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Failures
03:11
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Finally forgot everything that I thought
We are all failures endlessly flying over plate glass ranges
We can see miles and the dry scenery never changes
Calmed down today, progress delayed
But we are all failures standing in line to be obliterated
Pushing our tired bones and dying to be carbon-dated
We are all failures but the time for freedom is beginning
It's only a fractured matter of time before we might be winning
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First of all, I'm admitting it
Our downfall is we're all idiots standing tall
Covering up the cracks in our leisure walls
They can't make them better
Someone on the neighborhood block
Is parading while he's packing a glock
And I'm alternating watching him and the sky
Each time someone loses an eye, whoops
There's just no stopping the cretins from hopping
'Cause I need another minute just to culminate my zone
And tonight I'm gonna corrugate my own
And I need another minute just to corrugate my zone
And tonight I'm gonna culminate my own
I'm feeling fine badgering the unemployment line
Running late for work but there's still time
Brother, can you spare me one more dime?
They can't make it better
Heads down, buried under your desk
An emulsion of the crumbling chest of expulsions
Of our valedictorian, I swear I'm getting it done but
Well I don't know how long I've been learning wrong
I've fallen short of the goal line for way too long
All this time I'm walking on broken glass
Caught up and bit me in the ass
I told you once, we're all idiots, let's not front
This bonehead natural selection stunt
Filters the air with gags an grunts
I can't make it better
Someone took a bite of my life and I'm waiting
For the stab of their knife in my backside
Get it over with now 'cause I'm an overloaded image
Of the chorus for the last time
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3. |
Molotov Cocktail
03:50
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A single word comparing notes with tragedy
Could it be those sighs that make me crash in front of me?
A scolded verse holding on to the bitter end
Like a Molotov cocktail, I know you're not my friend
Ha, a cloak and dagger except without the cloak
I knew it was you that sharked me before you even spoke
You point your finger and the mirror shatters, yeah
Accusing me off all your deeds, as if it matters
For only so long I can put up with the sword
I'll even the odds and cast you off forevermore
And sing when you're gone and scratch a notch into the floor
And all the world will fall upon you before you even know
I know you think that you're indebted to yourself
But all the words you've chosen will slowly compromise you
A single word comparing notes against the sky
So I ponder, there but for the grace of god go I
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4. |
Dumb Bunny
04:04
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Up on your private plane there's a ghost on the wing
I asked if he would like to stay
And soar the skies the living way
He politely declined, told me he didn't mind
It doesn't matter which skeletons you drown
Eventually the dumb bunny tracks you down
In the belfry one night, you were more than a sight
A bat had nestled in your hair
I don't know how he wound up there
But he wanted to roam so now he calls you home
It doesn't matter what precautions you take
Eventually the dumb bunny makes you ache
Come on now, rock it now, rock
I look down on my hands, always making demands
The left does this, the right does that
I'm shocked they haven't felt me flat
Sick of my attitude, I'd be more or less screwed
It doesn't make any difference what you do
Eventually the dumb bunny will find you
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Ninjas Vs. Pirates
03:42
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Deeper into the rabbit hole
Your body quakes for justice
But you feel it melting around your soul
And you know that you can't trust this
Your whole life drags behind you through the shame
Of the time spent playing games
And nobody's naming names
You've dug your grave so go on and lie in it
Maybe you'll choose a destiny
That'll make everyone prouder
But you always got the best of me
So my voice will just grow louder
Your enemies will knock you to the ground
Your shortcomings will abound
Throughout this hollow town
Are you fucking around? Well that makes one of us
How could it be that you're the same thing as me?
Spending each moment with the same old adversary
Maybe it's just the way you said it
But I'm gonna live long enough to regret it
What a shame you wouldn't love to shame you
What a shame, who wouldn't love to blame you?
Deeper into the rabbit hole
To control yourself, you give up control
How did we fall into a pit so endless?
An eternal balancing act of truth and vengeance
Falling around the way we still do
But I'm not gonna hesitate to kill you
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6. |
Get It Together
05:24
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I never did no good for no one
I never felt that rush inside to make me feel like I belong
Cautious, afraid of sounding alarms
Sent into battle, always unarmed
When will I wake up to what I know that I know?
When they make the movie of my life
Will it be aired in black and white?
Will the chains fall off and the wingspan rise
And what do I have to do to make it start tonight?
Oh, when you get it together, will you be strong?
Oh, we've struggled forever but not for long
For this rush will break the silence in our song
Oh what a waste
If I could only be productive
If I could stand upon the precipice and know that I believe in this
Old guarantees that I never knew
Plenty of time with nothing to do
I'd ask for your hand but it's all but fragmented
When they finally reach my weary corpse
Will they look upon it with remorse?
Will they turn away and pretend they're blind
And will there even be anything left for them to find?
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Options
04:43
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This is everything I have
Every choice I want to make, gone
Has it always been like this? Has it always been like this?
Always racing, whose blindness through their hearts
Compels you, won't you be a better man?
For the life that you have led only grows
All around you in time, in time, in time
It's the start of a brand new day and I'm
Gazing hazy-eyed into the blinds
Think it's clear enough to run
This chatter of the city keeps me adrift
Biped less thanks and movies I could script
And I'm the only one
If good intentions are what propels the clock
You could have the time of your life
Everybody only knows so much
So start gathering up options in time
There's a hand clinging softly to my skin
Distant sirens all call to let them in
As they crawl beneath the floor
Motivated to wipe away my fears
I could live for a hundred million years
And only wind up craving more
If sober thoughts are the hands upon your watch
You could have the time of your life
Everybody only knows so much
So start gathering up options in time
You've got options
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8. |
1994
03:54
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I want to learn you in bed, if nothing else so I
Can rest the demons in my head
And to rest assured of the light
Reflecting off your eyes, kind of breaking through my skin
But I'm hoping that this won't get to me when I wake up
As I go and crack the blinds lighting up this world we're in
And the only sound, that feedback in my ears pleading
Hit me, hold me, shoot me in the back now
I want to cut through the yard just to see the other side
Where I might shed all these scars
And the past I've worked to hide
In shedding the façade as they open up my chest
All the memories that have plagued me will come tumbling out
And I'll even wink and nod at the ones I liked the best
Like the ones that climbed a ladder to my brain yelling
Will you please explain why I should pay attention anymore?
Will you bid goodnight and shuffle down my mental corridor?
Will you sit back and count out the waves
That crash upon the shore?
Will you make things right and take me back to 1994?
And everybody knows that plains are far and wide
But it's easier to dominate them when you've got wheels
And the tension only grows so I'll have to just decide
To escape that old lackluster whine
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9. |
Civilized Men
04:55
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You and I are different people
But there's not good and there's no evil
Now it's time to recognize that fact
You can blame me if you want to
But your past will only haunt you
Unless we decide to make a pact
I'd like to think that we can handle this like civilized men
And I'd like to swear on all that's holy
That I won't come back this way again
I've never much been for time travel
I know the future will unravel
And then I'll catch up with my old mistakes
The plans we hatch will be the kind of
Ignorance that lets us wind up
Landing on a giant letter H
We listen to each other and act as if we're brothers
Oh, and I find the weight, it lifts from me
So please put down your fork and knife
I'm taking back my lovely life
I think that I can handle it from here
I'll forge ahead just like a spaceman
Descending on a barren wasteland
And breathing hope into the atmosphere
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10. |
Pray For Rain
03:50
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Finally sat down and read the list of chores upon my plate
But the only one that looks any good is the one that says to wait
I'm feeling like there's a bullet train and I can't seem to get on it
This empty desert life I'm in was not what I was promised
Someday I'll be filled with worry
Enough to make my vision blurry
I'm lost in the mundane and I've lost my own campaign
To the drought of thoughts that occupy my brain
And I'll pray for rain
I took a good hard look at me to see if I felt shame
But my neighbors and my family are doing just the same
They tell me I should overhaul this little life of mine
And I would be enamored, but who has that kind of time?
Not me, no
I'm stuck in dry cement forming from my discontent
And there's nothing that can carve it in another fashion
If I did it all again it'd be no different
'Cause if nothing else I'm sure that's it not worth it to regret
I'll never be wet
This is where my journey starts
I'm a car alarm made up of broken parts
An unprecedented lack of smarts
My cluelessness is off the charts
I wish that I could hold my own
As I venture into the unknown
But I don't think I could be alone
Or my willpower will be overthrown
Someday we'll be filled with worry
Enough to make our vision blurry
We're lost in the mundane and we've lost my own campaign
And there's nothing left to do except complain
And we'll pray for rain
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11. |
You've Got Another Song
03:33
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I used to be that guy
Who sat dejected, waiting on a valentine
I used to be that guy
The one with loneliness streaming hard across his eyes
And then you came around
And tapped your foot just hard enough to be found
I hadn't figured out someone so stellar
Could push me through the crowd
And the crowd keeps shaking and everybody's quaking it
You've got another song
And the crowd keeps shaking and everybody's digging it
But you've got another song
I used to wrack my brain
A not-so-Superman looking for his Lois Lane
When only time remains
It's hard to rise up, let alone to not feel drained
But then you shouted, "Yes"
And peeled away all the caffeine and old regrets
And if I had to guess it's safe to say
I don't need to hedge my bets
I want to love you like a hotel lobby worker
Confined behind his counter making eyes at everyone he sees
I want to love you like the back of a casino
Just blinded by the flashlights eroding all my memories
I want to love you like a pair of one way tickets
That shine with adolescent dreams of Disneyland
'Cause everything gets easier with two lives in the band
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12. |
Almost There
03:28
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I'm putting hours in at the country club up on San Pablo
They treat me mostly decent with a chance of brute malaise
But I watch in wonder as my hours all tick-tock on by me
Thinking maybe that ain't where
I should spend the rest of my days
I only got a little money saved up
I won't tell you where it's stashed
So one day I can stop buckling down
And just buckle up and put my foot right on the gas
I don't know and I don't care
I'm moving slow but I'm almost there
I know this guy who's got this thing about being unfaithful
He just don't want to settle down, he says he got to play that field
But I say he's going about it oh so very wrong
Playing with those hearts of his until he find himself a better deal
Now I can be unethical too and spread my love around like mad
But I know that when it comes right down to it
A relationship ain't really all that bad
I don't know what's going on and I don't care if could be wrong
I'm moving slow, just keeping on, but I'm almost there
I'm trying to make the worse better and keep the better good
And I'm trying to be on top of my game
And always act the way I should
When the worst comes to worst I can't mumble and curse
Because life ain't a play and there's no time to rehearse
I gotta be the better man who comes up with a better plan
And now I got to understand my destiny
Is in the palm of my hand
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