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1. Supersonic 2. Prove It 4. Broken 6. Materialist 7. Kyoto Now! 8. Sorrow 9. Epiphany 10. Evangeline 11. The Defense 12. The Lie 13. You Don't Belong 14. Bored & Extremely Dangerous
Well, am I making haste or could it be haste is making me What's time but a thing to kill or keep or buy or lose or live in I gotta go faster keep up the pace Just to stay in the human race I could go supersonic, the condition's chronic... Tell me does life exist beyond it? When I need to sate, I just accelerate into oblivion Into oblivion Well here I go again, everything is alien How does it feel to be outstripped by the pace of cultural change My deeds are senseless and rendered meaningless When measured in that vein I won't lie, it's exciting when I try to decide things... I just want to live decently, meaningfully I'm in misery I could go supersonic, the problem's chronic... Tell me does life exist beyond it? When I need to sate, I just accelerate into oblivion Pace setters go getters rat racers forget hers researchers berserkers Strategies to help the workers New time saving devices quick vices short splices brevity dependency chemical efficiency
Hit the road in wander mode, inquire along the way Savoir-faire in full despair while living day-to-day My heart is not a cold cauldron of proof I don't ever need to prove myself to you Looking back I'm off the tracks more times than I recognize Mistakes are another opportunity to refine My heart is not a cold cauldron of proof I don't ever need to prove myself to you There's no such thing as hell But you can make it if you try There may come a day When emotion can be quantified but as of now There's no proof necessary No proof necessary No proof necessary It's only in your mind
I'm incurable but durable it's easy to see Lack of restraint is a complaint of those around me I know that others postpone Gratification well I lack that affectation Let's get it right, there's no end in sight and I Can't stop, can't stop it, can't stop Can't stop it's shocking, but I just can't stop it! Uncontrollable, I'm inconsolable May pleasure center is the shelter for a reptile I hate when I gotta tolerate Frustration, see I lack the motivation Let's set this straight, I never wait and I Can't stop, can't stop it, can't stop Can't stop shocking, but I just can't stop it!
She said thanks but I'm broken I guess you must have misspoken What a laugh I've never been chosen by anyone She was only a teen hangin' out in-between Just a part of the scene With mercurial smile and incurable style She was only a dream How's that, he didn't know a thing about Making love to the kind of girl you read about He said I'm glad to be broken My daddy bet that I'd amount to nothing He won't let anybody show him anything He was a troubled child he'd been down for a while Always kept to himself Though she couldn't defend he only wanted a friend, Now he's made something else It's so sad, no one saw it coming, The paper said that he hit the ground running Oh yeah I know I'm not broken A little cracked but still I'm not broken I can't laugh I think that I'm choking on reality When the world is turning for you don't turn on me Who are you here to repair well I don't know what you mean You could never resist glorifying despair Well now it's coming to you and I don't really care While I'm not the kind to insist you couldn't have missed We must co-exist So please listen to me There is no such thing as human debris Broken? I said I'm not broken A little cracked but still I'm not broken I want to laugh I'm not broken I know I'm not
Who do you believe can put some meaning in your life? Who do you conceive to provide you guidance and light? Are they waiting for you in the by and by? Do you even have to try? Headed for eternity and destined for nothing The future isn't difficult to see It's easy to confuse grand design with life's Repercussions Lament not your vanquished fantasy It's only destiny Why do you consent to live in ignorance and fear? Ancient people succumbed to it, can it happen here? Does it make you suffer, 'cuz you have you have to die? Is it best to live a lie? Why can't you see, there ain't no destiny for you and me?
You're obsessed and distressed 'cuz you can't make any sense Of the ludicrous nonsense and incipient senescence That will deem your common sense useless this ain't no recess! I want to believe in you but my plans keep falling through I know I have to face the harshness, grin and bare the truth And I have to walk this mile in my own shoes (and I'm no fool!) I'm materialist a full-blown realist (physical theorist) And I guess I'm full of doubt so I'm prone to hear it out and refuse I'm materialist there ain't no fear in this It's there for all to see so don't talk of hidden mysteries with me Mind over matter it really don't matter If the street's idle chatter turns your heart-strings to tatters Flatter hopes don't flatter and soul batter won't congeal to mend A life that is shattered into shards was it in the cards? The process of belief is an elixir when you're weak I must confess, at times I indulge it on the sneak But generally my outlook's not so bleak (and I'm not meek!) I'm materialist a full-blown realist (physical theorist) And I guess I'm full of doubt but I'll gladly have it out with you I'm materialist I ain't no deist It's there for all to see so don't talk of hidden mysteries with me Like Rome under Nero, our future's one big zero Recycling the past to meet immediate needs And through it all we ramble forth to persevere and climb Our mountains of regret to sow our seeds I'm materialist!
It's a matter of prescience but not the science fiction kind It's all about ignorance, and greed, and miracles for the blind The media parading, disjointed politics Founded on petro-chemical plunder and we're its hostages If you stand to reason you're in the game The rules might me elusive but our pieces are the same And you know if one goes down we all do down as well The balance is precarious as anyone can tell This world's going to hell Don't allow this mythological hopeful monster to exact its price Kyoto now! We can't do nothing and think someone else will make it right You might think it matters now but what if you are wrong You might not think there's any wisdom in a fucked up punk rock song But the way it is cannot persist for long, A brutal sun is rising on our sick horizon It's in the way we live our lives Exactly like the double edge of a cold familiar knife And supremacy weighs heavy on the day It's never really what you own but what you threw away And how much did you pay? In your dreams you saw a steady bounty for eternity Silent screams but now the wisdom that sustains us is in full retreat Don't allow this mythological hopeful monster isn't worth the risk Kyoto now! We can't have vision for the future if it can't be fixed Alien We need a fresh and new religion to run our lives Hand in hand The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise
Father can you hear me? How have I let you down? I curse the day that I was born And all the sorrow in this world Let me take you to the hurting ground Where all good men are trampled down Just to settle a bet that could not be won Between a prideful father and his son Will you guide me now, for I can't see A reason for the suffering and this long misery What if every living soul could be upright and strong Well, then I do imagine... There will be sorrow Yeah there will be sorrow And there will be sorrow, no more When all soldiers lay their weapons down Or when all kings and all queens relinquish their crowns Or when the only true messiah rescues us from ourselves It's easy to imagine... There will be sorrow Yeah there will be sorrow And there will be sorrow, no more
A new age of reason, brain treason to trick the mind What good is searching if nothing's there to find? We arrive at this place of no return my brothers Only to discover that our minds have led us away So far from the painful truth of who we are What's right is wrong, what's come has gone, what's clear and pure is not so sure It came to me All promises become a lie, all that's benign corrupts in time (mountains don't stand the test of time) The fallacy of epiphany Come forth bear witness, see the profit from your loss Beg for forgiveness only after you tally the cost We arrive at this place of no return my sisters Only to discover that our values ran us aground On the shoal in the sea of what we could be If it's real for me do I have to prove it to you? Why do revelations fade to cold blue untruths? It's oh so relative subservient in total to one's perspective
She came from heaven well there's no point belaboring that I've seen some trouble I must admit that I'm in demand I confront rejection with magnetic good intentions and yet Hey Jack, get back, in fact don't do that I act sharp but feel uncertain 'Cuz next time it could be curtains Evangeline conspirator so fine Lend me your faith 'cuz mine is broken Compared to mine what is your crime Evangeline Now just to be certain let's be sure to set the record straight I could use an angel but I don't intend to split up the take Never go for treason but I got reasons that don't warrant debate My act's intact and in fact you're not all that You act sure, but you're uncertain 'Cuz next time it could be curtains Well, there's no use turning back It's already much to late When the house is burning
Nothing comes easier than madness in the world today.
How do you know what you can be if you can't see where you are going?
Hey you, is there something we're aspiring to?
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