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Teach 'Em to Fly
02:12
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Teach `Em To Fly
Teach `em to fly, teach `em to die, tell them that they can walk on sky
So deluded they’ll believe it
Tell them that it’s money well spent, they’ll fly above the soaring rents
God knows they can afford it
And I love to watch them fall with their wallets made of gold
With their wings all made of cash, struggling to flap, I watch them burn
If you ask me I just say it’s their turn
Some of you should kill yourselves and let us live in peace
You all know who the fuck you are, you sociopath elite
If you play a part in the subjugation I hope that you become aware
You choose your job and your involvement
Don't be afraid, let’s teach `em all to fly
Teach `em all to fly
Police, priests and politicians, CEO’s and lobbyists
Your life's pursuits seem so misguided, I hope that you end up like Icarus
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Death and Taxadermy
03:35
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Death and Taxidermy
Can you feel the steady decline as technology slowly makes obsolete these minds?
Just marching on forward with our phone in hand toward the end
Should we pay no attention to the thoughts in our head?
By the time they’ll be useful we may already be dead
Emission cap two minutes late, GMO served on our plate, acidification of the ocean
Can we adapt and learn devotion for the world before it dies?
With one in six fucking idiots, how do we make a change when our politicians are all criminals, racist bigots, and insane?
Everyone’s just sitting shocked, in their underwear and socks, eyes glued to the news
Fishing for your vote they pull you up, tear out your spine, and consume you
White man on the hunt looking for their game
White man on the hunt looking for some gain
I’m not surprised by the mass genocide committed in the past
Purification of the species has put us on the fast track
With no genetic diversity, it seems we all must eat each other now
Competing for the same kind of space and food, I look forward to eating some of you
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Sanity Fence
01:56
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Sanity Fence
It’s hard to channel and itch and make more than just scratch marks
Is it more effective to just hack off a limb on a whim of a frustration, anxiety, and pain?
Roll me another blunt and make it all go away
It still lingers in my mind
My personal demons and my personal pain keeps these hands a-moving, climbing the fence of the sane
I look over my shoulder and find the view’s much better looking down
Confused and frustrated running `round
For the most part no one’s got it right but at least they built this nice fence to reside
A fence to reside
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Two Cents
02:18
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Two Cents
Is this the beginning of the end?
Do I gotta find another way to keep my own demons at bay?
Looking for sound to sooth these ears and inspire this mind half atrophied from fear
It all fades away, it all turns to shit
Our heroes all sell out, die off, or quit
So we give it all away
Take what we can get from it and just go our own way
So we give it all away and hope that in the end our debts will be repaid
So can we get paid?
Well…
We’re all stuck behind these prison walls with you
Trying to make enough to not get shot by the cops or shanked by one of you
To be honest this is all I got
My two cents
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5. |
Don't Know Why
02:46
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Don’t Know Why
Here I stand again on my two feet with my head in my hands
Struggling to speak or make sense of those things that you say
Those things that we’ve done have just left me just feeling so numb
Burning at both ends like a candle in the wind
Feel so temporary under my skin
Where do I begin to tell you how I feel
And where do I go now to start this journey I know that will only end with my defeat?
It all used to make sense
Where did the sanity go?
We took it as stagnant and then watched it go go go
Cuz sanity's moving
It evolves with the time
If I don’t keep thinking I’ll have an absolute mind
That’s when death has its time
I’m not ready to give up just yet
I’m not ready to die
But these days things seem so complicated
Can't get my head in line
But I’ll write my way out with my own words and a few chords
I’ll put on the songs of those like me who have come before
Feel the rhythm in my blood and in my bones
The music keeps me going and I don't know why
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6. |
Kids With Plastic Guns
02:54
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Kids With Plastic Guns
We gave it all away
Gave into winners’ history
A paradise now lost to a whirlwind of misery
The best stories not passed down
Our origin’s been lost
To a ruling class who prefer fairy tales alas
Generations of kids with plastic guns who never learned to differentiate the aggression and the fun will always end in a stalemate
Fucking stalemate
We gave it all away
Gave into winners’ history
A paradise now lost to a whirlwind of misery
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7. |
Black Magic
03:22
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Black Magic
A subtlety that can’t be matched
Like a clairvoyance of the past
I don’t hear the voices anymore, I just feel the weight on my tongue
I don’t understand it anymore, I just feel it in my gut
The truth speaks to me from a peaceful place
You wash your hands but the blood’s still on your face
Our days are numbered now for sure, what was it for?
The balance of pain of death and pain of life
This whole experience only cost your life
Some cosmic black magic shit
With no loyalty to god or country, ethnicity or creed
I am left to comprehend just what it means to me
I don’t go through the motions, I am moved by what I do
Fear don’t shade my conclusions, I shine a light on all I do
I know I never comprehend the full complexity
Of what we’re all experiencing, just a slight inkling of symmetry
No longer searching for what to do
I try to keep my head on straight and see this through
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8. |
Energy
03:33
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Energy
I take up space, I stand my ground
Get in my face I’ll beat you down
These animal instincts are waiting behind polite conversation
Highly adapt, I think it through
Millions of years have brought me to this place I find myself today
Watching our energy fade
Feeling on the edge, approaching the brink
Just watch your step, don’t even blink
A slow sad truth we must accept as we all soon become extinct
So much potential and so much hope
Yet so distracted, we can’t cope
Or channel our intentions into something that could save us
I got my energy in the short time allotted for me
I trust my ability and cognitive responsibility
I got my energy, it’s all I know and all I will be
Until I, too, will fade and experience my own life drift away
Doing all I can to comprehend the complexity of who I am
And where we are and where we’re going and what we’ve been to no end
I don’t believe in your earthly fallacies
But I believe that we are one when this life is done
And it’s all we’ll ever be to the extent our minds can comprehend
Infinite possibilities, yet fitting so symmetrical
You can’t deny that we’re all part of the same design that’s built to die
I got my energy in the short time allotted for me
I trust my ability and cognitive responsibility
I got my energy, it’s all I know and all I will be
Until I, too, will fade and experience my own life drift away
Just drift away
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9. |
I Can't Quite Remember
02:36
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I Can’t Quite Remember
So many bands have come and gone
To sing a song no one remembers
Plagued by poverty and creativity, it’s sad
Did any of it matter?
Are we just another species soon extinct?
Just next in line to meet our so-called maker
Known to drink our clarity and smoke our sanity away
Just to make it through another day of life
Most of us waste away for some sincerity
The only sanity we could find in these trying times
Excogitated our own hope in two minute songs just to cope
So much we want to say and so much we wanna do
And so much we want to hear and so much we can’t undo
Just to make a positive effect on the world or maybe just you
So insignificant
But it meant the world to me and my friends who had nothing
No god, no hope in the middle of nowhere
A little ugly piece of truth carved out in this world of lies
In this world of lies
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10. |
Ghost Towns
04:31
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Ghost Towns
These places we call our home
These faces we call our own
These curses, these plagues on our house will erase us
Nothing but ghost towns
There’s nothing left
Just memory of sound
I hear it echo in my head, sounds of when I was a boy
The smell of eucalyptus trees like a connection from the void
The towns we pass along the way
Seem to be the remains of someone's misery
And will we live to see the pieces of the puzzle fit?
Hope you won’t live to see the day where your work turns to shit
And I don’t think we’ll ever see the truth in our lives
More likely that we’ll feel it on the day we die
We return to the earth, we all have learned to embrace the decay
It will slowly wash away the sins of man's charade
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come, let it wash away everything that you’d say
Let `em all fall down
Let `em all fall, let the buildings tumble to the ground
We’ll sell it all for scrap and dance upon their graves
Build a new world where no one will be treated as slaves
Empires fall when the people get the call to take back what is ours
We’re not just a corporate commodity to be bought and sold our misery
From capitals to ghost towns
We all will submit ourselves to the void to let life persist
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11. |
Stagnant Sorrow
03:49
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Stagnant Sorrow
On a cloudy afternoon, hoping that the end is soon
Locked here in your room, expecting impending doom
From in your room
You don’t want to see outside, to watch the whole world die
You just keep it to yourself and die alone all by yourself
It seems you lost your head in a black hole again
You feel the part of you that’s dying
But not the part that’s still alive
And that's what makes me cry for you
I know that it’s been hard, those deep and tender scars
Thanking your unlucky stars to know the end may not be far
You feel that heaviness inside as gravity pulls you back to earth
As temporary as your birth
You were not the first and not the last to walk this path
No one really comes in first
Don’t let yourself die just yet or you will kill me too
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12. |
Become Yourself
01:46
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Become Yourself
I know there’s more to say but it seems that my story’s told
I did it all for nothing, zero units sold
And I don’t understand just where we’ve been and where time’s gone
I’ve been sailing on this hope now for so long
Once again it seems that no one understands
The power that you hold in your own hands
And there you are, soon to be gone
Will there be hope? Will there be beauty after your final breath is spent?
Will it all make sense in the end, or was it all for nothing?
Can we transcend?
So why just be yourself when you can become yourself?
Just sounds like laziness to me
But I’ve wasted all my time singing songs for you, having a great time
But I didn't catch your name and you didn't ask for mine
I guess the memories are fine
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Where Does This Car Crash?
Why can’t I just sit at the bar like everybody else?
Just writing by myself, to the detriment of my own health
Like a primate typing to infinity to attain some higher quality
It’s all a joke, it's all just chicken scratch on notebook paper no one reads
Inaudibly and desperately at the top of my lungs in 16, 44.1 or mp3
For someones who's so fucking faithless
I work so hard at something so trivial
What a beautiful contradiction
I hope the passersby slow down to view the wreck
Where does this car crash?
It’s all I feel compelled to do
Nothing etched in stone, just whispered words for you
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Faithless Saints Portland, Oregon
Faithless Saints are a punk band based in Portland OR. They currently release and record all of their own records from their very own Irican Productions
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Teach 'Em to Purr
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Aggressive, yet melody and intelligent. Secnd Best is the Best
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Even more Aggressive, yet melody and intelligent. Secnd Best is the Fucking Best
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This is Secnd Best Best Record! It fucking rips and is so smart what else can I say. Highly Recommended.
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