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This Future
03:59
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Well, it's been years since you've been around
Had a life worth talking about
Working toward something bigger than you
Could ever hope to build alone
Waiting for waves to overflow
And pull you under
Until another outcast finds you
You can try too hard to dig yourself out
And rise above the noise
Your choice
You can scream so loud that the whole world hears your voice
You're gonna need it anyway
When some other human beings start accusing you
Of not being human too
Remember you and I still outnumber
The last gasp of a spiteful few
This future's looking unappealing
Still haven't found a rhyme nor reason
Beyond a shadow of a dollar or a dime
We're wasting time
Once a home, now ten feet deep
A generation left in the heat
We'll surf the hurricanes and contemplate the world we leave behind
Resist to live in parody
Of what was once so promising
"Onward, upward,"
We told ourselves to get us through the
Circus of lies and ignorance
Indifferent misanthropists
Taking, taking
'Til there's nothing left to feed the greed
It's far too late to count yourself out
When you're caught in the machine
Indeed
Disease has spread and I'm calling for a quarantine
What happened to us anyway?
This future's looking unappealing
Still haven't found a rhyme nor reason
Beyond a shadow of a dollar or a dime
We're wasting time
Once a home, now ten feet deep
A generation left in the heat
We'll surf the hurricanes and contemplate the world
A world without us
Make no mistake
This is the calm before the storm
So sink or swim, my friends
This ice is growing warm
No, wait! Don't give up so easy
Get up and out and kill your TV
Nobody fixed nothing for no one just sitting around
We are not gonna be set back
By philistines in red snapbacks
We've come too far to let each other drown
This future's looking unappealing
Still haven't found a rhyme nor reason
Beyond a shadow of a dollar or a dime
We're wasting time
Once a home, now ten feet deep
A generation left in the heat
We'll surf the hurricanes and contemplate the world
A world without
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2. |
Bikes
03:42
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You haven't even seen the worst of it all
You saw the writing on your bedroom walls
Oh yeah
You try and try to make the pieces fit
But you still don't know where your intentions sit
Oh yeah
You think you're doing all you can?
He's busy drawing up the battle plans
To steer you clear
It doesn't matter what you say
You'll be loved some other day
And in the time that you must wait
There's no excuse to turn to hate
Collecting dust and stashed away
You saved that ride for a sunny day
Okay
Long gone without a kiss goodbye
You still can't see that your intentions lie
Alright
Leaving nothing but a bicycle
A sore reminder of a life with her
Oh yeah
It gets worse before it gets better
It doesn't matter what you say
You'll be loved some other day
And in the time that you must wait
There's no excuse to turn to hate
I say death to dirty tricks
If that's how you get your fix
Just pick the time and the place and we'll work it out
We're gonna strike at the core of what it's all about
Take a break from the things you can do without
It's really not so bad to let your conscience guide you
It doesn't matter what you say
You'll be loved some other day
(To have loved and lost, better luck next time)
And in the time that you must wait
There's no excuse to turn to hate
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Fringes and Edges
03:58
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Now it’s not enough
I have to disassociate
The memories and words
Attached to people, places, things
That I used to find some comfort in
Before they left me wondering
Am I better just existing
Saddened, silent, cold and distant?
Well, ain't that convenient?
Just to shut myself up
To cut myself out
And now I'm dancing on the fringe
On the edge
And I’m losing my mind
Got a sinking kinda feelin’
That I wasted my time
Getting pushed, getting shoved
Out of luck, out of love
Looking for a simple answer
Was it something I’d done?
I don’t trust the sunshine anymore
I got no use for the morning, or sorting through my insecurities
So don’t wake me up
I’ll deal with it this evening
Intoxicate, investigate
To find some kind of deeper meaning
I’m reading between the lines
I’m inconvenient to keep around
It’s just a side effect, a memory of missing you
You’ll never know I’m on the fringe
On the edge
And I’m losing my mind
Got a sinking kinda feeling
That I wasted my time
Getting pushed, getting shoved
Out of luck, out of love
Looking for a simple answer
What the fuck have I done?
I’m on the fringe
On the edge
And I’m losing my mind
Got a sinking kinda feeling (Sink, sink, sink)
That I wasted my time
Getting pushed, getting shoved
Out of luck, out of love
Was it something I’d done?
Something I'd done?
Something I'd done?
Something I'd done?
Yeah
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4. |
Devil in the Details
03:21
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This newfound negativity
Raised harrowing hypotheses, I see
A revelation of how sanity
Cannot win out every possibility
Can’t stand it? Stand up!
Take it up with the maniacs
Take it up, take it up!
Or risk the end of it all
Can’t stand it? Stand up!
Take it up with the maniacs
Take it up, take it up!
Or risk the end of it all
It’s the devil in the details
Always there but never quite so clear
Just hypocrisy and fear
You soak it up like the sunshine
For the illusion of control
You know that you’re inviting Armageddon?
Now you say I’m the enemy
Nothing's changed, still me just being me
I still believe in honesty
To sing for something more than blind complacency
Can’t stand it? Stand up!
Take it up with the maniacs
Take it up, take it up!
Or risk the end of it all
Can’t stand it? Stand up!
Take it up with the maniacs
Take it up, take it up!
Or risk the end of it all
It’s the devil in the details
Always there but never quite so clear
Just hypocrisy and fear
You drink it up like the moonshine
For delusions of control
You know that you’re inviting Armageddon?
It’s coming on!
It's the end of the world
The end of all you know
The end of all you love
I’ll say it again, they're playing you
Facts are facts, you can't just pick and choose
But damn the truth, yeah, that's what you do
Here's what they do, oh:
Ignore all the warning signs
There's no more sense of wrong or right
Sell you prophets just for profits
Fatten up their bottom line
Throw out your critical thinking
While the ship we share is sinking
The captain stole the lifeboat
But you still don't believe me
Yeah
It’s the devil in the details
Always there but never quite so clear
Just hypocrisy and fear, yeah yeah yeah yeah
You soak it up like the sunshine
For the illusion of control
You know that you’re inviting Armageddon?
It's coming on!
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5. |
Numbers
00:38
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[instrumental]
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6. |
Lookaway
04:00
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Unravel the mystery
The odds are seven hundred twenty-five to one
That I’m not crazy
But I’m a betting man
I bet you’re the crazy one
I’m not giving up or giving up the ghost
This heart and mind to haunt are mine and mine alone
Watch where you leave your words of love
I see them everywhere and hear them loud in every single sound
And now I speculate how it could be if you’d had stuck around
Now you’re still gone and I’m still lonely
I’ve been slowly sinking deeper
Self-medicating with indifference and just waiting for you to
Give me fire
Give me fire
Just let ‘em burn, just look away
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
I can’t smile
I can’t feel
I can’t feel
Just let ‘em burn, just look away
In every mirror I see someone who’s lost his will to wonder
Lost his will to fight, to question, lost his sovereign right to hunger for more
Now I’m pretending that I’m okay and yet I can’t contain myself
I just confuse you, it still consumes me
From the moment that I fell
For you
It’s true, there’s an emptiness inside I cannot fill since you
Simply shut me out and walked away
And all that I can do is ruminate
Eliminate
Me
Maybe I’m not one of them
I’m a human being
With thoughts and dreams and in between
You’re just like me
Hey
Maybe I’m not one of them
Sure, I’ve done stupid things
I gave up on dreams
Trying to make ends meet
Between me and you
Me and you
Hey!
Give me fire
Give me fire
Just let ‘em burn, just look away
I can’t smile
I can’t feel
I can’t feel
Just let ‘em burn, just look away
Just look away
Maybe I'm the crazy one
Yes, I'm the crazy one
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7. |
Carousel
03:04
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Hanging on the precipice of war
Just tell me, tell me, tell me now what you’d been waiting for
I got up and I left but the feeling ain't right
Still think about you every single damn night
And what you're doing now
Hey I'm not much for moving on
Cannot decipher what is wrong
Doomed by the voodoo you do
I’m spellbound to this endless carousel
There’s a million billion melancholy reasons that I’m on the floor
Is there an outside world out there that’s still worth standing for?
I see countless likely futures, but see none that I like
Still dream about you single damn night
And what you're doing now
Hey I'm not much for moving on
Cannot decipher what is wrong
Doomed by the voodoo you do
I’m spellbound to this endless carousel
What the hell
Am I gonna do now?
Doomed by the voodoo you do
I’m spellbound to this endless carousel
Hey I’m not much for moving on
I guess I like the way you string me along
Trying to find where I belong when you’re gone
Nous sommes très bien ensemble
I’m not much for moving on
Yeah!
So I’ll just keep on dreaming on
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