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These days I get to lay in bed
Do nothing degenerate
Are the best days of my life
Only because the others
Are always so full of
Hatred and spite
For the boss, for the man
For anyone who tries to tell me
What I cannot or can do
With my time or with my life,
And any body
Who tries to do the same shit to you
Because the only thing working for us
Is us working together
There’s so many more of us than them
They’re light as a feather
We’ve just gotta get everyone
On the same page
And it’ll all
Get better
I’ve gotta get out in those streets,
But I’m trapped beneath these sheets
And there’s only one way out that I can see
When the people thinking that it’s fine
‘Cause everything is cheap to them
See that none of us are free
And that the only thing working for us
Is us working together
There’s so many more of us than them
They’re light as a feather
We’ve just gotta get everyone
On the same page
And it’ll all
Get better
I’m trying to calm these shakes, trying to calm these shakes
So I can get out of this bed
‘Cause while I’m sitting here and quivering, I can’t get up and deliver
My boot to a neck
So while I wait for the rest to wake, I’ll pack up a bowl, sit here and get baked
So I can get out of my head
‘Cause while I’m sitting here and shivering, I can’t reach for the gun’s trigger
And we all know it’s easier said
Than done
We are containers for souls and our eyes
Others would rather us just be disguises
We are containers for souls and our eyes
Others would rather us just be disguises
We are containers for souls and our eyes
Others would rather us just be disguises
We are containers for souls and our eyes
Others would rather us just be disguises
We are containers for souls and our eyes
I know what I’ve seen, and frankly, I don’t like it
I hear the horseman of war trotting nigh
Screams of the innocent ring on horizons
As if they didn’t right now in the night
They try to push us towards comforting silence
I told myself that my Nois would change lives
Vacationing from, resorting to violence
When the world gets colder, we’ve gotta keep each other warm
When the world gets rough, we’ve gotta keep each other from harm
When the world forgets trust, we have to hold up the front lines
The same way that we hold our souls and our eyes
the only thing working for us
Is us working together
There’s so many more of us than them
They’re light as a feather
We’ve just gotta get everyone
On the same page
And it’ll all
Get better
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A defaced piece of art
Hangs above our heads
A scar across
The face of the earth
Mass graves
For the dead
Their chances for life
Taken at birth
Thrown out
Into the dark,
Sightless night
I stumble down
To the shore
A body
Broken and shaking
I collapse,
Don’t have
To struggle
Anymore
That’s not the point
You know what you’re doing
You know what it means
And you’ll repeat it
The sentiment is there
Take it or leave it
But when you dig down deep
Do you really believe it
Thrown out
Into the dark,
Sightless night
I stumble down
To the shore
A body
Broken and shaking
I collapse,
Don’t have
To struggle
Anymore
Thrown out
into the dark
sightless night,
She stumbled down to the shore,
Her body, broken and shaken, she collapsed,
Don’t have to struggle anymore,
I watched as she let go of her hope,
Couldn’t leave her just to drown at sea,
Helped her up and we walked through the dark, sightless night,
Because she would do the same for me
That’s not the point
You know what you’re doing
You know what it means
And you’ll repeat it
The sentiment is there
Take it or leave it
But when you dig down deep
Do you really believe it
That’s not the point
You know what you’re doing
You know what it means
And you’ll repeat it
The sentiment is there
Take it or leave it
But when you dig down deep
Do you really believe it
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Well it’s a good thing
You can’t smell me through your TV
Yeah it’s a good thing
The black shirt makes it so you cannot see
The sweat accumulating
All over me
I’m gonna grit my
Teeth right down to the nerve
And roll my eyes
Back into my head so you can
See the white
Then I’ll be free
Truth be told,
I don’t know
If things could get
Much worse than this
But I’ve got my hands
Tightly balled into fists and
Blinders on both sides
Because that’s the only
Way I know I can survive
With my chin held up so
High
Well it’s a good thing
You can’t smell me through your TV
Yeah it’s a good thing
The black shirt makes it so you cannot see
The blood accumulating
All over me
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I’m 19, and I
Still spell my name wrong
I walk into the wrong rooms
And get funny looks from strangers and
My routine
Depends heavily on
My outlook, mood and
Ability to confront behaviours
‘Cause I’m stuck
Living in a burning building
Condemned long ago, no,
If it had a choice it would
Not let me
Call it my home
And if I did
You bet your ass I’d be
Gone in a second
So if you’ll excuse me
Just know I will
Not be different my
person will stay the same
This will just let me grow and
I’d rather pass a legend on
Than a name
I’d rather pass a legend on
Than a name
I’d rather pass a legend on
Than a name
Than a name
It’s been a long time
Coming, all this hope
I won’t let you take it from me
Based on what you think
When I know
I know
That this decision
Is mine alone to make
I may not survive,
So I just cannot take
No compromise
‘Cause I’d rather pass a legend on
Than a name
I’d rather pass a legend on
Than a name
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5. |
Stay Away
02:40
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This day’s already shitty and it's only 2 am
I can't seem to get any sleep but I can’t get out of bed
Suffocating in room filled with smoke and tar
I honestly can't believe I've made it quite this far
By now the clouds are turning grey
Don't take away my shine
I'd be lying if I told you I was fucking fine
It seems like everyone in life has tried to shut me down
Fuck you to those I'll carry on until I'm in the ground
Some days I wish this world would end
I need an escape from myself
And somewhere on the other side of the earth
There's a place where I won't be found
So cry me a fucking river
You deserve the worst
But there's one thing I need from you
Just stay the fuck away
Some days I wish this world would end
I need an escape from myself
And somewhere on the other side of the earth
There's a place where I won't be found
So cry me a fucking river
You deserve the worst
But there's one thing I need from you
Just stay the fuck away
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Back, and forth
I’m pacing
‘Til I carve
Lines in the pavement
There forever
A vandal’s defacement
Leaving them marked
Like walls of this basement
In one place
I’m waiting
For now I
Am saving
The best for last
This is just a test
This is just a test
This is just a
1, 2, 3
Tonight we’re gonna violate
The hell out of the N.A.P.
Comin’ for that silverware,
Teacups, and mugs too
Just ‘cause it’s there
And just ‘cause I can
Fit a clawhammer in each hand
I’m going to
Smash your shit all up
Burn your gadsden flag
And ceramic display case, too
2
Because of
You there is no more
Earth to carve into
It split apart
Carved in two
Rotting halves
This cored apple
Is all that we have
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