[ti:Paranoid Like Me ('Tis The Season Of Discontent))] [ar:Cowboy Troy] [al:Black In The Saddle] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Paranoid Like Me ('Tis the Season of Discontent) - Cowboy Troy [00:15.95]Welcome to my reality [00:29.01]My plans for success have gone up in smoke [00:31.51]Mocking like neurotic laughter with psychotic jokes [00:34.96]Hollywood dreams glisten then fade [00:37.07]While Vegas luck sits there and bakes in the shade [00:40.61]Sometimes I feel alone [00:43.08]Even though I know the voice on the phone [00:46.31]Plans of my demise have been discussed [00:49.21]By those unknown and those I trust [00:52.24]Venom drips from the vipers fangs [00:54.38]I can tell by the way they say my name [00:57.90]Promises come with the entangling stipulations [01:00.69]Hidden meanings and manipulations [01:03.64]False friends and enemies true [01:06.33]Predict tryin' to brave the doom [01:09.08]To blister this music some others insight [01:11.38]The flames of resistance within to ignite [01:43.50]I'm scorching the pillows of doubt when I rest [01:46.24]Soothing my ego battered and stressed [01:49.33]Many gasping for air apparent [01:51.58]Some sincere others uncaring [01:54.88]Congrats from Charlatans often display [01:57.52]An aroma rampant with rot and decay [02:00.53]I'm smiling on the outside But crying in my chest [02:03.44]I'm trying to be a man 'cause I want to do my best [02:06.44]I'm forging on defyin' defeat [02:08.36]The words I speak are bringing the heat [02:11.78]Hoping my tongue's not too rated and then [02:14.66]Weary of damaging personal wind [02:16.85]I avoid succumbing to the pity and the fuss [02:19.76]While my brain fights off the rust and the dust [02:22.69]I gotta pick my battles sometimes I can't win 'em [02:25.39]'Cause I'm just a man flesh and venom [03:20.65]You see I had to testify before the FCC [03:22.80]So you could hear me on something besides CD or an MP3 [03:26.57]Some tried to top me but can't stop me [03:28.64]They're hopin' and prayin' that one day my label drops me [03:30.78]But I keep comin back again and again and again [03:33.05]Till you hear duh duh duhda duh duh [03:34.68]You'll start lookin at me like MY name was Rocky [03:37.43]Convicted of dreaming in the court of public opinion [03:39.75]Soon you'll see if you're paranoid like me