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Verse
I guess these days a lot is on my mind.
Disintegration of all humankind.
Keep getting high to stay inside this haze.
The music brings me back to easy days.
Chorus
When all comes spiralling down, we're all alone.
Get on your feet, got 31 years to go.
Til then I'm gonna get my last shots in.
And make it known on tape of mankind's sin.
Verse
Money debt wall piling all round me.
Sealed up, locked in, I know I won't be free.
Burnt out, so I can't think of much to say.
Through all this time there was no better way.
Chorus
There's too much shit, the air is too damn thick.
The stage is set by selfish old white pricks.
Losers like us, caught inside a circus.
Boss man, crack your whip, cause we're worthless.
Chorus
What are we even doing now? (Repeat to end.)
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2. |
Tower Will Crash
07:51
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Verse
Let all disinterest lie to wash down in the ground.
I feel so dirty and jaded, let's bring down the moon.
Help me to shed away these heavy memories.
You are so toxic and twisted, we will crumble soon.
Chorus
The ice is melting now,
and no one here knows how,
but we know one way or another,
city is tumbling down.
The trees are burning up,
and it's still not enough,
this land is bound to be forsaken,
tower will crash around.
Verse
Force out resentment, stand to face up to them all.
I feel so seething and broken by republic gloom.
Help us to build again what Wallace prophesied.
No nuclear missiles and rockets pointing to our doom.
Chorus
Bridge
Too old to play that rock & roll,
(plants by my window dryin' up)
too sick to step outside today,
(eye-sockets open dryin' up)
too bitter, I can't swallow down,
(heave up my guts, I'm dryin' up)
to hateful of this eastern town
(scoop out my head, it's all dried up)
Verse
Block their construction, we won't let them build a wall.
I feel so hell-bound, determined, we've run outta room.
Help us clean all of the garbage that they left behind.
Right-wingers, wicked and wilted, this way to your tomb.
Chorus/Outro
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3. |
The Sun Will Rise
07:57
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Cold wind blows outside the pane
enveloping skin until it feels the same
waiting for breaths to slow down
for the hum of the fan to no longer make sound
cravings for sustenance, fuel of some kind
while pixels in screens cast ideas in my mind
hold on tight, don’t fade away
hold on tight, don’t fade away
keep checking and checking for she may draw near
look right and she will erase all your fears
go back to the door, remember the latch,
so you won’t think all your belongings are snatched
make your lines shorter again
contrasting the flow of a hard-wired brain
hold on tight, don’t fade away
hold on tight, don’t fade away
drop a line to an old friend
who’s been gone all these years, their story will end
erode whitewash whittle decay,
why in god’s name would you stay?
pace around plugged in tuned out
distract yourself from all the things that you doubt
hold on tight, don’t fade away
hold on tight, don’t fade away
caught in the grips one more time,
kill the black dog it is making you blind,
i promise the sun it will rise
let it pull all of that fog out your eyes
stretch your limbs out on the bed
let the release clear the thoughts in your head
hold on tight, don’t fade away
hold on tight, don’t fade away
i hope you all won’t leave me now
drift off to disparate spots in the crowd
dead flies collect in the web
caused by the nightmares and dreams as they ebb
a memory to me is not real
for i cannot make it express how i feel
hold on tight, don’t fade away
hold on tight, don’t fade away
hold on tight, don’t fade away
hold on tight, don’t fade away
The stream has passed us by.
The birds we left behind.
I will see you again,
so dry your tears my friends.
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4. |
I Must Go Home
07:54
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Verse
Such a shame we did not talk more,
in a time we lived in and knew before.
I feel a chill whenever I look back.
Thoughts form into ghosts as I lie flat.
Chorus
I give my hand to you,
I feel the chill has passed,
a hand I cannot see,
safe, green, soft valley grass.
Hazy dreams of river streams,
take me where I must go,
when on our own, it's where we're free,
so now I must go home.
Verse
So goddamn long, I feel I've been split in two,
between the man I am, and the boy I once knew.
Skies up in smoke, I wander through the fog,
hacking bile just like a poison frog.
Verse
I hardly sleep, cause I can't see you now.
Please, swear you're hiding, and won't make a sound.
I'll get to you as soon as I can.
Don't give up hope, cause now that's my final plan.
Chorus/Outro
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5. |
No More Blues
05:46
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Can a poor soul find some good word these days no more?
Can a poor soul find some good word these days no more?
Can a poor soul find some good word these days no more?
Here's some good word today. The banks have cracked and fallen down.
Here's some good word today. The banks have cracked and fallen down.
With no record of your purchase, they can't screw you in the ground.
Gee, I guess you're right, I ain't got money debt problems no more.
Cutting up my cards, now they can't catch me, and I'm out the door.
But that's no cause to be jubilant, nothing matters now no more.
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6. |
Vampire
05:00
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Verse
Broken one
taking all you can't muster
bleeding deeper.
Bitter one
lashing out at friends before
freezing over.
Weakened one
sinking down in that water
fading slower.
Chorus
Cast a line out, and draw someone in, I will not let you go.
Your eyes full o' love, I sink my teeth in, your blood begins to flow.
You can't pull away, cause I need you I say, I'll die with no-one here.
You fall down below, my knife to your throat, it's cause I love you dear.
Verse
Sickened one
blinded from all your ailments
cancer spreading.
Hateful one
hindered by your mind divide
feeling rotting.
Evil one
fallen grace no more chances
karma granted.
Chorus
Outro
Evil one, lost in your head forever, ever.
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7. |
Shut Me Off
06:38
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Verse
A voice speaks in my head, filling it with dread.
"Anxiety," I said, "I wish that I was dead."
A feeling in my soul, goes from pole to pole.
Tearing up these holes, so now I'm always cold.
Verse
An ache throughout my bones, from vices overblown.
Memories may not show, and life it may not grow.
An idea in my mind makes it all look fine,
to leave it all behind, reset and rewind.
Verse
A calling in my heart, says to make this art,
but deep down, I think in part, I'll fade into the dark.
A glitch in my DNA makes me act this way,
with foolish things to say, by day, by day, by day.
Verse
A thought creeps in the night, it rattles me with fright.
No matter if all's right, by night, by night, by night.
A bad thing got said here, something just was not clear.
Oh hatred, it spreads near, hatred spin my gears.
Bridge
A bridge just down the road,
I see that it has closed.
I can't bear with this load.
Psychotic episode.
An ocean down below
will be the final show,
that nobody will know,
and nobody will go.
Chorus/Outro
Please don't go,
I'm a loose pin now, and everybody knows.
If I die,
it'll be some peace away from all the time.
Take my breath,
take my life in yours, so there's no suffering left.
Shut me off,
this life is too abrasive when I'm on.
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8. |
We'll Meet Again
09:29
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9. |
IMC_FILE#07
01:46
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The following record is translated originally from the universal language used by the Interdime Management Collective to best emulate the phonetic language of this race.
"Should our resources we've found to date prove accuracy following intensive study, it should be the year 2050 in this race's calendar. Our observations show a toxic energy, unnatural to the ecosystem has been introduced into the atmosphere. This energy is believed to have been made for productive means by the dominant species, called "Homo sapiens." If the data we've gathered studying the affect this toxin has had on the atmosphere is correct, than it shows the toxin would have been released approximately in the year 2022 of this race's calendar."
"Thus, we conclude the society of this planet has been an inactive one for approximately 28 years. This correlation proves to be strong, for IMC personnel can only afford to withstand the atmosphere while studying it for incremental periods in minutes, the longest being 8 thus far, while using our organization's strongest protective equipment and measures."
"Further study of old documents that have survived show this toxic substance is called 'nuclear energy,' and the documents show the poison in the air is referred to as "radioactivity." This substance has multiple functions, two main ones being to power the socioeconomic mechanisms that made this society, and to make war. Evidence shows the race of this planet to be a primitive one."
"The strongest and most logical correlation we currently have is that this race failed to resolve inter-genetic differences and global economic differences, and that these failures led to societal and ecosystemic breakdown, simultaneously."
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10. |
Bonus: Time In a Bottle
02:30
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Faux Lives Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
Faux lives is a project fronted by Thomas Jared Whitman. Using a tape recorder, he captures memories, ghosts, and demons as they appear to him.
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