1. |
The Killing Joke
04:19
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Paddles off the table Scalpel in a surgeons hand
Cut into the body of what was once a lifeless a man
Organs repaired quickly vitals coming back again
Words of relief come swiftly - you’ll be with your family once again
All of this if just one word had ...
Changed my mind I want to go back and try I thought this is what you’d want
Every day that passes I think how different our lives would be if I tried to just just save you
Coming home the next day you’d probably curse at your wheel chair
Could of seen the wedding I know you wanted to be there
Could of seen your grandkids tell them all your story tales
You’d never have to see mom cry a loss I could not repair
All of this comes with a price …
I swear I thought I did the right thing for once
Please tell me that if I was wrong
With every breathe that I steal I can’t help the guilt that I feel
It swells inside I play it over in my mind a million times
The smiles the laughter all the jokes I tell hereafter
Just my way to deal with the pain I carry every day
Its painful I miss you the hardest thing Ive ever been through
It feels so good to finally tell you
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2. |
Zeenat Bibi
02:31
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Honored mothers, know their place
Honor your fathers, this book says
While dousing your own dreams
With kerosene
Cause love will bring the family shame
Smile, wear a strangers name
You refused, and ran, into the arms
A sanctuary, free from harm
Where's the honor In killing anyway?
A mother takes her daughters life,
to prove what? It's Just more pain
That we can't explain, it's so inhumane
Not from the “extreme”
But her own family
Fear of change stuck In a dark age
Customs antiquate Refuse to educate
Rejecting modern civilities
I can't believe that this happens today
Terror continues in religious states
When families defend a killer's fate
Injustice prevails, what a plot twist
Tomorrow's paper: brand-new cast list
What can we do, it's so far away
Turn your back and look the other way
Cooler topics for the next day
Selfish attention spans tend to stray
And the whole world holds its breath.....
Let us be the first to change this:
an open hand is greater than a fist
Devoid of colors, borders, and flags
A million voices scream out for change
Where's the honor In killing anyway?
Why do we kill each other everyday?
Another victim of belief
A tragedy, Dead at 16
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3. |
Bugs
04:17
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They said it was worth our weight in gold
With their plan in tow
Breech the gates with Trojan horses
With Hungry Eyes we let them in
They’re selling flavored lies,
While wearing that disguise.
We’re all pretending we’re something that we’re not.
The Numbers grow in size
When will the boat capsize
The ground we walk will become a funeral plot
Trying to survive on the crumbs they leave
Why does it always seem
Different rules for different people
You can make it anywhere - anywhere but here
Once inside it was too late,
Along the way we got complacent,
Not asleep but still we slumber
They’re selling flavored lies,
While wearing that disguise.
We’re all pretending we’re something that we’re not.
The Numbers grow in size
When will the boat capsize
The ground we walk will become a funeral plot
And when they come for you, there’ll be nowhere left to hide
You’ll play kiss the ring, just to end up in boxes,
All while we line their pockets
They shaved our sheep and promised shelter from the night,
Instead they used the wool to cover up our eyes
Don’t think for a second that they won’t come for you,
(They) Poison the well
Then watch us drink
Insert the cure
They sell themselves as protectors
With thankful hearts we surrender
All Will to fight
Conquer, Divide
We Feed the Lie
We know its not the truth
We’ll feed the lie
With every breathe we take, they’ll be watching
Under the Sting of this police state
Lay in wait,
Willingly Give up your coffers
So when you kiss the ring
Think of all the boxes,
That helped to line their pockets,
And with a smile the first crushing blow … Rise.
We sold them flavored lies
While wearing our disguise
We’re all pretending were something that were not
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4. |
Reinventing Axl Rich
02:22
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I remember the first note, something woke inside my soul
Words were left up to my own interpretation
Standing in the cold on the stage that was my home
Imagined I was Axl rose that’s when this shit got real for me
Went and got my first guitar (told my friend to get one too)
Play the music fucking loud (let me soul absorb the sound)
Got lost in it (was a marriage bonded quick)
Made life easier to face ( a feeling nothing could replace)
A place we can all call home
Where music it fills our souls
A place we release the pain
Where we all go and all feel the same
Flip the switch and head back home, T-shirts soaked down to the bone
Wrecks of cloves and dirt and mold bad bruises give us reputations
Heading down that winding road looking up to the next show
Wether we play or we go nothing beats that fucking feeling
Just because were getting old (doesn’t mean we sold our souls)
Play it loud and play it fast (till I’m 93 years old)
Our hopes and dreams (still alive inside these screams)
When there’s no were left to go (glad I took the less traveled roads)
A place we can all call home
Where music it fills our souls
A place we release the pain
Where we all go and all feel the same
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From the minute I saw your faces I knew this world became a different place for me.
It was no longer mine, had to think of what I'd leave behind.
That moment was a brand new start, a different kind of love filled my heart.
Would I be the man I thought that I could be?
The future seemed more important to me.
I knew the worst thing I could do, was ever turn my back on you. It was decided then that you would be my world.
So I had to work a little bit harder,
Had to be just a little bit smarter.
Made the goal to leave behind,
Something better than what I find.
Tried to make this place a little bit brighter,
Little pieces from deep inside me.
Sometimes it hard to be the light,
To stand your ground when it's fight or flight.
I know it’s hard, but just remember.
You’ll struggle, you’ll fall down …
You get back up every round,
Cause In the end that’s all that matters.
Deep down
Inside
Gotta do what you feel is right
So if that means work a little bit harder,
So you can be a little bit smarter.
Go ahead make the world a bit brighter,
Use the light that I knows deep inside you.
And even if you lead the lambs to the slaughter,
Or the ones who stand in front to be the fodder.
Don't always do things just to please your father,
I was always be proud to call you both my daughters.
I'll always be there right or wrong beside you,
Till the air can no longer find me.
Before I go I'll lay my torch beside you,
Don't let decisions from the past define you.
And you can take it make a funeral pyre.
Or you can take it set the world on fire.
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6. |
No Rebuttal
03:33
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I'll keep on screaming at this metal plate demon until you give an answer,
It's not like you ever did before,
I don't know why I'd expect one now.
If just for a second the truth wasn't bended I could get the real story,
Instead of what you wanted me to hear,
Try to control my life with fear.
My love was always reserved just for you.
I'm sorry I couldn't fulfill all your dreams and be the person you wanted me to be
I tried over 35 years of lies.
What was so different that made your love shift from the one who bore children? Was it just a matter of time before you broke this heart of mine?
It's always the first thing when you say it's the last thing
And to find out like this it's like a kick in the heart strings
Were you thinking of her when you were with me?
My love was always reserved just for you
I'm sorry I couldn't fulfill all your dreams and be the person in all of your fantasies. You tried you must have lied over 100 times….
You, you lied, you took a vow and you broke it, you put it to the ground.
I won't forget all the things you've done
I just want to forget all the dreams and memories.
All of this time were we just lying to ourselves
How could two people keep love just for themselves
I know I have you everything
You took my heart when you broke that ring.
Is it really a crime to lie all the time, just put your head deep in the sand it will be fine. It's how we live most of our lives.
And I hope you got the escape you had hoped for
And now that you’re gone there's new doors to explore
I guess it's time to move on now....
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7. |
A Murder of Crows
03:34
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I thought the day that I died
I figured a gun in my hand
Casings on the ground
A buck knife on my side
But Sitting in a hospital bed?
I never thought I'd go like this
As the fear envelopes me
Withering away
Machines
preserve the pieces
left of me
murder of crows
dressed as nurses
To take me home
If Just for a moment,
please let me rehearse this line,
the ending of my life
Just for a moment
I could pretend that I’m alive
A rebel makes no excuses for the things he’s done in life
They’re in the past like dirt kicked from the bike
I made a deal with death one time
I would collect for him
How stupid was I to think
That he’d never come for me in the end
I thought that we were friends well fuck me
I guess Im standing on the other end of the line this time
If Just for a moment,
please let me rehearse this line,
the ending of my life
Just for a moment
I could pretend that I’m alive
Hold on tight
This life a bumpy ride
My secrets with me die
This iron horse that helped to get me by
I beseech to you
May you always ride with pride
But never fall into my life
My son I love you
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8. |
Letters From Our Youth
03:16
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Everything meant anything to me was kept under my bed,
Locked away from the world
Photos of you, letters from our youth, some cards, and cigarettes.
I never stole more than I should
Tried to give you the best life I knew I could
I stood idly by while my head in my hands Id cry
What hurts the most is I placed my trust in those
Who let their lives run with fear
And what should have mattered most I burnt up with the morning toast.
But unfortunately when you’re the biggest fish you’re the one who gets fried.
What ever happen to the brotherhood
A sense of Camaraderie
The big score thats changes life
The code to live by
What happened to if you talk to die
I was foolish to even try
The first breathe of freedom I remember seeing them
A young boy now a grown man my baby girl now teenage
The tears ran down your face as we left the big place
I can’t help but to think that a part of my soul stayed there
The ride home home in silence
The awkward moments that followed
The next three years of my life trying to make up for lost time
To lay here idly by, I’m dying as you cry
I’m speechless to tell you I love you one last time
I never got got say goodbye
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9. |
If You Know Me
02:16
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So you say I’ve been picking on you for all of this things you didn’t do,
Now does that sound like me?
It makes no sense at all
Im not going to argue with your brick wall of a brain this time it only wastes my breathe
Cause nothing gets through except the things you make up in your head
You’re a basket case
If you know me you should know by now
Your shit don’t seem to phase me at all
If you know me, you know me
If you don’t I don’t need that to change.
Well anyway I got good thing going here
If you know me, you know me.
If you don’t I don’t need that to change.
If you know me you know me,
If you don’t I don’t need that to change.
If you know me you know me,
If you don’t I don’t need that to change.
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10. |
As You Wish
03:19
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Ever since the day we met,
In my heart a place you kept,
You sank your teeth in me my love.
I gladly made the move out west,
I dropped everything just up and left,
You didn’t ask me to, but I do it for you.
If love at first sight is cliche,
Who gives a shit anyway,
It’s how our little story began.
At first it was just you and made,
And now we have a family tree,
And from our love alas, a new branch.
I want you to know this,
That no matter what happens in this life,
You’ll always be my one and only.
No one could replace you,
Or ever take your place,
You’re the best part of me.
Ill never leave, Ill never stray
At the end of the day, I’m not going anywhere,
Unless it’s with you.
This life that we’ve built,
I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Sometimes its tough,
But you make it easy.
I want all the best for you
Thanks for all the things you do
I hope for you I do the same…
I want you to know this incase you haven’t noticed,
There’s nothing for you I won’t do.
I want you to know this incase you haven’t noticed.
There’s nothing in this life that could keep me from you.
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Here is the tale of three young men
Who grew up all the best of friends
Two down the block, One over the tracks
One would make up where the others would lack
Magic, comics, and foosball pride
Music and mitts to pass the time
One walked the straight
One crooked path
One hugged the line
But we all made it work
25 years we move ahead
To a time where things are much different
Spread over the map, Two days apart
Correspondence from one had come to a halt
The straight path walker had now become
The selfish and cold self absorbed one
Crooked became a family man
The hugger got the rawest deal but did what he had (to)
Sometimes the cuts from the ones you love
Run deeper when there are no words
Time forms a wedge, silence causes doubt
Anger then turns to hate, we forget all about
The bonds that we made when we were young
Are the memories erased from where we came from?
Or is the memory of things that you’ve done
Reminds you of times that you bleed all alone?
Keep grasping at straws
Try to make up lost time
Thats always the case when its too late to try
No time to rebuild
No time for good byes
This is the road to how the great friendships die
With the sound of a ringing phone …
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12. |
Sun Stains
03:07
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Sit in this half empty house for two
The walls are sun stained from missing picture frames
The places we used to sit and eat breakfast
Are now smashed to bits and I just don’t give a shit
We tried so hard to hold on to everything
With nothing but ourselves to blame we set each other free
Ice water now runs through our veins
With nothing but lukewarm memories to try and numb the Pain…
The painful reminder you’re not here
In place of your things 100 broken mirrors
Still renting space inside my head
Through our hearts are both vacant
We’ve grown more than worlds apart
We tried so hard to hold on to everything
With nothing but ourselves to blame we set each other free
Ice water now runs through our veins
Apparently fairytale love only exists in dreams
Only exists in dreams
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To all my friends I raise a glass Metal root beer, mean mug he’s got jack
To Robbie tav some Guinness To Ian what’s left on the rack
To all the noobs we love you too, Pauly your wedding really fucked me up bro.
To wazzy Wasil my old man says hello
To all the things we did when we were young, just to not grow old
From the couch to the hill to the cul-de-sac took a shot throw it up just to put more back
And Don’t forget ‘bout Billies, Laid law, Nick Buc, Morgans there too
Do you remember the time we went up the hill - mechanical bees almost killed you
Liver failures and heart attacks, what I wouldn’t give to get those back
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14. |
D.D.B.
02:26
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When I first met you I was nearly five,
How did I know that Id meet my brother for life
We did stupid things that stupid kids would do
I spent most of my life looking up at you
Hackey sack beer bottle hockey
And all things nerdy you instilled in me
And now it seems like I’m going out of my mind
I want to know when this pain I feel subsides
And I know you gotta to go and leave all this behind
And I know it must be tough on you but I’m always by your side
I know I’ve made mistakes all throughout our lives
It seems like I failed tests from time to time
I let the distance grow like waves at low tide
I take responsibility for the darker times
In my heart part of my soul
You know things about me no one could ever know
Our Dads taken from us, now families of our own
Were staring down the barrel of what the future holds
And it might seem like its all ending
There’s no way that that could ever be
If time is all we have (WE HAVE)
The distance won’t mean a thing (A THING)
Bonds we formed between us never AGAIN WILL BLEED
And if you don’t believe me (BELIEVE ME)
Im writing it from the heart (THE HEART)
Cause I think I should tell you
That I just smelt a fart
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15. |
Ba Fangul
04:00
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It was a hot summer night
And a beach was burning
And fog crawling over the sand
When I listen to your heart I hear the whole world turning
I see the shooting stars falling through your trembling hands
While you were licking your lips and lipstick shining
I was dying just to ask for a taste
Oh we were lying together in a silver lining
By the light of the moon
You know there's not another moment
Not another moment
Not another moment to waste
Oh you hold me so close and my knees grow weak
But my soul is flying high above the ground
I'm trying to speak but no matter what I do
I just can't seem to make any sound
And then you took the words right out of my mouth
Oh it must have been while you were kissing me
You took the words right out of my mouth
Oh I swear it's true
I was just about to say I love you (love you)
And then you took the words right out of my mouth
Oh it must have been while you were kissing me
You took the words right out of my mouth
Oh I swear it's true
I was just about to say I love you (love you)
Now my body is shaking like a wave on the water
And I guess that I'm beginning to grin
Oh we're finally alone and we can do what we want
Oh the night is young and ain't no-one gonna know where you
No-one gonna know where you
No-one's gonna know where you've been
While you were licking your lips and your lipstick shining
I was dying just to ask for a taste
Oh we were lying together in a silver lining
By the the light of the moon
You know there's not another moment to waste
And then you took the words right out of my mouth
Oh must have been while you were kissing me
You took the words right out of my mouth
Oh I swear it's true
I was just about to say I love you (love you)
And then you took the words right out of my mouth
Oh must have been while you were kissing me
You took the words right out of my mouth
Oh and I swear it's true
I was just about to say I love you (love you)
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16. |
Way of the Dodo
03:09
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Is morality extinct?
Can we even dig ourselves out of this place
Should we even try?
Man birthed this machine, cut the cord, fed it oil,
Our blood And culture
gave it a face
To big to fail
A Totally separate being
A brand, more alive than you or me
Crushing opponents,
salt the land
poison the sea
Craigslist'ing votes
And Marketing bigotry
The god of the Millenia
Praise be economy.
We live, to die, then our blood becomes the oil,
That feeds machines that keep us in turmoil.
We live, to die, then our blood becomes the oil,
That feeds machines that break us down
Praise be economy, Not Rah,
Buddha or Jesus ever
offered such great rates
In our quest for creature comforts
We forgot about us
And worried just about me...
What a fucking waste
The extinction of morality
Happened while
you watched tv
We live, to die, then our blood becomes the oil,
That feeds machines that keep us in turmoil.
We live, to die, then our blood becomes the oil,
That feeds machines that break us down
Has morality gone the way of....
The way of the dodo …
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