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Therefore, I'm trying to get my fill
I'm so lucky that I'm not blank
Responsability Awaits
But when I think too much about it
I can't change fate
However, we wish to fantasize
We wait to find the compromise
I've never been to the future but I see it everyday
It comes down like acid rain on a 21st century day
And so forth we now control the tide
In blinking time the pressures change the sky
Passive masses watch and don't ask why
but I walk by and wait to see inside
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A Shot
04:00
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Its fallen down,
upon the reign,
of my emotions,
If its about me,
Why can't you see that,
I don't want nuh-uh
please no, not me,
help me,
save this,
safety,
far from.
I saw a man it was too hard to see what he had,
In his left hand, all the sudden A Shot in the Dark.
As the silence fell I was relieved not to hear it anymore,
and as I left all I saw was A Shot in the Dark
And my wounds are just ringing,
oh that gunshot just stings me,
I could see it so clearly,
all the sudden there was the blood,
I knew my life was in a bind.
If its about me,
why can you see that,
I don't want nuh-uh,
please no not me,
help me,
save this,
safety,
far from.
I saw a man it was too hard to see what he had,
In his left hand, all the sudden A Shot in the Dark.
As the silence fell I was relieved not to hear it anymore,
and as I left all I saw was A Shot in the Dark
Cold, dark and shady,
it was cold and ever raining,
and it was black and grey, black and grey
To save me he just left
and I was dead, yes I was dead, alone, and I was blown.
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$avior Self
04:32
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Looking for somebody to save
The corporate, religious politicians all know what is right
But they're better off just looking at their own Selves
Instead of at mine, we're probably both blind
At least I know that I know that I don't know
Riding on the radiowaves
Put it all in a box
Trying to sell it to me
But I'd never buy your fear-driven propaganda
There's blood on your hands
Money in the bank
It's all one in the same
Insane to me
Not even trying to see
I don't have to believe
Whatever it is you believe
I'll be fine with what is mine
That's all you need to know
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Hard 2 B EZ
04:58
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He makes it so hard,
You see he lives with bars.
Playing the parts,
and buying trends he'd never start.
But don't take it heart,
its all the things that people think
and say you are.
Hey,
The red light's on you face,
you've learned to levitate,
Now everything is great.
But some, they've got no time for this,
they've got their make-up shift,
I think their wings are clipped.
We're parked outside the court house
in a pocket full of lies,
just made of all the things that rot,
and bring all of the flies.
So stop, check your diagnostics
its not too late to change.
Sleep when you are sleepy.
I think you're beautiful.
You sane, you deranged.
So watch and learn from me
it isn't hard to be easy.
Sometimes when its free
it doesn't see to be me.
Hey baby, its not easy,
to live for free, cause you've got to eat.
Oh I know that pointillism's fine,
but you'll be working all the time,
and your progress as it slows
cannot possibly stop the show.
So stop, check your diagnostics
its not too late to change.
Sleep when you are sleepy.
I think you're beautiful.
So watch and learn from me,
it isn't hard to be easy.
Careful with the free
it so hard to be so cheap now.
My heart silenced every time you walk by,
and oh even more,
when you walk through that door.
I've got something that you wanted to share
and I've been thinking,
that its not I don't care.
I'd die waiting.
Hell and hating.
Loving every minute of you.
Can't describe it.
Will not hide it,
can't you see
I'm in love with you.
So watch for me to say if
this is really that easy.
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Skunk!
05:29
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Get in the rotation
Have a revelation
Make a contribution
To our evolution
When you get convoluted
You know you can dilute it
Just break up the confusion
It's really an illusion
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When Will This End?
06:52
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Do we live for pain
and are the mistakes we make exactly the same
Just with seperate names
And if it's true
who am I
and who are you
When will this die
and if there is no linear time
then when
And if it goes when I feel
then why
Is it any wonder when you call?
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Mr. Anyone
05:20
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I've been planning me a family vacation vacation
Living in the nation of freedom we beat 'em read 'em and weep
Stop pretending I'm not talking
It's not too often you find a full time job
So honey have another Crispy Crunchy
I've been sinking listening to weekly opinions
But the rewards that I will reap will beat the thinking jacket off this racket
Please, please give me lots of paid vacation time
And maybe, just maybe I can begin to get my feet wet
I don't want to lose my mind
I don't want to stay in line, there's no time
I don't want to lose my mind
Why is time so hard to find?
So I'll head down low
Call me if you know where to go
Living for the weekend's got me working in a window office
I'm no novice but that doesn't mean that I don't have no vice
Please, I want my mint julep or hurricane
Any little lovely thing to take away my sober pains
Waking up without a care is something I could never bare
Why is it that waking up is never what it seems like?
So here I am down low
Call me if you know where to go
Things here move real slow
Call me if you know where to go
Got a friend down low
Call him Mr. Anyone
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More Gain Free Man
05:16
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11. |
What Is Thinking?
08:25
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