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Future Dead
05:07
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They’re the future victims
of all future wars
condemned to die by the higher priests
of a hidden world.
What’s the point of living?
The killers never care.
Will every effort end in despair?
Now the muted violence
of a million cries
prayers lost in the altitude
as the fires rise.
With the flames around us
and our bodies burned
you’d think someone would get it now
but we never learn.
The future dead
The future dead and the never born
The future dead
The future dead all we ever were.
It’s a vexing nightmare
and the only world
burning away in the horror of another war.
But the rain was falling
on the second day
falling across the city core where the future lay.
The future dead
the future dead and the never born
The future dead
the future dead all we ever were.
They said we lived for something meaningful,
for something more –
but what it was we’ll never know.
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Walls
02:53
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There’s nothing left here
there’s nothing left for you and me here
just hungry ghosts that eat away at our souls
our souls adrift in the infinite
despair of having no home and nowhere to go.
In the depths of winter
in the empty space of a bloody new year
the pain that drifts across these tortured hemispheres where
the damaged and the damned suffer nightmares
but I found you there.
The prison walls around us
were built to keep us free.
But there must be some way
to scale or break through the bitter concrete
the days circumscribed by dismal certainty
and we’re trembling with the urge to end this misery
to finally go free.
The prison walls around us
were built to keep us free
paralyzed, frustrated
repeating histories.
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Only Sleep
02:34
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These words are worthless things
they’re never what we mean
and we try to speak
and when we try to speak
The wind that always blows
it penetrates our bones
it’s searching through our homes
somehow she seemed to know
The city’s cold and dead
with plastic tombs for rent
and in our arrogance
we never live again.
The city’s cold and dead
with plastic tombs for rent
and in our arrogance
we’ll never live again.
Repeating endlessly
scenes of democracy
if we could only sleep
if we could only sleep…
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Old City Portland, Oregon
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Old City is a punk band from Portland composed of 3 or 4 members. Nick, Dan, Erik, sometimes Sara.
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