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If something’s wrong, it might be us
Yearning to fly, impetuous
Unguided in our reverie
Of architects and artistry
Out of the embers, and into the dark
All of the assholes know right where you are
Watching the outsiders take it too far
Suffering their lives
Always their lives
So standardized
An apparition in the dust
The peace I find is dangerous
A benefit of levity
A counterfeit stability
Out of the embers, and into the dark
All of the assholеs know right where you are
Watching thе outsiders take it too far
Suffering their lives
Always their lives
So standardized
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2. |
Race to Oblivion
02:26
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There’s no vacancy in this race to oblivion
In these feral highs
In this wide open modality
You die off, or you carry on
And leave it all behind
In the havoc down below
Kissing the edge of a knife
That sharpens over time
As iron and iron collide
Without a thing to say
No words to stand in the way
Kissing the edge of a knife
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3. |
Ghost Town
03:24
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I live down off a dead highway
Where the ghosts come, and they go
Through town, looking for something
That I know they’ll never hold
Leveling out in disarray
Settling down to stay grounded now
In spite of false dividers
Finding a place to start
Out in the streets around us
And never very far
Leveling out in disarray.
Settling down to stay.
Leveling out in disarray.
Settling down to stay grounded now
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4. |
Tangled Net
02:38
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I got a feeling if I don’t hurry up
Then my blood will run cold
I got a wrenching in my gut
Like I’m just about to lose control
I know every little step
Is a step that I can’t explain
Like I’m living in the silent eye
Of a hurricane
And there’s nowhere to run to
I gotta leave it all behind
In the dust and the busted stone
Cause I’m living at the edge
Of a world that I can’t decode
And I’m waking with a roaring hound
Rising in my head
And I’m watching everything get caught
In a tangled net
And there’s nowherе to run to
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5. |
Hercules Stomp
02:26
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It's time to finish what you started
The fight to keep the control
A narcissistic ego
Silencing a sinister system
He created just to keep you around
A busted lip, if you want it
Another case forgotten
A body screaming Hercules
But weakest at the bottom
It’s kinda hard to see below
When you're so far up your mountain
A narcissistic ego
Silencing a sinister system
He created just to keep you around
Hey!
Open up!
It will let you in
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6. |
Virulent Man
03:00
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There’s just too many of you
There’s too many of me too
And each center of the universe
Is just a drop in the deep blue
A long plastic wave
We can’t get out of our own way
Cause each subtle rush of pus
Still comes from a poisonous vein
We keep thinking backwards
And we stumble over it
We keep thinking backwards
But don’t fool yourself
You’re just a virulent man
So keep that “meek” shit
Out of my way
I don’t want nothing from nobody
I wanna get beyond it
Even if it’s the reason
That we’re all the same
Little hosts of suffering
That keep thinking backwards
And we stumble ovеr it
We keep thinking backwards
But don’t fool yourself
You’re just a virulеnt man
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7. |
Access Denied
02:35
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They make it hard to get around
Try to keep a fucker down and hungry
They dam the channels, while we wait
For our daily entertainment calmly
Access denied
Access denied
Roll back and settle in aside
The motorcade of castaways
And never cross the borderline
Big engines occupy the strays
With their barren information rumbling
Across the industrious waves
From the cradle to the grave, so soundly
Access denied
Access denied
Roll back and settle in aside
The motorcade of castaways
And never cross the borderline
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He’s in the back, where he wants to be
But we know you can’t get away with nothing
He’s learned to bite any hand that feeds
So don’t fuck around
I don’t wanna face the dog
Some people want what they never see
Some people see what they never wanted
He’s just a cog in an old machine
Born for the job
I don’t wanna face the dog
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9. |
He Lost His Head
03:09
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He likes to start the story
Right back where it began
Right there, under his nose
He caught them once
He lost his head
Hearing lies again, again
Rise again
Arise again
Into this again
He lost his head
In a fit of dissension
Unchained, but forced to live
In a world of his own
He found his hands
He lost his head
Hearing lies again, again
Rise again
Arise again
Into this again
He lost his head
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10. |
Lurking Strain
03:54
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It’s learning how to make 2 into 1
An elemental lift, under the gun
A continental drift out of the cold
A cypher in the distance, taking hold
There is no solace in sincerity
This trepidation and anxiety persist
The strain of kindness guiding blinded eyes
Into the shit you swim
Peeling back the layers of overload
A rupture in a think tank, flooded out
Drowns in particular sounds
That articulate demeanor
Weary is the mind that loses hope
There is no solace in sincerity
This trepidation and anxiety persist
The strain of kindness guiding blinded eyes
Into the shit you swim
Always lurking in the soul
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