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American Despair
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I'm oversexed and under pressure
I'm gettin homesick from a letter
heard couches callin out my name
found out the west was just as lame
so give me a drink that I can afford
I've seen enough of the sunshine and now I'm bored
And I don't wanna go home
cause I ain't got no home
but I don't wanna stay there or go anywhere
It's best to keep your eyes in the backs of your heads
because the wolves are all around and they will have us in our beds
Gimme the east, the west, the north
the middle west, the south, and more
give me American despair
gimme gimme a reason I should care
I once knew a girl who called me "baby"
used to say my mind would drive her crazy
now I sleep in a cold room second-handed
my life's my cell my gut's been branded
I could have stopped the way I felt
I could have saved myself, it's true
I could have saved your life as well
I could have stayed away from you
it's always the last place that you look
that you will find the life you've lost
the life you'll risk at any cost
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The Coming
02:26
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There's somethin bad about this city
and this time it's not just me
it's closing in, it's a box too small
and I ain't got no room to breathe
but I think I've got it figured out
I can't relate to the same old shouts
there's nothing up about always being down
I've been learning a brand new song
I've been itching for it all along
my dead shoes got a few steps still
they're makin way for a dangerous will
it's my life, it's gonna be my own
I'm gonna make my visions known
there's nothing right about always being wrong
And I don't care what the masses say
I'm gonna see it my own way
you're gonna greet a brand new day
when I'm through
You can't sing along to empty words
unless you've got an empty head
so I'm carving a new path
it's based on all you never said
the coming evolution
shall absolve us of our crimes
and new earth shall come to fall
upon the ashes of our times
If there's no future to be found
I'll make a present all my own
if my existence has no meaning
then reinvented I'll be known
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I'd like to hate-fuck the hole in my heart
been so long down low you'd think loss was my art
I share a bed with a ghost
unoccupied and I think too much
but I've got things to do
like drinking and such
they're saying "Hey Joe, where you goin...?"
you can figure out the rest
gone to sink myself
with the lead in my chest
my poverty's pain
that don't come from money
my wealth is my hate
and of that I've got plenty
gimme some lies
cause I've got both your secrets
But truth is the crown of the common man
and I'll die in the ground with my crown in my hand
yes I'll die in the ground of the common man's land
with my truth in my heart and the fist of my hand
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No stimulation in the city
too much frustration, its a pity
I can see through city eyes
I can see our city's lies
I can see through city eyes
Cause I feel it bad
and I know you've felt it too
we gotta get out, yeah
we're through livin all black and blue
a four year failure set us back a lifetime
Let's learn humility
let's see futility
could find myself in someplace else
could see myself in someone else
Could stagnance save a soul
or burn a bridge to sink its ships?
Could violence fill a hole
or cut a life short at the hips?
Let's get some drugs
cause I got money and some problems
let's learn the truth
I missed my youth and can't afford to keep on payin
you want the truth?
My life's my inside joke
and no one ever gets it
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Voight-Kampff
VK began as a bi-state recording project between vocalist Joseph Sulier (St. Louis, MO.) and instrumentalist Colin Swanson- White (Raleigh, NC) in the summer of 2010. To date the duo have released two full-length albums, “Self-Titled” and “The Din of Dying Youth”, and two singles, “Last House on the Right” and “Out to Sea” (all on Deranged and P. Trash Records) while living in separate states. ... more
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