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Show Off
04:48
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So what
We conquered the earth for the dream
Built a button the whole world bursts in
With your threats on my nerve
What a turn
We meet another morning
Sunrise
Sunrise
Laughs around the table
You went too far
You played too hard
Statistics come alive
In little kid dolls
Kid's dolls
Pieces on a gameboard
Made for you
Show off
Show off
With the cards in your hand
Don't run
Don't run
You control and take hold
Outlaw
Outlaw
Draw your luck and be quick
Don't run
Don't run
Put your hands up and freeze
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2. |
The Rat
04:09
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Minding my own business
Staring at the ground
Avoiding paths of face shaped patterns
I can't seem to find myself
Myself
Center of the universe
Corner of the room
Just wait until it quiets down
To come on out and be yourself
Yourself
Sneaky thief come out now
Once the lights have gone out
Free to nose around the night
For food or something shiny
Wildlife survivor
Living in the city
Feed yourself by any means
Society can't
Keep you in a rathole
Locked up in a cage
No one can take your freedom
But careless tricks
Hiding undercover
Running from the watchdog
Calling for their master to awake
As if there's trouble
Split back to the hideout
Only you can find now
Lay low in your nest a bit
To make your next decision
Turn yourself in
Or carry on an outlaw
Either way it hits the same
To know you're on your own
Know you're on your own
Minding my own business
Staring at the ground
Oh, I'm so in my head
I'm lost as nature takes its course
I'm so in my head
I'm lost as nature takes its course
No, I'm not hurting no one
Wishing you the best of luck
But I'm so in my head
I'm lost as nature takes its course
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Just before you wake up
Just before the day starts
Just before the aliens escape away
With half your brain
You were on a spacecraft
You were fast asleep and
You went on a restless ride
Across the whole damn sky
Now you start a new day
Now you face the future
Now you change your mind
A sign the switch they flicked is all in line
This life breathes on its own
This life breathes on its own
For as long as you will know
Look out behind you
Drone lurks in your blindspot
Say it's just the weather
Problems with the network
Say they're just a skeptic
Til the system can't sustain
After all the motions
After all the bullshit
After all the said and done
Of one degree around the sun
This life breathes on its own
This life breathes on its own
As your eyes begin to close
This life breathes on its own
This life breathes on its own
Til your body starts to float
Wired to comply
Fight it as designed
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4. |
Follower
02:44
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I am the fool looking down in distaste
But so are you in the end
We're caught in the middle of this race
And we run it out of hunger
I am a tool searching hard for its place
You're so unfit for this shape
We're caught in the middle of despair
Only trial leads an answer
So rest your head and I'll stay still
We'll walk away to men in disaster
Whatever master
I'll succumb
So grab your gun let's have some fun
We'll pop some heads
Two men in disaster
Whatever master
I'm indifferent
I am as cruel as the love that I seek
There's so much blood in your heart
We're caught in the middle of this hate
And we'll laugh it off as sarcasm
So rest your head and I'll stay still
We'll walk away to men in disaster
Whatever master
I'll succumb
So grab your gun let's have some fun
We'll pop some heads
Two men in disaster
Whatever master
I'll succumb
I'm indifferent
I'll succumb
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5. |
Suckering
03:53
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I'm okay
With living this way
Hard earned pay
For fucking around while you slave
On my ass
While your world's so fast
Let it crash
I'll reap your gold from the ash
Mom and dad
Were always so sad
What they had
Was just their jobs and a brat
I'm okay
With living this way
Faked embrace
To make you do as I say
You're all that I want
And it's all that I need
An innocent host
For a soul sucking leech
Make a stand
Defend what you can
Watch the hand
Or time will take from your plan
I'm okay
With living this way
Hard earned pay
For fucking around while you slave
I'm okay
With living this way
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6. |
Covert Narcissist
03:51
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Nothing surrounds him
Nothing can free him
Nothing can win
As long as he wins
Nothing will shape him
Nothing will change him
Nothing you say
Can get in his way
Open up your eyes
And see the serpent
Open up your eyes
Don't let him bite
His money deceived you
So phony could sweep you
Right off your feet
And into his squeeze
Choosing your choices
Losing your voice then
It's all your fault
He yells in closed walls
Break away
You know you don't deserve this
Break away
And close that door behind
He's holding them hostage in his home
The ransom is paid
Still can't let go
Holding them hostage in his home
The ransom is paid
Still can't let go
Sacrificed control
Sacrificed control
You're owned by no one else
Nothing surrounds him
Nothing can free him
Nothing can win
As long as he wins
Nothing will shape him
Nothing will change him
Nothing he says
Can get in your way
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7. |
Wanderer
04:08
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Listen
Big storm
Forming
Howling
Angry
Oceans
Surging
Moonlit
Earthlings
Hurry
What life's become
With migrating birds
The herds head for shelter
Up high on the hills to keep dry
With cities abandoned
The highways jam traffic
To ride til the lightens up
Somewhere
Just ride til the sky lightens up
Somewhere
Shadow casting across the mountains
Clouds raging down with atomic power
Wasting
Taking Over
Waiting
Calm and patient
Under the rooftop
Songs fill the rooms up
Faint cries
Strident sirens
Cut through the thick walls
And inside to sing along
I'll stay til the sky lightens up
Someday
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8. |
I Can't Swear
05:18
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I can't swear I know now whose memories I'll see
When the light swallows me
No I can't swear I'll see there enlightenment, not fear
What the child could be
Your colored mind
Getting gray and defined
We'll come undone
With each pulse through our blood
I woke up one day to a beautiful face
What a shame that odds made the say
We lay side by side
All choices
All brides down the aisle say
I do always
I do all this thinking
For what I can't see straight
I'd give all my heart and soul
Just to know that I'm making the most of each day
All of the moments stack up
Grains in a pile
Dust storm of futures in mind
Foot on the past
Walk up the sand as it falls
Hands pressed to glass
I woke up one day to an old withered face
What a beauty
Accepting our fate
Mourn the past no more
Each human who passed away
To matter in space
I did all this changing
For what I am grateful
I'll give all my heart and soul
Just to grow old with you and pass in our home
I can't swear I know now whose memories I'll see
When the light swallows me
No I can't swear I'll see there enlightenment, not fear
What the child could be
Oh what the child could be
Lay me to rest
I'm holding my breath
Til you retire
And come through
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9. |
Crickets
05:47
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Young little dreamers
Suddenly on their feet
Jumping to their dreams
They fall in the forest
Back on the old man's path
Visions through the leaves unfold
Cosmic seas
Tales untold
Set your sails mate
Always believe
I didn't know him
I didn't know myself
No one but a tree
Who falls in the forest
Slashed by the old man's axe
Silent as a grieving ghost
Attics creek
Songs from home
How those lungs breathe
Wind on white sheets
Phantoms can reach
Touch in the breeze
Haunt in the hall
Talk through knocks on the wall
Was it anyone there?
Or just rodents upstairs
Ticking clock makes its round
Takes more each sound
Lost and led through its day
Time to walk tall and straight
Walk tall and straight
Go follow through tomorrow
Seize the mic
But please don't make this ruckus
Out of nothing vital
In the background
Always believe
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