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Imperative
01:12
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Hollow Ethos
01:40
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Women & children
Assets used to push your beliefs
Screaming for civility
While you encourage brutality
Perpetual cycle
Spikes in momentum
Despite what’s in front of you
You’ll always play the victim
Is this our destiny?
The loudest wanna say
they’re the silent majority
Organized hostility
No flag large enough
To hide your insecurities
Always absent
Despite what's happened
Choose to ignore the past & the present
You're taught compliance
Through a history of violence
They’ve done it before
They'll do it again
Can we wait?
As times change
The base remains
Modern drawings
The same old ways
As times change
The base remains
Modern drawings
The same old ways
Rejoice death
A marching parade
Your moral backbone
When will it break?
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Is it better to reach a decision
with resistance or open eyes?
Set it stone
Holier than thou
Ignorance personified
Fucked idea of decency
Apathy doesn't take too kindly
Easy to be complacent
Deep rooted advantages
Crush the bias that permeates
Unlearn the habits
That shield me from change
Recall the man and his boulder
Forever stuck can’t move forward
Forever stuck
Forever stuck
Elbow to elbow
No room to breathe
This god complex is crippling
No more room to breathe
Another burned in effigy
We
We must
We must keep listening
Take what we hear
Apply it to
Take what we hear
Push it through
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4. |
Social Murder
01:46
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Adapted to defeat
Reject the idea of opportunity
This town’s been fucking dead
Collecting dust
Can’t pay the rent
The glossy glow of what never was
Seize the day to die tomorrow
Modify our stories
To fit your narrative
Everything’s closing in
The new norm is spreading yourself thin
The picket fence
The American dream
Your free enterprise
At the cost of our lives
This is a war
On the body and the mind
At the cost to survive
Death is rationalized
With everything chipping away
Always a foot in the grave
Learn to obscure the truth
Either way, we all lose
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5. |
Collective Will
01:09
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Maybe this was a wake up call
Question the collective identity
Faith outside oneself
To learn patience
To practice kindness
Is this our cross to bear?
Freedom without sacrifice
Who will live and who will die?
The devil’s not in the details
A life line, who will prevail?
Trust in one another
Not a god in the sky
Was it too much to ask?
Too complicated a task?
Too wrapped in ourselves?
Only time will tell…
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6. |
Western Glitch
02:30
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Thank you truly
I really mean it
The sun is shining
Can’t beat the feeling
It’s all a hoax
I’ve never seen
It must be nice
Such luxuries
The aches and stress
No safety net
Roots of a symptom
The outlook’s grim
The dust and skin
Under the sheets
The empty homes
Insurance claims
Everyone knows everything
The misconceptions that lead to dying
False sense of immunity
Denial of science
Don’t tread on me
So now? What comes next?
Total fucking disregard
Thanks for your help
I choose humanity
You choked on it
Your civil liberties
Is it worth the risk?
Is it worth the risk?
Everyone knows everything
The misconceptions that lead to dying
False sense of immunity
Denial of science
Don’t tread on me
I choose humanity
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7. |
Profit Programming
01:28
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8. |
Grave Gold
01:34
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We’re all in a race
Only a few seem to win
“Success earned. Never given”
Some of the lies we’ve been handed
Sealed placed
Made to stay
The barriers to entry
Out of frame
Entrust to the wealthy elite
Hoard and crush in the name of greed
The body accepts
The fails of flesh
Scams and deceptions
a familiar mask
Corruption in the streets
A means to make ends meet
Slaves to the estate
It’s ingrained
Inequality
The more you have you need
What’s left to be done?
Pawns in your system
Afraid of losing grip
Endless deficit
Afraid of losing grip
Afraid of losing
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Prune
00:48
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What’s it all mean?
Akin to the familial tree
To stay or leave?
Innate necessity
Over the years
Distance has grown
Despite repeat attempts
What is the end goal?
Is this for me or you?
Is this for me or you?
Now just a fleeting joke
Always more to prove
No pressure
No small talk
Lineage removed
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10. |
Working off the Past
01:48
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Do you ever think we’ll see
affirmation of our democracy?
Horror
Theft
Atrocity
A penance overdue
A debt worth collecting
Structure
Complacency
So defensive
A trait of the guilty
Recurring themes
Of fallen bodies
Mental fatigue
A growing majority
To look away
Deny their world
It’s not enough to exist
We must think beyond ourselves
Cut the red tape
Bring to light
Stone age traditions
Running out of time
Refuse to feel
Refuse to see
No hope for peace
Without our reckoning
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11. |
Blockhead
01:27
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Finally I’ve come to see
These charades
A waste of energy
You can point to proven fact
“It’s fake news”
A balancing act
Heavy handed rhetoric
Just another devil’s advocate
Shake and yell
Brandish blades
Your idea of a friendly debate
Fear in your eyes
Better lock the door
The mob’s coming for you
Right around the corner
Fear in your eyes
Your eyes
Better lock the door
The door
The mob’s coming for you
Right around the corner
Without a sense
Beyond reproach
I’m playing for keeps
Feel my pulse
Without a sense
Beyond reproach
I’m playing for keeps
Feel my pulse
You don’t care
A culture shock
You’re just mad
You feel left out
You don’t care
A culture shock
You’re just mad
You feel left out
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12. |
Failed Animal
01:20
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I still can't come to grips
Can’t accept that this exists
Faith and history
Twist your knife of bigotry
Fear guides your way
Tradition without a place
Raising flags
Burning crosses in the dark
A group of relics who’s time is up
You’ll never belong
Searching for relevance
Ruled by ignorance
Always one step back
Stuck in the past
Racing down a dead end road
Trying to escape the inevitable
Cloaked in shame
You call it pride
If you’re so brave, why do you hide?
Cloaked in shame
You call it pride
If you’re so brave, why do you hide?
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13. |
No More(s)
02:05
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It’s a jarring fact of life
With no end in sight
No place
No name
Same old reservations
For the sake of conversation
I decline the obligation
No need for your tricks
The old bait and switch
Same the campaign
Burn the money
Sell your soul
Everything must go
I just wanna feel
What feels real
I just wanna be
Care fucking free
Arranged in a way
We’re trained to obey
Social rules and etiquette
If not, you’re the heretic
With so much silence
Constant forced smiles
Why do we settle in?
Where’s the silver lining?
Is this enough?
Do I yield?
A fool’s paradise
As far as the eye can see
I hesitate
I separate
Seal my fate
And wait
I’d rather quit
Than submit
This is it
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