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Bones
02:55
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My bones are healing My broken bones
And my scars will fade in a sober state
And I’ll regain the feeling that I'm not leaving
My broken bones
No more altered state to alleviate
In a temporary way
That my bones, they cry for you
And my bones they cry for you
Put down the bottle before you throttle yourself
I knew you were trouble when you walked in seeing double
And chose that spot there where you fell
I don’t know what I’m looking for
It’s not passed out on the floor
All effect can’t find the cause
And then you fall in through the door
And I know
Your trouble
I'm seeing double
Dark places I'm face with
And I know just what to do
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2. |
Have you got enough?
03:14
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I've got to stop counting what I haven’t got
I haven’t got much but to some that’s a lot
Have you got enough?
I know I’m blessed cause I’ve never slept on a sidewalk in the cold and wet
“It’s all I could spare” is what I said. Just a handful of cents and then I walked home to bed
Have you got enough?
Unkempt and unfed stands a man with no bed
On the corner he leans in and this is what he says
Those people there. They could have been my friends
I once had a dream but all good things must end
Have you had enough?
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3. |
Don't want you to die
02:43
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You haven’t made up your mind
If you’ll make it through the night
I’d never thought to even try
Your first time you were barely 9
I wanna help you find your light
But i keep misplacing mine
And that’s the travesty of life
It’s shapeless and blameless and everybody here just blindly tries
Hold on one more
Hold on one more night
Waist the day away
White knuckles braced
To hold on one more
Hold on one more night
When your darkness rears its head
Your face caressed by it’s cold breath
I can only pray and beg
Not to lose another friend
You haven’t made up your mind
*****
It’s shapeless and blameless and I just really don’t want you to die
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4. |
Came unwound
02:31
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Lost and found coming down
Get back, gotta get back up
Pound for pound came unwound
Get back, gotta get back up
We’ll be climbing out for some time now
It was a long way down, gotta get back up
Your last caress
Beads of sweat
Can’t forget
What led here
Your mind undressed
Left unkept
Eyes are red
You’re reeling
Scream and shout angry now
Fuck that, gotta get back up
Tumbling out your open mouth
Shut that, gotta get back up
Heard you crying out “what’s lost’s been found”
Sing eureka now, gotta get back up
Tall tales
We’ve been writing down
Came unwound
They’re failing
Watch us wipe the
Slate clean
Watch it fading
We’re changing now
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5. |
Right out on the lawn
02:31
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You don’t know if you need me any more
You’re going to throw my shit right out on the lawn
Been digging a hole all day
Scratching out a new place to stay
Crumbling edges widen and gape
I know better than all this self pity and hate
If you need to breathe just take a breath
I’m sorry we let things become such a mess
Haven’t got a friend haven’t got a leg to stand on
It’s the bitter end I don’t know if you don’t
Sink your teeth in real deep
Separated skin begins to bleed
was it you or was it me
I felt relief when I watched you leave
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6. |
Eat the rich
02:31
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A little bit off track, a little list of what we lack
Got real long
A little rhyme and riddle, politicians dribble
I’l write another song
Stuck in the middle, stuck in the middle with you
I stole that bit and I’ll rob you too
Eat the rich
This democracies bureaucracy
Is tearing us to bits
Eat the rich
Get yourself to school, don’t wanna be no one’s fool
But you know a stone won’t bleed
So you’ll pay the toll cause information’s bought and sold
A commodified industry
Eat the rich
This philosophy of sodomy
Is tearing us to bits
Eat the rich
Tear it down start again
We’re headed for our fateful end
It won’t be pretty, it won’t be clean
It’ll strip us down, what will be found
Is what we have is not what we need
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7. |
Lie to me
03:07
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Lie to me baby can’t get enough
And when it’s over we’ll light one up
Laying side by side bodies entwined
Looking out the window as the whole world unwinds
Cry with me baby cause it’s unfair
I hear people talking but there’s no one there who cares
So let it tumble, let it burn
We’ll etch in our epitaph with we never learnt
See you in hell
Not feeling well
123 it’s looking bleak
321 sorry Lenon
Singing peace and love never won
And there’ll be no forgiveness for what we’ve done
Climbing up and out of this hole is
Something we ought to be unfolding
But i see we’re stuck. There’s something holding
A goose stepping strut. Seen this path we’re following
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8. |
Not long now
03:51
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Im sick and Im bored
This democracy’s full of
People willing to pull
Down their pants on all fours
The rich are stiff and they’re poised
So close your eyes and think moist thoughts
You’ll be pleasantly surprised when this all turns to shit
Cause it won’t be long till you die
You’ve gone and screwed this pooch
It wont be long till you die
Keep burning fossil fuels
You might not like what you find
Your Grandchildren are swimming where there used to be land and
They’ll look back on your complacency with shame and embarrassment
As the teeth fall from their heads and the blisters form on their hands and
Their sister died at age 10 just cause she couldn’t catch her breath and a bubble popped in her head she said
You fucked our oxygen supply
When you should have been looking left you voted right
You stood impotent as you let the rich
Sodomise you and the place you live
And you barely made a whimper when you lost the fight
Cause you’d bought your own lies
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Don’t wanna see
Three feet in front of me
Don't wanna be
Anything, anything
I rescind I regret
Wasted words on wasted breath
Build your walls
Build them tall Wont matter cause
The storm is coming
Ignore our flaws
Parasitic thoughts
Won’t matter cause The storm is coming
Deranged and afraid in your corner you’ll stay
Take the land from your feet leave you hung up to bleed
They’ll suck your bones to the marrow while your life is unravelled
Here’s what you’ll do
Catch the number 2
Got an interview
The storm is coming
A facebook post
A humble boast
Raised glass to toast
The storm is coming
Brand new car
Looks real smart
Gonna get you far
The storm is coming
*****
You stand in your place and you wait to be saved
Nothing’s preordained but you refuse to change
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10. |
Of an isolated mind
03:08
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2020
Can’t see shit for the life of me
Coffee goes down alright, hi Miss Molly
Eyes wide what a sight I’m sorry
Thugs wield poles in the night it’s very scary
Been walking outside, you’ve been talking
To fill up the sound of a city yawning
Miss that piece you can’t find
Drew too far outside the lines
Bodies on loan for the night
Ain’t nothing you can’t buy
Upside down, wrong way round
Pick me up tear me down
Blank faces turn to a frown
She said "I've got a little story so sit right down"
****
Hey get back inside, little rabbit
You’re just along for the ride
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