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We're Only Gonna Die
Latch Key Kids
Part III
Faith In God
Fuck Armageddon...This is Hell
Pitty
Into the Night
Damned to be Free
White Trash
American Dream
Eat Your Dog
Voice of God is Government
Oligarchy
Doing Time
Bad Religion
Politics
Sensory Overload
Slaves
Drastic Actions
World War III
Yesterday
Frogger
Bad Religion
Along the Way
New Leaf
Bad Religion
Slaves
Drastic Action

We're Only Gonna Die
Early man walked away as modern man took control
Their minds weren't all the same, to conquer was his goal
So he built his great empire and slaughtered his own kind
Then he died a confused man, killed himself with his own mind
Go!
We're only gonna die from our own arrogance

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Latch Key Kids
In this world today there ain't nobody to thank
Just blame it on the kids and toss 'em into the tank
And if they yell for justice we'll hide them from the light
So that when they learn the truth they won't be scared of the night
Put the key in the hole when you get home from school
I'll be home by 8:30, your father will too
If you cause any trouble then I don't want to see
Cause you'll go straight to bed and you won't have no TV

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Part III
The final page is written in the books of history
As man unleashed his deadly bombs and sent troops overseas
To fight a war which can't be won and kills the human race
A show of greed and ignorance, man's quest for dominance
They say when a mistake is made, a lesson has been learned
But this time, there's no second chance, the hate engulfs the world
A million lives are lost each day, a city slowly burns
A mother holds her dying child, but no one is concerned

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Faith In God
It's all right to have faith in god
But when you bend to their rules and their fucking lies
That's when I start to have pity on you
You're living on a mound of dirt
But you can't explain your reason for existence so you blame it on god
So much hatred in this world and you can't decide
Who's pulling the strings so you figure it's god
Your whole life foreshadows death
And you finally realize you don't want to die alone so you'll always have god
It's all right to have faith in god
But when you bend to their rules and their fucking lies
That's when I start to have pity on you
It's all right to have faith in god
But when you bend to their rules and their fucking lies
That's when I start to have pity on you
There's people in the world today who say they're Jewish, Christian and such
They're all ignorant fools
They'll tell you you can't have your own way
Unless you pay money and dedicate your life or you'll be damned in hell
Don't be feeble like all of them
You have your own brain full of thoughts and choices
So use it don't let them use you
It's all right to have faith in god
But when you bend to their rules and their fucking lies
That's when I start to have pity on you

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Fuck Armageddon...This Is Hell
There's people out there that say I'm no good
Cause I don't believe the things that I should
And when the final conflict comes, I'll be so sorry I did wrong
And hope and pray that our lord god will think I'm good
Countries manufacture bombs and guns
To kill your brother for something that he hasn't even done
Smog is ruining my lungs, but they aren't sorry they've done wrong
They hide behind their lies that they're helping everyone
In the end the good will go to heaven up above
The bad will perish in the depths of hell
How can hell be any worse when life alone is such a curse
Fuck Armageddon, this is hell
We're living in the denouement of the battle's gripping awe
So what's the use of being good to satisfy them all
How could hell be any worse, life alone is such a curse
Fuck Armageddon, this is hell

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Pitty
I show pitty on the human race
On the ignorant plenty who devote their lives to an icon that they've never known
I show pitty on eons past
When early man started the first civilization and human aggression was born
I show pitty on the future to come
When the government system will be omnipotent and we'll
Be worse off . . . than we are now
Pitty, pitty, on the billions of ignorant people
Pitty, pitty, on the masses of aggression
Pitty, pitty, on the future centuries to come
On the billions of ignorant people
On the future centuries to come
On the masses of aggression
It's all a matter of looking at the past
It's all a question, are we gonna last
If we endure the aggression that's inside all of us we'll wipe
Out our own species and thus . . . the world
Pitty
Pitty on . . .
On the masses of aggression
On the billions of ignorant people
On the future centuries to come
On the masses of ignorant people
On the future centuries to come

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Into The Night
In the city, the day is too hot
And you're hoping for relief, cuz your head is filled with pain
But you get no relief, cuz the night is the same . . .
In the night, in the night you see through jaded eyes
In the night, in the night you feel barely alive
You live your life in darkness, you've got pennies on your eyes
But you say that it's all right, cuz you've never lived a lie
As you crawl back to your womb-like existence in the night
In the night, in the night you see through jaded eyes
In the night, in the night you feel barely alive
You can't see no light, but you hear those heavy footsteps
And the little man inside twists your tormented mind
Your mind is filled with shadows, your palms are wet with sweat
Limbs are bound and tangled in a fatal net
There are two things you can do
One is turn and fight
The other's run headlong into the night
In the night, in the night you see through jaded eyes
In the night, in the night you feel barely alive
You can't see no light, but you hear those heavy footsteps
And the breathing at your side, is it yours, or is it good bye

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Damned To Be Free
Death and the shadow that it casts on life scares me little or none
People tell me of a divine right and the happy chosen one
I'm a freak 'cause my morals clash with others in the world
I go home while they work hard, then they same I'm wrong
There's only one place to be, while living with tragedy
If their sins affected me, I gotta be damned to be free
Freedom is responsibility, pay more than it's worth
Instincts tells us not to die, hazy myth since birth
Learn their rules, play their game, deceive yourself in haste
Turn your own brain into dust; it's not theirs to waste
There's only one place to be, while living with tragedy
Extract the nectar, burn the tree, I gotta be damned to be free
Thinking . . . this world it ain't so bad
Dying . . . it's just another fad
Working . . . eight hours, that's not for me
Dying . . . it's just your destiny

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American Dream
I hate my family, hate my school, speed limits and the golden rule
Hate people who aren't what they seem, more than anything else, American dream
American dream's gonna swallow you whole, it's bursting at the seam
It'll sweep you away, so enjoy it today, tomorrow you'll be old thus useless
American dream...American dream...
American dream, that's ok, cause no one dare give you away
I hate your god, I hate my job, I hate hypocrites and common slobs
Hate people who aren't what they seem, more than anything else, American dream
Promise me today I'll have a Chevrolet, with whitewalls on the side
One boy, one girl, comfortable lies
The American dream...American dream... American dream, that's ok, cause no one dare give you away
American dream!

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Eat Your Dog
Weak and sick, dying in the sand, no such thing as a promised land
Don't lose faith in a better life, reincarnation, poor excuse
You're dying you assholes, your religion can't help you now
Dying and starving in the fields you used to plow
Rotting bones in your barren fields, worshipped creature's supposed to heal
He won't save you and he won't save me, see what you want to see
Hindu religion in the mind of a working Joe
Starving and dying in the fields you used to know
You're tied and bound to a god's useless advice
Bloated stomachs from aching diseases hold back the fight
In the end you'll return once more to die again
Go on 'till you can't no more in non-eternal sin

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Oligarchy
Presidential election every four years but neither man we can see or hear
Urgent cries for society but he can't see the blood on me
Do you see
Do you see too much for me
Try that with our oligarchy
Try that with our oligarchy
Oligarchy, oligarchy
?????
?????

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Doing Time
See the fight, old men crying, deny their ruin
Watch them try, the cynic laughs at the optimist's closed eyes
Darkness falls, curtain calls, the cynic's beer soon overflows
Other watches, has a drink, and from the same cup, they drink
I'm doin' time, how long I don't know
William had 26, blew his brains out, now look at him
John had only one, watch the mother mourn her only son
I'm doin' time, how long I don't know
I'll kiss good-bye my brain and body and go to sleep for generations
And go to sleep for generations
Salvation, cease concentration
You'll only lose the fight
Don't tell me what's wrong or right
You're losing sight
You're just gonna die anyway

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Bad Religion
See my body, it's nothing to get hung about
I'm nobody except genetic run-around
Spiritual era's gone, it ain't comin' back
Bad religion, a cabal, that is all that's left
Hey Mr. Mind, stop wasting my time
With your factory precision
Factory precision is your
Bad religion, too good to take
Indecision, it's not too late
Bad religion, bad religion
Don't you know the place you live is a piece of shit
Don't you know blind faith in life will conquer it
Don't you know responsibility is ours
I don't care a thing about eternal fires
Listen this time, it's more than a rhyme
It's your indecision
Your indecision is your
Bad religion, too good to take
Indecision, it's not too late
Bad religion, too good to take
Indecision, it's not too late
Bad religion, bad religion
Bad religion

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Politics
Economy, technology, doesn't really work
Can't try running for government, I'm not a jerk
I've tried to see these faces all around the way
You're lucky if they listen to a single word you say
What is right and what is wrong
The government decides
We don't have no rights at all
As long as you don't fight
We're all being oppressed by the upper middle class
The government you vote for is the one that you put there
I've put down enough dues, I'm due and so are you
Residents fear the President, I'm not the government
We ignore the masses of the whole entire race
Men in suits is all you feel without a happy face
Economy, technology, doesn't really work
Can't try running for government, just another jerk
I've tried to see these faces all around the way
You're lucky if they listen to a single word you say

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Sensory Overload
They're all just suicides, in a social way
I'll never need that dormant time, I'll tell you why
Cause I think about it all the time
I think about doing time
I have opinions so the hell with you
Sensory people who feel like you
I don't know why, trust me
It's bleeding me
I don't know why, God, it's social suicide
Sensory overload, what a hell of a time
Gotta sensory overload, gotta free your little mind
Free your little mind
Go!
Cause I think about ????
I think about ????
Think about playing these games for real
I wanna write down all the things I feel
Don't wanna hide from the things I hear
I don't know why, trust me
Oh God it's bleeding me
I don't know, God, it's social suicide
Sensory overload, what a hell of a time
Gotta sensory overload, gotta free your mind
Free your little mind, your little..

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18 : Slaves
Don't try to say that I threaten your freedom
We've done without for 20 years, so think if we really need 'em
We're all just slaves for the troop commanders
We're all slaves
We can blow up things better than in any country except this one
Waiting for it too then you realize it ain't too much fun
We're in a country, Democracy, supposed to be the best on the globe
Living ???? for the high class clones and
We're all just slaves for the troop commanders
We're all slaves
We're all just slaves for the troop commanders
We're all slaves

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Drastic Actions
Heard a word, suicide
Not from one, but from thousands that tried
The lawyer's wife and the teenage brat
One thing in common, they all wanted out
And it's plain to see
It goes for you and it goes for me
And all the screwed up little girls and boys
All thrown in without a choice
But I heard him say
"I want out, no complaints and no doubts, just a chance to go on"
I heard a word, suicide
And not from one, but from thousands that died
Want some attention and a little less regret, a teenage fluff, little threat
And there are those, there are those who think
That drastic actions will make them unique
It's really all the same
That no one's happy and nobody's to blame
And the moral to this story is old
It's quite taboo, seldom told
The seed is reaped before it's sown
A bad choice was never resolved

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World War III
US government drew up plans
Too much money, got the cash
Break out ??? staff
??? is a fuckin' mess
They think they know it all
They're gonna die in the fireball
??? overrule
Watch the government play the fool
All day
World War III
Forget ???
I'll make us have another war
It doesn't matter what the people think
These days our President drinks
Here I go I'll launch the bomb
It's headed straight for Guam
I'll laugh while they ??? Into your little room
World War III

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Yesterday
Run, but don't be scared to look behind
Stop, don't wait too long, make up your mind
The end is almost here
The sky, the air, so nice and clear
The sound of your decay
And the ringing in the air is the sweet debris of yesterday
There, now that you know it's not so bad
See, the good meet soon for ???
So if you try to enhance
We don't deserve another chance
Just laugh along the way
And kiss your ass good-bye with a shadow dream of yesterday
Yesterday, the good old days
Yesterday, the way we used to play
Yesterday, it just got worse and worse
Yesterday, the future's been rehearsed
Run, but don't be scared to look behind
Stop, don't wait too long, make up your mind
The end is almost here
The sky, the air, so nice and clear
The sound of your decay
And the ringing in the air is the sweet debris of yesterday
Yesterday
Yesterday

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Frogger
I'm tired of this city, all this toil and strife
Trying to cross the boulevard, playing Frogger with my life
Frogger with my life
Frogger with my life

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Bad Religion
See my body, it's nothing to get hung about
I'm nobody except genetic run-around
Spiritual era's gone, it ain't comin' back
Bad religion, a cabal, that is all that's left
Hey Mr. Mind, stop wasting my time
With your factory precision
Factory precision is your
Bad religion, too good to take
Indecision, it's not too late
Bad religion, bad religion
Don't you know the place you live is a piece of shit
Don't you know blind faith in life will conquer it
Don't you know responsibility is ours
I don't care a thing about eternal fires
Listen this time, it's more than a rhyme
It's conjured up in lies
Your indecision is your
Bad religion, too good to take
Indecision, it's not too late
Bad religion, too good to take
Indecision, it's not too late
Bad religion, bad religion
Bad religion

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Along The Way
I refuse to abuse what is kind to the Muse
But it's there and it's happening to me along the way
As we go through the snow, we cannot forget our foes
But the dinner's always waiting at the table along the way
What you see, not for me, isn't what you planned to be
But you'll have what you wanted in the end along the way
And we'll try as we cry and our brothers pass us by
To be strong through the ages of our tears along the way
Now we grow as we show that the morals we must know
Will be shapen and mistaken by the falls along the way
But forget, don't regret, to find love and happiness unless you're
Willing to be strong when they are gone along the way
Like Tommy, you are free, and you will not follow me
Until we see each other once more on the path along the way

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Bad Religion
See my body, it's nothing to get hung about
I'm nobody except genetic run-around
Spiritual era's gone, it ain't comin' back
Bad religion, a cabal, that is all that's left
Hey Mr. Mind, stop wasting my time
With your factory precision
Factory precision is your
Bad religion, too good to take
Indecision, it's not too late
Bad religion, bad religion
Don't you know the place you live is a piece of shit
Don't you know blind faith in life will conquer it
Don't you know responsibility is ours
I don't care a thing about eternal fires
Listen this time, it's more than a rhyme
It's conjured up in lies
Your indecision is your
Bad religion, too good to take
Indecision, it's not too late
Bad religion, too good to take
Indecision, it's not too late
Bad religion, bad religion
Bad religion

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Slaves
Don't try to say that I threaten your freedom
We've done without for 20 years, so think if we really need 'em
We're all just slaves for the troop commanders
We're all slaves
We can blow up things better than in any country except this one
Waiting for it too then you realize it ain't too much fun
We're in a country, Democracy, supposed to be the best on the globe
Living ???? for the high class clones and
We're all just slaves for the troop commanders
We're all slaves
We're all just slaves for the troop commanders
We're all slaves