Song Break

There was a sense of disappointment as we left the mall
All the young people looked the same
Wearing their masks of cool and indifference
Commerce dressed up as rebellion

'Cause we're so handsome and we're so bored
So entertain us, tell me a joke
Make it long, make it last
Make it cruel, just make me laugh
We can't be hurt, we can't be hurt

Drink to forget your blues on the weekend
Think about more things to buy
The tv taught me how to sulk and love nothing
And how to grow my hair long

'Cause we're so handsome and we're so bored
So entertain us, tell me a joke
Make it long, make it last
Make it cruel, just make me laugh
We can't be hurt, we can't be hurt
We can't be hurt

So why do you go picking fights that you'll lose?
(When u have entertainment. when you have things to pass the time)
So why do you go thinking thoughts that are above you?
(You can be happy just playing dumb. you can be happy just playing dumb)

Well I was brave (and unique), intelligent (a snowflake)
I could have been a hero
No-one can be trusted under the age of fourteen
Tattoo our arms (converse shoes), cynical (?)
We tell ourselves we're different
I've gotten so good at lying to myself

(Oh!)
All my pain and honour is used up
(Oh! oh! oh!)
All my guns are rusted

So when you gonna realise
Those are not your wrongs to right?
Have another line, have another drink

I am a martyr, I just need a motive
I am a martyr, I just need a cause
I'm a believer, I just need a moment
I'm a believer, I just need a cause

We're finding it hard to break the mould
We're finding it hard to be alone
We're finding it hard to ... ourselves
We have nothing at all to say

Uniform

There was a sense of disappointment as we left the mall
All the young people looked the same

The Grudge
Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.
Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip it to the lonesome end.
Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Terrified of being wrong. Ultimatum prison cell.

Saturn ascends, choose one or ten. Hang on or be humbled again.

Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip it to the lonesome end.
Saturn ascends, comes round again.
Saturn ascends, the one, the ten. Ignorant to the damage done.

Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what you will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.

Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control.
Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper.

Defining, confining, sinking deeper. Controlling, defining, and we're sinking deeper.

Saturn comes back around to show you everything
Let's you choose what you will not see and then
Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again
Spits you out like a child, light and innocent.

Saturn comes back around. Lifts you up like a child or
Drags you down like a stone to
Consume you till you choose to let this go.
Choose to let this go.

Give away the stone. Let the oceans take and transmutate this cold and fated anchor.
Give away the stone. Let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges into gold.

Let go.

Beautiful, you're beautiful, as beautiful as the sun
Wonderful, you're wonderful, as wonderful as they come
And I can't help but feel attached
To the feelings I can't even match
With my face pressed up to the glass, wanting you
Beautiful, you're beautiful, as beautiful as the sky
Wonderful, it's wonderful, to know that you're just like I
And I'm sure you know me well, as I'm sure you don't
But you just can't tell
Who'll you love and who you won't
And I love you, as you love me
So let the clouds roll by your face
We'll let the world spin on to another place
We'll climb the tallest tree above it all
To look down on you and me and them
And i'm sure you know me well, as I'm sure you don't
But you just can't tell, who you'll love and who you won't
Don't let your life wrap up around you
Don't forget to call, whenever
I'll be here just waiting for you
I'll be under your stars forever
Neither here nor there just right beside you
I'll be under the stairs forever
Neither here nor there just right beside you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjLFG0i2_AE
Gideon - My Morning Jacket

Gideon, what have you taught us at all?
Make a sound, and come down off the wall
Religion should appeal to the hearts of the young
Who are you, and what have you become?

Animal, come on
What does this remind you of?

Truly, truly we have become
Hated and feared for something that we don't want
Listen, listen
Most of us believe that this is wrong

Animal, come on
What does this remind you of?
What does this remind you of?
Animal, come on

Abookamongstthemany wrote:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8jJWQkVgDs4

Her name is Noel
I have a dream about her
she rings my bell
I got gym class in half an hour

Oh how she rocks
In Keds and nike socks
But she doesn't know who I am
And she doesn't give a damn about me

Cause I'm just a teenage dirtbag baby
Yeah I'm just a teenage dirtbag baby
Listen to Iron Maiden baby with me
Ooohoooooo

Her boyfriend's a dick
he brings a gun to school
And he'd simply kick
My ass if he knew the truth
He lives on my block
He drives an IROC
But he doesn't know who I am
And he doesn't give a damn about me...

Cause i'm just a teenage dirtbag baby
Yeah i'm just a teenage dirtbag baby
listen to Iron Maden baby
Ooohoooooo

Oh yeah, dirtbag
No, she doesn't know what she's missing.
Oh yeah, dirtbag
No, she doesn't know what she's missing.

Man I feel like mold
It's prom night and I am lonely.
Low and behold
she's walking over to me.

This must be fake
My lips starts to shake
How does she know who I am?
And why does she give a damn about me?

she sais,
I've got two tickets to Iron Maiden baby
Come with me Friday - don't say maybe.
I'm just a teenage dirtbag baby
like you
Ooohoo Hoo Hooooooo
--

Oh yeah, dirtbag
No, she doesn't know what she's missing.
Oh yeah, dirtbag
No, she doesn't know what she's missing...YYYYEEEEEEEEEHHHHHH

I blame that song for a 3 year crush on Mena Suvari.

Abookamongstthemany wrote:

Well, who doesn't love it when they have a crush?

Oh, I'm not complaining. Anyways, thread integrity.

aaaaaaaaaaaaah!
aaaaaaaaaaaaah!
aaaaaaaaaaaaah!
(Take your places)
aaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Can we fix it?
Yes we can!

(chorus)
Bob the builder
Can we fix it?
Bob the builder
Yes we can!

Scoop, Muck and Dizzy
and Roley too.
Lofty and Wendy
join the crew.
Bob and the gang
have so much fun.
Working together,
they get the job done!

(chorus)
Bob the builder
Can we fix it?
Bob the builder
Yes we can!

Bob the builder
Can we fix it?
Bob the builder
Yes we can!

Time to get busy.
Such a lot to do!
Building and fixing
'til it's good as new.
Bob and the gang
make a really good sound.
Working all day
till the sun goes down.

(chorus)
Bob the builder
Can we fix it?
Bob the builder
Yes we can!

Bob the builder
Can we fix it?
Bob the builder
Yes we can!

Can you fix it?
Right.
Left a bit.
Right a little.
Ok, straight down.

We can tackle any situation
Look out, here we come

Can we dig it? Yes!!!!!!
Can we build it? Yes!!!!!!!
Can we fix it? Yes!!!!!!

(chorus)
Bob the builder
Can we fix it?
Bob the builder
Yes we can!

Bob the builder
Can we fix it?
Bob the builder
Yes we can!

Digging and mixing
Having so much fun
Working together
They get the job done

Can we dig it? Yes
Can we build it? Yes
Can we fix it? Yes

Bob the builder! Hey!!!
Bob the builder! Altogether now

Bob the builder
Can we fix it?
Bob the builder
Yes, yes we can!

Bob the builder
Can we fix it?
Bob the builder
oooooooh!!

(chorus)
Bob the builder
Can we fix it?
Bob the builder
Yes we can!

We'd better get some work done!

Disgustipated
And the angel of the lord came unto me, snatching me up from my place of slumber. And took me on high, and higher still until we moved to the spaces betwixt the air itself. And he brought me into a vast farmlands of our own midwest. And as we descended, cries of impending doom rose from the soil. One thousand, nay a million voices full of fear. And terror possesed me then. And I begged, "Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?" And the angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots! You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust." And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared, "Hear me now, I have seen the light! They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers!" Can I get an amen? Can I get a hallelujah? Thank you Jesus. Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on........ This is necessary. It was daylight when you woke up in your ditch. You looked up at your sky then. That made blue be your color. You had your knife there with you too. When you stood up there was goo all over your clothes. Your hands were sticky. You wiped them on your grass, so now your color was green. Oh Lord, why did everything always have to keep changing like this. You were already getting nervous again. Your head hurt and it rang when you stood up. Your head was almost empty. It always hurt you when you woke up like this. You crawled up out of your ditch onto your gravel road and began to walk, waiting for the rest of your mind to come back to you. You can see the car parked far down the road and you walked toward it. "If God is our Father," you thought, "then Satan must be our cousin." Why didn't anyone else understand these important things? You got to your car and tried all the doors. They were locked. It was a red car and it was new. There was an expensive leather camera case laying on the seat. Out across your field, you could see two tiny people walking by your woods. You began to walk towards them. Now red was your color and, of course, those little people out there were yours too.

[size=+2]The Welfare Poets[/size]

The Media

Itís the media
causing mass hysteria in all areas
Theyíre all carriers of false information
All barriers to true emancipation
and its scarier when youíre aware
how theyíre connected to corporation

Whoís the real terrorist
wanna pose some evidence
facts that are relevant
incase you missed history cus of television
here to perform an exorcist
after seeing satanís horns
peeking through the wreckage mist
I hope you can handle this
especially if youíre sitting home
with the candles lit
zoning out to channel shit
for its an obsession
which controls you perceptions
molds your conceptions
holds your mind hostage for your soul
for they know itís a kind of weapon
that could be lethal
heal the blind
and free the people
if you knew the truth
you could teach the youth
expose them to all the evils
so we could see through
to raise the feeble
to realize theyíre regal
understand what it means
to be able to walk through the eyes of needles
eradicate riddles
come to terms with God
then collide with these devils
never play the middle
cus then itíll be at a level
where things will never get settled
so my foots on the pedal
Iím gripping the metal
dipping on severalwhose mentalís are rentals
no matter how much we show you
what we went through
you choose to neglect essentials
make moves but with only respect to presidentials
We Projected the Blues
to take you to the door of consciousness
but you never stepped through
What kept you?
Thoughts are still unreal
and too sensual
for you refuse to deal with the
fundamentals
So this is streets news
with complete views we resent you
weíll repeat tools to increase the pool
of our people potential
weíll organize coups
decolonize schools
and baptize the hypnotized
so they realize they have eyes for their own views
so fuck the news
and bring it on ñ
cus Viacom donít want to stop the war Ö
stop the bombs
my people uninformed
is the worst way to be unarmed
shit ñ they donít want us to remain calm
they want paranoia to set in
so they could lock us down
to the point that weíre kept in
Donít you see the
conservative backlash
we find ourselves in?
People wave flags
subconsciously forgiving anyone
who made it bad for us in the past
now that shit is sad
people have gone mad
beyond crazy
Cus now they love Guliani
Canít get enough of Pataki
they hug politician
and snug with their lackeys
What the fuck can someone smack me!
Shit canít be
It seems many have forgotten
about police brutality
And the fight to end racial profiling
is a thing of history
And the plight for
Vieques Island is missing
and considered a mystery
Why canít they see
that shit like that
will only bring them more misery?
But they wonít listen to me
They wonít listen to me

Chorus

Turn off your TVs
Donít believe their news
Donít read their views
Theyíll keep you confused
Forget how to tie shoes
Talk about pulling yourself by your used bootstraps
Now whoís strapped
food strapped
somehow accused and trapped?
People in Vieques abused
cause theyíre brown and black
Just like down in Afghanistan
and in Iraq
Itís a part of their plan
of world domination
Control the land, its resources
and set up corporations
So if there wasnít oil
in the Middle East
Would there be a reason for war ñ
a reason to declare peace?
Would the Israelis be able
to occupy the Bethlehem streets
if they werenít backed from the beginning
by the u.s. hell-fire heat?
Yo -can we speak?
Did you peep
how America boguard Mecca
making the call for a Jihad complete?
Lets get deep
ad make leaps
into parts of history that they donít want to leak
What Is-real?
Which is fake?
Take a peak
Would this country come to the aid
a fellow corrupt state like Kuwait
if they only grew
wheat?
Yo donít sleep
cus what youíll reap
would be what someone else sowed
so no matter what grows
youíll have that to keep
And did you see
how this country talked meek
and court sweet
for a confrontation
with Pakistan they donít seek?
For these sheiks
hold heat
could shake with a nuclear
hand when they do greet
and how an Islamic fleet
could bring Babylon
to its eventual defeat
making prophecy complete
at the same time
smashing the riddle of the beast
as the answer lies
in why they chopped off
the black features to the sphinx
the same reason they want you think
Africa and Middle East arenít linked
stealing the Pyramids Gyza
right from
under your feat in a blink
as Elizabeth Taylor winks
for she knows that the stolen legacies are closer
to complete
she know
she knows
but the drum beat
that runs deep
on these streets
have been intercepted by hums of guns from rising slums in the east
for weíre all connected
yet a bit demented
ever since when these Jinns came with their aggression
the Nile never flowed down
But somehow our geography has been infested
with pornography
making history more easy to be molested
Plans were perfected
instead of Communism
we have another ideology
to be detested
Thatís how they keep your
interest invested
Air-waves projected
views that people
accepted
I aint lying
we need to free Palestine and bless it
What youíre blind
You lost your mind
Canít you see denying
self-determination is a deadly crime?
And donít forget Puerto Rico cus itís mine
As the sun was born shine
heavily on my soul
away from the cold
something you stole
like the black gold
for which you bombed Iraq
People armed with just the Quoran and Islam intact
You said your war was
for Saddam but in fact
you blew up hospitals,
schools, sewage treatment centers and water supplies
adding sanctions
making it possible every month
for 5 thousand children to die
So let it echo
as we will continue
to deliver the street news directly to the ghetto
As satan perches
right there on the churchís steeple
the media, theyíre filming
but they wonít show the people
for their plans are to keep you
and your mind in a fetal stage
and leave you in a daze
engaged in a maze
as you find your mind stays forever afraid
forever afraid

Chorus

by Ray Ramirez

Peace