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Spectator
02:58
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Nothing worse than a barstool critic
Gave up desire to create
Spectator
The perfect sucker for the state
Spectator
Sit there and criticize all day
Spectator
Pretend you have anything real to say
You don’t
Nothing worse than a bus stop critic
Watch someone else doing their work
Spectator
Talk to them like a contemptuous jerk
Spectator
Think you have a right to verbally abuse
Spectator
You have no remotely intelligent views
You puke
Why learn when it’s easier to assume
Why create when it’s easier to consume
Nothing worse than a park bench critic
Keep your lame opinions to yourself
Spectator
Stop showing your poor mental health
Spectator
Don’t care who you are or what you do
Spectator
You’re only toxic to this world
Screw you
Think you’re clever and you entertain
You should leave your thoughts inside your brain
Why learn when it’s easier to assume
Why create when it’s easier to consume
Nothing worse than a spectating critic
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Home and Up
03:07
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Home
Home
I don’t know
Home
Home
Home
I don’t know
Home
Somehow
Will I find
My way
To this place
Home
Home
I don’t know
What is home
Home
What is home
I don’t know
Where to go
Somehow
Will I find
My way
To this place
Somehow
I might find
My way
To some place
Called home
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She Don't Know Why
03:37
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It was so many years ago
I don’t know where she went
I never saw her again
I wonder where she went
One day I was walking home
That was when her head emerged
From her current dumpster search
I wondered what she meant
The dumpster girl thinks I’m kind of hot
She don’t know why
I spoke with a quick reflex
I told her that I had a girl
She replied that she understood
She’s in a trashy world
I found out about the man
They found in a garbage can
His girl confessed to the kill
She don’t know why
She still loves the man she killed
She don’t know why
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Transitron
04:00
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All day long
Was hard to breathe
Overnight
Was hard to see
Smoke rose up
All day and night
Fire burned
Deadly and bright
The Transitron
It’s long been gone
We were kids
We didn’t care
Scavenging
And unaware
Big white pills
We threw around
Played for days
On toxic ground
Wonder what
Happened to them
Neighbors, first responders, friends
How many
Are still around
What might have
Their doctors found
Could they have spoken out
What did they know about
In those days
Nobody dared
To analyze
Corporate affairs
Accidents
Were part of lives
Grown ups, kids,
Husbands and wives
Burying
Your next of kin
Just natural
Had to have been
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The Law of LIFAW
05:05
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So many choices
So little time
Will I do the right thing
Will it be a crime
Who can I turn to
Who can I trust
Who can I ask
To help me if I must
Everything seems
Like a game of sink or swim
Every situation
That I find myself in
Always on my own
Always act alone
Still the rewards
Are always nice to own
Should I do it
If I want to do it
Maybe I should just
Leave it for a while
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6. |
As You Were
03:04
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There’s hearing
And there’s listening
Are you listening
With your ear to the wall
You don’t need
To know everything around you
Why do
You try to know it all
There’s speaking
And there’s really saying something
Are you saying anything
Or just speaking
You don’t need
To say everything you’re thinking
Why do
You need to speak it all
There’s living
And there’s merely existing
Are you existing
Without a will to live
You don’t need
To always be in action
Be still and
Opportunity will give
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Give It Time
03:24
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I’m sorry
If this all sounds awkward
But I couldn’t find any way
To speak the words to say
And I don’t really think about
That time I spoke to you
I don’t dwell on what you said
Because I don’t want to
What went on with you
Is none of my business
But I still wonder about
Why you chose it to do
Where you’ve been
Is nowhere I know
But I still wonder about
What you did
Did you know
How much I admired you
When you talked of pulling the trigger
I didn’t know what to do
I was young then
Admittedly kind of dumb
It was you with your hand on the gun
Don’t know what I could have done
I guess
I’m here and have to live
And I know I’m the last one left
With anything to give
Mom and dad
Perhaps you’ve met again
Hopefully you’re not knocking heads
At least act like you’re friends
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They're Gonna Ding Ya
02:55
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I like living my life
Without a care
I still keep my eyes and ears
Aware
Minding your business
That’s all well and fine
But someone’s gonna pull up
From time to time
When they come up knocking
You know what’s best for you
When they ring up for you
You’d better know what to do
En garde
You better make sure you don’t get screwed
Sometime
They’re gonna ding you out of the blue
What goes on with you
Is your concern
Don’t wait ‘til it’s late
For you to learn
Other people out there
They don’t care
They’ll move up when
You are least aware
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Requiem for the G.O.P.
03:14
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If you’ve lived here for a while in the USA
You know there’s shadow factors here in play
There’s racism there’s sexism and xenophobia too
They just like keeping down low how they do
One day not too long ago a desperate groan arose
Because of the black President we chose
They were so offended and were upset as a whole
They signed the papers over for their souls
There were all the warnings that he would drag you down
The best screenwriters couldn’t make it up
He walked like a duck and he quacked like a duck
But you still said “what the fuck, let’s back him up”
All that matters to the folks who run the G.O.P.
Is fooling working folks like you and me
But when the people voted and we chose to disagree
They had a tantrum, in their pants they peed
They screamed, “Fixed election!” and lawsuits, they were filed
The rhetoric was too dumb for a child
They rallied and they bitched, and just spouted stupid lies, which
Just dug a deeper ditch after a while
I have never seen a single name I’d want to vote
Into an office from Republicans
Still there are some questions I feel I need to ask
So now I guess I’ll ask them, just for fun
Why’d you let the devil fuck you up the ass?
Why’d you let him take you from behind?
All you ended up with was a platform full of shit
But then you really didn’t seem to mind
Why’d you let the devil fuck you up the ass?
Why’d you let him take you from behind?
All you ended up with was a platform full of shit
But then again you didn’t seem to mind
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10. |
Zeroes and Ones
02:49
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They can’t get away
They’d cease to exist
They’re loath to admit
How bad they need this
No worries about
Real world cowardice
With 0s and 1s
They think it’ll bring
The means to an end
Contend it’s all good
Pretend they’re your friend
The time that is spent
And the truth that is bent
With 0s and 1s
And it all is found
In a single place
And no one ever
Needs to show their face
And they can plead their case
With no evidence in place
They don’t need to think
They don’t need to learn
The words that they type
The data they burn
There’s nothing to show for it
It’s all codependent
On 0s and 1s
The mind’s hypnotized
The head’s in the sand
That adult pacifier
Glued to the hand
It’s nothing that’s real
That can be revealed
In 0s and 1s
They have no life force left inside
They live in their sad digital divide
They waste their time but don’t seem to mind
As their brains get fried
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