1. |
Fear
03:36
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2. |
The Old World
03:34
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She wakes me up screaming
Look at the TV
Here's our world
Why don't you care?
She tells me I'm dreaming
of running away
This world is damaged
I grab her by the hair
Because
I can't stay here
It's not our home
It's gone, and I can't stay here
So just leave me alone
We can't stay here
It's not our home
It's gone, and we can't stay here
So just leave me alone
She's got a point
But the world is spinning backwards
We've got to go
We've got to go
I wasn't ready to fight
I didn't want to die
This war is not mine
I don't know how to love
What?
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3. |
Head to Head to Head
03:38
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Everything about this is wrong
Wrong side of the mirror
Screaming at my real reflection
Do damage to the one
I've lied for
Killed for
Everything to stem the tide
You're broken like glass
It's cracked and it's over
Rage, take me now
Take me down
Let's fight
Head to head to head
It's happening again
All the lights flashing red
as I waste away in mundane stead
Antiseptic and bitter
Tricked out of a life
Now I'm slaving away instead
This isn't like you
a weakling
Still running away
I'm finding my edge
being what you can't
Undistorted
Sick and tired of this coward
I'm turning the page
Living a new plan
Taking all my time and money and love from me
Filter the noise
Decimator
Corrupt the source
Decimator
All we do is fight
about me being wrong
Pull the trigger on your new life
Without me
I'm sick of hiding
I'm sick of waiting
I'm sick of hating you
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4. |
Run and Gun
04:01
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ECON 101
The neighborhood is watching for a loaded gun
Meanwhile, upon the hill
A decision is made
Laws written to kill
There's no insurance,
no jobs to make it at all
Pay check to paycheck
Counting the days
Scratching them in the wall
With a knife, with a fight
even if it's not right
Life made me a criminal
The crime is being alive
Run and gun
You've got to run and gun
Til the day is done
It's economic
Run and gun
Got to run and gun
til you're job is done
It's so psychotic
Love your work
It's overrated
Run and gun
Got to run and gun
Til you're all done
It's so psychotic
Suck it up with your college degrees
Paying the future off
Plus taxes and fees
Burn it up
Do the data entry
Get your 401K
No retirement at sixty-
Five days a week
at the dog and pony show
Down to one last nerve
That's already been sold
for the weekend warriors
Digging for gold
Since they came back from the war
to a country with nothing to show
Got to stay alive
for the system is crazy
as a motherfucker
We're in the dirt
before we're in the dirt
Got to stay alive
This time the enemy
is wrapped in a goddamn flag
Handing out crosses
Shoving heads into big black bags
Change the channel
the news has nothing to show
Change the channel
before your RFID chip explodes
"We're gonna bomb your babies!"
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5. |
Herd Cities
03:52
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Speak in threats
in conversation with a bomb
Wall upon the Delaware
Camden's first
Herd cities
Herd bombing
Culling
2016
Practiced it in Michigan
Flint, steel, battlefield
Poison water, grenades
Central Falls
More targets to exterminate
From Bellevue mansions
Screaming dies
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6. |
Reclamation Day
06:36
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Driving out
All your fascination
Driving out
Can't reclaim what's given away
In the night
Here they come with their long knives
Traitors told stories
so here they come with their black bags
Lights out
large engines 'round the corner
They've got our names
And there's no way to keep them out
I've followed you here
Where your anger leads
And I'm begging you to turn around
Replace the broken parts of me
Shot off by a redcoat's rifle
A telling rival
A spy in my mind but
War
That's it my city's in ruins
War
Collapse the buildings
Put the gun in my hand
This was the only end
The only way we could go
War
Put the gun to my head
Driving out
All your fascination
Driving out
Can't reclaim what you threw away
I dragged it here
A trail of gore and smoke
and nothing to light the way
but to see in the dark
you have to give up sight
give up light
and hope and all the dreams
our home had for
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7. |
In the Crowd
05:27
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I wish this wasn't the way but it is
the way I said good-bye with someone
else's handwriting
solder the circuit, be a soldier
Just be a soldier
Looking at you in the midnight light
I saw someone stepping away
from the scene of us
They had to know
I lost you in the crowd
Changing hands
Lonely all those years, is this
what it was like for you?
Listening, too?
The future sounds like grown men crying
like everyone dying
The future is explosions
In the smoke and screaming
Here we are at the bomb site
the taste of blood in my mouth
and my ears keep ringing
Back to the bomb site
Slipping away at the bomb site
Alone to cover my shame
And I can't stop screaming
It seems you've found a way to define you
A way to define you apart from me
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8. |
Abandon Hope
03:13
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Above the door
Once the shelves were bare
That led outside
Faucets ran dry, food scarce
Was a sign
Everyone in hiding
That said, "Abandon hope"
From searchlights in the night
Everyone's got secrets
Give up their names and numbers
Nowhere left to hide your sin
Run from Christ Superior
We're searching
Run from Christ Superior
for INRI
Run from Christ Superior
Secret stores
They policed the roads
Trade in slaves
No travel and no homes
We burned them all
Blockade after blockade
From brick to ash
Cutting off any headway made
Over the walls
Rounded up the protesters
Escape the drag
Surrounded all the time
See the sign
Shot down when out of sight
It say Abandon hope
Another city bombed tonight
Shipments rotten
Churches flooded
Let the poor rise
Snake in disguise
Let the poor rise
Lock the doors
Turning away the helpless
Arm yourselves
Preparing to gun them down
Newer shores
We heard about the victory
a better hell
in a far too distant land
Bread and fruit
Preacher keeps the holy ghost
Rivers run
Devil takes the hindmost
Corpses carry on
Smile for the camera fucker
Abandon hope
When you enter hell
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9. |
Keep to the Plan
05:37
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This isn't how it started
More like how it ended
when she shut me out
I sought escape
after we wasted our space
She sought to fight
something stronger than me
Night sticks, tear gas, front lines
Where hope is a scream
We find our weapons where we can
and keep to the plan
Til I couldn't wait, escape too late
Now I've lost her
We couldn't stop the bombing
now we're tied to the tracks
But I'd give it all up
just to find her now
All I see is her face
This is all your fault
You can't take it back
Where hope is a dream
It's been two weeks
No word, no text
There's no reduction in my mistakes
just pain
Where are you?
How dare you leave me
to die alone
Now hope is unseen
Cry
Cry all you want
Scream
Scream all you want
I've lost her, I've lost her
I've lost her to the war in me
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10. |
Loathing
05:11
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11. |
The New World
04:31
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Toss the keys
into the old apartment
I'm not coming back here
Ever
Drop my driver's license
in the airport trash
I won't need it
Passport is scrutinized
Paid for everything
with the last of my cash
I can't use it
Out in the real world
Mailed the last of her things
to her parents:
A box of clothes and books
They haven't heard from her in months
But I've heard them
screaming at me
No more calls at this number
Voice mailbox is full
But I've heard them
blaming me
Running for the gate
sirens in the distance
calling my name
Last flight to the southern shore
to save what's left of us
and what I hold in my heart
you hold in your fist
They'll never catch me
lying for you
ever
The last of the hero's mistakes
escapes into the sky
and you're finally free
as the past retreats
Trampled on the moon and stars
to fall silent, grave, and cold
This is not home
There is no home
Just the sea
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Downcity Armory Providence, Rhode Island
Downcity Armory is an industrial band from Providence, RI. They are committed to using their music for the greater good, and will donate all proceeds from download sales to charity.
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