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Employee of the Year
02:37
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Slave to the grind sat pushing buttons til the world just seemed to slip away
Thought off my problems with too many sets of solvents my resolve began to sway
Hard work and naïve commitment I bide my time
The blind man at hide and seek just follows the leader again
I don't know why I run around the wheel again
An automatic state of being
I won't be your employee of the year
Psycho sadistic torture eats me from within so I turn my back on matters of fact and
Compete with institution
My spirit rails against it I bide my time
Hard work slave labor takes its toll on my good time
I don't know why I run around the wheel again
An automatic state of being
I won't be your employee of the year
Slave for a day rewarded material grants for execution
I didn't need the things I couldn't get without your handle
I don't know why I run around the wheel again
I won't be your employee of the year
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2. |
Endgame
02:00
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It's hopeless my dreams are unwrought
I'm wasting time in the prison of my thoughts
I've been told that you receive one shot ready or not
Ready or not
I contend it's uncommon to break through the chains that one hardly can see til the end
With hardly a glance at the shell that remains I have outlived my will to an end
Under this new regime my resolve failing utility becomes the answer
Searching for a message in it all
Waiting for the test results I wonder if it matters
Perspective of a dream engulfs me so catch me if I fall
I contend it's uncommon to break through the chains that one hardly can see til the end
With hardly a glance at the shell that remains I have outlived my will to an end
Once more my thickness leaves me
Ocean of excess deserts me
I don't have anything anymore
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Division
02:16
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As I walk away I'll never feel the same
I don't know what it was that started this reunion
In some sort of way I thought you'd be the same
I never thought it'd be this long before I saw you
I see the way we never got along before and as I turn and face away I wonder who will close the door
And all we did was recollect the time between us now
This was fun today let's meet again and then we'll say the same old things and watch our faces get older
As you turn away I see the strain of forcing talk when all you really want to do is see your real friends
I see the way we only got along before was due to circumstance and maybe there was really nothing more
And all we did was recollect the time between us now
And your face hasn't changed who you are
I see a friend in who you are
Right now I'm just a skeptic
I wonder how we'll get the time between us back
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4. |
Redeye
02:21
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Seventeen long years taken out of place
I didn't have it so you made it stick
My better life at your resistance innocence twisted
What a tragedy a life less wasted
I torched the cell what happens now?
Though your eyes could see you lied
A cry for justice from red eyes
Why did I get drafted to pay for your mistakes
Seventeen years gone and I want them back
Antisocialized my famliy pines for justice
But I can't live again
Question the authority afforded to minorities
Power twisted on itself
My recourse drawn what happens now?
Though your eyes could see you lied
A cry for justice from red eyes
Why did I get drafted to pay for your mistakes
Seventeen years gone and I want them back
Power, control
Until you get sick then you know what it's like
To be locked away against your will
Though your eyes could see you lied
A cry for justice from red eyes
Why did I get drafted to pay for your mistakes
Seventeen years gone and I want them back
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Mechanine
02:42
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This pane six inches thick keeps me sterilized and out of step with my program
I'm a lucky little component with a life all of my own
Born into servitude for
Privileges of mechanine delight
Soma for the bored
Devalued and out of sight
This machine is cracked down to the core
Hamster wheel mentality all aboard for the next diversion
Turn your mind off let it cool off
In defense of father's choices you get to have all these great
Privileges of mechanine delight
Soma for the bored
Devalued and out of sight
This machine is cracked down to the core
If you want blame history or blame society
But it's on your shoulders if you sit right there
Hack until the walls come down
Burn the system to the ground
Get up and make your own reaction
Start a fire demand retraction
Evaluate all of your actions
Burn it to the ground
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6. |
House of the Rising Sun
03:25
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There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
My mother was a tailor
She sewed my old blue jeans
My father was gambling man
Down in New Orleans
Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk
And the only time that he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk
Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the house of the Rising Sun
Well I've got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm going down to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
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7. |
Mary Roberts' Revenge
02:37
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So you're all alone you got out of his grip
Did it make you think you'd never have another best friend again?
Well when you're all alone you get all the things that never happened at his hands
No more beatings midnight seething at his hands
He's done painting rainbows
It went click his eyes washed red and you walked out a happy woman
In the end you painted him
To the wall in a splash of color fireworks to mark your new arrival
Why not go out in style?
Go all the way out of here no more remembering
Bloody knuckle caught on tangled strands of hair
Debris flying through a room
You know it's wrong and when it's done and you walked out a happy woman
In the end you painted him
Go all the way out of here
No more remembering
Remember him
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8. |
Anthem
01:44
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He sleeps it off
I watch it all pour out in his tired eyes and blank expression
He works the dark shift just to feed the kids and home and then he sighs and takes a load off his feet
Is it all worthwhile he turned to me and spoke
I don't know if you'd call it fate my days are cast in stone
This is your song
He pulled it off
He died alone and trapped in a life misspent with discontentment
Sure enough some missed the tired eyes at home but the turnout stayed down to fifteen
Is it all worthwhile he turned to me and spoke
I don't know if you'd call it fate my days are cast in stone
This is your song
The eulogy was short and sweet
He worked his tail off fighting for a bitter state of being til the end
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Windfall
02:46
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Staring blankly at the wall again
It's not what I see outside that matters
They say look at his face
Another casualty of anticulture
End of the spiral looking backward downward disconnected
I hear you calling again
Through the haze the crystal bells of your voice shatter through me
I hear you calling again
I don't care enough to answer cuz I've lost myself
My refuge sleep comes much too slowly
Clawing through the tunneled artifacts of understanding
Back to the wall another call let fly
Another refuge for the steadfast and the fully anchored
I hear you calling again
Through the haze the crystal bells of your voice shatter through me
You're calling again
I don't care enough to answer cuz I've lost myself
I've lost myself
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10. |
Voter Registration
02:08
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He blurted out loud hey I found the answer get the fuck out of the way I'll show you how
With a smirk and thoughts of loathing he stepped up and started showing before anyone could find a better way
It's not the methods it's the man
It's there so grab it if you can
Another sucker born to lose
I stood there laughing as you took it smiling
On the thin and feeble walkway that divides wrong and right there's a man who straddles both with all his might
The sharks are waiting below and I think he'll get it in the end
From his pulpit he looks out across his land without a sound
What a clueless bunch of fools
I'll rob them blind and then I'll look back laughing
On the thin and feeble walkway that divides wrong and right there's a man who straddles both with all his might
The sharks are waiting below and I think he'll get it in the end
On a painted wooden horse he clowns around with no remorse
A spectacle of lies we're all the laughingstock of Earth
Watch out
Neverending patterns of facetious slandering
Is this a sign that all our leaders should grow up?
I try to rectify it but I don't fucking see it
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11. |
Heartburn
01:41
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Once again I'm standing next to you but I don't feel it
It never used to feel like wasted time
Can't you see I'm going nowhere fast?
I just asked you to give a little
You just can't say it again
Like fire the words burned long ago
Burned into my heart
It used to always be a thrill with you
You're staring sideways
Can't even look me in the eye
Too much too late too much too late
You just can't say it again
Like fire the words burned long ago
And I can't take it
As I go through it in my head
The differences just can't be said
You really can't just spit it out
It has to come straight from the heart
Once again I'm standing next to you
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12. |
Candlelight
03:01
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A cart lined with empty promises rattles through the streets at night
All that she owns inside but I would need a truck
A moving van of cluttered nonsense unfortunate to own
I can't see value in it she sees the value in her hands
As time wears on
She fights and burrows through the baggage til the end - the physical - and sings it through the night
The briefest reverie of untold melodies of merchants' bells runs through the purple night
Her songs keep her company while others raise their families and keep torches in the night
The torchlight shines tonight
And on the way she leaned in and told me secretly
You'll never get out if you care
Enslaved til the day you get out of their way
The candle extinguished is free
Maggie said they'll make it hard on you
But what are they gonna do they can't let you die
They think they're so much better cuz they've run this race together
But I know better and I told you so now you know it too
A battered hand denies her
Her battered hand defines her
Then Maggie leaned in closely and whispered in my ear
You'll never get out if you care
Discard all the chatter
Forget all that matters
The candle extinguished is free
It's free like you'll never be
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Static Pills Phoenix, Arizona
Andre Lareau - vocals, guitar, drums
Brian Phee - bass, vocals
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