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Live or be lived on
Step or be stepped on
Decide your fate
Before this world sucks you in
The herd bleeds you dry
A suit and a tie
You’ll never ask why
You’ve already died
Live
Or
Be
Lived all over
Coaching every little “sonny boy” into a “man”
Decoloring the planet is all part of their plan
‘til every face is gray, ‘til no one walks away
“Yes sir. Yes sir.” Resistance gone astray
Before you know it, you’re hanging from the noose
Trying and trying to cut loose
The knife is in your hands but time is running out
And no one will hear you shout
No one will hear you shout
Now you will be crushed
No one will hear you shout
Now you know you must
Live or be lived
All over
Step or be stepped
All over
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2. |
Fall Of The Handshake
01:13
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Pointless made up gossip
It’s time to let it go
There’s better things to do than fight with people you don’t know
There’s places to go out to
Miles to be walked
Anything is better than living inside a box
So afraid to communicate
Hiding in our corners, really hiding from ourselves
Open slaves to technology
Dying in real life, our existence on a shelf
Any tiny reason
That you could think at all
Will keep you from leaving the house
You’re stuck behind these walls
Your life is just pathetic
It’s self-incarceration
Give a man a small device
And down goes the nation
Don’t blame anybody but yourself
You will give away your mental health
All to make sure they retain their wealth
Fall of the handshake
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3. |
The Follower
01:55
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Expecting me to feed the machine
Like I have no goals of my own
With no one resisting or finding escape
You create a nation of clones
We live and we die by the job and the screen
Until it becomes our free will
No one opposes or even will notice
Another free mind that you’ve killed
I
Won’t be your slave
Won’t be your tool
Won’t be a fucking fool like you
(You) who lives to hate what you do
Dying inside every day
Crawling along through excruciation
And still you have nothing to say
The fight is dead, they’re inside your head
It’s far too late to break out
You don’t lift a finger to fight your own battle
You’ll never listen to my shout
You are the follower
You are the follower
You are the follower
And everything you do sucks
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4. |
Backslider
02:18
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They taunt you with the poison
To which you will oblige
Unending game you won’t win
(You won’t win, you won’t win)
Ignoring all the warnings
Through years you have been told
You think you’re acting bold
(You don’t have a clue)
The biggest victim is you
And the one who pays is you
Never advance from the past
Backslider
If you could see inside you
The torment that you cause
And to all those around you
(Disgusting, disgusting)
You blacken everyone
I want no part of what you’ve done
Your presence: venomous
(You have no concern)
Back. Slider.
Back. Slider.
Back. Slider.
Back.
“My great grandfather died from smoking. My grandfather died from smoking. My father died from smoking. All from lung cancer. All taken before their time. So…… can I get 2 packs of reds please?”
Gross
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5. |
Hunt The Hunter
02:05
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Camouflage, sabotage gives him the threat of deceit
The shots that he fires, the kill he desires makes him feel so elite
He wastes his whole day scouring for prey and finally gets what he wants
But he doesn’t realize the punch back that’s coming. Internally death lives on
Some traditions just deserve to die
Human beings bleeding this world dry
The killing comes back years down the road totally unforeseen
With chronic conditions and deadly remissions, he wonders what can it be?!
The species cry out and call to their own. Revenge from inside the flesh
The human so stupid he will never realize he’s causing his own death
Killing ourselves, killing our friends, making no progress, make no amends
Taking what’s ours, leaving earth scars, eating disease, live on our knees
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Fraudulent Fuckface
01:06
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You are a counterfeit
You live to play the part
Thrive off your reputation
You don’t support the art
Fraudulent fuckface
Fraudulent
Mastered your bogus look
You study from the scene
When you’re not in the spotlight
You’re nowhere to be seen
Fake
As
Fuck
You claim it but don’t live it
You claim it but don’t live it
You claim it but don’t live it
Get with this or get fucked
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7. |
Chains Around The World
02:13
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We wreck so many lives
We do it every day
It’s all we’re ever taught
We know no other way
We seek pleasure and comfort
At the expense of slaves
Ignored humanity
All born without a name
We victimize their children
Give them no chance to play
A life in factory walls
Childhood fades away
So we can have things for less
So pudgy and pathetic
We are the ugliest
And we deserve the pain
All we do is hurt
And we’ll get what we deserve
Actions, Consequences
Actions, Consequences
Actions, Consequences
Actions…….
Chains around the world
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8. |
Verb, Not Vibe
01:36
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No sense of recreation
You keep yourself in jail
Electric waves control you
You loaf around the clock
Domestic and pathetic
Safe, cozy and unhealthy
A sad excuse for human
Have we reached the day
Where no one goes outside
Where everything’s cut short
Pre-occupied
Goodbye attention span
You’re done with everything
Can’t relax and enjoy
You have become no fun
Two seconds then you’re done
You give away your life
Enslavement to your device
“Yeah, I don’t know man. I think we’re just gonna call it a day, even though it’s 10am. Also, it’s really immature to do anything physical if you’re over 21 unless it’s at a gym or on a hike for social media picture points. But if you want to get a craft beer or sit near each other while we’re both on our phones sometime soon – you let me know.”
Idle
Plain
Commonplace
Lifeless
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9. |
We Are At War
02:06
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There’s a lot of talk about what they do
The money, the power and it’s all true
But no one is stopping to look at themselves
We do what we want and bid farewell
We are at war
We won’t take the blame. We carry no shame
We are at war
It’s anyone’s fault but mine
The money we spend. The choices we make
Perpetuates their evil ways
The products we buy. The food that we eat
Refusal becoming obsolete
We are at war
Never responsible for our actions
We are at war
Too lazy and weak to ever change
Globalization kills
Our world
Factory farming kills
Our world
We as a nation kill
Our world
We pay them to kill
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Statues Once Human
01:14
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I can’t relate to you
Stationary, hopeless joke
You give it ten percent
Lost in your cloud of smoke
No spirit. No movement
You’re so scared of this world
No response. No blood flow
So easily controlled
Your only form is digital
There is no human left
No more companionship
No one to call a friend
So easily controlled
Always do what we’re told
We don’t know moderation
We are stagnation
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11. |
Quitter
01:49
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Everything you start always comes crashing to an end
Never follow through because you’re focused on a trend
You never look ahead and think of what you could become
Hit it while it’s cool and then you instantly move on
Quitter
Quitter
Never push yourself to the end
One thing that’s for sure is that you’ll never ever know
Always plant the seed but you never let it grow
Too afraid of work. Too hard to be consistent
A fair-weather flake without an ounce of persistence
Only you could make something brand new feel so old
Every move you make you think is solid fucking gold
You’ll never put in work. No trusting in yourself
It’s time to put addiction to creation on a shelf
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12. |
We Choose Darkness
04:09
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The time has come where we’ve finally reached the end
Nobody cares at all and nobody pretends
We fund world suffering without a second thought
The one thing they make sure you will never be taught
Ignorance
Disregard
We live in darkness
By choice
We are the cause but we aren’t who it affects
If it’s convenient then it’s something we’ll protect
We live for ease no matter whose country we ruin
Americans who can’t connect to anything we’re doing
We don’t want to hear about the people hurt by our spending habits
We don’t want to know anything. Just “what’s best” for our self-centered, lethargic selves
Someone else’s hope…
Someone else’s dreams…
Someone else’s life….
We choose
Darkness
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