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Dark to light,
the future never so bright.
Prophecy spoken in tongues,
the bell that can’t be unrung:
Fanatic Fantasy
They’ve got good news,
it’s so sick living in a fanfic,
they’ve got good news,
there’s new life springing from a death cult
Tearing up, you scream
in endless fever dreams.
Unmoored, you’ll cling
to almost anything.
Light to dark.
They’re tryna breakin’ the arc,
but now the covenants broke,
and now they’re dying for a joke
after living a lie
They’ve got good news,
it’s so sick living in a fanfic,
they’ve got good news,
there’s new life springing from a death cult
Tearing up, you scream
in endless fever dreams
White-knuckle, you’ll cling
to almost anything.
Your family, they tried
to pull you out alive
Oh, pity, pity, pity, pity,
storm came and went,
and now your life is spent.
Sun sets before my eyes;
we’re walking backwards into the night.
What did we do before light?
Looking fondly to the past
through warped reflections in the plexiglass, well
They thought they had it all right
When you decide to take a stand,
capped in the neck by a mall cop's hands.
The future never looked so bright.
A whole new dark age!
It’s burning bright with a hot white rage!
What did we do before light?
Haha
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2. |
Lose Your Cool
03:11
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I’m watching TV, and I’m reminded of something from way back when, and it makes me feel guilty, and then I’m distracted all over again by something on the TV, and I forget what I remembered, and now I’m absently watching, but I’m still feeling guilty
Like a little old dog,
whining on about
something that they can’t see
But I can’t tell what’s wrong,
just that something’s not
working inside of me
And now the show is over
but the episode
is still far from done
It’s a marathon weekend,
and I’m just
cuing up another rerun
Anticipated this my whole life when the
stress becomes me
We all know it’s just a matter of time before the
stress becomes me
and now it’s here and now I’m doin’ it, doin’ it
stress becomes me
My therapist says that I am not my emotions
stress becomes me
I know I should go outside,
I know I should be meditating
or phoning a friend
Or just eating right,
not watching my
progress unravel again
It’s just day by day
watching the gains
that I’ve made get stripped away
Until there’s nothing but me
All alone with my own anxieties
Anticipated this my whole life when the
stress becomes me
We all know it’s just a matter of time before the
stress becomes me
and now it’s here and now I’m doin’ it, doin’ it
stress becomes me
My therapist says that I am not my emotions
stress becomes me
Like a helpless little dog, whining on about something they can’t see…
Anticipated this my whole life when the
stress becomes me
We all know it’s just a matter of time before the
stress becomes me
and now it’s here and now I’m doin’ it, doin’ it
stress becomes me
My therapist says that I am not my emotions
stress becomes me
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Somebody’s following me
watching me twist in the breeze
they’re reading all of my thoughts
spilled-out and twisted in knots
craven and highly engaged
every time i get enraged
And the worst part of it all
somebody profits off my scrawl
my fifteen seconds of shame
I think I need a
Time Out!
Somebody’s following me!
And the worst part of it all
somebody profits off my scrawl
my fifteen seconds of shame
I think I need a
Time Out!
Sell the pain! Make it hurt!
High engagement! Low returns!
Sell the pain! Make it hurt!
High engagement! Low returns!
Sell the pain! Make it hurt!
High engagement! Low returns!
Sell the pain! Make it hurt!
High engagement! Low returns!
Ah! Nobody wants to see you win!
Time Out!
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4. |
Planet Money
04:02
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Don’t get it twisted
the system works!
Experts agree
the system works!
Big line go up
the system works!
You lost your job
the system works!
Cue up the music
business is booming
broadcast the good news
that’s how it works!
Let’s do the numbers
dollars and cents
their calming voice
makes this make sense
Seeking reforms
to that same old deal
they think it’s broken
but it can heal
Bloated and bleeding
teeth stained blood
endlessly feeding
it’s never enough
they’ve got you trapped
knife in your back
saying it’s your fault
that you’ve been attacked
and they’ll pull the knife out
but just halfway
the knife reformed
and still you pay!
They couldn’t care less
If there was a billion deaths
They couldn’t care less
if there was a billion deaths
to do anything to help
would undermine the system itself
Cue up the music
the closing bell
the knife reformed
that’s how it works
Bloated and bleeding
the system works!
Endlessly feeding
the system works!
Big line go up
the system works!
The closing bell
the system works!
Feature not bug
that’s how it works!
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5. |
Freak Frequency
03:12
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Freak frequency, ring it out
that little voice getting louder now
rising in pitch and collapsing in time
a Shepherd’s Tone rising in my mind
Shutting it out only makes it worse
between my ears there’s a terrible curse
oscillating, repeating itself
again and again and again
and again and again and again
Inexorable tide
the rolling waves
you build your castle
it’s washed away
The constant limbo
of starting over
while the bank shrinks
losing composure
Freak frequency, ring it out
that little voice getting louder now
rising in pitch and collapsing in time
a Shepherd’s Tone rising in my mind
Shutting it out only makes it worse
between my ears there’s a terrible curse
oscillating, repeating itself
again and again and again
and again and again and again
A washed out empire
the slow decline
a fading memory
seen in real time
I wanna ring it out
all my fear and doubt
the ringing in my ears
it’s getting louder now
This fragile system
in disrepair
the life that I built
slips into despair!
Freak frequency, ring it out
that little voice getting louder now
rising in pitch and collapsing in time
a Shepherd’s Tone rising in my mind
Closing it out only makes it worse
between my ears there’s a terrible curse
oscillating, repeating itself
again and again and again
and again and again and again
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6. |
Fools Idol
02:55
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Unfolding history
finding the cycle
the march of progress
the Fools Idol
A closed loop
violence unending
here she comes:
the boss descending
From the hunting hand
to the keystroke supplying the demand
Who’s on the other end?
Telling me that they’re my friend?
What new dark age
awaits our hero on another stage?
Who’s on the end of the line?
Telling me that this is fine?
And just when you think it’s ended!
The curse lifted
the broken mended
no truth revealed
no cut scenes roll
just the same old boss
with no control
From the hunting hand
to the keystroke supplying the demand
Who’s on the other end?
Telling me that they’re my friend?
What new dark age
awaits our hero on another stage?
Who’s on the end of the line?
Telling me that this is fine?
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7. |
Make It Up
01:35
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Making it up as you go along
won’t make a penny playin’ this song
The frothy scum slips through my fingers
(making it up as they go along)
Nothing of substance, but still it lingers
(making it up as they go along)
They made it up! They made it up.
Whatever it is I have to tell you, I’ll tell you
Whatever it is I have to do, I won’t
Superstructure, Unseen Village
Means Tested, Loot and Pillage
Endless Nightmare, Constant Grind
Oppress Yourself, the State of Mind
Peel the curtain, nothing’s there
Social fabric so threadbare
Immaterial sacrifices
Selling numbers, trading prices
losing daylight, losing time
lose the plot, lose my mind
Make it up! Make it up!
Make it up! Make it up!
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8. |
Plank III
04:17
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That was the last place that I saw her
at the Belmont Snack Shop
since consumed by fire
now it’s an empty lot
Vacant, overgrown
in its own way sacred
I’d rather see it empty
than watch somebody take it
Our future showed such promise
Golden Age everlasting
everyone liked her, everyone liked us
but the skies were overcasting
Everything we built
so readily cast aside
like this burned out nothing
collecting snow outside
I feel a push from the darkness
And so what do I do?
Push back!
New developments encircle me
Placeless, inviting
sleek angles, glossy facades,
cheap design and soft lighting
3D rendered transformation
they didn’t leave off any traces
of the lives that were lived here
closed off, open spaces
They’ve never been burned
They’ve never been attacked
when they walked through that door
They never looked back
All this force with no direction
wanna believe that it isn’t true
that this was never the place
that I thought I knew
I feel a push from the darkness,
and so I push back
Our future showed such promise
Golden Age everlasting
everyone liked her, everyone liked us
but the skies were overcasting
Everything we built
so readily cast aside
like this burned out nothing
collecting snow outside
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9. |
Break The Arc
04:00
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You were born on the crest of a curve
bending towards whomever it serves
as it gets steeper, I look over the edge
I see the drop and feel it in my chest
(Arc of History!)
You see the vase, I see the faces
Inching forwards at slack paces
(Bending Towards!)
You see an arc, I see a coil:
the new boss, the same toil
(New and Exciting World!)
Right question, wrong answer!
This growth is a cancer
Totally Fucked
I want to break the arc
I want to set it right
We’ll take the arc of history
and like a broken bone,
we can set it right
we can set it right
History’s a broken bone
and we can set it right
(Arc of History!)
Is still progress still progress
without justice, and just process?
(Bending Towards!)
They see an arc, we see a coil
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
(New and Exciting World!)
A sob story turned sick joke
And I’ll be laughing when it’s broke
Totally Fucked
Totally Fucked
I want to break the arc
I want to set it right
I’ll take the arc of history
and like a broken bone
we can set it right
we can set it right
History’s a broken bone
and we can set it right
yeah we can set it right
History’s a broken bone
and we can set it right
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10. |
Scared
04:13
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When did this turn?
Overripe fruit
Baby it’s late
and I can’t think straight
A distant siren
Filling the space
where I’m not talking
There’s never silence,
just the music
that I can’t face
Before you know it, he’s done it again
Before you know it, he’s done it again
Before you know it, he’s done it again
Before you know it, he’s done it again
The sin
I’m one foot in
my heels dig down
pushing anyone out
feel my weight shifting down
feel my knees hit the ground
feel my face hit the dirt
had to find my self worth
I can pick myself up
I can do it by myself
I can carry my own weight
when I don’t have the strength
And the city blinks out
while you’re turning away
and I don’t know what I said
was it something that I said?
A distant siren
filling the space
where I’m not talking
there’s never silence
to the music
that we can’t face
Before you know it, he’s done it again,
unraveled the knot
before you know it, he’s done it again,
unraveled the knot
before you know it, before you know it
before you know it, before you know it
before you know it, before you know it
He’s done it again
There’s nothing more brave than to love
said there’s nothing more brave than to love
and I’m scared
and I’m scared
and I’m scared
I’m runnin’ scared
There’s nothing more brave than to love
there’s nothing more brave than to love
and I’m scared
and I’m scared
and I’m scared
I’m runnin’ scared
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11. |
Do Not Reply
03:19
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We’re tryna live our lives, but you’re on the offensive
I see you thrive, but I just know your soul’s diseased!
All I want is just a long leash
I don’t even wanna be a star
Not the whole pie, just a small piece
The whole world is just a house of cards
it’s falling
“I already explained my situation to the person I was on the phone with before they bounced me to you.”
And we didn’t ask for much, but now you’re so defensive!
You’ve got more than enough, but still you bare your teeth
We’re tryna live our lives, but you’re on the offensive
I see you thrive, but I just know your soul’s diseased!
If corporations were people
well those are folks I wouldn’t wanna meet
cause there’s not a doubt in my mind
that they’d jump me in a heartbeat
For the change in my pocket
“I’ve been on hold for hours, and now you’re telling me I have to start from the beginning?”
And we didn’t ask for much, but now you’re so defensive!
You’ve got more than enough, but still you bare your teeth
We’re tryna live our lives, but you’re on the offensive
I see you thrive, but I just know your soul’s diseased!
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