Nothing that you say will release you Nothing that you pray will forgive you Nothing is what your words mean to me Something that you did will destroy me Something that you said will stay with me Long after you're dead and gone "As Heaven Is Wide" - Garbage (1995)

An exercise, an excuse, a release, a trilogy. The words are similar, but the means are different as this storyline progresses. The selfish things we do, the desperate acts we allow, out of need.
	By The Time I'm Through The Night Gone Black As Long As You Don't Care

May 2002

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