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C.N.T.
03:17
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How far is your fat-fingered reach?
Low enough to catch a kitten’s teeth?
What do you have between your checkered cheeks
That doesn’t taste like pig’s feet?
How do I pardon your perverted breach?
Am I a person or a piece of meat?
The only legacy you stand to leave
Is what you have left when you take your goddamn hands off me
How long is your sniveling beak?
Long enough to bag a bully’s cheat?
Nothing you say can save your sick deceit
From what your freedom means now
You chose to be
The feral servant of an evil dream
And may the future lay it at your feet
Where there is nothing left of you to teach
But that you fucked the world but you did not fuck me
The great fall, the big fight
The sting of a self-inflicted bite
That festers, unsolved
With the vitriol of the unevolved
There’s no counter, no cure
No way to make the world work
You may scream, you may shout
You’re still rotting from the inside out
And I'm not waiting to see
I know you'll try to fuck the world
But you will not fuck me
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Sludgefucker
03:39
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Shut my mind down, down
Down and out with the waste
Not an idea in my head
That did not come in through my face
I’ve got the time, time
Just can’t seem to find any space
I could have sworn that was original, though
Oh fuck, am I addicted?
Or just under control?
I’m so happy to be happy
I don’t even know what I’m happy for
Had enough?
Or should we ratchet it up?
How far ya gonna push
If you don't know when to stop?
You’re a taker, not a giver
But you’re glad to give it all that you’ve got
You’ve got a t-t-t-t-twitch in your eye
Yeah, you’re in a rage
But you don’t even know why
Just an actor
A reactor
All too busy getting ready to die
Seeping in
Searing out
Shut me off
Yeah...
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3. |
Flying Naked
05:12
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I'll catch you sometime later
I'll leave it for someone better
They find you dressed in some scene
Without a sense of who you have been
Can you open the box?
I see you on my screen
A ferocious and foreign being
Did they leech you out somewhere?
What's it like without your skin?
Can you open the box?
They say it's slow
It makes it easier
To let you go...
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4. |
Pandemic
03:28
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Come alone
Said you'd come alone
I'm so light
I'm so high
Run along
See you run along
Hear the tires
I'm so tired
Giving up
Am I giving up?
Speeding lights
Is this right?
What will these
Children think of me?
Will they celebrate?
Or commemorate
The one I once was...
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5. |
Veritas
04:21
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One step at a time
I try to take it in and suck it down
Till my stomach’s a tangle
It isn’t what I chose
And when I think I’m in control
Is when I’m actually not at all
I know this is hard
I know this is hard
I never said it isn’t
But wherever we are
Wherever we are
I’m in it
I will die
When I die
I get by
I get by
It’s easy to be scared
And even easier to share that
And I know that makes it harder
Nothing I can say
Is gonna make it go away
As much as I know you wish it could
I do what I can
I do what I can
I know it’s hardly enough
But as long as I am
As long as I am
I’m in it
I will die
When I die
I get by
I get by
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6. |
Needler
03:53
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What you say is what you mean
It's what you say is coming over you
In times it's coming
Say it again
Say it again
Say it again as you watch the conversation slow
I want you to know...
What you say is what you mean
It's what you feel
It's who you are
And everyone should hear it
Say it again
Shout into the fan
Scream it away as you watch the conversation slowly crumble
I want you to know...
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7. |
Waiting Game
03:03
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Say it again
How I will be just fine
And racing doesn’t save time
As I meet you...
What is enough?
Pressed clothes and sure smiles?
You already have it all
You just have to try
Maybe they’re right
Maybe they’re right
Yeah? Yeah… Yeah! NO!
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8. |
Say Less
02:48
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Walking over
Slowly, surely
Hesitation in your hands
Social circles aren't generous
They'll all judge you where you stand
You want to say less...
Tumbling out so quick
You lose your breath
Stopping just to get some air
Looking up to see that they all left
Then again, who really cares?
You want to say less...
In your mind
It's not surprising
That they would respond in kind
Since you know
So surely
What goes on in someone else's mind
You want to say less...
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9. |
Leech
02:28
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“So it goes”
As you watch your lone catch swimming away
Cause you like it
You like it
Rather end up drably
Scraping grains of sand around your plate
Cause you like it
You like it
You don’t want to talk
You don’t want to play
You don’t want to do anything
We are not the same
“It’s how it is”
Cast yourself off towards
The sickening eddy
Cause you want it
You want it
Everyone will try to teach you
Feed you
Warm your sharpened ends
Cause you want it
You want it
You don’t want to talk
You don’t want to play
You don’t want to do anything
We are not the same
You don’t want to talk
You just want to complain
You don’t want to talk
You just want to blame
You don’t want to talk
You don’t want to play
You can justify anything
Doesn’t make it sane
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10. |
Gullethead
03:50
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We're almost 30 years old
And we have no more insights
Than we had when we were 15
I worry we've both taken
The path of least resistance
It's a lot easier to dream
Than to do something worthwhile
Why are we always arguing
About the stupid shit we
Should have figured out by now?
That we want the same fucking things
Doesn't mean we deserve them
Does that make me the villain?
Does that make you a victim?
Just cause you say it isn't so
It doesn't make it go away
You are what you're inclined to
You're not a writer, not a saint
You can't be right all of the time
Just cause you feel a certain way
It doesn't make it OK
I'm still listening
If you have anything to say
I'm still listening...
I'm angry all the fucking time
But I'm far from the only one
There's always something on your mind
How is it every time you spill
It's always someone else's fault?
Are you living against your will
Or are you missing the point?
I'm still listening
If you have anything to say
I'm still listening
If you have anything to say
I'm still listening...
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11. |
Weekender
02:42
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Hell yes, now I have what I came for
And I don’t need to be told
What it is and what it isn’t
And sure as hell not by you, babe
I know now what I want to believe in
And you can lose your breath
Over how it could be better
But I wouldn’t pick a different scene
Yeah, I’m where I wanna be right now
Yeah, there’s nothing else to figure out
Yeah, I’m where I wanna be right now
Yeah, I’m getting what I wanted
Here and now, in a lake, in a basement
Everything we have
We're making it together
And we're making it the way we want to
I don't care if we're sinking or swimming
What we do right now
We do because it matters
And you're never taking that away
Yeah, I’m where I wanna be right now
Yeah, there’s nothing else to figure out
Yeah, I’m where I wanna be right now
Yeah, I’m getting what I wanted
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