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Copper Liar
03:19
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You roam the streets at night with your badge and gun under the city lights
Another victim shot dead and it’s at the hands of who?
Sweep the truth under the rug and keep on dealing your dirty drugs
Ignore the claims and all the fingers pointing at you
You've had it coming
For quite some time
You've never saw it coming
Cuz you never took the time
You've had it coming
Now it's down to the wire
You never thought you'd be
The copper under fire
Copper liar
Under fire
Busting skulls and breaking necks- a way of life for the CPD
Another victim beaten and it’s at the hands of who?
They got guns, gas, shotgun blasts, but don't forget raid attacks
Keep praying their fingers’ not pointing at you
There goes the night
Til they're under fire
If the coppers are in the streets that means they’re in our way
If the coppers are in the street then we’re gonna make them pay
because they're liars
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Blank Cross
02:30
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First words from the mouth by the broken hand that feeds
“Ignore the beatings as I ignore the pleas”
Last words from a useless god
Are the last words I will never read
You've got nothing to prove
You’ve got it all to lose
You're gonna be nothing in the end
You're gonna be nothing at all
The first stone cast into the only eye of the beast
Isn’t the only stone that it needs
Limping to an age of doubt and reason
Accept the beatings on your fucking knees!
You've got nothing to prove
You’ve got it all to lose
You're gonna be nothing in the end
You're gonna be nothing at all
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Coffin Shopper
02:14
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Anxiety dictates a life less lived
As paranoia starts to slowly set in
I wanna be like all of the people I see
But that's not a life I can live
I'm living in
A shell of a human being
(I can't break away)
A life that's not what it seems
(What will I ever be?)
A reality I've made myself
(Can I just be alone?)
But nothing ever seems to help
I have no reason to care and no reason to fight
But I have every reason to believe how I feel is right
No one is one my side and no one is my friend
So don't act like you know the life I'm living in
ChorusI'm living in
A shell of a human being
(I can't break away)
A life that's not what it seems
(What will I ever be?)
A reality I've made myself
(Can I just be alone?)
But nothing ever seems to help
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Yellow Ribbons
03:17
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Another soldier sent home with a bullet in his head
While yellow ribbons fly on trees and I still couldn't care less
There is no sympathy for those who sign up to kill
For a flag, for rights and freedom-
that were never part of the deal
When the guns turn on you
And you can't understand
Why your blood is in the sand
And your money is in their hands
When it starts to makes sense
While you fight in the trench
When you kill for the rich
You are a wasted human
You aren't an idol and you ain't no fuckin hero
You're just someone dumb enough to buy into their ego
Bred to be a maniac only preying on the weak
Bred to think you're superior- but bred to be a sheep- cuz
When the guns turn on you
And you can't understand
Why your blood is in the sand
And your money is in their hands
When it starts to makes sense
While you fight in the trench
And you kill for the rich
You are a wasted human
For the USA
Your country
Land of the free- But not for me
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5. |
Long Violent Night
04:43
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There's no more beats in this broken heart
Only liars blood and its ripping it apart
I don't wanna take another breath
I don't wanna be here with nothing left
Exhausted options with growing problems- one way out with no stopping
There is no truth there is no right
Only fodder from a long violent night
It's a long violent night
And there ain't no fucking end in sight
It's a long violent night
it reminds me that I just can't fight
Cut the chains from wrist to neck cuz my while life's been a fucking wreck
And I don't wanna hear any of your problems
Cus mine are enough and I just can't drop them
There is no life here there is no light here
But there are plenty of things to fear here
Exposing truth with the edge of a knife
Is only fodder for a long violent night
It's a long violent night
And there ain't no fucking end in sight
It's a long violent night
And it reminds me that I just can't fight
And if you kick me to the ground
You know I'm gonna bring you down
And you can beat me all of my life
And I'll never make a sound
When the days slips light to black when I'm face down- knife in back
I got no one to help me get back up, when I feel like I just need crutch
The pain in silence brings Pain inside us
But no one is out there eating to find us
There is no purpose behind these eyes
Only fodder in a long violent night
It's a long violent night
And there ain't no fucking end in sight
It's a long violent night
And it reminds me that I just can't fight
And if you kick me to the ground
You know I'm gonna bring you down
And you can beat me all of my life
And I'll never make a sound
Long violent night
Violent Night!
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Diatribe
03:42
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There's nazi blood in the street
From a steely caught between his teeth
And a knife in the back of the pigs protecting them
This city will keep on burning ‘til the last riot cop takes the last bullet
Because in the end they protect the state not you and me
Sedition, sedition
Here's your rhyme and your reason
Sedition, sedition
Cuz we can't take no more
Sedition, sedition
Here's your rhyme and your reason
Sedition, sedition
A rich mans bloods runs down to his feet
from the mob that caught him in the street and no one felt sorry for him
You've got nowhere to go and nowhere to hide
but you better run for your fucking life
There's no way out from here
Sedition, sedition
Here's your rhyme and your reason
Sedition, sedition
Cuz we can't take no more
Sedition, sedition
Here's your rhyme and your reason
Sedition, sedition
We want a fucking war
We've tried everything
And still nothing's changed
We've tried everything
Now we start a fucking war!
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State Execution Cleveland, Ohio
Spirit of '77
Noise of '82
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