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Pyromaniac's Recipe
02:56
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Add I cup of bureaucracy, 2 cups of hypocrisy, throw in 1500 deaths.
Heat for decades until boiling point (erupts a tragedy, an overthrow,
your pots overturned, your kitchen is on fire). Stir the masses and murdered politicians, erupt the graves scream anarchy. (ANARCHY!) Peace is an idealistic struggle only brought by
the destruction of the violent…more hypocrisy…
This is a pyromaniac's recipe. (OH OH OH OH)
We're doomed to let our urges manipulate history. The truth is a rigid
social structure can't be broke in one piece. And religious radicalism
is not helping us see when nationalism and burning flags collide.(OH
YEAH) (Not to mention the temptations of a struggling economy).
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Blank Ammunition
03:02
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Well It looks to me like something's changed
And the ground we walk on isn't as sacred
You're fading in the light
Your energy is dying
You used to be such a vibrant kid
A left-wing activist journalist
But you don't believe in the cause
And deep inside I know you're lost
Head over heels into a confession booth
Wasting another Saturday Afternoon
But I really don't wanna be
A nostalgic guilt trip now
I'm sick and tired of the same aspirations
Liquefied diets of blank ammunition
And I'm sick of just words
And not one single action
And we're all shooting blanks Once Again
Squeeze the life out of the last believer
Whose standing on a hill amongst a nuclear winter
And he say's "I think there's hope"
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Think Positive
02:14
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An arrival for a 1 month vacation…parents better
take a good look at me.They analyzed me from
head to toe, holding their mouths open ready to
speak.
"You're fucking crazy" "maybe it's a
phase"…"where did you get your lunatic theories?"
"Let's be nice and sit by the table, raise a glass of
wine and let me just say"
"Wow, my dear boy have you changed, you've
changed for the worst, and so let's toast for the
future."
"Let me layout my plans for you. You get a good
job, a wife, some kids too. Don't forget to invest
your money, properties good and cash will make
you happy. Surround yourself with positive people,
not like us, we'll talk shit behind your back. And
don't forget to follow tradition, don't you ever stray
from the pack".
"Forget it, he's hopeless, and you'll see he won't
amount to shit. All the time we wasted on him, it's
intelligence he'll throw away." Thanks
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Ambition
01:48
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Hold your nose, let go breathe in the air
because the napalm isn't everywhere
Remnants of a war declared
that just don't matter anymore
Peace of mind is all I need
as I look ahead, with past beliefs
The underprivileged defeat the elite
is the headline that I want to read
Cuz we wan't it all and we're gonna take it right
now.
The boss can smell rebellion in the air
as the Monday brings out the despair.
And allegiance to one, is a failure to all
when your vote don't matter anymore
From the Americas, to the poor third world
we're all challenged under the sword
Cuz your happiness has been suppressed
and that's what link us to the rest.
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Changing Philosophies
01:43
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The cinderblocks on my foundation
Slowly crumbled into the next door subway
station
I watched the train slowly shatter every remain
Spent all this time up until this point
playing Jenga with the future of my life
Suddenly my finger slipped and I saw it all give
way.
I'm a bystander in a tragedy that I've made
My politics are the same, but the environments
changed...It Changed
So how do you recover and build a bridge that
's really meant to crumble
How do you overcome, self-annihilation
And become the man that you're supposed to
be
Build an Adobe out of a shit heap
That's too hot to touch, and I can smell the
jalepeno in this batch
It's always changing again.
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Start Again
02:27
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Look ahead, I can't see
things I'de appreciate
and contrary to popular belief
here's the story that starts again
And in the circles of repetition
please create this bloody incision
that's going deeper until I faint and
don't revive my worthless state.
Oh Oh Here's the straw
that broke the camel's back
Oh Oh piling up to bury me alive.
NO…A bunch of insects feeding on my flesh
and here we go, Let's Start Again.
Future's here, the past is done
and all the things I love move on.
Here I wait, but alterations are making me more
anxious
On top of a hill, waiting to ascend, nothing I can retain
comprehensions at a minimum, bring on the repetition
I've made the
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Not Doing Shit
01:51
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Every time I look around I find that there is something new
something about this generation just makes me wanna puke
Preaching this and preaching that but never really coming
through
promises left out to drown. What's up with this attitude?
I'm not doing shit tonight. Leave me Alone.
Don't force me to a tragic end it doesn't matter, just depends
on how I value a future that's not visible.
Going forward, return again, face to face with a dead end
sleep through life so fast, depression.
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Look who is still alive waiting for the stories end
a pick at your luck you can't hold the grains of sand.
You're done with your past and you're looking for something
used, but where is all your perseverance.
I buried my friends in a yard with a time capsule,
won't let it open until 5 years to this day.
When I feel just as a helpless as a 4 yr old
and wondering if you'll follow me through the maze.
I scuffled my elbows digging through the shattered glass
as bits and pieces reflected back on me.
Fragments of lost desperation and regrets,
reminds me of the negativity.
I lost my mind in a crazy yellow taxi ride,
as bright as a wide-eyed youngster in the streets
that's waiting for an announcement on the loudspeaker…
will you, ever find me..
would you GIVE UP today,
would you throw everything away
would you GIVE UP today
if I asked you to.
Never wanted something,
always wanted someone.
Syndicates flashing new commercials once again..
I opened my buried old time capsule only to find that
the shit wasn't there….
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The Challenged Brooklyn, New York
"your favorite 90's punk records eaten by a wild hog and excreted into a Brooklyn alley." NYC punk rock since 2001.
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