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HIFI
03:19
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When your vision is on HIFI, you’re feeling low
I see everything so clearly, it takes its toll
It’s really not that bad, feeling alone
As long as, as long as my mind don’t take control
I guess it really wasn’t made up from the start
Another number posted on your chart
Raise another toast to my worn and tattered heart
That’s a start
Another weekend in the blink of an eye
Another Monday coming up to fast
Another person says I’m living for nothing
But I keep telling them I’m built to last
It’s really not that bad, fooling them all
Just like, as if I’m not gonna take a fall
I guess it really wasn’t made up from the start
Another number posted on your chart
Raise another toast to my worn and tattered heart
That’s a start
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Pawn
03:07
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Somehow I regret to do what’s right
But now it’s not for nothing
Take all these pleasantries in vein
Think I’m your faceless fucking rag
I know it’s all or nothing
I know I was built to feel your pain
I was not meant to feel like this
Another pawn on your chessboard it’s what it is
That steady feeling like I’m running from nothing
Nothing never comes cause I’m running from something
Steady riot running train right through my brain
Another reason I’ve been feeling so damn insane
My proxy been living without me
Drop me at the doc see I do it so doubt free
Somehow I regret to do what’s right
But now it’s not for nothing
Take all these pleasantries in vein
Think I’m your faceless fucking rag
I know it’s all or nothing
I know I was built to feel your pain
I did not choose the devils kiss
The reaper gave me time and a bottle of gin
What’s right is right that’s fine you owe me
What’s wrong, now that’s the other side that you don’t see
You're planted, feet stuck grave you’ll land in
Empty promises and people abandoned and stranded
When them out of of line backhanded
Just to emphasize the vision you branded
I’ll take you nowhere
It’s all routine
You’ll take me somewhere
Where I can’t be seen
I’ll buy you flowers
Put them on my grave
Write me your scripture
I won’t behave
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Burn It Down
02:56
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It’s all so cynical, honestly pitiful
Can’t understand how it all played out
You’re gonna let it go, we’re gonna take control
We’ll start the fire and burn it down
You ever have regrets, counting dead presidents
Profiteering while we’re scraping by
We caught onto your game, you don’t know us by name
We’ll bring our hammers and tear it down
In every borough every city there’s another dope
Watching your program, not knowing how the system go
Condemning people to projects, looking at them like objects
Giving them minimum wage got them eating toxic
Overly crowded prisons, prejudice of the isms
We all fall victim to corrupt systems
We all fall victim to corrupt systems
We all fall victim to corrupt systems
We all fall victim to corrupt systems
We all fall victim to corrupt systems
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Parasite
02:53
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The parasites are out tonight
They steal your life but keep you alive
They’re coming for your pride
A toxic fucking right
What they take from me
I’ll never get it back oh no
Time is not a friend of mine
How if feels not wasted
When your on your own
So much time to live
But the ending is unknown
When it’s time to go
So distracted by the nonsense, insecurity adjacent
Taking orders from your robots faceless fucking marionettist
Dancing to the rhythm of your keepers favorite pianist
So distracted by the nonsense, insecurity adjacent
Taking orders from your robots faceless fucking marionettist
Archaic future filled in essence, with an angst and such impatience
Dancing to the rhythm of your keepers favorite pianist
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Invisible Lines
02:23
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When you’re gone then they turn the other way
Screaming unity just to save face
We need peace for all time and every race
Not just now ‘cause your idols say they’re gonna disgrace ya
Stand up and be loud it’s all great
Not when you flip flop a different cause every day
Real change comes from the inside
The decisions and actions and reactions that collide
You racist bigot homophobes you cannot hide
We need unity
We need justice
We need honesty
Not just a fallacy
Invisible lines dictate the world today
Whether nation or religion or the color of your face
Send those lines up to outer fucking space
We don’t need that shit here there’s only one human race
Go shout for freedom if it’s real your heart
If you were hateful yesterday we knew it from the start
Easy to spot a bully hiding in the light
It’s the one spewing peace while only looking for a fight
Bandwagon motherfuckers don’t care about rights yeah
We need unity
We need justice
We need honesty
Not just a fallacy
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6. |
Masquerade
02:31
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Despise the time that lines divide
Dispel the lie that you and I
Are destined to a different side
The great deception I will defy
You take your pick I’ll take a ride
Take off your blinders I cry
Those nasty games and masquerades
The dirty names and worthless shame
You cause the harm I take the blame
You draw me in I’ll click the bait
Don’t worry just exaggerate
He’s not like you and I
When I came to I couldn’t think
I’ve been here for at least a week
It’s hard to say what's happening
When your mind is numb and you’re spread too thin
It feels as though we can’t relate
To a different style to a whole new place
Let’s take it down and pack it in
If we don’t believe we can start again
I’m medicated eyes dilated
I’m blind and jaded I find i hate it
I’m dedicated to depreciation
Got aspirations for defamation
Devoid of all appreciation
I’m empty and I’m blind
When I came to I couldn’t think
I’ve been here for at least a week
It’s hard to say what's happening
When your mind is numb and you’re spread too thin
It feels as though we can’t relate
To a different style to a whole new place
Let’s take it down and pack it in
If we don’t believe we can start again
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The Manipulators Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ska Punk for Ska Punk people
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