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Well I've been ripped off before
Once or twice by my local corner store
But this time yeah this time they've gone too far
They've got me believing I know who they are
Pretending they're really standing up for me
These ads building an exaggerated story
To remain in office for yet another term
Keep us down waiting for them to show concern
But they won't unless it's an election year
When did the veracity all start to disappear
And when did we let them believe they are sincere
About the same time we succumbed to our fear
I've been victim to legerdemain before
And now I vow to fight it forever more
It starts with public schools free lessons on how to fit in
It ends with the let down that individuals will never win
Can't believe standards replace creativity
We are by-products of this self induced levity
Because we're the ones who keep voting for the same
And this is the problem our livlihood's a game
Our government never provides transparent insight
Our media manipulates what's wrong and right
Our children our left to suffer the impending plight
For me I'm finding it more difficult sleeping at night
Well I've been ripped off for apparently all my life
Convinced this world is only and always strife
There's no way to change the complexities that I see
It's a really fine line between bravery and stupidity
Well call me stupid cuz some things I just can't accept
Some kooky libertarian societal reject
A world without right and left the fear begins to fade
A million stories a day will keep the patriotism away
And if you break contain you're destined to drift astray
All your principles trampled all along the way
Get used to living a life completely desolate
When you truly believe liberty is all that's relevant
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3. |
Daily Sucker Punch
03:36
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All these years still sitting here
What's it gonna take to disappear
I sleep my days away
Work my nights till dawn
Expeditious in my decay
All these dreams all soon gone
Digging away at a typical grave
If I can't win why do I even play
The desperation has drove me to this
A last ditch effort so pathetic
All these years and what have I got
A few songs a bummed knee not a lot
I waste my days away
And pretend that dreams come true
Self absorbed in what I say
With fear I may never see it through
Climbing that corporate ladder
Ambitions in a drawer that no longer matter
The desperation has brought me to this
A last ditch effort so pathetic
All these years still sitting here
In some ways I have disappeared
I watch my days fade away
Trivial things give me purpose
A path long since gone astray
Pretending everything is ok
Every plan I've ever conceived
Nothing more than make believe
The desperation has drove me to this
A last ditch effort so pathetic
My integrity in constant need
Of redemption so pathetic
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4. |
Two Days
03:01
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Daydreams are all I can summon
Walk by in paradise softly humming
Cuz where I'm going you are coming
But only inside my diluted mind
Where the sun don't cease to shine
And everything is always fine
Outside conviction tends to hide
Executions quick to subside
Laziness too frequently resides
So I'm wishing on superstition to fall from the sky
I'm aware of potential despair but dumb enough to try
Nice try
This'll never get me anywhere
Hats off
And thrown into the air
Nice try
My hands are not dirty enough
Two days
Then back to the same old stuff
Daydreams are all I got here
A place or two to keep my head clear
A motive that's difficult to steer
A game plan impossible to explain
A storyline that radiates insane
I'm trying hard not to think in vain
I remain on this fictitious cloud
Not looking but rather falling down
After the facts is all that resounds
So I'm wishing on superstition to fall from the sky
I'm aware of potential despair but dumb enough to try
Nice try
This'll never get me anywhere
Hats off
And thrown into the air
Nice try
My hands are not dirty enough
Two days
Then back to the same old stuff
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There is a place I'd love to wallow in
Haste in return the thick of madness again
Instead I'll dwell in dissatisfaction with reality
And daydream of ways to re-enter basic society
The waste of hope in a great deal of prosperity
But being there sounds so much like sanctuary
By there I mean a complete comprehension
To all of those who know here is ascension
There is a time when your mind returns from vacation
Realization settles in no queen stuck in check
Life's a wreck a complete mess a distant nest
Memories of easier times completely negated
Problems of this size take time to analyze
Complete consternation to uncover resolution
I'll mastermind resolve I'll probably die in these woods
Doing everything I could or at least that I thought that I should
To reveal the excerpts of my tale
Only to quietly fail
There is a place I'd love to wallow in
Haste in return the thick of madness again
The calamity that brought on this tragedy
That familiar place where future does not exist
And I'd be rid of all of this
But lets face the facts I can't go back
I can't change what"s been done
Everything squandered with nothing won
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All the cool words have been taken
The cool rhythms have been made and
Neat ideas have all been touched on
There's nothing new to introduce through song
It's all been done it's all been heard
As I say lofty's one of my favorite words
It's nothing new just another redundant tune
If it were up to you would you repeat it too
The results are usually the same
A trivial sum of talent is all you need
Creativity well that's subjective
Passion becomes arrogance and greed
You look alike and you sound alike
The results are usually the same
Idiots crowd the streets
Acknowledging familiar beats
In the background with a (root)beer
I wonder why I am here
A lame attempt to fit in
Nodding my head faking a grin
To pretend I'm not lofty
Give in to the parody
Songs are like tightly budgeted meals
Nobodies doing anything new or even real
Structures remain hermetically in tact
Yet spontaneity has gotten old goes way back
It's all been done it's all been heard
As I say lofty's one of my favorite words
It makes no sense why anyone would care
If off the wall"s cliche no longer even rare
The results are usually the same
A trivial sum of talent is all you need
Creativity well that's subjective
Passion becomes arrogance and greed
You look alike and you sound alike
The results are usually the same
The best fruit has been sold all that's left is rotten
There is something wrong with the way things have gotten
Suburban daydreams in daily routine they repeat
Naturally I cheat with a poorly composed synthetic beat
My retreat is in the same direction as the sun
Magnetically subsided to work I am numb
The results are usually the same
A trivial sum of talent is all you need
Creativity well that's subjective
Passion becomes arrogance and greed
You look alike and you sound alike
The results are usually the same
Concepts worth conceiving have all been conceived
Beliefs worth believing are all make believe
Oxymorons have been conveyed every which way
There's nothing left here for me to play
It's all been done it's all been heard
As I say lofty's one of my favorite words
Perhaps it will inspire more to change direction
And like the greats push for a new creation
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A Farewell to Innovation
00:59
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So you thought competition
Would breed innovation
But what happens
When the competition
Buys the legislation
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Unicorns
03:38
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We're awaiting our government to step in
Pull us from this burning wasteland of sin
Let's ignore who lit the match and poured the gas
And just hold out our hands for some more cash
Because isn't that what leaders are for
To stop the bleeding and soothe us when we're sore
Fix our problems no matter what the cost
Without shameless amounts of aid all is lost
My government is looking out for me
Invincibility
This is how it should always be
Invincibility
We all make mistakes but why should we have to pay
We elect officials to make those things go away
Racking up woeful sums of inescapable debt
With an empathetic government to hit reset
The lessons we see speak of selfishness and greed
Dismiss any logic as the ends justify the means
And on our way up if we should somehow fall
The state is there with a great big net to catch us all
My government is looking out for me
Invincibility
This is how it should always be
Invincibility
So when you call on you government to save the day
Don't forget the politicians actually leading the way
And consider their corporate puppet masters above
Ask yourself if it's greed or compassion that'll come
If it's unicorns that come to mind in the end
Why keep up the fantasy and continue to play pretend
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10. |
Day Doing/Falter
06:52
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You gotta get your heads out of the clouds
Stop daydreaming
Start day doing
A sense of helplessness
Clocking in for a hopeless shift
An eight hour day quickly turns to ten
And speeds right into another again
No signs of momentum lost
Simplicity has an unaffordable cost
Caffeine barely gets you through
No time to question if this is what you should do
A numb relief even if only brief comes after
Where tranquility has gone to falter
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Vexation
08:50
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So where do you go when your life seems to flow
Adjacent to tragedy
You continue on milling where you don't belong
Intrusive Intrusive
Like a disease that nobody sees
Plague surrounds me
My time consumed virulence only assumed
Is there anything left
I'm in a time when failure to try
May forever leave me blind
So I must decide where to confide
Or dig deeper and always hide
I'm in a scene where apathy
Will be the last standing army
So I proceed to plant the seed
Watch everything sprout around me
I'd like to recreate everything I've ever done
I'd like to edit everything I've ever said
Be rid of these tasteless thoughts in my head
And recreate everything that would create this sum
But still here I wish that the past had not come to pass
The choices I made are back up for a debate
All the time I've wasted could've been seen in a forecast
And way back when I could have been able to prognosticate
My youth has faded
My arrogance is wilting
I've overcompensated
Now this ship is tilting
Everything is changing
Everything id changing
So where will I be when I've nothing left to see
Redundancy recycled
I'll continue on reluctantly strung along
Vexation vexation
Like all of history that nobody cares to see
Outdated efforts
Trailblazing's old is that what I'm told
So exactly what is left
I'm climbing the rungs of death through the depths of hell
In worn out shoes hands empty with nothing to sell
Back breaking fingers sore with diminishing skills
Astonishingly all that remains is a persistent will
Unfortunately I couldn't make it on time
So here I arrive well beyond my prime
With approximately a dozen years left behind
Marching through the unkempt treading past the unkind
In a bold move with a ton to prove
I won't let my will be removed
I'm climbing the rungs of death through the depths of hell
With aging ideas that probably will never sell
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12. |
Doors
04:20
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