“So tell me: how long do you think you can go before you lose it all?
Before they call you bluff and watch you fall?
I don't know, but I'd like to think I had control
At some point, but I let it go and lost my soul”

"A Moment of Silence," from "Everything Goes Numb" (2003)

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