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MCMI
02:35
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1901
We've just begun to make our lives more meaning, our lives more meaningless. What do we know we've got our heads all in our, heads all in our ass. What does it matter I wanna know does life get sadder does life get. We've got our instincts we've got a code, let's all ignore them and fuck around.
With every song, there is an emptiness. What life won't give, I guess it's for the best. Sing out your words, you have to find yourself, and you'll be wrong. In every word, there is an emptiness. Sing out your words, I guess it's for the best. What life won't give, they'll help you find yourself, and you'll be wrong.
What does it matter, what we destroy, we've got our money, we've got our whores. Blackness falls on an unlit street, no-one remembers its name. Marching drums and the sound of guns will lead you to your grave. The wind it shrills and your body chills as you try to gasp for air. But every breath has the sound of death as the bomb's dust fills the air.
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Everybody Needs a Horse
02:10
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Got a letter from a man don't know what it's written on. Got a horse from the man guess that's what I'm riding on. And I'll never get along. But I know that I'm wrong.
Now I'm running down the mountain hoping that I’ll make it out alive, knowing any mistake that I make might cost me my worthless life. And I'm gonna run alone. Gonna hope that I'm strong.
When do we break up? When do I give up? I guess I’ll never know. I hope it doesn't show.
Gonna figure it out, gonna sing a bunch of other songs. Gonna pick myself up, gonna right a bunch of other wrongs. Gonna do it all alone. Gonna do it all wrong.
Got a dream for the future, and it's gonna keep me running strong. Got a nightmare from the past, and it's gonna help me keep it all straight, and narrow, and in line, and I’ll keep dreaming, till I find something else to do with myself.
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You know I wonder if we can win. Do I lose my mind, or do I lose my own sanity?
And I wonder, can we get out? Or we all stuck here all despising our reality?
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Empires Fall
04:48
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Slept last night in silence, woke to hear the silence break. Morning sun it rises in the bomb's dirty wake. Staring at the world around me, watching as it slowly burns, smoke it rises buildings fall, in the wake of it all.
‘I can't see why this war should end, Empires fall and burn’ she said, ‘burn’ she said.
The world is numbers, the word is fear, why cry out loud when no-one hears? Boxcar races, boxcar falls, but no-one sees it all.
How do we listen, and why do they lie, and why do we let them keep telling us why? It's all a deterrent, it'll never be used, sounds too good to be true.
I want a bigger stick than the next guy, I deserve it 'cause I'm right. Wait, he's got a stick, give me a knife.
‘I can't see why this war should end, Empires fall and burn’ she said, ‘burn’ she said.
This is the end, of simple minds, of simple men, to keep us blind.
This is the end, of simple minds, of simple men, to keep us blind.
This is the end, of simple minds, of simple men, to keep us blind.
This is the end, of simple minds, of simple men, to keep us blind.
‘I can't see why this war should end, Empires fall and burn’ she said, ‘burn’ she said.
‘I can't see why this war should end, Empires fall and burn’ she said, ‘burn’ she said.
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Concede
02:41
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Seems like only years ago, I came into this land of ours, and now I know I know I know, I never wanted to belong. And everything is going down, this world is sinking we'll all drown, and there's the boat it's leaving, hope you've something to believe in.
And I never knew the reason everything was make believe, with all the world and all its players on the stage who's the director? In the end we'll all be gone, so what's it matter if I'm wrong, at least I’m trying hard to say this, all you care is what's for breakfast.
When I'm down I don't ever get up. I just stay on the ground.
When I'm down I don't ever get up. I just stay on the ground.
Everything you want to say, everything you want to hear, I'm not gonna say it, I'm not going to be the one to make you happier with who you are, your two fat kids, your smoking car, your failing way of life, your failing bladder and eyesight. Here's what it comes down to, guess I just don't really like you, everything you do offends me, every time I see your face I wish I was far away; far away; far away.
And I know I've only been here so long, but I know it all, I know it all.
And I know I've only been here so long, but I know it all, I know it all.
And I know I told you I was the one, but I was wrong, but I was wrong.
And I know I told you I was the one, but I was wrong, but I was wrong.
Coming down off the top of the world, the day is done, your song is sung. Coming down off the top of the world, leave the light. Bring the night.
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Out of Ink
03:27
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If this is the end, where was the beginning? And when did we lose all of the feeling? And when did our dreams grow so cold and stale? When did everything we loved in the world fail?
What if all that we saw was just like a story, penned out in ink just to fill up the page? Would we all smile, would we laugh so lightly about our lack of control, or would we be frightened?
I want everything in the world, but I’m too afraid to take a hold of it. Life is just a fancy parlour trick, but the cards fell out my sleeve. I can't cheat away my broken penmanship, or find another author. I can't dream away all that we never did or find a better offer.
If we all had rights would we still have feelings? If everyone won, who would be the most equal? If we all lived forever why would anyone die? If we all lived forever, why would anyone cry?
I want everything in the world, but I’m too afraid to take a hold of it. Life is just a fancy parlour trick, but the cards fell out my sleeve. I can't cheat away my broken penmanship, or find another author. I can't dream away all that we never did or find another offer. I can't live my life the way I wanted it or give you what you need. I can't save the world from itself; I can't save the world from me.
If we could rewind time, and cancer didn't exist. What if pain and misery were stories based on myth? Would we all stay the same? Would we still be happy? Would you be by my side?
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Letters from Tomorrow
03:11
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Woke up on a Wednesday, thought that it was Friday, never really knew a lot. Bought a yellow umbrella; turns out it was just a symbol of a long lost love.
Seems the world is ending, The Universe keeps spinning, guess it doesn't care 'bout us. Then I gave you all I had to give and I really wished that you would live but wishes never come to pass.
I style myself a martyr, they call me the great departer, ‘cause I've never stuck anything out. I'd like to be your one success, although to you I must confess; I am so stricken with doubt.
Every day I read your letter and it still makes me feel much better, even when you're not around. I hope that this finds you so well ‘cause you saw me through my own hell, brought me home so safe and so sound.
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Time
02:38
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Watching from a window and waiting, for what you'll never find out; it's what you've always wanted, and worried about.
Time waits for no-one. Time waits for no-one.
Like it or not, we're gonna get something done tonight. Like it or not, we're gonna end the war inside. Break down the wall, tear it all over, Bleed it out, and start it over. Lock it all up; tear it all out just to straighten it out, so you'll feel better.
Find a hole where no-one's been before. Find a hole where no-one's been before.
Fight, fight, fight, fight find a way to live. Die, die, die, die, die to realize. Time, time, time, time, waits for no-one. Time, time, time, time, is not on your side, time.
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Burn
03:07
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The lights in the city are dark, the fire is burning out, and everyone I know is looking back at what they lost, looking out over the town, watching as it fades away.
All our homes have burnt down tonight. The memory starts to fade. I find I'm left here standing; standing with nowhere to go. Now the temperature is rising, the fire is coming for me.
Come with me we'll waste away, come with me we'll waste away. The fire is coming for me. Come with me we’ll waste away, come with me we’ll waste away. The fire is coming for me,; the fire is coming for me.
How long will we stand for this? We're running out of chances, we're running out of chances.
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Buried
01:23
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There’s no light, no light without you in my broken life, in my life. A thousand days, and I am locked inside, locked inside. A puncture wound for every empty lie, empty lie; a swearing god who's so afraid to die.
I say goodbye halcyon days, I say goodbye halcyon days, I say goodbye halcyon days, I say goodbye halcyon days, I say.
Die; simply die, with rust and bones and putrid empty sighs, empty sighs. With ruptured lungs, corroded dreams of ice, dreams of ice, you're frozen in encapsulating highs, unreal highs, you’re buried beneath stretching bleeding skies.
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Goodbye Halcyon Days
02:12
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Goodbye Halcyon Ottawa, Ontario
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