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A Faster Horse
02:37
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A patience test to acclimate today
Stand in line and do just what they say
Pick a side and then adopt their views
Assimilate
A faster horse is not the path ahead
Set your sights to what’s around the bend
Raise the stakes and buck prevailing trends
Automate
Order up it’s time to be served
No steps ahead unless you’ve got the nerve
Expectations have you slave a grind
Buck the trend there is no grand design
Face your fears they’re kept you down too long
Strive for more than merely just belong
Start from scratch to build a better wedge
Innovate
A faster horse is not the path ahead
Set your sights to what’s around the bend
Raise the stakes and buck prevailing trends
Validate
Order up it’s time to be served
No steps ahead unless you’ve got the nerve
Expectations have you slave a grind
Buck the trend there is no grand design
Made up rules to keep you far from risk
Push their buttons kick against the pricks
Collective thought can’t make up your own mind
A walking stick intent to fool the blind
A single chance at going hard - push the buttons - pull your card
Chase your muse lean into it - fuck your habits - blown to bits
Without a shadow of a doubt it’s time to deal it like you’re Faust
Trust your gut forget your head before you know it you’ll be dead
Status quo will always rule the day
Break away and play with within the grey
Trust your instincts and fuck what others say
Exonerate
A faster horse is not the path ahead
Set your sights to what’s around the bend
Raise the stakes and buck prevailing trends
Resuscitate
Order up it’s time to be served
No steps ahead unless you’ve got the nerve
Expectations have you slave a grind
Buck the trend there is no grand design
Made up rules to keep you far from risk
Push their buttons kick against the pricks
Collective thought can’t make up your own mind
A walking stick intent to fool the blind
Celebrate
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2. |
Teflon
05:07
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Friendly fire in the circle of trust
Verbal shrapnel cutting through our guts
Indifference to my wants and needs
Won’t let your bullshit cling to me
Happy to just watch us bleed
Keep the wolves at bay get through the day by saving face
Time can’t heal these wounds they’ve turned to scars you can’t erase
Keep the wolves at bay and live to fight another day
Time won’t heal these wounds they’re who you are
Save yourself don’t stick out your neck boy
Stand your ground don’t stick out your neck boy
Ebb and flow don’t stick out your neck boy
Stand your ground and look out for you
Kick those pricks they’re right next door
Attacking just because they’re bored
Crosshairs trained on all they see
Pettiness seems to cling to me
Indifference is their core belief
Keep the wolves at bay get through the day by saving face
Time can’t heal these wounds they’ve turned to scars you can’t erase
Keep the wolves at bay and live to fight another day
Time won’t heal these wounds they’re who you are
Save yourself don’t stick out your neck boy
Stand your ground don’t stick out your neck boy
Ebb and flow don’t stick out your neck boy
Protect yourself and look out for you
Stick and move evade their jabs
Smile to your face and your back is stabbed
Cuts you deep off at the knees
Won’t let your hatred cling to me
Intention hurts commitment bleeds
Keep the wolves at bay get through the day by saving face
Time can’t heal these wounds they’ve turned to scars you can’t erase
Keep the wolves at bay and live to fight another day
Time won’t heal these wounds they’re who you are
Save yourself don’t stick out your neck boy
Stand your ground don’t stick out your neck boy
Ebb and flow don’t stick out your neck boy
Pick your spots and look out for you
The happiest times that we ever had
laying waste to our own clan
Too deaf to hear too blind to see
Adolescence won’t be clinging to me
A broken branch on our family tree
Keep the wolves at bay get through the day by saving face
Time can’t heal these wounds they’ve turned to scars you can’t erase
Keep the wolves at bay and live to fight another day
Time won’t heal these wounds they’re who you are
Save yourself don’t stick out your neck boy
Stand your ground don’t stick out your neck boy
Ebb and flow don’t stick out your neck boy
Save yourself and look out for you
My friends are fucking with me
Families fucking with me
Teachers fucking with me
My boss is fucking with me
Colleagues fucking with me
Partners fucking with me
Strangers fucking with me
My Conscience is fucking with me
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3. |
Skully Pez
04:00
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Bastion of the rightest right
Predisposed to fight the fight
A fish aground - a raging sea
A totem of the dream to be
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Seeking freaks that feel the same
Strength among the meek and lame
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Bound
Tied gagged and down
Lost in the crowd
Can't wait to be found
Reach for the clouds
An offering to join the tribe
A talisman of blessed vibe
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Pound
Fight for your ground
Time to get loud
Face down the crowd
Vengeance avowed
Push the bastards down
No time like right now
No longer allowed
Rise up with sound!
A symbol for us all to cling
A gesture of the simple things
Exposed expression a smirking grin
Exposed aggression they’re darkest sins
Resting place of the rightest right
Predisposed to fight the fight
Navigate the raging sea
A compass to your sweetest dreams
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Skully Pez
Proud
Stand by your vows
Lost souls now found
Finally unwound
Orange fields have been plowed
Pushed the bastards down
You’ve found your true crowd
Forever now we’re bound
Hypocrisy uncrowned
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4. |
Cul-De-Sac
03:56
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Addicted to a prick a needle in a groove
Just a bunch of pricks trying to find their groove
Bonded by a thirst that we would never quench
Mucking up the gears just like a monkey wrench
Suspended animation frozen on a tract - cul-de-sac
Void of ambition save for watching each others backs
Suburban dissolution backed into a tract - cul-de-sac
Addicted without purpose, enabling our curses, detract
Connected by a fate that we would never choose
Sliding doors colliding and a ton of booze
Happenstance a common lack of common sense
Enabling each other, providing self-defense
Suspended animation frozen on a tract - cul-de-sac
Void of ambition save for watching each others backs
Suburban dissolution backed into a tract - cul-de-sac
Addicted without purpose, enabling our curses, detract
Born of obsession bored and regressive
Consciously a blessing, development suspending
Scapegoat one another, the future left asunder
If one of us is drowning then all are going under
Champion each other through our thick and thin
One of us would end where we would all begin
Once each of us were lost and then we all were saved
Carry these connections with us to the grave
Suspended animation frozen on a tract - cul-de-sac
Void of ambition save for watching each others backs
Suburban dissolution backed into a tract - cul-de-sac
Addicted without purpose, enabling our curses, retract
Suspended animation frozen on a tract - cul-de-sac
Addicted without purpose, enabling our curses, detract
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5. |
Hope City U.S.A.
03:33
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Stranded out in this hell hole
All messed up and no where to go
The flattest Earth and barren terrain
German engineering left us stranded in flames
Find a way to deal and just cope
Fighting to just hope against hope
Minutes passing like they are days
Doubting that there’s hope on the way
Friendships teeter out on their ledge
Sanity crawls to the edge
Find a way to deal and just cope
Fighting to just hope against hope
Find a way to get gonna get out, no we’ll never get out
Now we’re all falling apart at the seams
The situation is as bad as it seems
Was the journey ever worth all the risk
We’ll never be the same after all this
Find a way to deal and just cope
Fighting to just hope against hope
We’re never gonna get out, gonna get out
Relationship primed to erode
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6. |
Sink or Swim
05:16
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Alive for the first time since I can’t remember when
Spent too much time pretending and holding it in
Expectations had me frozen still
Pushing the same old rock up that same damn hill
It’s time to sink or swim
At last my life begins
No more waiting in the goddamn fucking wings
Time to sink or swim
Patience's not a virtue but an excuse for standing still
No bonus reps and there’s no extra time to kill
We’re all in a free fall just a beat from hitting ground
If the options treading water than I think I’d rather drown
It’s time to sink or swim
At last my life begins
No more waiting in the goddamn fucking wings
Time to sink or swim
My life’s beating faster and time shorter by the day
Tired of bidding my time living in the grey
Ebb and flow back and forth with no specific goal in mind
Deaf dumb numb and sick of being blind
It’s time to sink or swim
At last my life begins
No more waiting in the goddamn fucking wings
Time to sink or swim
It’s time to sink or swim
At last my life begins
No more waiting in the goddamn fucking wings
Time to sink or swim
Last gasps are often the only one’s that count
Desperation cuts through the shadows of doubt
No time like the present to be all I’ve dreamt to be
No one better to live out my wildest dreams than me
It’s time to sink or swim
At last my life begins
No more waiting in the goddamn fucking wings
Time to sink or swim
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7. |
Good to Go
02:25
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Dystopia is here at last no more time left to turn it back
Dividing lines now rule the day all black and white no room for grey
Navel gaze your point of view don’t let no alt ideas get through
Drop your bombs into the void no consequence to who’s destroyed
How you know you’re good to go
Depends which way the wind will blow
Trust yourself, you’re always right ignore the truth with all your might
Keep your inner circle close they’ll nod their heads at all your boasts
It’s always darkest 'fore the dawn before you know it you’re good as gone
Just because we’re paranoid don't mean we still won’t be destroyed
Just make sure you’re good to go
What that means, know one knows
You go your way, I’ll go mine, don’t cross my path and we’ll be fine
No table set for shared ideas easier to lean into fears
Don’t stray beyond your comfort zone much safer just to stay alone
Sometimes poke your head outside to just make sure you’re still alive
Wipe the COVID from your brow we’ve got bigger problems now
Still tweeting shots across the bow devolving by the day somehow
The coldest of the coldest wars fought behind the hordes keyboards
Battle lines in cyberspace, once you’re trapped there’s no escape
Lucky if you’re good to go
And able to contain your woes
So this is it, the golden age, the darkest dawn, the end of days
Technology has run amok, a megaphone for morons and schmucks
The greatest time to be alive is anytime but here and now
Fuck your neighbor, check yourself, build your bunker, protect your wealth
Just tell yourself you’re good to go
And keep your dignity in tow
You’re good to go, you’re good to go...
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8. |
Obstinant Obedience
03:26
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It cuts me quick every time I move
Keeping me standing still
All this time still something to prove
Pushing against my will
I made my stake I made a claim
What more do I have to do?
A lifetime of wanting someone to blame
and now I’m looking at you
Fit their mold to be left alone
Prove yourself and gather your wealth boy
Do what you’re told the seeds have been sown
Play their game the stakes have been raised boy
Don’t stick out, don’t scream and don’t shout
Stand in line and you’ll just be just fine boy
it’s way too late for shadows of doubt
Accept your fate and swallow your pride
Blood from a stone that gets me through
Thrown at a big glass house
Nothing feels right no matter what I do
A looming mass of doubt
Two steps up then two steps back
Can’t seem to just let it be
Blind spots shielding me from what I lack
I should be looking at me
Fit their mold to be left alone
Prove yourself and gather your wealth boy
Do what you’re told the seeds have been sown
Play their game the stakes have been raised boy
Don’t stick out, don’t scream and don’t shout
Stand in line and you’ll just be just fine boy
it’s way too late for shadows of doubt
Accept your fate and swallow your pride
Carve
Carve a path just to have one last laugh
Troubled times I’ve got half a mind to…
Flip this goddamn script
Never happy with what I do
I’m really losing my grip
I’ve made my bed I’ll lie in it
It’s way too late to move
I’ll ride it out and just do without
What am I trying to prove?
Fit their mold to be left alone
Prove yourself and gather your wealth boy
Do what you’re told the seeds have been sown
Play their game the stakes have been raised boy
Don’t stick out, don’t scream and don’t shout
Stand in line and you’ll just be just fine boy
it’s way too late for shadows of doubt
Accept your fate and swallow your pride
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Fast as a myth, once you believe in it it’s gone - but you never were wrong
Bliss, ignorance, Joy, wonderment just hold on - cause it won’t last for long
Invisible friends safely in your head and belong - and they’re keeping you young
Death of innocence an end of ignorance - So long to Fearsome Critters
Birth of belligerence hello to arrogance and you're lost to the Wisdom of Winters
Death of innocence, and the end of ignorance - So long to Fearsome Critters
Birth of belligerence, hello to arrogance and you're gone in the Wisdom of Winters
Where does it go? No longer wanting to know - as days tick by
Growing old just because they say so - prep to die
Fight the instinct, you’re as young as you think - don’t ask why
The joys of this world needing to be unfurled - don’t let them by
Death of innocence an end of ignorance - So long to Fearsome Critters
Birth of belligerence hello to arrogance and you're lost to the Wisdom of Winters
Death of innocence, and the end of ignorance - So long to Fearsome Critters
Birth of belligerence, hello to arrogance and you're gone in the Wisdom of Winters
Build your world - as you see fit
There are no rules - for how to live
Jabberwockies, Jackalopes, Captain Howdy, how you cope
The pain of youth subsides in time but as you age your heart will die
Fearsome critters, fantastic beasts manifest your purest dreams
Protect them for as long as you can for once their gone your joy be damned
Build your world - as you see fit
There are no rules - for how to live
Long in tooth and now you’re knowing the truth - just living proof - of waiting to die
Not asking why and no more glint in your eye - farewell to youth - and living a lie
Death of innocence an end of ignorance - So long to Fearsome Critters
Birth of belligerence hello to arrogance and you're lost to the Wisdom of Winters
Death of innocence, and the end of ignorance - So long to Fearsome Critters
Birth of belligerence, hello to arrogance and you're gone in the Wisdom of Winters
Build your world and live in it
Rule your world so you can die in it
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10. |
Journey's End
05:53
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Nothing’s come close to it and nothing ever will again
‘Til you’ve been beyond and back again to the journey’s end
You’ll know it when you see it but only once you’ve lived a bit
and you’ve had to root around in your own realities bullshit
The proof is in the doldrums that’s the truth of your daily life
Not sexy or romantic just boring and monotonous strife
You punch a clock and suck their cocks ’til you can cash your 401(k)
Then wind it all down reminiscing about bygone days
Looking back again on what we lacked back then
It’s nothing consequential now
Dreaming to ascend, play dress up and pretend
A lifetime tipping sacred cows
Staring at the truth that living’s been the proof
It’s better back where we began
Facing down the fact we had it with the pack
We started at the journey’s end
Remember when the days were spent combing through the import bins?
While still a haze, this time was gauged by when the party would begin
We bucked the trends, were more than friends while living in our own cocoon
Fighting fears and shedding tears the years would pass by all too soon
Looking back again on what we lacked back then
It’s nothing consequential now
Dreaming to ascend, play dress up and pretend
A lifetime tipping sacred cows
Staring at the truth that living’s been the proof
It’s better back where we began
Facing down the fact we had it with the pack
We started at the journey’s end
Scratch and claw and beg and crawl you’re black and blue
Set your goals to chase your gold it’s what you do
Be careful what you ask for lest your dreams come true
Your suit and tie they fit just right and now you’re screwed
now you’re screwed
now you’re screwed
now you’re screwed
what will you do!?!?
Now we’ve seen around the bend, maturity and back again
Brighter days were not ahead just nine to fives for which we bled
Hindsight shines a spotlight on everything we really had
Exactly what we needed and in our shitty little punk crash pad
Looking back again on what we lacked back then
It’s nothing consequential now
Dreaming to ascend, play dress up and pretend
A lifetime tipping sacred cows
Staring at the truth that living’s been the proof
It’s better back where we began
Facing down the fact we had it with the pack
We started at the journey’s end
The journey’s end
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