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Start crossing your fingers
We just might be saved by the bell
Because technology
We’ve got cloned monkey kidney cells
Maybe we can live forever
We’ve made what you call “mistakes”
For which we won’t atone
You can forgive us our trespasses once more
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Without Identity
03:26
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I wanna know why
What we think just before we die
Echoes so free in canyons deep in our minds
That sliver of time we need to forget the ego we feed and our evolutionary survival needs
Can we achieve transcendency?
I believe it’s for me
Not impossible, just purely chemical
I look forward to when the moment arrives
I will free my soul
We are without an identity
Universes abound. This religion’s profound
Lift us up off the ground and we’re floating gently
There will be no more questions when we no longer have an identity
Nothing to mourn when you're truly free
Now I don’t want to die
But I will welcome it with time
Will I be free split-seconds before I expire?
With every death comes rebirth
Drank the kool aid, it did not work
I guess we’ll wait to question fate
It’s not too late
I’ve loved you more than I knew was possible
But I’ll be ready to let it all go
We will give everything
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Don't Need You
03:01
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Why do I see your cell number?
Ringing my phone, wrecking my slumber
Weren’t you the one to end it?
You left me in the lurch deserted
Thought I would never stop hurting
But I hope you’re okay and
That you’ve had a fair shot
It would sure be a real pity
If I found out you’re not
But I won’t give a fuck
When you’re down on your luck
Don’t come back
I’m doing just fine
Don’t need you
When you left my world was shattered
Nothing seemed to really matter
I’m still here stronger than before
Now you decide to drop me a line
Sorry but I don’t have the time
After you said your goodbye I thought it was the end
I couldn’t find the strength to get back on my feet
Worlds kept on spinning and I moved on
I found that this world is full of treasures beyond the realm of anything your cold heart offered
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Creeped out disconnected voices
Investigate scary noises
Then defend dumb selfish choices
You’ve had quite a time
Please be discrete if you spot one
I’m told, smoke’em if ya got’em
Oh please roll me a big fat one
I’ll fall right in line.
The path is steep.
Gotta dig deep
Progress ain’t cheap
Don’t look just take your leap
It's love not hate
Don’t complicate
How should I demonstrate it?
The marketplace value of a human life is neither here nor there
Alarm bells ring
The choir sings
Well fucking hallelulah
That’s not our fault it's your job to push yourself out of your comfort zone Would you rather know
Everything that ya paid for
Ya never savored the flavor
More was expected from you and you know it
We fear danger and rejection
Take a chance, find some affection
Light bulb pops, there’s the connection
Welcome to the other side
Learning’s just like building bridges
No matter what the challenge is
Gotta cross over deep scary ditches
We can do that
But you can’t admit
You’re full of shit
One chance that’s it
Whatchu know about it?
I said one chance
How bout romance?
You like to dance I know it
We’re having fun and we’re not done
We don’t care
We’ll never say our prayers
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Problems in Africa
03:06
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Was feeling like a fisher price piece
There’s tiny voices on the TV
Then I started thinking, are they really just talking to me?
I can’t remember what they told me
I think we might have had some whiskey
I went nowhere but I somehow was so far away
(Reality is slipping away quickly, but it’s okay)
So I take a peak
And the grass it is grown.
But if I spring a leak
Ya never really know
I see the oceans rise
All empires they will fall
But will they be despised?
Cause they don’t heed the call
Now I’m trapped in this dream but I’m feeling wide awake
So I’m leaving my body I will just discorporate
Cause my choices don’t matter they have all been made for me
I now realize
Africa’s really not that far away
Why do I ignore real problems in Africa?
Einstein realized that space in time are relative
Your watch is ticking faster than mine
Sounds crazy but I’m going the speed of light
String theories that’ll blow your fucking mind
What’s it like when you die?
Do you need a break from the thoughts in your mind?
Once finally awake
I was feeling alright
Here comes another bump
So grab on and hold tight
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How Pathetic
03:33
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Never took another look
Memory just like a coloring book
Every precious stone was thy covering
Watch it all slowly burn out
A flame is a living gem
How pathetic my optimism’s become
When I choose to run
And how far I’ve come
From the sad truth
That I used to love to hate
But I need an escape from it now
Once expanding
Those walls are now closing in
Can’t save face
Don’t ruminate
Don’t let your last words be of hate
Leave all baggage out on the carousel
Circling for eternity
Wreaking of depravity
So I weigh down my duffle bags
To hide these blood stained rags
It’s true the Mill Creek Marsh is deep enough
to conceal the disappointments that build up
But it won’t stay buried forever
One day the dark truth will reveal itself
And on that day we’ll be set free
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No Tombstones
03:21
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There’s no comfort without pain
Just like flowers with rain
So we find salvation through suffering
Modern faith
For the birds
Limit us to one god how absurd
Each new day
She has doubts
But it’s safe to blend in with the crowd
All the priests left town
Hiding underground
Snakes are growing legs
Rising from the dregs
You can’t bring back.
What’s never gone away
It's here to stay
It’s just that she never did what they said
No Tombstones will ever surprise her
You thought you could come and go
But you don’t even know
They’ve been waiting long for you to show
Super moon
Full dawned light
Makes a good time for a sacrifice
It’s a sign you fucked up
Took a sip from the wrong holy cup
Traditions to maintain
Gods just ain’t the same
Once the fire’s lit
Heathens dance ‘round it
What will we do about the rain clouds?
We won’t hide from it
Why can’t all graves stay in the ground?
No tombstones last forever
No epitaphs or last words
Just such poetic weather
We’re not going home
Presently, there will be no tombstones
No tombstones
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Way back at the bright young age of 3
He wouldn't even fucking sing his ABC's
Teacher told him “row your boat merrily”
He just politely clapped his hands and tapped his feet.
Growing up never singing a song
Never felt his heart belonged in a melody
He has my sympathy
I’d rather die you see
Than become the man who never sang a song
Now a freshman in the back seat of the car
All the kids singing Madonna’s “Open Your Heart”
He mouthed the words with his lips so he’d fit in
But his vocal chords were not really moving
His mouth was open but the words would not come out
You could maybe make him twist but never shout
Not a melody
He has my sympathy
I’d rather die you see
Than become the man who never sang a song
Could not take it
He never hummed a line
He wouldn’t speak in time
Not even say a rhyme
He would never
He never sang a stitch
Nor did he strike a pitch
He never scratched that itch
Why won’t he just belt out his voice?
It was his choice
So why did he refrain?
Not even in the rain?
Don’t even know his range
Could be baritone
Could be the world’s best crooner
Would not matter
We would not know
He died at the ripe old age of 93
And at his funeral no one saw the irony
When the choir sang “lift your voices high”
A request he would have never satisfied
He was the man who never sang a song
Never felt his heart belonged in a melody
He has my sympathy.
What kind of life to lead?
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9. |
Star Stuff
03:52
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We are star stuff
Pondering stars
Thanks to evolution
In every way we share DNA
You see the connection
From prophets faking
Girls hearts breaking
Planets shaking
The whole universe is expanding
Life has some meaning we’ll show them
Show’em what we’re made of
Is recycled stardust
The death of a star might seem tragic
For its sacrifice but it gives us life
Cause what we’re made of
Is recycled stardust
Love hydrogen and oxygen
Go ahead breathe it in
These chemicals
13 billions years old
You see the connection
From God’s forsaken
Boys hearts breaking
Planets shaking.
Did you know some of the stars we see in the sky died millions of years ago?
But their light still travels on forever
This means if we can shine a light bright enough for it to travel very far then maybe they’ll see who we are
But will it matter?
No need to hate
Get together create
Cause this life is short
Don’t gotta feel small
You’re a part of it all
You see the connection
From minds awaken
Baby making
Planets shaking
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Bad Luck to Your Mother
03:23
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Kiss his cheek and please wish him well
From the forces he’s opposing he may not prevail
Though death was past
Life had not come
Kneeling on grass
All withered and gone
People are dying
Naturally
Pigs keep on flying
All while the time keeps on passing
We just gotta hope that it won’t bring
Bad luck to your mother
You’re no God
But your father was a good carpenter
Feel the nails go through your hands into wood
Poison in the system’s kicking in
All the priests are praying
Altar boys won't tell what they saw in the basement locked up
Think about it
It’s quite fucked up
Wash our feet
Bestow intrinsic grace.
All predictions are now failing the doomed human race
The winds have changed
The storm is near
No hope is feigned
What it brought here.
But are the lies you tell
Enough to go to hell?
Take what you can
Hide it down deep
But the rest will have to keep
Disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than the mind
Plus it can bring
Bad luck to your mother
There’s no God
But my father was a good carpenter
Feel the nails go through my hands into wood
Power in my system’s kicking in
All the priests are dreading
Altar boys will tell what they saw in the basement locked up
Think about it
It’s so fucked up
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Oddsmaker
04:19
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Amazing powers of our wretched species
Miracles never come at all
Why does God try?
Television pressures participants to believe lies
Filthy lucre dominates it all
This land used to be beautiful green pastures
Now you have red states and blue states
Please pick a side
While the elephants and polar bears hang on for dear life
Sit and listen
They’ll tell you when you’re wrong
Are you satisfied?
Jesus Christ died for you.
Maybe not for me
Well I don’t mind
But could you please
Stop eating the apples
From that god damn tree
We’ll be sorry
The economy demand concern
The masses yearn
For love and comfort
Things my disciples cannot afford
It's time to sell bitcoins
Gird up thy loins!
Prep our young for good jobs
And then we’ll all pray
That they don’t hang themselves with their satin dress ties
We will accept war, death, disease, famine and pollution
As a fair price
Fuck is going on?
Are you satisfied?
The planet’s well fucked
But don’t stress about it
We’ve created jobs
50 hours a week
Earns enough to pay for prescription pills
To put us asleep
Oh what a time to be alive
Are you satisfied watching pigs fly?
And who benefits?
It is what it is
But who really benefits from this?
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