Coping Mechanism-Shovels & Rope

[ti:Coping Mechanism] [ar:Shovels & Rope] [al:Swimmin' Time] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Coping Mechanism - Shovels & Rope [00:03.98]I've got to find a better coping mechanism [00:08.39] [00:09.81]I'm falling apart disintegrating in the schism [00:14.33] [00:15.90]Is it a show or is it realism [00:20.58] [00:22.00]Lost and found and then I was locked up in a prison [00:27.91]I better find a more suitable solution [00:32.30] [00:33.96]Before I reach the most predictable conclusion [00:38.31] [00:39.86]To be the victim of my personal delusion [00:44.52] [00:45.96]Just to find that I've been living an illusion [00:52.19]They say there's just no substitute for the real thing [00:59.50] [01:00.95]The kind of chemical that can make your whole body sing [01:07.04] [01:07.84]You can take the needle and shove it in your vein [01:13.63]And call it medication to alleviate you pain [01:18.87]I do my best to keep the confusion to a minimum [01:23.30] [01:24.84]I'll try not to be the monster of the millennium [01:29.26] [01:30.80]Someday they'll thank us for the hell that we was giving 'em [01:35.55] [01:36.82]When all of this time we just hope we were borderline offending 'em [01:43.14]They say there's just no substitute for the real thing [01:50.61] [01:51.91]The kind of chemical that can make your whole body sing [01:58.03] [01:59.00]Scrub it till you're bleedin but you can't scrub out the stain [02:04.21] [02:04.90]Leave your mouth wide open while you're drowning in the rain [02:11.40] [02:13.48]Put your head down wipe the spit out your eye [02:18.84]Ain't nobody coming to your poor me parade [02:23.73] [02:24.85]When trouble comes to your door what you ignoring it for [02:30.25]You'll be standing there helpless when it comes on in [02:36.97]They say there's just no substitute for the real thing [02:43.67] [02:45.13]The kind of chemical that'll make your whole body sing [02:51.60] [02:52.29]You can test your merit you can show it some restraint [02:57.26]But in the end you're just a predictable refrain [03:03.45]Oh ain't nothing like the real thing [03:07.67] [03:09.14]The kind of chemical that'll make your whole body sing [03:15.65] [03:16.27]You can test your merit you can show it some restraint [03:21.29]But in the end you're just a predictable refrain [03:28.05]While you're poison in your brain cause you're heart has been mislain [03:31.22]But you're gonna die just the same for a dream you could not attain [03:34.62]Cause you drove yourself insane and there's nobody left to blame [03:37.01]So you just carry on an complain [03:39.66]Till you forget your name