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Down We Go Again
01:51
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How many years does it take, several decades of hate? Always searching almost giving up crying. Trudging through the depths, navigating shipwrecks. Can you hold your breath without dying? Do you really think I want to live this way? Do you really think that I don’t want a change? I’m trying and I’m trying, I’m trying to reach the surface. Down we go again. As I swim towards the light I’m starting to lose my sight. My mind and body go numb as the tides are rising. I sense the treasure is near and I’m frozen solid with fear. My efforts aren't enough, I shoulda kept fighting. I’m trying not to drown. Get busy living or get busy dying. Get busy living today.
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Time Bandits
03:31
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Chump ass suckers always coming up to me talking about “Yo E! I’m gonna do this” and “I’m gonna do that” when they damn well know it’s all just a bunch of hot air. Don’t tell your tales to me because I don’t want to hear it again. You know you’re spitting false claims. You’re lying to my face. How can you believe in yourself? Admit it, you’re lying again. Time bandits all around. Tick tock, the clock don’t stop spinning round & round. Oh man, here comes another one talking about all the crazy things they’ve done and all the cool people they know thinking that’s somehow gonna impress me… Sorry son. Don’t push your problems on me. Don’t drag me down to your size. Don’t force your bullshit on my back because I ain’t listening anymore. How can you believe in yourself? Admit it, you’re lying again. Time bandits all around. Tick tock, the clock don’t stop spinning round & round.
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Swimming in Filth
02:50
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Open up my front door and step out into this world. I look around and can’t believe my eyes. Trying to understand, trying to take it all in. Wondering how we lost our ways. Do you like what you see? Filth and garbage up to your knees. No pride, no love for our homes and streets. Our futures looking… it’s looking kinda bleak. Why don’t you even care? Walking under street lights, winds blow, debris flies by. Is this all we have to look forward to? Night falls and we lock our doors. My heart pumps, I hope I’ll be okay. Do I want my child to live like this? Are our values getting lost? Were they ever really there? No heroes, no idols. What’s the price and what’s the cost? The plague is in the air. Why don’t you even care? We are the landfill kings of this rotten world, of this waste of life.
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The Outlier
02:52
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An ancient man in a foreign land standing on the brink of extinction. All alone, looking back to a world that was his salvation. I am the outlier. Did you know his name? Have you heard his voice, his cries, his tears, as he prepares to die? A reaching hand to the lost lamb heading out to the slaughter. Their wandering minds in troubled times should have listened to the forefathers. I am the outlier. Did you know his name? Have you heard his voice, his cries, his tears, as he prepares to die? He knows, he knows, he knows his worst fears are upon them all. There’s no time, we’re all walking dead. I’m gonna die alone, don’t wanna die alone. The world is on its own, the world is on its own. I am the outlier. We are all walking dead.
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Better Days
02:59
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No one wants to be a miserable fuck but it’s just so damn easy. Everyday I wake up and wince. Went to bed with a migraine last night and it hurts even more today. How much worse can it get? And I feel like I’m losing my way. I know that I’m digging my own grave. Tried so hard to get on my feet and not feel like a sack of shit. Losing all of my sense of focus. All I wanted was to get something done; instead I’ve blown another day. Twenty four hours just ain’t enough. And I feel like I’m losing my way. I know that I’m digging my own grave. I feel, and I hope, and I pray I’ll find better days. Did you ever think you’d still be right here without a clue, without a hope, without a prayer? I can shut off all of the lights just not the voices in my brain. The devil keeps laughing in my ears. Another night staring at the ceiling once again. The cycle repeats on and on. And I feel like I’m losing my way. I know that I’m digging my own grave.
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Dark Days
03:21
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Dark days and bright nights, this is all I’ve ever known and it feels just like home. Cracked minds and slow times, just another blink in your life as the shadows fly on by. Time, time, and time again I lay and stare at the lights of the world wondering how I went wrong again. Check the past, reflect, dissect. In the morning I’ll feel like a pile of shit and there’s nothing I can do. Time flies, truths and lies. You’ll never understand. No, never again I will not bend for you. I can’t live like you. No I can’t. No I won’t. Dried tears and scarred hands, this is how I’ve had to grow and I felt so alone. Forked tongues and sharp eyes. Just another day in your life, as the verdict is passed on by. Time, time, and time again I stay and glare at the “rights” of the world pondering how you thought I was wrong again. Put on blast, quick to cast out, shut down. In the moonlight I hope you’ll come around and realize I can’t be you.
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Faded Pictures
02:08
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Same old story, a rogue soul in outer space. Time waits for no one. These are the fastest years of my life. Flying at the speed of bright lights. I can’t find my way. Searching through the halls of my past. Looking for the roads to get back. Fading away out of the picture and story. I’m losing myself. Doc I need your help. My family needs me to hold it all together. Lightning strikes twice at all the right times. We’ve come too far to give up. Gotta fight hard, shut up, put up. Can’t lose my future.
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Out Cold
03:34
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Round one has just begun. The bell rings and my heart sinks. Put my game face on and stand up proud. Bright lights, center stage, the roar of the crowd. I’m here to win I’m here to fight. Can’t let you see my weakness. Constant failure, this is my reality. Do you feel any pain? No. There’s no room for defeat. I’m my own worst enemy. Round two, beaten black and blue. Out of breath, out of time, out of my mind. Smell the blood, there’s no love in here. Pick myself up, dust my shoulders off. (Do you think you’re animal enough?) Can’t you see this ain’t the life for you? You never know who are tried and true. You never know who are true. (Ten counts, all is lost, knocked out cold.) Knocked out cold. Ten counts all is lost… all is lost.
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Swine Flu
02:53
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Swine flu. Keep your filth away from here, far from here. Outbreak of pandemic proportions upon our masses. Transmit your toxic thoughts throughout our world. All it took was one weak mind to infect us all. Imitate, infiltrate, you’re only here to take. Delude, confuse, tightening the screws. Swine flu. I’m wise to your games, and your ways. Blindfold pulled over the blurry eyes of the so called “wise”. To some it’s all about convenience, all I see is sickness. Leeching off something that existed long before you arrived. I’ve seen your kind before and you’re only here to suck our blood. Swine flu… swine flu… you’ve infected my world.
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Time Tells All
04:02
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The pain keeps coming down. Shit storms are all around. And you thought that this was a good way out? Forever through these eyes you’ve marked yourself. I see your disguise. And I always knew the real you would come to the surface someday soon behind all those lies and your crooked smiles. Faith, hope, and consequence. You know it’ll never last. Time tells all. Did you really think you could run from all your lies? Did you really think you could hide from the truth? You deceive none but yourself. You should seek some serious help because everyone else is done with your ways. Forever walking alone. The path you chose, the damage is done. Pride, greed, you contradict. Your morals are quite suspect. Guilt, fear, your fantasies are part of your egos’ disease.
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