DEAD EMPTY
For the people the world threw away,
For the people who have no say,
The angry, the violent, depressive, and mean,
The pissed on, the shit on, the unheard, the unseen.
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We are dead,
dead,
dead,
empty.
And we got dead,
dead,
dead,
empty eyes.
I feel I’ve wasted all of my time,
Trying to negotiate a world that isn’t mine,
Now I’m screaming out a message, for everyone to hear,
If you’re welcome nowhere, you’re welcome here.
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DESTROYED
Some people live a life, beautiful and nice,
But I have ruined mine, through my own device.
Slept in the day and roamed the night,
I didn’t have a job, I didn’t have a life.
I lost friends I broke up bands.
Self-destruction, from my own hands.
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Getting older, more annoyed.
Darkness since I was a boy.
Time to rebuild the life that I destroyed.
She was beautiful, calm and sedate,
I turned a little love, into a lot of hate.
I could blame luck I could blame fate,
But it’s hard to like something when all it does is hate.
Turn on the charm and seize the day,
But it’s so much easier to push them all away.
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Had my first drink when I was nine.
I lost my way, I lost my mind.
And I’m just one whiskey bar away,
From the terrifying, other side of me...
...the monster.
I know I’m the one that you despise,
See it in your body language, see it in your eyes.
So this is how it ends,
A full-fledged hating heart and mind that used to be my friend.
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BLACK TAR SILVER SPOON
Nihilism, rebellious tunes.
Black tar in a silver spoon.
Trust funds and they’re out the door.
Rich junkies always score.
Passed out on the squat house floor.
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(Million dollar kids) X 3
They’re not quite right.
(Million dollar kids) X 3
They’re not quite right,
Shoot dope all night.
Real street kids steal their gold.
Real street kids steal their soul.
Black tar will kill them all.
Their parents will never see,
That their fortune’s built on greed,
Couldn’t buy them what they need.
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GIVE US A REASON
They say the future is bleak and gray.
The end is coming nearer everyday.
How will you feel when it crumbles away?
I never really cared much anyway.
They say you’re all gonna’ die,
You’re all gonna’ die,
They like it better when we’re scared.
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(Why don’t you give us a reason...) X 4
...to care.
News talks of a nuclear scare,
A pissing contest a double dare.
The fuse is lit it’s coming down to the wire.
And you wake up to a world engulfed in fire.
They say you’re all gonna’ die,
You’re all gonna die,
We like it better when you’re scared.
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Yeah.
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Maybe then we will some day.
WAKE UP
Generation living dead, wake up.
Mindless trendy TV head, wake up.
Awards for sound asleep, wake up.
And millions of upstanding sheep, wake up.
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All this mind pollution,
There’s only one solution,
It’s thought revolution now.
Anthems will not make you free, wake up.
When you eat everything they feed, wake up.
Rub your eyes get out of bed, wake up.
And start a riot in your head, wake up.
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Wake up.
MOVING ON
Started over yesterday.
Got in the van and drove away.
We broke the chains that kept us bound.
As I gave the middle finger to my town.
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I feel alive and I feel strong.
A drink in my hand and it’s almost gone.
One last chance to escape a life gone wrong.
The equipment’s in the back and we’re moving on.
(We’re moving on.) X 4
I thought of all the times we tried,
To live a life more civilized.
Recline the seat and close my eyes,
And dream a dream of better times,
The sun sets in the hot Atlanta sky
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The pain starts when you stay,
In one place too long,
But hopefully I’ll live life my way,
And keep moving,
Moving on.
STAND TALL
Woke up drunk today,
Same as yesterday,
I could barely open my eyes.
Skip the shower,
Avoid the mirror,
And walk out into a pale gray sky.
All my friends reside,
In darker places hectic times,
As I sit and watch the world go by.
But I’ve got too much anger,
Too much hope and pride,
To go by the way of suicide.
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They’ll never, get to see me fall,
They’ll never, get to see me fall.
Stand tall.
Stand tall.
Life is hard.
Stand tall.
Stand tall,
When you’re backed, against, the wall.
There was this friend of mine,
His life brought hard times,
He blamed himself when she passed away.
The night of his end,
He laid down pictures of his friends,
And threw himself away.
Another love not found,
Another car broken down,
Another hair falls from my head.
Some people lose all hope,
Get a chair get a rope,
Another lost soul is dead.
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This life will be the death of us all.
Nothing’s easy, but I can stand tall.
Try me.
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