Vs.

	1. Go
	2. Animal
	3. Daughter
	4. Glorified G
	5. Dissident
	6. W.M.A.
	7. Blood
	8. RearViewMirror
	9. Rats
	10. Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
	11. Leash
	12. Indifference

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Go
Oh please don’t go out on me, don’t go on me now
Never acted up before, don’t go on me now
I swear I never took it for granted, just thought of it now
Suppose I abused you. . .just passing it on

Once fastened, servile, now you’re getting sharp
Movin oh so swiftly, with such disarm
I pulled the covers overhead, shoulda pulled the alarm
Turned to my nemesis, a fool not a fucking god
No. . .time. . .suck. . .my. . .please. .

Please, don’t go on me (x4)
Suck. . .blood. . .tocuh. . .please, tunnel vision. . .fuck. . .touch . . .
Please, don’t go on me . . .don’t go on me. . .
Don’t you want me. . . Don’t go on me. . .


Animal
Said 1 2 3 4 5 against 1, 5 5 5 5 against 1
Said 1 2 3 4 5 again 1, 5 5 5 against. . .

Torture from you to me
Abducted from the street

Chorus: I’d rather be. . I’d rather be with, I’d rather be with an animal

Why would you want to hurt me?
So frightened of the pain. . .

Chorus
I’d rather be, I’d rather be, I’d rathe rbe with an animal

Chorus
I’d rather be, I’d rather be. I’d rather be with and animal
Said 1 2 3 4 5 against 1, 5 5 5 against 1
Said 1 2 3 4 5 against1, 5 5 5 against 1


Daughter
Alone. . .listless. . .Breakfast table in an otherwise empty room
A young girl. . .Violins. . .Center of her own attention
Mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it, tries to make her proud
The shades go down inside her head
Painted room. . .can’t deny. . .there’s something wrong

Don’t call me Daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don’t call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
She holds the hand that holds her down. . .she will rise again

Chorus
Don’t call me. . .The shades go down (x2). . .go. . .go. . . go


Glorified G
Hey Hey Hey Got a gun, fact I got 2, that’s okay man
Cuz I love God
Chorus:
Glorified version of a pellet gun (x3)
Feels so manly. . .when armed
Glorified version of a pellet gun (x4)

Double think, dumb is strength
Never shot at a living thing

Chorus
Always keep it loaded (x4)


Dissident
She nursed him there, ooh, over a night
I wasn't so sure she wanted him to stay
What to say...what to say
But soon she was down, soon he was low
At a quarter past...a holy no...
She had to turn around

When she couldn't hold, oh...she folded...
A dissident is here
Escape is never, the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here

And to this day, she's glided on
Always home but so far away
Like a word misplaced
Nothing said, what a waste
When she had contact...with the conflict...
There was meaning, but she sold him to the state
She had to turn around

When she couldn't hold...she folded...
A dissident is here
Escape is never, the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here, oh...oh...oh...

She gave him away when she couldn't hold...no...she folded...
A dissident is here
Escape is never, the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here, oh...
Couldn't hold on...she couldn't hold...no...she folded...
A dissident is here
Escape is never the safest place, oh...Br> A dissident is here


WMA
He won the lottery when he was born
Took his mothers white breast to his tongue
Trained like dogs, color and smell
Walks by me to get to him
Police man (2x)

He won the lottery by being born
Big hand slapped a white male 'merican
Do no wrong, so clean cut...
Dirty his hands, it comes right off
Police man (2x)
Police stopped my brother again (3x)
Police man (2x)

Jesus greets me...looks just like me...

Do no wrong, so clean cut
Dirty his hands, it comes right off
Police man (3x)
Police stopped my brother again (3x)
Police man (2x)

Police stopped my brother again (3x)
Police man (3X)

All my pieces set me free...human devices set me free...
All my pieces set me free... (2x) } (2x)
Human devices set me free... (2x) }


Blood
Spin me round, roll me over, fuckin' circus
Stab it down, one way needle, pulled so slowly
Drains and spills, soaks the pages, fills their sponges
It's my blood (2x)

Paint Ed big...Turn Ed into...One of his enemies...
It's my blood (3x)

Stab it down, fill the pages, suck my life out
Maker of my enemies...
Take...my...
Fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck...


RearViewMirror
I took a drive today
Time to emancipate
I guess it was the beatings made me wise
But I'm not about to give thanks, or apologize
I couldn't breathe, holdin' me down
Hand on my face, pushed to the ground
Enmity gauged, united by fear
S'pose to endure what I could not forgive...

I seem to look away
Wounds in the mirror waved
It wasn't my surface most defiled
Head at your feet, fool to your crown
Fist on my plate, swallowed it down
Enmity gauged, united by fear
Tried to endure what I could not forgive

Saw things (4x)
Clearer (2x)
Once you, were in my...Rearview mirror...

I gather speed from you fucking with me
Once and for all I'm far away
I hardly believe, finally the shades...are raised...hey...

Saw things so much clearer }
Once you, once you... } (3x)
Rearview mirror }

Saw things so much clearer
Once you...oh yeah...


Rats
They don't eat, don't sleep
They don't feed, they don't seethe
Bare their gums when they moan and squeak
Lick the dirt off a larger one's feet
They don't push, don't crowd
Congregate until they're much too loud
Fuck to procreate till they are dead
Drink the blood of their so called best friend

They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way
Don't pack themselves together and run as one
Don't shit where they're not supposed to
Don't take what's not theirs, they don't compare

They don't scam, don't fight
Don't oppress an equals given rights
Starve the poor so they can be well fed
Line their holes with the dead ones bread

They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way }
Don't pack themselves together and run as one } (2x)
Don't shit where they're not supposed to }
Don't take what's not theirs, they don't compare... }

Rats...They don't compare (2x)
Ben, the two of us need look no more (5X)


Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
I seem to recognize your face
Haunting, familiar, yet I can't seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name
Lifetimes are catching up with me
All these changes taking place, I wish I'd seen the place
But no one's ever taken me
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (2x)

I swear I recognize your breath
Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising
Me, you wouldn't recall, for I'm not my former
It's hard when, your stuck upon the shelf
I changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my fate
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see
I just want to scream...hello...
My god its been so long, never dreamed you'd return
But now here you are, and here I am
Hearts and thoughts they fade...away...

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (2x)
Hearts and thoughts they fade...away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (3x)
Hearts and thoughts they fade...


Leash
Troubled souls unite, we got ourselves tonight, oh...
I am fuel, you are friends, we got the means to make amends
I am lost, I'm no guide, but I'm by your side
I am right by your side, yeah...

Young lover I stand
It was their idea, I proved to be a man
Take my fucking hand
It was their idea, I proved to be a man
Will myself to find a home, a home within myself
We will find a way, we will find our place

Drop the leash, drop the leash... } (3x)
Get outta' my fuckin' face }

Drop the leash, we are young (2x)
Oh, get outta' my fuckin' face...
Drop the leash, drop the leash...
Get outta' my, my...
Delight, delight, delight in our youth...oww...
Get outta' my fuckin' face...


Indifference
I will light the match this mornin', so I won't be alone
Watch as she lies silent, for soon light will be gone
Oh, I will stand arms outstretched, pretend I'm free to roam
Oh, I will make my way, through, one more day in Hell...
How much difference does it make
How much difference does it make, yeah...

I will hold the candle till it burns up my arm
Oh, I'll keep takin' punches until their will grows tired
Oh, I will stare the sun down until my eyes go blind
Hey, I won't change direction, and I won't change my mind
How much difference does it make
Mmm, how much difference does it make..how much difference...

I'll swallow poison, until I grow immune
I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room
How much difference (2x)
How much difference does it make (2x)


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