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Won't Be Long
03:43
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And at this point you can’t save me
From what I have, from who I have become
Demoralize, cannibalize the sun
We reject life
Selfishly come undone
The things that we lost
Are nothing to the things that we’ve all grown to love
And when I fall
I know it won’t take long
Until they’re moving on
I knew it all along
Although they’ve tried they can’t have me
I will transcend
But I am not the one
My spirit flies
Immortalized,
I spiral towards the sun
And when I die
I know I’ll become one
With the things that we lost
Become nothing at all
It’s the one thing I love
And when you fall
I won’t be there all all
I won’t be proven wrong
I knew it all along
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2. |
Repetition
04:10
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Repetition repetition
Is fucking killing me
I feel like I can’t breath
I’m pacing around this room
Trying to find meaning
I know I’ll never see
But when freedom amounts to this
And I’m barred from taking initiative
Do I even exist
These dreams offer no relief
From the backdrop
Of these human beliefs
You’ll notice when I disappear
The house undeniably cold
But I taught you never to fear
Growing up is not growing old
Strategically I interfere
With what transpires up above
No longer requiring air
I’m forfeiting all of my love
At first I did not want to care
But now I cannot care enough
Now I cannot care enough
You think that you know what it’s like
To have no one sit by your side
But I challenge you to sit in a dark room
Right in front of the mirror tonight
And the things that you feel deep inside
Are the things that I could never hide
And I live with knowledge that I will be burned
So that I won’t be buried alive
My freedom amounts to this
My lack of initiative
I’m not convinced that I exist
These dreams offer no escape
The backdrop of these mistakes
Are all left here in my wake
I know you think I’m wrong
I’m telling you I’m right
But my lack of pride will restrict me
And help keep me safe tonight
And I’m sorry that I failed
But my life became derailed
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3. |
Anthropocene
02:41
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Welcome to the anthropocene
Where children weep
The whole world fucking screams
As oceans rise
And fill with the dead
We can only hope
This will all soon fucking end
Yet we Laugh
just to keep back the tears
Cause we sit with the knowledge
That we should be living in fear
Take these bags
Cover our eyes and mouths
It makes it easier
To shut the sadness out
We don’t deserve this obliviousness
And when were gone who will clean up this mess
We don’t see blood on our hands
Here in the promised land
can’t see the irony
This isn’t what we planned
The forests die
Lined up with the dead
Through a wall of flames
We can all see how this ends
Building debt
One must be repaid
When the land is demolished
Who’s left standing on the graves
Take these bags
Put them over our heads
It might ease the pain
If we are already dead
We don’t deserve this obliviousness
And when were gone who will clean up this mess
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4. |
Inevitable
02:20
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The creation of jobs
We distribute our wealth
So we can go and fuck
It up
Again
Redistribute our wealth
To the hands of those who rule
Then set up rules to
Make sure this can’t happen again
No I cannot pretend
Corruption ever ends
And words like
Economy and currency
Are make believe
Just like the god who’s trust
We mark
On them
These borders are pretend
And I don’t believe it’s right
These things can destroy lives
The ones that were set up
For the sole purpose of holding up our industry
No
I cannot believe
If we locate the source
We burn it down
And finally voice
The masses and
We do not have
To live like this anymore
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5. |
Beating the System
02:00
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Humanity cannot survive without currency
They coincide
But when they combine
It creates oppression of this whole world
We won’t survive without harmony
But that will never work
Because all of us refuse to ever open up our minds
I don’t know what
Im supposed to do
To change the way
We operate
And if we could
Just learn from the past
I’m sure we could come up with some way at last
Society creates the rules that we have to live by
But money shapes the way that we can live our lives
But I refuse to accept thats the only way for this world to thrive
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6. |
The Cost
02:00
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You think I give a shit
About that which concerns
The things you talk about
Well they have little worth
Don’t you know how much we’ve lost
The dues we paid
I’m reminded of the cost
You think we give a shit
That you have come this far
We were all meant to sleep here underneath the stars
You make me forget that we are all one
You are the problem here, but I’ll never give up
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7. |
Conclusions
01:19
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When the world has been rid of us all
There will be peace
When nature takes back what was sacred
Man will be long forgotten
And the scars will finally heal
Things will be as they should
And no devine intervention could will itself into existence
To bring us back to the chaos that befalls us
But when the world ends
Thats when true life will begin
There will be peace
When this planet regains control
Man will lose his role
As the oppressor of this world
This coup is inevitable
We will be taken out and
No amount pf prayer will bail us out
We’re all so fucked
We’re going down
With rising seas we all will drown
And the entire time the
Universe will rejoice
We’ll hear it’s voice
The fleeting seconds before we die
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Joey Cobra Jamestown, New York
Singer/Songwriter playing in punk bands since 2004. powerchordhour.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-28-fever-dreams-and-punk-rock-with-joey-cobra-power-chord-hour-podcast
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