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CONSUME
04:00
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We'll tell you you're not good enough
While we tell you to be yourself
We'll spray you with our snake oil farce
So you're covered in our smell
We'll make you feel less vulnerable
If you buy what we have to sell
We'll make you an individual
Just like everybody else
All lies, all lies with me
All lies, all lies with me
Wake up, It's not real
Your life is happening right now
You can work to pass the daytime
And in the evenings watch tv
And when the work is done spend your hard earned pay
On a weekend shopping spree
We will give you lots of choices
Shelved as high as the eye can see
And you can choose the one that defines you most
And you'll think that you are free
Wake up, It's not real
Your life is happening right now
We'll enslave you with religion
And define your morality
We will chain your legs in fetters with neve-rending debt
All while we flaunt our shameless greed
We'll confuse you with distractions
Talking points and celebrity
And before you even know it you're victim to the showbiz
Of this week's virality
All lies, all lies with me
All lies, all lies with me
Wake up, It's not real
Your life is happening right now
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Hello Darling , How are you
My work is done, My day is through
I walked home by the Mission Bell
And dropped a coin into the well
And I passed by the courtyard green
And saw a new boy dancing free
He spun around and laughed aloud
And splashed dye on the watching crowd
We were once so young and clever
We were free, but now, no never
You're forever gone and so am I
And I recall the price we paid
To be so young and unafraid
Alone I'm left with thirty years gone by
And darling do you think it strange
For all these years I still remain
In hopes that you will reappear
And rid me of my senseless fears
While others on the sidewalk sway
Like wheat stocks on a windy day
Their smiles arranged like crescent moons
Upon their backs in perfect tune
And though they speak well of themselves
I do suspect there's something else
What hides behind their surface lies
A longing that I can't define
I prayed for you, acknowledge that
We ate the moon, we're on the map
We all deserver a hardy pat upon the back
And though I fantasize and pray
And speak to you most every day
You'll never know this kind of pain
You're Just a Picture in a Frame
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3. |
WAKE UP THE MOUNTAIN
03:54
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I am five, nothing more
Trampling on the boardwalk floor
Everything's new and odd
Candy Canes are my god
Now I'm waiting to die
Old and frail now am I
But wait, there upon the mountain
A wraith calls me to do his will
Scrape your feet out from the mire
And lay your knees upon the hill
Chased a waif through the park
We stayed out after dark
Now I'm ready to die
Old and frail now am I
And I am crawling up the mountain
And I'm prepared to do his will
And though my arms and knees are tired
I know he waits there for me still
As I had topped the cone
Was I and I alone
Wake up the Mountain
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4. |
EVERYBODY DIES
03:17
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All the tiny fingers of the Chinese children
Make my clothes that I wear
And I don't break the bank to be the height of fashing
'Cause I don't know or I don't care
So, if I do not know
I can't hear them cry
I can't hear them moan
If they catch my eye
I'll turn off my phone
Everybody dies, Everybody knows
Advertisers cater to my primal urges
I see sex, I feel free
Filling all the empty holes where my mind's stirring
Throws a wrench in my gears
And I remain perpetually insecure
But I fit in with my peers
We're all on our phones transfixed alone together
But my texts are sincere
So, if I'm feeling low
I can wield a lie easily from my phone
There's something I can buy or swipe if I'm alone
Everybody lies, Everybody knows
Everyday a multitude of small distractions
Keep my mind occupied
Everywhere I go a wall of tall attractions
Fix my gaze to the sky
If I were alone with just my thoughts incoming
I would be terrified
I am just a victim of the modern age
So I'm okay, I'm alright
So, do you like the show
I'll shut off my mind, I'll refuse to grow
I can shut my eyes, I can plug my nose
Everybody dies, Everybody knows
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5. |
LIES
05:38
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Someday you'll get all this right
Someday you'll learn how to die
Someday you'll get all this right
Someday you're going to die
I don't wanna know if you saw me a lamb
I just wanna show you what I really am
I could striked a pose but I don't give a damn
Everything just froze and it started again
Sucked my fingers to the bone
I don't wanna be alone
I don't wanna be a bother
I don't wanna be some phony
Pretentious modern Poe
I don't even wanna bother
Lies, dress me up in Lies
Tight between the thighs
And arrest me for losing wonder
Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies
Someday you'll get all this right
Someday you're going to die
I just searched my soul and I saw that I am
But how much can you know if you're only a man
A little fleck of gold in a vista of sand
I could play a role that you don't understand
If our fate's determined and the future's writ
Then a quest for freedom's just a will that's lead
If the fate's winds blow a subtle push to shove
My the gust blow kindly everyone I love
To a place where dangles still a rope to tug
And its end the essence that it was enough
Does our life still matter if it's in our head
If the clock ticks forward does it ever end
If there's one thing that I know
I don't wanna play a role
I don't wanna be a martyr
I'll just ligtten up my load
Catch the next strong wind that blows
I won't make this any harder
Lies, dress me up in Lies
Tight between the thighs
Resurrect me from going under
Lies, Lies, Lies
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6. |
JESUS
04:13
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Jesus, do not conceal us
Will you reveal us to ourselves
Jesus, keeper of secrets
Why won't you teach us
How to be more free
Jesus, king of the meek and
Leprous people
King of yourself
Leave this
What here that sleeps in
Abysmal deepness
It's just as well
Jesus, can you lead us
Far from temptation
Far from damnation
Jesus, can you relieve us
These hesitations, These resignations
Satan, how do you move me
Can you see through me
Can you improve me
Satan, why did you choose me
Your way is soothing
Your way is free
Jesus, why did you leave us
Where were you then, where are you now
Satan, Your lips have kissed me
Will you assist me
Back down to hell
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Race, race, the path is picking up
I craved for the gamble, but I never had luck
I traipsed through the mire, in the mire I stuck
Quickly I tired as I fumbled in the muck
Saved, saved, plucked me from the mud
A man with no shadow, but a delicate touch
He pointed his finger and a curtain went up
And an angel on a scaffold sang
What'd never been sung
Hey, made my choices
Hey, drank my poisons
Hey, gotta face the band now
Hey, gotta lend a hand
And God was on the fiddle
And the devil in the middle
Playin' hell upon the beat of a drum
Lies,, lies, can't believe my eyes
God and the Devil playing side by side
An overture of beauty with a darkening tide
I couldn't face the music even though I did try
Say, say, where did it begin
Spun from the awe of original sin
I shied from the devil as he gave me a grin
He said, We play the music that you hear from within
Hey, made my choices
Hey, drank my poisons
Hey, gotta face the band now
Hey, gotta lend a hand
And God was on the fiddle
And we have endeavored
To remain this way together
And it's just the way it always has been
Race, race, pickin' down the pace
I came to the rescue but a little too late
I saw the Madonna on a counterfit stake
Draped in confetti and a profiteers fate
Shame, shame, we're all in the wrong
The priest made a prophet on the crosses he hung
And God made the coffins for proverbial sons
And when the angels wings spread out she sung
Hey, made my choices
Hey, drank my poisons
Hey, gotta face the band now
Hey, gotta lend a hand
I clung to the altar
But my hopes began to falter
When I realized I had never been loved
We traded the teachers
And the prophets for the preachers
Preaching heaven only waits for the dumb
We made here a wager
That we'll know if you're the savior
By your halo or the fork of your tongue
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Somebody said it is better to live
Than linger in pause
Like the cold-bodied stiff
But nobody knows
What it's like to be dead
A long thoughtless calm
Or the will to exist
If we will go, be it heaven, be it hell
Nobody knows what it's like
To be someone else
I find it odd to be moved to a tear
As strange as to laugh
As sane as to fear
For all of the words we're never gonna tell
Nobody know what it's like
To be someone else
The hangman submits
He is hung above the law
The gavel is split
The effect is the cause
But how can you pay
If you don't know the cost
If somebody's gain
Is too somebody's loss
If we are brave
Or we're crying out for help
Nobody knows what it's like
To be someone else
All that we are is all we can recall
We keep what we want
Forget what we don't
We carefully shape
What we're telling to ourselves
But nobody knows what it's like
To be someone
Nobody, nobody
How can anybody know
What it's like to be someone else
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9. |
THE IDIOT
05:24
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Now you've crossed my lonely life
Held me near and changed my mind
I'm moving on, moving on, moving on again
I'm moving on, moving on, moving on again
Time with you I wanna spend
As a loverr, as a friend
And although I know the end
I would do it all again
Every cigarette
Salts ash on this bed
Bless this smoke-filled room
And bless its devils too
I can't believe
This is not a dream
With all its blurried lines
Forged in hurried themes
Time with you I wanna spend
As a loverr, as a friend
And although I know the end
I would do it all again
Why avert those piercing eyes
I could never tell you lies
Does it make you sad to know
All what comes will someday go
Time with you I wanna spend
As a loverr, as a friend
And although I know the end
I would do it all again
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10. |
BODEGA, BODEGA
03:00
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Dressed in white ice
At the Bodega, Bodega
Clams were quite nice
At the Fadaroo Caravan
Questing for purpose
The Shamans appall us
Joy is the warmth
In the long arms of Fadaroo
Fault us not how cleverly we lie
For the world is cold
And shivering am I
Shivering am I
Blessed be the light
We were searching and searching for
Raise to the night
We have come upon Babylon
I see a moment
That's passing to past things
Posed as a cloud
On a string by a vagabond
Fault us not how cleverly we lie
For the world is cold
And shivering am I
Shivering am I
Every night we drank alone
Ten crates of red wine to warm up our bones
Sipped in stifled fascination
Fast asleep on ice
Let's all meet at the Bodega
Let's all meet at the Bodega
Let's all meet at the Bodega
Let's all meet at the Bodega
Bodega Nights
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11. |
I'M AFRAID
02:52
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I'm afraid
Darling I'm afraid
That I will never find a quiet mind
Left me this exquisite pain
That pours o'er me like scorching rain
And burns me skin like liquid fire
Saw today
The God that ran away
And left me in this bed with my remains
Painted on a wall
A face I can recall
And I salute
The sun in view
I'm afraid
Darling I'm afraid
That I will never live a quiet life
See my darkened tired eyes
Incapable of telling lies
What god would leave us here to die
I'm afraid
The plans we often made
Were never really meant to come to light
Painted on a wall
A face I can recall
And I salute
The sun in views
And I salute
The sun in view
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What is a man but an animal's
What is a man but the end
What is a man but an animal's end
What is a man but the end
What is a man but an animal's
What is a man but the end
What is a man but an animal's end
What is a man but the end
What is man but an animal's end
What is a band but an animal's end
What is a man but an animal's evolution
What is a man but an animal's end
Biomechanical savages hence
What is a man but an animal's evolution
Bring on the apocalypse
If everything is meaningless
The universe is indifferent to man
The naught behind the curtain bates
That certain death's a certain fate
Baser instincts navigate a man
An appetite that naught can sate
With bloated gut and crippled gait
He wears his cradle to his grave
Amen
Multiply, Conquest, Civilized, Monstrous
Sentient, Cultured Ants
Bring on the apocalypse
If everything is meaningless
The Universe is indifferent to Man
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13. |
DIGITAL
03:16
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Phoned in a new paradigm (Digital)
This happened in my lifetime (Digital)
Satellites watched from the sky
Cogs in the watchtower's eye
Ducks in a row
Shuffled like men
Chips in their phones
Sailed ships in the their heads
Mutual groans
Plugged into the net
Skin over drone with
Radio breath
I came here to follow
I came here to follow
I came here to follow
I came here to follow
No one I see sees me
Their technology makes them sleep
It's like we chain up lions to sheep
Bait for razor-sharp teeth
I came here to follow
I came here to follow
I came here to follow
I came here to follow
Digital
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Aaron Brooks Ingolstadt, Germany
Aaron Brooks is an American singer/songwriter and the former lead singer of the critically acclaimed psychedelic rock band Simeon Soul Charger. Brooks’s style combines 60s/70s psychedelic rock, folk, and orchestral music with cinematic and episodic arrangements and darkly themed lyrics. Brooks released his first solo LP, HOMUNCULUS in 2018 and his follow up JUGGERNAUT is set for release in 2024. ... more
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