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Watch all the way through to the end crawl
For the message they send
Keep awake for the epilogue
To see who's alive at the end
When your insides are in pieces there is no inner peace
Too much of not enough suspended disbelief
The new muse begs for a song
And it's all right I've got all night to get it wrong
Cut to the close up, embrace for impact
Plot holes cut deep my friend
Cross dissolve it all fade out to black and now
Won't get schooled again
Gently fed force perspectives all by electronic feed
Tossed out bits no one's buying
All wants mutate to needs
The new muse begs for a song
And it's all right I've got all night to get it wrong
And it's in you and it is strong
Hold me tight we've got till light to get along
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Stabacab
02:39
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I heard loud and clear a voice from on high
Deafening and terrible it was a distant cry
The deity required blood be shed by innocents
Jesus, Jehovah, Allah and Shiva demand obedience
No one, no thing will sway me from my task
Nose to the grindstone puts the edge on the axe
I don't wanna face it
I don't even know if I can
I don't wanna face it
I don't even know if I can
Infidels must pay the price, the currency is red
Divintiy rejects their souls but welcomes their dead
Eternity of paradise awaits when I am through
Another one will take my place there's so much work yet to do
The axe begs to grind again and I do too
I don't wanna face it
I don't even know if I can
I don't wanna face it
I don't even know if I can
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3. |
Wise Beyond Your Beers
03:11
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You maintained the element of surprise
When you laid out your argument
And retracted your affections
I surmise that I failed your experiments
I don't begrudge your bureaucratic habits
And your judgement I will not besmirch
But I still question your conclusions
'cause the findings you found, I find still hurt
Only the good stays with me
But you remember only tears
Your good judgement to desert me
You were wise beyond your beers
So you put two and two together
You crunched the numbers in your head
Something added up to less than murder
But somehow the love was still found dead
You never made your decisions lightly
You led by your intuition
Because my chivalry was far from (k)nightly
You deduced it was the logical end
Only the good stayed with me
And you remember only tears
Your good judgement to forget me
You were wise beyond your beers
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4. |
The Eagle Has Spoken
02:20
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Place your children on the altar
Goodbye mothers, hello fodder
Blood for a low interest fee
At the Eagle's request you'd give it for free
Why you revere such a bird?
You feed it red blood and it gives you white turds
And your babies may be broken
But the Eagle has spoken
And now it's all alright
And your babies may be broken
But the Eagle has spoken
And now it's all alright
Swap your future for tiny baubles
Simple rousing all the rabble
Blood for a low interest fee
At the Eagle's request you'd give it for free
Why you revere such a bird?
You feed it red blood and it gives you white turds
And your babies may be broken
But the Eagle has spoken
And now it's all alright
But your baby may be broken
And the Eagle has spoken
And so it's now all alright
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5. |
Ice Cream Float
02:59
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When I feel this river roll beneath me
It's not the destination but the ride
For I know I will be floating somewhere
And there's ice cream on the other side
As you drift you'll take in all the faces
And so you don't mind to give away your smiles
And in this sweet, short life we all must learn some patience
Enjoy the queue 'cause it goes on for miles
It's a winding path that leads up to the on ramps
And a straighter route you may never find
Well it's the bends and turns that really work to shape us
These close encounters of another kind
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6. |
Other Way
03:31
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Stay on your side
Let the waves come to life
And sing out all they know
There's a dream down in a hole
That means nothing no more
Is that what you wanna be
A new philosophy
On mountain high
Think of help
You will find
The pain is dead
If you run away it can't come easy
You gotta pay
There's no other way
Let go what trips your mind
And the pain you keep inside
I wanna be your key and set you free
There's a dream down in a hole
That means nothing no more
Is that what you wanna be
A new philosophy
On mountain high
Think of help
You will find
The pain is dead
If you run away it can't come easy
You gotta pay
There's no other way
There's a dream down in a hole
That means nothing no more
Is that what you wanna be
A new philosophy
On mountain high
Think of help
You will find
The pain is dead
If you run away it can't come easy
You gotta pay
There's no other way
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How can you not choke
On the deceptive words spoke
And this feast of lies
Bitter pills bitter truths
You swallow all the time
Cough up your next lung
With a rebuke from no one
Spout your ratings and size
Bitter pills bitter truths
You swallow all the time
Take hook and sinker
Just you keep blinkered
In a daze gone high
Bitter pills bitter truths
You swallow all the time
Do it
With your feelings
As you do it with your pride
Bitter pills bitter truths
You swallow all the time
How can you not choke
On the deceptive words spoke
And this feast of lies
Bitter pills bitter truths
You swallow all the time
So shout out your next lung
Rebuked by no one
Spout your ratings and size
Bitter pills bitter truths
You swallow all the time
Take hook and sinker
Just you keep blinkered
In a daze gone high
Bitter pills bitter truths
You swallow all the time
Do it
With your feelings
As you do it with your pride
Bitter pills bitter truths
You swallow all the time
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8. |
Ruthless
02:36
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She tried to come out upright
We turned her upside down
First and last time she was ever pushed around
She was cut out for it
Make a hole and make it wide
Decrees and proclamations garbled in her cries
I don't wanna be ruthless
Witness what I've become
Outgunned and outnumbered
Scent of blanket, rule of thumb
I'd ransom the world if'n I had to pay
Just to be more Ruth full each and every day
The fire in her guts that hard luck can't put out
She'll tell you where you can go
And what you can do with yourself
Ten is not enough for her tenacity
And her love fills our hearts up to capacity
I don't wanna be ruthless
Witness what I've become
Outgunned and outnumbered
Scent of blanket, rule of thumb
I'd ransom the world if'n I had to pay
Just to be more Ruth full each and every day
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9. |
The Cruelest Math
03:39
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It lies in wait already much too late
When you let your guard down
And you lie awake the thought you can't shake
You never know you'll be gone
You break it you bought it
You got no fight left 'cause you already fought it
And you seek now and you sought how
To catch on to what you caught now
So prophetic, don't you flaunt it
Pathologies don't work like you want it
I wish that we could live forever
Or push this moment back a little more
But time is now, now you must sever
All that you knew from your life before
Fed drips down a tube there's nothing you can do
The hourglass of your last days
Rapid flows and quick, symptoms of the sick
As the fluid drains away
You break it you bought it
You got no fight left 'cause you already fought it
And you seek now and you sought how
To catch on to what you caught now
So prophetic, don't you flaunt it
Pathologies don't work like you want it
I wish that we could live forever
Or push this moment back a little more
But time is now, now you must sever
All that you knew from your life before
Our final words on the phone
Set adrift all alone
You decided to let go
You break it you bought it
You got no fight left 'cause you already fought it
And you seek now and you sought how
To catch on to what you caught now
So prophetic, don't you flaunt it
Pathologies don't work like you want it
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10. |
Blood In The Water
02:30
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Enough discussion
I've had enough
Your shit smells Russian
They called your bluff
Your blank expression
Your withered heart
Just another toy to tear apart
You gotta live with yourself
But not for long
And you gotta lie by yourself
Covered in your wrongs
You can't blame the Devil when you sold your soul
Red tides are turning
Your time is up
The chum is churning
Now the frenzy comes
Blood in the water
A custom shade
Ersatz daughter
Designer bag
You gotta live with yourself
But not for long
And you gotta lie by yourself
Covered in your wrongs
You can't blame the Devil when you sold your soul
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11. |
Hive Minds
02:24
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The wasps came in thick as a fog
Hornets rained down from above
The bees blotted out the sun from the sky
I'll distract the swarm away
The sting is what sets you back
Send dance in the drones for your next attack
And the burn digs deep to stay
I'll distract the swarm away
A mistake to beat the nest with a stick
Well, the hive minds and takes exception to it
Colony, uncollapsed joins the fray
And I'll distract the swarm away
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12. |
Hancock Concierge
03:16
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Up the stairs
The pair missing sights unclean
Urgent call
Contaminate crime scene
Pharma charms
Become legendary fiends
Price unpaid
Curtains drawn, opus answering machine
This is where the Hancock Concierge
Held domain
Three-year reign
Razed and refused by the hand of doom
Now ruined tomb
Extinguishers
Put out party quick as light
Blanket room
In fallout from the fight
Morning's late
To forget about the night
Waste laid
The place paved
Winter blunderland of white
This is where the Hancock Concierge
Held domain
Three-year reign
Razed and refused by the hand of doom
Now ruined tomb
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