Released on April 10, 2007

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[Verse 1]

This monument to the matron

Quick change of mood when you came in

A nervous introduction

Then we can for invincible alliance

Your growing fond of deception

All the things you forget to mention

And every indiscretion pushes me further away


[Chorus]

Desperate, do you ever grow tired of begging?

I know, I know, I'd rather live with nothing

Negative maybe but I've been working on it

Progress just moves so slowly


[Post-Chorus]

We are growing more and more distant

We are growing more and more distant


[Verse 2]

Miss model mess hit the pavement

Young debutante formed a habit

Measures that may seem drastic

Whatever makes you feel accepted

But I'm going south for the season

With nothing but a paper back companion

And mine is the only opinion

With which I'll have to agree


[Chorus]

Desperate, do you ever grow tired of begging?

I know, I know, I'd rather live with nothing

Negative, maybe but I've been working on it

Progress just moves so slowly


[Bridge]

Each and every under pass that bears the declaration

Of a dated love affair and the number of Satan

I was educated there by the commuter station

The burdens you're bearing with threaten to break

The back of the widow that weeps when she wakes


[Pre-Chorus]

We are growing more and more distant

We are growing more


[Chorus]

Desperate, do you ever grow tired of begging?

I know, I know, I'd rather live with nothing

Negative, maybe but I've been working on it

Progress just moves so slowly

“Desperate, do you ever grow tired of begging? I know, I know, I’d rather live with nothing Negative, maybe but I’ve been working on it Progress just moves so slowly”
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Mark expresses how he’d rather be independent than to have to rely on others, even if this independence is hard. It’s a negative way of thinking but he’s working on his actions and hopefully they will produce positive results, be it slowly.

“Miss model mess hit the pavement Young debutante formed a habit Measures that may seem drastic Whatever makes you feel accepted”
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Some people, even raised in posh and high class, will do anything to be accepted. Even if detrimental to their wellbeing.

“This monument to the matron Quick change of mood when you came in A nervous introduction Then we can for invincible alliance”
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Autumn to Ashes is a band from Long Island New York so it’s safe to assume this reference is a woman as stunning as Lady Liberty. Lady Liberty was given to America by the French in good gesture. The French supported the American Revolution and this could be a reference to a first nervous but then ‘invincible alliance’.

“Desperate, do you ever grow tired of begging? I know, I know, I’d rather live with nothing Negative maybe but I’ve been working on it Progress just moves so slowly”
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Mark expresses how he’d rather be independent than to have to rely on others, even if this independence is hard. It’s a negative way of thinking but he’s working on his actions and hopefully they will produce positive results, be it slowly.

“Desperate, do you ever grow tired of begging? I know, I know, I’d rather live with nothing Negative, maybe but I’ve been working on it Progress just moves so slowly”
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×

Mark expresses how he’d rather be independent than to have to rely on others, even if this independence is hard. It’s a negative way of thinking but he’s working on his actions and hopefully they will produce positive results, be it slowly.