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Symbols, Slogans, Lies
And they cover hate with faith
And they justify genocideIn the name of their god
What makes a benevolent religion
Misanthropic
Freedom being compromised
By symbols, slogans, lies
And I bow down to an idol of church & state
But I’m steadfast in my convictions
I walk around with opinions formed from dogma
Stepping over the dead bodies of thousands
Tell your children they have to die
Short Day
Still cold waiting room
Time limit on everything
Cold so very coldLook around to see
Nothing but their sunken eyes
Staring back at me
One by one they leave
After each one’s name is call
Off into a room
Where no one hears you scream
Looks like I’m next
Still just a little kid
Eyes closing to the world
Tucked in by the cold hands of disease
And nobody can hear the screams
And no one can hear his screams
Its been such a short day
With such a big dream thrown away
Well its so cold out side but
We can stand the conditions
‘Cuz we stay heated
by the warm glow from our television
and no one can hear the our screams
Its been such a short day
With such a big dream thrown away
Jocelyn there are others like you
Cheated of their lives too
A picture perfect view askew
Such a beautiful girl that we never knew
And no one can hear her screams
Its been such a short day
With such a big dream thrown away
Lead Pill
Put down your fists and run
You won’t need them hear anymore
It’s a futile fight that hurts no one else but yourselfIts hard to understand your logic
And I don’t think you understand
What living is all about
And/So what about the lies and what about
Things that go bump in the night
And I see everyday we are going up this way
And I know only change is a bullet in your/their brain
Its only crimes of passion
That seem to drive me astray
Last night I shattered every mirror in the whole damn house
So I wouldn’t have to look myself in the face anymore
And you know that I’m gonna drown
Living it up this way
And it makes you want to swallow a lead pill
It makes you want to swallow a lead pill down
Defeated
You want it you want it so badly
So what’s the point then if you’re gonna get shot downWhen I look at you at least pretend that you see me
It’s just a matter of principle
I’m just tired of spending my whole life invisible
Sitting there surrounded by others
When you look like that / with a face like that
You know it’s natural
I smile but we both know that it’s pitiful
‘cause when I stand before you I’m invisible
What’s the point then
Defeated they say that in the morning it will be all right
But I doubt that in the morning it with be all right
What’s the point of feeling when there is nothing to touch
What A Waste
When I look back on our past transgressions
I am reminded of a few that made us feel so cool
But we were young and we were just pretending
How could I know you would be leaving us so soon
And oh I just don’t knowLike the one that brings me down
Is I won’t see you there at the show tomorrow
What comes over me is emptiness and sorrow
And oh I just don’t know how this could be
What a waste, what a waste
Living in misery since the year 2003
And they’re gone
State of Decay
Is this the place that they promised us‘cause it feels more like paradise lost
For everything we take from ya
in return we’ll give you Arcadia
But it feels like something has gone wrong
‘cause everything they promised us is gone
or was it ever here, no, when I look around it’s oh so clear
that we’re in decay and we search to find a better way
Oh God, I’ve lost my patience waiting and waiting for a better day to come
My outrage is only futile never understood by smiling faces of the blind
And we’re in decay and we search to find a better way
How should I feel when it seems like my whole life I’ve been lied to my whole life
I’ve done everything you asked of me but paradise is surrounded by misery
And it’s in decay and we search to find a better way
Sometimes well you get what you paid for
And you know sometimes that’s not a lot
Sometimes well you’ll get what you paid for
To bad you know your life’s not worth a lot
We’re in a state of decay
Paralyzer
Feeling much better now then I did before
Now that we’ve been told the facts and everyone knows that
The world is flat took so long to find out
But it’s so much better now that things are simplified
A Paralyzer ParalyzerFeeling much better now than I did before ‘cause I got
No more reasons to get upset now that we’ve been trivialized
A Paralyzer Paralyzer
We’re secure in the fact that everyone knows the world is flat
Don’t get too close to the edge because it’s dangerous
And if you get too close it’s your own damn fault
For those who died well that’s tough
Paralyzer Paralyzer
Don’t get too close to the edge
The Condition
In life there is only one thing we know for certainEvery time when I wake at night I’m reminded of my stalker
It seems like the more you run from it the more you run into it
(wake up in a delirious state and I run into it)
When I grew up tall and tried to be a man
My head got clipped by the ceiling fan
seems like the more you run from it the more you run into it
Sometimes I wake up screaming at night
and I wonder who can hear me And the fear holds me tight
Whatever happened to those days when I felt so safe
They’ve left me now
In life there is only one thing we know for certain
Down On Today
Well I can’t sleep at night ‘cause this pain that’s in my gut
I feel from the things she does to me yeah I’m so down and I feel sickWell I can hardly cope but she keeps me around
I make her feel so good but I’m so down
And I feel sick and I feel down down on today yeah yeah
I’ve been so down and out so long
I just don’t know if I can make it through another day
Bring me down she brings me down
And I thought hope was the only thing that got me up in the morning
But now it’s gone now it’s gone
Like I say I just don’t know if I can make it through another day
Rejection, deception, yeah all the things she does to me
Yeah I’m so down
Expiration
So what’s left now
Turn your collar up son look outside it’s starting to rain
And by now it’s certain that bad times are ahead of this I’m certain
But of course you’re finding out
What a drag you know growing old
No one said it would be easy
and I know you don’t know
What you believe in anymore
Last night I felt there was something lacking
But I couldn’t quite figure out
I looked down at her face peacefully sleeping
But still had so much doubt
My baby she’s got me down
She says we’re growing old
Which leaves nothing to believe in
Walk Alone
I walk through streets where I’m a stranger seeking out a new direction
Lost in crowds of endless people who look the same
Invisible to the masses a foreigner with no companions
Don’t ask why ‘cause I’m too tired to explainAs I walked I was corner by a man, as proud veteran
Asking me for some money but I walked on
He cried out he was hungry he risked his life for his country
But alas I had no money and I walked on and no one noticed at all
Someone catch me I’ve got no legs to stand on
Hanging over me are paths that I can’t fallow / truths that I can’t swallow
I’m fearless but I’ve found I’m in over my head
Reaching out for someone now
Well I’m sick of my state and this place I’m out of touch with it
I just want something different then what I’m feeling right now
So I walk and I wander searching for a sense of amity
But some things but some things never come some things never come at all
The Void
The pain in your eyes I’ve seen it many times in mirrors I’ve owned
Gasping for one last breath but finding nothing left but the pain of what you’ve lost
And at what cost I’d expect you to know
That there’s nothing nothing oh, nothing at all
And you’re loosing your patience ‘cause you want it so badlyIt’s such a problem, being so very young and finding love’s never maent for you
I stand here with my pride I stand here dead inside, I stand alone
And nothing fills the void I’ve created
‘cause I’ve got nothing nothing oh, nothing at all
and I’m loosing my patience
Slipping Away
Oh come on give me some news, you know I’ve waitedso long and have been so isolated
I was too young when I decided to take over this place
As such, I’ve lost touch with the rest of the world
It’s not much it’s not much it never meant much anyway
Face in the mirror don’t look the same, your slipping away
Can you fill can you fill your life slipping away
It seems I’ve found one more way to drag myself down
I woke up and called my mother and she didn’t know who I was
As such, I lost touch, with my grasp of reality
Its not much not much it never was that good to me
Where I Stay
Seven days I’ve been here alone sitting on the station platform
Although your train’s not on time I’ll wait here ‘til you arrive
Though I know it’s doubtful you’ll ever come
It’s not that I’m dumb or optimistic just cold here in BerlinAnd I wander around through endless places
But none have a bed to spare only the street kids take me in
And I heard about a place to stay
But I missed my chance so I hung around and we shared a beer
Until the cops came to kick us out of there
When I hopped on the train ditching policemen
I left my jacket behind Surely surely I’ll freeze tonight
And I heard about a place to stay but I know I won’t make it there tonight
As the sun set across the station, the light turned on and it got cold
I knew you weren’t thinking of me but I waited like the night before
‘cause its not, that I’m dumb or optimistic I just feel forlorn
‘cause I spend my days on my own and I spend the nights at the Bahnhof Zoo
And I heard about a place to stay
but I know I won’t make it there tonight You’re hopeless
Woken up everyday with a kick to my ribs auslander it’s time to go
But I won’t I wait for her
Manipulator
Real life is a scary site it seems to a country glued to TV screens
Afraid of a diverse nation wouldn’t it be better if we all were Christians
Gun’em down with oppression made fresh when you order itFast asleep in an easy chair there’s no consequences
in generating generations of ignorance now that the schools aren’t supported
and I’m sold making love to the deception of their lies with no hesitation
tell me what I want to hear and I’ll be yours
generating generations of ignorance
Close your eyes now, and go back to sleep
There’s no reason to ask questions when you’re learning religious lessons
Suddenly I see how Hitler found and army
Making love to the red, white, and blue
To the oil fields in which we drill ‘cause God wants us too
I love my president though he’s a terrorist but he’s got family values
So I take the backwards slide of mass genocide and freedom fries
Making love to the red, white, and blue, making love to the red, white, and you
Can’t Be Sad
A man has to look inside himself and decide if he’s got the courage to face another day
They said he would last forever and now he’s trying hard not to fade away
Think about tomorrow well it’s easier to think about today
And tears form rivers that form oceans that will flood this world one day
And I saw him the other day he looked fine you could say
But I know, yes I know things are gonna changeIf I was younger and I asked just want it meant to be dead
They’d say you die and go to heaven and push me off to bed
Now thoughts of life and dead have infested my brain
I wish that I was younger so I couldn’t understand the pain
That consumes me now
Don’t be sad now don’t be sad
You can’t be sad when the sun’s shining
Run away run away before the pain grabs you around the throat
Now thoughts of life and dead have infested my brain
I wish that I was younger so I couldn’t understand the pain
That consumes me now
Normally Normal
You gotta understand I was tired of not fitting in
So I sold my soul just to save some face in front of the fashion police
Life is so much better now that I’ve found beigeI turned on the radio to KINK with pop hits from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s
The Police (or Men Without Hats) came on and I flipped out
So much I had to pull over
What a strange sensation, to finally be normal
What A Let Down
So you’ve got all your work almost finishedCan’t be too proud now that no one has stuck around
It’s the price that you pay for not being able to see the small picture
‘cause what you want underminds underminds it all
Pay the price of always working so hard
And never getting anything that makes you happy
And rest assure your friends will almost always
Bring you down they’ll let you down
Let you down but you know you’re the one to blame
‘cause what you want underminds them all
What a let down You’re such a let down