1. |
Don't Think Too Much
02:26
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Don't ask questions
Fall in line
Follow the leader
You'll be fine
Do as I say, not as I do
Nothing new
Don’t buy this one
Go buy that
Be in with the “in” crowd
That's where it's at
They'll take your money, but you'll always owe
So it goes
Your overconfidence belies a lack of common sense
None too bright yet you always think you're right
Don't think too much
Running through your life like a monkey with a knife
Your overconfidence belies a lack of common sense
Never any consequence for your cognitive dissonance
You'd stare into the sun if you thought it'd make you cum
Don't think too much
Life is hard it's harder if you're dumb
Don't think too much
Taught since you were young not to question what you've done
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2. |
She's in Love
02:58
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She's in love with falling in love, God bless her heart
She's in love with falling in love, it's her favorite part
The ecstasy of novelty that only happens at the start
She's in love with falling in love, better watch your heart
Live for the moment
No regrets have all the fun
And in the morning
Repair the damage that's been done
She'll say "I'm sorry"
You'll grab her hand and take her back
She has the courage
That you lack
I know what you're thinking
She'll settle down one of these days
But what makes you feel like
She's gonna land within your maze?
Like a runaway train
Or a bird on the wing
You're never gonna catch her
Only hear her sing
She's in love with falling in love, God bless her heart
She's in love with falling in love, it's her favorite part
The agony of ecstasy that only happens at the start
She's in love with falling in love, walk away she'll break your heart
I know what you're thinking
She'll settle down one of these days
But what makes you feel like
She's ever gonna change her ways?
You've been here before, we know how it ends
No need to talk about it, no need to make amends
I saw the way she loved you, way she tore your world apart
I’m telling ya brother, it’s a brand new start
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3. |
Escape Room
03:48
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Can you see yourself?
Really take a look
Just an empty page
Of an open book
And the words you use
And the wars you wage
Like a man frozen in time
Fighting battles from a different age
You build walls of isolation
On blind articles of faith
No room to compromise
No room to empathize
No room for debate
Charcoal fields
Under dead gray skies
You were sold a con
And now you wonder why
All your factories
Have turned to rust
And the land where from where you come
Has dried up and blown to dust
You build walls of isolation
On blind articles of faith
No room to compromise
No room to empathize
Plenty of room for hate
You try to save yourself
But it’s too late
With a mouth full of scripture
And a heart that's full of hate
You build walls of isolation
On blind articles of faith
No room to compromise
No room to empathize
No room for mistake
You build walls of isolation
On blind articles of faith
How can you act surprised
When you realize that
There's no room for escape?
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You call me late at night on the telephone
You talk talk talk 'cause you're all alone
Always askin’ me what I think you should do
I don't know what to tell you, 'cause the problem is you
I don't wanna hear about it
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna hear about it
It's time for me to go
It's the same old story nearly every time
We never seem to make it off the starting line
Half of what you say simply can't be true
You wanna hear the truth? The problem is you
You bitch and you moan and you analyze
It’s none of my business so I don't know why
You keep blaming others but what else is new?
everybody knows that the problem is you
I can't feel it
I can't believe it
I can't conceive it
1,2 Fuck You
I don't want to hear about it, the problem is you!
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5. |
Home of the Slave
02:55
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From the beginning they taught us the myth
of the exceptional nation state
We hold these truths, but we dare not look
at the means that made us great.
Forced removal with public approval
from sea to shining sea
Wrapped up in a flag of contagious disease
called Manifest Destiny
America, Home of the Brave
America, Home of the Slave
The wealth of a nation was built on the backs
of a 3/5ths Compromise
Lost Cause culture cloaked in a hood
of revisionist history lies
Mass exclusion, persecution
over and over again
Nothing will change until we to face up
to this country's Original Sin
Ain't it a beautiful America
Where they tell you that you're free?
But you're really beholden
To the boss and the banks
And the corporate monopolies
Production quotas, accounting iotas
from The Master they learned their trade
The Titans of Industry have always known
capitalism's American made
You say it happened long ago
and there's nothing we can do
But if there is no justice
what is the meaning of the truth?
It may have never bothered you
but it's always bothered me
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6. |
No Solution
04:06
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Every passing day
Every passing year
It gets harder to take
It gets harder to hear
We've all gotta right
The freedom to choose
Between something to say
And something to lose
If we only knew now
What we knew then
When you walk in a straight line
They always know where you've been
A lie for a lie
A truth for a truth
The blind leading the blind
The naked leading the youth
No solution
No resolution
No solution
No revolution
Another passing day
Another fuckin' year
I've had all I can take
I've said all I can hear
Die for a lie
Cry out for the truth
An unbalanced equation
To bury your youth
No solution
No resolution
No solution
No evolution
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7. |
Mind Control
03:51
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They keep your mind on your money
To keep your money on the line
Just work a little harder
Attention occupied
By the flash of the neon
And the promise of the sin
In a world full of dealers
The house will always win
Face the madness
Before your eyes
Confront the madness
In order to survive
Mind over matter
And matters undermined
What's the point of freedom
When freedom is defined
By the energy you burn
And the dollars that you spend
Making more for the wealthy
Only to die in the end
Face the madness
Before your eyes
Embrace the madness
In order to survive
They've got us in a trap
Like bearings in the joints
Between the ones pointing fingers
And the ones scoring points
They say you have a choice
But everybody knows
That a fist full of dollars
Beats a fist in the nose
Face the madness
Before your eyes
Embrace the sadness
In order to survive
Privacy's defeated
Not as if you need it
The lie has been repeated
History's deleted
Face the madness
Before your eyes
Embrace the sadness
In order to survive
We all know what's going on
You're just thinkin about yourself
Talk is cheap and so is life
In a world ruled by wealth
Don't you know there's no one
Who will save us from ourselves
No heroes, no gods
Only us, nobody else
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8. |
Hole
02:07
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dnif ot emoc ev’uoy nehw ngis sounimo na s’tI
Denim ruoy ni eloh a yllaer si emit ni eloh taht tahT
There's a hole in the wall in the house in which I live
The wind and the rain and the vermin come right in
I try to patch it up most every night
But nothing I use ever seems to fit quite right
The work is never through
The only thing that I can do
Is try to stave off entropy
And not think about you
There's a hole in the floor in the corner of my mind
Stuffed with life's debris of most every kind
I'm sure I'll find what I need if I just dig
But it seems the hole has just gotten too damn big
When the walls are closing in
And you think you've lost a friend
Then you know you've reached the end
Because the walls are closin’ in
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9. |
Urban Church
02:13
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You'll believe most anything
You'll believe most anything
If your god told you so
Can you tell me anything?
You can't tell me anything
That I don't already know
There is no rhyme to this reason
There is no rhythm to this score
I have no faith to believe in
I have no god to ignore
I've heard you hustling
I've heard you hustling
Preyin’ on the lost
Can you ease their suffering
You can't ease their suffering
Salvation has its cost
I couldn't love you anymore
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10. |
Lost Connection
04:00
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You've replaced the human voice
With tiny dots on a screen
I seem to have lost connection
To the feeling of what you mean
We can't seem to find the time
We can't seem to make a choice
Do we even know if there's
Still a signal in the noise?
All in the name of progress
We forsake the spoken word
We traded it for convenience
But the deal seems quite absurd
We tell ourselves it's freedom
To live our lives in full
How do we break the chains that bind
When the wires are invisible?
We can only be happy for so long
It's hard to be happy when its gone
Illuminated by the ego
The mirror's placed deep inside
Reflecting insecurities until there's
Nothing left to hide
In our quest for perfection
Will we strive to recreate
The complexity of evolution
Or merely replicate?
We can only be happy for so long
We can never be happy until it's gone
We've replaced the human voice
With tiny dots on a screen
It doesn't seem to matter now if we're
Human or machine
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11. |
Iraqi Girl
02:43
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We've seen it before
On the world stage
Paranoid bravado
Of the atomic age
Gonna start a sensation
Across every nation
Will be a sonic invasion
To teach 'em how to think
How many lives have they taken today?
How many lies have they told to make us feel okay?
Now it’s time to find
An Iraqi girl
Gonna lift off the veil
Show her 'round the world
Gonna start a commotion
Across every ocean
We'll put a plan in motion
And teach 'em how to kill
Gonna start a commotion
Across every ocean
Will be a sign of devotion
How many lives have they taken today?
How many lies have they told to make us feel safe?
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12. |
Shut It Down
03:24
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When the grass has grown too high
And you can’t see behind the lies
Time to burn
To feed the life to come
Boss will take all he can get
Drop you when there’s nothing left
Seems to me
That your best bet is in flames
It’s always the same
No matter the game
If you refuse
You’re bound to lose
You’ve gotta win
You’ve gotta fight
Look inside
‘Cause you know what’s right
SHUT! IT! DOWN!
Punishing the weak and poor
Just so you can have some more
Now you own
The people and the store
Get down off your goddamn cross
Make them feel all of your loss
And remember
They’ve done it all along
It’s always the same
No matter the game
If you refuse
You’re bound to lose
You’ve gotta’ stand
You’ve gotta fight
Look inside
‘Cause you know what’s right
We’re all to blame
No matter the game
If you refuse
You’re bound to lose
You’ve gotta’ stand
You’ve gotta fight
Look inside
‘Cause you know what’s right
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Red Kate Kansas City, Missouri
Red Kate is a no bullshit, class conscious punk rock & roll band from Kansas City, MO. For more than a decade the band has toured across the Midwest expressing its DIY ethic through a sound that tips a cap to the beer soaked barroom floors of the 70s British Pub-Rock scene, Australian proto-punk and the modern blues-punk sound that has since taken root in Midwest dive bars and basements. ... more
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