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Betrayer

by The On Fires

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    "Betrayer truthfully embodies that old cliché in music reviews: no two songs sound alike. You’ll be riveted to your seat throughout the ride."
    Kendra Atleework (KSPC Radio), USA

    Scroll down for track listing with lyrics.

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    Autographed by Max & Marty, posted with love.

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    Comfortable light-weight 100% cotton ladies' cut designed for women's luscious curves!

    A Large equates to Australian Size 14, US Size 10, UK 12, Japan 13.
    (Max wears a Large; loose but still shapely.)

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    A signed copy of Betrayer OR a Stubby Holder (tell us in the notes when you order)
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    Come on men, get out of your black T's & show some Fire! (Let us know if you want it signed.)
    Ladies, the Small sizes would equate to Aussie Ladies' Medium.

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1.
Coming Home 03:21
Oooooh, boom! Rushing through the traffic & I don't give a damn Breakin' all the laws & I challenge anyone, to try & calm me down People jumping back get outta my way, Staring in my wake because they think I'm crazy, but I gotta get back to you, to you to you to you Home I'm coming home, home I'm comin', fast as I.... fast as I can Thinking of you waiting don't know when I'll arrive Not sure if I'll be there at all to take you in, my loving arms No chance to get a message are you gathering dust, or pacing up and down with a head filled full of stuff That only drags you down, you down you down you down Home home I'm coming home, home I'm comin', fast as I.... fast! Home I'm coming home, home I'm comin', fast as I.... fast as I can Don't you give up on me I've been useless with the promises that I make But I'll be with you til your final breath I'll be with you til your final breath Noooooooo! Don't give up on me baby, I know I've been useless with those promises But if I don't see you now Well, I, I, I, I'll see you later!
2.
Red light across a paste expression Cold steel blood in my veins Way down in the soil below us There a tale at the shovel's end Stay now sleep now God don't give me away I'll be swingin' by the end of a rope Didn't want to mince words with you honey So I guess it ends up like this Cuffed hands shiny back seat leather Uniform cops & radio hiss And you smiling back at me Through the distance in your whitest dress Every sound that I ever I hear Will remind me of you Hangin' with the living Didn't want to lie to you honey Now I long that I'd never been born Temper spread to my hands at the wrong time I'm a dead man walking alone Stay now sleep now God don't give me away I'll be swingin' by the end of a rope With you smiling back at me Through the distance in your whitest dress Every sound that I ever I hear Will remind me of you Hangin' with the living
3.
Slipping away, slipping away & gone Close enough never to interrupt If she wanted to if she wanted to if she could Get back to when nobody spared a thought They could turn out like that From the first night and on when there's nothing known to lose Words are like needles Now you're wasted away Go out & find yourself someone Wasted away Go out Don't like to talk Don't like to talk Got too much to say She wanna know right now, she oughta know Nobody loves, nobody wanna walk beside her all the way Quite like he does long road back from this shit hey Words are like needles Now you're wasted away Go out & find yourself someone Wasted away Go out & find yourself precious injury Cannot erase it There for the taking, nooo You cannot erase it There for the taking, sucking on useless information You cannot erase it There for the taking, nooo Words are like Words are like needles Now you're wasted away Go out & find yourself Someone wasted away Go out & find yourself precious injury Wasted away Yeah Wasted away....
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Melancholy 03:28
Sunday is the hardest day I know exactly what you’re doing I know exactly who you’re with and where you are Try to occupy myself doing all the things you didn’t Speaking tenderly in place of you Melancholy still follows me around Softly now but constantly a shadow Sunday is the hardest day You’re off living out your dreams I stay home still practicing for mine Memory of that tragic wakening Knowing that you didn’t need me Is the only thought that spurs me on Melancholy still follows me around Softly now but constantly a shadow Melancholy still follows me around Softly now but constantly a shadow I hold on for one last dream That you’ll come knocking at my door If not for that one fantasy....there’s nothing Melancholy still follows me around Softly now but constantly a shadow Melancholy still follows me around Softly now but constantly a shadow
6.
Without 06:38
Not a shade of what we had So she’s waiting over there Still I can’t stop this longing for you Can’t tell you what to be Not a shade of what we had So she’s waiting over there Still I can’t stop this longing for you Can’t tell you what to be Without And this time I’m drawn to wonder How my conscience will fare And I worry with good reason Cause I can’t see my way clear And this time I’m drawn to wonder How my conscience will fare And I worry with good reason Cause I can’t see my way clear Without Got myself another heartache Ride myself to an early grave And if I seem a little restless It’s cause I can’t see no escape Got myself another heart-ache Ride myself to an early grave And if I seem a little restless It’s cause I can’t see no escape Without Losing you and walking outa here alone Losing you and walking
7.
Seems like a slippery slope to madness What if I really like myself?
8.
Arms Open 02:55
Snuck behind your enemy line to find your Achilles Heel And she won, she won Playing crazy playing little tramp for you And she won. For now Playing crazy playing sweet for you Playing crazy playing sweet for you Hey Hey Playing at a tigress when you're just cheap pussy Hey Hey Are you ready cos I'm taking you down Arms open legs wide Whoring's never been cheaper suck on this & swallow Blowing your acid brains out is she done Pity girlie waits again & again No shame, no pride, still crying How does it feel to win & lose all over again How does it feel to win & lose all over again How does it feel to win & lose all over again How does it feel to be a loser Playing crazy playing sweet for you Playing crazy playing sweet for you Hey Hey Playing at a tigress when you're just cheap pussy Hey Hey Are you ready cos I'm taking you down Hey Hey Arms open legs wide Whoooooooo-u Whoooooooo-u Filthy little snake in the grass Whoooooooo-u Filthy little snake in the grass Whoooooooo-u Filthy little snake in the grass Whoooooooo-u Filthy little snake in the ..... grass Playing crazy playing sweet for you Playing crazy playing sweet for you Hey Hey Are you ready cos I'm taking you down Hey Hey Arms open legs wide
9.
Sorry Now 03:40
Whenever you’re done here Swinging that wrecking ball And sadness lines your face Over your shoulder Don’t wanna talk about ‘em Left there in your wake Give my regards to whoever wants them Give my regards You would waste it all You would waste it all On someone who wants to listen No one wants to listen Whatever you’ve broken Re-constructs itself To settle in your place Corner to corner Cause nobody wants to share Your self infected rage Give my regards to whoever wants them Give my regards You would waste it all You would waste it all On someone who wants to listen No one wants to listen You would waste it all You would waste it all On someone who wants to listen No one wants to listen Hey, nothing I can use I don’t care about it Hey, nothing I can use I don’t care about it I don’t care about it Hey, nothing I can use I don’t care about it You would waste it all You would waste it all On someone who wants to listen No one wants to listen Hey, nothing I can use I don’t care about it Hey, nothing I can use I don’t care about it Hey. nothing Hey. nothing Hey, yeah yeah yeah Hey, nothing I can use
10.
Nobody Wants 03:22
Shortest fusing lunatic work in ways I can't comprehend Does it feel like a walk in my shoes looking from outside in Does it feel like you lost your mind Like you lost your mind Back to the wall should be easy enough to make it Nobody wants the sound of your voice Everywhere all of the time Nobody wants Bated breath for you & your arrival stagger to the wall All the friends you thought you were making Wanna leave you alone Does it feel like a walk in my shoes looking from outside in Does it feel like you lost your mind Like you lost your mind Back to the wall should be easy enough to make it Nobody wants the sound of your voice Everywhere all of the time Nobody wants Scratching the walls, scratching the walls Should be easy enough to make it Easy enough to make it Easy enough to make it Easy enough to make it Easy enough to make it! Nobody want the sound of your voice Everywhere all of the time Nobody wants Nobody want the sound of your voice Everywhere all of the time Nobody wants
11.
Island 03:02
All hail to the spirit God Say we a match made in hell And if that’s what you think, that’s OK I guess Just not something I’d contemplate All hail to faces and the chatter And the noise that never seems to end And the miles and miles of enquiry And curious hands I never seem to get exactly what the deal is with all that It just goes round and round til I forget What I came here for Nobody wants to be by themselves But I wish I could be left alone So I could sit here and talk with you So we can walk outa here closer than where we came from Now all this interference You’ve got your deeper distance You made yourself and Island So have I All hail to every second we attempt to control The shit that goes on around us I thought you told me we were through So I climbed aboard some train-wreck of a passer-by And gave everybody, even myself, the wrong impression And for a second there managed to delude myself long enough To think that everything was gonna work out just fine But in the early small hours, I hated where I was, who I was with And this total disconnection from anything real Where you belong Where you belong Now all this interference You’ve got your deeper distance You made yourself and Island So have I And they won’t leave us alone To gather the pieces And talk our way home Relax come on Relax come on Relax come on Now all this interference you got Now all this interference Hey all this interference You’ve got your deeper distance You made yourself and Island So have I And they won’t leave us alone To gather the pieces And talk our way home
12.
Hotel Room 03:19
Back against the fence, leg wrapped around me Somebody heard us & now the neighbour knows My car across the street, bitumen too narrow For anyone to miss it now that a stranger was at home And your husband's crazy He's got everybody covered Now he's gonna want me with my head on a plate Shoulda kept it to the hotel room Or the back of my car Jesus I tried to stop you screaming I could see the old lady looking over the wall Simple brief hello, held a conversation Somewhere by the alcohol away from your friends Backyard in suburbia of a mutual acquaintance Humble enough beginnings for a lust that won't quit And your husband's crazy He's got everybody covered Now he's gonna want me with my head on a stake Shoulda kept it to the hotel room Or the back of my car Jesus I tried to stop you screaming See the old lady looking over the wall Better let the phone ring out Cos he's just mad enough to call Turn me into pulp in a couple of seconds I can see him out front waiting for me to show Your husband's crazy, he's got everybody covered But every night your blue-eyed stare looks in on my dream So I cannot discontinue this dangerous fascination Cos nobody fits you so well or knows you like I do Now I keep it to the hotel room Or the back of my car Jesus I tried to stop you screaming I can see the old lady looking over the wall Hotel room Or the back of my car Jesus I tried to stop you screaming See the old lady looking over the wall
13.
Skeleton 03:22
No doubt about it now Must have been insane not to attend to us Every time I run around And always with your eyes on anyone but me Sobering to think too much You can have that mean whatever you want But you strike me with that glazing look Deflect any smile that I can shape Whoa, it’s not a shame to be one of your skeletons Whoa, just so long as you shove me down the back somewhere If I’m gathering dust so be it Well I guess I took the wrong impression Basing every reaction on who I thought you didn’t want Every time I see you girl We’re walking home in opposite directions But tell me do you need to be so cold Tell me do you need to be so cold Whoa, it’s not a shame to be one of your skeletons Whoa, just so long as it’s eating you alive somewhere If I’m gathering dust so be it Whoa, it’s not a shame to be one of your skeletons Whoa, just so long as it’s eating you alive somewhere If I’m gathering dust so be it If I’m gathering dust so be it If I’m gathering dust so be it
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Betrayer 05:09
Dappled light touching her hair She almost looks beautiful Slack features no phony smile To draw you in Oooooh On her hand the ring she wished you gave Elegantly dressed for your latest meeting Never suspecting The victim becomes the aggressor Oh Betrayer Oooooh Mud on her face Shoe lodged in the reeds Eyes that I despise, eyes that realise she’s not the only one To do extremes for love Oh Betrayer Final scene diminishes in the side mirror As I pull out onto the highway Wonder what you’ll suppose When you find both women missing Oh Betrayer Was no friend of mine

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released March 1, 2010

All songs written by Marty Xennoff &/or Max Harman.

Guitars & Vocals - Marty Xennoff
Keys & Vocals - Max Harman
Bass & Backing Vocals - Naomi Brockenshire
Drums & Percussion - Simon Newberry

Produced & Engineered by Rick Parker, Los Angeles
Mastered by John Ruberto, Crystal Mastering, Melbourne

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