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DIG IT
There's an abscess of distain
on the ghost who shares my name
who's forever cursed to wander empty space
Trapped inside an endless loop
Feeding off the risk I choose
With a million splinters but not one escape
And I made peace with my truth
As I grasp for absolute
But everything I touch is bathed in gray
You don’t have to be alone
If you don’t mind laying here next to me
Right now I know it hurts so much
But you gotta let the wind blow
You don’t have to be the only
It’s not precious if it’s empty
We’ll break down to beneath stone
Oh we’ll let the pieces go…
All the hours of wasted time,
All the words that have no rhyme
Oh I stumble blindly thru my bland charade
Now the hours they turn to days
Torturing my bleeding brain
I can’t help thinking that I’ve lost my way
You don’t have to be alone
If you don’t mind laying here next to me
Right now I know it hurts so much
But you gotta let the wind blow
You don’t have to be the only
It’s not precious if it’s empty
We’ll break down to beneath stone
Oh you let the pieces go…
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Brand New Enemy
05:06
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BRAND NEW ENEMY
Do you remember?
When we were kids?
We made a promise to each other that we would sit,
Hands clasped together, on your parents front lawn
And we would watch as the planes came, and the mushroom clouds erupt
And then swallow up the city and the mountains and the ocean
We never thought that we would live long enough to be fathers,
I’m still doubtful but I dream of it and I hope that I am wrong
Broken your promise, now we got a brand new enemy
We’ll find our way to go
Together
There was a human who created a concept
That there’s good guys and there’s bad
And that freedom needs protecting and that protection comes from weapons
But those weapons escalate much further than the point they made
And their impact would create
Nothing
Broken your promise, now we got a brand new enemy
We’ll find our way to go
Together
Oh my dear friend gone away
Why did you have to go?
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Signal Flares
04:11
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SIGNAL FLARES
The second amendment is wrapped in Teflon
Cause now no bill is bulletproof
Nothing but arguments on either side
Nothing has changed except the sobering truth
That even after twenty elementary school school kids
Were murdered by a child not much older than them
People cried out for policy makers to change,
But nothing really happened everything stayed the same.
Now it’s just pain and misplaced blame, bloodstains
People trying to make names with no shame
Goddammit it’s insane.
And it’s happening over and over again…
With an AR-15 or an AK-47
A MAC-10, Tech-9, 357
Could we change at all?
Oh that would never happen
No, never.
Nobody has the answer, no one knows what to do
I’m so sick of feeling helpless and feeling like a fool
Every time another kid goes and shoots up a school
Well it’s twenty four hours and it’s on to the next news
Desensitized to senseless violence
Nothing but deafening silence coming from both sides of this
With a weapon of war you cannot miss
But it ain’t our kid so we don’t do shit
And it’s still pain and misplaced blame, and bloodstains
People trying to make names with no shame
Goddammit it’s insane.
And it’s happening over and over again…
With an AR-15 or an AK-47
A MAC-10, Tech-9, 357
Could we change a thing?
Oh that would never happen
No, never.
Gritting my teeth I think,” Have we lost our minds?”
While I’m looking at blurry pictures with these tears in my eyes
And meanwhile some politicians out to make a fortune
enforcing the agendas of their greatest endorsers.
Sure enough they know what they did
When they sold their conscience to the highest bid
Hiding behind the party, pandering
But your thoughts and your prayers don’t do a damn thing
it’s still pain and misplaced blame, and bloodstains
People trying to make a name,
It’s so shameless.
Goddammit it’s insane.
And it’s happening over and over and over again…
With an AR-15 or an AK-47
A MAC-10, Tech-9, 357
Could we change at all?
Oh that would never happen
No, never.
We love our AR-15s and our AK-47s
Our MAC-10s, Tech-9s, and 357s
Could we change a thing?
Oh that would never happen
No, never.
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Capable Predator
04:32
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CAPABLE PREDATOR
Stop that King
No keeps to raid but it ain’t no thing
Can’t see when you pray without a candle
You struggle or you sink
To the fiend who would end all things
You thought that you could bleed
But you’re wrong
Capable Predator
I’ll be the next one to leave here you can be sure
Hot edge and silent roar
The man in the gray suit will beat me back to the shore
Dead eyes and tidal bore
I’ll be the next one, who knows?
Betty didn’t like the call the widowers way
But that didn’t stop her from drawing tears all from his face
She got a showbox of our pockmark gaze
That I didn’t remember…
Opiates and Adderall in rarified space
With a pretty young thing
Who will do what I say
So you better not function, or you’ll be like the rest of us…
Heard that you’d be leaving this town but I saw you
Standing outside your door
Looking like you did before
Capable Predator
The man in the gray suit is beneath me but I can’t be sure
Dead eyes and tidal bore
I’ll be the next one, you know?
Capable Predator
I’ll be the next one to leave here
You can be sure
Hot edge and silent roar
I’ll be the next one, you know.
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Nuevo Primero
03:11
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NUEVO PRIMERO
You didn’t love her
You were just lost with nowhere to run
Hoped it’d get better
You couldn’t fix it
She was gone before you’d begun
Eschewed by another
Is it wrong to know better?
Isn’t it wrong to know better and run?
No one wants to start over, so let’s begin
Somebody told me
You couldn’t find your reason why
Somebody told me
Your belief had died
Somebody told me
Whispered that you had something to hide
Somebody told me
But it slipped my mind…
Always a rumor
Maybe there’d been someone
But it’s just a rumor…
Something was different
You would stare hours at the sun
Trying to see it
Groping for a loose end that you’ll never know
Somebody told me
You couldn’t find your reason why
Somebody told me
Your belief had died
Somebody told me
Whispered that you had something to hide
Somebody told me
But it slipped my mind…
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Mourning Dove
04:15
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MOURNING DOVE
Mourning dove flies
Your muppet bird
You’re not tired from work
Illiterate puzzle tomb, still smarts
Kill heart
With your poison
Oh you pray to your god
And you’re mystified by immortal
Cheap trick from an alien fraud
You aid and you bleed
Like an ape with a scythe and a manger
Crowded around all the radiant light
I got the dorian mode and my video game
Alone in my room with my mistake
Only time I could remember those sterile white walls was when
We went to say goodbye to my great-grandma
Hospital gowns and my little brother’s crying
Cause our mother tried again to take the easy way out
Ten years old and the doctor said, ”Son, you’ve got to be the man of the house now”
Oh you pray to your god
And you’re mystified by immortal
Cheap trick from an alien fraud
You aid and you bleed
Like an ape with a scythe and a manger
Crowded around all the radiant light
I still got the pentatonic scale and my video game
Alone in my room with my mistake
Only thing that I remember was the floral wall paper
When we went to say goodbye to my great-grandmother
Hospital gowns and my little brother’s crying
Cause our mother tried again to take the easy way out
Ten years old and the doctor said, ”Son, you’ve got to be the man of the house now”
Break down I play the part
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