1. |
Nervous Breakdown
02:03
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Stuck underneath but I'm trying my best
Don't have enough hands to keep up with all this
Feeling myself slowly slipping away
When I try to be normal, I don't know what to say
I'm having a nervous breakdown
Trapped in the past, the present starts to unwind
Can't keep sitting still, I'm going out of my mind
No thoughts in my head, just a grape in the sun
Cant tell if I'm blind or just always been dumb
Im having a nervous break
I want to break everything I see
Smashing things brings control back to me
I want to break everything I see
Smashing things bring control back to me
I want to break everything I see
A punch in the face feels so good to me
I want to break everything I see
Smashing things brings control to me
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2. |
Business
03:07
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They bought up all the land
and put a patent on the sun
Enslaved the masses
and if they work they might earn some
These snakes will try to fool you
into your mind they spin a hypnotic lie
and emphasize to draw you in
They want it all
want it all
want it all
if they can get it
they're gonna take it
Ah, give me more
give me more
this survival is a sickness
but thats just business
Democracy's the jester
Money and special interests are the king
Just smile for the picture
Everyone's faking everything
They want it all
An endless appetite for power
They'll sell you out if you just give them the chance to
They want it all
want it all
want it all
if they can get it
they're gonna take it
Ah, give me more
give me more
this survival is a sickness
but thats just business
You know it's a lie
but they bought your voice and sold the new word to the people
It's no longer a crime
they purchased the law so they changed whats legal
This truth is twisting
driven by a self persuit
A hollow charade
Fresh haircut in a brand new suit
Preying on the ignorant
fill up their heads with fear and doubt
This synthetic smile's gonna chew you up and spit you out
They want it all
want it all
want it all
if they can get it
they're gonna take it
Ah, give me more
give me more
this survival is a sickness
but thats just business
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3. |
Of Gods & Goddesses
03:45
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Moving to a metronome
That exists only in your mind
A projection of your ill will blankets
where foreign resides
So concerned with what there could be
that you’ve humanized divine
A godly being with a burning hatred in his eyes
And he tells you what should be
It’s the way all the people should be
And now you’re burning through the sky
A soldier from heaven sent to terrify
Oh my it seems you’ve sold your empathy
To promote a brainwashed supremacy
Good god you’ve made a mess of the peace
This mind is on a rampage
We’re taking back control
A frightening shaking of the scene
Chanting “death before dishonor"
Chanting "death before dishonor”
Shouting “god is the bomb
To prescribe the new world order”
Boom
A crime of passion
A hunter of the seven deadly sins
The sky has given birth
to vengeance wearing a human’s skin
He’s out to bring order to the earth
and Categorize the chaos by force
A demonic figure stands before
and casts his judgement on me
His wicked tongue spits hatred
And tells me that I’m not worthy
Raising hell up to the children
But he’s not the devil, he’s just a man
He’s not the devil he’s just a man
Put up a wall and he’ll just break through
He’s a killer and he’s coming for you
Oh my it seems you’ve sold your empathy
To promote a brainwashed supremacy
Good god you’ve made a mess of this peace
This mind is on a rampage
Schadenfruede
This mind had been plagued
His thoughts have been caged
and words can no longer save you
from This dystopian fate
Across from his prey,
the beast looms in front of the light
imagine my fright
You can imagine my fear from the sight
Of the growth of his grin from his ear to his ear
As he spat
I am the angel of death
The time for purification is upon us
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4. |
Creature of Habit
02:45
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Creature of habit
Set in your ways
Change is a coming
Get out of the way
Better get it while you can, get it while you can
Better get it while you can
The more you understand the more it helps you in the end
Ya made a friend, but everything comes to an end
watch the trend
Whats to come will always come undone
one by one, so hold on tight to what you love
Running out the clock won't make it stop
Cant make it stop, can't make it stop
Better get with it or get out of the way
Time won't care if you're ready
Down the drain
It slips away with
Everything is changing
Lost innocence
Chose ignorance
But I cant stop this changing
Oh its coming, Change
On the top, cant be stopped
that's the way its always been
but fuck your tradition
creepin slow, but by the time you notice
It hits you like a hurricane
So blinded by your rage you rain on the parade
but please don't rain on the parade
please don't, please don't
Down the drain
It slips away with
Everything is changing
Lost innocence
Chose ignorance
But I cant stop this changing
Its changin, its changin, its changin,
its changed
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5. |
Shut Up
03:23
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So sick of hearing about the right way to do things
That ritual that promises some peace that my death brings
They don't know the facts but they've formed an opinion
They'd rather stay in denial, they're already to deep in
I hear what you're saying but I think you're full of shit
So don't mind me if I just continue to ignore it
I hear what you're saying but I think you're full of shit
So don't mind me if I just continue to ignore it
I think that Im better off not concerned with what happens when I die
Some disagree, they guarantee that ill be burning in hell
But you'll never be free if you care too much about what other people think
So sure of yourself that there's no room for doubt
That there's no more to learn, you've already figured it out
They put a gun against my head and told me I better listen
They cant handle the truth, so they killed the art of conversation
Labeled me an instigator, I bad influence on behavior,
A passionate lover of a good sin, yeah I'm a regular rule breaker
I won't play pretend and say these pieces all fit
Because nothing stays black and white when you take the time to understand it
Jesus Christ everyone is full of shit
No one knows the right way to live a life yet
Still, everyones a critic and they'd rather stay ignorant
and I'm like shut the fuck up
I think that Im better off not concerned with what happens when I die
Some disagree, they guarantee that ill be burning in hell
But you'll never be free if you care too much about what other people think
I went to find the answers, but found that all the facts are wrong
the experiments have been corrupted and everything one else has just gone along with it
So if you want to know a truth well it looks like you'll have to find to find it out on your own
Roll up your sleeves and take a deep breath, you're about to dive head first into the unknown
I think that Im better off not concerned with what happens when I die
Some disagree, society says ill be burning in hell
But you'll never be free if you care too much about what other people think
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6. |
Haunted House
02:39
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This is the story of a girl who is a haunted house
and every night before she goes to bed she has to take a walk
down a really long hallway, with doors on each side
and she has to look in each room as she's passing it by
And every room is haunted by a bad memory
transports her back to a familiar place of misery
still every room and every ghost she visits every night
silently rewatching before she turns off the light
This mind is a haunted house
This mind is a haunted house
Haunted by the ghosts and ghouls of iself
Oh this mind is a haunted house
So traumatic to the tongue that it chooses not to talk
Fear the fear so much that you put it in a box
and put that box up on a shelf,
left there to fester and grow,
and one day you look back and its the one in control
This mind is a haunted house
This mind is a haunted house
Haunted by the ghosts and ghouls of iself
Oh this mind is a haunted house
Oh I gotta get myself out of this place
Oh I gotta get myself out of this place
Oh yeah the pressures coming down on me
She finds a seat among the others, her mind begins to wander off
comparing herself to the wonders that are other people in her eyes
and in her mind she's only a burden on your good time
So she'll slowly show herself out cause she cant ignore her demons lies
Theres a ghost of mine that plays the piano but he only knows one song
I couldn't tell you the name of it, but he plays it all night long
Sometimes I hear it in the day time, playing in the background of my good time
Cause silence is a luxury for those who have somehow dealt with what has traumatized them
And an open wound that was never properly cleaned won't heal correctly
now I cant taste the color of a burnt yellow
and fear on my breath you can smell its stink
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7. |
Self Sabotage
02:36
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I wonder do a fit the mold
Concerned I'm not enough for you
I put myself under the microscope
and was destroyed by my own self conscience point of view
This progress is killing us
The pressure built is bound to self destruct
Thats some kind of efficiency
Too bad its gonna be the death of me
yeah that number 12 sure does look just like you
This progress is killing us
The pressure built is bound to self destruct
Thats some kind of efficiency
Too bad its gonna be the end of me
I said its gonna be the death of me
Stretching out my hand, trying to reach beyond perfection
I followed vanity into a maze and lost myself in my reflection
Keep making up a problem, I cant even see the line
Once you fall ill to the obsession, nothing keeps you satisfied
This progress is killing us
The pressure built is bound to self destruct
Thats some kind of efficiency
too bad its gonna be the death of me
Its so perfect that its killing me
If there isn't a problem, then by god we will make one
if there isn't a problem, then by god we will make one
regulations, redefining,
Man, the machines, proper design is in
This progress is killing us
The pressure built is bound to self destruct
Thats some kind of efficiency
too bad its gonna be the death of me
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8. |
Mouthful
02:43
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My best friend's name is bad decisions, superstitions
Don't know much but I've got a mouthful, looks like a fool
But this time, yeah this time
Ill do better on this time
Anytime, every time
didn't mean to make you cry
But I try, and I try
I fail every single time
But this time, yeah this time
Diagnose procrastinator, wild imaginator
Best stop now Mr. over thinker, you'll always be a loser
But this time, yeah this time
Yeah ill get it on this time
Anytime, every time
I fall way before the line
But I try, and I try
I fail every single time
But this time, yeah this time
But this time, yeah this time
Ill do better on this time
Anytime, every time
didn't mean to make you cry
But I try, and I try
I fail every single time
But this time, yeah this time
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9. |
Riot
03:10
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I always end up in the background
I just wish that I was special like you
So sick of being treated this way
Stop and listen to the words I'm saying
im so sick of being treated this way
Stop and listen to the words I'm saying
im so sick of trying to find a new way
Took a stand, but you don't see it that way
Im so sick of being treated this way
But this time my voice won't end up in the background
Im gonna burn this motherfucker down
Riot
A social contract in the street
Bleeding out for all to see
Crying out before you
Again its time to look at me
But still you turn your eyes away, consciously avoid my gaze
Pretend like it was all a dream and coax yourself right back to sleep
But its not supposed to be this way
It was never supposed to be this way
It was never supposed to be this way
Wake up, wake up, enough
no we're not gonna take it
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10. |
2004
02:56
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Cant see how good you got it
Too busy lookin at what you're not
Wishing that you could wake up and be somebody else
You love that smell of a problem
and buying shit that you don't need
If life was perfect you would never be happy
You don't know what you got
You don't know what you got, baby
You only want, only want what you don't have
It turns you on when you cant have it
You only want, only want what you don't have
does that turn you on?
Trade in the moments for a shiny new day
but it doesnt hold you interest, its not better its just different
Trade in the moments for a shiny new day
So easy to misplace when you're lost inside the rat race
You don't know what you got
You don't know what you got, baby
You only want, only want what you don't have
It turns you on when you cant have it
You don't know what you want, what you want
but you know its not what you got
and you gotta have it
Oh you gotta gotta have it
Gotta have it
Give everything you have to have it
You got it good, but then you waste it
Stress machine from nothing we can make it
Risk it all and blast to the future, ah
Oh yeah it feels good when its bad for you
You only want, only want what you don't have
It turns you on when you cant have it
You only want, only want what you don't have
Cause that turns you on
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