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Scapegoat
03:34
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Hold my head tonight
as we drift through the hospital light
the tar sticking in my throat is
feeling pretty tight
But I'm on the verge of a breakthrough, alright
The coffee's cold and the pain is deep
as we wade the boiling ocean
in which we steep
through the noise I can hear your heart beat
through the whitewashed halls of Eden
But my legs are broken and my jaw is bleeding
I feel the flood in my blood
and I feel the salt in my veins
Feet planted in the mud
As I try to part the waves
I hear your voice coming from the shore saying
"This is not your place"
I don't know much but I know the price
And I'll pay it with my face
It's a long long road without a soul
And it's a long long road for me
No cash to pay the toll
Young dumb and naive
Hold my head tonight
As I sink beneath the waves of fright
Put the noose around my neck and
cinch it pretty tight
Cause I know you feel like swinging
tonight.
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I’m walking with the night man
In the halls of a church I’ve never known
Where all of my past lives, unmade beds
And teenage regrets are wrought
In stained glass and stone
And his face becomes a blur
A stranger to the person you never were
Just a stain on the map of life
Now you’re rolling in the back seat
Keeping it all hush hush
I’m sweating in the dense crowd
Of nameless faces and faceless names
Distracted by our birthright, long car rides
The fires in our hearts
Buried beneath our shame
They said “Your purpose is overrated.
Get down on your knees and serve your creators!”
It’s the day to pay your dues
And you’re rolling in the back seat keeping it all hush hush
He's taking me down to the old mine
He's taking me out of my own mind.
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3. |
Tuition For Heaven
04:18
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When you come home and I'm just waking up
with the stains on my teeth and the shame in my cup
Because you've got health insurance
and I need a job
Being an Anarchist is all well and good
But $50,000 in debt and everyone in your neighborhood
is working at a coffee shop or going to art school
And I can't shake the feeling
that one day I just won't get up
and my parents will have to pay
my way to heaven
And I can't shake the feeling I don't have the option of giving up
because there's too many people riding on my conclusion
I could sleep all day and ignore the pain
but winter's coming soon and I;ve got bills to pay
but they can't garnish your wages if you have no wages
It's a long slow fall to bankruptcy
and they don't even care if you don't have any money
and everyone you've ever loved is stuck footing the bill
(because you bit off way more than you could chew)
And I can't shake the feeling
that one day I just won't get up
and my parents will have to pay
my way to heaven
And I can't shake the feeling I don't have the option of giving up
because there's too many people riding on my illusion of success
Now the debt collectors are rank and file
looking for the kid who went into exile
but even if you change where you live
they know where your mom lives
It's a little underwhelming to see what I've become...
And I can't shake the feeling
that one day I just won't get up
and my parents will have to pay
my way to heaven
And I can't shake the feeling
I don't have the option of giving up
because there's too many people riding
on my illusion of success
And I can't shake the feeling
that one day I just won't get up
and my parents will have to pay
my way to heaven
It's a little underwhelming
to see what I've become
here's to four long years
and $250,000.
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4. |
No Symbols
04:02
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It's been a long time since I felt right at home
And it's been a long time
since I've been alone
And it's been a long time
since I've been somewhere that's mine
And it feels like forever since I seen your face
I've been running in circles in this goddamn rat race
But someday soon my legs are gonna give out
What are you afraid of?
I've nothing to hide
You can smack me in the face
I don't mind
It's been a long time since I've been back to that place
Where I found myself born
Put these lines in my face
Where I buried the past but the ghosts
Keep coming back
It feels like forever since I begged at your feet
You heard none of my words
I said none I could mean
And we packed up and left
Our words too bold for our teeth
What are you afraid of?
I've nothing to hide
You can smack me in the face
I won't mind
What are you afraid of?
I've nothing to hide
Give me all your worst
I'll be fine
It's been a long time with this dust in my eyes
Soon I'll wash myself clean
Just my conscience and I
And I'll make up my bed
Lay down and say goodbye
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5. |
Jetlag Blues
03:44
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I hit 85 on the highway last night
Flying through the abyss
This life flashed ‘fore my eyes
But it feels way too slow
Waiting for the right time
Gasoline turnpikes and
Old railway stations
Roll slow by my window
Without hesitation
And under my wheels ‘til
I reach the edge of my patience
A wise man once said
“You ain’t got a chance with what you can’t change, son”
I’m not good at goodbyes and I
Hope I don’t have to
Leave behind all the faces I have to
And into that great void that all of my
Memories fell through
Just a man possessed with these
Transient jet lag blues
When I’m running away
There’s nowhere to run to
With nothing to say
And no one to say to
When time comes to pray
I’ve got nothing to pray to
Everyone’s obsessed with truth
Tell yourself whatever you need to
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Ashes of the Greats
03:50
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Driving by my old friend's house
It makes me wanna cry
Somehow we're still alive
though the good times they have died
And though I never told the truth
Never did I lie
I'm not the same kid
though I could be if I tried
And every dream I ever dreamt
I locked it up tight
Held it for a rainy day
When the time was feeling right
And It'd all come flooding back
and the water'd run into my eyes
And it'd wash me clean into the stream
And empty into a bloody ocean.
I am done
I'm through
And it's all over now
I'm done
I've been had
I've been kicked until I'm mad
Just a weaker man
In a weaker world
That is all I ask
I will choke
I will cry
When the wolrd gives up and dies
As we know it
As it was
When all that's left is mud
and the ashes of the greats
Who aren't so great anymore
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7. |
Manifest Destiny
04:57
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The endless betrayal of tongues is coming soon
We’ll never make it to the moon
With these open wounds
Forging our armor from scraps of rusted cans
Coke bottle dreams as shallow as
what we thought were plans
There’s a hole in the ocean
Where all the good people go
There’s a crack in the landscape
Where it never snows
And you never grow old
Matter and gas
Floating through space
There’s no pressure to find your place
What we know is only what we know
Burn your worries at the stake
The poisoned vial of doubt
Is all we own
The cleansing begins when we throw
Up all of our innocence
There’s a hole in the ocean
Where all the good people go
There’s a crack in the landscape
Where it never snows
And you never grow old
Matter and gas
Floating through space
There’s no pressure to find your place
What we built is only what we built
Your hands sow your destiny
And your guilt
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Lenny Ranallo Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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