1. |
Not Worth the Bullet
02:26
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Born in a cage
on concrete floors
you'll never see her again
The first light that you see will be the last room that you'll ever know
Waking up today thinking it's my last
Claw to the top try to breathe in a sea of trash
Ripped from my feet and beaten will I bled
Not worth the bullet so a boot is used to crush my head
Fuck you you hypocrite
Until the day you quit
Don't think the blood's not on your hands
For nothing
this cycle
it won't stop
This nightmare
should not be ignored
it should be taught
Everything is obsolete so fast
It's easier to ignore the path
We have to make tough choices just to survive each and every day
It seems to straightforward to me
It's not some far off falling tree
Front and center it's all I see
It's not some far off falling tree
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2. |
Straight Face
05:26
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The moon climbs pulling at this city
A manufactured pretense with me
So where the fuck does this all end
Another rise and fall begins
You think you've got this figured out
Until it wins again
Silently suffocate
Underneath my skin
I'm giving up my front today
So I can try to breathe
I can't make it all work
Or force it underneath
I can't let go, remove myself from this
Take everything you want, everything I miss
A face I built from scratch, to buy some time
Just looking for a pass, relieved of my crimes
You think you've got this figured out
Until it wins again
Silently suffocate
Underneath my skin
I'm giving up this front today
So I can try to breathe
I can't make it all work
Or force it underneath
Run away far from everyone but it finds you
It always finds me
Each time I tell myself that this is the last time
This won't ever fulfill
A fight you were born to lose
Underneath the falling moon
Keep a straight face
Internalized rampage
Keep a straight face
Internalize another day
So where is this supposed to end
Protect myself when I pretend
I fell into this maybe I can can climb
It feels like I am slowly running out of time
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3. |
Colors that Bleed
04:40
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Every day I see
faces of the deceased
The past still haunts me
A clouded history
painted before me
Colors that still bleed
We all play our part
Blackens my soul to know that I
help every day institutionalize
And benefit while I decry
Naïveté threatens all of our lives
Stop and listen closely
Turn on any TV
Built into everything
In school it's what we're learning
White washing keeps it turning
The victor's rewording
It never ends
We do as we are asigned
Into a single file line
Our hands are bound behind
Turn on each other and don't question the design
We all play our part
Blackens my soul to know that I
help every day institutionalize
And benefit while I decry
Naïveté is a coward's disguise
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4. |
Sub Rosa
01:23
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Another valediction
to a dark affliction
Made room for something that showed me
that I've been living life unseen
There is no compromise
No hiding from reprise
It catches up, it caught me
To my best friend
To the last light of every day
Nothing sub rosa
Nothing I can't say
I gave up before you came in
carried on the wind
In an end it began
reformation
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5. |
Plastic Life
02:57
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She died sitting next to me
Everything that she used to be
I threw the body out into the sea
A broken promise now guides me
Off with the head of the fucking queen
Regicide keeps me living lean
I buried myself that same fucking day
everything was taken away
A couch to borrow a night's sleep
Living in a car on the street
Everything I own packed in these seats
This plastic life
There's nothing at the bottom
Just room to keep on falling
I looked the other way while my life passed
I guess I have to thank the supporting cast
It's always bittersweet, leveled by loss
Tearing through all you know
Burn it all cost
I buried myself that day
Watching it all burn away
She died sitting next to me
everything that we used to be
I dumped the bodies out into the sea
Trying to find some relief
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6. |
Drain the Swamp
03:23
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There is no other way
We start over today
I am right here
Tucked out of sight and out of mind
Behind these walls, on stolen time
I am right here
Kept from my life
Lost everything while trapped inside
There is no fix for this
Tear them down to start again
I am right here
Tucked out of sight and out of mind
Behind these walls, on stolen time
I am right here
Kept from my life
Lost everything while trapped inside
Sent out to the streets
Murderers armed too the teeth
Intimidate in uniform
Profiling for fresh meat
We have to drain this swamp
Otherwise this will never stop
We'll never get back what we lost
Don't call the fucking cops
The cycle just repeats
The shepherd tends to his sheep
I am right here
Tucked out of sight and out of mind
Behind these walls, on stolen time
I am right here
Kept from my life
Lost everything while trapped inside
We're all right here in this same life
Losing everything while trapped inside
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7. |
They Live
04:00
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Follow the leader it feels safe
You don't want to make a mistake
Hiding behind a safe distance
Easier to ignore than stop and resist
Hiding behind a quiet remiss
You just don't want to offend but it maintains
that status quo you know, comfort of the same
Blind and oblivious, the violence
echoes from idle hands
Stick to your side and know your place
Devotion until time to replace
Hiding behind safe space you put in place
Hiding behind false claims that nothing's wrong
Leave it alone
Easy to miss and it is hard to see
you've won the war without doing a thing
Running out of time we are dying
Backs against the wall
We keep fighting
Fuck the privileged just biting their tongue
Fuck the narcissist hiding behind beliefs
ingrained from when they were young, destined to repeat
Fuck the pacifist staying out of the fight
Fuck the many screaming hate into the night
Marching with torches in the dark down your street tonight
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8. |
Tangled in the Trees
03:16
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When I wake up, it still sees me
I feel it following me around
I can't break it, I won't make it
And there's never time to slow this down
When I wake up, I see it waiting
Any chance to knock me off my feet
Wish I could end this, I'll never fix it
A suicide on repeat
Go away each time I need to, to get through
Go away each night I slip away
I built a smile, to buy my way back in
Victor of this war of attrition
You will bleed the same as me
We are lost together
I know I am
My favorite fucking lie, you get another try
Life or death both come easy, giving up the watchful eye
Fully loaded to burn out, what's stopping your escape
Duck out on obligation, time to say your good bye
The stars climb through the darkness creeping as I am leaving
The light tangled up above, I hope that I'm still breathing
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9. |
Another Harmony
04:09
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Words behind bars in a cage
Thoughts thrown across a blank page
I bleed into another harmony
Chasing a ghost without certainty
Tonight- every ounce of strength waiting for my last fight
Notes cascading down
As aI grasp for a dream in a dying town
Searching for a lost cause
Looking for a chance to earn your applause
Living life in isolation
Each day falls prey to the stagnation
A vacuum eating your soul
Each falling deeper into the hole
This time I will try to find a way
I've been here before, drowning beyond the shores
I want the perfect drug
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Two Channels El Segundo, California
Progressive acoustic anarcho-punk rock from El Segundo, CA
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