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Peace don’t stand a chance
Take this warning in advance
Peace don’t stand a chance
A new epidemic of pride
This time we must choose a side
Do you want to improve on the past?
Are you in this century or the last?
Peace don’t stand a chance
When hated is your stance
Peace don’t stand a chance
When the tiki torches are lit and they’re spouting off ignorant shit
Then they’re mowing us down with their cars
Sorry it just ain’t in the fucking stars
Peace don’t stand a chance
A towering inferno of pants
Peace don’t stand a chance
With media making us numb
And the electorate has grown so dumb
And the emperor is scum
And you’re still living in a slum
Peace don’t stand a chance
Someone let all the worms out
And everyone learned how to shout
And what were we shouting about
Have we gone crazy?
We’ll meet again,
Don’t know where I don’t know when
And now for your moment of zen
counting in 10, 9, 8, whoops!
Peace don’t stand a chance
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Lucky After Dark
04:15
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I was a frame I thought I had died but something's going on inside
Tonight my great work will begin losing the flesh to make a skin
and bone dries contrary skies, garden of lies judged by desire
It looks as if you were to take her hand she would disintegrate
You wonder just what doors she had to open up to immigrate
My productive salivation is the mode of transportation
This warm room it's stimulation will make for a hot bed after dark
By night by night, night by night by night
Necessary steps to take sale persevering consuming my tail
I plan to leave no paper trail invisibility is key
Weave twist climb, make the enzyme, who's the host of this carcass of time
Her words have spun into a ball of yarn you have no groundwork to forewarn your hands are tied her tail is torn trial by fire in the dark
By night by night, night by night by night
Here inside this place I can stay ocelli hell-bound to seek my prey
Change of awareness in the mind I must be guilty to be kind
New midline exit outline advanced design breaking the spine
Now the time has come to break the seal I feel the light remove the peal
My raised appendages reveal aerodynamic wings of steel
A carapace is formed you can't avert your gaze you're hypnotized
Your handle on reality has absolutely vaporized
Her shadow grows into a flower branching in the twilight hour this reflection now your witness she will stand before you after dark.
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Christine Variations
02:09
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Let It Goddam Be
07:19
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We're back in the USSSR
You see how lucky we are?
You see how lucky we are?
With all the fools on the hill
The lives and dreams that they kill
How do we swallow this pill?
How do we sit there so still?
Let it goddamn be unless it affects you
If you long for yesterday
Then you're not dark-skinned or gay
Or female in any way
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na
We drew the back-breaking straw
And for the lowest of wages
And now they're putting children in cages
Let it goddamn be unless it affects you
Eggmen with the poisonous yolks
The cops are just killing folks
And always walk away clean
Most of us don't find that obscene
Human conscience, hello, goodbye
Be keep the pridefulness high
And first world arrogance is on parade
Popping wheelies in their motorcade
Let it goddamn be unless it affects you
Out of sight, out of mind
Let it goddamn be unless it affects you
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You've Heard It All
05:30
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I wake up in the morning kicking myself for yesterday
The universe is all in balance so it must be ok
There is no tolerance for tolerating me anymore
Now my heartbreak is sleeping on the hardest cutting room floor
Are you still glad you have me to blame
Can’t change your mind ‘cause to you it’s all the same
All the same
So I’m a hurricane, batty insane yet I still mean well
I rock the party so damn hard I’m not invited to hell
When you reach your hand out to me I always share you the fall
I cannot understand why you’ve been good to me after all.
I’m never here too long I’m never gone that short
Never found the truth to be my favorite first resort
Catch me on the right day I can make you gay and by that I mean happy
You only see me this way but I don’t know what to say
My home life was crappy.
Are you still glad you have me to blame
Can’t change your mind ‘cause to you it’s all the same
All the same
Lies
It’s the same old lies to you
It’s the same old lies to you
You’ve heard it all now
It’s the same old lies to you
Oh yeah
Lies to you
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The Van Allen Belt Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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