1. |
Hello
01:21
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I was in the heart of my country
Feeling alone again
With the weight of a broken down body
I can feel the walls closing in
The only home I knew
Boarded up, entombed
A dead end
Down by the shore what do I see?
Plastic hopes and dreams, false memories
Always wanting more was never me
But I can barely afford the air I can’t breathe
On the edges of a distant city
My hotel room’s lit by chains
I thought the last exit was a new beginning but the signs here are all the same
An ugly menagerie
Of consumer loyalty
Unrestrained
Now I’m spending more just to stay afloat
Love’s found in a store, change in a vote
I’ve got a new friend he’s small but I can always find him
He takes me somewhere I’m strong, safe, warm and quiet
Hope’s just a lonely word for some lost fantasy
I cannot be sustained by that brash temerity
I am reassured by my friend that little pill
In a world as sick as this one there’s no shame in being ill
Oh whoa oh oh
There’s no shame in bein ill
Oh whoa oh oh
Is all there is to gain some indemnity?
I haven’t failed an honest game, I’ve fulfilled a destiny
This deadly despair beneath the surface that you keep
Knows the richest land on earth is not for me
The richest land on earth is not for me
The richest land on earth but not for me
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3. |
"Images of Need"
00:41
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4. |
Branded
04:08
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Well I know
A brand is all my being
Use this
Flesh and blood machine
Expose me
Til the skin begins to peel
My body
Is not the part of me that’s real
Sink your teeth into me
While I’m feelin
Tell me what you see
Is worth seein
Is all my life dictated by fear?
Without your loving light
Am I even really here?
Then all at once
I begin to disappear
In a swell of code
The content of my veneer
Was told
Not shown
I’ve sold
What no one can own
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5. |
"A Perpetual Wound"
00:44
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6. |
Fencewalker
03:06
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Beg, broken, stall
Action never pushed policy
Wait you turn
You will see
Polity wins over all
Note the opposition
Demarcate what’s fine
Buried in your bones are your limits, your lines
Damn the segregation while choking on the signs
That in your comfort there’s oppression while a war is waged outside
Goddamn
Everything is fine
Goddamn
When is it your next time?
Left, right, same
You must respect all property
Plead for life with dignity
Smile it’s only a game
Note the opposition demarcate what’s fine
Buried in your bones are your limits, your lines
Damn the segregation while your choking on the signs
That in your comfort there’s oppression while a war is waged outside
Goddamn
Everything is fine
Goddamn
When is it your next time?
Breakin at the bend
It’s comin around again
Who will you defend?
It’s comin around again
Note the opposition demarcate what’s fine
Buried in your bones are your limits, your lines
Damn the segregation while your choking on the signs
That in your comfort there’s oppression while a war is waged outside
Goddamn
Everything is fine
Goddamn
When is it your next time?
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7. |
Gone All
03:55
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I am freed in these fecund beliefs
With the truths that you are without
Saving my neighbors in front of their screens
Forlorn I’m their various doubts
Come now be with us all
Rejoice in the relief of the thrall
Oh I cannot wait
To breathe out in the sun
To feel it on my face in full view of everyone
Oh lord guide us now
My whole world is comin down
There are times when embracing and the holding of hands
Just isn’t good enough
When the children’s doting of their parent land is expressed in a ravaging love
Come now move in the sprawl
Where once one went now go all
Oh I cannot wait
To bring it out in the sun
To fight upon the stage in full view of everyone
Oh lord guide us now
The whole world is comin down
I knew the opposition and what it had to be
Granted all permission from the commander in chief
The aim began slipping as we were laying siege
Abandoned at the moment of our hopes reality
And I saw
The cracks in our dream and it’s flaws
The storm had come and had gone
And I feel so alone
Oh I couldn’t wait
To bleed out in the sun
To leave something here
Or at least to have begun
Oh lord
Help me now
My whole world is coming down
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8. |
Checking In
01:52
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Oh I wonder
Is everything the same?
The force, the shifting, the source of all that pain
Learned, unlearning
The divorce, the drifting grain
God unwilling
Penitence, guilt or shame
Guilt or shame
Guilt or shame
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9. |
Lifetime 2020
04:50
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I wish I could keep living a dream
I’ve soaked my clothes in kerosene
Cause all my life I’ve felt the precipice looming
Of all our fears becoming all consuming
It’s here
It’s here for all to see
It’s clear
We are calamity
The seer
Of all our enmity
Is near
Brace for catastrophe
Here’s to a swelling ground
Here’s to a home that never got found
That’s all over now
No one’s backing down
Here’s to our failed state
Here’s to the futures robbed and remade
Here’s to a dawning day
Where Justice has a sound
Where all our hope
Is more than praying on a vote
It’s made real
The system’s not broken it’s a sick machine
Fill my glass with gasoline
I knew it was real but see the brunt of the shirk
Is gonna roll downhill and the falls gonna hurt
And I’m scared
For my friends and family
Unprepared
For the violence of authority
Ensnared
But too cozy to speak
Who cares?
The fall won’t come down on me
Here’s to a swelling ground
Here’s to a home that never got found
That’s all over now
No one’s backing down
Here’s to our failed state
Here’s to the futures robbed and remade
Here’s to a dawning day
Where Justice has a sound
Remember all who spoke
With their bodies for our hope
And keep them here
Wait, was all that pretend?
Can my heart mend?
Say, there’s something new and real that is worth defense
And pray for one more chance
To build anew
To make amends
For strength in friends
For strength in friends
Here’s to a swelling ground
Here’s to a home that never got found
That’s all over now
No one’s backing down
Here’s to our failed state
Here’s to the futures robbed and remade
Here’s to a dawning day
Where Justice has a sound
Now we’re on our own
Our fathers burned our home
To the ground
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10. |
Fucked Up
02:26
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I know this ain’t workin
I know where we’ve been
I know where we’re headed
That’s all there ever is
Savior, soldier, family, friend
Pulled back bootstraps
God just shut the fuck up
Whose man told you all you need is love?
I know that he loves me
I know I love him too
His pain wants retribution
I think we’ll see it through
Savior, soldier, family, friend
Pulled back bootstraps
Y’all have got us fucked up
Whose man told you all you need is love?
Reconditioning, nothings fair
No life’s easy
God just shut the fuck up
You already know
This is the sound of our guns
Law
It is law
That means nothing
We both saw
A risings coming
And raised on contempt
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11. |
Bad Man
04:05
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I’m an island
All integrity
I’ve decided
That everyone is me
Bad man
The bad man’s not me
A bad man
Doesn’t love or dream
You’re a sickness
You’re what’s wrong with me
No weakness
No vulnerabilities
No I don’t have what you’ve got
I’m made of all the right stuff
I’m learning your worth you fuck
Move on
Enough is enough I’m done
Not worried about what you want
I’m shakin it off for
Bold decisions
To make the world like me
You’re a witness
I’m a pedigree
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12. |
"Being Into Having"
01:10
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13. |
Suffering Spectacle
05:41
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I am my own nation
I am the heart beneath
I am the confusion of our post scarcity need
Times running out
Even it’s work writ
I see the lie
It’s real and I’m it
Now I’m understanding
That the choices that we’ve made weren’t made in health
That the show is so commanding
Sometimes I think it’s showing me myself
That I am king and king is god itself
I am a body of work
A commodity exchanged
I am all the unreal truth
My pleasures liquid
Unsustained
I’d loves a gift
To give and take
An exchange of goods
Well fuck it I’ll break
Now I’m understanding
That you want to be mine and I be yours
That the family were demanding
Is a chain that’s binding us to bloody shores
There may be no way to reconcile
Life to me means more than a posed smile
The sun is setting brightly
On this empire of disease
My imagination tightly
Held closer than belief
So I don’t live in hell
I won’t live in hell
Sometimes I’m dismissive
And need to remind myself
That I’m not the only one who is working on themselves
And I’m not doin well
Sometimes I’m not doing well
Now I’m understanding
That the impulse to control
Rots the soul
Painfully demanding
Transcendence through a journey to be whole
Sometimes I wanna know and love everyone
Sometimes I just want it all to be done
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14. |
Goodbye
01:09
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White Beast Richmond, Virginia
BMORE (b4) // RVA (now)
Bass/Drums/Vox
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