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Before I was ever involved in Pueblo Falls
I was stuck in some Palin-type's drawer
She bought me on sale for 12.99
At some faceless southwest megastore
She thought that she was 2007's Annie Oakley
Brandishing me on her waist in that no-guns-allowed Chipotle
She liked to see the fear on the young liberal faces
But she lacked the guts, or aim, to draw at thirty paces
One day she got bored, and sold me to a pawn shop
Three weeks later a man comes in
He ogles me with his sunken brown eyes
He's shaky and skinny and he smells like gin
He takes me back to a trailer down by the dry creek
Hides me in a pile of stacked up clothes that reek
I hear him on the phone talking to some woman
He's sorry he left, and could she please just come in?
He spends the night twitching and trying to sleep
Speaking of Melinda with so much venom
She knocks on the trailer door at 10:57
Middle aged, done up in teal lace & denim
She walks in, he grabs me from beneath a wrinkled coat
He shoots her twice and holds the gun up to his beating throat
“That woman killed my son,” he says, then it gets gory
So now I guess I'll never know the truth of their story
But I'll wait here at 37 Carbonero Drive
Come find me if there's somebody that you don't want alive
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Thunder Owed
02:40
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Cumulonimbus
From Mt. Olympus
We strike the quickest
No more existence
1000 amperes and now I smell your fear
You hear the rumble as your kingdom crumbles
They’ve driven us down for so long...end of the road!
They’ve borrowed lightning for so long...there’s thunder owed!
The final dead bolt
Lands with a loud jolt
From Hyde to Humboldt
Electric revolt
1000 amperes and now I smell your fear
You hear the rumble as your kingdom crumbles
Plutocratic men are at large
Waiting for the static discharge
Tie yourselves down, stormy weather
United you’ll hang together
They’ve driven us down for so long...end of the road!
They’ve borrowed lightning for so long...there’s thunder owed!
I feel the voltage rising, I feel it stabilizing
I feel the power charging, I feel the calm departing
I feel the voltage rising, I feel it stabilizing
The pressure overloading, the whole first world exploding
They’ve driven us down for so long...end of the road!
They’ve borrowed lightning for so long...there’s thunder owed!
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Vultures
04:31
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You know the way you look today, I’m shocked the vultures stay away!
The fools who trusted in your smile are always first to taste your bile!
You think your venom holds the truth; if you are rum, you’re zero proof!
You think you should be canonized; I think you should be carbonized!
You know the way you look today, I’m shocked the vultures stay away!
You take a walk down by the lake, hope nature drowns her worst mistake!
You speed so fast down a dark street, a shame if you hit that concrete!
If we ever share an address, you’ll need some time to convalesce!
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Endless City
02:27
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Sealed in a box with 1000 suckers then you
Spend your essence for the man who kindly trades you for the
One thing you can never retrieve when it’s spent
So you count the second minutes decades dwindle
Dwindle in the endless city
Noise never stops from the goons who won’t hesitate to
Rave at daybreak on a Tuesday morning so you
Sleep when you can which is not often and the
Cars buses sirens tourists lend you a cacophony of
Voices in the endless city
Bridges sprouted rust and the trees never built, it’s all a
Great grey grid populated by bankers and the
Young people cooler than us who just want DJs
But we’ve got a gig tonight so I guess it’s okay
Rock out in the endless city
Fuck it, let’s dance!
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I Will Remember
03:08
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Why can’t you let me be who I am, not who I was born to be?
Why can’t you let me be who I became
I will remember, I will remember, I will remember you
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You fought me each hour of each day
From the moment I reached the Beltway
Ever-locked in a brutal melee
News came, had to crack a small grin
Tell the devil’s poor next of kin
Years of loss then this final win
Now you’re gone, and the fight is won, and the sun is out, and the bells are ringing
Yeah you’re gone, and the fight is won, but the war is lost, and no birds are singing
Your body was brought down to Cap. Hill
Hand frozen like signing a last bill
It’s victory why am I still...lost
You taught everything that I know
You hit hard - I learned my judo
No light when there is no shadow
Now you’re gone, and the fight is won, and the sun is out, and the bells are ringing
Yeah you’re gone, and the fight is won, but the war is lost, and no birds are singing
Now you’re gone, and the fight is won, and the sun is out, and the bells are ringing
Yeah you’re gone, and the fight is won, but the war is lost, and your soul is singing
Down in hell...
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God hates fags signs, confederate flags, and a whole lot of those stupid red hats
All lay in debris in a trampled heap in a crumpled pile on a smoldering street
When they closed the universities and locked out the majority they were smugly certain in their fait accompli
Then the goons held a rally, but we crept in the alleys, and all at once swept in with a finale
The day we took our, day we took our, day we took our, day we took our, day we took our, day we took our country back x2
When we finished with rednecks, white power, and blue bloods, we found it was the first drop in a flash flood
But the rising tide never lifts the quietest boats, so we locked in our oars and we jumped past the moat
Then we woke up on a strange shore, and we had been made the mayors, but the country was cooking up a cold civil war
Our Union was ready to fight some more goons when the first ones fell so easy on that fall afternoon
Minneapolis - captured
Philadelphia - captured
San Antonio - captured
Santa Barbara - captured
When we crossed the Mason-Dixon
We had found a new addiction
We kept going, crossed the border
Even dealt with Bolsonaro
Well we've ruled 15 years on the world stage, got universal suffrage and minimum wage
But the bold plans of action were growing less clear, and we never figured out what to do with Kashmir
Now we're wealthy, fat, and burned out, look at how us rebels turned out, but we bought this in blood so don't you dare call us sellouts
I start to hear a rumor doubt is spreading like a tumor, once we were the meteors but now we are the dinosaurs
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Thick as Thieves
02:18
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When we crest the slopes/when we scale the peaks
When we cast the ropes/when we ford the creeks
To the alpine caves/seek the hidden prize
The lost soul’s enclave/known as Fool’s Demise
We unseal the tomb/we unlock the chests
In the dim lit room/object of our quest
40,000 jewels/Gems that signify
40,000 fools/who came here to die
When we split the loot
We’ll be free at last
It’s our parachute
It’s our escape hatch
Though our love was swift
Swift you were untrue
This is your last gift
As you join their crew
Thought you had my back/we were thick as thieves
Then you stabbed my back/we were thick as thieves
My life was undone/but your shot rang true
40,001/40,002
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Tax the rich or burn the rich
We don’t have a preference, you choose which!
Tax the rich or burn the rich
I’ve got a 3 year going on a 4 year itch
It’ll make a great movie, here’s the pitch
Start with Trump, end with Gorsuch
Tax the rich or burn the rich,
We don’t have a preference, you choose which!
Tax the rich or burn the rich
They’ve got their fat fingers on the execution switch
If they pull it their plan will go off without a hitch
So stop right there, you son of a bitch!
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The cure for physical wounding
Is medicine and care
The cure for heavy depression
Is thought to be fresh air
Just smile through your despair
Pretend that it’s not there
Condescension as kindness
Failure of a disguise
Would you be so dismissive
Seeing it through my eyes?
Maggie strangled her young boy
When he was less than one
Susie’s daughter was shot dead
Three years with autism
Well, Mags has maximum
But Suze got two and done
Vicious murder as kindness
Shameful as a disguise
Would you be sympathetic
With that gun between your eyes?
Suffering as excuses
Never was a disguise
Why won’t you ever give us
The chance to be televised?
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You woke up under the wheels of the gravy train
Alarm goes off at 5:15, out of your brain
Your personal eclipse has stolen all your light
You wanna put down your gloves and call off the fight
But you can’t shrug your way to valhalla!
I know the road is cold, and it’s dark, and it’s long
But I know you, and I know you’re strong!
Go take what’s yours and then a little more
Don’t sneak in through the window, burn down the door!
But you can’t shrug your way to valhalla!
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Whaler's Widow
04:03
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Sky of white, and sea of blue
I see the beacon and dream of you
Wish you were, so far away
From chopping knives, from chopping waves
(x4)
Why can’t we just let the nighttime be night?
Why can’t we just let the nighttime be night?
Why can’t we just let the nighttime be night?
Was the cost ever worth the light?
(x4)
Why can’t we just let the nighttime be night? (x2)
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Lemon Knife Chicago, Illinois
Distorted hard rock duo from Chicago making songs with the killer riffs of classic rock but the energy of classic punk.
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