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wake up in big shadow city open up the blinds... see the light or see the white i fortify my mind.
silence is a thing that only i can talk about... out into big shadow city i must silence doubt.
kindness is the kind of thing that i can do without… rules become the only thing that i can't do without:
keep your heel on all the heads below you all the time; cigarettes to those above you, move up through the grind.
violence is the kind of thing that i can't do without... wildness is a thing that only i can talk about.
tired of barbed wired walls and tired of the fumes, tired of big shadow city, tired of the goons
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The Visions Run Dry
04:58
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it's getting harder, harder every day.
when i'm broken put me out on display
at night i'm dreaming, at night i'm dreaming times ten.
then i wake up: no more visions again
then i'm over, over out of the way.
talk to me normal, see if i can hear straight
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Walk With Mask
03:21
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walk with mask
i’m called a test rat / new kinds of street combat / well known for panic attacks, alright?
cut down on contact / bomb shelter bivouac / this is the modern city life
suck on exhaust pipe / burning out celestial lights / heart wracked and it’s straight to the mat, alright?
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Hang Around The Creases
04:34
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it's called the wayside
it's out of sight
you'll find no profit
you'll find no light
but hang around the creases
if you want some fire
if you want some bite
to be a stranger
without a ride
hang around the creases
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can't back off on foreign treasure
can't back off on wild pleasure
can't back off until we get it right
then we try more desperate measures
then we try to change the weather
then we try to say that it's alright
the nuclear bomb is already armed -
my smokestack only burns at night
then we get toxic whiteout
one more day with moral wipeout
ever slow adjusting to the bite
then we become horror fiction
then we suck the next addiction
then we make predictions that it’s right
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Don't Ask Questions
03:53
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hey now man wanna see the sunrise? steal their wine and race to the moon?
head up man and don't ask questions. head up man while it falls into ruins.
get out man get out of the city, float up like cold smoke to the moon.
hey now man with slow adjustments chill your blood and you’ll take to it soon
oh yeah.
alright.
hey now man with the empty chamber, hey now man in the empty room:
head up man and don't ask questions. head up man when it falls into ruins
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well we finally fled from the sacred mountain, leaving all our ghosts behind. and i held my head up into the fountain, hoping i could change my mind.
no way can i get by
did i face my fate with a taste of doubt and flicker in a dimming eye? then erase my name in the wake of drought and leaving nothing there to find?
no way can i get by
so i drank the lead from the poisoned fountain, hoping i could save my mind. and the strangeness bled from the ancient mountain, leaving all the ghosts behind.
no way can i get by
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Boss
03:04
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off.
my head is off
off.
i'm the party boss
and i'm no replica
no.
my favorite word
no.
it’s mine alone
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still i'm just as lonely as before.
still i'm just as phony as before.
then i walked into a riddle… then i’m dropping through the middle.
still i'm just as hungry as before.
nothing left to numb me like before.
walk with mask into a riddle… then i'm mouthing shameless drivel…
then i'm running and i swear i’m not someone who’s come undone.
still i am committed as before.
nowhere else to go but go forward.
then i walked into a riddle… then i'm slurring shameless drivel...
then i'm running and i swear i’m not someone who’s come undone.
though i'm running in a maze i’m not someone who’s come undone.
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Pity The Pacified
03:49
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pity the pacified and pity their girls and smokes:
they got their hands in madness, they got their teeth in throats.
pity the pacified and pity their love of wine:
although we like to deride ‘em, they don’t forget their lines or mine.
theirs is a cynical crime: thrive in desperate times.
you don't like it, that's fine.
pity the pacified and pity their love of dice:
they got a taste for violence, they got a taste for vice.
pity the pacified and pity the beast they run:
although we like to deride 'em, if they get off they're gone. but i’m--
--i’m for cessation of thirst, i side with the cursed.
you don't like it, that's fine.
my mind… i’m with the ancient line: what i write survives the grime.
you don't like it, that's fine.
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i been in places where the air is so thick you taste scum.
i been in places where you let your mind slip and you’re done.
it’s no fun.
** then transmission ends **
weather these curses, i’m trying my best to get stunned.
weather the thirst risk and press on my neck with your thumb.
go numb.
** then transmission comes apart **
...silence comes back down.
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