The Milgram Experiment Lyrics

THE MILGRAM EXPERIMENT

1) The Reflection Stared

It seems we're surrounded by hallways of mirrors
reflecting our empty eyes.
When to be successful is increasingly stressful
we're much better off being poor.
We'd love to be human, if only for one day
I wonder how we'd get along
We've nothing in common, we're seemingly foreign
we all have our own native tongue

The webs that we're weaving
must be seen to be believed in
but what are we hiding from?
We're so far from perfect
there's no way it's worth it
but surely we can't all be wrong.

The reflection stared at me a while
not convinced that I belong to it.
Through the years
Through the tears
The eyes have remained
but the colour has disappeared
I'm a shadow, you're my former self
all the things I'd love to be again
Through the years
Through the tears
I've realised just how detached we've become.

What started as intrigue is now entertainment
we can't take our eyes off the screen.
We're studying our lives a fraction of the size
the characters roll into one

The webs that we're weaving
must be seen to be believed in
but what are we hiding from?
We're so far from perfect
there's no way it's worth it
but surely we can't all be wrong.

(The reflection stared at me a while
not convinced that I belong to it.
Through the years
Through the tears
The eyes have remained but the colour has disappeared
I'm a shadow, you're my former self
all the things I'd love to be again
Through the years
Through the tears
I've realised just how detached we've become.)

2) In The Head and Of The Heart

Wrinkled skin but within there's an apple good enough for a king
Just let me make you see, make you look and then you wont miss a thing
I want it all though I can't take the world
I want it all

He's denied of his bride there's a hole in her heart centuries wide
But my grin's not for him, it's just meant to say "you never can win"
I want it all though I can't take the world
I want it all

Something died, hidden so deep inside in my head, in my heart
that it's always been a part of me
Play it down crying tears of a clown, shake my head, break my heart
but it's always been a part of me
Remedy seems a decent place to start
In the head and of the heart

Something died, hidden so deep inside in my head, in my heart
that it's always been a part of me
Play it down crying tears of a clown, shake my head, break my heart
but it's always been a part of me
Remedy seems a decent place to start
In the head and of the heart


3) A Stranger To Myself

Seems to me like I've disturbed a nest of hornets in my head
I only hear things I say I never listen to what's being said
No-one can know what's inside of me
Even I'll never know what's inside me

Yes I'm a stranger, a stranger to myself
I'm getting stranger, don't even have my health

Things to say I'm always getting interrupted, so shut your face
Who'd have thought I'd ever feel so corrupted by your embrace?
No-one can know what's inside of me
Even I'll never know what's inside me

Yes I'm a stranger, a stranger to myself              ]
I'm getting stranger, don't even have my health   ] (x 4 to fade)


4) Oil

The greatest gift of all, taken from me
I need the rain to fall again, wash me away
I want to paint you out. I want to paint you out.

Oil on your face and in your hair and under your skin
Lost in the Black Sea, that poor girl needs rescuing
Oil on your face and in your hair and under your skin
Lost in the Black Sea, I need you to let me in

I watch the passers by, they're in slow motion
I've forgotten how to fly again, I win none lose some
I want to paint you out. I want to paint you out.

I'm feeling sick again, rainbow poison
I think of you but then again, there's no more reasons
I want to paint you out. I want to paint you out

Oil on your face and in your hair and under your skin
Lost in the Black Sea, that poor girl needs rescuing
Oil on your face and in your hair and under your skin
Lost in the Black Sea, I need you to let me in

I need you to let me in

5) She's My Superstition

I'm the one in the sky, Big Brother spies on you
Tables turn, I'm undone, the shoulder cries on you
Less is more, more or less or so the experts say
Searching blind searching for potential ecstasy

She's my superstition
In my condition, a law unto herself
She's my medication
My consternation, yeah!

What I know is so true it surely must be lies
Rob the rich, rob the poor, oh can't I fantasise?
Grab the box, cling on hard, this film is trapping me
I can sing, I can act only in tragedy

She's my superstition
In my condition, a law unto herself
She's my medication
My consternation, yeah!

Blades of dependency they're cutting into me, I
I doubt this scar will ever heal
You look like someone who I'm sure I've never known, it's
It's always what I say and never how I feel

She's my superstition
In my condition, a law unto herself
She's my medication
My consternation, yeah!

6) She Never Drowned In The First Place

She's a wreck inside my ocean and she sucks me down,
She drags me down!
HMS Destructible and as her captain dies
she shuts her eyes!

If she dreams, she dreams that one day she'll be in control
defy them all!
She's the one, she killed the only one who cracked her code
Increased her load!

She is the Earth, this is her curse;
Stuck in the ground
I'd set her free then she could see
She never drowned in the first place.

There's a place of which she talks where only she has been
and she has seen!
There's no passengers allowed, it's just a solo trip
A solo trip!

She is the Earth, this is her curse;
stuck in the ground
I'd set her free then she could see
She never drowned in the first place.

She never drowned
She never drowned
She never drowned in the first place!

She is the Earth, this is her curse;
Stuck in the ground
I'd set her free then she could see
She never drowned in the first place

She is the Earth, this is her curse;
Stuck in the ground
I'd set her free then she could see
She never drowned in the first place

7) Room Without A View

I found a place where eyes were tight shut each and every day
I couldn't move or speak but knew where I was anyway
and I was happy, and I was happy. I was alone.

When the dream becomes a waking nightmare
there's a room without a view, we sleep alone!

And then I felt the eyes upon me, no longer alone
The devil takes so many forms he was inside my home
But I'd been happy, but I'd been happy. But now I'm sleeping

When the dream becomes a waking nightmare
there's a room without a view, we sleep alone!

I was happy! I'd been happy, and now I'm sleeping

When the dream becomes a waking nightmare
there's a room without a view, we sleep alone!

When the dream becomes a waking nightmare
there's a room without a view, we sleep alone!

8) This Wonderful Failure

This sick obsession, your twisted words of hope
and you need attention that I can never give
I breathe so slow, I dimly glow inside you
I'm only sleeping, I'm only dreaming, I'm only sleeping

I don't believe it, I see you everywhere
and I just don't need it, you scare me more than you know
I breathe so slow, I dimly glow inside you
I'm only sleeping, I'm only dreaming, I'm only sleeping

This wonderful failure, it's ruined beyond all repair now
This comforting illness is showing my true colours to you
This glorious error will tease me until I correct it
This cure is a poison, there's only one way I can find out

This wonderful failure, it's ruined beyond all repair now
This comforting illness is showing my true colours to you
This glorious error will tease me until I correct it
This cure is a poison, there's only one way I can find out

This wonderful failure...


9) The Danger Inside Me

I've been to your future and I've seen your past
Don't you change, no don't you change
Sadly things are very rarely as they seem
Don't you change, no don't you change

And we're all sheep and dressed in wolf's clothing
We feed the fire that fuels our self loathing

There's some danger in everything
There's some danger inside you
There's some danger in purity
There's some danger inside me

Please feel free to take your anger out on me
I trusted you, I trusted you
I'm left naked, bruised, completely paranoid
I trusted you, I trusted you

And we're all sheep and dressed in wolf's clothing
We feed the fire that fuels our self loathing

There's some danger in everything
There's some danger inside you
There's some danger in purity
There's some danger inside me

Your face so unaware of the backstab
but would you care anyway?
Kiss me while we're alone
I know you're cold as ice
you'll betray me and not think twice
You're a liar when you deny it all
You're unbelievable!

There's some danger in everything
There's some danger inside you
There's some danger in purity
You're the danger inside me

10) Softly Dear Jane

You know I know you're really nothing but a lonely girl
and you're living in a lonely world
I know it hurts but there's never been a day gone by
you've allowed yourself a little cry (tough girls don't cry)
Sometimes you need to hear the words you never hear anymore
You're hanging on, you're getting through, and you don't need them

Softly dear Jane, no-one knows you half as well as I do
Softly dear Jane, you don't need them

And do you feel as if the time is only passing by?
Are you waiting for a better life?
I understand, follow me down this avenue,
take a while to enjoy the view. Now talk to me.
If life was one big spiders web you'd be the fly
You're trapped you're caught there's no way out

There's no way out!

Softly dear Jane, no-one knows you half as well as I do
Softly dear Jane, you don't need them

If life was one big spiders web you'd be the fly
You're trapped you're caught there's no way out,
There's no way out!

Softly dear Jane, no-one knows you half as well as I do ]
Softly dear Jane, you don't need me ] (x 4 to fade)

Softly dear Jane (x4)

11) Monsieur Man Ray

Oh Emmanuel you're not who you were
I seem to know you well, I like your colour
Some would say it's all about aesthetics
How would they know? They're blind and so pathetic.

When your tears come from within, when you need a pseudonym and your heart is broken
When you're resting from yourself, when you're worried for your health, all alone but hoping

Do you ever feel like you're a lighthouse?
Shining so bright so they can keep a lookout
Keep the boats away, you're tired of living.
All of these lies and your misgiving

When your tears come from within, when you need a pseudonym and your heart is broken
When you're resting from yourself, when you're worried for your health, all alone but hoping

Monsieur Man Ray, well I dare say that all those tears are just good make-up
Could be unreal, yet I still feel some semblances of empathy
So am I in love with something false? Am I in love?
I love you because you're false.

Yeah (x4)

Many many thanks to Ash for taking the time and effort in typing up and correcting these lyrics.