Well, I am not making haste or could it be haste is making me
What’s time but a thing to kill or keep or buy or lose or live in
I gotta go faster
Keep up the pace
Just to stay in the human race
I could go supersonic, the problem’s chronic
Tell me does life exist beyond it?
When I need to sate, I just accelerate
Into oblivion
Into oblivion yah yah yah yah yah ya-ahn
Well here I go again, everything is alien
How does it feel to be outstripped by the pace of cultural change?
My deeds are senseless and rendered meaningless
When measured in that vein
I could go supersonic, the problem’s chronic
Tell me does life exist beyond it?
When I need to sate, I just accelerate into oblivion
I won’t lie, it’s exciting
When I try to decide things
I just want to live decently, meaningfully
I’m in misery
(pace setters, go getters)
(rat racers, forget hers)
(researchers, berserkers)
(strategies to help the workers)
(new time saving devices)
(quick vices, short splices)
(brevity, dependency)
(digital efficiency)
I could go supersonic, the problem’s chronic
Tell me, does life exist beyond it?
When I need to sate, I just accelerate into oblivion
Into oblivio yah yah yah yah yah ya-ahn

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Prove it

Hit the road in wander mode, inquire along the way
Savoir faire in full despair while living day-to-day
My heart is not a cold cauldron of proof
I don’t ever need to prove myself to you
Looking back I’m off the tracks more times than I recognize
Mistakes are another opportunity to refine
My heart is not a cold cauldron of proof
I don’t ever need to prove myself to you
There’s no such thing as hell
But you can make it if you try
There might come a day
when emotion can be quantified
But as of now there’s no proof necessary
no proof necessary
no proof necessary
There's no proof necessary
it’s only in your mind (mind, mind, your mind)

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Can't stop it

I’m incurable but durable, it’s easy to see
Lack of restraint is a complaint of those around me
I know that others postpone
gratification, well I lack that affectation
Let’s get it right (let's get it right)
There’s no end in sight
And I can’t stop
Can’t stop, can’t stop it
Can’t stop, can’t stop, can't stop, can't stop it
It's shocking, but I just can’t stop it!
Uncontrollable, I’m inconsolable
My pleasure center is the shelter for a reptile
I hate when I gotta tolerate
Frustration, see I lack the motivation
Let’s set this straight (let's set this straight)
I never wait, and I can’t stop
Can’t stop, can’t stop it
Can’t stop, can’t stop, can't stop, can't stop it
It's shocking, but I just can’t stop it!

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Broken

She said Thanks but I’m broken
I guess you must have misspoken
what a laugh, I’ve never been chosen by anyone
She was barely a teen hangin’ out in-between, just a part of the scene
With mercurial smile and incurable style, she was only a dream
How’s that, he didn’t know a thing about making love
to the kind of girl you read about
He said I’m bound to be broken
My Daddy bet that I’d amount to nothing
he won’t let anybody show him anything
He was a troubled child, had been down for a while, always kept to himself
Though she couldn’t defend, he only wanted a friend, now he’s made something else
It’s so sad, no one saw it coming, the paper said that he hit the ground running
Oh yeah, I know I’m not broken
A little cracked but still I’m not broken
I wanna laugh but I think that I’m choking on reality
When the world is turning for you don’t turn on me
Who are you here to repair? well, I don’t know what you mean
You could never resist glorifying despair
Now it’s coming to you and I don’t really care
While I’m not the kind to insist, you couldn’t have missed, we must co-exist
so please listen to me, there is no such thing as human debris
Oh yeah, I know I'm not broken
A little cracked but that amounts to nothing
I wanna laugh, I’m not choking
I'm unbroken (oh yeah I said I'm not broken)
I said I'm unbroken (a little cracked, it's just a token)
I'm really not broken (what a guess, I'm unbroken) (?)

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Destined for nothing

Who do you believe can put some meaning in your life?
(meaning in your life, meaning in your life)
Who do you conceive to provide you guidance and light?
(guidance and light, guidance and light)
Are they waiting for you in the by and by?
Do you even have to try?
Headed for eternity and destined for nothing
The future isn’t difficult to see
(It’s easy) to confuse grand design with life’s repercussions
Lament not your vanquished fantasy
It’s only destiny
Why do you consent to live in ignorance and fear?
(ignorance and fear, ignorance and fear)
Ancient people succumbed to it, can it happen here?
(can it happen here, can it happen here)
Does it make you suffer 'cause you have to die?
Is it best to live a lie?
Headed for eternity and destined for nothing
The future isn’t difficult to see
(It’s easy) to confuse grand design with life’s repercussions
Lament not your vanquished fantasy
It’s only destiny
Why can’t you see there ain’t no destiny for you and me?
Headed for eternity and destined for nothing
The future isn’t difficult to see
(It’s easy) to confuse grand design with life’s repercussions
Lament not your vanquished fantasy
It’s only destiny

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Materialist

You’re obsessed and distressed ‘cause you can’t make any sense
of the ludicrous nonsense and incipient senescence
that will deem your common sense useless
This ain’t no recess!
I want to believe in you but my plan keeps falling through
I know I have to face the harshness, grin and bare the truth
And I have to walk this mile in my own shoes (and I’m no fool!)
I’m materialist
A full-blown realist
And I guess I’m full of doubt
So I’m prone to have it out with you
I’m materialist
There ain’t no fear in this
It’s there for all to see
So don’t talk of hidden mystery with me
Mind over matter it really don’t matter
if the street’s idle chatter turns your heart-strings to tatters
Flatter hopes don’t flatter and soul batter won’t congeal
to mend a life that is shattered into shards
Was it in the cards?
The process of belief is an elixir when you’re weak
I must confess, at times I indulge it on the sneak
But generally my outlook’s not so bleak (and I’m not meek!)
I’m materialist, call me a humanist
I guess I’m full of doubt
So I’ll gladly have it out with you
I’m materialist
I ain’t no deist
It’s there for all to see so don’t talk of hidden mystery with me
Like Rome under Nero, our future’s one big zero
Recycling the past to meet immediate needs
And through it all we amble forth to persevere and climb
Our mountains of regret to sow our seeds
I'm materialist!
I'm materialist!
I'm materialist!
I'm materialist!

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Kyoto now!

It’s a matter of prescience -no, not the science fiction kind
It’s all about ignorance, and greed, and miracles for the blind
The media parading, disjointed politics
founded on petrochemical plunder, and we’re its hostages
If you stand to reason you’re in the game
The rules might be elusive but our pieces are the same
And you know if one goes down we all go down as well
The balance is precarious as anyone can tell
This world’s going to hell
Don’t allow this mythologic hopeful monster to exact its price
Kyoto now!
We can’t do nothing and think someone else will make it right
You might not think it matters now but what if you are wrong
You might not think there’s any wisdom in a fucked up punk rock song
But the way it is cannot persist for long
A brutal sun is rising on our sick horizon
It’s in the way we live our lives
Exactly like the double edge of a cold familiar knife
And supremacy weighs heavy on the day
It’s never really what you own but what you threw away
and how much did you pay?
Don’t allow this mythologic hopeful monster to exact its price
Kyoto now!
We can’t do nothing and think someone else will make it right
In your dreams you saw a steady state a bounty for eternity
Silent screams
But now the wisdom that sustains us is in full retreat
Watch out!
Don’t allow this mythologic hopeful monster isn’t worth the risk
Kyoto now!
We can’t have vision for the future if it can’t be fixed
Alien
We need a fresh and new religion to run our lives
Hand in hand
The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise
Oh, Kyoto now!

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Sorrow

Father can you hear me? How have I let you down?
I curse the day that I was born
and all the sorrow in this world
Let me take you to the hurting ground
where all good men are trampled down
Just to settle a bet that could not be won
between a prideful father and his son
Will you guide me now, for I can’t see
a reason for the suffering and this long misery
What if every living soul could be upright and strong
Well, then I do imagine...
there will be sorrow
Yeah there will be sorrow
And there will be sorrow no more
When all soldiers lay there weapons down
Or when all kings and all queens relinquish their crowns
Or when the only true messiah rescues us from ourselves
It’s easy to imagine...
there will be sorrow
Yeah there will be sorrow
And there will be sorrow no more

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Epiphany

A new age of reason, bring treason to trick the mind
What good is searching if nothing’s there to find?
We arrive at this place of no return my brothers
Only to discover that our minds have led us away
so far from the painful truth of who we are
What’s right is wrong, what’s come has gone
what’s clear and pure is not so sure
It came to me
All promises become a lie, all that’s benign corrupts in time
The fallacy of Epiphany
Come forth bear witness, see the profit from your loss
Beg for forgiveness only after you tally the cost
We arrive at this place of no return my sisters
Only to discover that our values ran us aground
on the shoal in the sea of what we could be
What’s right is wrong, what’s come has gone
what’s clear and pure is not so sure
It came to me
All promises become a lie, all that’s benign corrupts in time
The fallacy of Epiphany
If it’s real for me, do I have to prove it to you?
Why do revelations fade to cold blue untruths?
It’s oh so relative
Subservient in total one’s perspective
What’s right is wrong, what’s come has gone
what’s clear and pure is not so sure
It came to me
All promises become a lie, all that’s benign corrupts in time
The fallacy of Epiphany

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Evangeline

She came from Heaven, well, there’s no point belaboring that
I’ve seen some trouble and I must admit that I’m in demand
I confront rejection with magnetic good intentions and yet
hey Jack, Get back, in fact Don’t do that
I act sharp but feel uncertain ‘cause next time it could be curtains
Evangeline (evangeline)
conspirator so fine
Lend me your faith 'cause mine is broken
Compared to mine What is your crime, Evangeline
Now just to be certain let's be sure to set the record straight
I could use an angel but I don’t intend to split up the take
Never go for treason but I got reasons that don’t warrant debate
My act's intact and in fact you're not all that
You act sure, but you're uncertain
'cause next time it could be curtains
Evangeline (evangeline)
conspirator so fine
lend me your faith 'cause mine is broken
Compared to mine What is your crime, Evangeline
Well, there’s no use turning back (no use turning back)
It's already much too late
When the house is burning
Evangeline
conspirator so fine
lend me your faith 'cause mine is broken
Compared to mine What is your crime, Evangeline

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The defense

Nothing comes easier than madness in the world today
Mass paranoia is a mode not a malady
Yeah, I’d like to watch 1,000 cable channels but there’s nothing on
And my high speed connection’s monitored daily by The Pentagon
These things are seldom what they seem
I’m not inclined to enjoy my dreams
Won't go away
No Peace, and No Friends
We trace the mortal edge (with no defense)
To State the obvious, This world is perilous for us
No sense and No Guide, ain’t it beautiful to be alive (yeah, right)
I won’t resign before the struggle ends
So I’ll construct this sound defense
We are the prey and culture is the predator
I’m running out of time where conditions are positional
Shadows of a doubt cast reluctance and depravity
There’s got to be a way to overcome this cruel reality
Is there an option left for me, I’m not immune to despondency
There’s no way
No Peace, and No Friends
We trace the mortal edge (with no defense)
To State the obvious, This world is perilous for us
No sense and No Guide, ain’t it beautiful to be alive (yeah, right)
I won’t resign before the struggle ends
So I’ll construct this sound defense
There’s a signpost on the corner and it keeps everybody safe
We were all made in the shade
And your mother’s in the kitchen, where she's patching all the cracks in the wall
We never had a care in the world
(No shade) Too much to sacrifice, (No light) it's hard to recongnize
(Just black) traps to compromise (And white) obscuring deadly alabies
(My plans) It's combinational, (designs) the pressure's so intense
So I'll construct this sound defense
(No Way) Nothing’s plainer than the madness in the world today
(No sign) I must conceal myself and steal myself and break away
(No grace) I seek initiative in matters that are black and white
(No sense) So I'll construct this sound defense

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The lie

How do you know what you can be if you can’t see where you are going?
What breaks the silence? Misery can make you see where you belong
It’s a dangerous stage but the show must go on
Why do you lie? Why do you lie?
Would you betray your soul?
Why do you lie? Why do you lie?
Don’t let your weakness show
You just might be the last to know
Freedom is such a loaded word, so full of hurt and such aplomb
Loneliness saunters in its breeze like a disease it drags along
The time of your life can’t be had for a song
Why do you lie? Why do you lie?
Would you betray your soul?
Why do you lie? Why do you lie?
Don’t let your weakness show
You just might be the last to know
Oh, Why do you lie? Why do you lie?
Would you betray your soul?
Why do you lie? Why do you lie?
Don’t let your weakness show
Why do you lie? Why do you lie?
Only the meek follow
Why do you lie? Why do you lie?
Trample the fear below
You just might be the last to know

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You don't belong

Hey, you, Is there something worth aspiring to? and
can it be found in a record store? well, it's not there anymore
Just think of all the things we did
We were different, just like all the other kids
Missy was a teen blue video star
Tom took his life in his mother's car
Milo went to college but you knew about that
Rodney played our record
Jimmy started riots
Laurie was always quiet, she was battling depression
Hey, you, Is there something worth belonging to? and
can I pick it up for a song, or a diploma, or a worthy cause?
Well, let me tell you that there's nothing wrong
It's just the ones like us will never belong
Jack wore a skirt but he knew how to scrap
Billy went to county on a class-one possession
Wendy went to school while her daddy shot smack
Eugene kept a list
Mugger was security
Mary, she kept her purity
We were all in it together
Yellowed postcards on the wall
serve to cover up the blankness after all
so I will carry them along, like a song, when I'm gone
Hey, you, Is there something worth belonging to?
You know we've been here all along
like a confederacy of the wrong
and I confess it could be prejudice
but to you I dedicate this song -yeah, you

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Bored and extremly dangerous

With nothing better to do
No one to come home to
I woefully conclude
To take it out on you
I’m bored to the extreme
This world of foolish dreams
Disillusion
I am not who I seem to be
Yeah sure I might do harm
and bear my right to arm
Retribution
If only someone would listen to me
(Oh, listen to me, oh listen to me...)
A room and empty shelf
A book on mental health
I look for inner wealth
by punishing myself
I’m bored to the extreme
This world of foolish dreams
Disillusion
I am not who I seem to be
Yeah sure I might do harm
and bear my right to arm
Retribution
If only someone would listen to me
(Oh, listen to me, oh listen to me...)

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Shattered faith

The scientist purported that there ain't no purpose
and the theologian told me that it's all been designed
and I'm trying to maintain objectivity
The world won't illuminate what really matters
and I'm an imperfect modal/moral meaning extractor
processing the complexity
Born of the Earth (Are we blind?)
We weren't given a choice (There's no way)
What about free will? (What we have)
Do we have a voice? (Is shattered faith)
See them run in place (Here and now)
in the human rat race (No reward)
So much dead weight (No debate) to our disgrace (Accept your fate)
Life begins when you accept your fate
Paralysis from forces raging out of control until
my confidence and will are at an all-time low
Just directionless wandering
Eternal life, eternal truth, eternal secrets
Isolated hopes and hypotheses just
Leave me feeling so hungry
Born of the Earth (Are we blind?)
We weren't given a choice (There's no way)
What about free will? (What we have)
Do we have a voice? (Is shattered faith)
See them run in place (Here and now)
in the human rat race (No reward)
So much dead weight (No debate) to our disgrace (Accept your fate)
Life begins when you accept your fate
Right or wrong,
the main criterion is what you do and not what you say
The roads you take, the friends you make and those you throw away
The method is a simple synthesis of the past and present state
You never lose if the path you choose is one you can easily navigate
I had a dream, light and carefree
But now there's doubt and gravity
But I won't run in place (Are we blind?) in the human rat race (There's no way)
I can set the pace (What we have) and accept my fate (Is shattered faith)
Shattered faith (Here and now)
Shattered faith (No reward)
the part of me (No debate) I can't erase (Accept your fate)

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