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55 Beats Off
04:08
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drum machine kick with reverb turns on
to mimic a familiar sound
it is but a representation of a person
could say the same thing about something else
but maybe you're not so bothered by that
after all, it's not the beat itself you want
you just want to feed off the idea
and in the other corner we have a challenger
although I don't know what they're fighting against
they are but a recreation of an opposition
could say the same about something else
their special trick is dangling a carrot
hostaging hope as a tactic of war
they posture nicely I guess but what good is posturing for?
what is the meaning of the phrase "pro-life"?
what life are you supporting?
the theoretical ideal of a person as you envision it?
or the breathing flesh statues that hate you?
so even if life began at conception
why do you treat birth like death?
I guess it's pointless to notice
making sense was never your strongest suit
you just want to hold the world as you burn it
you're for nothing
you promise nothing
you deliver nothing
not as in absence, but elimination
you follow through
because they won't touch you
are we enough to stop world domination?
you're for nothing
you ask for nothing
you stand for nothing
they're for nothing
they stand for nothing
recite our new anthem
death begins at birth
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this is a cry for help
it's easter sunday
and i'm wide awake
i've given up sleeping
with nothing to take
and i'm losing it
and the clock's broken 4
and it's marching towards 5
and i've never really felt
quite so alive
than wanting to die
i've been listening to an old wizard
god of time
talking about life as a touring punk
40 years ago
i'd like to think times were different
but really i almost wish they weren't
i wish i could worry when my next meal was
i wish nazis would beat the shit out of me
i wish i could be loathed just for looking at someone
and then i remember it's 4:30 in the morning
and when i'm thinking i'll remember how much i hate even the idea of touring
much less glamorizing its worst aspects
which is all of them
i'd rather stay home for the rest of my life
than see the world from a stage
this is a cry for help
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Wall As I Am
02:19
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i will never be the one to hold your empty heart and make it full
and you will never see it through to change that and to try would be a fool
i, wall as i am, have made my mind up and i know where it makes me stand
you will have to settle for a medal made of plastic that crumbles in your hand
but that doesn't mean i don't care how you're doing all the time
i still wish you better travels and greater stays
my heartbeat doesn't crack my chest open when i think about you
doesn't mean that i don't count the days
i hoist my flag atop a hill of many grays and violets
and if you dig a hole so deep enough, you'll find something inside it
a living space of many little feelings, stoned and watching tv
just because i don't feel love doesn't mean nothing is inside of me
and that...
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Gunfingers
00:25
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In a perfect world
You would be able
To pick a fight
And always win it
And shape this world
To be in your image
And everyone
Could be their god
And in this world
Where everyone wins
Everyone dies
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And She Cried
01:58
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morning comes home as the widow denies there's a change
it's night everywhere and that certainly isn't so strange
blank as the walls is the face on her head
something is missing but nobody's dead
surely it's someone who couldn't come home
they had other plans arranged
hold on forever, she says to herself at the dawn
the elephant can't enter her room so it's out on the lawn
lying to keep herself inside
crying so nothing there is dried
trying to ponder an answered question
of where special someone has gone
mourning comes home as the widow denies there's a change
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The Day The 80s Died
00:23
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Historians will tell you the 80s died when the year became 1990
Or maybe 1991 when Nirvana became the Kings
I have yet to see the rest of the world realize this
Because in 40 years we’re doing all of the same things
The same countries are bombing the same civilians
The music is using the same tricks
The movies feature the same action sequences
And the money stays in the same hands
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Album count: 49.
Release count: 137.
Song count: 1447.
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