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Maverick - Bleeding
03:25
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I can’t get up, My feet are swollen
I can’t complain, Even in pain,
‘Cus I still feel,
I still believe
On my way to your new home,
See you your name carved in the stone,
(To) tell you stories you’ll never hear
On the path to your epitaph,
All those years away,
Fighting everyday,
Still I wear my scars with pride
And hope someone will hear my cries
A cold welcome back,
All those years, All those dreams,
I look deep in the landscapes
But all I see is their faces
Knocking on my door
I hear them ghosts, knocking on my door,
I see them running, vanishing,
Was I right, was I wrong?
Doubts in my mind as dust is settling
Nothin’ seems true Anymore,
(The) Duality, within me,
I did good let the record show
I got it right so I was told
I am the hero, with dishonor?
Your heroic villain?
Do I hide behind my medals?
I flip the coin, I see all sides
Who’s side am I on?
Where do I belong?
Face to face with the enemy
We're on our knees bleeding
Bleeding on my floor
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Well lookie here!
This is a fine fortress you built, you built, you built, you built, yeah!
Now don’t be scared,
I’m just admiring your skills, your skills, your skills, your skills, yeah!
This is a safe space, it’s such a safe place, I feel so safe here
(Just don’t slip up!)
This is a safe space, it’s such a safe place, with all my safe friends
(Just don’t fuck up!)
You’ll avoid discomfort in this tower that you’ve built
No need to learn how to navigate conflict (just hide your guilt!)
I see you whispering about evil deeds for the guillotine.
And you can be the queen of this pure scene if you remain pristine.
This “community” gives me anxiety
This “community” gives me anxiety
Enjoy your island! I hope it's fun!
A paper tiger for everyone!
Bless this mess!
Bless this mess!
Word gets around
Of how you talk, you talk, you talk, you walk the talk yeah
Boots on the ground
Or so you thought, you fought, you thought you fought, you thought yeah
This is a safe space, it’s such a safe place, I feel so safe here
(Just don’t slip up!)
This is a safe space, it’s such a safe place, with all my safe friends
(Just don’t fuck up!)
Encouraging surveillance makes us hyper-vigi-lant
And slamming down the gavel makes it look like you give a shit
Let they/them among us without sin cast the first stone
I promise the saints you've chosen have done more dark shit than you know
This “community” gives me anxiety
This “community” gives me anxiety
Enjoy your island! I hope it's fun!
A paper tiger for everyone!
Bless this mess!
Bless this mess!
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Found myself on the ground again
Trying to repent for my sins
Impulse control, so foreign to me
Patience such a fleeting thing
Another promise broken
Another failed attempt
Feeling kinda hopeless
Feeling fuckin spent
Bang my head against the wall again
Just to see how much it hurts
The pain reminds me I'm alive
As the world around me blurs
Another early ending
Another lover burned
Not sure if I'm healing
Or just getting worse
This is the world I live in
An unfortunate reality
I never meant to hurt you
But you were just dopamine to me
Round and round , the earths rotating
While I'm stuck standing still
A chemical imbalance
Call it what you will
Id rather self medicate
than take proper pills
You say I've grown complacent
But I'm just fuckin ill
This is the world I live in
An unfortunate reality
I never meant to hurt you
But you were just dopamine to me
Soaked it up and rinsed it dry
This cycle never ends
A trail of failed endeavors
A wake of lost friends
Will I ever find consistency
Fall into the flow
Or am I doomed eternally
To suffer alone
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4. |
No Brainer - Parasite
01:57
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You are a parasite
You and your acolytes
You are the shameless kind
Leeching the bleeding dry
Your reckoning is on its way
This hangman's noose was custom made
and it bears your name
You are a parasite
The most pathetic type
And all your heinous crimes
Are bound to come to light
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What does he gain / from death and disease
If he sees it all / then where’s his empathy
To create all life / is to create all pain,
If that’s the belief / then he don’t love all the same
This system we know / is broke beyond belief
We’re trapped in our / collective apathy
They broke us down / till we lost our will to fight
We need revolution now / if we’ll ever make things right
I’m not fuckin buyin' it
So that’s why I won’t try it
It’s nonsense to me
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HARSH - Jam Cat
01:26
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Jam cat!
She’s outta her hole, she’s screaming in my ears
and striking my sole
Jam cat!
You’ll never get bored
Listen up fuckers she’ll give you some more
WHAT?
Is it a bat?
Is it rat?
No, it’s JAM CAT! (X3)
Jam cat!
You’re in for a treat
The way she rocks out is truly a feat
Jam cat!
She’ll lick up your tears
Banish your demons and kill all your fears
Jam cat!
She’s made of pure gold
Wear your shades at night, she’s a sight to behold
Jam cat!
A gigantic hit, she’ll drag you to hell
She’s sick of your shit
WHAT?
Is it a bat?
Is it rat?
No, it’s JAM CAT! (X3)
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Uncollate assertions of impropriety
Thinly veiled racist diatribes
Projection of intention
Intent on misdirection
Coincidence conflated with contrived
Standard issue antisemitism
Dressed up in code word wink and nods
Hatred waiting in the wings
For cues or triggerings
To finally come clean and go mask off
It’s polarity & vitriol
Polarity & vitriol
Polarity & vitriol
No need to ask why, you picked a side
You look like a young man yearning to be told who to hate
Well have I got a deal for you
I can turn your every insecurity into money in my pocket
You’re so downtrodden by not being able to discriminate anymore
You’re the real victim here So have your credit card ready
Women? Minorities?
Life was soooooo much better when THOSE people knew their place……
Just don’t come calling when you reap what I’ve sown
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A decade of mournin’, finally through
This is it boy train’s, leavin’ soon
Enjoy the silence of the, flash ‘cus it won’t last,
He can hear the whistle callin’
SO!
So he rolled and, he rocked his own and, he knew just what, he,
had to do
So he rolled and, he rocked his own and, somehow he knew, he
would break through
(Now) Johnny’s rollin’ won’t you, look at him, rollin’ and rockin’ (x2)
Play that track, get get get out, he’s a rolling stone
(he’s a rolling stone)
Play that track, get get get out, he’s a rolling stone
(he’s a-rollin’)
From the backyards to, stadiums
Keepin’ him standin’, and so on and on
And the rattle kept, comin’ on
The whistle, memories, remains of where he’s comin’ from
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Maybe if I just jump, this shit will go away and I can rest.
This hollow heart, and Gucci suit and tie have failed to impress.
While down below…
I can hear them chanting!
From the edge, I can hear them screaming!
Spilling over the barricades towards me…
How did it all slip away from me?
Jump, you fuckers!
You watch us from an ivory tower we broke our backs to build.
Jump, you fuckers!
Ask us to tighten our belts so you can keep your bellies filled.
You got away with murder!
It’s time for you to fly!
But there’ll be no golden parachute for you this time!
Headlines say the avocado toast is ruining our lives.
This attempt to trim the fat: blame-the-victim in disguise.
We won’t tighten our belts for your sake,
Spin the news til we all feel dizzy,
Point the finger round and round til everyone falls down.
Jump, you fuckers!
You watch us from an ivory tower we broke our backs to build.
Jump, you fuckers!
Ask us to tighten our belts so you can keep your bellies filled.
You got away with murder!
It’s time for you to fly!
But there’ll be no golden parachute for you this time!
The media blackout is not a threat,
‘cause the whole world is watching on the internet.
Well you can't use pepper spray to guard against dissent,
and you will never kill what the action represents...
And as I place my bare feet on the ledge,
hot wind hits my face, but no tear will I shed
for a dying empire, crumbling in our wake.
You've got nothing to lose but your chains, you have a world to gain.
As I fall, I raise a fist to better days.
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The long nights , are getting harder
The people and the crowds
Causcuphonous , it all just seems louder
Sometimes can't stand the sounds
It breaks my heart and hurts my sole , how do I fill this hole
My youthful glow has faded off into a burnt out soul
It fuckin pains me to say
Shit just don't hit the same way
A song overplayed
An empty tank
It breaks my heart and hurts my soul when did I get so old
The boisterous nights of revelry have taken their toll
It fuckin wrecks me to see
Ain't as invincible
As I thought I'd be
Oh woe is me
Another sob story
It breaks my heart and hurts my sole , how do I fill this hole
My youthful glow has faded off into a burnt out soul
The light that burns brightest, always dies out first
A fleeting sense of identity, can't think of much worse
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No Brainer - Cultist
02:26
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When the fringes take you in and they show you acceptance
They say one of us...they say one of us...
Their rhetoric rings all true and you share their point of view
You say one of us...you say one of us...
How can you live with so much hate?
Are you searching for a cause to blame?
Or some grander form of meaning?
How can you live with so much hate?
You adopt their vernacular. It becomes so comfortable
It is us and them...it is us and them...
Ostracize those that disagree and celebrate in conformity
It is us and them...it is us and them...
Just a cult by another name
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I know you’ve tried it
You know I’ve tried it
I don’t anymore
You talk about it
I’m here to listen
You mean so much more
I hope you’d wait for me
but if you’ve gotta leave
I can’t say that I blame you
But just before you go
I wanted you to know
the hole he dug was not made for you
I don’t doubt that
Your plate is full and
You wanna scrape it clean
But with you missin'
There’d still be dishes
Waitin' for me
I know you’ve gotta go
I wish you wouldn’t go
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These ghosts in my boat won't laugh along with my jokes / They fade away in the sunrise
A thousand little scarabs return to my side / Tell me all their tales, all the places they reside
Oh, Oh, Oh, I’m a star
Not the brightest but I’m gunna go far
I set my own bar
Watch these jets on my feet send me so far
Where I’m gunna fall on my face
Get up, start slow, keep up my pace
Oh, Oh, Oh, I’m a star
Not the brightest but I’m gunna go far
Hold your beetles in close / Watch them flutter, watch them glow
Watch them burrow in close / Feel their warmth in life’s ebbs and flows
Throughout our lives we move the line / Shed our shells till they fit and shine
Our colours never stay the same / Grow bright, don’t fade, refuse to be tamed
Refuse to be tamed!
Oh, Oh, Oh, I’m a star
Not the brightest but I’m gunna go far
I set my own bar
Watch these jets on my feet send me so far
Where I’m gunna fall on my face
Get up, start slow, keep up my pace
Oh, Oh, Oh, I’m a star
Not the brightest but I’m gunna go far
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Strobe lights flashing red and blue
I can’t tell myself from you
Strobe lights flashing red and blue
I can’t tell myself from you
We’re all worms here / we’re all RADIOACTIVE
Rotting don’t care / we’re all RADIOACTIVE
Deep in our tombs / we’re all RADIOACTIVE
Stare down your doom / we’re all RADIOACTIVE
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I remember I remember
Back in ’17
Somehow you let us thru the door
Ralf & Aly turned it up
To 12 or 13
And somehow let us book
A pile more
I remember that time
Aaron broke his ass
Jumping off the bar
With his pipes
We wore holes in our shoes
Our livers got bruised
But that’s the way
To make friends for life
I remember I remember
Back in ’18
Gold medals and best EP’s
Set off the smoke detectors
Hid from liquor inspectors
Boomer smashed the mics into our teeth
I remember those times
We took over taps
Packed the fucking house
Every time
I wish those times could stay
I miss back in the day
I wish I could
Hit rewind
2019 kinda sucked
2020 blew
Just like a power outage
That soured a brew
Became an uphill battle
Of WTF comes next
Lost some along the way
But Grasser stood the test
I remember pouring concrete
For patio posts
So you could try to open
Before May
I remember the weight
Like a brick in the face
When we lost Boomer
On Christmas Day
I only write sad songs
I guess that’s my deal
Thanks for lifting me up
When my going got real
Thanks for the friendships
Thank you for these years
What you built is
Much more than beer
I still remember
Trying to beat Ralf’s score
Back when the pinball was free
I want you to know
You nailed your goal
Of building a community
One for family we choose
One for the Riot Crew
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