I got 21 questions and they're all unanswered
What's it gonna take to get your words out faster?
What's it gonna take to getcha off tonight?
Why'd you waste all your bullets on me?
You'd better pray damn well 'cause I ain't goin' easy
What'd I ever do to make you take me for the dying type?
You're only here to be seen
With your pre-fab personality
It don't really mean much to me 'cause you ain't ever gonna get me down on my knees

No one here's gonna win, but baby try as you please
For me

Whoa~whoa, do you feel it?
Do you feel it in the back of your mind?
Whoa~whoa, do you feel it?
Do you feel it comin' for you tonight?

You're a whole lotta talk without a damn thing to say
Not to say you ever really gave a f*** anyway
Summertime looks, wintertime cold
Tell yourself you got a grip but there ain't nothin' to hold
And life keeps callin' you but you ain't ever listenin'
If you're gonna feign innocence then you'd better hope that you can work off your sins

No one here's gonna win, but baby try as you please
For me

Whoa~whoa, do you feel it?
Do you feel it in the back of your mind?
Whoa~whoa, do you feel it?
Do you feel it comin' for you tonight?
Whoa~whoa~
Whoa~whoa~
Whoa~whoa~
Whoa~whoa~


21 Questions

Hey baby, let's go down to the ocean
Santa Monica is in my veins
We'll get stoned and we'll find us some action
Hit the pier and get lost in the haze
(Get lost in the haze)

Tonight we're gonna go boardwalkin'
Sundown and there ain't no stoppin'
'Til sunlight 'cause we'll never get enough
No, we'll never get enough
Hey hey, yeah

Hey baby, let's start a little fire
On the beach while we listen to Wavves
Under the pier we can get a little higher
Make love 'til the break of day
('Til the break of day, 'til the break of day)

Tonight we're gonna go boardwalkin'
Sundown and there ain't no stoppin'
'Til sunlight 'cause we'll never get enough
No, we'll never get enough
Hey hey, yeah
Tonight we're gonna go boardwalkin'
Sundown and there ain't no stoppin'
'Til sunlight 'cause we'll never get enough
No, we'll never get enough
Hey hey, yeah
Hey hey, yeah
Hey hey, yeah
Hey hey, yeah

Boardwalkin'

Asleep, or daydreaming halfheartedly is where you'll hear you
Between the sirens and the freezing rain, I feel the fear
I feel the tears, I feel the pain
I feel every-fucking-thing

Out with the old, in with the fear
Out in the cold it's all you hear
Out with the old, in with the fear
Out in the cold it's all you hear
(Out with the old, in with the fear)

God damn these bullet wounds
And god damn the gunman too
太陽がいつに戻るの？
深夜に俺が自分の強敵になるで、
私たちの愛～～～を殺している

Another solitary sleepless night waiting for the sun to rise
By night's divide
Another adversary shouts and bites
.45 between the eyes
If I don't wake, at least I lived the nightmare

Out with the old, in with the fear
Out with the old, in with the fear

Another solitary sleepless night waiting for the sun to rise
By night's divide
Another adversary shouts and bites
.45 between the eyes
If I don't wake, at least I lived the nightmare
Out with the old, in with the fear
Out with the old, in with the fear
Out with the old, in with the fear
Out with the old, in with

Phases

Sungazer

Crestfallen angel with starts in her eyes
Back against the wall, she's gonna take it all
This is where I begin, this is where I begin
This is where I begin, again and again
This is where I begin, this is where I begin
This is where I begin
Again and again

It'd be so natural
With every reflection to see the connections
Baby don't you see it's too late for you
Too early for me

If I told you would it make you stay?
If I loved you would you run away?
Love is easy, it's just harder to say
What's it matter now?
What's it matter anyway?
What's it matter, what's it matter now?

What's it matter now?
What's it matter now?
What's it matter anyway?
(x2)

So irrational
When every exception is just a deflection
Baby don't you see
I just ain't the woman I was born to be


What's it matter now?
What's it matter now?
What's it matter anyway?
(x4)

What's it matter now?
What's it matter now?
What's it matter anyway?
Doesn't matter now
Doesn't matter now
Never mattered anyway~

Eclipse

Wake me up when I'm hanging over
Not a crush, just a rush
God I hate being sober
Turn me on, turn me out
And come a little bit closer
Work me out, open up
I wanna be your blackout, fucked up, one-night wonder

Hey! Hey! Hey!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Bang bang, baby
Fire away

Popping pills with black coffee and a Kamel Red
I hate the cold but Russian is my favorite roulette
Turn me on, tie me down
I want you taking me over
Leave a kiss on my lips, your nails in my back

Feel like a bullet just waiting to load
One part silver, one glitter and gold
Ready, steady, bang bang, baby
Fire away, fire away

(Fire away)

(Oh yeah!)
Fire away~
Fire away~
Fire away~
Fire away~

Hey! Hey! Hey!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Bang bang, baby
Fire away

Fire away
Fire away
Fire away
Fire away

Russian Is My Favorite Roulette

We hit the city 'cause we're lookin' to score
Took El Dorado to the liquor store
Get some tequila, we'll take care of the rest
I got twenty Four Lokos & some cheap cigarettes
I ain't ever gonna look back
'Cause I ain't ever gonna change that
If you think you're gonna fix me then I guess you're gonna miss me
When I leave here with your dagger in my back

I can't take it, I can't fake it
I'm so jaded
Get me sedated, I need elated
Uncomplicated
I'm so faded, medicated
I'm suffocating

Hit the soiree 'cause we're lookin' for more
Super silver in the kitchen
Molly's always on the dance floor
Can't stop, I've got addictions to feed
Silver gave me cotton mouth, I washed it down with lean
I ain't ever gonna look back
'Cause I ain't ever gonna change that
You can say I'm miscreated if you think your words are weighted
When you're leaving, yeah, I hope you won't be back

I can't take it, I can't fake it
I'm so jaded
Get me sedated, I need elated
Uncomplicated
I'm so faded, medicated
I'm suffocating

I can't shake it
I can't take it
I can't break it
Am I gonna make it?
So faded, so wasted
I don't wanna fake it but I'm always medicated
So wasted, I'm so wasted
Every single day so motherfucking medicated
So wasted, so wasted
I'm so wasted
So wasted

Faded

Standing there
On your knees
They tell you "be a man, go get a job making more money for me"
Who would see
You for me
If I told you line your eyes, heels high
You're what I hate about me

Fucked up like I always am
Vyvanse romance 'til I run out again
Vodka keeps the pain out longer
But absinthe makes the heart grow fonder

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder
Makes the heart grow fonder
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder
Makes the heart grow fonder
(x2)

Never cared
For you and me
You keep your talk, I'll walk my walk
It's always better for me
You dragged us here
You need the fear
Need a few more shots for my thoughts
It's getting harder to breathe

Another night erasing our thoughts
Hoping maybe my drugs would bring me closer to God
Whiskey makes the lust grow stronger
But absinthe makes the heart grow fonder

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder
Makes the heart grow fonder
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder
Makes the heart grow fonder
(x2)

Drink it in; Drowning in
Breathe it in; Get around
Closing in; Shutting down
Sinking in; Blacking out
Drink it in; Drown it out
Breathe it in; Get around
Closing in; Shutting down
Sinking in; Blacking out
Drink it in; Drown it out
Breathe it in; Get around
Closing in; Shutting down
Sinking in; I'm blacking out
Drink it in; Drown it out
Breathe it in; Get around
Closing in
Shutting down

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder
Makes the heart grow fonder
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder
Makes the heart grow fonder
(x4)

Absinthe (Makes the Heart Grow Fonder)

How I swoon when you sway
The way you whisper my name
Those B-sides that you play
You got that savoir-faire, it's fair to say
The Dolce perfume you wear
Your fingers run through my hair
I don't know if you care
Baby, I need your touch tonight

Call me sundown, sister
'Cause I'm setting for you tonight

Got those come hither eyes
Break me out of my ties
Girl, you're making me wise
If we're making love, we're gonna make it right
Not your other guy
I shine as soon as I rise
Would you say it's a crime
How we nickel and dime all our time

Dead on sight
So wrong never felt so right
Call me the sundown, sister
'Cause I'm setting for you tonight
Oh lord
(Sundown, sister, 'cause I'm setting for you tonight)
(I'm setting for you, baby; let's shake things up a bit)

Two in the morning and we're skipping conversation
Your invitations always lead to inspiration
3 o'clock and we're raising expectations
4 o'clock, 5 o'clock, 6 o'clock, infatuation

2 o'clock, we were having conversation
3 o'clock, it turned to confrontation
4 o'clock, 5 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 7 AM complications
Baby, maybe we can sweat our problems away
But I ain't promising I'll stay
Oh no~

(Down, down)
We're going down
(x3)

Let me be your sundown, sister
Call me the sundown, sister
Let me be your sundown, sister
Let me be your sundown, sister
(Let me be your sundown, sister)
(Let me be your sundown, sister)
(Let me be your sundown, sister)
Let me be your sundown, sister
I'm setting for you, baby

Sundown, Sister

How far do I have to go to be me?
Answers only gimme more questions
How long have you waited ot hear me scream?
Thank God I wasn't paying attention

Wake up if you're feeling alive
Hands up if you're dying inside
So what if it gets you off my mind?

Normal's just too strange for me
Your lies are just too hard to read

Long gone is our chance to coexist
We're going going gone, girl; plot twist
Turn off the lights if you insist
You're gonna tell me everything I've missed
Ignorance ain't bliss no more, no more, no more
Never is
It never ends

Wake up if you're feeling alive
Hands up if you're dying inside
So what if it gets you off my mind?

Normal's just too strange for me
Your lies are just too hard to read

Normal's just too strange for me
Your lies are just too hard to read
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Unorthodox Youth

Stayed up just to get a little baked up
Wake up just in time to do my makeup
Take off; Is the wait over yet?
Who I've been ain't who I am
Now what you see is what you get

One step forward
And two steps back
Feel just like a needle hiding out in a haystack
Oh, I had to see to believe
On All Hallows Eve

All Hallows Eve
(All Hallows Eve)
All Hallows Eve
(All Hallows Eve)
Waking up ain't the end of the dream
What you see is what you get so tell me what you believe

Tell me what you believe~
Tell me what you believe~

Showed up early to school
Smoke outside, playing it cool
What's so strange is how normal it feels
Life is so mundane when you ain't dressed to kill

One step forward
And two steps back
Feel just like a needle hiding out in a haystack
Oh, I had to see to believe
On All Hallows Eve

All Hallows Eve
(All Hallows Eve)
(x4)

Night is falling
Waves are crashing
Words we only use in passing
What's the point if all we ever do is go right to romancing?
Never met her
Never asking
Opportunity is tapping softly on the senses
Spell or curse, October's so enchanting

Do you like what you see?
Do you know what it means?
Is it getting hard to breathe
Or just impossible to leave?
(x4)

All Hallows Eve

It's all the same
A cold emotionless game
But who's to blame, who's to blame, who's to blame?
When only God knows your name

So alone, so alone, so alone tonight
Won't you keep me warm?
Won't you hold me tight?
Just a game, just a game that I ain't gonna play with you
No more

Straight to the head again
I need a firing pin
There goes my heart again
Gone with my innocence and in its place a better sin

It's just a phase
I tell myself every day
I medicate, medicate,
Medicate into this amaranthine haze

It's just a phase, just a phase, just phase, it's just a
It's just a maze, just a maze that I'll never escape
Pretty face, that pretty face of yours is such a waste
It's just a maze, it's just a phase
Just a fucking phase

Straight to the head again
I need a firing pin
There goes my heart again
Gone with my innocence and in its place a better sin
There goes my heart again
Oh God I'm wearing thin
There goes my mind again
It's just another consequence of life in artificial skin

Ooo~
Just another con~
(It's just another)
Just another~
(It's just another)
Consequence of life in artificial skin

 	
Listen up, think we've got a situation
White noise, all I'm hearing on your station
Don't wanna talk about it, don't wanna talk about it
Ooo~
Ooo~
Heating up; victim of my own creation
Always succumbing to your sensual persuasion
Don't wanna think about it, just wanna drink about it
Ooo~
Ooo~

(It's hard for me to fight it when you show up uninvited)
I did it all for you, I'd do it all again
(Your words get me excited but the love is unrequited)
I did it all to lose, I don't know who I've been

(Hard for me to fight it when you show up uninvited)
I did it all for you, I'd do it all again
(Your words get me excited but the love is unrequited)
I did it all to lose, I don't know who I've been

Turn me on; emotional evacuation
Dionysian physical collaboration
Too soon to joke about it, just wanna smoke about it
Ooo~
Ooo~
Work me up; it's romantic instigation
Love is freedom, baby; gimme liberation
Too late to think about it, too much to drink about it
Ooo~
Ooo~

(It's hard for me to fight it when you show up uninvited)
I did it all for you, I'd do it all again
(Your words get me excited but the love is unrequited)
I did it all to lose, I don't know who I've been

(Hard for me to fight it when you show up uninvited)
I did it all for you, I'd do it all again
(Your words get me excited but the love is unrequited)
I did it all to lose, I don't know who I've been

I'm just a story that goes on and on and on
About a boy who found himself within the girl who wrote his wrongs
She wants to hate him but she mustn't complicate him
Change is ushered in on waves of fear that celebrate our separation

I did it all for you, I did it all for you
I did it all for you, I did it all for you
I did it all for you, I did it all for you
I did it all for you, I did it all~

All For You

"...there is a certain primal magic to the Black Tar Heroines sound. These guys get at rock and roll in a way that few of their peers actively touch on. Rather than go for the super polished modern rock tones of their peers, Black Tar Heroines are a group who embrace the magic of kids playing loud music. Yet behind this, there are brilliant layers of production and some tasty songwriting" - Two Guys Metal Reviews

All songs written, instruments played, vocals, production, engineering, mixing, and mastering by Cobi Walker


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