A hallmark is an official mark or series of marks struck on items made of precious metals — platinum, gold, silver and in some nations, palladium. In a more general sense, the term hallmark can also be used to refer to any distinguishing characteristic or trait.
Historically, hallmarks were applied by a trusted party: the 'guardians of the craft' or nowadays by an assay office. Hallmarks are a guarantee of certain purity or fineness of the metal as determined by formal metal (assay) testing.
24 karat gold is as close as you can get to pure gold; due to chemical impurities, there is no such thing as "100% pure gold".
Hallmarks are often confused with "trademarks" or "maker's mark". Hallmarks are not the mark of a manufacturer to distinguish his products from other manufacturers’ products, which is the function of trademarks or makers' marks. To be a true hallmark, it must be the guarantee of an independent body or authority that the contents are as marked. Thus, a stamp of '925' by itself is not, strictly speaking, a hallmark, but is rather an unattested fineness mark.
My life’s a bomb, and held in your hands
It’s time for me to go
Throw me in the water, and I’ll explode
I’ll become the water to sink their boat
I know, it’s time its time, it’s time it’s time, it’s for me to go
And we are, everything we used to be
Now here and I am, everything we used to know
Dead I am right ahead, now up
In the sky we float like (can you see me now, up in the clouds?)
Angels now, so beautiful, just don’t look down.
Angels now, so beautiful, just don’t look down.
Angels now, so beautiful, just don’t look down.
Angels now, so beautiful, (in the sky in the sky), just don’t look down.
My life’s a bomb.
You want to play? Yea I like to play.
I don’t know the rules to your game.
It’s a lot harder than you think.
I know you’re lying when you blink.
Just go away, hell, go away
I like you better when you lie and act this way
Don’t worry baby I’m here to stay
I promise that I’ll never never go away.
Where’s the boy with the laser eyes?
Where’s the boy who will never ever lie?
This seems as a brighter day.
And still, the rain won’t go away.
You’re just a sad song who rots in my dreams.
But I’m yours forever
And I couldn’t be happier
This makes me feel
So much stronger
Light up the sky with your bright laser eyes.
Bring us to life, with your red chroma mind.
Light up the sky with your bright laser eyes.
And we stand, on top of the rotting bodies
And I notice that everyone around me is still breathing heavily
Talking slowly and everybody is a lightning stream of energy
But we don't seem to notice, no they don't seem to notice
looks like the coast is clear teeming with the caliber
let's meet at the pier no more sleeping
and i know an escape i know we're the giants teeth
water takes the body in and it fills our heart with happiness
and nothing amends but me
and i know an escape i know we're the giants teeth
pitter pattering heart beats pittering pattering feet
now its the end of the century
i cant believe that the snow is falling
officer owl watch over me
keeping me tucked in your sleeve
honey between you and me
i think you're as smart as a bee
no more sleeping beauty
until then just keep the bee in your bonnet
wide eyes, but just for a second i
notice that everything in my life
is circular but just for tonight
i thought i'd buy you with this necklace baby
breathing in the back of your mind
trade lives put a shiver down your spine
i know i cant live your life
You say you want me, take all of me
Red blood red on your hands, take take take all you can
Turn on your lights, we’ll shine so bright.
Brighter than we'll ever be, like a star racing sharply through me
Break me, break me down
Said the king to the queen you're now becoming just like me.
I am the master of everything, i control the gravity.
Just don’t play the blame game, when you are losing.
Sing me to sleep, (Sing me to sleep)
Sing me to sleep, (Sing me to sleep)
I'll help you drown. bye bye baby.
Say! Hello and welcome to, the exhaust fumes but they invite themselves inside of you. Trace back your steps, its getting dark but we still have street light (I cant see with just the moonlight)
You’re a! red water lover and I cant help to ask but, “please girl! Look at the sky and break a leg tonight,” I know you’ll do just fine.
You say what you want (say what you want) and you know you wont get it but, these second chances seem to come so much just like love like love like lovers who care too much.
You say what you want! Say what you want, make believe and go back to sleep. Dream, dream, dream (dream dream dream)…me a pleasant story in perfect harmony.
and i'll find a way to fly through your body
going back the stories you never gained
shame shame i'm an ocean full of emotion
say hello to the morning, you're body is growing your body is glowing
a train and these buildings mean more than your body
putting back all the stories you never gained
you cant steal the ocean you can't steal the ocean
say hello to the morning your body is growing and glowing, sowing and sowing
hold me back babe don't you lose the battery
hold me back babe don't forget you love me
hold me back babe don't you lose the battery
hold me back back and don't forget my name
a strand broke in my grasp,
put the whole world in a trance
the tall grass the sun splashed in my face
the tall grass the sun splashed in my face
(break a leg run the stage)
[x2]
i know you're shaking but she's nice to mice
i never thought that girls could be this polite
shes is my bird and i am her mountain
if we cant find her, we're going after her
i know you're shaking but she's nice to mice
i never thought that girls could be this polite
she is my bird and i am her mountain
if we can't find her, we're going after her
and i found you
its loaded too
and i found you
the ocean, the ocean to you
i know what guns can do and i know how to use em,
With no end, again.
I know the rhythm's just a little bit faster
But my hearts beating right there after it.
A black top with the children's paintings,
But now we're older and we're never leaving her again.
So swim the ocean, the biggest sea,
And we know were never coming back again.
Again!
Pack your bags, but don't take her heart.
We're just going right back to the start!
I never noticed how your body felt so warm.
The ocean isn't big enough for us.
I never noticed how your body felt so warm,
I never noticed that my body misses yours.
This land is stronger now, we have a newer crown,
And now, we're taking over the world.
I never noticed that my body was ever so warm!
And now I know that I'll never feel the cold
This is your honeymoon.
If June brings gloom, feel it too.
You came unglued from the moon.
I guess we're feelin', and I hope you feel it too (across the moon)
The greatest moment, sent from me and back to you (back to you)
Now this is right but it feels so wrong and I don't know where to go, or where to hide myself from everyone.
This is where we dance. This is where we forget our regrets. Its time to calculate which one of us will make it till' the end.
A bold heart, a man without a question
yet too young, too young to comprehend
this world is at its end, just double the atom bomb
a mountain man, lost in the rain, don't complain
but we all know the way, everything's the same
we're all the same
this city burns a whole in your heart
it says you're perfect
i wanna hear you breathe
my baby
girl you have a lot to learn,
you've gotta stay in line and wait your turn
you think you're the belle of the ball
you hear the question fall
are you alive?
aren't you a friend of mine?
you better not this time
a different pair of eyes.
cant fit another lush in my life.
i can't waste my time.
and babe you know I'm right, because i tried
you waste my time
Red dust in the sky
this world is out of time.
so we hold our hearts, taking flight.
this is perfect,
this is perfect.
and nobody knows why
Does it hurt you when you hit the floor?
Only when you think about it darlin’
Dont scream when you feel the pain.
It hurts more to know you’re still alive.
With a bullet in the back of your neck
youre still breathin’ better than before.
Bloods dripping all over your face
are you sure that you are still okay?
Will you catch me as I hit the ground?
If you let me if you let me I will.
Will you catch me as I hit the ground?
Will you catch me as I hit the ground?
Only one minute left to live and you tell me you love me. I dont care. I never did. I hope you hit the ground harder than before.
Take us, take us away. Now we all lay on the bottom of the ocean. We are shark bait.
Swim around swim around but there’s no oxygen, to be found. Will we make, will we make it out? (will we make it to the surface?)
Will the killer be killed in the end? Let’s not find out. And when I talk to you, you don’t look at me, should I scream?
a lightning disease, surrounds me...
signal flares on the east side of your port,
suns coming and we're floating to its shore
can i control, my heart my minds too slow,
prima donna in the light of your eye,
your lips are making the headlines
you were such a pretty kid,
the trees broke your mind open
and i'm glad they did
you wind around a ring,
i'm floating, i'm floating
but i met the moon,
she said i will be falling,
if you don't come soon.
sun come and talk, you act like i'm not enough.
you know you're the only man, you know you're the only man to tune the clock
sun come and talk, and ill watch the sky turn off
you know you're the only man, and the moon can't, the moon can't talk.
we're all the same
just a different brain a different brain
we're all the same
we met at the broom, the kids are listening
do what you can do to fill this hotel room
and nothings better than when your heart falls through
keep your wife in a trophy, she knows nothing of turning
open your eyes, they call this sunshine
but this town's standards, mean girls don't like birds
you woke up the sea, and now the trees, the trees turning green
but this town's standards (cut off the red lights)
mean nothing's ever going right, never going right
oh you blame it on the gun, it's my love love love love,
she crossed the cop, you're living on the horse's tongue.
for a woman like a river guide,(such a sight)
you build a boat just for one night
claim a sound without any motion, for a mountain who's flock is in population
whispers from in and near, they tell me everything i want to hear
the bus will take you on the streetlight, and now everything is alright, tonight.
oh girl, i will beat you to the bus seat,
the villager bows a marked arrow aimed for, jealousy,
i love you bird this is right for me
for a woman like a river guide! a boat a mountain for a life time
When my voice hits the air
It forms a conversation
We talk and talk, you never listen
My voice is dying out
Oh, they can’t stop us now
We’re going as fast as we can
Oh, they cant stop us now
We’ll land in the water
The lights go out and we turn on our flashlights
And it’s still hard to see, BUT, but it doesn’t bother me
I’m fine
With our backs turned we see without our eyes
Forty five survived, but we’re alive so we
Forty five survived, but we’re alive so we
Forty five survived, but we’re alive so we
Act alive
Ninety nine have died, but we’re alive!
Ninety nine have died, but we’re alive!
Ninety nine have died, but we’re alive!
Pretend to die
I’ll try but I know she’s watching us. I’ll try but I know she’s watching,
Let’s dive so we can get away, swim fast or they’ll take us,
Away.
I’ll give you my strength.
I’ll give you my strength.
I’ll give you my strength.