1. |
Chad's Lullaby
02:21
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2. |
Think 2 Breathe
02:30
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Programmed to hate yourself
So who the fuck can you trust
Humanity's a mirror
All you'll ever know's disgust
All you'll ever know's mistrust
All you'll ever know
His mind imploding
We can't get out
His eyes stopped closing
Try and fucking get him now
Inconvenient phobias
Keep you in for days
In desperate need of exposure
To ultraviolet rays
His mind imploding
We can't get out
His eyes stopped closing
Try and fucking get him now
They don't wanna go to sleep
It just seemed so much like dying
Never wanna close their eyes
And taste of goodbye
They don't have to think to breathe
But they do it just in case
Now I don't have to look to see
Decay
His mind imploding
We can't get out
His eyes stopped closing
Try and fucking get him now
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3. |
Woodgrain
02:51
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Chop the beast down
Yes leave naught but a stump
Count all the rings for the years
I fucked up
If I'm half of the man you had hoped I'd become
Half it again for the fungus and rum
Where I hide
Pretend I was alive
In the wisdom
The comfort
As fleeting as trust
Peace for frustration
Trade love for disgust
I can't kill all that's chained up inside of my gut
It's kept in a trance if I'm fucked up enough
And I try
But my will does subside
I'm not living for you
Passed out on my kitchen floor
Trying to drown what makes me wanna die
And don't leave me alone
Stay by my side
Want to wake up
To a face I'll recognize
And I'll recognize you
Bet I'd recognize you
Sense in my forehead and love in my chest
Levels affected by what I ingest
Though I fly by the wings on my family crest
I'll die with the sins I refuse to confess
Won't confide
In a man from the sky
I'm not living for you
Passed out on my kitchen floor
Trying to drown what makes me wanna die
And don't leave me alone
Stay by my side
Want to wake up
To a face I'll recognize
And I'll recognize you
Bet I'd recognize you
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4. |
Daggers
03:42
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No pantomime
We're past any amends
Firing daggers through my lenses
Past your best defense
Surprised to find us here again
Half ashamed by my reaction
Steely aim
My sole attraction
Find your feet
Employ your eyelids
Face to face
I'll leave you blinded
I blur
I clench
My knuckles
D r a g
Bitter passion resurrected from the past
And your revisionist stories
What a miserable ploy
Pupils shrinking thinking
Seek and destroy
Find your feet
Employ your eyelids
Face to face
I'll leave you blinded
Deep breathing off my tension
Bend my stiffened neck
Lend my dominance
To keep my rage in check
Piston pounding in my chest
Steam expanding in my head
I twist a smirk and daydream you bleed
Consume and cheat
Retreat
Your coward's Creed
Where I can only hope to be
The swinging dagger in your shower scene
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5. |
Passage 1
02:13
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6. |
100K Volts
03:08
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This is exactly as it seems
I am a vessel of regret
And I only want from you exactly what you promised me
I only ask that I forget
100K volts
Just a therapy to pacify and clean
My troubled mind
Feed me the lightning
And I might survive the night
Empty of fear and hope
Provoked
To the end of my rope
This world as my kaleidoscope
100K volts
A Trojan horse of misery
Watch me burn them in their sleep
My mind's an acid washed watercolor seascape
The closest thing to free
100K volts
Just a therapy to pacify and clean
My troubled mind
Feed me the lightning
And I might survive the night
Empty of fear and hope
Provoked
To the end of my rope
This world as my kaleidoscope
100K volts
Static pushing up my pores
Cold electric stutters up my spine
Your current creeps my circuit
Crashed in cranium
Make it numb
Just make it numb
Just make it numb
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7. |
Fire Water
01:37
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I give 'em hell
So they know I got a soul worth selling
Disappear
When I come back
There ain't a soul worth telling
I'm no Jesus Christ
I knock 'em back
Catch me walking on the
Fire water
Turn my cheek
But if you swing
You might as well've just started a war
I'm no Jesus Christ
I'm so nice
But don't test me twice
I'm no Jesus Christ
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8. |
White Lightning
03:52
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I give 'em hell
So they know I got a soul worth selling
Disappear
When I come back
There ain't a soul worth telling
I'm no Jesus Christ
I knock 'em back
Catch me walking on the
White lightning
Turn my cheek
But if you swing
You might as well've just started a war
I'm no Jesus Christ
I'm so nice
But don't test me twice
I'm no Jesus Christ
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9. |
Passage 2
01:24
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10. |
Projectors
03:10
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He's not under my bed
It doesn't make it better
To project him on the world instead
Sometimes it's just way easier
Pretending you all live in my head
Deceitful
Greedy and evil
All psychos
United by time and my eyes
So you can never do to me
What I've already done to you
No you can never do to me
What I've already done
Yeah right
Crisp and defined
All these sharp focused specters
6 billion plus cuts
Done by mindfucked directors
These scenes flicker on
Flooding
All 10 dimensions
Film rolling on and on
And watch me project it
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11. |
Cookie Jar
04:51
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You know that feeling in your belly when you run
Let's you know you're alive
Ain't it better when you don't know what you're running from
All alone
Know for god-damned sure you won't be making it home
Have I lost all my adrenaline
And I miss feeling guilty
And I miss all the shame
And I miss times when I could appease my demons
And I miss when that hurt me
I'm so far past authority
And I'm over what was
I can't help sometimes but wish
For fear to grab me by the fire
And burn me up in my guts
And now you're heaving up ether
From the pit of your soul
Half will scream for shelter
Other half screams
Let it go
Breathing in reefer
Trying to empty your skull
Close your eyes
It sounds like
Being dragged through the snow
And now you're heaving up ether
From the pit of your soul
Half will scream for safety
Other half screams
Let it go
Breathing in reefer
Trying to empty your skull
Close your eyes
It sounds like
Being dragged through the snow
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12. |
Chad's Lullaby (Reprise)
02:08
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Pour sand on the coals dear
And snuff out the smoke
Top off your bottles and gather your rope
(Abandon all hope)
Rest your eyes in this box
Built of tinder and gold
Turn all your locks
To the bitter and bold
Turn your cheek now sweet child
From this means to an end
There's no rise from defeat
Let's not even pretend
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13. |
Instructions
09:39
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You'll sow no peace with seeds of greed
Distort importance with these
Misinformed priorities
And you can have it all when I sleep
Or Fucking add it to the salvage heap
Got more in common with the shaman than the chief
Cuz I would rather free your mind than fucking keep you in line
And it's as easy as
Treat 'em like you wanna be
Feed 'em positivity
And beat 'em if they wanna beef
We take from all
And leave for none
Create new enemies for lack of competition
And fuck attrition
Blast the planet
We've surpassed these simple savages
And while they ravage us
Shut up and pay your taxes
No longer lean mean survival machine
Cuz a collection of things
Is now our measure of prosperity
Unprepared to see the errors
In the messages taught to us
By the box that bought the office
And the officers
We run solvent in disarray
Disappear in the gray
Eyes wide through the night
Til the days are a haze
Hear we go
Thumbs among the dominoes
Masquerade teeth displayed
I am unafraid
It's all just a game
No choice but to play
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The Erratic Retaliator Strategy Chicago, Illinois
A destructive two piece with a biscuit of anger.
Mike - guitar, vocals
Ron - bass, vocals
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