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Turn On the Light
I had a friend who kept a candle in his pocket
He used to touch it when the wind was blowing high
I guess it made him feel like he could buck the system
And when it flickered out we laid him down to die
Turn on the light
Turn on a million blinding brilliant white incendiary lights
A beacon in the night
I'll burn relentlessly until my juice runs dry
I'll construct a rack of tempered beams and trusses
And equip it with a million tiny suns
I'll install upon the room of my compartment
And place tinfoil on my floor and on my walls
Turn on the light
Turn on a million blinding brilliant white incendiary lights
A beacon in the night
I'll burn relentlessly until my juice runs dry
And I'll burn like a roman fucking candle
Burn like a chasm in the night
Burn for a miniscule duration
Ecstatic immolation, incorrigible delight

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Get Off
Lascivious
It's all that I can think of as I drag my feet, searching like diogenes
Dangerous
The adjectives of the decade and of your alluring intricacies
Yes I see your green-screen mentality
And I can feel the sting of its consequence
And I know I shouldn't, but it's too much to ignore
And emotion I deplore
Every time I look at you, I just want to do it
I can clench my fist right through it, but I just want to get off
Rectilinear
This direction we've been heading never realizing we are on a runaway machine
Angular
The momentum that does turn us one step further on our ladder
One more turn toward the east
I realize your green-screen mentality
And I know it's shared by many more
I know it's impossible but I'm damned to find a way
To revolve the other way
Every time I scrutinize I just say "screw it,"
We're on a ride down a blind conduit, and I just want to get off
Ah-ah-ah-ah - (3x)

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Blenderhead
Flying through a dark prismatic tunnel on a carousel
The earth is turning and you know it very well
Your mind is reeling like ten helicopters wheeling
And you're gonna hit the ceiling like a mallet on a bell
Hey, Blenderhead, they're starting to ask questions
Your transgressions are a danger flashing sign
Challenge conventions and radiate your splendor
And feel those flywheels turn your Blenderhead
Tally up the gleaming ventured on a wishing well
Each shining trinket has a story it can tell
Your moments pining like those tales all intertwining
Can become the rusted lining of a deep neglected shell
Hey, Blenderhead, you ask so many questions
Your confusion's a life-affirming sign
Break from tradition and carry on with valor
And feel those flywheels churn your Blenderhead

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Positive Aspects of Negative Thinking
Let's gather 'round the carcass of the old deflated beast
We have seen it through the accolades and rested in its lea
Syntactic is our elegance, incisive our disease
The swath endogenous of ourselves will be our quandary
We've nestled in its hollow and we've suckled at its breast
Grandiloquent in attitude, impassioned yet inept
Frivolous gavel our design, ludicrous our threat
Excursive expeditions leave us holding less and less
So what does it mean?
When we tell ourselves it's only for a while we've been deceived
And it's only for a moment that the treasures of our day
Make life easier to complicate, the treasure thrown away
I'm so tired of all the fucked up minds
Of all the terrorist religions and their bullshit lines
Of all the hand-me-downs from all industrial crimes
All the weeping mothers and those who are led so blind
From the plastic protests and the hands of time
And the pursuit of mirth and all hating kind

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Anesthesia
Everybody's talking about the girl who went and killed the delivery man
But she looks so kind and gentle, it just doesn't stand to reason
I saw her right there just the other night as stately as a slot machine
But when she looked my way something mad as hell came over me
Anesthesia, Mona Lisa, I've got a little gun, here comes oblivion
I never loved you, how did you find me?
The cops will never prove complicity now
Anna..........
All good children go to heaven!
I remember your face that august night when we lied about the beautiful time to come
And that crazy old man who came much too late and caused a chain reaction
I've been hanging out here for eleven long years like a church mouse wondering where the cat as gone
And looking at you now is driving me to distraction
Anesthesia, Mona Lisa, I've got a little gun here comes oblivion
I never loved you, how did you find me?
The cops will never prove complicity now
Anna..........
All good children go to heaven!

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Flat Earth Society
Lie lie lie...
The full moon is rising over dark water
And the fools below are picking up sticks
And the man in the gallows lies permanently waiting
For the doctors to come back and tend to him
The Flat Earth Society is meeting here today, singing happy little lies
And the bright ship Humana is sent far away with grave determination
And no destination
Lie lie lie...
Yeah, nothing feels better than a spray of clean water
And the whistling of wind on a calm summer night
But you better believe that down in their quarters
The men are holding on for their dear lives
The Flat Earth Society is somewhere far away
With their candlesticks and compasses
And the bright ship Humana is on its way with grave determination
And no destination
The Flat Earth Society is meeting here today, singing happy little lies
And the bright ship Humana is well on its way with grave determination
And no destination
Lie lie lie...
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Faith Alone
Heard a sermon from a creaky pulpit with no one in the nave
I paid a visit to the synagogue and I left there feeling blame
No one could tell me what to do
They had not the capacity to answer me
What the world needs now is some answers to our problems
We can't buy more time because our tender isn't valid
If your soul needs love you can get consoled by pity
But it looks as though faith alone won't sustain us anymore
Watched the scientists throw up their hands conceding "Progress will resolve it all"
Saw the manufacturers of earth's debris ignore another green peace call
No one could tell me what to do
They had not the ability to answer me
What the world needs now is some accountability
We can't buy more time because time won't accept our money
If your soul needs love you can always have my pity
But it looks as though faith alone won't sustain us no more
What the world needs now is some answers to our problems
We can't buy more time because our tender isn't valid
What the world needs now is some accountability
If your soul needs love you can get consoled by pity
But faith alone won't sustain us anymore
Faith alone won't sustain us anymore
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Entropy
Random blobs of power expressed as that which we all disregard
Ordered states of nature on a scale which no one thinks about
Don't speak to me of anarchy or peace or calm revolt, man
We're in a play of slow decay orchestrated by Boltzmann
It's entropy, it's not a human issue
Entropy, it's matter of course
Entropy, energy at all levels
Entropy, from it you cannot divorce
And your pathetic moans of suffrage tend to lose all significance
Extinction, degradation, the natural outcome of our ordered lives
Power, motivation, temporary fixtures for which we strive
Something in our synapses assures us we're ok
But in our disequilibrium we simply cannot stay
It's entropy, it's not a human issue
Entropy, it's matter of course
Entropy, energy at all levels
Entropy, from it you cannot divorce
A stolid proposition from a man unkempt as I
My affectatious nature I cannot rectify
But we are out of equilibrium unnaturally
A pang of consciousness at death and then you will agree
It's entropy
Entropy, it's matter of course
Entropy, energy at all levels
Entropy, from it you cannot divorce
Entropy - (4x)
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Against The Grain
Three thousand miles of wilderness overcome by the flow
A lonely restitution of pavement, pomp and show
I seek a thousand answers, I find but one or two
I maintain no discomfiture my path again renewed
Against the grain, that's where I'll stay
Swimming upstream, I maintain against the grain
Here labeled as a lunatic, sequestered and content
They're ignored and defeated by the government
There's an oriented public whose magnetic force will pull
But away from the potential of the individual
Against the grain, that's where I'll stay
Swimming upstream, I maintain against the grain
The flow is getting stronger with small increments of time
And eddies of new ideas are increasingly hard to find
You need all that the other has, it's your right to seize the day
But in all your acquisitions you will soon be swept away
Against the grain, that's where I'll stay
Swimming upstream, I maintain against the grain
There's a common consensus and an uncomfortable cheer
A reverberating chorus that anyone can hear
It sings "leave your cares behind you, just grab tenaciously"
This lulling sense of purpose will destroy us rapidly
Against the grain, that's where I'll stay
Swimming upstream, I maintain against the grain
Against the grain, against the grain
Against the grain
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Operation Rescue
It is an SOS sent out telepathically
Signs of our distress don't allow complacency
We need restoration now of our integrity
And a drastic bold reminder of our morality
The rectifying troop is here, the ones we've needed all these years
To stop the heinous wrongdoings and verify our moral benevolence as a people
Operation, Operation Rescue
They're here to right our fall, they've heard a troubled call
Operation, Operation Rescue
You wonder where they come from, but I just wonder why they're here at all
Life ever-after is what they're in business for
See them brandish the key to their kingdom's door
It's persuasive, it's a part of you and me
But it's not overwhelming as they wish it to be
If no one believed in fairy tales, there's nothing they could do but fail
Yet everywhere we look someone is trying to reassure our moral benevolence as a people
Operation, Operation Rescue
They're here to right our fall, they've heard someone's troubled call
Operation, Operation Rescue
You wonder where they come from, but I just wonder what compels them all
Operation, Operation Rescue
Operation, Operation Rescue
You may wonder where they come from
But I just wonder what compels them all
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God Song
And did those feet in ancient times
Trod on America's pastures of green?
And did that anthropocentric god
Wane with their thoughts and beliefs all unseen?
I don't think so, he's up there with the others laying low
Vying with those, who you've traded your life to bless your soul
Have they told you how to think
Cleansed your mined of sepsis and autonomy?
Or have you escaped from scrutiny
And regaled yourself with depravity?
Now we all see, religion is just synthetic frippery
Unnecessary in our expanding global cultural efficiency
Now we all fear this impasse we have built to our future (ever so near)
Ever so near, and oh so austere
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21st Century Digital Boy
I can't believe it, the way you look sometimes
Like a trampled flag on a city street, oh yeah
And I don't want it, the things you're offering me
Symbolized bar code, quick ID, oh yeah
Cause I'm a 21st Century digital boy
I don't know how to live but I've got a lot of toys
My daddy's a lazy middle class intellectual
My mommy's on Valium, so ineffectual
Ain't life a mystery?
I can't explain it, the things they're saying to me
It's going yayayayayayaya, oh yeah
Cause I'm a 21st Century digital boy
I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys
My daddy's a lazy middle class intellectual
My mommy's on Valium, so ineffectual
Ain't life a mystery?
I tried tell you about no control
But now I really don't know
And then you told me how bad you had to suffer
Is that really all you have to offer?
See I'm a 21st Century digital boy
I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys
My daddy's a lazy middle class intellectual
My mommy's on Valium, so ineffectual
That's what I yearn for
Neurosurgeons scream for more
Innocence raped with napalm fire
Everything I want I really need
21st Century schitzoid boy
21st Century video boy
21st Century digital boy
21st Century sofa boy
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Misery and Famine
So proud a history, replete with sanctity
Orbs in their harmony, they sing their code to me
Have you ever heard yourself, the orbit you are in?
The terse, oppressive blanket that's instilled here by our spin
It's misery and famine, it's a force we cannot see
Misery and famine, it compels us naturally
Misery and famine, great ellipse, we bend to thee
Misery and famine, just accept your vagrancy
Others who bear no name, who feel that life's a game
My verse they will defame, we suffer all the same
They pay no regard to their position or their speed
But the firmament still covers them with its malevolent seed
It's misery and famine, it's a force we cannot see
Misery and famine, it compels us naturally
Misery and famine, great ellipse, we bend to thee
Misery and famine, just accept your vagrancy
"You look for meaning in things no one comprehends
You feel no affinity to the rabble we're in,"
Sources of inquiry have nothing to portend
They will perplex us all until the coming end
A feeling of despair, hungry and full of care
We resent everywhere the fortune that we share
"This world could be a better place" is a concept I condone
Given our pathetic course our destiny is known
It's misery and famine, it's a force we cannot see
Misery and famine, it compels us naturally
Misery and famine, great ellipse, we bend to thee
Misery and famine, just accept your vagrancy
Misery and famine - (4x)
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Unacceptable
Irreducible is the word for today, plastic compounds and nuclear waste
What the hell's the matter with the people on this planet?
Have we all gone insane?
The stigma of industrial progress killing us over and over again
It's one part per trillion...unacceptable
One part per billion...unacceptable
One part per million...unacceptable
This mammoth pogrom set upon us courtesy of the USA
Inexcusable are the men before our time, I'd like to kick their ass for what they left behind
Cancer-causing chemicals, ozone-depleting arsenals, we're all gonna fry
So put your head between your legs and kiss your ass good-bye
One part per trillion...unacceptable
One part per billion...unacceptable
One part per million...unacceptable
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Quality or Quantity
Offer me eternity, and I'll trade a cup of coffee and a dime
Looking for a handout on behalf of those who have so little time
But who wants to live on just 70 cents a day?
Padding your pockets doesn't make this a better place
"Cereal and water" is a feast for some you say
Your price-tag on existence can't cover your double face
Quality or quantity - (3x)
A choice you have to make
Dipping in the icing, bringing home the largest turkey from the field
Breaking all the piggy banks, scooping up the booty
Licking all the right holes, bolstering the payroll
Why reduce life to a dollar amount per day?
And why let the world think this is the American way?
Your uneaten greens are a feast for some you say
Survival and living are concepts you can't equate
Quality or quantity - (3x)
Don't tell me they're the same
Quality or quantity - (3x)
A choice you have to make
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Walk Away
Shut off the TV and peel off those Sunday gloves
And I'll stain the clean that you've been counting
Old Mr. Fletcher passed by here today
After 40 years of toil he just up and walked away
Fantastic the panic that showed in his eyes
He shrugged when I asked him about it
He said, "Young man pay heed, you listen well to what I say
Now there comes a time for a man to walk away"
Walk away I'll be a parade
And I'll be determined that no one shall dissuade
On my way I'll sure take some time
To burn all the bridges that I'm leaving behind
He passed by again and he was shivering from the cold
I'm not sure but I think he was trying
He told me about the weather and something old to pay
"But tomorrow," he said, "I'm gonna surely walk away"
Walk away I'll be a parade
And I'll be determined that no one shall dissuade
On my way I'll take my sweet time
And burn all the bridges that I leave behind
Walk away I'll be a parade
And I'll be determined that no one shall dissuade
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