1. |
White Picket Dreams
05:34
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Take this fight out into the streets
As you move forward and struggle to breathe
He's a loaded gun, an American Dream
A nightmare, corporate fantasy.
As your eyes flashed from the tear gas blast
Black baton, white knuckle
Pentagon cash
So tell me what is it that you need?
As society watches you bleed
As tensions rise we find the mess that we're in
Where justice presides, paper thin
Then your eyes flashed from the tear gas blasts
Black baton, white knuckle
Pentagon cash
They sit and sleep on the sidelines
Watch and watch and watch, watch the decline
Their faded faces that history erases
Are forgotten in due time
Now I see that you're taking no chances
Don't shake the system
Avoid all circumstances
Stare into space
While you're washing the dishes
Lock the door
Pray away
Selfish wishes
The time will come
They say God understands
No sacrifice without blood on your hands
And for all your obedient ways
They'll reward you
For how you behaved
Are you still buying everything you're sold?
Is there still dignity in just getting old?
Still throwing stones from the pyramid schemes
Making love to your
White picket dreams
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2. |
News For You
05:20
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The fires burn, from a mile away
The smell of smoke, diesel, crushed metal
The sirens scream, all night and throughout the day
Now the pressure's on the petal
The blind servants merge on the counterattack
They'll paint a different picture
So where's the truth in that?
The story's old, and so it's been sold out before
But things are different now
These signs you can't ignore
They say such revolution
Is just in fashion, man
All of your self-delusions
Against their master plan
They hold the dice and the cards, darling
You'd better cheat while you can
Cheat while you can
So does it take your own daughters and sons to die
For you to wake on up
Stop pushing this aside
They say the calm is right before the storm
Then chaos factors in
As the tide turns
Moving, shaping, crashing, burning
Out of the ashes, what have we learned?
Seeking, holding truth to power
Beyond the realm of human concern
We've seen it all
We know what they'll do
I'll toe the line
But I've got news for you
See I've got news for you
All of the questions need the answers
We deserve to know
We need more comfort from this misery
Then just another candle to hold
As your friends drift away like a ghost
Who were the ones you loved the most?
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3. |
Lost The Plot
04:29
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Take at look at yourself now
See all the choices that you made
Looking for room to grow
Turned the page past the names
Emotions set to stone
You begged for the stage
Sociopathic in trades
Abandoned and left to roam
In a windowless room
That you called a home
It seems you lost the plot
You know you did
You damaged kid
Remember all you lost in those forgotten years
It seems you lost the plot
It ended all in tears
You damaged kid
Remember all you lost in those golden years
The selfish revenge
Of complex designed
You lost friends along the way
But now you're feeling fine
Burnt and banished from the sun
Shadows eclipsed a golden dawn
As the rain did fall
For a harvest to have
But you kept it all
It seems you lost the plot
You know you did
You damaged kid
Remember all you lost in those golden years
It seems you lost the plot
It ended all in tears
You damaged kid
Remember all you lost in those forgotten years
Look to forgiveness unplanned
Smooth the three poisons from your hands
A wise man says and knows
To learn, to live and let it go
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4. |
Dharma
05:17
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My dharma
My emotions are a troubled sea
Trying to break free from the curse
When life goes from good to bad
The magnet attracts all the worst
When pressure's suffocating
All the things I hate come to play
In dying mystery the blue light
Flashed and ripped half my heart away
Calling Mr. Pharmacy
Looking up to the cloud
I know just what you make of me
I wanted to feel like a child
When life goes from good to bad
The magnet attracts all the worst
My emotions are a troubled sea
Trying to break free from the curse
I know what you still make of me
Wanting to feel like a child
Calling Mr. Pharmacy
Looking up to the cloud
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5. |
Enough To Drive You Mad
06:33
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In circles how we ran
Searching for a divine plan
Looked up to the skies to see
The sun crashing through the trees
Then reality starts to crack
It's enough to drive you mad
Beyond the looking glass
So far, so gone, never coming back
Off your head like a spinning wheel
Hyper-numb to how you feel
Are you scared, alone or sad?
Its enough to drive you mad
Crushed to death by the machine
Marked by the beast of the routine
No heartstrings, no melody
No voices calling you and me
Never to be alone or sad
It's enough to drive you mad
Remembering all the things we had
It's enough to drive you mad
The sky will open, swallow us intact
Then rip us open and throw us back
The chaos of the quantum track
It's enough to drive you mad
The waters testing you and me
With such uncertainty
It's enough to drive you mad
All the good things that went bad
All the good things that we had
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6. |
Life-Line
05:19
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Things are complicated, I know
Mend your heart so it can heal
Take comfort in your solitude
Remember the time it felt real
The picture of a perfect world
A gathering, a flag unfurled
No wicked words
To twist the nerves
Both the psyche and the soul
Running hot out of control
Then returning back
To the balancing act
Tonight
You're mine
The life
The line
The pressure is still driving in
So much is lost
Oh how to win
Against these crooked vultures
Turning us against each other
So I wipe away every tear
I know the end is drawing near
It's a dark time, friends
So why deny
Why pretend?
Tonight
You're mine
The life
The line
Something has to change now
Something has to bend
To love or to fail
Is how this will end.
Things are complicated, I know
Mend your heart so it can heal
Take comfort in your solitude
Take the time you have left
Tonight
You're mine
The life
The line
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7. |
Safety In Numbers
04:20
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Lucky you,
You came out untarnished
With all your highbrow friends
In your white-bred ways
Making hand over fist
Topping the list
Thoughts and prayers for days
Living large when conspiracy's king
Making bank from the chaos that it brings
Old tricks
Transfixed
The prey
The grift
Pimping out the devil's daughter
Still raising hell and high water
The ruling caste the spells we're under
Watch the pendulum
It swings, it swings, it swings and...
All the while the caged bird sings
You can't have nice things
The odds are stacked against you
The walls keep closing in
And one day to the next
It's either us or them
It's safety in numbers
The social siren cries
And you can see the madness
Behind their eyes
Its safety in numbers
The social siren cries
The hive mind's algorithm
As the needle stings
The concept of security
The so-called safety that it brings
And all the while the caged bird sings
You can't have nice things.
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8. |
Nothing To Prove
04:26
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Love me or hate me
I've nothing to prove to you
Don't go away now
We have so far to go
Have lots of affection
For a heart of gold
If you don't believe in something
It'll only drive you so far
What are you going to do when it all blows away?
So many people
Knocking at your door
You're such a glutton for punishment
Acting like such a child
Baby talks, never listens
You're testing my patience
I'm begging you
I'm begging you please
To change your style
Love me or hate me
I've nothing to prove to you
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9. |
Strong Survive
04:56
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Only the strong survive
But I've got my eyes on you
As God is their witness
Makes you suffer in sickness
The death toll climbs
Rising above you with the story they sell you
And pardon their crimes
Holy rollers seize control
The power, the glory holds
Their white washed minds
Custom suits and ties
Tailor made for these biblical times
Only the strong survive
But I've got my eyes on you
The war against their grand alliance
Deaf and dumb in sheer defiance
The tall tales they tell
Corrupt the truth
With each passing day who will survive?
Out of control, set to collide
Deflect and deny
The numbers don't lie
This is my hope for you
That you make it through somehow
This isolation's supposed to save us
Stand up and fight
Not a moment too soon
Just light the way
Drag us out of the dark ages
Drag us into the day
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10. |
America How Are You
07:17
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America, America how are you?
You seem so sick
The last time I had checked in you had checked out
You're not making the grades anymore
I'm worried about you
Squirming in their seats, demanding refunds
Saying the joke's not funny anymore
Sequel after prequel after sequel
The tickets aren't worth the dirty floors
No one cares about your starlet's daydreams
They're blocking up the doors
Concession stand sells only ammunition
I can't take anymore
America how are you?
Still worried about you
America, America how are you
I'm worried about you
I need someone, I need someone to love me
No matter what I do
The promise of a shining city faded
I tried to make it true
But now it's just an exercise in history
Written by a privileged few
But now it's just an exercise in history
Written for a privileged few
and I can't sell a hundred thousand torches
Then say I wasnt coming after you
So I draw all the blinds
I don't suffer fools
For the things that they do
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