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Same Shit
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Same shit, different day, same shit another day (X2)
Wake up, go to work, come home, go to sleep (X2)
Same shit, different day, same shit another day/ Same shit, different day, same shit another day when you...
Wake up, go to work, come home, go to sleep (X2)
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Lack of Compassion
02:02
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What makes us human/ is it our lack of compassion/ the atrocities we ignore/ can there be a real reason/ think of your family/ now imagine them starving/ what extent would you go to/ to cease their suffering
This is reality for hundreds of thousands of people that many Americans regard as criminals/ the evening news portrays the situation as one sided, so no questions are raised to answer if some laws are even humane
What have we become when we have no compassion for those whose lives are obviously a misery to live/ we separate ourselves from those that that suffer and make biased judgments from a safe distance
How can one not feel pity for the innocent who are less fortunate/ it’s as if some people believe we all have a choice of the family and environment in which we are raised in
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Mainstream Society
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Mainstream society/ I don’t fit in (X2)
The money I should be making/ the career I’m supposed to have/ the wife that has grown sick of me/ the kids I’m glad I haven’t had/ the traffic I should be sitting in/ the home I’m supposed to own/ the desire to want to settle down/ now that I’m grown... it’s all shit!
Basing human worth on our job titles and positions/ we attach ourselves to these standards and forget to cherish each day/ feeling inadequate for not fulfilling these expectations/ I begin to believe there is something wrong with me/ Why must I believe there is something wrong with me
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Everyday I Exist
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Every day I exist I continue to become depressed as I am bombarded with negative, hate filled speech/ it’s like I just can’t escape all the negativity and hate that seems to stick to my body like a fucking leech
Every day I get a sight of those who think they’re in the right by letting age-old stereotypes lead their every way/ at least every few days I can overhear someone say how they despise all people that are gay
Every time I watch the news I think of the people who are screwed by some heartless law to win brainless, public votes/ every politician I hear has a new law made from fear, targeting groups of people most voters don’t even know
I am constantly reminded of the people who remain blinded to their role in racism, violence and hate/ with every glance and every view I see the excrement from those who have made bigotry an American mainstay
Will we evolve past this shit/ will we ever care for others (X2)
It seems like never, never, never, never.
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Years Pass Me By
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Another day, another buck and another reminder that my job sucks/ it’s no way to live, but that’s the way it is and I feel so god-damn stuck/ accomplishments seem so minimal when they are just another hoop for me to jump through/ as I try and dress to impress another league of well paid buffoons
Here I still am again; another year has passed me by/ I’ve worked my ass off to get where I am and what the fuck was it for/ to watch my youth whither away and end up older, bitter and poor
Every day I kick myself in the ass for all the dumb choices I have made/ the things I really want to experience in life, at best, I might just get a taste/ I watch others live my dreams and wish I could live their life for a day/ but I gave that up in search of a steady job that I’ll end up hating anyway
Here I still am again; another year has passed me by/ it’s as if I sit and watch the clock and wait for this thing called life to die/ and finally there will be no more years, no more years to pass me by/ but I can’t help thinking this is no way for me to live
And it’s bullshit!/ I’m so fucking sick of it/ it’s fucking bullshit/ the regrets, the mistakes, the repetition of bitter disappointments!
There are so many choices in life for each and every one of us to make/ but most every path you choose will just lead you to the same place/ of working your ass off to make a rich person of anyone but yourself/ or toiling away in social services to offer your unwanted fucking help
I tried and I failed, I’m gonna get right the fuck up again
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Monogamous Prostitute
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You look down on me/ say I’m lowest of society/ point out I have no future/ look who’s talkin’ moocher
At least I’m not screwin’ some old lady for her purse/ my unemployment is bad but fuckin’ for stability is worse
Yeah, it’s obvious that I am very broke/ but I’m not the one here who is the joke/ because I have still retained my dignity/ and that actually means something to me I’ll admit you’re still young and exciting/ and you’re looking real sexy and cute/ but when you put out for stability/ you’re just a monogamous prostitute
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Morons
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Morons, you feel the need to prove your power in a crowd that poses no threat/ and still somehow, you think we’re impressed/ you idiot, displaying your lack of respect for bands that are playing for/ nothing more than a handful of cents
We are not playing for you/ we wish you would disappear/ we are not playing for you/ we want to make that real clear
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Hopscotch On Your Grave
01:34
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Rumors start and rumors spread/ destroying what is and what could have been/ facts are picked away and discarded/ little truth left since it started Before you go talking crap/ and before you go pointing fingers first/ before you go let your lips flap/ it might help to do a little research
By criticizing our every move what the fuck are you out to prove/ sit on your ass and talk shit, our efforts are never good enough for you/ there is something you still don’t see in your quest to be P.C./ you’re just as biased as the average man, you don’t know shit about our band/ you and your crowd make me wanna puke with your holier than thou attitude
Your concern with image makes me sick/ it’s nothing more than a high school clique/ since you can’t understand my point of view I’ll spell this one out for you... FUCK OFF ASSHOLE, EAT SHIT AND DIE/ I would have tried to explain what we are about but you wouldn’t listen anyway/ so when you die I’ll be there playing hopscotch on your grave, when you die I’ll be there playing hopscotch on your fucking grave!
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Cheese and Cologne
01:28
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What the fuck happens to people as they grow old/ it seems like when 21 hits they feel the need to fit a mold/ it’s time to buy expensive drinks and hang around the hip crowd/ surround themselves in washed up jocks with disco music blaring loud
Could it be that I’m a bore/ maybe I’m just immature/ possibly that I’m poor I used to have so many friends; we used to have so much fun/ partying at night in the remotest of places, not out to impress anyone/ age never really mattered; hand in hand went beer and green buds/ 21, the age of celebration and when everything begins to suck
Could it be that I’m a bore/ maybe I’m just immature/ possibly that I’m poor/ but I hope there’s something that I never have to do for mother fucking sure!
Like going out and buying clothes I can hardly afford to look like a gump/ just so I can dance to annoying music in some overpriced dump
If that’s what I have to do to get laid then I’d rather jerk it until time ends/ instead of acting like a cheesehead in my quest to fit in/ maybe my old friends will visit me and old memories we shall roam/ I guess I wish them the best of luck in their world awash in cheese and cologne
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You Make Me Sick
00:27
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A confused sense of love, a warped sense of power, not a shred of dignity or respect/ you feel like a man, you feel in control, yet there’s still something that you don’t get/ that when you hit a woman, you’ve lost all control and you’re fleeting power isn’t shit
The wounds that you leave behind rarely get a chance to fully heal/ no wonder it’s a challenge to get laid when women have to live in fear/ you’ve taken masculinity and made it into a shame/ while simultaneously giving decent men a bad name
You make me fucking sick/ you make me wanna fucking puke (X2)
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Hats Off To Hardcore
01:13
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Haulin’ ass blast beat hardcore punk/ Nothing else is delivered with such hostility/ I say hats off to hardcore punk/ no other music separates me from society
It’s a music of revolution/ free from corporate pollution (X2)
Few in number and always will be/ let the mainstreamers spend their money/ on boppy bands that could fucking give a shit/ if you even god-damn exist (X2)
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12. |
Greedy Pigs
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Fuck the greedy pigs (X3)
It’s their turn to suffer
Fuck the greedy pigs (X3)
It’s their turn to be raised with little education/ live without decent sanitation/ be in pain or terminally ill/ and get denied insurance just to pay the bills Now you can see what it’s like to be kept in your place and slave for a wage that hardly affords you anything more than to work, serve and die
Fuck the greedy pigs!
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Punker Than Thou
00:59
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You’re acting like your tatts and piercings make you elite/ like some sort of pop icon wild in the streets/ you look down on others who don’t follow your trend/ I guess I’m not hip enough to be your fuckin’ friend
Fuck your punker than thou attitude
I’m all about expressing individuality/ I’m not about fashion critics prejudging me/ I have friends who are covered in piercings and tattoos/ but they understand it’s a personal choice, so why the fuck don’t you
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Shut Up
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Always talking/ nothing of importance/ always complaining/ haven't you ever heard of silence
I’ve got advice/ talk to yourself/ you’re the only one who’s interested
Complain all the time/ shut up/ bitch, nag and whine/ shut up/ my patience is running low/ shut up/ I wanna pour cement in your throat/ shut the fuck up
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Negative Attraction
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I look at the people all around me and they seem content with their lives/ and although I feel the same way sometimes, for the most part I can’t empathize/ it seems like no matter how I phrase something, it still comes off as negative/ but I can’t help but express my rage when I’m surrounded by morons every day that I live/ life to me is an obligatory cycle of boredom and planned out routine/ I’ve given up on unrealistic hopes and simply forgotten how to dream/ monotony is the perfect word to describe the average human life/ a plan for each generation to follow, step by step until you die
Depression, it looms over my head like a black cloud that won’t disappear/ isolation, separation; I try in vein to relate to my peers/ activities others seem to enjoy make me want to do nothing but puke/ so another night I sit home alone with absolutely nothing interesting to do
Once I was social but that quality has slipped away/ is it the hatred I hold for myself or others that have kept me at bay/ I am how I am but it’s not how I vision myself to be/ it seems I’ve lost all control over my personality
Why go outside, why even try, why make friends, just wait for it to end/ never had the guts to change anything much and my insecurities help keep me pinned/ when I’m a frail old man I’ll regret not living life like I should/ but I don’t think I’ll live that long even if I could
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Goodbye
01:08
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All that I have worked for has been stolen from me/ now I lay in chronic pain from a minor surgery/ all the doctors and specialists I continue to see/ give me a bill to declare they don’t know what to do with me
And no matter how many thousands are spent to get my life back/ it doesn’t make me feel any better, it makes me feel worse, in fact
Now I lie in my parents home at the age of twenty nine/ I know I’m the definition of a loser in many eyes/ unable to work a job, shot down and worthless/ it’s hard to believe I went to college so long to end up like this
And no matter how many thousands are spent to get my life back/ it doesn’t make me feel any better, it makes me feel worse, in fact
It does no good to worry about it anyway/ it just leaves me feeling depressed all day/ as my future is clouded in uncertainty/ like a recurring nightmare, haunting me
I built up a future, worked for the American dream and all the hard work, was futile it seems
Efforts exhausted, so this is how it ends/ financially stranded, don’t know where to begin/ it’s not always true, what they say/ that working hard will always pay
So goodbye corporate America, I say without regrets, I tried as hard as I could, I gave it my best
I probably don’t belong there anyway
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I'm Over It
01:24
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I have lived my life for so long as an endless defeat/ rarely appreciating what I have and the work I have done/ always searching outside myself to try and be content/ searching for something magical or possibly someone
I want to be over this shit/ it's not how life was meant to be lived/ I am completely over it/ it's not how my life was meant to be lived
I would stress out on events in life that are far from the present/ I have been so consumed by what is past and long ago done/ hardly ever living in the moment of my life/ and seeing the future with the worst possible outcome
Let today be a new day/ I am trying to see it this way/ today is a brand new day/ I am striving to see it this way
I am over criticizing myself for things far from my control/ the years of blaming and hating myself truly have taken their toll
I've taken my life for granted for the very last time/ and as the world spins I grasp it because it's mine
I am over wasting my time on loneliness and despair/ others can think of me what they want, I simply no longer care
I've taken my life for granted for the very last time/ and as this world spins I grasp it because it's mine
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