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"THE CONDITION" (Brendan/Jonny)
Killing me, killing you
Taught at school to go to work and fade away
Killing me, killing you
Raised upon these lies till we're all sterilized
Killing me, killing you
Cradle to grave we're forced to stay within their lines
Killing me, killing you
This is the condition
For survival in society
Sustaining competition
Taking more than we need
While another generation
Responds the same
Don’t know, Don’t care...
This is the condition
College got you locked into that suit and tie
Killing me, killing you
Gotta play the game or else you won't survive
Killing me, killing you
So you can spend your days living as the system's slave
Killing me, killing you
But I cant bear to live like this one more fucking day
Killing me, killing you
This is the condition
For survival in society
Sustaining competition
Taking more than we need
While another generation
Responds the same
Don’t know, Don’t care...
This is the condition
This is the condition
For survival in society
Sustaining competition
Taking more than we need
While another generation
Responds the same
Don’t know, Don’t care...
Born to fade away
"NINE TO FIVE" (Jonny)
Spent my life in a dead end line
One more number to the corporate swine
With no concern placed on my life
Served twenty years in the company
Devotion not reflected in my pay
Never left the floor of the factory
Twenty years of eighteen hour days
The time arrived to relocate
To the cheap labor outside the states
Claiming consumer benefit
The corporate boss saw great profit
Punch in punch out nine to five
Spent my life in a dead end line
One more number to the corporate swine
With no concern placed on my life
Retirement spent searching classifieds
Opportunities denied
Boss never cared to know my name
Social security never came
It's a competitive market son, understand
You're just no longer in demand
Is this the price I pay as a veteran?
They punish me, the market bears the cheapest victim
Punch in punch out nine to five
Spent my life in a dead end line
One more number to the corporate swine
With no concern placed on my life
"AMERICAN HISTORY CHANNEL" (Jonny)
Exploited hospitality
Established with the colonies
Natives helped intruders to survive
In return were slaughtered and deprived
The terror and deceit employed
Seized the land we now enjoy
Heathen tribes of barbarians
Couldn't match the firepower of Christians
The stars and stripes are forever stained
Moist with the blood of history
Genocide you venerate
When you pledge allegiance to this country
The founding fathers we’re taught to esteem
Were merely a new, rich, white regime
Acting in the interest of the state
So long as their power was sustained
And pitting brother against brother
The Civil War was just a fight for power
Not some struggle for emancipation
But the economic conflict of a racist nation
The stars and stripes are forever stained
Moist with the blood of history
Genocide you venerate
When you pledge allegiance to this country
Commence the first of the world wars
An opportunity not ignored
Manufactured arms and sold to both sides
The U.S. industrial complex thrived
And in World War II the jews were freed
While at home we imprisoned the Japanese
And African Americans endured the Jim Crow state
Was their skin not white enough to save?
On their rhetoric we must choke
While the motives of our leaders remain cloaked
Continually, we fail to learn
And our crimes simply return
The stars and stripes are forever stained
Still moist with the blood of history
Genocide you venerate
When you pledge allegiance to this country
"NUNS AND ROSARIES" (Jonny)
Your microscope was blind
To the trouble in your world as you look to the outside
Through a field of mines (through a field of mines)
Desperation comes to take you away to the holy shrines
Incarceration or your salvation
Your salvation or incarceration
Incarceration or your salvation
Your salvation or incarceration
Given final understanding to betray my soul
Witness to the sacrifice and I was sold
I did as I was told (did as I was told)
The freedom to believe is the freedom to be fooled
Incarceration or your salvation
Your salvation or incarceration
Incarceration or your salvation
Your salvation or incarceration
Hand in hand, now walk with us
Take a sip from the poison cup
Ash to ash and dust to dust
As you seek so shall you trust
Hello sinner, on your knees
Have a taste of your disease
Bow before the hand that feeds
Secure at the end of a leash
Incarceration
Or your salvation
Incarceration
Or your salvation
"I'VE NEVER BEEN SO FUCKING BORED..." (Jonny)
I've never been so fucking bored
I don't really even care anymore
My friends are getting on my nerves
I give them more than they deserve
No pity and no shame
Another sucker for me to blame
I only call it as I see
I've never been what I want to be
I take what I can get, and break what I can't bend
And I don't really care if you don't fucking understand
Understand?
"Get a bottle and crawl inside"
Sick of hearing your damn advice
Lace my boots and hit the road
I've always made it on my own
Woke up to a passing car
Don't remember what the fight was for
Do I run or do I crawl?
Stumble home with a broken jaw
I take what I can get, and break what I can't bend
And I don't really care if you don't fucking understand
Understand?
"HALF-ASS REVOLUTION" (Jonny)
You walk that picket line, right down the middle of the fence
Only socially inclined, do you act on your conscience
It makes me question why we even bother to try
When we all go back to our safe homes in our safe suburban lives
We spent our change on our facade, and at the highest cost
We spent our revolution and now we've fucking lost
Our numbers are our only hope, but that may never last
We no longer steer this boat, and it's going nowhere fast
You're bending all the rules
To meet your petty little needs and still you're forcing them on me
And there's no substance to your principles
Your efforts only serve to prove your insincerity
You're nothing more than a half-ass revolution
And you only take a stand when no one's sitting down
With no perspective or contribution
We take our place in line and offer nothing to be found
Fall in line...
We offer nothing
"FAMINE AND DECAY" (Jonny)
The time arrived for something new
As near the day of judgment drew
With collapse had come decay
The best of us vanished away
Under rubble, under bone
Overwhelmed but not unknown
Softly spoken bitter prose
Echoed loudly now exposed
The toxic air too thick to breathe
Cities emptied from disease
Acid rained on barren land
So little did we understand
With each new turning of the screw
The more we learned the less we knew
Came the famine, came the flame
We only had ourselves to blame
Weakened by our own device
Soon we met our swift demise
Through our suffering we were as one
And the suffered we would become
As we shall always remain
In ignorance of our own chains
Corruption and greed abound
Poisons trafficked by the pound
Children lost to apathy
An all too naive bourgeoisie
Freedom squandered on our pride
And we too were soon despised
A race of arms, the deadliest sort
We all too quickly were to resort
No premonition could have ever known
The only loss was to be our own
Came the famine, came the flame
We only had ourselves to blame
Weakened by our own device
Soon we met our swift demise