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Energy Of Slaves
04:58
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Shadows on the wall
Stuck in our caves
Machines dancing in harmony with their masters
Waking to the fire
The energy of slaves
The dream violently burning in the disaster
No one can help
No one can help
No one can help
This is something you can live through
No one can help
No one can help
No one can help
This is something you can get through
We built a world where every thought was onscreen
Demanding regimes to change faster
But in our youth we were too quick to build the guillotines
Cause winning was all that ever mattered
Off with our heads!
No one can help
No one can help
No one can help
This is something you can live through
No one can help
No one can help
No one can help
This is something you can get through
There was a time when all compassion dissolved
And nothing got solved
The world had devolved turning backwards
No one held to account for all the death and all the despair
The pace of extinction tiptoeing faster
No one can help
No one can help
No one can help
This is something you can live through
No one can help
No one can help
No one can help
This is something you can get through
God bless a miracle obscene
The bottomless greed, the would-be kings
The country on fire that pulses with youth
The disparate wealth and the failing of truth
(Writing on the wall again)
(Make our mother great again)
(Survival is my only friend)
(Terrified of what may come)
And I'm standing in line
And I'm learning to wait
For the bitterness of nothing
And I
I cannot stay
And no one can help
I’m so stuck in self
I prayed for a crisis
And god answered well
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Happy
03:02
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Everything is happening
To the corpse we’re inhabiting
The hollow grace
The chosen face
The padded place
We’re happy in
The happy potion does the trick
So none of us does get too sick
In happy cycles
Cyclicals
In loops of laughing
Hahahahahahahaha
You paint the world
the broadest strokes
We’re cornered in
We start to choke
And all two colors of the rainbow
Drown us in the apathy
(THE HAPPY HAPPY)
Sweet fucking rat race
‘Tis of thee
Conveyor belt of misery
An empty sold out factory
Where life is happy
All the time (hahahaha)
Is it everything you are?
Is it everything you wanted it to be?
Post/ Subscribe/ Like/ Comment
Boast/ Decry/ Lie/ Vomit
Nothing ever seems to happen
Now it happens
All the time
Post/ Subscribe/ Like/ Comment
Boast/ Decry/ Lie/ Vomit
Drag me away to the funny farm
Where life is happy
All the time
Post/ Subscribe/ Like/ Comment
Boast/ Decry/ Lie/ Vomit
Nothing ever seems to happen
Now it happens
All the time
Post/ Subscribe/ Like/ Comment
Boast/ Decry/ Lie/ Vomit
Drag me away to the funny farm
Where life is happy
Happy happy happy happy happy happy happy
Is it everything you are?
Is it everything you thought happy would be
Or is The Dream a deadly thing?
Is it everything you are?
Is it everything you thought happy would be
Or is The Dream a deadly thing?
Is it everything you are?
Is it everything you thought happy would be
Or is The Dream a deadly thing?
Is it everything you are?
Is it everything you thought happy would be
Or is The Dream a deadly thing?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhappy
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Medicine
04:56
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Regret was par the course
The venom whispered hoarse
No toxin ever felt the same
No chance that I'll repair my name
I’ve painted black the walls
The bargain made a cause
I’ve cleansed my house of aimless ghosts
Cut out the ones I needed most
I know this house just ain’t a home
I know that there is something wrong
I know that this is necessary baby
This is medicine
But I just don't want to take it anymore
I’ve painted black the walls
The bargain made a cause
I’ve cleansed my house of aimless ghosts
Expelled the ones I needed most
I know this house just ain’t a home
I know that there is something wrong
I thought that this was temporary baby
This was medicine
But I just don't wanna take it anymore
I think that this is getting scary baby
This is medicine
And I just don’t wanna take it anymore
I knew there's something wrong
I let it fester mold for oh so long
I covered up the holes
I kept the windows closed so no one knows
There's a fire baby inside of me
There's a fire so big it could burn everything
There's a fire baby inside of me
But inside these walls it’s just apathy
There's a fire baby inside of me
But inside these walls I'm a forfeited fiend
There's a fire so big it could burn the sky
But inside these walls a surrendering sigh
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To The Hill
04:34
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To keep the children eating fear
Like it’s a superfood
To keep the instincts trauma-clear
To cauterize the mood
To swallow every little thing they say
to change your destiny
To end up here seems like the furthest place
from where we thought we’d be
I can run I can seek without finding
I can fall I can fail without trying
I can make it to the hill without climbing
Breaking news:
faking truth
making millions on abuse
influence of flimsy views
Fluid wake of
Make it great
Make or break
Make her break her
Make us wake up
For the sake of
No escape from
Degradation
Generational
Erasure
There is no higher holy noose
To hang the scapegoat that we choose
Met with bureaucratic silence
Or threat of autocratic violence
I know that I will receive what’s given
I know that I will arrive where driven
I know that I will fall on every ear and no one will know my name
I know it’s not about me
But it could be
But it should be
Sometimes I am god
And sometimes I am
And sometimes I am
The wizard of
The wizard of
The wizard of Not
No shortcuts on the serpentine road
I can run I can seek without finding
I can fall I can fail without trying
I can make it to the hill without climbing
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I Know Now
05:15
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You the center of creation
You the force that turns the earth
You will drown us all in fire
I know now you got here first
I know now
I know now
I know
I know now
I know now
I know
I know now
I know now
I know
I KNOW I DO NOT BELONG
Pour my poison for your ruin
Wait for you to sing your song
Drink in spite of all your beauty
I know I do not belong
I know now
I know now
I know
I know now
I know now
I know
I know now
I know now
I know
I know I do not belong
I know I do not belong
I know I do not belong
I know I do not belong
I know I do not belong
Here lies the coward who would kill to meet the bottom line
Here lies the blackest soul to cloud the way for all mankind
Here lies the vampire who kills the host for just one drink
Here lies the greatest one who came and went within a blink
GOD BLESS THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH A BIBLE IN HIS HAND
GOD BLESS THE MOTHER FUCKER WITH A RIFLE IN HIS HAND
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Where Ok Comes From
03:29
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There is a price I pay for every heart
Beat
Wasted
all the days away
When we were a part
Sweetly
missing the space we made
Gently
Kissing
goodbye the days
There is a place I built
To suffer the storm
Beneath all of the shame and guilt
Becoming unborn
The sky will crack
I’ll sit on the moment
There’s time to wait
But what if ok never comes?
Only the foolish ones
Fly to the sun
So let’s stay in the dark and wait
But I am not done
And I got bored
I pondered the question
Enough
Jump in
You are not where ok comes from
I know you’ve kissed the sun
You’re not the only one
I know you’ve come undone
You are not where ok comes from
And god will say
You’ve pondered the question
Enough
Jump in
without hesitation
and you
will know
the peace you’ve been seeking
my friend
you are not where ok comes from
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The Ugly Facade
We live our lives in boxes, with little glowing screens. We fill our blood with toxins, so we can deal with things. And sometimes, more than often, the bitter masks the taste. The fruitless failed reflection: what if it's all a waste?
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