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| 1. |
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Well, the sheaves have all been brought
But the fields have washed away And the palaces now stand Where the coffins all were laid And the times we see ahead We must glaze with rosy hues For we don't wish to admit What it is we have to lose Millennia incoming The modern age is here It sanctifies the future Yet renders us with fear So many theories, so many prophecies What we do need is a change of ideas When we are scared we can hide in our reveries But what we need is a change of ideas Change of ideas, change of ideas What we need now is a change of ideas |
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| 2. |
| 1:42 |
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This isn't another new fashion or a new plastic trend
Everybody's searching for something but in the meantime let's all just pretend I've got this feeling and I don't know what it is This room is overcrowded, man, and I need air to breathe, yeah Big bang, big crunch, you know there's no free lunch Kneel down and pray, here comes your judgment day Big crunch, you know it's going to be quite a show What goes around always comes around A million hopeless faces dwell within protected walls All waiting for a moment in their lives when they can heed the clarion call And it's all so oppressive my mind feels like a sieve This city is overcrowded, man, and I need room to live Big bang, big crunch, you know there's no free lunch Kneel down and pray, here comes your judgment day Big crunch, you know it's going to be quite a show What goes around always comes around I think of the countless shadows that have all come and gone All suffering in the notion of better things to come If you share these beliefs, you know I wish you well There's no room left in heaven and there's sure no room in hell Big bang, big crunch, you know there's no free lunch Kneel down and pray, here comes your judgment day Big crunch, you know it's going to be quite a show What goes around always comes around |
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| 3. |
| 1:47 |
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Culture was the seed of proliferation but it's gotten melded
Into an inharmonic whole, to an inharmonic whole Consciousness has plagued us and we cannot shake it Though we think we're in control, though we think we're in control Questions that besiege us in life Are testament of our helplessness There's no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end When we all disintegrate it will all happen again Time is so rock solid in the minds of the hordes but they can't Explain why it should slip away, explain why it should slip away History and future are the comforts of our curiosity but here we are Rooted in the present day, rooted in the present day Questions that besiege us in life Are testament of our helplessness There's no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end When we all disintegrate it will all happen again If you came to conquer, you'll be king for a day But you too will deteriorate and quickly fade away And believe these words you hear When you think your path is clear We have no control, we have no control We have no control, we do not understand You have no control, you are not in command You have no control, we have no control No control No control You have no control |
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| 4. |
| 1:35 |
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There's a specter in the corner of an illustrated page
And a lonesome muted stripling with a rapt remedial gaze The poverty of his language and the wealth of his emotion Bring him endless murky musings and unexpected frustration Angst and madness weave the fabric of his life Tomorrow might be better but right now it feels like... There's a panther wild and proud behind the doors of a redolent cage And an undeveloped intellect filled with impotent and static rage And don't think you're exempt if you earn a good weekly wages 'Cause your neighbor's going crazy and insanity's contagious I know there's so much you want to say But your tongue gets in the way And sometimes it feels like... I know there's so much you want to say And the tumbrel of your mind gets in the way It's the same for everybody to degrees We all get that foggy freeze and sometimes it feels like... |
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| 5. |
| 1:41 |
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He's the latest superhero with powers so profound
He can leap a dotted line in just a single bound I know you must have seen him in the books and magazines He's the quintessential mindless modern epicene His life is meaningful Because he gets things done Bang bang, he's dead, bang bang, he's dead Chalk up another triumph for our hero, the automatic man It's true you must have met him, he's your best friend and your foe His opinions are determined by the status quo A true creature of habit, he smokes three packs a day When he has an original thought he forgets it right away He's the automatic man He's a paradigm of carefree living He's our mentor, disturb him if you can He's the answer if your peace of mind is lacking He's our savior, he is the common man But if you are troubled by the daily bump and grind Then take another look around and brother, you will find The automatic man |
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| 6. |
| 2:18 |
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Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand
Your actions speak so loud I can't hear a word your saying Hey sister bleeding heart with all of your compassion Your labors soothe the hurt but can't assuage temptation Hey man of science with your perfect rules of measure Can you improve the place with the data that you gather? Hey mother mercy, can your loins bear fruit forever? Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure? And I want to conquer the world Give all the idiots a brand new religion Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness, and toil Promote equality in all of my decisions With a quick wink of an eye and a "God, you must be joking" Hey mister diplomat with your worldly aspirations Did you see your children cry when you left them at the station? Hey moral soldier, you've got righteous proclamations And precious tomes to fuel your pulpy conflagrations And I want to conquer the world Give all the idiots a brand new religion Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness, and toil Promote equality in all of my decisions With a quick wink of an eye and a "God, you must be joking" Is there a man that can conquer that which can't be tamed? And if that mad could speak would the words evoked be sane? Ask me the reasons for misery and shame I'll give your reasons for the wind and rain And I want to conquer the world Give all the idiots a brand new religion Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness, and toil Promote equality in all of my decisions With a quick wink of an eye and a "God, you must be joking" I want to conquer the world Expose the culprits and feed them to the children I'll do away with air pollution and then I'll save the whales We'll have peace on earth and global communion I want to conquer the world I want to conquer the world I want to conquer the world I want to conquer the world |
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| 7. |
| 2:45 |
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There's a watch in my pocket
And its hands are broken The face is blank But the gears are turning Confusion Is a fundamental state of mind It doesn't really matter what I'm figuring out I'm guaranteed to wind up in a state of doubt And sanity is a full time job In a world that is always changing And sanity is a state of mind That you believe in sanity There's a shadow on the wall Where the paint is peeling My body's moving forward But my mind is reeling Depression Is a fundamental state of day It doesn't really matter how my day has turned out I always end up living in this world of doubt And sanity is a full time job In a world that is always changing And sanity will make you strong If you believe in sanity And sanity is a full time job In a world that is always changing And sanity is a state of mind That you believe in sanity |
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| 8. |
| 1:08 |
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Stranded
In a life in which your struggle for acceptance is a never-ending chore Upbraided For your actions past and present and rewarded for ideas of the future's bright open door The henchman is a human analogue Of the suffering multitudes who, like good dogs, sit and lick for their reward So what good advice have I got for you To insure against your likely metamorphosis into this reprobate? Don't be a henchman Stand on your laurels Do what no one else does And praise the good of other men for goodness sake And when everyone else in the world follows your lead Although a cold day in hell it will surely be That's when the entire world shall live in harmony |
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| 9. |
| 1:22 |
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The wheat waving next to you is healthy and so fine
As is dinner with your loved ones everyday But your routine is changeless through the decades of your life Green pastures, open spaces, holy ways And it must look pretty appealing, the acres of light The crowded festive nights and the millions of others just like you Yeah, it must look pretty appealing, this other world of sin We keep dreaming of what other people do The person sitting next to you is dismal and deranged On the bus ride home from work to end your day And the food on your table is more plastic than protein And your intellect depends on your TV And it must look pretty appealing, the pastoral retreat The folks on old main street and the few pleasant people just like you Yeah, it must look pretty appealing, the simple way of life We keep dreaming of what other people do But we never do what other people do You're too scared of other people not like you |
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| 10. |
| 2:05 |
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There's a place where everyone can be happy
It's the most beautiful place in the whole fucking world It's made of candy canes and planes and bright red choo-choo trains And the meanest little boys and most innocent little girls And you know, I wish that I could go there It's a road that I have not found And I wish you the best of luck dear Drop a card or letter to my side of town 'Cause there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend But baby I'm amazed by the hate that you can send And you painted my entire world But I don't have the turpentine to clean what you have soiled And I won't forget it There's a place where everyone can be right Even though you remain determined to be opposed Admittance requires no qualifications It's where everyone has been and where everybody goes So please try not to be impatient For we all hate standing in line And when the farm has been bought you'll be there without a thought And eternity my friend, is a long fucking time 'Cause there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend But baby I'm amazed by the hate that you can send And you painted my entire world But I don't have the turpentine to clean what you have soiled And I won't forget it |
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| 12. |
| 0:48 |
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Going through a world of sad debris
Regard quixotic reveries of ownership The blossoming disease of man called tenure and accretion The ancient western treadmill of deception and derision But I want something more Racing through a life of tragic wastage I experience the loss of trust and innocence The billowing cyclone of time has blown away our reasons As we trudge like blind men forward trying to avoid collision But I want something more |
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| 2:09 |
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It's a love song to the self, a story recapped every day
It's a world of bogus feelings and a world of slow decay It's a world of laughter hidden by this world of fear and torment It's a game of strange compulsion, our visceral convulsion Anxiety for love of life, anxiety for pain Anxiety, a feeling that you know you can't contain Anxiety destroys us but it drives the common man Foundation of society, anxiety, suppress it if you can The caste of coffee-achievers didn't perform like they planned The morning rush hour traffic is our play of false elan So run around your frantic track and lay you down to sleep Tomorrow's the redemption, we strive for that exception Anxiety for love of life, anxiety for pain Anxiety, a fear that you have nothing more to gain Anxiety destroys us but it drives the common man Foundation of society, anxiety, suppress it if you can What are we angry for? We all need a common cure That common goal for which you strive To have more than the other guy The quest for truth, the quest for gold, we end up all the same The common lie, the righteous cry, we end up all the same The angry crowd, those lost and found, everybody's all the same The poet's pen, these words I lend, we all bend to Anxiety for love of life, anxiety for pain Anxiety, a feeling that you know you can't contain Anxiety destroys us but it drives the common man Foundation of society, anxiety |
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| 1:55 |
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I can recall the warm youth of a summer day, yeah
The sweetest lemonade, the darkest game arcade And Billy had a yearning in the corner of his mind, yeah It moved him secretly, it moved him powerfully But prescience was lacking and the present was all And his aptitudes were carelessly wasted And challenging life with the abandon of a fool He squandered the hours of his day Then darkness and disorder slapped him sharply in the face, yeah It hit him like a friend, struck something deep within He couldn't break the chain of slow decay that seemed to drag him Just like a fatal tie toward the other side And Billy was a lunatic just barking at the moon And his brain was totally wasted He then exchanged his friends for a needle and a spoon And he threw his future away Bolt the door and throw away the key, yeah Your dim reflection is all that you can see So where is the justice when no one is at fault And a human life is tragically wasted? How fragile is the flame that burns within us all To light each passing day, yeah |
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| 15. |
| 1:57 |
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You've got to quit your little charade and join the freak parade
Now that your road has been paved from conception to your grave Enormous things to do, others' practices to eschew To be better than you is impossible to do But the world won't stop without you No, the world won't stop without you Your achievements are unsurpassed, you are highly-ordered mass But you can bet your ass that your free energy will dissipate Two billion years thus far, now mister here you are An element in a sea of enthalpic organic compounds The world won't stop without you The world won't stop without you You're only as elegant as your actions let you be A piece of chaos related phylogenetically To every living organ system we're siblings don't you see? The earth rotates and will revolve without you constantly Two billion years thus far, now mister here you are An element in a sea of enthalpic organic compounds The world won't stop without you No, the world won't stop without you I said the world won't stop without you |
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