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Mea Culpa Diet
02:36
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I won’t be held hostage to secure your happiness through exploitation
Won’t feel any guilt by ditching you if I’m escaping being used
This world has many ways of getting people into messed up situations
I’ve seen the traps disguised as opportunities and easily refused
So go and sin no more
Or sin some more and stay away from me
My stomach has no tolerance
For your pipe dreams and selfish needs
You’ve devised some lofty plans in order to secure your satisfaction
Unfortunately, your success depends upon the deeds of someone else
Imagine what your thoughts could be if you had only followed up with action
But all your actions have become a parasitic tribute to yourself
I wish you the best of luck
And I feel lucky nowadays indeed
I figured out your strategies
And cut the chain and now I’m free
Satan must be jealous of your able talents of manipulation
And yearns to have the grand ability to persuade the way you do
The schmoozing most admittedly is rather an impressive demonstration
With the right victim you could have their soul signed up before it’s through
You sure are a funny one
Except the joke for me has gotten thin.
The open mike is closing down
And now it’s time to pack it in.
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The Human Condition
01:50
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The greedy and ignorant need
To control the masses so they don’t
Discover their asses
As intellectual pretenders reality benders
Distorting the truth with a smokescreen
Paving a path of lies
Discreetly disguised as secrets to success
But they’re really just excuses for being mean
And leaving our world in a mess
Suppressing the human process with
Profits and losses so that they can
Prove who the boss is
Set up on an inhumane system which constantly
Gyps the oppressed ones
Who can’t get inside
That circle of privilege made
Smaller and smaller for anyone
Caught outside of the gates
And left in the cold to forage for ways
To get through the day
And barely survive
This really doesn’t need to happen
This terminal trap in
Which things are planned out and done
But when the control ends up
In the hands of the shallow
You can’t expect much to follow
I see a day when somehow they get wiser
And living quality rises
And people don’t have to behave like they’re
In the wild jungle
To keep their stomachs from rumbling
Why after thousands of years can’t humanity
Come up with better ways to survive
I guess some folks are just slow learners
And some hope that change will never arrive
Until we reach that higher level
We’re just lower animals
Not any better or worse
Despite all the gadgets and edifices
If we don’t wake up
We shall cease to exist
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3. |
Fin
03:29
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Some see me as negative
Having not much love to give
But that’s just their bitterness disguised
These are all the same ingrates
Spiritual deadbeats hiding hate
Never really can reciprocate
Optimists like to pretend
They are happy ‘til the end
There’s a lot of pain they’re keeping down
What will this lead to in time
What will this lead to inside
Happiness is just a state of mind
Why have we gotten here
Where will we go
I have no real answers
That’s not for me
To really know
People say that life’s unfair
That’s not true so I don’t care
If my views will get me ostracized
Life is fair, we’re born, we live
Then we go and hopefully
We left in something good before we die
Human schemes and human acts
Make things unfair and that’s a fact
Try and fool me with your best debate
Some blame demon wickedness
Some hate God ‘cause we exist
I just want to exorcise their hate
And when I close my eyes
For the very last time
I’ll have no regrets
That can’t be said
By everyone…
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War
03:39
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The puppeteer of propaganda
Strikes again
And sells the citizens
A lust for death
In the name of nationalism
And the pride of acting tough
The blood is shed
Upon the ground
Because their minds have not
Evolved enough
You wrap the flag and wear it
Like a social womb
And chastise those
Who don’t agree with you
As the bloodlust reaches fever pitch
You’ll sloganeer some more
No longer care or recollect
The reasons that your nation’s fighting for
A country’s ego
Is the sum of its intent
I’d hope the lives and money
Would be spent
On improvement of the common good
And quality of life
But more often than not
It builds up armies
Just to slaughter and divide
The ways to solve the problem
When it’s waging war
Is just the lower animal’s way to go
It’s much easier than dialogue
Diplomacy takes time
In the instant world they live in
They must stick to faster ways
Of changing minds
A convenient tyrant
Always helps the cause
Although the conquerors
Can be much worse
With the promise of democracy
Of course it’s for a price
Though freedom is the selling point
Their profit is the genuine device
Civilizations kill themselves after a time
The greed leads to eventual suicide
With the ache for power taking over
Like a deadly drug
The addicts do not know
Or really care about
What they are dying of
The ones who gain true wisdom
Tend to see the signs
When their world loses
Its collective mind
And the time is coming soon
When we will see this for ourselves
The foundation’s going to crumble
And the structure will collapse
Upon itself
And from the ashes
Of destructed humankind
The phoenix of the higher mind
Will rise
And the hope is then renewed
To see the chance of better ways
To resolve the conflicts
And to end the savage tactics
Of the darker days
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I Guess, I Suppose
02:18
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Lost in a jungle full of phoniness and lies
She came to me without a method of disguise
And as the time has moved upon its endless way
I cannot feel the emptiness of yesterday
I can’t declare all of the things I want to say
It’s just an overload of stillness on the ground
While at the top I feel my mind is spinning round
And yet the answers are still few and far between
Although the clues are there I now know what they mean
And I am grateful that I have now found my queen
I all but gave up on my happiness it seemed
But now she’s helping me to tear down the machines
And after dealing with the things which we have dealt
I see my own life is reflected in her self
And when I close my eyes and go to sleep at night
I see my perfect dream and wish to hold her tight
And then to reminisce upon the morning light
We start to navigate the course of no man’s land
And ride it carefully and try to understand
That there ain’t really any end to this here road
And there won’t be a time for everything to know
The movement will be fast although it may seem slow
The trip will be a mystery and rightly so
And we will never know how many miles we’ll go
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6. |
Au Contraire
01:19
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You say you’re sick and tired
Of government as usual
I’m sick of you
And all the foolish shit you do
You have a chance to show
Some true responsibility
You’re fuckin’ blowing it
Your vote’s a tragedy
You think you took a stand
But really you were led
You let yourself get used
Now you’re a pawn instead
I wish to God that someone
Could display some common sense
But I won’t kid myself
That’s not the present tense
You bought the lies and games
And happily had played along
You think you changed the station
But it plays the same old song
The grassroots movement
Wasn’t really there and run by those who
Used you just to get more power
Now they can laugh at you
Your blind stupidity helped to
Preserve the status quo
But why feel any guilt
Aw Hell, you didn’t know
The greedy interests are grateful
That you bought the sting
When things get even worse
You can’t recall anything
You are all suckers
You are all suckers
You are all suckers
And only have yourselves to blame
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7. |
Don't Tread On Me
03:05
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My patriotism isn’t from my being vain
My principles don’t come from my financial gains
I am American and proud of what we’ve got
I won’t let anyone try to tell me I’m not
If anyone thinks they can take this country from me they are wrong
If they dare step over the line then they’ll get stopped before too long
I know I’m not alone and there are other out there besides me
Who will not tolerate intolerance and fight to keep us free
There’s no accomplishment from brute force alone
Just fill up a bunch of body bags to send back home
My right to speak my mind about the government
Is no less vital if my views are in dissent
To try to question any loyalty in me is their mistake
If anything their hate’s disguised as loving freedom and that’s fake
And I respect the flag and all the sacrifice for which it stands
I won’t turn it into a new swastika for some fascists’ plans
Some day
We will have
A land of liberty
And justice once again…
Some one
Must take a stand
So we can live as free
Americans again…
Don’t tread on me
Don’t dare tread
Don’t tread on me
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8. |
Whathafuzzit
02:56
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It’s not even about compulsion
It’s not even about obsession
It’s all about identification
And your alleged maturation
You got your grown up props
And they define who you are
They prove that you’re an adult
Although you still live with Mom and Dad
You go and hang out in bars
And try to get some results
And tell yourself it’s not so bad
You know it’s not an addiction
But your logic is fiction
And you can’t see the connection
You got your grown up props
You got your drink in your hand
You got your smoke in your mouth
You have become your old man
But you know you have full control
You think you know about yourself
You think you know what you’ve become
You’re just your version of everyone
You think you have got it all set
But you’ve only replaced your parents
You are now your parents
You’ve replaced your parents
You let yourself get bought and sold
Just like your parents
You’re satisfied with your station
Of social regeneration
It’s only my observation
You can’t outgrow your frustration
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9. |
It's Never Bad Enough
02:08
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And it turns out like it’s never bad enough
Yes it turns out like it’s never bad enough
And it comes and goes and hangs around
And comes back in a while
But it turns out like it’s never bad enough
And it looks like there’s a morning sky of red
Yes it looks like there’s a morning sky of red
And if we are all so lucky
By the night we won’t be dead
And it looks like there’s a morning sky of red
And there’ll be some celebrating come the sun
Yes there’ll be some celebrating come the sun
But the rain is fast approaching
And who knows when it be done
And there’ll be some celebrating come the sun
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10. |
Enough
03:41
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In the course of our lives
We seem to learn nothing
Just trying to survive
And letting so much go their way
We let them control us
And make us do what they please
If we don't stop it
We'll never be free
They tempt us and bribe us
We just go for the bait
They drag us wherever they please
We pretend to like it
We're not as dumb as it seems
Just lonely and desperate
We think that we have this full
What we've really made is garbage
They more we think we have
The lesser we become
Is there ever any end?
When will we have enough?
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