MADNESS



Too much, too fast maybe.I don't know where my destiny's

taking me.So i'll go wherever it leads me.

Too high, too low baby.I wanna know where my destiny's

taking me.So i'll go to make you believe me.(yeah)



Cry,cry when there's something to cry about.Cry,cry baby

but don't drown in sadness.It's madness.Don't ask me

to explain. Don't take away the pain. It's impossible

to save me.

It's madness.



Too cheap, too scary. Too creepy to marry.Too serious

too mysterious and way too deep.



Crack in the shield, feels so unreal.

No one to blame for losing the flame.

Crack in the shield.Lost in the fields of sadness.

It's madness.







BULLET



I think I should go and leave you alone, yeah

Stop this game and hang up the phone, and more

I should go into the night alone, get inside of this cyclone

It's like I wanted to break my bones to get over you

'Cause if I stay I'm number two anyway



Like a bullet you can hurt me

take me, break me

Like fire you can burn me

convert me, like a bullet you can hurt me

Like a bullet you can hurt me



You say there are so many things going on, in your life now

It's so very hard to find time for me, and you say

Do you believe in the destiny? That is just the way it was meant to be

I gotta leave you to make you see, that I'm over you

'Cause if I stay, I'm number two anyway



I can't believe it when my friends say

Take it easy, take it easy, don't you worry about the rainy day

Like fire you can burn me

Convert me, like a bullet you can hurt me



Maybe I'm blind

Forever young

Don't get me wrong

I don't belong here



Like fire you can burn me, like a bullet you can hurt me

Please hurt me









CHILL



I gotta make a phonecall to my best friends.

I gotta let them know that I'm leaving. Everything behind me

and politely I don't wanna hurt their feelings. Oh no.



I'll need to come back and I wanna explain why I had to

leave them sleeping. The answer's in the air

but I really don't care. 'Cos I couldn't really keep on

breathing the smoke.



And every time when I painted my room.

Like a fool I hid my feelings. And every time when I painted

my room. I thought about leaving.



You roll like a stone girl, you should not stop. And I don't

wanna step on your feet. And you do what you do to stay

on top. And I don't wanna make you feel incomplete.







F-F-F-FALLING



I don't go to school every Monday.I've got my reason to sleep.

Don't you tell me how I should be.

I made up my mind about the music.

I made up my mind about the style.I know that I'm

stable and able to settle down but I keep.



F-F-F-Falling.Down with the sun.I can't give it up

the night is calling me like a drum.



This life is so full of temptation and I wan't to keep it that way.

I know myself I can handle the game.

I made up my mind about the future.

I made up my mind about the past. I know that I'm stable and

able to hold on.



(I made up my mind about the music.

I made up my mind about the style.I know that I'm

able and stable to settle down.)

F-F-F-Falling!







HEARTBREAKER



Well anyway it's a long story. She's been waiting for so long.

Still got the songs in her mind and the autograph on

the photograph. She's got a past full of secrets. She's got

a clock on her feelings. Back from the days when she used to

have wings. She had a dream full of anger. She had a dream

full of action. Afraid to get old she feels so cold. Such a typical

reaction.



Oh yeah. Oh yeah. She wanted to be a heartbreaker. Oh yeah,

she was so greedy but lousy lovemaker. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

She wanted to be a heartbreaker.



She used to be a queen of the scene. She had a key

but she lost it. Nothing's gonna last and the time goes fast

-she knows. She had a man but she messed it up again.

She had a chance but she blew it. She's gotta little babyboy

in her womb but she doesn't have a clue yet, she doesn't have

a clue yet.

Chorus

Striking her down. Crushing her to the ground.







SMASH



Understand that you're holding a bomb in your hands

Take control, hand in hand with yourself from now on

Take this advice aim to the skies, aim to the skies above



Show me what you're made of, I'm waiting for the answer

Tell me what you're afraid of, show me what you're made of



I call out in my sleep, I can't reach you and it's killing me

I call out in my sleep



The sun is gone, days go on like a storm in the sea

And the shore is the loneliest place you can be

Stay dry instead, a moment ahead

Aim to the skies above



You say that you are not the same kid

The one who used to be the weeper

You say it's something deeper

You say, you say..







SOMEONE ELSE



She drinks the blood of the dinosaurs

to get her powers back to make her boyfriend understand

That things are not what they used to be

She doesn't have a plan to make her boyfriend understand

Through the gates of insanity on the edge of humanity

She's gonna make her dreams come true

That she belongs to someone else



She's found something to die for

Something to fight for

Someone to show her the way

She's found someone to cry for,someone to lie for

Heart full of blood of the dinosaurs

Now she belongs to someone else







SMALL TOWN



You get no kick out of champagne

Things make you sick by staying the same

So lame

And if you think that you know everybody

And if it seems inspiration is gone

Days when it feels like nothing can turn you on



Open your eyes to the life in this small town

How many times you've been leaving?

Oh yeah

And so it seems we keep coming back home

So open your eyes to the life in this small town



I've always run straight to the flames

I've lost my face in a thousand ways

Oh yeah

Still you give a damn about my reputation

Take me as I am

You are my family

If you get lonely you know where you will find me



And there is no way out

If you don't wanna talk about it

If you don't wanna turn around

I wanna have confidence in you







ONE & ONLY



Have I been away too long?

Did I miss all the action?

What happened to the neighbours and the girl next door?

Did you get my greetings?

What happened to the graffiti?

And what about this crap on the walls?

Did I forget about someone?

No offence but I had to

I didn't have respect for the violence

And what about this music?

Did I forget about something else?

When I left in silence



Don't let the shadows reach me

[don't let the shadows reach me]

Don't let the shadows swallow the light while I'm sleeping

Whatever comes to your mind just hit me



It's my time

My time

The one and only lonely

It's my time

My time

The one and only lonely

The one and only lonely



Did I win the first prize?

Have I crossed enemy lines?

Got stabbed in the back but I don't know why

Like walking on on the eggshells

Stepping over landmines

Waiting for the bombing from the open sky

Did you forget about something?

Did you forget about you and me?

And what about this envy around me

Did I do something wrong?

Have I been away too long?

In the middle of these changes



Whatever comes to your mind just hit me







LAST WALTZ



Make me blind

Cover my eyes you can do what you want

I'm paralyzed by the perfect mood

When we're dancing with blindfolds on

You make it easy to love you and hate you

I can't explane it I feel insecure

You say it's simple "you die just to live again"

You say we're waiting for the last waltz



Another you and me

Another revolutionary heavenly romance

waiting for the last waltz

And so it seems

We won't find the solution

confusion leads the dance

We're waiting for the last waltz



Praise the wine

So divine and it stings like a rose

Allow the night to flow inside open the window

and let the wind blow

Highlight of the night is the unhappy ending

You keep refusing to answer my calls

Drop the bending and stop the pretending

You say get ready for the last waltz



I believe that no one this world has the anwers for me

But still I hope that someone has heard.







DAYS



I knew that you would come

I know you

Welcome to my kingdom

Some days are cold like ice in here



Don't have to sleep at night

You don't have to

You don't have to close your eyes

'cause some days are dark like the nights in here



I get this feeling

I get this feeling every time

I don't know, I don't know what to do? where to go

Make it right, can you stay for the night?

Days in a maze, full of flames. what to do? where to go?

I don't know when the clouds fill the sky



Keep staring at the sea

Keep staring

There's so much misery

For the tidal waves to wash away



It's something deeper

It's something to defence.

So let's pretend that the end is not coming yet.

Time is not running get into the shadows

And we can be friends now and forever.







CAN'T STOP ME



Dying in Laughter but you know the answer

Who will be the one

To finally stand up and take a chance

Cause life has just begun



And I don't need the TV

I don't need the shotgun

I don't have to run I can reach you

I'll follow the feeling

Swallow the meaning

I don't have to run if I need you

I can reach you



I will do what I feel like

Hey, can't stop me now

I will do what I feel like

Hey, can't stop me now

I will do what I feel like



I don't need rule ya

I don't have to fool ya

I've got nothing to prove

I can reach you from here

Swallow the shot gun

Show you the meaning

I don't wanna deal with the feelings of fear



I own my cloud

The only one

I'll be alone

And from now on.







PLAY DEAD



Darling stop confusing me

With your wishful thinking

Hopeful embraces

Don't you understand?

I have to go through this

I belong to here where

No-one cares and no-one loves

No light no air to live in

A place called hate

The city of fear

I play dead

It stops the hurting

I play dead

And the hurting stops

It's sometimes just like sleeping

Curling up inside my private tortures

I nestle into pain

Hug suffering

caress every ache

I play dead,

It stops the hurting







USED TO FEEL BEFORE



It seems that there is something

Something I should know

But I don't want to ask you

Ask you what I'm supposed to do



You say that I don't treat you

That way I used to do before

That I am only running away

Every time when you want me to stay



I wanna love you like the sailor loves the sea

I really want to but please let me be

'N I got so much things on my mind

And you know that I can't waste any time



I wanna make you feel something that you used to feel before



I know we've got our problems

But fighting don't make any sense

'N I don't think that I'm so bad,

That you should be so, so sad

1. Madness
2. Bullet
3. Chill
4. F-F-F-Falling
5. Heartbreaker
6. Smash
7. Someone Else
8. Small Town
9. One & Only
10. Last Waltz

Meanings::

1. Madness

Eero: Madness is a melodic pop-song Lauri wrote. It's about the emotions when we had to replace our drummer. We kind of drifted apart as a band.
Lauri: It's a 5-years-story. The words don't belong together but each has a special meaning.


2. Bullet

Eero: The dark song bullet was the last to be finished.
Lauri: It's about bullets and the army. Nah, it's about people being stupid fucks
Eero: When you are disappointed by love.


3. Chill

Eero: It's a slow and peaceful song. It was easy to make. Pauli had the guitar melody for the chorus and the verses.
Lauri: It's a pure Kent song. I don&'t wanna say anything about it, I can't remember.


4. F-F-F-Falling

Eero: This song has been selected to become the first single, because it's something special. people think "what's that? that doesn't sound like TR!" when the hear the song.
Lauri: The first sentence, about not going to school on Monday. That's true, because Monday was the day to practice our new songs.


5. Heartbreaker

Eero: When I first heard Heartbreaker, I was thinking it was Iron Maiden or Bon Jovi. I like the story. There's this girl who was a queen for her whole life and then she loses control.
Lauri: The girl really exists, but we can't talk about that.


6. Smash

Eero: Smash is a methodic song. It's really amazing.
Lauri: It's a bleak story. My friend died of Heroin one and a half years ago. It has a profound meaning.


7. Someone Else

Eero: Someone Else is a ballad, slow, easy-going and simple. There are imaginary words, for example this girl who drinks the blood of the dinosaur to maintain strength. She thinks, she belongs to someone.
Pauli: I think it's mainly a love story.


8. Small Town

Eero: Small town is a very mature song. Open your eyes and see, this little town is awesome.
Lauri: That's a shitty town.
Eero: When you aren't satisfied with yourself you are not okay. All the time. But when you know yourself you can be everywhere.


9. One&Only

Eero: This one sounds the most like the old Rasmus. Lauri wrote it when he was in Suutarila, where his parents live, and he got to see his old neighborhood.
Lauri: Old friends start to settle down with family and ask: "What's up, man?" and I was like "What what is up, man?"


10. Last Waltz

Eero: Last Waltz is the first song we played with Aki. At first it was different but we changed it. It has this certain movie flair.


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