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Lucky #8
05:48
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Do you ever feel
Like this life you lead isn't meant for you?
Directionless but purposeful
To break away from servitude
And if this ship be sinkin’
I'm at the helm, all the damp way down
It's all just what you make of it
‘Cause in the end the lights go out
And I don't have the answers
I never claimed to
You gotta live to win
When you're born to lose
Do you ever feel
Like we were built for so much more?
And if you're just a sliver of what you could be
What are you waiting for?
I don't have the answers
I don't pretend to
You gotta live to win
When you're born to lose
You gotta take what you can get
Give nothing back
If you're gonna bring this mother home
You better make it all your own
Now - you better get out of my way
It’s time to die, or step aside, and waste another day
We're built for something more
Follow me into the setting sun
And we'll rest in pieces ‘til the stars come home
Hollow promises and vitriol
Will spill the banks on bloodstained soil
This life's not meant for you
This life's not meant for you
We were built for something more
Something more, something more
Nothing less than something more
We were built for so much more
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We made a plan, and started a fire
To burn, burn, burn
This world to the ground
Locked in your mind is an answer inspired
That maybe you’ll find
Before your spirit expires
Rise – my brothers take up your arms
Exercise your right to take what’s justly yours
By force if you need to, accept no excuses
Rise
The pen and the saw
Machetes and straw men
The flames will all burn
I’ll burn them to the ground
This world is changing fast
These constructs will not last
The lies that you’ve been sold enslave you to the past.
Fear - I don’t believe in the word
And so the cycle begins
Over and over
Again and again
Sheep to the slaughter – lambs to the manger
No, thank you, sir
I’ll be moving on, you see
And I’m bringing my dynamite with me
This world is changing fast
These constructs will not last
The lies that you’ve been sold enslave you to the past
We made a plan, and started a fire
To burn, burn, burn
This world to the ground
We’ll start over again by the light of this pyre
Bring peace to our own, by tearing it down
We made a plan, and we’ve started a fire
To burn, burn, burn all you had to the ground
And we’ll start over again by the light of this pyre
Bring peace to our world, by tearing it down
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Elephant Graveyard
05:19
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The pride you carry in life
Has weighed you down to settle in strife
A chain and anchor behind
The scrupulous courses you set in your mind
The days seem blurry at best
Lots of late starts and failure to rest
Reversed the plans that you make
Denied and dispersed your energy wastes
This time passes unchanged
For all of life’s battles are left unwaged
You see the end coming forth
A mockery burning with all it unearths
Your place awaits among the bones
Proceed alone to find an empty throne
You reap what you sow; the universe knows
The harder you fight, well, the answers take flight
You long to amend the souls you offend
But as you deny the myth withers and dies
Your plans have withered and worn
An apathy outweighed before its been born
And, now, as evening awaits
A chill in the winter winds whispers Too Late
You hear your number is called
A sickened serenity follows the fall
Instinct will lead you to fate
The footsteps of failures believed to be grace
Your place awaits among the bones
Proceed alone to where your idols have roamed
You reap what you sow; the universe knows
The harder you fight, well the answers take flight
You long to amend the souls you offend
But as you deny the myth withers and dies
You proceed in this sad parade
The elephant marching to the grave
Forget the part that you have played
The elephant marching to the grave
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Counting the Hours
04:12
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I’ve been counting the hours
Til you’re coming home
I’ve been walking for miles and miles
Just to ¬pass the time alone
All I got to live for is
Two thousand miles away
And all I got when I wake up
Is just another day
These hands I see, well they ain’t movin’
But they must be right twice a day
I’d give you everything I got
Until there ain’t nothing left
And if this is my only shot
I’m playing Russian roulette
All these seconds
They start to feel like ours
You tick’em off in succession
Right back to the start
The sun kisses the horizon
Twelve thousand miles away
And there you are with my heart
And that’s the way it should stay
These hands I see, well they ain’t movin’
But they must be right twice a day
And all I want is what I ain’t got now
I’ve been counting the hours
Until you’re coming home
I’ve been walkin’ for miles
Just to pass the time alone
I’ll give you all that I got
Until there ain’t nothing left
And if this is my only shot
I’m playing Russian roulette
I’ll give you all that I got
You know there ain’t much left
And if you don’t come home soon
I’m playing Russian roulette
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City of Industry
05:35
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I've been trying to define what I’m to do
Accepting the end and all I will lose
And now the mirror stares
And I don't like what I see
This just can't be me
This hatred calls me deeper
This slope is getting steeper
So many treasons we have sown
So many seasons past through
So many reasons not to
But I believe in the unknown
The time for us has come and gone
We cannot retrace our steps to where we went wrong
A fire once burned so bright
In an almost forgotten place
Cold ash, all that remains -- as always
All these years you've stolen from me
All these fears you've buried in me
All these versions of the story
All these omens staring at me
These wounds are healing slowly
As this noose slips loosely from me
This was all I got
No it's not
I take it back
Paralyzed by indecision
The architect of your own prison
You shake your finger at the looking glass
You closed the lock, you hold the key
But there are no more chains for me
You're the only one left in this city of industry
I broke your lock so keep your key
Your prison cannot silence me
It’s up to you to be set free
Now
Set it down
Let it be
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Blastcap Lullaby
02:15
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Did you know that if you hang a body upside down you can pump the arms like levers?
Did you know that if you bounce a body off the ground you will find it is filled with dirt?
Phalanx formation
Death is life's creation
Did you know that blood lust thrust upon the trusted will unravel loyalties like thread?
Money, power, fame and hunger framed by right will crumble to the edifice of death.
Divine revelation
Life is death's creation
SHIELD WALL
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Siren
03:44
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Calling me from farthest seas
I travel on
Lost in the sound of your enchantment
Sailing fast to my death
Closer and closer cliffs of such strange beauty
Dreams of you float in the air
I breathe them in
Lost in a trance of
Your enticement
Crashing into your shores
Closer and closer to the sirens' dwelling
Scaling rocks and deadly drops
I carry on
Fear washed away by
Your sweet cadence
Leaving my ship behind
Closer and closer I can see you sing
Sing your song
Siren I will sing along
Your voice alone can destroy all I've known (as you)
Sing your song
Siren forces so strong
Haunting and strange
the harmonies you arrange
Over shores of rushing scores
And sweeping waves
Lost in the sound of incantations
Leading me to your side
Closer and closer
females fair and fatal
Take my hand escape the land
We run away
Far from the lost and lethal ladies
Together we sail away
Closer and closer
to the star's horizon
Sing your song
Siren I will sing along
Sisters betrayed
no sirens were saved (as we)
Sing tonight
Sailor, siren unite
Leaving behind
The death and wreckage we find
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The Guillotine
04:07
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I tore the shroud today and saw the light
My eyes were nearly blinded by it
As I looked beyond the haze, as I escaped the maze
That kept my body lost inside it
Today is mine to make
A lifetime in a day
After all that I have done and seen
I will not wait for the guillotine
Dormant like a river dammed - I’m stronger than the walls that hold me
The torment of this raging mind flows as I escape to sea
The river rushing in my soul
A current beyond your control
My power overwhelms me
My power overwhelms me
Today is mine to make
A lifetime in a day
After all that I have done and seen
I will not wait
Your time is over now
My time has just begun
As night draws to an end
Truth rises with the sun
Lies lost in the mist
Destroyed by passing time
Chains broken, left to rust
The past becoming dust
Look forward to the sea
That flows in front of me
My power overwhelms me
Hedging bets and wasting time
Sand in this hourglass is slowly slipping by
Meet your maker on the line
Never follow anybody else's rules but mine
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9. |
Deja Voodoo
06:07
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Deja Voodoo
When I sleep, in dreams they look on you
And darkly bright are bright in dark directed
I woke up this morning, I was all alone
Seems we’ve done this dance before
Well, how can I tell you how much I’ve changed
If every time I open my eyes you’re gone?
Are you saying grace?
Or are you saving face?
These roses wilted in the sun
I’m so tired of writing love songs
That I know you’ll never hear
Again and again and again and again and again
Go through the motions, every day
There’s just got to be something more
Around every corner lies someone that I’ve seen before
Just a ghost from long ago
I wouldn’t ask you
How could I tell you?
A broken promise all the same
Maybe you were right
Maybe I was wrong
Maybe I should’ve known we’d do this all along
Open the out door, I’m coming in
It’s time I find where you end and I begin
This morning it occurred to me
I’m in love with a memory
Well I tried and I tried
And I tried and I tried
And I tried and I tried and I tried and I tried
Forget
Forgive
Let go
Begin again
I’m so tired of writing you love songs
That I know you’ll never hear
Again and again and again and again and again
I’m so tired of losing my mind
Over something that isn’t real
Get on or get off or get on or get off or get on
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Fox Island Archipelago
04:04
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The current is rising and cold again
I’m searching for something that I can believe in
Hiding my mind from the fog of time
The memories of you can be so deceiving
Hold on to the moment I had
Hold on to the good and the bad
Hold on to the feeling that passed
Hold on to the day so it lasts
Don’t let go – all you need is tonight
I’m with you – everything feels right
You might be a siren, I might be a ghost
Or we’re words on a page neither one of us wrote
Faded with age against the crashing of lives
The islands are there, somewhere, under the tides
Hold on to the moments we have
Hold on to the good and the bad
Hold on to the feelings that pass
Hold on to the days so they last
Don’t let go – all we need is today
I’m with you – everything’s ok
Don’t let go – all we need is tonight
I’m with you – everything’s so right
How long will this last?
Well I can tell you that
The beauty of this temporary love is such that
When we find what’s right
We hold on tight as life depends on
What you take and what you give away
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Teleporter Blues
03:54
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Some day
We're all gonna die
Yes you will too
It's just a matter of time
So take what you can
Leave the rest behind
It don't bother me
So don't you let your guard down
And don't be clouded by doubt
Take the world for what it's got
That's what it's all about
If you're lost in hesitation
You'll stop before you start
And end up old and lonely
When it all falls apart
I'll leave nothing for tomorrow
Though I've lost my share of loves
I've drowned my sorrows so many times
Most often just because
See where this road takes you
It leads through heaven and hell
And when you meet your maker
You'll have so many stories to tell
Because someday
You're gonna die
And I will too
It's just a matter of time
So change what you can
And leave the rest behind
It don't bother me
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