Playlist Serj Tankian

serj tankian - sky is over

Everybody knows
Everybody knows
That you cradle the sun, sun
Living in remorse,
Sky is over,

Don't you want to hold me baby
Disappointed, going crazy

Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over

Behind closed eyes lie
The minds ready to awaken you
Are you at war with land
And all of its creatures
Your not-so-gentle persuasion
Has been known to wreck economies
Of countries, of empires, the sky is over

Don't you want to hold me baby
Disappointed, going crazy,

Not even from the sun
Not even from the sun
Not even from the sun
Don't you want me to run

Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we cant afford
The sky is over
The sky is over us.

serj tankian - empty walls

Your empty walls, your empty walls
Pretentious attention
Dismissive apprehension
Don't waste your time on coffins today
When we decline from the confines of our mind
Dont waste your time on coffins today

Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Dont you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication

I want you to be left behind those empty walls,
Don't you to see from behind those empty walls

Those empty walls

When we decline from the confines of our mind
Dont waste your time on coffins today

Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Dont you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication

I want you to be left behind those empty walls
Don't you to see from behind those empty walls
Want you to be left behind those empty walls
Don't you to see from behind those empty walls

From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
The walls
From behind those empty walls

I loved you yesterday
(From behind those empty walls)
Before you killed my family
(From behind those empty walls
The walls)

Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Don't you see their bodies burning? (I want)
Desolate and full of yearning (you to)
Dying of anticipation (be)
Choking from intoxication (left behind those empty walls)

I want you to be left behind those empty walls
Don't you to see from behind those empty walls

Want you to be left behind those empty walls
Don't you to see from behind those empty walls

From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
Those walls, those walls!

serj tankian - baby

You came to me within a dream
Not everyone is who they seem
All these words we cant redeem
Like the great magic of our world
Corroborated by your words
Splitting planets into thirds

Baby oh baby
Baby my baby
Baby ooh babe
I miss you, lalala,
Baby oh baby
Baby my babe
Baby ooh babe
I miss you

To all the leaves that fall in vain
While god and goddess go insane
All these words in your domain
The watches kill tim as the books read
Inadvertently we bleed
Fighting for what we deceive

Baby oh baby
Baby my baby
Baby ooh babe
I miss you, lalala,
Baby oh baby
Baby my babe
Baby ooh babe
I miss you

Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Now why cant you see that you always
perturb me so
Nearing the end of the world, just leave me
alone,
Leave me alone
Why cant you see that you always pertub me
so
Nearing the end of the world, leave me alone,
Leave me alone.

baby oh baby
Baby my baby
Baby ooh babe
I miss you, lalala,
Baby oh baby
Baby my babe
Baby ooh babe
I miss you

serj tankian - harakiri

We're the day birds
Deciding to fly against the sky
Within our dreams, we all wake up
To kiss the ones who are born to die

We're the greying herds
Hurting each the other with our lives
Within our dreams, we all wake up
To kiss the ones who are born
Born to die, born to die

The drum fish
They beached themselves in hara-kiri
The blackbirds
They fell in thousands form the sky
Their red wings
Streaming down from the higher seas
Deflected by the ground

They crowned the sun
They crowned the sun
But I believe that they are free
When their time was done
They were drownes by the only One
But I believe that they are free
Washed by the sun

Our statues
The soaring edifice of our times
Detracted form the ways of the wise
The future will view all history as crime
So father, tell us when is the time to rise

They crowned the sun
They crowned the sun
But I believe that they are free
When their time was done
Their were drowned by the only one

But I believe that they are free
They crowned the sun
They crowned the sun
But I believe that they are free
And we believe that they are free
Cus' I believe that they are me
Washed by the sun

serj tankian - lie lie lie

Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie

My baby, my baby,
let me know
because you love me, you love me
Let me go
And you're my lover, you pay me
Twice my size
And on your knees you lay
In my thighs

Take my hand and lets end it all
She broke her little bones
On the boulders below
Take my hand and lets end it all

My baby, my baby
Let me go
And if you love me, you love me
Let me go
Cause Im your brother, your brother
Have some pride
And now you love me, you love me
Then die tonight

Take my hand and lets end it all,
She broke her little bones
On the boulders below
Take my hand and lets end it all
Broke her little bones
On the boulders below
And while she fell I delightfully said

Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie

She took my hand and I let her go
She broke her little bones
On the boulders below
Took my hand and she ended it all
Broke her little bones on the boulders below
And while she fell, I smiled.

Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie

serj tankian - occupied tears

I forgot to bring you roses
When you hit the floor, you knew wall poses
Asking for war, have you forgot the wall
I've foreseen it all, we've foreseen it all

Holocaust, you've taste the great fear
How can you just occupie another childs tear?

Don't you all know, don't you all care?
Don't you all see how this isn't fair?
Are we all blind? Do we not see? Do we not bleed?

Fake crise of lost lands, minds surrounded by minds
We're the warning signs of the great sacrifice

Holocaust, you've taste the great fear
How can you just occupie another childs tear?

Don't you all know, don't you all care?
Don't you all see how this isn't fair?
Are we all blind? Do we not see? Do we not bent to misery?

Of course we all know, of course we all care
Of course we all see how this isn't fair
We are not blind, yes we do see
Is time to end this misery

It's time to go up to bed
No more sipping on our regret
Talk to kids and without worry
No more running out in a hurry

No more bombs falling over head
No more sirens predicting dead
Yes, it's good to state solution
No more glaring through oblivion

Asking for war, have you forgot the wall
I've foreseen it all, we've foreseen it all

Holocaust, you've taste the great fear
How can you just occupie another childs tear?

Don't you all know, don't you all care?
Don't you all see how this isn't fair?
Are we all blind? Do we not see? Do we not bent to misery?

Of course we all know, of course we all care
Of course we all see how this isn't fair
We are not blind, yes we do see
Is time to end this misery

It's no mistery
It's no mistery

serj tankian - honking antelope

Why don't you go photograph
Everything that ever passed in time
Indigenous traces, tribal chiefs,
Vanishing hereditary lines,
Poets gone wile on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao,

When you see that honking antelope
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,

Nature based beings will survive
Apocalyptic days of now
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao

When you see that honking antelope
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,

Of it all,
Run away with me now
Run away with me now,
My life,

We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong
Nature will survive us human dogs after all,

Why don't you go photograph
Everything that ever passed in time,
Poets gone wile on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao,

When you see that honking antelope
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,
When you see that honking antelope
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,

Of it all,
Run away with me now,
Run away with me now
My love,

We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong
Nature will survive us human dogs after all,
We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong,
Wouldnt it be great to heal the world with only a song?

serj tankian - deserving

I don't deserve you, why can't you see
I will desert you, why don't you leave
But you put your faith in me one last time
You, you put your faith in love all the time
I don't deserve you, why can't you see
I will desert you, why don't you leave
But you put your faith in me one last time
You, you put your faith in love all the time

I believe that you, you and me, you and me
We, we've achieved a love that we, we can see

I don't deserve you, why can't you see
I will desert you, why don't you leave
But you put your faith in me one last time
You, you put your faith in love all the time

I believe that you, you and me, you and me
We, we've achieved a love that we, we can see
For, I believe that you, you and me, you and me
We, we've achieved a love that we, we can see

So go find your path, take me with you
I will make sure no one hurts you
I need your ways, we deserve it
We'll depend on our love here we
Go find your path, take me with you
I will make sure no one hurts you
I need your ways, we deserve it
We'll depend on our love here we go
Here we go
You know, you know

For, I believe that you and me
We've achieved a love we can see
My love

serj tankian - holiday in cambodia

So you've been to school for a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car thinkin' you'll go far
Back east you type don't crawl
Play ethnicky jazz to parade your snazz
On you five grand stereo

Braggin' that you know how the niggers feel the cold
And the slum's got so much soul
It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear
Brace yourself, my dear

It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough kid, but it's life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't foget to pack a wife

You're a star-belly sneech you suck like a leech
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch so you can get rich
But your boss gets richer off you
Well you'll work harder with a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers 'til you starve

Then you head is skewered on a stake
Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son...
What you need, my son...

Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack

Cold, hot,
Cold, hot,
Cold, hot,
Cold, hot...

And it's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia
Where the slum's got so much soul

serj tankian - saving us

Why do we sit around and break each other's hearts tonight?
Why do we dance around the issues 'till the morning light?
When we sit and talk and tear each other's lives apart.
You were the one to tell me go...

But you were the one for me,
And now you're going through the door,
When you take that step I love you baby more and more,
We need to laugh and sing and cry and warm each other's hearts tonight,
Having fun of everything and loving all our mother's...

Tearing us,
You're tearing us,
You're breaking us,
You're breaking us,
You're carrying us,
Carrying us,
You're saving us,
You're saving us...

You're tearing us,
You're tearing us,
You're breaking us,
Breaking us,
You're killing us,
Killing us,
You're saving us...

Why do we sit around and break each other's hearts tonight?
Why do we dance around the issues 'till the morning light?
When we sit and talk and tear each other's lives apart.
You were the one to tell me go...

But you were the one for me,
And now you're going through the door,
When you take that step I love you baby more and more,
We need to laugh and sing and cry and warm each other's hearts tonight,
Having fun of everything and loving all our mother's...

You're tearing us,
You're tearing us,
You're breaking us,
You're breaking us,
You're killing us,
Killing us,
You're saving us,
You're saving us...

You're tearing us,
You're tearing us,
You're breaking us,
You're breaking us,
You're killing us,
Killing us,
You're saving us...

Ohhhhh...

Ohhhhh...

Forever alive,
Forever alive,
Forever,
Forever...

Forever alive,
Forever alive,
Forever,
And never and never again...

You're tearing us,
You're tearing us,
You're breaking us,
You're breaking us,
You're killing us,
Killing us,
You're saving us,
You're saving us...

You're tearing us,
You're tearing us,
You're breaking us,
You're breaking us,
You're killing us,
Killing us,
You're saving us,
You're saving us...

You're tearing us,
You're tearing us,
(Forever alive)
You're breaking us,
You're breaking us,
(Forever alive)
You're killing us,
Killing us,
(Forever)
You're saving us,
You're saving us...
(And never...)

You're tearing us,
You're tearing us,
(Forever alive)
You're breaking us,
You're breaking us,
(Forever alive)
You're killing us,
Killing us,
(Forever)
You're saving us,
(And never...)

serj tankian - weave on

Weave on sisters of the night
On your loom of pain,
Try and stitch the darkness through the light
Weave on property and crime, the wars and waste
Give our souls a break from the hunger,
For the profits and the saints

Stitch it on, the weapon's drawn
And the children's playing and their fathers fell
In unmarked graves with your fingers pale and numb
Just pray

Oh, you sisters weave on
Let the blood run through your thread
Oh, you sisters weave on
Weave your stitching purple, blue and red
Oh, you sisters weave on
Let the blood run through your thread
Just you still weave on

Feed on sorry sons of state
Preaching salvation, while we fall with such amazing grace
Feed on love of money, love of race
Disrespect of country,
And of neighbor's neighbored in our hate

Stitch it on, the brothers gone,
And the lives they gave to the foreign graves
With your fingers pale and numb
Just pray, just pray

Oh, you sisters weave on
Let the blood run through your thread
Oh, you sisters weave on
Weave your stitching purple, blue and red
Oh, you sisters weave on
Let the blood run through your thread
Oh, you sisters weave on
Weave your stitching purple, blue and red
Oh, you sisters weave on
Let the blood run through your thread
Oh, you sisters weave on
Weave your stitching purple, blue and red
Just you sisters weave on,
Let the blood run through your thread
Oh you sisters just weave on, on, on!

These are the plans, the words will leave a mind arranged [?]
You there share this pain,
Withdrawn from this place ends speedily
Lest the harsh, smite your mind, I'll sow with madness
How dare you adjust the cowardice
I am ready to endure with him whatever must be
I am ready to endure with him whatever must be

Oh, you sisters weave on
Let the blood run through your thread
Oh, you sisters weave on
Weave your stitching purple, blue and red
Oh, you sisters weave on
Let the blood run through your thread
Oh, you sisters weave on
Weave your stitching purple, blue and red
Just you sisters weave on,
Let the blood run through your thread
Oh you sisters just weave on, on, on!

serj tankian - ching chime

Why make time
When no one pays a dime
To renumerate a rhyme
Over the ching chime
Ch-ch cha-ching chime
Ch ch cha-ching chime

Creating a crime
To start with meladine
Looking at a mind
The rhymes are all mine
But no one pays no mind
Over the ching chime
Ch-ch cha-ching chime
Ch-ch cha-ching chime

In the day time
Face coverd by the grime
Sucking on a lime
With no one pays no mind
Slaping on a rhyme
Over the ching chime
Over the ching chime
Ch-ch ch-ching chime

Superbowl, half time, anytime is war time,
Second season is past time, ganahrea, overtime
Fuck that it's bed time no more freind of mine
Will burn the ching chime
Ch-ch cha-ching chime

I'll fuck your mind
Over the spring time
Degrading in your rhyme
A though so asinine
But no one pays no mind
And no one pays a dime
Over the ching chime
Ch-ch cha-ching chime

Open your eyes don't be this way
While all your dreams are swept away
The stairs will rise from yesterday
Your tears and fears, they will melt away

Superbowl, half time, anytime is war time,
Second season is past time, ganahrea, overtime
Fuck that it's bed time no more freind of mine
Will burn the ching chime
Ch-ch cha-ching chime
I'll fuck your mind
Over the spring time
Degrading in your rhyme
A though so asinine
But no one pays no mind
And no one pays a dime
Over the ching chime
Ch-ch cha-ching chime

Open your eyes don't be this way
While all your dreams are swept away
The stairs will rise from yesterday
Your tears and fears, they will melt away

The water's will rush but don't dismay
Our smiles will cross the wild will stay
The wretches cross themself today
Now close your eyes and sway the sway, sway the sway

(Leyliaaa)

Open your eyes don't be this way
While all your dreams are swept away
The stairs will rise from yesterday
Your tears and fears, they will melt away

The water's will rush but don't dismay
Our smiles will cross the wild will stay
The wretches cross themself today
Now close your eyes and sway the sway, sway the sway

To renumerate a rhyme
Over the ching chime
Ch-ch cha-ching chime
Ch ch cha-ching chime

Creating a crime
To start with meladine
Looking at a mind
The rhymes are all mine
But no one pays no mind
Over the ching chime
Ch-ch cha-ching chime
Ch-ch cha-ching chime

In the day time
Face coverd by the grime
Sucking on a lime
With no one pays no mind
Slaping on a rhyme
Over the ching chime
Over the ching chime
Ch-ch ch-ching chime

Superbowl, half time, anytime is war time

serj tankian - nothing

Now that I have nothing,
I resolve to be nothing,
For nothing to harm me,
And nothing to gain,

I resolve again, to be nothing,
For nothing but disappointments,
And nothing but apathy,

I resolve again, to be nothing,
And again and again I resolve to be nothing,
And finally,

I am absolved,
And them, I am nothing,
Dissolved.

serj tankian - we are one

Sending a beating to go
Send the battle the leader is ready to roll
Send the beating to home
Send the battle the leaders are ready for war

Do you know?
That we are one!

Sending a beating to go
Send the battle the leader is ready to roll
Send the beating to home
Send the battle the leaders are ready for war

Do you know?
That we are one!

Sending a beating to go
Send the battle the leader is ready to roll
Send the beating to home
Send the battle the leaders are ready for war

Do you know?
That we are one!
We are one...
We are one...

Ooh

Way to go, is all this happening to me?!

Castrate
Castrate all!
This campaign
As hoping as you can never want anything
As much as nobody thought you could!

Sending a beating to go

I don?t want poison and everyone?s going crazy
I need to find a way out of this place god damn hell help me
No poison
No please
Ow!

Do I know who I am
When I know who are you
Demons know you try to
Lights all walking all over you!

Sending a beating
The battle is ready to go!
Sending a beating
The battle is ready to roll!
Sending a beating
The battle is ready to roll!
Everybody is really ready to go

serj tankian - the fool

The fool, all around,
Is one who burns his wrist with a fine cigar,
So as to remember the pain on that night.

The fool, all around,
Is one who turns over the reigns of his soul to her,
An aspiring young actress, a great role.

The fool, all around,
Is one who is hit and goes not down, although the whole
World implores hit to do so.

The fool, all around,
Is the jest at the Queen's Ball,
Where the Queen may seek his services,
The fool, all around,

Begs for sympathy, and even love,
While maintaining a regressive outlook in the mirror.
The fool, all around,
Am I for I loved you with all my heart, to no avail.

serj tankian