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Follow That Sound
02:31
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Self doubt
We’ll find a better way
Look out
Here comes today
Rewind
The thoughts of what reminds
Behind
My reflex to complain
Failure
I won’t accept
Come round
Second attempt
There’s nothing
That’s something we can’t fix
Home in
What’s missing from the mix
We will find our way follow that sound
Our feet are standing on this hollow ground
If the stage is home it’s better shared
with our friends all around
Future
Is what we make
Compare
Or how we break
Accept
it sits there straight ahead
Too late to
Turn around instead
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2. |
Encampment
02:59
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Been there twice
She’s been there twice
Doesn’t like how the tap water tastes
It’s like all the bad things running through those pipes
Paying the price
Struggle through another broken promise
Kinda like all the bad friends running through her life
she asks herself
What did we do now to deserve it
is there a better life on a better side of here
it’s a game in itself
where no one really wins
we just play and play till there’s nothing left to lose
Rolling the dice
Justify all these sketchy choices
When you’re out of options and nothing seems worse than this
Living with this vice
It’s a crutch as much as an anchor
Says she’ll look ahead after living through tonight
Just one more pop
Kill the feeling with an illusion
When the street’s done chewing you up it’s gunna spit you out
you can’t make it stop
always searching for an exit
when you stop counting days and week and months and years
when you stop counting days and week and months and years
we’re all far from home
and we’re only getting further
bread crumb all gone stale and she’s lost the trail
what does she say
as she sits still watching the world turn
She said
sinners go to church saints go to jail
sinners go to church saints go to jail
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3. |
Wretched of the Earth
02:56
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4. |
Rift
02:46
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5. |
Sometimes Everyone Sucks
02:38
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Sometimes Everyone sucks
It’s hard to admit times will change
Some people hold on to beliefs they refuse to exchange
Topics not questioned or allowed to discuss
When traditional values are gone
Is it systemic collapse or just that we re ready to move on
Stand for L G B T Q I A Plus
It’s not hard to find
Someone to blame
For how shitty it’s got but deep down we’re all kinda the same
everyone sucks
everyone’s someone else
I’m not saying tolerate hate
Keep smashing those crosses And punching those nazis right square in the face
Some beliefs I just refuse to relate
Are we destined to always go fight
Or is the Solution trapped in the fact… everyone can’t always be right
Is there a truth non of us can debate
divide us as woke
or for trump
it’s a big gap between us I don’t think that anyone can jump
everyone sucks
everyone’s someone else
SOLO
the world’s really big
with all different kinds
of cultures and people who clearly are out of their minds
everyone sucks
everyone’s someone else
we don’t have to agree
that everything’s fine
just let people be people and if nothing else ever aligns
everyone sucks
everyone’s someone else
you’re not always right
you’re not always wrong
but I won’t wish you dead if we just don’t really get along
Cuz everyone sucks
everyone’s someone else
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6. |
Cardboard Sign
02:09
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But what about them
I can pay my rent this month but what about them
I can afford to own a car but what about them
I even bought the fancy vegan food
That I said I couldn’t afford
So I guess I’m doing fine what what about them
I get to sleep somewhere warm but what about them
I can even lock my door but what about them
I can take my life for granted that I have a stupid job to work
So I guess I’m doing fine but what about them
Standing with a cardboard sign
Fells like…we’ve leaving behind
Another victim
Of circumstance
don’t point at being lazy
A few bad choices one day it could be me
Or you
Or you
Or you
We can cancel social programs but what about them
We can say it lowers taxes but what about them
We can tear down affordable housing and build more air B N B
So i guess we’re doing fine but what about them
Struggle through everyday
kinda sounds different to say
When you have nothing
Fuckin nothing
the problem won’t go away
a few bad choices it could be me one day
or you
or you
or you
I can give out bottles of water it might help them
I can treat them like one another it might help them
I can even check my pockets when someone stuck screaming for change
…I know it won’t fix the problem but it might help them
I know it isn’t easy but what about them
I know I’m doing fine but what about them
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7. |
Fool Me Twice
02:08
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Follow your heart
Of follow your greed
Cuz you’re never quite sure where either might lead
Fool me once
Or fool me twice
I should’ve known not to take a moron’s advice
A empire lead by endless war doesn’t sound like paradise
It’s easy to loose reality when you’re left to your own device
Best foot forward
Or best foot back
Or put them both in mouth cuz who’s keeping track?
So take your turn
Take mine too
Take advantage of the ones Who don’t have a clue
Call it living your life
No time to stop
Just let us all know if it’s lonely on top
Tell us doing the right thing always ends in tragedy
tell us all our enemies would do the same if they were me
prove an iron fist is all that can steer this crazy world
the harder that you try to hold the better chance it’ll all unfurl
Tell us all lies
Make us see
Capitalism means moire for me
Capitalism means moire for me
I don’t think Capitalism means more for me
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8. |
Walls
03:47
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These Wall
These walls we’re all told are our freedom
Or the loaded guns that keep us all safe
Our faith in big money political systems
All these changes they promise to make
You can see it how we wear our expressions
Most people have not much to lose
Some put in the work
Others talk all the talk
As they doom scroll their personal news
We’re just dead for now
We’re just dead for now
Were just dead for now
But I won’t stop trying and trying
if you don’t give up on me
It’s hard to see past the distractions
Oil prices the lies and the beer
Unelected officials keep changing the rules
But promise there’s nothing to fear
So sell us more drugs and more fast food
Make the problems easy to ignore
Privatize profits, police and the court house
Regardless of who we implore
We’re just dead for now
We’re just dead for now
Were just dead for now
I will keep screaming as long as I breath
We’re just dead for now
We’re just dead for now
Were just dead for now
I won’t stop trying and trying
if you don’t give up on
You can’t change the world if you can’t change yourself
Put into practice or put on the shelf
Keep close your mind and keep close your health
Maybe on day you can help someone else
It’s not like I have all the answers
I guess we’ve all heard it before
When GDP numbers become priority
Building bombs before feeding the poor
So next time we fight for our country
It’s not what we bring what we take
Are we called heroes outside of our borders?
Or is it all for the money we make
We’re just dead for now
We’re just dead for now
Were just dead for now
Were just dead for now
Were just dead for now
Were just dead for now
Were just dead for now
But I won’t stop trying and trying
if you don’t give up on
if you don’t give up on
if you don’t give up on me
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9. |
Ambitious Heart
04:14
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It’s the kinda bad news we want to forget
You see your whole life as an instant regret
In a minor office somewhere
At a major intersection past noon
Cycle emotions as you think who to call
Your voice will be shaking and the tales be tall
We’re all dying inside
never thought that might mean some day soon
You can pull over angry by the side of the road
You can punch at the wheel and kinda explode
It’s not hard to explain
In the end it’s not all of you fault
We all run out of reason to pretend we don’t care
We run out of excuses of why were not there
We all run out of hope
In the end we all run from ourselves
I should have lived better should have saw all the clues
I should have quit smoking maybe eased on the booze
I should have told off my boss and quit my dumb job years ago
It’s so hard to plan life when you can’t read the signs
In the pessimistic times when mortality reminds
The clock is still ticking and non of us know when she’ll blow
doctors leap into action as they probe you and pill you
We can start you on chemo, even though it might kill you
It’s a good thing we caught it when we did
But you’re not out of the woods
You’ll remember the days you weren’t cold in a sweater
You remember the times when feelling a lot better
Wasn’t each conversation
You remember when friends were just friends
It’s already years since you heard in remission
No one could have guessed you’d be in this position
Almost feels like you’re starting from scratch at 50 years old
Friends all got busy New jobs and new lives
Some got divorced new husbands new wives
Let’s hang out real soon and we’re all really glad you pulled through
There’s a time in our life we all ask why we fight
Why we don’t just surrender walk into the light
Life’s what you make it’s too easy to watch it all fall
I would trade all the lessons for a reason to learn
But wouldn’t trade all the knowledge to lose the concern
The burden it is, I wouldn’t trade in this ambitious heart
The burden it is I wouldn’t trade in this ambitious heart
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10. |
Coals
03:08
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It’s not written in the coal however you rake
It’s not clearly marked down on the path you take
Truth and torture all aside
When there’s nowhere left to hide
It’s not written in the coals however you rack
It’s not clearly portrayed in a crystal ball
It’s not easy standing up when you bound to fall
What’s the point if we begin
When no one’s listening
It’s not clearly portrayed n a crystal ball
A feeling in between us
We never wanna discuss
Throw our hands up wildly
Regrets to put it mildly
Dance around the silence
These fictitious acts of kindness
If you let us go
We’ll never have a chance to grow
It’s not written in the tea no matter how you stir
It’s always vaguely half remembered as a blur
Better days and better time
Hold the details out of mind
It’s not written in the tea no matter how you stir
It’s not broadcast in the news or on tv
It’s not hidden in between pictures you see
It’s …. not quite all a lie
A bit of truth to keep you tied
It’s not broadcast in the news or on tv
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11. |
Backlit
04:04
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A back lit man meanders to and fro
I squint to trace the outline as he slowly fades away
He turns his head to see what’s left to show
The strangers that he’d recognize outweigh the friend he’d know
So shoot all the messengers and their innocence of fault
The barer of bad news is always first against the wall
Tell the king the castle’s breached there’s demons closing in
To watch him squirm and churn and weave regretting every sin
Well this life is a nightmare
He stumbles out withdrawing from the crowd
Gripping grasping clawing at the walls to hold him up
His’ stare is black and vile to the sky
Believe in those who seek the truth but finding it’s a lie.
So throw captain overboard this vessel now be mine
Fly the flag of wickedness a blacken heart arise
Stain the seas dark red with blood no innocent survive
A relic of forgotten hate is all that burns inside
this life is a nightmare
Life is a nightmare
Life is a nightmare
Well if our struggle is depression
Lonesome habits are the tell
What’s done is done if we’re the cause then save us from ourselves
I’m just selfish and divided
I’m just ignorant and cruel
But you only get to win the game by breaking every rule
so let’s burn the bridge let’s lock the door
let’s throw away the key
you won’t need friends where we are going all you need is me
i will isolate and permeate
the reasons in our minds
if you make it past the gate you won’t survive the ride
As we go further and further and further and further down
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