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Watch the flags rise to start up the fight
Take your positions from where you hide
Everyone is screaming out their truths
And this coma we’re drifting in and out of proves nothing
Watch the flags rise to start up the fight
See them multiply to increase the divide
Blame’s going round and soon it stops at you
And this coma we’re drifting in and out of proves nothing
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I won’t fight back
I cannot push forward
I am here standing
Standing for nothing
But you know a man must sometime, sometime sit down
Sometime, sometime still
And you know a man must sometime, sometime sit down
Sometime, sometime still
I promise to demolish
Any part of self I’ve self-made
(That’s what you say, here’s what you do)
I promise to abolish
Any part of me that can be saved
Cause you know a man must sometime, sometime sit down
Sometime, sometime still
And you know a man must sometime, sometime sit down
Sometime, sometime still
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In Love With No One
04:02
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Forty more years of this
Tune in brother it’s your favorite station
Cut your hair but don’t cut your wrists
Don’t move on and no big decisions
I live in hell, it’s convenient
I’m searching for some real solutions
Just as long as there’s somewhere else
I’ll rely on my dream interpretations
You’re barely breathing
Yeah, that’s the hardest thing to do
If I could only just one time come around
And split my mind and pour it out to you
I think I’m in love, in love with no one
I think I’m in love, in love with no one
I think I’m in love, in love with no one
I think I’m in love
Forty more years of this
How long will it take to accept annihilation?
Wrap it up and then throw it out
You are a new strain of retardation
I need my trainers and my supplements
I need my daily half an hour meditation
It comes up but you push it down
As you climb another level of another corporation
So forward thinking
Invent the game and make the clues
Still lost and lonely
Rehearse your life ‘til a time you realize
And then die right on cue
I think I’m in love, in love with no one
I think I’m in love, in love with no one
I think I’m in love, in love with no one
I think I’m in love, in love with no one
I think I’m in love, in love with no one
I think I’m in love, in love with no one
I think I’m in love, in love with no one
I think I’m in love
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I asked her once more, ‘Is there something wrong?’
I asked her once more, ‘Is there something wrong?’
And those words are still haunting my brain
Her words drove me all the way insane
I changed my appearance too far from what I was
I cleared my home and head and now I’m lost
But the way she tore down all that I made
And demand me to at once recreate
Oh, she left me four times the fool I was
Oh, she left me four times the fool I was
I’d play someone, someone who was fair game
But your just plain pretending
And I’m just four, four times the fool I was
I’ll ask you once more, ‘Is there something wrong?’
I’ll ask you once more, ‘Is there something wrong?’
As she blankly stares off into space
And you look at me as if I’m crazed
Oh, I’m just four times the fool I was
Oh, I’m just four times the fool I was
Oh, I’m just four times the fool I was
Oh, I’m just four times the fool I was
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God bless you if you want it
Kill for what you aint got
Infest all your love with their disease
Start another clean page
Ride another new phase
Never finish that which you conceive
God bless you if you want it cause god has killed his prophets
And cripples anyone who can be saved
The devil’s got an image
Just look into your mirror
And lucifer will show his wily face
Smother if you love it
Drown it if it can’t swim
To find out this is certainly your fate
Mesmerize your lovers
Charm another neighbor
Inside dreaming of bludgeoning them both
God bless you if you want it cause god has killed his prophets
And cripples anyone who can be saved
The devil’s got an image
Just look into your mirror
And lucifer will show his wily face
God bless you if you want it cause god has killed his prophets
And cripples anyone who can be saved
The devil’s got an image
Just look into your mirror
And lucifer will show his wily face
I have no answers
I see no reasons
I have just illusions that I’ve made
I have built a temple for the new messiah
Who gazes over the excrement he creates
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The Mess You Became
03:55
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You try to push erase every day
On moments that don’t align to what you expect
Want to reject
Claim as defects
Here’s news to your perfect visions
Untainted mirrors
Blush up your face
Invest in or save no one but those already saved
Record ideals of a passed day
Take just one inch
Shove for two ways
One hundred and eighty degrees
Between is where you’re on your knees
Gather yourself
Ignore all that happens today
Live yesterday
Live tomorrow
Delete today
So happy now
But now don’t exist
Never was it
Has been replaced
Watch erase change
Watch erase change
Watch erase change
The mess you became
Watch erase change
Watch erase change to
Watch erase change
The mess you became
Watch erase change to
Watch erase change to
Watch erase change to
The mess you became
Watch erase change to
Watch erase change to
Watch erase change to
The mess you became
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My Stephanie
02:30
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What is it you’d like my Stephanie?
What is it you’d like my Stephanie?
What is it you’d like my Stephanie?
What is it you’d like my Stephanie?
She said
Write me a song that could never let me down
And shelters me from this winter rain
Write me a song that will save me as I drown
And filters me whenever I complain
Play me something weird that would express all the tears
And yet leave me feeling all brand new
Touch me one more time just to realign my spine
And I’ll shiver and I’ll shake only for you
Oh, that is what you’d like my Stephanie
Oh, that is what you’d like my Stephanie
Oh, such a simple line my Stephanie
From her heart to mine
So, I said
Paint me a scene that will act just like morphine
Without all of the side effects of course
Dance a low routine that is totally obscene
So filthy I’ll be shouting out encore
Syringe out the hate and the fears I contemplate
And each one of you forgeries
Draw me something strange that would force us all to change
Would that not be nice my Stephanie?
Would that not be nice my Stephanie?
Would that not be nice my Stephanie?
Could that not be nice my Stephanie?
From her heart to mine
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Too Hard To Bother
02:42
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Give me one more week to get to you
Give me just ten bucks to make it through
We could bind this love together
And we can struggle on forever
Give me just one task where I can prove
All I am before I’m through
You can separate the others
Or you can try too much to bother
You try too much, why bother?
You try too much, why bother?
You try too much, why bother?
You try too much, why bother?
Yeah, you try too much, why bother?
You try too much, why bother?
Yeah, you try too much, why bother?
Yeah, you try too much, why bother?
Yeah, you try too much, why bother?
Yeah, you try too much, why bother?
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The Low Caa
02:29
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We’ll fall down
We ler ser
Oh baa dow
Orh gan lowe
It’s a new day
I know this won’t last
Square up a new frame
It’s a new start
We’ll fall down
We’ll fall down
We’ll fall down
Org san nouw
Houw gan s
Han geh su
Low caa
It’s a new day
I know this won’t last
Square up a new frame
It’s a new start
It’s a new start
It’s a new start
It’s a new start
It’s a new start
It’s a new start
It’s a new start
It’s a new start
It’s a new start
It’s a new start
It’s a new start
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Two Jackass Parade
03:20
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Every night we part broken-hearted
Each day spent in pain
I always wanted her as my lover but she ended up the one I’d blame
For all the times I was defeated
And all the times I went insane
And all the times that I felt cripple
But each time she come back again
Each night I spent laying in his arms ‘twas for shelter not for love
A cloud must disintegrate its holdings but your rain my dear falls that deep it cuts
Still each time I’ll not step forward
And each time I’ll bear false claims
And each time I’ll not be truthful
So, each time I’ll come back again
When all that I wanted was anything you gave
When no one could divide and nothing fade
And everything I needed was anything you made
When there was no need for being safe
Will it come back again?
For each time we hurt each other it’s one less goal to make
Our energies are falling fast for this two-jackass parade
Still each time we will not compromise
And each time it’s all the same
And each time we need a scapegoat
We find we’ll come back again
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From every second, any minute, each moment
He got down to living
Cause everything’s gonna be fine
Along the way he saw some small cracks appearing
But kept on delivering
Cause everything’s gonna be fine
He lost his memory to an underweight princess
A drugged night of gambling
Everything’s gonna be fine
Now he stands at attention for dinner
Yells, ‘Come on and be me’
Cause everything’s gonna be fine
Everything’s gonna be fine
Everything’s gonna be fine
Everything’s gonna be fine
Everything’s gonna be fine
(If you come, come up and see me, come up and see me)
Everything’s gonna be fine
(If you come, come up and see me, come up and see me)
Everything’s gonna be fine
(If you come, come up and see me, come up and see me)
Everything’s gonna be fine
(If you come, come up and see me, come up and see me)
And they launch another missile
So, we medicate to numb
Let’s invent another mechanism that shows how smart we are and how far we’ve come
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Adam Buckland Ensemble Melbourne, Australia
Adam Buckland is a musician, songwriter and artist living in Melbourne, Australia.
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