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Forgotten stories of excess
Both real and fiction Too many hollow lives spent Chasing benediction We plummet to the earth like Scores of fallen angels Play out or tragedies on empty, Weathered stages But before we lose it all The final curtain call Conflicted and dejected Beware the opulence inherent in confusion When reality's obscured By clouds and disillusion Held under far too long by The weight of our existence We labor fruitlessly against Both time and distance Whats in the past cant be undone You got to separate to become one Your indecision hides the guilt Just underneath your clouded eyes So sick you'd sell your soul For another fifteen minute lie |
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| 2. |
| 1:35 |
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You don??짝??????째 speak not a single word
Can??짝??????째 correlate a single thing you??짝??????쨀e heard You just erase all the things we??짝??????쨀e said With a mask of disapproval And it??짝??????짱 always about you Convinced yourself there??짝??????짱 better things to do Like building a wall You double up at the thought of fun You??짝??????짰e not concerned about anyone You??짝??????짰e alone when the sun goes down Like a cold, forsaken shadow And you??짝??????짰e trapped inside yourself Nothing can reach you Nobody matters anyway You??짝??????짰e looking outside For purpose and piece of mind And you may never find You??짝??????짙l never find freedom |
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| 3. |
| 2:26 |
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Running short on imagination
Still we waste it all on words Spoken without the benefit of our minds The candle burns, the edges framed Our best intentions waste away And everybody loves the things we've done and on, and on, and on Life appears weightless For everyone but me This world grows heavier everyday Deterioration Growin' old before my time Nobody cares, never mind We all prey on a vain condition and the hoplessness of it all These days there's nothing we can trust The dreams we made, we've seen them fade Trampled by our sad parade Yet we're so pleased with what we've done, and on, and on, and I'm done Life appears weightless For everyone but me This world grows heavier everyday Deterioration Growin' old before my time Nobody cares The mind breaks down when it dies Our machine's doubled in size To orchestrate the grand collapse I see us all trapped in its path There was a time we were unbound As if we'd never hit the ground But just like rain we can't keep from fallin' |
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| 5. |
| 2:18 |
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An infant reared on hatred never learns
to hold diversity inviolate While so-called maralists proclaim they've got the test To monitor the ways our love's expressed So just think it through Hatred is the stillborn child of ignorance and boredom Such a narrow view Means seeds of tolerance are sown by those who can't afford them What wiil you do? It's not too late for you to change your xenophobic point of view Now your pontifications leave us draped in disbelief Why should we suffer for the fear that's undearneath If we could learn to cherish what sets us apart Keep love instead of fear within our hearts So just think it through Hatred is the stillborn child of ignorance and boredom Such a narrow view Means seeds of tolerance are sown by those who can't afford them What wiil you do? It's not too late for you to change your xenophobic point of view Big fucking man contestant in a freak show So quick to terrorize someone you hardly know Don't see the pain when will you realize That love is never wrong just learn to empathize |
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| 6. |
| 1:54 |
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I??짝??????쨀e been put down been pushed around
But they won??짝??????째 break me I still believe Been cast aside stood up for ridicule But I??짝??????짝 still here I feel the same This one??짝??????짱 for those who??짝??????짙l never understand It??짝??????짱 not a blueprint or a master plan All I know is nothing that I??짝??????쨀e done before Held me so strong never steered me wrong And with every passing day Distills my dedication In a clouded world you kept me clear And there??짝??????짱 a part of you in all I??짝??????쨀e done Been second guessed thought immature But for what it??짝??????짱 worth know that I??짝??????짝 still here I wonder what I could have done instead To quell the anger boiling in my head Unlike so man y things You??짝??????쨀e never let me down With you I??짝??????쨀e never felt alone And as I stumble through these days I hope you??짝??????짙l understand It??짝??????짱 so much more than a phase It??짝??????짱 everything I am When I??짝??????쨀e strayed in darker times When I??짝??????짝 feeling left behind You??짝??????짰e always there The music somehow seems to get me by |
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| 2:26 |
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What does it mean when you??짝??????짰e sixteen
The world??짝??????짱 a cold and lonely place But you??짝??????짰e still kicking Every door down in the place The war of words they??짝??????짰e so upright You pass a hundred sleepless nights And the worst is yet to come or so they say Here comes seventeen And just beyond There??짝??????짱 tolerance and empathy To protect you from them all A stand of evergreen Just like the places we would always talk about To catch you when you fall You hear a knock outside the door It never rains here anymore So now there??짝??????짱 nothing new To was away the pain A frightened face your clouded mind The memories you??짝??????쨀e trailed behind And seventeen still feels light years away Nobody seems to understand you As your grasping for that innocence Sequestered in your mind Was it guilt or were they blind All this time |
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| 2:51 |
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Because trash like you will never have
The means with which to live In any modicum of luxury Or vague derivative Of comfort don??짝??????째 stray beyond your class You??짝??????짙l never crack this ceiling made of glass Just live to work and then expire Keep your mouth shut you might retire With something more then debts Stretched far beyond your means Pledge allegiance To the corporate machines Don??짝??????째 you dare step out of line Everything will be just fine But you??짝??????쩍 better mind your place Just learnt to be a good consumer You??짝??????짰e now a number You??짝??????쨀e no longer got a face Let my anger be my declaration My dissent my participation Resistance isn??짝??????째 any use Just consume, obey and reproduce The next working class who??짝??????짙l shoulder Your burden of despair Your empty cries for a living wage Our system doesn??짝??????째 care we don??짝??????째 care That our system won??짝??????째 provide For public health We don??짝??????째 care that your left Out in the cold all by yourself We don??짝??????째 care |
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| 2:17 |
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A fool??짝??????짱 crusade a proxy war
We justify we keep the score With millions dead too blind to see The cryptic clash of world war III Did your country??짝??????짱 sons and daughters Die to make this world a safer place Or do we just defy Flesh and blood become one The stakes keep rising the time has come The band performs a martyr??짝??????짱 verse And the dominoes fall in reverse The lines are drawn don??짝??????째 you see Its too late to turn back now We wont abide a stalemate The end is predicated on the loss of life What??짝??????짱 so sinister? Were only trying to do what we think is right Conscience administered By the ones with the shortest sight |
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| 2:08 |
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| 11. |
| 2:18 |
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Once lost we will never find our way
Shutting down we??짝??????짰e devoid of things to say Prospects are growing worse with every hour With no voice it seems we??짝??????쨀e got no power Overcome by headlines We believe what isn??짝??????째 true You??짝??????쨀e got no empathy for anyone but you Our moral contradictions And subjective, hollow tomes Perpetuate the fear asphyxiating us at home so Seems like there??짝??????짱 no place left to hide From the cold, amorphous dread That we all feel inside Actions might dictate who survives The hopelessness which punctuates Our empty lives Could there be something I need a reason Could there be anything at all Systems of technology which once kept us Informed Now endeavor to perpetuate the norm Privatization of concentrated wealth While millions still suffer In dilapidated health so Who cares to calculate What indigence will cost How will we replicated urbanity that??짝??????짱 lost The curtain falls on the ultimate disgrace We hunger for equality Though we??짝??????쨀e never had a taste The irony will make you laugh Intervene on our behalf To undo this mask of false complicity The despotic, right-wing government Has manufactured our consent Can we entrust ourselves To transform their doctrine to dissent |
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| 0:43 |
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| 2:12 |
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Outlived a wasted life
Too soon to say goodbye One plot to call your own Now it's our turn to cry I've been through this before These things are hard to take Was it too much to live for Once choice you felt you had to make And I've pissed my time away Through countless life long wasted days Why are all the simple things so lost in sorrow And my perspective so unclear Life's cold and thick with lies Seen through the blue black eyes We squander as we smile Things which once appeared worthwhile How views on life distort When we see a life cut short No cause to calculate Absentia renders no debate Through pain I've grown to learn Just as long as life still burns Won't sit around and wait Until I burn down heavens gates I know |
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| 1:36 |
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Rejection
Like a promise unfulfilled From an emptiness distilled As one final sign Perpetuates our slow decline We??짝??????쨀e failed The systems we??짝??????쨀e created drag us down On corded streets We??짝??????짙l die alone Our dreams are only flesh and bone One day some ay When you fall apart and waste away You??짝??????짙l see no doubt This world is gonna spit you out Drained No sign of life This world of lies Is gonna cut you down to size They??짝??????짙l spit you out Like a spoke in their machine Some people break like glass It just might be your final chance to feel Can you distinguish fate from what seems real Enamored by the romance of regret |
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| 5:43 |
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I can't pull in all the stops
But it rained on all of this With the sirens in my sleep And her sorrow at my kiss I can't turn away Hold the half turn when you pray All the vanity and fate Written on her crazy face Here in my head I here you say Here in my head I here you pray Time is what it's made Made by all those i regret "Remeber me" I hear it said Other faces I'd forget Hope you get up off your feet Shake the dust out of your shoes City lights and all my jazz And all my demonstrations too Here in my head I here you say Here in my head I here you pray Time is what it's made Made by others i regret Remeber we are here and sad All the faces I'd forget Here in my head I here you say Here in my head I here you pray Here in my head I here you say Here in my head I here you pray |
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