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Pariah
02:32
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Long ago I blew the line dividing right and wrong
Fuck me, fuck you! I’ve never belonged
When I look back at a life with nothing to show
I know my people will always be my home
Dressed in black, smell like shit, drunk from the night before
I try to slow down, not to drown, but I can’t tread any more
Surrounded by Violence
Counting down to the end, when I’m not on the clock
I crawl hands and knees to the well, a drink so this all stops
I’ll never fit into a box
I’d rather be wrong than fucking lost
There’s more than taking your place
We live the misery that we create
Long ago I blew the line dividing right and wrong
When I come down take a bottle head on
No regrets every scar reminds me when I should duck
Take a swing, take a hit, stay off the fucking ropes
Dirty clothes, greasy hair, I didn’t sleep last night
I pace through the day, stay awake so I can do it again
Surrounded by violence
I don’t care what it takes to get you through the day
I’ll fight tooth and nail for the right to make our own mistakes
I’ll never fit into a box
I’d rather be wrong than fucking lost
There’s more than taking your place
We live the misery that we create
Some day this will catch up to me
Some day I’ll be buried beneath
What’s the point of living your life safe
when everything will be taken away
Everything will be taken from you
One day it all goes black
They stick you in a hole and you’re part of the past
One day everything will end
The world goes on and continues to spin, one day
Live how you want
Be who you wanna be
Fuck it all, fuck it all, so fuck it all
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Prisoners of Conscience
01:15
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Born beyond fucking lost
Behind the eight ball, mostly my fault
A wrap sheet and blackened lungs
I should’ve died when I was fucking young
Everyone fucks with you living broke in the street
A target on your back, a poison unseen
Death is the final after thought for the desperate that can not stop
When you don’t have money to eat and no where you’re allowed to sleep
Go! When they criminalize how you survive
Behind bars, built without a key
Hide from reality if it doesn’t fit
Better if they believe that we don’t exist
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3. |
Be Normal
02:51
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I hide inside the me you know
He wants to have fun but I’m a misanthrope
Say good bye to the lie that I use or maybe it uses me to survive
If I say too much, share my thoughts untouched
and blow the cover I’ve built
that keeps you here but fills me with guilt
I’m a fraud, I’m acting out because I’m lost on a sinking ship
We all want to live true to ourselves
but my family is hungry with failing wealth
I don’t walk the walk, I definitely don’t talk the fucking talk
I try to be normal but no one smells smoke and the building’s on fire
I can’t walk the straight narrow line
My sobriety’s on the decline
As I unravel I bring you along
We fall, withdraw
I hide inside the me you know
I wanna come out but I’m afraid you’d go
Say good bye to the lie that I use or maybe it uses me to survive
If I let it go, let the walls fall down
Will you not like what you see
You didn’t sign up for all that I bring
I’m a fraud, everything I want is on pause, while I slowly drown
There’s never gonna be anything for me
stuck behind a desk I belong in the street
I regret the misery you absorb every time I bleed
I try to keep it bottled inside of me
The poison was never supposed to leak
I don’t walk the walk, I definitely don’t talk the fucking talk
I try to be normal but no one smells smoke and the building’s on fire
Beaten by failure and the death of your dreams
Playing dress up like it’s halloween
Make enough money to continue to eat
Take on more debt so you have somewhere to sleep
Hell is in a book but dystopia is real
Created to control by deciding who can steal
We’ve been conquered by division based on a big lie
A fabrication we’ve been told came down from the divine
Be normal
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4. |
Black Hole
02:37
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Fuck the perfect people living hollow lives
Thinking they are better for walking on the line
Keep everyone busy, make everything clean
Life is more fun dirty doing the wrong thing
A life spent seeking validation I don’t want
It’s better in the shadows with people I trust
I’ll take it to my face instead of in the back
They keep the carrot on the stick ‘cuz it’s a trap
Fight the black hole
Being true isn’t sold, be the revolt
Fuck the perfect people living hollow lives
Thinking they are better for walking on the line
Keep everyone busy, make everything clean
Life is more fun dirty doing the wrong thing
Run around in circles till we fucking die
Taking from each other, chasing down a lie
Will you fight the current, are you out to sea
No one is a lost cause if they are asleep
Pain, torment and loss that we all could easily prevent
Blind to the concession that we all make when we buy in
Fight the black hole
Honor isn’t sold, be the revolt
Fuck the perfect people living hollow lives
Thinking they are better for walking on the line
Keep everyone busy, make everything clean
Life is more fun dirty doing the wrong thing
Days we keep missing, nights we won’t get back
Working so someone else can leave me a few scraps
Time that I’ve lost, I could’ve spent with my family
Taking a second job so all of us can eat
Time that I’ve lost with nothing to show for all my sweat
Every day working, waiting for the slow creep of death
Your comfort comes at my expense
You buy more homes I can’t pay rent
I shouldn’t suffer so you thrive
You are the reason we barely survive
Given everything that I’m deprived
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5. |
We Will Rise
02:13
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Take it all out on me
Run me over, break my bones, kick my teeth in
Take whatever you will need
What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger
We will rise, we keep fighting
We will rise, keep surviving
You can try but you can’t break me
Beat me down again
Do your worst ‘cuz you can’t break me
I can’t feel anything
Everything to gain with nothing to lose
Take it all out on me
Nothing matters in the end, it’s all for nothing
Watching you self destruct
Decimation is creation
We will rise, we keep fighting
We will rise, keep surviving
You can try but you can’t break me
Beat me down again
Do your worst ‘cuz you can’t break me
I can’t feel anything
Everything to gain with nothing to lose
Do your worst but you can’t break me
I am one but we are many
Never gone in, back on your feet, cut your teeth
Always stand up, the biggest fuck you is pulling through
Never above, never below, side by side
You’re not alone, we’re in the trenches in the same fight
We will rise
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6. |
More Than Me
02:04
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Struggling to breathe
The skin of my teeth
Getting by cuz I can wear my disguise
Suffocate within
Walls keep closing in
Try to live but I just narrowly survive
I’m running, stuck in place
No where to go, all alone
I’m bleeding, receding
Falling away, on my own
Each day you live is resistance to oppression
We need you with us don’t give in
In this together, it’s us against them
We became more than you
More than me, more than you
Next to people just like you and me, living like so comfortably
Every day so worry free, every day my misery
It’s not our fault, conditioned to hate
There’s no hiding from a future we’re going to take
I often drift when I drive
Fatal thoughts keep me alive
Every loss we’ve gone through was not in vain
More than codified evil
Built by broken people
Pierce the veil of reason
Take back stolen freedom
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Fastcore from Los Angeles, CA
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