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it's over now so shut your mouth or let the blood keep coming and keep fighting me and her and he ... i'll ... try to explain ... yeah ... but what's the use? it's all news to you and read the fine print all bets are off time to throw down $1000 punches here comes the first one why don't you understand that this thing has lost all feeling? let's bring it back again and get excited for what's about to be open doors and no more hiding out building foundations for the new existence finally got our feet on solid ground take off the blast shields and we can see roll the dice and start moving on now it's our turn so raise a fist and we'll scream together fuck this and to think it doesn't have to end this way you can't cast a shadow on me anymore it's over now so shut your mouth or let the blood keep coming and keep fighting me and her and he ... i'll ... try to explain it's tried and true you will lose it's tried and true
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Bike Rock Revolution
04:07
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bike rock revolution and pot smoke conclusions at 2 am and we're eating again at the same place we ate last night and i say we should have shared the fries what's yours is mine did you know there's a fence around every last mile of the U$A we're not ok we're breaking down together so lock up all your doors and pack up your belongings we're heading to the shore and try cleaning up the mess that other people left the pile is piling up and now it's over our heads do we fall asleep instead? so what we never knew and to think we're going on in circles eat again sleep instead we're breaking down together so lock up all your doors and pack up your belongings we're heading to the shore and try cleaning up the mess that other people left the pile is piling up and now it's over our heads do we fall asleep instead? so what we never knew and we'll never know what if we never awoke? never awoke again? what if?
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a household breakdown iced tears for two enough to make your blood my fuel you run on empty a few ricoculous claims wait that's yours we bleed the same and while i'm drinking can i buy one for you? no six long years and eight months to the day in your mind i haven't aged and what about him? is he really there? or is he stuck in 88? and while i'm drinking can i buy one for you? no we're young forever young or trapped? and while i'm drinking can i buy one for you? so here's to another year a stagnant lie and moving dreams and while i'm drinking can i buy one for you?
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are you all about this? i didn't think you would and now it'ts all understood i'm all bones tonight can't feel the sighs breath out my neck cold from no skin tonight water blue eyes cut to my bones i am bleeding red is the wine drink? this blood will save me? and so this time to let this go you must die by my hands
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Miguel
03:58
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welcome back to town they said to me and it's not too great to be back or good to be gone neither's forever can i make either better for me? either or fuck summer how was yours? stick to your guns and i will come around pulling triggers pointing fingers at nothing in particular standing on this roof city lights are lighter and thinking back it's not much brighter looking down scares me looking up scares me which way is my home city lights are lighter and thinking back it's not much brighter looking down scares me looking up scares me which way is my ... stick to your guns and i will come around pulling triggers pointing fingers at nothing in particular pull the trigger look down down forever pull the trigger
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Next Bus To New Orleans
03:17
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it's times like these when just simply breathing takes everything i am the time for action's arrived and the answers are multiple choice a-scream b-sleep c-run and i've chosen all the above scream sleep run should have done this long ago next bus and a good book and i'm gone something's wrong there are one thousand ways out of here and i'm going over my plans this marauder's map can show me every secret exit: give up give in give out there's no looking back i know you'll say that there's no point "you can't solve anything by running away" i'll just disappear so i'll reply "that could be true but i'll find out on my own i can find out on my own" i can hardly breathe but i'm still here so i guess you're right and if this book is as far as i can get this book is where i'll be
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once again our songs will fall on deaf ears and if slamming makes you happy then crack my head open age four so young and yet he screams in pain motivations feuled by hate i swear to god this time with blood coming from my eyes i swear to god this time this is not ok so here goes one thousand tears to drown you i know you cannot swim i won't reach out you'll pull me in and you'll see blood dripping from my hands as all the water turns to red you've caught me in the act this noose is going around your neck i hope it's a quick death and your heart stops beating
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so i've been up this holiday week and the late nights are finally catching up with me so catch some sleep or just pretend that the last 2 years have not happened they push and pull htey tug away "you've all been pawns in my chess game" and it servew you right for your self-service; the end? checkmate again so tonight i'll wait, i hope you get here soon and you'll wave goodbye. i didn't have a clue conjure up a phantom. invent a war. this machine has done this all before old dog. same trick. newmeans; ithink....i'm getting really fucking scared and it helps me just to know you care so tonight i'll wait. i hope you get here soon and you'll wave goodbye. i didn't have a clue and i've missed yet another chance at kind words and laughs (i'll hold your hand. but don't hold so tight. you weigh me down) i'm stuck in no man's land. is this the end? (don't run so fast. where are you?) the city's burning. they'll burn another down and as we're getting older, this life is getting so much colder it's what we think. so what do we do? thought and action. thought and action so tonight i'll wait i hope you get here soon (i'll hold your hand. but don't hold so tight. you wiegh me down) and you'll wave goodbye. i didn't have a clue (don't run so fast. where are you? i'll be right here) and i've missed yet another chance. at kind words and laughs (i'll hold your hand. but don't hold so tight. you weigh me down) i'm stuck in no man's land. is this the end?(don't run so fast. where are you?)
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Hurray For One Good Eye
03:20
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kick out the knees that hold me up poke my head around the corner and pull back chipping away at my resolve keeps me grounded where i stand the future is boundless in this fishbowl so we'll shine mock heroic roll on waves of conviction orchestrate this subversion cause we've only got one shot and it's all so big so show me something that i couldn't predict tonight is the beginning of the end walking with the blinders on not stopping for anyone late nights we crawl inside the machine you see what i breathe but still you can settle abort mission. drop the match as if it was ours all along to detach bucking a trend of decline pledging allegiance to our own design.
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Boy Wonder
06:53
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when was the last time that you cried? and everything inside wasn't locked up so tight you're so unorganized and scared but so am i but tonight, as bullets fly, and my heart is rendered useless...you used to make me so alive. you're breaking me they want us all to get in line and die for them. die for them and i guess it's what's expected but i'll break this. we'll break this? we'll break this down for a while come to my rooftop and you'll see. and have a drink on me how does it feel? well you're so different. we're so different (enemies?) but then how was i to know. just all everything about your world? (our own cold war. did you just blink and twitch?) how was i to know? they want us all to get in line and die for them. die for them and i guess it's what's expected but i'll break this. we'll break this. we'll break this there's a fire in our hearts. they want to put out we're living off the faint. and haunting.... sound that keeps us wanting. that keeps us wanting. more you'll never get it. you don't get...
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Nakatomi Plaza Brooklyn, New York
January 16, 1999 to September 12, 2009.
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