchair, released in '99, represents the sonic confirmation and pseudo-maturity acquired by the band; at that time the Australian kids were just 19 years old, but with talent and ability to spare; the album, written entirely by singer Daniel Kohns in a period of anxiety and seclusion, conveys the singer's strong desire for purification and remorse.
12 tracks, 12 moods, the storm and the ensuing calm; the atmosphere that combines hard guitar arrangements with classical orchestrations of strings and piano makes the listening experience unique in its genre; a consistently personal concentration where we find moments of psychological anger, but also catchy moments of sweetness...
A album full of ballads, sick slow songs, and gritty riffs, all created in a harsh and industrial environment of the Australian suburbs. Their music ranges from Soundgarden to Nirvana, from Pearl Jam to the Smashing Pumpkins, but it doesn't pretend to be compared; it is not one of those immediate albums, that get into you from the first listen, with them you need patience, the patience to let yourself be captured... for anyone who feels nostalgic for grunge and for anyone who appreciates good music...
" ...I love the way you love
But I hate the way
I’m supposed to love you back..."
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Emotion Sickness (06:00)
Erupt again, ignore the pill
And I won't let it show
Sacrifice the torture
Orchestral tear cashflow
Increase, delete, escape, defeat
It's all that matters to you
Cotton case for an iron pill
Distorted eyes
When everything is clearly dying
Burn my knees and
Burn my knees and
Burn my knees and
Emotion sickness
Addict with no heroine
Emotion sickness
Distorted eyes
When everything is clearly dying
Burn my knees and
Burn my knees and pray
Burn my knees and
Burn my knees and pray
Get up
Get up
Get up
Get up
Get up
Get up
Get up
Won't you stop my pain
Emotion sickness
Addict with no heroine
Good things will pass
Lessons learnt
Emotion sickness
Lessons learnt
03 Ana's Song (Open Fire) (03:42)
Please die Ana
For as long as you're here we're not
You make the sound of laughter
and sharpened nails seem softer
And I need you now somehow
and I need you now somehow
Open fire on the needs designed
On my knees for you
Open fire on my knees desires
What I need from you
Imagine pageant
In my head the flesh seems thicker
Sandpaper tears corrode the film
And I need you now somehow
And I need you now somehow
Open fire on the needs designed
On my knees for you
Open fire on my knees desires
What I need from you
And you're my obsession
I love you to the bones
And Ana wrecks your life
Like an Anorexia life
Open fire on the needs designed
On my knees for you
Open fire on my knees desires
What I need from you
Open fire on the needs designed
Open fire on my knees desires
On my knees for you
04 Spawn Again (03:31)
Death becomes clearer through bloodshot eyes
As a death from old age becomes nearer
Why can't the livestock be free
When trading soldiers for steak
Learn to evolve with the new transition
To act upon a hypocritical vision
Discard the old and in with the new
Discard the old and in with the fashion
Learn to evolve with the new transition
To act upon a hypocritical vision
Learn to evolve, learn to
Learn to evolve
Who is the bad guy
For iron, require mince
These are the facts
So eat what you murder
This is animal liberation
Eight billion killed for human pleasure
Bring on the ape farm
Demolish the monkeys
Drink up, drink up
Look down on junkies
A new hypocritical look and ambition
The time has come
To make the decision, you
Drink up, drink up, look down
I'll hold it back, I'll hold it back
Discard the old, in with the fashion
Death becomes clearer through bloodshot eyes
Death becomes clearer through bloodshot eyes
05 Miss You Love (04:00)
Millionaires say
Got a big shot deal
And thrown it all away but
But I'm not too sure
How I'm supposed to feel
Or what I'm supposed to say but
I'm not, not sure
Not too sure how it feels
To handle every day
And I miss you love
Make room for the prey
Cause I'm coming in
With what I wanna say but
It's gonna hurt
And I love the pain
A breeding ground for hate but
I'm not, not sure,
Not too sure how it feels
To handle everyday
Like the one that just passed
In the crowds of all the people
Remember today
I've no respect for you
And I miss you love
And I miss you love
I love the way you love
But I hate the way
I'm supposed to love you back
It's just a fad
Part of the teen, teenage angst brigade and
I'm not, not sure
Not too sure how it feels
To handle everyday
Like the one that just passed
In the crowds of all the people
Remember today
I've no respect for you
And I miss you love
And I miss you love
Remember today
I've no respect for you
And I miss you love
And I missed you
I love the way you love
But I hate the way
I'm supposed to love you back
06 Dearest Helpless (03:34)
Dearest helpless, intent's not as bad as the action
Take a breath to distort the fear in your eyes
I don't mean it to hurt
But everytime I hate you, I think of you first
He's made you blind
You're better on your own
I'm just that kind to bring you down
Equalise the pressure it's all too much
Sex, drugs and image is just enough
To get you by in the real world
He's made you blind
You're better on your own
I'm just that kind to bring you down
He's made you blind
I'm just that kind
To bring you, to bring you
He's made you blind
You're better on your own
I'm just that kind
To bring you down
07 Do You Feel the Same (04:17)
The moon covered
Determined to find
To find my place of hiding
Try to detach
Try to decrease
To make it easier on me
Despise myself
For what you've done
Sent me back into my world
Hold yourself
Cause no one will
I'll make it easier
Now I have managed to be the one
To be the victim without the gun
Do you feel the same anyway
Now you've come
Do you feel the same anyway
Now you've come
Stay alert
Cause I'm obsessed
Surely I can't be depressed
Could I be read
If I was see-through
Or would you just read my spine
Would I be read if I was see-through
Could I be read if I was see-through
Would I be read if I was see-through
Or would you just read my spine
Now I have managed to be the one
To be the victim without the gun
Do you feel the same anyway
Now you've come
Do you feel the same anyway
Now you've come
Do you feel the same, feel the same
Now you've come
Do you feel the same anyway
Hold yourself
Cause no one will
I'l be there to take the spill
Cleanse your soul
Change the tide
And ride the wave back into me
Be the one
Without the gun
Do you feel the same anyway
Now you've come
Do you feel the same anyway
Now you've come
Do you feel the same, feel the same
Now you've come
Do you feel the same anyway
Now you've come
08 Black Tangled Heart (04:33)
Maybe your luck has changed
Settle down
Maybe I'm just deranged
And on the rebound
Maybe love was the thing
Holding me back from all
Maybe I'm just the thing
To break my own fall
Take the rope to my heart and fall
You may just be the last before you
See the black tangled heart fall
Maybe departure's good
Makes room for more
Start to mass produce
For a chance to ignore
Maybe you'll kill yourself
Before I get a turn
Maybe I'll fall in love
And never learn
Take the rope to my heart and fall
You may just be the last before you
See the black tangled heart fall
Take the rope to my heart before you
You may just be the last before you
See the black tangled heart fall
10 Satin Sheets (02:24)
Just wait for us to say it
And we'll make you lie
And anyone who cares
Lies on satin sheets
And I waste my time on no one
And you think I really care
Wears a saturn bracelet
Lined with cocaine coins
No chance slipped away
Toddler training toys
And I waste my time on no one
And you think I really care
And I waste my time on no one
And you think I really care
11 Paint Pastel Princess (04:33)
It's only self-rejection
With a mean left
Cold carbon copied coping
And it's mean theft
That's been left behind
Paint pastel princess
Bo and arapax
The shelves when they're broken
I'll beg you, beg you
Waste life when youth is sweeter, neater
Content with contents
Cultures cringing at accents
And it's too tense, camp out
She tastes the candy
Sugarless, cancerous
Crave cocaine cop shows
I'll beg you, beg you
But it's all the same to me
But it's all the same to me
But it's all the same to me
But it's all the same to me
But it's all the same to me
But it's all the same to me
But it's all the same to me
But it's all the same to me
Paint pastel princess
Bo and arapax
The shelves when they're broken
I'll beg you, beg you
12 Steam Will Rise (05:19)
Contain yourself
I will compress
What I am too
Replace yourself
With what you have
Your substitute
Only wanted a piece of myself
Steam will rise
Esteem will rise
Steam will rise
Esteem will rise
Refrain, confess
Contain, repress
Pretend I'm dead
Abuse myself
Confuse myself
I won't be led
Only wanted a piece of myself
Only wanted a piece of myself
Only wanted a piece of myself
Steam will rise
Esteem will rise
Steam will rise
Esteem will rise
Steam will rise
Esteem will rise
Steam will rise
Esteem will rise
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