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Have you been to the desert, have you walked with the dead?
There's a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread And the figures don't lie, they speak of human disease But we do what we want and we think what we please Have you lived the experience, have you witnessed the plague? People making babies sometimes just to escape In this land of competition the compassion is gone Yet we ignore the needy and we keep pushing on This is just a punk rock song Written for the people who can see something's wrong Like ants in a colony we do our share, but there's so many other fucking insects out there And this is just a punk rock song Have you visited the quagmire, have you swam in the shit? The party convention and the real politic The face is always different, the rhetoric the same But we swallow it all and we see nothing change, nothing has changed This is just a punk rock song Written for the people who can see something's wrong Like workers in a factory we do our share, but there's so many other fucking robots out there And this is just a punk rock song Ten million dollars on a losing campaign Twenty million starving and writhing in pain Big strong people unwilling to give Small in vision and perspective One in five kids below the poverty line One population running out of time Running out of time This is just a punk rock song Written for the people who can see something's wrong Like ants in a colony we do our share, but there's so many other fucking insects out there And this is just a punk rock song The figures don't lie, they speak of human disease But we do what we want and we think what we please One in five kids below the poverty line One population running out of time This is just a punk rock song This is just a punk rock song This is just a punk rock song |
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| 2:05 |
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The framework of the world is black and white
The infrastructure builders flex their might Turning true emotion into digital expression One by one we all fall down The gray race shrivels, trapped inside The world it creates is black and white The gray race shrivels, trapped inside The world it creates is black and white The perpetual destructive motion machine Began to chart a course never before seen Turning raw compassion into fields of plus and minus One by one we all give in The gray race shrivels, trapped inside The world it creates is black and white The gray race shrivels, trapped inside The world it creates is black and white I'd swear there were times when I was someone else A person with determination and knowledge of the self But you've flattened me to rubble and now I can see That I'm just a faded negative of the image I used to be Just a shadow And that's our dilemma |
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| 3:48 |
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Desolate and without purpose
Radiating from so many septic sources Forming the fabric of a wayward people Disappearing as the vestiges of our past Scratched like tartan into virgin soil A substrate for progress and disarray A spreading network of broken dreams Searching for a thoroughfare to take us away Just a little tale from the streets of America Sparkled promises paved with pathos and hysteria Trenchant, weary native sons, step back and see the damage done Meander to the horizon, the streets of America Black tarred concrete pine for me Lying dormant for you and your country Hardened surface cracked within Catch the sweat from off of the chin Of men and women, senior and child Who look to you and your sterile wiles And in their stares is bald dismay For what you fucking promised went and led them astray Just another tale from the streets of America Sparkled promises paved with pathos and hysteria Trenchant, weary native sons, step back and see the damage done Meander to the horizon, the streets of America Hard-cracked, daunting lifeless veins False hope corridors to greener pastures Is all that remains Say a little prayer for the streets of America Sparkled promises paved with pathos and hysteria Trenchant, weary native sons, step back and see the damage done Shoot straight up to the horizon, the streets of America |
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| 2:09 |
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I'm going for a walk
Not the after dinner kind I'm gonna use my hands And I'm gonna use my mind And who the hell are you to tell me what to do? You can't even tie your own haggard shoes Your closest is a mess, your backyard's falling down And I have no grand ideas or intentions of sticking around So I'm going for a walk Not the after dinner kind I'm gonna use my hands And I'm gonna use my mind And I'm gonna build a world Independent and exempt All alone I'll be an empire With no mortgage and no rent And I don't need to live in your stinking zoo You can't even feed the animals donated to you Your storage sheds are ramshackled, flies decorate the walls And you expect me to die here in this shit-filled, tiny stall? I'm going for a walk! And I know you're watching everything I do Call me threat to your children, call me socially unglued Call me master of insanity, unable to relate Call me lazy, bane and filthy, call me monstrous reprobate I'm going for a walk And there's nothing you can do 'Cause I don't have to Live like you I'm going for a walk I'm going for a walk I'm going for a walk I'm going for a walk I'm going for a walk I'm going for a walk I'm going for a walk |
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| 2:20 |
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Parched cracked mouths, empty swollen guts
Sun baked pavement encroaches on us Haves and have-nots together at last Brutally engaged in mortal combat Ten in 2010 Ten in 2010 What kind of God orchestrates such a thing? Ten billion people all suffering Truth is not an issue, just hungry mouths to feed Forget what you want, scrounge the things you need Ten in 2010 Ten in 2010 Happy and content it can't happen to you Fifteen years, we'll think of a solution It won't just appear in one day For ten in 2010 we're well on our way Ten in 2010 Ten in 2010 Like piercing ear darts, I heard the news today Ten billion people coming your way Ten in 20 Ten in 20 Ten in 2010 |
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| 3:24 |
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Do you know the cost of future misery?
Have you lost your sense of sustainability? We are just a step away from realizing what we strive to be But we've got to break out from this insulated blind and lame senility Wake up the new America Transcend the mass hysteria Change is the thing you're wary of We need a new America Laurels, human triumph, bestowments from the past Victories don't mean a thing if they don't last We are just marching toward extinction with blinders on our eyes Jeopardizing everything we've learned and come to realize, you call that wise? Open your eyes, America See through the lies they tell to us Confront the fears that worry us We need a new America Now we don't have to be afraid to reinvent We've got to start to build, progress and implement For when we take our fill and never pay the price We only build ourselves a fleeting, false paradise Yeah, you can live in staunch denial And mark me as your enemy But I'm just a voice among the throng Who want a brighter destiny, they say with me We are the new America This is the new America We are the new America This is the new America |
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| 3:05 |
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I love my computer, you make me feel alright
Every waking hour and every lonely night I love my computer for all you give to me Predictable errors and no identity And it's never been quite so easy I've never been quite so happy All I need to do is click on you And we'll be joined in the most soulless way And we'll never ruin each others' day 'Cause when I'm through I just click and you just go away I love my computer, you're always in the mood I get so turned on when I turn on you I love my computer, you never ask for more You can be a princess or you can be my whore And it's never been quite so easy I've never been quite so happy All I need to do is click on you And we'll be joined in the most soulless way And we'll never ruin each others' day 'Cause when I'm through I just click and you just go away The world outside's so big but I'm safe in my domain 'Cause to you I'm just a number and a clever screen name All I need to do is click on you And we'll be together for eternity And no one's ever gonna take my love from me 'Cause I've got security, her password and a key Go away Go away Go away Go away |
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| 8. |
| 2:27 |
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It's a long way to the promise land
So you'd better well know your way There's a ship on the ocean And an albatross who is trying to lead you astray Leaders, politicians, and power whores Are in line to receive your choice And you bet your ass, if you give it to them, They will gladly take your voice And it's a long way to the promise land Wo-oh Oh oh oh oh It's a long way to the promise land, If we work we might find it here There's no substitute for enlightenment, There's no reason for bridled fear When you join the people who've joined the club You gotta clench and play your hand 'Cuz if you fall in line you're gonna fall in time And you'll never make a stand It's a long way to the promise land Wo-oh Oh oh oh oh What are you going to do? When they come for you? Bend and capitulate? Or keep your head on straight? easy answers bought without experience, Is gonna lead you to certain doom Because the truth is just what you make of it, It begins and ends with you! And it's a long way to the promise land Wo-oh oh oh oh oh |
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| 1:49 |
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Like a morning crow and his unwelcome song
Or a worn-out broken record that keeps skipping along Mountains of instructions you keep piling on me Resound like a cacophonous symphony But I don't wanna hear it anymore No, I don't wanna hear it anymore Priests and politicians pretend they're your friend And police speak to you like you're children again Blanket statements cover you like a rug And they tell me maybe I'm acting a little too smug But I don't wanna hear it anymore No, I don't wanna hear it anymore No more! Every day we hear the secrets of life Reduced to cheap jokes, poetry and friendly advice They'd rather see us all pusillanimous Absorbent in their chorus of correctness But I don't wanna hear it anymore No, I don't wanna hear it anymore I said I don't wanna hear it anymore No, I don't wanna hear it anymore |
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| 2:54 |
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Fa fa fafa fa fa fafa
Raise your voice Fa fa fafa fa fa fafa Raise your voice Fa fa fafa fa fa fafa Raise your voice Fa fa fafa fa fa fafa Raise your voice Don't be played like someone else's board game Don't be classed out like some desolate redoubt Don't be misled, you've got a lot on your head And nobody's gonna pay attention when you are dead So fa fa fafa fa fa fafa Raise your voice Fa fa fafa fa fa fafa Raise your voice Fa fa fafa fa fa fafa Raise your voice Fa fa fafa fa fa fafa Raise your voice It's the primary rule, you gotta want to be fooled It's our daunted restraint that keeps us silent in shame It's our nature to be adversarial and free Our evolution didn't hinge on passivity So fa fa fafa fa fa fafa Raise your voice Fa fa fafa fa fa fafa Raise your voice Fa fa fafa fa fa fafa Raise your voice Fa fa fafa fa fa fafa Raise your voice |
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| 3:04 |
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History doesn't make something right
Consensus is not a fact based exercise You're tied and bound to this self-indulgent enterprise We call America A brush with a star, a token of love A name in the sand, enough is enough A diet of air, a face on the net A fish in your palm, your television set Once you convince yourself The universe falls into place You've got your ideas and your posse of friends You all make rules and the fun never ends But still there's a problem that leaves you gasping for air You look for some meaning, blank smiles are all that's there And still water stales a soft summer breeze You cling to your hopes while you drop to your knees There's no substance There's no substance Once you convince yourself The universe falls into place You've got your ideas and your posse of friends You all make rules and the fun never ends But still there's a problem that leaves you gasping for air You look for some meaning, blank smiles are all that's there And still water stales a soft summer breeze You cling to your hopes while you drop to your knees There's no substance There's no substance |
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| 4:07 |
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Now here I go, hope I don't break down
I won't take anything, I don't need anything Don't want to exist, I can't persist Please stop before I do it again Just talk about nothing Let's talk about nothing Let's talk about no one Please talk about no one, someone, anyone You and me have a disease You affect me, you infect me I'm afflicted, you're addicted You and me, you and me I'm on the edge, get against the wall I'm so distracted, I'd like to strike you Here's my confession, you learned your lesson Stop me before I do it again Just talk about nothing Let's talk about nothing Let's talk about no one Please talk about no one, someone, anyone You and me have a disease You affect me, you infect me I'm afflicted, you're addicted You and me, you and me You're clear as a heavy lead curtain Want to drill you like an ocean We can work it out, I've been running out Now I'm running out, don't be mad about it, baby You and me have a disease You affect me, you infect me I'm afflicted, you're addicted You and me, you and me I want to tie you, crucify you Kneel before you, revile your body You and me, we're made in heaven I want to take you, I want to break you Supplicate you with thorny roses You and me are incurable I want to bathe you in holy water I want to kill you upon the altar You and me, you and me |
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| 2:46 |
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I can't believe it, the way you look sometimes
Like a trampled flag on a city street, oh yeah And I don't want it, the things you're offering me Symbolized bar code, quick I.D., oh yeah 'Cause I'm a 21st century digital boy I don't know how to live, but I've got a lot of toys My daddy's a lazy middle-class intellectual My mommy's on Valium, so ineffectual Ain't life a mystery, yeah? I can't explain it The things they're saying to me It's going "yah yah yah yah yah yah yah" Oh yeah 'Cause I'm a 21st century digital boy I don't know how to read but I got a lot of toys My daddy's a lazy middle-class intellectual My mommy's on Valium so ineffectual Ain't life a mystery, yeah? Tried to tell you about No Control But now I really don't know And then you told me how bad you had to Suffer Is that really all you had to offer? See I'm a 21st century digital boy I don't know how to read, but I've got a lot of toys My daddy's a lazy middle-class intellectual My mommy's on Valium, so ineffectual Cat's foot, iron claw Neuro-surgeons scream for more Innocents raped with napalm fire Everything I want, I really need Ain't life a mystery, yeah? |
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| 2:20 |
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A febrile shocking violent smack
And the children are hoping for a heart attack Tonight the windows are watching The streets all conspire and the lamppost can't stop crying If I could fly high above the world Would I see a bunch of living dots spell the word stupidity? Or would I see hungry lover homicides, loving brother suicides And olly olly oxenfrees who pick a side and hide? The world is scratching at my door My morning paper's got the scores The human interest stories And the obituary Cockroach naps and rattling traps How many devils can you fit upon a match head? Caringosity killed the Kerouac cat Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction In my alley around the corner there's a wino with feathered shoulders And a spirit giving head for crack and he'll never want it back There's a little kid and his family eating crackers like thanksgiving And a pack of wild desperados scornful of living The world is scratching at my door My morning paper has the scores The human interest stories And the obituary Cradle for a cat, Wolfe looks back How many angels can you fit upon a match? I want to know why Hemingway cracked Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction Life is the crummiest book I ever read There isn't a hook Just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock And characters an amateur would never dream up Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction |
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| 2:56 |
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I had a dream...of unity
Where we could walk side by side But today I see that it's only me Just trying to get by Sometimes we stride...undetoured To walk as one... Toward our goal But as people stray towards more selfish ways We see we have no control I had a dream... of unity Where we would walk side by side But today i see that it's only me Just tryin' to get by just tryin' to get by |
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| 2:26 |
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Have you been to the desert, have you walked with the dead?
There's a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread And the figures don't lie, they speak of human disease But we do what we want and we think what we please Have you lived the experience, have you witnessed the plague? People making babies sometimes just to escape In this land of competition the compassion is gone Yet we ignore the needy and we keep pushing on This is just a punk rock song Written for the people who can see something's wrong Like ants in a colony we do our share, but there's so many other fucking insects out there And this is just a punk rock song Have you visited the quagmire, have you swam in the shit? The party convention and the real politic The face is always different, the rhetoric the same But we swallow it all and we see nothing change, nothing has changed This is just a punk rock song Written for the people who can see something's wrong Like workers in a factory we do our share, but there's so many other fucking robots out there And this is just a punk rock song Ten million dollars on a losing campaign Twenty million starving and writhing in pain Big strong people unwilling to give Small in vision and perspective One in five kids below the poverty line One population running out of time Running out of time This is just a punk rock song Written for the people who can see something's wrong Like ants in a colony we do our share, but there's so many other fucking insects out there And this is just a punk rock song The figures don't lie, they speak of human disease But we do what we want and we think what we please One in five kids below the poverty line One population running out of time This is just a punk rock song This is just a punk rock song This is just a punk rock song |
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| 2:00 |
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There are desperate times upon us, there are codes of white and black
Political resentment and people start to crack There's hate and opposition, there's fumbling dialog Yet you sit there and judge me and you think it makes a difference If you think I'm all alone you are foolishly wrong There's an entire army who blindly follow along And you happen to be one of them, believe it or not Even though you try not to be, we are of the same plague The other ways we're taught to fear Don't even scratch the surface of the problem here But I'm not blind and I'm not scared So many crucial factors exist out there And we're but one and they're but two And how we come to terms will help us pull through Things cannot change too fast, it took us this much time To reach our current platform and walk this fragile line If I thought I'd make a difference, I'd kill myself today But so many are like me, lost in the fray You create your own reality And leave mine to me, leave mine to me Leave mine to me, leave mine to me |
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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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| 2:36 |
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So you're feeling unimportant
'Cause you've got nothing to say And your life is just a ramble No one understands you anyway Well, I've got a piece of news, son That might make you change your mind Your life is historically meaningful And spans a significant time Slumber will come soon And you are helping put it to sleep Side by side we do our share, faithfully assuring That slumber will come soon Well, now do you feel a little better? Lift up your head and walk away Knowing we're all in this together For such a short time anyway There is just no time to parade around sulking I would rather laugh than cry The rich, the poor, the strong, the weak, we share this place together And we pitch in to help it die, we pitch in to help it die I'm not too good at giving morals And I don't fear the consequence If life makes you scared and bitter At least it's not for very long Slumber will come soon And you are helping put it to sleep Side by side we do our share, faithfully assuring That slumber will come soon Slumber will come soon Slumber will come soon Slumber will come soon |
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Blacktop pavement cover me
Like a chemical reaction or a steamroller spreading randomly There's a distant buzz and low frequency, it tickles my ear, rumbles under my feet And it shakes the leaves off of every tree violently What pretension, everlasting peace Everything must cease Institution on the hill Like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor to ignite a peoples' will There's a shadowed state on the west facade, it has spread like decay to enshroud the fraud And the descendants find it oh so odd, oh so odd What pretension, everlasting peace Everything must cease Grave memorial, hewn white stone Like the comforting caress of a mother or a friend you've always known It evokes such pain and significance, what was once is reduced to remembrance And the generations pass without recompense What pretension, everlasting peace Everything must cease |
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> Early man walked away as modern man took control.
Their minds weren't all the same, to conquer was his big goal, So he built his great empire and slaughtered his own kind, Then he died a confused man, killed himself with his own mind. Go! [x3] We're only gonna die from our own arrogance. [x4] |
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The Answer - Bad Religion
Long ago in a dusty village full of hunger, pain and strife a man came forth with a vision of truth and the way to a better life he was convinced he had the answer and he compelled people to follow along but the hunger never vanished and the man was banished and the village dried up and died at a time when wise men peered through brass tubes toward the sky the heavens changed in predictable ways and one man was able to find that he had found the answer and he was quick to write his revelation but as they were scrutinized in his colleagues eyes he soon became a mockery don't tell me about the answer 'cause then another one will come along soon i don't believe you have the answer i've got ideas too but if you've got enought naivete and you've got conviction then the answer is perfect for you an urban spall sits choking on its discharge overwhelmed by industry searching for a modern day savior from another place inclined toward charity everyone's begging for an answer without regard to validity the searching never ends it goes on and on and on for eternity |
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Catch a shooting star and put it in your pocket then your skin will start on fire One bird in the hand, or two birds in the bush neither do you any good, when you're stuck in the quagmire Show everyone you're not sure that they're telling he truth then you can be known as the universal cynic too Benefit your fellow man with good deeds for the day and you'll serve your life away pennies saved today are pennies still tomorrow strewn upon the desk, piled up in the paper weight Show everyone you're not sure that they're telling the truth then you'll be known as the universal cynic too wipe your opaque eyes and restore your crystal vision turn another cheek and exalt in your decision a bit of exercise for the universal cynic in you Early to bed, and early to rise precludes you from seeing the most brilliant starry nights sticks and stones can break bones, words can't really hurt unless you carry guns, and are hungry for a fight Challenging the standards, or questioning the stablished rules trying to understand how they can benefit you showing everyone you're not sure that they're telling the truth just a bit of exercise for the universal cynic in you |
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I see a white haired man, he's got a suit on and
He's telling people how they're supposed to live Nobody's listening to the politician No matter what sage advice he has to give He's got a clumsy, outdated m.o. And he's come to a fork in the road And there's only one direction to go Among the commuters, dwarfed by the skyscrapers I watch the countless millions fighting for space See hateful petty acts, disjointed images And can't believe that I'm one of the same race We're all just struggling to cope And we come to a fork in the road As we watch our foundations erode There is only one direction to go It's the way of the dodo, such a noble destiny It's the waltz of desperation passed along to you and me The way of the dodo We're all just struggling to cope And we come to a fork in the road As we watch our foundations erode There's only one direction to go It's the way of the dodo, it's the gray stuff in your head It's the pulse of the living and the voices of the dead It's the way of the dodo, such a noble destiny It's the waltz of desperation passed along to you and me The way of the dodo |
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