 Genius Lyrics
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Vayden – Anthem Of The Used
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Some one with the best intent / Went and killed the president / Because he had the influence / To massacre 10,000 men / Wake me up from this great dream I can't believe my eyes
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The Used – Cathedral Bell
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I hear sounds that my mouth didn't make / I hear words that you don't ever say / There's a door, there's a door to the cage / I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid yet / I see patterns of
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The Used – Let It Bleed
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[Refrain] / This poison's my intoxication / I broke the needle off in my skin / Picked the scabs and picked the bleeding / And assumed that it was all in vain / [Verse 1] / A
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The Used – My Pesticide
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[Verse] / Stuck sitting in your own mess sinking / Call up arms to search for a better word / A mess you made, a smell you chose / To break in front of you / "Better off on your
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The Used – Heartwork
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[Intro] / Oh-oh, oh-oh / Oh-oh, oh-oh / Oh— / [Verse] / Fists clenched in prepared kindness / Jaws grind in syncopation with primordial electric twitch pulses of kindness / Moment-
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The Used – Earthquake
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[Verse 1] / She had an earthquake on her mind / I almost heard her cry out as I left her far behind / I knew the world was crashing down 'round her / I sink now to the ocean floor
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The Used – Watered Down
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In my eyes, close and jaded / It's no surprise the lights have faded / I'll always walk away / You'll always hear me say I don't need this / I've been given such a gift / Shame to
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The Used – Revolution
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This is the 1st track and probably most popular song out of The Used’s album Imaginary enemy. This song received moderate critical acclaim by hard rock critics and fans of the band
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The Used – Sound Effects and Overdramatics
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Singer Bert McCracken said at the February 12, 2020 The Used show at Theater of Living Arts in Philly: “This song is about sexual intercourse.”
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The Used – Take It Away
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[Intro] / Life’s greatest questions have always been / Who am I? Where did I come from? / Why am I here? Where am I going? / You are about to see, and hear / One of the most
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The Used – Sold My Soul
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This is track 5 from Artwork, the fourth studio album by The Used. The song is a fan favorite from the album yet is sparingly performed live.
Lyrics partially taken from the album
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The Used – Bulimic
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The song can be interpreted in two ways: Bert might be addressing a girl who he used to date but then realised it was just a waste of time, or he might be referencing once again
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The Used – Overdose
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[Verse 1] / Does it start all at once / Or come as slow as can be? / It's not about you and me / And never mind what it costs / At least it's not make believe / We can get it for
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The Used – Dark Days
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[Verse] / I see the way that the sun spits in your face / Our love is too big for us to break / You've got me wishing for the stars in outer space / I'm holding onto this for life
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The Used – 1984 (Infinite Jest)
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[Verse 1] / No one is safe / Closer than I wanna be, imaginary enemy / Screen in my face / Never was a part of me, this part of my lobotomy / [Pre-Chorus] / But wait, while
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The Used – Quixotica
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[Verse 1] / Tic tac toe in the pavement, it's your birthday / The baby smoked, didn't need it, cut to pieces / A second chance you bought and hoped to try to feed it / Because I
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The Used – Quixotica
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[Verse 1] / Tic tac toe in the pavement, it's your birthday / The baby smoked, didn't need it, cut to pieces / A second chance you bought and hoped to try to feed it / Because I
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The Used – I Caught Fire
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[Verse 1] / Seemed to stop my breath / My head on your chest waiting to cave in / From the bottom of my... / Hear your voice again / Could we dim the sun and wonder where we've
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The Used – Buried Myself Alive
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You almost always pick the best times to drop the worst lines / You almost made me cry again this time / Another false alarm, red flashing lights / Well, this time I'm not going
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The Used (Ft. Jason Aalon Butler) – Blow Me
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“Blow Me” is the lead single of The Used’s eighth album Heartwork. It features letlive and FEVER 333 vocalist Jason Butler. It was written about gun violence.
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The Used – Iddy Biddy
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[Verse 1] / I'll take one for the money, 'cause I've already paid / I'll take two for the lava, under shifting of plates / I'll take three for South America, get snorted in
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The Used – Find a Way
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[Verse 1] / Lay your head down just for now / Space fills your mind and you dream a while / The sun floods your room as you drown (Drown, drown, drown) / Your lungs full of
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The Used – See You in Hell
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I found myself in the ashes of the light of the moon / Start a new religion just to take confession from you / It's too late, it's too late, too late / Now I'm the only one
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The Used – Maybe Memories
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The song is about Bert’s drug addiction and how he managed to recover after realising how badly it had affected him.
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The Used – Top Of The World
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[Verse 1] / Without you I’m nothing / There’s a black hole on my heart / I’m hardly worth loving / Look at all my broken parts / The angels would laugh at the sight of my face
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The Used – Hard to Say
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This song is about Kate, Bert’s pregnant fiance, who had overdosed and died during the making of the album. They had room for one more song on the album when she passed and Hard to
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The Used – The Ripper
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[Verse 1] / Time kills, go ask Jesus / I'm done / Makes no difference / Stare straight / Stare at the sun / I'm done / Makes no difference / [Chorus] / Time takes us all / So why
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The Used (Ft. William Control) – Now That You're Dead
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"I began to smoke, up and away from my body / My brain's holding the grip of a giant vice / It was all very good / Floating higher and higher, a wonderful feeling..." / DIE! DIE
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The Used – A Box Full of Sharp Objects
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This song was the first single from the band’s self-titled debut album.
The song was also included on MTV’s Real World/Road Rules Challenge compilation soundtrack CD.
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The Used – Into My Web
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Whoaaa oh, oh / Whoaaa oh, whoa / Whoaaa, whoa, whoa-oh, oh / [Verse] / I stopped to call you, my little girl / I meant more, so much more / Then I'd like to push it half to death
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The Used – Giving Up
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[Verse 1] / Yesterday I woke up wanting to die / Haven’t seen the sunlight in some time / Seems like all the plants around me grow to the sky / All my roots are torn up, all my
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The Used – Tunnel
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[Verse] / I set out alone / Crawl through the tunnel / My eyes can hardly see the other side / No longer cold / Or feeling in trouble / I realize that I am just alive / So let it
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The Used – Shine
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How long was I sleeping? did you wake me? didn't feel like all that long / Do I see the morning? no it can't be happened to me / I've been stuck in the quicksand, more the pavement
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The Used – Paralyzed
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The song is about this back-and-forth process we all go through in a relationship. The closer you step into something, the more the other person tends to try and step out. And
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The Used – Alone This Holiday
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Maybe light a candle / Don't say a prayer for me / Feel alone 'cause I'm gone / I left you, make Christmas your own / Yes, throw the thought of us away / You'll be alone this
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The Used (Ft. Mark Hoppus) – The Lighthouse
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[Verse 1: Bert McCracken] / I give myself to the shipwreck / I give myself to the no way home / You tore myself into pieces (Pieces) / And nobody noticed at all / [Verse 2: Bert
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The Used – Cherry
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[Verse 1] / I feel like burning it to the ground / I build it up to break it / I don’t know why you keep me around / Are you just afraid of changing? / Going to make a scene until
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The Used – Hospital
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[Verse 1] / This feeling never leaves you alone / You pull the trigger on your own / You're hiding in your safe place / Hiding with your eyes shut tightly / All the way to the
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The Used – Love Hearts
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Don't have time to go back to sleep / I feel it every second's so bittersweet / I'm leaving / You say you miss me but I'm only kissing you / In my dreams, in my dreams / Lately I'
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The Used – The Bird and the Worm
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This song is about the lead singer, Bert McCracken’s brother who suffers from schizophrenia.
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The Used – Imaginary Enemy
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This is the 8th track and main song in The Used’s album imaginary enemy. This song
describes his relationship that had eventually corrupted due to possibly his paranoia.
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