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A Silver Tongue For A Steel Heart

by Mortimer Nova (2015)

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--------------------- ---1---- ---X-X-X--- -1-1~0~1---1-1~0~1--- -1-3--- ---4-3-1--- -----------2-2~0~2--- -2-2--- -5-5-4-2-1- -2-2~0~2-2-3-3~3~3--- -2----- -7-6-5-3-2- -3-3~3~3-2---------2- -----2- -7-6-5-3-2- -------------------3- -----3- ----------- bridge C Em Dm F G and then for no reason at all there's the cocked head of confusion vomiting a stream of consciousness a conversation with your house pet woah woah woah discernible only in a state of mind trailing your instinct perpetuated by failure and sleep deprived insanity woah woah woah but then is it something we tell something we've written down foreign screams too loud to silence too hard to ignore set the house on fire the understood "we" of it all sharing this mind with satan barking obscenities leading to desperate conclusions woah woah woah don't stop at that light those signs aren't meant for you writing that list of regrets only leads to a single answer woah woah woah but then is it something we tell something we've written down foreign screams too loud to silence too hard to ignore set the house on fire tonight, it's raining flames no one lived and now i'm free the neighborhood gathered around making forked tongue accusations and those memories, so unsettling pushed their way back into vision woah woah woah but then is it something we tell something we've written down foreign screams too loud to silence too hard to ignore set the house on fire
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DROP D LOW E ----------------------------- ----- --------- ----------------------------- -5-5- -3-3----- ----------------------------- -6-5- -4-3---4- -----------------0-5-6-7-5-7- -7-7- -5-5-3-3- ---------0-5-6-7-----------7- ----- -----3-3- -0-5-6-7-------------------7- ----- -----3-3- run, run, run, run away to an open placid congregation, where i cleave and steal all that i hate til i bleed and fester my creation choked and starved amalgamation such a stumbled crumbled sacrilegious intuitive simpleton homelessness but we can't stop wanting it all covert mitigation total annihilation feed your needs and bleed for me with a gun, gun, gun, gun today you command controlled emasculation, in a world of impure postulation let the kids control your imagination let the superhero babies choke their friends let the movie star class control the trends let the world come down with mind control 'cause you won't stop wanting it all covert mitigation total annihilation feed your needs and bleed for me rebel and fake your death before the bullet hits your chest feed your needs and bleed, bleed, bleed, for me
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drop d low e --------- --------------- --------------------- --------- --------------- --------------------- --------- --------------- --------------------- -11-10-5- -12---------12- -3-6-5-3-3-3-3-5-6-5- -8--8--7- ---12-13----12- -3-3-3-6-5-3-4-5-5-5- --------- ---------15-12- -3-3-3-3-3-3-3-5-5-5- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- -----------7-7-7-5-8-7-7-10-8-7- -5-8-7-5-3-7-7-7-5-5-5-7-7--7-8- -----------7-8-7-5-5-5-7-7--7-7- take three steps you won't have to look back it's all so dark i'm all alone up here and i can't breathe am i up or am i down, it's eerily serene the last red tide x4 the last chapter of a book i have never read the fire is almost out, but it's just out of reach a satin gown so soft, a stain that won't come out everything must pass, in front of me the shouting in the dark, the strings i see and feel is anything i love, even real the last red tide x4 wander through your ghost, i can steal you the most and i can feel your breath, through the serpent in my chest hide behind the clay, please come out and play is that blood or is that sweat, on the nape of your neck try to run away, you want get very far so a salute to my countrymen, salute behind the bars the last red tide x6
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Gracious 03:31
capo 3 drop d low e ----- -----6--- ------ -8--8- ------- ------- -6-6- -6-6-6-6- ------ -9--8- -13-11- -13-11- ----- -8-7-8-7- -8--7- -10-8- -12-12- -14-12- -7-7- -8-7-8-7- -10-8- ----8- -13-13- -15-13- -8-5- --------- -10-8- ------ ------- ------- ----- --------- ------ ------ ------- ------- the children were so wired their eyes were going wild it must have fueled the fire and burned them all alive no, don't you touch me i see my lover in the kitchen moving so fast on a mission i can't help but pay attention woah oh oh woah oh woah oh woah oh oh i'm a pinata you beat me to gain more and i fall apart while you scramble on the floor no, don't you touch me is it your day job or our love life are you a fling or potential wife am i just wasting both our time you think you're so much better don't you touch me, don't you touch me
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Rosio 03:56
capo 7 drop d low e -9---------- ---------------- -10--------- ---------------- -11-14------ ----12---------- ----12-12-9- -12-14-14------- ----14-12-9- -14----12-14-12- ------------ ----------12-12- i feel so insightful but i can't feel my tongue and i can't hear my thoughts i bite the hand that feeds my mind and cut the hand that comes to close to be helpful revenge of the traitor that once washed my feet and sat by my side imaginary words imaginary words imaginary words salvation for the weak is all in what you believe professor fairy tale can spread a million seeds the screw that held the ship together has gotten lost at sea and the captain pulls his flag up high for the passengers to see you don't have to be a millionaire to feel wealthy imaginary words imaginary words imaginary words you don't need a map to know x marks the spot you don't know what it is until it's gone oh oh oh
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To Choke 03:59
----- ----- --- --------- ----- -1--- --- -----3--- ----- -2--- -2- -3-2---2- -2-2- -2-2- -1- -2-1-2-1- -2-2- ---2- -2- -3-2-3-2- -3--- ----- --- --------- ------------- -------------- ----------------------------- ------------- -------------- ----------------------------- -5-6-7-7-6-5- -------------- ----------------------------- ------------- -------------- -------------------------2>2- ------------- -7-10-9-5-5-7- -7-10-9-7-5-10-9-7-3-2-1-2>2- ------------- -------------- -------------------------3--- your skin bleeds you can't help but cry at your lost beliefs, you say goodbye tread the ocean, part the sea i can't believe what you ask of me tear the skin until it screams and cries your fingernails are broken your wheelbarrows full nothings left but the wind through the door when we reconvene, i'm still unable your lips are pouring poetry tread the ocean, part the sea i can't believe what you ask of me tear the skin until it screams and cries why are you so cold why are you so cold why are you so golden so golden so you transcend you can't self prepare your parents understand don't hold your breath don't hold your breath or you might choke choke so this is the end thought it might have come late you are cursed, you're protected, you're significant so you transcend you can't prepare yourself don't hold your breath you might choke choke
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-------- ----- --- ---2--- -------- ----- --- -1-3--- -9--5--- -5--- -4- -2-2--- -10-4-2- -7-5- --- -2---2- ----5-2- -7-7- -5- -----2- -8------ ---7- -3- ------- soon the night sky will collapse and kill us with a ceiling of light making everything you believe in a catastrophic irony we believe what we perceive to be correct disregarding something standing, hardly breathing, staring at us behind our backs you go through me just like water motivated by something hotter complications but you've got her don't forget she's still your daughter we adapt accordingly to situations we don't know determined by our personality traits that stand out dominant under all these sheets i can still see the lights from the falling sky your timing is impeccable and if you read this then it's too late you go through me just like water motivated by something hotter complications but you've got her don't forget she's still your daughter i was just calling to see if anyone was home
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don't stop healing up in the brand age close the comics in the newspaper pages sentimental fallacy's the second door on the right 1 more door and you will find the lion and kitten fight where's my mom i need her hunting knife it's time for work in this brain damage life open ended product is a gift for the mercy age slip up now you'll only find a management murder case carnivore creator carnival creature cold elation crimes of fiction clever hatred come to the core of addiction n-n-n-no x4 get the shovel and dig up the working bland black mark red a, x's all on you hands overburdened overworked children work overnight put the hamster to the wheel and you'll never run out of light overload get your mommy to tie your shoelaces rev your engine burn the flag at the races loco lobo eating so many faces drop your hand show me all 5 of your aces convoluted answers are the magistrates carousel letters in the bronze on the curve of the liberty bell if you find the fires just to hot then you're toasting your toes in hell in hell in hell is it fact, is it fiction is it broke, or is is friction overload
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-17-15-14-12-9--9-7-6- -9>12-9- ------------- ------- -12-12-12-12-12-9-9-9- -9>12-9- ------------- ------- ---------------------- -------- ------------- ------- ---------------------- -------- -5-7-5-5-7-5- -14-12- ---------------------- -------- -X-X-X-3-3-3- ------- ---------------------- -------- -3-3-3-X-X-X- -12-10- someone's telling lies which i despise but i know you're telling lies you're telling lies when i was just a child i'd swim for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles for fear of being caught in a trap you made yourself you're telling lies it won't be long until it's gone, and wrapped you up in your tangled threads, your twisted web you're telling lies when i was in my teens i'd run for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and now, we both know the answer to this simple question an awful ending for an ignorant example of humanity at it's best now that i am a man, now that i've lived my life i drive for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
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capo 3 ----------------- ---------------- ------------- -4-6-6----------- -11-11---------- -8--9--10-16- -----5-5--------- ----12-12------- ------------- -5-5-6-6-----7-5- -12-13-13----8-- -9--10-12-17- -6-6-----5-6-5-5- -13----12-12-10- -10-11-13-18- ---------6-6----- ----------10---- ------------- i used to feel life was tragedy after tragedy such a teacher you taught me i was wrong i would drink too much but you'd still take me home and lay with me and make sure i fell asleep so i'm writing this song and it's just for you out of thanks and all my good intent this is unexpected though i should have it seen from miles away i can't think any more about you, there's nothing left to cut i keep asking myself is this real or just a nightmare i keep looking for you, but you're not around i craved for something save me from myself such a teacher you taught me how to feel realization can be such a ton of bricks causing abrupt endings bent from my mistakes we lay together, your body molds to mine and now i feel you're the reason i exist and i'm missing you and all that you do in a perfect world dreams can come true this is unexpected though i should've seen it from miles away i can't think any more about you, there's nothing left to cut i keep asking myself is this real or just a nightmare i keep looking for you, but you're not around
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Needless 03:29
-3-----2--- -7-5- -10-8- ----------- -3---1-3-1- -5-5- -7--5- ----------- -4-7-2-4-2- -5-5- -7--5- -5-7-9--11- -5-5-2-4-2- -5-5- -7--5- -7-9-10-12- -5-7------- ----- ------ -7-9-10-12- -3--------- ----- ------ -----8--10- when i need a little bop bop bop oh ohhh, oh woah oh woah and i have to take a walk walk walk oh ohhh, oh woah oh woah so i can get a little pop pop pop oh ohhh, oh woah oh woah and i feel the shivers stop stop stop oh ohhh, oh woah oh woah i'm needless, no need for feelings, not that i feel them, i'm all alone alone when i always watch the clock clock clock oh ohhh, oh woah oh woah can't get passed my mental block block block oh ohhh, oh woah oh woah and i wanna throw a rock rock rock oh ohhh, oh woah oh woah you grab my hand and have me stop stop stop oh ohhh, oh woah oh woah i'm needless, but i've got feelings, though i don't feel them, i'm all alone alone you're my dreamer soul retriever my believer you helped me get back to the top top top oh ohhh (off the floor), oh woah oh woah (on that ladder) and got me away from the hop hop hop oh ohhh (say no more), oh woah oh woah (say no more) feels so good to not be hot hot hot oh ohhh (no more bleeding), oh woah oh woah (no more tears) you gave my life another shot shot shot oh ohhh (because you love me), oh woah oh woah (is why i love you) i'm needless, but i've got feelings, and i can feel them, i'm not alone alone you're my dreamer (because you love me) soul retriever (is why i love you) my believer
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CAPO 3 ----- ----- -1---3----- -1-1- ----- -3-1-5----- -2--- ---1- -2-2-5-5>4- -3-2- -2-2- ---2---4-4- ---3- -2-3- -------5-5- ----- ----- ----------- i'll count to 3 while you hold your breath and let it sit there on the top of your tongue i found your letter but it must be for someone else and it's too late, you're falling short it's an odd number and i'm the one left out sometimes people can't read between the lines i guess i'll go if that's what you want i've lost trust but i should be used to it by now completely irrational and so hard to swallow if you go looking then i promise i'll be there it's an odd number and i'm the one left out sometimes people can't read between the lines knocks on the windows locks on the gate keeping my eyes shut stilling my hand feelings regressing time has stopped
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--------- ------------ ------- --------- ------------ ------- --------- ------------ ------- -9-7-5-4- -10-9-12-10- -2----- -7-7-7-5- -7--7-9--9-- -2-2-2- --------- ------------ ---2-3- ---------------------- ------------------------- ---------------------- ------------------------- ---------------------- ------------------------- ---------------------- -9>10>9------------12---- -10-9-5-9-7-3-2-5-4-3- --------12-10-9-10----12- ---------------------- ------------------------- do you recall the teacher the one who called you a creature he's gone and passed away but the memory runs so much deeper but alas, what's done is done through the glass, you and i are one the hallmark pain that won't wash away but you were the one with the gun you carried all this hatred and you were told you were demented your peers barbs haven't gone away so the fate of everyone has been cemented but alas, what's done is done through the glass, you and i are one the hallmark pain that won't wash away but you were the one with the gun live as one (live as one) in the stratosphere (so far away) i'm calling out in desperation a simpleton (simpleton) a catastrophe (so wretched) i'm calling out in desperation you're taking credit for the things that you suspect you are to blame for and i hate to be the one to break it but the shock was too much for him to take you're not a murderer and you made a mistake when you step too far you've sealed your fate but alas, what's done is done through the glass, you and i are one the hallmark pain that won't wash away but you were the one with the gun so do you recall the teacher the one who always tried to reach you he's gone and passed away and you've turned into the creature
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Familiarity 03:45
capo 4 ---------- --------- ---5----- ---7----- ---------- -5---5-7- -5-7-5--- -7-9----- ---------- -----6--- -6-6-6--- -9-9-8--- ----9----- -6-6-7--- -6---7-6- -9---9-7- -11-9-8-7- -7-6---6- -------6- -----9-9- ------9-9- -------7- --------- -------9- ----------------------- -----7---------7------- -9-8---9-8-6-9---6-6-5- -9-9-9-------8-8---7-7- ----------------------- ----------------------- why can't you just shut up you're giving me a headache you act so calm and asinine you're always first to argue without the grounds to back it without your knees you can't walk far but for some reason i still hold your hand, i still hold your hand and unexplainably i kiss you goodnight, i kiss you goodnight i will always love you til something better comes and i will never leave you unless you drive me to why must you talk so loud and chew my ear off when it's my question you find silence but when you're crying, i still hold you tight, i still hold you tight and unexplainably i still smell your hair, i still smell your hair i will always love you til something better comes and i will never leave you unless you drive me to
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CAPO: 4 DROP D BOTH E ---9---9- ------------------- -x-x-x--- ----------- ------- --------->---9- -8-8-8-8- ---7-5-5---7-7-7--- -x-x-x--- -11-11-9-9- ------- --------->---7- -9-9-9-9- -----6------------- -x-x-x--- -10-9--8--- -11---- --------->----- -----7-7- -7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--- --------- -11-11-9-9- -9--9-- -9------->----- -7-7----- -6-6-----6-6-----7- -----7-6- ----------- -11-11- -9-9-7-7->-6-6- --------- -------------7-6--- -7-6----- ----------- ----9-- -9-8-7-6->-6-6- our hands so tight you crying and reaching for air your legs spread wide the same way that had put us there our bodies intertwine is that what you call love to feel alive sometimes it isn't enough where is my isaac, i had laid before me reached out in the dark, blocking the sun calloused and manic, unplanned catastrophe her life's the epitome of imperfection we spend this time looking so hard to find a shred of hope but we should focus on looking for help where is my isaac, i had laid before me reached out in the dark, blocking the sun calloused and manic, unplanned catastrophe her life's the epitome of imperfection bless your filthy wicked heart i'm an eel fit for a whore
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Made My Bed 03:52
-10-8-5- -5-8-5-3- -3-5-3-4-5-8-5-4- -11-8-6- -6-8-6-3- -3-3-3-4-5-5-5-4- -12-9-7- -7-9-7-3- -3-3-3-4-5-5-5-4- -------- --------- ----------------- -------- --------- ----------------- -------- --------- ----------------- when things go badly do you blame yourself when mischief haunts you do you engage yourself i made my bed now i lie in it when you're possessive do you shame yourself when you're aggressive do you contain yourself hold my hand and i'll hold yours back i made my bed now i lie in it when you reach self loathing and it all seems lost remember someone loves you and go back to bed hold my hand and i'll hold yours back
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Illumination 04:05
drop d low e ---------5-3-15--- ---------(-)-(-)- -------------------- -------3-5-3-15--- ---------(-)-(3)- -------------------- -0-2-3------------ -5-7-5-4-(-)-(4)- -9--7-9-7-4-5-7-5-2- ----------------5- -7-7-7-5-(5)-(5)- -10-9-9-9-5-7-7-7-3- ----------------5- ---------(5)-(-)- -------------------- ----------------5- ---------(5)-(-)- -------------------- --- ------- --------- ------------- --- ------- --------- ------------- --- ------- --------- ------------- -5- -5-6-3- -10-11-8- -5>7-4>5-2>4- -5- -5-6-3- -10-11-8- -7-7-5-5-3-3- -5- -5-6-3- -10-11-8- ------------- the will, of the harbinger to pass along all of the blame blame your teachers, blame the news blame your parents, give them more pills we can disappear, if we shave all of our hair off and knock out all our teeth and shave our fingers off warp with me, 'cause you've got nowhere else to go warp with me, 'cause there's nothing above or below when you've got nothing to say say it loud because truth is a muted point how can your bury your head in the sand if the hourglass always turns the only infinite resource is human ignorance and humanity's need to be blind how do you explain color to a blind man how do you explain color to a dog what will you do, when your government runs our intelligence dry and murders all the intellects what will you do when truth is a lie believe in your police state or feed off all of your hate hand away all of your secrets or feed on the cement commit yourself to the militia or commit yourself a crime or commit yourself to the institution for coloring, outside, the lines do you feel the spot light or can you feel enlightened 'cause your spot lights a police light so are you also frightened waste your time with reruns waste your time with shows some of us will be outside watching the towers implode warp with me, 'cause you've got nowhere else to go warp with me, 'cause there's nothing above or below
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-5-5-7-5-----2-1-5-3----- -7-7-5---5-7-3-3-3---3-5- -6-5-5-------4---3------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- when the sun wakes up and the light of day comes in you'll keep me coming back to you back to you you'll be my eyes, we'll make it through until that time, it's me and you love, love your heartbeat fits me like a glove fingers poke and pull the sand until the day you understand i'll make it once, and we begin our love, love the heat fills covers from above there's only skin, there's only lust there's only we, there's only trust there's only time, there's only us love, love before the night there's only us love, love we'll break the day and fall in love and as the sun slowly descends we separate and make amends you're rapid breathing, i'm condemned to sink and fall, to melt away until tomorrow, save today say i love you, fade away oh, oh, fade away say i love you, fade away oh, fade away until tomorrow, save today say i love you, fade away

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"An upbeat, unsettling reality check from this Tampa based indie ensemble" ... "From the fun to the sad, from the heroic to the tragic, 'A Silver Tongue For A Steel Heart' is the best thing Mortimer Nova has ever put out."

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released January 1, 2015

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Mortimer Nova is an experimental indie / anti-folk / indietronic group fronted by Michael Vilches based out of the Tampa Bay area in Florida. Mortimer Nova was ranked #14 on Non-Hollywood's "25 Indie Music Artists Worth Paying For" poll in 2014.

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