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Shadows in the fog
make that one a double
you see the blue lights
i'm staying out of trouble
could not leave the city I don't regret that
just half a prayer I can stretch that, bet that
some of the neighborhoods underwater
some of them gone and some are lost and
all changed for good i'll accept that
but I can't stand to live inside the panopticon with
all the eyes on every corner every keystroke damn it all
the gutter's for the hunger dogs the 21st century full of cameras
first they take your cigs away very next day might take your chances
they dont' know the half
they dont see the cracks in it
central square is clean now
but it's so fuckin passionless
seems like a fever dream, this country's a pyramid scheme
and your fearless leader's not who he appears to be
he guzzles champagne and he worships antilife
we're under the gaze of brother eye, he's never satisfied
yeah he talks all populist
but when you looking past the rhetoric, it's just a plutocracy
an some of the lucky ones get the crumbs, and some of the bums get nothing
and some of these young ones fuckin dumb cause they think that they can trust him
so why not get in line
and take what they will give you
and swallow all the pills
like madmen locked in bellevue
and that's the way it goes
and none of us can change that
I still got my memories
time cannot decay that
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2. |
Casablanca
02:57
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nothing like the sound of a violin crying rubies by her throat fingers weighed with silver rings
searching for the source of the nile river but they'll never find it
and I been on that nod like an opium fiend I been gone in a poppy pod dream when
your heart beats slow and you stop your breathing
and you give in to to the colors and they sound like egypt
just like a snakeskin baby
shots lookin grainy retake them
the prostitutes priests and the traveling salesmen
living in trances and transit
lookin through the crowd , see the strangest faces
maybe scratch the itch but it don't replace it
time, time goes hazy, but
he's only dancing
fields lie fallow, something in the tarot
and her face shows nothin, like a scarecrow
one more cup of coffee
one more for the road
working classes, draining glasses
standing in the shadows, watching for the blues
an me I'm livin like that
me i'm laying low
baby i'm yours tonight, yeah it's quiet here but the war's outside
they sacrifice the young to their iron gods and cross
burn the dead like anthracite
opium smoke, like the man who fell to earth
the heart is full of gold like a purse
and for what it's worth, promise that i'll carve it into stone
nothing like the stars in the sinai desert
diamond dust on the jeweler's velvet
when i've had enough of the high life
fill up my cup choose to forget it
all the people here carry scarabs
conjure illusions bind their eyes
one of these days they'll pay the piper
maybe after that you'll be mine
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Asher (This Alone)
03:03
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רק כך
he knew the only way to freedom was by this alone
he knew that western promises are made of silk not stone
deep in his bones, heard the screams of dying souls
knew a bullet in its in time and place would change the globe
young asher, black hair, dark eyes
born outside the city walls born to struggle born to fight
and see his people rise and see the ships come in
despite the men with rotten teeth with empires and schemes
started as a spy smuggled guns and made his moves
from the doorway of the shop the british calling dirty jew
limey bastards, fit inside a casket send em back to england with their head gone backwards
asher wanted vengeance, he followed jabotinsky
knew how to use a rifle and how to shoot a pistol
knew the smell of evil, he fought the sons of darkness
the sunburned khaki soldiers made a perfect target
the world war was winding up, and the good guys won
churchill stalin roosevelt lounging in the sun
divvy up the spoils, lines across the map
you can take a piece of this i'll have a piece of that
the british in their compound just off jaffa road
set the jews curfew and where they couldnt go
a rainy night in march the sun was blocked by clouds
asher and the etzel snuck in unannounced
the irgunists had guns, the irgunists had bombs
the british had the money, the etzel had g-d
asher caught a slug, took aim shot back
saw a british soldier caught a bullet in his hat
then everything went black, his body in a bag
they dropped it at his parents house and left it on the steps
he sacrificed his years, he died a hero's death,
cut down so young, but died with no regrets
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4. |
I'd Rather Be Sleeping
03:18
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dna and fingerprints
documents in triplicate
kids gettin high on anti life
in synthetic skin
an the starlights gone in every place and
they die for darkseid
I seen on the news that scott free caught one
slug ripped through his heart like
it's nothing, asked to see the warrant just before they kicked the door in
cannot record the cops in boston this is war
and we lost it
time goes down the faucet
neighbors watchin, talkin
I knew there was something wrong with him
open wounds from when I tried to get close to you
but I live in the panopticon where all your neighbors take notes on you
my dreams play out in technicolor
musics in computers
lines up precise in infinite grids
that look just like the future
xanax cocktails
how do they taste like nothing?
I'd rather sleep forever than to deal with this country
xanax cocktails
how do they taste like nothing?
I'd rather sleep forever than to deal with this country
takin my sex in pill form
an I hope your body's still warm
remember you say you love my features
tell me will you kill for him
dwell on it. still wanted
johnny law don't ever rest
and he don't understand and he don't relent
there's a war outside and it never ends
the synagogue this morning, the butchers came with guns and knives
five dead, only jews, it's a kind of justice right
the world's sick, inverted speech, married to a crucifix
married to a bloody moon these human pigs
die for darkseid,
no miracles left or prophets
die for darkseid
when i'm stuck inside of boston
satellites on fire, the hunger dogs at the gates
I don't got any sympathy for people with silver plates
xanax cocktails
how do they taste like nothing?
I'd rather be sleeping than to deal with this country
xanax cocktails
how do they taste like nothing?
I'd rather be sleeping than to deal with this country
you know if I won't have you babe
no one else will have you
told you the day you quit me babe
the day they carve your crying statue
swamps are full of secrets
flowers kept in ether
the kids jump into the mouth of brass
or else die in arenas for caeser
for preachers, for sedatives in several scripts
desaturate the color scheme
you can see it like it really is
really been in abyssinia
several years with no compassion
just some tapes of the twilight zone
and dirty flicks and tobacco
velvet goldmine,
they'll never take my rayguns
america's full of cops and clerks
and I renounce that nation
telegrams from sound machines that simulate emotion and
all the slaves of antilife whose veins bleed coca cola
xanax cocktails
how do they taste like nothing?
I'd rather be sleeping than to deal with this country
xanax cocktails
how do they taste like nothing?
I'd rather be sleeping than to deal with this country
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Dresden
04:03
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Baby I'm the sun when you're lying in the dirt
I could be your maggots and your worms
while the west declines, I dine and dash
no friend of mine, let em crash
let em all starve incessant, pray to reason and choke
never ever met a german who, could understand a joke
no, just like her empty head, sunny side up fried eggs
an all she got for her troubles; was cigarettes and ricin
I like it, you're an open window
and you don't even care who sees thru, you don't even close the curtain it's
so generous, you share what's mine like it's yours to give
nothing that you wouldnt do to prove you're clean of sin
she cares so much her heart's so big, mad sincere, what a fuckin saint
she always turns the other cheek, it's just like a jew to shank
she care so much her heart's so big, fuckin saint
same old engine, different coat of paint
yeah, wise up and get lost,
I don't wanna hang around I don't wanna talk babe
six horses, one box
how you gonna dance puppet when I cut you off
slim and hard like arrows, mechanical life syntax
so fugazi, hedonistic princess
always at the parties
I can be your car crash in the four way
I can be the stranger in your doorway
all in different angles, contorted
your fancy car I could not afford
silver spoons glass tables , I seen it before
I don't like your language babe I don't like your scriptures
your chthonic peasant face on christmas
I don't like when you rewrite the past then ask for forgiveness
maybe he would be your friend but me i'm so dismissive
to lay with a beast a shande, bitch lookin just like her father
same ones in brooklyn buying condos, I don't talk to em
socks and sandals, pictures with a camel, you're so ugly
and tryna have the world to yourself , so prussian
like a landlord, all these things I ain't ask for
swear you say you'll transform, you're past war, yeah yeah
like honest, you ain't lit by a comet
you ain't coming to my concert, yeah, you're awful
everything you get from me, extra cheap, plague and pestilence
and a piece of history, and a testament
everything you get from me, plague and pestilence
like i'm laughing when death descend on dresden
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Time out the moment before the rain
white clouds I look through the window pane
smoke loud all the walls fade away
down in the palisades ringing the bells today
yeah, they diving for pearls
an everything's wavy but that's just the surface
and I want to be yours but that's not for purchase
an i'm just your clown in the circus
an i'm takin pretty pictures
tryna warn the flood come, people woudlnt listen
maybe I would call you now if I could get a signal
or is this a war of attrition, is it
a firefight, but we don't get tired right
you could think the worst of me and I might slash your tires righ
t that's how it goes, we add it up like dominoes
but there's things I don't wanna know
it all goes down the drain
we ring them bells today
laugh now she thinks she's a lot to me
got it all wrong cause she just a bop to me
hit up the phone if, you tryna cop the greeze
it wouldn't be like it was, why talk to me
heard your apology, an it don't change a thing
I know what you'll talk about an it wont change a thing
pray to your cross an all he won't change a thing
it could be different nah babe it's too late to change
That shit don't matter none
both tried to run from life you were the faster one
coudlnt outlast it, nah it don't matter none
sometimes you throw a line sometimes you have to jump
money comes and goes, currents of currency
you can't buy cures for your insecurity
all of these pretty things, gold in the dawn
your dreams are nothing like mine
and my phone keeps on ringing
told her lose my number but she didn't listen
you just a shikse to me you just some practice
now you want a fight or some kind of action
it could be different but we live with the facts
I hope you see the picture, like why you even mad
and I won't be your friend now why you even ask
you really think i'd come back
yeah, ain't nobody gonna miss you
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7. |
Snow
02:59
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Kosha Dillz: A snow storm and my flow on
Blizzard and wizard main objective get green like skin of these lizards
Alright I relax but can anxiety prevent me from making my children
I ain't even got a girl to chill with
She too busy hitting nonsense I should create the content prevent me from being so common
Since I make out a prayer like Amen, Baruch Hashem
On a solo quest, forever mobbing
Doors shut, locked in, this life, ain't thin
Abraham make a man fake a plan improvise all of it
Truth meets new lies never been forfeiting
Why you wanna go and call the kid?
Bars so healthy make you call in sick
Well essentially but can you still remember me?
Like McCartney said, let it be
Elstein:
Look just like a centerfold, seven veils, wish you will
We can be discrete baby, on the low no kiss and tell
Visit hell it's all cold but I got what you want tho
Yeah I got them chickens in the cargo, pronto
Float on the track with Kosha Dillz I'm from the Chi I drill
Keep it all Klal Israel she captured my heart it's real
I'm not on the charts I'm in the ditch but the way I live got benefits
Fill your cup, pour it up, take away your memories
Take you out to ecstasy
Show you things you never seen
In your dreams baby you could send that postcard
I just met my destiny, Elstein, go hard
Space age, MJG and 8Ball
Wanna see the stars girl? Lean back, take it off
Haha, in the sky, touch the face of g-d
Life is just a stage, gotta play your part
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Straight Up
03:06
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love's a furnace
burns when you're closer
but it's colder in the distance
that's your fortress
cut off all my hair off, and I let the phone ring
pull down the blind, now the twelve know nothing
static and a hiss like vinyl records
my eternal sunshine
only three days and then you come back and
actin like you was just acting, actually
seen this one before I slammed the door
your waaaay's way less flashy
dont we look just like kodachrome
i've seen you with your mask off
an I still believe there's life on mars
I still believe in nasa
straight up, straight up
straight up, straight up
straight up, straight up
you said it, you left it
straight up straight up
straight up, straight up
straight up, straight up
on the nod out, since I dropped out
like time moves backwards I jumped out the taxi faster
then I trade some andrew jacksons for satisfaction
starin at your face in the ceiling see
it's just a pipe dream it's real to me
waiting for my flight to the golden city
but til then it's boston
aladdin sane, london calling
playin all the songs that take me back
music that could laugh and swoon and move you
music then was made to last
that circle I used to know
we don't talk that often
back then I was someone else
and that's me being honest
everything's electric , my adolescence
empty all the bottles but never send a message
communicate raw like you in my heart
I won't be waiting for long
big spender , november
hittin the beat like rain on the windows
after fires we get the embers
i'm caught in the game now, super nintendo
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9. |
1.26.2015.STOP
02:44
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Like you dont know who's watching huh, bpd still plot on me
in this stiflin atmosphere, hard to breathe talk is cheap
stay away from cameras, blend in with the action
the future looks like plastics, stagnant
I don't love these broads at all, I don't share my thoughts with her
I might walk the block with her if I can get some top from her
stalk the docks with an eye for rags and used slag, old phones, loose change
find a new past like hussein,
just outside the clinic itchin twitchin a lot work in line
and lately it's so drainin fuck it never mind
it's the boston olympics, something, to build for,
something to starve for, something to steal for
believe me man I seen some shit that would prove to you that babylon
is risen the man of god is nothing in a pack of wolves
oh, the tyrant sea that turns the walls to rubble
the prostitutes on private jets are prisoners
all he knows is opera and helicopter dinners man
he don't know the squalor, he don't know the winter
ls on your dial babe, take another shot for me
january 26, 2015 stop
i'm so fuckin hot now i'm living in a basement sublet fuck it what's another month my albums gutter pop
ls on your dial babe, take another shot for me
january 26, 2015 stop
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