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Here's a tune I wrote a while back. David Ellefson (actually playing rhythm on this track) helped to tweak it a bit so my new-found buds at the Vegas rock camp could pick it up literally overnight in time to record it, as heard here, in one take.

JUST ANOTHER DAY
OF FALLING OFF MY LEDGE
ALWAYS CRAWLING BACKWARDS
DULLING DOWN MY EDGE

NEVER GOING NOWHERE
BUT SO FAR AWAY FROM HERE
NOW I'VE BEEN SEDATED
AND THE ONLY THING I FEAR IS ME

JUST ANOTHER MINUTE
OF FORGETTING WHO I WAS
IGNORANCE IS BLISS THEY SAY
BUT MAYBE THAT'S BECAUSE

THEY'RE TOO BUSY SEPARATING
WITH AN IRON FISTED SIEVE
IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE MISSING THEN YOU NEVER TRIED TO LIVE (LIKE ME)

I HAVE BECOME SO NUMB . . .
SHED THE SKINS THAT BIND ME IN, BUT WEAR TOO THIN

JUST ANOTHER HUNGER
I NEVER TRIED TO FEED
NO ONE EVER TOLD ME
I COULD FOLLOW WHAT I FEEL
SO I BROKE ANOTHER PIECE
AND FED IT TO THE BIG MACHINE
YOU'LL NEVER SEE IT COMING
IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I MEAN

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