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No Background Check
02:22
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this boarding-house twin-sized bed seams bleak
but I fill it up just fine when I'm feelin weak
but even in the arms of my best distraction
i can only turn my head from disaster a fraction
close my eyes
another vice I can't deny
I can fly
I swear I once lived in the sky
room for rent
no background check
noose of the law around my neck
so I'm drinkin lik my bail-condition's exempt
waiting for the green on last employment's attempt
pretending I still care that I look well kempt
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standing alone in an ocean of faces
sorest of thumbs in all of its places
just for a moment, there's a connection
carry an illness with no infection
good deed of the day to show some affection
good will charity to provide some protection
knowing and showing the only good way
the gate in is narrow so you'd better pray
some people say . . . I chose this life before my birth
life is decay . . . my gift and greatest curse
my expectations rotted inside out with my memory of names
I'll propagate this mutation out of spite, give or take armageddon's flames
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Breakup Song
01:47
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Uncle Chester
01:34
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you hit the bars before my daddy knew the score
but did that cold, hard floor really prepare you for
the bundle of your joy, your whole life acting coy
always a little boy, the whole world was your toy
you played a sick baseball upon the NES
when you got up and close, was she wearing a dress?
my lightyears beyond tears, your hands upon my chest
we never sat alone, your bro knew what was best
and at your brother's wake, handcuffs upon your wrists
but I can't call you fake, cos I don't know your fists
and was it with anger, or was it with your lust
or was it discipline, oh tell me did you bust?
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5. |
Milligan
03:17
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life is short and full of stuff, of that much I can say
people seldom get enough, it's the mileage not the age
people waste their precious time on ideology
tell you if I find a flag to fly, but now I'm doin me
I was the nicest guy, I didn't drink that night, that's what the papers say
it took two body bags, two buckets, countless rags to clean my exit spray
army train miles long, enough to write a song about what could go wrong
it hasn't moved for days, I'll keep out of the rain, it moves and we won't stay
we all were livin free, we drank hight gravity, and they'll remember me
who'd think I'd somehow slip, Hurricane kept my grip, should have joined the army
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I feel something pull at my heart
learned we're together, but we're apart
just humor this kid till the next chump
rests on his knees waiting for that big dump
I am your friend, you are stalking my page
I'll stalk your bones till they weather with age
I'll follow you home, don't got a knife
better wise up to protect your wife
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8. |
Suicide Chamber
02:20
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one window shows a traffic-view, the street we used to live
the other shows an alley-way, the bricks are nostalgic
eye-full of the ceiling, half behind on this week's rent
the brand new job ain't comin through so I'm hedgin on the government
to be or not to be
that is my big query
it's always a good day
to snuff myself away
I wonder should I lock my door, and do it in my room
but the skinner bathroom on the first floor has aesthetic gloom
I don't have a razor, but an OD don't sound bad
coz I don't have a car or a length of hose to do it like my dad
I wanna paint these white-washed walls with everything inside my brains
but I don't have the gun for it so I'll be a constructive saint
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Public Display of Decay
00:49
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four days on a Greyhound through the South, only ten hours sleep
really gets your goat when you think something at home is waiting
come home to a cold shoulder, your world in absolute ruins
start drinking at 9AM coz this is where the fun begins
drinking all day long, blow up your spot to sleep from a picked fight
your heart as only begun to break, hope you got some glue tonight
old lady kicks your ass out on the street because her life is a lie
you're laying on the grass trying to find a reason not to die
pigs pick you up pretending they're your friend, and then they grope your junk
you protest then they pepper-spray your face, and things get really punk
then they throw you in jail, orange suit giving you a rash
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she reminds me of where I belong when I write my favorites songs
our love will never die
too many years
too many tears in our eyes
we walk the streets
hand in hand with callous feet
how it will always be
opportunity
might come calling
but we know we'll always be
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life ain't measured by the shits you take, but by the shit that takes your breath away
and I'm impressed I don't asphyxiate from how horrendous shit is smellin these days
a while back, I'd scoop her's out with my bare hands while I was tryin to unclog the can
I thought it smelled like all the flowers she knew on summer walks when we were holdin hands
and now I'm failing a background check
for a minimum wage job
good friend of mine is next in line
to get the service I got on my knob
this shit-hole's rent won't pay itself
my options are looking slim
but maybe if I'm out on my ass again
it probably won't be so grim
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12. |
Rollin Street Boot Party
03:00
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loud mouth dunce with tribal tattoos
runs his mouth as much as you
calls you a spic or calls you a fag
while his busted old lady is scoring skag
skinhead skinhead boot party
skinhead bloodbath on Rollin Street
won't feel bad about callin in the crew
make you look like something a retard drew
now he's gettin drunk on Natty Ice
like the kind of faggot that still smokes spice
every mother's child has got a vice
but every cast is snake-eyes when we roll his dice
try to pretend that he's just a normal man
but a waste of flesh can play pretend
pull a gun so he shits in his pants
then we do the old Doc Marten dance
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I saw it written and I saw it said
a pink moon is on its way
none of you stand so tall
pink moon gonna get you all
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The Enablers Concord, New Hampshire
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