Words

Kinetic

Through the strength of your arms,
I realized I was off the mark.
and all I really wanted was a pair of
interested ears.
I learned that for every pause,
I was almost guaranteed more time to speak.
It's always the selfish who
say that life
is way too short.
I'm not looking
to get old,
but I bet it'll happen anyway.
Now I look
at my hands
they don't move the same as two years ago.
At a slow steady pace,
I made my way back home.
At least there I won't be ashamed.
Earlier today I felt the
the warmth as the skin
it held the heat,
and now the city surrounds me
in different tones of gray.
Those are
those are the same cries
that make my bones shake
I'm not looking
to get old,
but I bet it'll happen anyway.
Now I look
at my hands
they don't move the same as two years ago.

I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.
I have kinetic energy.
The dividing line
will separate us all.
I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.
I have kinetic energy.
The dividing line
will take you.

Sometimes
it's those nights,
where I'm all I have is really all I need
those are
the same cries
that make my bones shake

I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.
I have kinetic energy.
The dividing line
will separate us all.
I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.
I have kinetic energy.
The dividing line
will seperate you.

-Osker

For The Workforce, Drowning

Falling from the top floor your lungs
fill like parachutes
windows go rushing by.
people inside,
dressed for the funeral in black and white.
These ties strangle our necks,
hanging in the closet,
found in the cubicle;
without a name, just numbers,
on the resume stored in the mainframe,
marked for delete.

please take these hands
throw them in the river,
wash away the things they never held
please take these hands,
throw me in the river,
don't let me drown before the workday ends.

9 to 5! 9 to 5!

and we're up to our necks,
drowning in the seconds,
ingesting the morning commute
lost in a dead subway sleep
we will not lie awake in our parents beds,
tossing and turning.
tomorrow we'll get up
drive to work,
single file
with everyday
it's like the last.
waiting for the life to start,
is it always just ahead of the curve?

please take these hands
throw them in the river,
wash away the things they never held
please take these hands,
throw me in the river,
don't let me drown before the workday ends.

just keep making copies
of copies
of copies
when will it end?

it'll never end,
'til it gets so bad
that the ink fills in our fingerprints
and the silouhette of your own face becomes the black cloud of war
and even in our dreams we're so afraid the weight we'll offset who we are
all those breaths that you took have now been canceled in your lungs.
last night my teeth fell out like ivory typewriter keys
and all the monuments and skyscrapers burned down and filled the sea.

save our ship
the anchor is part of the desk
we can't cut free,
the water is flooding the decks
the memo's sent through the currents
computers spark like flares
i can see them.
they don't touch me,
touch me.

please someone,
teach me how to swim.
please, don't let me drown,
please, don't let me drown.

-Thursday

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Baby, You Wouldn't Last A Minute On The Creek

Let's just stop,
drop everything,
(forget each other's names) forget each other's names,
And just walk away.

Turn around and head in different directions,
Like we never, it's like we never knew each other at all.
We said what we feel, then we stop ourselves,
And just walk away.
Never looking back,
Loving every second of it,
we just walk away.

This is probably the best,
not to mention the worst idea,
that I have ever had.

Ignoring what we've felt,
Overlooking what we've done,
No awkward silences, no hiding any truths
Ignoring what we've felt,
Overlooking what we've done,
What do you say?

This is probably the best,
not to mention the worst idea,
that I have ever had.

We say what we feel,
Then we stop ourselves,
And just walk away.
Never looking back,
Loving every second of it,
We just walk away.

Let's just stop,
Drop everything,
Forget each other's names,
Can we please just walk away?
It could be...could be...
Like we never knew each other at all.

Answer me!
All egos aside, what do you say?

Ignoring what we've felt,
Overlooking what we've done,
No awkward silences, no hiding any truths
Ignoring what we've felt,
Overlooking what we've done,
What do you say?

We say what we feel,
Then we stop ourselves,
And just walk away.
Never looking back,
Loving every second of it,
We just walk away.

-Chiodos

Escopia

So now I know that
everything you are just suffocates me inside
and I know that you wont fell the same way that I feel
this alone God I know that you can make it much better
and I know you look deep in my eyes
and you can't see this world that I hide.
Oh there you are now,
but I still feel that you're gone.

Crawling on my hands and knees,
it's dirty to feel the way,
I cant take this much more
your driving me crazy
but I know that I
still feel the love in this heart
and I cant see why are you so angry at me
because I just want you to know.
You are so damn beautiful,
and I know that I am lost.

God I don't want to feel the way I felt
waking to darkness and a loneliness
that eats me inside
inside

Tell me what's the use!
Words kill with cold tones!
They've killed a thousand
and I feel that my mouth is
parched!
I can't stay in this place another day,
this is killing me it's taking its toll,
it's eating away, it's making me numb,
numb!

Feed me,
feed me one more,
feed me one more of your self righteous lies,
one more scent of your fake utopian dream,
one more hook to bite!

God I don't want to feel the way I felt
waking to darkness and a loneliness
that eats me inside
Inside

-Know Lyfe

Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they did not how
Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They did not listen they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will

For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one
as beautiful as you

-NoFx (originally Don McLean)

Welcome to 1984

Who would Jesus bomb?
Yeah, who would Jesus kill?
The double talk is past surreal
The word of god is now the word of hate
War is peace, and freedom is the police state
Can't you see the writing on the wall?
Democracy lays trampled on the floor...

You better believe that...
Hell yeah I'm confused for sure
what I thought was the New Millennium is 1984!
Mr. Orwell from the grave,
adding fresh ink to the page
As the unpresident declares an endless war...
Welcome to 1984!

Feels like Nazi Germany,
and Hitler on TV,
As the unpresident spews homophobic speech
didn't the Allies fight a war to end extremist fascist law
So tell me NOW what the fuck are we fighting for?

I just can not take it anymore
Democracy lays trampled on the floor...
Man, isn't freedom great?!?!

Hell yeah I'm confused for sure
what I thought was the New Millennium is 1984!
Mr. Orwell from the grave,
adding fresh ink to the page
As the unpresident declares an endless war...

Now we've got...
Armies of peace,
armed to the teeth,
delivering death to make the world a better place
So celebrate the weapons spending,
say a toast to Armageddon,
raise some hell!
We're all headed straight to hell!!!

Hell yeah I'm confused for sure
what I thought was the New Millennium is 1984!
Mr. Orwell from the grave,
adding fresh ink to the page
As the unpresident declares an endless war...
Welcome to 1984!

-Anti-Flag

The Politics Of Starving

It's time for some real world politics
economics, history, math, and english
born, raised and bred walking a thin line
between lost and succeeding
if you tell it like it really is
the threats always been there
and the terror always happens

For all the fights, or all the songs, all we said
all we have is these pictures of us
and if it doesn't matter now then it never really did
without this we might as well be dead

They're all black and white people
and that doesn't have anything to do with us
after all these years it's still an arms race
after all these years they still don't fucking get it
lives and cultures matter more than capitalist interest
it's the FBI it's the CIA the MTV the IMF, fuck you

For all the fights, for all the songs, all we said
all we have is these pictures of us
and if it doesn't matter now then it never really did
without this we might as well be dead

When you are so hungry that you'd believe anything
they're selling you the politics of starving
what the fuck does that mean to us?

--Against Me!

Take The Power Back

Bring that shit in! Uggh!

Yeah, the movement's in motion with mass militant poetry
Now check this out...uggh!

In the right light, study becomes insight
But the system that dissed us
Teaches us to read and right

So called facts are fraud
They want us to allege and pledge
And bow down to their God
Lost the culture, the culture lost
Spun our minds and through time
Ignorance has taken over
Yo, we gotta take the power back!
Bam! Here's the plan
Motherfuck Uncle Sam
Step back, I know who I am
Raise up your ear, I'll drop the style and clear
It's the beats and the lyrics they fear
The rage is relentless
We need a movement with a quickness
You are the witness of change
And to counteract
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

The present curriculum
I put my fist in 'em
Eurocentric every last one of 'em
See right through the red, white and blue disguise
With lecture I puncture the structure of lies
Installed in our minds and attempting
To hold us back
We've got to take it back
Holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears
One-sided stories for years and years and years
I'm inferior? Who's inferior?
Yeah, we need to check the interior
Of the system that cares about only one culture
And that is why
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

Hey yo check, we're gonna have to break it, break it,
break it down
Awww shit!

Uggh!

And like this...uggh!

Come on, yeah! Bring it back the other way!

The teacher stands in front of the class
But the lesson plan he can't recall
The student's eyes don't perceive the lies
Bouning off every fucking wall
His composure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit and listen to some of that
Bullshit that he learned in school

Europe ain't my rope to swing on
Can't learn a thing from it
Yet we hang from it
Gotta get it, gotta get it together then
Like the motherfuckin' weathermen
To expose and close the doors on those who try
To strangle and mangle the truth
'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies

Uggh!

Yeah!

Take it back y'all
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back y'all, come on!
Take it back y'all
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back y'all, come on!

Uggh!
Yeah!

-Rage Against The Machine

Generation Lost

Getting trampled under boots of progess
Ignore the pleading of the nameless faces
Now with our backs against the wall
How long til we fall?
Do away with all the underprivileged
their demographic doesn't fit your image
Turn your blind eye when duty calls
How long til we fall?

(In With The New)
This is something that you can't ignore
A simple thing worth fighting for
cuz now they're tearing down our doors
So she screams out the window,
"I've had it up to here"
So sick and tired of wondering
where I'll be next year...
Caring less about the homeless millions
All the petty problems that go with them
Reap the profit that reaps thier lives and
Tell me that it's fine
Throw them out and call it relocation
Lower-income-housing quick solution
A Generation lost

This is something that you can't ignore
A simple thing worth fighting for
cuz now they're tearing down our doors
So she screams out the window,
"I've had it up to here"
So sick and tired of wondering
where I'll be next year...

Now in the whirlwind of my life
Is where you presently reside
Can I pretend you don't exist
Maybe just for ten more minutes?
My hearts been broken into two
and rusted from years of disuse
So will you place upon it your hands
Will you help it beat again?

Now in the whirlwind of my life
Is where you presently reside
Can I pretend you don't exist
Maybe just for ten more minutes?
My hearts been broken into two
and rusted from years of disuse
So will you place upon it your hands
Will you help it beat again?

It seems the whole world's turned on me
(Bound and gagged) in the land of the free
Let's talk this over, this game is over
In with the new, out with the old
Hearts of the world have grown so cold
this game is over, Let's talk this over

-Rise Against

Bird Sings Why the Caged I Know

It's the bird, it must have been the bird
Disgusting critter, it must
We should have known better then to trust
This disease infested ball of lust and carnage
Piece of garbage with wings and she has the guts to sing
Get the bird, catch her shoot her, I dont care
Get the bird, bring her down to the ground from out the air
Gotta tear her apart, let me at her first
Sink her to the level of the rest of us that inherit the earth

What's she thinking? does she really believe
That shes above the creatures that work the dirt and the streets
See her up in the tree, looking down at you and me
Like she's chosen over those who walk around on two feet
The bird, the melodys she play
The music she make, rubbing our faces in the feces of the daybreak
Trying to remind us, its time to awake
Antaganizing and instigating my hate
The chirps, I turn them into screams
My feathered friends end will justity the means
Disturbed, I'll grab her by her beak
And swing her in circles untill she's too dizzy to speak

Well I'll shake her from her branch, tear apart her nest
Break her skinny legs and fry her eggs up for breakfast
(she's a snake that can fly) she's just food for the fleas
She thinks she's better then me just because she's free?
I'll shake her from her branch, tear apart her nest
Break her skinny legs and fry her eggs up for breakfast
(she's a snake that can fly) she's just food for the fleas
She thinks she's better then me just because she's free?

My beautiful bird has gone away
My beautiful bird has gone away
My beautiful bird has gone away
My beautiful bird has gone away
My beautiful bird has gone away
My beautiful bird has gone away
My beautiful bird has gone away
My beautiful bird has gone away
My beautiful bird has gone away
My beautiful bird has gone away
My beautiful bird has gone away
My beautiful bird has gone away

-Atmosphere

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